The lord can't get along with this butterfly

The autumn wind was slightly cool, and the bamboo leaves rustled down with the wind, spinning a few times in the air, and before they could fall, they were disrupted by the sudden change of airflow around them.The sharp blade slashed across, and with the sharp sword energy, it split the bamboo leaf in half.

For a moment, the sword's momentum suddenly rose, the clouds flowed, and the fallen leaves collapsed.

It took a full hour before the sword edge barely stopped, a bamboo leaf whirled down and landed firmly on the tip of the sword.Ji Xiao breathed steadily, put his sword back into its sheath without changing his face, his eyes were full of coldness.

For a whole year, his swordsmanship has never broken through the tenth level.There is still half a year left, and there is not much time until the martial arts conference. If he does not make a breakthrough, then the position of leader may be lost.

Thinking of the two-year deadline mentioned by Hua Zhuo, Ji Xiao had a heavy heart all day long, and was not in the mood to practice swords. He stroked the scabbard with his palm, pondered for a moment with a gloomy expression, and walked quickly to the villa.

As soon as he entered the gate, Ji Xiao went straight to the study.

Screening off the servants guarding the door, Ji Xiao was rummaging for something on the bookshelf. When his fingertips came across a sword manual, he paused for a moment, missed it again, continued to rummage, and finally found a book at the bottom of the bookshelf. There are a few small books of rough workmanship, in a thick stack, which looks quite heavy.

Ji Xiao moved his Adam's apple, his gaze resting on the yellow-brown cover with no words.

These books were given to him by the shadow guard that night, and the contents inside may be cruel or strange. He didn't want to use it on Hua Zhuo, so he never read it, but he couldn't hold back his wild thoughts, and even began to consider making worst plans.

Hua Zhuo said that he wanted to leave, but he couldn't force him to stay. Once he left...the sword that day, would there still be a chance for it to fall into his hands?

He thought about this question over and over for a long time last night. He was sure that Huazhuo would not hand over the Tianyi Sword to him easily, but he really didn't want to use drastic methods to obtain it.

Ji Xiao dropped his trembling fingertips to the side of the book, wanted to turn it over, but didn't dare to turn it over.

While hesitating, there was a knock on the door of the study.

"Master Shao, the subordinates have something to report." The man outside the door said.

Ji Xiao's thoughts calmed down a little, he looked at the door, and said in an indifferent voice: "Come in."

The shadow guard came in upon hearing the sound, stopped in front of the desk, and was about to report, but his eyes froze when he saw the book in Ji Xiao's hand.

The shadow guard in front of him was not the shadow guard who came to report that night, Ji Xiao raised his eyebrows and asked doubtfully, "Have you seen this?"

The shadow guard hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"Do you know what's written here?" Ji Xiao frowned, his tone unconsciously tense.

"This..." The shadow guard hesitated, looking at Ji Xiao in embarrassment.

"No problem." Ji Xiao said, "Although the answer is yes."

These shadow guards all work together, even if they have read these books, it is not unusual.Besides, these people are the most trusted subordinates he has trained for many years, so he will not doubt it.

"I know." The shadow guard said bravely.

"Then what do you think of the contents...?" Ji Xiao stared at him with a trace of caution in his voice.

"Huh?" The shadow guard was stunned.

"What will happen if I carry out what is recorded above...?" Ji Xiao tightened his grip on the booklet.

"Really, implement?" The shadow guard didn't slow down.

"Yes, it is implemented on Lin Qiu..." Ji Xiao's eyes seemed to be reluctant, and he said in a daze, "If I force him for my own selfish desire... will he blame me?"

The shadow guard swallowed his saliva, didn't dare to think about it, couldn't bear to say: "This, it's not very good..."

Ji Xiao closed his eyes irritably, nodded, and said softly: "Yes...this is not good, it is against morality..."

"Young Villa Master..." Yingwei didn't know how to speak to persuade him, he hesitated to speak.

After a while, Ji Xiao finally opened his eyes, which returned to their usual indifference, and said in a low voice, "...that's all."

"Tell me, what do you want to report?" Ji Xiao looked at him.

The shadow guard secretly breathed a sigh of relief, resumed his serious tone, and reported: "This morning, the post station sent an anonymous letter, which was addressed to the young lady. The handwriting has been verified by my subordinates, and it is the same as the response given to you by the young hall master of Lingxiaotang last time." The handwriting of the reply letter sent during the war letter is exactly the same."

