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Chapter 14
After Lin Qingbai finished his meal, he went to worship in the temple. He knelt in the temple, and when he finished reciting a section of Buddhist scriptures, there was a noise from the back door.
Intermittently, he heard someone calling Xi An's name.
Lin Qingbai stroked the corner of his clothes, stood up, and a maid not far away stepped forward to support Lin Qingbai.
Kneeling for too long, I felt a little dizzy when I stood up at first, Lin Qingbai was not used to being supported by others, so he closed his eyes to calm himself down, let go of the servant's hand and said, "Follow me to see what happened."
The backyard was full of servants and guards, whispering among themselves: "This woman is so beautiful."
"That's right, if you're not pretty, can you be taken captive?"
"Tsk, don't you think that looking at it this way, this girl is a perfect match for our Young Master Xi An!"
"What you said is really true, the hero saves the beauty, hahahaha."
Lin Qingbai paused when he heard these discussions, and stood in front of the carved round door in the backyard to listen expressionlessly.
A servant girl was the first to see Lin Qingbai coming out, and immediately put away the smile on her face, lowered her head and bumped fiercely at the little servant girl who was still talking beside her.
The maid next to her also saw Lin Qingbai, she trembled in fright and fell silent for a moment.
"My lord..."
Following this call, everyone around turned their heads to see Lin Qingbai, and the discussion stopped instantly.
Lin Qingbai scanned the crowd and asked, "What are you talking about?"
None of the servants dared to answer, and they consciously made way for Lin Qingbai.
In the middle of the crowd, Lin Qingbai saw Xi An walking into the opposite temple with a young girl on his back.
The girl's body was soft and her eyes were picturesque. Xi An bent down and gently placed the girl on the ground covered with kneeling mats.
The woman looked like she was only in her teens.
The neck and arms were covered with scars and bruises, and he was wearing a light gray plain dress. The clothes on his calves seemed to be torn apart, exposing his skin covered in mud.
She must have been terrified, with a crying pear blossom with rain on her small face, she was holding onto Xi'an's wrist tightly, refusing to let go, like pulling a life-saving straw, staring at her watery and tearful eyes.Said to Xi An: "Don't go..."
Xi An reassured: "You are safe."
Then he casually ordered his servants: "Find this girl a piece of clothing to cover her with."
The servants immediately started running to find clothes.
Xi An wanted to stand up, but was held tightly by the woman and refused to let go. Xi An raised his eyebrows, looked down at the woman's hand, he didn't know what he was thinking, and didn't make any next move for a while.
The woman held Xi An's hand tightly, crying hard.
Lin Qingbai stood outside the door, watching the two tugging and tugging until he felt the cold wind getting stronger, and his warm hands and feet became cold again.
He couldn't stand it anymore, and finally called out impatiently.
"An'er."
Xi An turned his head and saw Lin Qingbai, his eyes lit up, but then he frowned again.
He let go of the woman's hand, strode up to Lin Qingbai, untied his cloak without saying a word, and put it on Lin Qingbai's shoulders.
"It's windy and cold outside, and it's still snowing, why did Master come out wearing only one coat?" Xi An seemed to be complaining in a low voice, but he had already tied the rope of Lin Qingbai's cloak with both hands.
It was indeed snowing heavily, and a lot of snow had fallen on the cloak when Xi An went out, but all the wind and snow were shaken off when Xi An put the cloak on Lin Qingbai's shoulders.
The cloak still carried the residual heat of Xi An, and Lin Qingbai's body suddenly became much warmer.
Under the sleeves of the robe, Lin Qingbai's slender fingers tightly tugged at the cloak on his body, and the moment Xi'an's clothes were draped over him, the uncomfortable energy on his body just now also faded a lot.
Lin Qingbai asked directly: "Which family is this girl from?"
Speaking of this, Xi An was like a child, he pointed to the woman, and said to Lin Qingbai: "I rescued this woman, Master."
Lin Qingbai ignored Xi An's expression of wanting to praise, he looked at Chief Jiang and asked:
"What just happened?"
