Chapter 5: The man with a knife in his heart

This evening, when a cold wind got into the carriage, Qin Jue's eyelashes trembled and opened his eyes suddenly!
"Woke up?"
A soft voice came from him, and Qin Jue subconsciously looked at it, and saw Xie Linlang sitting next to him, looking at him, and seeing him getting up, as soon as she raised her wrist, she poured a cup of tea and handed it over.
"Just wake up, come, drink some hot water to moisturize your throat."
Seeing her, all the memories of Qin Jue's coma came into his mind.
Did Xie Linlang rescue him? How could she appear here? Didn't she go to the North for disaster relief? Even if she returned to Beijing, the emperor could not let her come to him, unless the emperor asked her to come?
All kinds of suspicions flashed through his mind, he avoided the tea Xie Linlang handed over, his eyes were like sharp blades, and he looked straight into her eyes.
"...Xie Linlang, why are you here?"
Seeing that he was very resistant and full of hostility, Xie Linlang was taken aback for a moment. To be honest, although a lot of things had happened in the past six months, she did not expect that Qin Jue would be so hostile when facing her.
Holding the tea, she changed hands and took a sip first, and then said.
"Your Majesty, don't worry about it. The reason why I am here is to come here by your majesty's order and you to Xiangcheng."
Qin Jue chuckled when he heard the words.
"...You have a master who loves you so much, will you receive this kind of task?"
He is an abandoned prince, the people betrayed their relatives, and the body of sin, and Xie Linlang is the royal nobility, Jinke champion, the emperor should not send her.
Xie Linlang shook her head, "Your Majesty really didn't send me at the beginning, but I wanted to come."
"why?"
"Because, repay."
Her words made Qin Jue pause, repaying his favor? He didn't remember that he had shown favor to Xie Linlang.
And Xie Linlang didn't intend to conceal anymore, and said directly.
"You didn't ask me before, why did I treat you well the first time I met? In fact, the reason is very simple, because your mother once saved me."
"Seven years ago, the Queen Empress saved my life, and she helped me change my name and surname, so I can start again."
"In order not to reveal my previous affairs, the Queen Mother also agreed with me that even if we meet again, she will only act as if she didn't know her before, so very few people know that she has saved me.
But this life-saving grace, the love of reconstruction, I have always kept in mind, but..."
It was just because of various reasons that it failed to report to the queen.
She paused, looked at Qin Jue and said, "Anyway, as long as you know, I am both your friend and I owe your mother's kindness.
Now that she is no longer there, I will come to you, no matter what your situation is, how difficult it will be in the future, I don't care, because I want to repay. "
She spoke earnestly and her expression was serious, but Qin Jue listened, and after being stunned, she laughed lowly.
"Repaying..."
He murmured, his tone was an indescribable mockery.
Regardless of whether what she said was true...Of course, in his situation, she didn't need to lie to him, but did she report her favor too late?
At the beginning, his mother took him to escape and left the capital. Along the way, in order not to be captured by the emperor, how many people did the helpful mother ask for whom she had helped before?
But most of those people avoided seeing them, and some even sent a whistleblower to the capital, making their situation more difficult!
In the end, had it not been for Anbu to find them first, and desperately protect each other, they would not have been able to escape the border of Qin State...
How desperate was his mother at that time?
When she was alive, she didn't meet anyone who knew her kindness, but when she died, suddenly someone appeared to repay her kindness.
How ridiculous, how ridiculous?
He laughed and coughed, and Xie Linlang quickly handed him the teacup in his hand. This time he did not refuse and drank it straight away.
After the burning sensation in his throat faded, he looked at her and asked in a dumb voice.
"...Xie Linlang, have you ever heard a story?"
"what story?"
Qin Jue coughed and whispered.
"It's a story of repaying kindness."
"... Said that there was a pair of brothers who had to ask for help because they had no food and were famine.
The elder brother said that he was going to ask for help from the family he had helped. The younger brother said that he was going to ask for help from the family that had helped him, and then the two separated.
Guess...the last brothers, who survived? "
Xie Linlang frowned and did not speak.
"It's the younger brother."
Qin Jue didn't sell the gate, but directly solved the mystery.
"Because he is willing to help others, he is more soft-hearted, and may have been helping others, and the people being helped...Who knows if he is a person in his bones? Will he avenge him?
Perhaps he has a knife hidden in his heart, and he is only ready to kill someone when necessary, even if that person is a benefactor. "
As he said, he suddenly approached and asked Xie Linlang's face with his right hand wrapped in gauze.
"Are you the one with the knife in his heart?"
"Everyone in the world is evil, but you say that you come with kindness, don't you think it is ridiculous?"
As he said, he laughed seriously, his eyes full of mockery.
Xie Linlang heard the words and looked up at him deeply.
"Everyone in the world is evil, and there are many avengers of grace, but how can you be sure that I am not the one who knows the reward?"
She asked naturally, and her voice was serious and firm, "I thought I grew up together, and you know me enough. So, that's what you think of me?"
Seeing her overly bright, no evasive eyes, Qin Jue gradually closed his smile and squinted.
In other words, the person in front of me has always looked like this righteous and awe-inspiring from childhood to most of the time... As long as it is something she believes, she won't repent, and she will not be able to pull back the things she has to do. But what? He does not need!
Thinking of this, he smiled coldly at the corner of his mouth, retracted his hand, and leaned back.
"You are right, what if you are a special case?"
He coughed a few more times, and said in a low voice, "...then treat it as if you are here to repay me, but you saved my life before, and the grievances are offset. You no longer owe my mother."
Seeing him rejecting people thousands of miles away like this, Xie Linlang felt a little worried.
Obviously, their relationship was pretty good before, so why not reject her like this?
"It was part of my duty to save you before! I will send you to Xiangcheng. As for how to repay your gratitude, I have my own plan, and you won't bother."
Seeing her stupidly insisting on jumping into the pit, Qin Jue's eyes were cold, staring at her and asking.
"Then how can you give up the ridiculous idea of ​​repaying your kindness?"
Xie Linlang swept through his wounds, and her voice suddenly became very low.
"Unless you prove to me, you can protect yourself."
She took it for granted, seriously.
But the posture of the protector, and the care that was inadvertently revealed, made Qin Jue feel as uncomfortable as if he was stabbed by a needle!
It's ridiculous, obviously he has been dragged into the abyss forever! Why are there fools who want to bump into it somehow?
He sneered, "So, are you gonna bet with me?"
"What bet?"
Qin Jue coughed a few times and squinted out the window.
"My injuries are caused by the group of people outside. If I can prevent them from hurting me any more, will it prove that I don't need you to repay me?"
Xie Linlang shook his head, "They are all poisoned, so it is natural and simple to deal with it. If you encounter an assassin again, can you retreat all over?"
"Then if I retreat all over, will you disappear from me?"
His aggressive attitude made Xie Linlang pause, and before she could answer, there was a loud noise outside.