HIDDEN EVIL [XIAO SHUXIANG THE SERIES]

HIDDEN EVIL [XIAO SHUXIANG THE SERIES]
63 - Wang Zhao's

"You're okay, right?" Wang Zhao looked so worried about Xiao Shuxiang's condition. He was the servant who had previously invited this young man to look for firewood in the forest.


"Mr Xiao, I'm really sorry for hurting you. I .... Don't really want to do it,"


"........"


Wang Zhao slightly bowed as he said softly, "I..."


"No need to say anything," Xiao Shuxiang patted the dust on his shoulders and clothes. "Seeing you guilt-ridden like this keeps me from hitting you. Hiya... I must have been a good man,"


Xiao Shuxiang shook his head softly when he felt that he had started to take pity on someone. In his heart he rubbed his chest and hoped that this action would not make him a weak person.


"How are you?" Xiao Shuxiang finally asked, he noticed there was a water mark on the cheek of this young man and was insistent on being sure that the young maid in front of him had just cried.


Wang Zhao shook his head, "I'm fine,"


"Yes, man." Xiao Shuxiang patted Wang Zhao softly on the shoulder and said, "If you're afraid of doing bad, then you shouldn't do that. Understood?"


"But .... I've hurt you. I've put you in danger,"


"Right, you almost got me dead."


!!


Wang Zhao was startled and intended to kneel apologizing to Xiao Shuxiang as his body was held back by the young man. He was wide-eyed and very much did not expect Xiao Shuxiang to be hugging him.


"You're a fuck? Kneeling for forgiveness from me and everything will not go back to the way it was." Xiao Shuxiang exhaled and gently rubbed Wang Zhao's back.


"Mr Xiao..."


"Here you go, don't feel guilty. If not you, someone else will be in your position right now. I know you're a good man,"


"Master Xiao...!" Wang Zhao hugged Xiao Shuxiang tightly and could not help but cry anymore. He was truly sorry for already hurting this young man.


Wang Zhao could judge Xiao Shuxiang. For him, this young man was a figure who never discriminated against others. He knew that Xiao Shuxiang was not from among ordinary humans or ordinary cultivators, but it was unbelievable that this figure even hugged him without any hesitation at all.


"Oh, don't cry anymore. You're a man. A man abstained from crying," Xiao Shuxiang calmed Wang Zhao down without realizing that they were being seen by others.


?!


Mo Huai had just finished with one basket of weeds and blinked when he caught Xiao Shuxiang and a young man hugging. His facial expression is difficult to describe.


"Are you okay now?"


Mo Huai heard Xiao Shuxiang's voice. He saw the young man slowly let go of his embrace and was so attentive to the servant. His facial expression began to deteriorate.


"Smoke your tears. Geez, how can you be this crybaby? How old are you, huh?" Xiao Shuxiang could not believe the figure before him was actually crying.


"I... 20 Years old," Wang Zhao rubbed his face, his voice raspy. He made Xiao Shuxiang nearly fall.


"You're 20 Years old? 20 Years and still this crybaby?!" Xiao Shuxiang shook his head in disbelief. "alright... I assume you have a soft heart as you know. Come on, let's get you a drink."


Xiao Shuxiang gently rubbed Wang Zhao's back and led him along. To the other person's view, the act invites strange thoughts. But actually Xiao Shuxiang's treatment was only natural.


Sometimes, he regarded those around him as young children. Even his harsh treatment of Dao Fang An was because Xiao Shuxiang felt that his age was older than that annoying grandfather.


"........"


Mo Huai exhaled and then decided to follow Xiao Shuxiang. He had to make sure that the young man did not make trouble.


Mo Huai saw Wang Zhao being taken to the bamboo hut where Xiao Shuxiang lived. He blinked as the door closed with two young men inside.


"Don't know why .... But I feel the need to get closer to that place." Mo Huai steadied his heart.


Inside his own hut, Xiao Shuxiang asked Wang Zhao to sit on his bed. He himself took water for the young man and began to sit on a pitcher of water wearing a wooden cover. He apologized for not having a chair in the room.


Wang Zhao's gaze circulated and indeed this wooden hut was extremely simple. The room is small and there is only a wooden bulkhead as a separator that is where someone can clean themselves.


