i want to be by your side

The time lord once promised me that time is the most effective medicine for wounds in the world, if I get hurt, time will heal me.I smiled and didn't tell it the truth - I was a timeless person and I borrowed my time from other people.

Hmm... how do you ask me to borrow it?It is to make a deal with someone, someone pays an equivalent exchange of life time, and I help him kill a certain person.

Why kill?Oh, that's because of the price to be paid for this practice of taking other people's lives!Does it sound unfair to sacrifice a living life to transfer a person's ten-year lifespan to me?Things are sometimes like this, and the pay and harvest are always out of proportion.

The young dragon tilted his head, indicating that he did not understand.

I smiled and didn't continue to explain. When it becomes an adult, it will naturally understand after more experience, so I don't need to say more.

You practice hard, I'm leaving.I said.

Huh?how so fastDon't go, chat with me for a while longer.The young dragon quickly rolled up my body with its small body, assuming that it would not let me go.

How soon?I smiled wryly, haven't I been talking with you for ten years?If I don't leave, the rest of my lifespan can't wait until the day you grow up.

ah?I almost forgot about this, so go away quickly, kill a few more people quickly, and then come back and talk to me.

good good good.I reluctantly agreed, and said in my heart that even if you don't tell me, I will still come back.After bidding farewell to the young dragon, I returned to the mortal world, and the first thing I did was to go back to the shop to see if there was any business I was looking for.

"Boss, are you back?" The one talking to me was a bull demon, less than a hundred years old.At the beginning, I just bought it from the butcher's house that was about to be slaughtered. Seeing that it had nowhere to go, because of its simple and honest personality and great strength, I recruited it to be a clerk in my shop.Since I run an inn, I entrust him with the care of the horses.

"Where's the bell?" I asked.

"It's in the backyard!" the bull demon said honestly.

I nodded and walked towards the backyard.Walking through the corridor, we came to the place where our own people lived, and saw a gray and white cat lazily basking in the sun on the stone table in the middle of the yard.

"Bell." I called.

Seeing that it was Huibai who moved his ears and opened his eyes to see that it was me, he lazily got up, walked in front of me gracefully, and saluted me with his cat body: "Master."

Bell is a queen cat with a strong aura, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't match her lively name no matter how it sounds.When I rescued her, I asked her this question curiously. I remember very clearly that her eyes dimmed for a moment, and then she explained calmly that this was given to her by her first little master.As for how her little master is doing now, I can't keep asking.

"How's the business in the store recently?" I sat down at the stone table.The bell behind him immediately returned to her human body, stepped forward to make tea, pushed it in front of me, and then sat down opposite me.

I looked at her indifferent expression, frowned slightly, and wondered if there was another young man who fell in love with her at first sight and entangled her these few days.Just thinking about this, I saw the little white mouse in the restaurant sticking his head out and looking around until he looked here. After seeing us, he quickly threw the long white rag on his shoulder and trotted over with a cheap smile.

Cheap smile... this word, um... I don't think any other words can describe the smile on the face of the white mouse spirit. Although this guy is a decent mouse, once he smiles, his face is originally The very small eyes suddenly became slits, like that kind of wretched old man, thieves.

"The master is back." The white mouse greeted me first, and I nodded in response.Only then did he turn his head and talk to Bell: "Miss Bell, that Mr. Zheng outside is here again..."

"No, tell me I'm not here." Ling Dang interrupted coldly, with a firm tone, which shows how annoying this Mr. Zheng is usually.

"But..." White Mouse Jing said with a look of embarrassment on his face, "This time, the other party didn't come alone. There was also a girl disguised as a man who came with her. Although my knowledge is shallow, I have cultivated into a human form, so I can still understand it." She has a little face, but there seems to be a layer of white mist covering the girl's body, so she can't see clearly. I suspect that a certain princess sneaked out of the palace, so that the body can be covered with imperial aura, so as to avoid others' prying eyes."

Royalty?Royal people?I was surprised inwardly, silently wondering what the royal princess was doing in Bianzhou.Although Bianzhou is a large city in the Yin Dynasty, it is located in a remote area, close to the border of the country, and there are few wars, but there are many foreigners. If the identity of the princess is discovered, those foreigners may make dangerous moves. At that time, the imperial court could not catch her up, and her own princess was laughed at by the world when she was taken captive.

I was just thinking about it here, only to hear the bell on the other side ask: "That girl named me and said she wants to find me?"

