Outside the carriage, South, East, North, and West raised their whips and spurred their horses in unison, heading for the southernmost territory of the Daye Dynasty—Puhua Island.
North Guardian: "Strange, when did Lu-er and Master hook up?"
West Guardian: "I've never paid attention to anything that has an unusual taste."
South Guardian: "Yeah. It's too unusual."
East Guardian: "Do you mean Lu-er or Master Li?"
South Guardian: "Both of them. They both have an unusual taste for each other."
At that moment, a warning came from inside the carriage, "If you don't shut up, I'll make the four of you have an unusual taste for each other."
East, South, North, and West immediately stop talking. The Sect Leader, whose imaginary moral integrity had never been heard and seen before, could definitely do that kind of thing.
Puhua Island was not that far from Tianlong Mountain, but it was separated by the East Sea, which required one to row over to get there. Murong Yunshu and her party drove to the dock when it was already dark, and the fishing boats on the beach had long since closed their sails. "Let's rest for the night in the fishing village for now, and rent a boat to cross the sea early tomorrow morning." Murong Yunshu suggested.
There was no argument coming from Chu Changge. It was the same for South, East, North, and West. However, they heard Li Shaoqing say, "We won't be able to see the island after dawn."
Murong Yunshu: "Why can't we see the island after dawn?"
Li Shaoqing explained, "Puhua Island is only visible at night. After dawn, it will disappear. No one knows why. The fishermen nearby know that at dusk, an island will slowly emerge from the sea. Yet, no one has ever reached it because it will gradually disappear when the boat is halfway through. Someone set out before sunset in pursuit of Puhua Island before and rowed all the way towards the island after it appeared, but unfortunately, he couldn't get to it in the end. It is said that the person watched the whole island disappear within his reach."
Murong Yunshu questioned, "If that's the case, how did Hua Tiancheng find it then?"
Li Shaoqing replied, "I don't know."
East Guardian asked, "You genuinely don't know, or you just won't tell?"
Li Shaoqing responded, "My whole family's life is in your hands, so I dare not hide anything from you. If I don't help you find Hua Tiansheng, a dozen members of my family will be beheaded immediately rather than executed after autumn. By then, I won't even have a chance to beg His Majesty's mercy to atone for my crime by doing good merits. I can tell which is more important."
North Guardian hummed. "You'd better be able to distinguish. Otherwise, I will cut your whole family alive in front of you. I will even cut the flesh of those already dead after digging them out."
"Lil North, you're too heavy-handed. There will be no skin for you to cut on those old corpses, even if you break the bones into pieces." East Guardian couldn't stand it anymore and pointed it out.
"Then grind the bones into powder. In short, torture people into ghosts, then torture them when they're ghosts until they aren't recognised. Those who are neither human nor ghost will be tortured to become neither ghost nor human. Let's see how many of them dare to cheat us!" North Guardian said fiercely.
"Ou… ou..." Murong Yunshu wretched twice, and her face became miserable. Chu Changge hurriedly held her up and asked nervously, "What's wrong?" Murong Yunshu was about to speak when she suddenly wretched again.
North Guardian was so frightened that he took two steps backwards and asked weakly, "Could it be that what I said was too disgusting?"
"It shouldn't be. Your words have always been disgusting, and Madam only started to suffer from nausea today, so it's not your fault." East Guardian said grimly.
The North Guardian was choked into silence. What did it mean that his words had always been disgusting?
"Old East, when facing your great enemy, be virtuous and speak more euphemistically. Although what you said is true, with you being so direct, it will only hurt your brother's feelings." South Guardian advised earnestly.
Their words had utterly messed up North Guardian's mind. At the same time, Chu Changge had also become messed up. It was because, after Murong Yunshu vomited and said a short sentence, she closed her eyes and fell asleep. She said—"I want to sleep."
East Guardian said, "Leader, it's better to be more moderate in the future. Your physical strength is good, but Madam can't keep up with you. Just look at how crazy you have played with her. She even fell asleep standing up."
South Guardian: "Yes. The energy of a person is limited. Your insatiable desire for pleasure is tantamount to chronic suic*de, and one day you will die from excessive ejaculat*on."
West Guardian: "Old South, you underestimate the Leader. He has been saving his strength for three years, so he will not collapse easily. Besides, we are all men. You have to be considerate of the Leader."
North Guardian: "It's not three years, right? Didn't that girl who crawled out of the coffin say she belonged to the Leader?"
Chu Changge stated, "I haven't trashed someone for a long time. Your skin must be so itchy, isn't it?"
Tsk, someone is getting annoyed. South, East, North, and West had become very sensible as they ended their conversation.
"She's not asleep." Chu Changge said, "She looks like she's sleeping, but she's not. If she was just too tired, she wouldn't have wretched."
North Guardian: "Could it be that she is pregnant again?"
Chu Changge: "Don't talk nonsense. I've only been back for a few days. Even if she was pregnant, she wouldn't show symptoms so quickly."
North Guardian: "If she's pregnant, it is not necessarily yours."
Chu Changge's face sank. "If it's not mine, could it be yours?"
