It was just after noon after eating, Yinqi always felt bored sitting in the tent, and seeing that the swelling in his eyes had almost disappeared, he planned to go out to get some air.Liu Yun, who was also suffocating in the tent with him, was more excited than him, snorting nonstop, pulling his clothes outside, which made Yin Qi chuckle and rubbed it Big head: "Okay, I don't need to go out if my clothes are torn... Shall we go play with the fourth brother?"

"Master, the fourth elder brother is going to the north pasture today. The seventh elder brother was a little tired yesterday, so he didn't go with him. He and the other younger brothers are learning how to shoot and hunt with Master Nalan. Let's also go north. go?"

Tan Lang also went to lead a horse and followed behind, and added a sentence in a timely manner when he heard the words.Yin Qi nodded, then suddenly chuckled and said, "I heard that your accent seems to be from the capital city, but if you say you have a Beijing accent, it's just one or two words with such a little meaning—you Did you stay in the capital when you were young?"

"Back to the master, this subordinate is a criminal slave of Xin Zheku. Fortunately, Uncle Xie bought it... When I was young, I heard people around me talk like this. Although I changed a lot when I came to Jiangnan, I still can't get over it. " Tanlang slightly lowered his head and smiled, but what he said made Yinqi's heart tremble slightly: "Xin Zheku? Who is he, and what mistakes did he make?"

"Actually, my subordinates don't know. I just remember that I lived in the village when I was a child. One day, I was working at home with my mother, elder brother, and younger sister. Suddenly, an official came and said that the uncle of the main family broke the law, so he sent us all. I became an official slave." Tanlang smiled lightly, and continued slowly while recalling: "It happened that Mr. Xie was in Beijing at that time, and for some reason, he fell in love with his subordinate's qualifications, and found someone to redeem him for him. In the blink of an eye, ten years have passed—I don’t know if my mother and elder brothers and sisters are okay..."

He didn't look sad at all, as if he had long been used to such a completely involuntary fate.Yinqi frowned slightly when he heard this, but he didn't say much after all, he just pondered for a moment and said: "I'll go back and see what mistakes your master has made, if it's not a big deal, I'll go ask Huang Ama for grace, I am pardoning your family. Don’t make any publicity beforehand, you have to wait for the limelight, I’m not sure that it will be successful, understand?”

Tanlang suddenly raised his head, his usual calm and indifferent expression seemed to suddenly show faint excitement, and he choked up after a long time and said: "Master can have such a heart, Tanlang is grateful..."

"I don't really need to be grateful - I just feel that since I have a good life, I don't want to make people who follow me feel wronged."

Yin Qi smiled lightly, patted him on the shoulder lightly, got on the horse, put his legs between the horse's belly, and headed for the pasture in the north.Greedy Wolf also rode his horse to keep up, still silently guarding behind him as usual, his eyes quickly regained their calmness and vigilance, and carefully inspected every inch of wind and grass in the surrounding area.

——Of course he understands that his identity is originally used as a favor.As long as Yinqi can save their family, it means that he will be loyal to such a master in the future, and the master can naturally trust such a subordinate whose whole family is in his hands .But even if the fact is such a cold reality, for him, it is already a great favor and opportunity.

He has been cultivating martial arts and intensively researching hundreds of schools, and he has been selected as the top among so many children to be cultivated as the core. What he has been aiming at is, isn't it just that one day he can save his family?Ever since he embarked on this path of secret guard, he knew that sooner or later he would be loyal to a person, live and die for him, and use all of himself to protect the peace of such a person—this little master, despite his status, It's a bit special, and the number of times of distress is somehow more than others, but he is still willing and happy to guard such a master.

The two hadn't walked for a long time before they saw the figure of the fourth elder brother Yinzhen from a distance.Seeing that he hadn't stretched his bow and set his arrows, Yinqi urged his horse to run over with confidence, and greeted him with a smile, "fourth brother, how is the harvest?"

