The wilderness is endless, vast and desolate, but it makes it easy for her to feel like the Xilin Gol Prairie.
It had been a long time since she had gone to the wilderness on horseback. This was indeed a torturous thing for a woman who grew up on horseback. However, in order not to cause any trouble to Shao Kefan, Jian Xin resisted this desire every time.
However, she still went to see Yaka every few days. Those deep eyes concealed a lot of Wei Ma's thoughts, and all the unspeakable words were condensed in them.
"Yaka, turn into human form." She stroked Yaka's plump vestibule, but did not say these words again. She no longer knew what her feelings were for it. Did she treat it as a human or a horse?
Yaka always looked at her quietly, his eyelashes trembling slightly.
The desire to ride a horse is getting stronger and stronger, and the joyful and refreshing feeling of riding has been with her growing up, but now it feels like she has lost something important, and she feels empty inside.
"I want to ride a yaka to the wilderness." I finally plucked up the courage to say it, which was like asking for advice.
Shao Kefan put down the book he was reviewing and looked up at her, "If you want to go, just go. No one will stop you."
"You don't even care about my safety. If I were kidnapped by another country, you would be in trouble again."
Jian Xin was a little angry. She came here specifically to tell him this just to ask him to accompany her, but she didn't expect to get such an answer.
"I know you have always wanted to go. I have become a burden to you, making you unable to be free physically and mentally. I'm really sorry, but it just so happens..." Shao Kefan stopped talking, with a trace of guilt in his eyes.
Jian Xin was stunned for a moment. She felt guilty because riding her horse might have a negative impact on him!
"What if someone comes to arrest me and I can't beat them?" Seeing him pick up the knife again, she covered his eyes with her hands.
"I will send someone to protect you. From now on, she will be your personal guard." Shao Kefan took off her hand and closed the cover.
"Personal guard? Who is it?" Jian Xin couldn't help but be curious and find it new.
"She is a killer and a bodyguard. Now she is employed by me and is at my disposal."
"Are you very good at martial arts?"
"It's equivalent to fifty of you." Shao Kefan raised his eyebrows and smiled contemptuously, but his eyes were very gentle.
"Then, let me meet him."
"She's in your body." A strange look flashed across his face.
"What?" Jian Xin thought he was joking.
"Shu Zhen, come out!"
Shao Kefan's middle finger and ring finger were wrapped with a silver chain. The chain was inlaid with a bell as small as a pearl flower. As the hand shook lightly, it made a "ding-ding" sound, like a mosquito. As if being summoned, a bell came and went.
A free flow of air sprang out from Jian Xin's body. At the same time, a blue light jumped out from the mouth of the bell and merged with the air flow. A woman in a blue shirt, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, landed in front of the two of them.
The head is wrapped with a black gauze patterned scarf, and the thick hair pours down from the back. The downward extending part of the scarf covers the full forehead, and the horizontal eyebrows of suitable thickness also light up and darken as the scarf is tilted.
At her waist, there is an ancient green sword. The scabbard is ordinary and the color is ordinary. There is nothing special about it, but when it is worn on her body, it makes people think of it even more extraordinary.
Her eyes concealed a strong murderous intent, which cast a layer of gray fog over her originally bright eyes.
"Greetings to the king, master." Shu Zhen bowed slightly to the two of them.
At this time, Jian Xin was stunned to the point of shock.
This woman - came out of her body?
"No courtesy! Your responsibility is to protect Jian Xin's safety and kill anyone who tries to trick her." Shao Kefan stared at the woman in front of him expressionlessly, as if he was looking at a tool.
"Yes, Shu Zhen must live up to the great trust." The woman in blue shirt's voice was equally cold.
"But..." Jian Xin finally came to her senses, "She is inside me..."
She felt a little scared. What if, what if her consciousness was controlled by someone?
"Master, don't worry, Shu Zhen is hiding in the master's body just to hide from others and not interfere with the master." Shu Zhen explained unhurriedly.