North Guardian hurriedly waved his hands. "No, of course not. I don't have that capability."
At the sides of the South, East, and West's faces were full of black lines. Lil North ah, Lil North, even if you are afraid of the Leader's anger and anxious to clarify your innocence, you do not have to discredit yourself ah! What do you mean you don't have the capability? Do you actually want to curse your Gu family without any descendants?
Chu Changge said, "There must be something wrong. We will stay in the fishing village tonight. Old East, you talk to the fishermen nearby to get a room back to us. Old South, you go and get a physician."
"Yes." The South and East duo accepted the order and left.
The fishing village was very small, but the folk customs were simple. So Old East quickly asked the fishermen to borrow a room, and Old South invited the only physician in the village. After taking Murong Yunshu's pulse, the physician shook his head heavily and said, "I am incompetent. I don't know what kind of disease your wife has. Please find another better physician." After saying that, he left without taking the consultation fee.
Chu Changge asked Old South to go to the town to ask for a physician, but after a series of ten or so physicians, all of them were the same as the first physician; they didn't know what kind of disease Murong Yunshu had. "Is it true that she just fell asleep?" Chu Changge whispered to himself.
East Guardian said, "Whether or not she is sleeping, we'll know tomorrow."
The next day, Murong Yunshu really woke up. She was full of vitality and in high spirits. In contrast, Chu Changge looked much more haggard. "You have not slept all night?" Murong Yunshu asked.
Chu Changge nodded. "You suddenly fell asleep yesterday. I thought you had some kind of illness and was worried sick."
Murong Yunshu snorted with laughter as she asked, "Didn't I tell you that I was going to sleep?"
"Be that as it may, I always felt that something was wrong." Chu Changge said with a heavy heart.
Murong Yunshu assured him, "There's nothing wrong. You should go and catch up on your sleep. As soon as it gets dark, we will leave for Puhua Island."
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Chu Changge: "No need. One night without sleep has no effect on me."
At dusk, Puhua Island really appeared, as Li Shaoqing had said. South, East, North, and West could not find available fishing boats, so they had to cut wood to make their own rafts. Murong Yunshu and Chu Changge, on the other hand, strolled along the long coastline. [+]
"Are you afraid of water?" Chu Changge suddenly asked.
"Not afraid...... wu......" Murong Yunshu covered her mouth and wretched a few times.
Chu Changge instantly changed his expression and asked nervously, "Do you want to sleep again?"
Murong Yunshu shook her head. "No, it's just that I've been at the seaside for a long time, and I feel sick at the sight of the seawater."
You've only been at the seaside for one day, and you feel it was already that long? Chu Changge teased, "How come you don't get nauseous when you see dirt after staying on the ground for so long?"
"After being nauseous for more than a dozen years, I have slowly stopped feeling sick." Murong Yunshu answered thoughtfully.
Chu Changge couldn't help himself when he suddenly grabbed her hand and asked again, "Are you really not afraid of water?"
"No, I'm not." Murong Yunshu was wondering what he was asking this for.
Chu Changge smiled gently and pulled her towards the sea.
The seawater was freezing, but Murong Yunshu did not feel cold at all. She followed him slowly, walking towards the sea. When the seawater submerged her knees, she could feel the force of the waves even more, as if trying to roll her away. She finally could not help but shriek, clinging to him. Since the lower part of her body was unstable, her whole body was almost hanging on him.
Upon seeing this scene, Chu Changge laughed with delight as he asked, "Didn't you say you were not afraid?"
Murong Yunshu buried her head in his arms and feigned anger, "You did that on purpose, didn't you?"
"Yes." Chu Changge confessed.
He answered so quickly and so frankly; how could she continue? Murong Yunshu felt annoyed and amused at the same time. She wanted to try to use force to solve the problem. Who would have thought that when she let loose one of her hands, her body became even more unstable? She immediately re-held him, tighter than before, afraid of being swept away by the sea.
Chu Changge rested his chin on her shoulder and laughed sullenly for a while before he whispered in her ear, "The feeling of a beautiful woman throwing her arms around you is really wonderful."
Murong Yunshu was stumped for words momentarily. She suddenly realised that what he deliberately planned with all his heart and soul was only for her to take the initiative to embrace him. Inevitably, Murong Yunshu tightened her arms around him even more. Her heart ached at the ease of his contentment over something this simple, but her mouth teased, "It's not easy to have a beautiful woman in your arms. After the sun sets over western hills, you should take enough silver to stay in the brothel, and you will guarantee a hug."
Chu Changge was forced to hold back the laughter in his chest as he went along with her words. Unfortunately, this is a deserted place. There is no brothel here, or Madam is willing to open one?"
"Even if I want to open one, there is no girl for me to be the facade." Murong Yunshu bemoaned with infinite regret.
Chu Changge laughed. It's okay. With you, Madam, I'm not afraid that the brothel doesn't have any facade. Even if you can't find one, your husband is still here."
"You want to dress up as a woman and pr*stitude yourself?"
"......"
