Embroidery Girl
chapter 18: the coachman

The light entered gently from behind the curtain, touching his face. He scrunched his forehead. The wind blowing the curtains made him wave. He opened his eyes and stood up. He wiped his eyes and looked around him. He felt shaken, and felt a sword swirling beneath him. “Am I on the train?” he immediately opened the window curtain and looked outside. The desert looks so beautiful outside. Some crows perched on the branches of trees, they seemed to be waiting for prey.

“Aunt ying, where are we going? That guy's... That guy's.... Has he given it?” Li Xin Mei asked worriedly.

“Quiet miss beautiful. Aunt told you she would help you. That guy won't bother you anymore. We will go around and see the beauty of this chinese plain.”

“is this really real? Aunt, this is not a dream ‘kan?”

“No miss beautiful, you are really on the train at the moment.”

Xin Mei then searched for her sword and statue. Not finding it, he asked Lu yingtao.

“sword little miss..” Lu yingtao raised his head and started thinking. “ah... Sorry, I forgot to bring it. Does the pretty lady like it very much?”

Xin Mei wanted to take it, yet she was reminded of the sight that was outside, which meant she had already walked far away. And so, with a sad expression, xin mei shook her head. He did not want to trouble the two people in front of him, let alone just meet them.

He again looked outside and felt the softness of the wind. It was true, he was now in the horse carriage. He then entered, and asked where they were going.

Lu Yingtao explained, that they were going to the most beautiful places that Li Xin Mei had never seen. Take her away, and live peacefully. He did not say where they would definitely go.

When the sun was above, suddenly the horse carriage stopped slowly.

Li Xin Mei asked if they had arrived. However, Lu yingtao shook his head, and ordered Jing heihai to come out.

“Those foolish humans have misplaced us as their target.” He picked up the sword standing beside his seat, then went outside.

“Aibi, what will brother jing do?”

“nona beautiful nothing to fear. It always happens in this chaotic world. Just shut up here, let's just say outside nothing happened.” Lu yingtao softly explained, but in his eyes there were sharp flashes like wanting to kill someone.

Li Xin Mei nodded and drowned her head in Lu yingtao's lap. I don't know why, he likes this so much. Maybe he misses his time with his mother. When she was a child, she always did this under a peach tree when her mother came to visit. They always do this. Enjoy the view and feel the soft wind.

Outside, the coachman man stood up with a sharp gaze and had already drawn his sword. When jing heihai came he said without turning his head, “they want to charge money as a road ticket. If they don't, they threaten to kill us all. Let me teach them to be careful when choosing their prey.”

The coachman was also a swordsman, but his knowledge was not high enough, however, he was able to overcome the ten masked men in front of him. Always traveling long distances and keeping his passengers safe on the way, he trained his swordsmanship. Bandits always roam around in the view of the sand and lonely places like this, and he always travels to such places, hence, he already has experience in dealing with things like this.

“Let me fight it. You just sit down. They're just stupid criminals.”

“But...”.

Using bows and arrows is a weapon that can prevent unwanted things from happening. Due to the long distance and preventing death, the weapon was supposed to be their weapon and the most powerful weapon.

The 10 men shouted and ran to surround Jing heihai. They all raised their swords.

Jin heihai smiled sinisterly. He then raised his sword horizontally. Gently, the finger of his left hand flicked his sword blade.

Then sound waves like water waves spread out in all directions. His voice was also loud and swollen ears. So hard, some of the leaves of the tree swayed.

And hereafter... Something very terrible happened...

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“Why are you bothering me again?” coldly and flatly, Tang Li said to the girl in front of him. He had no idea what was happening, he was already in an endless stretch of white like this. There was nothing but white and wind blowing.

Although the girl in front of him was very much missed, he had already frozen his feelings and discarded all the useless and only painful memories of the past.

Before, before being here, he remembered once, he left the tavern after the rain had subsided. Then sit under a tree and lean his body.

Xin Mei was already not going to, she had already gone to accept the tribulation of the world, she did not need to dirty her hands for her enemy's daughter and everything was done. He would go to the mountain and end his life quietly there. Hear the chirping of birds, breathe fresh air and enjoy the scenery every day. There was nothing pleasant other than that after the bloody tragedy he had previously experienced.

The girl in front of him smiled faintly. White dress waving in the wind. He looks very happy. Both of his eyes revealed pleasure and joy after meeting the person he loved so much. Long she kept quiet before saying softly, “Have you forgotten me?”

Tang Li did not answer.

“It's been years. You've changed again. You look so cold and bloody, but I know from behind your face, you're suffering so much. You're too bloody, you can't calm down after your revenge. All your life will be filled with big question marks and you will never find the answer.”

“...you are wrong, I have found it, and now, my task is done, I will go to the mountain and live a quiet life there. Don't ever bother me again. I don't want to remember you anymore. You're dead, you shouldn't bother the living.”

“I am your lover, I can't calm down if you walk like this, you walk on a beautiful bridge with the blue sky of the sea, but underneath there are embers that always haunt you and make you hot.”

“Don't ever bother me again!” Tang Li turned around and walked away.

“Save the girl..”.

Tang Li was silent. He never expected to hear that from jia-jia. Then he laughed like crazy. “I'll never save him. I will make him suffer greatly and torment him.” He then goes on a journey.