Chapter 31: Frost Pear Town (IV) "Seducing a married woman is despicable...
"Jia Li, after I died, did anything strange happen in Xianshan?"
Mingyao lay on the bed and only breathed a sigh of relief after watching the figure behind the door disappear. He lowered his voice and asked Jiali about what happened after her "death".
There was no movement for a long while, and Mingyao turned his head to look.
She saw Jia Li sitting upright with his eyes closed at the other end of the bed, obviously not wanting to pay attention to her.
It's really hard to coax him.
Mingyao sighed softly, leaned over, and poked her face: "Jia Li Xianjun, just tell me."
"Please, I can only rely on you now." Mingyao pestered, "This is really important to me."
Having never been so obsessed with someone before, Jiali's forehead jumped, and she was really annoyed.
"Can you only rely on me?" She opened her eyes, pulled her hand out of Mingyao's arms, and seized the loophole in her words. "I think that weirdo outside the door has deep feelings for you. Why don't you go ask him?"
Mingyao actually wanted to.
If it weren't for Chao Qulai's debuff, she would have gone to ask Xuanxiu long ago.
But now...
Sighing inwardly, Mingyao half-truthed, "...He's a man after all, so there's still a layer between us. So, I'm still the closest to you."
Mingyao looked at Jiali with a pair of pitiful round eyes.
Jiali was born in a fairy mountain and is very talented. It is normal for her to be a little arrogant. Although she has a bad temper, she is easy to coax. It should be easy to get things from her. Just say a few nice words to her.
As expected, Jia Li glanced at Ming Yao's flattering look, but she didn't show it on her face. In the end, her heart softened and she snorted coldly: "You should have listened to me and returned to the fairy mountain. In this world, there is nothing that the fairy mountain can't solve. I don't think there are good people outside..."
He actually came up with the idea of forming a ghost marriage with you and trying to summon your spirit. He is really too paranoid.
Jiali frowned and didn't say the second half of the sentence.
With that person present, she was hesitant to ask. Although she didn't like Mingyao very much, she still wanted to confirm: "Do you know what he did to you?"
Who? Mingyao was a little stunned. Xuanxiu? What did he do?
Seeing her foolish look, Jia Li had the answer and couldn't help but feel a headache: "...What is your relationship with him?"
What kind of relationship could it be? Mingyao was puzzled. The former uncle-sister-in-law relationship, and... maybe Xuanxiu still had some feelings for her?
After his death, Mingyao's mind was filled with events one after another. At this moment, guided by Jiali's words, she finally dug out from her mind the unclear and bloody farce between the uncle and the sister-in-law on the night before his death.
If you have nowhere to go, why not come with me?
ha.
Mingyao smiled bitterly in his heart. The current situation really made Xuanxiu's words come true.
Coming back to her senses, she met Jiali's inquiring gaze, feeling inexplicably guilty. Now that Xuan Hui was gone... she and Xuanxiu, she laughed it off: "We're just friends."
"Friend?" Jia Li's eyes were cold. "You and Xuan Hui Immortal Lord divorced, could it be because of him?"
What nonsense! How did you come to this conclusion? The entire Xianshan Mountain knew that Xuan Hui divorced her because of the breakthrough.
But Jiali seemed to have suddenly realized something, lost in her own thoughts. She didn't care what Mingyao thought, and continued to talk excitedly: "That makes sense. No wonder you don't want to go back to the fairy mountain, no wonder you don't want to see Xuanhui Xianjun... It turns out you've fallen in love with someone else."
"The Immortal Lord's breakthrough and separation is probably just a pretense."
"You can't bear to part with either your new love or your old one. Could it be that, in a fit of rage, Xuan Hui Immortal Lord accidentally killed you during the argument? That's why the Immortal Mountain has suppressed the news of your death, and why Master feels he owes you something, and so asked me to follow that weirdo to summon your soul?"
Jiali connected everything together and felt that it was seamless.
The look he gave Mingyao was inevitably complicated, a mixture of regret for a love rival who had suddenly lost his sight and a hint of anger at not being able to match his talents. "...Forget it. Even if you were wrong, Immortal Xuan Hui shouldn't have fought you and caused you to lose your life."
"Right now, even if you are safe and sound, the Immortal Lord will probably have to bear the responsibility."
"Since Xianshan owes you, and it can also be regarded as helping Xuanhui Xianjun to atone for his sins, I will help you."
"Tell me, what do you want to ask?"
This sudden turn of events caught Mingyao off guard. He opened his mouth, but after listening to Jiali's analysis, he no longer had the intention to ask the question he originally wanted to ask.
Obviously, Jiali was completely unaware of his own death and was just sent down from the fairy mountain to do hard labor.
But... Mingyao pinched her fingertips. She didn't expect that the one who would take her down the mountain to summon the soul would be Xuanxiu.
