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The people that came from the county seat were precisely Han Ming Yiâs bodyguards. As soon as they arrived, they started attacking the a.s.sa.s.sin. Once Leng Yi had the ones in front of him killed off, he quickly moved to the river sh.o.r.e.
He and Leng Er both donât know how to swim. After learning that Du Xiao Li had gone down, he thus anxiously waited by the river sh.o.r.e.
Seeing that their reinforcements have arrived, the a.s.sa.s.sin leader said to the remaining people, âRetreat!â
Receiving the order, the a.s.sa.s.sins flew off in all four directions.
Leng Yi saw that they wanted to chase after them and said, âDonât bother. Is there anyone among you all that know how to swim? Those that know how to swim, go down and save young master!â
Two people with slightly short statures jumped into the water in succession, searching for Han Ming Yi in the water.
After Du Xiao Li had jumped in the water, she had started swimming towards the place where Han Ming Yi fell in. This riverâs flow wasnât rapid, so Han Ming Yi shouldnât have been washed too far away. As expected, in a place slightly downstream, she found the already fainted Han Ming Yi.
She hurriedly swam over, wrapping both arms around his underarm, swimming upwards along with him.
âSplashââ
The people on the sh.o.r.es only heard a splashing sound, and Du Xiao Li, along with Han Ming Yi, emerged onto the waterâs surface.
âQuickly have young master and the girl brought up.â Leng Er said to the two in the water.
Du Xiao Li had already consumed quite of bit of energy from dealing with the enemies earlier, in addition to her current body still being too small, by the time she dragged Han Ming Yi to the waterâs surface, she was already a bit dizzy. Fortunately, those two bodyguards swam over, and had her and Han Ming Yi brought to the sh.o.r.e.
Du Xiao Li laid Han Ming Yi flat on the ground. At the moment, heâd already fainted, with his head leaning to the side, and his complexion deathly pale.
âYoung master!â Leng Yi knelt down on one knee, continuously calling out to Han Ming Yi.
âYoung master has fainted!â Someone said.
âDonât you two know about water? What are you still standing around for, quickly give your young master first aid!â Du Xiao Li sat to the side, and said to those two guys just now.
Leng Yi had one of them dragged to Han Ming Yiâs side and said, âDonât worry about anything else, save young master first.â
âYes.â Obtaining Leng Yiâs orders, that person pressed his hand onto Han Ming Yiâs stomach, pressing down with force. Very soon, he spat out two mouthfuls of water, but was still not waking up.
âWhy is he still not waking?â Leng Er anxiously said, using his hand to slap Han Ming Yiâs face. Yet, he suddenly retracted his hand and said, âYoung masterâs not breathing!â
Leng Yi reached his hand out to check. Discovering that Han Ming Yi really wasnât breathing, he entirely blanked.
Du Xiao Li came to Han Ming Yiâs side, and saw that that personâs techniques were also correct. Just, because Han Ming Yi had been in the water for too long, thatâs why heâd temporarily stopped breathing.
âGive him mouth-to-mouth breathing!â Du Xiao Li said to the bodyguard.
âMouth-to-mouth breathing?â Not only did that bodyguard not know, Leng Yi and Leng Er didnât know either.
(T/N: Okay, so I feel I need to clarify, the word for CPR in chinese literally translates to âartificial breathingâ so it would technically sounds less weird to them.)
âMove aside!â Right now, Du Xiao Li didnât have the time to explain to them what mouth-to-mouth breathing was, and further didnât have the time to teach them. She pulled the bodyguard to the side. Immediately after, she pried open Han Ming Yiâs mouth, seeing that the dirty things in the throat have already been spat along with the water. Then, she used her hand to pinch Han Ming Yiâs nose, took in a deep breath, and leaned over to give Han Ming Yi mouth-to-mouth.
âWhat is she doing?â A bodyguard from behind saw Du Xiao Liâs movements, and sucked in a breath.
âYi, sheâŠ.â Someone, seeing that Leng Yi didnât interfere, shouted.
Leng Yi waved his hand to interrupt that personâs words, and everyone thus quietly watched Du Xiao Li breath air in and spit air out.
âUghâŠ..â A moment later, Han Ming Yi faintly opened his eyes, seeing a pair of bright eyes, seemingly like the night stars, suddenly flashing into his heart.
Du Xiao Li didnât think that Han Ming Yi would wake up this quickly. Her lips were still tightly pressed onto his. There was still a soft sensation on her lips. And his eyes were like the vast ocean, letting her instantly lose herself.
Just like this, the two stared at each other, forgetting to get up.
