My enemies became my companions

Chapter 37: Destroying the Wind and Rain
Chen Yi was still not in a hurry to learn Min Ning's knife move.

Part of the reason was that he didn't want her to succeed, but more importantly, it was because of the one-armed woman Zhou Yitong in his memory.

I can't forget this one-armed woman.

In the first save file, there was already some grudge between her and me.

She was his savior, and in order to learn her sword skills, he became her disciple.

But later on, things changed and the benefactor suddenly became the enemy.

Chen Yi will never forget that in the heavy rain, Zhou Yitang swore to the sky at the top of his lungs that even if he was reincarnated, he would not die a good death.

I can't forget her heartbroken face in the rain.

After returning home, Chen Yi took off his coat and went to the bedroom, where he saw Yin Tingxue reading a book by lamplight.

The Holy Maiden of the Demon Cult has almost recovered from her illness.

When Yin Tingxue saw him come in, she subconsciously shrank back.

"Master..." Yin Tingxue called softly. Although she was reluctant, she did not dare to neglect him.

In the dim light, Chen Yi slowly approached and firmly held her waist.

Yin Tingxue looked at him tremblingly, pressing his hand gently, trying to make him let her go.

But Chen Yi leaned closer to her, and his breath made her feel hot, which she didn't like.

Chen Yimosuo lifted the girl's waist and ordered:

"Kiss me."

The sudden request made Yin Tingxue feel cold on her back. She hurriedly pressed her hands against him and resisted:
"No, I don't want it."

Chen Yi ignored her resistance, hugged her tighter, and said softly:
"Be good."

However, after Yin Tingxue hesitated, she still shook her head.

Chen Yi slapped his butt and said with a sinister smile:

"Want to be severely bullied? You are a concubine anyway."

Yin Tingxue's cheeks turned pale. She pursed her lips, looked at Chen Yi sadly, then leaned over to kiss him tremblingly.

“…Be more proactive.”

She obediently took the initiative.

After a while, their lips parted. Chen Yi looked at Yin Tingxue, who looked both embarrassed and aggrieved, and patted her head, saying:
"You are getting better and better at being a concubine, little fox."

Yin Tingxue hummed unconsciously.

Chen Yi rubbed her head and recalled that day when the fire in the treasure bowl of Yintai Temple was burning fiercely and all the three thousand taels of silver notes were burned out. Despair, humiliation and sorrow flashed through her eyes. Although all this was based on coercion and inducement, even so, she was his. Perhaps this was what it meant to be a concubine.

Chen Yi knew that he was not a good person, nor was he from a reputable family. Moreover, Yin Tingxue had killed him with her own hands, so he would often threaten her, bully her, and finally... take her as his concubine.

Chen Yi took a breath and said:
"I'm going to take a shower."

Yin Tingxue shrank back inside, trying to stay away from him. After Chen Yi's figure disappeared, she picked up the book to read and soon immersed herself in it.

Not long after, Chen Yi came back from his shower. Yin Tingxue was so focused on her reading that she didn't even notice Chen Yi coming over. She was startled when she turned around.

Chen Yi went forward and hugged her without hesitation, with the back of his head pressed against his chest.

Yin Tingxue didn't dare to struggle and leaned in his arms:
"what happened?"

"Nothing, I just want to cuddle. It's so warm."

Yin Tingxue leaned back for a while, looking at the book in her hand. It happened to be the section where the protagonist visited the temple during the New Year. She seemed to be thinking about something, and then asked:
"Can you take me to visit the Thousand Lights Temple?"

"Oh why?"

“…I want to worship and pray for blessings.”

"that is it?"

Of course Yin Tingxue would not say that this was a test, to test whether Chen Yi would take her back to Yintai Temple in the future by taking her to Qiandeng Temple. However, she was not good at lying and was afraid of being bullied by Chen Yi, so she could only whisper:

"I miss Yintai Temple."

My mother always said that she was the daughter of Yintai Temple, and since she was taken as a concubine, she often missed Yintai Temple.

Chen Yi pondered for a moment, unable to think of any connection between the two. However, now that the limelight had passed, it would be okay to take her to the Qiandeng Temple for a visit during the day.

