Yijuan cloud

Chapter 71 Don't you want me anymore?

This time, he did not hide himself in his night clothes, his face was exposed to the sun openly, and he pursed his lips tightly to meet my gaze.

He only glanced at me lightly, ignoring my shock at all. He bent down and dragged the coachman's body and threw it into the carriage. Then he stabbed the horse's butt with a sword. The horse neighed in pain, raised its hooves and ran wildly towards the grassland. .

He lowered his eyes, took the handkerchief, wiped the sword clean, put it into the scabbard, then walked towards me step by step, ignoring my questioning gaze, and said, "Miss, let's go, no one will know where you have been? "

"Where to go? Will I hide with you for the rest of my life?"

There was a fire building in my chest, but I didn't want to scold him.

In the past, when he made mistakes, I would scold him with a straight face, but he would always beg for mercy with a smile.

Now, I don’t know whether it’s because I’ve lost my temper, I’m no longer the eldest lady, I don’t have the temper of a young lady anymore, or why, I didn’t even want to raise my voice and said this sentence coldly.

His indifferent pupils finally had emotions, and he looked at me with hurt eyes.

At this moment, the excitement in my memory came back immediately, and tears burst into my eyes.

While crying, I raised my hand to hit him.

I haven't hit him yet.In the past, I always heard him say that he was beaten by his parents.

Once, after he was beaten a little more severely, he told me that he wanted to run away from home.

At that time, he was a head shorter than me, and he followed me like a little tail all day long.

I asked him where he was going when he left home.

He thought seriously for a long time and said that he wanted to go to the county and live there so that his parents could not find him.

I listened and laughed at him for several days.

I told him that the county town was only a few miles away from our home, and there were acquaintances everywhere. Even his father would go there every now and then. How could he be called running away from home?
He didn't even know that there was Yangzhou City outside Baoying County, and there was a big city outside Jiangnan. Traveling thousands of miles away from all corners of the country would be called running away from home and not being found!
He thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "Isn't that a homeless man? How can I go home? I won't go that far."

Xing'er, who was once young and innocent, is now much taller than me.

When I hit him, he stood motionless with his eyes downcast and expressionless.

I didn't know how many times I beat him, and I scolded him through gritted teeth: "Why are you so cruel? You kill people...you actually kill people! Why do you kill people? You evil-hearted bastard, you can't do anything, and you are so unconscionable. A living!"

"Killers also rely on their skills to make a living. It's not us who kill people, but the people who hire us behind the scenes." Xing'er just raised his hand and grabbed my arm. He looked at me with red eyes and said very calmly: "I don't have to go on missions anymore, so I can throw away my sword. Let's use the money I saved to find a peaceful place, buy a house, and build a swing frame according to your old yard layout. Lots of flowers and we live like before.”

I also calmed down and suddenly realized that although he seemed to have matured, in fact he had not changed at all. He was still the same Xing'er who thought about everything simply.

"It's right for you to return to the right path, but I won't use the money you earned. I can't live with the money exchanged for the lives of strangers. I won't go with you. When I find your parents, Just ask my mother to return their bond of sale and give them their freedom. I won’t care how you tell them and how you spent your days wandering outside... I won’t care about it from now on, so you can take care of yourself."

"Don't you want me anymore?" Xing'er bit her lip, her eyes filled with tears.

I felt sad in my heart, remembering that my mother told Aunt Zhao that Xing'er and I were inseparable from each other every day, and we were as good as sisters, and I couldn't help but shed tears again.

I choked in a low voice and said, "Xing'er, why do you want to be a killer? Is it for money?"

He shook his head and said: "It wasn't true at the beginning. I told you before, if it weren't for Sister Meng, I would have died long ago. She saved me... There was one thing I didn't say. When my injury was about to heal, , the four of us didn’t have a penny on us, it had been raining for several days, and there was no place to beg for food. We were lying in the ruined temple, too hungry to move. I had a high fever again, and Sister Meng held me in her arms. , kept feeding me water, and then two men on their way came in from outside. They brought food and medicinal materials. Sister Meng went to them to ask for it. The two of them asked Sister Meng to accompany them. Me and Meng Cai, Xiao Wu didn't let her go. She said it would be fine if she didn't have anything to eat, and Xing'er's illness couldn't be delayed..."

"So, she followed the two men and went behind the Buddha statue. I heard Sister Meng calling and couldn't stand it anymore. I asked Xiao Wu and the others to go find her. I was so burned that I was confused. After a while, I couldn't stand it anymore. I made no sound, and then I saw Xiao Wu coming back, his hands were full of blood..."

"At that time, those two people were not dead yet. When Xiao Wu and the others ate the cakes and made medicine for me, the two people walked out from behind the Buddha statue with blood on their heads and bodies. Sister Meng, who was huddled in the corner, said, Xiao Wu Wu, Cai'er, kill them, kill...them! I watched helplessly as Sister Meng, Xiao Wu, and Cai'er rushed over and beat the two men to death with wooden sticks..."

That was the first time Xing'er and the others killed someone, and they got dozens of taels of silver, a pack of medicinal materials, and some dry food.

There are many refugees outside, and the people are in dire straits. Rich families and officials have guards to protect them. If they do anything unusual, they will be arrested as thieves.

The four of them, after killing the two men who were rushing to take shelter from the rain, thought of a way to make a living. Meng Nier lured the lecherous people there, and they either robbed or killed them, and their lives soon became rich.

Meng Nier has been learning kung fu from her father since she was a child and knows some martial arts moves. She wants Xing'er and the others to follow suit and forces them to practice kung fu every day.

In the fighting again and again, their skills increased greatly, and their moves were all deadly. Gradually they became famous in the world, and some people paid huge sums of money to appoint people to kill them.

"After killing those two men, the four of us became brothers and sisters in front of the statue of Grandpa Guan. At that time, I was still thinking about going home and finding you, the eldest lady, but I couldn't find you no matter how hard I looked. I have searched for you countless times in Yangzhou City, but I just don’t know where you went. I thought I would never see you again, so I followed Sister Meng wholeheartedly. Later, I found you at Cao’s house, but I couldn’t leave Sister Meng and the others. We were there during the day I made quick money at night by performing arts, and I made a lot of money. I have never seen so much gold and silver... I am not afraid of killing people anymore. There are many people, and they should kill them too..."

He frowned and recalled the past, with a wry smile on his lips, sighed, and continued: "And Sister Meng's biggest wish is to avenge her parents. Her parents were executed as bandits by a county magistrate in Jiangxi. , a while ago, the four of us went to Jiangxi, killed the county magistrate, and avenged Sister Meng and Cai'er's parents. Sister Meng said that if I do one last mission, I can go to the place I want to go. day."

"It must be to assassinate Prince Yi." I said slowly, "How long have you been secretly observing? Have you seen me in the palace a long time ago? Since you want to hide it from me, saying that you are making money by acting as escorts for others, why did you do it in front of me? Do you take action when you follow Prince Yi? Aren't you afraid that I will find out? And your sister Meng, was she the one who wanted to kill me that day? If she didn't deal with Prince Yi quickly and complete the task, why did she turn around and come to kill me? She hates it Me?"

"No, it's not!" Xing'er hugged my arm and shook it as before, explaining anxiously, "Sister Meng doesn't know you at all. She is just afraid that you will run away and call someone. She thinks you are just a member of King Yi. , I don’t even know who you are! That day, we learned that King Yi was out of the city, and we had already laid an ambush. I didn’t expect that you would come later. I watched you riding horses together, riding farther and farther away. There was no one else around. This was a rare opportunity. , so I took action..."

(End of this chapter)