Who says sleep is not spiritual practice?

Chapter 184 I Accepted a Mission to Come to the Purple Mist Courtyard to Assassinate You

Inside the carriage.

The maid Xiaoman hugged Jiang Qingyu, weeping with joy.

On the side, Nvluo snorted coldly, and gave Jiang Qingyu a hard look, as if she didn't like a man touching Xiaoman's body very much.

But seeing Xiaoman's long-lost smile, she held back and didn't speak to stop her, but was so angry that she raised her sword and walked out of the carriage.

After getting out of the carriage, she immediately scanned the surroundings, as if she was looking for someone.

"Are you here?"

"Come out for a chat?"

Nvluo asked into the air as if she was talking to herself.

but……

After a long time, no one answered her.

So there was a hint of sullenness in her eyes...

and loss.

"Didn't you come?"

"Hmph, you really trust me so much! Aren't you afraid that I'll turn my back on you and kill the calf you protect?"

But this sentence, still no one responded.

After a long time.

"It seems that he is really not there!"

Nvluo finally sighed, gave up searching, opened the curtain and returned to the carriage.

But he saw Jiang Qingyu and the little girl sitting side by side, like a couple of gods and celestial beings.

"My lord, before I came to Beidi, I have ordered the dark guards to feed the koi in the pond on time every day, and the green plants and snow in the yard will also be pruned and cleared."

"However, I forbid them to enter the room, so several rooms have not been cleaned for a long time, and I am afraid they are already dusty."

"I originally thought about not meeting you first, returning to the courtyard a few days earlier to clean up, and sitting at the gate of the courtyard waiting for your return, but I couldn't help but want to see you."

Xiaoman was lying on Jiang Qingyu's shoulders, his hands that never trembled even if he held a dagger to assassinate Fate Star Realm, but now his fingers were intertwined, and he kept making small movements.

He seemed very nervous, afraid of something.

"My lord, there is one thing I have to confess to you—"

"I, I actually..."

"It's actually a killer from Huamanlou!"

Xiaoman didn't dare to look directly into his young master's eyes, bowed his head and said:
"A few months ago, the prince made a deal with Huamanlou, asking us to send a killer to pretend to be a maid to protect the young master in Ziyanyuan."

"I happened to be free at that time, and because of some personal reasons, I came to Ziyan Courtyard to be a maid."

"I didn't tell the young master before, it was the prince who refused to let me, but now the time for the transaction with the prince is over..."

Jiang Qingyu frowned slightly, interrupted:
"The deal is over? So..."

"You won't go back to Ziyan Courtyard to be my young master's little girl, will you?"

Xiao Man hurriedly shook his head, solemnly assured:
"No, son!"

"I'm not going!"

"I promised Sister Lichun that I will take good care of you for her!"

Jiang Qingyu was a little dissatisfied with this answer:
"Hmph, is it just because you promised her that you didn't leave?"

"..."

Xiaoman blinked, and said duplicity:

"Yes! Or what?"

"Does the young master think there are other reasons?"

Jiang Qingyu didn't say a word, but just picked up the blood-stained white robe and gently stroked it.

He still remembered that this was the clothes he wore when he led Duoji and the others to Black Rock City. At that time, he personally chopped down the two chief escorts of the Fate Star Realm, and blood was spattered all over his body because of it.

"Anyway, it can't be cleaned, why don't you throw it away?"

Xiaoman shook his head and said:
"This is the clothes that the young master wore when he killed someone for the first time, and it was also the clothes that the young master wore when he took Xiaoman and sister Lichun out for the first time. It is very meaningful!"

"..."

Jiang Qingyu really wanted to say that before that, she might not have killed fewer people than her, the Thousand Flowers Killer.

"That's right, son!"

Xiaoman picked up the candied haws placed on the pile of books, and introduced:
"This is the bunch of candied haws that the young master left for me when he left Ziyanyuan that day. I took it to Beidi, and every time I really missed the young master, I would bite one. The last one was kept for a long time, and I was reluctant to part with it." eat!"

"Young master, do you want to try it?"

