Chapter 49: Falling Butterfly 3
In the past, when Lin Qingji returned to the courtyard, he would make tea for Lin Qingji, but he didn't know where he went, so he called Lin Yi to search all over the house, but there was no one in the house.
It wasn't until half an hour later that Lin Qingji knocked open the door of the west wing where she lived, and saw Luo Die's clothes faded to her waist, and the bloody whiplashes on her back were shocking, and Luo Die was sitting in front of the mirror and struggling to apply ointment to her back.
Seeing the white figure standing at the door, Luo Die hurriedly pulled the coat on the side, covering his upper body that was exposed to the outside at a glance, because the movement was too large and involved the wound on the back, he couldn't help frowning slightly and spit out a breath of cold air in his mouth. His eyes were full of horror, and his cheeks were crimson like blood.
Lin Qingji walked into the house slowly, closed the door and walked to Luo Die's side, and took the ointment without saying a word and gently applied it to Luo Die's back. The ointment was applied to Lin Qingzhi's fingers and the wound made Luo Die feel a shiver in her back.
After a short period of embarrassment, Luo Die, who looked uneasy, laughed at herself and asked, "Childe already knew, right?" ”
"You know, haven't you been doing it all the time?" Lin Qingji's voice was still as warm as a warm spring breeze.
"Nothing escaped your eyes." The self-deprecation in Luo Die's eyes was even worse, but there was a hint of sadness in her misty eyes.
"Now that you know that your identity has been revealed, aren't you ready to do it? It's not completely invincible against me with your martial prowess. Lin Qingji's hands did not stop, and there was no trace of panic.
Since Luo Die didn't do it before, he had already decided not to hurt Childe, but Luo Die wanted to know if it was because Childe didn't expose it...... Because Childe didn't want to leave the butterfly...... Does Childe have a little affection for the butterfly? Luo Die turned her head to look at Lin Qingji's handsome face, with expectation, uneasiness, and scorching affection in her eyes.
"What do you think?" Lin Qingji wore that flawless smile as always.
"I don't know, sometimes I feel like there is, and sometimes I feel that although Childe is close in front of him, it seems to be far away in the world." Butterfly looked at her hands on her lap, and the loneliness in her eyes was covered by her low eyelashes.
"If you know there is, why do you ask?" Lin Qingji replied quietly.
"Hearing Childe's answer like this, Falling Butterfly has no regrets even if she dies!" Luo Die looked at the two people in the mirror, smiling like flowers, her eyes curved like a crescent moon, and a look of satisfaction and happiness appeared on her face.
"You are the one I brought back, and you are my person, and you are not allowed to die without my permission." Lin Qingji's smile deepened when he saw the falling butterfly's face.
"Yes, yes, Falling Butterfly only listens to the orders of the son." Luo Die stuck out her tongue, revealing a playful look, which made Lin Qingji's heart suffocate.
It was as if she saw the petite figure that stuck out her tongue at herself and teased herself, the figure that she could protect without her body, but she already had someone around her who was enough to protect her.
In the past, he always thought that he was an elder brother who should protect and cherish his sister like that, until his mother overheard his father's words before she died, and he didn't know that she was not his own sister, and the loss that should have been replaced by the joy in his heart, so that he himself couldn't help but be frightened.
But she only has the second prince in her heart, and he is relieved to see that the two of them have no guesses about their childhood sweethearts until they grow up, as long as they can be behind her as her safe haven, then they will be satisfied.
But the appearance of the butterfly seemed to dig out his already dusty heart, and suddenly took root, sprouted, and thrived.
Seeing the woman in front of him, he actually felt that he wanted to protect her, and all his troubles seemed to be gone when he saw her smile. Seeing her crying, his heart seemed to be as uncomfortable as if he had been cut by a knife, and the kind of heart that trembled slightly because of the proximity was so fascinating.
