Damp male ghost
Outside, the wind and rain were bleak, but Wushan Yue was fast asleep in bed. The continuous rain and the misty sky outside the window made it a perfect time to sleep.
Perhaps because she had slept too much during the day, and had only eaten a few bites of food hastily, Wushan Yue suddenly sat up in the middle of the night and rubbed her flat stomach.
I'm so hungry. I should have listened to Jiang Yun and eaten more.
She glanced at Jiang Yun, who was fast asleep beside her, and carefully got out of bed. In the darkness, she followed her memory and stealthily opened the door. Before leaving, she took a special look at Jiang Yun on the bed, but there was no sign of her waking up.
Wu Shanyue breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness. Jiang Yun hadn't woken up. If he had, it would have been a real problem. She had only prepared some food in the middle of the night.
She groped her way down the stairs, one step at a time. She remembered there should be some pastries on the table, so she ate a couple to tide her over before having breakfast in the morning. Come to think of it, it seemed like she hadn't had breakfast in a long time.
I've been lying down so comfortably these days.
Just as Wu Shanyue touched the pastry, a candlelight flickered on at the doorway not far away. She subconsciously turned her head and heard a clear, gentle voice, like a feather brushing against her heart.
"Are you hungry? Why did you get up and come down in the middle of the night?"
Wu Shanyue patted his chest to swallow the dry pastry, nodded with a ferocious expression, and then began to cough wildly.
Sui Zhixu stepped forward and patted her back. The tea on the table had long since gone cold, so it wasn't appropriate to give it to her. After a while, Wu Shanyue stopped coughing and thanked Sui Zhixu with a flushed face.
"Thank you."
Her cheeks were rosy, and when she smiled, round dimples would appear on both sides of her mouth. Her eyes were like clear lake water, as clear as a mountain deer, making people feel good about her.
After calming down, she scratched her head sheepishly, "I'm sorry, did I make too much noise and disturb your sleep? It's all my fault, I was picking and choosing during the day and disturbed you at night."
Upon hearing this, Xu remained silent for a moment, then said, "I'm sorry to have troubled you."
Wushan Yue exclaimed "Ah!" in great confusion.
“If there’s nothing going on in the village, Jiang Yun often uses the excuse of seclusion to go down the mountain. He has a house in the town where he lives year-round. If it weren’t for the incident in Miao territory, he usually wouldn’t come back. The food in the village is indeed not as good as outside.” Sui Zhixu sighed.
"In the end, it was I who dragged you down."
As Xu frowned, Wu Shanyue, seeing that she really thought so, hurriedly waved her hand and shook her head.
"No, no, it's not because of a bad diet that I'm eating less, it's just that I've been sleeping too much and I'm not hungry while lying in bed! I also know about the house that Ah Xu mentioned. Ah Yun and I stayed there when we first came to Qianzhou. Ah Yun said we only went up the mountain after we saw you."
Sui Zhixu smiled faintly, "Is that so?"
Wushan Yue nodded repeatedly. "He said it was the silver butterfly beside him that told him."
A smile played on her lips as she asked Wu Shanyue, "Are there enough pastries? I also have some dried meat; would you like some?"
Dried meat?
Wushan Yue's eyes gleamed with golden light as she nodded frantically, her bright, deer-like eyes widening in a way that was incredibly endearing.
The moment Sui Zhixu stood up, her face darkened. She had been trying to contact Jiang Yun at the Ming family's house for ages, but he hadn't said a word. So he already knew she was coming and had gone up the mountain that very night to be intimate with his wife?
Wu Shanyue waited for her outside, occasionally yawning. For some reason, she felt a chill down her spine. She turned around fearfully, but there was nothing there. She patted her chest, comforting herself that it was probably because it was still raining outside.
Little did she know that Jiang Yun was watching her silently from the shadows. As soon as Xu Zhixu stepped out of the house with the dried meat, she looked up and saw him. She glanced at him casually and then returned to Wushan Yue's side.
"Give."
"Thank you, Ah Xu. You should go back to sleep now."
