Xie Lingjiang dressed in red clothes and walked on the waterside promenade to Yilanxuan.
At regular intervals along the corridor, maids from the Su family would move stools in pairs and stand on tiptoe to light the corridor lamps.
If you look down from a high place, in the wealthy mansion shrouded in the dark blue night of the evening, a long row of corridor lights lights up one after another, like a long dragon with its back light.
Along the way, maids from the Su Mansion who were busy lighting lamps greeted her from time to time. Xie Lingjiang nodded softly and smiled elegantly at them, although he didn't say much today.
After the girl's back was gone, the maids of the Su Mansion became more affectionate and fond of this noble daughter of the Xie family who was temporarily living in the mansion. They only thought that it would be a great blessing for any son of the family to marry Miss Xie.
At a certain moment, the corridor was deserted. Xie Lingjiang stopped silently and looked at the sky from the railing.
Her smile gradually faded away, and her pretty face stared blankly at the night sky.
When she was a child, her father once pointed to the eastern sky and told her that the morning star, also called Taibai, is the brightest star in the sky before dawn. It is the light in the darkness, guiding the lost people and bringing hope for progress...
Once upon a time, her father's back was her morning star.
Nowadays, the owner of a skirt knife not far away who always affects her heart is her morning star.
"I always believe that there is such a light... that has always existed." Xie Lingjiang patted the railing gently and murmured with his red lips.
In fact, she didn't want to get married before she met him.
Until I met him...
On the corridor filled with insects, a woman bowed her head shyly and muttered to herself:
"Could it be that Senior Brother is like me before, never marrying, and devoted himself to the Tao... Isn't this like this... It's not impossible..."
If that's the case.
He really wants to be an elm-brained person for the rest of his life.
Just like now, there is nothing wrong with following the elder brother all the time, being the woman closest to him, and his partner in career and life. Isn't this also a lifelong companionship in disguise?
Xie Ling Jiang suddenly smiled.
The entire corridor hung with bright lanterns seemed to be a little brighter.
The lotus steps were light and she turned around quickly.
Taoist couple, Taoist couple, Taoist companions, isn't this a kind of fraternity?
…
Ouyang Rong did not tell his junior sister about his speculation that there might be a swordsman killer in Beitian Nursing Home in the morning.
What happened has already happened, and telling her again is just a feeling of guilt and fear on the part of Junior Sister Tu Zeng.
It might even make the junior sister feel that she owes him.
Ouyang Rong chose to remain silent.
Now he watched his junior sister enter the Su Mansion, but did not leave immediately. Instead, he gave Liu Ashan a few instructions and sent him and Liu Lang to Donglin Temple to investigate.
After arranging these finishing touches, Ouyang Rong returned to Meiluyuan.
In fact, Ouyang Rong had some guesses as to why the possible killer in Beitian Nursing Home did not take action this morning.
It may be related to the unknown blessing not long ago. There has been no movement before. Now it seems that it may be fulfilled here, allowing him to escape.
But what about the specific process?
Ouyang Rong was not a person accustomed to being muddle-headed and giving up, so he sent Liulang and the others to continue the follow-up investigation.
However, his top priority right now is the county-wide public trial tomorrow.
Ouyang Rong frowned all the way back to Meiluyuan, fetched a bucket of well water in the yard, washed his face briefly, and prepared to go back to the house to rest.
Suddenly, the aroma of rice filled my nose.
Ouyang Rong stopped, turned around, and walked into the dining hall next to him.
"master!"
Ah Qing, together with several old ladies who stayed in Meiluyuan, were serving food to the table. The former saw Ouyang Rong walking in, his eyes brightened, and he called out.
After Zhen and Wei Lai left, Ah Qing and her brother and mother stayed in Meiluyuan these days. Ouyang Rong was busy with her daily life at home these two days.
It's just that Ouyang Rong, who was self-reliant, did not let the little girl have to do some of the work that Wei Lai did as a personal maid.
At the dining table, Ah Qing put down a bowl of spicy soup that Ouyang Rong loved to eat. He wiped his reddish fingers on both sides of the apron around his waist and said happily:
"I just wanted to call you to dinner, but the master came."
Ouyang Rong smiled at her, poked his head forward, and saw that although the number on the table was small but rich, they were all his favorite dishes.
He quickly pulled out his stool and sat down, rubbed his chopsticks with his hands, and started to work immediately.
It seemed that he had been injected with chicken blood, and there was no sign of the slumped shoulders and tiredness that had just come home after a long day outside.
Sure enough, working is the real business, and it can stimulate the unlimited potential of those who work.
Ah Qing smiled slightly and handed over a bowl of white rice.
The tip of Ouyang Rong's nose was itchy from the steaming steam of the white rice. He scratched it with his index finger, took a bite, and muttered:
"Thank you for your hard work, Qing."
"It's not hard."
Ah Qing shook his head:
"The hard work is also due to the hard work of the cook in the back kitchen. She cooks all the dishes. She originally asked for leave to go home today, but just in the evening she hurriedly returned to cook for the master..."
