Chapter 13: Drunk yet unaware
Lingxiang was drawing talismans in preparation for emergencies. She was concentrating and making hand gestures to focus her energy when she heard the waiter knock on the door, saying that a burly man downstairs was looking for her.
When she went downstairs, she saw Long Qi slumped on the ground, muttering to himself.
"This must be Brother Long Qi's master, right? I didn't expect she's actually a girl!" A sturdy man stepped forward and clasped his fists in greeting. It was none other than the bearded guest Long Qi had met. "My name is Lu Zheng. Today, I was drinking with my brothers and I shared a table with Brother Long. The three of us hit it off immediately and drank a lot. Unexpectedly, he couldn't hold his liquor well. Luckily, I learned you were at the Wutong Inn while chatting, so I brought him over."
Lingxiang bowed to Lu Zheng and said, "Thank you, Brother Lu."
"Ah~ It's just a trivial matter, not worth mentioning. Brother Long is a straightforward person, and the three of us get along very well. I will definitely have a drink with him again someday!" He said, clasping his fist and left.
Lingxiang asked the waiter to help carry Long Qi back to the room, and asked for some sobering soup to drink. Just as she was about to go back to the room, Long Qi grabbed her skirt.
"Come! Don't leave! Have another jar!" He said as he sat up.
"You stupid guy, I asked you to go and get some information, but you got yourself drunk!" Lingxiang scolded with a smile.
Just as she was about to settle Long Qi down again, he unexpectedly lay down. Lingxiang was caught off guard and her foot slipped, and she fell on Long Qi.
The sudden force sobered Long Qi up a little. He opened his eyes and looked at the little man who was so close to him, but in the blink of an eye, he became confused again.
"You are so beautiful..."
Smelling the alcohol on him, Lingxiang couldn't help but frown and said disdainfully: "You don't need to tell me that, my teacher is born with a natural beauty, stunningly beautiful, so stunning that she can make fish sink to the bottom of their chests, geese fall to the ground, and the moon hide in shame."
Just as he was about to stand up after saying that, Long Qi pulled him back.
"I don't want you to be my master..."
Lingxiang was startled when she heard this, then came to her senses after a moment and said in surprise: "Do you want to recognize me as your mother?!!"
this……
It's an unheard of hobby...
As soon as Long Qi woke up, he felt that he was still hungover and had an unbearable headache. He struggled to get up and wanted to pour some tea, but found that he was only wearing his underwear.
He couldn't help but look around: yes, it was his room.
But who brought him back yesterday?
Who undressed him?
Long Qi patted his head, trying hard to recall, and suddenly remembered Lingxiang's face.
She seemed to be lying on top of him last night!
She even seemed to have untied his belt!
What did this she-beast do to him!
He has remained a virgin for more than ten years!
Long Qi's face was filled with grief, as if he had lost his parents.
As he was beating his chest and stamping his feet, the door creaked open. Seeing that it was Lingxiang, he hurriedly hid back in bed, protecting his body with the quilt, and looked at her warily.
"What? Yesterday you still respected me as your mother, but today you are sworn enemies with me?" Lingxiang said jokingly.
"Take you as my mother? What's that?" Seeing Lingxiang approaching, he squeezed into the bed and wrapped the quilt tighter around him.
"What...what do you want to do? What did you do to me...to me last night?!" Long Qi was speechless with horror.
"What do I want to do? I want to eat you!" Lingxiang said, her eyes like a hungry tiger, and she opened her mouth towards Long Qi.
Seeing this, Long Qi became even more frightened and shrank back.
"I...I'm telling you! Even if you can get my body, you can't...get my heart!"
"Hahahahaha!" His reaction was so funny, as if a flower was plucked upside down, which made Lingxiang laugh uncontrollably.
"Don't be so self-indulgent! You drank that yellow soup yesterday and went crazy. After you finally settled down, you vomited all over again. You just went to the clothing store to buy some clothes." He threw a package to Long Qi, "Hurry up and put them on and go downstairs to discuss things. Senior Brother Lu is back."