"Fifth brother!" When Yinzhen saw him, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly dismounted to meet him, "Why didn't you rest in the tent, are you feeling better?"

"It's been alright, but the butt hurt from the saddle the day before, and I'm hiding in the tent." Yinqi grinned at him and made a strange face, which made Yinzhen couldn't help but chuckle, and was serious again. Rubbing his head gently: "It will be fine if you get used to it slowly, I've been feeling pain for the past two days..."

"Huang Ama also said the same thing. Don't you think I'm thin-skinned and fleshy? No, isn't it just to 'get used to it' today?" Yin Qi replied with a smile, and then said happily She raised the bow in her hand at him, "What is fourth brother doing, can I help you?"

The word of mouth the day before yesterday had been widely circulated, and everyone knew that he had won the imperial coat, so naturally there was no need to bother to search for anything.After thinking for a while, Yinzhen nodded cheerfully, and showed him the spoils in his pocket: "My riding and shooting skills are average, but it is difficult to shoot rabbits. I followed the army and swept two deer and one roe. Another deer and two pheasants were hunted..."

Of course the prey had to be sent back for processing, and he only kept the deer tail, the fangs of the roe deer, and two pheasant tail feathers.Yinqi glanced inside curiously, but was suddenly rushed by the bloody smell, couldn't help but feel a little nauseated, covered his mouth hastily and panted a few times, and couldn't help but think that he had been deliberately ignoring him all the time. of those memories.

That's four human lives... It's not artificial plasma, it's not a dead body played by an actor, it's a living person whose neck was wiped, and he lost his breath in an instant.Warm blood flowed all over the ground, spread over his feet, and stained his clothes—it turns out that death is really nothing more than that simple, as simple as a human thought...

"Fifth brother... Fifth brother, what's wrong?"

Seeing that his complexion turned pale suddenly, Yin Zhen couldn't help holding his body worriedly, and said in a low voice with concern: "If you don't feel well, don't try to be brave. Let's go, I'll accompany you back."

"Fourth brother." Yin Qi suddenly grabbed his wrist, looked at him fixedly, and said in a low voice after a while: "I killed four people... four living people."

Yinzhen couldn't help being slightly startled, frowned and helped him to sit down on the grass beside him, then slowed down his voice and said, "Who are those four people?"

"Four assassins..." Yin Qi smiled wryly, and rubbed his face vigorously with his hands, "I didn't feel anything when I started, and after that... I know they deserve to die, but that's also four lives, I How can you not feel it?"

Yinzhen didn't know what happened that day, but first there was a big fire, then the mountain was closed, and the message that should have been passed on had already been widely circulated.Hearing the slightly trembling voice of this younger brother, he subconsciously grasped Yin Qi's cold hand, stroked his back and said in a low voice: "Since you are an assassin, you should die with more than guilt—fifth brother, you did nothing wrong .”

"I know... it's just that I still have lingering fears." Yin Qi smiled helplessly, but suddenly woke up—these words are the same as his own, who grew up in the deep palace and was used to beating and killing slaves. The fourth brother who ruined his life said, I'm afraid it's really too hypocritical.

This is not the modern society in his previous life where the legal system was sound and everyone was equal, but the Qing Dynasty where the lives of ordinary people were as low as grass.The Tanlang family could be fined and confiscated as official slaves for no reason because of the master's involvement, but such a calamity couldn't make them have the slightest sense of injustice and resistance, so they could only endure it silently.And these four assassins died at his hands, no matter in the eyes of Huang Ama, or the fourth brother, or even in the eyes of his kind and upright master, I'm afraid it's really nothing. Son, I even want to praise a decisive, heroic, youthful demeanor.

But—this feeling is indeed not very pleasant...

With a helpless wry smile in his heart, Yin Qi silently thought about whether he should find a temple to worship to clear his heart when he went back, then he cheered up and shook his head with a smile: "It's okay, it's the first time I met this This kind of thing, my heart is still a little numb... just don't think about it. Let's go, fourth brother, let's go hunting."

