Don't be afraid, fairy, I'm blind

Chapter 441 Getting to know the two Dongxu again
"My Lord, you can't do that!"

The maid's attempt to stop her was of no use. The door carved with ice crystals exploded with a loud bang. The strong wind brought by the black ice dragon armor blew up the gauze curtain on the top floor of Qianhua Pavilion and shook the gilded incense burner askew.

Venerable Qianlong's toes crushed the jade chips all over the ground, and the simple skirt fluttered violently in the cold mist, like thunder exploding on the snowy field.

"Venerable Qianhua——"

The words stopped abruptly.

On the green jade table behind the mica screen, You Su was sipping tea from a gilded teacup.

Venerable Qianhua was reclining on the couch, the tassels of his black and gold cheongsam hanging to the ground. He was slowly putting away the teapot, his gold-rimmed glasses reflecting a cold light under the candlelight:

“Even though Venerable Qianlong is the Honorable Lord of Bei’ao… this piece of land was bought by Qianhua Pavilion. I’m afraid it’s not a place that you can just break in at will!”

Venerable Qianlong did not have time to get angry with the other party. She was still a little stunned that she did not see the beautiful scene she imagined, but the mentality she had cultivated in her high position for many years also made her calm down quickly:

"What are you doing?"

"What?" Venerable Qianhua laughed softly, "When the Venerable Master was here, he didn't allow his disciples to drink tea. Now that he's gone, I felt sorry for the young master so I had tea with him and talked with him. Does that mean that as your disciple, even drinking tea requires your permission?"

Venerable Qianlong's pupils shrank slightly, and he became confused and doubtful. He wondered if he had really misunderstood this wild woman. Did she really admire You Su from the bottom of her heart?
But she always felt that it was impossible. How could this greedy woman eat once and not eat a second time? So she began to look around suspiciously.

She always felt that the candlelight in the elegant pavilion was somehow different from before. Although the position had not changed, it was filled with a faint and charming smell. She was unfamiliar with this and did not understand why, but suddenly her delicate nose moved slightly and she found out where the source of this atmosphere came from. It was the rich fragrance in the air, which seemed to ignite the fire in people's hearts.

She suddenly frowned, like a tigress patrolling her territory. Even the conscientious Venerable Qianhua was frightened by her "catching an adulterer" aura and shrank back, but then he became angry again -

Just when her relationship with You Su was going well, she felt a strong aura coming at her. This should have been known to everyone, and she could have let the master come in to see the ugly appearance of her beloved disciple.

But the problem is that she just remembered that the one who made a fool of herself would not be You Su, but herself as the leader of Qianhua Pavilion, the largest chamber of commerce in the Five Continents...

If people knew that she was the concubine of an eighteen-year-old boy, how could she face the people of the Five Continents? So he and You Su hurriedly began to deal with the "execution" scene.

But the fire that had been pent up for a long time and was further fueled could not be dissipated. This made her feel uncomfortable all over, as if a hidden disease that had been hidden for hundreds of years had broken out, and she hated the old woman who had been messing with her even more.

She snorted coldly and moved to the side of the couch to lean on, revealing the other side of her snow-white goose neck.

As expected, Venerable Qianlong's pupils suddenly shrank, and his heart sank as his eyes swept over the suspicious red mark on the collarbone of the beautiful woman that was showing off.

She looked at the woman's arrogant face again, her complexion was unusually rosy, and her rosy lips were slightly swollen. Then she looked at the half of the woman's legs exposed from the slit of the black and gold cheongsam, and one of the extremely vulgar thin socks with borders was missing!
"You can drink tea if you want, but why are you taking off your socks?!"

The eyes behind the gold-wire lenses of the Qianhua Master seemed to be smiling, "I had a pleasant conversation with your disciple. We talked about the signature product of Qianhua Pavilion made from your Bei'aozhou ice silk. In order to cooperate, I should let your disciple taste it."

As she spoke, she intentionally or unintentionally retracted a silver thread hanging on the side into her sleeve. This movement really gave people a clue, and Venerable Qianlong clearly caught a trace of shiny saliva on it.

At this moment, a spark burst from the stove.

Venerable Qianlong stepped on the ice crystals in his deerskin boots embroidered with dragon patterns, and the black ice dragon armor produced thick white mist in the warm room.

She passed by Venerable Qianhua and supported You Su’s chin with her fingertips, who had been keeping his head down in silence, and asked the young man to slowly raise his head.

No wonder he kept his head down. The teeth marks on the boy's Adam's apple were like red plum blossoms blooming in the snow, which made her pupils shrink as small as beans.

You Su wanted to cry but had no tears. She was also choking with anger. She thought, "Big sister, what are you doing? There are so many civilians waiting for you to comfort them, so many monks waiting for you to mobilize them! Why are you coming to 'save' me, a wanted criminal?"
But his expression of sorrow and indignation, in the eyes of Venerable Qianlong, was a sign of great injustice, which made the female fairy feel even more hurt.

