beg for chivalry

The yellow grass is flickering, and the cool leaves are rustling.But the street next to Tianhou Temple was bustling with people coming and going, and the clothes turned into a cloud, and a series of fiery shouts flew out from the tent.Straw shoes on cloth shoes, date brown clothes on dark tea shirts, the heat from the bodies of ordinary people in the city is intertwined.Looking at the market, there is an endless stream of cars and horses, and crowds of people.

Zuo Sanniang carefully led the boy by the black clothes corners, and walked through the crowd dodging left and right.Jin Wu walked ahead in silence, seemingly preoccupied, sometimes bumped his shoulder against the shoulder pole carried by the farmer, and sometimes stepped on the hem of the girl's red skirt.Others scolded him, but he remained motionless like a wooden man, just walking erratically, his soul seemed to have been lost to the sky.

Sanniang saw that his eyes were staring straight, staring at the sky in a daze, she quickly followed him, and said with a smile, "Fifth Brother, that white-clothed man was so strange just now."

Jin Wu just replied vaguely: "Yes."

Sanniang said again: "You said he was going to drink, but in the end he didn't even finish a glass of wine. After talking to you a few words, he left in a hurry. Could it be that he wanted to make fun of you? In the end, some jugs of fine wine, A table of delicacies has entered our stomachs."

After the man in white left, the two of them sat in silence for a long time.Sanniang had never seen the delicacies in Haijin Town before, and out of curiosity, she pestered Jin Wu to ask him to order some soup and snacks, and had a good time.Jin Wu, on the other hand, lowered his eyes and was thinking about something, looking out of his wits.

The girl turned her face to look at him, and saw him staring at the jade rabbit-shaped accessory in his hand, turning it over and over again, as if he was checking for some mechanism.

Seeing Sanniang approaching, Jin Wu threw the jade ornament into her arms, and said lightly, "For you."

Sanniang said in amazement: "Didn't the man in white give you this? How could I take it!" She put the jade pendant back into his hand, pouted and said, "Take it! What is the thing they gave you? Can live up to his heart."

Jin Wu threw it to her again: "How can I wait so long?"

His tone was cold, and he said: "How many days? Months? Years? You said that I can guarantee that I will be alive tomorrow, what a joke."

After hearing this, Sanniang couldn't help feeling sour.She thought that dragging the drunken Jin Wu out of Tongle Temple to Haijin for a walk, to see the prosperity of the world, would make him stop thinking about the dead and live with peace of mind, but she didn't expect that he was still alive. In the shadow of Houtianlou, I have never come out.

The girl's footsteps slowed down.They walked one after the other, through the colorful painted walls, and through the stalls selling sugar boxes and rice cakes, and their ears were full of loud and joyful sounds.But Sanniang became more and more sad the more she listened: How did you ever hear these joyous words and laughter in that cold and dead monastery?They have never shown their faces like the people of the world.

She suddenly took Jin Wu's hand.

"...Fifth brother, is it really so difficult to live?"

Her voice was extremely slow and soft, like a ripple on the surface of the water, gliding into Jin Wu's ears.But Jin Wu suddenly lost his mind because of these words, he opened his mouth halfway to look at the girl behind him, only to see a glint of worry in her eyes, like drizzle falling into two clear springs.

Seeing Jin Wu looking at her motionless, Sanniang couldn't help blushing, she turned her eyes and said, "I... I saw many people with erythema plague in the temple. They smashed it and put the blood in a bowl as an offering in front of Guanyin. They also said that after buying the two incense sticks in their hands, they would have no money left and could only eat moldy radish sprouts."

"Do you think they are suffering?" Jin Wu asked.

Sanniang suddenly asked him: "Then do you think you're having a hard time, Fifth Brother?"

Jin Wujiang's eyes sank slightly, "...maybe it's bitter."

