The dead branches in the fire were crackling and burning. Chen Tao was leaning on the mound, with Ye Rong and Hao Zi next to him.
"Well...beautiful...little sister..." Haozi was sleeping with her backpack in her arms, talking nonsense in her mouth.
Ye Rong leaned on the mound with her back, her long hair tied into a ponytail. Her skin was originally very white, but after so many days, her face had a lot of dry skin from the sun, and her long eyelashes were like a row. The new spring buds, the towering chest rise and fall with the breath. Under the cold moonlight, Ye Rong looked like a sleeping goddess of war, relieved of all her anger and as gentle as a flower.
Chen Tao looked a little dazed and shook his head. He warned himself again in his heart that this woman is a devil and can eat people without spitting out their bones!
Turning his head and looking around, Balohard and his men were guarding the top of the mound in twos and threes, their gray-white robes dancing in the wind, like ghosts in the darkness.
"I don't know how Uncle Long is doing now..." Chen Tao looked at the bright night sky, the desert night, cloudless, and the stars were like small lights.
"what's on your mind?"
Suddenly a gentle female voice came to his ears, and Chen Tao looked at Ye Rong in surprise.
"You didn't sleep?"
"You're not even asleep, how dare I fall asleep?" Ye Rong smiled playfully, looked down at Hao Zi, stood up and sat next to Chen Tao.
Asking about that woman's unique body fragrance, Chen Tao's heart was pounding, and his whole body seemed a little strange.
This feeling......
Chen Tao looked at Ye Rong with some confusion. When he was in Heizigou, this woman looked like a little goblin when it came to people, but when things happened, she was cold like a strong woman.
But this time, her feeling for Chen Tao changed again, and she even talked less along the way.
Women are such strange creatures...
"Why did you come to Tatuna'an?" Chen Tao turned his head and looked into Ye Rong's eyes, trying to find some answer.
"Save people." Ye Rong pursed her lips, brushed away the broken hair from her forehead, and looked at Chen Tao with her big eyes.
Chen Tao looked a little embarrassed and quickly turned his head: "Who are you trying to save?"
"A very important person."
Seeing the worried expression on Ye Rong's face, Chen Tao felt something tugging at his heart and quickly changed the subject: "There is something I don't understand. Why does Uncle Long cooperate with your Ye family? Don't forget Oh, what did you do to us in Heizigou! If we hadn't escaped with our lives, we would have died in Heizigou!"
Thinking of what happened in Heizigou, Chen Tao couldn't help but feel a little angry. He tried his best to save Ah Cheng, but in the end he was bitten back.
People’s hearts are unpredictable!
"My sister, no, I don't know either. You should ask Di Yilong about this. He was the one who found us anyway." Ye Rong changed into a comfortable posture, "There are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests. Our Ye family is just businessmen, we only do business to make money."
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Chen Tao couldn't help but feel a little disappointed at Ye Rong's words.
People die for wealth and birds die for food. This kind of thing is fruitless. As long as there is profit to be made, countless people will flock to it.
"What exactly does Uncle Long want to do?" Chen Tao frowned and thought hard, but he couldn't find any clues to the problem, and his head was as chaotic as hot pot soup.
"By the way, you came out alone this time? Where are your younger brothers and those big-nosed foreigners?"
Ye Rong shook her head and looked at Chen Tao with some resentment: "It's not because of you!"
"Me?" Chen Tao was confused, "What's wrong with me? I didn't provoke you, so it's none of my business!"
"If you Chen family hadn't robbed the things in Heizigou, my sister wouldn't have been punished so severely! Now she ran into Tatunan alone to die, and no one but me was willing to save her! "
"Wait...wait a minute! What is your sister??? I'm talking about Miss Ye Da, what does your sister do to me? I don't even know her, okay?" Chen Tao looked innocent. She wondered in her heart how this woman could remember one thing after another, and all these messy things.
"Humph, it's you! Not only did you harm her, but you also harmed me!" As she spoke, Ye Rong's eyes turned red, and Chen Tao was so scared that he quickly closed his mouth.
Did this woman take the wrong medicine? Why does her face change so quickly?
"Mother-in-law is right, no man is good!" Ye Rong glared at Chen Tao fiercely, turned her head and said nothing for a long time.
Chen Tao was confused. .
What is this? Why do you say it as if I have done something wrong?
But I didn’t do anything?
"Sigh... Many times, I wonder why our Ye family is involved in these things. More than once, I told them that I want to leave all this, and I want to be a simple person. I'm just an ordinary person, but I can't leave no matter what." Ye Rong ignored Chen Tao, looked up at the moon in the sky and sighed.
