El viaje de un mendigo alrededor del mundo

Capítulo 40

Fan Qingbo pushed aside the people surrounding her and walked straight up to the scholar, stopping in front of him. "You want to marry me?"

Meeting her fierce gaze, the scholar's lips trembled, but he still firmly said, "Yes, I want to marry Miss Fan!" He then weakly added, "You...no matter how fierce your eyes are, they can't scare me..."

"You—" We're getting serious, why are you acting all cute! Feeling countless burning gazes behind him, Fan Qingbo froze, then gritted his teeth and pulled the scholar up, "Come with me!"

"Tsk tsk, absence makes the heart grow fonder!"

"Young people have so much energy!"

Soon, they left those jokes far behind, and she pulled him into a dead-end alley before stopping.

At this moment, Fan Qingbo understood. Although she didn't know the reason, this scholar genuinely had no ill feelings towards her. However, things didn't get any better. With the betrothal letter and elaborate wedding ceremony, was this scholar trying to turn the pretense into reality and force her into a corner?

"Miss Fan, isn't it a bit impolite of us to come out like this?"

The scholar asked hesitantly, feeling his arm, which she was holding, going numb.

"Excuse me—" Looking at the scholar's innocent, rabbit-like face, she suddenly found herself unable to utter the word "fart." She shook her head in frustration before continuing, "Is it polite of you to trespass on private property with a bunch of people?"

"Well... I'm here to present a letter of engagement, so it's different."

Fan Qingbo snorted and released his hand, leaning against the wall with her feet barely touching the ground, looking up at him. Only when he blushed and started blinking unconsciously did she ask, "Where have you been these past few days?"

The scholar's gentle voice echoed through the alley. "I recently returned to my hometown."

After waiting for a while without getting any further information, she kicked him, not very hard. "Don't just take one step at a time; explain yourself clearly."

He vaguely sensed that her attitude towards him had changed, and felt a little uneasy. He continued, "As I mentioned to Miss Fan before, I need to go back to my hometown to find an elder from the same clan to write the betrothal letter and other related matters, such as recording it in the family genealogy."

"Wait, when did you tell me any of this?"

The scholar blushed and lowered his head. "It was that night..."

Fan Qingbo slowly straightened up, her round eyes widening. "That's all you said that night?" She thought she hadn't heard these unimportant words because her mind was in a daze? Wait—"That's all you thought after seeing my arm?!"

The scholar blushed even more, "Having seen the young lady's body, I should naturally..."

The voice was quickly drowned out by Fan Qingbo's excited words, "This isn't about being responsible or not, okay? I'm asking how you feel! When you see my hands, my hands like that, don't you have any other thoughts?"

"Other thoughts?" The scholar didn't understand why she looked so angry, so he cautiously replied, "Uh, skin as smooth as jade?"

Fifth Sister said that women love to hear nice things. Could it be that Miss Fan is not concerned about her body being seen, but rather that he did not praise her afterward?

Fan Qingbo nearly spat out blood. "Who wants to hear this?! Don't you think I'm very pale?!"

No, there's something odd about saying that...

“It’s Henbai.” The scholar was stunned for a long time, pondering the difference between Henbai and the skin as smooth as cream that he had described.

Fan Qingbo started grinding his teeth again, pondering which part of his body to bite, when he heard him mutter in confusion, "White...isn't that right? The book describes women as being like pearls and jade, shouldn't they be fair and translucent?" He was immediately stunned.

"You, you, you..." He stammered for a long time, but then fell silent.

Seeing that she seemed to have stopped being angry, the scholar was overjoyed, feeling that the time had come. He took out a box from his cloth bag and handed it to her with great care, then looked at her expectantly.

"What's this?"

Ye Wuxin said that once you see this, you will definitely agree to marry me.

Ye Wuxin? So this box is the reason he appeared at Linglong Pavilion? Filled with doubt, she opened the box, her hands trembling slightly under his expectant and ardent gaze. Inside, wrapped in a handkerchief, was a silver tassel bracelet. She looked up in confusion, only to see the scholar smile mysteriously, bend down to put the bracelet and ring on her finger, and then step back to her side.

"Make a fist, then pull hard on the longest tassel."

Although she was completely baffled, she still did as he said, raised her hand, and pulled on the longest tassel, but there was no reaction.

"Press harder."

"Oh, don't ask me to pay for it if you break it."

She said awkwardly, and pulled hard on the tassel. With a whoosh, a silver needle shot out from the ring on her ring finger!

"Ah!" She jumped up in surprise. "This...this...this is the legendary hidden weapon?" She then eagerly ran to the opposite wall to examine the silver needle. "How amazing! By the way, is the silver needle poisonous?"

"It's just a sleeping potion." The scholar shook his head, and seeing Fan Qingbo's happy expression, he smiled and narrowed his eyes.

But her joy didn't last long. Suddenly, she cautiously turned around, her expression unusually serious. "What if I accidentally ejaculate on myself?"

The scholar smiled and explained the mechanism to her.

It turns out this thing has a big switch; it's usually off when there's nothing going on, so no matter how much you pull the tassels, the silver needles won't shoot out. Even so, Fan Qingbo still felt uneasy. After playing with it for a while, he wanted to take it off, "I'd better not, I can't accept something for nothing."

Hmm... why can't I take it off? The scholar put it on so easily just now!

“Miss Fan, this is not a gift without merit, but a return gift. You gave me a wooden hairpin, and I return the favor with a silver chain.” The scholar smiled shyly and recited softly, “I give you a peach, and you give me a precious jade. It is not a return gift, but a token of lasting friendship.”

Fan Qingbo's hand, which was removing the chain, suddenly stopped, because she touched a protrusion on the chain. The feel of it, the feel of it...

"Scholar, where is your silver pen?"

She suddenly asked urgently, and the scholar smiled and pointed to her hand.

"Please don't tell me... you made a bracelet out of the weapon ranked second on the weapon ranking list and gave it to me?" Fan Qingbo was completely stunned, only the intense emotion in her eyes revealed the unspeakable shock in her heart.

“Hmm. Last time, I noticed you seemed to really like the silver pen, and you even mentioned wanting to turn it into a women's hairpin. I originally thought the same. But that night, that night when I saw your arm… a thought suddenly occurred to me, perhaps a bracelet or a necklace would be better?” The scholar rambled on, then, seeing her dazed expression, he panicked and cautiously asked, “Miss Fan, you… you don’t like it? Then… then let’s change it into a hairpin?”

Seeing that she still didn't react, he became anxious, thinking to himself that Ye Wuxin was just talking nonsense, and Miss Fan still didn't want to marry him! What should he do? What should he do? He had already sent the betrothal letter and tokens, but it was still no use... Suddenly he remembered that before she returned home, his fifth sister had pulled him aside and taught him a method.

Although he really didn't want to use it, but, but... the scholar gritted his teeth and still spoke up, "I heard, I heard that Commander Zhou and Miss Xu's wedding date has been set. You said last time that you wanted to stand up to him, why not, why not— um!"

The scholar's eyes were wide open, not daring to blink, as he watched her suddenly pounce on him and seal his lips with hers.