Chapter 49 What are the wolves doing? They don't even have the most innocent undergarments...
Heng Qichun pointed tremblingly at the mess on the floor, then looked into the little wolf's arrogant yet innocent eyes. He realized his voice was shaking as he spoke, "You did this?"
Lou Yan let out a "howl" and released the pile of clothes from his mouth. He jumped and ran far away, then arrogantly squatted on the table next to Heng Qichun, craning his neck and tilting his head to look at his master.
The wolf's eyes were full of arrogance, clearly saying—so what if I did it?
This shows he's determined to oppose his master.
Heng Qichun was so angry at him that he actually laughed.
He walked closer, bent down and picked up the pile of clothes that had escaped the wolf's jaws. He carefully examined them and saw that they were covered with dark gray curly wolf fur. Several pieces had been torn to shreds by Lou Yan. Without exception, the most badly damaged ones were all school uniforms from the Eighteen Realms.
Heng Qichun closed his eyes, clenched and unclenched the few pieces of clothing, and finally let them fall back to the ground, becoming a pile of tattered rags that could never be salvaged.
He pointed to the scattered tables, chairs, and benches in the room, and the even more dilapidated bedding and curtains, and asked, "If you have any complaints, you can just say them. Why are you ruining them?"
Lou Yan had already made up his mind not to say another word to his master. Upon hearing this, he simply let out a soft "ow" and decisively turned his head away.
This action, whether performed by a human or a wolf, is a provocation. Heng Qichun watched helplessly as the wolf cub in front of him jumped off the table and plunged into the pile of clothes, venting its anger by biting them.
This scene...
This scene feels strangely familiar.
Heng Qichun couldn't help but recall the time when he had just picked up Lou Yan.
The little cub, because of his playfulness, ran away to the back mountain by himself and almost became the meal of those succubi.
Afterwards, he imposed a minor punishment, making him eat only vegetables and radishes for a month. Unexpectedly, this angered the wolf cub, who tore up all his clothes one night while he was asleep.
So much so that when he went to the Tianyin Palace for a meeting the next day, he had no clothes to wear and could only find a set of winter clothes at the bottom of the closet to make do for the whole day.
In the sweltering heat of May, he was dressed in winter clothes! He almost got mistaken for being sick by Nanyushan.
If it weren't for that incident, he wouldn't have set aside a separate room in the Divine Firmament Palace for Lou Yan to live in alone.
He should have noticed Lou Yan's excessive desire for revenge long ago, but he didn't expect that even though Lou Yan had become an extraordinary person, educated, and learned about propriety and morality, he would still be so crazy when he was unhappy.
What a worthless brat I picked up.
Lou Yan had no intention of trying to figure out what his master was thinking at the moment, and only vented his anger on his clothes.
Sharp canine teeth tore and chewed the sashes one by one, not even sparing the most innocent undergarments. The only sound in the quiet room was the tearing of cloth.
"Lou Yan." Heng Qichun called out to him, his handsome face appearing extremely cold at this moment. He said indifferently, "Senior brother has already taken that Qin mirror back to Tianyin Palace for examination. Sooner or later, there will be a way to break the artifact of the Yi Emperor. Unless you want to be a wolf for the rest of your life, let's see what you can wear after you transform into human form."
Lou Yan: ...
The wolf cub stood there dumbfounded for the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea, then decisively released the remaining clothes from its mouth. Before Heng Qichun could get angry at it, it jumped onto the low table and slipped away in a flash.
Having anticipated that Lou Yan might wander off, Heng Qichun deliberately set up a barrier outside Shenxiao Palace, allowing everyone except him to enter but not leave.
He let the little wolf run off and vent his anger, even though he couldn't figure it out after a whole night. It was just that the medicine had hurt him, so what was there to be angry about?
Heng Qichun felt as if he had returned to many years ago, with endless worries about Lou Yan.
He looked at the mess in the room and sighed. Then he took out a talisman and casually wrote a few seal characters on it.
"All directions are cleansed, and all foul air dissipates—remove!"
Dust-removing talisman.
A piece of yellow paper grew to the required size and, supported by Heng Qichun's spiritual power, was suspended in mid-air. Cinnabar light appeared, and three wisps of wind patterns fell straight down, silently gathering the scattered household items back into their original positions.
As the room was cleaned up again, Heng Qichun's anger gradually subsided.
He thought that even if the wolf cub was ignorant, it was just venting its anger on the things in the house, so it wasn't too difficult to manage.
But at that moment, he had no idea that his tolerance for Lou Yan would be completely overturned that evening when he discovered that his bed had also been messed up and his clothes had been chewed up.
"Lou... disgusting...!"
A chilly wind was blowing.
Heng Qichun had just returned from Tianyin Palace. Without an umbrella, he was drenched in snow, his white hair was covered in frost, and he exuded an indescribable chill.
He stood in front of his room, looking at the writing implements that had been swept away from the table, and the countless wolf claw footprints lying on the unfolded paper. He felt a surge of frustration rising in his chest, unable to go up or down, and he knew he was about to follow his grandmaster to the afterlife.
