The cuckoo is the child of the kiln sister, born without a father, because the azalea is blooming bright red in the birth season, so he simply gave it such a name.

In the kiln, the turtle bustard and the mother nodded to the outside, closed the door and commanded, the servants coveted the skin and silver of the kiln sisters, and on the other hand, their mouths were broken by their debauchery and cheapness, and most of these women were not angry, and in addition to smoking and flattering for half their lives, they were only left to play with their scheming.

Cuckoo's mother is the most stupid of them, it is said that she was born rich in her early years, and later her family was sold here, with her outstanding appearance and talent soon became a smash hit brand, but she refused to follow the example of other kiln sisters to cast nets and catch fish, she believed in the stories of those talented and beautiful women, and wanted to meet a true person.

She really met, it was a personable official son, who looked like he was not vulgar, and when she refused the guests but was bullied in public, she made a righteous move, a stack of silver tickets not only bought the Spring Festival night, but also bought her heart, since then he often came to accompany him, she guarded him, and promised to wait for some time to redeem her.

However, this story of the hero's rescue of beauty did not end happily, she waited month after month, and finally waited for the news of the son's marriage and relocation, and did not leave her half a letter.

Since then, the woman has been hysterical, and the bustard's mother is tired of her and is reluctant to look good at this good skin, so she simply asks her to serve those guests who are difficult to deal with and have strange habits, and she soon withers like a flower that blooms to the point of decay, and conceives a child, and when the cuckoo is born, she has not even looked at it, and the person is gone.

Cuckoo has lived in that pink and vulgar place since she was a child, there is a kiln sister named Peony who asked her to be a little maid, but she was not fed and clothed, and she was not allowed to go to the front yard, only allowed to do some rough work in the back, she was tired and miserable at a young age, and the cuckoo scolded her in secret, until she found that those little girls who were as big as themselves but dressed up and beautiful left one by one, some of them were coquettish and foolish with the guests in the front yard with the big sisters, and some disappeared directly, just like ordinary people lost a dog.

From then on, the cuckoo stopped scolding her, obediently hiding in the backyard to do laundry and cleaning, until when she was ten years old, a drunken guest staggered in, followed by the same drunken peony.

Peony smiled on his face, but there was anxiety in his eyes that could not be hidden, while blocking the guest's vision with his body, while putting his hand behind his back and swaying desperately, signaling the cuckoo to leave quickly, but unfortunately the cuckoo moved slower, and was stopped and hugged by the guest before he stepped out of the hospital.

The guest opened a pair of drunken eyes, almost put his face in front of him, and looked at her for a while before grinning: "What else do you have to eat with your tangerine peel and rotten flesh, Lao Tzu wants to taste fresh and tender today!" ”

The cuckoo was only ten years old, but after all, she had grown up in the kiln, and as soon as she heard this, she understood, and struggled desperately, but like a grasshopper shaking a tree, she was soon carried into the house, thrown on the bed and dizzy.

Peony shouted loudly, but no one rushed over, maybe no one heard, maybe no one wanted to care, she could only rush in by herself, holding the guest's arm and begging repeatedly, was pushed aside and quickly crawled back.

The guest finally got impatient, he had already drunk too much wine, and was hindered in his head, scolded and threw away the cuckoo and turned around, grabbed the peony's head and smashed it against the wall, only for a moment she was silent, and after two or three strokes, she was not even angry, and a face with heavy makeup was drenched in blood, and she could not see the appearance of the past.

The cuckoo was so frightened that she was weak all over, and was slapped twice, seeing this scene, she only felt a buzz in her brain, and she didn't know where the strength came from, she jumped on the back of the guest at once, defenseless, and simply opened her mouth to bite, and the sharp and small teeth bit on the neck vein, so painful that the guest screamed, and hit her with her backhand, but she turned her two arms into ropes, and wrapped them around the guest's neck, strangled him out of breath, and the teeth bit deeper and deeper, and the mouth was full of fishy sweetness, even if the bones of the whole body were to be shot apart, she would not let go.

