Chapter Eighteen Another Trouble Arises

  "I'll help you pull out the arrowhead now, and then use a knife to dig out the rotten flesh. Although your poison can't be cured for the time being, I have a way to suppress the toxicity for seven days. In these seven days, with your recovery ability, you should be able to find someone to save you soon. As for the rest, it's not something I can help with." Qin Dai quickly prepared everything, putting the ready dagger and liquor in place, and instructing herself on what she needed to do next.

  "I'm getting more and more curious about you." The man's voice was weak, but it still gave off a strong impression, making Qin Dai's heart burn with anger at just a simple affirmative sentence.

  "People with too much curiosity usually die quickly." She gritted her teeth.

  "You and I are of the same kind, you won't kill me."

  Qin Dai's brow furrowed, she couldn't see through this man, but he seemed to see right through her, a feeling she detested. Despite thinking about the situation, Qin Dai's hands didn't slow down, first using wine to disinfect the dagger, then tearing open the man's collar, and finally handing him the wine, saying: "There's no anesthetic, drink a few mouthfuls to bear the pain." This rough-made liquor had a relatively high alcohol content, although its taste was poor, it could still be used for disinfection.

  The man stood up and took a big mouthful of wine, saying to Qin Dai's heart: "Girl, just go ahead."

  Qin Dai Xin examined the wound, this arrow was shot very crookedly, although it didn't hit the heart or lungs, but still hit a relatively dangerous place, close to the heart. Fortunately, the wound wasn't deep and didn't damage any nerves. In this era of lack of medical care, she had no choice but to take a chance, although Qin Dai Xin was not a doctor, she had some experience with wilderness first aid, having even assisted in amputations before, so this wasn't too difficult for her.

  Qin Dai Xin handed a relatively hard pancake from a package of previously prepared food to the man: "Bite on it, don't bite your tongue later."

  The man didn't stretch out his hand, but simply pulled down the kerchief from his face, folded the black cloth repeatedly into several layers, and bit it tightly in his mouth. It seemed as if he was very disgusted with Qin Dai's big pancake.

  Under the moonlight, the man had a chiseled and handsome face...

  Qin Dai Xin concentrated her attention, after making sure the other party was ready, she first took a sip of wine, then sprayed it onto the man's injured area, and slowly put down the knife.

  After making a cross-shaped incision, Qin Dai carefully scraped off the rotten flesh on the arrowhead, trying to separate some blood vessels that couldn't be touched, and then used the tip of the knife to slowly pry the arrowhead, hoping to peel it off from the man's chest. However, after exerting herself for half a day, the arrowhead didn't budge at all.

  It seems that a steady method can't be used, and it can only be pulled out by force. Qin Dai's heart didn't go to see the man's expression, she folded a piece of cloth torn off earlier and placed it on the man's injured chest, then covered the cloth strip with one hand, grasped the small arrow handle left outside the body with the other hand, took a deep breath, and quickly pulled out...

  It is said that Qin Dai Xin met a strange man at night, and the two had a bit of a chess-like encounter. However, in the first round, Qin Dai Xin was slightly outmaneuvered. Her opponent guessed that she was a person with secrets, and if he were to investigate further, he would likely discover her identity. On the other hand, she knew nothing about him.

  Kill him to silence him? If it were the old Mo Li, letting go and trying might still be possible. Now Qin Dai Xin wants to kill this man, even if he's injured and poisoned, it's not very likely. The difference between the two is too great.

  So she chose to become his ally and arranged for him to be taken to a cave she had discovered by chance, thus saving his life.

  "Are you awake?" Qin Dai Xin looked at the man beside her who had just opened his eyes, somewhat surprised that he could wake up so quickly.

  The man silently propped himself up, looked at his own wound, and saw that his chest was wrapped in several pieces of white cloth. Although there were bloodstains on it, judging from the color, it was no longer fresh blood. The cave was a bit cool, but surprisingly, a fire had been lit not far away from him, casting a warm glow over the originally dim cave.

  After Qin Dai Xin removed the arrowhead, the man fainted from the pain. Qin Dai Xin quickly did some finishing work, cleaned up the rotten flesh in the wound, and applied some external injury medicine to him.

  "I wandered around this mountain for a whole night, and finally found the medicine to save you. I used snake gall, spider web, and horse needle to suppress the toxicity. Is your home far away? Can you hold on until someone else saves you?"

  The man looked at Qin Dai Xin, a complex emotion surged in his heart: "Do you usually like to interfere so much? Seeing a man and rushing up, directly stripping off someone's clothes?"

  Qin Dai Xin felt that she had never been so furious before. She always thought that her pride in self-control was about to disappear completely.

