Chapter 99 [VIP] Shadow Guard (13)

"This will be our home from now on."

After Nan Yan finished speaking, she jumped off the carriage impatiently and smiled brightly at the person behind her.

Seventeen couldn't help but laugh too. His smile wasn't that obvious, but his eyes were sparkling like the stars in the sky, and he could only see her in his eyes.

The two of them quickly entered the village. This village was secluded and quiet, with not many strangers coming and going, and the villagers seldom went out. However, over the years, some young people would choose to go out and wander around, and most of those who left would never come back. However, the people here were exceptionally warm and hospitable. The villagers worked from sunrise to sunset, and their lives were peaceful and beautiful. It was a good place with extremely simple folk customs.

Nan Yan did not hesitate and directly made up an image of an unmarried couple whose family had fallen on hard times. Because the elders in the clan were too powerful and wanted to seize the family property, she and her fiancé were forced to move to the countryside to avoid disaster.

After learning about this, the villagers believed it. Without any suspicion or malice, they directly took the two people to meet the village chief.

The two finally bought the empty house at the entrance of the village. After some renovation, it turned into a bamboo house that was warm in winter and cool in summer.

In front of the house is a yard surrounded by a wooden fence. All the weeds in the yard have been cleared away by the kind-hearted villagers, leaving only a few clusters of small yellow flowers in full bloom. The vines are wrapped around the fence, like a beautiful lady swaying in the wind, shy of the cool breeze, but enjoying the beauty of spring and deliberately swaying in the warm sun.

After the group of enthusiastic villagers left, this place finally belonged to just the two of them. Seventeen cleaned up the weeds around them, fearing that the serrated weeds would scratch his master's hand.

And his master was extremely happy. He had become more and more lively and cheerful since leaving Qixia Villa. She looked around the yard with joy and casually pulled off a bunch of particularly bright young yellow calamus. As soon as they had a disagreement, she began to bully him. One by one, she pinned the calamus on Seventeen's ears and hair, stuffing his head with little yellow flowers. Seeing the butterflies and bees circling around him, and finally his helpless look that had to compromise, she couldn't help but lean over and kiss him.

Then she laughed and threw herself into his arms, wrapped her arms tightly around his neck and coaxed him, "Seventeen, I like you so much."

Seventeen also took her into his arms and carried her back to the house. When she had smiled enough, he lowered his head and kissed her forehead, saying softly, "I like you, too."

As soon as he finished speaking, Nan Yan raised her eyes and said,

"no."

She held Seventeen's face in her hands, her bright and charming eyes curved into two crescents, and said with a smile, "You can't call me master anymore. It will give you away. You have to change your name."

Seventeen thought about it and looked into her eyes. Seeing her expectant expression, he tentatively said,

"Then Miss...can I?"

Nan Yan was instantly amused and burst into laughter, her whole body falling on his chest, "What's the difference between a lady and a master?"

Seventeen blinked twice, and a trace of embarrassment appeared on his originally calm face, as if this was not an easy task for him. "Then what should I call you?"

Nan Yan smiled and pinched his face, "Call me sister."

Seventeen: “…”

He is not stupid, okay? As a man, how can he call the girl he likes "sister"? This is too inappropriate. Seventeen pursed his lips and simply turned his head away and ignored her.

He knew that this man had evil intentions again and clearly wanted to see him in an awkward and difficult situation.

Nan Yan didn't stop yet, she laughed even more arrogantly, she pressed forward heavily, pushed him against the table, and said, while tickling his itch, "Call me sister, hurry up, call me sister, who made you younger than me?"

This indeed made Seventeen feel depressed. If he had known, he would not have told her about his age. He turned his head and tried to avoid his master's harassment, but he couldn't avoid it. He simply gave up hiding, as he didn't feel anything anyway.

However, seeing this person so arrogant and complacent, he felt a little itchy, so he simply grabbed her wrist, exerted a little force, turned over, and before she could react, he smoothly pressed her under him, then leaned over and kissed her lips.

