Xiahou Xuanyu's expression twisted for a moment, "What do you mean by having a crush on someone? As long as I kill that second male lead, I will naturally find a way to make the female lead forget him and fall in love with me, the male lead, according to the original plot."
After the last lesson, Xiahou Xuanyu felt that he could no longer indulge the second male lead and the female lead in getting together. He could not make the same mistake twice. As for what to do with the second male lead's role after his death, compared to the female lead's direct betrayal and finally making him lose the luck of this world, it was a small matter. There would always be someone to replace the second male lead's role.
Pointing his finger at his knee, Xiahou Xuanyu's handsome face showed a domineering and disdainful smile, "How dare you snatch my woman with anything?"
Think about the original novel where the heroine Chu Li became friends with the Ninth Young Master of Dongcheng and has been living in Jiuyan City under the jurisdiction of Dongcheng. Xiahou Xuanyu issued an order and sent his subordinates to Jiuyan City to conduct a comprehensive search for Chu Li's whereabouts.
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Xunnu and Tang Li came to the nearest Bailu City. The city was not very big, but it was located at the junction of North City and East City, so there were quite a lot of people coming and going.
"Why don't we just stay here?" Tang Li asked Xunnu for his opinion. She was still worried about Xunnu's injuries. Such serious injuries couldn't be healed so quickly. He needed more time to recuperate carefully and shouldn't travel too long.
Xun Nu had been quietly observing the people and vehicles around him since he entered the city. When he heard Tang Li's question, he nodded and said, "Okay."
Most of the people in the city are ordinary people, and they all look relatively wealthy. Such a city should be suitable for living.
Tang Li decided to choose a small house next to a river and a weeping willow in front of the door. "Look, this house is not big. There is a shop in the front with three tables. You can sell breakfast and tea first. The small yard in the back is for you to live in. There is also a well, so you don't have to go to the big well on the corner to fetch water." Tang Li pointed it out to Xun Nu bit by bit.
Xunnu is a killer. He organizes the allocation of housing and meals or finds a restaurant to eat after completing a task. He doesn't understand the life of ordinary people, so he can only follow Tang Li like a large pet and watch her give orders.
"This room is for you. I think you will like this window. I will plant some flowers for you when I have time. What kind of flowers do you like?"
"This kitchen is great. I am most satisfied with it. There are many materials that need to be purchased. I also looked at it when I chose this place. It is quite close to the market, so it will be convenient for me to buy groceries in the future."
Tang Li said the same thing, and Xun Nu could only nod, because in this regard, he was not even a finger better than the young lady. Only when buying things could his value be reflected.
The two of them bought daily necessities and rice, flour, meat and vegetables at the market. Xunnu carried the heavy items and did not let Tang Li interfere. Tang Li had to carry a basket of vegetables and asked him from time to time if he was tired. The two of them walked to a vegetable stall. The vegetable seller looked at them and smiled. She said to Tang Li: "Young lady, you love your man so much. You have a good relationship. You just got married, right?"
Tang Li: “…”
They both wore ordinary cloth clothes, and when they walked together, although they were not that close, they looked shy and avoided each other, looking very immature, like a young couple. Not only the vegetable seller, but almost everyone who saw them in the market thought so. A vendor selling hairpins and rings even shouted to Xunnu: "Young man, buy a hairpin for your wife. Your wife is so beautiful, and her clothes are too plain."
It was the first time that Xunnu was approached and joked by a stranger. After all, he used to be a loner, dressed in black and holding a knife. He looked like someone who was not easy to mess with, so naturally no one dared to talk to him. However, at this moment, he was carrying rice and flour, and was followed by a young girl who looked like a young wife. The two of them were considerate of each other, so even though he had a cold face, he seemed harmless.
"Yes, young master, come and see the hairpin."
Xunnu glanced at the young wife who was talking and found that she had several silver hairpins in her hair. He then looked at Tang Li's hair and realized that she was indeed not wearing any hairpins or rings, but only a hairband. When he saw the hairband, he paused for a moment, walked to the stall seriously, and carefully selected a few pieces of jewelry. Tang Li explained to the old lady who jokingly asked if they had children, but turned around and saw Xunnu choosing jewelry for her. She blushed and was speechless.
The old lady laughed, "Don't be embarrassed, your man loves you, you are too shy."
