beg for chivalry

A pretty face was reflected in the bronze mirror.Zuo Sanniang painted her emerald green eyebrows, lightly dabbed rouge on her cheeks.After sticking the flower tinsel and the gold hairpin, she stood up and turned around happily.The red-sleeved shirt was reflected in the mirror, as intense as fire.

She wanted to dress up like this for a long time, with a phoenix crown and a xiapei, sitting in the eight-carried sedan chair, waiting for Mr. Ruyi sweetly.She also thought that after the grain and beans were scattered, the person who would lift the hijab would be Jin Wu, Tu Su Qiansui, and the newlyweds[1], and then it would be the wedding night in the bridal chamber, where they would eat bedside fruits together.

The more Zuo Sanniang thought about it, the more embarrassed she became, her face was burning hot, and she didn't realize a black shadow flashed behind her.

Yan Jiubian pushed the door and walked in with cold eyes.He glanced at her attire and said, "Miss San, is your poison needle ready?"

The assassin wearing the mask of a ghost raised his hand and pushed away the red powder box and alum jar beside the stage, and leaned against the stage unceremoniously, "When that day comes, I will lie outside with the people from the Ministry of Water, There is a white porcelain cup next to the bed. Look for the right moment, if you can't attack him at close range, use the cup as a sign, and I will jump up immediately and take the life of Yu Jiachen at the mountain gate that day."

He said bitterly again: "It's better to use insidious methods for this matter. The Tianshan Gate is separated from the world. Although Yujiachen's sword skills are good, but she can't be teased by women. I will definitely let down my guard against Miss San."

Seeing that Sanniang was still bewildered, Yan Jiubian frowned and said, "Miss San, did you hear what I said? After entering the room, you take off his clothes and the knife, so we can start... "

Sanniang was dreaming, but was suddenly interrupted, and saw that he had messed up her dowry, and cursed angrily: "Well, you Shuijiu, I said I would help you, but you are making trouble for me!"

She pursed her lips and said, "What's so difficult about killing someone? What my fifth brother can do without blinking, I can do with my eyes closed!"

Yan Jiubian said in a deep voice: "That man is the Sanzhu disciple of Tianshanmen, Yujiachen who Yubeixuan loves..."

"Whoever he is, no matter how powerful he is, isn't he just a servant in Drunken Spring Garden every day, washing towels for others?" Sanniang waved her hands, put some more powder into the box, and put it on her face.Yan Jiubian had no choice but to snort and leave the room.

After the man left, Zuo Sanniang became confused and hesitant.

The cold moonlight poured over the paper window like water, dripping on the bright red cardigan, obliterating a layer of festive red.She ran upstairs and opened the bamboo curtain, and there was the sound of gongs and drums in the distance, and the donkey shadow play was being performed in the theater next to the house. She stared blankly for a while, and suddenly her arms around her body tightened.She knelt down and came up, but in front of her eyes were the flickering candlelight in the theater building, which dazzled her.

She remembered that one night she had mixed up the rouge for the red maid, and was scolded by the bustard.She was not a person who was wronged since she was a child, and tears rolled out of her eyes immediately, squatting in the bamboo garden and crying.When Yu Qiuxia saw it, he dragged her over the fence and ran to the theater building at the gate of the north courtyard to watch a lantern and shadow show. He only had a copper plate on his body, so he squatted down and asked Sanniang to step on his shoulder, between the bamboo leaves. Peeping at the sheep puppet shadow figures dancing with guns and swords.

That night it was Di Qing Pingnan, and Sanniang was fascinated by it, but in the end she only watched half of it, because Yu Qiuxia was squatting underneath and her legs were numb, and in the end she was so tired that she trembled and nearly fell her.Later, in order to make amends, he went to buy a hot bun on credit, which contained pepper cold meat. She bit him and beat him lightly, but he smiled and didn't fight back.

