Chapter 43 Chapter 43: The Heart of a Beautiful Woman

The little princess smiled sweetly and said, "That's true. If you had said it earlier, you would have suffered less! Did I hurt you?" Li Mingsheng forced a smile and said, "It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt, I..." The little princess laughed and said, "Since it doesn't hurt, I can hit it twice." Li Mingsheng hurriedly shouted: "It hurts, it hurts, it hurts a little now... no... it's not a little pain, it's a lot of pain." Baoyu watched from the sidelines and couldn't help but secretly amused him. In fact, he had already seen that Li Mingsheng was harboring evil intentions. He just stood by and watched, because he knew that for a person like Li Mingsheng, the little princess alone was enough to restrain him—if only The little princess can restrain him and make him submissive.

Although Tie Wa was arguing for Li Mingsheng, but the eldest brother didn't speak, so naturally he didn't speak.The little princess suddenly put on a straight face and said, "Are you really a woodcutter all these years?" Li Mingsheng said: "Really, how dare I lie..." The little princess stared, and said: "Nonsense, this is Sanglin, how can you allow you to chop firewood?" Li Mingsheng said: "I...Although I cut firewood elsewhere, I live here." The little princess said: "That's it. Since you live in this forest, you must know what happened in this forest in the past two days, right?"

Li Mingsheng said: "No... yes, yes, I know." He still wanted to say no, but the little princess stared at him, and he was already softened. Only then did the little princess smile and said: "Since you know it, tell it... tell it all, don't miss a single thing." Li Mingsheng rubbed his nose, wiped his tears, and said with a mournful face, "I... I'll tell you, I'm just... I'm afraid I won't be able to live." The little princess said coldly: "If you don't speak out, you won't be able to live now!" Li Mingsheng sweated profusely, tremblingly said: "I...I..."

Finally he sighed bitterly and said, "Let me tell you!" The little princess's cold face immediately blossomed like spring flowers, and said with a smile: "You are indeed a smart person, tell me quickly!" Li Mingsheng said: "In this room outside, my friend Red Nose Old Chen originally lives. I have nothing to do at night, so I often come to chat with him and drink two glasses of old wine." Baoyu frowned slightly and said, "Does this old Chen have a wife and children?" Li Mingsheng said: "One wife, two daughters." After taking a look at Baoyu, he quickly answered, "But I'm only looking for Lao Chen, not his daughter."

The little princess said: "Look at your guilty look, you don't have any good intentions at first, okay, I don't care about you, let's continue talking!" Li Mingsheng said: "Yesterday afternoon, I wanted to come to Lao Chen's place for dinner, but before I got to the house, I heard someone shouting for help." He sighed, and continued: "As soon as I heard it, I recognized Lao Chen's voice. I immediately hid behind a tree and secretly went to see what happened there." Tie Wa said angrily: "Your friend shouted for help, but instead of going to save him, you hid!"

Li Mingsheng said: "I... I have no ability to save him, I..." Tie Wa said: "You're a bastard! Well, tell me what you saw?" Li Mingsheng took a breath, and said: "The helper only yelled for help, and then suddenly stopped. Then, I saw Lao Chen, his wife and daughter being escorted out by several people." Baoyu said, "What kind of people are there?" Li Mingsheng said: "They all have horizontal noses, vertical eyes, murderous faces, and are all dressed in black, as if they were cast out of the same mold." Baoyu and the little princess glanced at each other, and Li Mingsheng said, "Do you know them?"

The little princess said: "You say what you want, don't mind our business." Li Mingsheng said: "I think it's Lao Chen's family. Although they are all crying, they haven't been injured or tied up yet, so I'm relieved." Baoyu said, "Where are those men in black sending Lao Chen?" Li Mingsheng said: "I don't know either, I just saw three black-clothed men escorting them away, but two black-clothed men stayed at Lao Chen's house." Tie Wa sighed: "Those two are unlucky. What happened next?" Li Mingsheng said: "I hid from a distance, and I didn't even dare to breathe. I was both scared and strange. Old Chen is not a rich man, so how could he be kidnapped?"

He sighed, and continued: "I was surprised and wanted to find out what happened. I saw that the two men in black didn't care about anything, but they set up the table and set up the bowls and chopsticks first. It turned out that they brought a large Basket of vegetables... What's even more strange is that the two of them did not eat the dishes themselves. One took out a red lantern and hung it at the door, while the other kept stretching his neck to look, as if he was waiting for someone. Individuals can't stop talking in secret." Baoyu said, "What do you say?"

