Kacha!
The pebble in Jiang Pengji's hand shattered. Her fingertips split open and blood stained the gravel.
She curled up in pain. Her consciousness was attacked by waves of pain, but she still stubbornly held on to the last trace of clarity.
Her lower lip was bitten and there were several teeth marks. She could not help but groan from the corner of her mouth. In just a few breaths, wriggling blood-colored snakes slowly flowed out of her eyes, nostrils, and ears. The air gradually filled with the smell of blood.
White was an intelligent warhorse from the northern borderline. Jiang Pengji's current situation made it anxious. Its hooves kept rubbing against the ground.
Plop!
The sound of a heavy object falling into the water was heard, causing a large splash. It turned out that Jiang Pengji's entire body had fallen into the stream.
White snorted and anxiously circled a few times on the spot. Then, it turned its head and ran out the way it came from.
It was already late at night. Except for the servants and boy servants on night duty, most of the people were already asleep.
The scholars who liked to read at night were still in the carriage reading slowly by candlelight.
Lu Zheng fell asleep after eating and drinking. He grabbed the bedding and rolled himself into a spring roll. Wei Ci wore a cloak and leaned against the carriage to read carefully. Perhaps it was because he had had a different experience, but now that he was going back and reading these familiar contents, he actually had a different understanding of them.
"Seriously …" After reading a book, Wei Ci gradually felt sleepy. Just as he was about to sleep with his clothes on, he saw Lu Zheng sprawled out on his back. His sleeping posture was extremely carefree and took up more than half of the carriage, making him feel as if he had nowhere to put his feet.
He should not have taken in Lu Zheng, who was friendly with him. Who knew that his sleeping posture was so bad?
He despised it.
"Is there the sound of horse hooves?"
He was about to wake Lu Zheng up when he vaguely heard something.
He lifted the curtain of the carriage. There was no movement from the servants on night duty outside. He could not help but wonder if he had heard wrongly.
"He muttered in a low voice. Maybe I heard wrongly …"
After a while, the servant on night duty stood up. He widened his eyes and said, "Isn't that Liu Langjun's horse?"
White's whole body was snow-white. There was not a single strand of hair. It was vigorous and it was a warhorse from the northern borderline with excellent bloodlines. It was very eye-catching at night.
Liu Langjun?
Upon hearing this form of address, Wei Ci's heart skipped a beat. He put on the cloak that was draped over his shoulders and tightened it around him. Then, he took the hand warmer and alighted from the carriage.
"What happened?"
There were five servants on night watch, and one of them had already stepped forward to take the reins from Big White's neck and lead the agitated Big White over.
"Your servant doesn't know either. It seems like something happened when the horse came from that direction."
Wei Ci frowned and stepped forward. Big White rubbed its head against his chest and snorted a few times, looking very impatient.
"Could it have discovered something?" Wei Ci raised his eyebrows, an ominous premonition rising in his heart.
This horse was naturally arrogant. During the day, many people looked at it enviously. No matter how much they tried to please it, it was too lazy to bite them.
If Da Bai had discovered something, he would have gone to find his master instead of wasting time with an outsider.
"You guys stay here, I'll follow the horse to take a look. If I don't come back in an hour, then inform Master and the others. "
Although Wei Ci was a scholar, he was also proficient in the Six Arts of a Gentleman. His horsemanship and archery skills were not as good as those of a military general, but they were not just for show.
"Sorry for offending you. Take me to your master."
Wei Ci stroked Big White's mane, grabbed its reins, and flipped onto the horse's back. Surprisingly, Big White did not throw him off.
Looking at Big White and Wei Ci, the servants looked at each other and could only do as they were told.
The stream was not very far from where the carriages were camping. It would only take a quarter of an hour to travel back and forth on Big White.
Wei Ci thought that something had happened to Jiang Pengji. He was so scared that his lips turned white. He almost got thrown off by Big White.
However —
There were many trees in front of him, so he could not see clearly. But he was not deaf. The sound of the water was clearly …
Before Wei Ci came over, Jiang Pengji had already woken up from the stream.
She was in good spirits, but her legs were still weak. It was difficult for her to even lift her fingers.
Relying on her good health, she simply soaked in the cold stream water to adjust her breathing.
She found that there were many bloodstains on her skin. She raised her hands and splashed the water on her arms and neck. She used her clothes to clean the bloodstains.
Hearing the familiar sound of horse hooves, Jiang Pengji raised her eyebrows but did not turn around immediately.
"Who is it?" she asked. Her voice was hoarse and languid.
Separated by the trees, Wei Ci shifted his gaze to another place, but his ears were slightly red.
"Your horse ran to the campsite just now. I thought that something had happened to you, so I rushed over …"
Jiang Pengji said, "I found the stream here clean during the day, so I sneaked over to take a bath in the middle of the night. I've embarrassed myself in front of you, Zixiao."
Wei Ci's face was livid. He stood beside Big White, not knowing whether to leave or stand.
"Since you're fine, it's not convenient for me to stay here any longer."
Others did not know Jiang Pengji's gender, but Wei Ci knew. He did not intend to let others know that he knew.
"Wait a minute." Jiang Pengji stopped Wei Ci and said embarrassedly, "I sneaked out and left in a hurry. I forgot to bring a change of clothes. Can I trouble Zixiao to bring Big White back and ask Taxue to help prepare a set of clothes? Hang it on Big White's horse ornament. It will send it over."
Wei Ci's expression was completely unsightly.
So … Big White didn't run to the campsite to ask for help, but to bring a set of clothes for Jiang Pengji?
He glanced at Da Bai. Da Bai also turned around and looked at him innocently with its big, watery eyes.
Wei Ci's face was cold. He turned over and mounted the horse. "I understand."
He always felt that all his worries seemed to have been fed to the dogs.
Big White snorted and the horse galloped away. It was not as hurried as when it came.
Hearing the sound of the horse's hooves getting further away, Jiang Pengji heaved a sigh of relief. She raised her head and leaned against the stream.
The stream was flowing. It was not frozen, but it did not hinder its bone-chilling coldness.
Fortunately, this kind of coldness was nothing to Jiang Pengji now.
Looking at her personal attributes panel, she smiled weakly.
She did not care about other things, but [Basic Strength: 31 points, Combined Strength + 56 points] was enough to prove that she had made the right choice.
She raised her hand to look at her arm. On the surface, there did not seem to be many changes, but she could feel the power contained within.
After washing a little with the stream, Big White ran over with a bag of clothes on its back.
Seeing that the lower edge of the clothes was close to the ankles, Jiang Pengji frowned. "The clothes are a little small …"
She knew that this was due to the increase in her height.
After the Combined Strength, the genes would also slowly be optimized. Her height was a little longer, which was also the external appearance after the optimization.
Fortunately, the change was not big. Moreover, this body was only twelve years old. It was not even thirteen years old yet, so it was normal for it to grow quickly.
Apart from that, there was another advantage to this change.
Due to physiological reasons, females were on average much shorter than males. This was especially true for Liu Xi's body.
Now that she had grown taller, her height would not be too conspicuous when she appeared in men's clothing.
Jiang Pengji tucked her wet hair behind her head and turned over to mount the horse.
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