Chapter 35 Chapter 35 I Became a Woman
Ji Chu didn't know that Niu Niu had already sold herself.
She followed Aunt He through the long street and came to an extremely magnificent mansion. Aunt He stopped Ji Chu and said something to the doorman alone. Then she saw the man look at Ji Chu and turn to go in.
After a while, a man dressed as a servant came out, looked Ji Chu up and down, frowned, and said with disdain:
"Are you the flower seller? Come with me."
Aunt He stood where she was, not at all unhappy about being neglected. Instead, she gestured to her with joy:
"Go quickly."
Ji Chu withdrew his gaze and followed him into Zhao's mansion.
The Zhao family is indeed the wealthiest merchant family in the city. The pavilions and towers in the mansion are magnificent, the rockery and ponds are scattered in an orderly manner, and there are countless rare flowers and valuable plants. It is simply a small palace.
Ji Chu was very curious. He looked around a few times and heard the servant leading the way say disdainfully:
"What a poor, ignorant fellow! How could a young master like such a woman?"
When he reached a deserted place, he simply stopped, folded his hands, turned his back to Ji Chu and began to preach:
"I've seen many women like you. You rely on your looks to seduce our Master, and you even resort to nagging and begging... You're just a flower girl, and our Master is willing to condescend to give you a chance. Don't show off like Qiao. If you can please the Master, you might even become his concubine in the future..."
Ji Chu: “…”
She raised her leg and kicked the servant boy in the back.
The force was not strong, but the servant boy did not exercise regularly, and his lower body was unstable, so she kicked him easily and kicked him far away. With a "ouch", he fell into the grass nearby.
"You little bitch..."
He stood up, rubbing his waist, and was about to put his hands on his hips and curse Ji Chu, but he found that the person was no longer behind him.
"Where are the people?"
The servant boy stood there, suddenly panicked.
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"Where's the book boy? He's talking nonsense. What book is he reading? What medicine is he taking?"
After Ji Chu kicked the annoying guy away, he walked forward alone along the gravel path.
Although the Zhao Mansion is large, there are few people along the way, and it is even colder than other places.
As soon as he entered Zhao's mansion, Ji Chu felt something was wrong.
It was as if something extremely sinister was staring at her from behind, making her instinctively want to draw her sword and fight from time to time.
But no.
The only sound around her was her footsteps. Before she had gone far, even the servant's presence disappeared.
The garden separated by a wall is quiet. The tops of the locust trees poke out from the red wall, casting a shadow on the stone road, and the strong fragrance of the locust flowers is refreshing.
Ji Chu stood in the shade of the tree.
The invisible gaze behind her also stopped and stuck to her back more and more firmly, which easily reminded people of thick and sticky blood. The air seemed to have become a sticky and damp solid, trapping her in this shadow.
The strange laughter sounded like an auditory hallucination, carried into her senses along with the fragrance of flowers, like a loudspeaker surrounding her from all directions, with its own distorted pitch, making Ji Chu suddenly have a headache.
She could no longer bear it, so she picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the locust tree branch sticking out from the top of the wall:
"Where did this little devil come from? How dare he come out and scare people in broad daylight?"
She hit the locust tree branches and broke several of them. The shadows on the ground dispersed, the sunlight shone in, and the ghost screams stopped immediately.
Ji Chu walked around the wall but couldn't find the entrance.
The garden seemed to be sealed off, surrounded by a high wall, with only the locust tree poking its head out from inside.
Ji Chu looked around and there was no one.
She climbed up the wall without saying a word.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she stood on the wall, she heard someone shouting from a distance:
"Someone broke into Huaiyuan! Catch her!"
Many people ran towards this side holding sticks.
Before Ji Chu could see the scene in the garden clearly, he was pulled down from the wall from behind.
It's a bad start...
Ji Chu thought: She must not be treated as a thief like Xu Ying, and then have to "investigate behind the scenes".
So as she fell, she decisively raised her elbow and struck back.
A muffled groan was heard, and the person who was pulling her was knocked back two steps and released his hand that was holding her arm.
A handsome young man with rich clothes, red lips and white teeth stood in front of her, pressing his chest where she had hit his ribs. His face was pale with pain, but a familiar smile played on the corner of his mouth:
"Achu, why are you still so ruthless?"
This familiar yet eerie tone, this pretentious attitude, who else could it be but Xue Xianchen?
Ji Chu's eyes suddenly became alert and surprised.
Does she only have this look of concern and attention when she sees him, as if she is facing a great enemy and is ready to pounce on him and beat and bite him at any moment?
Xue Xianchen thought so, curled the corners of his mouth, and reached out to pull her wrist.
Ji Chu threw another punch back.
Unfortunately, he failed to hit anyone this time. His fist was caught by Xue Xianchen, and then his whole body was pressed into his arms.
The moment he caught Ji Chu, Xue Xianchen felt a secret sense of pleasure in his heart.
He was controlling her.
Her fists hit him mercilessly, but he actually tasted a bit of satisfaction from the pain, which made him want to sigh out loud.
He couldn't help but even have more malicious thoughts, wondering if she would fight back with all her might in his hands.
The boy was tall and slender, completely blocking her face.
This damn devil actually dared to take advantage of her!
Ji Chu was furious and wanted to break free, but Xue Xianchen said:
"If you don't want to be caught, don't move."
Glancing at the servants chasing after him, the flexible Ji Chu calmed down.
The group ran over but found nothing. They didn't see the person who tried to break into Huai Garden just now. They only saw their cousin Xue Chen hugging a woman and combing her hair very intimately.
The wide sleeves that were raised fell down, just enough to cover the clothes of the woman in his arms.
