Chapter 72: A Sudden Confession
Long Buxi carried Cheng Ying back to the third floor of the stilted house and quickly found her a clean set of Miao clothing to change her clothes.
He reached out to unbutton Cheng Ying's clothes, but Cheng Ying grabbed his hand and said, "I can do it myself."
"Your hands and feet are seriously injured. Are you sure you can replace them yourself?" Long Buxi asked with a worried expression.
"Even if my left hand and right foot are broken, I still have intact hands and feet to replace them. You're so eager to change my clothes, do you perhaps want to do things between husband and wife with me?" Cheng Ying asked with a half-smile.
"What things can a husband and wife do?" Long Buxi asked calmly, her eyes clear and innocent as she looked at her, appearing harmless and naive.
Is this guy pretending to be stupid again?
Cheng Ying's cheeks slowly burned, and she glared at him through gritted teeth, "Stop pretending in front of me. You want to change my clothes, don't you? Come on, come on, change them for me. Take them all off, inside and out, and then we'll sleep in bed and have a baby."
As she spoke, she thrust her chest forward against Long Buxi's chest, looking like she had nothing to lose.
Her soft, yielding chest slammed against Long Buxi's slender body, causing his heart to flutter as if scratched by a cat, making him intensely itchy.
Long Buxi looked at her, her breathing gradually quickening, and the corners of her upturned eyes gradually reddening.
Seeing Cheng Ying's half-open clothes by the pool, deliberately teasing him with her seductive eyes, he, who had never experienced such things, felt a deep longing for her well up inside him. However, fearing that he might do something inappropriate in the wild, he restrained himself.
Now, they were back in his stilted house, on his property, in his room, on his bed, and Cheng Ying was still teasing him so brazenly, seemingly certain that he wouldn't touch her.
Does she really think he's a good person and won't do anything outrageous to her?
Long Buxi reached out and pulled Cheng Ying into his arms, his long, slender hand roughly kneading her waist, while his other hand tugged at her clothes.
"Cheng Ying, you said it yourself, don't blame me." Long Buxi lowered his head, his thin lips close to Cheng Ying's ear, his voice incredibly gentle, but his large hands held her waist tightly, preventing her from backing away. "If your clothes are wet, then don't wear them. As you wish, let's have a baby."
He pinned Cheng Ying to the bed, his kisses landing on her lips, intense and passionate, while his other hand restlessly tried to tear off her clothes.
Cheng Ying was startled, not expecting Long Buxi to be serious. She struggled and used her good right hand to push him away forcefully, covering her exposed chest and saying, "What are you doing!"
She was very strong and pushed Long Buxi, who was already weak from blood loss, to the ground.
Long Buxi struggled to her feet, seeing Cheng Ying clutching her chest, looking frightened and fierce. A mocking smile spread across Long Buxi's face. "Didn't you ask me to undress you and have a baby with you? Why did you push me away? You Han people say a promise is a promise, but we Miao people are the most trustworthy. What we say, we will do. Cheng Ying, you don't want to have a baby with me? Are you lying to me again?"
"I..." Cheng Ying was speechless, not knowing how to explain to Long Buxi. She was just joking with him, but she didn't expect him to take it seriously.
Those Miao people really have no sense of humor at all; they can't take a joke. They're so boring!
The two stared at each other in silence, the atmosphere quite ambiguous.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Long Buxi stood up from the ground, walked to her side, and reached out to smooth her wet hair, saying, "Cheng Ying, from the time you came to Pucang Village when you were ten years old, saw me, said I was very beautiful, wanted to marry me, and insisted that my mother agree to let you be my wife, I swore in my heart that I would only love you in this life, only marry you, and be entangled with you for all eternity, so that you would never leave me. Therefore, no matter what you say, I will believe you. Please don't lie to me, okay?"
His sudden confession was sincere and passionate, as if he had liked Cheng Ying for many years and was taking this opportunity to pour out his heart.
Cheng Ying's heart trembled, and an unprecedented feeling of excitement swept over her.
She didn't know if Long Buxi was telling the truth when he said she came to Pucang Village at the age of ten and said she wanted to marry him, but she believed him when he said he would only love her in his life.
After the two had already crossed the line and Long Buxi had revealed his true colors to her, he no longer needed to deceive her.
His affection for her was open and genuine, untainted by any other motives; he simply liked her as a person, which was hard not to be moved by.
Just as Cheng Ying was about to respond to Long Buxi, she heard a commotion downstairs.
"Arno." An old man's voice called from downstairs, accompanied by the creaking sound of two people walking up the wooden stairs.
Upon hearing the sound, Long Buxi's eyes sharpened, and he whispered to Cheng Ying, "The old patriarch is here. Change your clothes yourself. Be careful with your broken arms and legs, and don't hurt yourself. I'll come back to re-bandage and apply medicine after I've dealt with the old patriarch's matter. I'll also use the life-giving Gu to heal your wounds, and you'll recover quickly."
Cheng Ying wanted to ask him what kind of strange Gu worm Sheng Gu was, but before she could speak, he left in a hurry. She could only lower her head, endure the pain in her body, and slowly change her clothes.
Downstairs, the elderly patriarch stood in the second-floor living room, leaning on a cane as he looked around at the various furnishings.
The tall Gasu stood behind him, staring intently at a window facing the river, lost in thought.
As soon as Long Buxi came downstairs, Gasu saw him and immediately knelt down in front of him, placing her right hand diagonally on her left shoulder, giving him a Miao ethnic salute, and calling him "Young Chief" in Miao language.