At last, the guest's voice gradually died down, and he fell to the ground without a blink, and the cuckoo got up from him tremblingly, spitting out a mouthful of flesh, both the guest's and her own.

She vomited blood and wept profusely.

Later, she was sent to the government, first beaten with twenty rods and lost half of her life, and then she was put in prison to die.

The cuckoo lay on the damp haystack, listening to the sound of rats burrowing through, the smell of blood in her mouth seemed to be washed away, she wanted to cry, and remembered that the peony was dead, and it was not worth crying to anyone.

At this moment, a man stood outside the cell door, held out his hand to her, and asked her if she would like to go with him.

The guards of the cells in the small county town were negligent, the jailers did not know where they gathered to drink and gamble on dice, and there were no prisoners on the left and right, no one knew where this person came from or when he was standing here.

It's better to see ghosts than people. Thinking like this, she felt that if she died now, it would be better to turn into a ghost and ask for her life than to hide in the kiln and let others bully, so she crawled over with her hands and feet, and took the hand without hesitation.

When the cuckoo woke up, she left the cell where there was no light of day and came to the Golden Tower.

The life of a thousand daughters is a thousand gold qiu, and life and death are thrown to break the enmity.

The man who took her out of the cell didn't say her name, only asked her to call "Master", he was once the top ten killers in the Golden Building, and now that he is old and no longer at his peak, he retires to train new blood, occasionally walks around, and brings back good seedlings when he sees them.

Du Juan's luck is good, the Golden Mansion is a place where interests are more than human nature, but her master has been closed for several years, and he has accepted a female disciple before, no matter how hard his heart is, he is three points softer, and he always smiles at her, even if he is too demanding.

However, at that time, the Golden Tower encountered some trouble, even if the master no longer took the list, he also went out to do things as often as everyone else, he thought that his crazy colleagues were really not worth entrusting, so he simply caught the big apprentice back from the eagle's beak rock and asked her to help bring the cuckoo.

This year, the cuckoo was ten years old and the white pear was thirteen years old.

The cuckoo will always remember that day, she honestly walked in the yard, even if she was sweating under the scorching sun, her legs and stomach began to tremble, and she gritted her teeth and refused to give up, only feeling that her eyes were black for a while, maybe she would faint in the next moment, she was not afraid at all, and it was already the norm after starting to practice martial arts.

Suddenly, a blue shadow like a bird fluttering its wings Lingbo came, only two or three breaths to bully the side, without mentioning a word to raise the palm to split, the cuckoo subconsciously leaned back, was hooked by the person to the left leg knee bend forward, seeing that it was about to fall to the sky, I didn't expect a hand just right to support her waist, not waiting for her to react, cheeks were cold.

The palm that almost hit her in the face turned out to be holding a gourd, which should have been in the well, and the tentacles were cold.

"On such a hot day, take a break and drink saliva."

Wearing a light blue sleeve practice uniform, the girl held the cuckoo steady before letting go of her hand, she was born with wide eyebrows and big eyes, her complexion was not as fair as the cuckoo, and her black hair was combed into a ponytail, at first glance, there was some androgynous and androgynous heroic, but when she smiled with crooked eyebrows and eyes, it was like spring water flowing through the rocky stream, gentle and bright incredible.

The cuckoo was stunned for a moment before pushing her hand away and said, "I still have to practice ......"

"Good sister, be obedient, you rest for a while now, and when the sun goes down, my sister will teach you to practice flying knives." The white pear winked at her, and the wooden hairpin that pulled out the bundle of hair did not look at it and threw it back, and a white magnolia that had just floated from the branch was nailed to the pillar by the wooden hairpin.

Bai Li turned around and took off the flowers, put them on the cuckoo's bun, shook the gourd in his hand, and said with a smile: "Mung bean soup, I just got it from the kitchen." ”

Cuckoo thought, who is rare.

