i want to be by your side

"You are……"

"Hello, girl. My surname is Yuan, and my name is Yuan Jian. This is my personal bodyguard, Long Qing. My family is in business. I went to Xiqi with a caravan to do business with my family. Rogues, we escaped here, hoping to find a kind family to take us in."

Yuan Jian wanted to stand up and talk to someone to be polite, but I sat on the tree trunk with a blank expression. In desperation, I had no choice but to apologize to the other party and explain our identities and purpose of coming.

"Your feet..."

"The mountain road is difficult, and I accidentally worn my foot." Yuan Jian said helplessly.

"Well, I don't think you guys are like bad people. If you don't mind, you can go to my house today. You can see it after a short walk. If you want to go to the village, it may take half a day to get there after dark. How about Stay at my house tonight, go to the village tomorrow, and arrive at noon." The woman hesitated.

"Then thank you girl." Yuan Jian said.

"My name is Chen Xing, and this is a stone."

"Woof!" Stone barked immediately when he heard his master call it.

"Miss Chen Xing, and... Shitou." Yuan Jian saluted a dog a little unaccustomed, but after all, he grew up in the royal family, so he concealed his emotions very well.

Chen Xing's gaze lingered on me for a long time, I guess she also knew that half of what Yuan Jian said was true and half was false, and Yuan Jian knew it too.But there are some things that everyone knows well, there is no need to know the truth.

"Then come with me." After finishing speaking, Chen Xing put the roe deer he had hunted on his shoulder, turned around and left, and Shitou trotted ahead to open the way.

I silently carried the Yuan Jian on my back, and followed at a leisurely pace.

"Why didn't you talk just now?" Yuan Jian asked in my ear, breathing out on the side of my face, and suddenly, I felt my cheeks were a little hot.

"I'm afraid of saying the wrong thing." I turned my face away unnaturally, praying that she didn't notice my very red ear tips.

While no one heard my prayers, she noticed anyway.

"Why are your ears red?" She touched them with her hands in doubt, and I felt my face blushing even more in an instant.

"..." I decided not to speak, and answered the question with silence.

"Could it be that you fell in love with that girl?" Yuan Jian thought about it carefully, but he didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly he was shocked.

"..." I said speechlessly, "Why do you think so?"

"But didn't you still use the student-student husband and the wife at home...to describe us last night?" She realized that she was speaking too bluntly in the middle of her speech, and the latter half of the sentence was almost blurred.

But my hearing is not so good, no matter how fast she speaks, I still hear the content clearly.

"So?" I asked back.

"so……"

"So you think I like women?" I said, "But didn't you still think that women and women cannot be called husband and wife last night?"

"It's different."

"What's the difference?"

"..." Yuan Jian wanted to say something, but the last thousand words came together in one sentence, "It's just different", and then he stopped talking.

We fell into silence again.

Chen Xing's house is not far away, as she said, she will arrive soon.Two houses made of wood and thatch, one for living and the other for kitchen.The outside is surrounded by a fenced wall, and a small open space is marked out in front of the house.All kinds of dried meat and animal skins that the other party got from hunting were dried in the open space.

"You guys can stay in this room. Shitou and I will go to another room." Chen Xing said, "It's almost noon now, I'll cook, and you can rest here first."

"Thank you, Miss Chen Xing." Yuan Jian said.

After Chen Xing left, I stood at the door and took a look. After making sure that the other party was indeed busy in the kitchen, I turned back and asked Yuan Jian: "What are you going to do next?"

"Find a way to go to Xiqi. I believe that Shan Che and Zheng Rentao will not be caught by the rogues so easily. After we disperse, they know that I will go to Xiqi, so they will also find a way to go to Xiqi. At that time we will Just meet at Xiqi."

"What about after meeting?" I just want to know who the first person I want to kill is, but Yuan Jian didn't say anything, and I'll know when it comes to Xiqi.

I know a ghost ah me!I glared at Yuan Jian angrily, and at the same time made up my mind to cast a spell and go to Xiqi for a walk in the dead of night tonight.

