Chapter 35 The Thirty-fifth Kill

After making Zhou Xunran promise that he would pay for everything she bought today, Xiaoyu happily pulled him to the main road of Yu Street.

This is the busiest time of the day on the street.

Xiaoyu was buying things happily. Within half an hour, Lin Kun, who was following behind her, had all kinds of gift boxes and bags hanging on his body and hands.

The street was full of passers-by, and Lin Kun slowed down his pace for fear of bumping into others.

When his sight emerged from the pile of boxes, Xiaoyu in front had already pulled Zhou Xunran a long way away.

Lin Kun trotted after him: "Master."

Zhou Xunran saw his embarrassment and didn't want to disturb Xiaoyu's interest, so he said to Lin Kun: "Send the things back to the mansion first."

Lin Kun refused: "If I leave, there will be no one to protect you, Your Majesty."

Seeing that he looked like he was facing a powerful enemy, Zhou Xunran said, "In broad daylight, in the streets, who would dare to attack you? Just go and come back quickly."

Only then did Lin Kun leave, looking back every few steps.

Xiaoyu in front of him took a fancy to another jade pendant and picked it up to show Zhou Xunran: "This is really beautiful, you..."

Halfway through his speech, the little fish stopped.

Zhou Xunran said: "Why? If you like it, buy it."

Xiaoyu shook her head, immediately put down the jade pendant, and nervously pulled Zhou Xunran to hide in the dark alley behind the stall.

Zhou Xunran followed her gaze and saw the person who made Xiaoyu so nervous, He Jin, the head of the Ten Women's Hall of the Jieyou Sect.

Xiaoyu bent her waist, half of her body hidden behind Zhou Xunran, only sticking out her head to carefully watch He Jin walk away.

Although she didn't show it on her face, she was terrified in her heart. The hall master seldom went out to ask for help, but now he showed up in the capital in broad daylight. Something big must have happened.

After He Jin's figure disappeared, Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief, let go of Zhou Xunran's hand, and walked out from behind him.

The warmth in his hand disappeared, Zhou Xunran clenched his fist with a hint of reluctance, and asked, "Why are you so panicked?"

He must not know about this. Xiaoyu tried to cover it up by laughing: "Nothing, just an old enemy. I don't want to confront him head on."

Zhou Xunran continued to ask: "When was the enemy? Who was it? I will find someone to avenge you."

Xiaoyu waved her hands, "It's all in the past, let's not talk about it anymore. I don't want others to say that I'm bullying others by taking advantage of my power."

She walked out with a swagger, and Zhou Xunran followed her with a smile. He knew she was avoiding something, so he stopped asking, "You are so generous then."

Xiao Yu chuckled twice and walked forward silently.

She thought to herself, why not go to the candy shop to ask. The master of the hall has come down from the mountain to Beijing, and the owner of the candy shop must know something.

But to go to the candy shop, you have to get rid of Zhou Xunran.

Looking at the person following behind him, Xiaoyu said, "My Lord, how about..."

Otherwise, she hasn't found a good reason yet.

"I want to go to the toilet?" she asked hesitantly.

Zhou Xunran had no doubts, "The toilet is over there, let's go."

Xiaoyu didn't move. The direction of the toilet was exactly opposite to the sugar shop.

"No, the feeling isn't that strong. I'll just bear with it and go back home."

Zhou Xunran pretended to think that she had a problem with the toilet environment and agreed, "Well, the toilet outside is still not as clean as the one in the mansion."

Xiaoyu didn't want to explain so much, so she just said, "I want to go around by myself and buy some girly things. Prince, why don't you go back home first? Where's Lin Kun? Let Lin Kun escort you back."

Zhou Xunran looked around and said, "Lin Kun has returned home to deliver something."

"How can he be so irresponsible? He returned home without your permission while you were still here?"

Zhou Xunran said, "You are really wronging Lin Kun. You just bought too many things and he couldn't take them all by himself, so he gave some back so that you could enjoy shopping."

Thinking of his recent shopping, Xiaoyu suddenly felt guilty.

"Well, you come with me," Xiaoyu said. After all, the candy shop was so big that she could always find time to have a private chat with the shopkeeper.

Xiaoyu pretended to buy some balsam and jade paste, and when he slowly walked to the door of the candy shop, he said, "Let's go buy some candy. Have you finished the grapefruit candy I gave you last time?"

Zhou Xunran said "hmm" and followed her in.

