Chapter 8: The Killer in Black
A look of remembrance appeared on the woman's face. The dim eyes drifted across the earthy yellow outside the small window, and the night was mixed with a layer of gentle and silent blue sky, and said slowly, "She is a girl, but like a boy, she can ride a horse and shoot arrows, not inferior to many men." She doesn't like to talk either, except for practicing by squatting on the steps and looking at the sky, as if there is some treasure there. Her eyes are very good-looking, like eyes washed by snow, clear and cold, she is also very sensible, she never let people worry about her, she would rather wronged herself......" The woman's eyes were slightly red when she said this, she took a deep breath, and sighed, "Don't say it, it's really a gaffe." ”
Tang Shu felt heavy in her heart for some reason when she saw her like this. A sense of intimacy for her rose in my heart. Seeing this woman talk about those eyes like this, it is really very similar to the Tang Shu she saw in her dreams. Could it be that the acquaintance this woman said was Tang Shu? It seems that this woman seems to have a good relationship with Tang Shu, so should you tell her?
Tang Shu gave up this idea after thinking about it again and again.
"Let's wait until we find that person named Yan Yu." She thought.
When it was time for supper, the woman also told her to come and eat with her. Tang Shu felt very embarrassed, but the girl named Shen Bi came over and called her again and again, and she couldn't refuse again and again, so she followed. At night, the woman wanted to pay for her accommodation again, and Tang Shu felt that if so, it really seemed that she was too shameless. So before the woman could tell her again, she waved her hand and slipped away.
I really can't stand such hospitality, obviously I haven't done anything. But I was clearly moved.
Tang Shu wrapped the clothes on her body tightly, the temperature in the desert at night was cold, and the cold crawled on her skin and gnawed at the temperature on her body. Tang Shu found a long adobe next to the street and leaned against it, from which he could see the room where the lady was.
A woman's gentle wicker-like figure opened the window.
It's Shen Bi. When she saw Tang Shu, she waved her hand kindly and cutely. He turned around as if to speak to the woman, and after a while disappeared from the window.
After a while, Tang Shu, who was leaning against the wall and couldn't sleep, saw the small figure running here with a stack of thick quilts.
"Oh, for you, I borrowed it from that store."
“…… Thank you. Tang Shu felt that it was the first time that she had received such sincere care from a stranger when she was away from home. The nose felt numb and sore, Tang Shu exhaled deeply, and the feeling faded.
Shen Bi didn't leave, she took the hem of the green skirt and squatted next to her, with an elegant posture, "I don't know why Gongzi is here alone, I don't listen to your accent like a local?" Shen Bi looked at her with a curious expression on her face.
Tang Shu, who didn't react for a while, was stunned and said, "I'm from Taiguan Kingdom." ”
"Then you haven't gone less, this is almost the border between Taiguan Country and Puhe Country." Shen Bi said in surprise.
"I didn't pay attention...... I've been walking this way, and I've been walking for more than a month. Tang Shu said with a frown. She was also surprised that she was almost in the country of Puhe.
"Why did you come all the way here?" Shen Bi became more and more curious when she heard this, with a posture of breaking the casserole and asking to the end.
"Well, it's subconscious, and there's nowhere to go anyway." Tang Shu shrugged as if he didn't care. The sky is blue and the stars are shining.
"You can follow us, tomorrow I will tell the master, although my master is cold, but the heart is good."
Cold? Is this talking about the woman? Seeing that Tang Shu's expression was a little puzzled, Shen Bi explained, "That lady is not my master. My master is the best-looking man I've ever seen. Madame was given to me by the master, and asked me to send her to Taiguan Kingdom to find a person surnamed Xu. ”
Tang Shu was also interested when she heard her say this, "Then do you know who this lady is?" ”
Shen Bi twisted the green rope on her braid, and said while thinking, "I don't know this very well. All I know is that the owner calls her Mrs. Zhen. The master only told me that he was going to send her to Taiguanguo. ”
"And who is your master?" Tang Shu continued to ask.
"My master is very good-looking, he came with us on this trip, but he went back a few days ago because of something in the court, and he should be coming over in the next two days. We waited for him all the way. Again, our host is the best-looking man I've ever met! ”
Tang Shu held her forehead, "How good-looking is your master......"
Shen Bi was about to start the mode of non-stop praise again, but suddenly his body froze slightly, and he immediately pulled Tang Shu to hide in the shadows behind the wall.
"What's wrong?" Tang Shu asked in a low voice when she saw her suddenly solemn and strange appearance.
"There's a bunch of bad guys."
Tang Shu glanced at the silent street, which was empty.
What kind of stupidity is this kid committing?
