"marry" to your nemesis

Before Tang Xiao could react, she heard the old man say with a smile and kindness, "This is my granddaughter Ayao."

When he got to A Yao's side, the old man pointed to Tang Xiao and introduced, "I picked this up on the road, and I'll play with you here for two days."

???

Whatever you say...

Tang Xiao didn't bother to explain.

She walked to A Yao's side slowly, and extended her hand in a friendly manner, "I'm Tang Xiao, you can call me—"

Before Tang Xiao could finish speaking, the girl sitting in the wheelchair turned the wheelchair without saying anything, and then went straight to the house.

Tang Xiao was left alone while the old man stood outside, turbulent in the wind.

Fortunately, with the rustling sound of the bamboo sea against it, it is not particularly embarrassing.

"Cough! I'm going to have a look at the wine I made before." The old man made an excuse to slip away.

Tang Xiao was the only one left.

According to the previous agreement, the old man said that as long as she can make A Yao open her mouth to speak, she can learn what the old man has learned all her life, and she can also leave here.

……

Tang Xiao didn't know what the old man had learned all his life.

She didn't really care either.

But if he could leave here, a fire of hope would be ignited in Tang Xiao's heart.

Thinking of helping A Yao to cure her silence, Tang Xiao glanced at the back room, and then boldly walked in.

The inside is not big, there are only three rooms in total.

A Yao was in a room, took a piece of stone and didn't know what she was doing.

Tang Xiao walked over and saw that A Yao had drawn a mark on the bamboo wall, and there were already seven or eight similar marks on that mark.

Look, it's kind of weird.

At this time, A Yao seemed to feel that something was wrong, so she took the stone flake in her hand and drew two lines on top of the original mark, and then drew the same mark in another open place.

???

People who don't speak, sure enough, their behavior is somewhat incomprehensible.

After Tang Xiao secretly slandered the basis, she decided to finish what she had just said.

She stepped forward, first with a friendly smile, and then she just opened her mouth, without even making a sound, A Yao had already put down the stone, and then turned the wheelchair, directly passing her.

It was as if Tang Xiao didn't exist at all.

"Old man!" When Tang Xiao went to find the old man, the old man was sitting in the bamboo forest, drinking happily.

Tang Xiao rushed over with a dark face, "Old man, tell me the truth, is your granddaughter not only unable to speak, but also blind!"

The old man was startled, then smiled, "She has that temper, otherwise why would I ask you?"

"..."

What this said was true, if it was just an easy task, there was no need for the old man to block up what he had learned all his life and help her so much.

"Then...then are you sure she can talk?" Tang Xiao was deeply skeptical.

The old man put one hand behind his back and recalled, "Yes! Three years ago, she still talked."

Another three years!

Tang Xiao couldn't help frowning, but quickly suppressed the unreasonable irritability in his heart.

She asked, "Then what happened to stop her from talking?"

"It happened..." the old man's voice broke off.

Bamboo leaves are rustling, a little demure.

But Tang Xiao clearly saw the old man's eyes turbulent for a while, and finally the old man returned to his previous indifferent look, and said with a smile, "It's just a small accident."

"..."

trust you?

Ah.

Tang Xiao sneered from the bottom of his heart.

But since the old man didn't want to talk, she didn't ask.

She sat cross-legged beside the old man and picked up a jug of wine beside her.

"No! It's ten years old."

The old man was very mean.

Tang Xiao put down the one in his hand, and picked up a jar next to it that looked newer, and the old man didn't say anything.

After taking a sip of wine, Tang Xiao happily followed the old man to admire the bamboo forest in front of him.

Listening to the sound of bamboo leaves, Tang Xiao felt extraordinarily calm.

All kinds of things in the past, now it seems that they are like clouds and mist in the past, general, ethereal and fleeting.

"Aren't you going to accompany A Yao?"

"She is reading and I want to disturb her."

"...Then you don't want to leave here quickly and go find your family?"

"Think." Tang Xiao fell backwards, the dead bamboo leaves on the ground were soft and fluffy with a unique fragrance.

Looking at the white clouds in the sky, she said calmly, "But there are some things that cannot be rushed."

And what the old man said before was right, she had caused so much trouble to her parents before, now she must work hard to protect them when she goes back, so that they can enjoy a piece of happiness.

If you want to be able to give them comfort, you have to make yourself stronger.

Otherwise, they can only let them bully.

It was as if the Eldest Princess wanted to take away the property of the Tang family before, but the reason why the elder brother could only give it up was because they were too weak and could only be bullied.

So Tang Xiao has already made up his mind, let go of the mood of slacking off studying, resume the exercises taught by his master that day, and study hard.

