Chapter 177: Senior Sister: Kiss Me!

Bao'an Hall.

Su Qingling was wearing a plain white dress, sitting alone behind the counter, quietly grinding medicine.

The evening sunset spilled in from the doorway, landing on her.

That jet-black, waterfall-like hair, fair skin, and that pure yet alluring face were all plated with a layer of golden radiance; paired with that cold and elegant temperament, the entire scene was as beautiful as a dream, not like something of the Human Realm.

The towering, upright curves at her chest also trembled slightly with the motion of grinding the medicine, looking heart-stirring and spectacular.

"Cough, cough..."

Luo Zijun entered the shop and stood before the counter for a while; seeing she ignored him, he had no choice but to take out the thing she liked.

"Senior Sister, look at what this is?"

He kept six hundred taels for himself, then took out the remaining sixteen thousand taels in banknotes, spreading them out on the counter as if showing off.

"A full sixteen thousand taels, all earned by me! Now, they are all yours!"

Only then did Su Qingling stop her grinding, glance at them indifferently, and put them all away.

Luo Zijun stared at her still cold and aloof pretty face and said, "Senior Sister, with so much money, can't you even give a smile?"

Su Qingling put away the banknotes, continued to lower her head to grind the medicine, and said in a flat tone, "Speak, what is it?"

She paused.

She raised her eyes again and said coldly, "If it is about other women, there is no need to say it."

Luo Zijun felt somewhat awkward seeing his intentions had been seen through.

He hesitated for a moment, went to the side to move a stool, walked inside the counter, sat down next to her, watched the trembling of her chest as she ground the medicine for a while, and then opened his mouth to say, "Senior Sister, I want to swindle the Jia Family's money, so I need you to help me refine some more medicinal pills."

Su Qingling did not speak and continued to grind the medicine.

Her wide sleeves slid down, revealing her snow-white, slender wrists and skin as smooth as White Jade.

"Senior Sister, your wrists are truly beautiful."

Luo Zijun complimented her, took out a light green jade bracelet he had just bought on the street, and said, "Stretch out your hand, let me put it on for you."

Su Qingling paused, looked at the jade bracelet in his hand, then looked at him, narrowed her eyes, and said, "Besides refining medicine, what else is there?"

Luo Zijun: "..."

"No... nothing else, Senior Sister, can't I give you something if there's nothing else?"

Luo Zijun took her hand without waiting for an answer, then gently slid the jade bracelet in his hand onto it.

The light green jade bracelet, paired with the snow-white wrist, was like a charming landscape.

Luo Zijun clicked his tongue and said, "Senior Sister, this jade bracelet really suits you; look at this skin of yours, so white, so tender, and so smooth, ah!"

The snow-white jade hand that had just put on the bracelet suddenly pinched his chest.

Luo Zijun let out a miserable cry and said, "Senior Sister, I came to give you money and bought you a bracelet, and not only are you not grateful, you actually pinch me! Can you be any more ungrateful?"

Su Qingling looked at him coldly with her beautiful eyes and said, "Speak, what else is there?"

"No... there really is nothing else..."

At this very moment, how could Luo Zijun dare to say anything?

He got pinched without saying anything; if he said it, would that be the end of it?

Thinking of the decision in his heart and then thinking of this girl's temper, his legs immediately began to tremble.

"Senior Sister, it's just about the pill refining; I want you to help me refine more medicinal pills so I can take them to sell for money. Please don't choose too good of materials; if you could add some poison, that would be even better."

He had no choice but to talk about other things first.

Su Qingling stared into his eyes for a while longer before letting go, pushing the medicine jar in front of her toward him, and handing him the pestle in her hand, saying, "You grind."

"Oh..."

Luo Zijun rubbed his chest, took the pestle, held the medicine jar, and began to grind.

Su Qingling took out those banknotes again and began to count them; just as she was counting, she suddenly narrowed her eyes and sniffed them under her nose.

"Ah!"

Just as Luo Zijun was grinding the medicine, his chest suddenly hurt again.

Su Qingling pinched him and looked at him coldly, saying, "On these banknotes, there is the scent of rouge from three different women; which three?"

Luo Zijun: "..."

"Did those three women keep you as a kept man together?"

Luo Zijun: "..."

"Speak!"

Luo Zijun hissed a few times and said, "This is money I swindled from fortune-telling for those young ladies of the Jia Mansion; if Senior Sister doesn't believe me, you can go ask Xiaohuan, she was there at the time."

Su Qingling said, "You know how to tell fortunes?"

Luo Zijun said, "It's a deceptive trick, mainly to swindle money."

