Sorghum Land Chapter 64

  "Fourth brother that useless thing has messed up again, Third brother is now missing, such a good opportunity are we going to let it slip away?" Yuan Longkui's face was long and his tone was unpleasant.

  The man in black glanced at his own neatly trimmed fingernails, "You're wrong, what we need to do now is not to pursue him desperately, but to search for him with all our might and bring him back safely."

  "What? Are you out of your mind? Bring him back safely!"

  "Hmph!" The man in black let out a disdainful cold snort, "Do you really think it's that easy to kill him? Don't you wonder how he escaped? And why did Old Seven and Yuwen Qiming happen to arrive just in time to rescue him?"

  The always expressionless and motionless Second Highness Zhang Houyuan Longquan finally reacted: "Does Old Four also have people from Old Three by his side?"

  "What's so strange about that? Lao San has our people by his side, can't we have Old Fourth's ears and eyes on our side too?" The man in black stood up lazily and walked towards the secret door with a swagger.

  Yuan Longkui abruptly blocked him, "What's the hurry! We haven't even decided how to deal with Old Three yet."

  He brushed aside his arm, and the man in black didn't even turn around. "Find him first."

  Ma Achai's home has few people, and there are rarely any relatives coming and going. Yuan Longqiao and Xia Tian live here as a couple, and at night they were naturally arranged in the only "guest room".

  A large kang occupied one-third of the space in the entire room. Yuan Longqiao and Xia Tian lay on their sides back to back, a quilt was pulled straight, with enough space in the middle for another person to sleep. This scene was both familiar and strange, they slept like this on their wedding night. But it seemed that the intersection between the two people only existed on that one night.

  There was a faint flame burning in the oil lamp, as if it might go out at any moment. After taking a nap on a summer afternoon, she didn't feel sleepy at all now. The kang under her was very hard and made her bones ache a little. She didn't know whether Yuan Longqiao behind her had fallen asleep or not, his breathing was light and shallow, and she could hardly hear it.

  Damn it, what if she wants to go to the toilet? She hasn't gone since this afternoon, enduring for half a day, but how can this be endured?!

  Whoa! The room suddenly lit up and then immediately turned pitch black. Xia Tian was startled, almost shouting out loud. The oil in the lamp had burned out, and her stomach was about to explode from hunger, her endurance at its limit. The fear brought by the darkness made it even harder for her to bear, if Yuan Longqiao wasn't still behind her, she would have reflexively crawled up long ago.

  No! After persisting for a while, she finally lifted the quilt and sat up. Outside was pitch black, and inside the house it was even darker, so dark that you couldn't see your fingers in front of your face. She felt her way to the edge of the kang, and as soon as she moved, she heard Yuan Longqiao's sigh: "What's wrong?"

  The only good thing about the darkness was that it could cover up her blush, "I think... I want to go to the restroom." She used elegant and modern words.

  "Wash your hands?"

  "Hmm..." Xia Tian flipped her eyes and finally stopped teasing Wen, "It's just what you guys said, convenient!"

  His shirt was pulled open, his arm grasped, and his voice rose just in time: "I'll go with you."

  Unconsciously letting out a sigh, if she were alone, she really didn't know what to do! For some unknown reason, her heart felt a hint of gratitude towards his considerate behavior.

  The two of them fumbled in the dark to put on their shoes, and Yuan Long's large hand grasped her small one as they walked out of the room together.

  "Uh... where's the restroom?" Summer's face flushed unnaturally in the darkness, and the unfamiliar sensation and temperature in her palm made her heart skip a beat.

  Yuan Longqiao fell silent for a moment, then directly took her out of the courtyard gate.

  The moonlight is hazy, the night wind is cool and refreshing. Several courtyards and houses are scattered about, not far away are large tracts of sorghum fields. When the wind blows by, the dense sorghum leaves rustle and make a sound, forming wave after wave of leaf ripples.

  Summer looked silly and asked stupidly: "Where is the toilet?"

  He raised his chin slightly, and Yuan Long's smile seemed to be a joke, "Such a vast world is not enough for you to play with?"

  Boom! Her blood rushed to her head, and she turned around with a red face to glare at him. He was actually teasing her! She shook off his hand and walked straight towards the cornfield, but when she reached out to part the leaves, she hesitated again. Although there was moonlight, the surroundings were still pitch black, and this vast darkness made her uneasy, making her fear uncontrollable. Turning back to look at him, she could only vaguely see his tall figure deepening the color of the air.

  It seemed that he sensed her fear, and Yuan Longqiao took a few more steps forward. His low voice carried the power to calm people's minds: "Go, I'll wait for you here."

  She nodded silently, and slipped into the cornfield with branches and leaves. The black leaves covered her head, and the originally sparse moonlight became even thinner. She walked steadily step by step, only because he was not far behind her.

  Afraid to go too far, yet didn't want to be too close. Undoing the belt, squatting down. Letting out a gentle breath, she finally felt her body slowly relaxing.

  This experience made her feel inexplicably thrilled, on a dark and windy night, she felt like she was doing something bad with this "sneaky" behavior, and there was a kind of excitement that stimulated her latent evil factors. Whoosh! What quickly flashed past the edge of her pants? After reacting for a moment, she let out a sharp cry and hastily ran back.

  Yuan Long's eyebrows furrowed, like a swift and agile leopard, rapidly sweeping across the sorghum field.

  Right in front of him, a warm and soft body rushed straight into his arms. He opened his iron-like arms to tightly encircle her, his sharp eagle eyes vigilantly observing the surroundings.

  Whoosh! A gust of wind at his feet.

  Xiatian let out a sob and grasped his collar tightly with both hands, trying to bury her head in his chest.

  He glanced down at the small grey thing and secretly let out a sigh of relief, patting her back with some helplessness, softly comforting: "It's just a field mouse!"

  "Rat! It's a rat! I'm scared!" She shivered and buried her head in his chest, refusing to lift it up.

  His chest muscles suddenly tensed, his throat involuntarily rolling slowly. Her head rubbed against his chest, her few strands of hair blown by the wind on his face, her delicate body trembling slightly in his arms, her warm breath seemingly teasing his heartbeat.

  Damn it! Was she silently inviting him or testing his willpower? Gnashing his teeth, he pulled her out of his arms and turned to leave without looking back.

  "Hey, wait for me!" Xia Tian grabbed his sleeve and followed closely behind him, her footsteps stumbling to keep up.