Chapter 5: Hong Bin (II)
Mu Zixin took Hong Bin back to the room, carefully took off his clothes for him, the wounds on his body were already bloody and blurred, she gently wiped him with a wet towel, "It's a little painful, you have to endure it," she glared at Ling Xiang, who was still standing on the side leisurely, "You!
Ling Xiang shrugged his shoulders, hooked the bucket with a silver knife and swaggered out, and after a while, he carried a bucket full of water and put it in front of Mu Zixin.
"You just said that you heard Wen Li's conversation, tell me what you heard," Mu Zixin looked at Hong Bin and asked, "Don't worry, with me in the future, I won't let anyone bully you again!"
Hong Bin listened to her words, he didn't know whether he was moved or wronged, tears welled up again, he snorted, and told Mu Zixin everything he heard.
"What do you mean by just standing by and watching?" After a long silence, Mu Zixin turned around angrily and looked at Ling Xiang, who was doing nothing on the side.
"I just wanted to see what the clowns could do. ”
"Yes," Mu Zixin snorted coldly, "So you knew that this person was innocent, and you didn't do anything, so you stood aside and watched them bully him?"
"I don't plan to stand like that forever, even if you don't show up, I'll do it just now, but I have to figure out how to die for each of them. ”
"By the time you make a move, he'll already be crippled, I don't believe you'll be kind enough to carry him back to his own residence to heal!"
"Don't say that, I'm not a good person, but I'm not as bad as you say," he said, leaning against the window frame and putting his feet on the table beside him, "You're so angry, why don't you just kill Nabang bastard?"
"It's not worth it, besides, there are only a few officers in the last city, who will guard the border if they kill them?"
"Ziyun Mountain will send someone again, besides, don't want that kind of officer, don't talk about others, I think at least that Wen Li is tired of it, even we dare to provoke!"
"We?" Mu Zixin felt a little ridiculous after hearing this, "What are we? we have no family background and no background, we are just a little luckier than ordinary people, and we have a little more talent for cultivation," she paused Hong Bin's bruised hand, "If Wen Li offends those princes, it will be a dead end, anyway, it will be a death for both horizontal and vertical reasons, and she will be the one who will die if she offends us, but if those young masters and young ladies have a mistake, I'm afraid her whole family will have to be buried with her, and those people can do anything!"
Ling Xiang didn't speak again, he looked up at the gray sky, sighed heavily, lowered his head again, picked up a rag and wiped his scimitar. Hong Bin kept his head down, and no one knew if he was asleep or tired.
After being silent for a long time, Ling Xiang suddenly raised his head, looked at Mu Zixin, and asked seriously: "Have I changed?" compared to when I first came. ”
"You're getting old, you were twenty-four when you first came, and you're thirty-two now. She said jokingly.
"You know I'm not talking about age......"
Mu Zixin didn't speak, Hong Bin's wound had been cleaned, she picked up the bandage and began to bandage him.
"It's not just you, Ling Xiang, believe me, if you stay in this ghost place for a few years, anyone will become inhuman, and become like a beast!" she suddenly wanted to laugh, and some wanted to cry, and after the last circle, she put down the bandage and breathed a long sigh of relief, as if she had just walked a long way, "But one thing I'm sure of is that it's not our fault...... At least, not exactly ......"
Ling Xiang sighed after hearing this, "No matter what you say, I really should have killed that Wen Li! Don't forget, if it weren't for her, we would almost never have come back in the last battle!" he said and jumped to the ground, rejuvenating his muscles and bones by the way.
"Save it! Kill this Wen Li, and tomorrow the Elder Pavilion will send another Wen Li over. No one wants to come here, and if you don't kill her, you're the biggest punishment for her. ”
"Is that all?"
"Forget it, with this lesson, it is estimated that she will not dare next time, but this time the incident of the Zhao Mansion has a really bad impact, I will react to the city lord," she dressed Hong Bin, "By the way, the last battle with the burning army you just mentioned...... I've always wondered how many troops have been sent by the Burning Army over the past few months, and I have even received a request for reinforcements several times. And in the final battle, it was clear that you and I couldn't hold it anymore, but they suddenly retreated...... I have a feeling that there must be something strange in this. ”
"Maybe there's something wrong with their brains!"
"Oh my God......" At this time, Hong Bin suddenly woke up, "I'm sorry sir, I just accidentally fell asleep......" He said and was about to stand up, but his legs hurt like cramps.
"It's okay, sit down, what's your name?"
"My name is Hong Bin. ”
"How old are you?"
"Sixteen, sir. ”
"Oh my God, you look older than me!" Ling Xiang rubbed his chin and looked at him incredulously.
"You're so young, why did you come here?"
"Well......" he thought, as if thinking about a puzzle that had been bothering me for a long time, "to be honest, my lord, I don't know myself, it was all ten years ago. ”
"Ten years ago?" Mu Zixin's eyes widened, she looked up and down the child in front of her with some suspicion, he had been here for as long as she did, but she hardly knew of his existence, and she had never even seen him.
"You mean you were sent to the end ten years ago?" she clarified again, confirming it.
"That's right, sir, except that I've been living in the little cabin next to the westernmost cell, and I'm usually in charge of cleaning—mainly the kitchen, the conference room, the dining room, the training ground, and the ...... of carrying goods and raising livestock."
He counted them on his fingers one by one, as if he was afraid that he would accidentally miss any of them.
Mu Zixin thought it was incredible, the soldiers and officers who came to Biansai either committed serious crimes and were exiled here or were forced to support their families and urgently need money to come here, once they passed the review and signed a contract with the city lord, they were not allowed to step out of the northern Xinjiang for life, otherwise they were sentenced to death for the crime of smuggling, but she really couldn't think of the reason why a six-year-old child was sent here ten years ago.
"I really don't know if there's anything else to clean in this hellish place!" Ling Xiang smacked his tongue again and again after listening to him count with interest.
Hong Bin looked up at Ling Xiang, six golden slashes under the neckline, a sixth-level officer. He rubbed his nose, then stood up and said politely to Mu Zixin: "My lord, thank you for saving my life today, I should go back to work, go to eat and go to bed after work......"
He muttered and limped out of Mu Zixin's room.