"But - you see everything I do, and I feel unnatural." Jian Xin boldly expressed her thoughts.
"Hahaha..." Shao Kefan stood up, took off his bracelet, and wrapped it around Jian Xin's middle finger and ring finger.
"Shu Zhen is not hidden in your body, but her soul. The soul is in a dormant state and needs the call of the bell to wake up. In an emergency, you shake the bell twice and she will appear in your body.
before."
"That's what the king said." Shu Zhen bowed his head respectfully.
"Then -" Jian Xin was still confused, "where did her body go?"
This girl is a bit funny, and Shu Zhen couldn't help but move the corners of his mouth.
Shao Kefan smiled slightly and pointed to the bell on the chain. Jian Xin thought of the blue light and suddenly realized it. She couldn't help but exclaimed, "Inside the bell? What kind of martial arts is this?"
"Returning to my master, Shu Zhen has practiced the art of separation of human souls since he was ten years old, and mastered it at the age of twenty-five."
"Then this bell..." Jian Xin turned her palm over and looked at the bell in surprise, wondering if she would have to go through all the trouble to find this kind of bell if she wanted to hire her.
"This is Shu Zhen's soul-calling bell." Shu Zhen glanced at Jian Xin's fingers, but seemed to be looking at something that had nothing to do with him.
"Give the Soul Summoning Bell to whoever is responsible for protecting their safety. The body will be hidden in the bell, and the soul will be hidden in the owner's body. It can often catch the enemy off guard. Coupled with his strong martial arts, Shu Zhen has never missed a chance so far." Shao Kefan said slightly.
Open the tea lid, take a sip of tea, close it, and put it down gently, "I will get busier and busier, so I can't always protect you."
"Then, how do you take Shu Zhen back?" Jian Xin stuck out her tongue and looked at Shu Zhen sheepishly.
Shu Zhen's face remained expressionless, and those dusty eyes covered not only murderous intent, but seemed to be hiding too many things.
"In the same way, if you ring the bell twice, the human soul will be separated." Shao Kefan fell back on the armchair and glanced at Shu Zhen sharply from the corner of his eye.
Five boxes of beautiful jade, a lifetime of prosperity, and she will be employed for two years.
This woman only loves two things, money and the pleasure of killing.
"Then -" Jian Xin glanced at Shu Zhen slyly, and rang the bell twice.
A ray of blue light quickly entered the bell, and an invisible air flow rushed into her body, making her tremble, but soon she no longer felt anything.
Shu Zhen in blue has disappeared.
"Really!" Jian Xin looked at the bell on her finger excitedly.
"After sleeping, she only responds to the bell. As for what you do or say, she can't hear it." Shao Kefan said quietly.
"What if her master keeps her sleeping and doesn't let her wake up?" Jian Xin suddenly thought of this important question.
Shu Zhen's Soul Separation Technique, but he gave his life to others! How courageous it is.
"You are overthinking it. Since the master hired her, it means that he will use her." Shao Kefan said casually and calmly.
But she still heard something strange in her tone. Was it emotion, pain, helplessness, or something else?
She wanted to ask him if he was hiding something from her, but she swallowed her words when she thought of her promise: he didn't want to say it and she wouldn't force it.
"Vahan..." She didn't know what to say.
"One thing you have to remember, no matter whether there is a dangerous situation or not, you have to wake her up on the first day of every month, remember!"
Shao Kefan's tone was unusually resolute, which shocked her. Guessing that the relationship must be very important, she nodded seriously.
Lord Cang Teng smiled reassuringly, "Just go and play, I shouldn't have restricted you in the first place. I'm really too busy, so I can only go to Yiwei Palace at night. It's okay if I can help you find fun in boredom. It doesn't matter."
If anything, don't come to Qiming Palace to find me."
"Okay." Jian Xin knew his ambition to unify the wilderness, but she still felt a little sad after hearing his words. She lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes and walked out slowly.
With her heart in mind, she walked to the backyard of the palace, and when she saw Yaka, a bright smile appeared on her face, "Yaka, we can go to the wilderness."
