Chapter 02 Chicken Soup

 Chapter 02 Chicken Soup

By Jiulu Feixiang,

Translated, Edited and Arranged by Angel Chua 10/09/2024

When Shen Li woke up again, it was already the next morning. In the morning light, she saw the man lying by the pond pinching buns to feed the fish. He seemed to like the fish very much. He was completely unaware that his sleeves were soaked in the water. His profile was in the backlight and looked a little sacred.

Sacred? A mortal?

The memories of being tormented by him came flooding in. Shen Li blinked hard, shook off the mist in her eyes, and replaced them with a wary look.

Perhaps her eyes were too focused and scorching, Xingyun suddenly turned his head and glanced at her, saying lightly: "My name is Xingyun." As if to emphasize it deliberately. Shen Li was startled, but saw Xingyun patting his robe and standing up, hammering his numb feet while muttering "Ah, it's time to take medicine."

Then he limped into the house, his posture even awkward and a little funny.

Shen Li felt that there must be something wrong with her eyes before. How could such a person be sacred and extraordinary? He was obviously... very ordinary.

Too lazy to continue to think about a mortal, Shen Li moved her head and tried to stand up. She thought that according to the injuries yesterday, she would not be able to stand up now. However, she found that after such a toss, her physical strength recovered faster than usual!

Shen Li did not think about it, and immediately probed her body with her breath. She sighed in disappointment. Sure enough, it was impossible for her magic power to recover so quickly... But it was good that way. The people in the Immortal Realm world could not detect her breath for the time being. But according to the thundering means of the Immortal Realm king, it was only a matter of time before he found her. If she had not recovered her magic power by then...

"Kluk Kluk , come."

Shen Li was thinking, and suddenly heard the call from behind. She turned her head in anger, but saw a man in green and white clothes sitting on the bluestone steps, handing her a white bun: "Eat."

Shen Li snorted in her heart and turned her head away, but suddenly remembered that the suffering she suffered yesterday seemed to be caused by "refusing to eat". Her body froze, and after pondering for a long while, she finally gritted her teeth, stiffened her neck, and reluctantly walked up to the man with a proud step.

Smelling the faint medicinal fragrance wafting from him, Shen Li took a closer look at Xingyun, and saw that his lips were slightly dark, and there was a slight shadow under his eyes, which was a sign of a short life.

Very good! Shen Li thought, although this mortal saw many ugly things about her, fortunately her life was short, and after death, she would be reincarnated and forget everything, and she would still be the bright and glamorous Lord Bicang without any stain. Thinking of this, she felt relieved, stretched her neck and pecked at the steamed bun. The soft and glutinous food made Shen Li's eyes light up suddenly. This... this steamed bun was so delicious that it was abnormal!

Before the man could react, Shen Li opened her mouth wide to grab the steamed bun, put it on the clean bluestone slab, and gobbled it up.

The Immortal Realms are not like the gods in the sky who don't need to eat or die. They need food just like humans, but Shen Li only eats meat and doesn't eat any vegetables, so it's not easy to let her eat steamed buns.

After she ate the steamed bun crumbs, Shen Li looked up at Xingyun. But she saw the person next to her holding his chin with his hand, his eyes were gentle, and he looked at her with a smile. In fact, this was a very normal look of looking at a pet, but Shen Li was careless for a moment, and her heart skipped a beat when she was looked at by this ordinary look. She turned her head away a little uncomfortably.

The civil officials of the Immortal Realms were afraid of her, the military generals respected her, and other men began to tremble when they were three steps away from her. Who dared to look at her like this? But the palpitations only lasted for a moment. After all, Shen Li was a prince who had seen wind and rain. She quickly pulled out the small buds that emerged from her heart and gave them inhumane destruction. Then she patted Xingyun's knees with her bare chicken wings without hesitation, and poked the place where she had just eaten the steamed bun with her beak.

"Hmm? You want another one?" Xingyun smiled, "No more, I only made this much today."

After saying that, he stood up and went back to the house. Shen Li was stunned and hurriedly followed him into the house. How dare he get rid of her with a steamed bun! He had to take two no matter what!

She followed Xingyun's footsteps, but she was not strong enough now. She was panting just climbing the threshold. She could only watch Xingyun pick up his bag and walk through the front yard, push the door and leave, leaving only a faint sentence: "Kluk Kluk, take good care of the house, I will be back after selling myself."

