How could my childhood sweetheart be the current empress?

Xu Chengling walked up to the corpse, took a look, and his eyes couldn't help but fall on the ninja sword in the other's hand.

He picked up a ninja sword and knocked it hard on the ground a few times, but there was not even a curl on the edge.

Compared to iron swords, ninja swords are lighter, about the length of a hand, and are extremely flexible.

"This material... I didn't expect that Izumo has already invented forged steel."

Xu Chengling could be sure that the ninja swords in the hands of these assassins were all made of forged steel.

Compared with the pig iron used to make weapons, forged steel is lighter and more flexible. During the Three Kingdoms period, weapons made of forged steel were already widely used.

I didn’t expect that although the country of Izumo is small, its sword-forging skills have actually surpassed Dayan.

Xu Chengling asked Tongxin to pick up a few ninja swords and bring them back so that Uncle Gu could study them and learn the sword-forging technique of the Izumo blacksmith.

Once this sword-forging technology is popularized in the future, it will definitely raise Dayan's military strength to a higher level.

Take the essence and discard the dross. Learn from the good points of others and discard the dross.

After dealing with the assassins who were lying in ambush here, Xu Chengling left here with an expressionless face.

Along the way, Tong Xin held a few Izumo ninja swords in her hands and couldn't help asking:

"Master, have you guessed that the other party will ambush here?"

Xu Chengling seemed to have known that he would be ambushed, and mobilized the Archery Battalion of the Tianjian Division to come to support in advance.

"Well, I'm not sure, but just in case, I asked the people from the Tianjian Division to follow behind us."

Xu Chengling shook his head. He was not quite sure. He continued:

"I don't usually take this shortcut. If someone is ambushing here, it means that they have already figured out my whereabouts not long ago."

"My Lord, what do you mean?"

Tong Xin seemed to understand something.

"Tong'er, think about it, where have I been today?"

Xu Chengling smiled slightly. This was actually a trap he had set up on purpose.

Tong Xin thought about it and realized that although she was not good at studying, she was quite smart in this aspect.

"Besides going to the Lan Mansion today, the only thing we can do is go to Huaying Tower. Could it be that there is something wrong with Huaying Tower?"

"Well, this time when I went to Huayinglou, I only met one person, and I deliberately revealed my true identity to her. She was the only one who knew when I left Huayinglou."

Xu Chengling paused and said slowly:

"That person is Hanyu Sakura."

At this point, Xu Chengling was actually certain that the Izumo spy he wanted to know was Hanyu Sakura.

"Since the Lord knows her identity, why doesn't he send someone to arrest her?"

Tong Xin asked with some curiosity.

Xu Chengling couldn't help but shook his head and explained to her:

"It's useless even if we catch her. If we catch one Hanyu Sakura, there will be another one in the future. It won't solve the real problem at all."

Then, he raised a mysterious smile and said in a deep voice:

"This is called playing the long game to catch the big fish. Hanyu Sakura is just a bait. My real target is actually the organization behind her. Catching Hanyu Sakura alone will not solve the problem."

"I see. As expected of you, my Lord, you have thought so much about this."

Tongxin suddenly realized that the master's target from the beginning was not the spy, but the mysterious organization behind the spy.

Xu Chengling couldn't help but rub Tongxin's hair with his hands and said with a smile:

"Girl, if I don't have some skills, how can I be qualified to be your master?"

"The master is the master, why would he need any qualifications?"

Tongxin narrowed her beautiful eyes and smiled, following him slowly.

"By the way, is your hand okay? Does it hurt?"

Xu Chengling remembered something and couldn't help but grab her slender hand. He saw a clear cut on the palm of her hand. Because it was cut by a sharp edge, the wound looked somewhat shocking.

Tong Xin quickly pulled her hand back, her pretty face slightly reddened, and said:

"Master, don't worry, it's just a minor wound and it will heal in two days."

"Well, although I know this is your martial arts move, you should try to use it as little as possible. This move kills one thousand enemies but injures eight hundred of your own."

Xu Chengling couldn't help but sigh. He knew that this was Tongxin's unique martial art, but the wound was really heartbreaking to look at.

At least if it were him, he might not have the courage to make such a deep cut.

Tongxin gently touched the wound with her hand. She didn't feel much pain. It would be better to say that she had already gotten used to this kind of pain.

On the battlefield, if you retreat because of fear of pain, you can easily lose your life.

"Tear."

Xu Chengling tore off the cloth from his cuffs and bandaged the wound on Tongxin's palm.

Seeing this, Tong Xin couldn't help but said with some distress:

"Master, your clothes are very expensive."

"Tong'er, no matter how expensive this dress is, it is not as important as you in my heart."

"Lord……"

Hearing Xu Chengling's heartfelt words, Tongxin couldn't help but feel a little warm in her heart.

Before they knew it, the two had returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Standing at the door, Xu Chengling suddenly stopped and looked at Tongxin beside him. He remembered something and wanted to open his mouth several times but stopped himself.

"My Lord, do you have anything to say?"

Seeing this, Tong Xin couldn't help but look up and looked at him and asked.

Xu Chengling hesitated for a moment, nodded, and said somewhat embarrassedly:

"Actually, there's something in my mind, but I don't know how to tell you..."

"What is it? My Lord, please speak as soon as possible."

For Tong Xin, as long as he asked her for something, she would agree.

Xu Chengling hesitated for a while, coughed lightly, and slowly said to her:

"Tong'er, actually, it's about... hiring a maid. Madam has already agreed."