Li Mingsheng said: "What are you talking about, I can't hear you. At that time, I really couldn't figure out why these two people went to such great lengths, but it seemed that they were just borrowing Lao Chen's house to treat guests." The little princess said: "Of course you can't figure it out. Let's go on!" Li Mingsheng said: "Two people stood at the door waiting for the guests, but the guests came from behind. I could see clearly that four or five people came out from the inside and walked straight behind the two people. Like an idiot, I didn't notice it at all, but my heart jumped up instead."

Baoyu moved and said, "What do these four or five people look like?" Li Mingsheng said: "These people are also wearing black clothes, even their heads are covered. I thought they were all on the same road, but I saw that the next few people were holding swords in their hands, and their eyes were even more murderous. One of them said 'Turn back', the two of them were taken aback and quickly turned around, but when they turned around, I only saw a flash of sword light, and the two of them were already lying down." Baoyu frowned and said, "They didn't ask those two people for a confession?"

Li Mingsheng said: "I didn't ask anything, I just beckoned... Sigh! That sword stab was really clean and fast, like lightning, I have never seen it in my life." Baoyu pondered and said, "In your opinion, which school of swordsmanship is that?" Li Mingsheng shook his head and said, "I can't see it." Baoyu pondered for a while, and then said: "In your opinion, how many years have the sword skills of those two people been?" Li Mingsheng also pondered for a while, and said: "In my opinion, if there is no 30 to 50 years of fire, I will never think of making such a beautiful sword... The strangest thing is that the swordsmanship of these two people is incomparable. Who is worse. People with such sophisticated swordsmanship are usually hard to see even one, but here are two of them." Baoyu frowned deeply, and murmured, "Thirty or fifty years?" Tie Wa was fascinated by what she heard again, and said, "What happened next?" Li Mingsheng said: "After these people killed the two of them, they immediately went to search their bodies. I was wondering again, this kind of master would also be a robber? Suddenly I heard someone say: 'Here it is'." Sighing, he continued with a wry smile, "They killed those two people for a piece of paper." Baoyu asked urgently, "What did they say after reading the note?" Li Mingsheng said: "Only one person asked: 'How far is the Daming Mansion from here?' The other said: 'It's not far away.' That person then said: 'Go'." Baoyu moved and said, "Daming Mansion...it turns out to be Daming Mansion." The little princess said: "Did they leave after talking?" Li Mingsheng lamented: "It's good to go." Baoyu said, "Did they say something else?" Li Mingsheng said: "The person who started the attack never said a word. At this moment, he suddenly said: 'Everyone wait a moment, I will come to the woods as soon as it is convenient'." Tie Wa chuckled and said, "It's really not the right time for him to come." Li Mingsheng said with a wry smile: "You think it's funny now, but I was so anxious at that time. I saw him walking towards me step by step, and my heart almost jumped out of my stomach. I just hope that he will be more convenient and walk faster. I don't know him. When he walked outside the forest, he suddenly flew up and flew towards him like an arrow." Tie Wa said: "This convenience really hurts you." Li Mingsheng sighed: "What's convenient, he has already discovered me and said it is convenient, but he just deliberately used words to stabilize me and make me unprepared." Baoyu said in amazement: "This man is not only sharp in hearing and eyes, but also skilled in skill, but also has such a deep plan! Who is this man? It's really confusing." Tie Wa said, "Have you ever been caught by him?" Li Mingsheng said: "Of course I was caught." Tie Wa said: "They didn't kill you?" Li Mingsheng said: "I was dragged out by them, and I thought I couldn't survive. Fortunately, they didn't recognize me, and they really regarded me as a woodcutter who had never seen the world." The little princess smiled and said, "You really look like that." Li Mingsheng said: "At that time, I fell on the ground like a piece of meat placed on a knife table. I begged desperately, and only heard one person say: 'This guy is not from the rivers and lakes, and he doesn't know anything. It's better to let him go. Let him go.' I was overjoyed in my heart, but the other person said: 'I can't let it go, he has heard too much.'" The little princess smiled and said: "So you swear to the sky, beg bitterly, and swear that you will never tell what you saw. You even said that there is an eighty-year-old mother and a three-month-old child at home." Li Mingsheng said with a wry smile: "Of course I only begged like this. But those people still hesitated, some wanted to kill me, some said to let me go... Sigh! That kind of feeling is really unacceptable." The little princess sneered and said: "It seems that those people must be