It was almost the dawn the rain has finally stopped.The gentle sun light came through the window touching his robe slowly which caught his face. His eyes were too heavy for him to open. He opened his eyes while covering the sun light from his hand. The morning was fresh. But his face was dull. Because of the heavy rain he had caught a fever. So he was so weak. He sat on his bed and touched his forehead. He realized that he have a fever but he didn’t care because cultivators are always so strong.

As he was starving he came to the downstairs to get his breakfast. The old man had prepared a beautiful small table with various dishes for him. The small wooden table and two small chairs in both sides were so clean and polished which can clearly tell the hard work of the cleaners. There were few costumers.

“Young master, you look so pale, are you sick?’’

As the old man was asking it, a guy entered to the shop and seated on the chair which was in front of bei ying’s table. He looked young and handsome. Wore a black ribbon to tie hishair and there was some hair strands on a side of his forehead which had made him look so cool. He was wearing a black and crimson mixed robe which looked so perfect on him.

Bei ying realized his attention was somewhere else and quickly coughed and looked at the old shopkeeper.

"ah yeah, kind of"

The old man sighed and said “It must be, because the rain last night, I’ll make you some hot chicken soup, it will make you feel a bit better”

“Thank you so much, but I don’t eat meat, I’m vegetarian”

Suddenly the young man who was in front of him started to laugh, with coughing while laughing like a mad man. It looked like he was drinking something and because of laugh he started to choke on it.

“Vegetarian?’’ the young man hardly stopped laughing for a while and
asked with a questioning face.

“why, what’s so funny?”

He laughed again and said “then you can’t eat these all dishes including the one in your hand, I mean the one you are eating right now. Was made using pork’’

Bei ying looked at the small cup of dish which was on his hand. It was so delicious to him.

He was embarrassed that he felt heat rushing to his face. “b-but I didn’t mean all types of meat, ok? By the way why did you sit here, did I ask you to sit here?” bei ying was so annoyed at the young man’s arrogant attitude.

“Huh? Why would I take your permission? Are you the owner of here? Sorry, I didn’t know there are two owners for this place’ ’the young man said with a teasing tone.

“y-you’’ bei ying was quite angry he wanted to punch him so hard but he couldn’t. so he left the inn quietly after frowning at the young man.

He walked faster as he felt the man was also following him.

“Ok, ok let’s just forget about the meat and the owner problems but-

The young man started to talk while trying to catch up to him but before he could finish his line bei ying pointed the sword at him. It was an instant. Bei ying actually was so fast, but the young man bent backwards to prevent the sword move.

Bei ying was acting like a mad man. He was kept on moving. The young man moved side to side and dodge all moves as a skilled cultivator.

After a long fight Bei ying finally was able to point the sword at young man's neck. But he didn’t want to attack him. Bei Ying just kept on frowning at him. The young man smiled finally and said “alright, alright, I lost. Your skills are perfect. By the way, I’m jiang xi ling, nice to meet you’’. He extended his hand with a smiley face. That smile looked so fake to Bei Ying. So ignored the man and put the sword back onto sheath. He wordlessly turned and started to walk along the line of shops.

“Hey!!’’
The man kept on following him. But Bei Ying didn’t look back or respond to him.

He saw an old lady who was wearing a dirty robe, crying in front of a man saying “honey, honey, please look at me.’’
He assumed them to be a couple. He approached them and asked,
“what happened ma'am?’’
“Young master I really don’t know what exactly happened but I think he's poisoned. He can’t die like this, can he?’’ the old woman managed to say while crying.
Bei ying checked his pulse for a while and realised the man was indeed poisoned. He checked his body for injuries and saw there was a wound caused by an arrow. The poison must have added to the arrow. "Ma'am, this's scorpion and snake poison. But don’t worry I can cure him’’

“Thank you so much young master, you are like a god” the old woman said while wiping her tear filled eyes.
“Great, so you are good at healing people also? what a talented man’’ xi ling said.

Bei ying rolled his eyes and looked at the cart which was next to them.
He approached the man he assumed to be the owner,
"Greetings brother, I need few things, can I borrow some stuff from here?" he asked pointing to the cart.

“Well, young master, I can’t give them free. I’m doing a business here’’
the sell man muttered.

