On her wedding night, she went into exile with her pharmacy arsenal

Chapter 1991 Bone Mountain

"When you left the Water Temple, did you have a chance to escape?"

Yan Ruyu asked the question she had always wanted to ask in a calm voice.

That night, there was a chance to escape.

Chuntao's eyes were confused at first, and then she was surprised, as if she didn't understand how Yan Ruyu knew about this.

Chuntao opened her mouth, her Adam's apple moved, and after a while she nodded gently, her voice as thin as a mosquito's: "Yes."

"Then why didn't you run away?"

This question was asked directly, without any beating around the bush.

Chuntao's face turned pale instantly. She lowered her eyes and stared at the wood grain on the corner of the table. After a while, she whispered, "I want to leave too..."

"That day was a perfect opportunity. You just had to go down the road and you'd be in town by daybreak. It's better to live in peace than to come back here and be abused by those people."

The last few words were like needles, pricking Chuntao's shoulders and making them tremble.

She suddenly raised her head, her eyes were filled with tears, and tears rolled down her cheeks.

"Where can I go?" Her voice was filled with tears, and she was getting more and more anxious as she spoke. "My parents passed away a long time ago. My brother married my sister-in-law two years ago. Three months after the marriage, she started arguing with my brother, saying that I was taking up the side room and delaying her from having children. She also said that I was a girl who stayed at home and that I wouldn't have a place to live if I recruited a son-in-law in the future!"

Chun Tao's tears streaked her face: "My brother was sitting on the doorstep at the time and didn't say a word for me.

Later he told me to go to town and find a job, and said, "If you can't make it, don't come back."

Tell me, if I really ran away, where could I go back to? Back to my brother's house? My sister-in-law would definitely kick me out!"

She cried harder and harder, and her shoulders twitched.

Yan Ruyu looked at her and suddenly remembered that Chuntao always hung around Huo Changhe. She felt annoyed at that time, but now she thinks that she should have regarded Huo Changhe as her only chance.

Like a drowning man grasping at a straw.

"How did you get to the governor's mansion?" Yan Ruyu asked.

Chun Tao shook her head: "I don't know either. Everyone else had left and I didn't know where to go, so I just rested on the side of the road. But I don't know when, I fainted, and when I woke up, I was here."

"I thought... since I have nowhere else to go, I might as well stay here. At least I won't have to worry about food and clothing."

"But who would have thought..."

Who would have thought it would be such endless humiliation.

The only sound left in the room was Chuntao's sobbing. The dim moonlight from outside shone in through the window, casting their shadows on the wall, sometimes bright and sometimes dim.

After a long while, Chuntao's crying gradually subsided, leaving only occasional gasps.

"Chun Tao," Yan Ruyu's voice was a little deeper than before, but clearer, "Do you want to leave here?"

There were still traces of tears in Chuntao's eyes, but her pupils suddenly shrank.

She looked at Yan Ruyu, as if she didn't hear clearly, and as if she couldn't believe her ears.

"How do you leave? Where are you going?"

Chuntao looked confused.

"As long as you want, I can help you, but the premise is that you have to do one thing for me."

Chuntao looked into Yan Ruyu's eyes and nodded slowly.

She seemed to see a glimmer of hope.

……

As soon as the silver ingot touched the bones, a chill that penetrated into the bone marrow crept up through the fingers.

He squatted in the shadow of the cave entrance, stroking his thumb over the uneven indentations on the bones - not only were there rough marks from the bites of wild beasts, but it also looked like something had gnawed on them with sharp teeth.

There were still tiny bone fragments on the edge. When I smelled it close to my nose, in addition to the stale earthy smell, there was also a faint sour smell similar to that of fermented blood.

"It's human bones." He whispered to himself, and his fingertips rubbed across a broken rib. The cross section was not smooth, as if it had been bitten off.

None of these bones were complete; the smallest finger bone was even missing half, and the tooth marks on the cross section were frighteningly fine.

The wind blew in from the depths of the cave, carrying with it a damp, musty smell that made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.

Suddenly, there was a flapping sound of wings overhead, and the black feathers of the starling left a shadow in the darkness.

A shrill cry rang softly beside Yinding's ears: "Inside! Inside!"

It circled twice and flew straight into the dark cave. When its wings swept across the rock wall, it brought down a few pieces of fallen gravel.

Yinding clenched the flashlight, took a deep breath and followed in.

He remembered what Yan Ruyu had said - sometimes, especially underground or in a confined space, don't use a fire starter casually, as there might be some gas inside that could be ignited.

Although Yinding didn't understand why the invisible gas would be ignited, what the princess said must be correct.

As soon as I stepped into the cave, the light in front of me was instantly swallowed up, and only the faint light from the cave entrance behind me could illuminate the place two steps away from my feet.

He reached out to hold onto the cave wall. The rock his fingertips touched was cold and slippery, as if covered with a thin layer of moss. His fingertips could even feel the uneven lines on the rock wall. He didn't know if they were naturally formed or scratched by something.

"When the prince went to Mobei, he even saw the ancient battlefield with corpses everywhere..." Yinding muttered to himself to give himself courage, but the coldness under his feet became more and more severe.

This was not the chill of the forest late at night, but a kind of chill that seeped from the cracks in his bones, as if countless pairs of cold hands were pulling at his trouser legs.

He had been to many strange and bizarre places with the princess, but none of them was as frightening as this moment - the coldness in the cave, with an indescribable malice, made his chest feel stuffy.

Suddenly, there was a light "crunch" sound under my feet, as if something hard and brittle was crushed.

Yinding's heart tightened, and he quickly stopped, took out a fire starter from his pocket, and blew it light with a "hiss".

The orange-red flames danced in the darkness, and the faint light barely illuminated the area three feet square around it. When his eyes fell on his feet, his pupils suddenly shrank.

It was half a tibia, slightly deformed by his stepping on it. There was some gray-brown flesh stuck on the bone, and the firelight shone on it, giving it a strange, oily sheen.

He subconsciously took a step back and his heel hit something again. Looking down, he saw a pile of bones, including skulls, ribs, and small finger bones, scattered on the ground like a terrifying carpet.

"This..." Yinding's voice trembled a little. He walked forward slowly with the tinder in his hand. The flame swayed gently with his movements, and the shadows cast on the cave wall were also distorted, as if countless black shadows were dancing.

But when he walked to the center of the cave and saw the scene clearly, the tinder in his hand almost fell to the ground. He felt as if struck by lightning and froze in place.

It was a "mountain", a mountain made of human bones.