a ruthless swordsman

54.

I tremblingly avoided Xie Ling's sight, and found Sister Mu on the other side of the ring.

Fortunately, she was a straightforward person, and she agreed as soon as she heard it. She never asked me the name of the person who asked her for treatment, who came from which sect, and directly asked me to follow her to Baoyuyuan.

It is inconvenient for outsiders to know about my daughter's consultation. Although the two of them treat me as a child, I can't lose my courtesy.

Nanke Courtyard is next to Baoyu Courtyard, so I sneaked back into the courtyard, but as soon as I entered the door, my head bumped into a warm and undulating body.

Xuehong behind Xie Ling hadn't been untied yet, he must have just arrived in the courtyard not long ago, his chest heaved slightly, he didn't help him when he saw me bump into him, his face was covered with thousands of years of frost and snow, and he looked at me coldly with downcast eyes.

I knew where his resentment came from, so I immediately bowed down and stood up straight, hugged him and said: "Brother Ling, I just saw you beat that Gong Rucheng, when did you become so good? After a few rounds, he was beaten to the point where he was powerless to fight back."

Xie Ling remained silent, I continued my efforts and dragged him into the room: "With your current level, it is more than enough to be my master, my father will definitely agree to let me practice swords with you."

I closed the door without any hassle, and tried to tell Xie Ling what he liked to hear.

There are a lot of good things to say, and I am a little short of words for a while.

……Ugh.

After a long silence, I pursed my lips, intending to tell him about the events of the previous two days from beginning to end.

Xie Ling suddenly held my hand.

I raised my head to look at him in surprise, his other hand was not idle either, he lifted it up and pinched my ear, and twisted it lightly, as if doing countless punishments.

"Axue, you can go wherever you want and do whatever you want," Xie Ling had a rare calm face, and his voice flowed out slowly like a clear spring, "but promise me, you will never leave without saying goodbye again, okay?"

Before noon, the sun was clear outside the courtyard, the birds and animals raised in the back mountain were chirping, the wing room was full of me jumping up and down to please, but now it is very quiet.

It was as if someone had tied a big rock to my heart, and I was falling heavily. My chest was stuffed with a mess. I wanted to say something, and I could agree to it coquettishly, or give him a serious answer. Xie Ling's black eyes suddenly went dumb.

Two clusters of star-like dazzling flames were hidden under his eyes, emitting fiery light for a long time.

A sense of warmth surged into my heart from my toes, and I couldn't help lowering my head and said, "Okay."

Xie Ling narrowed his eyes and smiled, and returned to his old foolish look. He held my waist up and said lazily, "Tell Senior Brother what you and Li Yanxing did when you sneaked out."

I hurriedly informed him of this matter.

"Brother Ling," I had a lot of doubts in my heart, and I had an idea, "Why do you think sister Cheng doesn't know Senior Brother Lin Qing?"

"It's very simple. Naturally, someone borrowed Lin Qing's name and hid behind him like a turtle."

What he said was what I thought in my heart, and this matter was full of strangeness, and it was closely related to the theft that the third senior brother kept secret. On the contrary, it was covered with a thin layer of mist, and it was difficult to see who replaced whom.

Xie Ling was so unpredictable, but he said: "Don't guess, just ask that girl Cheng, everything will be clear."

55.

"That person is indeed not the Lin Qing I know."

Sister Cheng was decisive, her voice was soft, but her tone of voice was unquestionable.

Her fingers trembled, she was obviously shocked by this fact, her face was as pale as paper after she removed her disguise, and she couldn't stand any further trials.

Sister Mu turned around, and there was an extra pair of prepared medicine in her hand. With a thin thread hooked on her thumb, she handed it to Sister Cheng, interrupting the conversation between the two of us: "I just took a dose of medicine, and I have to wait a while for this medicine in my hand." Wait. Fry for a quarter of an hour, Shen Shi takes it, and as for the rest, come to me after you figure it out.”

"Xuechu, the matter is done for you, how can you thank me?" Sister Mu turned to smile at me.

I racked my brains: "Sister, I learned some woodcarving skills a few days ago, and when it's your birthday..."

"Fool." Sister Mu stretched out her hand to touch my forehead, glanced at Xie Ling, who was standing still like a tree stump, with a smile on her face, and wrote lightly: "Since Xie made that bastard lose a lot of face today. That's enough."

I was taken aback, and Sister Mu had already stepped out the door.

Xie Ling came over and rubbed my head, and said angrily, "How grown up, I still mess with you like when I was a child."

Aren’t you the same, recently you’ve even been kneading me even harder...

Of course, these words taught me to swallow them into my stomach, and I would not spit them out easily.

Xie Ling has a stubborn temper, but his mind is much more sensitive than others, and within half a quarter of an hour of waiting at the side, he had a clear understanding of the ins and outs of the matter.

"Miss Cheng, can you describe the appearance of 'Lin Qing' to my senior brother?"

We both overlooked one important thing.

Sister Cheng is proficient in the art of disguise, so why use words to describe, she brought a pen and paper, and the outline of a man appeared vividly on the paper in two or three strokes.She added a few strokes to draw the eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose more carefully.

The ink was still wet, I stared blankly at the person on the painting, tugged at the corner of Xie Ling's clothes, and murmured: "Fourth senior brother, look at this..."

I recognized the person in the painting at a glance.

So is Xie Ling.

But it is still difficult for me to tell the name on my lips.

56.

Xie Ling was the fourth, and there were three senior brothers before him.

Needless to say, the third senior brother was an enemy with him in the previous life.

The second senior brother passed away a few years ago, but his appearance remained at the age of 15 forever.

The person in the painting has a full sky, light eyebrows, and a gentle appearance by nature.Randomly grab a disciple from Cuifeng Mountain to ask, and they will only get the same answer.

This is Xu Mu, the eldest disciple of the Ruthless Sword Sect Master Chang.

57.

People do have relatives and estrangements, and it's different when this matter falls on senior brother Lin Qing and senior brother Lin Qing.Now that the ungrateful person has changed the name of the elder brother, I am a little incoherent: "Sister Cheng, this..."

She understood, she curled her lips and smiled almost calmly, saying that she had just taken the medicine and it was time to rest now.Clearly driving the two of us out, in fact, paved the way for me to be decent.

Xie Ling dragged the dazed me out of the courtyard gate, turned around and went back to Nanke courtyard.

My mind was still buzzing, and I looked at him: "Could it really be Senior Brother? Why did he borrow Senior Brother Lin Qing's name? Is Senior Brother Lin Qing completely innocent in this?"

Questions came one after another, I knew that Xie Ling couldn't give an answer, but these doubts weighed on my heart.

Xie Ling stroked the back of my head: "It doesn't matter whether it's true or not, I don't think this matter should be alarmed. You and Li Yanxing just caught a glimpse of the dispute between Lin Qing and Min Jin the night before, and someone went to take Miss Cheng's life before dawn. Axue, think carefully about the key to this."

At noon, when the sky was clear and sunny, I was startled and shuddered.

There seems to be a pair of eyes in the dark that can see the whereabouts of everyone in Jianzong. I took another look at the yard and felt hairy all over my body.