Jiang Qingyu shook her head lightly, reached out and rubbed the little girl's head, and promised earnestly:
"After returning to Wangcheng, my son will buy all the candied haws on the West Street, so that our Xiaoman can eat as much at once! Then order someone to plant a few hawthorn trees in Ziyanyuan, and wait for the fruits to ripen next year After that, I can make candied haws for you myself."

Xiaoman lay on Jiang Qingyu's shoulder, poked his chin lightly on his shoulder, with a satisfied face:
"Ok!"

Seeing this scene, Nvluo standing near the door curtain was so angry that the hand holding Shuanghua sword kept shaking, and even the long sword made soft noises, as if it was about to break out of its scabbard!
"Little girl, don't be easily fooled by a few sweet words from a man!"

"Candied haws, hawthorn, how much is this?"

Nvluo gave Jiang Qingyu a hard look, and warned:

"Jiang Qingyu, I would like to remind you today that the little girl's status in Huamanlou is very unusual. If you want to marry her, you must make her your official wife!"

"Otherwise, don't blame me for being a villain once and beat the mandarin ducks!"

This statement came out.

Xiaoman blushed immediately:

"Sister Nvluo, what are you talking about!"

"My son and I are not, we are not..."

"There is no respect for elders! Call me uncle!"

Nvluo took a step forward and pulled the little girl away from Jiang Qingyu's side:
"It's not what?"

"I watched you grow up, what kind of thoughts do I not see?"

"I really can't figure out what's so good about this kid? Apart from a better skin, a better life, and a better brain, what else is worth your desperation?"

Xiaoman lowered his head and said in a stubborn voice:

"me……"

"Then he just likes to stay with the young master!"

"Huamanlou is full of killers, all of them are ruthless, without any human touch."

"I was there, living with a bunch of puppets who only knew how to kill, doing whatever they could to complete the task every day, living only for three things—"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

"Every day when I wake up with my eyes open, someone will throw information about the assassination target on my face! Every day before I close my eyes and go to bed, I have to wash for half an hour to completely remove the bloody smell on my body! Afterwards, the dream was full of images of bloody killings again!"

"In Huamanlou, I have had six friends of the same age, but without exception, they all failed in their missions and died outside. Each of them died without a whole body. Two of them were not even retrieved by anyone. It was me. A tomb that I erected with my own hands!"

"Every time a friend dies, my heart becomes colder, so that later on, I never dare to make any friends again!"

"From then on, I realized why Huamanlou's killers are so ruthless!"

Xiao Man raised his head, his eyes flushed:
"Sister Nvluo, I am 16 years old!"

"But as far as I can remember, only during the days when I was a maidservant next to the young master in Ziyan Courtyard, did I live like a teenage girl!"

"I know that you are all for my own good, but none of you have ever asked me if I want to be a killer..."

"As if I was born to be a killing machine!"

"But, Sister Nuluo..."

"I'm a girl!"

A 16-year-old girl who just fell in love.

"..."

Nuluo's eyes were complicated, she was speechless and could only sigh.

Huamanlou's way of cultivating killers is indeed unreasonable. At the beginning, I also walked through it step by step, so I understand the little girl's thoughts.

only……

This is Huamanlou!
What they want to cultivate is a group of killing machines without personal emotions!
aside.

Jiang Qingyu quietly held Xiao Man's hand, and with the other hand, opened the side curtain:
"Look, little girl, the sunrise!"

Xiao Man looked out of the window, but saw that the sun was just rising.

The morning glow is all over the sky, and the red clouds gather together, like lanterns and festoons, as if they are celebrating something.

"My lord, this is the first time you accompany me to watch the sunrise!"

"Let's go out and see!"

Xiaoman calmed down his sad emotions, smiled, and bouncing out of the carriage with a candied haws in one hand and Jiang Qingyu in the other.

Under the early sun, the two stood side by side.

The little girl leaned her head on Jiang Qingyu's shoulder and licked the last candied haws, but she was still reluctant to eat it.

She smiled, and whispered in a voice that only she and Jiang Qingyu could hear:
"My lord, six years ago, it was also a winter, when the sun was rising..."

"I accepted a mission to come to Ziyanyuan to assassinate you."

(End of this chapter)