Su Qingling said coldly, "Then why don't you swindle men, but instead insist on swindling women? Why don't you swindle old women, but instead insist on swindling young women?"

Luo Zijun said, "First, I have already swindled that old master of the Jia Mansion; the medicinal pills Senior Sister refines for me are exactly what I intend to use to swindle his money. Second, regardless of whether they are men, women, old, or young in the Jia Mansion, I will swindle them all. Third, any woman, whether old or young, whether ugly or beautiful, I will swindle them all the same."

Su Qingling narrowed her eyes, and he immediately added, "Except for my beautiful Senior Sister."

Su Qingling stared at him for a while longer and asked, "Why do you want to swindle people from the Jia Family?"

Luo Zijun fell silent and did not answer.

Su Qingling seemed to suddenly remember something, slowly let go of her hand, paused for a moment, and said, "Liu Chujian told me that your enemy is in the Jia Family. Yet, why do you still want to save the people inside? Is it because she is beautiful?"

Luo Zijun said, "No, she is not as beautiful as Senior Sister. I am saving her for other reasons."

"What reason?"

Luo Zijun was silent for a while, looked at her, and said, "Senior Sister, I will tell you in advance; in the future, I might save more people from the Jia Family, and they will all be beautiful young ladies and maidservants. But none of them are as beautiful as Senior Sister; in my heart, even if you add them all together, they cannot compare to a single hair of yours."

Su Qingling's cold eyes met his for a while; she did not pursue the matter further and continued to lower her head to count the banknotes in her hand.

Luo Zijun also withdrew his gaze and continued to pound the medicine.

After a moment, he said again, "Senior Sister, I was ambushed in the past and suddenly became foolish, forgetting you and Master. In truth, it was a Soul Out-of-Body experience; a wisp of my soul had left this world."

Su Qingling's gaze turned back to him.

Luo Zijun continued to lower his head and pound the medicine, saying with a calm face, "Now, that wisp of soul has returned, bringing with it memories of the past and memories of another world, as well as a mission. The reason I saved those people in the Jia Mansion is because I want to avoid some regrets and tragedies from happening..."

Saying this, he stopped pounding the medicine, looked at her, and said, "Senior Sister, I actually know the fate of some of them. I feel that if it is within my power, I should help them. No one wants to see regrettable things and tragedies happen, right?"

Su Qingling met his gaze for a while and said, "So, you intend to save them and then turn them all into your harem? You take them all for your own use, and then they won't meet with tragedy, right?"

Luo Zijun: "... Of course not!"

The room fell silent for a moment.

Luo Zijun said again, "Senior Sister, I have no selfish motives; I only want to save people. You must believe me."

Su Qingling said, "I don't believe you."

After a pause, she asked again, "You said you still have a mission; what mission?" Luo Zijun avoided her gaze, lowered his head to pound the medicine, and said, "It is also to avoid tragedy, to stop a marriage, but..."

He did not continue speaking.

Su Qingling stared at him for a while, did not ask further, put away the banknotes, rose, and left the counter.

She went upstairs and soon came back down.

Then, she placed five porcelain bottles in front of him and said, "Two bottles of Five-Stone Powder, three bottles of Yang-Strengthening Pills; they are all poisonous inside. If you want to eat them, then prepare your funeral arrangements first."

Luo Zijun said, "I have no need for them."

As he spoke, he immediately put them away and said, "Senior Sister is still the best."

Su Qingling stood beside him, was quiet for a while, and said, "Then kiss me."

Luo Zijun was startled, turned his head to stare at her for a while, and said, "Senior Sister, girls should be reserved. How can you just say 'kiss' directly?"

Su Qingling said, "Then bite me."

Luo Zijun: "..."

!

"Fine, fine, if you want a bite, then a bite it is. Where does Senior Sister want me to bite you?"

"Anywhere is fine."

"Anywhere is fine? Hmph, then I won't be polite!"

Luo Zijun stared at her pink, tender little mouth for a while, his gaze slowly moved downward, then rose and fell, all the way down, and finally he suddenly lowered his head, bent his waist, leaned over, and gently bit the tip of the slender index finger of the snow-white jade hand beside her thigh.

After biting, he raised his head and said, "Senior Sister's hand is so fragrant and so soft."

Su Qingling did not speak again, raised her hand to wipe the saliva off her clothes, then walked to a chair nearby and sat down, ignoring him further.

"Thump, thump, thump!"

Luo Zijun finished pounding the medicine, and it was already dark outside.

"Senior Sister, I should go back. I need to sleep early tonight; I have to go out to earn money tomorrow."

