How to Easily Capture a Long Aotian [Quick Transmigration] 23

Chapter 23: The Unwed Wife of the Favored Son of Heaven (Part 3)

Hua Ruxu swept away the cobwebs in the corner of the inn with a broom and lit the last brazier in the shop.

The bright firelight gradually lit up, illuminating the dim walls of the inn. For a moment, even the wooden windows soaked by the cold wind of the snowfield seemed to warm up.

The ginger tea boiling in the kitchen was bubbling, and the spicy smell drifted over with the wind.

Hua Ruxu glanced at the daylight outside the window, quickly stopped, and said to the two immortal sect disciples who were choosing clothes, “…This white fox fur is also beautiful. Little immortals, you can take your time to choose. I’ll go and check on the fire.”

By the small steps of the inn, several boxes from the Qiankun bags were neatly arranged. This was one of the Hua family’s businesses in the snowfield.

Snowfield winter fruits, various furs.

The snowfield was too cold, and only thick fur could provide some protection. Over time, the people of Yunzhou could all hunt one or two animal skins and sell them to make a living.

Yu Lin had no requirements for the style of winter clothes. Under the recommendation of the madam, he raised his hand slightly, preparing to take the white fox fur.

On the side, Xie Yibai suddenly bent down, reached out and picked up a piece of rex rabbit fur. “This one?”

He put it down again and muttered to himself, “No, no, the color is a bit mixed.”

The young man was tall and slender, his waist lean. He held Ding Canghai in his arms, lowered his eyes to look at the fashionable styles that the madam had taken out, and picked and chose with great interest.

“…” Yu Lin looked at him, and after a moment, he silently sat back down, picked up his teacup and took a light sip, swallowing the “this one is fine” that was on the tip of his tongue.

The fire in the inn was crackling, a completely different temperature from the cold wind outside.

An unknown amount of time passed. Yu Lin sat on the stool, feeling his cheeks slightly hot from the fire in the shop, and was drowsy.

Xie Yibai frowned in thought and finally made a decision. He took a piece and held it up to him.

A warmth on his neck. Yu Lin looked up and, in the young man’s sharp gaze, felt the warm touch of the fur.

His eyelashes lifted slightly, his eyes opened, and his hand rested on his knee as he looked up at Xie Yibai.

Xie Yibai was staring at the silver fox cloak in his hand and turned to ask him, “How about this one?”

Yu Lin turned his head to glance at it and was dazzled by the circle of silver-white that was exactly the same as on his own body.

He nodded. “Good.”

Xie Yibai then switched hands and picked up the softer sable. “Then how about this one? Do you like it?”

These were the two most beautiful styles he had chosen…

If there was any commonality, it was that on the pure white fur, there was a circle of silver-white that was very similar to the embroidery on his own body.

Xie Yibai held the cloak, his eyes smiling, his ears slightly red, and he turned it over and over in his hands.

Yu Lin blinked and said softly, “Good.”

Xie Yibai’s movements slowly paused. He turned his head and savored it. “Good… good…”

He raised his eyebrows. “What does ‘good’ mean? They’re all good? Or… as long as I choose them, they’re all good?”

He bent down, his ponytail swaying lightly, his eyes sharp and full of smiles.

Yu Lin looked up at him, his eyelashes moving slightly. After a moment of hesitation, he still nodded lightly. “En.”

He said, “If you choose them, they’re all very good.”

“…”

Xie Yibai looked at him in a daze. He was suddenly hit on the back by Ding Canghai and staggered.

He reached out, quickly supported himself on the table, then touched his nose, and suddenly let out a low, muffled laugh.

“Good, good.” He half-knelt, very naturally took the fingers resting on Yu Lin’s knee, held them in his hand, and looked up with a smile. “Then I… then I…”

As he spoke, his expression suddenly became strange. He coughed lightly, and the tips of his ears slowly turned red.

He stopped speaking, turned his head away, then moved it back, looked at Yu Lin, and said with a smile, “There’s still a long way to go.”

In the future… there will be more to choose from.

