"He Xiao, what's going on?" Lin Mo glared at He Xiao.
"Your Highness, I did not agree!" He Xiao said, looking bewildered. "I only told Your Highness that this matter needs to be discussed with you before I can give you an answer."
According to the rules, this is not allowed. However, if Your Highness agrees, I can make an exception!
“Yes, isn’t that an agreement?” Zhao Zhilan said. “Your Highness, what do you say?”
"No!" Lin Mo said firmly. "Your Highness, this time we absolutely cannot let you leave."
"So I should go back to the capital with you? And live in that cage called the Imperial Palace?" Zhao Zhilan said. "Or does Your Highness the Regent want to marry me? To make me marry the person who killed my mother?"
I'm sorry, but I simply can't bring myself to face you every day!
As she spoke, she looked up at Lin Mo and asked, "The world is so vast, where should I find a place to settle down?"
This question stumped Lin Mo.
“But Princess, isn’t it a bit too late for you to go to the Red and White House at your age? Isn’t that right, Lord He?”
Logically speaking, assassins must have been trained since childhood, and it would take more than ten years of training to reach the skill level of Tang Ying and Tang Feng.
Upon hearing this, He Xiao first nodded, then shook his head. "Your Highness, I truly cannot train, but..."
"But?" Lin Mo asked anxiously, "What 'but'?"
"Your Highness, my Xuanhua Palace was divided into two factions in earlier years!" He Xiao explained, "One faction followed the ancient ways, while the other emphasized the efficiency of assassination!"
As you know, Xuanhua Palace is an assassin organization that earns commissions by assassinating targets.
There are many methods of assassination.
He's faction emphasizes efficiency in assassinations...
Lin Mo understood.
The disciples of He Xiao's school have been practicing martial arts since childhood. They undergo a series of training programs including balance training, agility training, strength training, underwater breath-holding, hand-to-hand combat, and swordsmanship.
To put it simply, it emphasizes superb martial arts skills, the ability to scale walls and leap across rooftops, and efficient close-range assassinations.
Besides him, there is another group of assassins who follow the ancient path of assassination!
This school does not require its disciples to learn martial arts, but rather to practice all sorts of fancy and unorthodox "tricks"!
They believed that the strongest assassins didn't necessarily have to be highly skilled in martial arts. A stray arrow, a cup of poisoned wine, an unnoticed trap, or a dilapidated stair railing could have been the answer.
Any of these can become a means of assassination!
What disciples of this school need to master is: listening to snippets of conversation and various pieces of information. They must then lie in wait near their assassination target, waiting for the opportune moment to strike.
Among the disciples of the ancient path was one who was only eleven years old and had a thin and short stature.
She had the face of a girl who had been beaten and was now ugly and disfigured.
Her assassination target was a burly, 40-year-old man named Xi Wuhanzi.
This is a task that seems impossible to complete in the next life.
But she did it.
She pretended to be a thief and stole his bag of silver. She then pretended to abandon the stolen goods and run away, opening the bag and scattering the gold coins on the ground. During this time, she replaced one of the silver ingots in the bag with a silver ingot coated with poison. After completing the switch, she left the scene.
Not long after, the man's heart inexplicably stopped beating.
The reason is simple: this man always liked to take out the silver coins and bite them a few times to confirm their authenticity!
“Therefore, Your Highness Regent, I can learn the ancient path and become a disciple of Xuanhua Palace!” Zhao Zhilan said after listening to He Xiao’s words.
Lin Mo could tell that Zhao Zhilan was determined to go to the Red and White House.
He turned his head and looked at He Xiao.
Upon seeing this, the latter said with a complicated expression, "Your Highness, the elder of the Xuanhua Palace faction... has a rather strange temper and doesn't easily accept disciples!"
"Whether I can become a disciple depends on my own abilities. Venerable Master He, all I need is your introduction!" Zhao Zhilan said. "Your Highness, what do you think?"
The pressure fell on Lin Mo.
Reject her? I can do that.
They took her back to the capital, back to the palace, and put her under strict guard.
I could even force her to marry me and have children for me, thereby gaining the loyalty of the Zhao family.
but...
For Zhao Zhilan, wasn't this just forcing Lin Mo to marry into Li Hu's family? To become Li Hu's son-in-law and live at Li Hu's mercy?
If that's the case, then everything we're doing now would be pointless, right? We might as well have just used force to take her body from the start.
After thinking for a moment, Lin Mo said, "Princess, if you can really persuade that elder to accept you as his disciple, I will let you join Xuanhua Palace."
But if you can't do that, please stay in the capital...
"It's a deal!" Zhao Zhilan immediately agreed.
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One problem has been temporarily resolved, but another problem remains.
The Dongpango troops remained in Wuzhong City, unwilling to withdraw.
They could easily crush their peaceful lives like they would crush a bedbug, but corruption points became the obstacle.
This feeling is indescribably unpleasant.
As soon as I lay down on the bed, my head started buzzing.
As he closed his eyes, he suddenly noticed a strange light in the room.
I have my eyes closed, so why can I still see light?
He struggled to get up, only to find himself not in the room, but in a huge valley.
"Where is this?" Lin Mo asked in surprise.
"Damn it, am I sleepwalking again? What kind of system is this! It's a rip-off!" This was Lin Mo's first thought after waking up from the "dream".
This is a particularly beautiful valley, surrounded by rolling peaks, with a flat area in the middle. Except for the peaks, the entire valley is covered with flowers and green grass.
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