Chapter 137 She is a woman
Shen Ningyu dared not reveal her thoughts. She watched the two figures leave, then turned to look at Shen Fengzhou, who was also being ignored, and said, "I want to see Miss Linghu."
Shen Fengzhou snapped out of his daze, looked down at his sister who was filled with hatred, his face full of disapproval, "What are you doing meeting Miss Linghu? You don't mean to tell Miss Linghu about this, do you?"
Shen Ningyu lowered her eyes and shook her head. "Don't worry, brother. It has nothing to do with this."
Shen Fengzhou was still worried. He remembered recent events and instructed, "Our Shen family has never been able to invite Master Chi before, but recently he agreed and ran to the tea pavilion."
"So what?" Shen Ningyu's raised voice couldn't hide her contempt.
“It’s very likely that Master Chi came to the outer city to wait for this young lady,” Chen Fengzhou sighed. “Besides, whether Miss Linghu will agree to my request is another matter entirely.”
He had always known that his younger sister admired the pool master and intended to bring them together, but he also knew that although the young man was extremely talented, could a cold-blooded and bloodthirsty person who had been thrown into a snake pit to grow up really have feelings?
Moreover, Miss Linghu was standing behind the pool master.
Shen Ningyu's smile finally crumbled. She turned and went back to the mansion, leaving Shen Fengzhou with her back turned. "Don't worry, brother. I went to see Miss Linghu only for the Peach Blossom Banquet three days later."
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Linghu Zhuoyu led Mu Jianjian to the residence he had arranged for her long ago. He smiled and said in a patient and gentle voice, "Sister, my residence is just in front of the two courtyards. If you need anything, just go and call me."
Mu Jianjian nodded. The courtyard was clean and elegant. Bathed in the sunlight, she listened to the birdsong and the sound of the wind in the distance. She reached out and touched a pink petal blown by the wind. Upon closer inspection, it was a delicate pink peach blossom.
"You even have peach trees planted in your mansion."
The presence of all living things brought peace to her heart.
Linghu Zhuoyu's expression became slightly unnatural for a moment. "Sister, I need to take care of something first."
After speaking, she stood up, but a hand grabbed her sleeve.
"Are you alright?" Mu Jianjian noticed the other person's nervousness and asked with concern.
"Sister, it's alright." Linghu Zhuoyu's tone softened, her thoughts hidden beneath her beautiful face, making her look like a delicate porcelain doll.
"Okay, then Yu Yu, go ahead and get busy," Mu Jianjian withdrew her hand and waved to him, "Bye-bye."
"Bye-bye?" Linghu Zhuoyu repeated the girl's emphasis in confusion.
Mu Jianjian blinked. "It means goodbye."
Seeing that the boy's expression had relaxed considerably and his smile was much more genuine, she finally felt at ease after he left and began to enjoy the long-awaited quiet afternoon.
While sunbathing, Mu Jianjian suddenly remembered something and jumped up, saying to the system in her mind, "Check the content related to 'Miss Linghu' in the original book."
[Okay, host.] The system quickly listed everything that was relevant.
Mu Jianjian searched the data in her mind and found very few relevant items.
After receiving the inheritance from the secret realm, the female protagonist Sang Wanyue was taken to the Sacred Lotus Pavilion by Ye Wuluo. Her appearance at the grand banquet in Yingzhou Kyoto was much later in the story.
The book is mostly about the melodramatic love story between the two at the Sacred Lotus Pavilion, including being thwarted, framed, and retaliated against. It's written in a long and tedious way. When Sang Wanyue came to the capital and met Linghu Zhuoyu again, Duan Yuechi could no longer hear any news about "Miss Linghu".
All that is known is that "Miss Linghu" was the previous pool master and one of the previous generation of "Five Eccentrics".
Linghu Zhuoyu's relatives.
Why is there no trace of this person in the romantic relationship between Sang Wanyue and Linghu Zhuoyu?
Mu Jianjian took a deep breath. If she couldn't figure it out, she wouldn't think about it anymore. She decided to focus more on what she needed to do tonight.
system:……
It looked at the girl with malicious, starry eyes and knew that someone was going to be in big trouble that night.
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"A dark and windy night is the perfect time to eliminate evil, commit murder, and set fires."
Dressed in night clothes, Mu Jianjian stepped onto the roof and looked at the brightly lit rooms in the Luo mansion. Under the bright moonlight, she raised her hand to tidy her hair.
System: Why are you saying such serious things in such a silly tone?
