Qin Lang has been very busy lately.

At first, he was busy with the little female cat, then he was busy, and then later, after letting the resentful Tuan Tuan stay alive and widowed for a period of time, he took her to work with him.

Qin Lang originally considered that it was inconvenient to carry a cat, but then he felt that it might be more convenient to do things with a cat.

The reason probably boils down to two things.

The first is her low presence as invisible in front of outsiders.

Second, although Tuan Tuan is a cat and has a charming fox appearance, he has a pair of dog noses.

It may not be accurate, but Tuan Tuan's ability to sense the surrounding environment is indeed very remarkable, which is why she has been able to bring news from all over the Great Zhou to the Tianshan Mountains for twenty years.

Including this time when she came to find Qin Lang, she was also extremely sensitive to the environment, so she stayed around for a long time with extreme vigilance, and Zhen Ji, who was also sensitive, was also restless all the time, and was finally picked out by Zhen Ji.

Qin Lang took her to do things, exaggeratingly, it was like carrying a portable eye in the sky, which was very convenient in all aspects.

……

"Meow..."

"What's wrong?"

In fact, one day not long after Gu Jin and Su Yinhua were fighting, Qin Lang was walking in Jianping County, and the little female cat on her shoulder, which was originally like a statue, suddenly blinked her big blue eyes, and then let out a vigilant purr in her throat.

Tuan Tuan generally only snores in two situations.

First, it's cool.

The second is when it is unpleasant.

It must be the latter now, after the little female cat finished snoring, she looked in all directions again, and then rubbed Qin Lang's face and quieted down.

“……”

Qin Lang didn't casually slack off on her reactions, touched some of the remaining brain-sobering pills in her pocket, and did what she had to do, but just in case, the face towel she used before was brought back up.

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In this way, about seven days have passed, and Qin Lang's affairs are finished.

Routines have also resumed.

Practice unhurriedly in the morning, and wipe the body of the county lord after practicing... No, it should be to wipe your body with the county lord, and then accompany the county lord to practice the knife.

Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, "Sword Armor" is not so easy to practice after all, these days without Qin Lang watching from the side, to be honest, Su Yinhua is not very good at practicing knives.

As for the evening and evening time...

Although Qin Lang also wanted to accompany a certain girl to walk Zhen Ji like before, a certain girl herself seemed to avoid herself.

Even after Qin Lang returned to his normal routine, the first sentence between the two of them was to let Su Yinhua pass the word on his behalf.

"What did she say?"

Sumire said... Let you be good... Accompaniment to Madame..."

“？”

"She... She said Mrs. ... Naturally, it's me..."

Su Yinhua was afraid that Qin Lang would not understand, so he pulled the hem of his skirt and tiptoed, raised his blushing pretty face and explained:

"I just... The lady. ”

"Ahem, understood..."

"She made you... Stay with me..."

"This... I also understand..."

Qin Lang was a little embarrassed, embarrassed because of Su Yinhua's embarrassment.

There is no way, because the words "accompany Mrs. well", if Gu Jin said it herself, it would be easy for outsiders to have a few differences of meaning when relayed, which would make a certain county lord who was obviously not out of the cabinet a little shy or something.

But then again, Su Yinhua is not stupid, and he also knows that Gu Jin's original intention is not here.

said that he wanted Qin Lang to accompany his wife well, didn't the implication be "go find your wife, don't come to me"?

Su Yinhua has regarded Gu Jin as a sister since she was sixteen years old, and her relationship development in the past ten years has long been no less profound than that of herself and the one on the dragon chair.

"Qin Lang, what did you do to make her angry, or did she play tricks again?"

"Hmm... It's complicated..."

Qin Lang thought about it, and it was not easy to say that it was because I promised to teach her to pull the clouds, but I taught you first, so she had a small pimple in her heart.

Isn't this like Qin Lang is stirring up the relationship between the two sisters?

Although Qin Lang grew up with his senior sister since he was a child, he still has some common sense in theory about the relationship between some people who are greater than two people.

Not to provoke is one of them.

And the second of them, which is also what Qin Lang is about to do, is to face the people who also care, and a bowl of water must be leveled!

