Chapter 317
Ka Cha Cha!
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The pebble that Jiang Pengji held broke in response to the sound . All ten of her fingertips split open, and blood smeared across the broken pebble .
She cringed in pain . Her consciousness was seized by waves of intense pain, but she remained strong and guarded the last of her rationality .
Her lower lip was riddled with teeth marks . She let out uncontrollable sound of boredom, which overflowed from her lips . In a matter of breaths, blood flowed from her eyes, nostrils, and ears––akin to little snakes––and the air gradually reeked with scent of blood .
White was, after all, a warhorse from the Northern Borderline and had spiritual sense . Jiang Pengji’s current state caused it to be anxious . Its hooves rubbed against the ground rapidly .
Pu tong! The sound of a heavy object dropping onto the water’s surface was heard; it was Jiang Pengji, her entire being, that fell into the stream .
White snorted, went around its original location anxiously, then turned its head and ran towards the direction it came from .
It was after midnight . Besides the servants and page boy who stood guard at night, the majority of people were asleep .
The scholars who liked to hold their lanterns and study at night stayed within their carriages reading their books .
Lu Zheng ate and drank until he was full then went to sleep . He grabbed his quilt and wrapped himself like a spring roll . Wei Ci draped an overcoat and leaned to the side of the carriage to read . As he looked back and read the familiar content, surprisingly, he had a different takeaway .
“Really?” After he read one book, he gradually became tired . As Wei Ci prepared to sleep in his clothes, he saw Lu Zheng sprawl out on his back . His sleeping posture was so carefree and occupied more than half of the space within the carriage . He had no space for himself .
He should have never taken Lu Zheng in, who freely made himself at home . Who would have known his sleeping posture was so detestable? He was not impressed .
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“Is that the sound of horse hooves?” He wanted to wake Lu Zheng up when he heard something coming . He opened the curtains . There was no commotion from the servants who guarded at night . Their lack of concern caused him to inevitably doubt that he heard incorrectly .
He mumbled softly, “Perhaps it was an auditory illusion…”
After a while, the servant on night duty got up, widened his eyes, and said, “Isn’t that Liu Xiao Langjun’s horse?”
White’s entire body was white as snow . It had no stray hair and its body was strong and healthy . It stemmed from the prestigious bloodline of the Northern Borderline warhorses . It looked spectacular in the dark .
Liu Xiao Langjun?
After he heard this address, Wei Ci’s heart was moved . He put on and adjusted his clothes properly and took his hand warmer down from the carriage . “What happened?”
There was a total of five servants on night duty . One of them stood forward to receive the reins around White’s neck and led it; it was undergoing emotional turmoil .
“Your servant does not know which direction the horse came from… It seems like something has happened . ”
Wei Ci frowned and stepped forward . White arched its head to his chest . It snorted a few times and looked very anxious .
“Did it discover something?” Wei Ci lifted his eyebrow . His heart was suddenly filled with a bad feeling .
The horse was proud in nature . Regardless of how many people saw it and tried to please it, it was too lazy to reciprocate .
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If White found something, it would have first gone to its master, not to strangers .
“Continue to guard this place . I will go with the horse to investigate . If I don’t return within half an hour, then inform Master and the rest . ”
Wei Ci was skilled in literacy, but he was also familiar with the Six Arts of Rites . His shooting, riding, and martial arts were incomparable to martial artists, but he was not a flower boy .
“Sorry to impose on you . Please bring me to your master . ” Wei Ci stroked White’s mane, held its reins, and got onto the horse’s back . Surprisingly, White did not throw him off . White and Wei Ci rode away and disappeared . The few servants looked at each other and acted according to their instructions .
The stream was not far off from the site where the carriages had stopped; it only took a quarter of an hour to get there .
Wei Ci thought something had happened to Jiang Pengji . His lips turned ghastly white in shock . He was almost thrown off by White as he did hold tightly to the horse’s stomach .
However… There were many trees before their eyes, thereby blocking their vision, but his ears were not deaf . The sound coming from the water was surely…
Before Wei Ci came, Jiang Pengji had regained consciousness in the stream . Her energy level was at its height now, but her limbs were weak . It required a lot of energy just to lift her ten fingers .
Since she was well, she decided that she might as well soak in the ice cold stream to regulate her breathing .
She discovered blood stains on her skin . She lifted her hands and splashed water on her arms and neck . She washed the blood stains off with her clothes on .
She heard the familiar sound of horse hooves and lifted her brows, but did not turn back immediately .
“Who is that?” she asked . Her voice was hoarse and indolent .
Separated by the trees, Wei Ci directed his sight elsewhere; only his ears began to flush .
“Just now, your horse ran to the campsite . I thought something happened to you so I rushed over…”
Jiang Pengji said, “White discovered this tranquil stream . It secretly came here in the middle of the night to bathe . It has become a joke to Zixiao . ”
Wei Ci’s face turned ghastly pale . He stood by White’s side, not knowing if he should walk away or stay .
“Since all is well, then I should not tarry . ”
Others did not know Jiang Pengji’s gender, but Wei Ci knew and had no intention of revealing that to others .
“Wait,” Jiang Pengji shouted to Wei Ci and shyly said, “I came secretly but left in a hurry . I forgot to bring fresh clothes to change… Can I trouble Zixiao to bring White back for Taxue to help prepare a set of clothes for me? Just hang them on White’s trappings; it will deliver them to me . ”
Wei Ci’s facial expression was unfathomable .
He closed his eyes… White came to the campsite not to ask for help, but to help Jiang Pengji bring a set of clothes?
He glanced at White, who had a lot of spiritual sense . It turned its head and looked at him with innocent, watery eyes .
Wei Ci facial expression turned cold . He propped himself up the horse . “I understand . ”
He often felt that his concerned heart was being trampled upon .
White snorted and ran, its hooves pattering against the ground . It was in much less of a hurry than when it came to get him .
The sound of its hooves was heard briefly from afar . Jiang Pengji heaved a sigh of relief and rested her head on the side of the stream .
The water in the stream was flowing and did not freeze, but it was still piercing cold . Luckily, the cold was nothing to Jiang Pengji now .
When she saw her profile and statistic screen, she smiled weakly . She could ignore other things, but “Base strength of 31 points, strength fusion, additional 56 points” was enough to prove that she made the right choice .
She raised her hands to see her arms . On the surface there were not many changes, but she felt an internal accumulation of energy . She briefly used the stream water to wash herself . White carried a bag of clothes and ran over .
Seeing that the bottom of her clothes were above her ankle, Jiang Pengji frowned . “The clothes are quite small…” She knew that was because of her growth spurt .
After the strength fusion, her genes would slowly become superior . She would experience an increase in height, which was also an outward phenomenon after she became superior .
Luckily the change was not massive . She was only twelve years old and had not reached the thirteen year mark . The growth rate was fast and normal .
Other than that, there was another advantage for the change: Due to the natural state of being a woman, the average height was shorter than men . Liu Xi’s body was as follows .
As she presently experienced a growth spurt, her height now complemented the male outfit she was wearing and did not appear too tall .
She brushed her hair back and leapt onto the horse’s back . “Let’s go, White . ”