Chapter 71: Am I your man?
Some people are so beautiful that they don't seem real.
Long Buxi was such a person. He was beautiful and handsome, with skin as white as jade. He always had a cold expression when he looked at people. In addition, he had lived in Pucang Village for many years, wore Miao clothes, silver bells, and had hair longer than that of ordinary men. He had been accompanied by Gu worms since childhood and was also the young clan leader of Pucang Village, which gave people a mysterious and cold feeling.
Yet this man, whom the Miao people of Pucang Village feared and whom outsiders dared not offend, was as oblivious as a blank sheet of paper when it came to matters of love and relationships.
Long Buxi sat opposite Cheng Ying, completely soaked. The muscle lines of her slender body were faintly visible through her cotton and linen Miao dress, making her look very sexy.
The midday sun pierced through the trees near the pond, illuminating his pale, jade-like face, revealing a clean, pure, and fragile youthful beauty.
He stared straight at Cheng Ying, his eyes clean and pure, without a trace of ulterior motive.
Cheng Ying thought to herself, Long Buxi must not know how alluring he looks now. He is as pure and innocent as a mountain spirit, and anyone who sees him cannot help but have the evil thought of possessing him and destroying him.
He seemed oblivious to the danger, staring at the people outside without any guard, unaware that he was being watched.
Cheng Ying laughed. Long Buxi thought he was the hunter and she was the prey, and that he had deliberately set a trap for her.
But it's still uncertain who the hunter and who the prey are.
"Don't you understand what it means to feel sorry for someone?" Cheng Ying teased, her eyes alluring as she slowly approached Long Buxi.
She was beautiful with bright eyes, upturned corners, and rosy lips. She was already quite attractive. Now, she was soaked to the bone, her wet, black hair draped casually over her shoulders. Her half-open shirt was left unbuttoned, revealing large, round, snow-white patches of skin glistening with water droplets, like a rosebud blooming in the morning dew, delicate and alluring.
"I...don't understand." Long Buxi had never seen such a seductive scene before, especially since the person was someone she liked. She felt her blood rushing to her lower abdomen, and her cheeks, ears, and neck turned red uncontrollably. Her blood was surging and she couldn't find an outlet. Instinctively, she swallowed her saliva and backed away.
His face was flushed red, and he was frightened by Cheng Ying. He secretly backed away, looking very youthful, which made Cheng Ying even more excited.
Cheng Ying grabbed Long Buxi's left hand, placed his well-defined knuckles on her left chest, and looked at him with seductive eyes, saying, "The reason Sailan used a spell on me is because I told her before that I don't like you, and I don't care whether she tries to win you over or not."
Things are different now. I've agreed to marry you, and you're my man. I'll try to get to know you, like you, and accept you. If you disregard your health and hurt yourself, it will break my heart and make me angry.
So from today onwards, you need to protect yourself and not get hurt again, okay? It breaks my heart.
Unlike Cheng Ying's face, which was tanned dark by the sun, the parts of her body that were not exposed to sunlight had skin as white and tender as a peeled egg, both white and delicate.
Long Buxi's large hand was pressed down by her, covering her round left breast. He could feel the smooth, tender skin, like the finest white jade, and even through his palm, he could feel her pounding heartbeat and smell the unique feminine fragrance emanating from her.
Long Buxi had never touched a woman's body before, and his heart raced with panic. His hand twitched slightly, and the soft, elastic touch, as supple as cotton, burned him so much that he hurriedly withdrew his hand.
Her chest heaved rapidly, and Long Buxi's breath was hot. She dared not look Cheng Ying in the eye, afraid that she would lose control and do something she shouldn't in this desolate wilderness.
Once he calmed down a bit, the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up, and his eyes gleamed as he glanced sideways at Cheng Ying: "You said I'm your man, that you'll like me and cherish me, is that true? You're not lying to me?"
Such a pure and innocent performance put Cheng Ying in a good mood. She stopped teasing him and used her good right hand to slowly button up her clothes. "Of course, if I'm lying to you, you can also cast a love spell on me so that I can never leave you for the rest of my life."
"You said it yourself." Long Buxi turned to look at her, his voice low and frightening. "If you lie to me, I'll put a love potion on you."
"I'm not lying to you, you're the man I've chosen for this life." Cheng Ying smiled. "Before you cast the love spell on me, you have to remove it first. Otherwise, if the love spell takes effect, even if you sleep with me, it won't help. By the way, can the love spell be removed?"
Long Buxi suppressed her surging emotions and said calmly, "The Love Gu is not uncurable. To remove the Love Gu, besides the death of the afflicted person, you also need to find a rare Love Flower and place it in a sealed container with various insects and Gu. When they are hungry, they will devour the Love Flower and eat each other to eventually form the Love Flower Gu. Then, place the Love Flower Gu into your body, let it find the Love Gu in your body, and kill it. Finally, the Gu King, that is, A Lan, will summon the Love Flower Gu from your body, and only then can your Love Gu be completely removed."