"Qiu Huaiyu?" Ji Xiao's eyes brightened.

The post station belongs to the imperial court, and the people in their Jianghu have never made friends with officials. If they want to check it from the post station, it will take some effort.Qiu Huaiyu probably took a fancy to this point, so he didn't send people from Lingxiaotang to deliver the letter, but chose to post it at the post station.

But he should have never expected that Wanqing Villa could expose his identity from his past letters, and let his useless thoughts be discovered directly.

Ji Xiao narrowed his eyes.

Qiu Huaiyu's anonymity was because he was afraid that Wanqing Villa would intercept the letter and not pass it to Lin Qiu, or did he firmly believe that Lin Qiu would do something after reading his letter?

Ji Xiao's face turned cold unknowingly, and he said coldly, "What did he write?"

"No." The shadow guard replied.

"Only these two words?" Ji Xiao's tone was cold, not surprised.

This time Qiu Huaiyu first wanted to test whether Wanqing Villa would intercept the letter, and secondly wanted to test Hua Zhuo's attitude, so naturally he would not write anything out of the ordinary.

"Yes." The shadow guard replied.

"Then Lin Qiu replied?" Ji Xiao asked.

"Reply." Shadow Guard said, "Young Madam wrote a reply immediately after reading it."

Ji Xiao gritted his teeth, his eyes were cold, "It's a letter."

The shadow guard hesitated for a moment, and said: "The letter was delivered to the station by the young lady's servant, we have no chance to do it..."

Ji Xiao coldly ordered, "Keep an eye on the courier, once you leave the city, immediately intercept the letter."

"Yes."

The autumn sun is warm but not strong, and it shines on the coffee table through the window lattice, and the dense mist floats out from the pot, and the light tea fragrance escapes with it, with a hint of warm bitterness.

When Ji Xiao pushed open the bedroom door, he saw Hua Zhuo was sitting in front of a few desks making tea, with an inexplicable chill on his body, looking straight at his back.

Hua Zhuo heard the voice, turned her head, and was a little surprised to see Ji Xiao, "Why are you back at this hour?"

Ji Xiao paid no attention to it, and sat on a chair at the side, which was a bit higher than Hua Zhuo who was sitting next to a few desks, with an ugly expression on his face, and didn't answer.

"I just made tea. Yesterday's Jade Leaf Changchun, do you want to try it?" Hua Jue saw that he was in a bad mood, and poured the hot tea from the teapot into the white jade cup, exuding a strong and clear aroma.

"Your memory recovered?" Ji Xiao asked suddenly with cold eyes.

Hua Zhuo was taken aback, and replied: "No, what's the matter?"

Ji Xiao stared at him, as if he wanted to find out something from his eyes, and said, "Really?"

"Really not." Hua Zhuo looked at him strangely, and said, "Why do you suddenly ask?"

Ji Xiao didn't see the reason from his expression, but when he thought of Qiu Huaiyu's letter with malicious intentions and Hua Zhuo's reply letter that he didn't know the contents of, he felt blocked for no reason, his expression darkened, and he warned: " If you dare to do something against me, don't blame me for being unkind to you."

what happened again.

Sighing, Hua Zhuo followed his words and asked, "Being unkind, why is it so unkind?"

Ji Xiao sneered, "You don't want to know."

Hua Zhuo glanced at him speechlessly, and put the remaining tea back into the wooden box by herself.

He felt that he already had a little understanding of Ji Xiao now. Although this person looked cold and fierce on the surface, and would say some inexplicable and frightening things when he had nothing to do, he was quite a gentleman in his heart. It doesn't do him any harm...

Seeing that he didn't take it seriously, Ji Xiao became angry for no reason, and angrily threw a little yellow-brown book in front of him, and said coldly: "Look for yourself, if you dare to violate it, what is written in this book This is your fate!"

After Ji Xiao finished speaking, he sat there leisurely, wanting to see Hua Zhuo's next reaction.

Although he had never seen what was written in the book with his own eyes, the fact that the shadow guard handed it over to him so cautiously that night proved that there must be something shocking and frightening written in it.

Even if the content in the book is not useful, it is enough to scare people.

Isn't it easy to scare a weak scholar?

Hua Zhuo hesitated for a moment, felt that the cover looked familiar, and felt a strange feeling in her heart, and reached out to pick up the book.

——Originally, the storybooks on the market are mostly storylines, with less unspeakable content, but this is obviously a rare collector's edition.

