Chapter 201: Imperial Concubine's Invitation

Inside the room, the warmth was thick.

Bai Daxiaojie was wearing a light gauze white dress, draped in a snow-white fox fur, her long, pitch-black hair draped behind her, and she was sitting at the table reading a book.

Luo Zijun entered the room and stopped in the outer chamber.

The room was divided into an outer chamber and an inner chamber, separated in the middle by curtains and beaded screens.

On the floor of the inner chamber, a snow-white velvet rug was spread out, spotless.

Luo Zijun had just come in from outside, stepping through the accumulated snow, so naturally, it was not appropriate for him to go in and dirty the floor.

"Where did you go this afternoon?"

Bai Daxiaojie raised her head and asked, her tone calm, as if chatting about daily life, not interrogating him.

Luo Zijun said, "I wandered around on the street for a while."

Bai Meixue looked at him and said, "The street? On such a cold day, you were just wandering on the street?"

Luo Zijun said, "I also went to see two friends while I was at it."

Bai Meixue said, "Female?"

Luo Zijun said, "Female."

Bai Meixue did not ask any further, looked at him a few more times, and then said, "Someone came from the palace today; the Queen has invited the female relatives of our Four Great Families to the palace tomorrow night to listen to plays. I heard you are the number one talent in Lin'an and are very skilled at poetry, so you were specifically invited as well."

Luo Zijun said, "The Queen? Isn't it the Empress Dowager?"

Bai Meixue said, "The new King has not yet formally ascended the throne, and he has already been deposed, so she is still the Queen."

Luo Zijun was full of astonishment: "The new King has been deposed? Why is there no news of this in the city?"

Bai Meixue said, "Let's not discuss matters of the palace. I heard that the reason you were invited this time was because Imperial Concubine Jia proposed it; that Imperial Concubine Jia is very fond of your literary talent."

Luo Zijun was taken aback and said, "Isn't it said that the Queen and the Imperial Concubine are incompatible?"

Bai Meixue said, "Who did you hear that from?"

Luo Zijun did not answer, paused, and said, "Can I choose not to go?"

Bai Meixue seemed to think for a moment and said, "Before you married into our family, that would have been possible. After all, scholars have much pride, and the Queen and the Imperial Concubine likely wouldn't have blamed you. But now, you have married into our family and are a member of the Bai Family; if you refuse, it would mean my Bai Family does not know what is good for them."

Luo Zijun sighed.

Bai Meixue raised her eyebrows slightly: "The Queen is the number one beauty of our Daliang, born with a beauty that could topple cities; don't you want to go take a look?"

Luo Zijun said, "I have already gotten my hands on the number one beauty in the world, so who cares about the number one beauty of Daliang?"

Bai Meixue was stunned, then "hummed," and asked a question she already knew the answer to: "Who is the number one beauty in the world? When did you get your hands on her?"

Luo Zijun said, "Fenfen, I got my hands on her last night; does Daxiaojie not know?"

A sound suddenly came from outside the door.

Bai Meixue ignored him and said, "Wait at home tomorrow night, don't run around everywhere again."

"Yes, Daxiaojie."

Luo Zijun answered respectfully and took his leave.

After exiting the room, Bai Bai secretly pointed at the corner of the corridor nearby.

Luo Zijun understood, gave a "cough," and said, "Bai Bai, Qingqing, I'm going back, you two go to sleep early."

As he spoke, he walked toward the corner without a sound.

Just as he reached the front, a head poked out from the corner sneakily, eyes wide and lively, seemingly wanting to see the direction he had left in, but suddenly seeing him arrive right in front of her.

"Ah..."

Fenfen was startled and turned to run.

Luo Zijun grabbed her collar and lifted her petite body off the ground, as if lifting a kitten, bringing her before him, and said, "What are you doing being sneaky?"

Fenfen let her head hang, her hands and feet dangling, truly like a caught kitten, pitifully hanging before him, motionless.

"I'm asking you a question, do you want another spanking?"

Luo Zijun threatened fiercely.

Fenfen hung her head, twisting her two index fingers together in front of her, her little face red, and said weakly, "I was... I was being sneaky, eavesdropping on what the master was saying..."

Luo Zijun lifted her higher, looked at her pink and tender little face, and said, "Why do you have to be sneaky and eavesdrop on what the master is saying?"

Fenfen lowered her long eyelashes, bit her pink and tender little lips, her fingers still twisting in front of her, and said shyly, "I... I missed the master..."

Luo Zijun was stunned for a moment and said, "Didn't we just part this morning?"

Fenfen's eyelashes trembled, her petite body squirmed a few times in his hands, and she bit her pink lips and said shyly, "I, I missed you again..."

Luo Zijun looked at her watery eyes and her shy, cute appearance, and remembered the gentle lingering of last night; he suddenly pulled her into his arms and said, "Hang on."

"Ah?"

Fenfen was stunned, not understanding.

Luo Zijun said no more, let her go, and then stepped off the corridor.

The little girl in his arms had already instinctively wrapped her arms tightly around his neck, her legs wrapped around his waist, like a little pendant, hanging steadily on his chest, and she even tilted up her shy and lovely little face, her watery eyes gazing at him infatuatedly.

Bai Bai and Qingqing stood on the corridor, both with expressions of complete dullness.

"Creak..."

Luo Zijun pushed open the small door in the wall and returned to his own small courtyard.

Xiaohuan and Ziyuan were waiting for him in the corridor; seeing him appear with someone hanging in his arms, they were stunned for a moment, then exchanged a look and hurriedly returned to their room first.

The two entered the outer chamber and let down the curtains.