"Silver bottle, you hide the dried fish, Tuan Tuan has eaten too much recently, I'll go find Sumire."

"Mmmm, you two must be good, Sumire, she has grown so big, so far she has only recognized you as a friend."

"Don't worry, I know it."

Qin Langwan smiled, and intentionally or unintentionally pressed the jade hand that pressed Su Yinhua, originally to signal her to feel at ease, but she didn't know that not only did she not press the county lord's heart, but also rebounded, and jumped up with a bang.

One thing to say, a man's body is strong, and even his fingers are so powerful...~

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"Drive! Drive-"

It was evening again, and the girl in black rode Zhen Ji around under the Qingniu Gang, and when she returned to the locust tree, Qin Lang appeared.

"Sumire."

“……”

Gu Jin opened her mouth, wanting to say something like "Don't call me like that".

There's no reason, it's just that conflicts between friends should be like this.

Anyway, when I was in the capital before, there were some little maids in the house who were like this, so Gu Jin felt that she and Qin Lang should be like this, and if they were awkward, they should make trouble seriously, and they should stop using more affectionate titles.

But come to think of it, forget it.

It's not that she loves to hear him call her "Sumire", it's just... It's just that she is a lady's person, and she should be more generous...

So he can call him if he wants, but Gu Jin wants to stop calling him Qin Lang.

"Qin Shaoxia, is there something wrong?"

"Are you still angry about me teaching my wife to pull the clouds?"

"Huh...?"

Gu Jin was stunned, and she couldn't react for a moment.

He's in... What are you talking about...

Angry...?

When...?

Who's against who...?

"That thing... Well... Well, there's something wrong with me. ”

Qin Lang grabbed his hair and sighed:

"Although I promised to teach you, I didn't take into account how seriously you attached to this matter at the time, so it's quite casual to do it later..."

“……”

"But through this matter, Sumire, I also hope that whatever you think in your heart in the future, you will say it more, express your wishes more, and then... It's just..."

……

What Qin Lang said seemed to make sense, but it didn't seem to make sense.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

Because of the words behind him, Gu Jin's ears have become more and more blurred.

And just as vague, there is everything in front of you.

The dim skylight, Zhen Ji beside him, the tall locust tree, and the familiar face of him...

"Sumire... Sumire?! ”

“……”

When the scenery in Gu Jin's eyes was unconsciously covered by hot and humid moisture, Qin Lang's voice finally became smaller and smaller.

Looking at the originally beautiful and cold eyes of the girl standing straight in front of her, Qin Lang raised her hand in disbelief, originally wanting to wipe away the tears that flowed quietly from the corners of her eyes, but found that the more she wiped it, the more hot tears rolled down her still silent face.

"It's you..."

Even when Qin Lang wiped her tears, Gu Jin's eyes didn't blink, just looked at Qin Lang with a motionless little face, with a trace of irrepressible choking in her voice.

"What... What is me...? ”

"You're mad at me... It's you... Ignore me..."

“？？？”

"I shouldn't... I shouldn't have been like that, so you..."

She hadn't spoken like this for a long time, and after many years, she finally remembered that when people were uncomfortable in their hearts, no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't say everything they wanted to say at once:

"I know, since I you off... You walk so early every morning... Coming back so late, it's... I just don't want to see me, I don't want to talk to me, I..."

"No... Nope! Sumire, you..."

"Since childhood, Mrs. has always been... Let me make friends... I've tried before and failed... This time again..."

"No, no, no, this time I didn't fail!"

"Both... It's all my fault..."

"Sumire, you... Don't say that, no..."

……

Suddenly facing the unknown side of a certain girl, looking at the county lord's personal guard in front of him who was raining but self-reproaching, Qin Lang was a little incoherent for a while.

He never imagined that there would be a crying assassin in the world.

No, let's not talk about assassins, just talk about the personal guards of big names like the Secret Guard, Qin Lang never thought that he would see such a person crying with his own eyes.

However, when you think about it, she is only sixteen years old, the age of just coming of age.

Since I was a child, I have witnessed the whole family being wiped out, sent under the fence, and entered Biluo Valley...