self-proclaimed decent characters who refuse to kill innocent people. If it were me, would you still be alive at this moment? They should have known people like you, and they would never kill innocent people." Will be tight-lipped." Li Mingsheng immediately turned pale, and said in a trembling voice: "But about the girl, I will absolutely keep my mouth shut and never say anything, otherwise I will be..." The little princess said: "Okay, don't swear, let's continue!" Li Mingsheng took a few breaths, and Fang Zi continued: "They didn't know how to make a decision, and suddenly another man in black rushed in from outside the forest, panting: 'Fang Baoyu and the little princess have come.'" The little princess said: "It turns out that they still have people standing guard outside." Li Mingsheng said: "When I heard the names of the two, I was naturally shocked, but I saw that they were also panicked, and someone immediately carried the body into the house." Baoyu said: "Sure enough, time is short, so there is no time to bury the body." Li Mingsheng said: "When I saw their anxious appearance, I was worried and happy at the same time. I was afraid that they would kill me with a knife in their anxiety, but also hoped that they would not care about killing me in their anxiety." He wiped his sweat, and continued: "So I begged even more desperately, and finally someone said: 'Go away, leave here far away, and never come back. And...' At that time, as if I had received an amnesty, I didn't even care to thank me, so I ran away." The little princess said: "It counts as your life." Tie Wa said: "Since you have escaped, why did you come back?" Li Mingsheng said: "I... I... I just came back to have a look." The little princess said: "What an old fox, you want to lie again?... You just came back to take a look? Huh! Didn't you bring the iron and gold knife? Otherwise, how would he know that Fang Baoyu is here?" Li Mingsheng stood there suddenly, tongue-tied, and after a long while, Fang Zi let out a long sigh, murmured, "I can't hide anything from you... I can't hide anything from you." The little princess said: "Of course I can't hide it from me, you should tell me!" Li Mingsheng said: "I panicked and ran away with my life. I don't know how long I ran, but suddenly I bumped into a person. It turned out that the person blocked my way without making a sound." The little princess said: "This is quite a coincidence." Li Mingsheng sighed: "Isn't it a coincidence? When I saw that he was also wearing black clothes, I panicked. I turned my head and wanted to run away, but I was grabbed by him. Ask me: 'It's midnight, why are you running away? ’ Naturally I stuttered and couldn’t answer, but he suddenly said loudly: ‘So it’s you’.” The little princess said: "Iron Gold Knife recognizes you?" Li Mingsheng said: "I recognized him twenty years ago." The little princess sneered and said, "I don't want you to be old friends." Li Mingsheng said: "I—seeing that he is an old friend, I felt relieved, so I asked him why he came here. He said that he followed Fang Baoyu all the way. When he walked nearby, Fang Baoyu suddenly disappeared." Baoyu said, "So you brought him here?" Li Mingsheng said: "I think there will be nothing wrong with him coming to you. For the sake of an old friend, I bit my head and brought him here, but he told me to wait in the woods until I saw him." I was already panicked when he started to fight for you, and when I saw you killed him again, I didn't dare to show up, so I wanted to slip away, but... Sigh! I still can't escape, it seems that your eyes and ears are so good, Nor under the man in black." The little princess said: "Since that's the case, these things have nothing to do with you, why didn't you say it before?" Li Mingsheng sighed: "I have already left the Jianghu, and I really don't want to be involved in the vendettas of the Jianghu anymore. I just want... I just want to have a leisurely meal and live a peaceful life for a few days." After he finished speaking, Baoyu remained silent, Tie Wa just nodded, but the little princess kept turning back and forth with her big watery eyes. She turned her eyes to Tie Wa and said, "Can you believe what he said?" Tie Wa said: "What he said is the truth, why don't I believe it?" The little princess turned her eyes to Baoyu and said, "What about you?" Baoyu smiled slightly and said, "Believe it or not, each takes half." Li Mingsheng said repeatedly: "Everything I said is true, and there is not even half a lie." The little princess said: "Although he didn't believe what you said, I did." Li Mingsheng said happily: "Since that's the case, let me go!" The little princess said: "This... this has to be discussed with Fang Baoyu. Tie Wa, you stay here and guard him." Holding Baoyu's hand, she walked out of the dark forest with a smile. Once out of the dark forest, the little princess put her hand down.The autumn night was bleak, the sky was full of stars, and all the stars in the sky poured down and fell on her body. Baoyu looked at her cheeks that were washed by the starlight like white jade, and her hair that was dyed by the night light