Qingqing was brought back to the sect by Xingmu, and the sect master was very angry. Not only did he scold her, he also locked her up and did not allow her to leave the mountain at will.
Qingqing was very unconvinced. Even when Xingmu came to bring her food, she was angry and refused to eat.
Her father locked her up, so she starved her daughter to death, and everyone was even.
Xingmu: ...
So it seems that you are the one who suffers in the end? How can it be even?
"You should stay well these days. Something big happened in the capital."
"What happened? Isn't it just an attack on an official?" Qingqing asked curiously.
Judging from the man's extraordinary demeanor, he must be a high-ranking official, but his life was not harmed, so it shouldn't be a big deal, right?
She's so pretty, but so stingy?
Xingmu frowned and said coldly: "The Seventh Princess died on the day you assassinated her."
Qingqing just picked up a steamed bun and was about to eat it, but she was so scared that she threw it away. Xingmu reached out and gently took it back.
"The Seventh Princess is dead?" Qingqing's eyes widened. "It wasn't me. I wanted to stop Xia Xuejian, but somehow it was the Seventh Princess' carriage that came, and the last one to come out was a man."
Even though Ning Qingqing stopped Xia Xuejian's carriage, she didn't think of killing her. She just wanted to scare her.
Xingmu glanced at her and didn't expect that the fearless heroine Qingqing would be so panicked.
"I know it's not you, but others don't know, so you stay here and wait until the murderer is brought to justice, then you can come out."
Ning Qingqing could only nod, reached out to take the steamed bun from his hand, took a big bite, and suddenly asked worriedly: "What about Wanwan? Is she okay? I can still hide in the sect, but what about her?"
Xingmu rolled her eyes and said, "You two are really best sisters for life. She wrote to you and cared about you while she was on the run. You were locked up, but you still worried about her. Why don't you two become a couple?"
"She ran away with Zhongyuan Yidianhong a long time ago." Xingmu said unhappily.
"Run away? That's good." When Qingqing heard that she ran away, she immediately became carefree again, eating happily, and didn't forget to squeeze: "Big Brother, did you make this? It tastes as bad as always."
Then he added: "But it doesn't matter. Even if no one in the world eats the food you cook, I will eat it."
Xingmu: ...
Then thank you so much.
But looking at her wolfing down the food, I suddenly remembered my childhood.
He was only five years old at that time and was brought back to the sect by the sect master. There were only a few people in the sect at that time, and Qingqing was just a babbling child.
The sect leader and his men often go out, and they stay for several days once they come down the mountain, so the task of taking care of Qingqing naturally falls on him.
But he was only five or six years old at that time, and he couldn't even take care of himself, so how could he take care of a babbling child?
So Qingqing often got bumps and bruises from time to time, and was hungry at one moment and full the next. He himself was not much better off, being very busy all the time and exhausted every day.
At that time, I felt that taking care of children was really annoying.
Later, when she grew up a little, to the age of three or four, she became even more annoying, to the age that even dogs disliked.
Every day she either rides a wooden horse or goes down the mountain to buy candied haws. He is like a little father. He either makes a wooden horse for her or makes candied haws for her.
The wooden horse was ugly, but she still had a lot of fun playing with it.
Tanghulu is actually very unpalatable, but she always enjoys eating it.
Later on, the sect leader rarely went down the mountain.
But she didn't follow the sect leader. She followed him like a little follower every day. When he practiced martial arts, she would pester him to learn too.
He had no choice but to make her a wooden sword for her to play with.
Every day she would hold a wooden sword and practice with him, looking quite competent, but in reality she was a mere figurehead and her internal energy skills were all a mess.
Xingmu didn't understand at that time, so he ignored her, thinking that as long as she didn't bother him and interfere with his martial arts practice, it would be fine.
As a result, within a month, she almost went insane due to disordered meridians.
It took the sect leader 30% of his strength to save her from the brink of death.
The sect leader did not blame him, but he felt very guilty because his laziness almost cost her life.
So later, after her injury healed, no matter how much she pestered him, he would not take her to learn, and even deliberately avoided her.
But she didn't seem to mind his estrangement. She waited for him every day, brought him delicious food and fun things, and told him about the fun and interesting things down the mountain.
At that time, he didn't hate her, because after all, he was the one who raised her.
Until that day, the sect leader suddenly summoned everyone in the sect, announced his marriage to Qingqing on the spot, and designated him as the next sect leader.
The news was too sudden and he couldn't accept it. Qingqing was the one he raised since she was a child and he always regarded her as his own sister. How could he marry her?
Moreover, he didn't want to be a sect leader at all. He wanted to go down the mountain, to gain experience, to see what the world was like outside of the sect.
He joined the sect at the age of five and took care of other children until he was eight. After that, he devoted himself to practicing martial arts and never left the sect.
He originally planned to leave the mountain after completing his studies, but now the sect master's words have tied him to the sect forever.
Naturally he was unwilling to accept this.
But the sect master was not only his mentor, but also his savior. In front of so many people, he had no way to resist.
I could only acquiesce to this marriage, an arrangement made for the clan leader.
He tried hard to convince himself that it didn't matter who he married, and marrying Qingqing would make no difference, at least he raised her.
But as soon as he saw her, he remembered every moment he took care of her when they were little, and her dependence on him, which made him feel like he was marrying his own daughter, which was very uncomfortable.
Qingqing seemed unable to understand his feelings. Ever since she knew she was going to marry him, she became more dependent on him and always smiled at him every day.
No matter how he ignored her, she remained enthusiastic and stayed around him every day.
The more she acted like this, the more uncomfortable Xingmu felt. If he married her, he couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart. If he didn't marry her, he would feel guilty and sorry for her true love.
And even if he really forced himself to marry her, but he didn't love her, wouldn't that be a harm to her?
The conflicting psychology tormented him and made him feel exhausted every day.
Until one day he suddenly saw a strange subtitle. The one who was complaining was Ye Qingwan, and her language was humorous and witty. The world she described was very interesting, completely different from his boring life.
He always wanted to go down the mountain to find her and see what such an interesting girl looked like.
Later, he finally found an opportunity. The sect leader gave him a task to escort Mr. Sai Huatuo to the capital, and to assist Taoist He and help Xia Xuejian deal with Ye Qingwan.
Xia Xuejian?
Is this the destined idiot heroine that Ye Qingwan mentioned? How can such a foolish woman be the heroine?