Yu Lin’s eyelashes moved slightly. He looked at the long fingers resting on his knee and poked them lightly.

Although he was a little puzzled, as long as it was this person.

He nodded and said, “Okay.”

“…”

Xie Yibai was silent for a moment, looked up at him, and his lips moved slightly.

After a long while, he lifted his knuckle and touched Yu Lin’s fingertip very lightly, and said seriously, “Okay.”

Hua Ruxu came out of the kitchen and saw the young couple playing around, and couldn’t help but laugh.

“Come and drink the ginger tea.” She arranged the tea set one by one, glanced at Yu Lin’s pale face, and was a little worried. “It’s cold and you’ve been in the wind. Don’t catch a cold.”

She put down the ginger tea and got up to go to the kitchen to turn off the fire.

Behind her, Xie Yibai didn’t dare to be careless. He reached out and waved away the buzzing Ding Canghai, took a bowl of ginger tea, and took a sip himself first.

It tasted sour and spicy, but it wasn’t as bad as the Rejuvenation Pill drink from the sect, so it was still tolerable.

There was nothing special about it. It should… just be the taste of ginger tea?

Xie Yibai had never had ginger tea before. He blew on a bowl to cool it down, then took a spoon and carefully fed it to Yu Lin’s mouth. “Here.”

The spoon touched a slender finger. Yu Lin said softly, “I’ll do it.”

“…Oh.” Xie Yibai supported his chin in disappointment.

The wind and snow outside were getting heavier, and the door of the inn was creaking and twisting non-stop.

In the inn, Xie Yibai tilted his head and stared at his unwed wife without blinking.

He didn’t know why, but he was staring at this person like a thief, and he just couldn’t get enough, as if… he had almost lost this person.

This thought came out of nowhere, and it made him terrified. He couldn’t bear to not see him for a moment.

Yu Lin met his gaze, his eyelashes drooping slightly. He held the ginger tea and drank it in small sips.

The ginger tea was very pungent. As soon as it entered his mouth, a sour, spicy, bitter, and astringent taste rushed to his head.

“…”

The taste was so strange that even Yu Lin was a little dazed. He held a mouthful of the strange-tasting tea and looked up at Xie Yibai.

His eyes were a light amber color, like the spring light left behind on the snowfield, quiet and gentle, with no aggression.

But when he looked at someone, he always suspected that he would be seen through.

Xie Yibai was stunned by his gaze, his fingers curling slightly, his heart pounding, and he was inexplicably a little flustered. “What’s wrong? Is there a problem with this tea?”

He frowned and got up to come over.

Yu Lin shook his head, coughed lightly, and forced himself to swallow the ginger tea in his mouth. He said softly, “No… it’s just that the taste… is a little strange.”

“Strange?” Xie Yibai was a little dazed. He glanced at the half-bowl he had drunk, hesitated for a moment, and carefully brought it over.

He took a sip, tasted it, and thought it was okay… so he paused for a moment and took another sip.

He said hesitantly, “Then… I’ll drink it?”

“…”

***

After drinking the ginger tea and warming themselves by the brazier for a while, Xie Yibai finally remembered that he still had something to do.

The snowfield was not peaceful. Before he left, he left some silver money for the madam. After thinking for a moment, he ordered the little golden bird to guard it and also left a communication talisman for the disciples of Mount Cangsong.

Hua Ruxu was very grateful and was about to go forward to thank him when she saw the young man take a step forward, his ponytail swaying lightly.

The visibility in the snowfield was low. In the dim sky, a low, clear voice came intermittently. “I’ve left it, I’ve left it all. I haven’t forgotten anything.”

Boss Hua: “…”

At this time, above Shannan City of Yunzhou, the immortal sect disciples on the flying boat had already reached their destination.

After a day of travel, it was time to be drowsy and rest.

However, looking at the scene in the city below, the group of young people’s expressions were solemn, and their gazes were shocked. For a moment, no one could fall asleep.

Yunzhou had eighteen lands, and Shannan was just a small city among them. It was usually not conspicuous, but it was famous for a kind of carved wine, and its trade routes were well-connected.