Long Buxi hummed in agreement and raised her right hand, gesturing for him to get up.
Gasu didn't move; he just knelt there.
Long Buxi gave him a strange look and asked, "What do you want?"
"Where is Sailan?" Before Gasu could speak, the old clan chief spoke first, "What did you do to her?"
"You should know perfectly well where she is, Grandpa. Why bother asking me?" Long Buxi looked at the old clan chief, who was a head shorter than him, his handsome face filled with barely concealed anger. "If you want to know what I did to her, why don't you ask your good granddaughter what she did to Cheng Ying!"
The old clan leader, Changzheng, rarely saw Long Buxi so enraged.
In my memory, Long Buxi always had a cold face and looked at people with icy eyes. Even when his parents died, I never saw him cry or change his expression.
As he grew up, he became even more reserved. No matter what the people in the village said about him or targeted him, he would not get angry. He would simply turn around and retaliate with Gu worms.
Now, for a woman from another tribe, he was so angry. The old chieftain frowned and opened his dry lips to say, "Sailan has always liked you, and I also intended for her to marry you, but you fell in love with a woman from another tribe. Of course she's angry. She's just throwing a childish tantrum. Why are you arguing with her?"
Long Buxi laughed angrily, "Grandpa, I've noticed that you haven't changed at all over the years. You're always biased and don't care about the true thoughts of the people in the village. No matter what despicable things Sailan does, you unconditionally protect her. Do you think that will make up for the lack of fatherly and motherly love Sailan has, and that you will become the good grandpa in her eyes? Let me tell you, don't dream about it!"
Long Buxi's eyes were bloodshot, his lips were clenched into a sinister smile: "I've said it before, no matter how much you and Sailan pressure me, I will never like her, nor will I marry her. The only person I've ever liked is Cheng Ying! Sailan dared to use love potion on Cheng Ying, dared to touch my people, she should be prepared to be tortured to the point of wishing she were dead by me."
The old clan chief's eyelids twitched, and his hands unconsciously tightened their grip on his cane. "What did you do to her?"
"It's nothing much. I just had A-Lan inject over twenty of the Gu worms I've refined into her body, making her wish she were dead, until she tells the truth. If she doesn't talk, she'll become like Long Jin, a walking corpse completely controlled by the Gu worms, without her own thoughts and emotions, no different from being dead." Long Buxi's dark pupils flashed with anger, and a cruel smile appeared on her jade-like face.
"How dare you cast so many spells on Sailan? Are you crazy? Have you forgotten who raised you?!" Upon hearing that his beloved granddaughter had suffered such a torment, the old clan chief was so angry that his hands trembled. He raised his cane and struck Long Buxi.
Long Buxi neither dodged nor flinched, letting his cane strike her, and said expressionlessly, "Grandpa, I respect your kindness in raising me. Over the years, in the village, I have done whatever you asked me to do, and I have never disobeyed you."
The only thing you want me to do is marry Seran. I will never agree to that. I will only marry the person I love.
I had warned Sailan beforehand not to lay a finger on Cheng Ying, but she ignored me and even used a love potion on Cheng Ying while transferring another potion to someone else. Her current predicament is entirely her own fault!
The old clan chief was quite old; after a few taps with his cane, he was already panting heavily.
He stopped what he was doing, sat down on a wooden chair, and gasped for breath. “Fine, very well. Now that you’ve grown up and your wings have hardened, I can’t control you anymore! Since you insist on not marrying Sailan but marrying that woman from another tribe, you can no longer be the young chieftain! After I die, the chieftainship of Pucang Village will be handed over to Gaxu. You and your woman from another tribe can go live outside the village.”
"Grandpa, you don't think that by saying these harsh words to me, I will give in to you, give up Cheng Ying, and marry your granddaughter Sai Lan, do you?"
Long Buxi curled his lips into a smile. "I've been waiting for you to say this for many years. What young clan leader, what future clan leader of Pucang Village, I don't care about any of it! The only reason I agreed to be the young clan leader back then was to save my life. Now that you've granted my wish, I can finally shed the responsibilities you imposed on me and live the life I want. I couldn't be happier!"
"You!" The old patriarch was so angry that he felt dizzy and his chest heaved. He wanted to stand up again and hit him with his cane, but as soon as he stood up, his head was filled with blood, his vision went black, and he was thrown straight back.
Long Buxi watched him fall backward expressionlessly, without reaching out to help him up.
On the contrary, seeing that he was not in good condition, Gasu quickly stood up to help the old patriarch, and turned to look at Long Buxi and said, "Young patriarch, don't be angry with the old patriarch, and don't torture Sailan! The old patriarch raised you with great difficulty, and even if he didn't do anything, he still deserves credit. Sailan has liked you very much since she was a child and has been very good to you. You shouldn't treat them like this."
Long Buxi sneered: "If I hadn't refined the Gu King back then, and the old man hadn't seen my talent and wanted me to protect the entire village, would he have raised me and made me the young clan leader? The relationship between him and me was nothing more than mutual exploitation!"
Sailan has had a bad temper since she was a child. She does things even crazier than me, and her temper is even weirder. She always tries to find ways to torment and torture me. I have always tolerated her and not held it against her because she is the old man's only granddaughter.
She ignored my repeated warnings, used a love potion on Cheng Ying, and then used another potion on someone else, all while lying to me. I've already done her a favor by sparing her life!
Gasu fell silent.
He helped the old clan chief sit down in a chair, then pinched the old clan chief's philtrum to wake him up after he had fainted from anger. He then said in a low voice, "Sailan has put another love potion on me."
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