Xiao Zhongnan's feelings for me are probably only a little more than for strangers, or because of the affection that night in the inn, naturally he will not be happy to come to me as soon as he is sick. And to curb this phenomenon, the only way is to imprison him for freedom.
He had no one else to entrust, and in the end I had to tie him to the bed with a rope every night before going to bed. I also agreed because I was afraid that he would kill me one day inexplicably.
"Is this ok?" I asked him after adjusting the tension of the rope.
He tried it, and said, "Tighten it a little more."
I nodded and tightened the rope a little more.
Since that unpleasant morning, although he and I weren't friendly before, they've become even less friendly since then. It can be described as a stranger.
After tying him up, I clapped my hands and prepared to leave: "Okay, then I'll retire, Lord Xiaobao."
His limbs were tied to the bedpost in a "big" shape. Hearing this, he turned his head and looked at me for a while, as if hesitating how to speak. When I saw that he was still talking, he didn't move.
Finally he said firmly: "Thank you."
I pursed my lips and smiled in a perfunctory manner: "The castle owner is polite." After speaking, I turned around and left without looking at him.
Since Xiao Zhongnan doesn't want me to care, then I won't care about him any more. I'm not someone who is around me. What does it have to do with me if he lives or dies
But even if I think about it like this, every time it's quiet at night, I will unconsciously prick up my ears to listen carefully to the movement in the next courtyard, and to see if he is sick again.
I feel so helpless about myself, it's so unsatisfactory!
Xiao Zhongnan likes to be quiet, the courtyard is located in the most secluded corner of Black Eagle Fort, and there are usually no people in my courtyard. I usually stay in my small courtyard peacefully. When I’m really bored, I go to the neighborhood for a walk, and the days go by pretty fast. This peace is hard to come by for me, and I cherish it even more.
In this way, three months have passed, and I have lived with everyone in Black Eagle Castle without incident. Sometimes Cheng Xiaoyu will come to me. He is the son of the housekeeper. He is very young. He is different from ordinary servants and disciples. I actually like him coming to see me.
"There is a library in the south, have you been there?" he asked me while nibbling on the cucumber.
In the early spring, without the severe cold of winter, I moved the bamboo couch into the yard. I lay on the couch, closed my eyes, and felt the warm sunlight on my body, making me sleepy.
I was about to fall asleep, but when I heard the library building, I was interested, opened my eyes and looked at the other person: "Are there many books?"
He exaggeratedly made a big circle: "A lot, it can bury my whole person!"
I thought for a while: "Then I'll go take a look when."
I ate, slept, slept, and ate here all day long. Although this life is what I dreamed of before, it can be quite boring at times. It’s good to find a few books to pass the time, and maybe even a few medical books… Realizing that I am in Thinking of something, I frowned, wanting to slap myself a few times.
Looking for a medical book? Do people appreciate it? He told you to stop worrying about it, what are you doing to yourself
I don't even understand where I, a former leader of the Demon Sect, got so much kindness.
"Have you fallen out of favor?" The child stared at me and suddenly said startlingly.
I didn't hear clearly: "What did you say?"
He bit the cucumber and said in a vague tone: "The castle lord never takes you to patrol the paddock, and I don't see how close you are usually. If you are being favored, he should be inseparable from you all the time. That's why I Guess you are out of favor, only those who are out of favor will be put into the cold palace."
After hearing his words, I sneered: "What do you know about the affairs of your lord? If the relationship lasts for a long time, how can it be day and night. After the days are long, why should we stick together all the time? Besides, we are all big men, There is no need for those children to be affectionate."
He nodded understandingly.
I don't know why I want to talk nonsense with him, but I always feel that as long as I tell him the truth, I will be pitiful, and I don't like being sympathized by others.
After driving away the child, I squatted in the yard for a while, and then I got up lazily until the sun gradually went down and I felt a little cooler.
I told my servant to go out for a walk and come back before dinner. He was used to me going out alone, so he didn't follow me.
I walked slowly all the way to the south, trying to find the library in Cheng Xiaoyu's mouth. It may be that the Black Eagle Fort is too big, and I was a little lost when I was walking.
Although the Black Eagle Fort dominates the side of the family, but to be honest, there are really not many servants, and the guards in the fort are not very casual except for regular patrols, so I have no one to ask the way for a while.