She concealed her presence, easily dealt with the few guards lingering in the courtyard, landed on the roof of Luo Yiyan's house, and carefully moved a tile away.
[If the host has decided to take revenge on Luo Yiyan, why not let Linghu Zhuoyu do it?] The system silently spoke.
If their own host were to eliminate this person and then be targeted by the Luo family behind him, it would be a loss. But Linghu Zhuoyu is different.
"Why should I bother others with my affairs?" Mu Jianjian rolled up her sleeves, revealing a villainous smile. "Operation Night, codename 001, move out now!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he leaped into the room.
System: Host, you must have been infected by Ye Xuanzhi, right? You must have!
After an incense stick had burned, and the girl's figure had left, several figures landed, and the Luo residence remained quiet and peaceful.
The veiled boy raised his hand slightly, and several men in black behind him entered the mansion separately. He then lowered his head and opened the wooden box hanging at his waist, and a black scorpion slowly crawled out with its pincers raised.
Linghu Zhuoyu looked at Luo Yiyan, who was lying motionless on the floor inside the room, without any surprise.
My sister has already come... This person got off easy.
If it were him, he wouldn't have been let die so easily.
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The next day.
Beneath the ten-mile peach blossom forest, petals fluttered in the wind and fell gently onto the stone path. Looking up along the path, one could see a young man and woman sitting in a five-cornered pavilion halfway up the mountain.
A strand of the woman's black hair was braided on either side, adorned with two exquisite and intricate gold hairpins that clearly bore the marks of age, with jade beads dangling from the tassels. She rested her chin on her hands, her expression innocent and carefree, "Yu Lang, do you remember? It was also during this season when the peach blossoms were in full bloom when we met!"
The man called "Yulang" placed his hands on the woman's face. He had fair skin and a handsome face, and he was looking down at her. "Of course I remember, Xu'er."
His speech was halting and disjointed, as if it were a program being forcibly executed.
The woman seemed oblivious to anything amiss. She took a deep breath of the floral fragrance and said in a soft voice, "Yes, yes, it's the annual Peach Blossom Banquet! I will never forget the way Yulang looked when he saved me."
She looked down at the gemstone necklace around her neck, her smile happy and sweet.
"Miss Linghu, Miss Shen has come to visit."
A maid's voice came from behind the couple, her movements stiff and her expression wooden.
“Miss Chen?” Linghu Zhuxu frowned and thought for a moment, as if she remembered something. “If it’s because of the Peach Blossom Banquet, then let her in.”
The tassels on her head swayed, making the woman even more beautiful.
Watching the maid's departing figure, Linghu Zhuxu narrowed her eyes and gently leaned closer to the man, "Yulang, you don't mind that our time is being taken up by others, do you? I don't want it either... but I want to hold a proper Peach Blossom Banquet."
"I'll do whatever Xu'er says."
The man's words made Linghu Zhuxu blush. After calming herself down, she looked at the girl in plain clothes who was walking from a distance along the peach grove path. When she noticed the man behind her, she turned around and smiled slightly.
That's more like it; her beloved can only have eyes for one woman.
"Miss Linghu."
Shen Ningyu walked to the edge of the five-cornered pavilion, and after trying to suppress her fear, she stepped to Linghu Zhuxu's side and bowed to greet her.
"Just hold this Peach Blossom Banquet the same way as last year." Linghu Zhuxu's smile never faded.
Shen Ningyu dared not raise her head. "The Master of the Pond was not present at last year's Peach Blossom Banquet. Now that the Master of the Pond is in the inner city, should we—"
"Yulang! How about we enjoy the flowers together as a family this year!" Linghu Zhuxu exclaimed like a child. "I remember I haven't seen Yulang in a long time."
She almost forgot he existed.
"I only have Xu'er in my heart, but if Xu'er is happy, we can be together."
As Shen Ningyu listened to the man's words, her hands, hidden behind her robe, began to tremble, and she almost gagged.
Disgusting, disgusting, so disgusting.
"Alright!" Linghu Zhuxu nodded. "Then I'll have to trouble you, Miss Chen."
"It's not hard work." Shen Ningyu forced herself to speak, shifting the topic to the purpose of her visit, "It's just that Master Chi brought someone into the inner city, and I didn't know..."
She paused deliberately to pique the other person's curiosity.
"Is there something wrong with this person?" Linghu Zhuxu asked, puzzled.
“She…is a woman.” Shen Ningyu said in one breath, holding her breath.
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