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

Chapter 495 Listening to the Seventh Elder at the Wall All Night

As the morning light began to shine, the sky turned pale as a fish belly, and a thin mist covered the ancestral land of the snake clan like a veil.

"Junior sister, you take a rest first, I'll be back soon..."

Before closing the door, You Su whispered instructions to the girl inside.

Ji Lingruo turned over and grumbled, "I know... It's okay if you don't come back..."

You Su shook his head and smiled bitterly, lamenting that his junior sister had worked really hard tonight. It was rare to see her so tired.

He hugged the person in his arms a little tighter and then gently closed the door.

Ji Xueruo's black hair fell on his arms, like a handful of flowing night. She was so tired that even her fingertips curled up, but she still stubbornly grabbed his collar, mumbling vaguely that she wanted to go back to the bedroom.

Even though she was almost unconscious from exhaustion, she still refused to stay here overnight. After breaking the bottom line of sharing a husband with her sister, not letting the elders discover her relationship with You Su became her new bottom line.

“Ms. Xueruo looks even cuter now than usual.” You Su chuckled and rubbed the top of her head.

Ji Xueruo raised her eyelids stubbornly, but she really didn't have the energy to argue with the boy. She could only glare at him weakly, and then curled up in You Su's arms like a lazy kitten.

You Su felt the woman's attachment and felt extremely happy. He tidied her messy hair, but he couldn't help it. He lowered his head and pecked her lightly, whispering in Ji Xueruo's ear:

"I will never let you sisters down."

He held Ji Xueruo carefully in his arms, fearing that he would wake up the beauty in his arms. He had to walk across the dew-soaked bluestone path with slow but steady steps, hoping to send their tribe leader back to the bedroom before the snake women sobered up.

However, after he left quickly, the moist morning breeze blew across the flower stand, and a faint rustling sound was heard in the darkness.

Seven figures suddenly emerged from the flower forest. Liu Yinyin, who was in the lead, was holding a snake-head staff. His new face looked like a jade carving in the morning light, but the tips of his ears were stained with a suspicious crimson color.

Now she regretted accepting the gift of cultivation from Senior Sister Yu. If she had not entered the golden cocoon, things would never have developed into what they are now.

Ever since these six elders found out that You Su was born with a furnace body, they realized that the demon core of their young clan leader might have been purified by You Su!
Last night, Ji Xueruo and Ji Lingruo exchanged identities at the ball and thought no one noticed, but how could they escape the attention of those who were interested? This was also why none of the elders cared whether the clan leader who left first was drunk or not after the banquet.

Because they all went out together, using moral blackmail to get Liu Yinyin, and taking advantage of the magic of the strongest snake clan member to hide in the dark outside Ji Lingruo's courtyard in advance, just to verify their guess.

This test lasted a whole night, and even the scene of You Su secretly sending Ji Xueruo back was seen clearly.

"What a daring boy!" Elder Jin shouted angrily. Her true form was a golden snake, and she was also the most conservative of the elders. She was so angry that her golden scale earrings jingled. "You actually attacked two young ladies at the same time. Do you think my snake clan is your plaything?!"

Elder Xiang is just as her name suggests. Her original form is a fragrant snake and she has a scent that is almost poisonous. She is a playful person and always confronts Elder Jin. At this moment, she also smiled gently and said, "Elder Jin is indeed filled with righteous indignation, but if he was really angry with him, why didn't he stop the second young lady when she climbed over the wall? Instead, he listened to her love story all night? Could it be that he is angry now that there is nothing left to listen to?"

"Stop talking nonsense!" Elder Jin became even angrier upon hearing this and was about to attack.

Elder Hua landed gracefully from the plum branch and quickly raised his hand to hold her shoulder: "Elder Jin, calm down. It's nothing to make the second young lady fall in love with him, but if even the eldest young lady falls in love with him, it means he is not an ordinary playboy. I saw him hugging the eldest young lady just now, and there was only concern and love in his eyes, without any blasphemy."

"What Elder Hua said makes sense, but I don't agree if you say it's not blasphemous." Elder Yin had a silver chain hanging around his neck, which really looked like a silver ring snake that had turned into a spirit. "Everyone heard it all night. This Mr. You looked dignified on the surface, but he was actually playing all kinds of tricks in private. He thought it was okay to fight two people alone, but he made some embarrassing noises. Even though he had clearly recovered his sight, he still claimed to be blind, in order to trick the innocent second young lady into supporting a stranger like him to torment her own sister. On the contrary, he even let the eldest young lady hold her own sister and let him..."

Perhaps he couldn't continue speaking, Elder Yin sighed again: "Alas! Anyway, if you say that such a ridiculous act is not blasphemous, I absolutely don't believe it."