Lingxiang gave him a look as if he was a fool and walked out.
Fortunately, fortunately, I am still innocent...
Huh? What does it mean to regard him as a mother?
Lingxiang threw away her clothes and went downstairs to discuss matters with Lu Ying.
"I checked the government records. Mr. Zhuang is a local. His given name is Wei, and his courtesy name is Jingwei. He is a teacher. Judging from his household registration, there is nothing wrong with him." Lu Ying stated what he had found yesterday.
"Do you know what disease he has?"
"According to the yamen runners, this man has been weak and sickly since childhood, seemingly brought up from the womb. His family has sought medical treatment for years without success, and about six months ago, he began to show signs of dying."
"That's strange. If he was about to die, how could he be getting better now..." Lingxiang frowned, puzzled.
When Long Qi came downstairs, he heard this and said, "Come to think of it, Mr. Zhuang got married half a year ago. Could it be that he really got married to bring good luck?"
I'm used to seeing him looking unkempt on weekdays, but today after changing his clothes, he looks really respectable.
"If getting married by force is really effective, then everyone in the world would go to get married by force whenever there is a natural disaster or man-made disaster." Lingxiang rolled her eyes at Long Qi.
"That's true, but what puzzles me is that both Mr. Zhuang's parents have passed away, and the wine girl Yaoyi is an outsider. How could they become a couple?" Long Qi didn't take Lingxiang's rolling eyes to heart.
"Mrs. Zhuang is not a local? Then do you know where she is from?" Lingxiang said and looked at Lu Ying.
"I haven't checked her out, but I heard she came here looking for her relatives. But her family moved away and she had nowhere to go. She happened to run into Mr. Zhuang, and that's how they got to know each other."
"Looking for relatives..." Long Qi said with a satisfied look on his face. "But speaking of which, the Viburnum Dew she brewed is really top-notch. You can smell the aroma from far away, and it tastes so mellow and refreshing."
Lingxiang glanced at Long Qi with a look of disgust.
"Did Junior Sister Lingxiang gain anything?"
"It's strange. I took the pulses of several people yesterday and found they all had weakness caused by lying in bed for too long. Although they looked like their souls were not in their bodies, it didn't seem like they were being manipulated by the demonic soul-stealing technique. They just looked stupid. I guess their souls were taken away. And the person who cast the spell seemed to have deliberately spared their lives and didn't use any brutal force."
Hearing this, Lu Ying slapped his head and said, "Oh, I almost forgot, the prefect was also killed!"
Lingxiang was shocked when she heard this, and Lu Ying quickly told them what he had heard yesterday.
"I was wondering, three people per month, how could one be missing? It turns out it was the prefect. It seems like he must have discovered something and that's why he was targeted." Lingxiang frowned.
"I have informed the old Tongzhi that you are pregnant with the Xuanmen Qihuang medicine. Junior sister, do you think you would like to go and get treated?"
Unexpectedly, the prefect was once a disciple of Yuan Qing. It was only right that she should take care of this matter.
"Hmm..." Lingxiang thought for a moment and said, "Alright, we have no clue what to do now anyway. If we can rescue the prefect, things will be much easier."
After that, she told Long Qi to pack his bags and prepare to visit the government office. Hearing this, Long Qi grumbled inwardly: This big bitch is treating herself like a handyman again...
Although they said they were packing their luggage, in fact, they only packed some snacks that Lingxiang bought on the street, and the rest were Long Qi's weird talismans.
When the three of them were ready, Lu Ying led them to the government office. During the trip, Lingxiang seemed to be out for fun, chatting with street vendors from time to time, or buying some small things. When they arrived at the government office gate, Long Qi was already full of bags, and even Lu Ying was busy.
In contrast, Lingxiang only had a string of candies in her left hand and cakes in her right hand, looking very leisurely.
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