What was even more embarrassing was that because Xun Nu had given her all the money, she had to go over to pay. The couple was selling the hairpins and rings. The wife slapped her husband and pointed at Tang Li and said angrily: "Look at them, their husband is so considerate that he keeps all the money for his wife, and you are hiding your private money behind my back."
Tang Li took the little male god and left quickly.
When they went to buy bedding and clothes, they were teased again. When the proprietress heard that they wanted bedding, she immediately took out a red wedding quilt and said with a smile, "You two young couples look like they have just got married. My wedding quilt is very famous. I guarantee that if you use my wedding quilt, you will have two children in three years! Live in harmony and happiness!"
Tang Li couldn't stand the enthusiasm of the proprietress and waved her hands repeatedly, feeling very embarrassed. Then she glanced at Xun Nu next to her and saw that he was staring at the wedding quilt quite seriously.
She looked at the lotus pattern on it and tried to ask, "Xunnu, do you like this quilt? Otherwise, I will buy you one like this?"
Xunnu came back to his senses and looked away towards the store entrance, "… Just choose what you like."
Tang Li's ears turned red when she saw the little male god. She didn't know why her mind was confused, and she was mesmerized by the beauty and blurted out: "Then let's take this bed."
The lady boss smiled, not surprised at all, "Okay, I'll pack it for you, do you want a wedding pillow?"
After buying a lot of things and putting them away slowly at home, Tang Li took out a notebook to record the accounts. After recording, she started to clean up and put up new window paper. She was short and couldn't put it up, but Xun Nu was tall. He took the window paper from her hand and pasted it on the window. Because she was not skilled, it was not smooth. Tang Li smiled and stepped on a stool to make it smooth. She was not skilled either, but she had strong hands-on ability and would learn it after trying more. After she put the window paper on, she wanted to check whether it was pasted crookedly, but the stool under her feet shook and she fell to the side.
Xunnu opened his arms, caught her, and carried her down from the stool.
Tang Li's heart was pounding with fear, and Xun Nu patted her shoulder, "It's okay, I'll catch you."
This heartbeat will never get better, Tang Li thought.
Xun Nu didn't know how to hang the bed curtains or put on the bedding. He learned little by little with his eyes lowered. He looked clumsy and a little pitiful, which made Tang Li want to poke his thick and curled eyelashes.
The little male god noticed her gaze and looked over. When he met those clear and calm eyes, Tang Li immediately shrank back to work. She carried the quilt to Xunnu's room and covered him with it. Xunnu didn't say a word.
Although the house has not been cleaned up yet, Tang Li has already cleaned up the important area of the kitchen. She specially bought a chicken to stew early, and bought some medicinal ingredients for stewing soup at the medicine store, specially making sick meals for the little boy. Even if it is a medicinal meal, it must not have a medicinal smell, and the smell must make people's appetites. Tang Li used to be a private chef. Although she can't make some of the hard dishes in big restaurants, she can make all kinds of home-cooked soups and new colorful dishes, as well as traditional snacks and cakes.
Looking at the dishes that Tang Li brought out one by one, Xunnu's eyes flashed. He picked up the chopsticks only after Tang Li sat down.
In the quiet night, all the doors in the city were closed, and only the occasional barking of dogs and the laughter of children from the neighboring courtyards could be heard. The two sat quietly eating under a single lamp. The lights were dim, and the food smelled delicious. As Xunnu ate, he couldn't help but look across. He always felt that everything at this moment was too unreal.
Such a peaceful and ordinary life was unreal, and the person smiling at him under the lamp across from him was also unreal. It was an existence he had never imagined before, but he accepted it very easily.
The gurgling of the stream and the hawkers' cries across the bridge in the morning woke Tang Li up. She got up, opened the window, and sat in front of the bronze mirror to comb her hair. She was going to braid it casually, but when her eyes fell on the silver hairpins, she hesitated for a moment, and finally picked up the hairpins to put her hair up, and put the original hairband into her sleeve pocket.
After packing up and walking out, Xunnu from the next room happened to open the door and walk out. Tang Li looked at his hair, which was still tied up with a piece of cloth that she had torn off that time. She pulled out the hairband from her sleeve pocket, "I have a new hair accessory, this, I'll tie your hair."
Xun Nu took it, and the two stood there looking at each other for a long time. Tang Li coughed lightly and quickly went into the kitchen.
Tang Li didn't know what to pay attention to when opening a store in this world, so she had to prepare while visiting other stores, making some sweet cakes first, and building good relationships with the neighbors. She accidentally made too much and put the rest in the store that hadn't opened yet. As a result, because it looked so good and novel, it attracted passers-by to ask about the price, and unexpectedly sold more than half of it.