"Why are you pretending to be so noble?" The tall and thin Elder Zhu frowned his green eyebrows. Her real body is Bamboo Leaf Green and her words are the simplest and most vicious among the seven elders.

"What do you mean?!" Elder Yin frowned and looked at her coldly. Among the seven elders, the one with whom she had the most incompatible temperament was this bamboo green snake.

"Don't you and Elder Xiang have many private affairs? How can you say that it is a blasphemy to enjoy the pleasure of the boudoir? In my opinion, the eldest and second young ladies are also enjoying it. Even if it is really a humiliation, the eldest and second young ladies have to think so themselves. How can you, an outsider who is two-faced, have the right to comment on it?"

"Hey hey hey, why do you involve me?" Elder Xiang's pretty face turned red, and she looked at Elder Yin with resentment, as if blaming her for leaking their private fun.

Elder Yin was angry and innocent. She didn't know how Elder Zhu got the information. But her habit of pretending to be cool and aloof was also a common understanding among the snake tribe. She couldn't help but retort, "Zhu Qing! Don't think I don't know! You are not asexual, you just like to solve problems by yourself! There are many good things hidden at the head of your bed!"

"Let me tell you something that you don't know." Elder Zhu was calm and composed, not feeling ashamed at all. "It's human nature. At least I'm not like someone who is so secretive and hypocritical."

"You!" Elder Yin's eyes were spitting fire.

Seeing the quarrel between the elders gradually escalate, Granny Liu, who had been silent all this time, could no longer sit idly by and immediately knocked the ground with her cane:

"enough!"

Although her image had plummeted because of the incident with You Su, her influence was still there. Upon hearing this, the elders immediately shut up, with different expressions on their faces.

"You guys spied all night just to have a fight?!"

"Of course not." Elder Hua was the most active in his thoughts. He narrowed his eyes and looked at the rejuvenated Liu Yinyin. "Since Elder Liu knew about this, why didn't he tell us earlier? Could it be that he wanted to conceal it for Master You?"

Liu Yinyin's eyebrows immediately stood up, and Elder Hua was frightened and felt nervous, wondering if she was too disrespectful. But Liu Yinyin did not get angry as they expected. She only let go of the snake-headed staff she was holding high and sighed:

"The second young lady lost her demon elixir when she was young in exchange for the future of the snake clan. She was sensitive and took the unintentional words of her clan members to heart. That's why she always liked to hide in her room when she was young, and she even planned to run away from home.

“If she hadn’t met Master You during the three years since she left the Snake Tribe, she would have died in a foreign land; if she hadn’t met Master You, she probably wouldn’t have even reached the Lingtai realm; if she hadn’t met Master You, she wouldn’t have become the lively and cheerful Second Miss she is now.

"This is all thanks to Master You, not you and me, the Snake Clan! Master You is her destiny's blessing, but we are the evil ones who used the righteousness of our race to coerce a child. How can we break the relationship that she has cultivated with great difficulty?"

The girls were all silent when they heard this. They had all participated in the sisters' exchange of demon cores. Although it was for the good of the snake clan, it was undeniable that it was a kind of harm to the second young lady. In this way, it was this young man who made up for their debt to the second young lady.

"Then...how did the young lady know him?" Elder Hua asked with concern.

Liu Yinyin shook her head upon hearing this and said sadly:
"I don't know the specific details, but according to my guess, the eldest lady had a conflict with him when she was taking the lotus root heart in Zhongzhou."

She stroked the marks on the snake-head staff and looked at the gradually whitening mountain ridges in the distance, as if she saw through time the girl kneeling alone in the Snake Ancestor Temple - Ji Xueruo's back was straight, and a snake hairpin symbolizing the clan leader was pinned in her black hair, but the cracked snake scales behind her ears due to the forced breakthrough were more dazzling than any pearls and jade.

"I still remember that when the eldest daughter was ten years old, she soaked in the medicine pool for three whole days." Her voice was wrapped in morning mist. "When she came out of the pool, her whole body was festering, but she smiled and said to me, 'Granny Liu, I have broken through the Lingtai realm.'"

The elders' breathing suddenly stopped. They naturally remembered the celebration of the snake tribe that day. After all, a ten-year-old reaching the Lingtai realm was truly astonishing.

"Since then, the young lady has never worn light-colored clothes again." Liu Yinyin's fingertips brushed the snake pattern on the cuffs, "She said that blood wouldn't be visible if it was stained on black, so as to avoid worrying the tribe members."

"Until she came back from Zhongyuanzhou." Liu Yinyin suddenly changed the subject, her expression melting. "That day when I entered the palace to deliver medicine, I happened to see her reading a letter in front of the bronze mirror. The brilliance in her eyes at that time was something I had never seen before."

