Daliang female chief assistant

Chapter 57 Candid
Without saying a word, he came out of the prison and returned to his room.

She sat on the chair and exhaled heavily.

Without outsiders around, she can remove all disguises.

The hands that naturally hung on the armrests of the chair trembled slightly.

Even if she was used to strong winds and waves, she still couldn't face a living person calmly, so she just died in front of her.

Rest your head on the back of the chair, close your eyes and meditate.

After her emotions eased, she opened her eyes and called someone to invite Hongying over.

It was because she was too confident and felt that everything was under her control, but she didn't know that everything was already out of control.

She should have noticed it sooner.

Zhou Shu put one hand on the desk, stretched out two index fingers, and rubbed the center of his eyebrows.

While waiting for Hongying to come, she also kept introspecting in her heart.

Just as he was thinking, a crisp female voice came from outside the door.

Consistently calm.

It's Hongying.

"Please come in." She answered loudly to the door.

Sit up straight and straighten your clothes.

The door creaked and was pushed open from the outside.

Hongying walked in slowly against the light.

She was in good shape, with a straight back, walked to the desk, and bowed politely.

"Master Zhou."

Zhou Shu's eyes stayed on her face for a moment, and when he sensed something was wrong, he hurriedly looked away and pointed to the chair beside her.

"Miss Hongying, please sit down."

Hongying sat down on the chair, "I don't know why Master Zhou invited Hongying to come here?"

"No rush." ​​Zhou Shu first asked about Zhou Hui's situation.

Hearing that his eyes were recovering well and that he would see light again in a few days, the boulder pressing on his heart suddenly disappeared, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he cares about her inadvertently.

"Miss Hongying's injuries are all healed?"

Hearing this, Hongying's expression was slightly startled, and she replied: "My lord, I have recovered."

"That's good." He said and nodded.

"By the way, Miss Hongying, you confessed to me earlier that you were ordered by your master to approach me. There were many things at that time, and I didn't ask in detail. Can Miss Hongying talk to me? Your master?"

She talked left and right, went around in a big circle, and finally asked about Xiao Yuanlang.

Hearing her question, Hongying blinked slightly with her lowered eyelids.

Immediately, the look was as usual.

"He was a very mysterious man."

Her acquaintance with Xiao Yuanlang dates back more than ten years ago.

At that time, she was still a little beggar in the south of the Yangtze River. In the freezing and snowy winter, she was begging on the street in a tattered sackcloth with bare feet.

The weather was very cold, everyone was wearing thick cotton padded clothes, holding hand warmers in their hands, and they were in a hurry. No one was willing to stay longer to give her a copper coin or two.

She squatted in the wind and snow, her little face was pale from the cold, and her toes had early chilblains, which were bleeding profusely.

The bright red blood drips in the snow, as bright and eye-catching as Aoxue's independent plum blossoms.

But also dazzling.

She huddled into a ball disheartened, hugged her legs tightly, the hunger in her belly was unbearable, the cold wind bit her bones, and her body was shivering from the cold.

Just as she was dying of hunger and cold in the snow, Xiao Yuanlang appeared.

He was wearing extremely luxurious clothes, a snow-white cloak, a jade crown on his head, and a red ribbon floating on it.

The face is like a crown jade, and the eyes are like shooting stars.

It's like a god descending.

The boots on the feet are made of the finest Shu brocade, with beautiful patterns embroidered with gold thread.

At that time, she could only think of words such as good-looking, noble, and gorgeous to describe it.

She raised her eyelids with difficulty, and looked pitifully at the astonished man above.

The little hand, which was frozen stiff, stretched out timidly, but was afraid of staining his clothes, which made him disgusted and disgusted.

Only dare to stretch in mid-air.

Like a cat whimpering, she begged him softly, "My lord, please do me a favor and give me some food."

How did he say it?
Oh--

He stared at her for a moment with a half-smile, but the smile didn't reach his eyes, and he turned around to give orders to the guards behind him.

"Xiao Liu, give this little beggar some food."

The guard named Xiao Liu quickly came over with food and put it in front of her.

She was so hungry that she grabbed the snacks with her hands, and started to gobble them up like a hungry wolf.

But as soon as she tasted a little bit of sweetness, the food in her hand was knocked away heavily.

Rolling in the snow, it gets dirty in no time.

The culprit laughed like a devil, casually glanced at the snacks that fell on the ground, lifted his feet, and crushed them hard.

The pastry, which was worth a thousand gold in her eyes, was crushed into a ball of crumbs by the sole of his shoe.

But she was really hungry, she had no bones, no dignity, and she couldn't fill her stomach at all.

She swallowed, ignoring his strange gaze, rushed over, carefully picked up the crumbs, and swallowed them together with the snow that had not completely melted.

At this time, Xiao Yuanlang who had been quietly watching this "good show" suddenly burst into laughter.

"The king is right, he is a good dog."

After that, he moved closer and lifted her chin with the handle of the fan.

Not asking, but ordering.

"From now on, I will be by my king's side, and I will ensure that you have no worries about food and clothing, and you don't have to humbly beg others for a morsel of food."

At that time, she didn't know what it meant to be with him.

All he knew was that he didn't have to suffer from hunger anymore, swallowed the food in his mouth, and nodded hurriedly.

She thought, at that time, she should be full of expectations.

Only later...

The days that followed were like purgatory, too gloomy for her to recall.

Hongying subconsciously raised her hand to touch her left arm.

She withdrew her thoughts and looked at Zhou Shu with complicated eyes.

"Master Zhou, I heard that Fuxiu girl was picked up by you when you went out one winter. She was dying at that time. You couldn't bear it, so you brought her back to Zhou Mansion. If if, you also met a little girl before her. A beggar is even more pitiful than her, will you bring her back to the Zhou Mansion too?"

Zhou Shu didn't understand why she suddenly asked this.

Nodding his head, he still answered affirmatively, "Yes."

After getting this answer, Hongying suddenly smiled with relief.

Turning back to the topic, "I and the other five companions are dead soldiers raised by him since childhood. He never shows his true face to others, and we only know his surname is "Wen". We call him "Master" on weekdays."

"More than a month ago, because the former county magistrate of Siyi County hanged himself at home, the master brought me and a dead man to Xiangzhou City. He asked me to treat the concubine, the governor of Xiangzhou, as a "miracle doctor". Take the opportunity to steal secrets."

Having said that, Hongying paused deliberately, waiting for Zhou Shu's next question.

But Zhou Shu only squinted his eyes, urging her to continue.

"Miss Hongying, please continue."

Hearing this, Hongying nodded and continued: "I accidentally learned from that beautiful concubine that after the former county magistrate Li Lin hanged himself, the family members of his family disappeared and their whereabouts were unknown. , sent someone to take away the female relatives. So, he ordered me and another companion to look for Li Lin's female relatives."

"Have you found it?" Zhou Shu asked suddenly.

Hongying was stunned for a moment, then shook her head, "Not yet."

(End of this chapter)