  Inhale, exhale...

  Qin Dai Xin jumped down from a distant rock, walked up to the man and gritted her teeth: "I usually strip off their clothes first, then strip off their skin, making them unable to live or die..."

  The man listened quietly to her threatening words, asking: "Do you want to kill me and silence me?" Unbeknownst to him, his mouth twitched involuntarily twice, possibly due to the pain of his wound or some other reason.

  Qin Dai Xin's good temper had almost reached the edge of disappearance, she walked straight to the man's side, fiercely using her hand to poke his chest and said: "Thanks to me changing my ways and becoming a vegetarian, otherwise I might have really solved you on the spot." After finishing speaking, she turned around and left without looking back.

  The man looked at Qin Dai Xin's background, and couldn't help but pull out a big smile. Originally handsome, he became even more charming. "Why didn't you take advantage of me when I was unconscious?" His tone had a hint of doubt and uncertainty for the first time.

  Unfortunately, Qin Dai's heart was too lazy to even speak, and she directly waved her hand, disappearing into the bright light at the entrance of the cave.

  It wasn't until her figure disappeared from his line of sight that the man came back to himself. About the time it took to burn an incense stick, footsteps echoed again at the entrance of the cave, and the man furrowed his brow, his eyes involuntarily becoming sharper.

  "My lord, I have arrived late, please forgive me." A man in all black clothing, with a black cloth covering his face, revealing only his eyebrows and eyes. With a knife as an accessory, he knelt on one knee, his tone filled with reverence.

  "How did you find out?" The tone of voice almost froze the air, causing the black-clad man who had arrived to tremble slightly.

  "When we heard that something had happened in the west, we came to search. Following the master's marks, we arrived near the village and knew that the master was not far away. Just now, a few of us were searching separately, I suddenly...suddenly saw a girl coming down the mountain. Looking at her clothes, she didn't seem like someone from the village. I thought this was suspicious, so I came over to take a look, and indeed, the master is here." The man's words were slightly hesitant, but he didn't dare show it too clearly, fearing that he would offend the master.

  As soon as the words fell, chaotic footsteps came from outside the cave again. Several black-clad men personally entered the cave and saw the man lying down with a look of extreme joy on their faces, hurriedly kneeling down to pay homage.

  "Don't lay a hand on that woman, and investigate her identity instead. Leave immediately and erase all the traces here."

  "Yes." The men in black hastily stepped forward, supporting their master. Several people separately collected the traces inside the cave and did not leave until they found that nothing was left behind.

  Qin Dai Xin had been worried that she made the wrong decision, but after several nights of observation, when she confirmed that the mysterious man really disappeared, she finally let out a sigh of relief.

  It doesn't seem like something she would do. Is it just because he has a shadow of her past on him? She couldn't help but think of the words that man said to her when she was about to leave.

  Why didn't you take advantage of me when I was unconscious and finish me off?

  "Hmph, is she blind? Along the way, this man had made quite a few marks in hidden places. That must be one of his ways to contact his own people. Unless I can completely erase all the marks without leaving any behind, if something happens to him, his companions will come looking for him, and those ordinary villagers and I will be the ones to suffer. If he dies, the entire Xiaqian Village might have to be buried with him. Erasing the marks is not an easy task either. She had done such things many times in her past life, how could she not understand the subtleties involved?"

  It doesn't matter anymore since he's already gone, and it's fine if we never see each other again.

  It seems that life has returned to the days of ants, except for the good winter clothes being sent over, news also came from the Zhuang family that Su Niang was pregnant. Ruyi and Chunli were naturally delighted, Miss's good days are coming, but Qin Dai's heart knew early on, so she couldn't muster up any excitement.

  It was originally a happy event, but in just a few days, news of Su Niang's miscarriage spread again.

  Qin Dai Xin wore a white tight-sleeved jacket, a purple peony-patterned cape, and a matching skirt below. She also wore a pure white fur-lined cloak with a hood, and simply tied her hair back under the hat, making it hard to tell that she was being careless. In her hand, she held a hand warmer sent by Chun Lian, pacing back and forth in the courtyard.

  The sky has started falling with scattered snowflakes, but Ruyu still hasn't come back.

  "Miss, it's cold outside, go back in and wait!" Chunli held up an umbrella beside her, afraid that her own miss would catch a chill.

  Just then, a stone-green figure rushed over from the gate of the courtyard, which was exactly the suit made by Qin Dai for Ruyi.

  "Are you back? How was it?" Chun Li also followed closely, hastily asking.

  "Miss, let's go back to the house and talk!" with a hesitant expression.

  Seeing Qin Dai's displeased expression, her heart skipped a beat.