C21

"Yu Niang!" Shui Qingyan lowered her voice, squatted down, and touched Yu Niang's arteries.

"I'm out of breath!" Shui Qingyan was suddenly stunned, how could she not be angry!

Thinking about it, Shui Qingyan threw the staff in her hand away and started to pinch her opponent, to give first aid to her heart.

Two minutes later, Yu Niang regained her breath again. Shui Qingyan wiped the sweat off her forehead and heaved a sigh of relief.

With Shui Qingyan's current hearing, she knew that the sound of horse hooves passing through the forest, and now they had turned back, and the direction was right in front of her.

"Miss." Yu Niang sat up in a daze: "What's wrong with me."

"He suddenly fainted. It's probably because his blood sugar is too low. There's no time to find the reason. This group of people are probably here for me. Do you know how to climb trees?" Shui Qingyan said while listening to the distant sounds.

She was now certain that the group of people had dismounted and were searching the forest.

"No, I won't." Yu Niang swallowed her saliva as her heart raced. She really wanted to know what the young miss had done and why there were people chasing after her.

Inside Chu Chen's carriage.

Phoenix Yaoling said worriedly, "If the people from the eighteen strongholds were to find the forest, wouldn't that mean that both Yu Niang and Shui Qingyan would be in danger? Shui Qingyan would even be very concerned about the life of a coachman, let alone the Yu Niang.

"She will chase Yu Niang away." Chu Chen replied with a smile, "By now, they should have already found the small forest."

In the small forest, Shui Qingyan analyzed the current situation and decisively made her decision.

"Yu Niang, go first. Return to the Shui family and find someone to save me." Shui Qingyan picked up the stick again.

"No." Yu Niang trembled as she pushed Shui Qingyan away, "Miss, you go first, I'll drag them away."

"I can't see where I can go. I can't care about you later. If you leave, I still have a chance to live. If you don't leave, we can only wait for death together. Let's go!" Shui Qingyan said in a tone that did not allow any rejection.

"Miss." Yu Niang didn't know what to do.

"Hurry up and leave." With that, Shui Qingyan turned and walked to the side, holding onto the rod, ignoring Yu Niang.

"Miss." Yu Niang stomped her feet and followed up to Shui Qingyan.

Shui Qingyan suddenly turned around, the rod in her hand raised up straight and grabbed onto Yu Niang's throat: "If you turn around now, we will still have a good relationship in the future. Otherwise, from today onwards, we will part ways here."

Yu Niang's heart was beating erratically, she suddenly thought of the fate of Hong Hua and Cui Hua, she believed that Miss was speaking the truth.

Shui Qingyan put down the rod in her hand, then disappeared into the darkness.

Yu Niang clenched her teeth, turned and walked to the side.

After Yu Niang left, Shui Qingyan immediately heaved a sigh of relief.

She wasn't sure which side they were on, it could be those who bet too much on her revenge. It could also be that someone knew that she was here at Qingfeng Stronghold, and also knew that she would definitely rush back at Shui’s Marion before dawn, and send people to intercept her.

In short, since the person had come, he definitely had ill intentions, and the safety rate would be higher if Yu Niang left him.

Hearing the sound of footsteps getting closer and closer, Shui Qingyan touched a tree beside her hand, and then nimbly climbed up the tree like a monkey.

Hiding within the leaves, Shui Qingyan held her breath as she listened to the situation around him.

Gradually, as someone approached, Shui Qingyan's heart rose to her throat. Her eyes were no more, it was inconvenient.

After a while, there was indeed someone approaching. The person approaching did not notice Shui Qingyan and slowly walked far away. Shui Qingyan's heart slowly relaxed. However, the next second, her heart leaped into her throat.

"There's a piece of silk here." A voice came from ten meters away.

"Sure enough, he's in the forest." A person nearby coldly snorted, "Last time, he did not die when he fell off the cliff. This time, he is not that lucky."

"He must be somewhere close by. Send a signal to the people outside and have them defend themselves." After this person finished speaking, someone immediately pinched his lower lip and whistled loudly.

As soon as the whistles rang out, they rose and fell one after another, approaching from afar.

Shui Qingyan's heart slowly sunk. If there was someone outside the forest guarding the woods, wouldn't Yu Niang fall into her trap the moment she went out?

"Look around here." It was suggested.

"Alright."

Shui Qingyan slowly pulled out the golden hairpin on her head and held his breath.

A person slowly approached the tree where Shui Qingyan was hiding along the broken branches and stepped on to the dead Little Flower. After looking around, he finally stopped under the tree and slowly raised his head.

When he raised his head, all he saw was a long hair and a wrinkled face with a pair of lifeless pupils embedded in it. It looked extremely strange in the middle of the night.

Just as the man opened his mouth to scream, Shui Qingyan used one hand to cover his mouth while she stabbed the other into her throat with her gold hairpin.

Shui Qingyan pulled out the golden hairpin from the tree and threw the man's body onto the ground, then quickly returned to the tree.

The dead man's companion who was not far away heard the commotion and shouted, "San'er?"

"San-er, is that you?" another shouted.

"Let's go take a look." The third person said.

Then the three of them slowly approached the tree from three directions.

The March wind carried the scent of blood as it drifted into the distance, causing the three people to feel an indescribable sense of fear.

When they saw San'er lying on the ground, the three of them immediately became alert.

At the same time, the person closest to the tree trunk raised his head.

Before the man could see clearly what had fallen from the tree, Shui Qingyan had grabbed her arm and broke her neck.

This unforeseen event alarmed the other two.

In the darkness, the golden hairpin brought with it a trail of red blood as it flew towards a man's throat. The man turned his body slightly, and the golden hairpin brushed past the man's skin.

Shui Qingyan pulled the rod hidden under the tree and suddenly attacked. The person who dodged the golden hairpin suddenly turned in mid air and dodged the pole, the rod in Shui Qingyan's hand suddenly changed directions, aiming straight for the third person who ambushed her.

The third person didn't have enough time to dodge. Before the flying leg could even reach Shui Qingyan's body, it was smashed firmly into the knee by the sturdy rod. The sound of bones shattering could be heard, and the person also let out a long pained howl towards the sky.

This long howl made the sleeping birds in the woods fly into the air. The scattered people in the woods immediately rushed over.

Shui Qingyan had succeeded on her side, the stick had left her hand and she was using this momentum to attack the other person.

Everything that had just happened happened happened extremely quickly in an instant.

The golden hairpin had just steadied itself and pierced into the tree.

Chu Chen's carriage continued to move slowly.

Phoenix Yaoling, who was in the horse carriage, had a giant grapefruit in her hand and was currently peeling it off happily. The interior of the carriage was filled with the fragrance of grapefruit.

Phoenix Yaoling asked: Who did you send to Shui Qingyan's side?

"No one has been sent yet." Chu Chen closed his eyes to rest.

"What if Shui Qingyan encounters danger in the bamboo forest?" Phoenix Yaoling could not help but be stunned, "Without her eyes, it would be inconvenient for her to make a move."

"When she went to the Qingfeng Stronghold last night, I knew that someone was secretly following her." Chu Chen slowly said, "That person will not let anything happen to Shui Qingyan."

"Who?" Phoenix Yaoling asked.