But she couldn't resist it, so she still pinched her nose and drank.

Bai Li is a very noisy person, incompatible with the lifeless gold building, she always has endless words, one moment is the story of the market, one moment is the gossip anecdotes of which senior colleagues in the building, even a certain top killer is very no wine, once drank too much to see people, kissed the old man of the gatekeeper, and talked about it, in her mouth, everyone in the gold building became vivid and vivid, not like the cruel indifference that cuckoo usually sees.

The killers in the building ignore the cuckoo, but they like to talk to the white pear, she seems to have eighteen guts in nature, and she is not afraid of anyone when she sees it, and even when she knows that the cuckoo is ready to practice the knife, she dares to squat to guard the predecessor with outstanding knife skills, and asks for a move and a half from the other party's hand with a dead face, and then stuffs it to the cuckoo.

After Peony's death, Bai Pear was the best person to the cuckoo, second only to the master who took her out of the cell, she was willing to treat her as her own sister, and repay the water with a spring, if someone wanted to kill the cuckoo one day, she would also save her as desperately as Peony.

As a result, Du Juan practiced martial arts more and more desperately, devouring and absorbing what she could learn with hunger, leaving her disciples of the same age far away, forcibly squeezing into Bai Li's batch, and receiving the final training with Bai Li.

They rolled under the knife forest together, crawled out of the pile of dead people together, stepped on the coals and thorns together, drank poison and anesthesia together, and there were fewer and fewer people around them, and the two of them were always there.

Until the last test, they stood at the ends of the wooden table, on which lay a sleeping boy, who looked no more than six or seven years old, and who did not know whose child it was, and who slept unconscious.

There was also a letterhead on the table, and the mechanism of this chamber would be activated in half an hour, and they had to throw a person's head out of the small window as a key within the time limit, or they would all die under the mechanism after half an hour.

Killers don't need mercy, this is their last lesson.

Bai Li immediately scolded, dug up the ashes of the eighteenth generation of the steward's ancestor through the stone walls on all sides and threw them in the spitting stars, and at the same time tried all the methods she could think of to try to leave the secret room or destroy the mechanism, but it was useless.

Their way of life is only the child who met in the water at the table.

The cuckoo knew that she couldn't do it, so she pulled out the knife and slashed at the boy's neck with her eyes closed.

Bai Li's face lost his smile for the first time, and he said word by word: "Cuckoo, no." ”

Du Juan felt that the bright and dark arrows she had suffered along the way were not as sharp as Bai Li's eyes at the moment, she gritted her teeth and did not let go, and said: "He is not dead, we are the ones who die." ”

They were not stupid enough to see the murderous motive hidden on the letterhead—it only said that one of the people's heads should be opened, but it did not say that the head could only be this child, in other words, if they did not kill this child, they would have to kill each other.

The cuckoo doesn't want to die, and she doesn't want to cut off the white pear's head, she finally picked up a life from such a pickled and ugly place, and she doesn't want to deliver it easily no matter what, even if she kills innocents indiscriminately and will be punished, but what day in this world will no one die, where can the retribution go?

She looked at Bai Li with hope, her eyes were as bright as sparks, Bai Li looked at her for a long time, and finally said, "Cuckoo, no." ”

The voice of this sentence was very soft, but it was like a gust of wind, easily blowing away the cuckoo's soul.

So, the cuckoo pointed his knife at the white pear, and they fought in the secret room.

In terms of martial arts, the cuckoo is not as good as the white pear, especially she is good at knife skills, but the white pear is proficient in grappling, and after a few rounds she subdued her to the ground, the cuckoo's hands were buckled behind her back and could not move, so she could only scold angrily, and the fake appearance she pretended to be defeated cleanly, and cursed the white pear with the foul language she learned from the kiln when she was a child, and she didn't know how to do it and hurt herself, and she cried while scolding.