Liu Yinyin will always remember how Ji Xueruo looked at that time, with her ears as red as a ripe peach. "The eldest lady is also a pitiful child... She has been carrying the blood feud and the responsibility of her race since she was a child. At such a young age, the burden on her shoulders is heavier than ours. She grew up under heavy pressure, and this is the only thing that makes her hide away and secretly happy. How can I deprive her of this happiness?"

The morning breeze carried the smell of sulfur through the flower forest, and the seven elders held their breath at the same time.

They had seen the clan leader who was decisive in killing and the second young lady who was good at planning, but it was only this morning that they saw Ji Xueruo's shy and bashful look for the first time.

"Before, I didn't know that the person she admired was the same as the Second Miss. I didn't make any guesses until the news of You Su's death came. But now, their bond with Master You is so deep, how can we sever it?"

The girls pursed their lips and remained silent upon hearing this, as if they agreed. However, Elder Jin was more conservative after all, and after hesitating for a long time, he finally spoke:
"But how can it be possible for two sisters to share the same husband..."

"How can the Snake Tribe have a tradition that prohibits sisters from sharing a husband?" Elder Hua suddenly asked.

"Of course not, but that's because we in the snake tribe don't have husbands either..."

Elder Hua's wide pink sleeves brushed the dew on the stone steps and interrupted Elder Jin's words, "I would say, no matter whether this boudoir thing is absurd or not, we have heard whether the eldest and second young ladies are happy or not after listening to it all night. Besides, a man like You Gongzi is a perfect match for our two young ladies. Otherwise, who else in the world is worthy of the eldest and second young ladies? Could it be that we are going to resurrect Yu Xiaoran?"

“Is that loser Yu Xiaoran worthy of this?!” Elder Jin was the first one to disagree when he heard this.

Elder Hua smiled softly with his hands covering his lips, "That's it. Whether it's Mr. You's appearance, personality, talent, ability, or even his background and mentorship, he is the best choice. What's even more special is that he has the furnace cauldron physique that can purify demon pills. It's a blessing for the snake clan to have such a rich son-in-law marry into the clan. How can we kick him out on our own?"

As soon as these words came out, all the elders nodded in approval. Ever since the clan leader chose to protect You Su against all odds, they had seen everything You Su did. There was no doubt that no one in the snake clan would regard him as an alien anymore.

"Looking at it this way, the Snake Tribe is really going to break the precedent." Elder Yin sighed, "Forget it, we have seen all the secrets tonight, everyone can go home."

After saying this, all the elders also wanted to withdraw. But Liu Yinyin seemed to have noticed something and frowned:
"Where is Elder Chi?"

The girls were shocked and came to their senses, realizing that during the long argument, Elder Chi, who had the hottest temper, had not uttered a single word.

They looked around, but couldn't see the figure in the bright red dress. But she was clearly eavesdropping at the wall.
They were so surprised that they no longer concealed their auras and used their spiritual senses to search for Elder Chi. However, they smiled at each other at the moment when they concentrated their spiritual senses. Because Elder Chi did not hide far away at all, he was clearly right under their noses.

I saw a cluster of flowers not far away trembling faintly, and a corner of the red skirt was still hanging on the leaves.

Elder Xiang smiled softly, "I was wondering why Sister Chi suddenly became so quiet..." She gently rolled her jade hands, and the cluster of flowers was blown away by a fragrant breeze, revealing the curled-up figure inside, "It turns out that she was quietly digesting the 'lesson' she eavesdropped on last night."

All the girls couldn't help but giggle when they heard that, and Elder Chi changed her aggressive attitude. She was now lying in the flowers like a petal softened by the spring rain. One of her hands was missing, and no one knew in which flower she had hidden it.

"You... leave me alone..."

"Oh, Elder Chi, who used to have the worst temper, has now learned to act like a spoiled child?" Elder Hua would not miss the opportunity to tease Elder Chi.

Elder Chi's cheeks flushed, and a suppressed gasp escaped from his throat. His eyes sparkled, and there was a hint of allure in them that was even more enchanting than when he usually glared at people:
"Your pants are all wet, and you have the nerve to laugh at me? When the moon was above the willows, some of you made excuses to go find water, and some of you rubbed your legs quietly. Do you think I'm blind... At least, I'm not as shameless as you guys on weekdays... Don't laugh at me when you're only fifty steps away..."

As soon as the words fell, the bamboo forest suddenly became as quiet as frost. The elders, all dressed in colorful clothes, froze in laughter, with suspicious blushes on their faces, thinking that she was definitely not talking about them.

Seeing this, Liu Yinyin held her head and shook her head, thinking that these elders were really one worse than the other. She quickly scolded Elder Chi before he turned his eyes to her skirt:

"What a disgrace! Don't get up!"

(End of this chapter)