Chapter 21: The Dark Division of the Holy Court
The girl lowered her head and took small bites of porridge, but she still noticed that Chen An was staring at her, so her face became more and more red. She was so embarrassed, she couldn't move all these days, but her consciousness remained clear. For the situation a few days ago, when he collapsed on the bed and even had to help Chen An clean the toilet, every time he thought of it, it was Xia Fei's ears.
Although she is not a lady, she has also received etiquette teachings from large families since she was a child. Naturally, she was very grateful for Chen An's life-saving grace, but she was ashamed and indignant at him for not shying away from manipulating herself, but the meticulous care she had taken care of for more than ten days made her feel kind. Until now, she herself doesn't know what kind of feelings she has for Chen An.
"What's your name?" was when the girl was sitting on pins and needles, embarrassed, when a voice broke the silence.
"Lin Wen", the girl lowered her head, not daring to look at Chen An, and then added: "It's good for Engong to call me Xiaowen." ”
"Where is your home? Who else is at home? You're almost recovering, I'll send you back another day." Chen An retracted his gaze at Lin Wen, and also picked up the dishes and chopsticks to pick up the rice. But after not hearing an answer for a long time, he looked up in surprise. I saw Xiaowen's face gloomy, her head bowed, and she didn't say a word.
Chen An vaguely understood something, so he continued: "Then what are your plans in the future?"
Xiaowen raised her head, her eyes were slightly red, she looked at Chen An, and said eagerly: "I, I can help Engong do your laundry and cook, and repay you for saving your life." ”
Chen An said casually: "Saving you is just a matter of convenience, I don't need you to do anything for me, I still have something to do, and I can't take you with me." "It's hard to send Ning'er away, this is another burden, do you have to do something.
Hearing this, Xiaowen's head lowered again, and a crystal teardrop slipped into the bowl.
Chen An frowned, and said impatiently: "Forget these things, let's talk about it later, let's eat first." "There's really no good way, I can't strangle her to death and throw her into the wilderness, even if I drive her away, I can't bear it, this is a life that I finally saved, it's rare for me to do a good deed, I can't end up like this, Chen An thinks about it, let's drag it out.
Xiaowen didn't know what Chen Anxin was thinking, so she picked up the rice bowl pitifully again, and took a small bite of rice.
The next day, Chen An got up early in the morning and practiced in the courtyard as usual. People who practice martial arts, if they don't practice for a day, their physical fitness will decline, so even if Chen An is now angry, he still practices diligently every day.
As usual, he walked through the too illusory spirit step first. Chen An has always had doubts about this set of footwork, which is obviously ordinary, but he always feels that there is something inexplicable in it. It's as if he almost exploded that day, but he was inexplicably safe, he has always suspected that it has something to do with this set of footwork, but now there is nothing unusual in his practice, which is really incomprehensible.
However, he did not bother with this, but switched to other kung fu.
According to legend, there are three realms of martial arts, one is exquisite martial arts, the second is martial arts, and the third is the consummation of martial arts. Needless to say, martial arts are exquisite, just practice a good kung fu; martial arts is to practice the martial arts they have learned to the pinnacle of perfection, and they can already be regarded as the top masters in the rivers and lakes, but the final martial arts consummation is to integrate all the things they have learned in their lives and walk out of their own martial arts path, then they can be regarded as a real martial arts master.
Chen An was born in the dark division, except for the teaching and learning of the secret division, there is no master at all, and what he has learned is impure and impure, and no one corrects him. This is a very dangerous thing, and it is not necessary to practice a secret injury at any time. Even if you are lucky, if you fight against someone and someone else attacks with one move, you have two sets of martial arts and two moves that can be resolved.
Chen An is fortunate that he does not have this concern, he is proficient in medicine, whether it is pharmaceutical or drug practice. The dark injuries he had from practicing when he was young were all healed by himself. And he participated in the Dark Division mission very early, fought to the death with some outlaws, and realized a set of his own fighting skills. Later, he cultivated the Cold Flame Ice Charm Skill combined with the use of poisonous methods, completely out of the category of martial arts, and could not be treated with common sense at all, and even he himself could not tell whether his martial arts were high or low.
Chen An is now playing a set of tiger roaring boxing, which can only be regarded as second- or third-rate kung fu in the rivers and lakes, but he can see a hint of novelty in it. In addition to strengthening the body, carefully comprehend it and integrate it into your own martial arts. The fact is that every kind of martial arts is created after thousands of calculations and scrutiny, and they all contain certain martial arts principles. Although Chen An can't say clearly, he can understand it, as the so-called can only be understood but not spoken.
In fact, he didn't realize that he had entered a new world in his ignorance, a world that belonged to martial arts.
After a boxing fight, his whole body was warm and uncomfortable, he put on his coat and looked at the house, the window of Xiaowen's room trembled slightly, as if it had just been closed.
The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he walked to the backyard. In fact, he had already found out that Xiaowen was peeking at him practicing, and he had been like this for the past few days, but he didn't care at all. There is no internal strength method, no luck method, even if the moves are exactly the same, what use can it be, it can't even strengthen the body, so I let her go.
