Chapter 20: Mad Dog Blocks the Road
The phoenix cub looked at the young master coldly. His eyes were bright and sharp, and there was a gleam of light in them like a knife.
Mu Jin smiled and said, "Although the Chief Secretary has a sharp eye for people, is it true that he never makes mistakes?"
He looked at the phoenix chick.
The phoenix chick was naturally looking at him as well.
Their eyes met, like a sharp sword piercing a piece of thousand-year-old black ice on a high mountain.
No one can tell whether the sword is sharp or the black ice is hard.
Although neither of them spoke, countless messages were exchanged through their eyes.
"Some time ago, one of my men gave me a piece of information on my way back. Don't you want to know what it is?" Fenghuang Chu decided to explain it to him.
Mu Jin looked at Jiaoran who was playing sandbag throwing with Xiaoju outside the yard, and always followed Jiaoran's back.
He turned around, smiled again, and said leisurely, "What does the Chief Secretary want to say?"
"It was you who wanted to cooperate with me and escape from this place, wasn't it?"
Mu Jin's attention was attracted by Jiaoran's laughter and he looked at her a few more times.
When she arrived, this courtyard was still in a state of near-dilapidation. The numerous buildings and pavilions cast shadows in the sunlight, eerily ghostly. The high walls and pavilions were suffocating, and the tiles had already peeled off in places, giving off a sense of death everywhere.
Thick moss grows in damp places.
Everyone's words were frozen in the damp chill of autumn and winter. But after Jiaoran arrived, he often opened his windows to ventilate and let the sunlight in. She also often squatted on the ground to shovel away the damp moss and weeds. Once, Xiaoju said, "Young Master, you like this moss," and she said, "But if there are too many weeds and mosses, there will be mosquitoes in spring, and you will dislike it even more."
When the crabapple blossoms bloomed, the mansion was covered with crabapple trees.
She went to pick crabapple branches and then used them to make a wreath.
The crabapple blossoms were the Madam's favorite, and no one else dared to pick them. Even though her martial arts skills were so poor, she was able to evade the guards, which showed how clever she was.
At that time, he looked at Jiaoran who was holding the crabapple flowers in front of him and smiling foolishly, and he couldn't help but smile foolishly too. He knew that she was causing trouble, but he couldn't help feeling happy. It would be better to burn down the lady's flower garden. What was the big deal about picking her flowers?
A gust of spring breeze blew by, and Jiaoran's clothes danced lightly in the wind. She walked in front of him and raised the crabapple flowers in her hand high. At that time, he only felt that they were in a very far away place, far away from the Governor's Mansion and far away from the human world.
After a long time, he said, "I haven't forgotten. I will always remember the deal between you and me."
Phoenix Chick immediately continued, "Then why did my men say that the young master was actually teaching a maid to write?"
Mu Jin's gaze then turned to him.
Fenghuangchu only knew that he taught Jiaoran how to write, but he didn't know that when no one was serving him in the study, his desk was covered with inkstones pressing down the words written by Jiaoran.
He taught Jiaoran how to write, and he put aside the papers with many mistakes made by Jiaoran.
When Jiaoran was not around, he secretly sorted out these discarded poems, carefully flattened each one and placed them under the inkstone. Her handwriting was not very good, but she was taught by him personally, so her handwriting was copied from his.
He vaguely felt that by doing this, he was creating a new him, a spotless him, a free him.
The handwriting was not decent at all and was not attractive to him at all.
But the reason why he liked to hide these words was because he felt that each of these words was written by Jiaoran himself, and he was the one who taught Jiaoran step by step.
When the breeze blows, the corner of the paper that cannot be held down by the inkstone flutters in the wind, making a rustling sound, as if some kind of desire is slowly condensing in the wind.
The tea had gone cold, the fire had gone out, and Phoenix Chick stood up to say goodbye. "I have some good news. I've found a helper for you. We'll be able to get the Takayama Shou soon."
The next day, Jiaoran finally left the house. She begged many times, and the young master finally agreed.
However, he still required her to come back before evening and bring him a portion of whatever food she bought.
She walked out of the house excitedly. This was the first time she left since she came to Xiu Tu.
Following the route her senior brother had mentioned, Jiaoran arrived at where his and her senior sisters were staying. Unexpectedly, as she was about to cross a street, someone hit her on the back with a small object.
Jiaoran turned around to look.
How come it was Chai Hui, the devil!
What's worse is that Jiaoran has already seen Senior Brother Bu Yue not far away. If Chai Hui meets Senior Brother Bu Yue, he doesn't know whether Chai Hui will go to the trouble of investigating his identity. This will make things even more troublesome.
She felt a little regretful. Maybe Chai Hui had followed her out. This man had tested her martial arts again and again. She didn't notice it the first time, and the second time when she walked by the bridge, he deliberately tripped her. But after all, he had practiced some martial arts, and Jiaoran quickly stabilized her steps and avoided falling.
The third time, when she was on her way to pick up the young master from Qingbi Garden, Chai Hui grabbed her arm and started fighting with her. She was naturally no match for him. After he touched her a few times, she was about to fight back angrily when he punched her in the stomach. The pain made her eyes well up with tears and she immediately fell down.
By the time she recovered from the pain, Chai Hui had already walked away in a swagger.
Jiaoran swore that when the opportunity came one day, she would kick Chai Hui in the stomach dozens of times to make him feel the same pain.
As she was hesitating, Chai Hui hit her with some dried dates again.
"Hey, are you dead?"
Jiao Ran clenched his fists tightly and said, "Greetings, Third Young Master."
"What are you doing outside the house? Who did Mu Jin tell you to contact?"
Jiaoran was amused by his nonsense.
"What are you laughing at?" He obviously didn't like Jiaoran laughing at him, which hurt his reputation.
Jiao Ran said, "I...smiled because I saw the bustle in the capital and this is my first time out of the house."
"Since the big bird can't fly out, it lets the little bird get out through the gap to ask for help. In my opinion, Mu Jin is really getting worse day by day."
"The young master didn't assign me to go out of the house to do anything, he just asked me to come out and get some fresh air." Jiaoran said.
"It's really weird. Maids and servants are never allowed to leave the mansion in your garden. How can you come out openly?"
"Young master is kind-hearted. He asked the lord for me and the lord agreed. What's so strange about this?" Jiaoran said.
"He, has a kind heart? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha..." He laughed non-stop, not looking like a human being.
Jiaoran was extremely annoyed and turned around and left.
He grabbed her shoulders and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Let go!" Jiaoran felt that he was really like a dog, biting whoever he caught.
She backhanded an elbow strike, aiming straight at his chest. Chai Hui grabbed her elbow with his palm and said, "Your bones are not bad. You are the third person with such bones that I have seen so far."
Jiaoran didn't want to listen to his nonsense anymore. Her physique was the worst in the sect. Her mother and father had said it long ago that this was why she couldn't practice a set of boxing techniques. Otherwise, she could at least exchange a few moves with him.
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