Chapter 103: Near Home, More Timid, Dare Not Tease the Literary

Hearing him say this, Sheng Yuanyao was stunned, her eyes lit up: "According to what you said, you and he are enemies?"

"Counts as one. Why?" Lu Xingzhou laughed: "Can't sit still, want to make a contribution?"

"Of course!" Sheng Yuanyao knocked on the table with chopsticks: "Do you know that he killed someone in the suburbs of the capital last month, which was the first case I encountered during my tenure in the capital? As a result, we knew who did it, but we couldn't catch him......"

"The Yama Hall kills people, and there are not many cases caught by the Demon Suppression Division, so no one should blame you."

"Others are others' business, don't I want face?" Sheng Yuanyao leaned closer, her elbows nudging: "Eh, since he is your enemy, and he is from the Yama Hall, you are very familiar with his way of doing things, so help me, how about it? If you catch him, there will be benefits for you!"

Leaning so close, she could already smell the fragrance of the girl's hair.

Lu Xingzhou turned his head to look at the girl's expectant look, was silent for a moment, and sighed: "Originally, I should help with your business, and I would agree without saying a word if it were another opponent. But the Yama Hall's, doing this is backstabbing the old employer, unrighteous."

Sheng Yuanyao knocked on the table: "Don't let me look down on you, the other party is your enemy! Not an old subordinate! If I'm not mistaken, his subordinates once assassinated you, and you are so cowardly?"

Lu Xingzhou didn't speak.

Sheng Yuanyao added: "I think you are afraid of the Yama King's revenge, right? Understand! She is so strong, who is not afraid? But don't worry, we won't leak that you helped, and the Yama King won't find you."

Lu Xingzhou subconsciously said: "Who said I'm afraid of her!"

A'nuo blinked her eyes and lowered her head to eat fish.

Sheng Yuanyao smiled mockingly: "Really not afraid?"

Lu Xingzhou curled his lips, picking up food casually: "Forget it, you are right, that guy wanted to kill me first, wouldn't it make me look like a bun if I didn't pay him back? I'll take this."

Sheng Yuanyao leaned closer again: "Now we don't know where he is, but your words sound like you have a count in your heart?"

"As long as he is still nearby." Lu Xingzhou said lightly: "So many people know I came to the capital, he must know too. And I have so many enemies, he can frame the Huo family after killing me...... So the probability of him taking the initiative to find me is very high. You just need to stare at me, maybe there will be results. By the way......"

"How?"

"You...... wouldn't you be hunting him all these days?"

"I have been searching for his whereabouts, but I didn't get any news. But I didn't search for him personally, I even went hunting a few days ago."

Lu Xingzhou stopped his chopsticks and frowned at her.

Sheng Yuanyao looked down at herself strangely, no food fell on her body: "What's wrong?"

"This person has a very narrow mind. If you keep searching and hunting him, he will definitely hate you. And you don't defend yourself, and you dare to go hunting...... At first, he might not know you are really hunting, maybe he thought you were fishing for him, so he didn't dare to take action. Once he observed a few times and found you were really so big-hearted, then I feel the possibility of him killing you is greater than killing me."

Sheng Yuanyao's eyes widened: "He dares?"

"He really dares." Lu Xingzhou sighed: "Killing me has to worry about the Yama King's reaction being unpredictable. Killing you really has no such worries, and he can also show off to me because you are my friend, making me sad." Lu Xingzhou looked into her eyes very seriously: "From today on, you must strengthen the guards around you. If the Sheng family also has protectors, let them follow you closely, even when you go to the toilet."

Sheng Yuanyao's pretty face flushed: "What toilet, vulgar."

"Ha......" Lu Xingzhou was amused by her: "Our Sheng Commander's blushing look is really rare, and it's because of such a sentence...... Please, the key to this sentence is that you are very dangerous, please find the point."

Sheng Yuanyao rolled her eyes: "Alright, alright, I know."

But the redness on her face didn't fade away.

God knows that the real point she grabbed in this sentence was "making me sad." Knowing that Lu Xingzhou didn't mean anything else when he said this, anyone would be sad if their friend was killed, but this bastard's damn peach blossom eyes looked at people affectionately and said this sentence, it was really hard to bear. That heart seemed to jump uncontrollably, and it hadn't calmed down until now.

It's too cheating. Sheng Yuanyao couldn't help but suspect that if he really came to confess affectionately, she wouldn't be able to hold it. I really want to dig out his broken eyes; I'm not a dog, why look at me like that!

To put it bluntly, if it weren't for the fact that this guy was too good-looking, their relationship wouldn't have easily become friends. Sheng Yuanyao admitted that she was very face-controlled, including controlling the cute face of A'nuo, knowing that she was cheated of two taels of silver by her, she still couldn't help but like it.