Although Xu Chengling was also very surprised, his wife did agree to his idea of ​​finding a maid to accompany him to the bedroom.

Upon hearing the news, a blush suddenly appeared on Tong Xin's delicate face, and she couldn't help but lower her head.

"Master, is this... true? What do you think, Master?"

"As for me, both are fine, but what's more important is your opinion and whether you are willing to do so... If you become a maid, your treatment will be better now."

Xu Chengling looked a little embarrassed. He actually found it a little difficult to talk about this kind of thing.

Although Tongxin was his personal maid and had done that kind of thing with him, looking at her pair of innocent eyes as clear as water, he couldn't help but feel guilty.

He was taking advantage of Tongxin's trust and innocence in him to make her do something that she might not want to do.

Tong Xin couldn't help but raise her head, her delicate face was so hot that it was a little scary, she couldn't help but ask in a low voice:

"Does it mean that as long as she becomes a maidservant... when the Madam is not free, Tong'er can also be with the Master, and then Tong'er will serve the Master?"

In fact, she had secretly come to serve her master without the knowledge of her mistress, which made her feel guilty.

After all, she knew that the master only had the lady in his heart, but she took advantage of the lady's absence to seduce the master for her own selfish desires. She was a bad girl.

But now, if she became a maid, she could serve her master openly. She no longer had to be sneaky like before, but could face the feelings she had for her master in her heart.

In the process of getting along with her master, she has always handled the relationship between the two as a master and servant. As a servant, she has a bottom line that cannot be crossed, and she has buried this feeling deep in her heart.

She didn't know when the seed buried in Tong Xin's heart started to take root and sprout, and gradually grew into a big tree, until her heart could no longer hold it.

Her world is very small, so small that it can only accommodate one person, and she can only love one person in her life.

She not only wants to be the master's maid, but also wants to be the one he loves.

Chapter 161 Let Him Kiss Me, I Agree

"Well, Tong'er, if you don't want to, I will never force you."

Xu Chengling looked at the delicate black-haired girl in front of him. In his heart, Tong'er had always been placed in a very important position.

According to his original plan, he was to marry the empress's sister, then stay away from her, wait for the right opportunity to rebel, support the empress's sister to ascend to the throne, and then cling to the empress's sister's thigh.

In order to survive and avoid triggering deaths, Xu Chengling has been arranging all of this.

Until one day, he rescued a red-haired, blue-eyed girl in a heavy rain. She fell in front of him like a desperate, dying wild cat.

Unable to get over the hurdle in his heart, Xu Chengling finally brought her back to the Prime Minister's Mansion, bandaged her wounds, fed her medicine, and tried his best to do what he could.

As for whether she can survive, she can only leave it to fate and rely on herself.

In the end, the girl survived with her tenacious vitality, and under his careful care, she slowly recovered.

Perhaps because of his careful care, a glimmer of light appeared in the girl's dull eyes.

During this process, Xu Chengling also learned the true identity of the girl with red hair and blue eyes.

A character who was only mentioned briefly in the original novel. In the original novel, the gold medal killer called "Blood Yama" died in the heavy rain.

Maybe it was because of an obsession, or maybe Xu Chengling didn't believe in the so-called fate. Since Xue Yanluo was going to die, he must save her and break this predetermined fate.

He didn't expect that the dreaded Blood Yama was just a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old, and he didn't expect that she would become his personal maid and accompany him until now.

If it weren't for her risking her life to protect him, Xu Chengling would have been assassinated by his opponents before he inherited the position of Prime Minister.

In Xu Chengling's mind, Tongxin has long been his family. He dare not imagine what his life would be like if he lost her one day.

But his feelings for Tongxin are like family affection, but even better than family affection. He wants to keep Tongxin by his side forever, holding her hand and growing old with her.

"Tong'er, what do you think?"

Xu Chengling asked her.

Tong Xin couldn't help but stand there in a daze. What was she thinking? Didn't she know the answer from the beginning?

She nodded, without any hesitation, and said to Xu Chengling:

"My Lord, I do."

I am willing to do this, not because she has to obey Xu Chengling's orders, but because it is the answer that comes from her heart.

The two stood at the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion, looking at each other.

Tong Xin never hides her feelings, or rather, she can't, her emotions are all written on her face.

If Xu Chengling still couldn't see her feelings for him, then he was too stupid.

He gently held the delicate girl in front of him in his arms, responded to Tong Xin's expectations with his actions, and assured her:

"Tong'er, my Tong'er, please give me some time. I will definitely give you a name in the future and keep you by my side forever."

"Master, as long as Tong'er can stay by your side and be a maid, she will be content. Why would she ask for any status..."

Tongxin couldn't help but widen her pupils and her eyes became a little moist. She didn't know when, her cold heart slowly softened.

In fact, she never thought about having a status.

Because to her, as long as she can stay by her master's side, status and other things are not important at all.

However, if she could have a status, then she could be with her master legitimately and find the happiness that belongs to her.

"I'm sorry, Tong'er, I have to let you be a maid for a while, but I promise you that I will give you a status and marry you in the future."

Xu Chengling patted Tongxin's back gently and whispered softly in her ear.

The reason why he needed some time was that his wife had just gotten married not long ago, and his energy was basically on her, leaving him with no extra energy to deal with other people.

Moreover, he wanted to give Tongxin a status, not as a concubine, but to marry her in a formal ceremony and bring her into the Prime Minister's Mansion as his wife.