Chapter 321: First meeting with Yinghua in the Barbarian Continent
After suffering misfortune at home, the boy and his mother were arrested and locked up in a secret cell.
Thinking back to that day, if he hadn't been so stubborn and reckless as to disobey others and insist on returning to Lujiabao, he wouldn't have put his mother in this situation. Now, he and his mother were imprisoned in the same cell, and he didn't even know how his mother was doing.
The cell was pitch black, without a single ray of light. Apart from the occasional squeaking of mice and the faint sound of dripping water, there was no other sound. He didn't know how long these days had lasted, so long that the young man thought the rest of his life would be like this.
The boy's mind began to gradually become blurred, so blurred that he almost forgot who he was. However, there was still a glimmer of hope in his heart, hoping that he could see the light of day again.
In a daze, several footsteps came from afar, kicked and stopped, and heavy "creaking" sounds were heard, which were the sounds of prison doors being opened, and then the sound of heavy chains being dragged could be heard.
Not long after, the boy's cell door was opened. A hand pinched his chin, looked around as if examining him, and then someone undid his shackles.
As soon as the shackles were removed, the boy fell heavily to the ground, but he was so exhausted that even after falling like this, he did not move at all and did not even make a sound of pain.
The boy had been hanging since he was locked up in the cell, but luckily he was on the ground. But before he could rest, he was pulled by his legs and dragged out of the cell.
The bumpy and bumpy ride was extremely painful, but the boy was unable to say a word and could only let others drag him. He fainted after only a short while.
I was in a daze for an unknown amount of time. My body was aching and my arms felt like they were no longer my own, but my whole body was soft, just like my bed at home, warm and nostalgic.
Suddenly, the boy's eyes snapped open, then quickly shut again. The room wasn't very bright, but the glare was unbearable. Perhaps it was this glare that jolted him awake.
I was clearly imprisoned in a dark cell before, so how could I be sleeping on a bed?
The young man opened his eyes slightly, and only stood up after adjusting to the situation. In the blink of an eye, he saw a man sitting at the table. He was dressed in white and had a fair complexion, like a scholar, but his hair and beard were slightly yellow, and he didn't look like he was from the Central Plains.
This person looked very familiar, but perhaps because the boy had been sleeping for a long time, he couldn't remember where he had seen him before. When he was wondering, he heard the person speak:
"You're awake."
His voice was gentle, truly like that of a scholar, but the tone of his voice was flat, with neither concern nor joy, as if he was just stating something.
However, this indifferent sentence suddenly startled the young man.
Isn’t this the person I saw outside Lujiabao that day!
At this moment, the man stood up and walked towards the young man. As he walked, he opened a folding fan and fanned it intermittently, looking leisurely.
Looking at the person coming, the boy's memory became clearer.
The fan! It's this fan! That's right! It's that person!
The demon who abducted him and his mother!
The young man immediately became alert and struggled to get up, but his body was too weak to support himself. However, he kept trying to keep his body steady.
The man in white waved his fan, watching everything coldly. After the young man finally gave up after several attempts, he said slowly, "You are now in my hands. I only give you two choices. One is to be my dog, and the other is to end your life. However..."
As the man spoke, he took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and threw it in front of the young man.
"But if you commit suicide, I can't guarantee that the owner of this handkerchief will be safe."
The young man took the handkerchief and spread it out. The purple magnolia was clearly visible from the corner of the handkerchief. His eyes widened in shock and he looked up at the man in white: "Isn't this..."
Isn’t this mother’s handkerchief?
"Where is my mother? What did you do to her?" The young man was extremely anxious and suddenly exerted a lot of strength to sit up on his knees.
The man in white simply glanced at the young man and said, "That lady will naturally be well fed and well cared for now, but if you don't serve me, I can't guarantee that she will be able to survive in the future."
The words were said lightly, but they were like dropping into a pit in the young man's ears. He stared at the man in white with resentment for a long time, and finally lowered his head helplessly.
Seeing the young man like this, the man in white grinned and pointed at the handkerchief in the young man's hand and said, "From now on, your name will be Xinyi..."
After resting for a few days, Xinyi's body had recovered a lot and he was finally able to walk around, but it was obvious that Bai Wuchang did not intend to let him catch his breath.
Since the last time they met, Bai Wuchang has never appeared again, and only assigned two soldiers to take care of him.
They were called soldiers because they were wearing armor, but their appearances were extremely strange: one had an overbite, one had Ryukyu eyes, one had horns on his forehead, and one had pointed ears.
It was obvious that this person was not a human being, but Xinyi did not care. All he was thinking about was how to rescue his mother and escape from this place.
One day, Bai Wuchang suddenly appeared and led Xinyi to a barracks. Although the soldiers in the barracks looked well-rounded, they were all very different. In comparison, the two soldiers who took care of him seemed much more pleasing to the eye.
Looking around, the surroundings were filled with yellow sand, quite desolate. Bai Wuchang led Xinyi around countless corners before finally stopping in front of a tent.
The guards at the tent glanced at Bai Wuchang, then stepped forward to salute him. But Bai Wuchang ignored them and walked straight into the tent. Seeing this, the guards tried to stop him, but a look from Bai Wuchang made them shrink back to the ground.
As soon as she entered the tent, she heard a sweet moan and a faint fragrance came to her face. However, the fragrance was so strange that Xinyi suddenly felt dizzy and hot all over, and she even staggered when she walked.
Just when Xinyi was confused, she heard a woman's voice coming from behind the screen.
"The Right Envoy is still so rude. He just walked into my tent without even saying hello. Could it be that he has taken a fancy to me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a woman emerged from behind the screen. Her clothes were half-covered, revealing her body. Yet, despite this, she showed no sign of shyness; instead, her face flushed and her eyes were lost in thought.
Although Xinyi was young, he was not completely ignorant. He naturally knew what the woman had done in the camp. He only cursed in his heart, "What a shameless woman."
"Ah! Could it be that the Right Envoy has come to give me a gift?" The woman twisted her waist and floated in front of Xinyi in a few steps. She pinched his face and said with disdain, "Right Envoy, you're so boring. You brought me a raw melon. How can I use it?"
Bai Wuchang ignored the woman and only glanced at Xinyi, saying, "She will teach you the techniques in the future. You should practice well with her. I will come back to find you in two years."
What?
"What!?"
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