Chapter 39: Welcome to the top assassin organization in Jianghu, Luo Wan...
This time it was the Shen family guards holding torches. Shen Zhiyan saw Madam Shen running towards him surrounded by a crowd of people.
The attack proved that her whereabouts had been exposed, and Mrs. Shen had to change her route temporarily.
Before entering the Yun Kingdom checkpoint, she entrusted Luo Wan to a farmer's family.
"The journey is long and dangerous. Your eyes need to be healed. I will take you back home when I return from Xiliang."
She left a bag of silver and a jade pendant for Luo Wan: "If anyone bullies you, take this to the county government office."
She finally touched Luo Wan's eyes. The new eyes under the veil were still very fragile, like the thin ice on the river surface in early spring that was about to melt.
Shen Zhiyan comforted her: "When I come back, your eyes will be healed, and my hands will be healed too. I will teach you to play the piano again."
Luo Wan clutched the jade pendant and nodded.
Madam Shen’s carriage went farther and farther away, and finally disappeared at the end of the official road.
Luo Wan stood at the entrance of the village until he could no longer hear the sound of horse hooves.
For many years after that, she always dreamed of the sound of horse hooves, sometimes returning to the village, but more often heading towards the farther Xiliang.
The mud walls of the farmer's house could not withstand the wind and snow, nor could they block the loud noise of the creditors kicking the door.
Scarface slammed the IOU on the table and said, "If you don't pay me back today, I'll use your son's finger as payment for the interest!"
Luo Wan huddled behind the stove and heard Aunt Zhang pleading tearfully, "Give me three more days, until I sell the piglets..."
"Just those two sick pigs in your family?" Scarface suddenly overturned the dining table. "Why not use this girl to pay off the debt? Zuikeju is in need of a maid to do odd jobs!"
Luo Wan's wrist was grabbed by a pair of iron-like hands, and Scarface pulled her out from behind the stove.
Uncle Zhang said tremblingly, "This is a lady who left it here. She will come back to pick it up."
"Madam?" Scarface pulled open her collar, revealing the jade pendant left by Madam Shen. "If she were a lady from a respectable family, would she still be in your pigpen?"
Scarface pulled off the jade pendant, looked at it carefully, and after confirming that it was a valuable jade pendant, he silently put it into his sleeve.
Luo Wan looked up at him and said, "Give it back to me."
Scarface said with a forced smile, "Not only is your jade pendant mine, you are mine too." Before leaving, he said to the old couple, "Let your wife redeem her!"
Scarface waited and waited, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, but the so-called lady never came to redeem her. He still had to feed this mouth with food and drink, and others laughed at him for raising a daughter for nothing.
He was furious. After thinking about it over and over again, he felt that the old couple was playing tricks on him. She was not a young lady entrusted by the lady at all. When he wanted to settle the score with the couple later, he found that they had moved away!
Oh my goodness! He got cheated, so Scarface sold Luo Wan to a drunken brothel the next day.
"Fifty taels!? For this tiny little girl?" The madam dug her nails into Luo Wan's cheek. "What can she do? Twenty taels at most."
Scarface said, "Touch her nose and eyes. She'll be a beauty in two years!"
The madam thought for a moment and said, "Thirty!"
"forty!"
"Thirty-five!"
"make a deal!"
Luo Wan was sold to the Drunkard Bureau by Scarface for thirty-five taels.
At first, because she was still young, she followed the servants to wash dishes in the kitchen. The dishwashing water was freezing cold in winter, and her little hands were frozen red and got frostbite.
The madam saw this and cursed as she added some hot water to the basin: "How are you going to serve customers with scars on you... Why are you looking at me? You want to be whipped again? Wash yourself!"
Luo Wan soaked her hands in the not-so-cold dishwater, thinking, I can still hold on, I can still survive, I can still wait for my wife, none of this is meaningless. She had thought about escaping the restaurant, but where could she go? The couple had already moved away, and in the vast Qingzhou, there was no place for her. It was like she was back to the days of being a beggar.
People are like this, once they get a taste of something sweet, the desires in their hearts will grow like weeds. She just returned to the old days, but she still felt unbalanced in her heart.
Because of hope, she was like a ray of light that broke through Luo Wan's gloomy and rainy world. No one didn't want to escape from the humidity and get closer to the warm sun.
Hope arises without warning, and so does its demise.
Today, a big shot invited his friends to a banquet at a drunken party and specifically requested an acrobatic performance. Unfortunately, the little boy in the acrobatic class fell ill.
His performance was always to walk through a fire ring, and the fire ring was extremely small and the flames were fierce. Only children who had not grown up could walk through it. It was precisely because of this thrilling performance that he attracted a lot of business to the Drunkard's Bureau.
The big shot's request could not be refused, and the little boy was too sick to move, so the madam was anxious and jumping up and down.
Someone suggested, "Doesn't Mom raise a lot of kids in the restaurant kitchen? Why not pick out one that can dance?"
"You say it so easily, but how can those good-for-nothings do this?"
"Let them try drilling it."
After much thought, the madam came up with only this solution, so she gathered all the children who did odd jobs.
The cold winter wind made the lanterns sway wildly, and the children shivered like dead leaves in the wind.
A fire ring was set up in the center of the courtyard, and a cotton rope soaked in kerosene ignited a blue flame tail.
However, no one dared to drill.
When the madam's whip fell on everyone again, Luo Wan rushed towards the fire circle, and the heat wave hit his face.
The flames licked the ends of her hair, and she actually passed through the circle of fire that was less than two feet in diameter.