This was the first time she had cried since Peony's death, and the child on the table was probably noisy, his eyes had not yet opened, and he was whispering inexplicably.

Bai Li leaned down, wiped the cuckoo's tears with her dirty sleeve, and said, "Don't cry, my sister won't let you die here." ”

The cuckoo was stunned, and then with a light back, Bai Li stood up with a knife.

She put the blade against her neck and said to the cuckoo, "Throw my head out and take him home." ”

The cuckoo pounced like a madman, knocking the white pear to the ground as the blade was about to cut through the bloody hole, and before the white pear could stand up again, she had already pounced on the table, reaching out and strangling the boy's neck, and exerting five fingers before he could open his eyes.

There was an inaudible crack, and the boy's neck was tilted open, and his eyes never opened again.

Before she could get up, she sat back down, and the wound on her neck oozed blood, staining her collar red.

What happened next, Cuckoo can't remember clearly.

She only remembered that after leaving the secret room, it was raining heavily, and Bai Li covered her wound and walked in front without saying a word, she chased after her and wanted to take Bai Li to the medicine, but she was slapped in the face and fell to the ground.

Bai Li didn't expect that she would be solid this time, and instinctively wanted to pull her up, but she thought of something, but in the end she didn't.

The cuckoo sat in the rain for a while, and when she saw her hand withdrawn, a hatred suddenly grew from the bottom of her heart, and she stood up and unceremoniously returned the slap to the white pear.

She poked Bai Li's heart with her finger and sneered: "What, do you think my hands are dirty?" Bai Li, don't forget that you are also a killer, you will be like me sooner or later! Without me today, you would have died here, and you have given me this life now, you can blame me and hate me, but you have to remember - you owe me a life! ”

After that, the cuckoo didn't look at the white pear again, turned away, and walked away.

The next day, they officially became the killers of the Golden Building, and like countless seniors, they unveiled the list of murderers and cut off their heads in exchange for rewards.

The cuckoo was ruthless and decisive, and soon broke out of the reputation of "Bloody Cuckoo", and Bai Li still insisted on her ridiculous kindness, the bounty was high but the innocent task was not accepted, and the extermination of the sect was even more unwilling to do it, and he would rather take those lists that were not worth mentioning or even ridiculous, and he was thrown into the torture hall by his angry boss to eat a lesson, and he broke his bones and did not accept softness, but she had no other mistakes, and the landlord was reluctant to let her have a good martial arts, so he simply arranged her to do it, and this is precisely the most dangerous task, It is important to know that killers often go and never return, and if the matter is revealed, the people who answer them will face an even more terrible catastrophe.

Several times Bai Li escaped from the hands of Lord Yama and returned half her life, and Du Juan watched coldly, scolding her over and over again in her heart, but never said a word to her again.

Until that miss, the cuckoo was forced to the edge of the cliff, she fell back in the rain of arrows, thinking that she would fall to pieces, but she didn't want the white pear to lie in ambush on the cliff at some point, and at the moment she fell off the cliff, she flew out of the rope and tied the two together, and snatched a living cuckoo from the huge mouth of the abyss with her one person and one knife.

Cuckoo listened to the cold wind hunting, she gritted her teeth and said, "I don't need you to save me!" ”

Bai Li didn't have the strength to entangle with her at all, so she put all her mind on the narrow stone crack under the knife, and only squeezed out a sentence from between her teeth: "I owe you my life, and I will give it back to you!" ”

The rest of the cuckoo's words choked in his throat.

She actually wanted to say, if you owe, you owe, I didn't want you to pay it back.

However, in the end, it was not spoken.

Bai Li rescued the cuckoo, but those people did not let them go, this is a well-known local gang, relying on the water conservancy to kill people and plunder, only to be the bitter owners to pool money out of this business, now the cuckoo missed, these guys can't find them and spread the fire on others, three days in a row, around fifty miles of mourning.

