Chapter 74 Chapter 74 He was in front of everyone, so this...
Thanks to the golden ring, Gu Huaijin's centipede was stuck in his forearm and could not move further into his body.
After that day, Mr. Qu Shu used acupuncture and fumigation, and soon forced a live centipede out of his wound. He then drained the poisonous blood, cleaned and bandaged the wound, and prescribed some blood-producing medicine for him.
After two or three days, the swelling on his forearm had gone away, and the purple bruise from the poison had faded, leaving only a slight numbness.
Over the years, there have been at least a dozen people who have been infected by Li Xuanbai's poisonous insects in competitions, and Gu Huaijin is the only one who has survived.
Because of this incident, there were already quite a few people who were harmed. Gu Huaijin was determined to punish him. Not only did he not allow him to go down the mountain, he also insisted on locking him up in the Shishui Prison for life.
No matter how Huide refused, the two sides were deadlocked for three days. Later, in a fit of anger, Gu Huaijin put the issue of letting Xian go down the mountain on the agenda. Huide had no choice but to finally give in and use allowing Nan Qiongshuang to stay on the mountain as a bargaining chip in exchange for Gu Huaijin showing leniency to Li Xuanbai.
Gu Huaijin still refused.
In his words, "My people will stay on my mountain. I don't need anyone else's consent."
Huide has accumulated power on the mountain for a long time. If this continues, the mountain will inevitably split into two factions, and it is unknown how the situation will change.
Besides, Li Xuanbai is useful to her, and she really doesn't want Li Xuanbai to die.
So, she decided to persuade Gu Huaijin.
However, she also understood that with his anxious and fearful nature, if she said, "Please spare his life," this person might really be dead the next day.
So, one night, when Gu Huaijin was sitting on the couch reading by lamplight, not yet finished reviewing official documents, she leaned on his lap and said, "Why don't you tell Huide that if you want to let Li Xuanbai go, Huide must let me go. He has wanted to kill me for a long time."
He said, "We'll be heading up to Chaoyao Peak soon. It's just that the place has been uninhabited for many years, so we've just been cleaning it up recently. We don't have much time left down there anyway... Jiaojiao is scared?"
"Not really," she muttered. "But isn't it very cold up there? It's summer now, so anything's fine. But when winter comes, won't we still have to go back down?"
He was speechless for a moment.
Insects chirped outside the window, and a circle of small insects flew around the white lantern in the corridor, constantly bumping into the lantern.
In June, the Tianshan Mountains are filled with the fragrance of grass and trees and the moisture of dew at night.
He lowered his eyes and flipped through a page of documents: "Is Jiaojiao afraid of his uncle, or does he want to save him?"
She leaned on his knees, laughed lazily, and blew up her loose hair a little.
"I don't like him. He's the one who keeps chasing me. I've told you so many times, Huaijin."
She didn't like Li Xuanbai and was never afraid to say it in front of Li Xuanbai, so naturally she was even less shy about saying it in front of Gu Huaijin.
Anyway, Li Xuanbai's personality is such that the more someone dislikes him, the more he likes him; as for Gu Huaijin, she is about to get what she wants, so there is no need to fish for it. If she is indecisive at this time, she is afraid that it will cause trouble and ruin the whole thing.
She laughed: "Why do you always think I like him?"
The thought that she might have some affection for Li Xuanbai made him upset. Even if she just mentioned it casually, he would become irritated.
He didn't say anything.
The sound of flipping documents reached her ears. No one spoke, and there were bursts of insects chirping. She arched her back against his legs and gradually felt sleepy.
After a long while, he asked, "If Jiaojiao doesn't like him, who does she like?"
She yawned: "I like Yi Haichuan."
"Jiaojiao!" His documents were immediately placed on the couch.
She laughed softly for a while, then lay on his lap, gradually becoming too sleepy to open her eyes. Listening to his voice, it sounded like the whisper of someone in a dream:
"Jiaojiao is really scared...?"
Her eyelashes trembled twice and slowly closed.
"If Jiaojiao is really scared..." In the peaceful dream, the person beside him sighed softly, "...then I will spare his life."
Soon, Li Xuanbai was imprisoned in Shishui Prison for half a month and was finally released.
As soon as he took the first step out of the Shishui Prison, Gu Huaijin stood in front of him and urged him to go down the mountain.
Unexpectedly, Hui Deqiang kept him.
Huide: "In this year's competition, the top scorer is Huai Jin. According to the past... you are not allowed to leave the mountain this year."
Li Xuanbai and Huide exchanged a glance at each other, knowing what was going on, and stopped arguing.
Gu Huaijin was also a smart man. He could tell that his identity was probably not simple, so he didn't say anything more. He just kept a strict guard and would not let him get close to Muxueyuan.
After some time, the repair and cleaning of Chaoyao Peak was completed, and the two were about to move up. They happened to run into Heng Huang and Heng Qingnan who were about to go down the mountain, so Tianshan held a farewell banquet, and she and Gu Huaijin also attended it for the last time.
At the farewell banquet that day, Huide, Song Yaojie and others usually sat at the top, and Heng Huang and Heng Qingnan, as guests of honor, were naturally also at the side. Gu Huaijin, as the young master, had no choice but to sit at the very top. There was a long table, and she sat at the end, so far away that she could hardly see him.
She sat down quietly in a corner. Since the banquet was organized by Song Yaojie, she was only served some steamed and stir-fried dishes.
She looked around. All the guests in the room were served with lion's head and shrimp balls, but in front of her were three plates of turnips. Even the corner of the bowl was broken, and she scratched her clothes when she picked up the food.
