Chapter 37: Days in the Run
YiFang smiled, scratching his head awkwardly.
“Is that right? Brother Ying doesn’t mind? ”
BaiYing nodded.
“Erm, not at all, Ying’er will try to persuade sister Yen to be not so harsh on you too”
Hearing that, YiFang let go of his grip, looked at BaiYing’s eyes for quite a long time, didn’t that kid know? If his sister was also one of the victims of his family massacre? Why is he talking as if his sister is still alive?
“Eh Ying’er, are you waiting for your sister Yen?”
BaiYing nodded.
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“Yes, luckily, when the incident happened sister Yen was running away, maybe she’s out of town now, one day she will come home and, ... heh, she must be very sad and devastated”
BaiYing became desperate, he was daydreaming again with foresight. YiFang swallowed hard.
“Xiao Ying, umm, who told you that your sister was outside the city?” asked YiFang.
BaiYing turned his head, frowning.
“Em Mother, she said that sister is already run away because she didn’t want to marry the Crown Prince who she thought was ugly and fat, then, Mother and Father asked Ying’er to replace her, Father said been looking for sister almost everywhere and can’t find her, so Ying’er couldn’t help but obey Mother’s idea in order to save the whole family, but, heh, who would have thought, in the end, my whole family had to die too. ”
Tears back down BaiYing’s cheeks which lowered his head deeply, YiFang looked at him, raised his hand, sweeping the tears on BaiYing smooth cheeks, and stroked his head.
“Little brother, don’t think too much about it, it’s all over now just don’t get too sad”
“Brother, please don’t leave Ying’er, Ying’er is an orphan now and doesn’t have anyone anymore, later when you both get marry please take Ying’er to live with you guys, brother”
YiFang tried to hold back his tears, he nodded as he pulled BaiYing into his arms, when YiFang’s hand hugged BaiYing, BaiYing saw a fresh-looking scratch on YiFang’s arm, he wanted to ask but he held it back, maybe it was just an ordinary wound because he often went to the forest to hunt and fetch firewood, maybe he was clawed at that time, even though a strange thought appeared in BaiYing’s head.
“YingYing!”
LuoXiang’s loud voice was a moment before he aimed his sword at the person holding his body before he lost consciousness.
But, that might just be a coincidence.
“o Yeah Brother Fang, how did you find Ying’er? Did, brother fight with that attacker? Then, did they hurt you? ” asked BaiYing.
YiFang let go of his hug, slightly stuttering for BaiYing’s sudden question.
“Em, yeah, brother happened to pass by in front of your house and saw the house was on fire and someone carrying you while running out, brother following him and for some reason, that person might be seriously injured, so when there’s a chance brother attacked him and took you away, it’s luckily that attacker was injured, if not brother maybe won’t able to fight him, and after that brother got the news that all family members died in the house, please forgive brother, for coming too late.”
BaiYing pulled his lips.
“Brother Fang is not their opponent, you will die silly, but, why did those people kill my entire family? What do they really want?”
YiFang also thought.
“Eh, what, are they looking for something? Are you hiding something really important in the house?”
YiFang’s question made BaiYing wonder, what is so important at home?
As far as he could remember, they weren’t so rich as to have rare treasures, there was nothing interesting in their home other than some pottery and jade belonging to his mother and older sister, so what were they looking for?
“What are they looking for, Brother? What’s so important?”
YiFang shrugged his shoulders.
“Um, don’t know, but brother heard, long ago there was an attack on the mansion that made Master Hua’s second wife, uh sorry, XiaoYing’s mother lost her life, for some reason, I think maybe this has some connection to that incident too, Master Hua once said that people come looking for something at home but find nothing, maybe they come back and look for it. ”
Looking for something? BaiYing frowned, although looking for something, what made these people do it now? Why didn’t they try to search since it happened? What made those people attack now, after ten years had passed, this very strange, and BaiYing didn’t know what really happened because he was so young back then.
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Morning comes.
The sound of the morning birds in the valley was heard clearly, the sounds of other animals shouting to each other made the atmosphere not so quiet because there were still sounds of nature that comforted him,
BaiYing lay down silently with his eyes looking far at the waterfall, another day has passed,
He doesn’t remember how many days passes there but it felt so boring, his body was so weak, even when he was just trying to reach the exit when YiFang went out to the town, and after only a few steps his feet were so limp, he almost fell unconscious because out of breath so fast, either because in the past few days he had not taken medicine for the poison he still had in his body which he needs to drink every day, although YiFang always gave him medicine from a physician that he had to drink for his ill every morning, like the one on the table right now, the small bowl that was almost empty because he had just drunk it.
It’s so weird that YiFang always goes out so early every day, if he goes gardening or hunting BaiYing can still understand, but every time he goes out YiFang always comes home with food from the city, why does he always go to town every day?
For some reason, BaiYing felt something was strange.
BaiYing was still seated daydreaming on his bed when he saw YiFang emerge from the end of the road. He glanced at the fruit knife on the table, an idea popped into his head.
YiFang had just entered the grounds when he heard a voice from inside the hut.
“Akh!”
It’s BaiYing’s voice,
Without delay, YiFang who’s panicked put his groceries on the ground and rushed into the house.
“Xiao Ying!”
YiFang’s eyes widened wide, blood dripping onto the floor emanating from BaiYing’s palms.
“Brother, what happened? Why is it bleeding like this?”
The wound looks quite deep, BaiYing groaned in pain until his face turned pale, he didn’t expect the scratches to be that deep, and his blood keeps dripping like water, he could lose all of his blood because of this.
“Ekh, Yinger wanted to cut the fruit, but accidentally scratched it, akh” the blood didn’t stop even though YiFang had pressed it with a cloth, he was confused looking for what he could use for the wound while BaiYing’s hand keeps bleeding non-stop, YiFang’s eyes widened as he saw BaiYing’s body go limp and fall back on the bed.
“Brother Ekh, Yinger’s head hurts”
“Xiao Ying! Brother Ying’er! ” YiFang panicked seeing BaiYing fall unconscious, he grabbed the boy’s body and laid him down on the bed.
“Xiao Ying!” he stroked BaiYing cold pale cheeks.
“Oh no Xiao Ying, please wait here brother will look for a physician.”
After making sure BaiYing was lying properly on the bed YiFang rushed out of the hut, he ran towards the back exit.
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