Anyway, the scenery here is beautiful and quiet, which is very suitable for martial arts.

"Girl, aren't you thinking about running away..." The old man gave Tang Xiao a suspicious look.

Tang smiled and opened his mouth, "Of course not! Besides, with your treachery and cunning, you should have already figured out a way to deal with me."

"When..." The old man was proud of himself, but it suddenly occurred to him that Tang Xiao didn't seem to be praising him.

"You stinky girl."

A Yao is really a very strange person, she wakes up very early every day, at least earlier than Tang Xiao.

Because every morning after Tang laughed, she would see A Yao sitting alone in the yard, looking at the bamboo forest and the sky.

I don't even know what to think.

What's even more strange is that although the old man and A Yao are grandparents and grandchildren, they live their own lives and don't even eat together!

A Yao is a vegetarian, and the old man eats all kinds of wine and meat. The lives of the two of them are like people in two towns separated by thousands of mountains.

Even if there is a rare chance to get together, the old man wants to say a few words to A Yao, A Yao still looks like he can't see anyone, and walks away directly.

It seems that A Yao's stinky fart is not aimed at Tang Xiao.

Tang Xiao immediately expressed his relief.

After a long time, Tang Xiao gradually accepted the life in front of her.

When A Yao wasn't reading, Tang Xiao leaned over and told her about the stupid things he had done in Yuyang City before.

Tang Xiao could tell that although A Yao didn't speak, she was listening carefully.

Time passed quickly, and when the spring rain splashed, a lot of bamboo shoots emerged from the bamboo forest, and the small sharp ones were very cute.

When Tang Xiao pushed A Yao out for a walk, she settled A Yao on the hillside, and then went to work in the field wielding a hoe.

"These bamboo shoots must be delicious after stewing in oil!" Tang Xiao said to himself as usual while digging the bamboo shoots, "I will pickle some bamboo shoots with salt at night, it will definitely be delicious!"

Back then, Tang Xiao was still a person who didn't touch the spring water with his fingers, and knew how to set fire in the kitchen all day long.

Now she has learned a good cooking skill from the old man.

For a moment, Tang Xiao deeply suspected that what the old man had learned all his life might be cooking.

Thinking about it, the corners of Tang Xiao's mouth couldn't help but curl up.

And at this moment, she suddenly heard a soft and short exclamation, "Be careful!"

Tang Xiao was shocked, and looked quickly, only to find that there was a poisonous snake only three feet away from her!

But fortunately, she reacted quickly, and quickly threw away the tip in her hand.

With the inside, it hits the spot.

Tang Xiao heaved a sigh of relief, but then she couldn't help turning her head curiously, and looked at A Yao who was sitting not far away.

A Yao sat there quietly, her moon-white long skirt swaying gently in the breeze, her soft and beautiful face unique to southern women was nothing but calm and nothing else.

"You... just spoke?" Tang Xiao picked up his head and walked over.

silent.

"I seem to hear someone talking to me just now, is it you?"

silent.

"Maybe I didn't sleep well last night and had hallucinations..."

Tang Xiao scratched his head and looked at A Yao suspiciously.

But A Yao just acted like she didn't hear anything.

never mind!

At night, Tang Xiao sent the braised bamboo shoots that she and A Yao had left over to the old man.

The old man is either drinking or on the way to drink.

Now it's night, he is leaning against the gazebo while spraying the wine jar, drinking well.

Tang Xiao threw away the dishes and went straight to the point, "I heard Ah Yao talking today."

The old man, who was dizzy with two bouts of alcohol, sat up all of a sudden, "What!"

Tang Xiao was calm, and repeated it again, "I heard A Yao talking, and she told me to be careful."

"Really? Did you hear me right?" The old man asked suspiciously, "You didn't want to leave here quickly, or let me teach you what I have learned all my life, so you deceived me!"

"..."

Who is as small-bellied as you!

Tang Xiao couldn't help rolling his eyes, "I heard it, but... But Ayao didn't admit it, I guess she just saw that I was about to be bitten by a snake, so she spoke out of desperation."

The old man curled his lips, but still had a look of disbelief, "When the old man was almost crushed to death by a tree, I didn't see her say a word... I think you just have an impure mind. You're making up nonsense."

"..."

Old stuff, why are you so annoying!

Got it!

Do not believe it!

Tang Xiao rolled his eyes, turned and left.

And the person who had been staying in the dark all this time and didn't show up secretly clenched his lips at this time, and his bony fingers tightly squeezed the handles on both sides of the wheelchair.

