Ming Jin moved and walked out. When he passed by, his tone became much softer: "The Overwatch Council is very dangerous. I don't want anything to happen to you."
Xie Mingyue was startled, but Xie Mingdai was not surprised. She knew, but she was still angry, so she said: "It sounds like the behavior of a good sister."
These words did not seem to ease the atmosphere, but rather to ridicule. Sure enough, Xie Mingdai suddenly changed her tone, "But when the pretty boy outside comes, he immediately abandons your two sisters? Ha!"
If Xie Mingyue is best at rolling her eyes, then Xie Mingdai is good at sneering.
But what they have in common is that they all regard Xu Qiubai as a pretty boy.
The hostility is deep.
Ming Jin paused slightly, but still walked out. When she reached the door, she said a few words.
"My sisters, it's okay to have any misunderstandings or quarrels. We are always a family, but we must not lose our etiquette towards outsiders."
After she left, Xie Mingyue noticed that Xie Mingdai's expression softened a little.
Xie Mingyue: "Hey, why do I think you are easier to coax than me?"
Xie Mingdai looked ugly again.
"Can you say that again!"
"I also think you shouldn't have said that to her just now. She was also afraid that we would be targeted by that scary man. What's his name? His nickname is Jackal? It's really scary..."
Regret actually flashed in Xie Mingdai's eyes, knowing that her temper just now was unreasonable, but Xie Mingjin had already left, and she couldn't bear to listen to Xie Mingyue's excuses, so she turned around and walked out.
"I just want to prove that she is not the only daughter of the Xie family."
Xie Mingyue was a little confused. She stood alone in the room and murmured quietly to herself: "Are you not considered the daughter of the Xie family? What should I do if I am a commoner and can't even see my own mother? It's really baffling.
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In a place where aristocratic families pay attention to pomp and ceremony, court officials like the Supervisory Yuan would meet in one place, while "guests" like Xu Qiubai would be in another place.
The breeze blows slowly, the gauze curtains move and the fragrance of tea lingers.
Xu Qiubai sat on the tea ball and looked at the beautiful scenery outside the window. Ming Jin, who was drinking tea opposite, asked about the injury.
"The medicine and doctors at Miss Xie's house are excellent and the curative effect is remarkable. There is no serious problem anymore."
Ming Jin heard this and looked at the opponent's shoulder, which was not injured, "Really, can you bend a bow and shoot a vulture for me to see?"
"..." Xu Qiubai was stunned. Seeing Ming Jin reveal a sly smile because of this, he smiled helplessly, "Xie Miss, even when I was at my strongest, I couldn't do such a thing."
"Then you have to take better care of yourself."
"But I really want to leave the house today. After all, I have been bothering you for many days."
"I didn't stop you from leaving the house."
Xu Qiubai was slightly stunned and raised his eyes to look at her for a moment, but then quickly looked away, only looking at the smoke floating in the teacup in front of him.
"When you leave the house, you must take some good medicinal materials with you. My family physician will also check on your injuries every day until you fully recover."
"besides...."
Xu Qiubai couldn't help but interrupt Ming Jin, "Don't, it's enough, but it's strong enough. With the skills of the doctor in your house, miss, and the amount of ginseng and snow clam I've eaten, I'm afraid I can really bend a bow when I recover from my injury."
Shoot the big eagle."
"That's a good thing. Who in the world doesn't want a man to have a good body so that he can..."
Ming Jin said with a smile, but suddenly noticed something and fell silent. He avoided Xu Qiubai's delicate eyes and lowered his head, "I'm talking about the hardships of the scientific examination."
Xu Qiubai covered up her embarrassment and said dryly while drinking tea: "I know."
Two smart and knowledgeable people seemed to be reading the same book, but both were stumped by a difficult problem.
Ming Jin also lowered his head to drink tea and continued: "I still have a thousand taels of gold to give to sir."
"Thank you, girl..."
"Since you have thanked me, it means you have agreed. A gentleman's promise is worth a thousand pieces of gold."
Xu Qiubai: "???"
The woman in front of him was so pure, beautiful and refined that even if he wanted to play with his intelligence and cunning, he would not be annoyed at all. Instead, he would secretly be happy that she would tease him.
But in fact, she has no intention of getting close to you at all - so she spends a lot of money to send you away.
Is this a red and pink skull puzzle that many men in the world cannot escape?