That's fine.
only.
She was now on the mountain, so famous that even the dogs on the roadside wanted to come over to take a look at her. As soon as she lowered her head and sat down, she saw the disciples around her peeking out, raising their heads and stretching their necks, looking at her from a distance of eight hundred miles.
Even she felt a little uncomfortable being watched silently by so many pairs of eyes, let alone such an undisguised cold treatment.
She didn't want to look at anyone, and casually stroked the chipped edge of the bowl.
But he still heard the whispers of the disciples around him.
A fat disciple with a red face whispered to a grasshopper-thin disciple beside him:
"Hey, is this our future Sect Leader's wife? I heard that the Young Sect Leader and Elder Huide were at loggerheads over her, and he's repeatedly threatened to give up his position. I don't know what kind of aphrodisiac this woman gave the Young Sect Leader. If this continues, will our Young Sect Leader really have to leave the mountain?"
"I heard that Elder Huide repeatedly urged her to leave the mountain, but she fell for our Young Sect Leader and refused to leave, clinging to him even with tears and wailing. Our Young Sect Leader is such a kind person, yet he actually left this evil thing on the mountain. Who knows what will happen next."
"And there's more. Even Senior Brother Xuanbai has his eye on her. Right now, the two of them are fighting over her in a bloody battle. Today, the Young Sect Leader is arguing with the elders over her, and tomorrow he's having an unpleasant argument with Senior Brother Xuanbai over her. The day after tomorrow, Senior Sister Yaojie will also be dissatisfied with this. Our Young Sect Leader, who's such a good person, is about to offend everyone in the entire mountain."
"It's a pity for our young master. She used to be praised by everyone, but now her reputation has been ruined. Who on this mountain would like her? She has caused so much trouble on the mountain. Can't she have some self-awareness and come down on her own?"
Nan Qiong Shuang lowered her eyes and listened with a cold expression.
The fat, big-eared, ruddy-faced disciple pointed at her bowl with a chip missing from it and laughed:
"But you see, the banquet was hosted by the eldest sister, so she won't indulge her. A poor person should use poor things, just right."
As he spoke, he picked up a greasy big shrimp and put it in his mouth. Just then, his eyes met hers, and instead of avoiding her, he raised his eyebrows.
Nan Qiong Shuang had been assassinating people for many years, and because she always attacked people's hearts, she was used to being envied and slandered by men and women. She didn't take it to heart, so she just smiled.
Upstairs, Gu Huaijin was speaking with a wine cup in hand. In front of others, he always appeared to be a meticulous, experienced, and capable gentleman who could not be faulted at all.
She didn't often attend gatherings on the mountain with him, so she didn't know much about his reputation and virtue on the mountain. She also hadn't seen how he treated others when he was the young leader.
Therefore, she felt strange for a moment when he was so calm and at ease at the top of the table.
This is how he appears in front of everyone.
A man like that would actually leave for her, refusing to sleep all night long and holding her tightly.
The two things simply could not be connected. She found it so interesting that she accidentally dropped one of the black bamboo chopsticks in her hand with a "click".
The fat disciple with a greasy face and the thin disciple next to him laughed at each other:
"What did I say? After I said a few words, I was so scared that I couldn't even hold my chopsticks. I'm afraid he has no skills at all. He can't survive alone after going down the mountain. He cried and begged for the protection of the young master."
The thin man, with two rows of small mustaches above his philtrum, looked straight at her and said, "Let's see how long the Young Master can put up with her. I heard that she cries all the time, and the Young Master has grown tired of it, so he locks her in the room every day and doesn't allow her to leave."
The fat man said, "Hey, it's only a matter of time before the Young Master gets tired of her. There are so many women in the world. The banquet has been going on for so long, do you think the Young Master has even glanced at her?"
Suddenly, Aliang called out from behind: "Miss Chu."
She turned around and saw Aliang bringing a pair of jade chopsticks on a porcelain plate:
"The Young Master saw the young lady's chopsticks fall, and told me to bring her a new pair. Warm jade nourishes people, so the Young Master specifically ordered a pair of jade chopsticks."
She glanced at the two people beside her lightly:
"Isn't he talking upstairs? How come I saw..." Turning around and looking up, she saw Gu Huaijin looking at her from afar. He stopped talking for a moment when he looked at her.
The two men were sweating profusely, and they looked away guiltily, not daring to look in this direction at all.
Ah Liang turned back and brought a tray filled with rare delicacies. "The Young Master said that the dish we prepared for you was too simple, and he has just instructed the kitchen to redo it. Please have this one, young lady."
She glanced at the two men. The fat man's face had turned purple, and the other two had ugly expressions, as if they had seen a ghost. She smiled for a moment, deliberately trying to be more arrogant, "It's too greasy, I can't eat it. It's better to eat something lighter."
Ah Liang tried to persuade her again: "Young Master knew you would say that, so he specifically told her that the girl was not in good health to begin with, so even if she didn't want it, she should put it aside. She might eat it later."
She nodded pretentiously: "Then let's put it aside for now."
After saying that, he looked at the two people again.
A fat man and a thin man were arranged to sit in the corner with her. Now they were shivering and busy picking peanuts one by one to eat. The more they picked, the more they fell, and the more they fell, the busier they became, and the peanuts fell into the plate, making a clinking sound.
She lowered her eyes and smiled for a moment.
At this moment, two long legs suddenly stepped between her bench and the table, and sat down beside her naturally, "Why are you sitting here?"
At the same time, he instructed Aliang: "Get me a pair of chopsticks."
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