Chapter 214 Laws

After discussing all the details with Zheng Anshun, Qin Mubai and his party bid farewell to Li Ke and left the Assassin House. Zheng Anshun took the two elite soldiers sent by Qin Mubai to change their clothes and followed them as companions.

Two groups of people said goodbye at the gate of the Assassin's Mansion and went to each other.

Qin Mubai looked at Zheng Anshun's back a few times and joked Chen Yan, "Sometimes I really envy a prince like Zheng Anshun. He is full of talent and rich and rich. It seems that there is nothing he is worried about when he is born. Typical people are dragons and phoenixes, leisurely and leisurely!"

"What you said is really hypocritical." Chen Yan teased him, "Maybe Zheng Anshun is still secretly jealous of you!"

"Haha, no way!" Qin Mubai smiled and said, "The Zheng family is the richest man in the Tang Dynasty, the young master of the Zheng family. I don't know how many women are infatuated with him. How can I compare with him!"

"Do you men only care about this?" Chen Yan showed a trace of disdain on her face and shook her head, "I don't like men like Zheng Anshun."

"Why?"

"Why not. If you don't like it, you just don't like it." Chen Yan frowned and added, "Probably because he gave me the feeling was a little too illusory. He is too perfect to appear unreal. Such a man only appears in the dreams of ignorant girls. Once he enters reality, his dreams will be dashed. In contrast, I prefer real men. Bloody and emotional, there is no need to be excellent, but you must live a serious and responsible life. He can even have some small shortcomings, which will make him more real and more like a living person.

"Oh, it's the first time I've heard you talk about the ideal man in your mind." Qin Mubai curled his lips and said with a joking smile, "It sounds very simple, but in fact... it's very demanding!"

"Ha ha, isn't it?" Chen Yan cut her hands behind her back and walked slowly. She lowered her head and said with a smile, "In short, it's the kind of man who is usually visible but valuable."

"Isn't it a contradiction that is common and valuable?" Qin Mubai was puzzled.

"It's not contradictory." Chen Yan shook her head and said, "The so-called ordinary sight is a very ordinary man, not Zheng Anshun's kind of man who attracts a lot of attention; it is precious that he must have a certain characteristic to attract me."

"What characteristics?" Qin Mubai broke the casserole and asked to the end.

Chen Yan smiled and said, "Why do you ask so in detail?"

"Don't you know that I've always been very good?" Qin Mubai laughed and blurted out.

"Three or eight, what do you mean?" Chen Yan was puzzled.

"Uh-huh... That's right, just like the three aunts and six women in the vegetable market, like to chew their tongues when they have nothing to do, like to inquire about other people's privacy, and make trouble." Qin Mubai said with a smile.

"Gig, it's really an image metaphor!" Chen Yan laughed.

Qin Mubai stared at her and smiled, and couldn't help shaking his head.

"What's the matter?" Chen Yan's face was embarrassed and a little red.

"Nothing." Qin Mubai said, "You actually look good when you smile. Now it is difficult for you to connect with your previous image."

"Real?" Chen Yan gently picked the corners of her mouth and said, "Is my image in your mind relatively fierce and cold?"

"No." Qin Mubai said with a smile.

"What is that?"

"Why is the question so detailed and thorough?" Qin Mubai copied Chen Yan's original words to prevaricate and said with a smile, "You still tell me what kind of characteristics do you like?"

"It's hard to say. It depends." Chen Yan paused for a moment, and the corners of her mouth moved a few times as if she had something to say, but she hesitated for a moment. She hesitated and said, "Maybe the heartbeat is only in a flash. That feeling... is indescribable."

"Oh, what you want is feeling." Qin Mubai smiled and said, "A person who looks so rational is so emotional emotional."

"Aren't you supposed to understand it a long time ago?" Chen Yan smiled indifferently, as if with a little bitterness, and said leisurely with a lot of aftertaste, "Just like at the beginning, I don't know how and when I fell in love with Zhu Chengwen. For him, I would like to wait for him all my life, and I will do anything. It's a pity... I'd like to wait, but he doesn't want to stay."

"The dead are over. You should let go a little." Qin Mubai advised softly.

"Don't worry, I'm fine." Chen Yan smiled and said, "That's all in the past. Although it is worth remembering and often sad, I am not used to living in memories. For the dead, the best comfort for them is that the living live a happy life without being immersed in sadness.

"Wise and open-minded." Qin Mubai nodded and praised, "Mature women are so admirable and likable."

Chen Yan's eyebrows trembled inadvertently and said with an and smile, "You have to call me sister, but you still come to eat my tofu. It's really a slap!"

"Well, if you are injured, I won't fight with you when you are in danger." Qin Mubai smiled and said, "Now let's go back to the inn and decorate a new place!"

