Chapter 1068: Chapter 1062: Deep Affection between Children
Soone had rescued Cuiya, who was locked in the woodshed. Cuiya stumbled toward the young man, crying out, “Second Young Master, please save my miss, she is in this room.”
To bandits, it had always been all or nothing. By now, if he hadn’t understood, then he was a fool.
Xining, the bandit leader, was shocked and had no ti for anything else. He imdiately raised his big knife and charged at Jie Zhonglin.
Jie Zhonglin didn’t need to lift a finger, as several soldiers had already surrounded Xining. Jie Zhonglin himself kicked open the room adorned with the character “happiness.”
Under the flickering candlelight, pained noises ca from the woman’s throat as she writhed incessantly. But her hands and feet were all bound with red cloth, leaving her pale wrists with blue and purple marks, still unable to break free.
Cuiya had already thrown herself over in tears. Jie Zhonglin, however, seed to be frozen, unable to move a step.
“Miss, what’s wrong with you?” Cuiya said through her own sobs as she pulled the white cloth from her miss’s mouth.
Miss Du was already delirious, the sounds from her mouth re pained moans.
Yet, those sa moans caused a delicate chemical reaction in the man’s ears. Jie Zhonglin’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he spoke hoarsely.
“Cuiya, go find so warm water.”
Usually nimble, Cuiya was now too distraught to untie the ropes on Miss Du’s wrists and, in her haste, only tightened them further. Only after hearing Jie Zhonglin’s command did she stumble outside to get water.
The bandits who had dared to resist were now under the soldiers’ blades, their souls departed, and the weak and won were locked in a large room, now guarded by a few soldiers.
Jie Zhonglin took a deep breath and approached the bed draped in red curtains. Looking at the person on the bed, he felt a rush of both heartache and fury.
How dare those bandits treat her like this?
It had been a long ti since he had seen her, and she seed to have gained a bit of weight, yet she was still thinner than most.
He hesitated for a mont but eventually sat at the bedside and took her hand. Her wrist was tied with a red cord, the other end fastened to a pillar of the bed.
The red cord had already cut into her wrist, drawing blood. Jie Zhonglin extracted his sword and deftly cut the rope binding Miss Du’s hands and feet.
The soldiers outside dealt with the bandit leader and then entered the room.
At that mont, Miss Du, freed from her restraints, suddenly sat up and clung to Jie Zhonglin.
Jie Zhonglin’s entire body stiffened; a warm, soft body was now in his arms. Imdiately, he felt a hot rush of blood from his feet to his crown, and for a mont, he didn’t know where to put his hands.
The first few soldiers who entered the room were stained with blood, weapons of murder still in their hands, and they too were stunned by the sight.
They were the n who always followed Jie Zhonglin, and they knew he was Jie Zhongsen’s younger brother. Jie Zhongsen’s prestige in the Dongzhou military was second only to General Che. However, he had never cut his younger brother any slack, instead offering special attention.
He tasked him with the most grueling assignnts, subjected him to the most intense devilish training, and involved him in the most dangerous operations.
For example, this ti they had chosen a fearless squad to disguise as rchants to scout the situation in Xining, and Jie Zhonglin was the first one chosen.
But even the soldiers who had been by his side the longest had never seen him show such tenderness.
They thought he was a maniac, driven only by a zeal for fighting, who would never understand romantic affairs.
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