It's not just suffering, he often thinks: why do people like himself live in this world?If he is alive, he will do evil to those who are close to him; but if he is dead, there will be a bloodbath.In the end, it is better not to be born.If there was no one like him in the world from the very beginning, it wouldn't hurt others like it is now.

The girl shook her head and stared at him: "But you are still alive, and the anger in your eyes is still alive. But that group of people is different, not only suffering, but they are already dead. The body is still alive, but the heart is dead. I don't wake up."

She twisted her hair with her fingers, and said with a frown, "I made some medicine for them. The disease may be cured, but the heart... can't be cured no matter what."

Seeing her sad expression, Jin Wu twisted his face away, and coughed coldly: "Are you Shui Shiliu in disguise?"

Sanniang didn't know what he meant by his words, she blinked and gave a puzzled look.

Jin Wudao: "The 'Zuo Sanniang' I know is capricious and savage, chasing people with a poisonous needle all day long, extremely vicious. How can he be so sad like now?"

Sanniang was very annoyed when she heard this, she jumped up to scratch him like a cat.After chasing him for a while, he suddenly realized that the annoying ghost was trying to comfort him, so he blushed again. "You can just say the second half of the sentence, why bother to provoke me deliberately in the first half!"

But she was still depressed in her heart, so that the corners of her mouth curled up, unable to cheer up.

Jin Wu took a look at her, and suddenly said casually. "That's right, I owe you a debt, so I shouldn't speak ill of you."

"What debt?" Sanniang asked confusedly.

"Half-Life."

"When did I save you?"

Jin Wu said: "On the day of the Thousand Monks Meeting, you brought blood and bitter fruit."

"This... How did this save your life?" Sanniang couldn't help but frowned when she thought of that night, "Besides, blood bitterness is extremely poisonous, and it's harmful."

"When medicine is used in the wrong place, it is poison, and when poison is used in the right place, it is medicine." Jin Wu put his hands behind his back and walked slowly. "None of the three of us would have survived that day without blood and bitterness."

His eyes dimmed when he said "the three of us".

Sanniang tightened her grip on the corner of her clothes, and suddenly gasped. "I, I don't care about half your life!"

"Do you think this is comforting me? Do you think you are Jin Shiba? Ever since that night, I have been having strange dreams. I dreamed that Jin Shiba was lying in front of me bloody, with a gash in his stomach and all his internal organs. I found it all! He blamed me why I didn't bring any medicine to treat my injuries that day, but I brought some poisonous weeds! I, I..."

While she was talking, crystal clear tears suddenly rolled down from her eyes and hit the white silk skirt.Jin Wu didn't expect that this always coquettish girl would cry like pear blossoms and rain, only then did she realize that she was deeply worried about her failure to save Jin Shiba that day.

Thinking about it carefully, Jin Shiba and San Niang are indeed good friends, and the only one in the whole temple who dares to talk and joke with San Niang is the dead one.

Jin Wu stared blankly at her who was sobbing, and then suddenly realized that he was not the only one who was saddened by Jin Shiba's death.

He thought that Sanniang pulled the depressed him out earlier because he had already forgotten about the day of the Thousand Monks Meeting, and didn't take the passing of Jin Shiba to heart at all, but he never thought that this girl also had great sadness hidden in her heart.

It's just that she is ignorant of the world and doesn't know that this is "sorrow".Sanniang felt her heart was stuffy, her tears were about to fall uncontrollably, and she knew that she would never see the person who would deliberately make faces for her and take care of her like a big brother next door.

Jin Wu asked: "That's why you... went to save those who were suffering from the plague? Do you think this is the only way to be worthy of Jin Shiba?"

Sanniang wiped her tears and said: "What is sorry, how can the dead forgive the living? I will never forgive him for the rest of my life..."

Unexpectedly, she blamed herself so far, Jin Wu sighed softly.He suddenly grabbed Sanniang's hand and walked into the crowd, the girl was led staggeringly forward by him, and the two arrived in Wutong Alley in a short while.The narrow alleys are filled with the sweet smell of sugar, the stone slabs are covered with wet moss from the rain, there are children playing moo with their heads on top of each other, and girls in various jackets are playing cuju and flying balls with each other in the courtyard. Cheers erupted.