So, the white pear and the cuckoo finally joined forces.

That night it was pouring rain, and Bai Li led out a few people with the highest martial arts, and the cuckoo sneaked into the gang station to kill, and when the blood flowed into the river, Bai Li also came back with a string of heads.

She has hidden her edge for several years, and once her edge is exposed, she stabs people and dare not force her eyes.

Cuckoo knew that he was still inferior to her.

Following the bloody rhododendron, the rainstorm pear flower is famous for shaking the rivers and lakes.

The task of throwing the gold building is rising, and the white pear can no longer return to the days before, and the relationship with the cuckoo has gradually eased, and there is a faint momentum to recover from the past.

It was at this time that Bai Li met Xue Hai.

Most women will fantasize about love, but Bai Li and Cuckoo have never had this kind of delusion, their master is a lesson from the past, the killer's blood is as cold as a knife, hurting others and hurting themselves, even if the men they have seen are unknown, there is no heart-warming one, but they all stand in place and never take a step forward.

Xue Hai is an exception.

He is smart and thorough, he does not dislike her identity as a killer, nor does he look down on the recklessness of the rivers and lakes, and he is not a sour Confucian who only knows poetry, books, etiquette and music, he is like a framed ink painting, which is worth appreciating slowly.

He even used the most important ancestral jade pendant to give Bai Li a desperate list for himself, saying that if he became a corrupt official and a corrupt official in the future, he would ask Bai Li to cut off his head.

When she saw the white pear rubbing the jade pendant, the cuckoo knew that she was finished.

The cuckoo stayed up all night, and finally took a mission and went to the capital.

She dressed up so much, turned into a glamorous and moving dancer and mixed into the place where the song and dance were leveled, and the dignitaries who wanted to make friends with the new science and technology jinshi smiled and pushed her hand, and the cuckoo snuggled to Xue Hai's side, holding the wine in her hand and pouring a full of Yingying, raising her eyes like silk and smiling lightly, hiding her indifferent and harsh look in the bottom of her eyes.

She looked at the handsome man in the room, full of men and women were in love, but he was not messy on the side, only glanced at her and lowered his head, staring intently at the tea cup in his hand, as if a flower had bloomed there.

The cuckoo simply sat on his lap, his lips lightly lifted and held the wine cup, and he lifted it to hand the wine to his lips.

She thought of a thousand scenarios for the future, the most likely being that he would no longer force himself to be a gentleman or push her away, if the former she could easily take his life, if the latter he would offend the host of the banquet, and he would be in a dilemma.

However, Xue Hai just raised his hand to take off the wine cup, and with the other hand, he used a skillful hand to push her back, got up and saluted the host of the wine banquet, and got out justifiably.

That night, the cuckoo changed into a night coat and sneaked into Xue Hai's room, she looked at the man who had fallen asleep and still couldn't let go of his hand, the blade was slowly unsheathed, and was pressed back by a hand that suddenly reached out.

The white pear actually came, too.

They were close at hand, but they seemed to be separated by a world of life.

Du Juan remembered the day when they were initially estranged, the boy lying on the table overlapped with the current Xue Hai in a trance, and she wondered in her heart if she tried her best, if she could kill Xue Hai in front of Bai Li as she did back then.

Maybe, maybe not.

Because the cuckoo knew that if Bai Li could be ruthless, her neck would be broken before she cut off Xue Hai's head.

However, the white pear did not move, and the cuckoo did not come out of the knife.

They returned to the gold building together, and continued to kill people day after day to get rewards, and their fame gradually grew, but the time to get together became less and less.

In the end, Bai Li betrayed the Golden Building, and Du Juan personally went to hunt her down.

At that time, Bai Ligang committed the appalling assassination of the prince of the Hou Mansion, and escaped from the heavily surrounded capital, with a scarred body and a breath in his throat.

Cuckoo's single knife is enough to take her life.

