Chapter 13: Alienation
"Drive~~" The horse walked towards the surrounding towns, getting farther and farther.
Five days later, a little girl dressed in pink and a man dressed in brocade rode in from the entrance of the town on a white horse.
It's only been five days, and Mobai Town seems to have regained its former vitality, there is no blood, there is no smell of blood, there are children playing on the street, there are people carrying wood next to it, everything is exactly the same as before, what happened that night seems to have not happened at all.
Ning Su Mo rarely went out of the house, he didn't know what Mobai Town was like before, when he saw the scene on the street, he actually felt a little rusty, he had never felt this.
Xiao Tao next to her was very surprised, she didn't expect that it was just five days when the Furong City was the first to see the same, she only now found that some buildings have not changed at all, just changed a signboard, she remembered the soy sauce shop in the east of the city, she forgot the signboard before, but now Chen Ji soy sauce shop she is very familiar with.
All the way to the previous city lord's mansion, which has been reduced to ashes, everything is burned and smashed, and at this time this is a flat land, and there are already carpenters measuring something.
"Brother Qi." Xiao Tao saw his eldest brother Qi coming on horseback, and his face couldn't hide his joy.
Ning Sumo, who was sitting in the back, couldn't help but grab Xiao Tao's waist tightly, and looked at the man on the black horse with a possessive attitude.
"Well, you stay at the inn for the time being, and I'll look for you when I get back in the evening." Brother Qi didn't ask anything, just told Xiao Tao what to do.
Xiao Tao was used to being ordered, and she didn't feel inappropriate, and she was even very happy that she could call the general Brother Qi again, this title used to be just called by others, she could only say it silently in her heart, but now she can call it in a bright light.
All the plaques in the city have been changed, including the most famous Laiyun Inn, which was renamed at this time and called the Immortal Pavilion.
Xiao Tao and Ning Sumo were divided into two rooms, one south and one north.
"Little Peach, where have you been all this time? Hurry up and help me pinch my shoulders, now you're the only maid by my side. As soon as Zirou saw Xiao Tao, she called Xiao Tao like a maid.
Xiao Tao hurriedly went to help borrow the shoulder, and had no intention of resisting at all.
"You girl is really clever, and the strength of the pinching is so good, just like you served by my side in the early years." Zirou said inadvertently.
Xiao Tao's face turned red, "It is Xiao Tao's blessing to be able to serve Miss Watch." Xiao Tao said with low eyebrows.
"Really good, this is the gold and silver jewelry that my cousin sent me yesterday, you can choose one from it." Zirou said very generously.
Xiao Tao glanced at the jewelry on the plate and found that it was all of the best quality.
"The slave and maid are rough people, how did they use these valuables, the slave and the maid know that Miss Cousin loves the slave and maid, and the slave and maid will definitely serve Miss Cousin well in the future." Xiao Taozui said sweetly.
"Then I'm going to give you one more, what do you think of this golden hairpin?" Zirou took one out of the plate at random, held it in her hand and looked left and right.
"Slave maid...... The slave and maid thanked Miss Biao, the slave and maid were mediocre, wouldn't it be a waste of this thing to be used on the slave and maid. Xiao Tao was terrified.
"You girl, you are really eloquent, I'm afraid of you, don't want it." Zirou smiled and put the red cloth on the plate and continued to drink tea as if nothing had happened.
Ziyan, who was sitting opposite, kept looking at Xiao Tao, no matter how she looked at it, this little peach looked very ordinary, just an ordinary maid, with no martial arts on her body, and she looked well-behaved and lovely, it was really her duty, but why did that person keep looking for her, Ziyan still remembered that when she found that this maid was missing, the person's panicked expression, a character like him, should not be like this.
"Isn't this my cousin's maid, how can you use it for yourself, if your cousin finds out, he will definitely be unhappy." Ziyan said to Zirou.
"My things are my cousin's things, and my cousin's things are naturally mine, and this is not separated from each other." Zirou said as she should.
"You think so, no one else thinks so." Purple smoke has already been pointed out.
Zirou glanced at Xiao Tao and found that Xiao Tao was not dissatisfied, that is to say, Ziyan meant that her cousin might be dissatisfied with her?
"There is such a maid next to my cousin, I really shouldn't rob my cousin, Xiao Tao, you better go to the room and wait for your cousin." Azusa said reasonably.
"The slave maid listens to Miss Watch's orders." Xiao Tao said obediently and retreated silently.
When she got to the corner, she found someone and asked the general's room, so she went to the room and waited. After waiting and waiting, he fell asleep on the table.
When she woke up again, it was already dark, her hands were slightly numb, and she wanted to stand up while rubbing her hands and arms.
"Be careful." A strong arm hugged Xiao Tao and wrapped her in his arms.
