Chapter 41 You Become Beautiful Again
Xiao Yu pushed open the door and saw Xu Chuchu sitting at the table with a coat on. Her hair was not tied up and was a little messy. She looked very casual. She was holding a chicken leg in her hand and eating happily.
"Hmm?" Xu Chuchu quickly put down the chicken leg and wiped her hands when she saw the person coming. "It's you. I thought the dish I ordered had arrived."
Xiao Yu lowered her head to glance at the few plates of meat dishes in front of her that had been eaten up, then sat opposite them in silence.
"Have you eaten?" Xu Chuchu asked, "How about we add two more dishes?"
"I've eaten." Xiao Yu lied.
Of course he didn't, because he didn't want to talk about the next topic with Xu Chuchu while eating. His despicable wishes were not worthy of such a relaxed atmosphere.
"Oh." Xu Chuchu nodded.
Then the two of them looked at each other, and no one spoke.
Xu Chuchu didn't know why Xiao Yu suddenly came to see her for dinner. She felt it was a bit strange, so she thought about it and asked him.
"I just asked the waiter in the store, and they said that Lord Shao and his group left first? Do you want them to go back?"
"Yeah." Xiao Yu responded again.
"What about us? Is there anything else we need to stay here for? Or when will we return to the county town?" Xu Chuchu asked again.
"No, tomorrow."
A concise answer. Then the two of them fell silent again...
Xu Chuchu could sense that Xiao Yu seemed to be hesitant to speak.
She felt a little uneasy because in her impression, even when Xiao Yu encountered difficult problems that were difficult to solve, his thinking was clear and he would not fall into confusion.
And he was so shameless that he didn't feel embarrassed at all when he chased her away.
I don't know what could make him so hesitant.
"You've changed again." Xiao Yu frowned.
He had been distracted by all sorts of thoughts just now, and when he looked at Xu Chuchu a few more times, he realized that she was different from before.
Even though she had been eating dirt in the tomb for two days, her skin became whiter and smoother.
There is no change in her facial features, but she seems to have grown a year or two older. She no longer looks like a shriveled little girl, but a young girl with a nascent charm.
"Oh? You figured it out?" Xu Chuchu was a little happy, even standing up and turning around. "I've grown taller, too. Did you notice?"
She expected her appearance to recover from the second to third level, but growing taller was a pleasant surprise.
"...I can see that." Xiao Yu's voice dropped. "Is cultivation making you beautiful?"
He actually noticed something was wrong last time, but he didn't think much about it at the time and just thought it was his own illusion. If he couldn't see it this time, he must have been blind.
"Hmm... sort of, and not really." Xu Chuchu casually explained, "In fact, cultivation can't change a person's appearance. I'm just a little bit special."
It was as if her appearance and figure were suppressed along with her cultivation, so she looked particularly thin and mediocre.
When her cultivation recovers in the future, she can become as beautiful as before.
"Yeah." Xiao Yu nodded, and his heart sank again.
She will become more beautiful in the future and she has an unlimited future. How could she be willing to be a wife in name only by my side?
"Is there something you want to talk to me about?" Xu Chuchu finally asked tentatively.
"Actually..." Xiao Yu lowered his eyes, he was finding it increasingly difficult to speak.
"Oh, yes, yes, I almost forgot! This is for you." Xu Chuchu suddenly remembered something important, took out something from his arms, and handed it to Xiao Yu like a treasure.
This is a dark green copper piece about half the size of a palm. It seems to have been carefully wiped, clean and smooth, and strung together with a thin red thread, like an ancient and elegant pendant.
"Dangdang—this is called Blood-Stained Bronze. I took it out of that prince's coffin." She introduced it seriously. "Don't underestimate it. It's copper on the outside and jade on the inside. It's been fed by the blood of the heart for years, and it has the effect of suppressing fate. Wear it close to your chest to suppress the golden-scaled anaconda in your body. Next time you touch a woman, as long as there's clothing between you and it's not a long period of skin-to-skin contact, you shouldn't get sick."
"You..." Xiao Yu couldn't believe what he heard, with a look of being struck by lightning. "What did you say? What can it do?"
Xu Chuchu was very satisfied with his reaction and said with a smile, "Why, didn't you hear clearly? Then let me say it again, with this, you can live a normal life. It's okay to touch women occasionally. I can't guarantee what will happen if you have long-term contact, but at least you don't have to ride in a carriage every day when you go out. You can also walk around the streets freely."
When she first saw the copper plate on the chest of the corpse in the coffin, she recognized its function and its value to Xiao Yu, so even if she faced the threat of corpse silkworms, she would take the risk to get it back.
After all, no matter how dangerous it is, she feels it is worth it to help a friend get out of the dark life.
But I was so excited while escaping that I forgot about it when I came back and only remembered it when I woke up.
Then she washed the copper sheet, tied it with a rope, and waited for Xiao Yu to get up to give it to him.
"Oh, and this red thread as well." Xu Chuchu explained, "I asked the innkeeper for it. If you don't like it, you can go back and change it yourself."
The combination of red thread and green copper does look a bit strange, but the proprietress only had red thread and black thread on hand, and she didn't know what color to choose, so she just picked red thread at random.
It doesn’t matter what kind of thread is used. Xiao Yu can change it to a gold chain when he goes back.
Xu Chuchu felt that Xiao Yu would be ecstatic to get this blood-stained bronze. Before eating, she even imagined his grateful expression in her mind. So after the introduction, she looked at him with full anticipation.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Yu didn't show any joy when he heard this. He didn't even take the blood-stained bronze. Looking at her, besides shock, there seemed to be a hint of anger in his eyes.
Xu Chuchu's heart skipped a beat. "No, wait... You're not going to accuse me of hiding burial objects, are you? I'm just a repeat offender. This is the first time I've taken something out of a tomb, and I'm not selling it to make money. I'm trying to see if it can cure illnesses. Uh, the two have different meanings..."
Oops, I lost my point halfway through my speech.
I don’t know if my master would make the same choice as her.
Xiao Yu lowered his eyes again and was silent for a while before saying, "I won't report it. There's no need."
He touched the copper piece placed between them, his hand trembling slightly. "This... is this the last thing you took out of the coffin in the main tomb?"
"Yeah." Xu Chuchu smiled, "Did you see that? I thought my actions were pretty covert."
Xiao Yu's hands shook even more violently.
Not only did he see it, he didn't say a word about it.
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