After dinner, Yuan Jian asked Chen Xing how to go to Xiqi, the girl was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "If you want to go to Xiqi, it may be difficult. The shortest way to Xiqi is in this forest The outside is the road you take, although there are rogues, you may not encounter them every time. If you choose another road, you have to take a long detour, and you can’t get there without walking for four or five days.”

Chen Xing stopped and thought for a while, and added: "If you go to Chenjia Village, it will be much farther if you go back to this road, and the other road is closer to the other side."

After Yuan Jian finished listening, he wanted to ask a few more questions, but he heard someone outside calling Chen Xing to go out.

"You stinking bastard, hurry up and get out of here!" the people outside shouted.Chen Xing's face suddenly became very gloomy.

Those who came to call out were a few servants in servant clothes, with the words "Chen's House" embroidered on the cuffs, indicating that these people were all servants of that Chen House.The leader is a middle-aged man with a ferocious appearance, full of cheeks, like a bandit who robbed a house. I don't know how he became the servant of the Chen family. The others are all handsome, except him.

When Chen Xing heard those people insultingly yelling, although his face was gloomy, he suppressed his anger and let us have a good rest, and then he went to face those people with a hatchet and stones.

Although I was in the house, my sight was obstructed by various things, so I couldn't see what was going on outside.However, with my strength, it is still easy to look outside through a wooden door. Without Yuan Jian noticing, I quietly used my demon power to make my eyes see the outside scene through the wooden door.

Uh, it's actually a situation where a bully leads a group of people to oppress a decent woman.

The one headed by the opponent is Chen Er, who works as a domestic servant in the Chen family in a nearby village.A month ago, someone in the village went up the mountain to cut firewood and met a bear. After hearing about it, Mr. Chen wanted a bear skin to make clothes for his grandson, so he offered a reward of ten taels of silver.Chen Xing was born as a hunter, so he hunted down the bear first, but this is a bear, not other small animals, and it is not a bear whose skin can be successfully peeled off after being captured alive, there must be a wound on it.The bear skin that Chen Xing got had several holes pierced by arrows, but this was good enough for her who only had one person and one dog, but she was still treated as a bear by the other party. On the grounds that the skin was incomplete, only five taels of silver were given.

The matter is not over yet, the grandson of Mr. Chen in the back suddenly fell into the water one day while playing in the bearskin clothes, causing wind and cold, burning for three days and three nights, and it took a hundred-year-old ginseng to save his life .Then it was rumored that the bear skin dress was unlucky, whoever wore it would be unlucky, and it was also rumored that it was contaminated by Chen Xing, and she was the one who made everyone unlucky.Then Chen Xing's life in the village became more and more difficult, so someone from the Chen family came to ask her to compensate 100 taels.No money?Okay, then everything you get in the mountains will belong to the Chen family.

When I told Yuan Jian about it, she didn't ask me how I knew it, she just looked serious.Then, people from Chen's house broke in and emptied all the animal skins and dried meat in the yard, not even leaving the baskets behind, leaving only a mess.

Chen Xing didn't say anything, just silently watched those people break into his home and left after looting, and then silently cleaned up the mess they left behind.Stone whimpered softly and followed behind his master, contributing his own strength from time to time.

"I made you laugh." After cleaning up, Chen Xing said to us with a tired face, "They are from the Chen Mansion, and the Chen Mansion is the only rich family in the village. They are rich and powerful, and you will go to the village tomorrow. Be careful not to mess with them."

After finishing speaking, Chen Xing turned around and wanted to leave. He seemed to think of something in the next second, stopped and turned around and said, "Before it is dark, I will go to the mountain and see if I can catch prey. Otherwise, I can only I am wronged to eat the bowl of roe deer meat left in the pot tonight."

Yuan Jian and I looked at each other, knowing in my heart that without us, that bowl of roe deer meat would be enough for her to eat tonight, and there is no need to go hunting now.Yuan Jian said: "Or let Long Qing go with you, we have caused you a lot of trouble here, and we want to do our best. You also know that the ears and eyes of people who know martial arts It's better, maybe it can help." She asked for my opinion with her eyes while talking, and I nodded, indicating that there is no problem.

