Chapter 160: He is the Sea and the Sky

Suyen rushed home before it snowed heavily.

Just after getting off the carriage, he saw the gate open, Jing Hongchou holding an oil paper umbrella made of wood hibiscus bark to welcome him. Su Yan burrowed under the umbrella and laughed, “Ah Chou has been waiting for the door and came out when he heard the sound of the wheels?”

Jing Hongchou delicately shook the snow foam on his shoulder, “If your lordship doesn’t come back, my subordinate will have to go to Honglu Temple to pick up the people.”

The two of them held an umbrella together and entered the courtyard. In the flower hall, Xiao Bei and Xiao Jing had already prepared hot soup and hot dishes, putting them on the charcoal to simmer, waiting for their own adults to come back and start dinner.

Su Yan washed up and sat down, Xiao Jing while cloth dishes and muttered: “The first day of the New Year is also not peaceful, adults this official, too tired! Can I rest at home tomorrow?”

“I can’t, the case hasn’t gotten to the bottom of it yet.” Su Yan dunked half a bowl of hot chicken soup, comfortably exhaled, his stomach gradually warmed up, “Don’t worry, you adults won’t treat yourselves poorly, I’ll steal when I want to.”

Xiao Bei rarely agreed with Xiao Jing, “If your honor is still called lazy like this, there are no diligent officials in the court. The government offices are all sealed and closed, and only your lordship is still busy with official business.”

“Who said that, the royal master as a country’s king is not also still busy with the affairs of state, to say diligence, who can compare to him.” Su Yan appeased the boys, “You two stay at home, the rest rest, the organization. Waiting for the 15th day of the first month, my lord will take you to the Noon Gate to see the Ao Shan Lantern Festival, and get a VIP seat with an excellent view.”

After eating, Su Yan instructed Jing Hong to come to his room after him to have something to say.

With a secret throbbing anticipation, Jing Hongchou washed himself clean from the outside to the inside, changed into new clothes, and knocked on the door to enter Lord Su’s chambers without even bringing the sword that never left his body.

Su Yan has just finished bathing, the middle sheet outside a jacket cotton paste Li, move the charcoal pot to the bed in front of the fire, looked up and laughed: “This is the new clothes of the New Year’s Eve of A chase? This ‘flushed’ color looks good, is a little light, and then some red on the correction.”

The more shy Jing Hongchu was in his heart, the more rigid his expression became. He stepped onto the pedals in front of the bed, half kneeling, and put Su Yan’s feet with only cotton socks into his own arms, saying, “The positive red color is more suitable for use on the lying sheet, it will be very good to set off the adult a …… snow white skin and flesh.”

“Huh?” Suyan felt as if something was wrong.

Jing Hongchu saw that Lord Su didn’t scold him or even retort, so he summoned up enough courage to continue, “Then my subordinate started kissing from my lord’s feet and toes, and kissed the whole body inch by inch, so as to teach my lord that this body’s snow-white skin and flesh are all dyed flushed with color.”

Suyan: “……”

Su Yan: “Jing Hong chased. Are you overfed and looking for a fight?”

Jing Hong chased: “Your honor can whip as much as you want, my subordinate is not afraid of pain. If your lordship had commanded earlier, my subordinate would have brought his own whip in.”

Su Yan saw him start to pick at his socks, and was so angry that she stomped on his chest, “What a brain! I asked you to come to talk about business, what the hell do you think you’re going to do?!”

Jing Hongchou was stunned, “I thought …… that the lord had summoned me to serve the bed.”

Su Yan five thunderbolts: “Ask you one thing.”

“Ask.” Floyd sat up with good grace.

“Where were you last night?”

“New Year’s Eve? Of course it’s in the royal residence, and I’m homeless. I wanted to look for Senior Brother to dilly-dally with the New Year’s Eve dinner, but when I thought about it, Senior Brother wouldn’t even let me see that lord’s face, so I guess he’s even more reluctant to keep me for dinner. I’ll just pile in for dinner with the guards.”

Jing Hong chased after him and stared at the subtle expressions and glances on his face, “Vertigo Flying Sound wants to control four people at the same time, even with the Nightmare Phantom Technique’s feats as an aid, it’s still very much a struggle for you, isn’t it? Or is it that after I left the Seven Slaughter Camp, you’ve grown a lot more?”

Fuyin looked at him with an innocent expression, ”What is senior brother talking about? I haven’t played the flute for a long time, the last time I did it was when I lured you to meet me. As for this royal family, what’s the use of controlling it, to give me an increase in my monthly payment?”

Without saying a word, Jing Hongchu briskly moved forward to clasp his pulse.

Fuyin leapt up, his flute burrowing out from underneath the covers and stabbing at Jing Hongchou’s vital points, trying to force him to stop.

The two are familiar with each other’s techniques and moves, plus they are unwilling to alarm the guards outside the house, so they just hand demolition moves, did not make a big commotion.

After a dozen rounds, Jing Hong chased after Chess to win a move, his right hand sword blade against Fuyin’s neck, at the same time, his left hand clasped his pulse, to probe the true qi in his body.

