Chapter 36: Being Blamed

Chapter 36: Chapter 36: Being Blamed

The woman stared intently at Gu Qingli’s face.

That familiar feeling stirred in her heart again, but her mind only held memories from when she’d awakened—nothing else.

When she looked at Xiao Yunjing again, her heart shuddered.

The man’s aura felt so familiar, yet a tinge of fear arose from the depths of her heart.

She really had lost her memory. Yesterday, she’d woken up lying in the snow, her mind empty, devoid of any recollections. She was injured and had a fever.

She struggled to get up, spotting what seemed like a city not far away.

When she entered the city looking for a Medical Clinic, she saw Gu Qingli.

The moment she saw her, a face flashed in her mind, overlapping with the face of the woman in front of her.

The woman felt that this other woman was somehow important to her,

so she approached, only to faint from the effort.

When she woke up in the morning, she kept wondering who she was and how she’d ended up here.

When she saw Gu Qingli and Xiao Yunjing, she blurted out, “Who are you?”

She didn’t understand why her tone was so harsh.

She just felt she should act that way.

Seeing the woman’s composed manner, Xiao Yunjing thought,

An assassin wouldn’t reveal her emotions so easily.

“Let’s go.” After observing for a while, Xiao Yunjing decided he didn’t want to speak to the female assassin any further, regardless of whether she had lost her memory or not.

The more they talked, the more they’d expose.

“But our silver…” Gu Qingli couldn’t detect anything amiss in the woman’s behavior. When she had changed the woman’s bandages yesterday, she’d seen that the wounds were knife cuts.

This woman probably isn’t simple,

she’d realized.

She had only helped dress the wounds; she hadn’t taken the woman’s pulse or examined her thoroughly, so she truly didn’t know if the woman had amnesia.

But just leaving like this? She couldn’t stomach it. This was like suffering a double loss! Saving people was truly an unprofitable business.

In both her past and present lives, this was the first time she’d made such an unprofitable transaction.

She’d lost silver and her spiritual spring water. She had originally planned that once the woman woke up, she’d ask why the woman wanted her to save her and, incidentally, get her silver back. But now, it seemed she’d get nothing.

Xiao Yunjing pulled her arm. “Forget it.”

“Alright then,” Gu Qingli said reluctantly.

Oh well,

she comforted herself,

saving a life is worth more than building a seven-story pagoda.

She just felt annoyed. Damn it, she knew I saved her, but not even a word of thanks!

The two left, said goodbye to the Medicine Apprentice, and departed from the Medical Clinic. They returned to the inn, checked out of their room, and boarded the ox cart, heading out of the city towards their village.

WHOA!

Xiao Yunjing suddenly halted the ox cart about two or three miles after leaving the County Town.

“What’s wrong?” Gu Qingli asked, puzzled. She was sitting next to Xiao Yunjing on the way back.

Xiao Yunjing frowned, looking back. Gu Qingli followed his gaze.

“Hmm? Why is it her?” Gu Qingli wondered.

Isn’t that staggering woman behind us the one from before? What does she mean by following us?

Seeing them stop, the woman hurried to catch up. She reached Gu Qingli’s side, her face somewhat pale, and looked at the pair sheepishly. “Sister, I… I have nowhere to go, and I don’t know anyone here. So… can I temporarily stay with you?”

“Temporarily?” Gu Qingli sneered. This woman was really trying to latch onto them. “The way you say that, it sounds like I owe you something! I saved your life, and now just because you say you have nowhere to go, we have to take you in? You must think you’re some kind of empress dowager! Sorry, but our humble temple can’t house a great Buddha like you.”

“Let’s go,” she said, turning to Xiao Yunjing.

Xiao Yunjing nodded and flicked the whip. The ox cart started moving slowly.

Unexpectedly, the woman leaped onto the back of the flatbed cart.

The woman didn’t know why, but she felt the one who had saved her was very important. Since she was important, she definitely had to follow her.

Xiao Yunjing stopped the ox cart again by the roadside. He and Gu Qingli got off, standing on either side of the flatbed cart, looking at the woman.

The woman simply closed her eyes and said, “Sister, don’t worry. I just want to follow you. I won’t do anything to harm you.”

Gu Qingli was truly angered. She snapped, “Why should I believe you?”

The woman opened her eyes. She looked at this delicate, beautiful woman, whose temperament was like a secluded orchid and whose voice was soft and sweet.

She felt so familiar.

But she couldn’t remember who this person was, only that she seemed very important.

She said honestly, “I don’t know why, but when I see you, I feel like you’re someone very important to me.”

“Someone very important? And that’s supposed to make us trust you?”

This is too ridiculous!

Gu Qingli thought.

Gu Qingli and Xiao Yunjing exchanged a look, both of them very surprised.

The Original Host had lived her entire life in the village, doing nothing but work. She had never even stepped out of the four gates, and this was her first time in the County Town.

When could she have gotten involved with a woman who knew martial arts?

And Xiao Yunjing, searching his memories, found nothing about this woman either.

“You really have no memories? Then do you know your name?” Gu Qingli asked.

The woman nodded, then shook her head. “I really don’t have any memories. I don’t know my name either.”

Gu Qingli felt a bit foolish for asking. If she claimed amnesia, of course she’d say she didn’t remember.

This woman is a problem. Are we really going to take her back?

Gu Qingli’s eyes darted. “How about this,” she suggested, “we give you some silver, and you can find a place to stay on your own, or…?”

“No, I have to follow you.” The woman shook her head again, speaking with conviction. She was dead set on following Gu Qingli.

Gu Qingli looked at Xiao Yunjing.

This is bizarre! What’s with this woman insisting on latching onto me? If she were after Xiao Yunjing, she hasn’t even glanced at that rough-looking man. Truly strange.

Xiao Yunjing nodded at Gu Qingli.

If she wants to follow, let her. For now, it seems she’s after Li’er. I’ll see what this woman is really up to.

It would be very difficult for her to try anything under my watch.

“Let’s head back first then.” Staying out in this freezing weather wasn’t a solution; the ox pulling the cart was snorting restlessly.

The cart slowly made its way towards the village.

This time, Gu Qingli sat with the woman on the flatbed cart at the back.

Gu Qingli looked at the woman, who still had no expression, and said, “You don’t have a name. How about I give you one?”

The woman replied, “Alright.”

“Are you always so expressionless?” Gu Qingli asked.

She really wanted to touch the woman’s face to see if she was wearing a human-skin mask or something. Apart from the pained expression when she fainted yesterday, she’d been completely blank-faced ever since.

“What expression?” the woman asked.

“Fine. From now on, I’ll call you Wuqing.”

Wuqing nodded. “Alright.”

“You can call me Xiaoli from now on.”

Wuqing replied, “Okay.”

“How are your injuries?”

Wuqing said, “They’re fine.”

Gu Qingli was speechless.

Is this person made of iron?

The ox cart rumbled steadily into the Xiao Family’s courtyard, just as the family was sitting down to eat.

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