She just wanted to survive. If she didn't go through the fire ring, she would be whipped to death by the madam, so she might as well give it a try. At least there was a chance of survival.
The boy was sick for several days, and Luo Wan stood in the fire circle for him for several days. Until one day, a man from the underworld wearing a straw raincoat came to the drunkard's house.
He sat under the stage, with his knife placed neatly on the table. Even when he was indoors, he never took off his bamboo hat.
It was only after Luo Wan entered Tingyu Tower that he found out that his name was Huixue, a third-rank assassin of Tingyu Tower.
There are four third-level death warriors, ranking only below the host of the post. Each of them corresponds to a different position. Huixue's mission is to hunt down the traitor.
When the acrobatic performance ended and he left the stage, Hui Xuedao pointed at Luo Wan and said calmly, "I want this person."
Seeing something was amiss, the madam immediately rushed over to smooth things over: "Sir, what do you mean by this?"
Hui Xue said, "How much is it? I'll buy it."
The madam was caught in a dilemma. She had originally planned to wait for Luo Wan to grow up, and then use her beauty to attract a wealthy young master to redeem her. She could then take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune. Even if she didn't, she could still make a lot of money by receiving customers every day. But what if she grew up to be disabled? Wouldn't all the years she had supported Luo Wan be in vain?
After a while, the madam said a figure that was a sure win so far: "One hundred taels."
Hui Xue didn't even blink: "I'll give you two hundred taels, and I'll pretend that this person has never existed here."
I still remember how she begged the madam not to sell her, and how she hit her forehead until it bled. She said that she would definitely earn a lot of money for the madam in the future, more than two hundred taels.
She wants to stay in that city and wait for someone.
The madam "persuaded" him kindly, saying that following this gentleman would mean a life of luxury, with delicious food and fine drinks.
Hui Xue brought Luo Wan onto the carriage. She suddenly bit his palm fiercely and jumped off the carriage. After running a few steps, she felt a sharp pain behind her head and fell to the ground.
Hui Xue picked her up and said, "You have guts, but I hope you can kill people with a sword in the future instead of just biting like a dog."
Tingyu Tower is located in the mountains, surrounded by fog, making it difficult for outsiders to enter. Behind the Tingyu Tower, there is a huge snake cave that raises countless poisonous snakes. That is the source of the poison practiced by the third-level assassin Bi Yue.
Luo Wan was thrown to Liu Feng by Hui Xue.
Liu Feng asked, "Why are you doing Qing Yun's work?"
He meant selecting kids from outside the building who were worth training.
Hui Xue said, "Who made me meet her? She's a natural born warrior." As he left, he reminded her, "Remember to ask Qingyun to pay me back the two hundred taels."
Liu Feng saw Luo Wan's whip wound, which had not yet healed. "Two hundred taels for a piece of rotten meat." He sneered, but threw a bottle of golden medicine. "Tingyu Tower doesn't keep useless people. Tomorrow at dawn, we will be in the training ground."
Luo Wan was groping in the dark to apply the medicine when she heard the sound of fighting outside the window. She looked through the crack in the door and saw black shadows fighting one-on-one in the moonlight.
At that time, she didn't know that this would be a microcosm of her death warrior training career for the next seven years.
It is undeniable that Commander Liu Feng’s teaching to her in this regard is irreplaceable.
In order to survive, she struggled on the brink of life and death time and time again, and became the most desired assassin in Tingyu Tower.
Cruel, cold and ruthless.
Every step here is made of corpses, and every assessment requires stepping on the bloody corpses of colleagues.
Before the final assessment, the girl who entered the building at the same time and always wore twin buns came up to Luo Wan and asked, "If you meet me in the final assessment, what will you do?"
"I will kill you."
"You are so cruel, can't you just give in to me?"
Luo Wan lowered her eyes and looked at the body that was gradually getting cold in the mud, half of her face was immersed in the mud.
Of the original 100-person training group, only seven survived.
Liu Feng stood on the platform with his hands behind his back and said, "From today on, you will officially complete your training and become Tingyu Tower's assassins." The corners of his mouth curled up in an unidentified arc. "Welcome to join the world's number one assassin organization."
From now on, there is no turning back.
According to convention, anyone who becomes a death warrior in Tingyu Tower will be given a corresponding shadow in the tower.
The seven people who had just experienced a fight in the mud were still gasping for breath when they suddenly saw seven figures emerging from the darkness.
I heard that shadows all wore black clothes, but Chu Lin that day was different. He was dressed in a blue and purple brocade suit, so noble that he didn't look like a shadow. Instead, he looked like a young man who had strayed into the mortal world and had an immortal air.
The young man smiled faintly as he stepped into the blood-stained quagmire. He extended his hand to Luo Wan and said, "I will definitely make you the owner of this building."
Liu Feng said, "They too have gone through battles and finally made it to your side. From now on, they will be your companions, sharing life and death with you."
The moment their fingertips touched, Luo Wan had no idea that these hands would push her into a deeper abyss in the future.
After receiving the first mission, Luo Wan immediately took advantage of the break to go to Lin'an City, found the three men, and gouged out their eyes.
During this time, she deliberately avoided Qingzhou. Even though she knew she would not meet the person she wanted to see there, she still wanted to escape.
The person I used to desperately want to see, I now don’t dare to see him anymore.
His knees were numb from kneeling, and Luo Wan supported himself to stand up. He slowly approached the portrait, his hands trembling uncontrollably as he carefully touched the painting.
When the fingertips touch the paper,
I finally saw your appearance clearly.
I'm sorry for not being a kind person.
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