"I don't think so. I always feel like a fool. I know nothing and can't do anything. The more I want to know everything, the more I can't start." Chen Tao rubbed his face and looked up. Moon said: "I really want to know, I want to know what all this is about!"
A gust of cold wind blew by, and the fire in the fire roared.
Chen Tao added some dead branches to it, then turned around, only to see Ye Rong staring at him.
"You, you, you... what do you want to do?" Chen Tao looked a little uncomfortable and hurriedly moved back.
"It's nothing... Don't worry, I won't eat you or scare you."
Ye Rong burst into laughter, and Chen Tao looked at that tired pretty face, which actually looked a little sad under the moonlight. Looking at Ye Rong's thin shoulders, Chen Tao couldn't help but feel the urge to protect her.
Damn it, Chen Tao, are you crazy?
Blushing and shaking off the terrible thought in his mind, Chen Tao coughed twice and said
"Well...don't think too much about that. Anyway, that's how it is. You
The more you want to hide, the less you can hide. It is better to face it with courage. No matter what the final result is, at least you tried hard. Even if you get nothing in the end, it is worth it. "Chen Tao shrugged, saying he was comforting Ye Rong, but actually he was comforting himself.
"Um..." Ye Rong suddenly looked into Chen Tao's eyes, "Can you... hug me..."
"What...what...what?" Chen Tao couldn't believe his ears and stuttered.
"I..." A blush appeared on Ye Rong's face. She turned her head and ignored Chen Tao. She huddled up, hugging her knees and staring at the distant starry sky in a daze.
"Huh?" Chen Tao acted like an idiot. It took him a long time to come to his senses. His stomach accelerated uncontrollably, as if he was about to jump out.
Did I hear you correctly? She wants me to hold her?
Looking at Ye Rong beside him, Chen Tao swallowed hard, his hands trembling.
Damn you, come on, Chen Tao, you are a good-for-nothing!
Chen Tao took a deep breath and kept cheering himself up. Finally, he mustered up the courage to move towards Ye Rong and slowly raised his right arm.
Did I hear it correctly just now? She wanted me to hold her? Well, yes, that’s true!
Chen Tao's mind went blank. The scent of Ye Rong's body made his heart beat faster unconsciously. His raised right hand shook like a sieve, and he slowly put it on Ye Rong's back, and he was about to hug her. On those thin shoulders.
"Taozi! Taozi! Look, there's a beautiful girl here!" Haozi suddenly shouted, and Chen Tao immediately retracted his hand in fright.
Looking again, I saw that this guy was sleeping like a dead pig. What he shouted before was all in his sleep. I don't know what he was dreaming about. There was still a trace of saliva hanging on the corner of his mouth.
Chen Tao was so angry that he wanted to slap Hao Zi into a pig's head.
"Forget it, you should go to sleep." Ye Rong turned around and smiled, stood up from Chen Tao, returned to the same position as before, and closed her eyes against the mound.
"Well, be careful tomorrow."
After a few words of warning, Chen Tao added some dead branches to the fire and then turned around. Ye Rong had already fallen asleep looking at the mound.
Her breathing was very light, and her long eyelashes were dancing. Chen Tao put his arms behind him and just looked at her...
"Taozi! Taozi! Get up!"
I don't know how long it took, but Haozi's familiar shout came to my ears. Chen Tao rubbed his swollen eyes and sat up. The fire in front of him was almost extinguished, and only a trace of residual heat was left. Not dispersed.
Looking up, Haozi was inserting nails into his sleeves and chewing dried meat in his mouth.
"Where's Ye Rong?"
"Beautiful Ye went to get some water from Hade Baba. Our water bottle has long been empty."
While talking, Ye Rong had already walked over, holding three kettles on her mobile phone.
"Good morning, Mr. Chen?" Ye
Rong smiled and threw the kettle into Chen Tao's arms. She seemed to be in a good mood.
"Well, morning." Recalling the scene last night in his mind, Chen Tao couldn't believe it. Then he looked at Ye Rong, the two of them looked at each other.
Ye Rong raised her chin, gritted her teeth and glared at Chen Tao, who suddenly stood up from the ground.
This woman was threatening herself, fearing that she would reveal what happened last night.
"Chen Tao!" Balohad walked over from the crowd, "In a few minutes, the sun will rise. This is the only chance to find the entrance to the Maka Lost City passage. If you miss it, you will have to wait until tomorrow. "
Balohad pointed to the desert behind him and said: "After the last storm, the Holy City has reappeared. We must end this before the next storm, otherwise, we will all be buried alive by the sand!"
(End of chapter)