In those pupils that were originally calm and always water-like, some inconspicuous emotions were surging.

The next day, Tang Xiao thought about taking A Yao to a town not far away, and bought some peppers to pickle bamboo shoots by the way.

In the end, she packed everything up and was about to go out, but she saw A Yao was already waiting for her outside her room door.

And there was a hoe in front of A Yao's wheelchair.

"What?" Tang Xiao bent down and picked up the hoe, "Do you want me to accompany you to dig bamboo shoots again?"

A Yao nodded.

Tang Xiao suddenly smiled as if he had been blessed.

You know, before this, A Yao's attitude towards her has always been to pretend that she is not there!

"Then have you thought about where to dig?"

A Yao pointed to the outside again.

Tang Xiao happily pushed A Yao out.

Even if everything she heard yesterday was just fantasy, but Ayao's reaction today is already a great breakthrough!

Tang Xiao happily walked towards the depths of the bamboo forest in the direction A Yao pointed.

After walking for some time, Tang Xiao couldn't help frowning as he looked at the gradually clearing woods.

"Isn't it there yet?" Tang Xiao felt as if there was almost no bamboo in front of him.

A Yao shook her head.

Tang Xiao could only push her to move forward, and there was no bamboo in front of him, only a dense forest.

A Yao asked her to move on, and Tang Xiao continued on.

After bending for countless times, A Yao suddenly grabbed Tang Xiao.

Tang Xiao stopped and waited for A Yao.

A Yao stretched out her hand, and with a slender finger, she pointed not far away.

Tang Xiao looked over her fingertips, and saw that the soil in the open space in front of her was a little loose, as if...as if it had been turned over by someone.

"You asked me to dig there?" Tang Xiao had no idea what Ayao was thinking.

As a result, A Yao nodded, confirming Tang Xiao's conjecture.

Although Tang Xiao found it strange, since A Yao said it, she followed suit.

So he stepped forward, Tang Xiao hummed three hoes.

And when she went down with the fourth hoe, she suddenly felt as if she had hit something.

After taking back the hoe, he looked into the pit.

There seems to be a white thing between the yellow soil and rocks.

Even though Tang Xiaodang frowned, she didn't stop, but swung her hoe down again.

That section of white stretches out, and then another section emerges.

At this moment, Tang Xiao was quite sure what was buried under these earth and rocks.

"Why did you bring me here to dig up these human bones?" Tang Xiao could see that the bones were thick and long, which were not found in ordinary animals.And there are no ferocious beasts in the nearby mountains and forests, so such bones should be human.

"You are the tenth." A Yao slightly raised her eyes, her eyelashes flickering like wings.The warm sunshine fell on her body, coupled with her gentle appearance like water, she looked very compassionate.

It's just that A Yao's words made Tang Xiao's back feel a little chilled.

"What is the tenth?" Tang Xiao silently put down the hoe in his hand and walked towards A Yao.

A Yao didn't have any expression on her face, but she looked very cute and gentle, making it hard to be wary at all.

As Tang Xiao approached, A Yao raised her head and faced Tang Xiao directly.

And this is the first time that Tang Xiao faces A Yao directly at such a close distance. In the past, she only thought that A Yao looked good-looking and well-behaved. Now when she got closer, she realized that A Yao's facial features are very delicate.

In her memory, she was only... just a little worse than someone.

That familiar face quickly passed through Tang Xiao's mind, making Tang Xiao startled for a moment.

But soon she came back to her senses, looked at A Yao and asked, "What is the tenth?"

"The tenth he brought back."

"..."

Tang Xiao pondered A Yao's words seriously and carefully, her heart trembled, but she tried her best to restrain herself and said, "What about the first nine?"

This time, A Yao didn't speak, she just raised the corners of her lips and smiled.

That kind of smile is pure and flawless, but through the warm sunlight, Tang Xiao can clearly see A Yao's eyes.Those clear eyes were still kind and charming, but there was no trace of a smile inside.

On the contrary, Tang Xiao even sensed a hint of danger.

Then in the next moment, Tang Xiao saw A Yao raised her arm and pointed to the pit behind her.

At that moment, Tang Xiao felt as if he had returned to Yuyang City, standing alone in the snow, every inch of her skin was so cold that she shivered.

Seeing Tang Xiao's frightened expression, A Yao put down the corners of her lips in satisfaction, then turned the wheel of the wheelchair with both hands, and was about to leave.

As a result, the next moment, a pair of strong hands grabbed the wheelchair.

After A Yao felt the person behind her, she couldn't help frowning, but then she gently opened her lips and said softly, "Did he promise you that as long as I speak, he will let you go, and And teach you everything he has learned all his life?"

