After a few more days, Yun still did not come to patronise the Jiugua House. Because of this, Murong Yunshu summoned Li Wunai and Yun Si Niang to think of countermeasures.
"We can't just sit still waiting for death anymore." Murong Yunshu suddenly murmured like she was talking to herself.
"You want to take the initiative to find Yun?" Yun Si Niang asked.
"No, let him come to me." Murong Yunshu shook her head.
"He only kills those who deserve to die. You don't have anyone who deserves to die here, so how would he come to you?" Yun Si Niang asked.
"I don't have one right now." Murong Yunshu said.
Yun Si Niang did not understand. "What do you mean?"
Murong Yunshu didn't answer her question. She pondered for a moment and then said to Li Wunai, "Can Great Master do me a favour?"
Hearing the word 'Great Master', Li Wunai felt a cold chill run down from his back through his body. "You tell me what it is first." Li Wunai said cautiously. Most of the trouble in this world was either because one was too fast in making promises or too slow to refuse. He didn't want to get himself into trouble.
Murong Yunshu picked up a writing brush and wrote a few words on a piece of paper. She handed it to him afterwards.
"You still have time to make things mysterious." Li Wunai muttered while taking the paper to look at it. When he saw the big black letters like jinx grinning at him, he got so angry that blood nearly filled his brain. "You, you, you......how dare you think of that!"
"Just say whether you're going to help or not." Murong Yunshu responded indifferently.
"I'm not going to." A gentleman would rather die than be humiliated. Li Wunai decisively refused.
Murong Yunshu was not angry or annoyed. She just casually said, "Okay. I'll send someone to burn the Shaolin Temple tomorrow."
"......"
Yun Si Niang saw Li Wunai's 'you can just go to hell' expression, and she blinked in bafflement. She pulled out the piece of paper from his hand and unfolded it. At first, she was stunned, and then she laughed out loud. "Ha ha ha ha ha......ha ha ha ha......" Her laughter was deafening.
"What are you laughing at?! Be careful, or I'll visit you first!" Li Wunai frustratingly said as his face darkened from anger.
Her laughter stopped abruptly as Yun Si Niang became startled by his words. Soon after that, a charming smile spread on her face with her eyes staring straight at Li Wunai, "It is an honour for this servant to be visited by the Great Master."
"You――" Li Wunai was furious. He swung his arm and said to Murong Yunshu, "You can go burn the Shaolin Temple all you want. You paid for the rebuilding of the Shaolin Temple anyway. You can burn it as much as you like."
Murong Yunshu pondered before saying, "It doesn't matter to me to burn a building that I've lavishly spent my money on, but burning a temple......is detrimental to my yin virtue."
Hmph, you still have some conscience. Li Wunai had a smug look on his face.
"But if I do not retaliate, it is not my style."
"......"
"So, you tell your disciples to pack up and leave as soon as possible."
"......"
Murong Yunshu ignored the already messed up Li Wunai as she slowly asked, "Lu-er, you say, what do you think the precious Fengshui of that piece of land where the Shaolin Temple is good for?"
"Well......" Lu-er crooked her head to think and finally said, "The precious Fengshui of that piece of land.....is best used for a place to live. But if Miss lives on it, it will feel a bit strange......"
"Why should I live in that unlucky place?" Murong Yunshu asked indifferently in return.
"Uh......didn't Miss just now say the precious Fengshui of that piece of land?" Lu-er felt like her head did not have any brain.
Murong Yunshu explained, "The Feng Shui is precious to the dead, but it's a bit unlucky for the living."
"I see!!" Lu-er's face showed her realisation as she suggested, "Then let the dead stay there――" Lu-er hardly finished speaking when she suddenly could sense a strong murderous aura and hurriedly stopped. She shrunk back and became silent, not daring to say more.
Murong Yunshu said, "Right. It's the right place for dead people to stay. Murong Mansion has done all kinds of good deeds but never helped with burying corpses. Let's use it as a mass grave. In the future, if someone dies there, bury him on the spot. This can also be considered virtuous."
Mass grave...... Li Wunai became incapable of speaking. If the Shaolin Temple land became a mass grave, he would be too ashamed to face anyone while still alive, and when he died, he would be too embarrassed to go to hell.
In the end, for the sake of Shaolin Temple's reputation, Li Wunai had to bow to the 'evil forces' and offer up his reputation.
*
Half a month later, the Jiugua House was full of people. Two jianghu men sitting by the door chatted.
"I heard a flower thief had recently appeared in the Western Shu and the surrounding area. He has committed ten major monthly crimes and always did it during the daytime. Now the jianghu has become even more chaotic. I don't know which family's daughter will be his next victim." The big man with a straw rope tied to his head said.
