Although the little apprentice sister is weak, she can fight

In the dream, Shen Qiao had a headache from being beaten by Wang You, and he couldn't help but frown in reality.

When Mu Jiu entered, Shang Mian was leaning against the table, dozing off. He only woke up when he heard the door close and raised his head, "Senior Brother Mu?"

Mu Jiu nodded and glanced at the inner room. "You've worked hard these past two days. I'll take care of it tonight. You can go back and get some sleep."

Shang Mian thought about it and finally agreed. He packed up his things and left.

Walking to the bedside, Mu Jiu lowered his eyes and looked at Shen Qiao's frown. He subconsciously wanted to reach out and smooth her brows, but after hesitating for a moment, he finally did not touch her. He just sat in the position where Shang Mian had just been and watched with his eyes closed.

Late at night, the courtyard gradually became quiet. A group of people finished their work after a busy day and went back to their rooms to rest.

When everything was completely silent, a slight shivering sound came from the door, as if a dead leaf was blown to the door by the wind.

The window of the room had been opened a crack at some point, allowing a gust of cold wind to rush in and blow out the half-burned candle.

Rustle...rustle...

The sound of "dead leaves" rubbing against the door outside became louder, and there was a faint sound of the door being pushed open.

“Found it…Found it…”

"You are finally back..."

A pale, low voice came from outside, and a series of black figures appeared outside the window, surrounding the entire room. The sound of "dead leaves" rubbing against the door became more and more rapid, and finally turned into a clear scratching sound.

In the darkness, Mu Jiu, who had originally closed his eyes to rest, opened his eyes, and a silver-white light flashed across his gray eyes.

The noise outside the house stopped instantly, and the half-open window was slowly closed again.

"no……"

The sound brought Mu Jiu back to his senses. He looked at the bed in the inner room, subconsciously stood up from the chair and walked in.

"Aqiao?" He came to the bedside and called softly, but Shen Qiao did not answer. There was only a lot of cold sweat on his forehead, and his fingers gripping the quilt were clenched tightly.

"I do not want……"

The crying voice made Mu Jiu frown. He tried to probe Shen Qiao's consciousness and breathed a sigh of relief after he understood what was going on.

"Silly Joe."

He shook his head, leaned over and slowly wiped away the tears that were about to fall into her ears, tucked in the quilt for her, and stood by the bed for a while until Shen Qiao calmed down before turning around and going back outside.

Nothing happened in the second half of the night. Shen Qiao woke up normally the next morning. The first thing he did after opening his eyes was to throw off the quilt, get out of bed and run out of the room.

This happened to bump into Li Yue who had gotten up early and wanted to come over to take a look. Li Yue was about to ask what was going on, but Shen Qiao didn't let go, but hugged her tightly.

Li Yue: "...What's wrong?"

Shen Qiao didn't say anything, just held her tightly.

Li Yue had no choice but to raise his hand to help her tidy up her hair. "You look like a little lion with its fur standing on end. Come into the house first and I'll tidy up your hair."

Shen Qiao nodded and followed Li Yue into the house. However, no matter how much Li Yue asked, Shen Qiao refused to say why he suddenly became like this, and only said that he had a bad dream.

Li Yue was afraid of making her feel uncomfortable again, so he didn't ask for details.

Because of these changes, the group stayed in Bishui City for a total of five or six days from arrival to departure.

Before leaving, Mo Qi gave Shen Qiao a piece of his tail phosphorus. He had now reintegrated his inner elixir and had become a real dragon. Even if he didn't go back, the tribe would have to leave his name in the family tree if they could sense him.

"The mayor of Bishui City has made a good deal by using the corpses of executed prisoners to raise silkworms." After leaving, Gu Xu stood at the stern of the boat and looked at Cui Hongjin who was still standing on the shore watching.

"But someone who is so calculating seems to care about Mr. Shen quite a lot?"

Shen Qiao directly replied to her, borrowing Mo Qi's words, "Maybe it's just that there's no acquaintance without fighting."

Gu Xu was obviously not satisfied with this answer, but Shen Qiao did not intend to continue speaking.

"This evil creature is a burden to carry around. It's better to kill him as soon as possible." Zhang Qiyan, who was in charge of guarding, looked at the sleeping "waiter" with disgust and couldn't help complaining to Zhang Zhi.

"I can always smell the blood on him from previous murders. It's disgusting."

"Blood?" Zhang Zhi couldn't help but sniff after hearing this, but he didn't smell anything and was choked by the cold air and started coughing.

"I just smell a fishy smell. Yes, it's probably because of that big catfish we caught yesterday. I went back and washed it three times but couldn't get rid of the stinky smell."

Zhang Qiyan leaned forward in disbelief, "Really? Let me smell it... Ugh! Stay away from me! You smell even worse!"

Zhang Zhi looked hurt. "Do you think I want to? I don't know if it's because a corpse sank in the river before, but those catfish are dirty and smelly. I had to use magic to clean up the smell!"

The conversation between the two successfully made Ning Baiyan move aside again.

The water level dropped after the heavy rain stopped the day before yesterday, and many things washed up by the water were left on the shore, including some broken human bones. From the rusty accessories, it can be seen that many of these people are from the Xiyuan clan. It is thought that there were too many people who died in the previous battle and sank into the water before they could be buried. Cui Hongjin has ordered people to collect them all and bury them as soon as their resentment is dissipated.

Shen Qiao didn't pay attention to these things. The night before, Wang You had taken her through a simulation of what would happen after her memory was sealed. Although she couldn't remember exactly what happened, she was deeply depressed and felt worse than death. So she followed Wang You's advice and ignored the sealed memory for the time being.

She was gazing at the water's surface, lost in thought, when she felt as if something had risen from the water, overlapping with her reflection...

"Hua La"——

The two saw Shen Qiao standing there, and suddenly without any warning, he squatted down and reached out to punch into the river.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

Shen Qiao paused for a moment, then withdrew his hand, stood up and wiped the water off his hands as if nothing had happened, "It's okay, it's just a waterweed."

"Brother? It's foggy up ahead."

"Just come."

Zhu Yu happened to call Mu Jiu and Gu Xu away, and there was no one at the stern of the boat.

Shen Qiao lowered his eyes and looked at the river beside him. Not long after the two men left, a strange fish with an extremely large head slowly floated up. Upon closer inspection, he saw that there was a large bump on the head of the fish.

What's even weirder is that this thing actually has a human face.

It swam along with the boat, occasionally jumping out of the water, as if trying to jump onto the deck.

Shen Qiao had seen its portrait in a book. It seemed to be called "Red Carp", a water monster with a human face and a fish body.

But aren't these things afraid of people? Why are they following the boat? They just got punched and didn't give up.

Shen Qiao squatted down again to look at it. The fish saw Shen Qiao squatting down and immediately exerted force, but the force was too strong and the fishy water splashed all over Shen Qiao's face. The fish hit its head on the deck and slid back into the river.

Shen Qiao's face was covered with water droplets, and the corners of his mouth twitched. Just as the thing was about to jump up again, he grabbed its tail and asked, "Do you want to be turned into a grilled fish?"

I don’t know if the fish understood or not, but when it saw it was caught, its eyes rolled back and it died.

Shen Qiao: “…?”

You just arrived and you're gone? Are you trying to scam me?