The two looked at each other, and saw that each other's eyes were full of envy.At the other end of the crooked alley, there is a warm noise, where there are colored paper kites pasted on bamboo strips, colorful and rolling glass balls, and twisting wooden stilts, all of which are worldly scenes that they have never seen before.

Jin Wu rolled his eyes and said, "Don't think about it, let's both stop thinking about it."

He turned around and tapped Sanniang on the forehead, and said plainly. "Today only, I'm not a 'Black Rakshasa', and you're not a 'Zuo San Niang'. No one knows our names, what kind of skyscrapers, assassins, swords, guns and sticks, life and death don't have to think about it .”

Sanniang stared blankly at him, touched his forehead and said, "Then who are we?"

"Two ordinary people." Jin Wu said, "Two... idiots who came down to the mountain gate to find some fun."

The girl's face suddenly turned red.When he said this, his brows and eyes were slightly relieved, and his dark eyes looked at her with a half-smile.

"I... I have never been to the town, and the mountain gate... I have not been out a few times." Sanniang lowered her head a little shyly, her fingers circling the corners of her clothes became more and more flustered.

Jin Wu closed his eyes and smiled faintly: "...Me too."

So they really threw all their troubles and grievances to the sky, like two ignorant children running in the Haijin market, sometimes squeezing into the crowd and cheering for the monkey playing with others, and sometimes looking at the cloth-wrapped clothes in front of the stall. The beet juice overflowed, and the white caramel rose from the pot.

Sanniang sometimes pounced on Jin Wu, secretly trying to figure out how much gold, silver and jewels he still had hidden in his arms, and then grabbed the copper coins and ran off to sell date cakes, sugar piles, and dried fragrant flowers.Jin Wuhui frowned and followed slowly, and then slapped her hard on the head.

Sometimes she saw some sick seedlings covered with red spots lying lifelessly beside the stone wall, so she would buy some herbs from the pharmacy and give them to them.Seeing them kowtow to thank, for some reason Sanniang felt a little relieved: she felt like she had done something great, so she happily went to ask Jin Wu for money again.

As the sun sinks to the west and the moon rises to the tops of willows, the two of them strolled to the Haihe Bridge to see the bright lights of the restaurants on both sides of the bank, and the waves turned like broken gold.A boatman came leisurely across with his scull, and a few girls in red gauze shirts got off the boat, combing a nest of cloud temples, and their shiny black hair seemed to be able to shine at night.

Jin Wu took the opportunity to throw a piece of silver to Shao Gong, and borrowed his small boat to float in the river. Sometimes he swung his oars to set off a string of fine and shiny water splashes.Sanniang sat in the boat and looked at the evening scene of Haijin obsessively, but saw the sky and the water, the red light building, the figures were faint, and the drunken laughter floated faintly in the night wind.

She couldn't help being fascinated, she turned her head to look at the young man beside her, and called out, "Fifth brother."

"Ok?"

Sanniang's face flushed like drunkenness. "...it was the happiest day I've ever had."

"Really." Jin Wu only responded briefly.

"Only today, I feel that I have come back to life, and I am alive now." Sanniang covered her heart and said softly, "You said... I will not use those poisonous weeds in the future, and I will go to treat people and save people. In this way Okay?"

Jin Wu just moved the oars quietly.With the sound of qi qi in the water, the boat trembled slightly and drifted forward.

She looked up at the boy in black, with bright black eyes reflecting two bright moons: "In this way, there will be no second Jin Shiba... who will die in front of me."

Jin Wu blinked, but his voice was still indifferent. "up to you."

But Sanniang felt that there seemed to be undetectable ripples in his eyes at that moment, so she also grinned and said, "Of course...as I like!"

