a ruthless swordsman

26.

The breakfast on the second day was extremely strange.

The food prepared by Lingxiao Mountain Villa is naturally impeccable, even taking into account that Jianzong is located in the south, specially made sweet dishes.

The weird thing was the three people at the table.

I don't know when Xie Ling came back last night, but when I woke up, he was already sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at me with his head tilted.

I:"……"

Anyone who wakes up early in the morning and sees someone staring at him next to the bed will not take it for granted!

I was silent for a while: "Brother Ling, what are you staring at me, it's scary."

Xie Ling was stunned for a moment before he woke up, turned his face away unnaturally, and said with a sloppy look: "Axue, are you awake?"

"..." Does this need to be asked again?

I wondered if Xie Ling was given too much drink last night, and now his mind is still muddled.

I bent my knees and leaned over to sniff his cheek.

But he stepped back suddenly, as if I was some kind of poisonous snake and beast.

There is no smell of alcohol.

I squinted at him, turned over and got out of bed, and went to wash up behind the screen.

27.

I said I wanted to have dinner with the third senior brother, and I happily walked out the door, Xie Ling grabbed my arm: "Axue, where are you going?"

"..." What's the matter with this man? It's not that there are pursuers waiting outside the door, and he's nervous even when he goes out.I rolled my eyes, "Go and have breakfast with Third Senior Brother!"

Xie Ling's expression became even weirder: "You...you and Li Yanxing?"

I patted his arm away, and said earnestly: "Senior Brother Third is a very nice person, I like him very much, Brother Ling, don't fight him if you are fine."

Xie Ling fell silent.

At the end of April, and approaching midsummer, I saw his face, and shivered for no reason.

... Where is it so strange!

I didn't dare to look at Xie Ling again, and ran to the third senior brother's room in a hurry, Xie Ling followed in after the stool was still warm.

In my poor memory, the scene of three brothers and sisters sitting at the same table eating like today, at least dates back to when I was seven or eight years old.

All in all, extremely rare.

Xie Ling has a temperament of relying on others, in his opinion, it is probably because he and the third senior brother are on the same level in martial arts, and they are facing each other every day.

I never try to tear him down.

This is a bit far from top to bottom, and it's only him who has thorns all over his body in a tit-for-tat confrontation.

What is the picture!

I immersed myself in scooping up a spoonful of sweet porridge, and observed the expressions of the two senior brothers from the corner of my eye.

They both looked normal, even harmonious.

Of course it didn't happen to the third senior brother.

Xie Ling actually held back for a quarter of an hour before taking the initiative to provoke trouble.

Incredible.

This kind of calm continued for three or four days, until the last sect personally invited by Villa Master Qin arrived at Lingxiao Villa and lived in the Baoyu Courtyard next door.

This long-awaited sect is called Baicaomen. As the name suggests, it is a treasured place that gathers doctors from all over the world.

Of course, there are also drug users.

Baicaomen is now headed by the youngest son of the old sect master Mu, who is about the same age as my father. He married his childhood sweetheart's junior sister early on, and has only one daughter under his knees.

Sister Mu is seven years older than me. When I was young, I followed the old sect master to live in Jianzong for half a year. In order to take care of my mother's body, I was kind to Jianzong.

I also always remember the kindness that Sister Mu treated me with. Last year, she married the young island owner of Seven Star Island at the order of her parents, and I went to the banquet with my father to watch the ceremony.

It's a pity that the young island owner surnamed Meng is not a good man, and he did something wrong to Sister Mu within three months of marriage.

Fortunately, Baicaomen's status in Jianghu is deep, and it can always support her.

Therefore, Sister Mu moved back to her mother's house, and today I can see her again among the group of Baicaomen.

I greeted her cheerfully, and I didn't expect something big or small to happen in Baoyuyuan that night.

One of the people involved is Sister Mu.

28.

I slumped on the bed and closed my eyes.

Xie Ling brazenly covered me with the same quilt, and the reason he gave was that it had gotten hotter these days, and one quilt was enough for two people to share.

I:"……"

Aren't you so hot that you don't even want to cover yourself with a quilt? Why do you move an inch closer to me every once in a while?

"Brother." I shrunk in again and resisted tenaciously: "If you squeeze any more, I'm about to fall."

"Ah? Is that right, then you stay closer to me, and I will hold you, so you won't fall."

?

Xie Ling, I really don't understand what you're thinking anymore.

I simply turned over, turned my back to him, and silently declared that I refused to talk to him.

The room was just quiet for less than half a stick of incense, when there was a loud sound of fists and feet outside the wall.

"What happened outside?" I got up suddenly, but Xie Ling was sleeping on the outside, he was as calm as a mountain, and raised his hand to catch me who was moving.

"It's probably about Baicaomen's family affairs, Axue, you only hear the sound of fighting, but no loud shouts. I think they don't want to bother others."

That's what he said.

I half sat on his lap, thought about it and was about to crawl back inside.

"Axue," Xie Ling shook my finger, his eyes sparkled, "Be good, keep your voice down, senior brother will take you to see the excitement, okay?"

I knew he wanted to watch the excitement.

"Okay!" Then I will satisfy his request!

29.

Xie Ling put on a black coat, blending into the dark night, led me up to the roof, and hid between two wall bricks.

Although summer is approaching, Night Breeze should not be underestimated.

He almost pushed me into the robe, leaving only half of my face exposed.

I leaned against the wall and looked into the Baoyu Courtyard. The guardian of the Lingxiao Villa was presenting an apology to the Mu sect master.The martial arts practitioner speaks with a lot of air, even though the nurse deliberately lowered his voice, I can still hear his words clearly on the roof.

