"Tick-tock, tick-tock..."
The rain dripped down the eaves, making crisp sounds on the bluestone slabs.
It seemed to be knocking on Nangong Meijiao's heart.
At this moment, all the noise around seemed to become unusually quiet.
She stood under the eaves, holding a whip in one hand and a bunch of lime that had not yet been scattered in the other, staring blankly at the man who was holding his arms around her waist.
But the man didn't look at her.
He rushed towards the gate, shot out like an arrow, and knocked the man who was about to escape from the gate to his knees with one punch.
His neck was broken and he died instantly.
He rushed towards the others again.
"Middle stage martial artist, hurry up!"
The other men were so frightened that they fled in panic.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
But after a few loud bangs and flashes of lightning, the men all fell to the ground. Some had their heads exploded, some had sunken chests, and some had collapsed backs. They all died tragically on the spot.
In the corner next to him, the man who had just been knocked away by him, who had the strength of an early martial artist, retreated on the ground, his face pale and trembling, saying: "You... You can't kill me, I am..."
"Bang!"
After one punch, his facial bones collapsed, he twitched a few times on the ground, and died.
The yard suddenly became quiet.
The ruthless figure wearing a black tiger mask stood in the rain and looked around. When he saw that there were no other living men, he immediately walked up to the corpses and began to touch the things on their bodies as if no one was around.
Nangong Meijiao suddenly said, "It's best not to take their things. This is Kyoto, not Heimulin, and they are not ordinary people. The government officials have many ways to find things, even if it's just a gold coin with a different serial number."
As soon as these words were spoken, the figure wearing the black tiger mask immediately retracted his hand, but without even looking at her, he turned around and walked towards the door.
Nangong Meijiao suddenly said: "Chu Feiyang!"
The figure paused for a moment, turned around, and said in a hoarse voice: "Who is Chu Feiyang? Did you recognize the wrong person?"
Nangong Meijiao stared at the eyes revealed in his mask and asked, "Then why did you save me just now?"
The figure laughed gruffly: "Because the girl has a good figure, I can't help myself."
Nangong Meijiao stared at him for a while, raised her hand, slowly took off the mask on her face, and said: "I am also very beautiful."
The figure shrugged, said nothing more, and walked quickly to the gate.
Just as she was about to leave, Nangong Meijiao suddenly said, "Since you think I have a good figure, then come over here, I can let you touch it."
After a pause, he continued, "You can touch anywhere."
The figure turned around and sneered, "You hold a whip in one hand and lime in the other. Do you think I'm a fool?"
After saying that, he left quickly and never looked back.
Nangong Meijiao paused for a moment, then suddenly chased after him. Standing at the door, she looked at his back and shouted, "Chu Feiyang, you are a fool! The biggest fool in the world!"
The man quickly disappeared into the alley in the distance.
Nangong Meijiao stood at the door for a while, then slowly loosened her hand. White powder slowly fell out from between her fingers and landed on the ground.
That's not lime, that's flour.
She really wanted to slap him in the face, give him a whip, and then tell him: "I have avenged myself, and the grudge is over. From now on, we will never see each other again."
But he didn't give her a chance.
"Princess, who is that man? He is at the middle stage of martial arts, and he is so ruthless. He killed all the people in the yard, and he was going to rob them all. Did he follow us? Did he come to help us? How does the mask on his face compare to you..."
Aunt Mu walked out of the yard with a puzzled look on her face.
Nangong Meijiao did not answer. She turned around to look at the corpse in the yard and said, "Use corpse powder to deal with it. Let's go."
"Yes, ma'am."
Aunt Mu immediately went back into the courtyard.
After a moment.
The two of them walked out of the alley.
Luo Qingzhou was very careful along the way. He first went to the bathhouse to take a shower and change into clean clothes before returning to the Qin Mansion.
The exiled immortal lives in the middle.
Bailing was talking to Xiaodie in the corridor. When she saw him coming back, she immediately asked, "Son-in-law, where have you been? Did you go to a brothel to fool around? Xiaodie didn't even dare to tell me. You..."
The words in her mouth stopped abruptly.
Luo Qingzhou shook the candied haws in his hand and said, "I saw that you haven't eaten candied haws for a long time, so I went out to buy you some. If you doubt me again, you won't have any in the future."
Bailing's face lit up immediately, and she quickly said in a flattering manner, "I don't doubt it anymore. I will never doubt it again. Son-in-law, I want it, give it to me now!"
Luo Qingzhou walked into the corridor holding an umbrella, handed the candied haws to her and said, "Why did you come to see me?"
Bai Ling couldn't wait to bite one first, then puffed up her cheeks and said in a unclear voice: "I came to inform the son-in-law that the young lady is fine. The son-in-law will go to tell the young lady a story tonight."
Luo Qingzhou said: "I understand."
Bai Ling ate while turning behind him and said with some disappointment: "Son-in-law, did you only buy one string?"
Luo Qingzhou said: "I don't have any monthly allowance, so how can I buy more? How about you lend me some?"
Bailing immediately picked up the flower umbrella, opened it, and said with a smile: "Son-in-law, I have to go back to accompany the young lady. You have to come early tonight."
