Chapter 180: Only One Room

“If you ask me, Disciple, we should just charge into the auction house right now and sweep everything inside clean!”

“Why auction, why spend money? Follow Master and get it for zero yuan!”

Xiu Qingcheng had a bold idea.

After all, in the Nine Provinces of Jintian, the legal system was only used to restrain ordinary people; for spiritual cultivators like Meng Yingxing, it all depended on fists!

“Master, that’s not good… let’s see if we can buy it first.”

Meng Yingxing was somewhat troubled.

In his bones, Meng Yingxing was still a righteous man of a decent sect; he was afraid he couldn’t do something like robbing an auction house.

“Just be bold! **Holiday!”

Xiu Qingcheng tapped Meng Yingxing’s nose disdainfully, seeming to feel that Meng Yingxing was too constrained.

Xiu Qingcheng snorted and left Meng Yingxing behind.

Hearing Xiu Qingcheng’s crude words, Meng Yingxing remained in place, lost in thought.

“Just… be bold?”

Meng Yingxing looked up at Xiu Qingcheng’s swaying, fragrant back.

Then he shook his head to himself.

“…Better be a bit timid, Meng Yingxing.”

“What are you two chatting about?”

Shen Xu looked back at Xiu Qingcheng and Meng Yingxing, who had fallen some distance behind her, curious about what whispers they were exchanging behind her back.

“Ha, we were just marveling that Yelan City is very big, a very nice city.”

In front of Shen Xu, who could be called the ‘police’ of Yelan City, Xiu Qingcheng dared not say she was preparing to rob the Yelan City auction house.

It might instantly make them public enemies of the whole city, adding unnecessary trouble.

Xiu Qingcheng hid a fake smile under her veil; her gently curved brows and eyes made her look dignified and superior in Shen Xu’s view.

If Shen Xu ignored the way Xiu Qingcheng had gorged herself in the restaurant just now.

Thinking it over, Xiu Qingcheng decided to settle down in Yelan City with Meng Yingxing first.

There were still seven days until the auction of the Blood Kong Flower at the Yelan City auction house. This time was neither long nor short, but they couldn’t really go back to the Tianfeng Sect and come back again.

Since she was a great person, after wandering around Yelan City for a while earlier, Xiu Qingcheng and Meng Yingxing followed Shen Xu to her home to settle down.

Shen Xu lived in a house on Eighteenth Street in Yelan City. On the way, Xiu Qingcheng and Meng Yingxing listened to Shen Xu introduce the place called Eighteenth Street.

And once they arrived at Eighteenth Street, Xiu Qingcheng and Meng Yingxing once again recognized Shen Xu’s powerful, mutated social ability.

The prosperity of Eighteenth Street was no less than any other street in Yelan City, and the neighbors on both sides of the street, merchants, and even passersby would greet Shen Xu with smiles upon seeing her.

“Who are the people behind you?”

“Uncle Li! These are my friends, here to play in Yelan City!”

“Uncle Li, you have to prepare more buns for me tomorrow; I’ll come to get them!”

After greeting the people she knew one by one, Shen Xu said to Xiu Qingcheng beside her: “Do you guys like eating buns? The buns Uncle Li makes are delicious.”

“As long as it’s delicious food, I love it.”

Belatedly, Xiu Qingcheng put on that fake fairy airs, but the words she spoke made people unable to help laughing.

“That’s good… explaining your identities to the neighbors like this, I didn’t offend you, did I?”

After all, they were just ordinary people, different from spiritual cultivators like Xiu Qingcheng and Meng Yingxing.

Only after the words were already spoken did Shen Xu remember to discuss it with the two of them.

“No harm.”

Meng Yingxing shook his head, not minding this matter.

Hearing Meng Yingxing answer like this, Shen Xu felt relieved.

“The spiritual cultivators I encountered before were quite aloof and arrogant; it’s quite rare to see ones as approachable as you two.”

Shen Xu smiled and sighed with emotion.

Xiu Qingcheng didn’t speak.

Meng Yingxing looked at Xiu Qingcheng; she suddenly pursed her lips tightly and put on a serious face, seemingly wanting to become the “aloof spiritual cultivator” Shen Xu mentioned.

“Master, I think over at Miss Shen Xu’s side, you can no longer be associated with an aloof fairy.”

He spoke to Xiu Qingcheng in his mind.

Xiu Qingcheng glanced at Meng Yingxing and said in her mind as well: “Very cool, no chatting.”

Meng Yingxing couldn’t help laughing.

Soon, Shen Xu took them to the place where she lived.

Just as she said, her house was indeed very large; after entering the main gate, there was a large courtyard behind.

It was just that compared to the courtyard of the truly rich and powerful Xu family, it was much inferior.

“Mom? Mom? I’m back!”

As soon as Shen Xu entered the house, she shouted at the top of her lungs.

Her voice was full of energy; presumably, the adults in the entire house could hear it clearly.

Just as Shen Xu’s voice fell, Xiu Qingcheng saw a beautiful woman hurriedly walk out of the room.

“Xu’er, ah, why are you back so early today—who are these two?”

The beautiful woman was surprised that Shen Xu finished work so early today, but at a glance, she saw the man and woman with extraordinary temperaments behind her rough daughter.

The young man was bright as the wind, extraordinarily handsome; his sword eyebrows and starry eyes already had the posture to topple a million young girls.

The woman’s face was covered by a veil, yet it was hard to hide her peerless elegance; those gray eyes, brilliant as stars, made one’s mind intoxicated.

