Xiao Yuan walked to the bamboo shade in front of the house and saw Xiao Ji grabbing Lan Yanfeng's arm and patting his back hard, as if she were beating an old cotton quilt that hadn't been used for many years. She was laughing and wagging her tail, very proud of herself, while Lan Yanfeng was glaring at her with a deadpan expression, looking like he was enduring something bitterly.
Zhu Liancheng and Pei Junwu, master and apprentice, suppressed their expressions of shock or laughter, and watched from the side with strange looks.
"Heaven is helping me! Heaven is helping me!" Xiao Ji said, clapping and laughing.
“Sister Xiao!” Yi Chunjun watched with glee. “You’ve said that almost a hundred times.” He glanced up and saw Xiao Yuan and the others. “You have to thank my wife for getting such a great deal.”
"Oh, oh." Xiao Ji stopped laughing and carefully examined Xiao Yuan as he approached.
Lan Yanfeng tried to shake off her and escape while she was distracted, but she grabbed him and held him even tighter.
The image of "Uncle Lan" as a free spirit and unruly man has completely collapsed.
"So beautiful, so beautiful!" Xiao Ji patted Lan Yanfeng's back hard again, making him look pale. "Xiao Jun, you're so lucky with women." She winked at Yi Chunjun.
"Little fox! Did you tell her to come here?" Lan Yanfeng demanded, unable to contain himself any longer.
“Yes, Xiao Yuan wants to see her,” Yi Chunjun said casually.
I'll settle the score with you later!
“Turning back?!” Xiao Ji looked at him with a mischievous smile. “We’re really on the same wavelength. Let’s go! Finally, I can do what I’ve been wanting to do for a long time!” She then grabbed Lan Yanfeng’s neck and dragged him away.
"Senior brother—" Lan Yanfeng looked at Zhu Liancheng with a mournful expression, his plea for help obvious.
Master Zhu was clearly greatly shocked, staring blankly at his junior brother, unable to make up his mind.
Pei Junwu finally couldn't help but laugh. "Master, let's go. Uncle Lan—take care."
"Fine! Little Wu, your martial uncle has spoiled you for nothing!" Lan Yanfeng glared.
"Long-awaited, long-awaited..." Xiao Ji was about to sing. "Where is your room?"
Yuan Xun stared blankly, then asked in his true colors, "What have you been longing for?"
Xiao Ji didn't even turn her head: "I raped him! Now my martial arts are finally better than his, hahaha."
A deathly silence.
Yan Minyu sat on a rock by the pool, lost in thought, occasionally kicking the water with her bare feet.
Someone approached, and she turned around. It was Xiao Ji. She saw Yan Minyu smile leisurely, then jump off her clothes and into the water, letting out a sigh of enjoyment.
Yan Minyu stared at her blankly.
As Xiao Ji splashed water with a smile, she asked, "Little girl, is something on your mind?"
Yan Minyu took a breath. "Sister Xiao, Uncle Lan..." She hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Does he like you?" Everyone knew that his heart belonged only to the deceased Uncle Li.
Xiao Ji laughed, "That's his business, what does it have to do with me?"
Yan Minyu was taken aback.
"All I know is that I like him," Xiao Ji said with a grin. Looking at Yan Minyu's shocked expression, she raised an eyebrow. "Who says a woman has to wait for a man to like her? If I like a man, I'll cling to him until I stop liking him."
Yan Minyu stared blankly at her determined expression.
"Who says a woman has to be chaste and devoted to only one man, to only have one man? To foolishly hang herself on one tree? To wait coyly for a man to love her, and then wait for him to get tired of her? Who says a woman can't have choices?"
She glanced at Yan Minyu again.
“Little girl, sometimes thinking too much only makes you unhappy. Why worry so much in this life? I used to love Gao Tianjing, but then I found out he was a jerk, so I stopped loving him and just hurt him a little, haha.” She laughed smugly. “Now I like Lan Yanfeng, and I haven’t gotten tired of him after all these years, so I’ll just keep liking him. If I want love, a return, and many things he can’t give me, then I’ll have to leave him, and all that happiness will be gone, and I might even miss him. So it’s better to have nothing and just cling to him. Love comes in many forms, who says it has to be give and take? Hey, hey, little girl, where are you going?”
"Go find him. Why should I wait for him to forget me? Why should I stay here and unhappily missing him? I'm going to find him, pester him—until I stop liking him and then leave gracefully. If I always like him, then I'll pester him for the rest of my life!"
"Haha, this child is teachable, this child is teachable!"
Xiao Yuan rolled over in bed, his eyes fixed on the swaying bamboo shadows under the moonlight outside the window, and sighed softly.
"What's wrong? Can't sleep?" Yi Chunjun stretched out his long arms and legs from behind and gently pulled her into his arms.
"Tell me, what's wrong with Senior Sister? I always thought she would be happy to stay by Hang Yisu's side," Xiao Yuan said, troubled.
“Sigh…” Yi Chunjun sighed. “You asked me before how I could control Hang Yisu, but I didn’t tell you.”
"Hmph!" She rolled her eyes.
“I’ll tell you now,” he laughed. “He’s a member of the imperial court. And those ‘heroes of the martial world’ aren’t the only ones eyeing your family’s treasure.”
"A member of the imperial court? Is he a constable?"
"If only he were a constable! Have you ever seen a constable with such skill? He's an underling of Eunuch Wang of the Imperial Palace."
Seeing that she still didn't understand, he sighed, "He was a eunuch too!"
"ah??"
"If he weren't a eunuch, and if he could have held back that day... he would be a saint!"
Xiao Yuan was silent; no wonder he had such a pained expression.
"Eunuch Wang wants to control the martial arts world through the powerful families of Jianghu. He chose Hang Yisu and threatened him with the safety of the entire Hang family. I've always found this strange. The Hang family's swordsmanship isn't that ruthless. Now it seems that Eunuch Wang must have personally trained him."
"What brand did you give him?"
"The Imperial Seal. That thing can help him break free from Eunuch Wang's control."
How did you get that thing?