Ouyang Rong was picking up vegetables and grilling rice, and he nodded and said casually:
"It's really hard work. Ah Qing will take care of me. I won't be mistreated with monthly money or anything else... I'm usually busy. If the cook or other Meiluyuan maids have any difficulties, they can go to Ah Shan."
Ouyang Rong had a good impression of the cook who cooked from Yunshui Pavilion. After Zhen and Wei Lai left, this was the only thing that gave him a taste of home in the empty Meilu Garden.
In response to the instructions from the young county magistrate who took time out to eat while busy, Ah Qing nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
She actually had a good impression of the pitiful and frail little cook in the kitchen. The master was busy and couldn't take care of the chores in Meiluyuan, so she naturally helped him as much as she could.
"By the way, what's her name?"
Putting down the empty bowl, Ouyang Rong asked casually before leaving with a full stomach.
Ah Qing was stunned and replied: "Everyone calls her Xiu Niang."
"Xiu Niang? Which show?"
Ah Qing thought: "It should be embroidery."
"Embroiderer?"
Ouyang Rong nodded.
In this era, many women are called so-and-so mother.
Some are calculated based on family rank, and some are calculated based on a certain character in the nickname.
The name cook is quite common.
…
Five hours ago.
Bei Tian Alms Home.
The back of a certain young county magistrate just disappeared at the door.
The morning sun fell on the old, weak, sick and disabled patients who were moving freely on the lawn of the inner courtyard.
Until the moonlight bloomed, even covering up the sunlight during the day.
This is like a scene where the bright moon suddenly appears.
First it lasted for a short moment.
Half a breath, or less.
Then after a moment of pause, it appeared twice more in succession, each time lasting less than a breath.
After the last moonlight shone across the hospital.
The moonlight completely disappeared without a trace.
It was as if he had never appeared before, leaving only the patients in the inner courtyard, except for the blind man, looking around with blank faces.
A deserted corner in the inner courtyard.
There are two figures, one standing and one kneeling.
The atmosphere was eerily quiet.
Not far away, there was a faint sound of the slapstick of a pair of childhood sweethearts playing bamboo horse riding.
If you look carefully, you can find that the thin bamboo pole used as a bamboo horse has returned to the hands of the little boy with missing arms and the little girl who is deaf and mute.
The two children continued to play happily, but what they didn't notice was that the bamboo horse was a little short.
It seemed that it had been cut off by something sharp, the fracture was slanted, like a sharp spear, and the sharp edge was faintly stained with blood.
In the corner of the inner courtyard where no one visits.
There was a rather strange scene.
Standing in the sun was a slender mute woman with a blue ribbon covering her eyes.
She borrowed the bamboo horse and returned it as promised within ten breaths. She was raising her hand to slowly untie the blue ribbon that covered her eyes.
Opposite the slender mute woman, in the dark shadow blocked by the trees, knelt a one-armed young man.
The one-armed young man stood on the ground with one hand and seemed to be looking down at something.
The right sleeve is broken off.
The only remaining limb of his disabled right arm, which looked like a dead tree, was completely broken.
The stumps lay bloody on the ground in front of him.
Ajie lowered her head and was stunned.
A long sword was thrust diagonally into the ground between him and the slender mute woman.
Under the sunlight approaching noon, the sharp sword between the grass and the hilt still had dazzling moonlight flowing quietly like flowing water.
The sword named "Yue Niang" was not damaged at all. It seemed that the incident where it was lost to a wooden bamboo pole not long ago did not exist, or... it had nothing to do with it.
Just now, the two of them had a total of three swords.
Three moonlights filling the courtyard correspond to three sword fights.
Except for the first sword that blinded her by moonlight for the first time, and the last two swords, the slender mute girl was blindfolded with a ribbon.
Ajie's sword is very fast.
Recognized as fast.
However, he seemed to have met a girl who was faster than him.
Ajie originally thought that he who fell from the sixth level to the seventh level would be considered an invincible opponent in the same situation.
However, unfortunately, I met a being who was truly invincible in the same situation.
Moreover, the latter is truly unique in some aspects of swords.
Regarding this point, Ajie had been dubious before.
Until we met today.
Yes, he knew her, or at least heard about her.
"Why don't you kill me."
Ajie, who was looking down at the broken arm, suddenly asked when he noticed that the slender mute woman was removing the blindfold ribbon and seemed to be preparing to leave.
The slender mute woman said nothing.
Ajie raised her head and asked with bloodshot eyes: "Too lazy to take action?"
The slender mute woman paused and glanced at the young man with a broken arm who was gradually trembling and in a bad state.
She was quiet for a while and shook her head.
Ajie's eyes were full of confusion, "Why is that..."
Halfway through his words, he paused and seemed to notice that the slender mute woman was looking in the direction where a young county magistrate had left before. He realized something and said in a daze:
"Because I just hesitated about him?"
The slender mute woman nodded.
Ajie was suddenly speechless.
