Chapter 368 Extra Chapter: Song Erniang (10)
"What did you say? You're not a good person?" Song Erniang burst out laughing.
How bad could someone as honest and kind as Long Hanshi be?
Perhaps in his eyes, not helping the old man next door chop firewood meant he wasn't a good person.
“Long Hanshi, don’t talk about yourself like that! Although you haven’t been in the village for long, we have all seen what kind of person you are.”
"Alright, it's getting late, I need to cook now, you should go home and cook too!" Song Erniang asked with a smile.
Long Hanshi couldn't understand that Song Erniang meant to see the guests out, so he waved his hand.
"I'm not hungry. Even if I get hungry, I can just eat a steamed bun when I get back."
"Song Erniang, really, I just want to tell you, I'm not a good person, not the good person everyone thinks I am," Long Hanshi said again.
Song Erniang sighed inwardly. Being too honest is a bad thing; you can't understand the hidden meaning in other people's words.
Looking at the water ladle in her hand, Song Erniang sighed.
Looks like we'll be eating a little later today.
"Okay, then why aren't you a good person?" Song Erniang asked in a low voice.
Long Hanshi breathed a sigh of relief. Good, Song Erniang had given him a chance to speak, and he could finally have a proper explanation.
only……
"Should we talk right here at the entrance? Can I go inside and talk? There are people coming and going, it wouldn't be good if others saw us!"
"Don't worry, I won't go inside. We'll talk right here in your courtyard." Long Hanshi pointed to the courtyard where Song Erniang lived.
Song Erniang nodded, stepped aside to let Long Hanshi in, then put the water ladle she was holding back into the water vat in the kitchen, and poured a bowl of water for Long Hanshi and placed it on the small stone table in the yard.
"Have some water first!"
Long Hanshi picked up the bowl and drank all the water in it in two gulps.
After wiping his mouth with his sleeve, Long Hanshi looked at Song Erniang.
"Thanks!"
"Okay! Go ahead and say it, I'm listening!" Song Erniang sat down on the stone bench opposite Long Hanshi.
Long Hanshi organized his thoughts and thought for a while before speaking.
"I...I'm really not a good person! I'm a bad person, and a very bad one."
"I... have killed people!" Long Hanshi said in a low voice.
Originally, Song Erniang was hoping to send Long Hanshi back home as soon as possible so she could cook for herself...
"You... what did you say? You killed someone? You killed someone in your dream?" Song Erniang didn't believe it at all.
How could someone as honest as Long Hanshi be a murderer? If he were truly capable of killing, how could he have been bullied by his family elders and relatives to the point of losing even the property left by his parents?
"Really! I'm not lying to you! I really... killed someone!" Long Hanshi said, then lowered his head nervously.
Song Erniang...
Long Hanshi's words made her even less convinced that he was capable of killing someone, but there must be exceptions.
Thinking about Long Hanshi's usual character, Song Erniang seemed to have realized something.
He was too honest. Don't people outside always like to bully honest people? Long Hanshi must have been bullied to the point of no return before he fought back and accidentally killed someone.
"Did someone bully you?" Song Erniang asked in a low voice.
Long Hanshi was still waiting for Song Erniang to look terrified and kick him out...
"No! I just... how should I put it! This is definitely not what you think! If I told you, you would definitely be disappointed in me." Long Hanshi's voice grew softer and softer as he spoke.
Song Erniang became even more curious. Long Hanshi had actually killed someone, and wasn't he forced to do so...?
I need to ask about this properly, so I can be on guard in the future!
"Then you have to tell me properly! Otherwise, I won't know anything! Tell me, why did you kill him?"
"How many people did you kill?" Song Erniang sat up straight, intending to listen carefully to how Long Hanshi carried out the killings.
"Yes, I will definitely tell you!"
That... that was all in the past.
I killed two people that time, a father and son. The father was in his forties and the son was in his twenties.
"I...actually, I used to be an assassin!" Long Hanshi said while glancing at Song Erniang's expression.
When Song Erniang heard Long Hanshi say that he had killed a father and son, she was only slightly surprised. But when she heard Long Hanshi say that he used to be an assassin, Song Erniang's expression changed drastically.
Assassin?
In her mind, assassins were all cold-blooded and ruthless, devoid of any sense of right and wrong, and would kill anyone for a large sum of money...
"You're an assassin? That means you'd kill for money, right?"
"Did you kill many people for money?" Song Erniang stared at Long Hanshi.
Even the simple-minded Long Hanshi could sense the chill in Song Erniang's tone. His heart leaped into his throat, and he quickly stood up, waving his hands frantically.
"No! That was my first time killing someone! I didn't kill someone for money."
I... I killed the two wealthy patrons who paid me to kill someone! They were bad people; they paid me five thousand taels of silver to kill someone. Later, I found out that the person they asked me to kill was a very good person.
But those two are the real villains.
"I didn't want to kill a good person, and I didn't want that good person to be killed, so I had no choice but to... kill the father and son who asked me to kill them," Long Hanshi explained.
Song Erniang...
After thinking for a while, Song Erniang finally understood what Long Hanshi meant.
Long Hanshi is indeed an assassin, but this assassin is really a bit stupid!
Other assassins are paid to do their jobs. As long as you pay them, and the pay is high enough, and the assassin is capable enough, they will kill whoever you ask them to kill.
But when Long Hanshi first started earning money as an assassin, he was a little more careful than others.
He must have done this to reduce his psychological burden, and he even went so far as to investigate the person he was about to take action against.
After investigating, they discovered that the person was a good person... a good person in Long Hanshi's eyes.
Long Hanshi immediately changed his mind about killing him.
But if Long Hanshi doesn't kill him, who knows if that father and son will hire other assassins to kill that good man!
So, Long Hanshi came up with a solution that would satisfy both sides.
Wouldn't it be much better to just kill that father and son?
Then Long Hanshi investigated further and discovered that the father and son were indeed villains, villains that everyone hated.
So, without any qualms, Long Hanshi killed the father and son...
Um, it should still be free!
Having figured all this out, Song Erniang suddenly didn't know what to say.
Seeing that Long Hanshi was practically bowing his head to his chest, Song Erniang was even more speechless.
Who was this brilliant person who came up with the idea of taking Long Hanshi as an apprentice?
Also, which assassin organization is this? They seem so unreliable! I need to find out the details. If I ever need to hire an assassin myself, I must avoid this organization.
This is too... childish!
"Um, could you tell me properly how you got onto the path of an assassin, how you killed people, and how you came back?" Song Erniang sat down again.
"You want to hear it?" Long Hanshi felt a little relieved.
“I want to hear it!” Song Erniang nodded immediately.
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