"Is Venerable Qianhua born in the year of the dog?! He can't help but drool and bite people just because we are having a good chat?!" Her icy gaze slashed at Venerable Qianhua.

“What else?” The black satin high heels tapped the ground, and Venerable Qianhua could no longer sit still. When he stood up, the pearl hairpin he had casually inserted fell to the ground with a clang. “Venerable Qianlong, don’t joke with me. You know very well what will happen. It was you who left him here! You took advantage of this deal, and now you want to go back on your word?!”

Her questioning did not weaken Venerable Qianlong's momentum as she wished, but instead added fuel to the fire, and a cold chill condensed on her fingertips.

You Su suddenly grasped her trembling wrist. The warmth from the boy's palm came through the back of her hand, dispelling the accumulated chill.

"My Lord, Venerable Qianhua has agreed to help... I will discuss some specific matters with her, and then I will go to the top of the city to find you."

Looking at the young man's hopeful eyes, Venerable Qianlong felt a pain in his heart that he had never felt before. This was not worry about the younger generation, but a more burning, almost heart-wrenching pain.

"You don't have to wait for me to come. I will take you away." She squeezed You Su's hand with her backhand, then took a long breath. Her cold expression with hidden anger turned into the indifferent look of her peerless fairy face, revealing an innate domineering aura. "I am not joking with Venerable Qianhua. I just thought that you really hit it off with my beloved disciple at first sight. But I never thought that Venerable Qianhua, who has been in the Dao for more than 300 years, would be so hungry that he would attack an 18-year-old boy."

"What's wrong with an old cow eating young grass? I have the nerve to eat it, but do you have the nerve to do it?" Venerable Qianhua was not moved at all. Instead, he used his jade fingers to stroke the lip balm on his lips.

Such an action is tantamount to provocation. After all, no one can guess how the lip balm disappeared.

"My Lord, you are so angry, are you worried about your own chick being pecked in the eye by an eagle? It's a pity that some people just like to drink poison to quench their thirst..."

Her insinuation continued, and You Su felt the increasingly cold hands in his palms, and his heart was pounding with fear.

This little Qianhua puppy's eloquence really refreshed his cognition. No wonder the Third Elder was so angry when he talked about this woman. At this moment, he just wanted to say, "Stop talking!"

The tobacco from the gilded incense burner in the warm room was crushed by the cold mist stirred up by the black ice dragon armor. Just when You Su felt that he could not hold on to this hand any longer, the hem of Venerable Qianlong's raised skirt suddenly fell to the ground like a piece of solidified snow.

Not only You Su was surprised, even Venerable Qianhua, who was secretly practicing his internal energy and preparing for battle, was a little stunned. In her opinion, it was obvious that this woman was about to lose her temper, but suddenly, it was as if something extinguished it.

"It is my fault for not thinking things through... Venerable Qianhua has done a great job in protecting the city and should not have been humiliated like this."

You Su felt that her voice was as light as snow falling into a deep pool. She slowly raised her eyes, with broken ice floating in her eyes, revealing a rare sense of dejection, "Beiao is poor, and I don't have many treasures to give to you. But when the evil tide subsides, Shenshan is willing to open up the Beiao business road for Qianhua Pavilion, and then-"

She paused, her throat seemed to be choked by an icy spike, "There are many handsome men in Bei'ao, so you can let Venerable Qianhua pick them. Your reputation is well-known, and I think there will be many people willing to do so. But I, your disciple...can't do it."

The snow silk wrapped around Venerable Qianhua's fingertips suddenly tightened: "Oh? Venerable, you are very generous to others."

"It's not someone else. To be honest, I already have a Taoist partner, and I shouldn't become a bargaining chip for power transactions."

You Su's pupils shrank slightly. Venerable Qianhua glanced at You Su, who was protected by the woman behind him, with a half-smile in his eyes, and said teasingly:
"Is that so? What if I feel even more aroused?"

Venerable Qianlong was startled and tightened his hands: "Please respect yourself, Venerable."

Venerable Qianhua smiled. She felt that she had gone too far. After all, if the two of them really had a falling out, then there would be no cooperation. But now, seeing that such a noble old woman had resisted her provocation, her habit of pushing things further came back.

"Self-respect? I'm having fun, how can my Lord tell me to respect myself? If you really care about your disciple, you shouldn't have left him behind." The extremely charming woman's jade foot hooked up her fallen high-heeled shoes, and the golden bells on the tips of her shoes made bewitching vibrating sounds, as if to tear open Lord Qianlong's wounds again and again.

You Su felt that his palms were pinched so hard that they hurt. The woman in front of him seemed to have reached the limit of her endurance, but she still did not explode.

