Country Maiden: Fields and Fortune

421, Consolation and Persuasion (3rd Update)

She wanted to say something, only to find she couldn’t utter a word, her eyes reddening, her throat feeling choked.

“Miss!”

Silly Girl tightly embraced Xie Zhinuan.

Xie Zhinuan barely came back to her senses, “I, I killed someone!”

Seeing Yuanbao kill someone and killing someone with her own hands was different.

Totally different.

“Miss, if you didn’t kill him, he would have killed you!” Silly Girl hugged Xie Zhinuan tightly, helping her into the inner room.

The men left behind by Li Hengyi quickly appeared, disposed of the body, and took it away to investigate where he came from. Aunt Chen and Grandma Chen quickly brought water to clean away the bloodstains.

They also lit agarwood incense.

The room seemed as if nothing had ever happened.

Xie Zhinuan sat in a chair, staring blankly.

“Miss…” Silly Girl called out softly.@@novelbin@@

Xie Zhinuan lifted her gaze upon hearing her.

Looking at Silly Girl, “On the first day of the new year, I killed someone. This year…”

Inside her heart, there was still a bit of taboo.

Some discomfort.

She was very clear that the assassin had come for her, that if she hadn’t fought back, she would have been the one to die.

But still…

“The first time I killed someone, I was five years old. I killed a little friend who was locked in a cage with me!” Silly Girl spoke softly, pouring a cup of hot water for Xie Zhinuan.

“Because if I didn’t kill her, I would have died. Back then, I was young, but there were weapons in the cage, daggers, long knives. To survive, I grabbed a dagger and a long knife. She had nothing, and I stabbed her with the knife. She was surprised but then she looked at me and smiled!”

Silly Girl sat beside Xie Zhinuan.

Her eyes too had reddened.

“The second time I killed someone was half a month later. I killed the winner from another cage. She had also killed before and knew what to do with the dagger and long knife. She quickly grabbed the long knife, I only got the dagger. Although I killed her in the end, I was wounded too, and after recuperating for three months, I fought people again. Only later did I find out it was a gambling house, betting on who could live and come out. I just happen to make a lot of money for the gambling house that time because many people thought the person who grabbed the long knife would win!”

“Not until a manager spotted me, took me to the mountains for training, and I became an assassin, working specifically for His Highness. But actually, life wasn’t much easier than at the gambling house, relentless training, no end in sight, no hope, until I met you, Miss…”

Silly Girl looked at her own hands.

“These hands of mine have been stained with much blood, some deserved to die and some were innocent, but I couldn’t care too much about that. Following orders was our duty!”

Xie Zhinuan looked at Silly Girl.

Silly Girl also looked at Xie Zhinuan.

“Thank you for comforting me,” Xie Zhinuan said softly, pulling her feet up onto the chair and wrapping her arms around herself.

In a faint voice, “Just that there’s a hurdle in my heart I can’t quite get over!”

Silly Girl understood.

So, she also believed that Xie Zhinuan would think things through.

“Miss, you rest well. I’ll handle the rest!”

Xie Zhinuan lifted her gaze to Silly Girl, “Should we report this to the authorities?”

“No need to report it, we’ll deal with it privately!”

Xie Zhinuan pursed her lips, raising her gaze to Silly Girl, “I guess it was the Liang Family!”

In Fengping County, there were many who dreaded her, and not a few who hated her, but only a handful dared to take risks.

The Liang Family had their reasons to be brazen.

Fearing that she would recall the past, and then cause trouble, ensuring that no one from the Liang Family would come to a good end.

“Miss, the Liang Family…”

Xie Zhinuan let out a slow breath, standing up to straighten her clothes.

Her garments were spotlessly clean, not a drop of blood had touched them.

The rich aroma of agarwood in the room gradually settled her restless heart.

“Let’s pretend nothing happened. I’ll see just what the Liang Family is planning,” Xie Zhinuan said heavily.

Chapter 423