He glanced at the wolf cub cowering in the corner, feigning innocence, and his voice was almost squeezed out from between his teeth, "You're asking for a beating again, aren't you?"
Lou Yan was busy chasing her own tail in the corner when she heard the sound and suddenly stopped, still tilting her head arrogantly to look at Heng Qichun.
His arrogance subsided somewhat when he saw the coldness on Heng Qichun's face. He shrank his neck and let out a very soft "ow".
It can't be entirely his fault.
In the afternoon, he tried to run out to provoke Fu Yusheng, but found that Heng Qichun had set up a barrier outside Shenxiao Palace to prevent him from going out!
He spent the entire afternoon trying to find a crack in the barrier, but to no avail.
To guard against him, Heng Qichun went to great lengths to set up a flawless barrier!
God's vigilance against wolves has reached this level.
Who would believe it if I told them?
Lou Yan sniffed in front of Heng Qichun, then let out a pitiful "Aww," breaking his vow from yesterday to "never speak to Heng Qichun again."
Heng Qichun could hear the unspoken message in his voice – I'm just so bored, why won't Master let me go out?
"Too boring, huh?" Heng Qichun sneered, his gaze sweeping over his messy bedroom again, and he nodded firmly. "Very good."
Lou Yan had a premonition that her fate was not good.
Another dark night.
The snow had transformed from goose feathers into fine salt particles, making a "rustling" sound as it fell from the sky, unnecessarily disturbing my peaceful sleep.
This time, the wolf cub wasn't beaten. Instead, Heng Qichun stuck a puppet talisman on its head and made it diligently tidy up the room all night.
He squatted outside and washed the bedding and clothes that he had soiled, straightened all the tables and chairs, and even the gilded palace lantern that had almost been swallowed by the Pixiu cub. Finally, he almost fell asleep while kneeling on the ground and wiping the entire temple floor.
By the time all the work was finished, it was already bright outside.
Fine snowflakes pelted against the barrier outside Shenxiao Palace, making a soft "crackling" sound.
Lou Yan sat on the steps in front of the hall, his arms crossed, staring blankly at the huge, inexhaustible tree in the sky and the sparse sunlight filtering through its branches and leaves.
The Shenxiao Palace was eerily quiet.
Heng Qichun was not there, and before dawn, a junior disciple came to call him, saying that the sect leader had urgent business and wanted him to go to the Tianyin Hall.
It's probably about Qin Jing.
Lou Yan didn't hear the more specific details; he was busy washing Heng Qichun's clothes at the time!
"Gurgle..."
A sudden noise came, and Lou Yan looked down at her shrunken belly and couldn't help but sigh.
I haven't eaten much all day.
Strangely enough, he had long been used to eating human food, but after Qin Jing brought him back to his original form, he completely reverted to his wolfish nature. Not only did he uncontrollably destroy half of Heng Qichun's Shenxiao Palace, but he also had an unusual craving for meat and bones.
Fortunately, it's snowing now, otherwise he might very well want to cry out to the moon alone.
Deep down, he really hoped that Nanyushan could figure out a way to break the Qin Mirror as soon as possible.
After all, it's happier to be human, at least you don't have to be left alone in the Divine Firmament Palace.
Just like many years ago, when Heng Qichun was not around, he actually had no idea what he could do, and most of the time he would just sit on the steps in a daze.
Unable to sit still any longer, he went to dismantle Heng Qichun's bed and wardrobe.
Given that he had just been punished by being forced to do hard labor all night for demolishing a house, Lou Yan had no choice but to sit motionless on the steps for the entire morning.
The snow had become so fine as to be almost imperceptible, but the soft pattering as it fell on the barrier continued, suggesting it would continue to fall for a long time.
Lou Yan stared at the thick snow in the distance and thought that the people of the human realm would probably have a hard time this winter.
Amidst the vast expanse of snow, an inconspicuous black dot suddenly appeared.
Lou Yan squinted at it habitually, then immediately sprang up from the steps, gripping the ground tightly with its four paws. It then turned its head and looked back.
The clear spring in the hall was flowing gently, and the Guanyin Lotus was exuding fragrance. The entire Shenxiao Palace was spotless, without a trace of dust.
He confirmed it was correct before finally letting out a sigh of relief.
In the short time it took to catch its breath, the black dot quickly grew larger, becoming a snow-covered shadow that climbed the steps.
Lou Yan was still wary of Heng Qichun, so when she saw him this time, she didn't dare to tilt her head like before, but just stared at her master with her obsidian-like wolf eyes.
hiss--
Lou Yan blinked.
Was it a hallucination caused by his near-starvation? Why did he think Heng Qichun looked so pale, as if he were sick?
"Hungry?" Heng Qichun saw the wolf cub sitting upright, coughed lightly, and didn't seem angry with him anymore. "It's normal to feel hungry since you don't have spiritual power protecting you right now."
As he spoke, he took out a package of oil paper from his pocket, opened it, and showed it to Lou Yan. "These are pastries I got from your senior uncle. Have some to tide you over."
Lou Yan glanced at it once and then turned her head away.
I won't eat it.
He plans to go on a hunger strike in protest!
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Author's note: Eat it or don't, it's up to you!
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