The magpie startled the heron
"I have the final say on whether someone is humble or not. If you follow me, no one in the entire desert will dare to look down on you."
At this moment, she became more dazzling than the food and wine in his hands.
"I can't say I'm rich, but at least I'm respected, and I don't have to worry about my life anymore."
At this moment, her whole body was radiating a brilliant glow, just like the "female Bodhisattva" he called her, which shows how attractive the conditions she offered were to him.
"I'm not dreaming, am I?"
"I'm dreaming, but we'll meet again in reality. When that happens, I'll tell you these words, and you must agree to them without hesitation."
"good."
"Then it's a deal. You are my future husband. I don't like men who are not chaste. You must protect your innocence. You are not allowed to be deceived into becoming a child husband, nor are you allowed to be sold as a prostitute."
After saying that, Yuanli broke away from his dream.
In order to prevent him from really treating this as a dream and not taking it seriously, Yuanli went to the human world and left a pot of fine wine, a bag of beef jerky and naan bread beside him.
After returning to the palace of the Broom Star Lord in Heaven, Yuanli met Xiang Yao. Zhengyin changed into clothes similar to those of the celestial envoys and followed behind him quietly and properly, with her eyes lowered, never daring to look around.
Xiang Yao came here to find a temporary place for Zheng Yin to stay. Since Heng Jin was not at home, he did not dare to keep Zheng Yin in the mansion on his own, so he had to come to Yuanli for help.
He said that Zheng Yin had voluntarily been stripped of his magic and power and stayed in the Xingjun Mansion and would never cause any trouble to the Xingjun Mansion. He then took out a box of rewards that were so generous that Yuanli could not refuse.
After a detailed chat with Xiang Yao, I learned that Fudie City is now under the jurisdiction of the immortals sent by the Heavenly Emperor. They have set up a barrier, heavily guarded it, and are interrogating and investigating in Fudie City.
Not long after Yuanli took Hengjin away, a group of great demon kings surrounded the Demon Lord Heqi and came to ask for an explanation. The situation caused a huge uproar and was almost out of control. After all, the Spirit Butterfly Clan belonged to the heaven, and the biggest victim was the demon world.
The immortal gods who sealed off Fudie City promised the Demon Realm that they would find and deal with the culprit as soon as possible and give the Demon Realm the truth and an explanation.
The Demon Lord Heqi refused to accept Ma Huyan's response and took a firm stance, demanding a one-month deadline.
They were afraid that if the matter was not handled properly and the Demon Realm would not be satisfied, the hard-earned peace between the two realms would be broken.
Everyone knows that Demon Lord Heqi is not as kind and easy to talk to as Demon Lord Liwan. He secured his throne through bloody battles.
Xiang Yao was worried that if Zheng Yin really entered Fudie City to cooperate with the investigation, they would push Zheng Yin out as a scapegoat. By then, even if Zheng Yin was innocent, he would become not innocent in the face of a pile of "evidence".
He didn't believe in Zheng Yin unconditionally just out of emotion. He saved him to give him a chance to save his people and himself.
Xiang Yao placed the Heart Seal on him. If Zheng Yin was not innocent, even if he hid to the ends of the earth, Xiang Yao would be able to find him and kill him in the first time with the help of the Heart Seal.
Tongxin Seal Tongxin Seal, as the name suggests.
Yuanli agreed to it in order to help Xiang Yao and for the generous reward that she could not refuse.
Before handing Zhengyin over to Xiaozhu, she asked Zhengyin what he thought about Caidai.
He said, "Actually, when I first made the small move to betray her and leak the secret to Xiang Yao, I had a vague feeling that my sister might know, but she chose not to expose me. She was angry, and she said those words to me, even completely severing ties with me and the entire Psylocke tribe, in order to minimize the possibility of us being implicated in the future. I was too slow and foolish to notice my sister's fault. I've been hidden since birth, and we've always lived under the same identity. Once a month, she would give me ten days of freedom, and I governed Floating Butterfly City as her, impersonating her, understanding how the tribe saw her. We immersed ourselves in the illusion of peace she had woven for us, farming, weaving, and trading to earn a living. In our eyes, she was truly remarkable. Her evil deeds were true, but her sacrifices for us were also real. I won't excuse her mistakes, but I believe in her hardship. As her brother, I will do my best to make amends for her mistakes. She deserves recognition, punishment, and death for her mistakes, but I cannot allow others to pin crimes she didn't commit on her head."
Xiang Yao's concentric seal proved that what he said was true.
After resolving the matter, Yuanli said goodbye to Jiuwei and the others and asked them to arrange the matters for her after she went to experience the tribulation. When they heard that none of them were allowed to go down to the mortal world with her, they all firmly opposed it.
In the end, it was Yuanli who rarely showed the style of the head of the family and forcibly suppressed the voices of opposition and rejection.
After finishing all the matters, Yuanli went to meet up with Tianshu Star Lord and headed to the human world to experience the tribulation.
Since Heng Jin's reincarnation is now an adult, it is absurd for Yuanli to grow up from a baby and then fall in love with him.
Therefore, she also left for the Xixian Pool and was born as an orphan. However, the price she paid was that she lost all her past memories and truly became a mortal. Siming and the others could not control her life, and she had to rely on herself for everything.
