Chapter 23: Attacked
Xue Jingyan lowered his eyebrows and looked at the girl who was crying, and suddenly remembered a cat he had raised when he was a child.
The cat came on his own, and he always liked to steal his food, and then he often teased him with food, and gradually, the cat followed him. When reading and learning words, it is in; When practicing martial arts, it is. Looking at its petite appearance, especially sometimes doing something particularly silly, whenever that happens, he finds it particularly interesting and cute. One day, however, it never appeared again.
Xue Jingyan, who was still young, threw himself into his mother's arms and cried fiercely, his mother hugged him gently, patted him on the back, and comforted him all the time.
But he later learned that it was his father who sent someone to take him away in order to prevent him from indulging in that little bit of tenderness with cats. After that, he didn't look into its ending, preferring to think that it was adopted.
As a young man, he learned resentment for the first time.
He began to rebel against the qiē imposed on him by his father, and even became a famous gentleman in the capital. But in the hazy tears of his mother's eyes, he realized it thoroughly, but the cynicism of the four aunts' concubines and brothers from time to time also made him tired of it, and began to leave the house and wander as he wished.
Although he has a few friends, most of the time he is still the sixth young master Xue who has always been alone, and the eldest brother is the one who wants to be in charge of the family, and he doesn't have much effort to take care of this younger brother, and sometimes he just lets it go. Only his mother is dignified and graceful, from a famous family, but she has always given him continuous love, and even her father has not been as attentive to him.
Xue Jingyan hugged Zhu Yan and looked at it from a distance, this scene was extraordinarily harmonious. Tsing Yi and Blue Yi shine with each other, and a few acacia flowers flutter and fall under the wind.
Xue Luo sighed a little wistfully, "Brother Jing hasn't hugged me yet." ”
Xue Mu glanced at her lightly, but the stubborn expression on her face cleaned up.
"Let's go."
"Where to ......"
"I'll go back to the inner sanctum. You, just let it be. ”
"Then, I'll help you!"
Finally the crying stopped, Zhu Yan raised his sleeves and wiped his eyes a little embarrassed, and looked up at Xue Jingyan with hazy eyes.
"Thank you." Thank you for being there.
Xue Jingyan straightened Zhu Yan's hair, and said softly: "Since you are not so sure about finding your mother, you just want to leave Jiangyang Town, why don't you stay in the Hades Palace, at least I have some friendship with them, don't worry about the future." When you're older, you'll be able to find it yourself. After all, as far as you know, it's unlikely you'll be able to find anyone. However, I'll send someone to look for it, too. You don't want to go out alone anymore. ”
Zhu Yan didn't expect Xue Jingyan to offer to let her stay in the Hades Palace, she didn't have a sense of belonging here, "I don't want to stay here, I ...... I don't know where to go. Zhu Yan really felt lost, the world was very big, but she didn't know where to go. She couldn't help but clench the corners of Xue Jingyan's sleeves.
The man in Tsing Yi looked at the little girl's timid appearance and couldn't help laughing, "It's better for you to follow me in the future." ”
Zhu Yan looked up suddenly: "Is it really possible?" Although it was a questioning question, the smile on his face could not be hidden.
Xue Jingyan nodded. What he wanted in his heart was to bring Zhu Yan to the capital and let his mother see that the only girls in the family were Xue Qilan born to the eldest brother and Xue Yi born to the fourth brother. After all, he is his benefactor, and he will be happy if he wants to come to his mother, and Zhu Yan is a quiet and obedient character, and the two should be able to get along in harmony.
As for Zhu Yan's mother-in-law, no matter what the reason was for leaving her at the time, but after all, it was Xiao Yan's biological mother, and he would try his best to find it.
Maybe Zhu Yan really didn't want to stay in the Hades Palace anymore, and when she heard Xue Jingyan say that she could take her away directly, she packed up her things in the afternoon and gave Xue Luo all the purses she had made in the past few days. Xue Luo is a woman after all, and it is nothing to give a purse, as soon as she knew that Zhu Yan would make a purse, she said that she wanted one.
"I thought I would have to erase my memories before I was leaving." Zhu Yan looked at the valley that was gradually moving away, after walking for a few days, she couldn't see it at all, and breathed a sigh of relief, although Xue Mulai had been smiling indifferently when she came to see them off, but she was really afraid that Xue Jingyan's face would not be enough.
When Xue Jingyan came, he was lightly dressed and simple, only bringing four guards, and the carriage was still provided by the Hades Palace. The other four people followed around the carriage on horseback, and Zhu Yan and Xue Jingyan sat in the carriage.
"They scared you. I'm here, don't be afraid. Xue Jingyan looked at Zhu Yan, who was not in good love, and apologized in his heart. It was because of him that she attracted the attention of the Hades Palace. She is just an ordinary woman, and the rivers and lakes are too far away from her.
Zhu Yan shook his head, "I'm fine." Where do we go now? She was in a hurry to come out of the Hades Palace, and she forgot to ask Xue Jingyan about her arrangements. He was willing to agree to help find his mother for the sake of such a little kindness, but she couldn't tell him that her background was problematic, and she felt a little sorry in her heart.