After saying that, he quickly opened his umbrella and ran into the rain.
When she reached the door, she turned around again, shook the candied haws in her hand and said, "Son-in-law, are you really buying it only for me?"
Luo Qingzhou said seriously: "Of course, it's just you, not even Xiaodie."
When Bailing heard this, she immediately smiled like a flower: "Thank you, uncle, you are so nice. When you come tonight, I will massage your back and legs, and I can also massage your feet, hehe."
After saying that, he walked away happily.
Luo Qingzhou stood there for a while, then turned around and took out two strings of candied haws from behind him, handed them to Xiaodie, and said, "Here, they're yours."
Xiaodie was stunned, and took it in her hand with a surprised look on her face: "Master, did you just lie to Sister Bailing?"
Luo Qingzhou said: "Of course I lied to her. That girl is stupid and talkative. If I don't lie to her, who else can I lie to?"
Xiaodie suddenly poked him with her finger, then pointed to the door.
Luo Qingzhou turned his head and looked.
Bai Ling, wearing a pink dress and holding a flower umbrella, had returned at some point and was standing at the gate with half a string of candied haws in her hand, her pretty face tense and angry.
"Son-in-law, I will never eat your stinky candied haws again! Humph!"
She suddenly sobbed, touched her eyes, turned around and ran away whimpering.
Luo Qingzhou: “…”
Xiaodie quickly handed the two strings of candied haws to him and said, "Young Master, go and coax Sister Bailing and give her both strings."
Luo Qingzhou walked into the house and said, "Don't pay attention to her. She is just pretending to cry. She is still holding the candied haws tightly in her hand. I guess she is eating it right now."
"Stinky son-in-law, bad son-in-law, you say bad things about others behind their backs, I hate you!"
On the road outside, Bailing was walking with an umbrella, sobbing and eating the remaining candied haws in her hand.
But she saved one last one.
After returning to Lingchan Moon Palace, she entered the room and licked the last remaining one with her pink little tongue, smacking her lips and saying, "So sweet."
Xia Chan was squatting on the ground, cutting the carpet seriously, preparing to lay it on the floor of the room.
Seeing that she didn't respond, Bai Ling walked over to her and squatted down, licked a few more times, and said, "Chanchan, these candied haws are so sweet, do you want to try them? There's only one left, and my brother-in-law bought it for me."
Xia Chan looked up and said, "Oh."
Then he continued to work seriously with his head down.
Bailington felt bored and looked at the carpet and said, "It's not winter yet, why are you laying the carpet?"
Then he suddenly realized, "Did my uncle ask you to lay it?"
Xia Chan lowered her head and cut the hair seriously, ignoring her.
Bai Ling snorted, bit off the last string of candied haws, stood up and left, saying, "I'll go see the young lady."
After leaving the room, she muttered, "Stinky son-in-law, he must be afraid that he will use too much force in the future and collapse the bed. Or maybe he wants to find another place to bully Chanchan, humph."
After dark.
After Luo Qingzhou had dinner, he went directly to Lingchan Moon Palace.
He decided to go there first to tell the eldest lady a story, and then go to see the second lady.
When he arrived at Lingchan Moon Palace, he immediately saw the sheets and clothes hanging out to dry at the other end of the corridor.
He took off those clothes himself last night.
After putting away his umbrella and standing in the corridor for a while, he went into the house.
In the room, Xia Chan was folding her clothes with her head down. There was a soft carpet on the floor.
Luo Qingzhou didn't knock on the door. He took off his shoes and walked in silently.
Xia Chan thought it was Bai Ling and did not look up. She continued to immerse herself in her own world, folding clothes and thinking about things.
Until a hand reached out, grabbed the bellyband in her hand, and said, "This one looks good, wear this next time."
Xia Chan's hand trembled, and she snatched it away in a hurry. She stood up quickly with the clothes in her arms, went to the closet, and put everything in there.
She stood at the closet with her back to him, seemingly afraid to turn around.
Luo Qingzhou walked over, hugged her slender waist from behind, lowered his head, bit her ear and said, "Chanchan, are you still shy? Uncle...ah!"
Before he could finish his words, he had already covered his eyes and squatted on the ground.
Xia Chan turned and ran to the bed, picked up her sword, then lowered her head and ran out of the room in a panic.
Luo Qingzhou stood up from the ground, rubbed his eyes, and was stunned for a moment before leaving the room, putting on his shoes, and going to the back garden.
It was still drizzling in the sky.
In the pavilion in the back garden.
Miss Qin, dressed in a snow-white dress, was sitting there quietly, staring at the drizzle outside the pavilion in a daze.
Bai Ling was leaning against the pillar beside her, biting an empty candied haws stick in her mouth, and counting her fingers with her head down.
Xia Chan's whereabouts are unknown.
Luo Qingzhou looked around again but couldn't find it, so he went straight to the pavilion with an umbrella.
When Bailing saw him, she immediately threw away the bamboo stick in her mouth, pouted and snorted, turned away, and ignored him angrily.
Miss Qin turned her head and looked at him.