Ah Qi took the sword, glanced at it, and his eyes lit up immediately. "Thank you, young lady."
"You should still call me Miss," Rong Qingqing corrected.
"Yes, Miss," Ah Qi corrected shyly.
"By the way, you must know how to use light-body skills, right?" Rong Qingqing asked curiously.
"Yes," Ah Qi replied.
Upon hearing this, Rong Qingqing's eyes lit up, and she pointed to the chick chirping incessantly under the tree next to her, saying, "Then put it back in its nest in the tree."
As soon as she finished speaking, Ah Qi walked over, bent down and picked up the baby bird, then leaped to the top of the tree, put the baby bird back in the nest, and then leaped back to the ground.
Seeing this, Rong Qingqing clapped her hands and said, "That's amazing." The tree in the courtyard was at least ten meters tall, but he flew up to it with ease. It seems that Ah Qi is not only highly skilled in martial arts, but also has excellent lightness skills.
Ah Qi said somewhat shyly, "It's nothing. My lightness skill is only average."
Rong Qingqing chuckled and said, "This is considered ordinary? It's already incredibly impressive." She paused, then asked curiously, "Since you have such martial arts skills, why did you end up selling yourself to bury your father?" She ultimately didn't say the words.
But Ah Qi understood.
He lowered his head in shame.
"I'm just too useless..."
Seeing the dejection in his eyes, Rong Qingqing knew he must have some kind of trouble. She patted his shoulder and comforted him, saying, "You've done your best."
Meeting her kind eyes, Ah Qi hesitated for a moment before saying, "Before my father passed away, he forbade me to use martial arts, so..."
Rong Qingqing was somewhat surprised upon hearing this, "Why?"
“I don’t know either.” Ah Qi frowned.
"Then why did you use martial arts later?"
"Because if I don't use martial arts, that person will hurt you," Ah Qi explained.
Rong Qingqing realized that yesterday at the night market, those thugs almost beat her up, but at the critical moment, it was A Qi who saved her.
"Did I make you break the rule?" she said with some guilt.
“You spent money to buy me, so I’m yours now. Of course I have to protect you, and that doesn’t mean I’m going against my father’s last wish,” Ah Qi explained.
"What was your father's last wish?" Rong Qingqing asked curiously.
“My father instructed me before he passed away that if he died, I should go to the streets of the capital and sell myself to pay for his funeral. If someone was willing to pay two taels of silver and that person had no ill intentions, I could go with him. I have nothing of value except my martial arts skills. If I go with someone, I will naturally have to use my martial arts skills, so it won’t be considered as going against his last wish,” Ah Qi explained.
Upon hearing this, Rong Qingqing immediately felt that her father was really unreliable.
What if no one is willing to offer two taels of silver? Even if someone is, how can he guarantee that Ah Qi will recognize that the other party has no ill intentions?
You should know that goodwill can be faked.
Is Ah Qi's father sure he's not sabotaging his son?
But she always felt that Ah Qi's father must have some kind of hardship.
“Yesterday I knelt on the street for a long time. Most people watched the spectacle, but no one was willing to lend a helping hand. The group of thugs who came later had actually come before you, but they didn’t want to spend any money. They wanted to wait until I couldn’t take it anymore and then offer myself to them. But in the end, you appeared,” Ah Qi said somewhat cryptically.
Rong Qingqing suddenly realized.
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