Chapter 27: A Beauty Like Jade

  At the same time as she heard the sound, Lian Muer also felt something was off about the branch in her hand. She slightly lowered her head and suddenly discovered that what she was holding onto was a person's torn sleeve.

  There is someone here who hasn't discovered it yet!

  Lian Man'er hastily let go of his hand and grabbed onto a nearby boulder, turning his body around, resulting in him coming face to face with that person.

  Lian Man'er's heartbeat suddenly accelerated by two beats. It was a slightly pale face, but it didn't affect his impression at all. "Looks like a good girl", four words appeared in Lian Man'er's mind instantly.

  No, in front of her was a man, looking no more than twenty years old, wearing an arrow-sleeved moon-white long gown, leaning against a earth wall, half sitting and half lying there. Lian Man had seen many handsome men and beautiful women in her past life, and after coming here, the people of Lian's family also had good looks, but the beauty of this man still amazed her.

  There was a faint smell of blood between the nasal wings, and Lian'er's eyes looked into the man's dark pupils, where there was something that made her swallow back the exclamation that was about to come out.

  A strange man, not from the nearby village, sat wounded here, but didn't make a sound. Even the vines instinctively sensed danger and judged that screaming wouldn't help her, but would instead make things worse.

  It turned out that her action was very wise. Because in a place where she couldn't see, the man's other hand had already reached behind her head, and seeing that she didn't make a move, he slowly withdrew it again.

  Lian Man'er locked eyes with the man for a moment.

  The man was seriously injured, and not just in one place. His legs, waist, and arms were all wounded, especially the wound on his thigh was still bleeding profusely, and the blood had already soaked the ground beneath him.

  There isn't such a person in the village, and many doubts arose in Cang Er's heart.

  "You... aren't from our village." Lian Man'er tried her best to remain calm, stating the fact in a normal tone of voice, "You're injured."

  "Oh." The man uttered a vague "oh" and his eyes sized up Lian Man'er from head to toe.

  Elegant, yet extremely dangerous beast. Because of the injury, it became even more dangerous. Even Lian'er felt the danger and confirmed that the danger came from the man in front of her.

  "I have medicine that can help you," said Lian Man Er. "Or I can go back to the village and find someone to help you."

  "Are you from the village at the foot of the mountain?" The man asked, his tone not being local dialect but rather Mandarin.

  "Yes," Lian Wan'er replied.

  The man fell silent again, seemingly deep in thought, paying no attention to his own wound that was still bleeding.

  "Your wound is still bleeding." Lian Man'er said softly.

  The man's eyebrows furrowed almost imperceptibly, he didn't need reminding, he knew how bad his situation was. Scattered with his subordinates, being hunted down, severely injured, and losing all his medicine pouches. His wounds urgently needed treatment, but danger lurked nearby, and if he showed even a hint of weakness, he would be killed instantly.

  This girl suddenly fell from the sky, is it an omen of death or...

  "I have medicine here." Lian Man'er took out a porcelain bottle from the basket, "It's the medicinal herbs that grow on this mountain, which can stop bleeding."

  The man's gaze fell on Lian Mian'er's face and then moved to the bottle in her hand, but he didn't say a word.

  Lian Wan'er slowly opened the lid of the bottle and let him see the hoof package inside.

  "It doesn't look good, but it's very effective." Lian Man'er saw that the man didn't object, so she took out a few large hoof-shaped packages from the bottle.

  First, it was the wound on his thigh, which seemed to have been roughly treated, but blood was still flowing. Lian Man'er had never seen such a serious injury before, and the man did not object, so Lian Man'er tore open the horse hoof packages one by one and pressed them onto his thigh wound, layer upon layer, using more than a dozen of them, finally stopping the bleeding from the wound, and Lian Man'er let out a slight sigh of relief.

  During this time, the man was extremely quiet, letting Lian Man do as she pleased, as if it had nothing to do with him. However, Lian Man could feel the man's tension, so her movements were especially careful.

  The bleeding had stopped, but the wound still needed to be bandaged. Lian Man'er thought for a moment, then took off her shoes and unwrapped the cloth that bound her feet.

  The man finally moved, and a suspicious flush appeared on his pale face.

  "Wait, you...you're going to use your...bandage?"

  In this era, a woman's bound feet were something that should only belong to her husband, an object with special connotations. The foot-binding cloth was also extremely private. The man was clearly shocked by Lian'er's behavior and did not want to use the woman's foot-binding cloth.

  "I didn't wrap my feet," Lian Man'er didn't know why she had such patience, maybe it was because she felt the danger and wanted to protect herself, "your wound must be bandaged, these strips of cloth are what I use to stuff my shoes with, but they're very clean, you don't need to worry at all."

  Lian Man'er said, untying the whole strip of cloth and showing it to the man.

  The man looked at Lian Mian'er's shoes and indeed they were not wrapped around her feet, and the gauze was also very clean, so he didn't say anything.

  Lian Man'er used gauze to bandage the wound on his leg and tied a firm knot.

  After treating the wound on the man's leg, Lian Man'er finally lifted her head.

  "There are other wounds too, let's deal with them as well." Lian Wan'er reached out her hand to take the horse hoof package again.

  "Uh," the man slightly shifted his body, seemingly to make it easier for Lian Mian'er to treat the wound on his waist.

  Lian Man'er was slightly stunned, because on the man's waist side, there wasn't a wound at all. Before Lian Man'er could react, the man's left hand had already been placed on her shoulder, and gently pressed down.

  Something's off, Lian Mian almost didn't think about it, but instinctively leaned to the side and fell to the ground. At the same time, the man's right hand passed through the gap between Lian Mian's arm and waist. The corner of Lian Mian's eye saw a white light shoot out from the man's sleeve, and then heard a dull hum, followed by the sound of something heavy falling to the ground.

  Lian Man'er crouched there, not daring to move, and she didn't even know if she was still alive.

  The man stretched out one hand and patted Lianmeng's shoulder.

  "It's all right, nothing's wrong, get up." The man said, with a hint of relaxation that was hard to detect in his tone.

  Lian Man'er clenched her fists, not allowing herself to tremble too much, and slowly got up from the ground. Just less than five steps away from her and the man, on the ground, lay a brown-haired short-haired man. The man lowered his head, knelt there, with a red arrowhead exposed at the back of his heart.

  Lian Man'er covered her mouth. She thought she wasn't a coward, but also absolutely didn't have the nerve to face these things calmly.

  "Go on," said the man to Lian Mian'er.

  "What's going on?" Lian Man'er blurted out.

  The man raised an eyebrow.

  "......Oh, okay." It wasn't until then that Lian Man Er realized he wanted her to continue treating his wound.

  Lian Man'er had almost used up the entire bottle of horse hoof paste, and was about to contribute the gauze on her other foot as well. Finally, she finished treating the wounds on the man's arm and waist. The process was a bit slow, but it was intentional. The handsome man in front of her was like jade, but at the same time, he was also a ruthless killer. In this desolate mountain wilderness, would he kill her to silence her?

  "Well, I don't dare say that I saved you, but at least I helped you." Lian Man'er slowly spoke.

  Today has been quite busy, I'll update these for now and try to add more tomorrow.