He always felt that this Xiaowen was very strange, not like a disaster victim at all, but like she was born in a big family. Maybe it's an occupational disease, but once he suspects it, he unnaturally observes it in a nuanced way.
But if she is a young lady from a big family, she is not like it, but her hands and feet are very neat, washing and cleaning diligently. If it is a young lady from a big family, how can she do such rough work, and she is very familiar with it. Therefore, Chen An speculated that she might be a maid and a slave.
And when she came back, she was ** all over her body, which made Chen An see a lot of things. For example, there was a scar under her left breast, which was very small, only a finger wide. Although the wound had been shrinking for a long time, it could still be seen that it was a sword wound. The sword wound was narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and it should have been pierced from the bottom up, without causing other losses around the wound, which shows that the sword wielder was as fast as lightning. It is very rare for someone to be able to use this kind of thin sword and be so skillful. Chen An only needs to release a secret agent and inquire to find out who the murderer is.
In the whole process, Chen An can speculate on such a sword wound, nothing more than that a rich and noble family was slaughtered all over the house, and this little girl named Xiaowen was given a sword at will, maybe she was gifted and her heart was slightly biased, and she escaped with her life, and now she is saved by herself, and she wants to learn her own kung fu to avenge her master.
If others would definitely feel that they had saved a trouble and came back, they were anxious to clear it up, but Chen An didn't act at all, and he really didn't want to know who the other party was.
As for the reason, no, it's just that he's not interested, he doesn't want to care about Xiaowen's affairs, but if he gets entangled in trouble, he's not afraid. To put it simply, his attitude is indifferent, it can be said to be arrogant, it can also be said to be a kind of self-confidence.
Even Chen An was so loyal to this little girl, and he had a faint admiration, if she said it, he really wouldn't mind teaching her some kung fu.
Chen An pulls the horses out of the backyard stable. Haizhou Wei's capital has arrived, how to say that everyone is the same dark division, he still has to visit one or two.
The Dark Division of the Holy Court was originally the Nine Guards, guarding the land of Kyushu respectively, and since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he has supervised the world for the Son of Heaven. It's just that the first emperor implemented the feudal system, and the border prefectures of You, Yun, Nan, and Hai were all crowned kings, and only the five states of Long, Zhang, Qing, Cang, and Fu belonged to Gyeonggi, so in order to strengthen control, another five guards were set up in the dark division to inspect the land of the five states respectively in order to strengthen the rule of the land of the five states.
When the contemporary Emperor Zhou ascended the throne, there were quite a few stories that he did not have the slightest sense of security about the many families in Longzhou, and the blood division was overwhelmed, so in the second year of his accession to the throne, he set up another three guards in the dark division to assist Longzhou Wei in handling Gyeonggi affairs. Of course, these three guards are equivalent to Emperor Zhou's pro-army, and they are very trusted, even the information of other state capitals is monitored and collected by them.
Therefore, the blood division is hidden, and the Ming division is reduced to a guard of honor and belongs to the Ministry of Rites. However, the Dark Division has reached as many as seventeen guards, becoming the real subject of the Holy Court, and some of the rotational guards, assassinations and plundering have all fallen to the Dark Division. So much so that outsiders can't tell the difference between the Dark Division and the Holy Court at all.
It stands to reason that the seventeen guards of the dark division perform their duties and have nothing to do with each other, but at this time, the transfer of the capital of the Haizhou dark division is obviously related to his task, and he can't help but care. So even if he was indifferent, he had to take the initiative to visit.
Otherwise, if it weren't for this sensitive time, he wouldn't have bothered to go through this experience. Although the other party is a metropolitan commander, he is still a metropolitan prisoner. In the official system of the Holy Court, there are all commanders, captains, commanders, eunuchs, and governors, and the commanders and lieutenants are in charge of the affairs of the guards, while the commanders, eunuchs, and governors are not permanent.
And the capital eunuch has the smallest rank among the five official positions, only the fourth rank, but he is a real power and high rank. The dark division has the right to supervise the world, but the capital supervisor has the right to supervise the dark division, Chen An is subordinate to Tiance Wei, even if Tian Ce Wei is over, he can not buy it, let alone Haizhou Wei's capital.
Moreover, among the dark divisions, there are five guards in the upper three guards and nine guards in the lower nine guards, Tiance, Shenji, and Yuxiao are the most expensive, and the south road, north road, east lin, west house, and Zhongzheng five guards are second, and Kyushu Wei is the cheapest, among which the four state guards of You, Yun, Nan, and Hai are also despised. These border states are the sphere of influence of the vassal king, and it is already difficult for the tentacles of the dark division to reach, and it is not easy to barely maintain the guard. Therefore, in normal times, maybe the other party will rush to talk to Chen An.
Chen An explained a few words to Xiaowen, asked her to take care of her family, and left a living allowance, so he whipped his horse and went to Turin County, the headquarters of the Haizhou Dark Division.