I became beautiful by eating melons

The drizzle washed the forests, making the already muddy road even more difficult to walk on. My shoes sank into the soft mud, and when I pulled them out, they were raised three layers high.

Ye Rou walked with great difficulty. The mud stuck to her shoes, becoming heavier as she walked.

Jiang Chen suddenly stopped and squatted in front of Ye Rou.

"What..." A big hand grabbed Ye Rou's calf, interrupting her next words.

The calf was held and lifted up, and Jiang Chen picked up a wooden stick and pried off the mud from under Ye Rou's shoe.

Ye Rou stood on one leg and held his shoulder to keep her balance: "You'll step on it again in a while."

Jiang Chen pried the mud off Ye Rou's shoes, pinched her calves, reluctantly let go, squatted in front of her, with a gentle smile in his narrow eyes: "Come up, I'll carry you."

Ye Rou was concerned that Jiang Chen's body had not recovered yet and refused to let him carry her.

Jiang Chen half-knelt on the ground, shook his held hands, and smiled: "Either carry me or hug me, there are only these two choices."

Ye Rou lowered her eyes and looked at him.

Jiang Chen half-knelt in front of her, his face beautified by the mask making it even more handsome.

"Pah" the tiny raindrops hit his eyelashes, he let the raindrops roll down, his eyes never leaving her.

Ye Rou reached out to wipe away the raindrop, and calmly gave the answer: "You have to recite it."

Jiang Chen patted his shoulder with satisfaction, "Come up."

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt a sinking feeling behind him, and a soft body pressed against him, followed by delicate arms hugging his neck. Jiang Chen smiled slightly, stood up with Ye Rou on his back, and walked steadily on the rugged mountain road.

Ye Rou pressed tightly against Jiang Chen's back, and the coolness brought by the drizzle was dispelled by Jiang Chen's body temperature.

She reached out and pinched Jiang Chen's earlobe: "You carried me down the mountain like this in Dahe Village."

At that time, she went up the mountain to stop Jiang Chen from killing people. She lied that she went up the mountain to pick mushrooms and accidentally sprained her ankle.

She originally thought Jiang Chen would abandon her, but she didn't expect him to carry her to the clinic.

Jiang Chen paused and thought of that day.

At that time, he went up the mountain to kill people.

But because Ye Rou was there, he gave up the idea.

Thinking about it now, I suddenly feel fortunate.

Fortunately, she showed up in time.

Jiang Chen smiled and asked casually, "So you really went to the mountain to pick mushrooms?"

The little man on his back said slowly: "It's a secret. I won't tell you."

Ye Rou didn't want Jiang Chen to know that the world he lived in was a book.

His fate and the suffering he experienced were all caused by others.

That's fine now.

Jiang Chen lifted her up and smiled indulgently.

*

Approaching the cave where the girls were hiding, Ye Rou raised her head and lay on Jiang Chen's back. With a clear vision, she noticed a series of muddy footprints extending into the cave...

"Jiang Chen, wait a moment."

Jiang Chen stopped upon hearing the voice.

Ye Rou stared at the footprints and said in a deep voice, "Someone has been here."

Jiang Chen frowned, and glanced around. His peripheral vision caught a glimpse of a place, and suddenly stopped. He tilted his head to look at that place carefully - bright red blood was slowly flowing along with the rain.

He approached carefully with Ye Rou on his back.

Leaning against the mountain wall were the fugitives who were responsible for guarding these girls - Ye Rou had tied them up tightly and pierced their sleeping points before leaving.

The corpse lay on the ground in a "品" shape, the cut in the throat looked like a grinning mouth, and the bright red blood looked like a red carpet spread on the ground.

The rain was filled with the smell of dirt and blood, which was particularly pungent.

Jiang Chen knew that Ye Rou had a keen sense of smell and could not stand irritating smells, so he deliberately left her far away and approached alone, carefully observing the knife wounds on the necks of these people.

Ye Rou waited quietly on the side. After a while, Jiang Chen came back and said in a deep voice, "Liao Zhao was here."

The wound caused by the dagger weakened from right to left, and the man was killed with one blow, which was consistent with the weapon and attack method used by Liao Zhao.

Ye Rou suddenly looked towards the cave where the girl was hiding, and her face darkened.

The closer Ye Rou got to the cave, the faster her heart beat.

She locked the iron door of the cave before leaving.

Now the lock was broken and thrown roughly to the ground.

Ye Rou swallowed and stared at the rusty iron gate, her heart pounding.

She was afraid to push open the door and see those girls dead, too.

The door hinges groaned like they were dying.

A dozen girls huddled in a pile of moldy straw, the kerosene lamp casting their frightened shadows on the leaking earthen wall.

"Sister!" Chang Hua saw Ye Rou rushing out and threw herself into her arms.

Seeing that Chang Hua was fine, Ye Rou's hands were shaking as she held her. She was so surprised that she kept saying, "You're fine, you're fine..."

Seeing Ye Rou coming back, the remaining girls also walked out slowly. When they saw the strange man, they did not approach him rashly, but stood timidly at the entrance of the cave.

Ye Rou roughly counted the number of people and made sure that no one was missing, and she finally let go of her worries.

"Sister." Chang Hua raised her head from Ye Rou's arms, her eyes, which seemed particularly large due to her thinness, were filled with tears: "Ah Fu has been taken away."

"Afu?" Ye Rou almost forgot about him.

"In the end what happened?"

"After you leave, we will listen to you and stay in the cave obediently. We will ignore anyone except you."

"But just now, a man suddenly came and seemed to be looking for something. I could hear him rummaging through things. Then he came to the cave where we were hiding and took Ah Fu away as soon as he saw him."

Chang Hua blamed herself and said, "Sister, I'm sorry, I didn't take good care of Ah Fu."

Ye Rou rubbed her head: "It has nothing to do with you, it's just that the bad guys are too bad."

While the two were talking, Jiang Chen had already checked the surroundings. After coming back, he said, "Let's go down the mountain."

Ye Rou thought of Sister Fei's last wish before her death. Since she had promised, she must do it.

She looked determined: "I'm going to bring him back."

Jiang Chen did not stop him, but said: "I will go with you."