One Life, One Incarnation, Beautiful Bones

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Chapter 11.2 - Your First Adornment was Like You (2)

Shi Yi stared back at him, her eyes sparkling, perhaps a little too brightly for it seemed as if something was going to spill over from within them.

In the end, she lowered her head slightly. "Why did you deliberately look at D. Wang like that?"

"Me?" Putting his arm around her shoulder, Zhousheng Chen led her away while joking, "I was paying respects to the one who lost."

For an instant, Shi Yi was startled by this before, with a "pfft," she burst out into laughter.

Seeing him right here, she had unusually lots to say because she could not suppress her good mood. From complaining about the strange noises of that night to describing to him the local culinary delicacies, the things to tell him were simply too many to enumerate. He seemed very familiar with the layout of this place such that, when they walked by an old-fashioned dyehouse set-up for vistors to view, he was instantly able to recognize where they were. Shi Yi found this rather strange. "This side was only recently constructed and it's still not open to the public yet. How come you seem to know it so well?"

"Because you were staying here, I had someone bring me a plan layout for me to look over."

She gave an "oh," staring out at the dyehouse that stood there beneath the blazing sun.

Cloths had been hung very high up, and length after length of long, narrow deep blue fabrics were lifted up slightly by the breeze before floating back down.

This little slice of scenery, however, caused her to think of that twenty-day long siege she had once heard about. He had led his cavalry of ten thousand. Day and night, unceasingly, they had fought to hold and defend Qing City. The enemy army had numbered one hundred and thirty thousand.

Twenty days later, the army of reinforcements finally arrived.

His retainers who had come had long since lost hope until they suddenly saw, on the city walls, several lengths of deep blue cloth that had been hung up high by several people. They were badly tattered as they rippled in the fierce wind.

Deep blue was the color of Xiao Nanchen Prince's banner.

Those several strips of cloth on the city walls that whipped about in the air were declaring that the city had not yet fallen.

She remembered how greatly the emotions of the man who had been narrating this to her had brimmed over when he spoke of this part. The man had said, the two hundred thousand reinforcement troops had instantly let out a resounding cheer that shook the heavens and continued until their voices were hoarse.

She remembered, her heart had pounded loudly as she listened, as if she had been at the scene in person.

Together, they continued strolling past the dyehouse and through long, narrow streets until they arrived at the room that Xiao Ren had been staying in earlier. This kid was very strange. His arrival had been unexpected and his departure was also without warning, leaving only a single piece of paper as his farewell.

There was only a short row of words: I, then, shall not disturb the two of you.

Zhousheng Chen's eyes swept over it quickly before he handed the note to Shi Yi and motioned that he was going to take a shower first. "It is too hot here, and I have perspired quite a bit. Wait a moment for me." After saying this, he pulled some clothing other people had prepared for him out from the drawers and stepped into the bathroom.

With the remote control, Shi Yi turned on the air conditioning and then closed all the windows.

Because the windows had been open to ventilate the room, it was very hot inside, and much time passed before the temperature started coming down. When she finally felt the room was a comfortable temperature, she adjusted it back up slightly, worried that he would catch a cold when he came out from his shower.