Just as he was talking, he tried to stand up with support, but it seemed that he was pressing on something warm and fluffy.Turning his head to look in amazement, it turned out to be a big chubby rabbit lying comfortably beside him. Seeing him looking over, he slapped his three-petaled mouth twice and stretched out his mouth in a friendly manner. The long ears indicated that he could touch them.

"..." Even though he has long been used to his inexplicable way of inviting animals to get close to him, Yin Qi still feels that this reality is a bit unreal.Dazedly, he hugged the big rabbit with great effort, and shook his front paws at Yinzhen who was also stunned: "Fourth brother...do you want to fight?"

"... Let it go."

Yinzhen struggled for a long while, but at last shame got the upper hand, and he covered his face in pain and sighed softly: "Fifth Brother, don't take part in hunting in the future."

——It sounds like he cheated, how wronged he is!Yinqi angrily threw the rabbit to the ground, patted his clothes and jumped up: "I don't care, the ones that come together are mine anyway——Shooting didn't say that they can't keep alive, I'll take them home and raise them!"

"Then Changchun Garden will be in trouble..." Yinzhen couldn't help shivering, watching his younger brother pick up the rabbit and stuff it into the arms of the guard behind him, he suddenly felt I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to hunt any prey smoothly today.

"From today onwards, you'll be called Liu Shitou, do you listen?" He nodded the rabbit's head in satisfaction. Finally, a new member used the vulgar and ingenious name that he had reserved a long time ago. Undoubtedly, elder brother felt very relieved, "Tanlang, do you recognize the male and female?"

Greedy Wolf neatly held the rabbit's four paws to look it over, and said calmly, "Master."

"Let's go, pick up another female, it's called Liu Jianzi. In the future, a litter of Xiaobu will be raised in my master's yard..."

Yin Zhen stared dumbfounded at this younger brother who suddenly became excited, pinched his arm vigorously, and his complexion became visibly distorted.

not a dream...

——That's it, but in one afternoon, the dazed fourth elder brother followed his younger brother to pick up two rabbits, a doe and a fawn, and a group of wild goats with the same dazed expression.

"It's a bit troublesome to take this back..." Yin Qi looked at the group of goats, turned around and poked his fourth brother who was in a daze, "Why don't I hide and ask Greedy Wolf to scare them and run away?" When you got up, you shot two arrows by the way?"

"Fifth brother..." Yinzhen took a deep breath, looked at the innocent younger brother in front of him with deep pain, and finally said resolutely: "In the future, you should not come for hunting."

Yinqi looked at the appearance of his fourth brother, who was rigorous and self-sustaining, being forced to be helpless, and finally couldn't help picking the corners of his lips, and bent down laughingly——after all this nonsense, he was originally stuck in his heart The depression finally disappeared a lot.What's even more strange is that his fourth brother knew that he was using the introduction to vent his anger, but he was willing to accompany him to mess around. Although his expression was still serious, it was coupled with the painful entanglement of seeing a group of prey coming to his door and being too embarrassed to make a move. , No matter how you look at it, people can't help but laugh out loud.

Yinzhen looked at the younger brother's clean smiling face, and saw that the haze in those eyes had finally dissipated, but he couldn't help but secretly heaved a sigh of relief, and rubbed his head with a light smile: "Come on, let's go back." ——I must have that deer, and if you hadn't made trouble, I would have shot it."

"Okay, but the deer has to be kept for me..." Yinqi responded casually, but his eyes suddenly lit up, he tugged Yinzhen's wrist and said with a smile: "Fourth brother——I have an idea!"

Yinzhen couldn't help being slightly startled, and looked blankly at this younger brother who suddenly became excited for some reason: "Any ideas?"

