Yun Qishen

Chapter 2313 The Red Calamity
Bai Ying closed her eyes, and the sounds of birds chirping, people clamoring, and carriages passing by on the street made her increasingly anxious.

Mo Langqin used her ghostly power to modify the appearance of her puppet. Because her ghostly power was not very strong, she was not able to change the shape of the white shadow yet.

"Isn't it ready yet?" Bai Ying sat on the edge of the bed, swinging her legs impatiently. "Can I open my eyes now?"

"That's enough." As Mo Langqin withdrew her ghostly power, Bai Ying opened her watery peach blossom eyes.

"Give me a mirror! A mirror!"

Mo Langqin picked up a bronze mirror from the table, and Bai Ying practically snatched it and started looking at herself.

"Really! This face looks so familiar! Did I always look like this? Thank you, Mo Langqin!"

Bai Ying's upturned red lips and crescent-shaped peach blossom eyes made Mo Langqin's heart itch.

"As long as you're happy..."

Mo Langqin's face instantly turned red. Just as he turned his head to avoid Bai Ying's gaze, Bian Yu pushed the door open and entered.

"Wow, you look so beautiful!" Bian Yu was immediately captivated by Bai Ying's appearance and couldn't help but praise her.

"Hehe." Bai Ying was very satisfied with Bian Yu's reaction. She jumped off the edge of the bed, put her hands on her hips triumphantly, and said, "You've been charmed, haven't you!"

Bian Yu gave a thumbs-up in approval, then looked down at the actress for a while and said, "You look good, but the white dress makes your face look even paler. Why don't you try wearing red? It would suit you very well, and with some rouge and powder on your face, you'd be even more beautiful!"

"Red clothes and rouge and powder..." Bai Ying pondered, then turned her gaze to Mo Langqin.

Would Mo Langqin like her even more after she put on red clothes and applied rouge and powder?

Bian Yu noticed the emotion in Bai Ying's eyes as she looked at Mo Langqin, and also noticed Mo Langqin's shyness at that moment. "That's perfect. There are stalls selling clothes and rouge near the inn. I can take you there. Although you've already achieved your purpose in coming to Fengnan, since you're already here, why not enjoy yourself in Fengnan?"

Bai Ying's gaze grew increasingly expectant, and Mo Langqin nodded in agreement.

As Bian Yu led Mo Langqin and the others toward the market, he said, "Fengnan is only beautiful around the port. The further in you go, the more barren it becomes, and the rivers inside are even black and smelly."

Mo Langqin pulled Bai Ying aside and chimed in, "If we're talking about beautiful scenery, the environment in Sangyu is the best in the entire Ancient Ao Continent."

"But—" Bian Yu said, a blade of grass dangling from his mouth, "the reason merchants don't hold their chambers of commerce in Sangyu is simply because Fengnan's port is extremely convenient. Sangyu connects Dongyu and Fengnan, but because it's inland, transportation is very underdeveloped, making economic exchanges difficult. The scenery there is beautiful, mostly because there are few people, so there's less natural pollution. Merchants ultimately chose Fengnan's port for the sake of convenient trade; after all, merchants value money above all else."

"Is money really that good? Would people abandon their feelings for money?"

"Hahaha, little fellow Daoist from a wealthy family, you'll understand in time." Bian Yu raised his hand and pointed ahead. "Look, the market is just ahead. The merchants over there are selling all sorts of things these days, perfect for kids your age. Kids should play more."

Before Mo Langqin could say anything, Bai Ying let go of Mo Langqin's hand and rushed towards the stall in front of her.

"Wow! Mo Langqin, look at this! And this too!!" Bai Ying stood in front of the sugar figurine stall, pointing at the lifelike sugar figurines and waving at Mo Langqin.

Mo Langqin sighed and simply took out the money pouch from her storage ring and held it in her hand. "Oh dear, the money pouch might not be safe..."

Bian Yu stood to the side with her arms crossed over her chest, "Hahaha, just consider it as coaxing my sweetheart."

Hearing the words "my sweetheart," Mo Langqin's face flushed again. "Senior, you're meddling too much!"

"Haha, little friend, you must never be shy in the future, because your face is too obviously red, like a ripe peach."

"Senior Bian Yu!" "Hahahaha."

Mo Langqin yelled at Bian Yu, but Bian Yu only laughed even harder.

Mo Langqin took a few deep breaths to calm herself down, and then approached the sugar figurine stall with a slightly flushed face. "Shopkeeper, this is the money she paid for the sugar just now."

After taking the money, the shopkeeper chatted with a smile, "Young man, is this your first time bringing your little sister out to play? She's such a lively girl!"

“Yes, she is indeed very happy.” Mo Langqin turned his head, his eyes fixed on the white figure wandering around ahead. “Shopkeeper…”

"Hmm?" The sugar figurine vendor blinked.

Mo Langqin turned back and looked at the stall owner with a serious expression, saying, "She is not my sister."

"Yo-ho~" Bian Yu made an unexpected strange sound from the side.

"This..." The sugar figurine stall owner was puzzled until he saw Bian Yu winking at him, then he understood. "Oh, oh, oh!"

The white figure approached a painting stall not far away. Looking at a painting of a woman in red, she exclaimed in amazement, "Wow! Mo Langqin, come and see! What a beautiful woman!"

"A person? You mean the one in the painting?" Mo Langqin quickly walked to Bai Ying's side and looked up at the painting of the beautiful woman.

"Yes, she's so beautiful!"

"Not as pretty as you."

Ugh~ I hate it~

Bai Ying shyly nudged Mo Langqin gently. Mo Langqin didn't say anything insincere, nor did he intentionally praise Bai Ying. He genuinely thought Bai Ying was the most beautiful.

Behind them was a disheveled scholar who bumped into them as they were flirting and then walked past the painting stall with a silly grin on his face.

"Beautiful...hehe...beautiful...I want to draw too...I want to draw too...I want to draw beautiful pictures, lots and lots of beautiful pictures...hehe, drawing..."

"That person is so strange." Bai Ying wasn't angry about the scholar's collision; instead, she looked at his willow-like back with some curiosity.

"That seems to be a painter." Mo Langqin quickly deduced the man's identity by looking at the paint on his clothes and the painting tools at his waist.

"Can an artist really paint a picture like this? Mo Langqin! Let's have him paint one for us too!"

Before Bai Ying could pull Mo Langqin to find the scholar, Bian Yu blocked their way.

"The artist's skill also matters; not every artist can paint such a beautiful woman." Bian Yu looked up and admired the woman in the painting; she was indeed a beautiful person.

"I also want to wear a red dress like her and become as beautiful as her," Bai Ying said, expressing her thoughts. But in Mo Langqin's heart, even if Bai Ying wasn't wearing red, she would still be more beautiful than the woman in the painting, no, she would be more beautiful than any woman in the world.

"There's a fabric shop just ahead, go check it out." Bian Yu pointed again, and Bai Ying immediately pulled Mo Langqin along, skipping and hopping over there.

“That was a blood inkstone…” Bian Yu turned to the side and glanced intently in the direction where the slender-waisted scholar had left, but the scholar had already vanished without a trace.

In the distance, a toad-like ghostly beast gradually disappeared underground. Meanwhile, Mo Wangchuan received a report: "[Reporting to the Elder, Mo Langqin has been found. He is currently at the Fengnan Chamber of Commerce. Besides the ghostly beast puppet, he is accompanied by a cultivator whose cultivation level is unknown.]"