She looked at the bruised white pear and asked, "Are you for that man?" ”

"No, he's just...... It gave me a taste of being alive. Bai Li spat out a mouthful of blood, she couldn't stand still, but she was still smiling, "I want to be a living person again." ”

The cuckoo felt ridiculous: "You have killed so many people, don't you know that human life is like a mustard, and it is not appropriate to put a good soul hook and ghosts, and you want to be the one who is left to be slaughtered?" ”

"Cuckoo, being a human is not the same as being a ghost, I would like to be a short-lived person for ten lifetimes, and I should not stay as a ghost for a lifetime." Bai Li stretched out his hand to her, "The Golden Mansion is long gone, they even take over the business of the court, and they have secretly taken refuge in the traitors, everyone we have killed from now on is not a grudge in the rivers and lakes, but is cleaning up the stumbling blocks for these jackals, tigers and leopards, and every inch of our backbone will be pointed out by thousands of people...... Cuckoo, staying in the Golden Tower will not end well, come back to the world with me. ”

Bai Li's words are not false, but the cuckoo can't listen to it, she draws the knife out of the sheath, if Bai Li doesn't grab the blade in time, this time it can be pierced through the heart.

Rao is like this, and the cuckoo's knife also left a deep wound in the palm of the white pear, which was dripping with blood and shockingly red.

Sen Han's murderous aura was like a string cracking, and in an instant, they fought again, but this time it was a real battle of life and death.

The cuckoo slashed against Bai Li's neck, cutting a bloody wound, and the blood flowed down the blade to her hand, burning like the sun on the day of the first sight.

She could cut Bai Li's head with another knife, and Bai Li only needed one breath to choke her throat, but none of them moved, their faces were blue and white, and the cold wind took away the little warmth on their bodies, freezing like two corpses.

Eventually, the cuckoo gave her a hard push and turned to retract the knife.

"If you want to be a man, go back to your world!" The cuckoo only felt that her eyes were aching, something hot was pouring out, she didn't dare to raise her hand, she could only close her eyes and try to hold it back, but the most vicious curse came out of her throat, "When you first entered the Golden Tower, you swore that if you disobeyed, you would die without a place to be buried, and I would see what happened to you...... When you die, I will crush you to ashes!" ”

Bai Li was stunned, but laughed out loud and said, "Then I must wait for you." ”

They went in opposite directions, one went to the broad road, and the other returned to the cold and dark path.

The cuckoo was originally just an angry word, but he didn't want to say a word.

Bai Li has been gone for four years, and it has long been wrong to meet again, she has become a traitor to the Nine Palaces, and she slaughtered and threw the Golden Mansion to kill people and destroy her mouth with her own strength, so that Tingyu Pavilion's plan to uproot the Flying Star Alliance fell short, and then fled for thousands of miles, all the way to Luohua Mountain, and finally broke the knife and died.

The cuckoo didn't catch up with her own hands to take her life, and only had time to collect her body.

The corpse lying in front of her was already cold and stiff, as it had been when she said goodbye that day, only this time she would never open her eyes again, nor would she shout "cuckoo" again.

The cuckoo spread her fingers and saw the old scar on her palm, and suddenly tears rained down.

Her senior sister, her sister, her partner in life and death for half her life, the person she hated and couldn't let go, died like this, died at the hands of someone who was not hers, and failed to leave her an end.

The white pear died a hundred times, leaving the cuckoo without relief.

She kissed the body of Bai Li, and watched the woman scorch into ashes inch by inch in the flames, as if she had burned a part of herself, and she was numb from the pain, so much so that she laughed and cried.

That night, she had a dream, dreaming that on the day of their farewell, Bai Li stretched out her hand to her again, clearly covered with scars, but smiling like a spring dawn flower.

She knows that death is like a lamp going out, and this is just a dream that the living cannot be reconciled.

So, with a rare smile, she withdrew her knife and stretched out her hand, and went with her.