What's more, after her injury heals, I will give her a wake-up call.

Thinking of this, Chen Yi wanted to compensate her first:
"it is good."

Yin Tingxue didn't expect Chen Yi to agree so readily. She was speechless and only said "hmm" in a soft and sticky voice.

The daughter of King Xiang leaned in Chen Yi's arms and moved closer to him. She had always been afraid of him, but she also knew that this man would never be tough. In addition, she was weak by nature and did not dare to resist. What's more, after these days, she had already accepted her fate and decided to be a good concubine.

Yintai Temple is too far away, and no matter how much I dislike him, I can only rely on him. Fortunately, after I accepted my fate, I obeyed him in everything. He treated me better than before and bullied me less.

Chen Yi hugged Yin Tingxue, looking at her well-behaved appearance, he couldn't help but feel a little pity for her, especially when he thought about what he wanted to do, he felt even more pity for her.

That day is not far away, so buy her a hairpin first.

.....................

As soon as they entered the East Factory gate early in the morning, everyone knelt to receive the Empress Dowager's decree.

"A thorough investigation of the Bandit and Demon-Slaying Day?"

Chen Yi murmured after reading the imperial edict carefully.

"Master Chen, do you have any ideas?"

Song Tong said,

"We are not very good at this matter. We are warriors, not Taoist priests."

Chen Yidao:
"We have to accept the imperial decree. Deputy Governor, go and arrange for some personnel. By the way, is the Shangqing Dao ready to arrive in the capital?"

Song Tong replied:

"It should be this morning. They will first go to the palace to meet the emperor and pray for his blessing, and then stay at the Qiandeng Temple."

Chen Yi nodded. Not only could he find someone from Shangqing Dao to find out the situation, but he could also take Yin Tingxue to visit the Qiandeng Temple.

Just as Chen Yi was about to turn around and leave, Song Tong remembered something and said:

"Oh, Lord Governor, you asked the recorder to search for files about Prince Jing's Mansion yesterday... There are some files about Yuxiu Manor in them."

"Any questions?"

"Nothing... It's just about the property of Prince Jing's Mansion... Please consider it carefully."

Song Tong advised.

Chen Yi laughed in his heart a few times. The Prince Jing's Mansion had attacked him last night.

Going to the case file room, Chen Yi took out the files that the clerk had checked out earlier and began to look through them carefully.

"Yuxiu Village is suspected of illegally selling Wushisan..."

Realizing the seriousness of the matter, Chen Yi kept the case file.

After noon, when the news came that Shangqing Dao was going to Qiandeng Temple to meet the emperor, Chen Yi realized that it was time to go to Qiandeng Temple.

Upon learning that they were going to Qiandeng Temple, the little fox curled up the corners of his mouth and smiled, closed the windows one by one, put on his shoes, sat in front of the dressing table, and simply made up his face.

"Let's go."

After taking care of it, Yin Tingxue urged.

As soon as he went out, Chen Yi saw Min Ning. She was leaning against the low wall, as if she had been waiting for a while.

"Are you going to the Thousand Lights Temple?"

Min Ning took the initiative to say:
"The deputy governor arranged for me to be your deputy, let's go together."

In the past, even if Song Tong arranged her to be his deputy, Min Ning would not be so attentive and come directly to his house. The reason she did so was simply to make a deal with him.

"Walk or ride a horse?" Min Ning asked. "Let's walk. I think there will be a lot of people outside the Qiandeng Temple, all wanting to be the first to burn incense in the prayer hall."

Chen Yi made simple arrangements.

Yin Tingxue looked at Min Ning, recognized her, and then looked intently towards the street. She looked eager, probably wanting to go to Qiandeng Temple immediately.

The three of them set off immediately. After about two quarters of an hour, they saw the Thousand Lights Temple on the hillside. There was a constant stream of tourists outside the temple.

It was drizzling outside the temple.

Even though it was raining, many people crowded outside the mountain gate, all wanting to be the first to burn incense. The Taoist priests and Taoist children of Qiandeng Temple had a hard time keeping people outside.

