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Chapter 10 Strange Fragrance
Back in the room, Zhu Yu leaned against the bed, listening to the sound of rain outside the window, and felt an inexplicable sense of unease in his heart.

This windy and rainy night... is perfect for doing something bad...

She suddenly realized that she was worrying about nothing again, so she quickly collected her thoughts, lowered her eyelids, and looked at her hands in front of her.

A pair of delicate and clean hands, with ten white fingers, as if they were carved from the finest mutton-fat jade.

The calluses and indentations in my memory are no longer there, but there is still a dull pain in the gaps between my bones, which is both real and illusory.

She couldn't say for sure whether she was a woman willing to stay in the inner house, but Zhu Yu had deeply experienced the hardship of working day and night and sleeping in the open air.

I just heard that the women of Jin State have strict rules. Farmers and merchants sometimes go out to make a living, but the more noble their status and the more aristocratic they are, the more they feel that showing up in public is inappropriate, so they will definitely not do it. They only hold poetry gatherings and tea parties in the inner house.

Those poetry and tea parties were not so much interactions between women as they were helping their husbands’ families to build relationships and gain connections.

When he thought about this kind of thing, Zhu Yu couldn't help but feel a headache.

She doesn't want fish, and she doesn't want bear's paw either.

She wants to be a vegetarian...

Early the next morning, the clouds cleared and the rain stopped. Before dawn, the three of them had packed up.

"Can you ride a horse?" Lu Qing asked Zhu Yu.

Zhu Yu nodded. When she was in Shuo Kingdom, she was the only one among her sisters who learned to ride a horse in order to go hunting with her brothers.

It was originally just a moment of fun, but I didn't expect it to come in handy now.

Fu Lu left their horses and carriage at the post station and asked the postmaster to take care of them. He also borrowed horses from the post station, and the three of them rode towards the ruined temple.

It had rained heavily the night before and the road was extremely muddy. In order to prevent the horses from slipping and falling, they did not move fast.

After walking for about half an hour, we finally arrived at the dilapidated temple. There was a pool of rainwater in front of the door, but the courtyard was still relatively clean.

It's just a little too quiet.

Lu Qing frowned, and Fu Lu immediately jumped off the horse and strode into the temple.

Zhu Yu dismounted and wanted to follow closely behind, but after taking two steps, Lu Qing pulled him back: "You go last."

Zhu Yu was a person who valued his life, so he immediately followed the leader and walked into the ruined temple carefully.

The dilapidated temple looked much brighter during the day, but also more dilapidated. Fu Wen was slumped over where they had sat the night before, looking as if he had just been woken up by the talisman that had rushed in.

Although he had sat up, he did not seem to be in a clear mind. His eyes were dull and lifeless, and his eyelids twitched weakly before closing again, as if he had just been called up, but his soul was still flying outside.

Behind him, through the half-broken tattered curtain, there was no trace of the corpse on the stone slab behind the altar.

"Brother! Brother!" Fu Lu's face was filled with anxiety. He had never seen his brother like this before. "Wake up! What happened?!"

Zhu Yu happened to see this scene when he entered. He walked over and gestured to Fu Lu to help support Fu Wen's head. He then reached out and lifted Fu Wen's chin with four fingers, pinching his philtrum with the tip of his thumb. In a moment, Fu Wen's eyelids, which had been unable to open, trembled as he opened his eyes. His lips moved, as if he wanted to speak to them, but he couldn't help rolling his eyes back.

"There's no medicine here to wake him up, so we can only find some cold water to stimulate him." Zhu Yu pinched the Ren Zhong point again, but seeing that it didn't have much effect, he turned to Lu Qing and said.

Lu Qing listened to Zhu Yu's words and looked outside the door: "Talisman, throw your brother into the puddle outside."

Fu Lu couldn't care less at the moment, and hurriedly carried the confused Fu Lu on his shoulders, strode out of the ruined temple, and threw the man into the big puddle outside with a splash.

Fu Wen was thrown face down into the puddle. The cold water hit him and choked him in the nose. He struggled a few times and sat up.

At this moment, his whole body was soaked by the puddle of rain water. The coldness penetrated his wet clothes and made him shiver. He was completely awake, but his hands and feet were still a little weak. When he climbed out of the puddle, he stumbled and almost fell to the ground.

Fu Lu, on the other side, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his brother wake up. He went forward to help him up, but Fu Wen weakly broke free and stumbled to Lu Qing. He knelt on one knee, clasped his fists with a face full of shame and said, "Master, Fu Wen was careless and fell into the trap of the thief. Please punish me!"

Lu Qing's brows had been slightly furrowed, but now they relaxed a little. He reached out and pulled up Fu Wen, whose face had turned pale. "Let's go to the temple and talk."

Fu Wen was supported by Fu Lu and returned to the dilapidated temple. He had completely regained consciousness and looked dejected and ashamed.

"I should have sent Master and Madam to the post station last night and then came back to find you! If the two of us keep watch together, we'll probably be fine!" Fu Lu also became annoyed and couldn't help blaming himself.

"It's no use even for you to come back." Fu Wen shook his head. "I didn't dare to be careless at all last night. I was very awake the whole time. Around midnight, I suddenly smelled a fishy odor, and then a slightly fragrant one. I felt something was wrong, so I decided to get up and take a look. But..."

He clenched his fist and hit his leg in anger: "Ah! How did I fall into his trap?"

"Then you didn't see any human figure, nor did you hear any sound?" Fu Lu asked with some confusion.

Rune shook his head.

Zhu Yu knew that Fu Wen and Fu Lu were both martial artists, so their hearing and eyesight were much better than those of ordinary people. If the person who came to steal the corpse last night had sneaked in from the temple gate, he would probably have been discovered by Fu Wen in an instant. Not to mention stealing the corpse, he would have had no chance of even escaping.

If no one had sneaked into the dilapidated temple, then where did the fishy and fragrant smells he mentioned come from?
As she pondered this, she walked around the altar where they had hidden the night before.

Lu Qing gave Fu Lu a wink, and Fu Lu hurriedly followed.

Zhu Yu went around to the back of the altar. It didn't look much different from the night before. The light was dim, and there were no stone slabs behind the altar. The space was not big. Apart from the smooth ground, there was a pitch-black wall without even a window.

The wall seemed to be made of rammed earth. The surface was not smooth. When you looked closely, you could see some subtle cracks. It was unknown how long it could last.

There seemed to be a hole dug by rats at the foot of the wall, which was then filled back with soil. It didn't look particularly smooth, and the color was slightly different from other places.

Wait a moment……

Zhu Yu turned his gaze back to the foot of the wall where the rat hole had been patched, squatted down, and reached out to pick at the mud that had been used to patch the wall.

She didn't have enough strength, and after a few tries, only some dirt fell off.

　Thanks to Niuniumi for the reward of 10000 Qidian coins!
　　Thanks to Vegetarian Pig x3, Minako Tanaka x2, Zhudao Camp Bandit Recruiting Envoy, He Yi Juyou, and Niuniu Mi for their monthly tickets!

　　
　
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