Concubine's Survival Handbook

Chapter 8 Who is the Night Returner

The twilight climbed up layer by layer until the moon quietly came to the top of the roof, just hanging on the curved osmanthus tree.

In autumn, it gradually began to attack the whole of Kyoto.Xiao Lin sat on the ridge of the roof, thinking over and over again about the rumors during the day, could it be... the old military master is really going out?
Thinking of what my sister said in the daytime, she liked the dagger she carved very much. The corners of her lips could not help but curled up.

Xiao Lin repeated this sentence over and over again, as if he saw something he loved, and he could not put it down like a child, which made people feel a little confused.

"Brother. So you are here."

When Xiao Lin was intoxicated in his own world alone, his younger sister jumped to his side at some point.

"Damn girl, can you say hello and come up again, what if your brother falls off?" Xiao Lin always had a serious expression in front of outsiders, but once he faced his Lingmei, he would instantly turn into a For the warm man.

Although usually unsmiling, if there are only two brothers and sisters, the relationship between the two is very close.

"Brother, she... seems to have been framed by my aunt today, and..." The younger sister deliberately dragged on a long tone, which made Xiao Lin even more curious and worried.

He didn't know what happened today, and he didn't know what Jing Ning went through today.

"Say, what's the matter? He hesitated." Xiao Lin's temper was a little outrageous, and he grabbed his younger sister's collar, wanting to find out what happened.

The younger sister is also very strange, why does brother get angry whenever he encounters his sister-in-law?
Where did the stable, domineering and indifferent elder brother go?If it wasn't for brother who would occasionally show male tenderness when he was alone with her, she really couldn't believe that brother was a warm man.She always thought that brother was a cold, rough guy.However, seeing my elder brother being so irritable about his sister-in-law today, I couldn't help snickering a few times.

"What are you laughing at? What are you talking about?" Seeing his sister laughing at him like this, Xiao Lin couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, coughed a few times, and still wanted to ask the result.

However, things in the world, where there are so many expected results.

"I heard that my sister-in-law and His Highness the Third Prince hugged each other for a long time at the door of the prime minister's study. Later, my aunt sent someone to tell the prime minister, and the prime minister came out very disappointed." When Xiao's sister said this, she paused deliberately, thinking Let's see brother's reaction.

"What happened next?" Sitting on the ridge of the roof, Xiao Lin had already clenched his fists tightly, as if as soon as he moved, the fists would be like a sharp sword, piercing straight into the enemy's heart.

Seeing her brother like this, even her younger sister was shocked. She didn't expect that when the always steady brother met his sister-in-law, things would start again...

"Later, later I didn't know. I wasn't there, and I just listened to what the people in the mansion said." The people in this mansion were exactly the Xiao family's eyeliners in various mansions in order to gain a foothold in the capital.Of course, everyone is well aware of these.In the Xiao family, it is inevitable to have the eyeliner of the royal family and the Zheng family.Therefore, no matter whether you are princes, nobles or generals, you dare not be too presumptuous, because you don't know who will betray you someday.

This seems to be an eternal truth.This has been the case since ancient times.

"It seems that I need to go to Zheng's Mansion." Xiao Lin stood up from the ridge of the roof, as if he was on flat ground, the full moon in the sky seemed to be right above his head, and the dark night clothes set off even more His handsome and angular cheeks, indifferent, handsome, and murderous, are exactly what this young man gives people.

However, under this indifference, there is a moment of sudden warmth in the heart.

"Brother, where are you going?"

Before he could see the figure clearly, Xiao Lin had long since disappeared.

"Brother is really obsessed." The younger sister looked at the whereabouts of her brother, and felt a little puzzled in her heart. Didn't brother hate Zheng Jingning a little before?
Now, why go to help her again?All this made her feel very puzzled.

However, in the Prime Minister's Mansion, it was another scene.

In the afternoon, my father mentioned to Zheng Jingning that he might go to the West Station war zone. How long he will go is unknown.

Zheng Jingning tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, her relationship with her father had just eased, and she was going to be separated from him again, which made her very sad.

What made her even more worried was that if her father left, she, that woman and her daughter would be left in the family.And how they usually treat her, she has no idea.

Once my father left, everything might change.

"Miss, it's so late, why are you still awake?" Seeing Zheng Jingning tossing and turning, Bihua came over with a cup of tea, "Since you can't sleep, drink a cup of tea to moisten your throat."

Jing Ning smiled, "Bi Hua, this tea is refreshing!"

"Miss, this servant knows, it's just that since the young lady knows about the master's arrangement, she must be thinking of countermeasures in her heart, right?" Confused, he didn't realize that there was such a transparent person beside him, he didn't believe her, reuse her, and even killed her.

"clever."

Since he couldn't sleep, Zheng Jingning didn't sleep at all, and didn't turn on the lamp, just chatting with Bihua in the dark.The two of them chatted one after another, their eyelids gradually became heavy, as if they were about to fall into a deep sleep.

Outside the door, there was a shadow drifting past, but the two people in the room had long since fallen asleep and never noticed it.

"Two idiots, don't sleep most of the night." The person outside the door muttered softly, and flicked the orchid finger. In the nails of the orchid finger was a high-quality drug that was brought over from the Western Regions. "Tsk tsk, it's a pity to use it on such a little woman."

After the man finished speaking, he lightly opened a hole in the window paper with his saliva-stained fingers, and flicked the drug in between his nails.

It is said that there is a kind of people, known as "Night Returners", they hang around in every corner of the rivers and lakes, only killing people at night, and their only purpose of killing is money, similar to mercenaries.

And the chatter at this moment is "Night returns to people."

He quietly squeezed the sleeve arrow on his arm, trying to press it to make the arrow shoot out slightly.But at this moment, the arrow of Lingjian happened to be Zheng Jingning's heart.

"Strange! Why is your hand not listening?" He had never encountered such a situation before, but he had an unprecedented sense of panic,

However, as a professional "Night Returner", he cannot disgrace the reputation of "Night Returner".

With one push, his sleeve arrow flew to Zheng Jingning's side with a "swish".

(End of this chapter)