The servants hesitated for a moment and wanted to go forward to check, but they were afraid of bringing bad luck to Xue Chen, so they had to send a brave one to go forward and ask "Has he seen the person who broke into the garden?"
Xue Xianchen denied it.
The servants didn't believe it.
A living person would not disappear easily. Xue Chen did not show up earlier or later, but appeared just when someone broke into the garden. It was too much of a coincidence.
But further questioning was met with nonchalant ridicule from "Xue Chen":
"It's interesting to embrace a beautiful woman in a remote place. If you don't believe me, just keep searching."
"Don't blame me for not warning you, this Huai Garden is haunted every day. How can you be sure that the one climbing the wall is a living person?"
This sentence made everyone's hair stand on end. After thinking about it carefully, they felt more and more scared. They hurriedly pushed each other and left the gloomy garden next to them.
After all, this cousin Xue has always been a scoundrel who behaves without restraint. He always goes wherever there is a commotion and can turn even a small matter into a troublesome one. It is not impossible that he chooses to have romances near Huaiyuan.
The day before yesterday, I heard that this master had fallen in love with a flower girl. Not only did he ask around, he even spent money to have people mediate between them. He seemed to be really interested in her.
But who can blame Master Zhao for liking this cousin the most? As servants, they have no choice but to obey their master.
More importantly, this Huai Garden was indeed prone to being haunted, and none of them wanted to stay here any longer, so they simply reported it back. Anyway, Xue Chen could testify.
After the pursuers left, Ji Chu immediately pushed Xue Xianchen away and asked her the question that concerned her most:
"What's going on with Huai Garden being haunted? Is the Zhao Mansion related to the competition?"
Xue Xianchen didn't answer, but lowered his eyes, looking as if he had been let down.
"I saved Ah Chu, but he didn't even say thank you. Does Ah Chu hate me so much?"
Is this devil addicted to acting affectionately?
Ji Chu: "Stop pretending! Did you bribe Aunt He to deliberately lure me here?"
Xue Xianchen, however, seemed to have just learned of her identity, and his expression showed sudden enlightenment.
"It turns out that Ah Chu is Yang Sisi!"
"When I first arrived, I heard that this person was infatuated with a flower seller. I thought it was troublesome and was considering rejecting her, but I didn't expect... it was you, Ah Chu!"
"Now that we're in the same competition and have this kind of connection, it shows that you and I are truly destined to be together."
He chuckled, and clearly saw Ji Chu's face full of displeasure, as if she had swallowed a fly, but he still deliberately asked her:
"Achu, are you happy?"
Ji Chu: “…”
She found that she could not communicate at all with a mentally ill psychopath like Xue Xianchen.
No, she shouldn't have communicated with Xue Xianchen at all!
He was a demon, and who knew if he had sneaked into the Immortal Questioning Conference to harm anyone? She must have been crazy to try to get information from him!
Since "Xue Chen" is Xue Xianchen, she doesn't have to pretend to be on a blind date.
Presumably, this devil would not let her complete the competition successfully. Who knows, he might be waiting to trick her somewhere.
Ji Chu decided to use the same trick again.
She took a step forward, and just as Xue Xianchen smiled and opened his arms to hug her again, she suddenly raised her leg—
The richly dressed cousin was also kicked into the bushes.
Then she mobilized her spiritual power and entered the haunted locust garden.
After Ji Chu landed, she glanced at the wall. Xue Xianchen didn't follow her - it was best if he had been kicked to death by her.
After she finished cursing, she turned to look at the garden in front of her.
Unlike what was expected, this often haunted locust garden is not eerie at all, but rather thriving.
The garden is full of flowers, and the colorful flowers are like a bright painting, which makes people feel happy just by looking at them.
The old locust tree in the middle was not as eerie as it had appeared to her outside. Its tall crown stretched upward, and small, light-colored flowers hung on its branches, filling the air with fragrance.
No matter how you look at it, it has nothing to do with "ghosts".
Ji Chu felt strange and walked a few steps deeper into the cave. A four-cornered pavilion appeared in front of her.
The pillars blocked most of the view, but a long, thin shadow was revealed by the sunlight.
Ji Chu looked at the familiar flowing hairband on Shadow's head and asked tentatively:
"Xu Ying?"
"Ji Chu?!"
Xu Ying, who was named, was startled and poked her head out from behind the pillar:
"Why is it you?"
She looked up into the distance:
"So there was so much commotion just now, were they here to arrest you?"
Ji Chu: "That's about right. Why are you also at the Zhao residence?"
Xu Ying had two dark circles under her eyes:
"Don't mention it now. I was chased by the Zhao family last night and couldn't go anywhere. Since the most dangerous place is the safest, I decided to take the initiative to go to their house and kill them by surprise!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the sound of rubbing clothes suddenly came from the other corner of the pavilion.
Ji Chu was startled. Xu Ying hurriedly said "hush" and gestured to her to find a place to hide:
"I almost forgot! There are other monks here. We've been facing each other for a long time, and the outcome is still undecided. You should find a place to hide first!"
When Ji Chu heard that there were other people, he quickly chose a pillar closest to Xu Ying and hid there, while leaning over to ask her:
"Who is it?"
Xu Ying shook her head to indicate that she didn't know.
“…It’s me.”
Instead, a helpless female voice came from behind another pillar.
Then a woman wearing a white dress, a Buddhist lotus crown on her head, and with a cold look came out from behind the third pillar.
"Come out, I saw you earlier."
Ji Chu and Xu Ying looked at each other, not knowing whether they should go out.
Seeing this, the woman in white could only sigh and say:
"It's me, Jiang Chengxu."
"I became a woman."
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