"Yanyan, I call you Yanyan..."

Nan Yan was extremely arrogant at this moment, not realizing that the situation had turned around. "No, you have to call me sister!"

Seventeen bowed his head upon hearing this.

The corners of my mouth unconsciously curled up into a smile.

"Then the master, can you please call Brother Seventeen first?"

Nan Yan was really confused. She looked at him with her eyes wide open. She didn't expect that her little guard would tease her. In the end, she couldn't help laughing. "Stinky Seventeen, do you have any shame? You are obviously younger than me."

This time Seventeen was more serious. He held Nan Yan's shoulders and with a bright look in his eyes, he insisted that she admit it, "My subordinate is not small at all. The master has clearly touched it."

This wave of key points is well captured!

His attention was diverted immediately.

Nan Yan couldn't help but blush instantly.

She bit her lip and glared at the man, her eyes moving. Even a dead tree should welcome spring, but the man still had no reaction and looked dazed, even though the atmosphere was so good.

But once you face this idiot, it feels like any good atmosphere is useless.

Those dark eyes looked at people seriously.

"My subordinates are really not small."

Nan Yan: “…”

What else can I say? You haven't even grasped the point!

I don't know why, maybe this person is really stubborn, so he has no sense of shame when it comes to considering these principled matters.

Nan Yan was pinned down by him and couldn't resist. She couldn't hide her anger. To prevent an accidental discharge of the gun, she could only compromise helplessly. "Okay, Seventeen, I was wrong. You are not small, not at all. I won't force you to call me sister. Can you let me get up first?"

"Something hit my chest, it hurts..."

As soon as Shiqi heard her say that she was not feeling well, he immediately stood up and helped her up.

Then Nan Yan reached out her hand and rummaged in her little guard's arms. After rummaging for a long time, she finally took out a square wooden box, which should be all the belongings of her little guard.

When he opened it, he saw that it was full of small change and banknotes. Nan Yan was delighted and couldn't help but lean over to kiss him again, muttering to herself,

"I'm rich, I'm rich!"

Later she found out that these were the bonuses and salaries her little shadow guard had received when he was on missions in the past.

For more than ten years, all the silver had been hidden in the hole of the tree in front of the door. This time the two of them were traveling far away together, and the little shadow guard was considerate enough to take all the silver with him.

Nan Yan held the silver in her hands and couldn't help but smile. She touched him with her arm and said, "My Seventeenth Brother, it's all your fault that you are always so stingy that you don't have a penny left. I thought I would be starving if I followed you. I didn't expect you to have hidden such a large sum of wealth."

Nan Yan couldn't help but smile at him, counting the silver like a happy miser, but this miser's appearance also looked so happy in Seventeen's eyes.

He likes it when his master and he are indistinguishable from each other.

Seventeen stared at Nan Yan with clear eyes and answered honestly, "The elders said that money is very important and should be saved for marrying a wife in the future, so I also want to..."

The voices behind her became lower and lower, and by the end my ears felt hot and I felt a little uneasy. I didn't know whether she was willing to marry me.

When Nan Yan saw him like this, she couldn't help teasing him. She stretched out her hands to rub his face, making him blush. Then she leaned over and asked, "What are you thinking about? Tell me, only when you tell me can I know. What do you want?"

Seventeen pursed his lips and blinked his watery eyes, seeming to be somewhat helpless, but he had to compromise. He already knew his master's bad taste. She liked to see him being extremely nervous and also liked to tease him.

Seventeen hesitated for a moment, then slowly moved over and kissed her on the ear. He hesitated for a while, then whispered, "I want to give birth to Little Seventeen..."

After saying this, his cheeks turned red and he didn't dare to raise his head.

Nan Yan tilted her head and did not agree immediately. Instead, she stuffed the box in her hand back into his arms and stared at the man in front of her. When the man's face changed slightly, she could not help but burst out laughing.

