My stepmother is here, all the rebellious sons and evildoers should kneel down!

"Wow, Diejiu, it's all your fault... You're the one who has the worst mouth! You said the other day that the young lady had caught a cold... Now it's good that the young lady really has caught a cold!"

Xinyi cried very sadly.

From childhood to adulthood, every time the young lady fell ill, Doctor Chi took care of her meticulously.

Now I am lying in this shabby house, and I am not allowed to ask for help from the Thirteenth Prince and the Fourteenth Prince. I can only survive on my own. What will I do if I lose my life?

Die Jiu also regretted it so much that she slapped herself in the face!

"Yes, yes, I am such a bad person! I should never, ever, lie and say that my young lady caught a cold! Oh my God, please let me catch a cold and don't torture my young lady. I'm afraid she can't bear it!"

As the two were crying, Old Mrs. Chen came back.

They could only shut up. Old Lady Chen thought Wen Qiqi was Die Jiu's daughter. Seeing her crying so sadly, she said, "You are so kind to your daughter."

Uh……

Die Jiu wiped her tears and looked at Old Lady Chen: "What's that in your hand?"

“Mugwort!”

Old Mrs. Chen said, "When people in the village catch a cold, they boil mugwort in water and rub it on their bodies. If they can endure it, they will be fine."

Diejiu and Xinyi didn't say anything, they quickly went to boil water, and put the mugwort into the wooden basin and soaked it for a while...

Xinyi whispered, "If I had known this would happen, I would have gotten some water to wipe the young lady's body, and it wouldn't have ended up like this!"

"I wipe it every day, but it still can't be cleaned."

Die Jiu muttered, and suddenly cursed: "It's all the fault of that thief on the cliff. If he hadn't peeped and smiled evilly, the young lady wouldn't have gotten her clothes wet... Humph, if I catch him, I will skin him alive!"

Fortunately, after a night of suffering, Wen Qiqi's fever subsided in the early morning.

Xinyi and Diejiu stayed up all night. Seeing that the young lady had become much weaker due to the cold and could not eat anything, they were extremely anxious!

"Go buy a hen so that I can make soup for the young lady."

An idea suddenly occurred to him, and he took out the silver he had on him: "With silver, we can definitely buy it."

"no!"

Wen Qiqi shook her head. "We are here, the fewer people who know about this, the better. If we go to buy old hens in a big way, there will definitely be rumors that there is a rich man living in Old Lady Chen's house... If the news gets out, it will not be worth it."

Die Jiu nodded: "Miss is still cautious."

The two went out to discuss it. Xinyi lied that Diejiu went to the ditch to wash clothes. Diejiu had already put a dagger in her pocket and went up the front mountain alone.

When she was taking a bath that day, she didn't see the thief, but she saw a fat hare running over the cliff...

The young lady needs to supplement her nutrition right now. Since she can’t buy a hen, stewing a rabbit will be fine.

If you are lucky, everyone will be happy if you kill a pheasant with a flying knife!

Arriving at the foot of the cliff again, Die Jiu panted and looked up...

"That day, the laughter clearly came from this cliff, but when I looked up, the person was gone."

She frowned, found a thatched path on the side of the cliff that was easy to walk on, and climbed up with difficulty.

Fortunately, Die Jiu had some kung fu experience, so she was much more agile than most girls. The cliff was more than ten meters high, and the thatched road only reached half of it, while the rest of the cliff was bare.

She pierced the dagger into the crevice of the rock, used it as leverage, and finally reached the top of the cliff.

This matter suddenly dawned on her!

"Great! It turns out there is a sheltered area behind this cliff! The thief must have hidden here last time..."

Die Jiu kicked twice on the spot angrily. Suddenly, there was a noise in the bushes beside the deep pit. She frowned, tightly grasped the dagger, and subconsciously moved closer!

The next second, a long green snake suddenly jumped out from the bushes!

Die Jiu screamed in fright. The snake was more than three meters long and almost as thick as her wrist!

The snake's head was about one meter off the ground, raised high, and its wide mouth was facing Die Jiu, spitting out a lot of blood-red cores...

Die Jiu's legs began to tremble. She had never seen such a scene before. For a moment, she even thought that she was going to die today.

"My heart...you must take good care of the young lady. I...I'm afraid I can't go back!"

Just as Die Jiu was getting ready, waiting for the green snake to pounce on her so that she could desperately cut off its head, a flute sound suddenly rang out. The sound was so melodious and bewildering...

Soon the green snake stopped spitting out its core and slid into the bushes with a whoosh.

Die Jiu was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat and stood there unable to move.

After coming to his senses, he hurriedly looked in the direction where the flute sound came from!

A man dressed in black and a black cloak, holding a flute in one hand and a straw hat in the other, was walking towards her!

Die Jiu tried hard to see the man's face clearly, but the sunlight reflected a dazzling golden light on his face. Die Jiu was dazzled by the light and couldn't see anything clearly. When the man came closer, she slowly relaxed her brows...

It turned out that the man was wearing a golden mask on his face, which was tightly attached to his cheeks, leaving only his mouth and jaw exposed!

"Thank you so much for saving my life!"

Die Jiu stammered, trying hard to calm herself down so that she didn't look so panicked and embarrassed.

If she were to go to the battlefield, she might not be so scared.

But how many girls are not afraid of snakes...

Just seeing it makes me tremble.

The man raised his lips, sat skillfully on the edge of the cliff, and placed one hand on the stone wall on one side...

"The girl called me her savior this time? I remember she scolded me so harshly yesterday!"

"It's you!"

Die Jiu immediately understood!

"You are the thief who peeped at my lady bathing!"

"Hey... don't be unreasonable. I didn't peek! Yesterday I was sitting here wanting to play the flute, but I looked down... Can you blame me for this?"

The masked man even deliberately leaned his head forward to signal to Die Jiu that he was not peeking on purpose.

Die Jiu was skeptical: "Then what are you laughing at?"

"Your young lady is very beautiful, a graceful lady, a gentleman's dream. When I saw her... I was naturally happy! I was happy, and I smiled!"

"you!"

Die Jiu was furious and took out a dagger and pointed it at him: "Although you saved my life, you said such ignorant nonsense! Do you know that my young lady got her dress wet because of your smile yesterday, and she caught a cold when she went back home!"

"So... is she okay now?"

the masked man asked.

"I am fine, but I am very weak! That's why I thought of coming out to get some game for my young lady... Never mind, you saved me, so you are my benefactor. If I kill you, my young lady will definitely scold me! Go away, I don't want to see you!"

Die Jiu was angry and was about to leave with the dagger in her hand.

The masked man said, "Well... I'll get you two wild rabbits. You can take them back and stew them for your young lady. This will be my way of making amends for what happened yesterday."