The shopkeeper was greeting other guests. Xiao Yu gave him a look, found an empty round stool and sat down. He said to Zhou Xunran, "Go pick out some of their favorite food. Bring some to Minglu and Nanny Zhao as well."

Zhou Xunran really stood in front of the candy cabinet and looked at them one by one.

The shopkeeper personally brought the tea and bent down to present it to Xiaoyu.

Xiaoyu took the opportunity to receive the tea and whispered, "Why did the head of the Ten Women's Hall come to Beijing?"

The shopkeeper said, "He is here to carry out his mission."

"It has nothing to do with me, right?" Xiaoyu said quickly.

The shopkeeper had already stood up straight and was not in a position to speak any more, so he just shook his head.

Knowing that it had nothing to do with him, Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief and felt his whole body relax.

She stood up, put her hands behind her back, and walked leisurely to Zhou Xunran's side: "Have you chosen? Just take whatever flavor you want."

Zhou Xunran said: "You are good at pretending to be generous. I still have to pay for it after you take it."

Xiaoyu smiled awkwardly: "We are already in this relationship, there is no need to distinguish between you and me. Your money is mine, isn't it?"

"We have to be clear about this. My silver is mine, and yours is yours. And as for your monthly salary, I have never taken a penny less from you."

Xiaoyu glanced away in boredom, "Okay, then you can't buy so much. You can only buy one or two ounces of each."

Zhou Xunran was so angry at her blatant stinginess that he laughed, "You really are a ruthless person."

Having said that, Zhou Xunran only picked out two kinds of candy and asked the shopkeeper to pack them.

Xiaoyu readily took out some silver from her purse and begged the shopkeeper to give her some change.

There were other customers in the shop at that time, and the shopkeeper didn't want to give them the impression that he was trying to force them to come, so he gritted his teeth and agreed to Xiaoyu's request.

Xiaoyu proudly paid the money and asked Zhou Xunran to take the wrapped candy and leave quickly.

"You don't know, this shopkeeper is very stingy, he doesn't give me any more candy. If it weren't for the fact that his flavors are so many and so delicious, I wouldn't be willing to come here."

Zhou Xunran nodded: "According to what you said, he still has some skills."

Although Xiaoyu didn't want to admit it, she had to agree with him. To be the person in charge of their Jieyoumen base, the manager must be quite capable.

“I think so.”

The two talked and walked out side by side.

At this moment, a strong figure walked in from outside the door, scaring Xiaoyu so much that his body trembled violently.

It was He Jin, the head of the Ten Women Hall, whom Xiaoyu wanted to avoid.

Meeting his gaze, Xiaoyu instinctively wanted to avoid it. But she found that her movements were a moment too slow. He Jin only glanced at them, and then quickly fled from her sight as if he had seen some plague god.

Xiaoyu was a little puzzled. In the past, when he was helping the hall master solve problems, he would always ridicule him impatiently when he saw him.

Now he is in such a hurry to escape from himself....., Xiaoyu saw the person walking beside him out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly realized.

It turned out that the person the hall master wanted to avoid was not himself, but Zhou Xunran.

He is afraid of him.

She was afraid of the hall master, the hall master was afraid of Zhou Xunran, but she was not afraid of Zhou Xunran. In other words, was she more powerful than the hall master?

After figuring this out, Xiaoyu straightened his back, held Zhou Xunran's arm and walked out, passing He Jin.

When they walked out of the candy shop, Xiaoyu let go of his arm and patted her chest. She actually ignored the hall master!

Xiaoyu turned around and looked at Zhou Xunran, patting his arm excitedly: "Prince, this dog is taking advantage of the power of others. Bah, it feels so good to take advantage of the power to bully others! How stupid and foolish I was before, I actually missed so many opportunities!"

Zhou Xunran said: "That's right, didn't I give you a chance? It's you who didn't know how to use it."

"Don't worry, my lord. I will definitely become the most powerful and bullying woman in the capital!"

Xiaoyu opened his eyes wide, put on a ferocious look, and growled, "How is it, is it evil enough?"

Zhou Xunran was amused by her actions: "That's enough, just like that, go ahead and bully others."

Xiaoyu chuckled, "I was just teasing you. I'm busy trying to redeem your reputation, so how can I use your name to do evil? Let's go, it's time to go home."

Zhou Xunran withdrew his gaze from her face and murmured, "Okay, let's go back home."

The two walked towards the palace together. When they turned the corner, Xiaoyu looked back at the candy shop.

She saw the hall master standing at the door of the shop, staring at her with a gloomy look.

