Free Web NovelAs night deepened, a gentle breeze rustled the Buyun Tower's sea crystal lamps, causing them to glow with a soft light.
Qin Yuzhi, wearing an eye mask, yawned as she descended the stairs, only to find the table empty. Ying Bing was there, sipping tea and occasionally glancing outside.
Shang Qinqing sat opposite her, cracking melon seeds.
"Where's Young Master Li?"
"He went to Prince Zhennan's Mansion," Shang Qinqing said.
"The Mansion... What's he doing there? He didn't even come back to cook."
Qin Yuzhi's voice carried a hint of morning grumpiness. freewebnσvel.cѳm
Every day, she ran errands for Li Mo in her dreams. Not only did she not get paid, but now he wasn't even providing meals.
"I think normally he should have returned by now, but he hasn't. And yesterday, he offended a high-ranking noble from Great Yu."
Shang Qinqing's gaze flickered to Ying Bing.
Seeing her looking like a devoted wife waiting for her husband, she narrowed her eyes and said in a low voice: "Is there a possibility that as soon as he entered the Mansion, he was secretly arrested?"
"!"
Ying Bing remained expressionless, yet couldn't help but look up and glance outside.
"It serves him right to be arrested!"
Qin Yuzhi huffed, "When I re-establish the Demon Summoning Sect, return it to the Huanshen Sect, and make it grand and powerful, I'll arrest Li Mo, lock him in a dark room, whip him with a small leather whip, and not give him any food."
"Hmm?"
Ying Bing silently turned her head and looked at her with her Ice Cube face.
"Alright, alright, no small leather whip then."
"And you can't not give him food either," Ying Bing said earnestly.
"Right now, I'm still waiting for him to cook for me."
Qin Yuzhi sniffed, feeling quite wronged.
Young Master Li was probably enjoying delicious food at the Mansion, while she was here starving. She wasn't even allowed to complain. Was there any law and order left?
Shang Qinqing stared at Qin Yuzhi for a long time, then suddenly seemed to remember something and raised an eyebrow: "Are you Qin Yuzhi, who disappeared with the Huanshen Sect's Yunmeng Hall?"
"You know me?"
Qin Yuzhi was startled. Nowadays, even members of the Demon Summoning Sect didn't remember her, yet someone recognized her.
"I am a pure-blooded Azure Luan born three hundred years after your slumber and disappearance. I oversee human marriages and have met the Huanshen Sect Leader," Shang Qinqing finally confirmed, it was indeed her.
"So that's it, you know me. It seems my deeds weren't forgotten after my slumber."
Qin Yuzhi put her hands on her hips in an old-fashioned manner and sighed.
She had the feeling of old acquaintances meeting, with tears welling up in their eyes.
Shang Qinqing's expression was complex: "I have indeed heard of them..."
"Wait a minute," Qin Yuzhi suddenly realized and asked, "I instructed the high-ranking members of the sect to wake me every three hundred years."
"Since Great Shang hadn't fallen after three hundred years, why did no one come to wake me even once? Did a drastic change occur within the sect at {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} that time?"
"No, that's not it," Shang Qinqing shook her head, hesitant to speak.
But seeing Qin Yuzhi's intense curiosity, she still said:
"All the high-ranking members of the Huanshen Sect believed you shouldn't be awakened."
"The story behind this is long. Initially, I heard others say that your slumber was accompanied by a great terror, that you absolutely should not be approached, and even more so, you absolutely must not be awakened. Otherwise, if that entity woke up, the entire world would fall into eternal sleep."
Ying Bing also lowered her gaze, listening.
Even she was unaware of these secrets from the Great Shang era.
"What they said is correct... No, that's not right."
Qin Yuzhi furrowed her brows: "Precisely because of that, this Huanshen Sect Leader instructed them to regularly check and find a way to completely Seal the Yunmeng Ancestral God, and to free this Huanshen Sect Leader."
"Don't rush, let me finish."
"Oh, oh..."
Shang Qinqing continued:
"Later, I discovered that there was another reason why they didn't wake you up."
"For example, the Old Ancestor of the Mingjiao Clan, who controlled wind and rain, was on the verge of perishing due to insufficient Life Qi from the populace."
"On his deathbed, he told me that he had hidden a lot of gold, silver, treasures, colorful shells, and coral from his wife, all in his secret stash. And the location of his secret stash, besides himself..."
"Only you knew."
Qin Yuzhi: "?"
So, just because they didn't want their private money to be known by a second person, they opposed waking her up?
"And the Clan Chief of the Tianma Clan, he had several small mares outside that his wife didn't know about. Only you knew about this too."
"??"
"The Clan Chief of the Luwu Clan actually liked to wear human women's clothes; Yu Shi Gong, the most handsome man in Great Shang, suffered from hemorrhoids; Young Master Shaoyun, whose poetry and prose have been passed down for centuries and who is still a model gentleman, actually loved women's feet..."
"..."
Upon hearing this, Ying Bing's beautiful face drooped slightly, and she squeezed the boy with a large head.
"So they didn't wake me because they were afraid I'd dine out on those secrets for a lifetime? How could they be like this?"
Qin Yuzhi was very angry, and at the same time, felt even more wronged.
She hadn't even dined out on those secrets many times, only three, four, five, or six times, that's all.
Shang Qinqing sighed: "Because you know a person's face but not their heart. Who would have thought that he, who was as beautiful as jade and unparalleled in the world, would actually like feet?"
She was also very shocked when she learned about these things.
If they weren't about to die, she would have at least dined out on it five, six, seven, or eight times... "Oi, Little Ice, your tea is about to spill!"
"..."
Ying Bing looked at the swaying sea crystal lamp. The warm lamplight made her eyes seem a little lost.
"Little Ice, you also think they're going too far, don't you?"
"Li Mo probably doesn't."
"???"
Qin Yuzhi still didn't understand what this had to do with Li Mo.
And... why wasn't that boy back yet?
"It seems I'll have to go to work on an empty stomach today."
"Huanshen Sect Leader Qin, wait for me a moment."
Although Shang Qinqing and Qin Yuzhi were generations apart and had never met, they were still on the same side and had a lot to talk about.
As she left, Qin Yuzhi couldn't help but turn back and say:
"Little Ice, he might not be back tonight. You should also get some rest early." freewebnσvel.cøm
"I know. I'll have a bit more tea."
"Alright."
Shang Qinqing pursed her lips. This wasn't the first time she had heard this.
The boy with a large head had been played with for so long that his forehead was almost glowing.
The two went upstairs.
The hall fell silent. Ying Bing wondered if she should use the Communal Moon to ask him.
But last time, the Taiyin Intent Soul lit up when Li Mo was in the middle of something important. And at this hour, how should she ask him?
Should she ask him if he wanted to sleep together?
She knew that secrets could be dined out on for a lifetime, but if she did this, she might be dined out on for a lifetime by him... Meanwhile.
On the top floor of Buyun Tower, in the Ice Cube's room.
"Where did the Ice Cube go?"
Li Mo had returned using the Somersault Cloud.
Usually, when he returned, the Ice Cube would have just finished her cultivation, the timing would be perfect.
If she was in Buyun Tower, she should have returned to her room by now.
"When did she go out?"
Li Mo decided to go to the Buyun Tower's hall to ask the Shopkeeper.
As soon as he reached the hall, he noticed that most of the lights were off, and the light was dim.
And at their usual table, the Ice Cube sat silently, perfectly positioned under a bright lamp.
The dim lamplight made her appear even more gentle, but her brows were furrowed, as if something was troubling her.