like black silk. Although the starlight was beautiful, he didn't look up, because her eyes were brighter than the starlight; although the night was beautiful, he didn't pay attention, because her own charm was greater than the autumn night. The little princess smiled sweetly and said, "What are you looking at? What are you thinking?" Baoyu sighed and said, "I thought, but you don't know." At night, it is always easy to make people say things that they would never say at ordinary times. The little princess's head suddenly drooped, and when she raised her head, the smile on her face had disappeared, and her sweet dimple was as cold as ice. She said coldly: "I don't care what you are thinking, I just ask you, what do you believe in what Li Mingsheng said? What do you not believe?" Baoyu said: "What he saw must be true, and it must be true that he was caught and let go. From these two points, it seems that he is not lying." The little princess said: "Well... what lies did he tell?" Baoyu said: "First, he is by no means a person who is willing to be indifferent. If you say that he has left the rivers and lakes and is willing to live a life in the forest under the hermit, I will never believe it." The little princess said: "I said first, there must be second." Baoyu said: "Secondly, a person like Tie Jindao will never make friends with a person like him. He said that he brought Tie Jindao to me for the sake of an old friend. I don't believe it either. .” The little princess said: "What about the third one?" Baoyu laughed and said, "With the second, there may not necessarily be the third." The little princess said: "Okay, then let me ask you, why did he lie? What is the truth he is hiding? What good will it do him if he conceals the truth?" Baoyu shook his head and said, "That... I don't know." The little princess sneered, "There are things that a smart person like you doesn't know." Baoyu said, "You know?" The little princess said: "I didn't say I was smart, and no one said I was smart, not like you." Baoyu interrupted quickly and said, "What are you going to do to him?" The little princess blinked and said, "What do you think I'm going to do to him?" Baoyu thought to himself, "You're going to let him go, and then follow him secretly." But he smiled and said, "I can't guess." The little princess said: "I want to let him go, and then follow him, and see where he is going, and see what tricks he is playing." Baoyu stroked his palm and said, "It's wonderful, how can I not think of this plan?" The little princess smiled, and this was the first time she really laughed happily. She smiled and said, "Sometimes what a fool thinks of is better than a smart person." Baoyu looked at her and smiled too, but it was very strange. The little princess said: "What are you laughing at?" Baoyu said, "Can't I even laugh?" The little princess said: "You laugh so weirdly and hatefully!" Baoyu said, "I'm laughing strangely because I'm laughing at you for being a strange person." The little princess straightened her face again, and said, "What's so strange about me?" Baoyu said: "In front of others, sometimes you are very affectionate with me, but when others can't see you, you change... your hands are put down, and your face is hard." The little princess said: "Hmph! If I'm happy to pull you, I'll hold you; if I'm not happy to pull you, I'll let you go." Baoyu laughed and said, "Also, you and I are always fighting each other, but as long as it's about dealing with other people, you're always on my side." The little princess stomped her feet and said, "Who is with you! You are dreaming." Suddenly turned around and flew away. Tie Wa's eyes were wider than copper bells, staring at Li Mingsheng. Li Mingsheng smiled and said, "I haven't seen you for a few years, and you've grown taller." Tie Wa said: "I wasn't short then." Li Mingsheng said: "At that time, I knew you had the best heart." Tie Wa said: "No matter how good-hearted I am, I will never let you go." Li Mingsheng was stunned and couldn't laugh. After a long while, he suddenly put his hand on his stomach, opened his mouth wide, and shouted: "No, my stomach hurts, I need to..." Tie Wa giggled and said: "If someone else lied to me, I might still be fooled, but you... Hehe! Before the eldest brother comes back, as long as you move, I will smash your head!" As expected, Li Mingsheng's stomach pain didn't stop, he stared at him for a while, then sighed: "I haven't seen you for a few years, I don't think you've become smarter." Only one person laughed lightly and said: "He is not smart at all, he is still very stupid, but not everyone can be fooled by idiots, the smarter a person is, the more he can't be fooled by idiots." With the laughter, the little princess Yingying came over. She turned her eyes around, and then said with a smile: "It's just because a smart person has too many eyes, but an idiot has too few eyes, if he thinks you're a liar, even if you tell the truth, he won't believe it. " Li Mingsheng smiled wryly and said: "That's right. In fact, what I said is all the truth, not false at all, but he just doesn't believe it. Isn't this to be