The coffin, the red string, and the gorgeous colors that you will never forget once you see them.
That dream that seemed real but not real was actually true.
Mingyao was a little dazed and instinctively felt resistance in her heart. Things were already chaotic enough, and she really didn't want to create more trouble.
"What are you thinking about? Why don't you ask?" Jia Li felt puzzled.
Mingyao naturally had no mood to ask. She would probably have to ask Xuanxiu for the details of her death.
But the bait that Chao Lai had set, and the peach blossom branch that had to poke its way into her wall, gave Ming Yao a headache just thinking about it.
"Let me take it easy." Mingyao fell back silently.
Now that things have come to this, let’s have some sleep. A soft bed is a hotbed of happiness.
"You are such a person--" Jiali's heart choked.
She originally wanted to ask Mingyao why her soul could not be summoned back for a long time at first, and whether she had met someone.
But he was so angry at Mingyao's unwillingness to listen and his ignorant attitude that he didn't bother to ask any more questions.
It was already bright outside, and there was nothing he could do by regulating his breathing, so Jiali simply took his sword and went out.
It was also bad luck that Ming Yao disturbed his practice, and when he went downstairs he saw that weirdo again.
Jiali snorted coldly and turned to walk out.
"Immortal Lord, is Ayao asleep?"
Unexpectedly, the strange man actually spoke, and his words were much more polite than in the previous few days.
Jia Li didn't want to talk to him. She felt it was dirty to say even one more word to such a person with corrupt morals.
But on second thought, Xuan Hui Immortal Lord killed someone out of anger, which was a serious mistake, and he would definitely be severely punished by the Immortal Mountain.
But if the person in front of him had not seduced Mingyao, how could Mingyao have done such a stupid thing.
Mingyao is a person known to all the cultivators in the Immortal Mountain. She is timid and cowardly by nature, and this kind of thing was definitely not her initiator.
Ultimately it's this person's fault.
Jiali really couldn't swallow this anger without scolding him.
So he mustered up his courage, turned around angrily, and walked over to the weirdo's table: "Hey, do you know that cultivating oneself starts with cultivating virtue?"
Without waiting for the weirdo to speak, Jiali continued to scold him harshly.
"I guess you're ignorant and lack self-cultivation, which is why you did such a despicable thing. Ever since we met, you've been secretive. I knew then that you had something to hide, and now you're playing two faces in public and behind people."
"I guess only a eloquent mouth can induce Mingyao to make a mistake and divorce Xuanhui."
"But don't be complacent. You will eventually suffer retribution. When Mingyao wakes up, he will find that you are not even half as good as Xuanhui Immortal Lord."
"…seducing a married woman is despicable and shameless."
After Jia Li cursed for the last time, she turned around and ran. She still remembered her teacher's advice to her not to provoke this strange man easily. Fortunately, the man didn't seem to have any intention of chasing her. In just a few breaths, Jia Li disappeared in the morning mist.
Inside the inn.
When Jiali was cursing just now, he did not hold back his voice. The guys around him who had gotten up early in the morning to work were originally listless, but when they heard this, they all pricked up their ears quietly, listened carefully one by one, and glanced over there from time to time.
However, the man being scolded sat by the window, enveloped in the morning mist, his brows clear and his eyes smiling. Even when someone pointed at his nose and scolded him, he remained unperturbed, his eyes lowered calmly as he sipped his tea. He was elegant and gentle, a creature apart from the mundane world.
He doesn't look like the type of person who would seduce a married woman.
Just sitting here, she is quite eye-catching. If she really wants to seduce someone, she doesn't need a good talker, just her good looks will do.
The workers couldn't help but feel biased, thinking that the woman who had just run out with a sword in her hand was probably talking nonsense.
Most of the people watching the fun had the same idea.
So he looked at the people furtively, and when he found there was nothing to discuss, he quietly continued to drink tea and work.
The commotion Jiali had just made didn't cause any waves at all.
No one took her word of seduction seriously.
Except Xuanxiu.
The person lowered his eyes and looked at his own reflection in the clear tea.
Now, he has changed into a new set of clothes.
The red dress he wore was too eye-catching, and there was blood on his body. He had also performed some sinister tricks before, which made him look more vicious for no reason. Even when he smiled, he couldn't hide the coldness in his eyes.
When it comes to creatures in this world, people always judge good from evil based on appearance. Mingyao has always been afraid of demons and ghosts, so perhaps that's why he's afraid of him.
It was his negligence.
Now that she has changed her clothes and the bloodstains have been cleaned up without leaving a trace, it seems that she will no longer hide from him.
But it was the first time he liked someone, and he didn't know her likes and dislikes, nor did he know how to please her.
To ensure absolute safety, we can only speculate and imitate from what we already know.
