has become a demon

early morning.

As soon as Zhao Yuan got up, he heard a knock on the door.

He went to unbolt the door, opened the door, and saw the child who stole his family's rations last night standing outside the door, shivering.

"I don't have anything here anymore." He said to the child, "I told you not to come here again."

There were tears in the child's eyes, he entered the door and knelt down in front of him: "Please save my grandfather's life!"

Zhao Yuan was startled.

"Please help my grandfather." The girl cried and said, "My grandfather went to fetch water a few days ago, fell on the ice, and broke his arm. He has no money to see a doctor, and he is raising it at home. It is swollen. For a few days, grandpa couldn’t work and had no food. I, I had no choice but to steal your family’s ration coal. I didn’t expect that yesterday afternoon, it was on fire at night, and my whole body was hot, but I only cried cold. I’ve seen it, I’ve tried all kinds of prescriptions, but nothing works. I, I really can’t do anything.”

"...Look at my situation." He didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "How did you come to beg me?"

"I heard from them that you are a nobleman from the capital, and you have a lot of knowledge, so maybe you can save him." The girl kowtowed, "I beg you, please!"

Zhao Yuan was silent.

"Master, won't you?" The girl asked him crying, "My grandpa..."

"It's not that I don't want to." Zhao Yuan said to her, "It's just..."

I am in prison, and I can't protect myself yet.If you just want to help, how can you help? ... So what if you were born with a noble background, without the blessing of status, you are actually a waste.

"I'll go take a look."

Zhao Yuan looked up, Xie Taichu didn't know when he was standing outside the door covered in damp.

He went back and forth to Helan Mountain last night, his bun fell apart on the way, and he didn't bother to comb it, so he tied it behind his shoulders with a strip of cloth torn from his clothes.

The girl looked up at him in a daze, her tears washed away the stains, leaving two ridiculous tear stains on her cheeks.

Zhao Yuan was also a little surprised to see him.

"Why did the real man come again?" he asked.

Xie Taichu pretended not to hear what he said, and took advantage of the opportunity to step into the courtyard from the wide-open chaimen—since the door is open and there are other people in the courtyard, it is not a must not to enter.

After placing the four or five ferrets skinned at the waist on the bluestone board at the door, he took out a small porcelain bottle from his bosom and knelt down beside Zhao Yuan.

"I went to the mountains yesterday to hunt minks, and then I went to a Taoist temple and asked the Taoist priests in the temple to refine mink oil."

He grabbed Zhao Yuan's wrist and pulled his sleeve away.

"Thank you in the early days-"

Zhao Yuan was taken aback, trembled, and wanted to withdraw his hand, but just like last time, his wrist remained motionless in Xie Taichu's warm palm.

And due to the presence of other people, his cheeks felt a little hot for a while.

Xie Taichu opened the small porcelain bottle, dipped some solidified mink oil from it, and applied it on Zhao Yuan's red and swollen areas, assisted by the internal energy, rubbed slowly, and pushed those bruised and bruised areas.

As a result, the hard and itchy feeling in his hand finally eased a little, and it became warmer.

Better than the past two months.

After Xie Taichu's massage was over, he saw that his lowered eyelids were trembling slightly, and he didn't seem to be angry, so he said: "Your Highness knows that I have a little knowledge of medicine, so let me go and ask a doctor."

Just as Zhao Yuan was about to say something, the girl kowtowed repeatedly: "Thank you, doctor, thank you, doctor!"

Xie Taichu stood up and asked him: "I went?"

It seemed that he didn't agree, so he didn't go.But the girl was still kneeling on the ground, watching him earnestly and crying anxiously, "I beg you to be merciful."

What can he say?

Can you refuse?

Zhao Yuan opened his mouth in a daze, and heard himself say "OK".

The girl's brows and eyes were widened, and she cried and thanked her again.Xie Taichu had already helped her up, and said to her: "Don't be too polite, take me to your home."

As soon as the two of them reached the door, they heard Zhao Yuan say: "The real person."

"Is there any other request, Your Highness?"

Zhao Yuan didn't look at him, but said: "This child's family is poor, so the surrounding residents must be like that. The New Year is only a few days away... You can take yesterday's pork and share it with your neighbors."

This is the sentence that Zhao Yuan said to him in the most gentle and everyday tone in the past two days.

"okay, I get it."

