Yangming Palace.
Young Li Yiqing held a bloody dagger in his hand and sneered with crazy eyes: "Did I wrong you?"
"Sir, please forgive me." The slave Lao Xu covered his bleeding wrist, trembling without daring to raise his head: "I really didn't mean it, I really didn't expect that the flower pot would break."
"Old Xu, I know you have been taking good care of these potted plants, but do you know that once the orchids are broken, they will never bloom again."
Li Yiqing squatted down, and the dagger slid down to Lao Xu's neck. With a pop, the dagger pierced Lao Xu. He said coldly: "It will never be possible."
"Haha, so you should be careful." He grinned excitedly. Lao Xu grabbed Li Yiqing's hand tremblingly. He laughed and said: "Why did you grab my hand? You should have covered the wound. Yes, that’s right there.”
He stood up and watched Lao Xu fall with cold eyes. He turned to glare at the maid lying on the ground beside him. The maid wiped away the blood on the ground tremblingly, fearful but not daring to make any sound.
"Young Master, the youngest is Hou Gan, can I come in?"
"Come in."
"This is the new guard from Yangming Palace," Hou Gan bowed his head and saluted, then pointed to the person behind him, "hurry and salute the Young Master."
Xiao Zhe stepped forward, squatted down, and covered Old Xu's moaning mouth. With a click, Old Xu died completely and silently.
"You are really good at using your sword, but this kind of dagger can easily hurt your hands." He slowly raised his head and handed over a short dagger with both hands, "Please use this in the future."
Li Yiqing was a little stunned. This man was not as afraid of him as the previous guard. He was silent for a while, then picked up the dagger and asked, "What's your name?"
"Xiao Zhe, my name is Xiao Zhe." Li Yiqing pulled out the dagger and looked at it. The length of the dagger was indeed very handy. "Hou Gan, go prepare a room for him."
"I obey, Young Master." After Hou Gan said this, he picked up Lao Xu and walked out.
That night.
"Ahhh!"
Xiao Zhe heard the young leader's shout and rushed into his dormitory, breaking out in a cold sweat. Could it be an assassination?
Seeing the young leader sitting up and curling up with his back to him, Xiao Zhe said in a panic: "Are you okay?"
"go out."
"Young Master" Xiao Zhe stepped forward. The Young Master held a dagger in his hand, swung it out, and roared: "Get out!"
The dagger stabbed quickly, Xiao Zhe quickly sidestepped and the dagger stuck directly into the wall.
Xiao Zhe stared blankly at the dagger he gave him on the wall. Before he could figure out what happened, the young leader threw everything on the table at him.
For a moment, he was a little angry. Although he had heard that this kid was not normal before he came, he didn't expect that he was really a lunatic.
After finally staying up until the afternoon, Xiao Zhe sat slumped in the backyard and breathed heavily. He had never felt that the day was so long.
First, when he saw the lunch prepared by the cook, he knocked it over, poured the soup on the maid's face, and even prepared to use a knife.
If she hadn't stopped him, the maid would have ended up like the old man she saw yesterday.
But the strange thing is not only the crazy young leader, but also the attitude of everyone else is extremely indifferent.
Seeing the cook cleaning up the spilled lunch, Xiao Zhe originally planned to step forward to help, but was scolded by the cook: "You are so clumsy, how can you help? You really have no vision. If you really have nothing to do, just go Let’s mow the weeds in the backyard.”
The same goes for the housekeeper named Hou Qian, who just said lightly: "You will adapt to this place later."
Xiao Zhe sighed, he couldn't get used to it, he just wanted to complete the mission and go back as soon as possible.
"Are you okay?" Lao Li, the servant, walked over slowly.
"Ah, I'm fine."
Lao Li chuckled and squatted next to him, "There is no need to hide it. Everyone was scared when they came here for the first time."
"I wasn't scared, I just felt a little surprised."
"That's because the young leader is like this because he has a nightmare." Old Li sighed, "After the young leader has a nightmare, he will become upset and angry, so he will hand over the daily greetings to his personal guard. Take responsibility."
Thinking of the dagger that was shot at him last night, if he hadn't been a martial artist, he would have been killed long ago.
"My name is Xiao Zhe." He looked at the first person who took the initiative to talk to him after arriving at Yangming Palace.
"Just call me Lao Li."
Xiao Zhe asked doubtfully: "I see there were quite a lot of people here yesterday, why are there not a few left today?"
"Young Master doesn't like too many people inside, so we only come when necessary."
He still felt a little strange. Counting the old man who was taken away yesterday and himself, there were only six people here.
