Chapter 7: Leaf Shadow
The early morning of the city of peace is silent, the sun that has just risen is so gentle that it sprinkles its light on this century-old imperial city, and the thick morning mist is like golden silk, softly wrapping the earth.
Ye Nan walked on Wan'an Street, most of the shops had not opened at this time, and there were only a few vendors on the street with stalls.
"Help, help." A very small sound came from the dark alley beside the road, and it was not very clear even in the quiet of the morning.
Ye Nan paused slightly and dodged into the alley.
A few burly men with the smell of alcohol were dragging something, facing the alley, and the very thin and faint sound came from the woman they were dragging around.
"It's not a gentleman's act for you to treat a girl so rudely." Ye Nan spoke, but his demeanor could be imitated like a scholar who admits death.
A few big men turned around, "Yo, this little brother is very handsome, why don't you go back with a few of us, we will serve for a long time." One of the middle-aged men with a lewd face said with a smile, and the obscenity in his tone was very consistent with his face. The rest of the group laughed loudly and let go of the woman and gathered around.
Ye Nan has been a sword since elementary school, and his master Yang Ke is known as the first swordsman in Huainan, a cold moon, sweeping the major swordsmen south of the Huai River, indifferent to fame and fortune, but there is a relationship with Ye Honglie's youth, so he hung a false title in Nan * and taught Ye Nan the four brothers swordsmanship, Ye Nan's martial arts talent is average, and he is not a first-class master, but it is more than enough to deal with ordinary second-rate characters.
The tallest man on the left hand side pounced first, Ye Nan turned sideways lightly, and used the strength of his forward pounce to push the momentum, but the man couldn't hold back and fell to the ground. Immediately afterwards, Ye Nan jumped forward, jumped into the arms of the second man, and struck his chest with his elbow, and the second man also flew out upside down. The remaining three men were slightly stunned, Ye Nan had already deceived himself in front of him, holding a person's wrist with his left hand, and wrapping his right hand along his arm, with a mistake in his left and right hands, the big man's arm had been dislocated, this was already a superior grappling technique, Ye Nan waved his hands continuously, and in the staggered manner, the other two also screamed separately, and their arms were removed. In fact, this can be regarded as a small punishment, and the real grappling hand is used with a wrong hand, and I am afraid that these three people's arms will never be able to be lifted.
Several big men crawled on the ground and wailed, screaming and crawling out of the alley, it seemed that they were not seriously drunk, and the severe pain in their bodies at the moment made them sober up for eight or nine points.
Ye Nan didn't pay attention to it, and walked straight to the woman, who seemed to be greatly frightened, trembling, and didn't speak, holding her head. She was dressed as a beggar, she seemed to be crazy, she couldn't see her face clearly, she seemed to have broken her head in the struggle, and her hair was stained with blood. He is only long, and his snow-white skin peeks out of his holes. The tattered clothes can't hide the spring light.
Ye Nan frowned, stretched out his hand to her and said, "Can the girl still move, if you can trust it, you might as well go to my house to bandage it and change your clothes." He spoke as softly as he could, and stretched out his hand, trying to reassure the frightened beggar as soon as possible.
The beggar raised his head and stared at Ye Nan with his eyes. Unexpectedly, this woman's eyes seemed to be extraordinarily bright, not at all afraid of being frightened or delirious, and in the depths of her dark pupils, there seemed to be an ancient well that had not been touched for thousands of years, quietly. After a long time, the beggar trembled and put his hand in Ye Nan's hand.
On the ridge of the house in the distance, a man in a green leotard was lying on top of the blue roof, watching all this expressionlessly, frowning slightly.
Sotama Palace, main hall
Most of the waiting maids and servants in the Yuyu Palace were brought by Ye Lan from the Southern Tang Dynasty, most of them were members of the Shadow Department with martial arts, and most of the rest were servants with no status, almost only responsible for cleaning, burning fires and other rough work, it was difficult to stand in the main hall. At this time, the female beggar has been groomed and dressed by the girls in the palace, and the female beggar is long, and her face is very beautiful after washing, especially the dark eyes, as if the gloomy and starless night sky is like a calm lake. At this time, the rouge gouache was applied, and Tingting stood in the hall, but it was also brilliant.
"In the future, this Ye Ying girl will live in the palace, temporarily be my maid where to wait, follow Ziyu to learn the rules here, and everyone will be a family in the future." Ye Nan looked solemn when he said it, and he seemed to be very serious.
These servants and maids were very surprised, not because they had pulled an original beggar down to the palace on an errand, but because this master was very talkative on weekdays, and almost no one had seen him when his face was serious, so everyone did not dare to slack off, and they all bowed down and agreed.
Ye Nan's bedroom
"Uncle Dai, you are really, arrange this strange way to let Ye Ying in, just treat it as a bought maid and bring it into the palace." Ye Nan sat next to the bookcase and said to Dai Ying with a smile.
"For the sake of safety, Ye Yunlan has a great deal of surveillance on the young master, according to the observation of the shadow department, there are at least three good hands in the night owl staring at us, and there are countless people who are investigating us behind our backs, if you give Miss Ye an identity casually, it is easy to arouse suspicion. This time, the female beggar actually died in the temple in the north of the city two days ago, which happened to be the day Miss Ye entered the city, and while no one found out, I arranged this role for Miss Ye. There are our people among those homeless people, and they have wronged Miss Ye by arranging this one. Dai Ying also smiled.
"Uncle Dai laughed, what grievances are not wronged, doing things for the young master, this little thing is nothing." At this time, Ye Ying no longer had the panic of the day, and saluted calmly, courteous for several weeks, this temperament matched those eyes very well.
"I won't let you suffer this sin again in the future, this face is too ugly." Ye Nan seemed to be in a good mood, smiled and reached out to touch Ye Ying's face, and delicately tore off a piece of human skin mask.
Suddenly, the room was full of this woman's peerless beauty.
Ye Ying didn't expect Ye Nan's hand, his face was flushed with shame, and he was even more gorgeous in the candlelight.
"Okay, okay, let's talk about the recent situation in Wanzhou City." Ye Nan was also a little embarrassed, he didn't think much about it when he stretched out his hand, but now that he thinks about it, it's a bit out of line. And Dai Ying's old face was about to smile like a flower when he stood next to him, which made him very embarrassed.
"Yes." Ye Ying also reined in his mind and responded with a positive color.
"Judging from the recent events, I am afraid that King Ningjun and King Anjun are not divided, and they have thoughts of non-division. Wanzhou is not stable. Ye Ying's face was solemn.
"Really? Is my brother going to touch my brother? Ye Nan also reined in his charming thoughts, looking at the quiet and lonely night sky of the summer night, and murmured softly.
The summer wind rose again, blowing away the warmth that had just filled the house, and there seemed to be a faint fishy smell in the wind.