"Let's go to the capital. My mother must be glad to meet you. ”
Going to the capital?
In her previous life, she passed by the capital, but she didn't expect to be able to go to the capital so soon in this life. It's like a dream.
She couldn't tell what she felt about the capital, but the capital of the Great Xia Dynasty was definitely not ordinary, after all, the Great Xia Dynasty was a dynasty that unified the world.
Since Xue Jingyan chose to go to the capital for her, let's go.
"Will you stay in the capital forever?" But she asked anyway.
"After sending you to the capital, I still have something to go to Muzhou, and I may not be able to stay in the capital all the time. But don't worry, the people I arranged will definitely be able to take good care of you. "It's a serious matter to go to Muzhou, but it's just as important to send Zhu Yan to the capital, and he doesn't worry about letting people take her there.
Zhu Yan turned around the territory of the Great Xia Dynasty in her mind, although she rarely went far in her previous life, did she see the map, the map was a military item, and it was impossible for her to see it, but her approximate geographical location was still known.
The capital is in the north of Liangzhou, and Muzhou is indeed in the south of Liangzhou, so Xue Jingyan will waste a lot of time. There are already a lot of troublesome people, and since he has come out of the Hades Palace, why bother him to rush around again. But she also didn't want to leave him. Although the two didn't say much in the carriage, she still felt Xue Jingyan's care, and she couldn't bear this warmth.
She had just opened her mouth to say something, but she heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves coming from this direction, and stopped near the carriage. The atmosphere was a little calm.
Zhu Yan looked at Xue Jingyan, who had a stern expression all of a sudden, and was a little uneasy.
At this moment, there was a loud laugh from outside the carriage.
"The kid surnamed Xue, I finally let your grandfather and I find it, don't hurry down and arrest it!"
It seems that the person who came was not good.
Xue Jingyan glanced at Zhu Yan soothingly, lifted the corner of the curtain and went out, and paid attention to the angle, so that no one would see that there was another person inside.
Xue Jingyan got out of the carriage, looked around, and found that this group of people were dressed in black and riding black, the number was twenty, but he didn't know if anyone was hiding in the dark. The leader was a middle-aged man with a beard.
"Who is my Dao, it turns out that he is just a small hall master of the Demon Sect. What's the matter, dare to come to Tai Sui's head to break ground? He glanced at the guards around him, and motioned for the two to take care of the carriage and go to confront the demon church master himself.
The man in Tsing Yi was long and jade, and he was unspeakably amorous, but at this moment, he had a cold face, and just his words made the faces of the twenty people in front of him stiffen.
"Don't try to be rampant, the sect leader has issued an order, vowing to arrest you back to the main altar. We have twenty of us here, and you have only five. Haha, I'm going to make a decision on this great work. Seeing that no more people rushed out, the bearded man couldn't help but feel a lot more relieved. Thinking that maybe he just caught him alone, if he caught him and offered him, maybe the sect leader would give him an elder to be an elder.
"Then you can give it a try. Let's see if twenty of you are great, or five of us! Before the words fell, Xue Jingyan and the two guards rushed forward.
The sound of swords and slashing kept coming to Zhu Yan's ears, and she didn't know what was going on outside, but she didn't dare to go out to take a look, for fear that she would be held back. After that, Xue Jingyan's voice never came, leaving Zhu Yan alone in the carriage and secretly anxious.
After fighting, Mao Wei found that even if all of his people went up, they couldn't hurt Xue Jingyan in the slightest, especially when there were more people besieging him, it became more and more obvious that Xue Jingyan was at ease. Mao Wei immediately discovered his mistake, because there were too many people, and sometimes the sword would hurt his own people.
He immediately ordered them to disperse the attack, especially the other two guards who had not been in the battle circle.
Xue Jingyan saw that there were fewer people besieging him, but the sword in his hand was wielded even more violently, and as soon as he entered and exited, he took several lives.
Mao Wei looked at his unchanged face, and his heart couldn't help but tremble, this is simply not a human being. No wonder when he received the news, he planned to besiege Xue Jingyan, and the eyes of others were a little strange. He looked at the man who was killing more and more, and felt a chill in his heart, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't save the lives of his men.
Just as he was hesitating whether to retreat, a gust of wind blew, but the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and the fabric that was obviously different from the curtain of the carriage was exposed.
Mao Wei's heart moved, and there were other people in the carriage. This seems to explain why Xue Jingyan has been guarding the front of the carriage, and there are two people guarding the carriage, all for that person.
He had always heard that Xue Jingyan's martial arts were good, but he didn't know that his martial arts had been so good that there was no way to do it at this time, since he wanted to protect the people in the carriage, then he wanted to kill that person.
So his next fighting position was constantly shifting, and the weapon he used was a knife, not a quick knife, but because of his strength, his knife was very effective. Seeing that Xue Jingyan's sword was stabbing towards his subordinates without stopping, he turned sideways with red eyes and used all his strength to slash at the carriage behind Xue Jingyan.