The three of them were in no hurry to go to the temple, so they found a teahouse near their home, showed their badges and went straight to the second-floor room.

Through the window, Yin Tingxue saw the prosperity of Qiandeng Temple from afar. In comparison, Yintai Temple was particularly desolate. In the past, during the New Year, Yintai Temple would be decorated with lights and the female relatives who came to visit the mansion would go to the temple to eat vegetarian meals under the leadership of her mother. But after her mother passed away, her father appointed a new queen, and there was almost no one cleaning Yintai Temple, as if it had been banished to the cold palace.

Those servants and maids would only clean the house when Yin Tingxue was going to Yintai Temple. But now that Prince Xiang's mansion had been ransacked, no one knew what had happened to Yintai Temple.

The more the daughter of Prince Xiang looked at the prosperity of the Thousand Lantern Temple under the drizzle, the more distressed she became about the desolation of the Yintai Temple.

"Yes, Yintai is my concubine." Yin Tingxue said in a low voice.

During the four hundred years since the founding of Dayu, Qiandeng Temple has always been so prosperous. From this point of view, she is undoubtedly a stunningly beautiful wife, while Yintai Temple has only been prosperous for more than ten years and is just a concubine who was favored for a short time.

And she is the daughter of Yintai Temple.

"What? My daughter is also my concubine?" Yin Tingxue was stunned for a moment.

Seeing that she was sad, Chen Yi waited for the maid to bring tea and then poured it for the three of them.

After drinking half a cup of tea, Min Ning said:

"You really don't want to learn my sword move?"

Chen Yi turned his head.

"It's not that I don't believe in your talent, but not to mention that it's impossible for me to become your disciple, you haven't used this sword in front of me, so who knows how much accomplishment this sword has."

Min Ning was also a little nervous when he heard this.

In the past few days, she often recalled the scene of Chen Yi killing twenty-one people in the rainy alley at night. She had learned the skill of the sword, but had never used it in a duel, so she didn't know how powerful this sword was.

"Moreover, only one strike? You want me to become your disciple based on just one strike? You are thinking too much. How can one strike be enough?"

Chen Yi joked.

"Only one knife."

Min Ning took a deep breath and said:
"One sword is justified, destroying the wind and rain."

Chen Yi smiled without comment.

At some point there was a commotion at the gate of Qiandeng Temple not far from the teahouse.

"Rakshasa Li, the leader of the Beihai Gang!"

"They just dismantled the foot trade last month. Dozens of the strongest foot trade men were beaten down by him and his five men."

"The eight-foot-tall strong man opened his mouth in one blow."

…………

The leading man, with muscular body and a face full of flesh, carried a knife wrapped in cloth on his back and forcefully pushed away the tourists blocking his way.

"Get lost! No one can steal my incense stick today."

Behind Luosha Li were several members of the Beihai Gang, waving sticks and shouting in all directions.

But some people didn't know what was good for them and refused to accept the defeat. They immediately stiffened their necks and told Luosha Li to kill them if he had the guts.

Luosha Li immediately removed the cloth strip, revealing a shining sword. There was a chill under the sun, and the drizzle splashed on the ground, which was particularly cold.

After seeing this light, no one dared to retreat and they all made way.

Seeing this scene from afar, Min Ning frowned.

"Luosha Li, like you, is an eighth-rank warrior, the leader of the North Sea Gang. He is openly engaged in the shipping business, but secretly has many human agents."

Chen Yi asked:

"This kind of person deserves to be killed, not to mention he showed a knife in the street, how about you try that trick?"

Min Ning thought for a moment, then turned around and said loudly:
"Bring a jug of wine."

Chen Yi asked doubtfully:
"Why do you want to drink? Drinking will make your knife slower, and you don't drink often."

Min Ning uttered two words:

"Courage."

Chen Yi laughed secretly. Min Ning had just spoken so confidently about the knife, but he never expected that she was not sure about the knife.

"One sword is justified, destroying the wind and rain."

Chen Yi repeated sarcastically.