"Not really."

"Then what are you doing running in? Isn't it just to tell me something?"

"No, isn't that girl disguised as a man? She has a white folding fan in her hand, with an emerald green animal pendant hanging on the fan handle." The white mouse said, "It looks a bit... a bit like Miss Bell you took last time. The snake-shaped jade pendant I was playing with in my hand."

"Bang!" The wooden teacup in Ling Dang's hand fell to the ground, and the tea spilled all over the floor.She grabbed the white mouse spirit by the collar, and the three thousand wires behind her moved automatically: "Say it again, did you see that snake-shaped pendant?"

"No... that's right." The white mouse spirit trembled under the sudden surge of demonic power from the bell, and could hardly maintain its human form. A two-meter-long mouse tail was already revealed behind it.

Fortunately, there is no one here.Outsiders cannot enter here without my permission.

"Bell!" Just these two words made me use the pronunciation method of dragon language, and the two words mixed with the power of dragon impacted the prohibition I set on the bell.

Ling Dang's face turned pale, and the gushing demon power dissipated immediately, and the hand holding the collar of the White Mouse Spirit was also loosened.The white mouse fell to the ground all of a sudden, sweating profusely.May I ask what kind of fear it is for a mouse to be trapped under the claws of its natural enemy, a cat?

"Bing Ding, sit down." I said in a tone that no one could refuse, then refilled a cup of tea and pushed it in front of Ding Dang. "Drink this cup of tea, and then go back and copy the Buddhist scriptures ten times. You are too hostile to go out to meet people. ——Bai Shu, you lead the way, and I will meet this royal princess."

Bai Shu tremblingly agreed, and I followed him to the restaurant after he put away the long mouse tail.After asking a certain younger brother, I learned that the two are still in a box upstairs.

I let Bai Shu go to work first, and I found an empty seat on the first floor downstairs, ordered a few small dishes and a pot of wine, and ate slowly like this.

About half an hour later, I saw Xiaoer come down the stairs in a hurry and came to the third shopkeeper, saying that there were two guests upstairs who wanted to see the big shopkeeper here.

It is said that the third treasurer is Bell's daughter.This incident has always made me feel unbelievable, because I looked up and down, left and right, but I couldn't see the traces of Bell being pregnant.But the truth is, when I met Bell, she was holding the newborn Third Shopkeeper in her arms.

The name of the third shopkeeper is Yeyin, and she should be sixteen this year. Since I became the shopkeeper and handed over the restaurant's affairs to Lingdang, Lingdang also taught Yeyin how to read accounts when she was twelve or thirteen years old. Gradually hand over some affairs in the restaurant to her.Yeyin would check the accounts behind the counter every day, so when the waiter came down, she had a clear goal, so she went straight to the counter and told her about it.

"Go and tell them that the shopkeeper is not here. If there is anything that requires the shopkeeper to come, please ask them to come back later." Yeyin said without raising her head.

After the waiter answered, he hurried upstairs to reply.However, not long after, he ran down again and said to Yeyin, "Third shopkeeper, they said that the second shopkeeper can come if the big shopkeeper is not here."

Hearing this, Yeyin stopped her movements and said, "Since that's the case, if the second shopkeeper is not here, will the third shopkeeper be okay too?"

She put down the account book in her hand, put it away and locked it, and said to the second messenger: "Mother is in a bad mood recently, so don't bother her if you have nothing to do. I'll go see the guest officer, and you can lead the way."

Xiao Er let out a nod, and led Ye Yin upstairs.

Bored, I continued to drink some wine downstairs, listening to the storyteller's latest gossip.What kind of mountain villa was killed by the enemy overnight, which monk in Shaolin broke the precepts and rebelled against the mountain gate, and the gale swordsman went to Shenghai for a month without defeat...

Tsk tsk, there are so many people in the world!

However, there are more things in the court.

The storyteller started to talk about the imperial court after talking about Jiang Hu, from the harem secretly talking about which minister was cut off, his home was ransacked, and the nine clans were killed... until the current emperor was assassinated when he was out, and now he is unconscious.

The emperor was not assassinated successfully.This is the conclusion I drew from it. I don’t know who wanted the emperor to die so urgently, because the emperor is still in his prime and his power is at its peak, so he wants to die?Too difficult.

I thought about it for a long time, until when I wanted to drink but no wine came out, I realized that the wine in the flagon was gone without knowing it.He waved his hand to call Xiaoer over and asked him to refill my drink.