The slender mute woman pointed one finger in the direction Ouyang Rong left, then pointed at her own heart, then pointed upward at the sun, and waved her other hand vigorously towards Ajie.
It seems to be telling something very important.
"ah."
The slender mute woman has bright eyes and is extremely sincere.
Even if the opponent is a defeated general who was defeated by her three swords.
"Please don't hurt him... Also, you are mute..."
Ajie was a little shocked. She looked at the innocent-hearted mute girl in front of her in silence for a long time.
His eyes dimmed as he saved his life thanks to a certain young county magistrate.
Then, as if he remembered something, the young man couldn't help but blurt out and asked:
"Who is he to you?"
After a pause, he asked again:
"Do your senior sisters and others know about this?"
The slender mute woman slowly lowered her head and did not answer.
At this time, she seemed to be vaguely aware of the movement of a certain young county magistrate outside the inner courtyard. She suddenly raised her head and looked up. The scene was like a plum blossom deer timidly drinking water by the lake suddenly raising its head and pricking its ears.
Immediately, the slender mute woman ignored the one-armed young man and walked away.
The mute woman did not take away the strange sword that was stuck diagonally on the grass between the two of them.
I don’t know if it’s because I don’t care or what.
K.
She is different from her elder sister.
Ajie opened her mouth slightly and knelt down blankly.
The one-armed swordsman stared blankly at the sword that was quietly inserted into the ground in front of him, and murmured:
"The sweet-scented osmanthus... the sweet-scented osmanthus stuffed... the sweet-scented osmanthus stuffed with sweet-scented osmanthus..."
He suddenly wanted to go home.
…
In fact, when Ouyang Rong went out in the morning, the slender mute girl followed him silently.
Including him going to Xie Lingjiang next door.
Then, as if on a date, the latter, who was dressed as a lady in a noble pink skirt today, went up the mountain to Donglin Temple together.
The slender mute woman followed far behind, like a kite, sometimes far away from Ouyang Rong, sometimes close.
The slim and mute girl was afraid to look directly at the noble Xie girl.
Ashamed of oneself.
However, seeing that he was accompanied by someone to take care of him, just like the silver-haired maid who left a few days ago, the slender mute girl's steps became a little brisk again.
She felt that as long as she could watch him safe and sound from a distance, that would be enough.
However, the slender mute woman still overestimated herself.
When he saw Ouyang Rong accepting Xie Lingjiang's skirt knife at Donglin Temple, he went to the main hall with the latter to ask for lots and burn incense.
Outside the main hall, in the bustling square where pilgrims came and went, the slender mute woman suddenly stopped.
The crowds of people burning incense and worshiping Buddha knocked her around and made her retreat frequently.
It's like a lone boat swaying in front of the rapids very close to the waterfall, and is about to fall into the cliff below the waterfall.
However, the open-air Buddha statue she passed by just now and couldn't help but kneel down to worship seemed to have a spiritual appearance.
Not long after entering the main hall, the familiar man's figure hurried out.
The slender mute girl was delighted at first, but she quickly suppressed her changing mood and continued to follow him closely.
But this time, the noble lady of the Xie family was not here, and she and him were the only ones left.
The slender mute girl's mood is like a flowing cloud, sometimes sunny and sometimes cloudy.
She didn't gloat.
She only has a pure and innocent heart that is praised and envied by her senior sisters.
Joys and sorrows are natural, without deceiving oneself.
Later, the slender mute woman who followed Ouyang Rong into the Beitian Nursing Home naturally discovered the assassin with a broken arm lurking inside.
So there was a fight with Ajie in the inner courtyard...
After thinking of some kind thoughts, he cut off his remaining arm and let his horse go.
The slender mute woman quickly went to look for Ouyang Rong.
She watched him climb up and down in and out of the Dry Well Underground Palace as if nostalgic.
Watching him leave the Beitian Nursing Home with ease.
At the same time, he also watched him suddenly draw his sword in the bamboo forest pavilion and kill two soldiers.
Ouyang Rong and Liu Qikeng were fighting in the pit. The slender mute girl witnessed the whole thing, her whole body tense and her long eyelashes trembling.
At a certain moment of stalemate, she hurriedly cast her eyes at the bald little novice monk sleeping beside the pit, and took action in a roundabout way.
The slender mute woman managed to suppress herself and did not show up.
After that, he accompanied Ouyang Rong all the way down the mountain, watching him try his best to hurry, watching him skillfully arrive at Di Gongzha's rescue, watching him being supported by everyone and returning to Dragon City...
The slender mute woman did not follow him any further.
Just like countless evenings in the past, I silently took a step ahead of him and returned to Meiluyuan.
She wants to cook for Tanlang.
They all call her Xiu Niang, the mute girl Xiu Niang.
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Chen Mobai, a senior high school student from the Immortal Sect, is studying hard to prepare to pass the Grand Academy. Originally, his biggest dream in life was to succeed in building a foundation, until he could travel to another world of cultivating immortals. Then, his dream changed...
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