Amai Island retains the most simple rural style, and there is no light on the gravel paved path.

Standing on the potholed Road, looking over the wheat field in early spring, the distant light looms in the dark, thinner than the stars in the sky.

Li Qing tucked the crossbow into his coat and hurried forward. Not far away, he suddenly stopped.

Jiang Yu is standing there quietly, silently smoking a cigarette.

Li Qing came to him and asked in a low voice, "if Xi has gone back?"

"Well, the director is not feeling well. Go back and have a rest first."

Li Qing then asked, "is there any news about Zhao Zhen?"

Jiang Yu looked up at him and gently shook his head: "not yet. Du Huasheng has gone back. I didn't find Zhao Zhen in touch with him. I'm going to take someone to the wharf later."

"Is it possible that he didn't get off the ship at all?"

Jiang Yu shook his head again: "although the time was in a hurry, we checked very carefully, and Zhao Zhen was seriously injured when he fought with us. Considering the situation and actual conditions, he was not worth staying on the ship."

"Is he hurt?"

"Well," said Jiang Yu, "it would be a waste if we let so many of us leave unharmed."

Li Qing nodded: "well, I'll go back and have a look at Ruoxi first."

"You go back to take care of the director and leave it to us." Jiang Yu said faintly, "there are enough hands, and you're not bad."

"Well, be careful and let me know when you have the latest news."

Li Qing's voice fell and walked around Jiang Yu. He walked forward a few steps, hesitated slightly, and suddenly stopped: "ask you something."

Jiang Yu threw up a cigarette ring and asked in a slow voice, "what's up?"

"How long have you been following Ruoxi?"

"Before long, when she called back to Yanjing."

Li Qing's eyes coagulated slightly, and then asked, "will you act against her orders?"

"What do you mean?" Jiang Yu threw the burning cigarette butts to the ground and stamped them out. "Let me tell you, I'm a slave of the Zhong family. Follow the director, she's my master."

"I see."

"Why do you ask this?"

"Nothing." Li Qing gently waved his hand and left.

Jiang Yu took out another cigarette and held it in his mouth. After staring at his leaving back for a while, he waved to his men fiercely: "let's go back to the dock."

Li Qing continued to walk back, but his pace slowed down unconsciously.

He didn't pay attention to the time, and he didn't know how long it would take. There were bright lights in front of him. When Li Qing squeezed into the gate and returned to the second floor building, Du Huasheng was sitting stuffy on the steps at the door with half a bottle of wine in his hand.

"You said..." he glanced up at Li Qing and shook the bottle in his hand. "Did I hurt her heart?"

Li Qing gently picked at the tip of her eyebrows: "who do you mean?"

"Here." Du Huasheng raised his hand and pointed upstairs, "I want to care about her, but she ignored me at all."

Li Qing pulled hard at the corners of her mouth. After a while, she squeezed out a sentence: "you think too much."

"I don't want to be like this." Du Huasheng spread his hands and frowned. "Zhao Zhen saved my life. Can't I help you deal with him? Is that a little... Too boring?"

"Ha ha." Li Qing smiled, bypassed Du Huasheng directly, went up the steps and entered the door.

"Hello!" Du Huasheng shouted behind, "drink!"

Li Qing ignored him, went upstairs and knocked on the door: "I'm back."

"Come in."

Hearing the familiar voice in the room, Li Qing slowly pushed open the door.

Zhong Ruoxi is sitting on the bed, wrapped in a thick quilt, with a pale face.

Li Qing asked, "what's the matter with you?"

"It's a little cold."

"I must have caught a cold. I'll burn you some hot water."

Li Qing picked up the electric kettle in the corner and went into the bathroom to clean it.

Zhong Ruoxi tilted her head and stared at his back through the door of the washroom. After a while, she asked, "have you seen her?"

"Well." Li Qing filled the electric kettle with water and came back, smiling at her helplessly, "not surprisingly, she was scolded."

He plugged in the electric kettle, pulled a stool and sat by the bed: "show me your hand."

"Here." Zhong Ruoxi opened the quilt and put the injured hand in front of him. "I released some pus and blood before."

Li Qing held her white and soft jade hand, looked at it carefully, and nodded with satisfaction: "it has basically reduced the swelling. It seems that Gu Yue didn't cheat me."

Zhong Ruoxi pursed her lips and asked softly, "at that time... How did you know she had an antidote?"

"Of course I know. I knew it from the beginning. Otherwise, when I knew you were poisoned, how could I be so calm." Li Qing grinned. "I know Gu Yue too well. If Tao Azhen's poison can't be solved, she will remind me in advance."

"Are you so sure?"

