Young man, please stay

Chapter 31 Huoshaoyun (Additional updates! All kinds of requests!)
  On Qingniugang, Qin Lang and Su Yinping were sitting side by side behind the house, one talking quietly and the other listening quietly.

Although he looks casual, the content of the conversation is somewhat heavy.

……

"... When the couple gave birth to Jin'er, several decades had passed in Pingman Town. The Gu family fort had long been renamed the Gu family, and they were engaged in the herbal medicine and cloth business according to the wishes of the late emperor. However, when Jin'er was six years old, In 2009, three years after my sister ascended the throne, the struggle in the court was far from as stable as it is now. The only son of the late emperor and the former crown prince was still frantically using various means to fight for the throne..."

"...In fact, when the late emperor left a legacy and allowed his dead brother's second daughter, my sister, to inherit the throne, everyone in the court was shocked. Although there have been several empresses in the history of the Zhou Dynasty, this kind of dismissal was the first It is really unacceptable for a prince to pass the throne to the second daughter of a deceased prince..."

"...No one knows why the late emperor did this. Anyway, the disputes about the throne have never stopped since my sister returned from studying abroad at the age of thirteen and ascended the throne. The first five years were the most violent... "

"...and for the sake of the throne, with the support of the regent, the former prince did not hesitate to use all means, including perversely trying to obliterate the late emperor's wishes and weaken the late emperor's influence! In addition, he knew that my sister had gone to study in the world since she was a child. However, he might have joined a certain sect, so his unreasonable hatred for Jianghu sects is even worse than that of the late emperor..."

Even if Su Yinping didn't tell what happened next, Qin Lang could roughly guess it.

The Gu family, which was originally pardoned by the late emperor, was finally forced to clear up old scores by the crazy former prince. In the name of "putting down the chaos for his father," they were brutally exterminated together with other descendants of the pardoned sect in Pingman Town!

Among them, when the Gu family was exterminated, Gu Jin was just six years old at that time.

In order to escape the pursuit of the officers and soldiers, little Gu Jin hid in a donkey cart and fled from Yuezhou, where the Gu family was located, all the way to the capital. He happened to faint from hunger in front of the mansion of Su Yinping, the princess of Qingli Princess, and was killed by the sixteen-year-old The princess picked it up and hid it while the officers and soldiers were "checking for leaks and filling in the gaps". From then on, Gu Jin's life was completely saved.

This is why Gu Jin wants to be Su Yinping's personal guard, wants to repay her kindness, and says something like "my life belongs to my wife".

"Former Crown Prince, how are you doing now..."

"Eh?"

After listening to Su Yinping's story about Gu Jin, Qin Lang was quiet for a long time, and finally asked such a question.

Su Yinping was a little surprised, but still replied:
  "According to people in the palace, he seems to be a little crazy now. He has been living in the Palace of Fortune and Longevity of his deceased mother, the Queen Mother. But since he became like this, the power of the regent who originally supported him has become stronger day by day. ...It is said that my sister’s main worry right now is the regent.”

"Regent…"

Qin Lang remembered that he had asked the storyteller why the emperor only made his sister a princess and not a prince. The storyteller said that it was related to a court battle and to protect his sister. Qin Lang still thought it was a mystery.

Now that I hear Su Yinping mention these things in the court personally, I may not believe it but I have to believe it.

However, the reason why Qin Lang asked about the prince's news at the moment was not because he was considering the messy affairs in the court that were far away from him.

He just felt that since a girl who valued love and justice and had a stubborn temper had "repaying kindness" in her heart at a young age, then... what about "revenge"? …

For such a girl, hatred and kindness are probably equally unforgettable...

For such a young girl to voluntarily go to Biluo Valley to learn martial arts, maybe...it's not just to repay a favor...

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The past must pass.

The future is still the future.

After hearing about Gu Jin's past, although Qin Lang got to know the girl better, his current daily life seemed to have not changed much.

The girls' injuries still need to be healed, and Qin Lang's life with the girls will continue.

It's just that now it's more regular than before.

In addition to practicing and cooking every day, Qin Lang added two new fixed tasks in his life, namely, teaching Su Yinping knife skills during the day and accompanying Gu Jin to walk horses at night.

