Chapter 41 41 "Su Xiaoyuan will only hold you back"
The moment the wet lips touched her skin, Su Xiaoyuan's whole body tensed up, she couldn't stop trembling, and her legs were so weak that she could hardly stand.
She subconsciously reached out and grabbed his arm, feeling his muscles bulging slightly due to tension.
The puppet grabbed her elbow and pulled her towards him.
She leaned forward, resting her legs on his knees, tilting her neck back and letting him do what he wanted.
At this moment, the spirit stone lamp made a soft "chi" sound, and the spirit stone flickered several times, becoming dimmer and dimmer, and then completely extinguished.
The moon also hid behind the clouds, and the room was dark, and the darkness magnified the senses.
"Should...should we turn on the light..." Su Xiaoyuan's voice was intermittent.
"No, order it after we're done." The puppet spoke against her skin, as if whispering.
Su Xiaoyuan's head seemed to be foggy and she felt dizzy. The delicate and moist touch on her neck occupied all her senses.
It was clearly an open and honest treatment of injuries, but it seemed like a secret conspiracy.
It was so bad that her body felt strange. Her face turned red and she bit her lips tightly to prevent the strange sound from coming out of her throat.
Then she gradually realized that something was wrong.
Has it been a while?
Isn't that a bruise on your chin? Why is he licking his neck...
Was he helping her remove the hickey-like mark on her neck?
But wasn't that what he sucked out? Wasn't that like using his own spear to attack his own shield...
This was too long. Why was his breath so hot? Or was it just her imagination?
Su Xiaoyuan wanted to stop him, but she swallowed her words back as soon as she opened her mouth. Would he think that she disliked him again after she said that?
He noticed the slightest hint of indifference from her. He was way too sensitive, wasn't he? Was he extra sensitive because he'd been abandoned before?
Just as she was daydreaming, the puppet released her neck, supported her elbow and helped her stand again.
The spirit stone lamp lit up again, it turned out that it had not burned out.
This situation occurs when some low-grade spirit stones have poor quality control and their spiritual energy is unstable.
"Okay." The puppet licked his lips, seemingly unintentionally, or as if he was tasting something.
Su Xiaoyuan's face suddenly turned red all the way to her neck.
"I'm going to meditate in the yard tonight. You go to sleep first." said the puppet.
"Oh." Su Xiaoyuan nodded quickly, still confused.
Then I noticed his voice was muffled. Could it be that my body was too tense just now, making him think that I still disliked him?
Su Xiaoyuan called him: "Fu Tingyun, don't you want to sleep?"
"Well," the puppet replied honestly, "the spiritual energy is strong tonight, so it's a good time to meditate."
Su Xiaoyuan felt a little ashamed: "Okay, okay, go ahead."
I just lost so much blood, I need to meditate and absorb spiritual energy.
Fu Tingyun looked at her.
The girl's cheeks were red as blood, her eyes were watery, and her lower lip was swollen from biting herself, with a beautiful bloodstain on it, and it looked like it was about to break.
She didn't know how attractive she looked like this.
Rather than healing the wound, he wanted to bite it hard and suck the honey that flowed out.
Fu Tingyun withdrew his gaze, his Adam's apple rolled heavily, and he quickly pushed the door open and walked out.
He lost confidence in his own determination.
If he stayed a moment longer, he didn't know what he would do.
After the puppet left, Su Xiaoyuan tiptoed to the table and picked up a mirror to look at herself.
The mark on the neck not only did not fade, but seemed to have become deeper. It was a bright red mark that was hard to ignore.
Su Xiaoyuan put down the mirror, lay down on the bed, pulled the thin blanket over her head, covering her entire body from head to toe.
Something is wrong. Something is very wrong.
There is no evil curse on the puppet, so the one who is wrong must be her.
Su Xiaoyuan no longer resists the Wushan Festival. She is even a little glad that she will start working non-stop tomorrow, which gives her a good reason to put the next exercise on hold.
What was the next exercise? She thought for a moment.
Yes, they embraced each other.
It seems simple at first glance, just a hug, but according to the examination action specifications, there are requirements for the location, duration, and action of the touch. The person taking the examination must seduce the other person in a seemingly warm hug.
It's more explicit than intimacy, and of course more difficult.
Su Xiaoyuan sighed and decided to wait until she was about to die before worrying about it.
…
Maybe she was thinking too much, but she overslept the next day. Fortunately, the puppet had prepared toiletries in advance.