Xie Taichu only felt pleasing to the ear, and gladly accepted the order.He went into the warehouse, cut a piece of meat with a sword and kept it, and carried the rest with the girl out.Only Zhao Yuan was left in a daze in the yard.

The small can of mink oil was in the palm of his hand.

It was Xie Taichu's wish to go back and forth overnight.

Caring and considerate as always.

But now, he knows that his avenue is unattainable, and his future lies in another direction.

Now that the two are strangers, such a heart is too heavy.

The porcelain bottle was in the palm of my hand, it was too heavy to hold.

Hot and uncomfortable.

"Why bother..." Zhao Yuan felt lost.

Such grief did not last long, perhaps only for a moment.

Zhao Yuan had to let go of this affection in order to catch up with work.

While arranging his feathers, he waited for Xie Taichu to come back.Not long after, someone came. He looked up and saw Zhang Liangbao garrison general Zhang Yiqian hurriedly leading the guards to the threshold.

Zhao Yuan hurriedly put down the dustpan, bowed and saluted, "See you, General Zhang. Today is not the day to collect the feathers. I wonder why the General is here?"

Zhang Yiqian looked angry, stood still and yelled with his hands behind his back: "Master Yuan, you dare to steal pork from Mr. Benba's family?! How courageous!"

Steal pork?

The pork Xie Taichu brought back...was it stolen?

Ningshan Daoist Stealing Pork? ? ?

The impact was so great that Zhao Yuan's mind went blank for a moment.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Zhang Yiqian thought he was guilty, and scolded again: "Don't you dare to answer? I thought you were kind to me by asking myself, and I only assigned the most leisurely work. I provide you with three meals a day, I'll give you a place to live. You don't know how to be grateful, and you dare to steal things from the boss's house just to eat pork!"

Even if he was demoted to a commoner, he was desperate for a mouthful of porridge every day, and he never thought that one day he would compete with others for a piece of meat.

Zhao Yuan didn't know what to say.

"Come on! Search for me!" Zhang Yiqian yelled.

The two guards answered yes, and began to search the house, and within a short while brought out the piece of meat from the storeroom.

Seeing that the meat was fried, Zhang Yiqian jumped up and said, "Last night, I sent people to search for half the night. I just woke up and smelled the smell of stewed meat in Zhang Liangbao. Everyone said that the nobleman from the capital was kind and generous. Sure enough, you stole it! Bah, it's disrespectful! Don't pay attention! Shameless!"

The guard took pleasure in his misfortune: "My lord, we have long disliked him. Why should the ordinary people in the capital be treated preferentially? The rations are not enough, and they dare to steal the head of the family's pigs. If you want me to say, they should be tied up. Demonstrated to the public at the village head dam.”

"That's right. The thief should be beaten with a stick and tied up at the head of the village for public display!" Zhang Yiqian said angrily, "Come on! Give him to—"

Before he finished speaking, a long sword was pressed against his throat.

Xie Taichu stepped forward slowly, his face was gloomy, with a bit of evil that Zhao Yuan had never seen before.

"What did you say?" he asked. "Say it again."

Zhang Yiqian was dumbfounded.

The sword energy on his neck seemed to have pierced his skin, making his muscles ache.

He swallowed nervously, but he still didn't know how to restrain himself, and said with a trembling voice, "You, who are you! I'm Zhang Liangbao, the boss of Zhang Yiqian!"

"I am his husband—" Xie Taichu looked at Zhao Yuan, fearing that he would not like it, so he changed his words, "I am the Taoist attendant who serves His Highness."

Zhang Yiqian became more courageous once he heard the "waiter talk".

"He stole my pork! Stealing people's property, should he be paraded in the streets?!"

"I took the pork from your backyard." Xie Taichu said, "I also kept jade in exchange, and I also left a letter of apology, which is not considered stealing."

Zhang Yiqian smiled, and took out the jade token of Qingxing Pavilion from his pocket.

"What are you talking about?!" He questioned, "Such a crap! There is a pile of impurities in the jade. My master saw it, and if you take it out to the pawnshop, you can't ask for a price. It would be nice to give you twenty cents. My How much is the pork? If you want to be ashamed, is this an exchange?"

He threw out the jade plaque with all his might.

The former Le'an County King and the present Ningshan Daoist watched helplessly as the jade tablet symbolizing the Qingxing Pavilion fell into the water tank and sank to the bottom with a thud.

Xie Taichu: "..."