Cheng Ying frowned: "According to you, this Gu refining process takes a very long time to succeed?"
"At least six months."
"So long?"
“There are other methods, such as having Alan supervise and intimidate them outside the container to speed up their cannibalism, which would be half as fast, but it would still take three months.”
Cheng Ying frowned. "What if the love potion takes effect during these three months?"
"I can temporarily solve this for you." Long Buxi looked at her with dark eyes, but his expression was serious.
Cheng Ying raised an eyebrow. "How do you plan to resolve this? By having you do some marital intimacy with me?"
"Whoosh—" Long Buxi's ears turned red again, and she gritted her teeth and said, "I can make a few ice gu for you and let them attach to your body to relieve the burning pain in your body. What are you thinking?"
"I see," Cheng Ying said, understanding dawning on her. "So, who did Sai Lan use the other love potion on? And where can we find that love flower?"
"The Love Flower is in the Valley of the Dead, far from the village. You have to go very far to find it." Long Buxi looked up at the sky.
The sun disappeared, and dark clouds piled up in the sky; it was about to rain.
“Sailan said she put a love potion on a wild boar. I told Alan to teach her a lesson and avenge you, so she'll never dare to use a love potion on you again. The weather is changing, it's going to rain soon. Let me carry you home. After the rain stops, I'll go find the wild boar that was poisoned with the love potion, kill it, and remove the potion from your body.” Long Buxi squatted down in front of Cheng Ying, gesturing for her to lie on his back so he could carry her.
"Home." Cheng Ying chewed on the word.
In her past life, she was entangled with Wei Muchen for most of her life. In order not to implicate her family, she fought alone, dealing with Wei Muchen in the capital and in the army, and had long forgotten what it felt like to have a family.
After being reborn, she felt the warmth of her family from her mother and sister, but she had not yet experienced the warmth of a husband or a home after she got married.
She didn't know how far she and Long Buxi could go in the future, but when she heard Long Buxi say the words "go home," she felt a warmth in her heart. Without hesitation, she leaned on Long Buxi's back, stretched out her good right hand, wrapped it around his neck, and said in a light voice, "Let's go home."
Long Buxi smiled and gently carried her on his back, holding her legs with both hands, and walked towards the village.
An hour later, before the heavy rain started, Long Buxi carried Cheng Ying back to the village.
Around noon, it was about to rain again, and people in the village either went home, brought in their laundry, or started cooking.
Everyone in the village was at home when they saw Long Buxi carrying Cheng Ying back to his stilted house.
Every household chatted in the Miao language while washing rice and cooking.
The scene of Long Buxi using blood as a sacrifice to activate the divine bell and summon all the Gu worms in the village to find someone was truly spectacular. And the person they were looking for was that foreign female postman.
In the past, the old clan chief had arranged for the beautiful and eligible Miao girls in the village to get along with Long Buxi, including his own granddaughter, Sailan, whom he intended to marry.
Who would have thought that Long Buxi, who looked down on all the girls in the village, including Sailan, would fall for the female postman from another tribe?
Although the female postwoman was good-looking, she was Han Chinese, not one of their Miao people.
"Did you see that? When Arno carried that postman back, he kept hugging the postman's butt and talking to him with a smile. He looked so gentle."
"I saw it! I told you long ago that the way Arnold looked at that female postman was weird. He was always protecting her. He definitely liked her. You didn't believe me, but now you see, Arnold likes that woman!"
"If he really likes that woman, I'm afraid the old clan chief won't agree to him being with her, right? None of the previous clan chiefs in our clan have married outsiders. If you want to become the clan chief, you can only marry someone from our village in order to pass on the village's secret techniques."
"Arno has such a strange temper, always doing things his own way and refusing to listen to advice. If he insists on marrying a woman from another tribe, he'll probably have to give up his future position as chieftain."
"Hey? If Sailan did something to Long Buxi's sweetheart, given Long Buxi's temper, he'll definitely retaliate tenfold. Now that only the two of them have returned and Sailan isn't here, could he have killed her?"
"Hey, you know what, it's actually possible. The old chieftain couldn't possibly be unaware of what Seran did to that postman. It's been over three hours, why hasn't the old chieftain made a move yet?"
While everyone was talking, someone spoke up: "Shh—stop talking, the old patriarch is here."
At the entrance to the outer village from the inner village through the Zuowu Forest, an elderly clan chief appeared, dressed in black Miao clothing and wearing a matching Miao hat, leaning on a cane.
He frowned, walked hurriedly, and looked very anxious as he headed straight for the stilted house where Long Buxi lived.
Behind him was a tall man dressed in the same black Miao clothing—Gaosu.
Gasu followed behind him with steady steps and an expressionless face.
As they watched them leave, the villagers exchanged knowing glances and gossiped, "Is the old chieftain going to ask Arno about Sailan's whereabouts?"
"It seems so. This is going to be interesting."
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