Wang Zhao exhaled softly, he knew who treated Xiao Shuxiang like this. "Grandfather Dao is a good man. I was also previously given a much simpler residence than this,"


Wang Zhao nodded slowly, "I originally stayed beside the stables. His place... You can imagine what it's like,"


Xiao Shuxiang's expression was somewhat pale, he nodded. "My imagination has always been amazing. If it was me... This Xiao Shuxiang will definitely go berserk. I'm really gonna hang that old jackfruit and slap his ass,"


Wang Zhao smiled, "If grandfather Dao hears it-your- butt will be slapped first. Grandfather was actually my helper, he asked me to work here so that I could also take part in the training of the disciples and find my own skills. But yeah..."


"Difficult? Right, right?"


"Mn, I don't have any talent. At the age of 20... My cultivation practice has not increased at all. I was afraid to hold a sword. What's... According to Master Xiao it's bad?"


Xiao Shuxiang crossed his arms in front of his chest and sighed, "That's not a bad thing. I myself was taught to hold a dagger when I was 5 months old. I was taken to the arena of life and death when I was 5 years old. I started taking other people's lives when I was very young and it got worse after I was an adult. I'm telling you, it's a good thing if you can become a swordsman without ever killing anyone."


Wang Zhao looked at Xiao Shuxiang deeply. He had actually held his breath when he heard that this young man had taken many lives. Though from the looks of it, Xiao Shuxiang was clearly like a fine young man.


"What... You reckon... I can become a warrior without taking the lives of others?" Wang Zhao asked with a serious facial expression.


"Maybe it's hard, but you can do it. You just need to be strong,"


"........"


Xiao Shuxiang could see that the figure before him was smiling bitterly. Wang Zhao bowed as if being strong was a difficult thing to realize.


Xiao Shuxiang sighed, "I must have been out of my mind because I just thought of a way to help him."


Xiao Shuxiang scratched his non-itchy cheek softly and then shook his head, "It's best not to. Do not interfere in other people's problems. He must have his own desire to change if he wants to be strong,"


?!


Xiao Shuxiang spontaneously turned his head when he heard a foreign voice coming from the door of his hut. He walked over and opened the door. The one behind the door turned out to be Mo Huai.


"What are you doing standing outside like this...?" xiao Shuxiang's forehead shriveled before he finally snapped. "You eavesdropped, huh...?"


Mo Huai was startled and immediately shook his head, "I-I just arrived. Tu-Young Master Xiao, you are... What's?"


"cheating." Xiao Shuxiang replied spontaneously.


Xiao Shuxiang, "It just so happens that my Lan Guan Zhi is not here. I also can't meet the White Cat and there's no Hu Li. You also rarely accompany me, so I am of course looking for a new partner. But when I was still in the 'Advance' stage, you had eavesdropped. Tsk, how's this..."


Mo Huai blinked a few times and seriously asked Xiao Shuxiang. "Young Master Xiao, you must be kidding me right?"


"You think about it yourself," Xiao Shuxiang let out a slow snort and then stepped in. "Why stay there? Don't want to join?"


Mo Huai's expression looked dark before the young man finally let out a slow breath. "Young Master Xiao, don't be like this. If Miss Ling knew, she would be very sad..."


"I'm with a man, not a woman. So, the White Cat would not take it at all."


"It is precisely because of the male that you can be considered to have a distorted disorder again," Mo Huai muttered softly. He followed Xiao Shuxiang in and just took a good look at this residence of Guardian Protector Ling Qing Zhu's figure.


Mo Huai shook his head slowly, he felt that whoever gave Xiao Shuxiang shelter was a bad person. This bamboo hut is nothing but a water storage and a pile of wood, really not worth living in.


Xiao Shuxiang himself seemed confused to want to have Mo Huai sit where. He doesn't have a seat in this place. The only thing is only a bed made of bamboo with a straw mat.


"Mo Huai, sit anywhere you like--!"


"Xiao Shuxiang's...!"


?!


Wang Zhao and Mo Huai heard an exclamation coming from outside, as did Xiao Shuxiang. 


Protector Ling Qing Zhu's guardian was seen exhaling, "This time who else came..."


"Xiao Shuxiang's...! Come out...!"


Wang Zhao's expression was so serious. The voice he heard was like carrying something unpleasant. Mo Huai also felt that the visit of others out there was not for something good.


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