Chapter 825 Enlightennt
“I’ve delivered it to young master’s n, but I didn’t see him. After making an inquiry, I only learned that they have been occupied with an important business, but I have no idea what exactly it is,” Baisu said.
She always knew Lin ngya’s thoughts well, so she stayed to ask about Xiaoyu’s situation.
Fortunately, with Long Tianyu’s secret help, at least she did not have to worry about Xiaoyu’s safety.
Since Xiaoyu had grown up, he had to go through trials and hardships.
It was not a permanent solution to keep him by her side.
“That’s good. No matter who asks about my going out today, you must assert that I went to admire the rosa multiflora. If soone inquires about it, you must secretly record who the person is, but you must not alert the person,” Lin ngya said.
Baisu nodded, certainly aware of what Lin ngya ant.
She glanced at the dress Lin ngya put aside. The hemline of the dress was covered with mud, so of which was still wet and so had been dry.
“Miss, where have you been? How could there be such a dirty place in the imperial palace?” Baisu asked.
She was keenly aware there was soil in the rosa multiflora courtyard.
However, the other parts of the imperial palace were clean almost without soil.
She couldn’t help wondering where Lin ngya got her dress stained with mud.
Lin ngya looked down. At the thought of the horrible scene in the palace, she couldn’t help feeling a chill down her spine.
She slightly moved her lips and said in a serious tone, “In fact, I used to get a map which records a significant place that should be located in a certain palace. So I went there to check out the situation on this rainy day when no one noticed it. Unexpectedly, I saw a trendously weird thing.”
Lin ngya could not describe the chill down her spine caused by the sight of the four won cutting off their wrists.
Normal people would definitely not cut off their wrists, let alone let blood from themselves composedly.
Lin ngya had thought that they might be unable to speak or turned into copper slaves with special drugs.
However, it would even be hard for copper slaves to survive after losing so much blood.
No matter what perverted asure was taken to shape them, they were humans after all. In this case, they inevitably had the common characteristics of human beings.
This was the reason why Lin ngya found it so unimaginably queer.
“Your narration reminds of a legend. It is said that the gate of the heavenly palace could only be opened by the attendant of the King of Various Venomous Insects when the red rain fell from the sky. Later, when every emperor passed away, a multitude of slaves would be buried with them, and those slaves must cut off their left hands so as to clear their sins and be taken to the heavenly palace by the King of Various Venomous Insects. Nevertheless, this ceremony has been abolished for several emperors’ reigns. Nowadays, only a few people know it,” Baisu said.
Hearing her words, Lin ngya also thought it trendously queer.
“Could it be that all people in the Lieyun Empire know it?” Lin ngya stared at Baisu and asked.
If everyone knew it, it would be difficult to track down the target.
Baisu shook her head blankly and looked at Lin ngya with embarrassnt.
She said, “That’s not the case. It seems that only the royals know it. I may have accidentally heard it from soone. I can’t rember clearly what happened when I was a child, but I’m sure of one thing: it’s absolutely impossible for ordinary people to learn it.”
This made sense. After all, Baisu, who was raised and trained by Wanyan Lie’s n, naturally had the chance to learn this kind of secret.
If only the royals knew it, she would be able to lock on her target to a few suspicious people.
The red rain fell from the sky, and the slaves cut off their left hands.
These things sounded trendously queer, but it was impossible for them to happen at the sa ti by chance.
There must be a connection she was unaware of between them.
It would probably be quite difficult to find it out.
“Shall I send so people to take a look at that palace?” Baisu suggested.
After pondering for a while, Lin ngya shook her head to reject Baisu’s suggestion.
On one hand, too many visitors would definitely alert the enemy.
On the other hand, co to think of it, she found the isolated palace rather suspicious.
She had better find out what the palace was used for and why it was abandoned before she went there again.
Only in this way could she go there again to make an investigation.
After taking a hot bath and drinking two bowls of ginger soup, Lin ngya felt most of the coldness in her body had been dispelled.
At this ti, the clouds and mist had dispersed, and the sky was dazzlingly clear.
Although Lin ngya would like to take a breath of the fresh air after the rain, she was kept behind the brocade curtain by Baisu to catch up on her sleep.
“Miss, is the bedding dirty? Why did you change them by yourself? You’d better leave this kind of rough work to soone else next ti!” After tucking her in, Baisu looked at the bedding piled up on the ground and asked in confusion.
Huddling in the quilt, Lin ngya was stunned for a mont and said in embarrassnt, “Uh... I... I accidentally spilled the tea last night. You know, I have always been afraid of thunder and don’t trust others, so I...”