However, Xixianchi treated her well and gave her a beautiful face and graceful figure.
As fate would have it, she was spotted by the desert royal merchant Yun Jinglu and picked up. He announced to the public that she was his long-lost sister and named her Qi Que.
Yun Jinglu took good care of her, bought her many gold and silver jewelry accessories, gorgeous clothes and shoes, exquisite and luxurious gadgets, and gave her pocket money in the form of silver ingots and gold cakes filled in a half-person-high golden nanmu box.
In addition to material wealth, Yun Jinglu also gave her enough emotional value, made her laugh and played with her, and taught her gently and delicately everything she didn't know but was interested in. No matter what she did, she would get Yun Jinglu's generous praise.
In the eyes of outsiders, Yun Jinglu seemed to be raising her as his lost sister, but only she knew that after she was no longer afraid of him, Yun Jinglu's first request to her was that she could not really put him in the position of a brother. There was no blood relationship between them, and he did not really adopt her. She could only be regarded as Yun Jinglu.
From then on, when they were alone, Yun Jinglu forbade her to call him brother, and only allowed her to call him by his name.
Whether it’s Yun Jinglu, Jinglu, or even better, A Lu, you are not allowed to call me brother.
A man who eats someone's food should be grateful, and a man who takes someone's money should be merciful.
She had nowhere to go and no one to rely on, and only Yun Jinglu treated her best. After falling into the rich and prosperous family, she naturally knew how to judge the situation and cooperated with his requests.
It's just a title, and Yun Jinglu is not her biological brother, so she naturally wouldn't really regard Yun Jinglu as her brother.
Therefore, her cooperation and obedience greatly pleased Yun Jinglu.
Yun Jinglu would stick to her whenever he had nothing to do. He would not feel bored even if he just sat quietly beside her and watched her do her own things.
But Yun Jinglu was very sensible and would never do anything physically intimate to her that went beyond the relationship between brother and sister.
Even tonight, when he had agreed to take her out to the Central Plains for the first time to trade, she had excitedly thrown herself into his arms, nuzzling his face. He had been enjoying it, smiling happily. But when she suddenly gave him a quick kiss on the cheek, Yun Jinglu immediately grabbed her shoulders, stopping the intimacy.
Yun Jinglu said solemnly, "Qi Que, you cannot kiss me on the face, and you cannot kiss any other man casually. It's all my fault for not having the experience to raise you. I should have remembered that you lost all your memories of the first twenty years. No one taught you the difference between men and women, and you almost caused a serious hidden danger. But I will teach you now that you cannot kiss any man except the husband you marry. I have no objection to any intimate behavior with me now, except kissing, which is an intimate act that only married couples can have. You are not allowed to do that now."
"Not now? Will it be okay later?"
She was ignorant of the ways of the world and asked questions naively, which left Yun Jinglu speechless for the first time.
"First, tell me, where did you learn to look like my brother?"
"It's in our tailor shop. I saw a brother and sister about our age buying a red quilt embroidered with mandarin ducks. I don't know what the brother said to his sister that made her very happy, so she did this. Boo-ji~" She poked the place where she had just kissed him, "She kissed her brother's face, and her brother was also very happy. Chunsu said that they were happy because they like each other. I thought your brother would also be very happy when I kissed your face."
"So, Qi Que likes brother?"
Yun Jinglu asked this question subconsciously with a smile on his face, but was soon poured a bucket of cold water by reality and the secret hidden in his heart.
She had no idea what the relationship was between the two people she was imitating.
"Of course I like Jinglu, I like him very much. Don't you like me, A Lu?"
She felt extremely lost, and her big, round, watery eyes were filled with moisture.
Never mind, she doesn't understand what love is.
"No, I like Qi Que very much. But what I'm teaching you now is the difference between men and women. I'm teaching you not to kiss anyone other than your future husband."
To prevent Qique from being deceived by someone who didn't understand the meaning of "husband," he explained, "A husband is someone who truly loves Qique, marrying you formally, and sharing a life together forever. Only he is worthy of Qique's kiss. Didn't Chunsu tell you that those you thought were siblings were actually lovers or husband and wife?"
"Why can't my brother be my husband?"
The word "brother" that she blurted out subconsciously was full of taboos that Yun Qique didn't understand. It gave him an inexplicable sense of betrayal, and it stimulated him to the point that he felt a little... excited?
But it was obvious that he had never really considered her a sister.
Unable to get an answer from Yun Jinglu, she looked down into his eyes and asked again, "Why can't brother be my husband?"
Yun Jinglu herself didn't notice that he had already loosened his grip on her. Yun Qique, who was afraid of being abandoned by him, took the opportunity to throw herself into his arms and hugged his neck tightly.
"Brother, don't you want to spend your life with me? Do you want to abandon me? Did I do something wrong to make you angry? Or will you end up being someone else's husband? Qi Que doesn't want any other man, only you. I just want to live like this with you for the rest of my life. But why can't you be my husband? Why can't you be my..."
By the end, he was choking with tears and sobs.
Her tears wet his neck and flowed across his chest through the slightly open collar, feeling wet and itchy, along with the words "Brother, why can't you be my husband" flowed into Yun Jinglu's heart.
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