[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers":3,"chapter-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-233":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Mountains and Rivers of the Imperial Granary",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2231649,4184,"Chapter 233: Is this world crazy?","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-233",233,"\u003Cp>Over there, Ye Tinglan dragged Lu Xingzhou into the courtyard and pinned the little man against the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the man’s expression of enduring humiliation, as if he were a decent young man being forced, Ye Tinglan couldn't help but laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you pretending for? You’re clearly lustful to the core.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to Yuan Muyu back then—Yuan Muyu truly hadn't realized that this little man appeared to be teased but was actually lustful and taking advantage—Ye Tinglan had known from beginning to end that all his weakness was just to take advantage of her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those eyes looked \"terrified,\" but in reality, they kept glancing at her red lips. That was more than just expecting a kiss; it clearly hid a fierce, burning desire to bite down. To the accusation of \"clearly being lustful to the core,\" Lu Xingzhou did not refute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Tinglan felt that her teasing was like playing with fire, but she was addicted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stood slightly on tiptoe, leaned into the man’s ear again, and whispered softly: \"Get well soon, and Teacher will give you more rewards. If you keep pretending you can't even hold a rice bowl day after day, I will...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What she would do, she left unsaid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Tinglan didn't even know herself whether she hoped he would get better soon or hoped he would remain weak for a few more days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching his ears turn red rapidly because of her whispering in his ear, she couldn't help but touch them lightly. Feeling the man’s rapidly tensing muscle reaction, Ye Tinglan laughed until her eyes curved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man’s hand unconsciously hugged her waist again. Ye Tinglan spun around lightly to break free and said with a smile: \"I’m going to cook porridge first. You better read properly; I’ll test you on the third section of Metal and Stone Techniques later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou watched her beautiful back disappear around the corner, his shoulders slumped, and he hunched over to the stone table in the courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A woman who has ripened, once she lets go of the shackles in her heart, can truly be lethal...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou took out the alchemy book to read, but his mind was drifting; he couldn't focus on studying at all. If this was a method for Teacher to urge her student to study, it could be declared a failure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking of these few days of living together, there was another very unique gentleness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of Lu Xingzhou’s three meals a day were cooked by Ye Tinglan herself; for example, the porridge on the first day was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the first day, she just felt guilty that he couldn't move because he was injured for her sake, and there was nothing she could return, so there was no need to let the inn handle a little food; making it herself allowed her to add some medicinal ingredients.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, she was an alchemist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And although she shouted that there would be no more porridge in the future and that they would go buy simple things like sweet potato buns, the actual operation was never implemented; Ye Tinglan was still cooking porridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, she could make medicinal meals, which sweet potatoes couldn't compare to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since she was cooking porridge, it was only natural that someone would pretend they couldn't hold it and let Teacher feed them. One was clearly pretending, and the other knew he was pretending, but still fed him mouthful by mouthful, cloyingly sweet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After she took the initiative to kiss him, he didn't even pretend anymore; it changed from face-to-face feeding to feeding while he leaned on her shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That \"Mother\" from back then didn't seem to have been called in vain... Lu Xingzhou remembered that A-Nuo was the first to call her that; if A-Nuo were here, he didn't know how much she would complain about this scene with her little mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this state was too gentle; Lu Xingzhou was sinking into it, and he was happy even if he were complained about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he went out for activities just now, he bought some simple herbs to replenish blood and Qi; the Holy Mistress didn't carry such low-end things. At this moment, Ye Tinglan had ducked into the inn’s kitchen, pondering what kind of medicinal porridge to cook for the man today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou sat in the courtyard reading, but what he was looking forward to was how to lean on her later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he pretended to be weak for the past few days, he could only lean on her shoulder. The man’s heart was itching, and he had been thinking about going a step further—could he lean into that soft embrace... Teacher had never agreed to this step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like how she only ever agreed to kiss his face like a child; he wanted to replicate the mouth-to-mouth feeding of the elixir when he was first injured, but he hadn't succeeded in all these days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The progress was still a little lacking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current template was ultimately just Teacher taking care of a little puppy; something was missing. No matter how much she let go of her status, she didn't say she had to be shameless with the man; the current situation was already shameless enough for Ye Tinglan...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as his mind was drifting, the courtyard gate was knocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou was startled. During these days of seclusion, logically, Ye Tinglan hadn't told Su Yuan the specific address, so how could someone find their way here?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holding the alchemy book, he went to the door, peeked through the crack, and his heart skipped a beat; he almost threw the book away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How did Little Bai Mao find this place?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no point in planning to lean into her embrace later; he would be lucky if he didn't turn the just-ripened Teacher back into the stern Holy Mistress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The knocking became more urgent; it felt like if he kept it closed, it would be kicked in... Lu Xingzhou gripped the book with cold sweat, composed himself, and opened the door with a look of surprise: \"Qingli, why are you here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It really is you; I thought I had seen wrong before.\" Dugu Qingli entered the door, turned her head left and right, and didn't see anyone else: \"It seemed like someone was with you just now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou was covered in sweat: \"Hmm... yeah, there was...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who was it?\" Dugu Qingli couldn't believe it was her master at all; she would rather believe her eyes had deceived her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was... your master’s younger sister, also your junior martial aunt.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli was stunned. She had cultivated in the glaciers since she was a child and rarely came into contact with the internal affairs of the Heavenly Jade Holy Land. She had heard that her master had a younger sister, but she had never seen her, and no one had told her that she was the Yama King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, very few people knew that the Yama King was the Holy Mistress’s younger sister; this was classified as a secret, and also considered a scandal of Heavenly Jade, known only to a very small number of top-level people. \u003C\u002Fp>",1198,"2026-06-18T01:46:10.354Z","2026-06-18T03:18:02.290Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","a93a383195467b5ef0d659a8b7df2ac1d6d4d015ac2127272a2502ee3a346b87","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-234","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-232",325,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmountains-and-rivers-of-the-imperial-granary-cover.jpg"]