i want to be by your side

When I returned to the inn, it was already noon the next day.When Zheng Rentao saw me coming back, he immediately came up to me and told me that Yuan Jian was waiting for me in the room, and said that if I came back, I would go to her room to find her.

After Zheng Rentao finished speaking, he looked at me with a very strange expression, hesitant to speak.

"Anything else?" I asked him proactively.

"...What happened yesterday was widely circulated..." His gaze was fixed on the black knife in my hand, "You...be careful." As soon as he finished speaking, he left quickly.

What's the matter?I muttered something, subconsciously glanced at the knife in my hand, and pushed open the door of Yuan Jian's room without a clue.

"What can I do for you..." I walked in while talking.As soon as I turned around and closed the door, I felt the crisis coming from behind me.

I immediately drew the knife and slashed behind her. In the blink of an eye, I had already cut off the sword of the person who came, and placed the knife accurately on her neck.

"Stop!" Someone immediately shouted nervously behind him.

At this time, I had already cut a bloodstain on the other party's neck. After hearing Yuan Jian's voice, I immediately stopped the movement of my hands, fixed my eyes on the other party, and slowly withdrew the knife on her neck.After confirming that she would not make any small moves, I quickly put away the knife and quickly stepped back to Yuan Jian's side.

Yuan Jian walked up quickly to examine the wound on the man's neck carefully, and found that it was just a harmless skin trauma, and said helplessly: "Can't you sit down and have a good chat?—Qing Lan, didn't I explain it to you just now? huh? Why did you move your hands?"

The woman named Qing Lan kept a straight face and didn't speak, she just sat down at the table and gulped down her tea.

"Long Qing, this is my good friend Xiao Qinglan." Yuan Jian introduced her to me, "Her ancestors were demon exorcisers, so they are not very friendly to demons, so..."

"I can see." I nodded to express my understanding, "Her old stubborn thinking is deeply rooted, and she believes that no matter what the demon does, it will harm people, and she wants to kill all the demons in the world."

"I've seen a lot of people like this before." It means that if there is more of her, there will be no more, and if there is less of her, there will be no less.

"They killed a lot of demons, but they were all killed by demons in the end." I added.

"All monsters deserve to die!" Xiao Qinglan suddenly said viciously. "Even if I will die in the hands of the demon in the end, I will try my best to kill the demon while I am alive."

I watched her for a long time, but I didn't understand why she had such a big resentment towards Yao, so I had to ask Yuan Jian: "Why does this child have such a big resentment towards Yao?"

Yuan Jian looked at Xiao Qinglan in embarrassment, she didn't speak, so Yuan Jian interpreted her silence as tacit consent, and explained to me: "Her parents and her younger brother were killed by demons, and now the only direct family members left are That’s why I have a deep resentment towards Yao.”

"No wonder." I nodded, and said again: "The last question, are you a reasonable person?" I asked Xiao Qinglan.

She looked up at me and said, "I only reason with people."

"Where's the demon?"

She didn't speak, and stared at me fiercely with her eyes. If eyes could kill, no, demons, I would have died many times.

Since I can't have a good chat, I can only use violence to solve the problem-I decided to use cold violence against her, and she was too happy not to talk to me anyway.

"Yuanjian, do you have any plans for the future?" I asked.

"...It's about the Xiao family." When this topic was mentioned, Xiao Qinglan immediately looked up at Yuan Jian, wanting to say something, but was stared back by Yuan Jian's eyes, closed her mouth embarrassingly, and listened honestly .

"Since ancient times, the profession of eliminating demon masters has come from Xiqi. You should know this, right?"

"I know." I nodded, "Is it about the candidate for the leader of the Demon Elimination League?"

When it comes to exorcising demon masters, one has to talk about the demon exterminating alliance, a force that gathers many exorcising master families.The leader of the Demon Elimination League is a bit like the leader of the martial arts in the Jianghu. Through the competition in the arena, the person who wins in the end and has a lot of prestige in the Jianghu will be recognized by everyone as the new leader of the martial arts.The leader of the Demon Elimination League also competes, but there can be up to five leaders elected in the end.

"That's right, there are still four lords in the Demon Elimination League, and now the fifth lord is mainly selected." Yuan Jian said, "Originally, the fifth lord was Qing Lan's grandfather, but the old man is getting old. After experiencing the pain of bereavement, after Qinglan grew up, she left last year."

"The selection of the alliance leader started a month ago. There are three rounds of the competition. Qing Lan has already passed the first two rounds. As long as the third round passes, Qing Lan will be selected as the successor of the alliance leader."

"Just the heir?" I grabbed the last key word, "Can't you become the leader directly after the competition?"

"It's not that simple!" Yuan Jian sighed, "How can you become the leader of the alliance so easily just because of your outstanding strength?"

"if not?"

"No matter how outstanding the prince is, he cannot become the emperor without the support of his courtiers."

"Okay. What do you want me to do? You don't want me to kill demons, do you?" I suddenly realized this, and quickly reiterated the contract. "The contract only stipulates killing people, not killing demons."

"No, what I mean is, I hope we can make another deal." Yuan Jian said, "I don't want you to kill people, or kill demons, I just hope you can provide the whereabouts of a demon, no matter what conditions you can provide .”

"You will do the deal or will she do it?" I didn't answer directly, but just asked an important question.

"I'll do it." Before Yuan Jian could answer, Xiao Qinglan said.She said with great difficulty: "I'm here to make this deal with you." As she spoke, she took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly.

"No matter what," she said.

Watching her say this sentence as if she was going to die, I can imagine that for a demon extermination master who is jealous of demons, there is nothing more difficult than putting down his identity and asking for help from a demon.Even if it is death, he will never bow his head to any monster.This is the most stubborn demon exterminator I have ever seen.

