Chapter 162 Qiu Xiang
After hearing Li San Niang's explanation, Li Erxiong thought it was a feasible approach, as it would at least make sense in name.
After all, Li San Niang's identity as a member of the Bad People still needs to be kept secret, but those who secretly want Li San Niang dead must also be guarded against. Having a close female bodyguard to protect Li San Niang's safety can put some of the worries of the rest of the Li family about Li San Niang going out to work.
However, Mr. Li hesitated for a moment, but did not say anything in front of Mr. Bu Ke.
Li's father thought that he should talk to Li San Niang alone later.
At this point, if a doctor were to take on an apprentice, it wouldn't be an ordinary relationship.
Having a nominal master-disciple relationship means a closer bond than that between parents and children; it's not something that can be established casually like Li San Niang did.
"Therefore, from today onwards, Qiuxiang will stay and accompany Third Sister."
Thank you, sir.
"Understood."
Li San Niang was still very grateful to Mr. Bu Ke.
Although having an outsider around might mean being monitored or having your information passed on to bad people, what does monitoring matter in the current situation?
Moreover, Li San Niang felt that apart from the matter of the mission system, she had nothing else that she couldn't tell others.
Even without Qiu Xiang in the public eye, the Li family must have someone secretly watching them. There might even be masked men in black on the roof of the Li family's house right now, and possibly more than one.
Besides, since Mr. Bu Ke said that Lady Qiu Xiang could fight ten people at once, she must be exceptionally skilled in martial arts, and at least to some extent, she could provide some protection for Li San Niang's safety.
That's enough.
People have to make choices; you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Her current name is Qiu Xiang, but in the Bad Guys, she is a female martial arts guard codenamed Eighteen. After responding to Mr. Bu Ke's words with "Yes, sir," she stood behind Li San Niang.
Eighteen lived in Baima County with her parents, who had retired from the martial arts world, since she was a child. When she was seven or eight years old, she got into a fight with a young man who was bullying her at a crossroads, which exposed her mother's unique martial arts moves. This was witnessed by a martial arts practitioner who happened to be passing by and had a past feud with Eighteen's parents.
This led to a tragedy.
The martial arts practitioners seized the opportunity and poisoned the well where everyone in the village drew water. Everyone who drank the water felt weak and sore all over and couldn't stand up. Some of the weaker ones even fainted.
At the time, Shiba was only seven or eight years old and watched helplessly as martial arts practitioners brutally murdered her parents right in front of her.
Eighteen heard her mother calling out to her to close her eyes and not look, but the martial arts man wouldn't let her, so he forced Eighteen to open her eyes wide and look carefully.
It was quite a coincidence that a group of rogues who had just finished a mission and wanted to resupply in the village happened to be passing by. In broad daylight, there was not a single person in the village, and not a single farmer was out working in the fields.
This highly unusual situation naturally attracted the attention of unscrupulous individuals.
In the end, the Bad Guys captured the Jianghu people alive, including Shi Ba, and saved the villagers.
But in the end, it was too late.
Eighteen-year-old's parents: her father, who had drawn too much hatred, had already died; and her mother was barely clinging to life.
Little Eighteen looked at her mother with tears streaming down her face. Her mother raised her hand and touched her little face, using her last strength to say to her, "Good girl, don't seek revenge. Eat more, grow up well, my good daughter, live well."
The Bad Guys at the time wanted to kill the Jianghu person directly, then replenish their food supplies and return to Chang'an to report back.
No one expected that Xiao Shiba, who had lost her parents, would suddenly erupt, pick up the dagger that the martial arts practitioners had used to torture her parents, and rush towards the martial arts practitioners who were being held by the thugs, kneeling on the ground with their arms tied behind their backs and their hands bound. She stabbed the dagger into the heart, pulled it out, stabbed it again, pulled it out, and stabbed it again, repeating this more than a dozen times. She was covered in the martial arts practitioners' blood, and her face and hair were stained with blood. Only when she was exhausted did she stop.
"Wow, this little kid is something else. Even after being drugged, he still managed to rush over. That's quite impressive."
Someone in the Bad Guys suggested tying up the little kid and sending him back to the Bad Guys to train him properly so he could become an assassin in the future.
The leader of the group, a member of the Bad Guys, stopped the man's joke, turned around and snatched the knife from Xiao Shiba. He raised his hand and wiped her blood-stained face. "Alright, the revenge has been taken. We have already informed the local government. When the people arrive, you can go to the orphanage with them. From now on, listen to your mother, eat well, and grow up well."
When the government officials arrived, the thugs planned to leave with the supplies.
But they hadn't gone far when they sensed someone following them. After stopping to investigate, they discovered it was Xiao Shiba, still wearing the same blood-stained clothes, jogging behind them.
"Heh, this little kid's got some ideas. Is he coming back to our hideout with us?"
The team leader naturally wouldn't agree to take such a child back to report, so he stepped forward to stop Xiao Shiba from following. Unexpectedly, Xiao Shiba said, "I killed someone, they won't want me. I can live if I follow you. My mother said she wants me to live. I'll go with you, take me with you."
The rogues, lurking in the darkness, only then considered this question; indeed, to them, killing such a江湖人 (jianghu person) was perfectly justified.
They didn't think there was anything wrong with Xiao Shiba avenging her parents, but to the villagers and officials, Xiao Shiba was heretical and broke the law. Not to mention that she was only a seven or eight-year-old girl. If it were in some people's eyes, they would probably say that she was a possessed evil spirit and that they would put her on a wooden stake and burn her to death.
Thinking about all this, the bad guys felt resentful.
Then, the scoundrel who had previously said he wanted to recruit her as an assassin stepped forward and said, "Come on, little girl, I'll carry you on my back so you can keep up."
Little Eighteen was bold enough to actually climb onto the man's back, and that's how Little Eighteen got involved with the Bad Guys.
When they returned, Mr. Bu Ke, who had only been in charge of the Bad People for three or four years, felt that the group was not doing their job and was just causing trouble by bringing back a little girl.
At first, Mr. Ke had someone send Xiao Shiba to an orphanage in Chang'an City, but Xiao Shiba would escape as soon as he arrived. This happened three or four times. He would rather become a little beggar than not be able to find the strongholds of the bad guys in Chang'an City and go back to be an assassin.
Finally, seeing her like this, Mr. Noble gave in to her wishes.
"You should know that once you enter this door, unless you die, you will never be able to step out again."
Little Eighteen responded to Mr. Impossible's question by simply walking straight in.
Then, over the next five or six years, some kids like Xiao Shiba appeared in the Bad Guys. For various reasons, whether voluntarily, to avoid trouble, or out of necessity, they joined the Bad Guys.
They were taught all sorts of different skills and trained according to their talents and strengths. Some became spies, some became bodyguards, and others, like Xiao Shiba, who were talented, had a good foundation, and could endure hardship, became all-around secret agents who could do anything.
She started going on missions when she was eighteen or fourteen years old, and has completed no fewer than a hundred missions without a single failure. She is truly a talented person.
Therefore, her code name was only recently assigned to her among the Bad Guys: Number 18.
She's one of the top twenty best fighters in the Bad Guys.
However, she is now Qiu Xiang, not eighteen years old.
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