However, at this moment, the originally thick city walls had become desolate and dilapidated, and were tightly entangled by black demonic energy. The grass outside the city was lush, and it was a cold expanse.

As night approached, the outside of the city was covered with snow, and the city was shrouded in black energy, making the moonlight here seem dimmer than elsewhere.

In a moonlight that emitted a cold light, a thin and weak wild dog crawled out of the city, with a piece of bloody raw meat in its mouth.

It seemed to have lost its mind. It opened its bloody mouth and kept tearing at the meat. After it finished, it turned around and tore at its own skin and flesh.

Before long, it had eaten itself completely, and only a skeleton was left on the ground, looking cold and creepy in the moonlight.

“Little young lady, you’ve seen it. Are you still going?”

Ding Canghai emitted a silver light in the night.

Xie Yibai did not go on the flying boat, but half-knelt at the tip of the sword. He was tall and straight, and his robe was rustling in the cold wind. He lowered his eyes slightly and asked the person in front of him.

To avoid the awkwardness of not knowing where to put his hands before, he had spread a blanket on Ding Canghai, just enough for Yu Lin to sit on.

A circle of silver fluff rested on the young man’s chin. At first glance, he looked like a snowball.

Yu Lin’s hand rested on his knee. He looked down and asked with confusion, “Why not?”

Xie Yibai looked at him, pressed down on his restless hand, and wanted to tease him, but he was also unwilling to really scare him.

He sighed. “Okay, okay, I’ll tell you the truth. The situation in this city is a bit strange…”

As he spoke, he supported his chin, and his body suddenly tensed.

Yu Lin reached out and suddenly held the fingertip hanging by his chin.

He looked over, his eyes slightly curved, and asked him in return, “Aren’t you here?”

Xie Yibai was stunned for a moment. “Ah…”

He was stunned for a moment. A clamor suddenly came from afar. Ding Canghai’s light flashed, and the tip of the sword suddenly turned in a direction, and then a chattering sound came from his ear.

“Younger Martial Uncle Xie, Younger Martial Uncle, you’re finally back. This Shannan City is a bit weird. The spirit beasts we sent to investigate don’t seem to be able to get in.” A group of people were lying on the flying boat and looking over.

Xie Yibai: “…”

Xie Yibai came back to his senses, coughed lightly, and held Yu Lin’s hand as he stood up and went on the flying boat. He took a few steps forward, his expression calm, but the tips of his ears were red.

His features were placid. “En, I’m back. Stop! Don’t come over. Just sit there. I’ll tell you about Shannan City.”

Xie Yibai’s commission from Shannan City was truly an accident.

Most of the time, his life was actually very monotonous: cultivating in the sect, going out to compete, and casually wiping out the demons that he heard about.

Shannan City did not belong to any of these.

At that time, Xie Yibai was competing with someone in Yanshan. After the competition, a leaf suddenly fell from the sky and unexpectedly cut him.

Although it was not successful, Xie Yibai keenly sensed that the purpose of this leaf was to steal his essence blood, so he chased it all the way to Shannan City.

Only after he arrived did he find that Shannan City was already a dead city. For several months, no one had been able to get out of here.

This place was covered by a formation, and all the people who had gone in were gone without a trace, as if they had been eaten. Xie Yibai had been investigating for several days before he found a clue.

This city was lifeless and closed off from the outside world. Only every five days would a strange full moon appear, and the city gates would briefly open for two hours to let passersby in.

“When the moon is full…” Hu Guangsan fanned himself and looked up at the sky. “Isn’t that today?”

Xie Yibai nodded. “Yes.”

He gave some instructions and reminded them that they could go back if they were afraid, but of the dozen or so young people on the flying boat, not a single one was willing to back down. They all wanted to go.

Xie Yibai didn’t stop them either. He knew in his heart that although Shannan City was weird… with him, Xie Yibai, there, he could still protect a few juniors.

He would just treat it as a trial.

When the full moon arrived, under the desolate moonlight, the dilapidated gates of Shannan City did indeed open.

A dozen or so young people entered one after another and were stunned by the bustling and noisy market and the shouting.