I don't know if my servant will report to the housekeeper to send someone to look for me when I can't wait for my meal.
I stopped and walked, trying to identify the direction, after passing through a small bamboo forest, a beautiful small building suddenly appeared in front of me, really a village.
I thought this was the library I was looking for, so I walked over quickly.
The small building was very cold and quiet, and there was no popularity. At this time, the sky was gradually darkening, and the place became more and more ghostly.
I slowly climbed up the small building, the stairs made a harsh sound, there are several rooms on the second floor, I chose one of them and pushed the door in.
This looks like a study, with all the four treasures of the study on the table, many books neatly placed on the shelves, and several paintings and calligraphy hanging on the wall.
My eyes swept across these paintings one by one, and suddenly stopped when I swept across one of the paintings. It was a very beautiful woman, wearing a lotus-colored Ru skirt, smiling slyly. When I look at you, it's like talking about indifference.
However, what I care about is not the painting, but the signature of the painting.
The seal at the inscription of this painting is Xiao Zhongnan, so this person... Could it be Mrs. Xiao
I took a few steps closer to take a closer look, but I kicked something. I bent over to pick it up, and found that it was actually a beaded flower worn by a woman.
The pearl flower should have fallen from the table next to it, and the two pearls on it fell off. I picked them up and planned to put it back.
This small building should be regularly cleaned by servants. Although it is quiet, it is not dilapidated, and there is no dust on the furniture. Thinking of this, I paused, picked up the bead flower and looked at it again, and a thought flashed through my mind.
Could it be that this place used to be the residence of a lunatic and his wife, and after the death of Madam Xiao, he was afraid of being hurt, so he moved out
The more I thought about it, the more I felt it was possible. I looked at the painting again and murmured, "Heroes and beauties, and this is how it should be..."
I was about to put the bead flowers away, when the door was slammed open by a gust of palm. My face changed suddenly, and I quickly retreated to the side. When I could see who the palm was, I couldn't help exclaiming.
"Xiao Zhongnan?"
He stared at me with a sullen face, his eyes widened when he caught a glimpse of the bead flower in my hand, and the vigorous infuriating qi blew up his jacket, as if he was going to go crazy in the next moment.
He yelled at me: "Who let you in?! Who let you touch the things here?!"
"I..." I was taken aback by his question, I was still a little guilty, but now my heart seems to be blocked, and I really can't breathe out, "It's not written that this is a forbidden area at the door, I came in when I got lost, and This thing broke when I came here, and I didn't make it, why did you attack me?" I threw the pearl flower in my hand on the table, and the scattered pearl rolled along the table uncontrollably, and finally fell. .
Xiao Zhongnan's expression suddenly became extremely ferocious. Before I could react, he came in front of me, grabbed the placket of my clothes with one hand, and raised the other hand high, with a deep inner strength in his palm, as if he was going to knock me out. Palm to death.
I stared at him with my eyes wide open, in disbelief: "You want to kill me?"
His forehead was bulging with blue veins, and his face was terrifying. He maintained this action without admitting or denying it.
I used to have some unrealistic fantasies. I always thought he was a lunatic. If a lunatic won't hurt me, neither will he. But I never imagined that he would take my life for a pearl flower today.
I suddenly realized that compared to the most important person in his mind, my life might be worse than even a single pearl flower from the other party. He treated me so well in the cave, didn't he mistake me for that person
But isn't my life relatively low, isn't my life not life
My heart suddenly burst into endless resentment, and my voice was trembling: "Then kill me, slap me to death, and treat it as my repayment of your life-saving grace!"
I said this not so much to him, but to the madman through him, with a hint of anger.
He looked at me angrily, and finally slashed down, but instead of hitting me, he slashed on the table on one side, and chopped off the corner of the table like tofu.
"Go away!!" He roared, his eyes were full of red threads, like a man-eating evil spirit.
The front of my shirt was loosened, but my heart was still tangled.
"Get out!" I bit my lip and gave him a deep look, flicked my sleeves, and agreed to leave in anger.
I searched for half an hour before finding my way back to the small courtyard where I lived.
Xiao Zhongnan and I were in such a quarrel, and naturally it was impossible to tie him any more ropes at night. I thought it would be all right this time, but what I didn't expect was that I paid a heavy price that night.