Chapter 1123: Not Returning Until Drunk
"Master," Luo Li chuckled, "then we have to prepare to eat and drink."
The Bulicheng disciples behind Shi Heng shouted, "Welcome back, City Lord!"
Luo Li pressed her hand, "Alright, let's go back to the City Lord's Mansion. I won't leave until I'm drunk today!"
Everyone shouted: "Don't go home until you are drunk!"
The group was escorted back to the City Lord's Mansion.
As night falls, the city lord's mansion is brightly lit.
The night was getting late and the party was beginning to disperse.
Luo Li said hello and went back to the yard.
She drank some spiritual wine and felt dizzy. As soon as she walked into the yard, she saw Di Xuanming drinking tea in the yard.
Luo Li frowned and walked over. "Why are you drinking tea again? Why didn't you go to the celebration party?"
Di Xuanming raised his eyes to look at her, pulled her arm into his arms, and pinched her nose, "Little drunkard."
Luo Li shook her head and muttered, "You haven't answered me yet. Why didn't you go to the party?"
Di Xuanming chuckled softly, his slender fingers gently brushing her tipsy cheek, "I don't like noise."
Luo Li leaned in his arms, looked up at his angular jawline, and suddenly reached out and poked him, "You always keep to yourself like this."
He grabbed her rebellious fingers, his eyes as deep as the night, "With you here, I'm not walking alone."
The night wind blew, and the sacred trees in the courtyard rustled.
Di Xuanming pulled Luo Li closer to him, stroking her fingertips, which were red from drinking. "Is the snow in the north cold?"
Luo Li suddenly stood up, her sleeve slipping down to half her white jade-like wrist, "I almost forgot!"
She shook out an ice crystal box from her space ring and held it before him like a treasure. "I brought it for you."
A twin ice orchid lay quietly in the box, with unmelted frost and snow still condensed on its translucent petals.
Luo Li rambled on: "The first time I went to the North, I felt that he was very suitable for you! This time I finally brought him back to you."
Di Xuanming's eyes moved slightly, and his fingertips gently stroked the crystal petals of the Ice Orchid. The coldness spread along his fingertips, but it made him feel a little warm in his heart.
"The twin ice orchids of the extremely cold northern lands," he whispered, "are said to bloom only once every five thousand years."
Luo Li nodded drunkenly, the pearl hairpin in her hair swaying gently with her movements. "That's right! But the King of the Northern Territory was very straightforward. As soon as I asked, he had someone pick one for me. Do you like it?"
Di Xuanming stared into her sparkling eyes, the corners of his lips raised slightly, "I like it."
He took the ice crystal box and lightly touched the surface of the box with his fingertips. The Ice Orchid then floated up, shining brightly in the moonlight.
"But..." He suddenly leaned over and whispered in her ear, "I miss you more than flowers."
A warm breath brushed past her ears, and Luo Li's ears turned red. She seemed to be even more drunk.
She snorted softly and reached out to push his shoulder, "Don't try that on me."
Di Xuanming chuckled, took her hand and pulled her into his arms.
Luo Li was not paying attention for a moment and fell into his arms, her forehead resting on his chest, and she could clearly hear his steady heartbeat.
The night breeze was cool, but it couldn't blow away the gradually warming atmosphere between the two.
"Ari." He called her, his voice low and gentle.
"Hmm?" Luo Li raised her head and met his deep eyes.
Di Xuanming raised his hand, gently stroked her hair, and whispered, "Next time you go somewhere so far, I'll accompany you. I can disguise myself so I won't be discovered."
Luo Li blinked and said deliberately: "Why? Are you afraid that I'll lose it?"
He narrowed his eyes slightly, gently pinched her chin with his fingertips, and said in a dangerous tone: "I'm afraid you will be abducted by someone else."
Luo Li chuckled and put her arms around his neck, "Why are you so unconfident?"
Di Xuanming snorted softly, lowered his head and pecked her on the lips, "It's just that some people are too attractive."
Luo Li was drunk, and immediately refuted when she heard this, "No way!"
Di Xuanming chuckled softly, rubbing his fingertips across her slightly swollen lips. "When the King of the Northern Territory sent flowers, his eyes were almost glued to you."
"What are you talking about! The King of the Northern Territory was thanking me at the time, so of course he had to look at me and say it." Luo Li's ears felt hot, and she suddenly remembered something and struggled out of his arms. "Wait—didn't you promise me not to go to the Northern Territory? How do you know so much?"
Luo Li felt a little sober now. This person must have followed her secretly!
The moonlight cast swaying shadows of branches on the stone table, and a flash of light flashed across the dark pattern on Emperor Xuanming's cuffs.
He calmly picked up the teapot, poured half a cup of tea and pushed it over, "Because..."
Amid the crisp sound of the celadon cup's bottom hitting the stone table, the sound of branches breaking suddenly came from outside the courtyard wall.
"Who?" A cold light condensed on Luo Li's fingertips, and her drunkenness instantly dissipated a little.
Di Xuanming held her wrist, his eyes sweeping over the trembling branches on the wall, "It's okay, it's..."
Before he could finish his words, Mu Ze's frustrated voice came from outside the wall: "I told you we would be discovered! Senior Shi Heng, you must..."
"Hush!" Shi Heng lowered his voice to a very low voice, "They are more like newlyweds after a short separation. I am worried that Ah Li will get drunk and be taken advantage of..."
The rustling sound of clothes rubbing against each other came from under the wall, mixed with the suppressed laughter of Lan Xiaoxiao and the others.
Luo Li held her forehead with her hands, and the wind from her sleeves swept across the gate of the courtyard.
The wooden door creaked open, revealing several people lying like a pile of monks outside the wall, all smelling of alcohol.
Mu Ze, who was at the bottom, looked up and smiled awkwardly: "Ari, we just happened to pass by..."
Ye Yichen was still holding half of the photo stone in his hand. Upon hearing this, he immediately kicked Mu Ze: "Nonsense! We are clearly here to give Ah Li some hangover soup!"
The white jade soup bowl rolled out of Lan Xiaoxiao's arms at the right moment and hit the bluestone slab with a clang.
Song Wanbai laughed awkwardly: "See, I said I was here to deliver some hangover soup."
Luo Li looked at the broken soup bowl on the ground, feeling both angry and amused. She put her hands on her hips and asked, "Do I need to eavesdrop to serve sobering soup?"
Shi Heng coughed lightly, then gracefully stood up from the crowd. He straightened his robes and said, "Master, this is a test of your current strength. You were able to detect us so quickly. Well, that's very good."
Emperor Xuanming hooked his fingertips, and the photo stone that rolled to his feet fell into his palm.
Spiritual power flashed slightly, and the image of the two people hugging each other was immediately projected onto the stone.
"Senior Shi," he said, slowly crushing the image stone, "what are the consequences according to the law for spying on the City Lord?"
Shi Heng's folding fan snapped open, covering half of his face: "Well..."
"Deduct three months' salary!" Luo Li suddenly jumped out of Di Xuanming's arms, her eyes still bright with drunkenness, "It will be just enough to fund the rebuilding of the alchemy room in the medicine pavilion!"
Lan Xiaoxiao, who was hiding at the back, wailed, "A-Li! It's really not my fault that the medicine cabinet's furnace exploded last month! It was Mu Ze who insisted on refining the elixir!"
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