Chapter 20
"Ji Pu!"

He knew what Wen Yuanzhi meant, "I can't go."

"I order you to rescue him immediately!"

"General Shen said that no matter what danger you encounter, I will protect you."

"Okay, then I will save him myself."

Ji Pu had no choice but to bite the bullet and rush forward.

In the blink of an eye, the three of them were in the middle of the murky water.

The yellow water quickly rose from Wen Yuanzhi's ankles to his knees. He hurriedly warned the people in the distance, "Go to the mountains to the north, abandon your belongings, and flee immediately with your women and children!"

As soon as he said these words, the water reached his thighs.

There was pouring rain above his head, and the flood below his feet made him unable to stand. He was hit hard by the heavy rain and could not open his eyes.

Gou Yue could no longer stand idly by, so she jumped down from the tree. The rushing water almost made her unable to stand, "Follow me!"

I went to hold his hand and found a silver thread. It was the time when Gou Yue cut off the silver thread of the store and escaped. Although she didn't get the letter written by Wen Yuanzhi to someone, she got a bag of silver when she left. This shiny silver thread wraps around the banknotes and sleeves.

She didn't know what she was thinking, but one time at the inn, she tied Wen Yuan on his wrist while he was sleeping.

He hasn't taken it off yet.

Wen Yuanzhi stared at her blankly for a moment. His eyes were complicated. He was obviously smiling, but when others looked deep into his eyes, there was sadness that could not be resolved.

Gou Yue was also stunned.

In the heavy rain, the raindrops were like thousands of horses galloping, but she seemed to be unable to hear anything and could only see his dark eyes.

"You're back?"

He hugged Gou Yue, and the flood quickly reached their waists, but he hugged Gou Yue regardless.

"Who do you think I am?"

Gou Yue felt extremely wronged. He must have mistaken her face for Taran.

She pushed him away angrily, turned around and swam away. The wave was so big that when she turned around, he was gone.

"Wenyuanzhi!"

She became afraid. He was such a weak person, and he would keep coughing even if he was soaked in rain, not to mention floods.

"Where are you?"

She dipped into the water and fished for people in the muddy river, "Damn it! Even if I'm angry, I should take you away first!"

He took a big sip and said, "Bah!"

She searched around in the water, and the disgusting muddy water poured into her mouth and nose. She stuck her head out and said, "Wen Yuanzhi, where are you?"

No one answered.

Her heart dropped lower and lower, like the white porcelain bottle she just got, which was repaired and broken.

White porcelain bottle?

She swam towards a white spot, "Wenyuanzhi!"

If not him, who is it?
Gou Yue took him to the shore. The current was so fast that she had to protect Wen Yuanzhi who fainted, and she also had to be careful to avoid the branches and leaves in the water to avoid being stabbed.

"I should just leave you here, forget it, I took someone else's money and said I would save your life."

"Don't you miss your Talan deeply? I put you here so you can go see her."

She kept talking, but she held a thick wooden branch in the undercurrent in her hand. She swam to a place with difficulty, turned the branch over and inserted it horizontally. Finally, she and Wen Yuan were fixed, no longer Go with the flow.

"If it weren't for me, you would have died a hundred times!" Gou Yue spat out the muddy water in her mouth.

Wen Yuanzhi's breathing became weaker and weaker.

She calmed down and hugged Wen Yuanzhi's waist. Just when a bunch of branches and mud and rocks came in, she stepped up from the bottom of the water. Wen Yuanzhi tilted his head and leaned on her shoulder.

She took him to a safe place and took a breath, "Okay, just wait here for Ji Pu."

After she rested, she felt a pain in her shoulder, and blood seeped out of her clothes.

When Gou Yue heard Ji Pu's shouting, she slowly stood up and turned around to look at the man on the ground.

When he woke up, it was already late at night. Ji Pu cleaned and changed his clothes, "Sir, how do you feel now?"

"What about her?"

Ji Pu said, "Your Excellency, the villager who led the way? I have sent him back to the mountain, and he was not injured."

"I'm talking about the woman who is with me."

