Chapter 07 Walk away in style

 Chapter 07 Walk away in style

By Jiulu Feixiang,

Translated, Edited and Arranged by Angel Chua 10/11/2024

Throw Xingyun in the yard, and then walk away in style... This is what Shen Li thought. But after hesitating for a long time, she still picked him up and threw him on the rocking chair in the backyard.

Shen Li felt that he should pay the price for the jokes he had seen these days, instead of dying so easily. Shen Li searched the house for a long time, and finally found the medicine that Xingyun usually took. After some effort to boil it, she took the medicine and walked to Xingyun.

Seeing that he was still unconscious, Shen Li thought about it, stretched out her hand to pinch his jaw, and rudely pried open his teeth. She pretended to pour the bowl of freshly boiled medicine into Xingyun's mouth without blowing it.

"Wait a minute!" At the critical moment of life and death, Xingyun suddenly spoke, his face was still pale, he coughed twice, gently pushed Shen Li's hand away, and sighed, "I'll do it myself."

Shen Li raised his eyebrows: "Are you playing a trick?"

"No, I really fainted for a moment, and just woke up, just wanting to enjoy the taste of being taken care of." Xingyun laughed, "But I seem to think too much."

"You think too much! You ate my bacon today, and teased me for so many days, and you still want me to take care of you!" Shen Li suppressed her anger, lifted her clothes, shook her butt, and subconsciously wanted to sit on the ground, but suddenly remembered that she was no longer a chicken, and her half-squatted body straightened stiffly again.

But Xingyun laughed in front of her without caring about his life: "Look, it's more comfortable to be a chicken, but?" The eyebrows and eyes covered by the morbidity were actually a different kind of soul-stirring.

At this time, no matter how miserable Xingyun was, Shen Li just clenched her fists, took a deep breath and said:"Can you find a reason why I won't kill you?"

Her words were extremely murderous, but Xingyun just smiled lightly after hearing it: "Stop it, give me the medicine, I left you half a piece of bacon in the kitchen, and I'll cook you some broth when you're hungry."

These words were a powerful blow to Shen Li.

The reason for not killing him... was said so easily...

Shen Li couldn't clench her fists anymore. She felt that Xingyun must have set up some strange formation in this room, which made her slowly become unlike the prince of the Immortal Realm world. She recovered her human body, but her internal breath was still unstable, and her magic power was only 10% or 20%. Shen Li spent the whole afternoon thinking about when she should leave this small courtyard. Xingyun's formation was well set up, so he could recover faster here. But if he stayed here, the people from the Immortal Realm world would come looking for him soon. Then this mortal...

"Help me take down the bacon." Xingyun's voice suddenly came from behind him. "The meat is hanging too high. I can't straighten my back and take it down."

Shen Li glanced at Xingyun. He was in so much pain after being punched. If he faced the pursuers from the Immortal Realm world, he would be dead. Shen Li sighed, "Where is it?"

She entered the kitchen and looked up. Half a piece of bacon was hanging on the beam. Xingyun handed her a pole. Shen Li didn't take it. She took an empty bowl from the side and threw it into the air like a flying disc.

The edge of the ceramic bowl was like a knife, quickly cutting the thin rope hanging the bacon. Before hitting the wall, it circled back and caught the bacon that fell, and flew back to Shen Li's hand steadily.

Shen Li was very proud of showing off such a skill. She glanced to the side, expecting to see the amazed and admiring eyes of mortals, but she only saw Xingyun sticking his butt out and taking out a very dirty rag from under the stove. He handed it to her and said, "Great, since you have this skill, just wipe the dust off the beam in my kitchen." Shen Li held the bowl, staring at the rag in his hand, whose color could no longer be seen, and asked in a subtle tone, "Do you know who you are ordering?"

Xingyun just smiled and said, "I haven't asked about your identity, how can I know who you are ordering." Shen Li's face became even uglier. Xingyun shook his head helplessly and threw away the rag, "Okay, okay, then don't wipe it. Then help me bring two buckets of water in."

Shen Li put down the bowl and glared. Seeing Xingyun holding his stomach, he said, "It hurts... I'll feed you the meat after it's cooked." Shen Li gritted her teeth and turned to go out. In the narrow kitchen, when she passed by Xingyun angrily, she inadvertently rubbed Xingyun's chest with her upright breasts. This was an unintentional touch. If Shen Li walked faster, perhaps neither of them would feel anything.

But she was wearing Xingyun's clothes, and the wide hem was inadvertently hooked by the fire tongs stuck in the corner. Shen Li paused, and she was frozen at such an embarrassing moment. Xingyun glanced down, then turned his eyes away, moved a few steps to the side, and cleared his throat twice, saying, "Look, I said it's not convenient, right..."

Shen Li just pulled out the corner of her clothes that was caught, and her expression was indifferent and arrogant: "What's inconvenient? Make a fuss."

She walked out of the kitchen, as if she didn't feel anything. Xingyun stood by the stove for a while, and when the slightly burning heat in his chest faded, he bent down slightly, looked through the door frame, and saw a corner of the courtyard. A stubborn woman was leaning over the water tank to scoop water, but she didn't scoop out a bucket of water for a long time. Xingyun turned his head and rubbed his chest unconsciously with his hands.