Her eyes sparkled like spring water. She poked his chest with her finger and said softly, "It's not impossible to have a little Seventeen, but we haven't even gotten married yet. You haven't even given me a betrothal gift, but you want to coax me into marrying you. How can such a good thing happen in the world?"

After she finished speaking, she snorted softly and turned her head away, with a girlish and coquettish look on her face.

This time, the seventeenth finally got on the right track.

Perhaps all male creatures will spare no effort to show off all their financial resources during the process of courtship, and the same is true for Seventeen in front of him.

He felt around in his arms and finally found a semi-circular jade pendant with a red string in the innermost layer. The jade pendant was pure and flawless, with a white and clear color. It was obvious that it was not an ordinary item. In fact, he had been wearing the jade pendant around his neck since he could remember. Later, when he grew up, he put it away and hid it in the pocket of his clothes to prevent it from being lost. He had no parents and grew up in the Shadow Guard Building. In fact, he sometimes wondered if the jade pendant was a token left by his parents when he was just born? When he grew up, his parents would come back to find him, but now, those things were no longer important, because he had found the most important person in his life.

Shiqi put the jade pendant in Nan Yan's palm. The jade pendant had been hidden in his arms for a long time and had a trace of his body temperature. Nan Yan clearly felt the temperature in her palm. The man pursed his lips, then looked at her and said, "Is this okay?"

He is still very tongue-tied, especially at such an important moment, he can't say many nice words.

At this moment, only this true heart was completely given to the person in front of him. He fluttered his eyelashes and tried to tell her word by word what he wanted to say in his mind.

"This was my most important thing before, but from now on, the master is my most important treasure. I like the master and want to be with the master for the rest of my life, okay?"

He moved closer and obediently put his head in front of her, "Yanyan, is it okay for Seventeen to marry you?"

He used to be a shadow guard, with deadly weapons hidden all over his body that could kill people. But now, he let down all his defenses, completely exposing his softest inner self, and was willing to serve her, completely becoming her shadow guard.

The pair of long, thin eyelashes were within reach.

Nan Yan pursed her lips, her eyes gradually filled with mist. She leaned her head against the other's chest, listened to each other's heartbeats, and then nodded gently.

"Well, I promise you."

She bit her lip, leaving faint marks on it. "But you can't bully me in the future. You have to stay by my side for the rest of your life, accompany me and protect me forever, and you can't lie to me."

Her voice was muffled and had a heavy nasal tone.

Seventeen, he held the person tightly in his arms.

"I won't."

Seventeen's eyelashes trembled, as if he could sense the uneasiness and anxiety in her heart, then he lowered his head and gave her a pious and solemn kiss on the forehead.

"I am your shadow guard, so I will protect you for the rest of your life and will not let anyone bully you."

…

After that, the two of them settled down here completely.

Everyone in the village soon knew that a young couple had just arrived at the entrance of the village. They had not yet officially gotten married, and although they were unmarried, they were no different from a regular couple.

During this period, Nan Yan was almost taken care of by the other party. She had everything she wanted, and her little guard was very good at doing housework. He could clean, cook, and even hunt in the mountains. Whatever she wanted to eat, she could just go for a walk in the mountains and find it.

Because of his outstanding ability to support the family, her little shadow guard has won the favor of many young girls in the village, especially the little daughter of the village chief. Every time Seventeen goes out to the mountains to hunt, she always comes to take a look around them, not for anything else, just to leave a deep impression.

But her Seventeen was a fool as his name suggests. He ran into her more than ten times on the road, but he didn't even see her face clearly. In the end, he called her "Auntie" and made her so angry that her eyes turned red on the spot. She turned around and left without looking back. Her little guard was quite puzzled when he came back.

He turned around and told this to his master. He was muffled and felt quite aggrieved because the women he met recently were too fierce.

"I met a very strange woman on the road today. She kept glaring at me. After I called her auntie, she glared at me even more fiercely. In the end, she left with red eyes. Don't you think this is very strange?"