Sui Zhixu shook her head, sat down next to Wu Shanyue, glanced at Jiang Yun upstairs out of the corner of her eye, and said with a smile, "I've always been curious, how did you and he fall in love?"
The phrase "mutual affection" was emphasized by Sui Zhixu, who, with a carefree and unrestrained manner, tore off a piece of jerky.
"Mutual affection? Let me think about it."
As she sensed the atmosphere upstairs had become much more subdued, she smiled and shrugged where Wu Shanyue couldn't see.
"After leaving Jingzhou, A-Yun and I traveled west to the Western Regions, eventually returning to Luoyang. In Luoyang, he asked me if I wanted to visit his hometown and asked me to pretend to be his sweetheart..."
Sui Zhixu leaned back and listened leisurely, since she couldn't fall asleep anyway.
Jiang Yun went to the Western Regions to deal with the royal court's Gu affairs. All the rumors circulating about him in the martial arts world originated from this, such as the massacre of ten cities in one night, killing without shedding blood, and letting Gu worms eat his head, making people lose their minds and become like puppets...
How did he manage to keep Wushan Yue from realizing he was a Gu Master?
The scenery of the Western Regions beyond the Great Wall is boundless. The sun is exceptionally round over the vast desert, and the wind and sand roar. When did Wushan Yuechu ever speak of such a scene when she first entered the martial world? It was all thanks to Jiang Yun blocking the sand in front of her that she was almost blown away.
Jiang Yun's true identity to Wu Shanyue was that of a physician invited to the royal court for a consultation.
Wu Shanyue had her own little thoughts. In her childhood memories, she sat in a dilapidated courtyard. Her mother's impression was even fainter than the jujube tree in the yard. Her mother always ignored her and cared more about her older sister and younger brother.
She received the least amount of food. There wasn't much rice in the house to begin with, and her older sister and younger brother always scooped the rice first, taking away the little rice they had and leaving her only thin rice soup. But when it came to chores, they would dump the dirtiest and hardest work on her, and if she didn't do it well, she would be beaten by the woman called "Mother."
Wushan Yue still remembers being chased and beaten all over the fishing village by her, her body covered in the damp smell of fish.
However, such days did not last long. A flood swept away the three siblings. Wu Shanyue was not saved. She could only watch helplessly as her mother desperately held onto her older sister and younger brother, while she was swept away by the raging flood.
She was lucky; she was rescued by a passing old captain. He was a merchant who traded seafood and hadn't had time to worship Mazu before heading out to sea when he encountered a giant wave. He happened to run into her, and he felt this was a test from Mazu, so he took her in and let her accompany him on his sea voyages.
Wu Shanyue learned a lot from him, including rudimentary skills, the art of haggling, and the ability to sweet-talk.
He even named her Wushan Yue. The old captain's surname was Wu, and he once had a son named Wushan Jiao, but unfortunately, due to the harsh conditions on the ship, he died young. He then named her again, following the "Shan" generation. On the day he found her, the floodwaters were raging, and the full moon hung high in the sky. So he named her Wushan Yue.
After more than a decade of this, the old captain passed away on the ship, and Wushan Yue saw him off. He passed away peacefully, and before he died, he told Wushan Yue that there was no need to spend his whole life at sea, and that he should go back to land and take a look.
Wushan Yue didn't know where she was going. After packing up the old captain's old companion—the boat—she thought about the carefree life in the martial arts world that the old captain had once told her, which sounded very dashing.
Upon entering the martial arts world for the first time, everything was new to Wu Shanyue. She was good at handling things, spoke eloquently, and learned a lot of gossip about the martial arts world from others.
"You must stay away from Gu Masters, they are not to be trifled with."
"He's truly a killer who can eliminate you without you even realizing it. You never know when he might put a bug on you and you're gone."
Upon hearing this, Wu Shanyue gasped in shock. It seemed the martial world wasn't so easy to navigate. With her rudimentary skills, she could easily defeat even the smallest fry.
So when she met Jiang Yun, she secretly resolved to cling to his coattails.
Before she could even flatter him or call out to a few benefactors, Jiang Yun actually took her away.
