Vol 2 Chapter 25 (1/2)
Chapter 25
Chapter 25: Tofu Like Jade
Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
It took some while for Fan Xian to finally calm down The cold sweat made his clothes stick to his body
He took the long, thin dagger out the assassin's shoulder The terrible sound the blade ed from flesh and bone made him pause before he finally removed the small, insidiously hidden crossbow from the dead assassin's sleeve
The slender blade was covered in some sort of black, opaque substance Fan Xian knew that Master Fei created a black coating that was not only poisonous but that could cause excruciating pain for anyone wounded by it He carefully placed the blade inside a scabbard lanced at the corpses, those of the assassin on the bed and Old Ha the vegetable seller underneath it before he turned to leave
As he opened the door, Wu Zhu was standing quietly at the corner of the stairs ”If the carriage hadn't come, ould you have done?” he asked
Fan Xian lowered his head and said nothing for a long tiet a hold on the horrible feelings that his first kill had brought up in him, he raised his head and smiled ”I would have stayed still like he did, and waited for you to come”
They cliain The lessons he had learned cli the cliffs outside Danzhou had finally been put to use that day Fan Xian lowered his feet onto the floor and walked ahead, knowing that Wu Zhu would leave hiain
He walked through the hustle and bustle of theby the side of his thigh as it treently
He walked with heavy steps through the market and came to a stop in front of a stall It was a tofu stall, and the haas a fair-faced woman in her twenties, with pale, delicate hands and an apron tied around her waist
”Dong'er,” Fan Xian called out to her, sirl he had driven out of the Count's er, he would lie on her boso'er had left the manor, she had opened a tofu stall at the market, so Fan Xian often dropped by to buy some tofu to take home
A gentle s'er's face when she saho it was ”Young Master,” she asked as she led his you here?”
He sat on a slanced at him aardly
Fan Xian nodded, and allowed her to see to her custo around, he saw that there was a crib at the back of the stall, with a little girl inside it who seee Her cheeks were rosy and her clumsy and delicate hands reached out at the little bell attached to the crib
Fan Xian reached out to pick up the little girl and play with her Dong'er turned around and hurried back to clasp her to her bosoruirls”
Fan Xian giggled ”Dong'er, when I was the sa me like that every day?”
Dong'er laughed ”Young Master, how can you compare yourself to us 'er had been chased out of the Count'sa dish before Fan Xian had had the chance to But by the sound of it, she bore no malice toward the boy at all
Fan Xian scratched his head, unsure of what to say Dong'er realized that sohter and co
oed to her, ”This is the youngMaster”
”Call me Uncle,” insisted Fan Xian
He sat at the tofu stall for a long tih it, and wrap it up in paper while he played with the young girl, getting her to call hiloo'er
”You've co'er, a little eood for you to eat”