Seeing Lin Qingji's distraction, Luo Die shouted tentatively in a low voice: "Childe? Son? ”
"Don't call me Childe in the future, call me Qingji!" Luo Die was surprised and delighted by Lin Qingji's words, happy that she could finally get along with her sweetheart on an equal footing, and was surprised that after all, she was just a maid in the house, would it be unruly to do this.
Seeing Luo Die's hesitation, Lin Qingji looked at her with warm eyes and said: "When my father comes back, I will beg him to allow me to marry you. ”
Hearing Lin Qingji's words, Luo Die's heart was extremely moved, and the mist in his eyes was misty, since he met the person in front of him, it seemed that the soft corner of his heart had been hooked out and could not be buried deeply, but when he thought of Lin Qingji mentioning his father, the sadness in Luo Die's eyes was even worse.
Will it? If that famous general knew her identity, would he really allow her to marry into the Prime Minister's Mansion? How could his father-in-law tolerate her marrying Lin Qingji as his wife? So what about the lives of the sisters?
Thinking of this, a sad face covered those delicate and pretty faces, Lin Qingji only thought that she hadn't thought about it yet, so she pretended to be angry and said, "Don't you want to?" ”
Luo Die knew that Lin Qingji wanted to go up to another level, so he quickly explained: "No, of course I do, it's just my father-in-law...... Alas......" After a while, Luo Die looked in the mirror and said slowly: "Childe, ah no, Qing... Qingji, do you want to know my true identity? ”
"Let Lin Yi check on you, know that you are not what you said before, and also know that you were ordered to take my life, but the reason why you don't want to say it is that I don't ask, and you will naturally tell me when you want to say it." Lin Qingji said calmly.
Lin Qingji's calmness made Luodie more firm in his heart, and said after a while: "My real name is Hoshino Luodie, I am not from the Jin Kingdom, I was born in Dongying, I grew up with a group of sisters in the shogunate of the Kimura family, and our ten sisters were either sold as slaves by their families, or they were orphans, I still remember that when I first entered the shogunate, there were more than 100 girls of the same age as us. Later, the master of the shogunate, Kimura Shimoya, accepted us as a righteous daughter, raised us to grow up, and loved me even better, and even the people of the imperial family looked at my father-in-law and tried to shirk it. Over the years, our sisters have carried out missions everywhere, killing corrupt officials, Jiangyang thieves, heinous people, and unarmed people, and my hands are stained with blood. Luo Die looked at her delicate and white transparent hand, and her eyes were full of complicated looks.
"Eleven years ago, the Jin Kingdom and my mother country fought in Penglai, the mother country was defeated, and the four princes were killed, and the father-in-law at that time was the master and father-in-law of the four princes, and the master married his only biological daughter to him. Before that, the four princes had been selected as the future princes, and the edicts had been written to announce to the world after returning home after the victory, and after the four princes were killed, the four princesses got the news and went to their homes by disembowelment, and in that battle, the father-in-law was blinded in the right eye by your father, and after returning to the mother country, he learned that his only daughter had also died of martyrdom, and the father-in-law trained us day and night. So this time, my father-in-law took us across the ocean to Luoyang, just to avenge the revenge of the year, but when I learned that your father had gone to the battlefield again, I could only sit and wait for the result. And the task given to me by my father-in-law is to kill you, Childe. Luo Die slowly told the truth of the matter, and Lin Qingji had already applied the whiplash wound on her back, and after bandaging it, she helped her put on the clothes that had faded to her waist.
"But you didn't kill me at your father-in-law's orders, so these injuries are punishment?" Lin Qingji felt distressed in his eyes, and after squatting down, he stroked Luodie's hand and asked.
"These are just skin wounds, and he said that my sisters would not survive if I did not complete the mission, and I knew that my stepfather was just using them to blackmail me into killing you, because he wanted your father to taste the ruin of the family, but I knew that he would not kill them in the end. In addition to our sisters, Master also brought more than 50 dead soldiers to Luoyang this time, and one day I happened to hear that Master had contact with you people in the court, but I don't know who it was. ”