Smelling the familiar smell, Xiao Tao was just about to say something, but she remembered what Ziyan said during the day, and she immediately pushed the general.
"Brother Qi, I'm fine, men and women can't kiss."
"You little girl, where do you learn whether men and women are intimate, you must tell me, I will ask the person who taught you what kind of heart he has." Brother Qi said a lot of things at once.
Xiao Tao didn't know how to answer, this was what the general told her before, she thought that the general was afraid that she would want to climb into his bed like other maids, but she knew that she was very self-aware, and knew that she was not worthy of her, so she didn't think about those things at the beginning.
"Xiao Tao heard it in the teahouse, and that's what Mr. Storyteller said." Xiao Tao said.
"Where's the teahouse?" Brother Qi continued to ask.
"Brother Qi, if you ask me what I'm doing here, I don't want to answer." Xiao Tao's feet regained their mobility, pushed away the person next to him, turned his head and sat on the wooden bench, making a little tantrum, and looking strange and cute.
"Why are you still losing your temper with me, you tell me, who is that man named Xiaomu? Are you hiding something? Brother Qi asked in a relaxed tone, and he didn't mean to break the casserole and ask to the end.
But as soon as he asked, Xiao Tao panicked, she knew that he wouldn't ask some irrelevant things for no reason, once he asked something, he must have doubts.
Do you want to tell him the truth? If you say it, will Ning Sumo still die?
"I don't know who that person is, I was bought by human traffickers at his house, and then there was turmoil in Mobai Town, so I took him out of that house, I was unconscious when I went in, and it was too dark when I came out, and I didn't know who he was." Xiao Tao said.
"How did you know I was going to bring someone here?" Brother Qi asked again, his eyes were very sharp, which made him think of Xiao Tao driving him away that night, and then he went there to find her, her house had been burned to ashes, it must be that his enemy did not find him, so he found Xiao Tao's family to vent his hatred.
If it was once, he wouldn't go to his heart, but this is the second time, there shouldn't be so many coincidences in the world, and Xiao Tao should have something to hide from him.
"At first, I didn't know that it was Brother Qi's person, but after I came out, I found out that there was a tunnel in that Xiaomu's house, and we escaped from the tunnel." Xiao Tao explained with some unanswerable questions.
After all, it's a lie, some things are true, some things are false, and it sounds really true and some can't tell the difference between truth and falsehood.
After listening, he sat next to Xiao Tao, looking at Xiao Tao with his eyes like torches, "You must not lie to me, otherwise you will ......" He looked at Xiao Tao and did not say what would happen otherwise.
Xiao Tao's body began to tremble, she knew his methods, and she would never show mercy, except for the woman, no one else had ever asked for benefits in his hands.
"Alright, you get some rest early." He noticed that her body had been shaking, and she was already unwell, so he asked her to go back to her room to rest earlier.
Xiao Tao returned to the room, her palms were full of cold sweat, her body was cold, and her forehead was also cold, she didn't know what to say, she just felt very scary.
The next morning, Ning Sumo came to Xiao Tao's room, the other people in the inn were busy, only Xiao Tao and Ning Sumo were very idle, in fact, Xiao Tao also wanted to be busy, but she felt that she should put her time on more useful things, such as thinking about what to do next.
A pair of hands slapped on Xiao Tao's shoulder.
"Little Peach."
"Ah...... Xiaomu, why are you here? Xiao Tao looked in the direction of the door and saw that the door was open.
"I just knocked on the door and came in, but you seem to be too focused to hear anything." Ning Sumo poured a cup of tea and sat down to drink tea, "What are you thinking?" Do you need me to help you think about it? His tone was relaxed, his face was soft, and his complexion was much better than when he was in Ningfu.
"No, I didn't think about anything." Xiao Tao said with a smile.
Ning Sumo put down the teacup and grabbed Xiao Tao's hand, "Little Taozi, now we are grasshoppers on a rope, you have something you want to do in your heart, I know, tell me, one more person has more strength." Ning Sumo said affectionately.
Xiao Tao thought about it, what Ning Sumo said also has a certain amount of truth, and it is indeed very good to have one more person to help her think.
"That's right, I want Miss Biao and Brother Qi to be together, but I don't know how to help."
After listening to it, Ning Sumo thought that something was wrong with her ears, what Xiao Tao had been thinking about was actually such a thing? Aren't you trying to fool him?
"How could you have such an idea?" Ning Sumo poured a cup of tea and drank it slowly, silently.
"I just want Brother Qi to be with Miss Biao, in fact, I don't like Miss Ziyanbiao very much, I always think she seems weird." Xiao Tao said childishly, she was eleven or twelve years old, and it was normal for her to talk like this.
Ning Sumo laughed after hearing this, "So that's the case, this is a very interesting thing." ”