By the way...... Sheng Yuanyao fiercely pinched A'nuo's face: "Little brat, you cheated my marriage hexagram, I forgot to settle this account with you!"

A'nuo's meat in her mouth fell, and she cried out in grievance: "I didn't cheat you......"

"That means your hexagram calculation is not accurate, don't calculate it in the future." Sheng Yuanyao said triumphantly: "I asked the national teacher to see it!"

The meat in A-Nuo's mouth fell out, and she cried out in confusion: "I didn't lie to you..."

What national teacher, deceiving the world, one day standing in front of her, A'nuo will also calculate a hexagram for her!

The dinner finally ended, and the outside of the building was full of lights.

Sheng Yuanyao got up to pay the bill, Pei Yu smiled and signaled the shopkeeper to collect it: "If this is not collected, Miss Sheng will say that I, Pei Yu, look down on her."

Sheng Yuanyao nodded very satisfied: "Still understand me."

Pei Yu laughed, arching his hands at Lu Xingzhou: "Don't forget to come to the Pei family tomorrow."

Lu Xingzhou arched his hands: "Won't forget."

Pei Yu asked Sheng Yuanyao again: "Does Miss Sheng want to come together?"

"I won't go." Sheng Yuanyao sighed: "So I don't like you people, clearly knowing I won't go, but have to ask one more sentence, showing you are not polite?"

"Ha......" Pei Yu didn't care about her: "My etiquette is enough, as for how Miss Sheng looks at it, that's not important."

A group of people left Yanyu Building, and Sheng Yuanyao asked Lu Xingzhou quietly: "Chu Qingchen also wants to find Ye Wufeng's trouble, don't you contact him together?"

"Mainly because this kind of young knight, feels arrogant, won't easily listen to my arrangements, your government cooperation is more appropriate."

"I thought you had other ideas. Then fine, I'll talk to him, won't see you off." Sheng Yuanyao waved goodbye: "Be careful at night, don't find the north on the maid's belly."

A'nuo pushed Lu Xingzhou back to the inn, Pei Chuyun followed and said leisurely: "This Commander Sheng, the personality is really good."

"That's for sure, know that it's meaningless to offend people for no reason, right?"

No reason? That's not necessarily true. Pei Chuyun complained in her heart, but didn't say anything.

Lu Xingzhou

For no reason? That was hardly certain. Pei Chuyun muttered a complaint in her heart, but said nothing.

Lu Xingzhou said: "Pei Yu seems alright. At least his surface demeanor is much more refined than the Huo family's. He is worthy of being from a thousand-year-old noble clan."

Pei Chuyun gave an "mm," clearly a bit distracted.

Lu Xingzhou said: "You haven't made a sound during the entire meal, just pricking up your ears to listen to the conversation over there. Well, any gains?"

Pei Chuyun shook her head: "No. They were all chatting about anecdotes from the pugilistic world and the current status of some mutual friends. It seems Pei Yu went out to gain experience in the pugilistic world two years ago and became acquainted with them... In short, it has nothing to do with what we want to know."

"Although you are disguised, your overall appearance hasn't changed much. Theoretically, if there were any connection, Pei Yu should have had some reaction upon seeing your face, but he showed none..." Lu Xingzhou mused: "Looking at it this way, the probability that you have a connection to the Pei family has dropped quite a bit."

Pei Chuyun thought the same, and her mood turned sour.

Whether she was a daughter of the Pei family wasn't inherently important, and Pei Chuyun didn't want to cling to the glory of a noble clan. But if she wasn't, it meant the clues to her own background were completely severed, and she didn't know where to look. Furthermore, her situation in the Harlot Joy Sect was even more of a muddle, with no point of breakthrough.

Returning to the inn, they each fetched water to bathe.

Pei Chuyun soaked in the tub, scrubbing her body casually, still feeling distracted.

Recalling the feeling of seeing Pei Yu today, she still felt an indescribable sense of closeness, subconsciously wanting to listen more to what he said and look at him a few more times. But Pei Chuyun found it hard to distinguish whether this feeling truly stemmed from some blood relation or merely from her own curiosity to uncover the truth.

She didn't even dare to tell Lu Xingzhou about this situation, fearing it would interfere with his judgment.

Pei Chuyun was lost in a daze until a knock came at the door. Startled, she realized the water had already gone cold.

Pei Chuyun hurriedly got up and dressed properly. Opening the door, she saw it was Lu Xingzhou.

"Something up?"

"No, just knowing you must be in a bad mood, I came to have a few drinks with you." Lu Xingzhou looked at her just-bathed appearance; her beautiful hair was still damp and draped loosely, and her fragrance was intoxicating, making her look even more alluring than usual.