Nan Yan: “…”

How did this silly head grow?

He would think someone was glaring at him when they winked at him. She suddenly remembered the time when she also winked at him at the beginning. No wonder he was indifferent. Did he think she was glaring at him?

This was the first time she met such a weird male protagonist.

Nan Yan was speechless. She reached out and poked the other person's head. She couldn't help laughing. "You're the weird one. She obviously likes you and is winking at you. How could she be glaring at you?"

Seventeen pursed her lips and replied stubbornly, "That's different. I'm not stupid. They don't like me. Besides, I don't like them either. It's the young man next door who brought you water. He has bad intentions towards you."

Don't think he doesn't know. That guy has come several times, and each time he takes advantage of his absence to bring water, vegetables and food. This has posed a great crisis to Seventeen.

After all, the village is not like the Shadow Guard Tower. He can't just kill the people who covet his master. Fighting is not an option either. He can only teach them a lesson secretly a few times to make them give up.

Although Tie Hanhan was very slow to react to his own affairs, as long as it involved the person in his arms, he would naturally learn some things without being taught, and when he got jealous, he would be even more noisy than a woman. He buried his head in the hollow of Nan Yan's neck and kissed her gently.

"Yanyan, when can we get married..."

"I can't just follow you without any status, right?"

"I heard from the aunties at the entrance of the village that men should find a good woman to marry while they are still young and fertile, otherwise no one will care about them when they get older."

I don't know where he heard these nonsense words from. I guess they were about the group of aunties persuading Widow Li at the end of the village to remarry. But why did these words sound so awkward when they came out of his mouth?

Nan Yan couldn't help laughing.

Then she tapped his head and counted on her fingers, "Well, as for this, the wedding doesn't have to be grand anyway. Just wait until you go to the city tomorrow to buy maltose, colorful silks, wedding candles, and some basic things for a wedding. When you come back, we can ask the elders in the village to be witnesses, and then we can get married..."

When she said this, her eyes were full of anticipation and smile.

Seventeen couldn't contain his joy at this point. He hugged the person in his arms tighter and promised, "I'll go buy it tomorrow, and when I come back, we'll get married!"

Nan Yan seemed to be amused by his reaction. She smiled with her eyebrows curved, and then she touched his forehead affectionately, "Silly boy."

Seventeen also laughed. He found that just by looking at her, he felt an unstoppable joy and admiration in his heart.

The marriage of the two was finally settled.

The next morning, Seventeen followed the village ox cart into the city to catch up. He still remembered what Nan Yan said last night, that he would buy more gifts for the wedding. He was so energetic that even the master who was catching up with the cart couldn't help teasing him.

Nan Yan was also not idle. She was recently learning how to make snacks from Grandma Yang in the village. After learning for a few days, the results were very obvious.

As it happened, the locust flowers in the yard were in full bloom recently, and the whole yard was filled with a light and refreshing fragrance.

Nan Yan felt it was a pity to throw away the fallen locust flowers, so she gathered up the petals, washed them all, dried them, and prepared to make some locust flower snacks.

After Seventeen left, Nan Yan started to pick up the flower petals. That silly boy even said that he wanted to eat the locust flower cake she made when he came back. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but chuckle.

…

The courtyard gates in the village are never closed.

So when I visit my neighbors, I can always easily hear what's going on next door, but I don't know what happened today, it was so quiet and there was no one around.

I don't know when, there was a sound of footsteps in the courtyard.

Nan Yan was holding a basket and carefully selecting flower petals. When she suddenly heard footsteps at the door, she thought it was Seventeen who had returned.

She didn't even look up, but asked subconsciously,

"Weren't you going to meet up? Why are you back so soon? Seventeen, did you forget to bring your money again?"

Until the figure stopped in front of her.

The cold scabbard suddenly pressed against her chin, then lifted it up, forcing her to raise her head.

"Miss Fourth, I have been looking for you for a long time."