Chapter 24: Blood and Qi Surge
In mid-June, the Governor's Office had already decided to accept the marriage proposal on July 15th, and the next step was to match the horoscopes.
Everything happened much faster than expected.
Mu Jin ate less and less, and the circles under his eyes began to turn blue. In mid-June, he fell ill again, but this time the governor did not postpone the wedding.
There were a few times when Jiaoran was catching cicadas, and when she turned around, she saw the young man standing at the corner of the curtain of the corridor, looking at her. It was impossible to tell what emotion was in his eyes. He just looked at her, and when he saw her turn around, he turned and left.
Jiaoran felt that he wanted to ask her something, but he never asked once. He just looked at her often, thinking about something.
His strange behavior also affected Jiaoran, and Jiaoran began to become upset.
On the one hand, it was his first mission, and on the other hand, he was about to leave this place and never see Mu Jin and the people from the Governor's Mansion again.
She had been here for less than half a year and had already begun to get used to the life in the mansion. Her senior sister once said that her greatest advantage was that she was like a dandelion, able to take root wherever it landed and had an extremely strong ability to adapt to the environment.
She didn't feel that way before. When she first came to the Governor's Mansion, she often couldn't sleep well at night. The rigid rules gave her a headache. But now, after only a few months, she can be content with this boring life that is interconnected.
However, she thought that maybe she was different from others. She knew that she would leave here one day. She did not belong to this place. No matter what, it would not belong to her for a while. The grass and trees here would not change because of her coming and leaving, and the same went for people.
Everyone in Siyuyuan is very busy.
Even in this busy situation, something went wrong. A crazy woman who lived in Gongcaiyuan in the mansion ran out. Her hair was disheveled, and a few strands of white hair mixed in with her black hair were extremely conspicuous. She ran around in the woods.
Unfortunately, Jiaoran happened to run into her.
She was walking on the road holding a box of red dates when a middle-aged woman in a gorgeous Shu brocade dress, with her long hair loose and without a hairpin, suddenly jumped out from behind Jiao Hou and jumped behind her.
Jiaoran only heard a few hurried footsteps behind her. She hurried forward, knowing that someone was following her.
Unexpectedly, it would have been better if she hadn't run. Once she ran, the murderous aura behind her became even stronger. Apart from the sound of her footsteps rubbing against each other like blades, Jiaoran could no longer hear any other sound in the world.
Jiaoran stopped where she was, and curiosity made her turn around slowly and stiffly.
The woman behind him had a blank expression on her face, like a dead person, which was indescribably weird.
Jiaoran's expression changed, and one hand slowly reached into his arms, as if to pull out a dagger.
This strange woman stopped Jiaoran with a look, "Do you think you can beat me with a knife?"
Although he said this, he still didn't take action.
Her eyes focused on Jiaoran's face. "Who are you?"
Jiao Ran said, "I haven't asked you who you are yet, you're just playing tricks on me."
Seeing Jiaoran's disrespect, she immediately scolded, "You girl, how insolent! I am——"
Jiaoran thought she was going to reveal her identity, but she said instead, "How dare you! Don't you know who you are? How dare you shout at me?"
Jiaoran said yes, yes, yes, "I am just a little maid. Look at what you are wearing, all gold and jade. You can tell that you must have been an extraordinary person in the past." She thought that she might be the governor's concubine who was favored in the past, and somehow became like this crazy person.
The crazy woman said, "I know who you are, hahaha. Since I haven't seen you for many years, why don't I assess her martial arts skills for you?"
What she said was even stranger. Jiaoran didn't know whether she was talking to herself or to someone else.
Her eyes were already shining, and she clapped her hands and said, "You are the junior, so I will let you have a few moves."
Jiao Ran didn't move. "Why, you want to fight me? No, no, with my martial arts skills, I can't even carry water."
She hesitated to move, and the crazy woman waved her hand, and Jiaoran was pushed down a dozen feet away.
Seeing that Jiaoran was powerless to fight back, she suddenly asked, "Who did you choose as your master to teach you to become like this?"
Jiaoran felt a pain in his chest from being hit by her. He managed to get up with one breath and said, "I have no sect, no school, and no master."
"What nonsense!"
"Do I look like I'm talking nonsense?"
"Since you are powerless, what are you doing here?"
"Ah?" Jiaoran was stunned by her question.
She suddenly burst into laughter. "Are you here for 'Takayama Shou' too?"
Jiaoran's expression changed. "I don't understand what you are talking about."
"You still haven't learned your lesson. You won't be happy until you end up like her?" The crazy woman kept saying things that Jiaoran couldn't understand.
"Leave now. You'll be the next one to perform. You can't get involved in this fight."
Jiaoran's face turned pale. "What do you mean I can't get involved?"
Seeing Jiaoran was in high spirits, the crazy woman was eager to try. At this moment, she rushed out and said, "It's not difficult for you to take Gao Shan Shou together. But you have to ask my fist if it agrees."
She turned her hand and hit Jiaoran on the shoulder with a loud bang. Jiaoran could only take it.
Seeing this, she burst into laughter again. "You are so vulnerable, what use is there to you? Even your mother would be ashamed of you if she saw you."
When Jiaoran heard this and saw that she mentioned her mother, he became furious and angry. His anger was about to burn her to death. No matter who she was, she was just a lunatic. If she wanted to die, he would let her do it.
Amidst laughter, Jiaoran quickly climbed up, and the dagger in her sleeve stabbed out like a poisonous snake, piercing the crazy woman's heart.
The woman pulled out two swords from her sleeves.
Jiaoran stabbed her straight in the heart, but she didn't dodge or evade, not even blinking.
When it was almost at her heart, all movements stopped, even her breathing seemed to have stopped.