He laughed and felt helpless, and sighed: "It is human nature to save people. If I accept the money, who will fulfill my morality?"
"It's your business whether you accept it or not, and it's my business whether you give it or not. If you really don't accept it, sir, I won't force you."
Ming Jin smiled gurglingly, but with a bit of polite detachment.
"I'm just doing my duty."
She spoke lightly, but knew that the person in front of her was smart enough to understand what she meant.
"I understand." Xu Qiubai lowered his eyes. Ming Jin saw that his palm, which had always only touched books and ancient scrolls, squeezed the tea cup tightly. The joints were clear and the blue and red blood vessels were visible. He vaguely thought of the other person holding it when he was a storyteller for her.
An ancient book tells her a story.
Qianmo Manor, Tianxiang Yefeng, are the most comfortable people talking and listening.
Thinking of those days, she couldn't help but look away, tilted her head to look out the window, and heard the man's words speaking as calmly as before.
"This time I leave, my injury will be better, and I will take the exam soon. I'm afraid it will be extremely difficult to see you again, but I am honored to meet Miss Xie for your appreciation."
"But I want to remind Miss Xie one thing."
Ming Jin turned his head and said politely: "Sir, please speak."
So Xu Qiubai mentioned that he met a strange person on the way down the mountain.
Ming Jin was slightly surprised, raised his eyes and thought for a moment, "Weird person?"
"Yes, there was a fishy smell on his body. I smelled it when I passed by him. I thought it was strange, so I looked back at him and saw accessories hanging from his waist."
Xu Qiubai didn't whet anyone's appetite and simply mentioned accessories.
Ming Jin asked carefully: "What accessories?"
"Red blood magatama, and a thinned little finger knife."
"Although it is very delicate, it is too strange. How could anyone wear such a small sharp blade on their body?"
Ming Jin was suddenly enlightened and asked about the size of the thin blade. The shocking death scene that day flashed through his mind.
The scene was really unbearable, but she did not deliberately disperse it. Instead, she asked Xu Qiubai.
"Then sir, you will..."
"Walking back, I wanted to see if this person would be detrimental to some people."
Xu Qiubai didn't mention who they were, but Mingjin pointed his finger at them and didn't ask.
A moment of silence.
"Why haven't you asked me yet?" Xu Qiubai asked abruptly.
Ming Jin's eyes flashed.
"Don't ask me why I showed up by such a coincidence? I just happened to be able to save you."
"Don't ask me to change my past gentlemanly behavior. Now I have to test and get close to you."
"Don't ask me why I have to question you about this?"
He progresses step by step step by step, sentence by sentence. Even if he is not aggressive, he is still airtight and makes people fall into it.
Ming Jin couldn't help but look at him intently.
"First, I doubted him and worried about you. When I was rushing back, I saw an assassin who was seriously injured and dying. He knew very much about you and knew that I was the gentleman you hired. He was grateful that you kept your promise.
Kill him, so tell me that he is from Guangling Valley, including what happened to you, and let me find the Xie family to report to you. I think if you can't defeat Mingchang Xiaohou Ye's group in the Mass Hall, you must
I would walk towards the broken bridge because it was dangerous, so I took a small path there and bought an ax from the kitchen of the small building where I stayed."
"Secondly, I am testing and approaching you not because human nature is greedy and trying to get more than you can get. But I am afraid that you will treat me the same as others before I am not qualified, because there are too many talents in this world, and those who can read a little are more than capable of learning.
Me alone."
"Thirdly, I will never see you again in the future. To put it bluntly, when you think of me in the future, you should not just think of me as a gentleman who once read a few books to you and told you stories."
"Fourth, after all, it's because I'm greedy."
After saying that, he stood up, his clothes hanging down to the ground. His figure was so tall, like a bamboo, that Ming Jin, who was sitting, had to look up at him.
The light outside the window was slender and just right, shining countless times, like the lowered gaze of a god, seeing through both the sitting and standing people.
Embarrassing, obscure, exposed, avoidant, sad.
It is complex, difficult to understand, and impossible to explain.
A group of egrets flew over the lake. Xu Qiubai came back to his senses, walked two steps away from the tea seat, bent down and bowed, and his wide sleeves drooped, covering the expression on his face.
"We say goodbye today. I don't know if I can see you again in the future. I hope the girl will be peaceful and happy in the future, and everything she wishes will come true."
The breeze blows slowly and its sound is loud.
Chapter completed!