"Of course, I know her as much as she knows me. We two are natural enemies..." Li Qing nodded without hesitation and sighed slightly. He suddenly found that Zhong Ruoxi's look was not right, and quickly turned off the topic, "by the way, what did you want to say to me?"

"Nothing." Zhong Ruoxi dodged his eyes and asked, "haven't you heard from Zhao Zhen yet?"

"No."

When the water boiled, Li Qing turned to pull out the plug and poured a cup of hot water for Zhong Ruoxi.

He came back, handed the water cup to Zhong Ruoxi, and then said faintly, "Jiang Yu told me that Zhao Zhen was seriously injured. In principle, he should not go far. But now this situation makes me really worried."

Zhong Ruoxi held the water cup in one hand, and the other hand couldn't help scratching around his back: "are you worried that he's on the boat?"

"Well, don't you think it's very possible?"

"There are our people on board," Zhong Ruoxi said. "I arranged for someone to get in while unloading today. Zhao Zhen has been seriously injured. Even if he is still on board, he is not worried."

"Oh, that's right." Li Qing gently nodded his head, stared at the woman in front, her face flushed, and kept scratching her hands around her back. She couldn't help asking, "beauty? Are you itchy?"

"Really..." Zhong Ruoxi twisted her body restlessly, making the hot water in the cup pour out a few, "it's itchy..."

"Hmm?" Li Qingmei frowned and hurriedly took the cup in Zhong Ruoxi's hand and put it on the table to prevent her from scalding herself.

"Let me see."

Li Qing went to pull the quilt wrapped by Zhong Ruoxi. The latter was embarrassed and said, "forget it, it's inconvenient..."

Staring at the little red face of the woman in front of her, Li Qing couldn't help staring: "your ass itches?"

Zhong Ruoxi's delicate body stagnated and immediately shook her head with a speechless face: "the back is itchy, and it seems... Now the belly is a little itchy."

"What's inconvenient, let me see." Li Qing directly opened the quilt and gently lifted Zhong Ruoxi's clothes.

The flawless skin that can be broken by blowing bullets has been slightly red, and there are still several scratched blood marks on it.

"Li Qing, do I have eczema?" Zhong Ruoxi shouted, "it's really itchy."

"No, it shouldn't be." Li Qing shook her head slowly. Seeing that she raised her jade hand to grasp her face, she quickly caught her soft little hand, "you can't grasp it anymore."

"It's too itchy." Zhong Ruoxi's skin is a little hot, and a faint blush surges on her delicate cheeks. "Now she's itching all over. I really can't control it..."

Li Qing said in a low voice, "there is something wrong with the medicine given by Gu Yue. If you let you catch it like this, you will be disfigured."

"Li Qing, I feel ants crawling on my back."

"Just bear it."

Zhong Ruoxi earned a little and looked at him pitifully: "I can't help it."

"I can't help but have to bear it. I look at you." Li Qing holds Zhong Ruoxi's jade hand and holds her in her arms. "Gu Yue wants you to suffer. Just bear it."

"All right." Zhong Ruoxi bit her silver teeth tightly, but she still twisted her body restlessly in Li Qing's arms.

Her body was getting hotter and hotter, and her sweat soon soaked her clothes, but she couldn't help fighting a cold war: "Li Qing, I'm cold."

"I see." Li Qing stretched out his hand and pulled the quilt around Zhong Ruoxi, holding the latter tightly.

He pressed Zhong Ruoxi's arm and didn't let her scratch her body. Feeling that the skin of the woman in her arms was getting hotter and hotter, and constantly twisting her beautiful and graceful body, Li Qing's corners of his eyes twitched fiercely: "are you uncomfortable? I let you rub out evil fire."

"But I can't help it. You can't control it." Zhong Ruoxi spits out a hot breath and complains softly, "I'm so uncomfortable. What are you still thinking?"

Li Qing's whole face turned green, hesitated for a moment, and carefully asked, "Ruoxi, do you have that idea?"

"Ah? What kind of idea?"

"Just... With a man..." Li Qing gently tugged at the corners of her mouth, "the idea of with a man?"

Zhong Ruoxi stares round her beautiful eyes in an instant: "no? If Gu Yue really dares to eat that kind of thing for me, I will kill her."

"I'm not sure, so do you feel it?"

Zhong Ruoxi's pretty cheek showed a childlike daze: "no... No."

"Hoo." Li Qingchang breathed a sigh of relief, "then I'm relieved."

"Are you relieved?" Zhong Ruoxi stared at him without blinking. "Why do I think you seem a little disappointed?" Li Qing looked embarrassed: "it's so obvious?" "I tell you, be honest." Zhong Ruoxi gave a warning. Suddenly, he felt that the jade hand behind him touched a hard thing and immediately changed his face. This novel has been translated by www.readwn.com and if you are reading this somewhere, they have stolen our translation.