Seeing that Chu Changge had no more words to speak, Murong Yunshu smothered a few laughs with immense pleasure. Then she turned around and leaned on her back. She used her hands covering the large hands around her waist as she looked at the sea and sky and commented, "The evening sun is out."
"Mhmm." Chu Changge also raised his eyes to look into the distance and, for the first time, felt the sunset look so beautiful.
For Murong Yunshu, her happiness was interdependence peacefully with Chu Changge, no matter when or where.
Thinking about the memories of the past three years was like a lifetime ago. Until this moment, she still could not believe that he was by her side again, within her reach. Sensing the heat coming from the body behind her, she felt warm inside, making her unable to tear herself away.
Looking at the horizon, Murong Yunshu foolishly curled her lips. She couldn't help but want to laugh but didn't know exactly what she wanted to laugh at. That was probably what happiness was. To be in the arms of one's beloved while laughing foolishly in a baffling way.
An unspecified time passed by. South, East, North, and West came back carrying a bamboo raft each. They lined up in front of Chu Changge and Murong Yunshu, respectively. "One is enough. What are you guys doing with so many?" Chu Changge asked.
East Guardian replied, "Just in case. From Li Shaoqing's description, Puhua Island is not that easy to find. In case we encounter a storm or something, the others can still be used for emergencies."
Chu Changge thought about it for a while and thought it made sense, so he instructed, "Connect the four bamboo rafts into one. This way, even if it was blown apart by the storm, we could still paddle it separately."
East Guardian praised, "Leader is wise." South, East, North, and West quartet used the extra hemp rope to tie the four bamboo rafts side by side, with two in the front and two in the back. Leader, Madam, it's time to go." East Guardian said.
"Alright." Chu Changge hugged Murong Yunshu around her waist. The two of them jumped onto the bamboo raft together, and he was about to put her down when he found her leaning against his chest, with tightly closed eyes and breathing evenly. Apparently—she had fallen asleep again. Chu Changge immediately frowned and said, "There must be something wrong with her. Old East, send a pigeon to Feng Cheng. Tell him to come immediately."
East Guardian nodded heavily. "Yes."
At this time, Li Shaoqing, who had been silent, interjected, "You don't need to ask Feng Cheng to come. She is not sick. Even ten Feng Cheng can't cure her."
Chu Changge's heart thumped at his words, and a sullen look appeared on his face as he asked in a deep voice, "It's you? What have you done to her?"
Li Shaoqing argued, "I have been under your surveillance. What can I do to her?"
In an instant, North Guardian went across with a spear. t stopped one centimetre away from Li Shaoqing's throat as he coldly asked, "You still dare to weasel yourself out of this?"
Li Shaoqing raised his chin slightly, neither supercilious nor afraid. e said, "I'm not trying to weasel myself out. The reason I know this is not a disease is that I have seen this symptom in another woman. You guys also know that person. She is the girl who claimed to be Chu Changge's fiancée and has been pricked with needles until she turns silly by Feng Cheng."
Chu Changge suddenly felt that he understood something, yet not clear enough. He stared and pondered, sorting the whole thing out in his mind, and asked, "This is the work of that woman, right?"
Li Shaoqing nodded." If my guess is correct, it should be her. As far as I know, she has been Hua Tiansheng's person, and for some reason, she has been placed in the hole under the coffin store. I don't know exactly why because Hua Tiansheng didn't tell me, but he occasionally mentioned her, saying that she was his last trump card. Even if all the schemes failed, as long as she was there, he could have the final victory. At first, when I saw her appear at the Inn for the Uninvited waiting for you, I, like you, thought Hua Tiancheng was only using her beauty to seduce you in order to alienate the relationship between you two husband and wife. Now I understand that seducing Chu Changge was just a front. His real purpose was to infect Murong Yunshu with this lethargic symptom."
Chu Changge questioned, "She hasn't even touched Yunshu's hand. How could it be contagious? Also, the symptom you mentioned is just sleeping when it's dark? Nothing else?"
Li Shaoqing answered, "I don't know exactly how it is infected. But there must be some kind of connection between that woman and Murong Yunshu. As for the symptoms, didn't you notice that Murong Yunshu fell asleep earlier today than yesterday?"
After Li Shaoqing reminded her, Chu Changge also remembered that Murong Yunshu had fallen asleep yesterday when it was dark, while today, she had fallen asleep before it was dark. Suddenly, a bad premonition surfaced in Chu Changge's mind, and cold sweats began to rise on his palms. "If this goes on, what will happen to her?" Chu Changge asked.
Li Shaoqing asked him back, "Don't you already have the answer in your mind?"
In an instant, Chu Changge felt as if his brain had become half-empty. He could not think for a long time as he held Murong Yunshu's body, faintly trembling.
South, East, North, and West's hearts were also heavy. They had seen the world's most beautiful woman's appearance at the coffin store. She was entirely like a living dead person. If Madam was also going to be the same as the great beauty where she would eventually become a living dead, then, the Leader...... South, East, North, and West did not dare to think further. They knew very well what Chu Changge, who lost Murong Yunshu, would do.
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Don't you find the scene by the seaside familiar?
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