Bastard! How dare he use her as a watchdog! No... Wait, she stared at the figure of the man who closed the door and left in astonishment. He just said to sell... what?

Shen Li lay on the ground and looked around the house. This man's life was not rich but not poor. He was a seven-foot-tall man with good hands and feet. There was nothing he couldn't do. He actually wanted to... Ah, yes, maybe he preferred this. Shen Li suddenly realized, but looked at the sky outside and couldn't help frowning. Is it really good to do this kind of business during the day... That's all, people like it. She will just stay here for a few days to recover from her injuries, let him go.

Shen Li rested her head on the threshold of the backyard. The sunlight in the yard slowly tilted to the angle of the afternoon. In her ears, there was always the sound of the tender leaves on the grape vines being shaken by the wind. It has been a long time since such a comfortable day. Shen Li was a little obsessed for a while. The complicated things in her mind almost disappeared. Just when she was about to fall asleep, a subtle sound came.

People who have been in the battlefield for a long time are so sensitive. Shen Li opened her eyes immediately, and looked at the place where the sound came from with cool eyes. She saw a girl in cloth sticking her head out from the courtyard wall. She looked around and climbed up the wall clumsily, but she didn't know how to get down from the wall.

Finally, she was so anxious that she couldn't help it. She tilted her body and fell down heavily. She fell hard. Shen Li thought, why is she a thief if she is so stupid? She can't steal anything and kill herself first.

The girl rubbed her buttocks, stood up, and walked straight into the house. Shen Li quietly retreated to the dark, but saw the cloth-dressed girl found a broom and a rag, and quietly and neatly cleaned the house. When the house was almost cleaned, she began to wipe the table. However, as she wiped, her tears began to fall, and finally she lay on the table and cried loudly.

Shen Li had to work hard to vaguely hear her sobbing something like "I'll never see you again". This was probably the girl who liked Xingyun. Shen Li was thinking about it in his heart, but he saw that the girl had cried enough, wiped the tears on the table with a rag, and turned to leave.

At the right time, Shen Li, who was too focused on observing her, had no time to find a place to hide, and the two met each other and stared at each other for a long time. Shen Li thought that now that she was beaten back to her original form, it should not cause any unnecessary misunderstandings, but the girl actually walked straight towards her and muttered: "Brother Xingyun is really, how can you let the plucked chicken run away, you have to stew it quickly." She wiped her tears and said, "It can be regarded as a farewell meal for you."

Fuck you! Who asked you to meddle in other people's business! Shen Li was shocked when she heard it. She had no magic power now. If she really stewed it in the pot, it would be terrible! She turned around and ran out of the house. The girl was not to be outdone and ran after her: "Oh, it's hard to wash if you run dirty!"

Shen Li really wanted to spray herself with feces at this time. She was willing to be dirty to death!

Shen Li was not strong enough, but fortunately the girl was also clumsy, so she used some fighting skills to narrowly avoid several fatal attacks, but her two claws could not outrun her legs, and she saw that the girl behind her was chasing her and was angry. Shen Li flapped her wings to fly, but the featherless wings did not do anything except make it more difficult for her to run! Shen Li even wanted to drill a dog hole, but Xingyun's yard was built so damn solid that there was not even a crack at the base of the wall, let alone a hole!

She had never felt so embarrassed, sad and desperate, and she swore! Blood oath! If she was stewed like a chicken today, she would become a fierce ghost, kill her way up to the Extranatural heavens, and spit out the blood of the Heavenly Lord! If it weren't for the marriage, how could she end up like this!

Before she finished thinking, her wings hurt, and the girl in plain clothes lifted Shen Li up with force, clasped her wings with both hands, and did not let go no matter how Shen Li struggled with her legs.

"Hmph, you wild chicken, I'll take care of you." The girl caught Shen Li and went to the kitchen.

Shen Li's bones were almost broken. When she was pressed on the chopping board, Shen Li suddenly remembered the time when she stabbed the enemy with a silver spear on the battlefield. It turned out that...

this is how the weak feel... "Well, what are you doing?"

The man's bland voice appeared inappropriately at this moment.

Shen Li turned her head inadvertently. Between life and death, the man in blue and white clothes leaned against the door. The light behind him seemed to cast a layer of merciful halo on him. The kitchen knife fell in front of Shen Li's eyes, embedded in the chopping board, and also blocked her sight.

The girl in plain clothes reversed her fierce posture just now, put her hands behind her back, and blushed: "Brother Xingyun... I, well, I just wanted to come and see you. This chicken has been plucked, and it will die if it is not stewed. It will not taste good then."

