Chapter 8 - 8. With Great General Xu

Xu Tingfeng POV

She sit on a horse with one of my subordinate. I only brought cavalries when I depart, there is no way I let a little girl walk on her bare feet while we use horse. I'm not that bad yknow. ( A/N: you can know Xu Tingfeng's personalities from here. He is a carefree and funny guy.)

I noticed that her bangs is covering her eyes, how can see the road if her eyes covered? " What is your name and why are you covering your eyes?" I asked curiously. " She looked at me and smiled, " My name is Hong, My Lord. I covered my eyes because if you look at my eyes, you will get contracted by a disease." I froze after I heard her name. Even their name is similar. " Ohh, what a pretty name. Where are your parent?"

" I don't have any parent. I was raised by a granny, My Lord." She said it leisurely. Don't tell me. After I look closely, her lip and jaw are similar with Qing er(his wife). " Do you know who are your parent?" I hesitated but I braved myself to ask.

" No I don't. Granny said that I was found in a well, there are no letter or anything about my identity." She look up the sky and smiled. Maybe the tombstone before is the granny that she is talking about. " Ohh, we will continue the conversation later."

After we arrived at the border, we were greeted by a lot of commoners. I reassure them that there will be no problem. I directly go to my residence.

Hong er POV

Woooww the wall is so tall. I have never been this close to the border so I didn't realize that it will be this tall. After we passed the big door, there are so many people greet us with worried faces. Their face immediately brightens after they heard the General Xu's explanations. After 15 minutes, we arrive at a big house, no, residence. The gate is made with black with a tint of red wood. I know the wood but I don't know the name. I don't have any book granny's house. I saw this wood for a few times in the forest but I don't know he usage so I just left it behind.

" Xu Residence" it were carved in the same wood as the gate and have a gold frame around it, even the name were gold. Damn riches. We enter the residence and greeted by the servants. They are looking at me with a weird expressions. I only flashed them my white teeth and bow my head towards them. They hesitated but still bowed at me. Their eyes followed me even though I passed them.

Xu Tingfeng POV

I instruct the maids to properly serve the little girl and tell her to come to the main hall. After I instruct all the things that need to be done, I went to Hong er and put my hand on her head. " I tell the maids to clean you up and then take you to the main hall. If you need anything else, just tell the servants. If they mistreat you in any way, I will punish them for you." I smiled gently at her.

She were surprised for a moment then she look up at me. She smiled widely that my eyes hurt. The she kowtowed " Thank you very much My Lord. This is more than enough." I immediately lift her up, " Aiya, it's okay. Do you like to kneel that much? Should I make a new fighting techniques for kneeling? Ei? It's not a bad idea don't you think?" I look at her questioningly. I hope she think it is funny.

" Ahahahahaha, what's with that, My Lord? But it's not a bad idea. You can repel any attack even while you were praying. Hahaha." She laughed. SHE LAUGHED. All this time, no one understand my jokes, it is so funny but no one laughed. But she thought that my joke is funny, even Qing er only gave me cold shoulders when I told a joke.

I lift her up and spin her in the sky. " Ahahaha, finally I met a person that I can share my jokes with. I'm so happy right now." I didn't realize that I spun her too fast so I immediately put her down. " Are you okay? Sorry kid, I spin you too fast. I was overexcited." I look down at her but I found that she is smiling at me. " I'm fine, My Lord. And I think that it is quite fun." My heart, exploded. She is so cute that I think I'm gonna die.