Becoming the Villain's Discarded Wife
Chapter 544

Chapter 544: 544

When Shen Wenchen returned with his men, he only saw his wife standing on the city wall, while no more than two meters from her, a monster was determinedly climbing upwards.

The flesh on the monster’s leg was burnt black, revealing stark white bones underneath, and the clothes on its body were reduced to a few strips of fabric. The creature appeared like a rotting corpse that had just crawled out from a coffin.

Nanzhi was thrusting a long spear down at its head.

Unfortunately, the monster’s limbs were stiff, but it had a surprisingly nimble head.

Although it was crawling very slowly now, if it wasn’t dealt a deadly blow soon, it would ultimately climb up to the city wall.

This was extremely dangerous.

The soldiers at her side also aimed their bows and arrows at it.

Despite allowing the flames to scorch its body, the monster was still persistently climbing upwards and showed no intentions of retreating.

"General, the Madame is up there too!"

An underling following Shen Wenchen spotted Nanzhi on the city wall and instantly wore a look of surprise.

Shen Wenchen gave him a glance, did not say anything, but his steps gained more urgency.

Zhui Yue understood his master’s intentions and sped up.

When they were only about fifty meters apart, Shen Wenchen finally extended his hand to an individual on the side to get a bow and arrow.

The subordinate respectfully handed over the bow and arrow, then motioned to his comrades on both sides to scatter and lock their aim on the target.

Nanzhi’s heart only sank back into its place when she saw Shen Wenchen.

Upon recognising their actions, she immediately asked the people at her side to crouch down to avoid accidental harm.

Seeing the people that were preventing it suddenly disappear, the vertical pupils of the monster filled with excitement, and it used all its strength to leap upwards.

Looking down at the people hiding below and the neatly arranged houses in the city, the eyes of the monster were filled with greed.

It was about to succeed!

Unexpectedly, before it could even enjoy a few seconds of elation, an arrow came from afar and directly entered the back of its head.

The excitement on its face instantly froze, and then a torrent of twenty arrows shot towards it, turning it into a sieve.

The corpse heavily fell, landing right in front of Nanzhi.

Looking at the bloody and mangled face, Nanzhi’s face lost some of its color.

She felt a strong urge to vomit.

Just when she wanted to take a deep breath, the disgusting smell rushed into her mouth.

As expected, she began retching the next second.

Terribly nauseous.

Others with a weak stomach were also clutching the wall and retching.

This was truly, terribly nauseous.

Just as Shen Wenchen and his team entered the city gate, the raging fire spread to this side.

Looking at the blazing fire outside the city wall.

Shen Wenchen pulled Nanzhi into his arms.

"Why did you come out?"

The man’s body inevitably carried the scent of the smoke and fire.

Nanzhi slightly pushed him away with some disgust.

"Did we not agree? If you are going to use fire, you must inform me."

Nanzhi wore a questioning look on her face.

Being stared at like this, Shen Wenchen awkwardly scratched his head, just about to pacify her when he saw several of his subordinates sneakily peeping at them from the side.

"What are you looking at? Aren’t you going to clean up and go straight to the Medical Hall to have a look at your injuries? Do you not value your lives?"

Being scolded by Shen Wenchen, those men chuckled, helping each other off the city wall.

Only the two of them were left, snuggling and staring at the fire outside the city.

"Nannan, we’ve won yet again."

Shen Wenchen, fearing that Nanzhi might catch a chill, gently held her hand in his.

What they saw was a sea of fire.

Layers of heatwaves rushed towards them with the wind.

The stinking rotting trees finally disappeared from sight.

"Yes, we have won once again."

Nanzhi nodded her head, her eyes looking into the distance.

She dared not imagine if she had not brought her men here today, or if it hadn’t been for Zhiyu and Yuanbao’s slingshot.

Would she still be alive and standing here?

If they had come a moment later.

Those monsters would have entered Yan City, causing untold havoc.

Thankfully, that didn’t happen.

They survived once again.

Nanzhi was lectured repeatedly by the older family members because she sneaked out.

As a result, her confinement period after giving birth was extended to fifty days.

Seeing his miserable wife, Shen Wenchen simply took the blame.

Then the couple was lectured again.

Now, there were no human-eating monsters outside the city, they just had to wait for the fire to die down, and the townspeople could look for new paths.

They were all hopeful that going south could fill their bellies.

The villagers from Datian Village and other villages arrived at the county office, creating an uproar.

The reason was none other than the fear that the massive fire outside would burn down their villages.

Whenever someone came to make trouble, they would be driven away by preaching from others.

One could rebuild a house, but if one lost their life, there would truly be nothing left.

At first, they wanted to create a big scene and force the officials to compensate with silver, making their way south to survive.

But after being preached to, no one came to make trouble again.

The fire raged on for five full days.

Not until a sudden light rain fell from the heavens did the fire slowly recede.

"It’s raining."

Nanzhi sat by the window, reaching out to catch the falling raindrops.

The fine raindrops fell through her fingers, not bringing cold, but an extremely soothing sensation.

"You mustn’t play with water, otherwise your fifty days might extend to sixty."

Shen Wenchen carried Shengsheng, taking one slow step after another toward Nanzhi.

Nanzhi ignored him and continued to catch raindrops.

"Are you in your rebellious phase again?"

Shen Wenchen’s dark brows furrowed into a character for ’river’.

With one hand holding Shengsheng and the other pulling Nanzhi’s hand back in from the window,

"Yes, yes, yes, I’m in my rebellious phase."

Nanzhi rolled her eyes at him, took giggling Shengsheng from his hand, and hesitated before finally speaking.

"There’s something wrong with this rain."

"Really? Is there?"

Shen Wenchen didn’t believe it and stretched out his hand to catch the rain.

"This rain really is strange."

Seeing his shocked face, Nanzhi couldn’t help but become speechless.

"Mommy! Mommy!"

Before she could speak, a flurry of noisy sounds came from outside the door.

Among them, Shen Zhiyu’s voice was the loudest.

"What happened?"

As soon as Nanzhi finished speaking, a group of kids came rushing in, panting heavily.

"Mommy, look!"

Shen Zhiyu carefully stretched out his palm and in it was a handful of black soil with a tender green sprout.

It was the most common kind of grass sprout.

"Did you go messing around at Aunt Ming’s place?"

Nanzhi’s first reaction was that they had gone to Ming Qin’s to create havoc.

Unpolluted soil and a sprout with vitality.

At present, they could only be found at Ming Qin’s place.

"No, we saw it outside!"

Before Shen Zhiyu finished speaking, the other children’s expressions changed immediately.

They were doomed.

They got so caught up in running back that they forgot to agree on their story!

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