Without even sitting down to eat breakfast, she grabbed a rice ball and ran out.
At this time, Ruan Mianmian was still sleeping peacefully.
For the disciples who didn't have to participate in the parade, the Wushan Festival was a major festival. Most classes were suspended, and every day was spent in groups having fun, viewing lanterns, visiting the market, and playing games to win prizes.
But it is not so easy for disciples like Su Xiaoyuan and Xiahou Che who need to play the role of gods.
It was not until she got the complete schedule two days ago that Su Xiaoyuan realized that being a goddess was an extremely complicated and tedious task.
It's not just a matter of putting on a goddess costume and taking a ride on a wing boat.
Every morning they would gather at the goddess temple, bathe, pray, and fast, and then spend half a day rehearsing the sacrificial dance to familiarize themselves with the sacrificial rituals and the procession of the goddess.
Starting from the next day, they would go to the six holy places scattered across the Yunyu Sect's territory to pray for blessings one by one, and complete a set of complex sacrificial rituals in these places filled with spiritual energy.
They also have to go in pairs to take turns to go to temples or holy places to "guard the lights" from sunset until midnight.
It’s okay for the holy land close to the sect, but if it’s the farthest holy land, it will take two or three hours to go back and forth by wing boat, so you can only spend the night in the holy land.
Just learning to dance the sacrificial dance took half of Su Xiaoyuan's life.
Most of her artistic talent is in painting. Her singing is okay, but her dancing is not so good. Although her body is not uncoordinated and she can perform the movements, they are indescribably stiff.
The instructor was Elder Liu who taught them the Hehuan technique.
Elder Liu's origins are mysterious, and no one knows what his original form is. However, every time Su Xiaoyuan sees him dancing or demonstrating martial arts, she suspects that his original form is a handsome snake.
After being taught the movements and practicing them a few times, they would go up and dance one by one for the elders to review.
Su Xiaoyuan's scalp immediately went numb when she heard this.
Elder Liu was the strictest of all the elders, and seemed to have disliked her since she first joined.
It seems that it is not entirely because she is poor at studying. Kaishan is just as good as her, but Elder Liu still made a sarcastic remark to her.
A girl like her who is dull and slow to react seems to be naturally disliked by a certain type of people.
The only explanation is that the auras are not compatible.
The senior brothers and sisters are all at the same level as the dance academy, and Elder Liu can still find some room for improvement.
It was Su Xiaoyuan's turn to dance. After a while, Elder Liu held his forehead seven times and sighed more than ten times.
After dancing only half of the song, Elder Liu could no longer bear it and ordered the lovebirds that were responsible for the accompaniment to stop.
Su Xiaoyuan lowered her head, grabbed her belt, and waited nervously for her fate.
Elder Liu was known for his venomous tongue. He glanced at the crowd and said, "Whether the rest of you can invite the goddess is hard to say, but after Su Xiaoyuan's earth-shattering leap, the goddess might be so enraged that she descends into the world."
There were scattered laughs in the crowd, no malicious intent, but enough to kill Su Xiaoyuanshe.
She wanted to bury her face in his chest, her face flushed red: "I'm sorry, Elder Liu, I'm not very good at dancing..."
"Is there anything you're good at?" Elder Liu folded his arms, smiling, his tone sharp, "I don't know why Elder Qin chose you..."
Su Xiaoyuan felt that she had implicated Elder Qin, and even her aesthetic taste was questioned.
If it was just her, she would have swallowed her anger and endured a few scoldings, but since it involved her teacher who had always taken good care of her, she couldn't help but explain: "I'm sorry, Elder Liu, it wasn't Elder Qin who chose me, it was the disciples who voted..."
Elder Liu probably didn't expect this timid outer sect disciple to dare to refute him, and his sarcasm turned into real anger: "I don't understand why Elder Qin, Elder Bai and the others have such high hopes for you. With all due respect, your qualifications simply don't meet the requirements of the inner sect. In short, you have no talent at all. You may be beautiful, but you have no soul at all, just like a piece of wood.
Tears were already welling up in Su Xiaoyuan's eyes, and she tried her best to hold them back.
Never cry in public, it's too embarrassing.
Elder Liu curled his lips and said, "Every movement is flawed. I can't possibly correct them all for you here. Go back and work on it yourself."
Su Xiaoyuan didn't react for a moment. He waved his hand impatiently: "What are you still standing here for? You can't dance, and you can't even understand what I'm saying?"