Su Qingling was fiddling with herbs in the cabinet and still ignored him.

"Senior Sister, I'm leaving."

Luo Zijun exited the counter, looked at her once more, and then walked away quickly.

In the shop, it became quiet.

Another moment passed.

Su Qingling lay on the counter in a daze, her mouth gently biting the tip of that slender index finger he had bitten.

Luo Zijun returned to the Junzi Residence, and after eating dinner, he entered his room.

He performed Soul Out-of-Body and began to cultivate.

Today, when he possessed the little black cat to cultivate in the back garden, that little white cat did not come.

At the third watch.

His soul returned to his body, and he prepared to rest early.

Tomorrow, he still had to take the money to the Jia Mansion to find that Master Jia and completely settle the matter of Jia Yingchun.

By the way, he would also sell another bottle of medicinal pills.

If there was an opportunity, he also wanted to go and see the legendary Daguanyuan.

Now that the late King had passed away from illness and the Imperial Concubine had become the Imperial Dowager Concubine, he wondered if the Jia Mansion would still continue to embark on large-scale construction to build that luxurious Daguanyuan.

Of course, the project should not be abandoned halfway.

The Imperial Dowager Concubine returning home to visit her relatives was also a glorious matter; although the significance was no longer that great, the face of the nobility still had to be maintained.

Just as he was about to lie down to sleep, he suddenly felt the urge to urinate.

He got off the bed, and just as he stepped out of the room, the door opposite also suddenly opened.

Zhiyuan was wearing a red bodice and a red outer robe, her jet-black hair draped loosely, and when she came out of the room and saw him, she was stunned for a moment, then let out a "pfft" laugh and whispered, "Young Master is also going out to relieve yourself? Isn't there a urinal in the room?"

Luo Zijun said, "Don't you have one in your room too?"

Zhiyuan smiled, walked over to help him open the door, and said, "Young Master first."

Luo Zijun glanced at her beautiful face and the bodice rising on her chest, and said, "You first, don't catch a cold."

Zhiyuan laughed, "Young Master is afraid of the dark again?"

Seeming to recall that night at Guanyin Temple, after she finished speaking, her fair face immediately turned red, and her eyes shimmered with ripples.

Without waiting for Luo Zijun to answer, she blinked her eyes again and said, "Shall this servant accompany Young Master?"

Then she whispered, "Xiaohuan is already asleep."

Luo Zijun glanced at her pink, tender little mouth that she was gently biting, her pitiful and shy little face, and those watery eyes, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Then... then let's go together."

At the same time.

A small white cat circled the back garden, then jumped onto the courtyard wall, looked out into the surrounding night, and arrived at Junzi Residence.

It paced elegantly, strolled outside the courtyard wall for a while, then leaped up onto the wall of Junzi Residence and looked toward the room where the dim, yellowish candlelight was still burning.

After watching for a moment, its pricked ears suddenly twitched, and it turned its head to look at the corner behind the flower bed in the small courtyard; its azure eyes first blinked, looking somewhat bewildered, then gradually widened.

The pitch-black night and the scenery were incomparably clear in its eyes, which were capable of night vision.

The small white cat stood stiffly on the courtyard wall, watching the strange scene in the corner, looking bewildered and dazed.

The soul returned to the body.

She slowly opened her eyes, thinking of the terrifying scene she had just seen, and her heart immediately raced, her cheeks burning hot.

Outside the window, all was silent.

Luo Zijun returned to his room, lay on the bed, and reminisced for a while; just as he was about to sleep, he suddenly felt that the Copper Mirror had received a message.

He took it out and glanced at it; it was from that Fairy of the Jade Pool again: 【Can't sleep】

Luo Zijun ignored her, put away the Copper Mirror directly, and closed his eyes.

You can't sleep, what the hell does that have to do with me?

I don't even know you!

Very soon, he drifted off into dreamland.

In the room opposite, Zhiyuan tiptoed onto the bed and burrowed into the quilt.

Who knew that just as she lay down, Xiaohuan suddenly hugged her, giggled, and bit her ear, saying, "Little girl, confess honestly, what were you doing out just now?"

Zhiyuan was startled and laughed, "Just went to relieve myself."

"Hmph! Not being honest, are you? Since when does going out to relieve yourself involve rinsing your mouth and brushing your teeth? Speak! Did you sneak off to eat something delicious? Did Young Master secretly buy you a sugar figurine?"

"No..."

"Your belly is bulging, yet you say you didn't! You definitely ate something! Open your little mouth quickly, I want to have a taste!"

The two of them frolicked under the quilt.

(End of this chapter)