"Don't be afraid, Second Brother is a good person. He didn't mean to be mean to you. He just likes to have a sour face," Xingxing said earnestly to comfort him.
After a long day of travel, and with the weather getting hotter and hotter, everyone was covered in sweat. After dinner, all they wanted to do was take a shower and change into clean clothes.
Xingxing needed to take a bath, so Zhao Guihua asked Jingjing, Xiaoxiao, and Tangguo to fetch water from the kitchen. "Here's half a tael of silver and a few dozen copper coins. Take them and use them to bribe the kitchen staff later."
Zhao Guihua gave the money to Xiaoxiao, who was good at talking and knew how to interact with people.
When they got downstairs to the kitchen, Xiaoxiao glanced at Jingjing and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong? You look so pale. Do you know those two men in the lobby?"
"I don't know them, but something felt off. Those two had suspicious eyes and didn't look like good people." Jingjing, who was usually quiet, spoke so much all at once, which was quite arousing.
However, she wouldn't say, and Xiaoxiao didn't press her for details, but she became more cautious and focused all her attention on Jingjing that night.
After fetching water and returning to the guest room, Zhao Guihua told the three of them to go to the kitchen to bathe first, and then take the water downstairs and throw it away when they came back.
The two people in the inn lobby never left. They sat there drinking and whispering to each other. Jingjing walked back and forth three times, but they didn't notice her.
She breathed a sigh of relief. She recognized the two men; they were from that organization. Those people had kidnapped many little girls and boys and kept them in a secret base, training them every day.
During the training, more than half of the participants would die, and only the strong would survive to the end. Jingjing was once one of those children and had killed many people during the training. She loathed that kind of life filled with killing and bloodshed.
She was constantly thinking about escaping, until a year ago when she was stabbed twice and kicked off a cliff during her first mission. The organization thought she was dead.
Even she herself didn't believe she could survive, but she really did. She lived at the bottom of the cliff for more than half a year, surviving by eating small animals and wild fruits, and her broken legs were slowly recovering.
However, her injuries were too severe. One day, two hunters came and tied her up with ropes. The two hunters originally intended to rape her, but she resisted desperately and was beaten half to death before being sold to a brokerage firm.
The two henchmen downstairs didn't recognize her because Jingjing had only met them once, and the organization had many assassins who didn't get along well, so it was normal that they didn't recognize her.
But if the leader were to appear, he would definitely recognize her at a glance, since she was trained by the other party.
She was worried that the leader might appear nearby and kill her.
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