"It was a small negligence that allowed this little thief to sneak into the main courtyard of the Mu sect. I ask the sect master to forgive me!"

Master Mu didn't seem to want to say more, and he didn't intend to blame the master, so he twirled his fingers between his eyebrows and pressed twice, and said: "It's okay, it's late at night, I can deal with this person myself, and Mr. Lu will go back to rest earlier stop."

Only then did I see that the thieves mentioned by Lu Huyuan were sticking to the base of the wall on the west side, with their heads lowered, so that people could not see clearly.

Lu Huyuan left the courtyard as he said, and Sister Mu, who was wearing a hood and cloak, came out from under the eaves, walked slowly to the corner, and slapped the man on the face with a raised hand.

Me: "Wow!"

Before he could make a sound in surprise, Xie Ling covered my mouth with his hand.

Master Mu did the unfinished business for me: "Okay, Lingxi."

"Father, it's just a slap." Sister Mu smiled, but she didn't seem to be angry at all, she raised her foot to crush the man's waist with a smile, pinched her chin and fed some kind of pill into it.

God!

Baicaomen is good at medicine, but it doesn't distinguish between medicine and poison. Sister Mu is the best in poisoning in the school.

Sure enough, the man became angry and tried to use his internal force to force out the pill he had just swallowed, but to no avail.

and many more……

Do ordinary little thieves have such internal strength?

He still covered his face, and said angrily: "It was your younger sister who seduced me first! You love what I want, but who knows that she will turn her face and deny her, Mu Lingxi, you have to put your nose on your face!"

I understand.

Well played!

It's just that the voice is a little familiar, and I can't remember where I heard it.

Sister Mu didn't argue with him, she turned to Sect Master Mu and said, "Father, I have a sense of proportion in this matter."

After persuading Master Mu to go away, she bent down slightly, and said in a cold voice: "You decide first, whether this matter will be brought to Uncle Guo's place, or settled with me."

Uncle Guo...

I took Xie Ling's left hand and wrote two extremely simple characters on his palm.

Liuhe.

Xie Ling nodded.

I know who this man is.

Gong Rucheng, a disciple of Head Guo of Liuhe Sect and the husband of the only daughter of Head Guo.

His wife was five months pregnant and had limited mobility, so she stayed in the sect and never came to Lingxiao Mountain Villa with her father and husband.

Gong Rucheng spat and said bitterly, "How do you want to end it?"

Hearing this, I lost interest in continuing to listen.

I squeezed Xie Ling's index finger, turned around in his arms with difficulty, and signaled with my eyes: "Go back."

30.

It turns out that the corner of the wall is not so pleasant. The two of us returned to the room, quietly turned off the lights, and rested one after another, but the two of us tossed and turned together tacitly, making it difficult to fall asleep.

I turned to face Xie Ling: "I knew I wouldn't eavesdrop."

Xie Ling said, "There are so many people in the world who knew earlier."

I said, "His wife and he are childhood sweethearts, brothers and sisters."

Xie Ling said, "I know."

I said, "His wife is pregnant."

Xie Ling said, "I know."

Me: "...it's very wrong for him to do this."

Xie Ling stretched out his hand from under the quilt and rubbed my head, saying: "Axue, act as if you didn't see anything tonight, you fell asleep half an hour ago, do you know that?"

"Understood." I flattened my mouth, "But I still feel..."

What do you think, I can't express clearly, but Xie Ling understands what I mean.It's such an advantage to be with me since I was a child. If I don't say it clearly, he can understand my thoughts.

I arched towards him, Xie Ling raised his arms and pulled me closer.

I couldn't sleep either, so I said slowly, "Brother Ling, I think you are not the same as before."

"What?" He looked a little nervous and asked, "What's different?"

In terms of habitual temperament, Xie Ling is naturally the fourth senior brother I am familiar with.But for some reason, he is... much more mature than before, for example, he doesn't get angry with the third senior brother, and he doesn't play tricks on me anymore.

I shook my head: "It's not good to say, but there's nothing wrong with that."

Xie Ling paused for a moment, tucked the corner of the quilt tightly, and asked seemingly unintentionally: "Axue, do you like me now?"

Ugh.

How old are you? If you like it or not all day long, you are ashamed.

When I was complaining in my heart, I briefly ignored the few words I had chatted with the third senior brother a few days ago.

Now I was ashamed to show my emotions again, buried my head in front of his skirt and pretended to be deaf and dumb.

Different.The third senior brother needs other people's concern for him. If he is not straightforward, he will not understand.But Xie Ling and I have grown up fighting and fighting together for so many years, it is quite embarrassing for me to express to him that I like him as a senior brother.

"Sleep, Axue." Xie Ling couldn't wait for my reply for a long time, as if nothing had happened, he changed his words and urged me to sleep.

This is one of the signs of his sudden sensibility.

If it were the same as before, if he couldn't get the answer out of my mouth, he would definitely not let me go, and he would have to force me to give in to him.

Xie Ling has learned to give in, although there is nothing wrong with it, but I just can't stand him like this.

I took a small breath, and said helplessly: "Why are you so hypocritical, grab a random disciple in Cuifeng Mountain and ask, everyone knows, I like you the most, Fourth Senior Brother."

There was only the sound of breathing in the room for a while, I think Xie Ling should be satisfied, but he also realized how embarrassing the question just now was.

The long silence brought me tiredness, I grabbed the soft brocade quilt and pulled it up, slowly closing my eyes.

Half asleep and half awake, I heard an indistinct voice, "Grow up quickly, my little Axue."