"Yangming Palace is so big. There are twelve wing rooms alone, but there are so few people. This is the place where the Young Master lives. Isn't it too deserted?"
Lao Li was silent for a moment, "There were many people there, but they were all like Lao Xu..."
"They are all dead." Xiao Zhe understood immediately and sighed. This young leader was far more troublesome than he expected. He had better not act rashly and observe for a while before talking.
Just wait for the secret order to come down before taking action. While thinking about it, Xiao Zhe was poked in the back.
"Who?" Xiao Zhe yelled angrily. Wufu was most afraid of someone appearing quietly behind him, so he subconsciously drew out his dagger and swung it at the person.
Seeing the sleepy young leader rubbing his eyes, he was suddenly startled.
The young leader looked like he had not woken up, "Take me outside, I don't want to sleep anymore."
"Get ready." Before Xiao Zhe could react, the young leader yawned and left.
Xiao Zhe stared blankly at the young leader's leaving figure, cold sweat still lingering on his forehead. Why couldn't he feel his approach just now? Is it a coincidence?
…
Shuifeng Market is as lively as ever.
A man tossed a coin in front of the stall, and with a snap, the coin fell into his hand, "Come on, come on, buy it and leave it, is it heads or tails?"
The young leader said coldly: "Yes."
"The young master chose heads, right?" The man spread his palms and smiled, "Oh, what a pity, it was tails! Then the money belongs to me."
The young leader had no expression on his face and said coldly: "Kill him."
Xiao Zhe leaned close to his ear and whispered: "Young Master, let's go back. There are many people watching here. If you kill someone because you lost, you are just venting your anger."
"I didn't lose, he just used some tricks." The young leader stared at the swaying man in front of him, "Look, this guy is still taunting us, looking like he needs a beating."
Xiao Zhe didn't have the nerve to look at him either. This guy was so tall and swaying his hips that he really deserved a beating.
Although I don't know how the young leader saw it, the man was looking at him head-on when he grabbed the copper coin. This kind of trickery made Xiao Zhe very angry.
This method of robbing customers is not uncommon.
"Having said that, he is just a scoundrel who relies on these little tricks to survive. As the saying goes, if a dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, he will have a dispute with this kind of servant at will, but it may cost our own lives."
"Scoundrel? You guys!" The man was stunned when he heard Xiao Zhe's words.
The young leader sighed: "I understand."
Xiao Zhe looked happy, it seemed that he had been convinced.
The next moment, the young leader said with a look of disgust: "Kill him."
Not listening at all, Xiao Zhe said helplessly: "I can't do that. I am your guard, not a killer."
"Guard?" The young leader raised his lips, picked up the torch on the side, threw it directly at the stall along the road, and laughed loudly: "The fire is really strong!"
"on fire!"
"Catch that kid!"
Xiao Zhe was stunned. He had heard that the young leader was a rogue bastard before, but now it seems that this guy is not a rogue, he is simply a lunatic!
A bald man holding a machete roared angrily: "How did this kid's parents teach him? He is so uneducated! They let him run wild in the market!"
He pointed at the young leader and said angrily: "Call your parents here, I want to see what kind of parents would raise such a little bastard!"
The young leader, who was still holding a fire stick in his hand, laughed and said, "I don't have a mother."
Seeing his appearance, the bald man was a little stunned, and then he calmed down and said, "You brat, no wonder you are so uneducated!"
The young leader still kept an expression of looking at a fool and sneered, "Well, you fool."
"You will definitely die in my hands today!" The man was extremely angry. This kid's attitude was really irritating.
He raised his machete and said angrily: "Because of you, you brat, all my business today was in vain. I want you to pay the price!"
Judging from the way this boy dressed, he must be a kid from a rich family. The bald man didn't dare to do anything serious, so he just planned to scare him away.
The young leader suddenly turned to look at Xiao Zhe, grinned, and took the initiative to lean under the knife and stretch out his neck.
Xiao Zhe gritted his teeth, this guy was forcing him to take action!
"Qiang!"
The machete was about to fall, and a dagger knocked away the bald man's machete. Xiao Zhe rushed forward, and all the people nearby with knives who rushed towards him were killed by him in an instant.
Fire burned down the Shuifeng Market. When the young leader saw a bunch of people lying on the ground, he laughed and said happily: "You are indeed my guard!"
Xiao Zhe put away the dagger, angry and helpless: "What on earth are you doing? If you were not careful just now, you might die!"
"Isn't he alive?" The young leader picked up the machete on the ground and walked up to the man who first cheated. With the tip of the knife facing him, he said coldly: "Now I ask you a question. If you answer it correctly, I will I’ll let you live, otherwise you’ll die, how about that, it’s exciting, right?”
