Chapter 389
Xiao Song bathed on Li Dejian's boat. It took a while before someone found a set of clothes that had not been worn before, not the popular round-collared robe of the time, but one with a crossed collar and wide sleeves.
Ran Yan didn't like the feeling of being on water, so she walked along the embankment instead. Originally, upon encountering a corpse, Ran Yan had wanted to get a closer look, and, since she hadn't examined a body in a long time, she unconsciously drew near.
She could smell the stench of decay from more than a dozen yards away when Ge Lan spoke up to stop Ran Yan, "Lady, you can't get any closer, I'm afraid it might be bad for the child."
Ran Yan stopped in her tracks and caressed her already bulging belly but didn't get any closer. She had not specifically studied whether the fetal child could be affected by the miasma from the corpse, but surely the gases from decay were not good.