This kind of experience will indeed make most people habitually think, how can such a person cry?

Even if you cry, how can you cry so heartbreakingly... Or even exciting?

But in fact, Gu Jin has never been the kind of killer who most people, including Qin Lang, think, has lost his feelings and is extremely cold-blooded.

She herself may naively want to hide her feelings and her own nature, but she doesn't know that this kind of thing can't be hidden.

This matter should have been thought of when Qin Lang learned that she had killed the Protector of Biluo Valley when she was ten years old.

If it was a little girl who lost the feelings of ordinary people because her whole family was wiped out, how could she rather risk her life to kill the Dharma Protector than hurt the other girls who participated in the trial at that time?

Yes, for Gu Jin, the tragedy she experienced since she was a child did not make her lose her feelings, but made her crave feelings even more...

Her cold temperament has never been because she ignores feelings and rejects feelings.

It's just that I lost my parents' family too early, so I don't express it.

……

"Sumire."

Qin Lang no longer tried to wipe the girl's tears.

Since she thought that she had been angry with her, it just so happened that Qin Lang was going to hand over the results of his busy work in the past few days to her today.

"I want to give you something."

“……？”

The girl in black sucked her red nose and looked at Qin Lang blankly.

Then, Qin Lang took out a flower from his arms.

A flower that is just the size of Gu Jin's fist, the overall look is very slender and dangling, but on the four petals, each of them is distributed with three rich colors: purple, white, and yellow.

"It's called pansy."

"Tricolor... Sumire..."

"Well, it's not a flower native to Da Zhou, but there are flowers at the border, and I've seen it at the foot of the mountain before, but I've been looking for it for a long time in the past few days."

Qin Lang handed the flower into Gu Jin's hand, and said with some embarrassment:

"I was born on the border, I am a rough person, not as affectionate as people in the capital or Jiangnan area, it may be a little cheesy to give you this flower, but the reason why I went to find this flower for you is because of the last thing you said to me that day."

On the day of the competition...

At last...

[Mrs. is a flower, I am a leaf, in addition to setting off the flower, the leaf can also support the flower]

Gu Jin quickly remembered, because it was she who said this at that time, Qin Lang said "Okay", and then ignored her from the next day.

But in fact, Qin Lang just went to the neighborhood to find this pansy and gave it to the person he thought was the most suitable for this flower.

"Madame is indeed a flower, but you are not her green leaf, you are also a flower. If I want to describe it, Mrs. is a peony, born rich and noble, loved and envied by countless people, and you are this pansy, seemingly inconspicuous, but has its own color... I think your parents gave you this name in the first place, hoping that you could live your rich colors like pansies..."

“……”

Gu Jin lowered her head, listened to Qin Lang's words, looked at the flowers in her hand, and after a long time, when her wet eyes were almost dry, she raised her head:

"So... You've been a few days by... I went to pick flowers..."

“……”

The corners of Qin Lang's mouth twitched.

Can this Nizi speak...

He co-authored him for a long time and said that he was a flower thief?

"If you want, you can understand it that way."

"Then you... Not mad at me..."

"Well, of course not, I thought you were mad at me."

"Then we... Are you still a friend..."

"Yes."

Qin Lang's eyes were firm, and he grabbed the girl's little hand and pinched it:

"More friends than friends!"

“……”

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When the misunderstanding between friends was solved and they continued to be friends, under the same night sky, on the official road leading to Jianping County, a mighty group of people and horses were marching towards Jianping County.

"Driving ——!"

"Drive!"

Three hundred jujube red horses, the horses were dressed in gold and ink-colored rhino robes, the waist was pressed with a pear knife, and the faces were all embroidered with a black veil of white pear blossoms.

"Lord Zhenfu, Jianping County is almost here, do you want to send a letter owl to inform the local county order?"

"No need, the saint said that he was low-key, let's hurry up and pick up the county lord and them back as soon as possible."

“……”

"How?"

"Pacifiers, dare to ask what they mean..."

"Oh, too, you don't know the details... The lord of the county went on this trip, and the Lord of Thousand Hands also accompanied him. ”