The Words of the Number One

The daylight gradually dimmed, and the sound of pattering rain sounded outside again, breaking the quiet atmosphere in this abandoned house. Mo Lan and I looked at each other, stalemate and tense.

She walked into me step by step, and said with gloomy eyes: "This place is remote and few people pass by. I killed you and buried you here. They won't find your body until night at least. This time is enough."

In my impression, Mo Lan seldom thinks so seriously. She pointed a dagger at my heart with deep eyes, and said coldly: "What are you talking about helping me? You lied to me once, and you want to lie to me a second time! Harmful You deserve it, you deserve it!"

She raised the dagger high, I subconsciously closed my eyes, but at this critical moment I heard Zikou's voice.

"Sister Azhi! Sister Azhi, are you here!"

Zikou seemed to realize that I was missing, so she came out to look for me. When I opened my eyes, I saw Mo Lan who was pale with fright. She immediately stuffed a rag into my mouth, then retracted the dagger and quietly retreated behind the door. Zikou's call and footsteps were getting closer and closer, and she was the only one who heard the sound.

Zikou came here alone, and Mo Lan was so skilled that she couldn't beat her at all.

I wanted to tell her to run away but because of the rag in her mouth she couldn't make a sound, only a small intermittent whimper.

Zikou's footsteps finally came to the door, she knocked on the door and said, "Sister Ah Zhi, are you here?"

The door had been in disrepair for a long time and the lock was rotten. Zi Kou stretched out his hand to push the door, while Mo Lan behind the door picked up the dagger, and the cold light radiated.

Zikou's green figure appeared as the door opened, and Mo Lan's dagger was about to be chopped off. At the very moment, I finally swayed my chair and hit the ground with a bang.

The edge of the blade in Mo Lan's distracted hand deflected, and Zikou reacted quickly and managed to dodge it. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw me being tied up, and immediately realized what had happened. Before she could say a word, Mo Lan's knife came after her again, and Zikou screamed and ran all over the room, hiding from left to right. Mo Lan raised his knife and pursued persistently.

Zikou is petite and nimble, and has learned a little martial arts from Nansu Moxiao, so he picked up a wooden stick and started fighting with Mo Lan. Although her martial arts were not as good as Mo Lan's, she could barely resist, and Mo Lan couldn't get close to Zikou's body for a while because of the short dagger.

stop fighting! run!

I screamed in my heart, but I could only make broken sounds from my mouth. Zikou thought I was asking for help, and shouted, "Sister Ah Zhi, don't be afraid!"

As she said that, she took off the hairpin on her head and threw it in front of me. I tried to move and try to reach the hairpin with my hands. Mo Lan saw me trying to escape in a blink of an eye, and immediately dropped Zikou, and rushed towards me with bloodshot eyes, raising her knife to stab me.

"You don't even want to run away!" Mo Lan roared with eyes that were about to split, and my face was reflected in the crazy eyes. My mind went blank for a moment.

In the next second, the me in Mo Lan's eyes disappeared.

Instead, there was a piece of green silk satin, the back of the dark coat embroidered with fluttering purple butterflies, and long, smooth black hair.

The smell of blood was terrifyingly heavy, breaking through the smell of dust, mud and rain, and sweeping the entire room.

Zikou ran over and blocked the knife for me.

Mo Lan was stunned, and the petite body in front of me erupted with powerful force from nowhere, Zikou suddenly pushed Mo Lan's shoulders until she was pushed against the wall, and then pulled out the dagger that had pierced into his body and stabbed her hard. into Mo Lan's chest.

Blood spurted out for a moment, and Mo Lan looked at the petite and lovely girl in front of her in disbelief, and at the dagger on her chest in disbelief. Mo Lan raised her finger and pointed at me, her eyes were full of grief and resentment, her lips trembled for a long time and she couldn't say a word, in the end she just sprayed a mouthful of blood on Zikou's skirt, and then fell to the ground weakly leaning against the wall.

She will not rest in peace.

Zikou only lasted for a second and then fell down. She turned over slowly with all her strength, her eyes fixed on me and she stretched out her hand to me, the blood hole on her chest kept gushing out of blood.

Little by little, she reached out to take the rag from my mouth, and I heard my own voice, such an indescribable bang coming from nowhere.

"Zikou!"

Zikou blinked her dull eyes slowly, and responded in a low voice: "Azhi...sister."

I tried to move towards her, dragging the chair to make a creaking sound, but I could only move a tiny bit. Her fingers touched my cheek, and she suddenly smiled, as if she was having a sweet dream.

"Sister Ah Zhi...I'm here to save you..."

I stared at her blankly, tears rolled down her fingers, and I murmured: "What are you... doing? Why are you doing this?"

Am I worth it?

Your life is so precious, am I worth it?

She seemed confused, and said slowly: "Because I made a wish to the gods...in the future...to be as...smart as Sister Azhi...Sister Azhi can't...die..."

clever? I want to laugh absurdly, if I'm smart enough, how could I bother you like this?

Every time she said a word, a mouthful of blood gushed out of Zikou's mouth, and she smiled innocently and thinly: "I like... Sister Azhi... and Young Master..."

"You...don't...get angry..."

"Okay, okay, we're not angry."

I hastily agreed to her, as if this could save anything.

Zikou nodded with difficulty, she frowned, and whispered, "Sister...I'm so cold..."

"I am afraid…"

She whimpered like a kitten, and finally she cried too. Tears broke through the blood and fell into the dust. She whimpered and said, "Sister, I'm afraid..."