Still, I declined to make the deal with her.

"Don't forget, you almost killed my friend yesterday, and you made Yin'er cry so sadly. Just these two points alone, I can't forgive you, let alone make a deal with you."

"If the cat monster hadn't confused Yin'er, Yin'er would have lived a normal life long ago." Xiao Qinglan slapped the table and stood up, retorting.

"How do you know that you are confused?" I looked at her calmly, and I really didn't want to talk to such an unreasonable person.

"Yin'er is a human being, how can a human recognize a demon as his mother? Isn't this confusion?"

Why can't people recognize a demon as their mother?The child who was picked up by the wolf still regarded himself as a wolf, and the she-wolf as his mother!I endured the complaints about the opponent's brain circuit, but asked another question.

"You've been barking softly, how long have you known each other?"

She froze for a moment and then fell silent. Just when I thought she would not answer my question, she answered me.

"Five years ago." She said, "Five years ago, I came to Yin Dynasty with my father. When I came back, I passed by Bianzhou. That's when I met her."

five years?I was surprised, and I asked Yeyin the same question, and she said it was when she came to Xiqi a year ago.If what Xiao Qinglan said is true, it means that the relationship between the two of them five years ago may have only met and talked once or twice, so Ye Yin's impression was not deep.In other words, Xiao Qinglan remembered it for so long, which shows that she has a lot of affection for Yeyin!

"Well...well then, based on your wishful thinking towards Yin'er, as long as you kill the old Taoist priest yesterday, I will consider helping you. How about it?" I bit down on the word "consider", and at the same time Carefully observe each other's expression.

"No way!" was the expected answer.How could such an upright and stubborn person like Xiao Qinglan allow herself to exchange a life for a demon's consideration?

We ended up talking about it and broke up.I think the other party wasted the opportunity I gave her for the sake of Yeyin and Yuanjian. I will kill that old Taoist no matter what. No one in this world can still be good after bullying me. alive!Don't look at my heartless appearance all day long and don't worry about anything, in fact, I am very defensive and will take revenge.

But before I could do anything, the old Taoist died in his room.For this reason, Xiao Qinglan angrily came to the door again with a sword, and then I cut off the sword again. Under Yuan Jian's anger, this "revenge" was nothing.

"One day I will kill all the monsters in the world." Before leaving, she looked at me expressionlessly and said.

"You chose the most difficult path in the world." I said.

Xiao Qinglan left without looking back, her thin body looked so lonely.

"The old Taoist priest was a servant of her grandfather when he was young. He has been with her grandfather for decades and has never married a wife. Qinglan can be regarded as he watched him grow up. Although he is not related by blood, he is better than a relative. Now that he dies, Qinglan is truly alone."

Yuan Jian stood beside me, also looking at the lonely figure in the distance, as if sighing inadvertently, which was also an explanation to me.

"The old man instilled the cruelest belief in her while he was alive. She knew it was wrong, and she probably had no way out." I sighed, "This is no longer a belief but an obsession!"

"However, I didn't kill the old Taoist priest." I immediately emphasized, although in fact I may not need to explain anything to anyone, but I don't want Yuan Jian to think that I killed the person, even though I wanted to kill, But the truth is I didn't kill it.

"I didn't kill him." I said to her very seriously with a serious expression.

"I trust you," she said.

My mood suddenly brightened.

At this time, I suddenly thought of something: "How old is Xiao Qinglan this year? Sixteen or seventeen?"

"Seventeen and three months." Yuan Jian didn't understand why I would ask this.

"It's about the same age as Yin'er." And she said that she met Yin'er five years ago, and based on the time, she was twelve years ago, and Yin'er was eleven, just starting to learn to run a restaurant.I can imagine such a scene: On a certain day in that year, the young Xiao Qinglan followed her father passing by the restaurant, and when she stopped there, she saw the same young Yeyin fiddled behind the counter with a serious face. abacus.

Five years later, Yeyin was still fiddling with the abacus behind the counter, but more sophisticated and calm; five years later, Xiao Qinglan's family was ruined, and at a young age, she carried the last wish of the deceased, struggling in the mud, stubborn and stubborn.

When I went back to Taohuajian to pick up Yeyin, I briefly told her about Xiao Qinglan.She was silent for a few seconds after listening, then lowered her head and said, "That doesn't change the fact that she wants to kill mother."

"Isn't it surprising that you two met five years ago?"

"...What about accidents? But I don't remember."

"Stubborn girl!" I ruffled her hair, "Do as you want, but you have to keep in mind that if you can't save her, then destroy her. Also, be careful not to put yourself in it , if not, don’t blame me for forcibly killing her when the time comes—Aunt Qing can put the ugly words to the fore.”

"En." Yeyin obediently responded, and then said, "Aunt Qing, telling me this now, does it mean that you have softened your heart?"

Are you softhearted?I subconsciously reached out to my left chest, and as expected, there was no vibration in my palm.I suddenly had an inexplicable emotion growing in my body, and before it swept through my body, my hand was held by a warm hand in the next second.

"Aunt Qing..." The little girl looked a little sad.

"It's just a piece of meat missing, why are you sad?" I smiled, "People always say 'thinking', but in the final analysis, isn't it just thinking in the human brain? Although I have no heart, you can't say that I don't have a heart." brain?"

Yeyin was amused by my words, hugged me, and unconsciously said in a coquettish tone: "Aunt Qing, you are the smartest monster in the world!"

"It's still pretty, isn't it?"

"Yeah!" She nodded vigorously.

"Compared to your mother?"

"...you are all beautiful!" the little girl said after hesitating for a while.