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He couldn't see any trace of a refined lady in Qiu Ying, after all, Qiu Ying always dressed plainly, her manners were very ordinary.
If it weren't for the system prompt, he would never have known that Sister Qiu Ying was so powerful.
"Sister Qiu Ying actually knows the art of the zither?" he exclaimed. "I'll have to learn from her later."
As they were talking, the rain started pouring down.
People on the street sought shelter from the rain, but fortunately, they had horse-drawn carriages and were not affected.
Fu Hai said, "I thought Yue Lan would come into the city with you."
Song Lingyue said, "When I entered the city, she hadn't gotten up yet. She practiced martial arts so late last night, and she couldn't get up this morning. What's the point of practicing so late? She might as well get up early."
Fu Hai said, "Sigh! Don't even mention it, she was still... huh?"
Seeing that he had stopped, Song Lingyue also leaned out of the window and looked out at him.
The carriage had already left the city gate and was heading towards the inn.
But then, in the rain, a girl of about twelve or thirteen years old, dressed in a thin ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress) that is almost summer-appropriate, was walking aimlessly along the edge of the official road without an umbrella, as the rain gradually intensified.
Song Lingyue had not yet spoken.
"Little Bamboo, Little Sparrow!" Fu Hai picked up the oil-paper umbrella beside her. "Stop for a moment."
Xiao Zhu and Xiao Que stopped the carriage. Fu Hai jumped out, opened his oil-paper umbrella, and ran towards the little girl: "Little sister, it's raining so hard, why aren't you going home? Why are you heading out of the city?"
Song Lingyue shook her head in the car and said, "My senior brother always worries about other people's children."
Xiao Zhuzi said, "Ah, Brother Fu is just like that."
Little Sparrow said, "So we parked the car before Brother Fu even said anything. Anyway, he just loves to meddle. Hehe!"
Fu Hai used an oil-paper umbrella to shield the little girl's double-bun hairstyle from the wind and rain, and bowed his head to ask, "Where do you live? Would you like me to take you home in a carriage..."
The little girl looked up at him, her eyes filled with fear.
Fu Hai said, "Don't be afraid. I'm the owner of that inn. Do you see it? It's that one!" He pointed.
Then he said, "Why don't you go to the inn to rest first? Where are your family members? Are they lost? I'll go help you find them... Don't run away."
The little girl, like a little rabbit, rushed out from under his umbrella in terror.
Chapter 193 Ghost or Fish? The Vanished Little Girl
Fu Hai saw that the girl's face was deathly pale, and her skin was as white as snow.
She was petite and looked malnourished, but her skin gave her the appearance of a pampered young lady who rarely left her home.
She escaped at an astonishing speed, catching him off guard.
"Don't be afraid! I'm not a bad person," Fu Hai called out. "Take the umbrella first, and we'll talk after you've taken the umbrella."
You should know that from here southwards, there is only this official road and a narrow pass that goes westwards through Duanyun Mountain.
The road to the west is narrow and teeming with wild animals. Even martial artists who haven't reached a certain level wouldn't dare to walk this road at night.
As for the official road, it was actually forcibly carved out of the mountains, winding endlessly through them.
There are many villages further south, but they are all in remote and impoverished areas, and most of them are far from the main road.
The little girl went out of the city gate and walked further out. It was raining heavily, and even the post station was closed. There wasn't a single person on the road.
How could he be at ease?
But he also knew that it was right for the little girl to be aware of danger. Although he wasn't a pervert, the little girl would definitely be afraid if she saw him approaching.
"Go back to the city gate first!" Fu Hai shouted. "Have you gotten separated from your family? I'll have the soldiers help you find them."
Although the little girl ran fast, he was a martial artist with the ability to move lightly, so he naturally wouldn't be shaken off by her.
The little girl turned around, looked up at him, and backed away in fear.
The rain soaked her pale yellow dress, highlighting her thin, frail body, making her look pitiful.
"Did you have a fight with your family?" Fu Hai held out the umbrella to her. "Take this umbrella first."
The umbrella left him, and the rain continued to fall on him.
“Running away from home on a rainy day is dangerous,” Fu Hai slowly approached her. “Take the umbrella first, and I’ll find the lady at the inn to take you home, okay?”
Suddenly, the rain came in a torrent.
The rain blurred his vision, and he couldn't see anything clearly.
I was secretly surprised. How could it have suddenly turned into such a torrential downpour?
Trying to pat the waterfall-like rain curtain in front of me.
Wow!
The rainwater, like a shattered plate, broke into rings around him, scattering into waves of water.
When I looked again, the little girl was nowhere to be seen.
What is this? Is it haunted?
Fu Hai held up his umbrella and looked around.