The true qi was backwashing, the qi and blood were not good, and there were quite a few cracks within the meridians that had not yet healed, like the symptoms of excessive internal energy loss and being backwashed by the gong method. Jing Hongchou said with certainty, “The four Vaishnavas who died last night at Honglu Temple were your handiwork.”

Fuyin held a smile at the corner of her mouth, but the bottom of her eyes were as deep and icy as a cold pool, “Why, as a Daming, does senior brother still want to fight for the Tartars?”

Jing Hong chased after him, “I don’t care if they live or die. I only want to know if this is a new mission for the Seven Kill Battalion?”

“The Hidden Sword Sect is overthrown, and the Seven Killings Battalion is in deep cover, so it’s too late for me to clear the air with them, so how would I pick up some damn quest.”

“Then why did you strike?”

“Look at those few Waradians not good enough, okay? The barbarians of the North Desert, so what if they are killed. Are there fewer Chinese who have died in their hands?”

Jing Hongchou coldly said, “When you were ordered to assassinate the Liaodong Governor, you didn’t hesitate at all. You didn’t even care about the loss of the border, would you still care about the lives of other Central Plains people?”

Floating Voice laughed, ”Isn’t it the same for senior brother? We are all ghosts that haunt the night, when have we ever cared about the lives of the living. But nowadays, senior brother even has a patriotic heart, it’s really interesting, I wonder if it’s the country or the main family that he loves?”

In this era, “master” is one of the names that wives call their husbands. Jing Hong chased him and poked his lungs, his face became more and more stern, his sword blade pressed downward: “No need to talk nonsense, follow me.”

“Go where, to report to the government?” Fuyin cackled out, “Go tell the Shun Tian Prefect that I am a remaining member of the Hidden Sword Sect, and so are you. Together with your family, Lord Su, they can’t escape a charge of harboring. By the way, I remember that the government posted a notice that clearly states, ‘Anyone who has a close relationship with the Hidden Sword Sect is an accessory to the crime, and will not be forgiven lightly’. This is an imperial edict! It seems that senior brother doesn’t love the master family, but hates it and wants to drag him along with him.”

Jing Hongchu clenched his back teeth, wanting to wipe his senior brother’s neck with a sword.

But in the end, there was still one or two favors left. Throughout the Hidden Sword Sect, and even the Seven Killings Camp, the only person he had ever received favors from, and had also bestowed favors upon, was only one Floating Sound.

“Regardless of who you are instructed by and what your purpose is, as long as you don’t get in my lord’s way, I’ll keep you alive. The next time, don’t blame me for being merciless with my sword!”

Floyd asked rhetorically, “What makes it a hindrance?”

Jing Hong pursued: ”You are not allowed to touch whoever Lord Su wants to protect; if Lord Su wants to protect this country, then you are not allowed to get your hands on all the moves that lead to the unrest of the country’s grain and the unease of the customs and defense. In this way, you and I can be at peace, and I can let you go today. Otherwise, I will kill you with one sword and then destroy your body, telling you to drag no one down.”

Fuyin pondered for a long time, seemingly weighing and calculating, and finally softened and said: ”I also don’t want to fall out with senior brother to the point of death. Last night’s killing of the Valar people was me taking money from someone to eliminate a disaster, I don’t know that it will cause turmoil at the border. As for the identity of the employer, I can’t disclose it, even if I leave the Seven Kill Camp, the rules of the trade will always be the rules of the trade, you know that, senior brother.

“Since senior brother has made it so clear, I might as well make a promise that I will not take action against people involved in the imperial government in the future. Even if I am forced to take orders for a living, I will first make sure that the other party deserves it, is that okay?”

He spoke pleadingly, and Jing Hongchou didn’t want to fight him to the death this night without teaching, so he nodded and said, “Remember your promise! Find a suitable scapegoat and let Lord Su break this case smoothly.”

Floating sound full of promise, see Jing Hong chase turn to go, catch up two steps and said, “Senior brother ……”

Words were not enough, Jing Hongchou did not want to ignore him, but based on the meager patience, the footsteps still paused for a moment.

“Has senior brother ever considered leaving this quagmire and traveling around the world’s countries, with the sea wide enough for fish to leap and the sky high enough for birds to fly?”

Jinghong chased the thought and said, “Yes.”

A hint of joy swept across the bottom of Fuyin’s eyes, and as she was about to speak again, she heard the other party firmly say, “Before meeting Lord Su. Nowadays, he is my sea, my sky.”

The sword blade returned to its sheath, and Jing Hongchou drifted away without a second thought.

Fuyin stared in the direction he had disappeared in, his gaze cold.

After standing motionless for a long time, he also exerted his light power to leave the royal residence without alerting anyone.

In a remote and uninhabited alley, Floyd’s figure emerged from the gloom. He stood by the wall like a ghost, and suddenly squatted down. Suddenly, he squatted down, and at an inconspicuous place at the base of the tattered wall, he pressed eight marks with his index finger dipped in vermilion.

The marks lined up in a fan shape, like an eight-petaled blood lotus, blooming in the dark night.