The young man helped Jielan walk under a locust tree, his pierced hand was still dripping with blood, but he didn't groan, just endured it silently, as if the injury was useless to him.
The two sat under the locust tree, leaning against the tree, panting. When they breathed the fresh air in the forest, Jie Lan temporarily forgot the bloody battle that had just happened.
She looked at the lame boy next to her and was puzzled, "I didn't expect you to have such a good swordsmanship. Why do you become a shopkeeper here?"
There was still no expression on the boy's face, "First of all, I am the owner of this shop, not a shopkeeper!"
Jie Lan's face turned a little red, and she hummed, expressing her apologies.
"You can ask me this question, but I won't necessarily answer you."
He took off the turban covering the top of his head and brushed the scattered hair behind his ears, revealing his face that he had never seen before. It was Zhang Qingjun's face, glowing pale in the faint moonlight, flying diagonally into the temple. His eyebrows are heroic and sad, those deep and dark pupils are like the sea of night, reflecting the light of the stars, but there is a red mark on his left forehead, which seems to be injured by some sword weapon. As a result, his whole person has become heavy and vicissitudes.
He must be someone with a painful past like himself!
06 Late Night Alone
The boy wrapped his bloody arm with a turban, because it was inconvenient to do it with one hand. Jie Lan quickly reached out to help. She carefully bandaged the wound, fearing that one of her would hurt him by accident. When she got it right, when she looked up at the boy, she found that the boy had been looking at herself. When her eyes met, Jie Lan suddenly felt ashamed and turned her head quickly, but the awkward atmosphere still existed. To break this silence, he asked carefully, "Why did you save me?"
"Because you are a guest in my shop!" The answer was simple and straightforward, as if a puppet was answering.
"Oh? Really? No matter why you are, you saved me after all." A disappointed Jie Lan was silent for a while, "Why do you say you want to avenge the monsters in your shop, they are just monsters, offend them? Those soldiers are not worth it!"
The young man suddenly looked at Jie Lan coldly, his eyes seemed to penetrate Jie Lan’s body, "You are also a demon, do you mean that I should not save you? If so, why should you save them? Woolen cloth?"
Being called a monster in person by this person, Jie Lan was obviously a little angry. If it wasn't because he saved her, she might have to shoot at him, "I'm not a monster? It's not the same as the monsters in your store. I saved them because I didn’t want the soldiers to treat them so cruelly.”
The young man fell silent, and just said softly: "The monsters are not lowly at all. When you despise them, you are despising yourself!" He didn't seem to want to argue with Jie Lan on this matter, but took it out of his arms. Bead chain, that is Jielan's bead chain, "This should be something very important to you!"