Wu Shanyue thought he was a kind person, and he seemed to have a good relationship with the young master of the Sui family in Jingzhou. It turned out he had a powerful backer.
He seems very polite; he might even be a scion of a prominent family.
Although Wushan Yue couldn't understand why he would venture into the martial world, she felt that following him gave her hope for the future.
Upon arriving in the Western Regions, Jiang Yun went to the royal court to handle miscellaneous matters and settled Wu Shanyue outside the court. She was a little scared, wondering if her benefactor would find her troublesome and abandon her.
Wu Shanyue immediately grabbed Jiang Yun's sleeve, "My benefactor, I think you're still short of a maid to help you out. Do you think I'm up to the task?"
What will the Mountain Moon Society do?
Jiang Yun had a gentle expression. Wu Shanyue wasn't sure what he meant, but he praised himself from head to toe and flattered him.
"Let's go, my little maid who knows everything." Jiang Yun took Wu Shanyue's hand and pulled her forward.
Wu Shanyue wanted to say that he was fastening his hand a little too tightly, since she wouldn't run around and there were many people watching.
"benefactor?"
"What's wrong?" Jiang Yun turned to look at her, his gentle eyes holding a hint of something Wu Shanyue couldn't understand, which frightened her a little.
But then she thought about it again, and it was probably because Jiang Yun was so imposing that she, a newcomer to the martial arts world, was naturally afraid.
Jiang Yun's way of treating patients is strange. Sometimes she has to crush live scorpions and snakes. She doesn't know anything about medicine, but isn't it usually herbal medicine?
But scorpions and snakes seem to be considered medicinal materials, but are they used alive?
However, Jiang Yun remained gentle, preparing a pile of clothes and jewelry for her, and said with a smile, "I remember my aunt treated my younger sister like this, so I suppose you should have these too."
Thankfully, they weren't going to abandon her.
She thought they were just trying to get rid of her.
A thin veil was tied around her face, fluttering in the wind, adding a touch of mystery and allure to her half-concealed appearance.
Her supple waist was adorned with a vibrant ruby chain, making her movements graceful and alluring.
Wushan Yue spun around twice, her laughter clear and bright, "My benefactor, am I pretty?"
Jiang Yun's gaze lingered on her, inevitably meeting her wet, doe-like eyes. He swallowed hard and looked away involuntarily.
"Hmm." A slight smile appeared on his pale skin, and for some reason, Wu Shanyue always saw a kind of pity in his eyes.
It flashed by so quickly that Wushan Yue wondered if she had seen it wrong.
Wu Shanyue walked ahead. The matter with the Western Regions Royal Court was almost resolved. Jiang Yun led the camel and left with her. As she left, her gaze towards the Royal Court personnel clearly showed great respect for Jiang Yun.
She didn't care. Jiang Yun's medical skills were amazing, and it was only right to respect him. As she walked, she always felt that there was nothing behind her.
“Benefactor?” Wu Shanyue turned her head, and Jiang Yunzhen was behind her.
"What's wrong? Are you tired? If you are, sit down and I'll hold your hand."
Wu Shanyue shook her head. To put it simply, she suddenly felt a bit scared by the emptiness behind her, but when she turned around, she was met with the face of her benefactor.
Jiang Yun walked up to her, lifted her onto the camel, and said, "You should rest for a while."
Wu Shanyue's face flushed red. "What are you doing, benefactor?"
"Let's change the way we address each other."
"Ah... what should we change to?"
Jiang Yun smiled and gazed at her, "To you, Yueyue."
“…Oh, so where do we go next?” Wu Shanyue lowered her head, avoiding looking at Jiang Yun’s face, her ears flushed, and asked in a muffled voice.
"Luoyang, the Eastern Capital, do you want to go?" Jiang Yun looked up at her, his gaze lingering on her.
"I have never been to Luoyang."
“Then you can go and take a look this time.” Jiang Yun took the rope, and where Wu Shanyue was not paying attention, silver butterflies fluttered behind her, as if his eyes were always watching her.
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