Leader Jiang stood in a corner by the side, his expression was far less bright and relaxed than Xi Anlai's. He seemed to have experienced a battle, his chest heaved and heaved. Lin Qingbai's sudden question made him tremble violently, and his eyes trembled.He glanced at Xi'an, but didn't speak.
Xi An accepted the words with a smile: "Master, when we rushed to the mountain, we saw this woman being bullied by some bandits..."
Xi An recounted what happened just now.
In the depths of the back mountain, they found a few bandits who were about to do something wrong to the woman.
Fortunately, Xi An and the others rushed over in time and saved the woman.
Lin Qingbai frowned in disgust when he heard these things, and asked, "Where are those bandits now?"
Xi An said without blinking his eyes: "Master, those mountain bandits committed a heinous crime. When we arrived, they were still fighting desperately. They were carrying weapons and injured several of our guards. Chief Jiang and I had to work together to deal with them on the spot."gone."
"killed?"
"yes."
"No one left?"
"yes."
Now Lin Qingbai frowned even tighter.
Those bandits are indeed hateful and should be killed, but Xi An is only fourteen years old now, and he is still like a child in his heart.
He didn't want Xi An to feel the murderous aura at his age.
But practicing martial arts is different from practicing literature.
For example, the civil servants and military officials in the court, the civil servants have always emphasized that peace is the most important thing, and they have to be forgiving and forgiving. Even the civil servants who are in high positions now talk eloquently and eloquently in front of the emperor.Don't dare to kill.
As for the military officer who can stand in front of the emperor, who doesn't have tens of thousands of lives under his hands, and has a lot of bones under his feet.
Killing decisively without showing mercy, this is the highest praise for a general.
Although there were tens of thousands of complaints and rumors, in the end Lin Qingbai was quite helpless and said: "Buddhist holy land, please pay attention."
Xi An was obedient, he lowered his eyes and replied: "Yes, I also felt that something was wrong later, disturbing the quietness of Master."
After saying this, Xi An raised his eyes to look at Lin Qingbai and asked, "Master, are you angry? But if I don't kill them, I won't be able to save this girl."
Lin Qingbai thought for a while and said, "In a critical situation, it can be so."
Xi An was praised and smiled contentedly.
Lin Qingbai turned to look at the woman and asked, "What's your name?"
The girl was indeed very beautiful. She looked at Lin Qingbai with a pair of watery almond eyes, and said with a trembling mouth, "The little girl's name is Yinliu..."
Lin Qingbai asked a few more questions.
From Yinliu's intermittent words, we know that she is seventeen years old, and her family used to be a farmer in the mountains. A few days ago, bandits were rampant, killing Yinliu's parents, taking her family's food, and even Yinliu herself.He was almost snatched and humiliated by bandits.
So Yinliu escaped all the way, but she was caught by bandits just after running halfway up the mountain.
Those bandits were obsessed with sex and almost took Yinliu by force. Fortunately, Xi An rushed over at this time, killed the bandits, and rescued her.
When Yin Liu said this, she raised her eyes timidly to look at her savior, and cried again until she couldn't make a sound.
Lin Qingbai noticed that Yinliu's gaze tightened in his heart, and he remained silent for a while.
Xi'an said: "Master, why don't you put her down first, and then find another way out for her after the cold winter passes."
Lin Qingbai turned his head, looked at Xi'an with a pair of brown eyes motionless, and asked, "Where do you think it should be placed?"
Xi An didn't expect that Lin Qingbai would ask him, he frowned, and after thinking about it seriously, he felt that his master was always kind-hearted and would put this girl in a good place, so he tentatively said: "......placed in our palace?"
Lin Qingbai's pupils immediately darkened, Xi'an noticed clearly, raised his eyebrows, and immediately began to change his words: "But after thinking about it carefully, I think it would be very good to place it in a temple, or just find a good family to take it in. Please let me know about this matter."Master decides, but Xi An dare not decide."
Lin Qingbai gave him a cold look, and remained silent.
With a sound, he pulled his arm from Xi An's hand, completely ignoring Xi An's unclear gaze, turned around and looked at the woman, thinking about what to do.
In fact, his original intention was to place the woman in the mansion as a maid, and Xi An had guessed his intentions.