"Where?"

"Didn't I promise you yesterday to find a quiet place for you to recover from your wounds? It has been done." Qin Mubai said, "There is a good small courtyard in Wulifang in the south of the city. The place is not big and the environment is very good. Moreover, the characteristics of residential buildings in Xiangzhou are similar to those in the area of Huyang. You must like that house.

Chen Yan shook her head and smiled, "Mu Bai, why are you more careful than a woman? You still remember that I am from Tanzhou and like Huyang-style residence? Presumably, you must be very good at taking care of and caring for women.

"That's a must." Qin Mubai grinned and said, "Why don't you wait to be a bachelor?"

"Ha ha!" Chen Yan shook her head and smiled. She said thoughtfully, "Your romantic style is really different from Li Ke."

"Oh, why did you suddenly talk to Li Ke?" Qin Mubai's mind lit up and said with a joking smile, "Is it possible that he still has bad thoughts about you?"

"Don't worry, he has that heart and no courage." Chen Yan gently hooked the corners of her mouth and burst into a hint of disdain and coldness. She whispered, "I'm not the stupid woman around him who let him play with me. If anyone dares to disturb me like a butterfly, he will wait to be castated by a sword!"

Qin Mubai's face stiffened, and his lower body was cold like several conditioned reflexes. He laughed dryly and said, "No, no, although Li Ke is romantic, he still has some principles. It's not messing with everyone. Don't worry."

"You seem to be nervous?" Chen Yan smiled, with a pair of beautiful eyes bent like a crescent moon, and seemed to be a little more naughty and teased.

"No, why am I nervous, hahaha!" Qin Mubai laughed and strode forward with his head held high.

Chen Yan couldn't help laughing, shook her head and followed.

Soon after, the two returned to the inn. Chen Yan took the salute, medicine stickers and other things, and then rode a carriage to Wulifang in the south of the city under the leadership of the hundred-riders who was responsible for renting the house.

When she arrived at the house, Chen Yan couldn't help but light up her eyes and expressed her joy.

A small bridge, flowing water, and a delicate and simple wooden building above the water. The front of the building is full of all kinds of flowers, and the downstairs is the gurgling water.

Hearing flowers in the morning and listening to fish songs in the evening is really a secluded and elegant place, just like a paradise.

"That's great. I like it very much, just like returning to my hometown." Chen Yan walked to the flowering and took a deep breath. She smiled in a good mood and said, "Thank you very much, Mu Bai. I didn't expect that there would be such a quiet place to live in the bustling port city of Xiangzhou.

Qin Mubai smiled and said, "My brother who went out to find the rent yesterday came back and told me a few places. As soon as I heard it, I fell in love with it. Let them buy it."

"Do you still buy it?" Chen Yan frowned gently, "How much did you pay for it? I'll pay you back."

"It's vulgar to talk about money between friends." Qin Mubai smiled and said, "You can live in Xiangzhou as long as I rent it to you for free. Anyway, my food and accommodation are in the barracks, and the cost is all covered by the army. But if you stay in that place for a long time, people will easily go crazy. Maybe when I will come here to live and change my mood.

"Why, do you still want to hide the girl in the golden house?" Chen Yan smiled and said, "It's a pity that I'm not coquettish at all, and I'm quite fierce."

"Haha, you are so funny!" Qin Mubai laughed loudly to hide his embarrassment, but said in his heart: If you don't remind me, I forgot that Jinwu Zangjiao is actually not bad...

The two walked into the small wooden building. There was a hall in the middle of the first floor. The tables and tables were neatly arranged, and the wooden board was covered with soft and exquisite blankets, which was a typical southern style. The board wall is painted bright with tung oil, giving people the feeling that the window is clear and spotless, and there is no oil star in the small kitchen on the side of the room, which is clean and tight.

In the other side room, the gardener uses various flower utensils, such as pots, earth shovels and kettles. Although they are debris, they are also neatly cleaned up.

Chen Yan smiled with satisfaction and said, "It seems that I will really live here for a while. After wandering for so many years, I really want to live a quiet life for a while. It's pretty good here. The environment is good, quiet and suitable for me. If I have free time, I will fiddle with flowers and plants, and occasionally go to Hong Kong to sell flowers, which is also a living. I will no longer kill people and lick blood.

Qin Mubai smiled and said, "Sometimes I'm curious. What do you say, you knights, what do you do for a living? You have to eat, dress and stay in an inn when you travel around the world. Where does the money come from?

"Didn't I tell you just now that killing people is licking blood with a knife head!" Chen Yan giggled and said, "I can't imagine that I used to be a complete female robber!" What a knight, it's just a nice sound.