Su Xiaoyuan stepped aside and lowered her head, as if she had made a huge mistake.
"Next," Elder Liu glanced at the crowd, his expression immediately brightening, "It's A-Che."
Senior Brother Xiahou stepped forward, bowed politely, and then began to dance.
Compared with Elder Liu, his dancing was not so gentle, but very powerful, and his dancing was perfect.
Elder Liu was clearly very satisfied and didn't raise any issues that needed improvement. Instead, he glanced at Su Xiaoyuan and said to Xiahou Che, "I don't know what your Elder Qin was thinking. He asked you to go with Su Xiaoyuan, but she'll only hold you back and lower your standards."
Xiahou Che's expression remained calm, and his tone was gentle: "Junior Sister Xiaoyuan is only participating in the ritual for the first time, so she lacks some experience. I will help her practice more and will definitely not delay the ritual and cause trouble for Elder Liu."
Elder Liu patted his arm and said, "You don't have to speak for her. She has no talent. Even my puppets that do odd jobs don't dance as stiffly as she does."
Xia Houche glanced at Su Xiaoyuan with some concern: "Elder Liu, you are joking."
After everyone had danced once, Elder Liu demonstrated the whole dance again from beginning to end, and then asked them to practice in pairs while he went to the side hall behind the temple to rest.
After Elder Liu left, Xiahou Che immediately walked over to Su Xiaoyuan and asked with concern, "Junior Sister Xiaoyuan, are you okay?"
Su Xiaoyuan was not feeling well at all. She tried her best to hold back her tears.
But she wasn't used to revealing her grievances to someone she wasn't that familiar with, so she simply said, "Thank you, senior brother. I'm fine."
"Elder Liu is a bit too harsh," Xiahou Che said. "Don't worry, let's practice more. This dance is not difficult. It's not that you don't know the moves, you just can't let go..."
"Is this a harsh thing to do?" A senior sister came over and said, "Xia Houche, you are really something. You don't even know how to say a word for your junior sister."
Su Xiaoyuan looked up and saw that it was the senior sister sitting under Elder Qin. It was this senior sister who had offered to accompany her to meet the shop manager Zhao last time.
She quickly said, "Senior Sister Wu, don't blame Senior Brother Xiahou. I'm just too stupid and my dancing is so bad."
Although she didn't have high emotional intelligence, she knew that the more Xiahou Che defended her in that situation, the angrier Elder Liu would become, and she would be the one to bear his wrath.
Xia Houche said: "It's all my fault. I didn't take good care of Junior Sister Xiaoyuan."
Senior Sister Wu took out a bottle of spiritual fruit juice from her Qiankun bag and handed it to Su Xiaoyuan: "Drink something sweet to cheer yourself up. Don't mind it. That's just how Liu is. He's just jealous of you."
Su Xiaoyuan opened her eyes wide in surprise: "Why...why?"
Why would a sect elder be jealous of a little outer disciple like her? It was unbelievable.
Senior Sister Wu wrinkled her nose. "Because you're beautiful and likable, you're the type he hates the most."
Su Xiaoyuan: "But we are both of the same gender...ah..."
She seemed to understand something.
"Yes, that's what you think," Senior Sister Wu said, "and he doesn't get along with Elder Qin and Elder Bai. Knowing they like you, he'll suppress and exclude you. Just don't take it to heart."
Su Xiaoyuan nodded in confusion. As a young outer sect disciple, she had no idea that the elders were divided into factions.
Xia Houche said helplessly, "Senior Sister Wu, you are plotting against the commander again."
"He's openly trying to make things difficult for me. How can he act like a superior?" Senior Sister Wu sneered. "I just can't stand him, so what? I'm Elder Qin's disciple anyway, so he can't stretch that far. Do you think he dares to target me? He's too scared to say a word."
After a pause, he said, "This kind of person should go to Fengyue Sect. It's really a waste of his talent in our Yunyu Sect."
Xiahou Che smiled helplessly.
Su Xiaoyuan felt a little relieved, but she had been used to respecting teachers for more than ten years. It was easier said than done to not take the teacher's ridicule to heart.
In the following practice, Elder Liu seemed to treat her as a target and kept looking for her mistakes.
Su Xiaoyuan seemed to have trouble breathing.
When half a day of practice finally ended, she felt like she had shed a layer of skin.
"Junior Sister Xiaoyuan, do you have any plans for the future?" Xiahou Che asked her.
