After the meal, everyone went back to their houses.
Liu Ruyan asked the servant to bring the tub and fill it with hot water. After closing the door, she stepped into the tub to take a bath.
During these days when I was in the army, I usually washed myself with cold water and rarely had access to hot water.
She soaked in the warm water and washed carefully. After a long while, she got up and dressed.
The candlelight flickered, Liu Ruyan put on plain and dirty clothes, and sat by the window wringing her wet hair.
There is a gentle breeze outside the window, a solitary lamp and a solitary shadow.
At this time, she seemed to hear some strange noise coming from outside.
Liu Ruyan was lying on the window lattice and looking out, only to find that Shen Yanchu was squatting there under the window and looked up.
Liu Ruyan said with a smile: "It's late at night, are you staying here to admire the moon?"
Shen Yan first glanced at the sky. Dark clouds covered the moon and the night was dim.
He glanced at her smile coldly, his eyes fell on the thin clothes, he paused for a moment, and then said: "It's getting late, you need to rest."
After that, he jumped off the eaves.
Liu Ruyan secretly thought that he was weird, shook her head, and closed the window lattice.
Outside the window, the dark clouds dispersed, leaving only a full moon.
Just as Bai Zhi took a rest, she heard someone knocking on the door.
He put on his coat and stood up to open the door, only to see Shen Yanchu waiting outside.
"It's so late, is there something wrong with Brother Shen?"
Shen Yanchu stepped straight into the house, his expression cold and chilling.
"Do you want to keep the Tai Sui you brought out from the Sword Tomb?" he asked suddenly.
Bai Zhi was stunned for a moment, "I kept it, but to this day, Bai still can't see the medicinal properties."
"Show it to me."
"good."
Bai Zhi took out the Tai Sui jar from the medicine box and opened the seal.
But I saw that Tai Sui had grown up a little, and the color was transparent, like jade.
Shen Yanchu stretched out his hand to touch it, and the touch on his fingertips was particularly smooth. He held Tai Sui in his hand, and the thing seemed to be alive, squirming slightly.
Bai Zhi was quite surprised. He had encountered Tai Sui before, but it had never changed like this.
Shen Yanchu raised his eyes and said, "If you want to break the blood curse on her, you can only use Tai Sui as a medicine guide."
Bai Zhi asked: "Do you know how to break the curse?"
Shen Yanchu looked at him coldly, "Of course I know that since I planted the curse, I am the only one in this world who can break it."
Bai Zhi was completely confused.
"Hasn't she told you that I planted the blood curse for her?"
"That's not true."
When Shen Yan first saw this, he told Bai Zhi all the ins and outs of the matter.
"So, she is a blood-cursed puppet. To break the curse, you need to use Tai Sui?"
"To be precise, it is Tai Sui's blood that grows from the dead. After being purified with water, it then coexists with the living."
Symbiosis?
Bai Zhi was surprised, "Could it be that you want to raise this Tai Sui?"
Shen Yanchu clasped his palms and said, "You can just use it as medicine afterwards, and there is no need to worry about the rest."
The next day.
The group checked out of the room and hit the road again.
Jin Buhuan brought many followers. After the carriage arrived at the dock, he had to take a Guangzhou boat to Jinling.
The trip lasted three days, and the cost of the boat fare was not small.
Just for the carriage cargo, you have to pay one hundred and eighty cents.
If you want to stay, you have to pay an additional fifty cents per person and squeeze into the cabin on the bottom floor.
Jin Buhuan brushed past the crowd of civilians preparing to board the ship, paid a thousand yuan directly, and booked the top-floor Tianzi room.
In response, Gongshuyu expressed his astonishment: "A rich businessman is a rich businessman."
Everyone's money is usually entrusted to Angelica dahurica for safekeeping, so they looked at Angelica dahurica together.
Bai Zhi made careful calculations and said to the boatman: "Five people, book three underground houses."
Dizi houses are much cheaper than Tianzi houses, and there are two couches in the house.
Bai Zhi planned to let Miss Liu live in a room alone, and the rest of the people could share the same room, which would also save some shipping fares.