……

The latter was also a helpless move. Ever since that night at the riverside, the little mare Zhen Ji had made it a regular activity to go out for a walk around the world at night. No one was watching, so it was no use to Gu Jin alone.

Although Qin Lang felt that the way Zhen Ji walked around every night, it seemed more and more like she was looking for something "invisible", but it was not easy to say it in front of Gu Jin, lest it make her even more scared.

Of course, even if it’s night, it doesn’t necessarily have to be in the middle of the night.

……

In the evening, as the sun set in the west, the fire clouds dyed most of the sky in the distance red, like a handful of cinnabar falling into the blue spring, creating an extremely gorgeous and blurred brilliance in the high sky.

The two of them occasionally strolled under the brilliant sunset, and Qin Lang began to tell Gu Jin some stories about his childhood to pass the time.

Qin Lang's childhood was actually quite ordinary. At first, it was just him and his senior sister who talked about it. Not only did a certain girl seem not to be interested, but she became more and more indifferent to Qin Lang the more he talked about it.

So later on, Qin Lang tried his best to talk about things other than senior sister.

Although Qin Lang only said that he and his senior sister lived in the mountains, not the Tianshan Mountains, it did not affect the storytelling. He could still tell Gu Jin about things like snow leopards, glaciers, and snow lotuses.

What Gu Jin loved to hear most was about Xiao Feilian.

……

The so-called Xiao Feilian is actually a nickname for the white cat.

Gu Jin always liked cats, and the white cat raised by her senior sister also had many interesting stories, and the most magical thing about her was that she understood human nature.

"Understanding human nature? Like Zhen Ji?"

"She's more intelligent than Zhen Ji. She can understand human language, and my senior sister seems to be able to understand her cat language as well. That's why she can often bring back some important news from all over the world."

"Then she...maybe she is also a descendant of the Yunzhou Monster Clan..."

"What do you mean..."

Qin Lang couldn't laugh or cry:

"Don't talk about that cat. Zhen Ji is not necessarily a descendant of the demon clan. I've already said it. Legends are legends. Don't take it too seriously, okay?"

"Oh…"

Gu Jin nodded, then while holding Zhen Ji, she moved slightly closer to Qin Lang beside her.

Qin Lang noticed this, but paid more attention to her little actions than before.

Because Qin Lang understands that after experiencing so many things that she shouldn't have experienced since childhood, a small step for a girl to approach outsiders may be a big step for her in her heart.

So, whether he was impulsive or prepared, Qin Lang walked side by side with the girl who quietly approached him under the night sky, while also putting his arms around her slender waist.

"?!"

"..."

From the palm of his hand, in addition to the soft warmth of the girl's body, there was also a clear instinctive movement.

But this wisp of struggle quickly disappeared, melting like a cube of ice into someone's strong hands.

"..."

"..."

In the next scene, neither of them spoke, and they still walked quietly under the warm sky. Only the white horse beside them looked around from time to time, and from time to time looked meaningfully at Qin Lang's hand on Gu Jin's waist. Dashou took a look. until…

Swish-!
  "?"

"!"

The two men stopped almost at the same time. Qin Lang frowned and looked sideways at the woods not far away:

"Miss Sumire, have you seen it?"

"Uh-huh…"

Gu Jin's voice was small and pitiful, and Qin Lang turned around blankly. Only then did he feel that his waist had been wrapped by Gu Jin's two delicate arms, and his hands were grasping his clothes firmly with some skill.

"No, it seemed like a big white mouse jumped over just now..."

There is no point in talking. The girl lowered her clothes and buried her head close to Qin Lang's shoulder. It seemed that she had no intention of raising her head tonight.

"..."

Qin Lang was a little amused. This guy got intimidated too quickly. It seemed that he really couldn't tell her anything about monsters in the future.

But just now, at the end of the dazzling sunset light, there was indeed a flash of white.

The most direct evidence is that Zhen Ji on the side was already excited, then twisted her furry hips and rushed straight into the forest.

"Zhen Ji!"

Da da da--

Otherwise, it was indeed a good horse. As soon as it started running, Qin Lang wouldn't have time to chase it, and the little mare had already disappeared into the woods.