Shen Li didn't even have the strength to twitch, and lay on the chopping board as if dead.

"This can't be stewed." As the voice fell, Shen Li was hugged into a warm embrace, and the faint smell of medicine filled her nose. She suddenly felt that the smell was very good.

"Ah... uh, sorry, I don't know. I just want to leave something for you before I leave..."

The girl in common clothes twisted her fingers together behind her back, her eyes slightly red, "Tomorrow I will go south with my father to do business, and I may, may never come back. I will never see Brother Xingyun again..."

"Well, I don't see you much on weekdays." Xingyun's voice was calm, and the girl in common clothes' tears accumulated, and her cheeks were as red as her eyes: "No! I can see you every day! I can see you every day, quietly..."

Her voice trembled, and even Shen Li couldn't bear to blame her for anything, just a fool.

"Oh, that's terrible, I haven't seen you once, not once."

Shen Li opened her mouth in horror, speechless, is this what a man should say at this moment, and he deliberately emphasized it again, how much hatred you have with her.

The girl's face turned pale, but Xingyun smiled as usual, "Are you here to practice etiquette? Well, I don't have anything to give you, if you don't mind..."

"No." The girl said hurriedly, "No." She covered her chest, looked bleak, and staggered away.

Xingyun waved his hand: "Goodbye." Then he turned around without any reluctance, threw Shen Li away and started fiddling with pots and pans, while rolling up his sleeves and saying: "Cook."

Shen Li lay on the ground, watching the girl walk to the door and still look back reluctantly, and finally wiped her nose and left. Shen Li sighed, this girl is a little stupid, and her temperament is too persistent, but her heart is single-minded. How could she fall in love with such a man who does flesh trade and does not understand romance.

The sound of fiddling with pots and pans was silent: "Huh? What kind of business?"

Didn't she just come back from selling her body? What kind of business can she do?

As soon as Shen Li finished answering this question in her heart, she realized something was wrong. She turned her head and looked at Xingyun, who was staring at her with a raised eyebrow. Shen Li was surprised. He... he was talking to her?

"Oh." Xingyun was stunned, and suddenly shook his head and laughed, "I was not paying attention, and you found out." He squatted down and looked directly into Shen Li's eyes, "What's wrong with me selling my body?"

Shen Li had no time to pay attention to him, and was just stunned to say that he was really talking to her! Shen Li was so shocked that her whole body twitched three times. Could this guy have read her mind from the beginning, or did he know from the beginning that she was not a prostitute? Then he was actually playing with her, right...

"That's right." Xingyun smiled with narrowed eyes: "Playing with you."

Shen Li was shocked all over. Faced with such a frank provocation, she was stunned for a moment.

"Also, my name is Xingyun, call me by my name properly. In addition, what if I sell my body?"

Selling... What if I sell my body, what if I play with her! Did this guy eat up all her chastity and moral integrity! He could actually say such words so calmly! What a monster!

"I just sold my body for fun, is it such a heinous crime?" Xingyun said in a conciliatory manner, "Okay, okay, I won't let you notice it next time." After that, he gently poked Shen Li's head and stood up to continue cooking.

Shen Li tried her best to crawl out of the kitchen. This man was too dangerous. She had to go to another place to recuperate, otherwise she would die if she continued to recover at this rate!

But Shen Li was exhausted now. She struggled to crawl for a long time, but she was completely exhausted when she crawled to the front yard. The gate was close at hand, but she couldn't reach it. The dusk halo was bleak on her bald back. Xingyun shouted, "It's time to eat." Then she was carried to the backyard and put in front of a bowl of risotto.

Forget it... Let's eat first.

The moon was bright that night, and Shen Li seemed to have a dream. She regained her human form and lay under the grape trellis. The cold air and the moonlight melted into her skin. She couldn't help but hug her naked arms. At that moment, a thin blanket seemed to fall from the sky and covered her. The warmth and the faint smell of medicine made her curl her lips. She grabbed the edge of the quilt and rubbed it, falling into a deeper dream.

"Yeah." After covering Shen Li with the quilt, Xingyun sat down beside her, stretched out his hand to grab her black hair that was scattered on the ground, and smiled, "Your hair is quite luxuriant." His eyes moved down, resting on her facial features, and he looked at her carefully, "She has a pretty good appearance, and she's a nice girl."

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