"This..." Chen Xing hesitated, and what Yuan Jian said made some sense.She has been hunting for so many years, so she naturally knows that some prey cannot be caught by experience alone. It can only be said that if there is experience, the success rate will be higher than ordinary people.Similarly, good skills can also increase the chance of hunting.

"It's less than an hour before it gets dark. Go early and come back early. I'll wait for you here." Yuan Jian said again.

"There should be no one around here except you, right?"

Chen Xing nodded.

"Then it should be fine. I won't go out at will until you come back."

"How about I let the stone stay?" Chen Xing still hesitated, "Although there are no people nearby, if people like those just now come..." She didn't go on with the rest, but everyone present already knew that she wanted to What is said.

"Then how about this." I suggested, "Miss Chen, you stay and help take care of my young lady, and I will go hunting. However, I hope to get Shitou's help."

Chen Xing wanted to say something else, but in the end my proposal was passed.I took Chen Xing's bow bag and wooden bow, and the stone didn't need me to greet it. After Chen Xing said a few words to it, he reluctantly left with me. not tall.

"I said, is it necessary for you to do this?" I said, "Isn't it just an hour? Don't you get tired of staying together every day?" I know that Shitou has become a spirited dog, although he hasn't really become a demon yet. But if you give it a few decades of practice, it will probably be able to transform into form.

"Woof!" Not tired.Stone barked.

"I can't understand."

"Wow, woof, woof!" I didn't understand before, but now I know.Stone said.

"...how did you meet your master?"

One day when her father took her hunting, she picked me up, and I was dying, and she saved me.Later, her father left, and we were left to depend on each other.

"People in the village don't seem to like her, why?" I recalled the scene where the Chen family's servant broke in, and asked in doubt.

Shi Shi was silent for a long time before continuing: This has been going on for a long time, and we have to start with her father.

Then I heard such a story - Chen Xing's father was a well-known hunter in the village, and there were no wild animals on this mountain that he couldn't hunt.But no matter how rich the experience is, there are times when tigers appeared on the mountain. Father Chen said he was going to hunt a tiger skin as a dowry for his daughter, so he went up the mountain, but he was injured by the tiger because he was not as old as before.Although the tiger happened to be bumped by a few hunters later and saved his life by scaring away the tiger, but at that time Father Chen had only one breath left, and he died after seeing Chen Xing for the last time when he got home.Chen Xing was very sad, and vowed to avenge his father by killing the tiger, and then made an oath in front of everyone: If anyone can kill the tiger and peel off the tiger's fur as a dowry, she will marry him.Later...the tiger died of course, but why did Chen Xing move out of the village to live alone?

"Why?" I asked, countless guesses flashed through my mind, but I always felt that it was not the case.

"Wow, woof!" The man and the tiger died together!Stone spoke casually.

"Is that so?" I stepped in front of it and pinched its face, rubbing its face into various shapes under its surprised expression.

"Woof~" What are you doing?Let go, Hun Dan!Stone tried to break free from my clutches, but failed.

"No, your face is so soft, let me pinch it a little longer." I said maliciously, and continued to pinch its face.Stone is quite patient, and he didn't compromise under my face-pinching attack.

After a stick of incense.

"I surrender, I say." The stone finally compromised, and I continued to pinch it a few times before letting go.The stone immediately jumped back a few steps, and quickly kept a distance of at least two meters from me.It shook its head, complaining that its face was swollen by me.

I looked left and right, and comforted me: "Don't worry, you have so much hair on your face, you can't see it."

"..." Woohoo, this monster is good or bad, and it specializes in bullying our dog face.

"What's going on?" I asked, "Don't say that they died together, I don't believe it."

"..." Stone turned his face silently.

"You don't really want to continue to deceive me with this, do you?" I made a gesture to rush over to pinch its face, but the stone howled and fled in a hurry.

"Wow, woof!" Shitou yelled—why are you acting like this?Also let the dog have privacy?

"What do you mean not letting the dog have privacy? I didn't force you." I retorted, "After all, didn't you tell me all of this? As a result, the story is unfinished, can I complain?"

"Wow!" - Stone.

"@#￥%&..." - me.