Looking back at the carriage, Little Bamboo and Little Sparrow, who were curiously looking this way, stared wide-eyed as if they had seen a ghost.
Song Lingyue peeked her head out of the car window, looking quite strange.
Fu Hai turned back again; raindrops pounded on the official road, splashing water everywhere.
In the distance, the mountains undulated in the rain, and the winding official road leading south was quiet and deserted; not a single person could be seen, not even a ghost.
Fu Hai watched for a while, then ran back to the carriage: "Junior Sister, did you see that? The child disappeared in an instant?"
Song Lingyue said, "They escaped to the mountains."
Fu Hai asked in surprise, "What?"
"I saw you suddenly get trapped in a big water ball, and then the little girl swam in the rain like a fish, and suddenly she swam into the mountains."
She pointed towards the mountains and forests west of the official road, "She swam very fast, and I think I saw a fish tail under her skirt."
Fu Hai opened his eyes wide and exclaimed "Ah!"
Little Bamboo and Little Sparrow were startled: "What's that?" "A monster?" "I didn't see any fish, I just saw people disappear all of a sudden." "Could it be a ghost?" "Don't scare me!"
Fu Hai glanced back, unable to tell whether the little girl was a human, a ghost, or really a fish.
"Are there more strange things in our Anjun County now?" he remarked.
"Senior brother, you should get in the car first," Song Lingyue said. "That girl is probably not an ordinary person, so you don't need to worry about her."
“But I sensed she was very scared and uneasy.” Fu Hai still got into the car.
Just now, his outer shirt was soaked.
The carriage continued towards the inn. The inn's door was only half open, and Sister Qiu Ying walked out to the door and looked in their direction.
The carriage stopped in front of the inn, and they unloaded the things from the carriage under umbrellas.
Qiu Ying asked, "You all look so strange, what happened?"
Song Lingyue then recounted what had just happened.
Fu Hai said, "Sister Qiu Ying, what kind of amazing lightness skill is this, where the rainwater suddenly turns into water clumps and then suddenly turns into fish and escapes?"
Sister Qiu Ying glanced at him indifferently: "Even the master doesn't know, so how would I know?"
He glanced at the paulownia wood zither on the table and said, "A 'Sunset Zither' with horsehair strings."
Fu Hai asked in surprise, "Sister Qiu Ying, do you really understand the art of the zither? Why haven't I heard you mention it before?"
Sister Qiu Ying shook her head and said, "No... I don't understand the way of the zither."
Little Bamboo and Little Sparrow also got off the carriage and hid in the inn to wait for the rain to stop.
They chattered away, still discussing the strange thing that had just happened, growing more and more frightened as they talked.
A rainy day, outside the city gate... A little girl walking in the rain who suddenly disappears...
The more they talked, the more horrifying it became.
"Senior brothers and sisters, you're back! Ah, Little Bamboo, Little Sparrow, you're here too!" Xia Yuelan rushed downstairs in a flurry.
"Is someone staying here?" Fu Hai asked, looking at her.
"No!" Xia Yuelan said.
"Why did you go upstairs if no one's around?"
"I'm so bored. I'm going upstairs to watch the rain." Xia Yuelan was also annoyed. "You didn't even call me when you came to the city."
He then looked at the two little girls: "What are you doing? Are you so cold? You're all shivering."
Xiao Zhuzi said, "Sister Yue Lan, we just saw a ghost."
Xia Yuelan looked outside, glancing around, then looked at her senior brother... Xiao Ye is back?
Song Lingyue said, "I still think it's not a ghost, it's a fish."
Xia Yuelan exclaimed in surprise, "What happened? Xiaoye has turned into a fish... Ouch!"
Fu Hai gave her a piece of advice... Can't you use your brain for once?
It took Xia Yuelan a while to learn what had happened at the city gate.
"What?!" Xia Yuelan exclaimed in surprise, "The little girl who went out of the city in the rain mistook her senior brother for a pervert and was so scared that she turned into a fish and ran away?"
“She didn’t think of me as a pervert!” Fu Hai said. “For some reason, she looked very scared.”
"On a rainy day, she was naturally scared when she saw a pervert approaching her under the pretense of sheltering her from the rain."
“It’s not that she’s scared of me, it’s just that she was originally… sigh, I’ll go change my clothes first, it’s a bit hard to explain.” Fu Hai went to the backyard first.
Little Bamboo and Little Sparrow always thought it was a ghost, not a fish. They felt that Sister Lingyue was just comforting them and deceiving the children by calling it a fish.
They tugged at Xia Yuelan's sleeves: "Sister Yuelan, will you take us back to the city?" "Won't that little devil follow us and be taken home by us?" "Waaah, what exactly is that thing?"
Xia Yuelan, who was just looking for something to do, said, "Alright, alright, I'll take you back."