Chapter 66: A Small Leaf, Ye Ling

"This is truly seeing a ghost."

After the Soul-Snatching Envoy said this sentence, he had already drifted away in flight.

He had been a ghost for many years and had seen all kinds of ghosts, but this time, he had bumped into a real ghost.

"There is really no hospitality at all. I, the guest, have arrived, yet he himself has run off without a trace." Yu Liancheng shook his head; he was feeling a bit empty in his stomach and had intended to have the Soul-Snatching Envoy entertain him.

He walked along casually, his gaze sweeping everywhere, sizing up the rumored dwelling place of the Ghosts. After walking for a short while, he faintly smelled the scent of wine mixed in with the fresh fragrance of leaves.

"It is aged Bamboo Leaf Green." Yu Liancheng's eyes brightened; as a drunkard, he had always been very confident in his nose. As his figure lightly skimmed along, he could already see a small gray wooden hut; in these fog-like white clouds, one had to be very earnest to see it.

"Hello, is anyone there?" Yu Liancheng knocked on the door, but no one answered.

He pushed the door open and barged into the room.

Looking at the house from the outside, it was already pitifully small, and after walking inside, it was even more like a pigeon coop.

However, although the pigeon coop was small, it was fully equipped; whatever other people's houses had, this room had as well, and it was also suffused with a young girl's scent, which was very pleasant.

On the small wooden table, there was still a jar of wine, a pair of chopsticks, an earthenware pot, a large soup ladle, and four or five steamed buns.

The wine was aged Bamboo Leaf Green, the earthenware pot contained original-juice stewed chicken, and the steamed buns were fresh out of the steamer, still emitting billowing heat.

Yu Liancheng never knew what being polite was, and he had already reached out to grab the Bamboo Leaf Green.

Very quickly, the wine had reached his stomach, the steamed buns had disappeared, and the stewed chicken was more than half gone, yet there were many more chicken skeletons on the table.

Just at this moment, a burst of very light footsteps sounded outside, the small door was pushed open, and a little girl wearing red clothes appeared.

She looked to be no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, but she was born delicate and lovely, incomparably sweet; a pair of pitch-black eyes stared at Yu Liancheng, and her small, rosy mouth opened, saying in a tone of surprise: "Who are you? Why are you in my place?"

Yu Liancheng smiled lightly: "I am a newcomer, and I am hungry."

The little girl looked him up and down and asked curiously: "I heard that Soul-Snatching went to pick up a monk today, a Laoshi Heshang who only knows how to speak the truth, but you don't look like a monk at all, and you don't look very honest either."

Yu Liancheng laughed: "The monk has already become a true Ghost, and I just happened to take his spot, though I am much more honest than that monk."

The little girl's moth-like eyebrows furrowed slightly: "But how could Soul-Snatching agree? This is a rule set down by Old Knife Handle; no one can offend it."

Yu Liancheng shrugged his shoulders: "It is very simple, he could do nothing about me, so he had no choice but to let me in."

"How is that possible? With Soul-Snatching's martial arts, he actually could do nothing about you." A trace of disbelief permeated the little girl's crisp voice: "If you can defeat Soul-Snatching, you must certainly not be a Wuming person in the Edo."

Yu Liancheng laughed: "In reality, my reputation is indeed not small."

The little girl said: "So who exactly are you?"

Yu Liancheng rubbed the long sword placed to the side and smiled: "This sword is called the 'Duoqing Sword'; when the sword is drawn, people die and feelings turn to emptiness."

The little girl's large, bright eyeballs rolled around, and she said crisply: "So you are Yu Liancheng, the 'Jade-Faced Divine Sword' Yu Liancheng. It is said that your sword technique is already the pinnacle of the current age, and even Ximen Chuixue was defeated under your sword."

Yu Liancheng said: "Does it not look like it?"

The little girl said: "No, I should have guessed that you were Yu Liancheng earlier."

Yu Liancheng said: "Oh?"

The little girl giggled sweetly: "Someone as young and as handsome as you is truly rare; you are worthy of the two words 'Jade-Faced'. Furthermore, you have a sword that leaves the Ghosts helpless. Among the experts in the Edo, there are not many who can make him helpless, so the two words 'Divine Sword' are not an exaggeration at all; therefore, you must be the 'Jade-Faced Divine Sword' Yu Liancheng."

Yu Liancheng clapped his hands and laughed: "You are truly such a clever little girl."

"I have always been very clever." The little girl revealed a sweet smile, but not knowing what she thought of, her expression suddenly dimmed: "Yu Liancheng, fine jade is without blemish and is worth a thousand cities. But I am merely a small leaf, a small leaf that can be seen everywhere and drifts with the wind."

Yu Liancheng laughed: "But every leaf is absolutely different; they are all unique. A gold leaf or a silver leaf is already very valuable, not to mention that you are a leaf with a lot of spirit."

"You know my name is Ye Ling?" The little girl's eyes suddenly brightened, as bright as the stars in the sky.

Yu Liancheng nodded.

"You know quite a lot; you really know how to talk."

Ye Ling smiled charmingly: "I like you very much. This small hut was originally mine, but now I give it to you; this place is your home."

Yu Liancheng also laughed, laughing very happily, and also very strangely.

Ye Ling pouted: "Are you looking down on it, looking down on the house I gave you for being small?"

Yu Liancheng shook his head: "No, I am laughing at myself; having lived for so long, this is the first time I have had my own home."

"I gave you a house; in return, shouldn't you give me something?"

"What do you want? Although I don't look like a rich person, in reality, I am very wealthy." Regarding the little girl who had given him a home the moment they met, Yu Liancheng appeared very generous.

"I want you... to give yourself to me." Ye Ling giggled, her laughter as sweet as Honey and as beautiful as a flower: "Women in the world often sell themselves to men for silver or houses, and men can likewise sell themselves to women. Now that you have accepted my house, you are mine."

Yu Liancheng could not help but laugh bitterly: "So the 'Jade-Faced Divine Sword' who is famous in the Edo is actually so cheap, only worth such a small hut."

"This is not just a small hut, it is also your home." Ye Ling smiled sweetly: "And I am a veteran here, you are a newcomer, and newcomers must listen to veterans."

Yu Liancheng said: "Fine, since I have already sold myself to you, you must at least keep me fed; I am still very hungry right now."

"You really can eat." The little girl giggled, and suddenly she drifted over like the wind; her light-body technique was indeed not weak.

"You..."

Yu Liancheng could no longer continue speaking, because Ye Ling had also sealed his mouth.

She sealed his mouth with her own.

With Yu Liancheng's martial arts, he could of course have easily dodged it.

However, why would he dodge?

Her lips were cold and soft.

The two people's lips only touched lightly, and Ye Ling suddenly threw a punch at Yu Liancheng's stomach.

This time, Yu Liancheng dodged it immediately.

"Good child, you dodged really fast. I am going to find you something to eat." She giggled, and she had already slipped outside the door: "Remember, you must absolutely not let anyone slip in, especially Flower Widow and Big Leaf."