He felt that the water might not come, so he should stir-fry the bacon... There must be something wrong with this small courtyard! Shen Li looked at her own projection in the water tank, and reached out to poke it in disbelief. What's going on with the two blushes on her cheeks! Who painted them on her? Why did she feel so unreal? The Lord Bicang blushed because of a mortal. "Hehe, it's time to eat."

Shen Li didn't know how long she had been immersed in her thoughts. Suddenly, she heard such a call. Her cheeks, which had rarely been hot for thousands of years, immediately faded away. She raised her voice and said, "My name is Shen Li! If you call me like a beast again, try it!" She turned her head and saw Xingyun standing at the door of the hall with a plate of food.

The setting sun stretched his figure very long. He didn't know why he looked a little stunned. Shen Li looked at him strangely. Xingyun blinked and came back to his senses. He pulled out a smile again and said, "Shen Li, it's time to eat."

After these words came out, Shen Li was stunned again. She had heard "Your Majesty, it's time to eat."

She had heard such words as "Shen Li! Fight with me!" But no one had ever tried another combination.

Putting her name together with such ordinary three words made her... feel like she had found home.

Shen Li shook her head and walked towards Xingyun: "If the meat is ruined, you will have to compensate me with another piece."

Xingyun chuckled: "What if it is too delicious? You will compensate me with another piece?"

Shen Li thought for a moment and said: "If it is delicious, you can be my cook from now on."

Xingyun was stunned and smiled without saying anything.

How can a person who can make steamed buns delicious make meat unpalatable?

The result was that when Xingyun wanted to go to the wild mountains outside the city to collect ginseng the next day, Shen Li refused to let him go and stuffed two pieces of gold as big as stones into his clothes: "Buy meat!"

Shen Li asked, but he was afraid that he would be arrested and taken to the government immediately if he took two pieces of gold as big as this to buy meat. Xingyun refused, and when he was trying to refuse, there was a knock on the door.

Shen Li frowned and threw the two pieces of gold. As soon as they fell to the ground, the golden light faded and turned into two pieces of stone.

Xingyun was about to open the door, but Shen Li stopped him: "I'll go."

Without listening to what Xingyun said, she took two steps forward and opened the door.

Outside the door were two guards in dark blue clothes, equipped with broadswords and green jade pendants.

They glanced at Shen Li, clasped their fists and bowed: "Excuse me, my master would like to visit you tonight. Please wait at home for a day. We will also make some arrangements in your house..."

"Why should we receive him just because he comes?" Shen Li frowned. "I'm not free today. Let him go back and wait. Call him when he's free." After saying that, he was about to close the door.

The two blue-clothed guards had never been treated like this before. They were stunned and stretched out their hands to hold the door. However, the woman's movements seemed light, but when they were about to push it in, a strong force came from behind the door, which shocked the two men back.

They looked at each other and were about to take real action, but the door that was about to close suddenly opened again, and a man in blue and white skirt stood at the door with a smile. He blocked the woman behind him and asked the two blue-clothed guards, "Are you here to set up the place? Very good, come in." He stepped aside, and his cooperative attitude made the two men frown suspiciously, but they still stepped in.

Xingyun led them to the kitchen and pointed to the beam: "Ah, look, it's very dirty here, we need to clean it, the rag is under the stove." He patted one person on the shoulder, "I'll leave this to you." Then he led another person to the hall, "It's been a long time since it was cleaned here, just help me clean it up, so that I can entertain your master in the evening."

He arranged the work for the two people and carried the backpack on his back: "Shen Li, supervisor, I will be back after picking ginseng."

The courtyard door closed, hiding Xingyun's back, leaving Shen Li with a twitching mouth. This guy... is so weird that it is incomprehensible!

At night, in the front yard.

Xingyun boiled a pot of tea and placed it on the stone table in the courtyard. Looking at the clean courtyard, he was very satisfied. There were heavy footsteps approaching outside. Shen Li stood at the gate of the courtyard with his hands folded, looking unhappy. Xingyun smiled at her and said, "You are going to meet the crown prince anyway, why do you look so sad?"

"Who looks sad?" Shen Li said, "It's just that I have foreseen the character of the crown prince. Like master, like subordinates. Two groups of people came and were so arrogant and rude. Do you think the master will be any better?"

Xingyun smiled and took a sip of tea without saying anything.

A complicated sedan stopped in front of the door, and the wide sedan almost filled the alley. A figure dressed in red silk and yellow forging walked down from the sedan slowly. Shen Li squinted and looked at him. He had a pair of phoenix eyes and a pair of cherry red lips, but what happened to his body that was almost as fat as a ball?

Before entering the door, the crown prince looked up and down at Shen Li at the door, then moved to the courtyard. The followers behind him wanted to follow, but Shen Li stretched out her hand: "There is only one teacup on the table, please only one person." A blue-clothed guard immediately put his hand on the handle of the knife, but the plump crown prince waved his hand: "Wait outside."

Shen Li raised an eyebrow, looking generous.

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