Chapter 45: Get Married Right Here and Enter the Bridal Chamber Tonight

The next morning, Hu Honglian hummed a tune as she cooked noodles with braised pig’s trotters before the stove.

The meat Tian Xiang had packed up and brought back the night before had been used by the two old folks to cover the dough sheets, while the pig’s trotters had been deliberately saved for their daughter’s noodles.

Just as the noodles were ready, Zhuang Ermei arrived and smiled at Hu Honglian.

“Ermei, you’re here. Have you eaten? Oh dear, what happened to your face? There’s a bloody scratch on it.”

What a pitiful girl. She was already a grown woman of twenty, yet her face was still marked with injuries. At a glance, it was obvious that there had been a fight at home—

After staying up until well past midnight, Fuyun Nuan flopped onto the bed and promptly knew nothing more.

The guest room in the Chancellor’s residence was actually quite comfortable. It was not as good as staying with his master, where he never had to trouble himself by thinking about what he needed.

Ling Xuewei turned around in surprise. The chanting came from a young man; it was not Ling Xuewei’s voice.

For a moment, Baili Fenlan fell into deep thought. Was she dead? After searching for so many years, had the result truly been that her elder sister was dead?

Although his divine sense had long since surpassed that of cultivators at the same level, its range of perception and influence remained confined to the continent.

Before the Empress Dowager, she was modest and courteous, lowering her brows and appearing meek and docile, which naturally aroused great pity. The Empress Dowager bestowed many ornaments upon her. Naturally, given the Empress Dowager’s lofty status and meticulous manner, she also rewarded the principal consort and Consort Lin, lest the principal consort feel slighted. As the legitimate wife of the Chancellor’s aristocratic clan, this arrangement helped balance the grievance the princess consort might otherwise have felt.

Ling Jiantong bit down hard on her whitening lips and suddenly raised her eyes. Whatever happened, catching up with Situ Qianchen was the most important thing now. She feared that, in a fit of anger, Situ Qianchen might do something outrageous—then Brother Qian Nan’s sacrifice would truly have been in vain.

As for cultivators who dared to set their sights on Li Hexian—such as those who secretly attacked from the ground with talismans or magical treasures, hoping to knock his spirit vessel from the sky—

Lin Ling was a native of Shanghai, China, who had returned after studying abroad. One of her classmates was a senior developer at Fist Company, a position of no small importance.

Li Yi smiled but did not answer. This made Yan Shuangying take another look at him. Though he was not fond of speaking, he was skilled at observation, and after all this time, he had come to understand Li Yi’s personality to some extent.

“What? You still think it’s too little?” Lin Huixin said, taking another thirty thousand yuan from her bag and placing it atop the money already there.

At around four in the afternoon, Ji Ran was doing her homework when she suddenly heard a bout of retching from Teacher Luo’s room. Moments later, Teacher Luo flung open the door, rushed into the bathroom, and began vomiting violently.

Senfeng laughed and patted the long sword hanging at his waist. Though it looked somewhat old on the outside, when he drew it from its sheath, the blade’s keen gleam still startled everyone present.

“The Fuzhou incident was indeed caused by a rat’s dropping among the clerks. If His Majesty punishes me, I certainly will not shirk responsibility,” Wang Cen declared indignantly.

“Master Tang is also willing to go.” Ruo Ao Duxing had no desire to remain in Qifeng either. The thought of going to Qi and killing Qin soldiers was exhilarating.

This thought immediately filled the middle-aged mage’s entire mind. Yet just as he was about to turn and leave, he suddenly realized that several people—some familiar, some strangers—were staring straight at him.

“I thought I was the lunatic. Turns out you’re the lunatic!” Gale said in a voice that seemed to rise from the depths of his throat.

Sensing the utter firmness of Julius’s resolve, Reinhard clenched his teeth, then helplessly stepped aside from in front of his friend Julius. He watched as his close friend and fellow officer, carrying a tragic and resolute air, slowly entered the dueling arena.

“Not exactly. Someone said that an unidentified person wearing a cloak had been spotted in the garden, so I came here to search for them,” the Imperial Guard soldier said, bowing.

Wei Suo was Ji Ran’s buddy from the dormitory next door. Since the two rooms were adjacent, they often visited each other.