Familiar.
"I want to live in a room by myself!" Gong Shuyu interrupted.
"Bai will sleep with you." Bai Zhi frowned.
"I don't want it. Huaian will get seasick and it will be inconvenient to share the night with others!" Gongshuyu objected.
Seeing that they were arguing, Liu Ruyan kindly suggested, "How about I share a room with Bai Zhi?"
"No!" Bai Zhi said.
"No!" Shen Yanchu.
"No!" Dong Qingxian.
Several voices sounded together.
Liu Ruyan felt very weird.
"We were sleeping together in Song Camp before. What's wrong now?"
Shen Yanchu pursed his lips and said nothing...
At that time, there were many people in the camp, and if several people shared a tent, they would feel at ease with each other.
However, things are not what they used to be.
In a narrow and airtight cabin, who knows if those brats might be up to no good.
It's wrong, it's really wrong.
Shen Yanchu simply said: "I will sleep with her."
When Bai Zhi saw him opening his mouth, what she was thinking about was that the exercises that Brother Shen practiced to restrain emotions and desires were no different from those of eminent monks.
Bai Zhi was naturally reassured: "That's fine, Bai and Dong Qingxian can stay together."
The room allocation is settled.
After paying the boat fee, everyone will receive a bamboo stick.
Liu Ruyan boarded the ship holding the bamboo stick and came to the cabin where she stayed.
The cabin is not spacious, with a bed next to each wall, a table and a bench in the middle, and a small window near the door.
She stuffed her luggage under the couch and started making the bed.
Shen Yanchu entered the room later, carrying a bamboo basket in his hand.
Liu Ruyan finished making the bed and changed into clean quilts. She looked up and saw the basket in his hand.
"Going to buy kumquats?" she asked with a smile.
Shen Yanchu put down the bamboo basket and took out the oranges inside.
"It's windy on the river and it's easy to get seasick. I heard from the vendor that you should eat some oranges."
He paused for a moment and continued: "What I bought for you is not allowed to be distributed to others."
Liu Ruyan washed her hands and teased him: "Do you think we are eating alone?"
She took the orange, slowly peeled off the skin, broke off the pulp piece by piece, and put it in her mouth.
Shen Yanchu stared at her. In his sight, his red lips were slightly open and moist.
Eat alone.
Him and her.
The cabin was small, and Shen Yanchu's throat rolled. Looking at those moist lips, he suddenly felt a little thirsty.
"How does it taste?" he asked.
"It's sweet and sour and tastes good. Do you want to try it?"
"Think about it," he replied, secretly having some fascinating thoughts.
He lowered his eyes, "But I haven't cleaned my hands, why don't you feed it to me?"
Oops, that's right. Ye Xun couldn't help but come out to bubble.
It seems that the male protagonist is not a fool after all!
If it were an ordinary girl, she would have lowered her head and looked shy and timid.
But who is Liu Ruyan? He is a rough guy who grew up in a military camp. Not to mention feeding him oranges, he can even take a bath and rub his back.
She peeled off the pulp smoothly and coaxed: "Ah——"
Then when the other person opens his mouth, he stuffs it all in at once.
He choked a little.
“Rude.”
"Hey, you asked me to feed the oranges, don't you always feed them like this?"
She continued to peel.
Before she could finish peeling it, Shen Yanchu suddenly lowered his head, took her hand and bit into a piece of flesh.
He bit one end of the pulp, and the sweet juice flowed down, moistening her fingers, and then he lowered his head and sucked in the juice.
Liu Ruyan was stunned and retracted her hand. Although she was not embarrassed, her cheeks turned red.
Opposite her, Shen Yanchu's eyes were burning, staring at the center of her brows.
Liu Ruyan felt uncomfortable being stared at by him, thinking that the devil today was very strange.
It seems that what he wants to eat is not the orange, but her?
She was shocked by the thoughts in her heart.
But as soon as she started to think about it, she changed her mind - he didn't clean his hands, and she was happy to help others, so why not?