Suddenly, before Jiaoran's dagger could reach her, she kicked Jiaoran's knee and sent her flying.
In the blink of an eye, the battle was over.
She had almost no power to fight back.
She looked at Jiaoran with a cold and sarcastic look in her eyes.
Jiaoran's eyes were filled with surprise, anger and powerlessness. She really hated herself for not being able to practice martial arts well.
Fancy kung fu is a joke in the eyes of insiders. Before it even reaches the opponent, it is kicked away.
Jiaoran didn't want to fight with her anymore, it was too humiliating, so he turned around and limped away.
The madman walked quickly behind Jiaoran like he was teasing a child, and gently lifted her up and put her down, preventing her from falling hard but also preventing her from escaping.
Jiaoran used all his strength to suckle his breast, but he couldn't break free from her restraints. He was so tired that his whole body and head were covered in sweat.
She threw me down again and again, and picked me up again and again, like a puddle of mud.
She played for a while, and Jiaoran's face and body were covered with mud.
Jiaoran was strangled by her, and although he did not feel the discomfort of suffocation, the fear of having his life controlled by a madman was swept away by the depression of the past few days.
Somehow, this madman groped his way along Jiaoran's collarbone to Jiaoran's chest. His two fingers suddenly merged together and hit a spot on her chest. Soon, his two fingers moved downward and hit a spot on her abdomen.
Jiaoran's eyes were filled with tears due to the pain, but after she realized the pain, her whole body became very light, as if breathing became easier. Just when she thought she was going to die here, Mu Jin came.
She shouted loudly, "Auntie, don't hurt her!"
Hearing the sound, the madman hit Jiaoran on the back with a palm. Jiaoran was hit so hard that blood gushed out of his throat and his blood and energy surged in his body.
Xiaoju didn't dare to step forward. She had never shown her martial arts skills in front of Jiaoran.
Only after getting Mu Jin's promise did she step forward to stop her.
Jiao Ran struggled and said, "Be careful, she is very skilled in martial arts, don't go over there!"
Seeing that there were other people playing with her, the crazy woman laughed and said, "Okay, okay, come on, come and have fun with me."
Xiaoju's sword was suddenly unsheathed, and in the blink of an eye, she had stabbed out several times.
The sword wind is as powerful as a bamboo breaking through, and the sword light is as fast as lightning.
The sword shadows were like rain of flowers. She turned around and swung the sword. The speed of her sword moves was dazzling. Jiaoran had never known that Xiaoju's martial arts were so high. She had never shown any skills in front of her.
The mad woman just stood there quietly, waiting for the sword to come to her.
Xiaoju's sword thrust out, but she didn't even move. She swung her swords lightly a few times, forcing Xiaoju's moves into empty moves.
The crazy woman smiled coldly, swung her swords in circles, her hands moved back and forth, and her feet moved as if she was taking a walk, but the sword light pierced Xiaoju's throat like lightning.
Xiaoju saw her two swords coming towards her neck. Her face changed and she swung her swords hard, but the madman's swords had already stabbed towards her silently.
With a gentle sword move, he pierced Xiaoju's arm gracefully like arranging flowers, without hurting any vital parts.
After Jiaoran finished speaking, he fell to the ground. The surrounding scenery turned into blurred shadows, and his eyelids gradually closed completely.
She vaguely saw the young master's footsteps coming. He picked her up and soon she fell into a deep sleep.
Jiaoran slept for a whole day and night without waking up. The doctor came to take her pulse but could not find any internal or external injuries, so naturally he did not know why she was unconscious.
Mu Jin also stayed by her side silently for a day and a night.
There is a banquet tonight, and Chai Yu only has two guests of honor, his second son Chai Che and Mu Jin.
As Mu Jin thought, Chai Che would not come.
The Governor's Mansion is located on the mountain. The wind in the evening is slightly warm, but not too hot.
However, the governor likes coolness, so he put two large jars of ice in the room.
The cold can even be seen with the naked eye.
The doors and windows of the main hall of Qingbi Garden were tightly closed.
There was no air flowing in the room, and it was very quiet.
Chai Yu was sitting on a rosewood chair, and standing in front of him was Mu Jin.
The bead wrapped around his wrist was a fine jade bead. Mu Jin looked at the bead and thought of the countless times when he wrapped the jade bead in silk cloth and hit his knuckles with a smile.
It started when he was three or four years old. He was not allowed to scream or shout. The more he screamed, the harder he would beat him.
When he was a child, he said every night to the ring left by his mother that one day he would use Chai Yu's blood to warm the beads on his hand and use the blood to wash away all the shame that Chai Yu brought to him.
As he grew up, he slowly came to terms with reality. He was nothing more than a decoration in this mansion. If he didn't escape, he would die like his mother. Before death, everything he had belonged to this person. If he dared to think of escaping, Chai Yu would not hesitate to chop off one of his feet.
No one in Xiutu can compete with him. This is the capital of Chai Yu. No one can interfere in his territory, not even the emperor dares.
When he was young, he loved to laugh as much as Jiaoran. He didn't like to sit in one place, or to write or read.
He is also a member of the Chai family. If his mother were still alive, he would have more powerful power than Chai Yu and might become the new Governor Xiu Tu. However, when he took over his mother's jade sceptre, she forgot to give him strength and lasting support, so the road to power was full of thorns and traps.
In order to survive, he could only endure the humiliation and become a flower in Chai Yu's blue and white porcelain vase.
A flower has no power, so it poses no threat to anyone.
When Cha Che was a child, he said that his father would never allow anyone to stand in his way, and if you want to survive, you can only become the person he likes.
Chai Yu twisted the smooth beads between his thumb and index finger. "Have you heard about your second brother's assassination on his way home?"
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