It was all Long Tianyu’s fault for acting recklessly last night, and she did not even notice when he changed the bedding.
She blushed. Although it was not inappropriate for them, husband and wife, to do so, Baisu’s question gave her the illusion that she was caught in adultery.
She decided she must ask Long Tianyu to restrain himself in future!
But she then thought of another thing: she seed to be quite active as well.
Gosh! She was terribly ashad of herself!
She crawled into bed and tucked in the bed curtain to keep off the cold wind.
Baisu considerately lit so sedative incense for her. Soon, Lin ngya, whose body and nerves were tense, fell asleep in the quilt.
Fortunately, when she was in the Liuxin Courtyard, she usually slept with her maids on rainy days.
Therefore, Baisu did not expect that Lin ngya would act so recklessly last night.
The quiet room was filled with the sweet fragrance of the sedative incense.
By the ti Lin ngya woke up, it was already dark.
It was getting late, and it had just rained, so it was a little cold outside.
Lin ngya, who had nothing to do after getting enough sleep, could only sit at the desk and read.
Baisu had prepared a lot of things for her. Apart from food and drinks, the writing brush, ink stick, paper and inkstone. Lin ngya usually used and the books she liked, such as travel notes and biographies, were neatly placed on one side of the desk.
At her feet, there was a small brazier of burning charcoal with sweet milk tea above it.
Lying on the large wool cushion, Lin ngya couldn’t help grinning foolishly.
This life of leisure was worth living.
But a maid as considerate as Baisu was indispensable.
“Baisu, have you ever thought about what kind of life you want to live in this lifeti?” Lin ngya asked.
Getting tired of reading, she picked up a piece of red bean pastry, put it into her mouth and intended to enlighten Baisu.
Baisu had stayed in Lin ngya’s courtyard for a relatively short ti. Although she had a close relationship with Lin ngya, she did not live as freely as the other maids did.
She had never approved of these girls giving up their lives for her.
For example, Baishao had found the life she wanted, and Baiji and Baizhi began to live for themselves.
Only Baisu in front had been secretly atoning for her mistake that could not be counted as a betrayal, thinking Lin ngya didn’t notice it.
However, Baisu was equally important to Lin ngya.
As Baisu’s elder sister, how could Lin ngya be unaware of it?
“? I will be satisfied as long as I can stay by your side. Compared with others, I’m much luckier,” Baisu said.
Watched by Lin ngya, she felt uneasy.
She only behaved like a lively girl of her age in front of Lin ngya.
After years of killing, she had almost forgotten what a free life was like.
“I haven’t heard much about your past. Anyway, I’ve had enough sleep today and feel so bored. Can you tell about your childhood? I really want to know how you grew up into a swordswoman,” Lin ngya rested her chin on her hand and said, brimming with interest.
Baisu was the most honest among the girls, as well as the most stubborn.
As such, if Lin ngya intended to free Baisu’s mind, she must find out the truth of what Baisu had beco first.
After years of enlightening people, Lin ngya was keenly aware of this.
“Nothing special. I’m an orphan and had followed my masters to practice martial arts since I was twelve years old. Later, the general sent to work for young master, and then I t you,” Baisu said.
She was impassive at the ntion of her past.
Seeing her emotionless face, Lin ngya supposed it was not a fond mory.
After she finished her narration listlessly, Lin ngya did not give up, blinked her big eyes and continued asking, “What about your mory before the age of twelve? You should be able to rember what had happened before the age of twelve, right?”
Baisu nodded, then shook her head.
Then she said, “Actually, I have a little bit of mory before the age of twelve, but maybe because I was too young back then, I can’t rember it clearly. I only rember that when I was six or seven years old, I seed to have followed a woman all the ti. I can’t rember her appearance, but she often took to visit a little girl secretly. Co to think of it... I just have a vague mory of the little girl’s appearance. The only thing I can rember is that the little girl was very cute, and that woman was very cordial. I think they should be my family mbers. I can’t rember anything other than these.”
Seeing Baisu trying hard to recall, Lin ngya knocked on the desk subconsciously and even forgot to drink her milk tea.
She had asked Xiaoyu and learned that Baisu was only eighteen years old and one year younger than her.
Normally speaking, Baisu should retain a clearer mory of what had happened at the age of seven or eight.
Could it be that Baisu was also abducted from her parents in that perverted manner?
Soon, she denied this possibility, because Xiaoyu had ntioned that Baisu’s identity was very special.
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