He subconsciously swallowed, turning his head slightly: "I didn't know you'd be washing for so long... Forget it, I'll come back later."

Pei Chuyun smiled enchantingly: "You're afraid of this? What part of me haven't you seen? Playing the gentleman now."

Lu Xingzhou: "..."

"Come in." Pei Chuyun lazily stepped aside: "It's always been me wanting to seduce you into bed. If you look at me like this and go wild with lust, that's exactly what I'm hoping for."

Despite saying that, she had no intention of flirting, sitting by the table, chin in hand, watching the candlelight.

Lu Xingzhou sat beside her and opened the wine jar: "No need to be so worried. You've made it through all these years; can't you handle these two days? Tomorrow, when we go to the Pei family, I will try to ask around indirectly."

"Mm..." Pei Chuyun hesitated for a moment before saying: "Lu Xingzhou, what if it's really not them? What then..."

Lu Xingzhou said earnestly: "Don't worry. Since I promised to help you with this, I will see it through to the end. Even if it's confirmed not to be the Pei family, I will continue to help you search in the future."

Pei Chuyun smiled slightly: "Mm."

In truth, she didn't hold much hope. After all, there were no leads for this kind of thing, and Lu Xingzhou's cleverness wouldn't be of much use.

Lu Xingzhou said: "But regardless of whether it is or isn't, being worried is meaningless. If this matter becomes a knot in your heart, it will be very detrimental to your cultivation breakthrough to the Upper Three Realms—you are seeking a breakthrough at this threshold, aren't you? Otherwise, the sect wouldn't have let you out for training at this time."

"Yes." Pei Chuyun thought for a moment and sighed: "I don't know why, but even though I know it's meaningless to dwell on this, my heart is strangely hung up on it. What's even stranger is that, despite caring so much, I'm actually afraid of you asking tomorrow. What if you ask and it's really not them? How great the disappointment would be then. I'd rather have no result than to ask and find out it's not them."

Lu Xingzhou laughed: "Come, let me give you another poem."

Pei Chuyun blinked.

Lu Xingzhou took paper and brush and wrote: "Nearing home, the heart grows more timid; I dare not ask the traveler."

As Pei Chuyun looked at it, she became entranced.

Lu Xingzhou laughed: "A Joy Sect enchantress shouldn't be so sentimental; you are truly an anomaly. Hey, tell me, could it be that because you're so literary and sentimental, your master doesn't dare to entrust you with too much?"

Pei Chuyun came back to her senses and chided: "As if you know so much about the Harlot Joy Sect... There are plenty of people in the sect more sentimental than me. The Joy Sect is proficient in everything from singing and dancing to playing instruments; it's the most artistic sect in the world. Artistic people are mostly sentimental."

This was a bit beyond Lu Xingzhou's understanding: "Isn't the Joy Dao about having desire but no emotion? If you are emotionless, how can you be sentimental? Don't you find that contradictory?"

"The Dao of assassination is even colder and more heartless, yet I see you have plenty of emotion. Don't you find that contradictory?"

Lu Xingzhou opened his mouth but was speechless.

He didn't really cultivate the Dao of assassination; perhaps Yuan Muyu did. So, his pursuit of her was essentially chasing a shadow that could never be caught—ultimately, it was like climbing a tree to catch a fish.

Whether the Joy Dao was as the world understood it, or as the old impressions from the novels he used to read, was hard to say. Every book is a world; who could know what kind of Dao this Harlot Joy Sect actually followed? It was just a pity that Pei Chuyun obviously wouldn't lay open the core of her cultivation technique for him to see, so there was no way to know.

Seeing him lost in thought, Pei Chuyun smiled enchantingly, turned, and sat in his lap, breathing like an orchid in his ear: "Regardless, a poem in exchange for a kiss is our agreement. Since you have a poem, I must naturally fulfill my end..."

She kissed his cheek lightly and lifted the wine cup to his lips: "Young Master, shall we drink? Shall A-Lu feed you?"

Lu Xingzhou lowered his head and drank. Pei Chuyun said seductively: "Young Master, won't you feed A-Lu..."

Lu Xingzhou felt that this was very much like a reaction to being stirred by a poem, or perhaps a way to vent her mixed emotions. He didn't dwell on it, lowered his head to kiss her red lips, and then, without a word, knocked at the gate, slowly passing the wine over.

Pei Chuyun's chest heaved violently as she slowly shared the wine he passed, then clung to his neck intensely. Their lips and tongues inseparable, they continued to kiss passionately.

The charm attack that Lu Xingzhou had been vaguely guarding against never happened from start to finish. Instead, there was a bit of naturally emitted charm that acted as an aphrodisiac.

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