âHeâs awake, heâs awake, young master has awoken.â Leng Er saw Han Ming Yi open his eye and said in rejoice.
Du Xiao Li got up from Han Ming Yi and said, âI saved you again. This time, need to increase the price.â
âYoung master, how are you?â Leng Yi helped Han Ming Yi up and asked.
âWhat happened just now?â Han Ming Yi asked.
âYoung master had drowned just now, and had already stopped breathing. Unexpectedly, this little miss uh did that and that, and had you brought back to life.â Someone said.
Their master has never been close with a woman. All those beauties in the capital, not one did he fancy. Yet, unexpectedly, he lost his first kiss today.
Han Ming Yi thought of the soft sensation on his lips just now and his gaze flickered. Afterwards, he stood up and asked. âWhy is there just the few of you?â
âReplying to young master, as soon as we saw the signal bomb, we hastily rushed over. But on the way, we came across a.s.sa.s.sins blocking the path. They covered for us while we came over first.â The one that gave Han Ming Yi first aid just now said.
Just then, another group of people came from the county seat. Quite a few of them had injuries on their body. With one look, one could tell that theyâd gone through an intense battle just now.
After those people arrived, Du Xiao Li went over to the sh.o.r.e to collect her little satchel. Afterwards, she walked over to the river to clean off the blood on her dagger. Thinking back to that sensation of stabbing the dagger into someoneâs heart earlier, Du Xiao Li felt that in that moment, she seemed to have returned to her past life again.
âYoung master, Leng San, heâŠ..â The bodyguards came before Han Ming Yi and knelt down. One among them even carried on his back a heavily injured and unconscious guard. The fresh blood flowed down from his body and dripped all the way here.
âWhy is he bleeding this much!â Leng Er saw Leng San and asked.
âIn order to let them be able to leave quicker, San blocked off those people with all his might. There were too many of them, soâŠâŠâ The one carrying Leng San said.
âYoung master, please allow us to take Leng San to go find doctor Niu first.â Leng Shi, who was kneeling to the side, said.
The brothers with the starting character âLengâ, there were seven of them. These seven were as close as real brother. Right now, seeing Leng San on the brink of death, everyone were all very distressed.
âAlright, you allâŠ..â
âNo matter how good your qinggong is, before even reaching grandpa Niuâs place, he would have already died!â Just as Han Ming Yi nodded, Du Xiao Li came over after sheâd finished washing her dagger, and said.
âWho are you? For what reason are you saying this!â Hearing Du Xiao Liâs words, the bodyguards that had rushed over just now all got angry.
âHeâs already lost that much blood. Although you all bandaged his wounds for him, he still continued to bleed, meaning that heâs injured an artery. Moreover, itâs even a very important place. Thatâs why itâs useless to bandage.â Du Xiao Li said, âGoing back from here, no matter how fast you all are, you would still need approximately a cup of teaâs time*. This is more than enough for him to die from excessive blood loss. Furthermore, if youâre carrying him on your back, when youâre flying, youâll even press on him. Even if he wonât bleed to death, heâll still be tossed and turned to death.â
(*T/N: Roughly 10 minutes)
Leng Er came to Du Xiao Liâs side, putting both hands on her shoulders, and said, âGirl, save him!â
Du Xiao Li lifted her head and looked to Leng Er, seeing the plead and sorrow in his eyes, and also a trace of fear. It was somewhat strange, but she still nodded her head and said, âOkay.â
âThank you!â Leng Er said.
âYou all put him onto the horse carriage.â Du Xiao Li said to those people.
Leng Shi and the others stood there, not moving.
âHave Leng San placed onto the horse carriage.â Leng Yi said.
âYi!â Leng Shi didnât understand why Leng Yi and Leng Er wanted it like this, not going to go find Niu Jing, but instead letting them listen to this little girlâs words.
Leng Yi walked over and patted Leng Wu, saying: âDonât worry.â
Leng Wu looked to Leng Yi and stood there motionlessly. He still didnât believe the words of a little girl.
âDo as she says.â Han Ming Yi opened his mouth.
âYoung masterâŠ.â Seeing that Han Ming Yi also spoke, Leng Wu could only have Leng San placed onto the carriage.
Although calling it a carriage, right now it only had the bottom wooden plank left. Leng San laid on top. Du Xiao Li went up and untied the bandages on his leg, exposing a nasty wound.
T/N: I think I mentioned in an earlier chapter before, but the bodyguards names are just Yi = one, Er = two, San = three, Shi = four, Wu = five, etc.
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