The light of joy flashed in Yaka's eyes, and his hoof couldn't help but scratch the void.
Jian Xin got on the horse, and the long-lost feeling returned. Yaka jogged along the horse path in the palace. When she reached the edge of the wasteland, her speed suddenly accelerated. Her long hair, which had never been tied up, fluttered, and her yellow shirt was "whispered" by the wind.
Pulling it, it feels as if it is being torn apart.
As if on the Xilin Gol Prairie, the green grassland continues to stretch under the hooves of the horses, and there is still grass at the end of the horizon, making her childhood and adolescence full of life.
But during the second migration, the vast abyss and flat land were filled with dense withered grass, which neither grew nor died.
Yaka's endurance made it possible for her to never tire, but Jian Xin got tired. A question kept lingering in her mind: why did he ask her to wake Shu Zhen up at the beginning of every month?
Maybe, you can ask Shu Zhen.
Shaking the bracelet, the bell hummed twice, and in just a moment, Shu Zhen in blue landed in front of the horse.
First, he looked around cautiously. There was no dangerous situation. A trace of doubt flashed across his face, and he clasped his hands and said, "Master, what are your orders?"
"Uh...Shao Kefan wants me to wake you up once every month at the beginning of every month. Why?" Jian Xin dismounted and faced that cold face.
If a man falls in love with her beauty, his heart will soon freeze.
Jian Xin was never used to giving orders to others, especially the murderous bodyguard in front of him.
"This is an agreement between Shu Zhen and the king. It has nothing to do with the master, but the master must remember the king's warning, otherwise..."
Although Shu Zhen is employed by others, his attitude has always been neither arrogant nor humble.
"What would happen otherwise?" Jian Xin asked with a frown.
It seems that things are not as simple as just protecting her.
"Otherwise, the king's wealth and life will be in danger." Shu Zhen said coldly.
"Ah, what's the agreement between you two?" Jian Xin was surprised.
With Shao Kefan's resourcefulness and martial arts skills, how could he worry about his life?
"Master, this is a secret, Shu Shu really can't tell it."
"I am your master, there is nothing you can't tell me." Jian Xin used what she thought was a killer move.
Shu Zhen smiled lightly, "The king is my real master, because I am working for him, and my task is to protect your safety, master. What the master should bear has been borne by the king."
"What to bear?" Jian Xin felt as if her heart was about to jump out of her chest.
"This is a secret. As long as the master awakens Shu Zhen on the first day of every month and persists for two years, the king will be in peace. Even if the master forgets, the king will remind the master. The most important thing the master needs to do is to take good care of the summoned soul.
bell."
The calm tone made her uneasy.
"You seriously didn't say it?" she said angrily.
"Master, please don't force Shu Zhen. As long as the master does what he should do, it will be fine."
Despite being respectful, Shu Zhen still refused to make concessions.
Having nothing to do with her and not wanting to face her frozen face, Jian Xin shook the bell twice as if she was angry. As a blue light was sucked into the bell, a stream of air rushed into her body.
In the wasteland, calm returned again, and Yaka, who had heard and witnessed everything, silently stared at the furious Jian Xin.
She understood his intentions, he wanted to set her free, free without any worries.
There is nothing simpler than waking up Shu Zhen on the first day of every month, but she really wants to know what they agreed on and what he endured for her.
She knew that given his character, he would never say anything, and she had made a promise to him.
So, in that case, let's fulfill his wish! Shu Zhen also said that if he wakes her up on the first day of every month, he will be fine.
Although the knot in her heart was still there, she felt much more relaxed. She mounted Yaka again, flicked her ponytail, and ran towards the wilderness further away.
On the first day, I was a little nervous, but no accidents happened. After that, I felt much happier riding horses in the wilderness.
It seems that after a few months, the other country searched the wasteland and found no one. They were probably extremely disappointed. They guessed that she would not come again, and it was impossible to take her away from the palace. It was tantamount to surrendering, so they gave up their interest.