Just turning over a page casually, Hua Zhuo immediately saw the full of lewd, profane, gaudy, and delicately described body and expression, which hurts the eyes.

Taking a breath of cold air, Hua Zhuo shook her hand, and the storybook fell to the ground with a "clack", her face was blushing uncomfortably.

This is the second time he met this little Huang Ben with himself as the main character... the first time was in the carriage when they got married.

So... is he being molested?

By Ji Xiao... the gentleman he thought just now?

Huazhuo's body was stiff, her face was flushed red, and she stared down at the ground in a daze.

It seems that he is still thinking wrong. The ancients often say that people will see people's hearts for a long time, and there is nothing wrong with it. Based on the time they have been together, his understanding of Ji Xiao is still too far away... Such blatant flirting, Where is the average apprentice compared?

Seeing that his expression was wrong, Ji Xiao also noticed something strange, and frowned, "What's wrong?"

When Hua Zhuo heard his words, she felt her whole body was burning hot. After hesitating for a long time, she said with difficulty: "You... what do you mean?"

"Because I won't marry again in the future, so you want me... to do this? Or are you... joking with me?" Hua Jue felt that her voice was trembling, and her chest was indescribably tight.

"But, you... are you going too far? We are not that kind, how can we be like that...?" Hua Zhuo looked embarrassed, clenched the corners of her clothes with both hands, bit her lips, and couldn't continue. .

Ji Xiao didn't understand what he was saying at all, he was a little confused, stood up, walked to Hua Zhuo's side, and wanted to pick up the book.

Seeing him approaching, Hua Jue shuddered reflexively, took a deep breath, stood up stiffly, avoided him a few steps away, kept avoiding his eyes, and said: "I'll go out and calm down first, you...don't come I'm here."

Ji Xiao saw him walking out quickly with the same hands and feet, hesitated for a moment, and opened the book.

Ji Xiao froze, and the book fell back again.

Thinking of Cai Huazhuo's appearance just now, Ji Xiao only felt his head buzzing, angrily kicked the notebook on the ground to the base of the wall, turned around and was about to go out to find someone to settle the score.However, before he stepped out of the door, he came back again by some mysterious error.

Ji Xiao hesitated for a moment, the corners of his eyebrows twitched, and finally he bent down and put the script back into his arms, turned and left.

Hua Zhuo didn't come back all afternoon, Ji Xiao sat in the yard with a gloomy expression, staring at the shadow guard who was kneeling on a wooden board to wash his clothes, while lost in thought.

It took several hours before he accepted the fact that he had just lost control and threw a terrifying book in front of Lin Qiu, hoping to frighten him, but he never expected that the book even The frightening thing that I didn't dare to open turned out to be such a frightening method...

Ji Xiao rubbed the center of his brows with a headache, couldn't bear to think about it, but turned to think about another thing - when Huazhuo left at noon, he told himself not to look for him, and when he left, the person next to him None of the servants were brought along, and he went out alone.

Qiujiang City is very big. Lin Qiuchu came here and was not familiar with it, but now he didn't bring a single servant... Could it be that he wants to take advantage of this to leave Wanqing Villa and never come back?

Ji Xiao's eyes darkened.

That's right, after all, what I did this time was indeed too much. Even if it wasn't out of intention, it made the matter develop to the point of no return. It's hard for Lin Qiu to forgive himself for the current situation.

Ji Xiao secretly clenched the white jade teacup in his hand, which still contained the cold jade leaf Changchun, and thought to himself, if he really didn't want to come back, then he... would never stop him.

He has no right to stop it.

This kind of thing, no matter who it happened to, I'm afraid it won't happen easily again.

Ji Xiao took a deep breath, looked up at the sky.

It was approaching dusk at this time, although the sun was shining, it was autumn after all, and the temperature was somewhat cold. Lin Qiu was in a hurry when he went out, with few clothes on his body, and no money with him... Besides, Qiujiang City is so big, can he recognize the way? ?

Thinking about this, Ji Xiao suddenly frowned and said, "Come here!"

Turning his eyes to Gao Zhuang Yingwei who was still in pain and washing his clothes on the small bench, Ji Xiao said irritably, "Stop washing, go and find someone for me!"

As if being pardoned, the shadow guard stopped what he was doing, quickly calmed down his expression that was about to collapse, and asked, "Is the young master looking for the young lady?"

Ji Xiao looked gloomy, "Yes, go find me now!"

"By the way... bring me something for him."

The shadow guard is such a miserable man.