Luo Zijun entered the room, closed the door, then went to the inner chamber, placed the person in his arms on the bed, bit her ear, and whispered, "Take off your clothes yourself first, the master will be back after taking a leak."

The young girl said shyly, "Mm..."

Luo Zijun left the room.

The silhouette reflected on the curtain began to take off her clothes one by one, then climbed into the quilt naked to wait.

But she waited and waited, yet did not see that person return. Xiaohuan and Ziyuan outside also waited and waited, but did not see that person return either.

They waited until the third watch of the night.

Xiaohuan finally could not help but leave the room to search everywhere, and finally discovered her Young Master in the room next door.

"Snore... snore..."

Luo Zijun was lying on the bed in the room next door, sleeping soundly.

Xiaohuan: "..."

She returned to the room and, suppressing her laughter, told Ziyuan.

Ziyuan also could not help but cover her mouth and laugh for a while, then whispered: "Xiaohuan, go quickly and tell Fenfen, let her sleep early, so she doesn't have to keep waiting."

Xiaohuan said: "You go, I don't dare..."

Ziyuan was also a bit embarrassed, but still bit the bullet and went to the inner room.

!

Fenfen, who was wrapped in a quilt and about to fall asleep while waiting, suddenly heard footsteps and immediately felt joy in her heart, saying: "Husband, you finally came. I thought you had fallen into the latrine."

Ziyuan let out a "pfft" of laughter and hurriedly said: "You go to sleep quickly, don't wait for him. He is probably tired and fell asleep in the room next door."

Fenfen: "Ah..."

Ziyuan suppressed her laughter, went to the outer room, got into bed, and collapsed into a fit of giggles with Xiaohuan under the quilt.

Luo Zijun had practiced his divine soul for an hour, then returned to sleep.

He had to get up early tomorrow to go out of the city to hunt, and he had to go to the palace tomorrow night, so he had to rest well and build up his energy.

He had been played with by his Senior Sister during the day, and played with Chujian in the evening; where would he have the energy to play again now?

Besides, he had only played with this girl last night.

This sleep lasted until dawn.

When he got up, there was already no one in the room next door.

Xiaohuan and Ziyuan saw him and doubled over with laughter.

Xiaohuan said: "Young Master, you are too bad. Couldn't you have just told Sister Fenfen directly? You made her strip bare and wait in bed for most of the night."

After she finished speaking, she could not help but cover her mouth and laugh again.

Luo Zijun washed his face and said: "I didn't want to refuse because I saw she was too enthusiastic, and I felt embarrassed."

Ziyuan laughed: "You were too embarrassed to refuse, but you were not embarrassed to lie to her?"

Luo Zijun said: "How is that lying? It was because I was too tired last night; after I finished peeing, I went to the wrong room, and I was too lazy to change, so I fell asleep as soon as I lay down."

"Hmph, lying again!"

Xiaohuan snorted and said: "Sister Fenfen didn't sleep all night last night and left crying this morning."

Luo Zijun said: "You saw her cry?"

Xiaohuan said: "This servant heard it."

Luo Zijun said: "That girl was fake crying; she was just trying to trick you all."

If one were to talk about who in this Bai Mansion was the best at acting, it would have to be that girl.

After finishing breakfast.

Luo Zijun gave the two of them detailed instructions before leaving the house.

He changed his clothes in a small alley, put on a Bamboo Hat, and went straight to the Juxian Hall.

It was still early, and the others did not seem to have arrived yet.

Luo Zijun greeted the shopkeeper, and while eating the pastries sent over by the waiter, he thought about matters of cultivation.

Last time, because of that Demon Beast core and eating Demon Beast meat, he had broken through continuously, and in just over a month, he had suddenly broken through to the Martial Artist Fifth Realm.

He wondered how much time it would take to advance to the Six Realms.

He hoped to hunt another Demon Beast to bring back for meat during this hunting trip.

Ordinary meat and Demon Beast meat were vastly different; most Martial Artists who hunted a Demon Beast would not sell it all, and usually kept the Demon Beast meat to eat themselves.

The fur, claws, and so on of a Demon Beast alone could sell for quite a lot of money.

The five thousand taels of silver he had to pay his Senior Sister every month should not be difficult.

Just as he was thinking about these things, a burst of footsteps suddenly came from the stairs, and then a pretty young girl in a red dress with a slender figure walked up. After seeing him, her expression changed slightly, but she quickly returned to normal, walked to the other side with a cold, pretty face, and sat down.

Luo Zijun said directly: "Miss Xu, have you brought the two thousand taels of silver you owe me?"

Xu Ziyin's eyebrows twitched, and she said coldly: "No."

Luo Zijun said: "Is it that you have no money, or that you don't want to pay it back?"

Xu Ziyin slowly clenched her fists, was silent for a moment, and said: "No money."

Luo Zijun said: "Not even one hundred taels? You can pay it back one hundred taels at a time."

Xu Ziyin still said: "No."

Luo Zijun suddenly stood up and said: "It seems Miss Xu wants to welsh on the debt."

Xu Ziyin trembled in fear, hurriedly stood up, retreated a few steps, and stared at him tightly, saying: "No... it's not that, I really... really don't have any money right now..."

Luo Zijun said: "Then when will you have it?"

Xu Ziyin clenched her fists and, enduring the humiliation, said: "I will have it once I go out of the city this time and hunt a Demon Beast."

Luo Zijun nodded and said: "Then I will wait for your good news."

He paused, then said in a rough voice: "If you really can't pay it back, you could actually use something else as a substitute, after all, Miss Xu is so beautiful."

Xu Ziyin glared at him hatefully and gritted her teeth, saying: "I would rather die!"

Luo Zijun snorted coldly and sat back in his original seat.

(End of this chapter)