"Your Excellency Qianhua has seen countless men, so why would he care about this young man? But if you miss the opportunity to make a fortune, you will never get it again. I don't want to hurt the relationship and destroy the cooperation between Qianhua Pavilion and Beiaozhou. After the matter is accomplished, I am willing to give Your Excellency more rewards on a personal level until - you are satisfied."

The personal promise from Lord Bei'ao is undoubtedly an extremely tempting condition.

You Su had never seen Venerable Qianlong like this before—his back was as straight as a sword, but his tone was as humble as dust.

She could have used her power to look down on others, but at this moment she was willing to swallow her frustration and compromise with this kind of sophisticated and selfish person whom she hated the most.

Why? For Bei Ao, who was in dire straits, and for him, a stranger who was almost killed by her.

In fact, You Su could sense that she was now extremely regretful for wanting to attack him twice. Wasn't she the one who had identified herself as a fellow savior, a fool like him?

You Su suddenly felt that this woman was pure and adorable. She was merciless to her enemies, as if anyone who blocked her ideal path was her mortal enemy; but when it came to the people she decided to protect, she could take off her noble cloak as the Lord of Bei'ao.

She is even dumber than him, so even though she is so capable, she is alone, used, deceived, and looked down upon.

The erotic scene that had just been lingering in his mind suddenly dissipated, the hidden anger gradually subsided, and even the murderous vengeance that he had always remembered disappeared into thin air.

You Su also felt that he was infected by this woman. At this moment, there was nothing more important than helping her eliminate Beiao.

He glanced at the woman whose smile had faded a little. When Venerable Qianhua met his gaze, she let out a muffled groan, as if an invisible shackle was tightening around her throat.

You Su has killed so many evil spirits, and his control over the power of God has reached a higher level. This pressure from his bloodline can be triggered without words.

He was punishing her for her naughtiness.

"What do you think, Your Excellency?" Venerable Qianlong's voice was a little higher. She had already made the biggest concession and there was no possibility of lowering her bottom line.

Venerable Qianhua did not answer, but suddenly rolled up his wide sleeves, and the gilded window frame opened.

The north wind wrapped in fine snow rushed into the warm room, shattering the beauty in the room.

Her fingertips brushed across the silver silk belt around her waist, and she unexpectedly pulled out an ice jade teapot from thin air. The body of the teapot was carved with twelve-story pavilions, and on the eaves perched a lifelike fairy in a colorful skirt.

"The teapot is made of cold jade, the tea buds are used as the teacup, and the tea is quenched by lava—" She tapped the lid of the teapot lightly, and the clear tea fragrance condensed into frost flowers that bloomed on the mouth of the teapot. "This is the etiquette that I should have when entertaining guests at Qianhua Pavilion."

Venerable Qianlong looked at the floating tea bubbles in the cup, each of which seemed to reflect different shadows and lights. With her knowledge, she quickly realized that this was not tea at all, but a formation as big as a cup. She suddenly remembered the colorful thousand silk formation that this woman had set up in Feicheng, and only then did she realize that it was just the tip of the iceberg.

You Su was a little surprised. He couldn't figure out what this woman was up to. He just felt that this woman was completely different from the beautiful and charming woman just now. Or maybe he had overlooked that her identity as the Qianhua Venerable was not just an empty title that could bring him a sense of accomplishment.

"It seems that Venerable Qianhua has finally regarded me as a true guest."

Venerable Qianlong sat calmly opposite the Master of Qianhua Pavilion, and her temperament suddenly changed, as if she was sitting on her own throne, with thousands of immortals bowing their heads below.

You Su, who was sitting next to them, felt the pressure for the first time and secretly sighed, wondering if everything that happened before was just an episode of the two men testing each other, and the real negotiations had just begun.

"I have seen the sincerity of the Lord, so naturally I don't need to hide anything." She smiled and slowly passed two cups of fragrant tea with a strong Taoist flavor to the two people. "I originally wanted to prepare some time to visit the Lord in the sacred mountain in person, but unexpectedly the evil tide broke out and blocked the way. Fortunately, it also brought me a distinguished guest."

Venerable Qianlong frowned slightly. She had already sensed that this woman had big ambitions, but she didn't think that anyone's ambitions could be bigger than hers.

"My Lord, do you know what is the real necessity for a cultivator?"

"For different cultivators, talismans, elixirs, and other medicines may be anything."

"Yes, but it can't be clothes."

Reverend Qianhua smiled, but there was no flattery in her smile. You Su was also stabbed by the dagger in the corner of her eyes.

A precious sword that was shining all over had been placed on the table without anyone noticing.

Venerable Qianlong stared at the knife in a daze, and then he realized that the woman across the negotiation table was no longer satisfied with being a beautiful tailor.

(End of this chapter)