Half an hour later, they went ashore and returned the boat to the boatman.Jin Wu tied a black horse to the wooden stake of the shop, so he jumped on the horse's back, carrying Sanniang's jacket and leaving the girl behind.The two rode on their horses and ran towards Panlong Mountain.

Sanniang was also secretly entertaining along the way: She really got a lot of money from Jin Wu today, and had a good time eating, drinking and having fun.Thinking of this, she hugged him from behind, and said with a smile: "Fifth brother, next time I want to try playing backgammon and watching Wujin Dachong!"

When Jin Wu was hugged by her, his hand holding the rein trembled a few times, and he cursed coldly. "...No next time!"

Sanniang knew that he was angry because of her messing around, so she smiled and hugged him tightly.

Little do they know that all happiness and ease will disappear in the Houtianlou.

They rode their horses to the front of Tongle Temple.The moment she got off her horse and stepped on the stone steps, Zuo Sanniang suddenly shuddered: She's back.

The prosperity of Haijin suddenly dissipated in her heart like a cloud of smoke. From now on, she is the third lady who is proficient in poison in Houtianlou, and standing beside her is the murderous, ruthless Raksha in black .

The gate of the mountain was tall and fortified, the tail of the owl flew up, and the two statues of heavenly kings glared at her from the shadows.For some reason, Zuo Sanniang felt like a rock was pressing on her heart, and she couldn't breathe no matter what.

This ominous premonition actually came true.The moment she and Jin Wu stepped into the mountain gate, a person walked towards him from a distance.

The man's appearance was very similar to Jin Wu's, with a bleak smile on his face, and the corners of his mouth curled up, but there was an indescribable viciousness in it.

The two recognized at a glance that this person was Hou Tianlou Protector Yan Jiubian.

Yan Jiubian glanced at Sanniang, smiled and said, "Miss San, don't come here without any harm." He glanced at Jin Wu again, but his gaze suddenly became as sharp as a knife point, "Why are you with the young master? But where did it go?"

While speaking, a mass of dark figures suddenly appeared all around.In the bushes, on the eaves, in front of the hall, dozens of black-clothed assassins surrounded Zuo Sanniang and Jin Wu in an instant.Someone had already drawn a shining scimitar, and the murderous aura enveloped the two of them like a heavy cloud.

Seeing this posture, Sanniang said tremblingly, "I...where did I go, and what does it have to do with you?"

Yan Jiubian hid his knife in his smile: "Miss San left the mountain gate without notifying her servants, and she was still with the young master, so naturally she broke the building regulations."

As soon as he waved his hand, an assassin in black presented a wooden tray. On the wooden tray was a small porcelain white cup filled with blue water.Sanniang looked at it but felt a chill in her heart, there was a pale yellow petal in the cup, it was the highly poisonous snake tea.

She remembered that she had made poison for Zuo Buzheng a few days ago, and drank it to the point of death, and used it for torture.And the appearance of that medicine was exactly the same as the poisonous water in front of her eyes!

Sanniang suddenly felt that the world was spinning and she almost lost her footing.Suddenly, the scene of Zuo Buzheng grabbing her shoulders a month ago and warning her not to get close to Jin Wu appeared before her eyes, and she remembered the coldness in the eyes of that Yasha-like woman when she went to the court to stop Zuo Buzheng from poisoning Jin Wu of light.

Before he knew it, Zuo Buzheng had murderous intentions towards her.All the assassin women in Houtianlou were born similar to her, in order to be able to change to another "Zuo Sanniang" at any time!What Yasha likes is nothing more than this face which is very similar to her sister!

Yan Jiubian's smile was dark and cold, with a ruthless thorn.He stared at Zuo Sanniang and said categorically: "The landlord has an order that anyone who violates the rules of the building will die, even the 'Third Miss' will be treated equally."

He pushed the cup of poisonous tea towards Sanniang, and said with a smile.

"Hou Tian Lou does not lack you as a 'Zuo San Niang'. Miss San, please stop."