Qin Mubai shrugged his shoulders indifferently: "Thieves also have a way. Anyway, you have your own way to survive. I'm afraid it's difficult for me to understand for a while. However, I always feel that life will be very empty and boring, especially in the current peaceful and prosperous environment. Everyone lives and lives in peace and contentment, but you are floating alone. How boring!"

"Yes... It's really like what you said." Chen Yan rarely sighed, and a trace of melancholy appeared on her jade face. She said leisurely, "When I was young, I was ignorant, and I only intended to be cheerful, and I only said how majestic and happy it was to walk in the world. If you don't agree, you can draw a knife and splash blood five steps, which is sometimes very pleasant. But after that... I will often regret it. For this reason, I really lost a lot of things, and I'm a little tired of this kind of life. I feel that I have been living in the dream I have woven for myself for more than ten years, and I have lived a life that is not real at all. There is no pursuit, no ideal, and no tomorrow. It was not until Zhu Chengwen died that I suddenly realized that there are really more meaningful things in the world than drawing swords and fighting fiercely. That is, from that moment on, the dream I used to paralyze myself was completely broken. It was his death that made me understand that my life was meaningless in the past ten years.

"Is it so serious?" Qin Mubai couldn't help frowning.

"You can't understand." Chen Yan gently hooked the corners of her mouth and said sadly, "What does ten years mean for a woman? Maybe I should have married my husband and had children, and lived an ordinary woman's life. But I have been so stubbornly insisting on something that doesn't make any sense. It's really boring. The current world is not the troubled times of decades ago. The Tang Dynasty doesn't need chivalrous men. Because the thieves and bandits of the Tang Dynasty have people like Qin Mubai to clean up, and they don't need Chen Yan to do it. Isn't it?"

"Uh...haha!" Qin Mubai was stunned and then laughed, "You look up to me so much!"

"Don't laugh, I'm serious." Chen Yan said seriously, "If it hadn't been for meeting you, it would have been difficult for me to change my original intention. To tell you the truth, I have really killed a lot of people over the years, among which there are many thieves and bandits who are evil, evil people who bully the market, and fierce gentry and evil officials who are not evil. Therefore, until then, I did not trust the government or the law. I have always believed that the government is the government of the rich, and the law is set up to protect the rich. Look at those so-called laws. If the owner kills his maidservant, he only needs to pay the copper (penalty) to be exonerated. However, if the maid beats and scolds the owner, she can be hanged or exiled. Is this fair? Therefore, I often hold people's arms. No one begged me, but I volunteered to do it.

Qin Mubai shook his head helplessly and said with a smile, "I can't help it. I can't change this situation. No matter what kind of world it is, there are his established laws. When we can't change it, we can only adapt. Or... make yourself a person who benefits you with the law."

"Make yourself a person who benefits you by the law?" Chen Yan chewed this sentence carefully and searched for a long time. She nodded and smiled, "You are very smart. This sentence really hit the nail on the head. In contrast, you are much broader and more distant than me. You're right. When you become a superior person, you can use the law to do a lot of things you want to do. It is a metaphor for Chen Yan, who is a subordinate. She can only use my sword to cut down the unhity in the world and kill unworthy people. However, this simple and rough method of restraining violence obviously has little effect. This time I fell in Xiangzhou. As a result, in prison, a small prison official can also determine my life and death; but you, Qin Mubai, can use the law to have stronger strength. Although you don't have a sword in your hand, you can control the sword to kill people and kill many people. You only need to use your brain and mouth to kill them invisibly. This is power! - Seriously, when you rescued me from prison, I felt the beauty of power for the first time!"

"Ha ha! Your intelligence is more than I can imagine. You are so enlightening! If you are an official, you must have a bright future. Qin Mubai sighed.

"No, I can't be an official at all. I'm straightforward in everything I do. Cold guns and hidden arrows in officialdom may be easier to kill than swords and shadows in the world. Chen Yan smiled and said, "However, I don't mind having some friends who are officials now. Of course, it must be like you."

"Is that right?" Qin Mubai raised his eyebrows and said, "That's really my honor."

After saying that, Qin Mubai thought in his heart: Why have I always ignored that Chen Yan is the "Wenjia Emperor" who instigated the uprising in history? Her understanding and thoughts are beyond most women in this era, even most men. Perhaps in the eyes of others, Chen Yanli is rebellious and unruly, and even a little unreasonable, but I have a sense of déjà vu with her. Because in her, I almost feel a little bit of the thinking characteristics of women in the 21st century. Sharp, bold, confident, and full of autonomy and openness, which is very much like a female white-collar worker who makes a career in the city.

No wonder we are so close to each other.

It's not easy to meet such a woman in the Tang Dynasty!