Soul echo

Chapter 371 The Fallen

"Very happy?"

Waking up early in the morning, Lily heard Lilian humming a cheerful tune, and her mood became a little lighter.

"That's right." Lilian pursed her lips, "I don't know why, but I just feel very happy."

Hearing this, Lily looked up at the sky.

Although the clouds are still blocking the sun, it can be predicted that today will be a sunny day.

Breathing out a turbid breath, Lily also smiled and asked, "Where's the clock?"

"The teacher went to exercise." Lilian pointed to the nearby woods.

If you listen carefully, you can really hear some voices from the woods.

Recently, for Zhong Ye, ordinary exercise methods seem to be getting worse and worse. Now he has to use other methods for exercise.

For example, using 'Qi' in reverse, confining one's own muscle strength, lifting stones and running back and forth, can not only exercise strength, but also exercise physical strength and speed.

The open space around the carriage is not enough for him to use, so every time he exercises, he has to go to another place.

Fortunately, he has already taught everything that should be taught, and now Lilian has learned all the knowledge that can be learned, and only needs to learn from the past without Zhong Ye's teaching.

Lilian's exercise time was over, and after Lily Lieber washed up, she and Lilian rekindled the fire to heat up the food.

Not long after, Zhong Ye came back and silently joined the breakfast preparation queue.

After breakfast, the three of them set off again, and the carriage traveled upstream along the river bank.

As the weather warmed up, the draft horses no longer needed to be wrapped in heavy animal hides, and they became much more relaxed, and their steps became a little brisker.

The river flowed by, and some ice floes drifted down, hit the frozen river downstream, smashed the ice, and flowed with it.

Suddenly, as Zhong Ye moved his ears, he turned his eyes and cast his gaze to the river in the distance.

"Someone fell into the water."

Zhong Ye said something, and then shook the reins, causing the two horses to speed up a little.

The two chatting in the car turned their attention to the outside of the car, looking through the window at the river surface with floating ice.

The carriage ran forward for 2 minutes, and Zhong Ye saw a figure hugging the ice floes in the river, barely letting himself sink.

He saw the man, and the man naturally found them.

"Help! Help Goo... Help, Help!"

Because of his eagerness, the man called for help a little too much, and was accidentally poured with water. Fortunately, the ice floe in his arms was not small, so he didn't pull it into the water.

Zhong Ye reined in the reins, the two horses raised their heads and neighed, then stopped.

The door of the carriage was also pushed open, Lilian and the others walked down, looked at the person in the river, and then turned to look at Zhong Ye.

"Teacher, what should I do?"

"It's okay." Zhong Ye shook his head, "I'll go back as soon as I go."

As he spoke, he leapt forward and jumped into the river.

Lilian and the others followed his back nervously, and were relieved to see that he was able to walk on the water.

The man who fell into the water stared blankly at Zhong Ye walking quickly on the river, his mouth couldn't help opening his mouth wide, and his head went blank.

Zhong Ye bent down to pick him up from the water, and when he ran to the river bank, he was also in a daze, without any reaction, still holding the piece of ice floe in his arms.

It wasn't until Zhong Ye put him down and sat down on the ground that the man who fell into the water trembled and woke up.

"Thank you, thank you." The person who fell into the water chattered his teeth and thanked him.

Even if the weather gets warmer, the temperature is still so low, but the temperature is higher than the previous severe winter, and the river is still bitingly cold.

The person who fell into the water seemed to have been soaked in the water for a while, his skin exposed to the air turned blue and purple, and his lips were even more dull as black.

Seeing his appearance, Zhong Ye couldn't help shaking his head, and stretched out his hand to pull him up from the ground.

The whole body of the drowning person had become numb and stiff. If Zhong Ye hadn't rescued him, after a while, even if he didn't drown to death, he would freeze to death.

Lily and Lilian moved the stove out of the carriage, Zhong Ye put down the cover of the movable shed, then found out his own set of clothes and a rag, and asked the person who fell into the water to dry his body and change into it.

The hands and feet were frozen stiff, and even sitting next to the powerful stove, the heat emitted could not relieve the discomfort of the body. It took the person who fell into the water two to three minutes just to take off his clothes.

Zhong Ye and the others waited outside for nearly 10 minutes before the canopy was lifted, and a gust of hot air gushed out immediately, and the person who fell into the water also came out from inside.

"Really, thank you very much." Looking at Zhong Ye, the person who fell into the water tightened his clothes, and tears fell down, "I really don't know how to thank you, if it weren't for you, I might die It's..."

His appearance was so embarrassing just now that even Zhong Ye couldn't see clearly, now that he changed into a suit of clothes and came out, Zhong Ye and the others realized that this guy actually looked good.

He is about the same height as Lily, with wet long golden hair hanging down his shoulders, delicate skin, soft facial features, and a feminine look, and he is wearing a set of loose clothes that don't fit well. When I cry, I really see Feeling pitiful.

"It looks like a nobleman." Lily leaned close to Zhong Ye's ear and said.

Zhong Ye nodded in agreement. Even if he wasn't an aristocrat, the drowning man probably lived a pampered life in the past, otherwise his skin would not be so delicate and his hair so beautifully maintained.

——Even Lily, after traveling with him, her skin couldn't help but become rough.

The man who fell into the water cried for 2 minutes. Lilian guessed that he should have cried enough, so she asked, "Who are you? What's your name? Why did you fall into the water?"

Sobbing, the drowning man raised his sky blue eyes and replied in a low voice, "I, my name is Marcus, I was pushed into the water by..."

Seeing his soft and weak appearance, and hearing the name 'Marcus', Lily couldn't help but become a bit weird.

"Someone wants to kill you? Why? For the inheritance of property?" Zhong Ye didn't have the slightest intention of avoiding it, and asked straight to the point.

Marcus was silent for a moment, then nodded.

He hesitated, sniffed, and begged in a low voice: "I want to ask you, can you send me back? When I get home, I am willing to give you a lot of money."

Hearing this, Lili twitched her mouth and looked at Zhong Ye.

"Of course we can help you. Since I have brought you up, there is no reason to leave you here." Zhong Ye didn't say anything else, "Help clean up, and then we'll set off. Remember to give directions on the way."

Marcus obediently agreed, turned around and followed Zhong Ye's pace, wanting to help, but he soon discovered that he seemed to be unable to do anything except help.

Whether it was moving the stove back to the car, or tidying up the shed, with him by his side, things that could have been easily solved were messed up.

"Stand here, don't move!"

Lily glared at him, took off the burnt gloves angrily, and put on a new pair of gloves.

Marcus stood aside aggrievedly, watching Zhong Ye and the three of them clean up everything as quickly as possible, then looked down at his toes in frustration.

"Get in the car, you sit in the car."

After tidying up all the movements, Zhong Ye patted Marcus on the shoulder when he passed by, bringing him back to his senses.

When Marcus got into the carriage, Zhong Ye waved the reins again, and the two horses let out a feeble cry in response to him, and kicked their hoofs.

There was one more person in the carriage, which made the already small carriage even more crowded.

The things that were originally placed on the opposite chair had to be placed on the floor. This time, it became difficult for them to even move their feet.

Lilian pulled out the map of the Rhine Kingdom and looked at Marcus who was sitting opposite, "Where is your home?"

"...Schwenningen." Marcus answered in a low voice with his head lowered.

Lily and Lilian's eyes fell on the map, and then fell silent.

Schwenningen was the last town on their journey, and the source of the Neckar River was near this town.

If there is no trace left by the group of human traffickers in Schwenningen, they may have to change their thinking and think about whether the group of human traffickers really used boats to transport people.

(End of this chapter)