Chapter 1073 – The Once More Reunited World (1/2)
Chapter 1073 – The Once More Reunited World
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
No matter how dangerous the situation became, Chen Changsheng remained indifferent and continued to practice the sword in the Li Palace. Xu Yourong also remained occupied with her own business within the Divine General's estate.
When the thousand swords finally returned to the Vault Sheath, Linghai Zhiwang and the other Prefects could no longer restrain themselves and entered the stone room.
Hu Thirty-Two said with a sour face, ”Your Holiness, you and the Holy Maiden are endowed with the pearls of wisdom and have plans at ready, but we know nothing, so how can we coordinate?”
Chen Changsheng looked at them and sincerely said, ”I really do not know what she wants to do.”
Hu Thirty-Two was struck dumb by these words while Linghai Zhiwang and Daoist Siyuan appeared rather gloomy.
This answer had truly caught them by surprise. They instantly felt the pressure on their shoulders increase.
Seeing their expressions, Chen Changsheng knew that he finally had to give an explanation. Helplessly sighing, he said, ”I'll go and ask.”
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It was early spring and the weather was warming, so appetite for Fortune Peace Road's stewed beef ribs was rather lacking. The stores near the entrance of the alley had already been renovated for a switch to steamed prawns. The stores that still persisted were rather empty, but perhaps because of the Yellow Paper Umbrella, no one noticed the young man and woman by the table.
A puff of steam would occasionally leak out from under the heavy lid over the boiling metal pot, from which one could imagine the pressure within.
Chen Changsheng's gaze pierced through the steam and onto Xu Yourong's beautiful face. He hesitated to speak.
Xu Yourong said, ”Ask whatever you want to ask. Am I that scary?”
Chen Changsheng said, ”I hear that the Old Lady of the Mutuo clan and the head of the Wu clan are both very afraid of you.”
Xu Yourong ignored this comment. She turned to the owner and yelled, ”Please bring a jar of Pear Blossom White.”
Chen Changsheng gazed at her and said, ”Gou Hanshi said that before you left for South Stream Temple, you invited the Mutuo clan's Old Lady and the head of the Wu clan to that village to play mahjong?”
Xu Yourong took a cup of hot tea and rinsed his cup and chopsticks, saying, ”It's a custom of the south to do this before eating, although I don't think it does anything.”
Chen Changsheng asked, ”Just what happened in that mahjong game?”
Xu Yourong had failed to change the subject, so she gave him a rather bored glance and said, ”We didn't even sit there for an entire hour. What could have happened?”
She had been in a rush to head to White Emperor City back then, so she truly had not had much time, but it had been enough for her to win all the chips she needed.
Chen Changsheng recalled the mahjong table in the old estate of the Wenshui Tang clan and those comments from the Tang Old Master, becoming even more interested.
Xu Yourong said, ”Shuang'er managed to get a few fish from the river's first thaw today, so I have to go back.”
These words were both a prompting and warning: 'since you've finally come to ask me, please ask about the most important thing.'
Chen Changsheng said, ”I originally didn't want to ask because I was afraid I would hear a bad answer.”
This was one of the important reasons he had remained in the Li Palace these past few days, practicing the sword and meeting with no one.
The restaurant owner brought over a jar of Pear Blossom White wine and also removed the lid of the pot. After throwing ten-some small, snow-white bread rolls inside, he declared, ”You can eat now.”
Xu Yourong took up a wooden ladle and vigorously stirred the beef ribs twice, then gestured to Chen Changsheng for him to go first.
Chen Changsheng looked at the oily beef ribs and the bread rolls soaked in broth, somewhat at a loss as to where to begin.
The first time he had eaten beef ribs, he had been too excited, so he had been very focused when eating.
Now, he realized that though it was very delicious, it was also very unhealthy.
”At times, we don't need to think about things in too complicated a fashion.”
Xu Yourong used a pair of long chopsticks to take up a piece of food that was five parts bone, three parts meat, and two parts tendon, and placed it in his bowl.