"Don't you know? Before committing a crime, that flower thief will send a flower thief post to the victim beforehand, with an ingot of silver, so everyone called him the silver thief."
"It's insulting to tarnish someone's girl's innocence with just one ingot of silver."
"Who says it's not? I also heard that......" The big man lowered his voice and continued, "I heard that the owner of Jiugua House also received a flower thief post last night."
"Darn! Is this true?"
"A thousand times true."
"But I heard that the owner of the Jiugua House is the young mistress of Murong Mansion. Not to mention that the Murong Mansion is too rich for people to mess up with; her husband alone is enough to make one lose one's gal just from hearing the wind about him, causing one to shrink back at the sight of her. Can it be that the flower thief has eaten a bear heart and a leopard gall? That's why he dares to target her."
"You don't know that!" The big man took a sip of wine, then put the wine glass heavily on the table and said, "That Chu Changge has long disappeared from the jianghu. There are even rumours saying that he is already dead. Now, Murong Yunshu is just a widow with a dead husband. For that silver thief willing to touch her, it is already her blessing......" halfway through the big man's sentence, only to hear a swish sound next to his ear, and he saw a chopstick stuck to the wall over his head. "Who is it? Who dares to assassinate this Great Master?" The big man pulled out the chopstick over his head and shouted.
"If I were you, I would leave immediately with my tail between my legs." A voice filled with mirth could be heard coming from the counter.
"It was you?" Seeing that the other party was someone he should not mess up with, the big man's voice weakened a few points.
"Of course, it's not me." Yun Shi Niang covered her mouth and laughed again, saying, "If it were me, the chopsticks would have stuck in your eyes at this moment, and I would not have allowed you to pull them out." She still had her smiling expression, looking incomparable sweet and charming, without a trace of murderous intention.
The big man's heart was frightened. He immediately understood that the other party intended to let him go by throwing the chopsticks over his head. Thus, he silently sat down when he suddenly noticed a figure flash from the corner of his eyes. When his eyes swung over, he saw a man in a black cloak sitting in the corner. He couldn't help but feel puzzled. He sat at the door to guard the place and observe all the comers. But――when did this man come in?
Not only the big man was puzzled. After the minor incident just now, all the guests in the Jiugua House were finally aware of the cloaked man in the corner and were puzzled over his sudden appearance.
Yun Si Niang also smiled and looked at the cloaked man leisurely and made a snap of her fingers at the hall runner. "Go and call the Lady Boss."
"Yes."
Not long after, Murong Yunshu, dressed in white, appeared in the lobby. Her beauty was as touching as before, as her skin could easily damage with just a flick. Her growing beautiful hair was the only trace of years left on her body.
Murong Yunshu had been running Jiugua House for some time, but she hardly appeared in the lobby. Hence, this was the first time the jianghu guests, even the frequent visitors, saw her. They could not help but look straight at her. They all sighed in their hearts: no wonder that the silver thief would place a thief flower post on her.
Murong Yunshu ignored the hot stares around her and walked toward Yun Si Niang, asking indifferently, "What's wrong?"
Yun Si Niang said, "It's not a big deal. It's just that a rare guest has suddenly appeared in the lobby."
"Rare guest?" Murong Yunshu raised her eyebrows. She looked around the room, and suddenly, her gaze rested in a specific direction.
"It's a rare guest, right?" Yun Si Niang chuckled lowly beside her ear.
Murong Yunshu, unable to listen to Yun Si Niang's words, stared at the cloaked man in a daze, only to feel that time had frozen and her brain had stopped thinking.
Suddenly, Murong Yunshu felt an impulse out of nowhere to quickly run forward, with people on the left and right gazing at her with a stunned expression as she lifted the cloak on the head of the man in black.
Darn! The whole room gasped. What a beautiful man, just like an ice sculpture!
The crowd hurriedly retracted their eyes, not daring to take another peep. The black-clad man's eyes were as cold as the dead, with no sign of life and not even a killing aura, as if he was a walking corpse, causing people to feel creepy when looking at him.
Murong Yunshu stood in front of the black-clad man, looking at that unfamiliar face for a long time, before saying, "Cloaks are not allowed in the Jiugua Building. I can ignore this once, but it won't be the same next time." Her tone was calm, and her expression was breezy as if she had wanted to say this to him from the beginning.
The man in black did not look at her as he gathered the cloak that she had lifted and put it on the table. "A pot of clear wine." He requested.
For a moment, Murong Yunshu, like being cast a fixation, could not move. She only looked at him with fascination, and her gaze became complicated. There was a smile, and there were also tears in them.