What Qin Lang and Gu Jin didn't expect was that when they came to the edge of the woods and were about to go in to find her, Zhen Ji herself came back with elegant steps.

"Zhen Ji? Where did you go?"

"~"

The little mare couldn't speak, but there was obviously a hint of joy in her elegant steps. Then, Qin Lang and Gu Jin suddenly discovered that Zhen Ji ran back with something hanging in her mouth!
  It was a ball of white hair that was hairier than her butt, but only about a foot wide.

"Demon...demon..."

A certain girl poked out one eye from Qin Lang's shoulder, and was so confused that she couldn't hum a complete word.

But Qin Lang was different.

For the first time, he felt that the white fur ball looked familiar. When he glanced at it again, a very familiar title blurted out:

"round and round?!"

"Meow~~!"

Almost instantly, the white fur ball in the horse's mouth let out an enchanting meow. After two pairs of big sapphire eyes emerged from the fur ball, they flashed excitedly at Qin Lang twice. , and then glared fiercely at Zhen Ji's horse face.

"Ouch--!"

"..."

Qin Lang never expected that this guy would actually appear next to him almost a month after he went down to Tianshan Mountain.

After Gu Jin also saw the general appearance of the fur ball, she finally raised her face and tugged on Qin Lang's sleeve:

"Qin Lang...is this...a cat or a fox?"

"Her name is Tuan Tuan, the one I told you was Xiao Feilian raised on the mountain."

Qin Lang familiarly introduced the characteristics of the white fur ball, then stretched out his hand and smoothly took the fur ball's body from Zhen Ji's mouth:
  "This thing looks like a cat or a fox, especially the tail. It looks like a fox. It's very big and fluffy. When it's wrapped around its body, it looks like a ball."

"Meow——~"

Tuantuan seemed to be able to understand Qin Lang's words, but didn't mind at all. Instead, she acted coquettishly in Qin Lang's arms for the first time. She looked up at Qin Lang's face, and her four pink claws slowly moved. Then he took one out, gently pressed it on Qin Lang's face and rubbed it.

"Tsk, don't make trouble, there is someone here..."

Qin Lang gave the guy a loving look, but he didn't notice that the cat's eyes suddenly darkened rapidly. After almost being stagnant for a moment, they returned to clear and transparent eyes.

But the look in those big eyes seems to have become a little subtle...

However, such an extremely subtle thing was not noticed by Gu Jin, not to mention Qin Lang. As a personal guard, Gu Jin should have a keen eye.

Of the two people, one was immersed in the surprise of meeting his "old friend", and the other, who originally liked cats, was quickly attracted by Tuantuan's own good looks.

"This cat just likes me tossing her..."

As he spoke, Qin Lang turned the little white cat over and patted her fluffy pussy, making her meow.

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At the same time, somewhere in a cave on the Tianshan Mountains was covered by fire clouds.

On a stone lotus platform that is usually used for meditation, there is a beautiful woman dressed in white. Her mature and beautiful face is full of blush, just like the burning clouds in the sky at this moment.

"Huh...~"

"Ha...~"

At this time, she was not sitting on the lotus platform as she had recently been recovering from her injuries. Instead, her forehead was covered with fragrant sweat, her red lips were spraying out the orchid hot air, and she was kneeling weakly on the lotus platform.

The full moon rises high.

And through the thin cloud gauze, you can actually see a few faint red colors like palm prints on the jade-colored full moon.

"Rolling eyes...! I asked you to go down from the mountain to make a career in the world...but you are messing around with women everywhere...this pervert...well~..."

Before she finished her murmuring words, the woman's graceful body trembled again, and while there was another red handprint, a flash of blue flashed through the woman's originally dark eyes.

I don't know how many times I repeated this. When I finally stopped, the woman's face was blushing and hazy, and her eyes were full of water.

"Damn it... necromancy is too difficult to persist... otherwise... hum..."

Her eyes finally stopped flashing blue, but she just clenched her silver teeth and fell into a deep sleep on the lotus platform.

At this point, the cave returned to silence, except for the occasional inexplicable sound of water dripping from the stone lotus platform under the woman's seat toward the ground...

tick~
  　Tuantuan is everyone's old friend. After much thought, I still can't bear to abandon her.

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)