Who says sleep is not spiritual practice?

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

Chapter 184 An Assassination Six Years Ago

An assassination six years ago?

Jiang Qingyu didn't seem to be impressed.

Although the Jiang family behind the second elder brother Jiang Qingjian had always wanted to kill him to solve future troubles, he stayed behind closed doors all year round, and the palace was heavily guarded, so he hardly encountered any assassins.

Even with...

It will also be quietly captured by the hidden guards ambushing in Ziyanyuan.

"It seems that the son has no impression!"

Only Xiaoman asked with a smile:

"So……"

"Do you remember Nanny Li's granddaughter? The little girl with a red-haired parrot and a dirty face?"

Hearing such a reminder, Jiang Qingyu immediately remembered:

"Yes, is it you?"

Xiaoman lay on Jiang Qingyu's shoulder, and gave a soft "hmm":

"That time, I pretended to be the granddaughter of Madam Li in the palace, and according to the plan, let a wounded parrot fall into the Ziyan courtyard."

"I have heard about the young master's lethargy for a long time, so I deliberately chose the time of dusk. When I entered the courtyard, the young master was feeding the fish with sister Li Chun by the pond."

"The parrot fell into the pool. I begged my lord to let me in and let me go into the water to rescue the parrot, but Miss Lichun ruthlessly refused!"

Jiang Qingyu laughed:

"I remember, and then you started crying because of grievances, and kept wiping your face with your hands, with snot, tears and mud, it was ugly!"

"certainly not!"

Xiaoman insisted:

"Young master made a mistake!"

"I thought the young master would let me in, or come out to comfort me, then I could assassinate you, but..."

"I didn't expect that the notorious young master would take off his coat and jump into the pool to rescue the parrot himself."

Jiang Qingyu smiled helplessly:

"It's such a cold day, we can't let you and the two girls Lichun go into the water, can we?"

"If word of this gets out, I'll be called a real idiot!"

Xiaoman blamed himself:

"But later I heard people say that the son got sick because of the cold in the water that day, and he lay on the bed for more than a month before he recovered!"

Jiang Qingyu looked puzzled:

"Who told you that?"

"I don't seem to remember being sick?"

"in addition……"

"Even if it was an assassination, when I handed the parrot into your hands, why didn't you seize the opportunity to do it?"

He frowned slightly, carefully recalling the events of that day, and he didn't seem to notice any murderous intent on the little girl at that time.

otherwise……

She will definitely not be able to get out of the royal city alive.

Xiaoman whispered softly:

"Later, the young master not only handed over the cleaned parrot to me, but also wiped away the tears and dirt on my face with his coat."

"Seeing that I was still crying, I took a bunch of candied haws from the room to coax me not to cry."

"Since then, I feel that the young master is a good person, maybe, maybe..."

"Maybe what?"

Jiang Qingyu asked curiously.

Xiaoman buried her head in Jiang Qingyu's chest, her voice was low and inaudible:

"Maybe it's worth entrusting for a lifetime."

"..."

Jiang Qingyu was silent for a while, and asked a question that spoiled the atmosphere:

"Isn't it a bit sloppy?"

Grab a parrot and send candied haws to make people fall in love at first sight...

A ten-year-old girl is too easy to deceive, right?

Xiaoman explained in a low voice:

"Didn't you just ask me why I gave up the assassination?"

"Actually, I wanted to teach you a lesson that day, to make you suffer, not to take your life."

"I want to teach you a lesson because, because..."

She paused for a moment, and said surprisingly:

"It's because my father and the prince made a marriage contract for me and the son!"

"..."

Jiang Qingyu was stunned.

how……

Another engagement!

Didn't the father just say that he has already arranged a marriage contract for himself in the capital, the other party is well educated, comes from a scholarly family, and his father is a high official in the court...

Why did Huamanlou suddenly have a fiancée?

In the past 19 years, how many marriages have been arranged without knowing it?

Isn't the father afraid of a fire in his backyard?