Min Ning glared at him, and when the teahouse waitress handed her a gourd of girl's red wine, she uncorked it, took a few big gulps, stood up suddenly, tied the gourd around her waist, and went downstairs still a little drunk.

Chen Yi stared straight at her back, not distracted for a moment, in order to prevent her from getting into any accidents.

There was a constant drizzle.

Min Ning stepped forward and drew her sword. Passersby around her made way for her when they saw she was in her official uniform.

"If anyone draws a sword and causes trouble on the road, the Jinyiwei will see him and execute him immediately."

Min Ning recited Dayu Law indifferently.

When several gang members saw that it was the Jinyiwei, they were frightened. The gang leader Luosha Li looked behind her and then looked around. After realizing that she had no companions, he shouted:
"Sir, please give me some face. I also have brothers I know in the Jinyiwei."

Min Ning just repeated:
"If anyone draws a sword and causes trouble on the road, the Jinyiwei will see him and execute him immediately."

After these words were spoken, Luosha Li's face turned gloomy. Now he had two choices. One was to keep the peace and leave in disgrace with his gang members. The other was to face the enemy head-on, kill the Jinyiwei, then leave Beijing to avoid the limelight, and come back as a hero again.

How can a gang leader be timid? Luosha Li became fierce and shouted:
"If you want to fight, fight. If you want to kill, kill."

Min Ning was waiting for this sentence. She was drunk, her body was slightly bent, and she held the Xiuchun Knife tightly in her hand. The whole knife was more than an arm's length, and the blade was three feet and eight inches long. The blade was as bright as water. It was passed down in the Min family and was named "No Distractions". It was taken from a sentence in the Zhan Jiao Knife Technique: "Without distractions in mind, you can cut through the sudden rain." Back then, Min He became the governor of the pacification envoy in just a few years from a commoner. First, he relied on the Cangshan Fist, and second, he relied on the No Distractions. When the previous emperor's brother King Jing learned of Min He's reputation, he sent someone to buy the knife for a huge sum of money, but in the end he was closed to visitors and was turned away in vain.

Min Ning was ready to go. The rain curtain outside the Qiandeng Temple was thicker than before. The drizzle was flying. She remembered that rainy night when Chen Yi killed 21 people by himself. She counted it later. There were 43 strikes in total. Almost every strike was exquisite and powerful. But there was redundancy in each strike. Some of them could be solved with one strike, but he used two or even three strikes. However, he still made a very good strike, which was the strike that killed the East Factory Chief with skin and bones. This strike of hers came from this. Chen Yi said that drinking alcohol would make his sword slower, but after drinking, his hands were clearly more powerful.

While he was thinking, Luosha Li had already raised the big knife in his hand, rushed forward with his huge body, and shouted like a lion:
"by!"

Min Ning circulated his Qi, raised his right foot, stepped forward heavily, and rushed out of the formation like an iron cavalry, slashing forward with a knife under the rain curtain.

Wow,

First there was the sharp sound of flesh being cut.

Click, click, click...

The sound of "clicking" was caused by the hard spine being hit, followed by the breaking of bones, and after that, there was another refreshing sound of "crashing".

A cold light flashed by, and Chen Yi clenched the teacup in his hand. He saw from afar that after the knife passed, the wind slowed down a bit, and the rain curtain was cut off, leaving a blank space!
Blood gushed out to both sides, splashing onto the tourists. They froze at first, then screamed in horror.

Half of his body fell down like a broken flagpole. Luosha Li's eyes turned white. In the few seconds before he died, he said the last word:

"die…"

The members of the Beihai Gang stood frozen in place, no one daring to step forward to collect the bodies.

Min Ning stood up straight, expressionless. She did not sheath her knife, but took off the gourd from her waist and took a big gulp.

This gourd of top-quality daughter's red wine would cost at least five or six taels of silver, and her annual salary was only thirty taels. But she was not worried because all the money she spent was Chen Yi's.

She turned around and walked away slowly.

Chen Yi watched the scene from afar.

At that time, it was drizzling. After killing someone, the young hero walked slowly from outside the temple, his long sword dripping with blood and his skirt fluttering. He was drinking.

(End of this chapter)