After dawn, Yu Xiaoxiu and Xia Mingming woke up one after another. Only Jing Chen was still unconscious and had a fever.
Yu Shu roughly told them the truth about Bi Qing and Qiu Biao robbing the merchant ship. Without giving them time to calm down, she assigned tasks to them. Xia Mingming stayed in the cave to look after Jing Chen, while she and Yu Xiaoxiu went out to look for food.
After listening to Yu Shu's arrangement, Xia Mingming said unhappily, "I want to go with you."
Yu Shu was depressed because of Jing Chen's injury, so she didn't treat her well. "What are you going to do? Do you know how to climb trees? Do you know how to catch fish? Just stay here and look after Jing Chen."
Xia Mingming glanced at Jing Chen who was lying on the ground with his coat covered. She curled her lips and said, "He's a girl. Why do you want me to stay with him? Anyway, he's unconscious and won't run around. Let him stay here alone."
Hearing this, Yu Shu's face suddenly showed a stern expression. She said coldly, "If you don't want to stay here, then get out of here."
Xia Mingming's eyes widened. She couldn't believe that Yu Shu would speak to her like this. Yu Xiaoxiu was also surprised. His sister rarely spoke with a straight face. Usually, she would smile mischievously. Along the way, she had been nice to Xia Mingming. Why did she suddenly turn hostile?
Xia Mingming was a little willful, but fortunately, she knew how to read people's expressions. Seeing that Yu Shu was really angry, she suppressed her grievances and stomped her feet. She gritted her teeth and said to Yu Shu, "I, I'll look after him, okay?"
Yu Shu snorted coldly. She picked up the empty leather bag on the ground and hung the ancient sword on it. Then, she dragged Yu Xiaoxiu away. Kim Bao wagged his tail and followed.
Xia Mingming angrily sat on the ground. She picked up a tree branch and poked the ground. With a slight cry, she cursed, "Smelly Ashu, bad Ashu, idiot, fool!"
Yu Xiaoxiu had lived a hard life since childhood. Climbing trees to fish for bird eggs was nothing to her. Yu Shu found a few pomegranate trees in the forest. She plucked some and placed them in Yu Xiaoxiu's coat. Then, she carried it on her back. Then, she found a small stream in the forest. The two drank a few mouthfuls and washed their faces. Then, they took a leather bag and filled it with clean water.
Yu Shu originally wanted to catch a fish and roast it. But when it came down to it, she realized it wasn't so easy. There were fish in the stream, but each one was more slippery than the last. The siblings busied themselves for half a day but couldn't catch a single one. They could only pack up and go back.
When Xia Mingming saw them return, she didn't say a word and angrily scratched the ground with a tree branch. Yu Shu ignored her and gave the flint to Yu Xiaoxiu to start a fire. She helped Jing Chen up and let him rest on her lap. Then, she used the leather bag to feed him water.
After that, she broke open the pomegranate and washed her fingers. She pinched the pomegranates one by one and dripped them into his mouth. Then, she placed her other hand on his burning forehead, wanting him to feel better.
Xia Mingming stole a glance at her and saw how attentively she took care of Jing Chen. Thinking of how Yu Shu scolded her because of Jing Chen, she felt upset. She couldn't help but ask, "Why are you so good to him?"
Xia Mingming didn't know that Yu Shu and Jing Chen knew each other before. She only thought that he was a passerby who was fished out of the river. He didn't even know her and Yu Shu for a long time.
Yu Shu broke the pomegranate seed and said without raising her head, "If you have nothing to do, go gather firewood."
Xia Mingming broke the tree branch in her hand and stood up to leave.
When Yu Xiaoxiu saw her leave, he whispered to Yu Shu, "Sis, what should we do with our nose?"
"Leave this place and find a way to the capital."
"We're still going to the capital?"
"Why not?" Yu Shu asked.
Yu Xiaoxiu said with a righteous face, "Uncle Bi …
Boss Bi and Captain Qiu are bad guys. They killed so many people. Mr. Pei and the others don't even know about it. Shouldn't we go back and expose them? "
Yu Shu shook her head and smiled. She raised her head to look at him and lectured, "My silly brother, do you think that right and wrong can be explained with just a few words? We have neither power nor influence, so how can we expose them? That Bi Qing is the younger brother of another deputy manager of Tai Heng Commerce. His big brother might be aware of all the bad things he has done. Who knows if there are other people mixed in here. The few of us being able to escape is already very lucky. If we deliver ourselves to their doorstep, won't we just be asking to be silenced? "
Yu Xiaoxiu was dumbfounded, "Then … then we let them get away with it?"
Yu Shu said expressionlessly, "They will get what they deserve."
She had predicted this calamity beforehand, but she still couldn't avoid it. Now that things had come to this, she had to flee in a sorry state, causing Jing Chen to be injured. The reason for this was that her greatest mistake was that she only cared about calculating the calamity, but didn't accurately calculate people's hearts.
On this point, Bi Qing had taught her a solid lesson. He let her know what it meant to know a person's heart.
Bi Qing had done a good job on the surface. She had never suspected anything wrong with him. Now that she thought about it, it was all because of her first impression. Bi Qing was polite to her, so she thought he was kind. Bi Qing saved Jing Chen, so she thought he was a good person. Bi Qing quarreled with Qiu Biao several times, so she thought they were not on good terms. She wanted to use Bi Qing to deal with Qiu Biao, but in the end, she got herself into trouble.