“Don’t worry I will pay you"

Bei ying got some leaves, flowers and fruits then started to make the anti-dote.
“Give it to me, I’ll mix it” xi ling asked.

“No thanks,  why are you still following me by the way?”

Xi ling stayed mute because he actually didn’t have a reason to follow him. So he quietly sat on the bench pouting but he didn’t leave them.
Bei ying applied the anti-dote on the man's wound. And then both young masters helped the old lady to bring the old man to a room and laid him down in a small bed.

“Thank you so much young masters’’ the old lady was so grateful to them. She greeted them with a deep bow.

“Ah-h.....’’ the old man seemed to get his conscious back. He slowly
opened his eyes.

“Honey, honey, look at me. It’s me. Look, these two masters cured you" the old lady went near to her husband and said happily, grabbing his hands.

“T-th-ank you, young masters” the old man said hardly using his whole strength.

“No problem,” bei ying said in a kind way.

“Young master, I almost forgot to ask, what is your name?” the old lady asked.

“Oh, I’m hao bei ying from Fu ling” bei ying said and bowed to them.

“Ha-hao bei ying? Young master do you have any relation with hao shi yang?’’ the old man who was lying on the bed asked.

“Yeah, that’s my big brother. How do you know him?

Xi ling was quietly enjoying this conversation. Crossing his hands near
to his chest.

“That’s my master, I have been working for him from 5 years. I did my best to be a loyal servant to him bu-but-”the old man started to cough.

“But I couldn’t, I betrayed them. I had to do that, they said that they would kill my family, I couldn't let that happen.” The old man continued talking hardly. Tear drops came out from his eyes. The old lady who has been sitting on a side of the small bed tried to wipe his tears.

“What-what are you saying? Who forced you to betray them? What did you do to him? ” bei ying was so enraged after hearing that.

“Tha-that bunch of shitty thieves.” The old man said through gritted teeth.

“Thieves? Night hunters?” Bei Ying was reminded of last night.

“Yeah, young master. You know them?’’ the old man was surprised.

“Yeah, I already met their leader” bei ying answered.

The old man was so shocked. “What? The leader? That can’t be, young
master you must have been fooled by someone. Their leader has never showed his face. Even some of his members haven't seen his real face. He does not come out even for their missions.’’

“I didn’t see his face, he was wearing a mask. Maybe it can be that Ihave been fooled by someone.’’ Bei ying said. After a while he added,

“why is he unwilling to show his face? From whom is he hiding so much?"

"Maybe the reason why he doesn't show his face because he's too handsome and it'll make other people feel less of themselves? ” xi ling said and chuckled for his own joke. Bei Ying pretended not to hear him.

“I didn't hurt them or anything young master. They forced me to steal Wang ying.wang ying is a metal bracelet. It didn't even look that worthy but I don’t know why they are chasing after it.” The old man said while looking at Bei Ying.

Xi ling looked so surprised while bei ying was thinking the reason behind this.

Suddenly xi ling started to laugh loudly. After few seconds he hardly stopped his laughing and said “a bracelet? What a damn thing to steal. If I was the leader of night hunters I would steal a chicken. It can even be cooked.’’
Bei ying rolled his eyes and asked from the old man
“So you gave it to them?”

“Yeah, but I got caught by master's disciples. Only because of master shi
yang’s kindness I was able to save my life.’’ the old man said, grabbing bei ying’s hands with his both hands.

Bei Ying realised that there's nothing else he can ask from the old couple. So he bid his goodbyes to them and walked along the street checking the shops. The street was so busy with the crowd who wanted to buy things.

He stopped at a shop which sells hair pins. There were so many hair pins in various colors. He touched few hair pins one by one and checked them.

“Brother Ying!” Bei Ying startled hearing someone calling him brother ying. He felt the voice and the tone was so familiar. It was like he suddenly remembered someone. But the memory was so blurry that he couldn't distinguish ten familiar yet foreign feeling.He turned to check the person who called him only to see the same annoying face few steps away from him.

“Ahh- stop being annoying’’ bei ying sighed and said.

“Take it easy brother ying, I just came to tell you that I have some work. So I gotta go. But don't worry we'll meet again soon. Don't miss me too much ’’ xi ling said in a teasing tone.

“Go wherever you want, I don’t care.” Bei ying said and left without looking at him.

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