But he was not happy at all.
Yin Liu's eyes wandered back and forth between Lin Qingbai and Xi An, and finally settled on Lin Qingbai.
She straightened up, climbed up to Lin Qingbai, kowtowed tremblingly and said, "My lord, I have no family when I'm out alone, and the bandits have many accomplices. They will definitely try their best to find me in the future and ask you to take me in."..."
"I beg you to take me in..."
Lin Qingbai looked at the woman's thin body, sighed softly for a while and said: "It's a poor person, so let's take her into the house and be a maid, cough cough cough cough."
As soon as the words fell, Lin Qingbai covered his face and coughed
The weather was a bit cold, he had stood in the ice and snow for a long time, and he drank some cold air, and his unsatisfied body began to make noise again.
Xi'an's reaction was quick, he turned around and stood in front of Lin Qingbai to block the cold wind, put his cloak on for Lin Qingbai and said: "It's cold outside, Master's body can't take it anymore, I'll help Master back to the house."
Lin Qingbai glanced at him indifferently, then gently broke away from Xi'an's hand, bypassing Xi'an and walking forward on his own.
Xi'an hung his hands in the air, very puzzled, he stood on the spot and thought about it, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that his work was flawless and there was nothing wrong with it, so he caught up with him in two steps and asked: "Master, what do you do?"gone?"
"nothing."
"Then why don't you let me touch you?"
Speaking of Xi An's voice here, still feel a little wronged, Lin Qingbai slowly paused.
What's up with him?
Nothing happened to him, Xi An just rescued a beautiful woman today, carried her all the way back, and suggested to keep the woman in the palace.
Well, everything is doing well.
As the servants said, a hero who saves the beauty is a beautiful thing.
I just don't know why Lin Qingbai was very upset, especially when he saw Xi An coming back with Yinliu on his back, and treated her carefully.
Lin Qingbai couldn't figure out why he was like this.
He raised his eyes to look at Xi An, his little apprentice was looking at him with bright eyes, his eyes were full of tenderness.
Lin Qingbai actually knew that Xi An's temper was not good, and he would only be tolerant to him.
It has been so for so many years.
He is used to Xi An being considerate only to him, and selfishly does not want him to treat others as he treats him.
Xi An is like the jade pendant he has been wearing on his chest. The jade pendant is cold, but it is warmed by his body, protecting him all the time, even if Lin Qingbai knows that this jade pendant may also be warmed by others,Maybe he can also protect other people, but he is stubborn and unwilling to share it with others.
Lin Qingbai thought of this, but he didn't want to admit it against his will.
For thousands of years, he has always been cold-tempered, indifferent to love and hate, never has he been so stingy.
Xi An's dark eyes were still looking at him non-stop, as if he wanted to see something from Lin Qingbai's face, Lin Qingbai turned his head awkwardly, and said: "You smell too bloody, go back and take a bath."
Xi An immediately lowered his head and smelled the smell on his body, then frowned, there was indeed a strong smell of blood, no wonder his master didn't want to see him.
Knowing that Lin Qingbai was not angry, Xi An breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "Understood, Master, I will take a bath when I get back."
After finishing speaking, Xi An wanted to get closer to Lin Qingbai, but suddenly thought of Lin Qingbai's words just now, he was afraid that the smell on his body would infect Lin Qingbai, so he just followed Lin Qingbai's body briskly.behind.
The servant came forward and helped Yinliu up from the ground.
Yin Liu's weak body trembled, she couldn't even stand her legs straight, her fingers caressed the stinging scars lightly, but her gaze kept following the backs of the two people closely when she turned her head.
In the wind and snow, the old man's cloak was rippling, his whole body was like snow, his body was as thin as a
Will be blown away anytime.
But the young man followed behind him, protecting him from time to time.
The two walked gracefully towards the closed hall not far away.
The high hall is elegant and quiet, with the occasional sound of ancient bells. It is completely different from the noisy and crowded front yard of the temple. You can see that only people with special status can enter to worship.
"Miss Yinliu, this way please." Someone called out.
Yin Liu's eyes dimmed, and she followed the predecessors into the winding path in the temple.