Seeing her gaze, the hall master immediately retreated back into the shop.

This sight made Xiaoyu feel uneasy. She even slept uneasily at night. She even dreamed of the time when she was solving the problem of martial arts. Because she couldn't make it on the path of martial arts, the hall master was very disappointed and said that he wanted to train her personally.

As a result, Xiaoyu trained with the hall master for ten days, and endured for ten days, with old wounds and new wounds on his body, and there was almost no healthy skin left.

She remembered that on the last day, the hall master threw her to the ground, put his foot on her neck, and pinched the skin at her collarbone, "A piece of rotten wood like you can't burn even if it rots. Get out of here, Wu." You can’t go down this road of killing.”

In the Jieyou Sect, martial arts and literary arts have always been at odds with each other. Even a martial arts female killer can easily defeat a literary male killer. Everyone says that only those who are eliminated from martial arts will learn literary arts.

Just like a small fish.

After hearing what the master said, Xiaoyu lay on the ground, holding the master's calves with both hands, trying to flip him over. But even if she tried her best, the master's body did not move at all.

She was anxious, angry, and annoyed with herself.

But when the hall master looked down at him with eyes full of contempt and disdain, even though a long time had passed, Xiaoyu still felt guilty and powerless.

In her dream, she seemed to have returned to the time when the hall master's foot pressed hard on her neck. Xiaoyu was a little breathless. She scratched the ground with her hands, and then she felt her body loosen up. Someone pushed the hall master away, and her neck was free.

Xiaoyu let out a low cry and suddenly opened his eyes.

At the last moment before she woke up, she saw that the person who gave her freedom was Zhou Xunran.

She was not used to lighting a lamp when she slept, so the room was still dark, with only sporadic faint moonlight shining through the doors and windows.

Everything was quiet around.

The sound of the wind in the air was howling, but when it landed on the roof, it weakened and turned into a low whimper.

Xiaoyu couldn't wait to meet Zhou Xunran.

As soon as the door was opened a crack, the cold wind outside couldn't wait to drill into Xiaoyu's body.

The sweat on her skin caused by the nightmare became the night wind's accomplices when it was blown by the wind. It was like a knife, trying to cut the skin on her body and face.

Xiaoyu took the outer skirt from the shelf, put it on and went out immediately.

Zhou Xunran didn't let her keep watch tonight, and sent her back to Fenghe Courtyard to sleep early. Xiaoyu was a little unsure whether he slept in the front yard or the inner yard of Qingwu Courtyard at night.

She went to the inner courtyard first.

The branches of the trees on the roadside rustled, and there was not even a guard on duty around. It was so eerie that Xiaoyu couldn't help but quicken her pace.

The lights were on in the inner courtyard.

There were six energetic guards standing in the courtyard, and Xiaoyu's tense heart finally relaxed. She walked over and asked, "Is the prince asleep?"

The leading guard said, "No, he just saw some people and they haven't come out yet."

Xiaoyu nodded and complained in a low voice: "It's almost midnight and it's not over yet. How can the prince not care about his own health at all? I'll go in and take a look."

Her tone was so matter-of-fact that the guard hesitated for a moment but ultimately did not refuse her.

Xiaoyu slowly approached the door, and when her hand touched the door frame and was about to push it open, she stopped.

She would not have heard wrongly, the voice speaking in the room at that moment was exactly the head of the Ten Women's Hall of their Jieyou Sect.

Why did the hall master come to see the prince?

Could it be that he is here to assassinate me as well?

Xiaoyu's heart skipped a beat. Without thinking, she pushed the door open and shouted, "He Jin! If you have any problems, come to me! If you dare to lay a hand on the prince, I will never let you go even if I die!"

An eerie silence filled the room.

Xiaoyu's roar was still echoing in the room, but she saw the hall masters of their Jieyou Sect kneeling in a row, while Zhou Xunran was sitting behind the desk, looking down at something.

Everyone turned their heads and looked at her.

Xiaoyu looked at them one by one: "Master, Master Hu, Master Li, what are you doing..."

The three hall masters were all big shots who could solve problems at home. Xiaoyu had never seen the three of them together before.

He Jin looked at her, then at Zhou Xunran, who had a gloomy face, lowered his head and said nothing.

It was the good-natured Master Hu who spoke first: "Xiao Yu, why don't you come and see the master?"

Zhou Xunran closed his eyes helplessly.

From the moment Xiaoyu came in, he knew that he could no longer hide the fact that he was the leader of the Jieyou Sect.