Since she liked Xuan Hui, he also wore white clothes according to her preferences. However, this place was remote and there was no sword shop. Otherwise, he could go buy a sword, which would make him look more like an otherworldly immortal.
Immortal Miaomiao lowered his head and looked at the reflection of the tea soup carefully, simulating Mingyao's every move in his sea of consciousness over and over again.
He recalled how she had stared at his face several times before, her gaze fixed on... He thought carefully...
It was his eyes. His long, crow-feather eyelashes trembled slightly, and some waves surged in his heart.
She seemed to like his eyes.
He smiled and curled his eyes.
The young monk was not wrong when he said that he seduced Mingyao.
He did want to seduce her.
*
Mingyao slept soundly and when he woke up, the sun was setting and it was already afternoon.
The house was empty and Jiali had not returned yet.
Mingyao didn't dare go out until she came back.
What if she ran into Xuanxiu? Now, she felt a headache whenever she thought of this name.
Forget it, I'd better stay in the house.
Mingyao turned over and sat up. After a good sleep, her mind became much clearer and she could sort out the current situation a little better.
Now all kinds of unexpected things happened after the death escape.
There are actually only two possibilities.
First, after her "death", some changes occurred that she didn't know about, such as the peach branches that grew out of Xuanxiu, which interfered with some important plot nodes that she didn't know about, causing the subsequent plot to collapse.
If that was the case, she would have to go and ask Xuanxiu in person what happened after her death, despite the debuff Chao Qulai gave her.
This is always a difficult task.
As for the second...
Mingyao pursed her lips. In comparison, she was more unwilling to believe the second possibility.
This conjecture made her heart palpitate just thinking about it.
Mingyao forced himself to suppress the random thoughts in his mind and tried to comfort himself, saying, "No, there is no way such a bizarre thing could happen."
A little bit of afterglow shines through the window and falls on Mingyao, casting a slight shadow.
Mingyao used his reflected shadow to make a pinky promise to himself to cheer himself up.
It doesn’t matter, eat one bite at a time and take one step at a time.
Although she is not extremely smart, does not have any golden fingers, and is also incontinent, the biggest advantage of ordinary people like her is that she can endure and persevere. As long as it is not the end, she will always have a chance, and she will always have the chance to go home step by step.
Mingyao encouraged himself and silently started making a to-do list.
The first thing to do is to find out what happened after you escaped death, and you have to find Xuanxiu to find out.
Well... there's no rush. I can hide for a few more days and wait for her to prepare herself mentally.
Secondly, he also had to deal with the problem of his body being unable to breathe. This problem was probably related to her spirit. He had to find Chao Qulai, and to find Chao Qulai... Mingyao paused...
We still have to get closer to Xuanxiu.
I couldn't help but sigh softly, I just couldn't get around him.
Forget it. As the old saying goes, the first push is the best, the second is weaker, and the third is the end. Mingyao stood up quickly, thinking that if he stuck his head out, he would be cut by the sword. He opened the door and went downstairs with his head down, thinking about asking if anyone had seen a handsome immortal.
But she didn't need to look for him. As soon as she got downstairs, she saw the immortal king in white clothes standing by the window not far away. He looked more gentle than this morning.
"Ayao."
Still the gentle tone and soft smile.
Mingyao still couldn't help it, his face turned pale, and he tried hard to restrain the urge to go back.
"Xuanxiu..."
She squeezed out two words from between her teeth, clenching her hands tightly, controlling the amplitude of her body trembling, thinking that this was just the first hurdle on her way home, which was difficult and arduous. She forced herself to raise her head and fixed her eyes on Xuanxiu's lips, "You——"
As she finished speaking, she caught a glimpse of Xuanxiu raising his hand, which was about to fall on her shoulder.
Back away in panic.
His fingertips brushed against her gently raised hair, and a flying insect fluttered its wings and flew between them.
The atmosphere was slightly tense.
Mingyao was still frightened and felt a little helpless, unable to think of what to say.
With a bang.
After a loud bang, the door of the inn was smashed open by something heavy, and broken wood chips were scattered all over the ground.
Xuanxiu reacted very quickly and blocked Mingyao behind him.
Soon, a demonic aura filled the air, and a Tian Xiao swaggered in without any disguise, with a gleam in his eyes: "Boss, today I will select the goods from you."
Inside the building, there was complete silence.
"Ah Yao was frightened by him?"
Xuanxiu stopped in front of her, turned his back to her, and asked in a soft voice.
Without seeing Xuanxiu's face, Mingyao's fear was relieved a lot. Seeing that Xuanxiu had given her a way out, Mingyao nodded quickly, said "hmm" softly, and accepted it.
"I see."
Immortal Lord Miaomiao glanced at the monster in front of him, and his expression gradually became indifferent when Mingyao could not see it.
It turned out that he was frightened by the monster and that’s why he avoided him.
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