Chapter 237 (1/2)

The state teacher went to see Nanyun Kingdom’s monarch so he wasn’t there at the moment. Excluding the two disciples that went with him, Gong Da and Gong Qi [Eldest and Seven], the remaining sixteen were all present, staring at these few gu people.

“Second Brother, the Lord said that 25 people are enough, how come you chose 26?” one of them asked in puzzlement.

Second Brother said indifferently, “We had no other way, this kid was the one who insisted on following.”

“This person isn’t bad. He’s strong, you guys aren’t allowed to snatch him from me ah!” the youngest brother who had just entered Moran Hall, Gong Shiba [eighteen] said with a smile as he pointed to a big, heavy man among the group.

Gong Shiqi was happy. “Shiba ah, don’t blame brother for not reminding you that often a strong-looking person might just be the first one to die because they can’t bear the pain from poison.”

These people spoke without the slightest conscience. Nan Xun took a look at the gu people next to her and found fear appearing on some of their faces. Several of them already felt regret.

While Nan Xun’s mind was still wandering, the one called Gong Shiqi suddenly pulled her over and said proudly, “Do you believe that this person who sent himself to our door is the one most resistant to poison?”

As he said this, Gong Shiqi was suddenly taken aback. “Boy, your hands are really soft ah, so soft, it’s so comfortable to hold.”

Nan Xun really wanted to give him a fist but she endured it. Instead, she smirked and said, “Big brother, you don’t detest that I’m smelly ah, you’re so kind.”

Hearing this, Gong Shiqi immediately pushed her away while the other disciples couldn’t help but laugh.

Gong Shiqi stared at Nan Xun angrily. He instructed someone, “Old Zhao, take him to bathe immediately, then let him wear my worn-out old clothes with holes in it. This kid’s too stinky, he’d definitely offend Lord later.”

When Nan Xun heard the word “bath,” her heart jumped and she hastily said, “Brother Shiqi, I don’t want to bathe, let’s talk about it later after I meet the state teacher!”

Gong Shiqi heard her affectionate way of calling his name and he froze for a while before flying into a rage. “Haha, a lowly beggar actually called me Brother Shiqi, do you believe that this grandpa can beat your mouth rotten?!”

Gong Shiba laughed at him mercilessly. “Shiqi, I think this kid likes you very much ah, why don’t you just accept him as your little brother?”

Nan Xun said to Little Eight, “These people were really just pretending when they were parading the street before. Look at them now, their ugly faces are all exposed.”

Little Eight: …

Regardless of whether Nan Xun wanted it or not, she was dragged away by the servant named Old Zhao to take a bath.

Fortunately, Old Zhao just threw her into the tub and let her to take a bath by herself without staring at her.

Nan Xun thought that she couldn’t hide her female body anyway, so simply washed herself clean and then put on Gong Shiqi’s old white short robe that had two holes.

When she was about to tie her hair, Nan Xun suddenly noticed something wrong.

Why did all the sounds disappear all of a sudden?

Nan Xun quietly walked to the door, poked a small hole in the paper, and prepared to take a peek through it.

Unexpectedly, when she had just put her hand on the door to look out, the door slammed open without any wind. She lost her body’s support and her footing, planted forward, and fell… like a dog eating sh1t.

Nan Xun looked up abruptly to meet a pair of indifferent eyes.

What kind of eyes were those? At first glance, they seemed to gather the essence of heaven and earth; they were profound and charming. But at second glance, they looked ethereal and hollow. With the clear blue sky and white clouds above his head, and his disciples and several gu people prostrating on the ground behind him, still nothing was found in that pair of eyes. They were hollow, dead, and silent, without the slightest ripple inside.

And right now, those silent eyes were staring at her.