anxious to death?" The little princess patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, although he doesn't believe what you said, I do." "You...you have promised to let me go!" The little princess said: "Yes, if you want to go, just go!" Li Mingsheng stood up abruptly, panting, "I... can I really go?" The little princess smiled and said, "It's true, you can leave anytime." If Li Mingsheng wanted to believe it, he was really overjoyed, but if he didn't believe it, it was indeed true. He rubbed his eyes, looked at the little princess, then at Fang Baoyu, and without saying a word, turned his head and walked away It seems that I am afraid that others will change their minds. The little princess watched his figure disappear, just smiling. But Baoyu couldn't help but said, "Aren't we going to chase?" The little princess said: "What are you busy with!" Baoyu said: "Although this person's lightness skill is not high, he is very cunning. What's more, it is the night and he is familiar with the terrain. If he hides, how can we find him?" The little princess smiled and said, "Don't worry, he can't hide." Baoyu wondered, "Why?" The little princess said: "No matter where he hides, I have the ability to find him." Baoyu looked at her and said, "Could it be that you have some tricks?" The little princess said: "Since you are in a hurry, let's go after him, and then you will know why he can't hide... Tie Wa, wait, don't leave." Tie Wa frowned and said, "Brother, why did she order me?" Baoyu laughed and said, "This time, just listen to her!" Watching the two of them leave quietly, Tie Wa murmured: "It's really inexplicable. I let him go, but I want to chase him. Is there something wrong with my head..." He sat down angrily, and looked at the stars in the sky. daze. There are also stars leaking in the dark forest, but they are very faint. In the faint starlight and the thick night, even though Fang Baoyu's eyesight was several times sharper than that of ordinary people, it was still difficult to see the figure four or five feet away. But Li Mingsheng obviously has more than fourteen or five feet away. The two of them skimmed for a while, and Baoyu couldn't help but said, "What's your skill?" The little princess smiled softly: "Don't worry...Look, what is that?" Baoyu followed her finger to look, and saw a little bit of green phosphorescence in the distance of the dark forest, running and dancing like will-o'-the-wisps. Baoyu was puzzled and said, "What is that?" But before the little princess could answer, he suddenly understood, and couldn't help but smile and said: "So you have already tampered with him." The little princess smiled and said: "That's right, I just patted him on the shoulder, and I have already marked him. With this nail on his body, even if he escapes to the end of the world, I will be able to catch him." Baoyu sighed, "I'm not as good as you in these things." The little princess said: "Are you better than me in other things?" Baoyu smiled quietly and stopped answering.The little princess pouted and stopped talking.The two followed the phosphorescent light far away, and there was no sound in the dark forest. Not only was the phosphorescence not moving fast, but it also stopped and turned from time to time. Obviously, he looked back from time to time, and deliberately went around in circles from time to time. Baoyu said: "This man is indeed very cunning. Knowing that his lightness kung fu is definitely not as good as ours, he simply walked slower and told us that it would be difficult for us to follow. If it weren't for you, it would be hard for him not to notice our whereabouts." The little princess said coldly: "What am I? How can I compare to you?" Baoyu laughed and said, "You..." The voice stopped, and suddenly stopped. The phosphorescence suddenly disappeared. At this point, the mulberry forest has also come to an end, but there is still a hill outside the forest, and there is still a mixed forest growing on the hill, which is more dense than this mulberry forest. Baoyu frowned and said, "Could it be that he has already noticed?" The little princess didn't answer, but jumped onto the tree branch. Baoyu had no choice but to jump up with her, and when he lowered his head, the phosphorescent light was in front of his eyes again.It turned out that Li Mingsheng was already lying on the ground, so he could only see the phosphorescent jade behind him by looking down from above. He whispered: "He suddenly fell down, he must be alert." The little princess said: "But he definitely didn't notice us, otherwise his head wouldn't be facing that way. This must be because of a change in the way forward, or perhaps something happened to the person he made an appointment to meet here." Baoyu said, "That's right. What should we do?" The little princess said: "At least we should have a look over there." Baoyu said, "That's good, that's good. Anyway, I have to go and have a look." The little princess suddenly smiled, and said: "When did you become a respondent again? I don't believe that you can't guess these things, let alone make up your own mind. Why did you come to ask me?"