Ji Pu was shocked, "She saved the Lord?"

"You didn't see her, did you?"

"When I arrived, there was no one around my lord."

Wen Yuanzhi struggled to get paper and pen.

"Sir, what are you doing? Falling into the water today is very critical. Why don't you protect yourself?"

"I want to finish drawing the topographic map as soon as possible. The people of Ruyin can't wait." Ji Pu couldn't persuade him, so he had to light two more lamps for him to prevent his eyes from getting damaged.

Shen Sang was indeed right, Wen Yuanzhi never let go after so many years.

His father was responsible for the floods in Yuzhou, but when he could not wait for the disaster relief funds from the court, he gave up all his family wealth and worked for several months to help the people.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Qingdao, who was the governor of Yuzhou at the time, joined other colleagues to slander Master Wen for embezzling the court's disaster relief food. The people did not know the reason and only believed the rumor, spreading the rumor more and more widely.In the end, it couldn't be dealt with and the rumors were hard to stop.

Lord Wen, who had lived an upright life, did not end up well. The Wen family was destitute and could not afford even a single dose of medicine. In addition, His Majesty was angry and demoted Lord Wen as a commoner.

Wen Yuanzhi was still a child at that time. His brother died tragically in the hands of bandits while trying to save him on the way to escape, and his orphans and widowed mother were left to wander the world.

How many people who reach high positions have endured all the hardships in the world?

Ji Pu sat next to him, "My lord, I haven't eaten dinner either. I think I'm hungry, so I'll go get some food."

He nodded, still studying the ink in his hands.

Suddenly, he saw a figure flashing outside the window and put down the pen and paper.

"Sir, you are tired, do you want to rest?" Ji Pu saw him thinking, but couldn't guess what he was thinking about writing.

He hooked two fingers on the silver wire on his wrist and pulled it outward. The silver wire was so sharp for some reason that it actually cut his wrist until blood dripped from it.

"Sir!" Ji Pu was startled and held his hand hurriedly, "What are you doing?"

"I don't want it anymore."

"It's a small piece of silver wire. If you feel uncomfortable, I'll just go get the scissors and cut it off. Why bother?"

He pulled so hard that when Ji Pu looked again, he saw that the silver thread had been embedded in the flesh and blood, and a bloody mark was cut on half of his wrist.

"I'll get the scissors." Ji Pu said.

As soon as the door opened, there was a person standing outside.

"you!"

Ji Pu was angry when he remembered the last time she stabbed a knife into a pillar, "I underestimated you last time, not that I lost to you."

Gou Yue said, "Get out of the way."

"Let's fight again. I will definitely be able to avenge my shame this time!"

She pushed him away, "Don't block the way."

Ji Pu wanted to chase after him, but she closed the door with her foot, almost hitting his nose.

The blood was still falling along the silver thread. Gou Yue originally thought it was fun and found a rope to tie him up, but now it became a murderous weapon to hurt him.

She knew clearly that he was using this method to force her out, but she had to give in.

This person is soft on the outside but strong on the inside. When he is ruthless, he can use anything, let alone his own flesh and blood.

"You want to untie it?"

"Yes."

"why?"

"No more."

"Then you can cut it off with a sharp knife."

He doesn't speak.

"Are you angry with me?" she said.

"No." He didn't look at her, his expression was extremely cold.

After saying a few words, Gou Yue suddenly understood that they were strangers to each other in the first place, and Wen Yuanzhi had never seen this face before.

"You...you know who I am?"

If he said she was Talan, Gou Yue thought, she would crush him to death on the spot.

"What do you think?" He then raised his face to look at her.

"Do you think you can hide the truth by disguising yourself?"

Gou Yue choked, "So you know I am..."

"It doesn't matter who you are."

"Why are you not surprised to see me?"

"Why should you be surprised?"

"Because I look like..."

"Talan?" he said.

"Have you met Taran?" he asked.

"No, I just guessed. At that time, I asked you in disguise if I looked like Talan, and you said I did. Now that I'm using my real face, I think maybe it's a bit similar."

(End of this chapter)

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