Sanniang felt that Yu Qiuxia was a wimpy bastard with no sect temperament.Other people from the rivers and lakes had a vicious look on their faces and were armed with soldiers, so they just pasted a note on their head to write the name of the master's family, but Yu Qiuxia was very honest and responsible except for eating and drinking on weekdays. Not ostentatious, nor proud of martial arts.Seeing gangsters bullying the old and the weak, he would secretly trip up those thugs, and quickly help the wounded people to the ward, and leave without leaving their names.

At this moment, she was looking at the purse in her hand, which contained several poisoned silver needles, and her heart suddenly tightened.She has to kill, or kill that stupid boy.Thinking of this, the toe of the shoe is as heavy as lead, and I can't move it.

The water dripping from the hole in the copper pot made a tick-tock sound, and each sound seemed to fall on the heart, which disturbed Sanniang's mind.She changed the pair of cardigans and put back on her usual plain white jacket, staring at the bright red wedding dress in her hand in a daze.Suddenly a few round water spots appeared on the shirt, and she realized that it was her own tears. She didn't know whether it was out of fear or worry.

She silently thought: she and Yu Qiuxia have been hanging out in the garden for some time, playing around together in Fengyuan on weekdays, Yu Qiuxia always thinks of ways to protect her from being bullied, the two of them are like Jinlan friends, Now teach her how to do it?

"I... am going to kill someone." Sanniang looked at the moon in the sky.The silver plate was bitten by a tengu, and the incomplete part looked like a dark and cold eye, staring at him firmly.She murmured, "...to kill him."

The wind blew across the window lattice, whimpering and whimpering.The sound of gongs and drums stopped, and the surrounding area was eerily quiet. The courtyard was illuminated by the moonlight and was miserable.The girl sat for a long time before standing up holding the silk shirt.

She came out of the porch, the moonlight was bright, and the plum tree in front of the north guest room looked like snow had fallen.In the shadow of the plum branches, there is a person, holding the copper wire of the glazed lamp, watching the flowers silently.

Sanniang walked over in a daze, and when Jin Wu heard the footsteps, he turned his head expressionlessly, but his eyes lingered for a moment on the cardigan in her hand.

They looked at each other for a while, and asked at the same time.

"What are you doing?"

Zuo Sanniang was taken aback, and sniffed quietly, afraid that Jin Wu would find out that she had cried.She smiled and said, "I'll guess what you're doing, and you can guess mine too." Seeing Jin Wu holding a white sandalwood box with some plum petals in it, she rushed to say, "You I'm... stealing flowers to eat!"

Apart from recuperating in the room, this person would only go to the sea of ​​fire and the mountains of knives, so it was rare for him to come out for a breather today.Yi Sanniang is familiar with his temperament, besides stealing food, it is hard to think of a second reason.

Jin Wu looked at her indifferently, his eyes were like two sharp knives, "...you want to kill someone."

The girl trembled all over.

She immediately laughed and said, "Fifth Brother, you're talking nonsense again. Could it be that you've ruined your stomach and brain? I don't look like I'm going to kill someone?"

Jin Wu said: "All the hookweeds in your medicine cabinet are gone. The peach blossoms, snake sky tea, and aconitum are also gone."

These are all the names of highly poisonous herbs. Sanniang thought that he never paid attention to the work she did on weekdays, but she didn't expect this person to have such a good memory. Anyone who saw the names in her medicine cabinet once could know Remember it clearly.

"I..." Sanniang said, "I just soak in the water to play when I have nothing to do."

Jin Wu asked straightforwardly. "Did Yan Jiubian ask you to kill him?"

"No..." She hesitated for a while, her throat rolling nervously.Under the moonlight, Jin Wu's eyes were extraordinarily bright, like two clusters of dark fires burning, but his expression was as cold as ice.Sanniang's heart tightened a little, and finally she twisted the corner of her clothes and said, "...Yes."

"How to kill?"