"You keep both the doe and the fawn, and send them back to Empress Depin, and say that you can't bear to separate them... No, you don't need to say anything, just say that you are filial to your empress. Seeing it, I should understand." Yin Qi thought about it, and at the same time gave him an idea with great interest, "I will ask Er Niang to help me to say a few more words later, as long as I have this kind of thought, I will be able to speak freely of."

Yinzhen was stunned for a long while, and finally lowered his eyes slightly, raised his hand and gently hugged the younger brother in his arms, a warm azure suddenly appeared in his eyes: "Fifth brother, thank you..."

If it wasn't for such a younger brother—he might have felt that he had been completely abandoned by everyone in this world.But now he has several good brothers who are close to him, and the servants around him no longer respect and fear him so much, and the relationship with Er Niang finally sees a chance to ease... Somehow, it seems that as long as With this younger brother around, everything that had been gloomy suddenly seemed not so bad, and even saw a little bit of improvement.

Yin Qi smiled lightly, hugged his little brother vigorously, took his hand and walked back together: "Let's go, we're going back."

Before everything starts—at least when the brothers can treat each other with sincerity and get along with each other without any scruples, let him try his best to help this little brother live a better life , a little better.

The two brothers talked and laughed and walked forward, but the greedy wolf who followed behind was overwhelmed with holding the rabbit full of arms, and even distractedly led the two deer, one big and one small. For a moment, they only felt that the job of the hidden guard was really difficult There are many challenges, and there seems to be a considerable deviation from the content taught by the master back then.

"You guys just came back from hunting?" Lian Zhen appeared out of nowhere, leaning over to tease the fawn with great interest.Tanlang thought carefully about what he had done this afternoon, but his expression couldn't help becoming more subtle: "That's right... Hurry up and hug one, the master is going back to take care of it."

"Rabbits may be born, and they can grow a yard in ten and a half months, and they can't finish eating."

Lian Zhen took a rabbit from his arms and rubbed the long snow-white ears.Tanlang thought that Changchun Garden would be full of big and small rabbits by then, so he couldn't help but shivered violently, hesitatingly said: "Or... just eat a few more times? Seeing that it will be Zhongqiu, how many more?" Is it enough to return to the meat pot?"

"...ha." Lian Zhen laughed inexplicably, and suddenly said: "I didn't steal the whip, so I asked someone to throw it away."

"Ah?" Greedy Wolf, who was still worried about the rabbit, responded subconsciously and confusedly, only then did he realize that this companion who had always gone his own way was actually talking about something serious, and hurriedly tugged his sleeve: "Wait back Said, the master is chatting with the fourth elder brother."

"It's okay, the fourth brother has to go back to Daying to pay the bill, so I told him to leave first."

As soon as he raised his head, Yinqi came back from the front, leaned over to tease the naive little deer, chuckled casually and said in a low voice: "If you want to cover up, I really think you can cover the sky with one hand... Greedy wolf, how about you?" Do you still remember the looks of the guards surrounding the prince that day?"

"Return to the master, the subordinates will remember." Tanlang leaned over to answer, and his expression became serious, "Master, do you want the subordinates to investigate their origins?"

"Don't check it out, and try not to let anyone find out."

A gleam flashed in Yinqi's eyes, but the corners of his lips curled up a little playfully.He clearly remembered the panic that flashed across his eyes when Mingzhu left that day.At that time, I thought it was for Kangxi, so I went to inspect the defense on the first day of the hunt, but who knew that he was asked to save the prince by accident—in this way, the Pearl University scholar might be afraid Or should he be regarded as a thorn in the side, a thorn in the flesh...

The two prime ministers who were at odds with each other at the time made him mess up all at once, but they were really capable enough.Yin Qi shook his head and smiled helplessly, clapped his hands and stood up to speak, but saw Liang Jiugong running over from a distance, and bowed respectfully as soon as he saw him, "Brother, why did you run out by yourself? Long live Where can I find you to go back for dinner..."

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