Tang Xiao fell silent.

"He said the same thing before, so... If you go back with me, it is very likely that you will be buried here in a few days."

"..."

I knew that old man could not be trusted.

It's just that Tang Xiao really doesn't understand. She said before that she would give him her life, and it's fine if he doesn't accept it. She also said a lot of things that made her think about her family and what she could do for her. What does the family do...

Since it's fatal, wouldn't it be better to take it earlier?

Tang Xiao had doubts in his heart, but he didn't say anything.He just looked down at A Yao and said, "Are you tired, I'll push you back first."

"Don't you understand?" Ayaoka slammed the wheels of the wheelchair, and shock appeared in her originally calm eyes, "Come back with me now, you will die! So hurry up now, the farther you go The better!"

"I don't trust you alone."

"..." A Yao's body froze obviously, but then she shook her head, "I've lived here for three years, don't worry about it!"

This time, her tone was very strong.

Tang Xiao really didn't know how he had offended her. He only thought that people with physical disabilities would be more prone to emotional ups and downs at certain times.

She continued to speak softly, "You're too tired to go back by yourself, so let me push you back."

After that, no matter what A Yao said, Tang Xiao insisted on pushing the wheelchair and walked towards the bamboo house.

When I went back, the old man was drying herbs in the yard.

"Hey, where did you go around and come back?" The old man asked casually without raising his eyelids.

"I went to the back mountain." A gentle voice sounded like a trickle of water.

The old man, who was still flipping the herbs, suddenly stood still.

"You..." He turned his head in disbelief, as if everything just now was just an illusion.

A Yao blinked, and ignored the old man's astonishment, but turned her head slightly, glanced at Tang Xiao's half body, then lifted her mouth, and asked in a calm and breezy voice, "I Now speak, and you can teach her what you have learned all your life, and let her go."

After finishing speaking, she ignored the old man and Tang Xiao, and went back to the house alone.

In the yard, the old man was still in shock.But Tang Xiao stood there in embarrassment, neither advancing nor retreating.

After a long time, the old man clapped his hands, scratched his gray hair, walked up to Tang Xiao, and asked in a low voice, "You...what did you do to make her speak?"

"I didn't do anything." Tang Xiao explained in a low voice, "I went to the back mountain to dig a grave."

"Grave?" The old man realized something after reacting for a while, "What are you doing digging that thing!"

"She said there were nine people before me, all buried there." Tang Xiao said what happened just now very seriously.

In the end, the old man couldn't tell whether to laugh or cry, "What a mess, it was the corpse I dug up before, and I made a puppet to entertain her. She didn't like it, so I smashed it all up. I really had no choice but to bury it all in the back mountain .”

"..."

If the old man said that those few were living people, Tang Xiao could still accept it.

But now the old man actually said that he dug up the corpse to make a puppet, so...

"Didn't I tell you before that I dug up the corpse to test the medicine? This so-called medicine! It's just a thing to solve her heart disease." The old man secretly pointed to the bamboo house behind him, "I don't I know what she's thinking, and I've found girls for her before, and I didn't know why, and they were all scared away. I really couldn't help it, so I thought about making some dummy to accompany her, but she smashed them all. .”

After finishing speaking, the old man showed a helpless expression on his face.

And Tang Xiao couldn't help but twitched the corner of his mouth after listening to this passage.

"Dare to ask... what exactly have you learned all your life?" Tang Xiao has been curious about this for a long time. She found that the old man knows medicine, cooks, and maybe some astrology, but the thing he knows best is drinking.

As a result, the old man glanced at Tang Xiao, and then said in a reasonable tone, "Mechanism..."

Mechanism?

Isn't it a kind of thing specially used for fun?

"Craft work..." Tang Xiao pondered carefully, "I really don't think it's suitable."

It was only later that Tang Xiao realized that the old man's organ technique was indeed related to craftsmanship, but it involved various aspects, including medical skills, military techniques, and astrology.

All in all, it's complicated.

Tang Xiao is still unfamiliar with the exercises now, so she really has no intention of learning them, and what she cares most about at this time is not what the old man has learned all his life, but——

Tang Xiao looked at the bamboo house behind the old man, couldn't help but frowned slightly, and wanted to say that A Yao should know the old man's affairs very well, but she deliberately lied to her just now.

why?

In order to make her leave quickly?

Or maybe for...

Suddenly, Tang Xiao remembered what he had done and said in front of Feng Ling.

Once upon a time, she also used irony to cover up her longing.