Raksha in black lowered his head, picked up the petals one by one, threw them into the box, and asked casually, as if he wasn't blaming her, but Sanniang knew that he was angry, and every word he asked was like an interrogation.

Holding the bright red wedding dress in her hand, she stammered. "I... I pretended to be his wife and led him into the bridal chamber. The place was cramped. Not only were there people in the Ministry of Water who listened, but he couldn't use a knife, and he was worried about me, so he must be tied up. I took the opportunity to take his knife away, and then I stabbed him with a silver needle when I was close to him..."

"If you want to kill, you can kill, why is there such a big battle?" Jin Wu asked coldly.

"Zuichunyuan is the land of the Southern School, so we have to lure him out, otherwise we will be delayed by the Southern School... Yan Jiubian said it. Besides, I am familiar with the ladies and gentlemen, and there is nothing wrong with getting married here. Rare." Sanniang was so nervous that he could hardly speak.

"Fifth brother, don't worry, I have killed people. And the people from the Ministry of Water can ambush outside during the wedding banquet. If we go together, we still can't get a head."

Jin Wu said lightly. "no."

These two words immediately blocked her words.Sanniang felt a wave surging in her heart, hitting her chest with tightness and pain.She stared blankly at Jin Wu, this man just buried his head in picking up flowers, the moonlight fell on his body, as if he was covered in frost and snow, as if even his shadow became erratic and light.

She tried her best just to share her worries for the person in front of her.If Yan Jiubian couldn't kill the swordsman at the mountain gate that day, she would definitely trouble Jin Wu to make a move, but she never wanted to see Jin Wu running out like a lone wolf, and then coming back covered in blood, bored There is no life or death in the room.

Sanniang's voice trembled: "I just... don't want you to bother. Fifth brother, every time you kill a life, isn't it another layer of karma?"

Jin Wu shook his head. "This is my duty. I'm used to holding a sword in my hand, so it doesn't matter if I get a few more people's blood. I will repay the evil of this life in the next life. At least it won't be your turn to kill for me in this life."

The night wind brushed against the Drum Tower and swept into the deep courtyard.A tree of plum blossoms swayed, and jade-like flakes fell on his shoulders, like fluttering snowdrops.Jin Wu stood up, his waist-length Mingjia glowed with cold scales, which made Sanniang's eyes hurt a little.His expression remained unchanged, said.

"If you die, Zuo Buzheng will laugh. She will laugh that my thoughts and actions are all in vain. A Raksha in black can't even protect a little girl under her skirt. I won't let her succeed."

His tone was dull, but his words were firm. "So you can't die. Yan Jiubian and I will kill people, you don't have to intervene."

These words were very alienated, and for some reason Sanniang became angry.She pursed her lips in silence for a moment, then said loudly. "What do you mean I don't need to intervene? I just need to sit in the bridal chamber, half-push and half-play, and take the opportunity to pick up a silver needle, and I can kill more sharply than you with swords!"

Jin Wu just asked her, "If that person is an apprentice with high martial arts skills, what should you do? You live in the same room with him, so you are not afraid of being manipulated?"

It was rare for him to talk too much today, but his expression was too cold, and he said, "You are going to tarnish your reputation before you reach the age of being a boudoir?"

Zuo Sanniang blushed, but faltered and couldn't find a word to refute.What Jin Wu said was right, she felt like a rock was hanging in her heart, fluttering up and down.She was not afraid of Yu Qiuxia's real actions, but being alone in the same room made her a little flustered.

She suddenly felt her hand loosen, and when she looked down, her face suddenly turned pale.

Jin Wu took the bright red double-breasted suit from her hand, and said coldly, "Tell Shui Jiu to withdraw the staff from the Ministry of Water."

He glanced at the circle of golden and emerald wedding dresses, his voice was flat, without any ups and downs.

He said.

"...You don't have to go that night, I'll take your place."

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[1] Liu Chenweng's "Hundred Years Order" [Yes... that is, see you in the bridal chamber