"Girl, why are you drinking here alone? Why don't Xiaosheng come and accompany the girl..."

I squirted out the wine in one gulp, and it just so happened that I sprayed it on the face of the person who came to strike up a conversation. "Oh! I'm so sorry!" I held back a smile and took out a handkerchief and threw it over for him to wipe it off. At the same time, I called Bai Shu over and asked him to take the person I sprayed down to clean it up. "I'm so sorry! Why don't you just charge my account for the meal you ate today? It's an apology to Your Excellency."

Without waiting for the other party to reply, I immediately asked a waiter behind him. "A total of 120 four taels." The little boy said.

Really expensive!I only now know that my restaurant has been operating so well.I took out the banknote and gave it to the waiter, but I thought I would go to Bell to get the money back at night.

Bai Shu had already pulled that person down under my hint, and went down to clean up without even saying a word.I regretted in my heart for a second the sip of wine I spewed out. As soon as I sat down, I saw Ye Yin going downstairs with a young man in white.

After the young man in white looked around the building, he suddenly stopped a waiter and asked where Mr. Zheng was, and the waiter said he was in the backyard.Mr. Zheng came back from the backyard just after answering. When I saw it, wasn't that the one I sprayed with wine?No wonder people around me looked at me with complicated eyes after the incident happened.Fortunately, Bai Shu is not an ordinary mistress, who cares about the heavenly king and Lao Tzu, if I say bring him to the backyard, he will definitely bring him to the backyard, and he won't say anything unnecessary.

After Mr. Zheng summed up what happened just now, the young man in white looked at me. After I noticed this gaze, I looked back, and then I saw those two people walking towards me.Originally, Yeyin hadn't seen me, but now she saw me. When she saw me, she probably didn't expect me to come back at this time. She was a little surprised, but she restrained herself quickly, and walked over quickly.

"Are you the shopkeeper of this restaurant?" Mr. Zheng asked preemptively as soon as he came over.Not a question, but an affirmation. "When I went down just now, I asked the little one, and he said that you are the shopkeeper here. I have seen the second shopkeeper and the third shopkeeper, but I have never seen you, so I guess you are the big shopkeeper who never showed up. No Come to think of it, the three shopkeepers in this restaurant are all so young and beautiful!"

"Sit." I didn't answer his words, "I don't know what to call you two?"

"Look at my memory!" Mr. Zheng knocked his head with a folding fan, and said apologetically, "I'm Zheng Rentao, this is Brother Yuan."

After saluting one by one, I peeked at the "culprit", thinking that the name is really interesting.Forgive me for taking this as the name of the other party, so that my dark history was repeatedly mentioned by someone.

I sent Yeyin back to the counter to look over the accounts, then sat upright and said to Zheng Rentao solemnly: "Although I am the shopkeeper of this restaurant, I am not the big shopkeeper you said."

"Could it be that there are four and five shopkeepers in this restaurant?" Zheng Rentao looked astonished.

"My lord, you think too much."

"But according to what the girl said, if it's not the big shopkeeper, then what shopkeeper?"

"Hands off shopkeeper." After I finished speaking, Yeyin staggered suddenly when I looked at the figure in front of me, and then she turned her head and gave me a meaningful look before continuing to walk forward.

What's so meaningful?What I said is obviously the truth!I thought a little depressed.

"Cough, girl, you're joking." Zheng Rentao said awkwardly, and then quickly changed the subject. "I don't know the girl's name?"

"My surname is Long, and the single name is a clear character."

"It turned out to be Shopkeeper Long Qing." Zheng Rentao said, "Actually, today we mainly want to discuss a business with Shopkeeper Long Qing. I wonder if the shopkeeper is convenient at this time?"

"How about staying in your box just now?" I said, "I happen to have something to talk to Mr. Zheng."

After all, regardless of the puzzled look on Zheng Rentao's face, I took the lead upstairs and went to the box that entertained them earlier.The inside of the box had just been cleaned up, the window was wide open, and the view outside the window was the opposite of the restaurant.

Zheng Rentao and the "culprit" also came up later, and after they were seated, Xiao Er came up again to pour tea and left the box, and we began to talk about business.

I thought that the other party really came here to do business with me, but I didn't expect that the "culprit" folded the fan, and a black token fell out of her sleeve before the words started. , slid in front of me.

Assassination order.

It is still the most advanced triple kill order.