"Actually, you don't want me to go, do you?" When Tang Xiao walked into the room, A Yao was sorting out the books in the room.

The stacks of books were removed from the cabinet by A Yao, and put on them one by one.

Looking at the silent A Yao, Tang Xiao walked over and helped her stack all the books.

But facing the neat bookshelves, A Yao frowned.

"Why don't you leave?" A Yao turned her back, "Didn't he agree to let you go?"

"..." Tang Xiao laughed, "I... thought about it, and found that I have no place to go, so maybe I will stay here for a while, do you agree?"

A Yao pursed her lips, blinked her eyes, and said nothing.It's just that her hand that was placed on the wheelchair was suddenly clenched, and her round joints were suddenly tightened, showing a little paleness.

"If you don't speak, I will take it as your agreement." Tang Xiao spoke up behind her.

After a long time, the thin figure moved slightly.

"Annoying!" The gentle tone contained a hint of coquettishness, and it was said from the mouth that always seemed to have a kind of otherworldliness, but it had a special flavor.

Tang Xiao couldn't help laughing, "Actually, there is one thing I don't quite understand. The old man said that he had found you a few girls before, but you didn't like them. He thought you didn't like living people who could talk, and thought I made a few puppets in human skin for you, but you smashed them all, why now——you suddenly spoke?"

After the words fell, A Yao raised her head and stared at Tang Xiao for a long time.

Suddenly, she curled her lips, turned around and picked up the writing brush and rice paper on the table.

Tang Xiao took it as her reluctance to speak out, so he didn't ask.

And just when she was about to leave, she heard the soft female voice murmur secretly from behind——

"I don't like them because they are too ugly."

"..."

So, Ayao was praising her for... good-looking?

Tang Xiao suddenly felt happy physically and mentally.

It's not because of A Yao or the old man that Tang Xiao will stay in the bamboo house.

It's that she is half-baked in everything now, even if she gets out of the bamboo forest and goes out to mix in the rivers and lakes, she is just a second- and third-rate stuff, not a good one.

Right now, the most important thing is to study the exercises well and make up for all the slack in the past.

The bamboo house is delicious and delicious, and the old man Nian spared no effort to teach Tang Xiao because Tang Xiao actually pried A Yao's mouth open.

Tang Xiao didn't intend to be an organ, but he was somewhat interested in medical theory, so he learned some.

In a blink of an eye, spring passed quickly.

In the scorching summer, Tang Xiao thought about buying some melons and fruits to go home, and then chilling them in a pool not far from the bamboo forest to relieve the heat.In addition, I bought some wine to go back, so Tang Xiao pushed A Yao and went to Los Angeles together.

Entered the city and bought something.

Tang Xiao's hot feeling was about to melt, so he ordered a pot of tea at the herbal tea stand.

As soon as she sat down, she saw a group of people walking towards the Luocheng government office with a cart of things.

The wheels are rolling, and the momentum is huge.

A few guests who liked to join in the fun couldn't help talking about it——

"I heard that the eldest princess killed several corrupt officials a few days ago, and these boxes contained the gold and silver found in the homes of those corrupt officials!"

"What's not to be greedy? Officials in the world are generally black, and even the eldest princess is not a good thing. You said that you killed so many corrupt officials and took so much money, but you didn't see it for us. Even reducing exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes... There is no such thing as trivial matters—what is the difference between killing and not killing?"

"When you are a member of the royal family, don't you know that these officials are greedy? They just turn a blind eye to raise pigs. When the pigs are fat and full, it's time to kill the pigs. At that time, everything is still there. Aren’t they all from the royal family? In the final analysis, it’s just using other people’s hands to squeeze us poor people.”

……

Listening to those people's discussion, Tang Xiao couldn't help frowning.

The past events are vivid in my memory, this eldest princess is really a living Shura who cannibalizes people without spitting out bones!

"Do you know those people?" A gentle voice like flowing water flowed past.

Tang Xiao came back to his senses, pursed his lips and did not speak.

"I heard from grandpa that you lived in Yuyang City before."

"Ah."

"Is that the eldest princess they are talking about?"

"..."

A Yao is very smart, she can't hide anything from her.

"It seems that you really hate that eldest princess." A Yao picked up the teacup, took a sip, and looked elegant, no matter how you look at it, she looks like a lady of a beautiful and intelligent family.

But she didn't want to think about it for a second, she suddenly lowered her eyes, and said calmly, "Why don't we go and rob those tribute money."

"Clap!"

The tea cup in Tang Xiao's hand fell, and the tea spilled all over the table.

And she looked at A Yao, and found that A Yao's face was calm, and she didn't seem to be joking at all.

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