Her surprisingly proportionate legs were exposed bare, her bare feet stepping on the ground, giving rise to sudden thoughts in people’s hearts.

This girl, aren’t her legs cold? Don’t her feet hurt?

This girl isn’t an ordinary person; extraordinarily, it’s not something people like them could speculate about.

Maybe for this girl, shoes were just decorations?

“They helped our City Guard Army a lot. Captain Hong ordered me to take good care of them!”

“They are going to stay in Yelan City for ‘a period of time’, so I thought of letting them stay at our house!”

Shen Xu hooked her lips and introduced Xiu Qingcheng and Meng Yingxing to Mother Shen.

Xiu Qingcheng clasped her hands in front of her body and nodded slightly to Mother Shen.

“I am Xiu Yingxing, and this is my disciple Meng Qingcheng. We are spiritual cultivators and have some matters to resolve in Yelan City; we will trouble you much these days.”

Meng Yingxing also cupped his fists to Mother Shen.

When Xiu Qingcheng spoke, she was serious and methodical, her voice ethereal and hollow, making Mother Shen stunned, really thinking she was a fairy descended from heaven.

“Disciple, be aloof, be aloof.”

Xiu Qingcheng couldn’t help showing off her results to Meng Yingxing.

A faint smile hung on the corner of Meng Yingxing’s mouth, a trace of doting overflowing from the corners of his eyes.

Mother Shen looked at Xiu Qingcheng and Meng Yingxing, suddenly realized something, and immediately bowed to them as well.

“I can tell at a glance that you two are not ordinary people. Along the way, my Shen Xu didn’t cause trouble for you two, right? My Shen Xu is just like this; if she did, I apologize to you two on her behalf!”

Shen Xu curled her lips, putting on a little daughter’s attitude in front of Mother Shen.

“You worry too much; Miss Shen is likable.”

Xiu Qingcheng was still acting, still acting.

She vividly embodied the temperament a fairy should have in front of Mother Shen.

“That is good.”

Mother Shen nodded with a smile, “Please follow me, you two; I will take you to your room.”

Halfway there, Mother Shen suddenly said: “Although there are many empty rooms at home, many haven’t been cleaned for years, and it’s too late to clean them now.”

“So now there is only one room available for moving in.”

Hearing Mother Shen say this, Shen Xu’s eyes widened in disbelief.

“Mom—”

Just as Shen Xu was about to say something, she was secretly pinched by Mother Shen, and she sensibly shut her mouth.

Mother Shen stopped, turning back to ask Xiu Qingcheng and Meng Yingxing: “Is it okay for the two of you to stay together?”

Xiu Qingcheng nodded without much feeling: “Okay.”

Meng Yingxing also nodded as usual: “No harm.”

Mother Shen nodded, “That’s good; I was afraid it wouldn’t work, and I’d only have to make Shen Xu give up hers.”

“At that time, I’d have let my Shen Xu sleep in the courtyard.”

After taking Xiu Qingcheng and the other to the empty room, Mother Shen said she had something to discuss and pulled Shen Xu to a dark corner nearby.

“Mom, aren’t you bored enough to clean the rooms in our house every day? Why lie to them saying there’s only one room?”

Shen Xu still had some patience.

Mother Shen tapped her daughter’s unenlightened head, “Stupid! Didn’t you see the way that young man looked at that girl? He’s clearly interested in her!”

Liked a sentence from Shen Xu very much: “Huh?”

Shen Xu’s eyes widened a few degrees, her voice surprised, “Mom, are you seeing things? The salt this old lady has eaten is more than the rice you’ve eaten; it absolutely can’t be wrong. That’s why I say you’re stupid!”

Mother Shen rolled her eyes, “Besides, these two don’t look like they are of the age appropriate for master and disciple; who knows, maybe these spiritual cultivators play wild?”

“Didn’t you notice? When I asked if it was okay, neither of the two objected! They were familiar with the way, as if they often live together!”

“Otherwise, I would have cleaned up another room!”

analyzed by Mother Shen like this, Shen Xu also felt what her mother said made too much sense.

Sure enough, ginger is still spicy when it’s old!

Shen Xu gave her mother a thumbs up.

“Then I’ll go find them.”

Shen Xu prepared to find Xiu Qingcheng and Meng Yingxing to chat again, wanting to hear if they had any stories to tell her.

Things spiritual cultivators encountered must be much more exciting than for a City Guard soldier like her, right? Just like when their City Guard Army tangled with those demonic beasts today.

Mother Shen grabbed Shen Xu’s hand and glared at her again.

“Go where! Didn’t you say they helped your City Guard Army a lot? Let them rest well!”

“Oh, oh, oh, Mother is wise!”

Xiu Qingcheng took a deep breath in the room Mother Shen prepared for them.

The air was fresh and dust-free; it looked like a room that was cleaned often.

The moment Xiu Qingcheng closed the door, she lay down on the bed in a habitual posture.

She lay sideways on the bed, letting her head hang backwards off the edge of the bed.

In this life, she liked this feeling of blood rushing to her head very much, it was just a pity that now she wasn’t human and couldn’t feel it.

Now only her long hair cascaded down, and Meng Yingxing’s figure was inverted before her eyes.

“Disciple, there are still seven days; how do you plan to spend them?”

Meng Yingxing pondered: “Master, should we look for clues about the Demon Sword Duan Li again?”

Meng Yingxing kept what Xiu Qingcheng wanted in his heart at all times.

However, Xiu Qingcheng fell into a silence.