Su Xiaoyuan said hurriedly: "I have an appointment with Kaishan and she is waiting for me in the city."
Xia Houche: "Do you want me to go with you?"
"No need, no need." Su Xiaoyuan waved her hands quickly. She was exhausted by Elder Liu's torture and just wanted to be with people close to her to recover some health.
Xiahou Che didn't insist and sent her outside the sect gate. He watched her board the wing boat and smiled: "See you tomorrow morning."
Su Xiaoyuan couldn't laugh at all. She would have to suffer the same punishment today again tomorrow morning.
After getting off the wing boat, Su Xiaoyuan and her best friend met at the agreed teahouse.
Ruan Mianmian was startled by her state: "Xiao Yuanzi, what have you been doing? Why are you so listless?"
"I just practiced the sacrificial dance for half a day," Su Xiaoyuan leaned weakly against her best friend, "The instructor was Elder Liu, you know."
Ruan Mianmian felt extremely sympathetic: "I understand, I understand. It's hard for you."
"Let's not talk about this anymore." Su Xiaoyuan looked at her empty back. "Hey, where's Song Jinshu? Didn't you bring him out?"
"I brought it. It's in the shop, and the owner is fixing it," Ruan Mianmian said happily. "The owner may be young, but he's very skilled. He even said he could carve a small head for him and put it on. He can choose the size and shape. Do you think a curved one or a straight one would be better?"
Su Xiaoyuan inexplicably recalled what she vaguely saw that night.
It's hazy in the water and can't be seen clearly, but it seems to have an arc, and is straight and curved...
She shook her head and emptied the scraps. "Whose shop is this? Someone opened another puppet shop in the city?"
"Oh, by the way, you've seen the owner before. Do you remember the last time we had dinner in the restaurant, we met a man and a woman?" Ruan Mianmian said.
Su Xiaoyuan: "Is it Immortal Lord Mu Qing? Is he still in the city? What about Sister Jiang?"
"The curse breaker? I didn't see her. Only the little immortal was there."
Su Xiaoyuan: “…”
Looking at his attitude that day, I thought he had already returned to Yanshi Sect, but I didn't expect that he was still in the territory of Yanshi Sect.
"Where is the store?"
Ruan Mianmian gave an address.
Well, she didn’t even change the shop, it was still her who chose the store.
As they chatted and finished a bowl of sweet osmanthus soup, Ruan Mianmian asked, "My arms should be done. I'm going to pick out a small-head style. Will you come with me?"
Although her best friend was very open about it, Su Xiaoyuan didn't want to know what the head of Song Jinshu's puppet looked like.
"I'm going to buy some clothes for the parade," Su Xiaoyuan said, "You go first, I'll come find you after I buy the clothes."
Su Xiaoyuan found the garden-style high-end clothing store she had visited last time with familiarity. She knocked on the door and asked, but the owner was entertaining guests and asked her to go to the side room and wait for a while.
Su Xiaoyuan had nothing to do, so she went to the side room, took out a notebook from her small bag, and drew the movements of the sacrificial dance with stick figures so that she wouldn't forget them after sleeping.
When she was almost done with the painting, she suddenly heard a charming male voice coming from the flower hall where she had picked out clothes last time: "Didn't you say last time that you had a batch of raindrops here? I said I wanted them all. Why are they gone today?"
The shop owner explained: "I'm sorry, it's really unfortunate. A customer came in at noon and bought all the raindrops..."
"Didn't I tell you I wanted a hundred? How dare you sell them to others?"
The shop owner said, "I told you last time that the deal will only be final after you pay the deposit..."
There was a "bang" sound, as if someone slammed the table, which frightened Su Xiaoyuan so much that her heart trembled.
"Are you afraid that I can't even afford a few raindrops? You really look down on me!"
The owner hurriedly explained, but the customer refused to give in.
Until another slightly deeper voice said, "Forget it, Ah Feng, it's already sold. Even without those beads, you are still the most beautiful..."
"I won't! I was the one who ordered it first, and you are still speaking for an outsider!" The man named Ah Feng said coquettishly.
Su Xiaoyuan got goosebumps. It was the first time she met a wild three-dimensional man. It was so intense that she had to climb up Kongtong Mountain overnight. Even the two-dimensional CPs were instantly gone.
She stood up and walked out silently.
The maid said, "Fairy Su, won't you wait? The master will be well soon."
Su Xiaoyuan touched the goose bumps on her arms and said, "I'm going to go somewhere else first."
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