Before this, she always thought that she could avoid the disaster by controlling the time of the disaster. Now it seemed that she thought too simply. Qing Zheng and Shi Wen's words were right. Disaster could be avoided but not eliminated. If there was one less disaster today, who knows if there would be a retribution in the future.
This time, she wanted to get rid of the disaster instead of avoiding it. That was why she suffered such a big loss. If she found out about Qiu Biao's conspiracy, she decisively chose to avoid it. If he had decisively chosen to avoid him instead of stubbornly staying behind to deal with him, he would be in a different situation now.
She thought too highly of herself and the result was a terrible fall. She should lower herself and look up to see what she was going to face.
However, it was not for nothing. At least she was able to reunite with Jing Chen. Otherwise, with his silly look, if he fell into other people's hands, it would be hard for her to be at ease.
Yu Shu lowered her head and stroked Jing Chen's messy hair. She gradually revealed a bitter smile.
She could now be sure that Jing Chen had not met the person who destroyed his life. This time, the disaster of the hijacking had nothing to do with him. However, this did not mean that he did not destroy others. The first person to bear the brunt should be Xia Mingming.
Although she did not want to admit that it was Jing Chen's Ketu Star that caused mischief, the matter was clear. After Jing Chen boarded the ship, Xia Mingming calculated that the merchant ship was robbed. He looked for Bi Qing but was knocked out by Qiu Biao. He was placed in a wooden barrel with rancid water and almost suffocated to death.
From this, it could be seen that not only was Xia Mingming not the person who destroyed Jing Chen's life, he was also the one who was affected the most by Jing Chen this time.
Next, it would be her and Yu Xiaoxiu. If they did not jump off the ship at the last moment to escape, what awaited them would be death.
Yu Shu's eyes darkened. Looking at Jing Chen's sleeping face, she felt very complicated. On one hand, she treated Jing Chen as a friend and could not bear to leave him. On the other hand, she clearly knew his fate and was really worried.
Emotionally, she really could not bear to leave him in this situation. But rationally, for safety's sake, she should choose to stay away from him. She was not alone. She still had Xiaoxiu to take care of.
Thinking back, when Jing Chen told her the secret of him destroying the Ketu Star in Yiyang City, she still boasted shamelessly that she did not care. It was really ridiculous.
How could she know what kind of fate Jing Chen was carrying? The closer he was to someone, the more he would harm that person. He did not do anything wrong, but he had to bear the blame. He was so innocent, but he could not do anything about it. How sad it was.
Thinking of that in the alley at dusk, Jing Chen faintly said to her, "This is goodbye", Yu Shu's chest felt stuffy.
She thought that perhaps amnesia was a good thing for Jing Chen.
Yu Shu's eyes became bright again. She said that she would protect him. How could she go back on her words? At least before he remembered everything, she would not leave him alone.
If he was unlucky, then so be it. She had the ability to judge disasters. At worst, she would calculate a few more times every day. She looked at him carefully.
Xia Mingming came back from picking up branches outside and found that Yu Shu's mood had improved. This was reflected in a simple address, "Mingming, the things you picked up are not firewood, they are called tree sticks."
Although it was a mockery, it sounded much more pleasing to the ear. Xia Mingming put the things in his hands on the ground and said, "Aren't they all wood? What's the difference?"
"Then you and I both have the same nose and two eyes, so there's no difference between the two of us?"
Xia Mingming said confidently, "Of course there's a difference between the two of us. I'm a girl, and you're a man."
Yu Shu was wrapping mud on the bird's egg. When she heard this, she almost crushed the egg. She raised her head and looked at the little girl in front of her with a strange expression. She thought to herself, This silly girl still doesn't know that I'm a girl.
Yu Xiaoxiu snickered at the side and fed the pomegranate to Kim Bao.
Xia Mingming was embarrassed by Yu Shu's stare. He lowered his head and whispered, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Yu Shu casually said, "Because you're pretty." …
Xia Mingming blushed and said in a low voice, "Flirting."
Yu Shu chuckled and didn't deny it. Instead, she asked, "By the way, Mingming, you're so good at disguising. Can you tell me when we'll arrive at the capital?"
She was very interested in Xia Mingming's disguising skills. She couldn't be rude when they were on the ship, but now that this girl's life was saved by her, there was no harm in asking about it.
"This …" Xia Mingming looked troubled. Under Yu Shu's expectant gaze, she said, "I … I don't have anything for divination.
I don't have a divination item, so I can't calculate anything. ,,,.
With one look, Yu Shu knew that she was lying. She looked at Xia Mingming meaningfully and suddenly said, "If you can't do it, then I'll do it."
Hearing Yu Shu's words, Xia Mingming burst into laughter, thinking that she was joking. Not everyone could do divination.
Yu Shu stuffed the bird egg into the fire pit and went out to wash her hands. When she came back, she picked up three copper coins from the pile of miscellaneous items on the ground and rubbed them in her palm. She calmed down and asked for a divination before throwing them down.
Xia Mingming looked at her carefully and asked suspiciously, "What are you doing?"
Yu Shu pointed at the copper coins on the ground. "Don't you recognize it? This is the Six Lines Divination."
"Dan."
Yu Shu tossed the copper coins in her hand and chanted, "Throwing Heaven and Earth, Overturning Yin and Yang."
When Xia Mingming heard these two lines, her eyes suddenly lit up and she sat up from the ground. "You, you know the Six Lines Divination?"
"I do." Yu Shu said resolutely. From the first day she met Xia Mingming, she could tell that she was very interested in the Six Lines Divination Technique.
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