This voice, besides him, who else in the world would have such a pleasant voice?
Murong Yunshu suddenly wanted to hug him very much despite everything.
When Murong Yunshu came back to her senses, she had already hugged him somehow. She closed her eyes as she sensed the familiar smell and temperature.
"Miss, please behave yourself."
Boom. Her joy collapsed. Murong Yunshu slowly raised and straightened her body. What she saw was a stranger with unfamiliar eyes looking at her indifferently. Without everyone needing to make a guess, she had been acting based on her feelings despite herself, and now, she didn't know where to put her hand and feet while feeling embarrassed. He had the expression of a teenager without having sexual awareness while his suitor was pestering him.
He did not recognise her.
This realisation was like a basin of cold water pouring down her head which splashed Murong Yunshu, who had a momentary loss of control, awake. [+]
When Murong Yunshu was thinking about how to deal with the aftermath, an alarming cry came from her side――"Murong Meizi, watch out!" It was too late for her to figure out what this warning was for, as Murong Yunshu could only feel her body being picked up and spun in the air. In her shock, she saw a cold face.
He saved her!
Her hope rose again. Murong Yunshu suppressed the ecstasy in her heart and tried desperately to keep herself calm.
"You are the Silver Thief?" The man in black put down Murong Yunshu and asked the masked man in front of him.
"Not bad. I am the Silver Thief. Who are you?" The masked man spoke in a thick voice as if trying to disguise his actual voice.
"I am the one who came to kill you."
As his voice died away, the man in black made his move.
The two figures immediately tangled with each other. The diners in the lobby all retreated to the side――making room for them to fight.
Soon, the two men fought from the lobby to the backyard.
The crowd wanted to follow them to watch the action, but Soul Chaser and Sou Ming stopped them. Although the two did not say a word, they had sent a signal to the crowd――those who cross this line will die.
*
In the backyard of the Jiugua Building, winds rose and clouds scudded as daggers and swords glinted and flashed around. Leaves rustled and fell all over the ground.
"All right, all right, I surrender!" The masked man waved his hands till they crossed as a sign of truce. Seeing the man in black also stopped, the masked man just tore off the black face towel. He threw it on the ground mercilessly, with the momentum of a peasant turning himself into a master, which could raise the eyebrows of those who saw this scene. "Finally, you're here! It's not in vain that I've been a flower thief for a month!"
"It was you?" The man in black's voice had a bit of surprise in it.
Li Wunai: "Yes, it's me."
"Why did you pretend to be a flower thief to lure me here?"
"I'm luring you here because someone wants to see you. I pretended to be a flower thief because you were too slow to come and kill me, and since someone couldn't just let me live too comfortably, they have come up with this dirty trick that framed me!" Li Wunai finished answering the man in black's question in one breath. His voice was indignant.
The man in black was silent for a while and looked sideways at Murong Yunshu standing under the tree. "Why do you want to see me?"
"Why did you want to save me?" Murong Yunshu asked instead of answering.
The man in black: "He asked me to save you."
"Who is he?" Murong Yunshu had an urgent face.
"It's none of your business."
Four words, like a needle, plunged into Murong Yunshu's heart, and she almost choked with pain. After a long time of contemplation, she raised her eyes to look directly at him and said word by word: "Chu Changge, I don't know what has happened to you in the past three years, nor do I know what kind of trouble you have encountered that has forced you to treat me as a stranger, but I want you to know――I will live if you live, I will die if you die, and if you become a devil, I will accompany you to become a devil. No matter what you have become, whether you recognise me or not, you will always be my husband. There is not a single thing that has happened to you that is not related to me." After saying that, she turned around and left.
Without knowing why the man in black stared at the view of her departing back, and his chest ached somehow. "I am not Chu Changge." He exclaimed as he looked at her back.
Murong Yunshu smiled and paused in her footsteps. After a long time, she spoke, "Then tell him these words."
"I don't know where he is."
"Then......pretend I didn't say anything."
The man in black wanted to say something else, but Murong Yunshu had already walked away.
"Brother, are you honestly not Chu Changge?" Li Wunai asked, patting the man in black's shoulder.
The man in black waved his hand away with a disgusted look and said in a cold voice, "No."
Li Wunai: "Then why didn't you kill me? I saw your face, you know."
The man in black was stunned. He didn't answer his question and flew away.
"Probably because I'm sworn brothers with Chu Changge!" Li Wunai shouted at his back.
It was that Chu Changge again. Who the hell is this Chu Changge? Maybe......Night will know—the man in black thought in his mind.
Noob Translator's Musing
Guess who Night is?
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