Chapter 1590 - 1588
Chapter 1590: Chapter 1588
Chapter 1588
At first, there was a panic, then it was heartache, and Xia Ruqing was scared stiff.
Quickly pulled over to the roadside, then helped him down.
"Are you alright? Could it be motion sickness?"
"But it doesn’t matter!"
"I’m familiar with this road, it’s about four or five hundred meters more, we’ll walk there in a bit!"
Zhao Junyao seemed to ignore what she said.
His face was pale, clutching his chest, he staggered forward.
Xia Ruqing was both puzzled and worried.
"Where are you going?"
"Motion sickness is awful, you should rest before walking!"
No time to step forward and help him.
Zhao Junyao had already fallen to the ground, but strangely, he showed no sign of wanting to vomit.
Motion sickness usually involves stomach acid vomiting, right?
This doesn’t seem like it, but if not motion sickness, what is it?
"Here!"
"There seems to be something here, it’s connected to me, it’s calling me!"
Zhao Junyao’s face was pale, stubbornly crawling forward.
As a favored son of heaven, the Emperor of Great Chu, he had never been so embarrassed, but now he couldn’t afford to care, just kept moving forward.
"..."
Seeing him like this, Xia Ruqing was speechless.
The resemblance to TV drama clichés is striking! If not for experiencing it firsthand, who would believe it?
Yet, this event happened right in front of her, truly unbelievable!
Grumbling silently, she moved forward to help him.
"What are you looking for?"
If someone happened by this moment, they’d surely think they were both crazy.
One person crawling in the grass, another chasing behind to assist, even patients in a mental hospital wouldn’t act like this!
Zhao Junyao’s expression was extremely serious, he declared firmly.
"There’s something buried here, dig it up quickly!"
Xia Ruqing twitched her lips.
"Alright! Because you’re the ancestor, right?"
Someone from another world centuries ago is not just an ancestor!
Nimbly, she found a small shovel in her car’s trunk, and started to dig the ground.
Wherever the ancestor wanted dug, she’d dig!
Zhao Junyao, meanwhile, lay weakly to one side, even more miserable than before.
Xia Ruqing worked energetically, skilled and quick, dug a hole a foot deep in about ten minutes.
Unfortunately, there was nothing inside.
She felt a bit disappointed.
"There’s nothing, what are we digging for!"
"Dig again!"
Xia Ruqing buried her head and continued.
"Still nothing!"
"If there’s nothing, keep digging!" Zhao Junyao was resolute!
Xia Ruqing suppressed her suspicion and continued digging! As she dug deeper, her doubts grew, while he remained steadfast.
Repeating this process about ten times, the hole was almost half a meter deep.
Xia Ruqing was covered in dirt, her face grey, yet still saw nothing.
"You better not be tricking me!" Xia Ruqing was very annoyed.
She stepped on a clump on the edge of the hole, about to climb out to scold Zhao Junyao’s bad behavior.
But unexpectedly, that clump collapsed, and then... a pile of mysterious things fell out from inside.
"What is this!" She was dumbfounded.
Zhao Junyao’s eyes sparkled.
The pain in his chest was gone, his weakness vanished, his limbs regained strength, as if the previous agony was just a dream.
"It’s these!"
Xia Ruqing didn’t care to look at the pile, she just gazed at him thoughtfully.
"You brat! Were you pretending earlier?"
"You were weak to the point of dying, now that you’ve found the stuff, you’re immediately spirited!"
Without a word, she surged forward to beat him.
But Zhao Junyao didn’t dodge, just stood there, focused on the pile.
Xia Ruqing hardened her heart, but ultimately couldn’t bring herself to hit him.
"Forget it, I’ll keep score, and settle this debt later!"
After the harsh words, she squatted down too, looking at the dug-up items with him.
"What are all these?"
Zhao Junyao frowned, focused and serious as he answered.
"I don’t know either?"
"You don’t recognize them?"
Saying this, he unfolded the package, Xia Ruqing’s eyes lit up.
"Huh? Why is there a handbag?"
"There’s a watch, bank cards, documents..."
"Hey! There’s even the Zhao Group’s logo, is this..."
She looked at Zhao Junyao, shocked.
And Zhao Junyao realized, suddenly understanding something.
His gaze landed on the watch, declaring decisively.
"I’ve seen this watch, on his wrist!"
"In old photo albums, it appeared many times!"
Xia Ruqing suddenly understood something.
"This... This was your personal belonging before the incident?"
"No wonder when I found you, you had nothing but clothes! Turns out someone took them and buried them here!"
"Seems this was indeed an attempted murder!"
"You finally guessed it right!"
Zhao Junyao stood up confidently, clapped his hands, eyes narrowed slightly, and looked at her with disdain.
"I’ve said it before, and now you finally believe it!"
With that, he turned and left, habitually ordering her in a commanding tone.
"Take all that stuff with you!"
Xia Ruqing: "..." Really want to beat this guy up!
Deep breaths, deep breaths, don’t be mad, the person opposite is the Emperor!
She closed her eyes, calming her anger before opening them.
Anyway, she was already dusty, and the things on the ground were dusty too.
Fine! Let’s just take them!
Thinking about it, she mimicked the way detectives collect evidence in crime dramas.
Carefully repackaged the items just as they were.
Then, with Zhao Junyao, she took everything back.
...
"Let’s take it to the police station!" Xia Ruqing suggested.
No matter what, she felt uneasy and insecure keeping such things herself!
Zhao Junyao shook his head in disagreement.
"No rush, the time isn’t right yet!"
He had studied the law of this world to understand somewhat!
"Sending it there now, with me in good condition!"
"Then it’s just attempted murder, not much of a crime!"
"Do I let the opponent off so easily?"
Touching his bottom line, challenging his patience, then they deserve death!
Capital punishment may be rare in this world, but it’s not impossible!
At the worst, there’s life imprisonment, isn’t there!"
Not ending you, locking you up for life would be satisfactory.
So this case cannot be easily concluded with attempted murder!"
Xia Ruqing: "..."
Noticing the cold light in his eyes, she shivered internally, greatly shaken.
The first time seeing him like this, there’s an inexplicable familiarity.
However, familiarity was secondary.
The main point was, she started to fully believe he was an emperor in his past life.
Because such a person with such expression, such decisive tactics, she had never seen before.
"Alright... alright then!"
She instinctively followed his idea.
"Anyway it’s none of my business!" she pretended to be calm.
Zhao Junyao also regained his composure, forced a smile at her.
"Did I scare you just now!"