Tang Li thought about it and felt that it might be possible to open a dim sum shop in the future.
She had no idea that she had turned a sadomasochistic drama into a sweet drama of food farming. She happily prepared for the store opening and made all kinds of delicious food for Xunnu. Xunnu seemed to have forgotten that he was a killer. He helped buy groceries and clean up every day. He also tidied the dirt road in the back yard while eating soup dumplings. Tang Li saw the little male god squatting in the yard laying stone slabs with one cheek bulging from the kitchen window, and she wanted to laugh.
Taking a look at the duck stewing in the pot, she picked up a skinless duck leg, poured out the soup, and called to Xunnu in the yard, "Xunnu, come and taste this soup."
Xunnu paused with her puffy cheeks, and looked at the bowl in her hand. It was steaming and fragrant.
That night, Xun Nu jumped out of the window and found a place to practice swordplay. He practiced for two hours before going back.
Tang Li not only ate supplements every day, but also went to the pharmacy to buy medicine and applied it to Xunnu every day. Perhaps because of this, Xunnu's injuries healed very quickly, much faster than every time before. In a short period of time, all the external injuries on his body had healed, leaving only the internal injuries that needed to be slowly healed.
Tang Li opened a small restaurant. If she was alone, it would not be easy to run a small shop, but with Xun Nu, many things became more convenient. The shop was open for less than two days when some hooligans came to collect "protection fees". Several big men walked in with their feet turned outward and ran out with their feet turned inward.
Someone stood at the door and shouted inside: "Wait... Ouch."
Before he could finish shouting, he was hit on the back of his head by the boss. The boss clasped his fists and shouted to Xunnu who was holding a broom in the store: "My friend, I see that you have good martial arts skills, but it is really embarrassing to stay in such a small place. Why don't you come to our hall and work with us brothers!"
Xunnu said to the gangsters expressionlessly: "If we are on different paths, we cannot work together."
Tang Li witnessed this scene and for some reason she wanted to laugh. She couldn't hold it back for a long time and ran to the kitchen at the back and laughed out loud.
Xunnu: “???”
Besides, there are also the troubles caused by Tang Li's appearance. The heroine Chu Li is a beauty. Even if Tang Li does not wear makeup and wears a cloth skirt and a thorny hairpin, she still cannot hide her beauty. This inevitably attracts some playboys. A few days after the restaurant opened, a playboy, relying on his little martial arts skills, entered the store to tease.
Tang Li: "What would you like to eat?"
The wanderer: "With a boss lady like that, what use is she to be a cook? You might as well just come with me."
Xunnu quickly came out of the kitchen and walked over to Tang Li, "I'll do it."
To the flirt, his tone was not so gentle. Without saying a word, he drew his sword, sheathed it after a flash of the blade, and at the same time, a large piece of thin hair fluttered down. The man only felt a chill on his scalp, and after coming to his senses from the threat of death, he stared with fear, his eyes widened, and his eyeballs could not move.
Xunnu: "What to eat?"
The man stammered: "Eat...eat...eat..."
Xunnu: "Eat noodles."
Man: "Eat, eat noodles."
Xunnu turned to Tang Li and said in a low voice: "He wants to eat noodles."
Tang Li: “…”
The two went to the kitchen and saw Tang Li was about to cook noodles. Xun Nu said, "I'll do it."
Tang Li was stunned. "You come? But, can you cook?"
Xunnu picked up the noodles and threw them into the hot water to blanch them. He then casually scooped them into a bowl without adding any seasoning. He walked to the front hall with the noodles and placed them in front of the fidgeting man with a clang. He spat out one word: "Eat."
When the man finished the half-cooked noodles like swallowing poison, put down the money and ran away, Tang Li shook her head helplessly. It seems that no matter what era, opening a store is not an easy thing, especially in this world with low legal constraints. If there is no Xunnu, she will have to deal with these things alone, which will be countless times more troublesome. She still thinks many things are too simple. If she doesn't have the ability to protect herself, she may not be able to live well in this world.
"Xun Nu, can I take you as my master? You teach me some self-defense skills." This way, if Xun Nu leaves in the future, she won't be so scared.
The author has something to say: Although the young lady wants to live a good life, the script is not a farming story, so she can't live peacefully for more than two chapters...