I couldn't break free, so I could only stare into her eyes and said in a trembling voice, "Don't be afraid...don't be afraid..."

In the dim room, she gave a last vain smile, and then closed her eyes.

When I finally got the hairpin and cut the rope, I broke free and held Zikou's hand, her hand was already cold, her pulse was gone, and her face, which was always pink and smiling, was gray.

She is only sixteen years old this year.

She always smiled brightly and innocently, took my hand and called me sister Azhi one after another. In this chaotic world where everyone is guarding against and suspicious of each other, she firmly believes in everything I say, even if I hide something, she is not angry, and she loves me like this.

But until the moment she died for me, she didn't know that my name was not Ah Zhi, but Jiang Jiuqing, the Ninth Princess of Xianqi.

There are so many things I haven't said to her, do I really regard her as a friend?

I knelt beside her and held her hand in a daze for a long while, with tears falling on our clasped hands one after another. I haven't cried for many years when I wasn't drunk, and I didn't cry when my country was destroyed or when my parents died, but at this moment, I burst into tears like a **** was broken.

I stretched out my hand to hug her, and the moment my hand touched her blood-stained skirt, my blank brain suddenly resumed operation, and all the things that happened were quickly skipped, and all the pictures and details rushed to my face.

Why did the Son of Heaven appear here? Why did Mo Lan appear here? This is a coincidence?

No, it's impossible.

I was an accident during Mo Lan's actions. What did she want to do? Maybe she broke away from the main force and went her own way to seek revenge on me. There should be other people ambush in this temple.

Who is the target? Ji Yu? No, the Son of Heaven blatantly showed up and wanted to do something, which would be alarming.

That is…

Xin Ran and Rong Rong.

I was stunned for a moment and then stood up staggeringly. The bodies of Zikou and Mo Lan were still lying on the ground cold, but I had to forcefully pull away to think about what was going on.

Sometimes I really hate my rationality.

I was silent for a moment, knelt down and touched Zikou's face, and said softly, "I'm sorry, I can't hug you anymore."

I want to go back as if nothing happened, so as not to be stained with your blood.

I walked out of the dilapidated house and found a spring in the mountains to wipe off the tears on my face and the blood on my hands. Only a little blood was splashed on the corner of my clothes, so I washed it off with clean water.

It is really far away from the main hall, and it took me some effort to walk back to the main hall. I saw Lingshang and Lai Ying waiting outside the main hall, seeing me coming, Lingshang's eyes lit up, and he blamed: "Where did you go, we were all looking for you just now."

I kept smiling and said, "The mountain road was slippery and I fell down. It took me a long time to get up, and I got lost."

Lai Ying laughed, patted my arm and said, "Look at you covered in dust, it's good to be back, Zikou went looking for you and hasn't come back yet."

I couldn't hold a smile very well for a moment and just nodded. From the corner of my eye, I saw monks and tourists coming and going in the main hall and around, and they all looked very normal. But a few people seemed to look at us inadvertently, and then looked away.

I asked casually as usual: "Where did you go?"

Ling Chang said: "After lunch, I took Sister Wan, Mo Xiao, and left. I don't know where I went, and I haven't come back yet."

On the way back, I went to see the place where they talked before, and they were no longer there, presumably Zhou Tianzi held Ji Yu back.

When Ji Yu encountered the emperor's anger, he would overwhelm his reason.

"What about Mrs. Sheen?" I asked.

"Miss He Rong is in the side hall, Mrs. Xin is going to copy Buddhist scriptures for Lord Qing Ning, and the guards from Nan Suhe's mansion are also there to accompany them." Ling Chang smiled naturally.

I nodded, pretending to be surprised and said to Lingshang: "Your hairpin is crooked, I'll help you re-hair it."

While talking, I approached her, and when I took out the hairpin, I approached her ear and whispered: "Try to be as natural as possible, we are being watched."

Lingshang's body trembled, and I said in a low voice while inserting hairpins: "They are from the Wu Kingdom, and the targets should be Mrs. Xin and Rong Rong. They are numerous and powerful. You and Lai Ying quickly find the young master and come back. Someone might stop you from taking a weapon for self-defense on the road, don’t believe anyone. I’ll go to Mrs. Xin. Remember to behave naturally, it’s probably not the time for them to do it yet.”

I put the flowers firmly, took two steps back and looked at Lingshang with a smile, and said: "This is coming."

Ling Chang froze for a moment, then laughed at Yan Yan. She helped me with the hairpin and thanked me, then turned to Lai Ying and said, "Since Ah Zhi is back and waiting, let's go for a stroll, the scenery in this mountain is very nice."

Although Laiying didn't know, she went in, but she got the wink from Lingshang, so she said yes. Just like that, being pulled by Lingshang, they left lightly arm in arm, as expected, several eyes followed them when they left, and one person got up and left.

Their two martial arts are second only to Mo Xiao and Nan Su, so they should have no problem protecting themselves.

I turned my eyes to look at Bi Lu who was sitting on the steps in a daze, and she also raised her head to look at me. The fourteen-year-old girl is usually reticent, as if she doesn't exist. I don't know anything about her except that she is a medical genius.

I patted her head and said to her: "You wait here for the son and the others to come back."

Bee nodded.

I took a deep breath, straightened my clothes and walked towards the side hall.

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Bento for Mo Lan and Zi Kou little angel

Zikou, what a lovely girl.

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