I saw Shen Bi still turn her head and say to her with a serious face, "You just stay here and don't move, I have to go back first, Madam may be in danger!" ”
Tang Shu didn't see that she was joking, and a sense of uneasiness rose in her heart, so she said, "I'll go with you." ”
Shen Bi didn't think much about it, only nodded slightly and stopped talking.
The two of them went around a remote path to the back of the inn.
"Don't move, someone." Shen Bi lowered the vigilant voice like a frightened cat.
Sure enough, I could see a group of black-clothed people who came from nowhere and when they came, bending over and walking quickly on the uneven row of roofs.
Tang Shu felt that her palms were a little sweaty.
The group of men in black marched towards the room where Mrs. Zhen was.
"Sure enough...... You wait here, I'll be right back. Shen Bi didn't have the delicate appearance just now. I don't know where to pull out a shining dagger and run away like a nocturnal cat.
Tang Shu leaned closer.
The strange silence broken by the sound of falling tiles, mixed with the screams of a man in black, I saw that Shen Bi, who had run into the house at some point, was flying out of the broken roof, with a graceful posture, but it was the crisp and neat blood that would be seen where the knife fell.
The screams of the black-clothed men came and went, and Tang Shu could hear the sound of their clothes being cut through the air by knives, the cracking of bones falling to the ground, the groans, and the smell of blood and fear.
The speed with which this all happened was surprising.
Such a bright and lovely girl, like Shura, is slaughtering people's lives like chopping vegetables at this moment. Her short sword was about a foot long, and its silver-white blade was no longer recognizable. Blood fell to the ground along the sword streak.
Her figure is so fast that people can't tell it.
There was only a blurry image of a green-clad garment shuttling through a dead black, shuttling and bringing death.
The smell of blood spreads, and the air is dizzy with the smell of it.
The screams gradually died down, and all I saw was a black corpse stacked in the corner of the wall, and the blood-red wounds that had been turned out of the flesh were still bubbling with blood.
Tang Shu saw the severed limb closest to her, the finger holding the sword was still shaking slightly, and she turned around and spit it out.
The mixture of sour and bloody smell is disgusting.
A pair of light green boots stained red by blood appeared in front of Tang Shu, and the wisteria pattern on them had been soaked in blood, and it was impossible to see the original appearance.
Tang Shu raised her head, and Shen Bi's pale little face was looking at her blankly. Beads of sweat were on her forehead, and a red liquid dripped down her cheeks...... I saw that she suddenly turned around and threw up "wow".
She patted her chest, felt a little soothed, hooked a faint smile, and said to Tang Shu who was stunned, "It's terrible, isn't it?" ”
"Why can't you ......" and vomit? It was clearly very skillful just now, huh? Do experienced people still vomit when they kill people?
Shen Bi turned around and retched for a while, "It's the first time I've killed someone, and my master used to use chickens to train me......"
Wow, your owner doesn't take the chickens too seriously, does he?
"Why did your master teach you to kill?" Tang Shu supported her forehead, what a cute girl, what kind of master is this?
"Not my master."
“……?”
"You may still think it's funny to say it, the person who trained me to kill is a woman that my master likes, and her name is very similar to yours, called Tang Shu."
What the?? Tang Shu looked at her with a surprised expression, Tang Shu was a little unable to associate the cold-eyed woman in the dream with a person who would teach people to kill people so cruelly.
Shen Bi bypassed her surprised eyes and continued, "I was adopted by my master when I was eight years old, and when I was nine years old, my master came back with a young girl, only a little older than me, wearing a veil. I've never seen what she looks like, I only know that the owner calls her Tang Shu. She has a good relationship with her master, and she lives in the house for a month when she comes to the house. But the master always told me that he wanted her to teach me how to practice swords, and although he didn't say anything, I still knew that the master was using me as an excuse to keep her in the house. She is very fast with a sword, and she obviously doesn't look very old, but she always looks like a teenager and an old man, and she doesn't understand why her master likes her. I don't like her, and I hate her. At this point she pouted a little dissatisfied, it would be lovely to ignore the blood.
"Is Tang Shu bad for you?"
"No, she's nice to me. She didn't talk to me, but she said I was her only apprentice, and probably the last. Actually, I was very touched to hear her say this at the time. But she seems to be a person who doesn't care about anything, and sometimes I think she's too cold and heartless. ”
She paused and continued, "Although she is my master, she only practiced a set of swordsmanship in front of me, and then people don't know where to slip away, when I have confusion, my master helps me solve it, and because I have talent. And the most infuriating thing is that my master is so good to her, she always says to go and never says hello. Is it heartless? Even a few months ago, she was going to Taiguanguo, and she didn't say hello, never caring if others would worry about her, and she was injured at that time. ”
"Hurt?"