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Fu Hai thought, "I only know that 'name matches reality' means that the reputation or name matches the actual situation. So, the reverse, 'actual matches the name,' should mean that the actual effect matches the name."
In other words, the function and effect of "The Song of the Azure Sea and Rising Tides" should be self-evident from its name? The Song of the Azure Sea and Rising Tides... The Song of the Azure Sea and Rising Tides...
I'll throw away the blue tide!
Chapter 153 This was the only thing she couldn't understand.
They were still some distance from the inn when they saw Junior Sister Song Lingyue standing there, looking at them.
The eastern morning light bathed her, making her stand tall and graceful, as serene as an orchid blooming quietly in a secluded valley. Because the Lantern Festival was not yet over, there were still quite a few people at the city gates and on the streets.
Inside the inn, some guests had also gotten up. The most lively lantern festival was over, and many people were preparing to go home.
Xia Yuelan and Xiao Ye didn't go through the main entrance, but instead went around the inn and entered through the back courtyard. Fu Hai then stepped to the main entrance of the inn.
"Shi Dui, you're back!" Song Lingyue greeted him. "I'm so glad you're safe and sound."
Fu Hai walked with her toward the main gate: "Have the three sisters from Huaxian Pavilion returned yet?"
Song Lingyue said, "They came back soon. Their third junior sister had been waiting at the inn for a long time. When she saw them come back, she scolded them for playing all night and leaving her alone at the inn."
"Then the second junior sister and the youngest junior sister started complaining." Fu Hai said, "I see."
He whispered in her ear, "Has Sister Qiu Ying returned?"
Song Lingyue turned her head and glanced at him: "Isn't Sister Qiu Ying at the inn?"
She wondered to herself, "So Shi Ke already knew all along? When did he find out?"
Upon entering the lobby, I saw Sister Qiu Ying standing behind the counter, getting up to settle the bills for several guests who were about to leave.
Actually, by noon today, many people will have left. By the afternoon, the inns that were originally full will be at least half empty. By noon, the inns in Mingguan will be almost empty, and the heat brought by the Lantern Festival will have dissipated.
This is something we can't help. Perhaps, like those who used to run post stations along the official road, they would make more money by taking the entire painting tour to the canal and operating tourist boats.
But then I thought about it again, and it didn't seem right. Summer was starting to pass, and the weather was gradually getting colder.
Who goes boating on the river in winter? If we really want to change our business strategy, that'll be next year. Fu Hai moved to Qiu Ying's side and waited until the customers at the counter finished paying and left. "Sister Qiu Ying," he said gratefully, "you've really gone to a lot of trouble."
Qiu Ying said softly, "It's no trouble at all. Although there are more people these days, it's always better to be busy than idle for business." Fu Hai said, "I mean, thank you for your help last night."
Sister Qiu Ying said, "No, it's just the same as usual. I was indeed a bit tired during the day yesterday, but fortunately Miss Lingyue helped me watch the shop in the evening, so I went to sleep. I just woke up now."
Fu Hai asked, "Did Sister Qiu Ying really go to sleep last night?"
Sister Qiu Ying glanced at him and asked, "What's wrong? Does the master want to check my room to see if I'm sleeping?" Fu Hai replied, "Ah! It's nothing, it's nothing."
He couldn't do anything about Qiu Yingjie's refusal to admit it.
At this moment, another thing came to mind, and he was a little worried, so he thought he would go up the mountain to ask Xiaoye first.
But then he saw a maid from the Painting Immortal Pavilion descend the steps and come to him, bowing and saying, "Young Master Fu! Our young lady requests that you go to her room."
Li Xianrui didn't bring her maid with her this time. This one was the maid of her third junior sister, Li Xiangtao.
Fu Hai then followed her to the top-floor room of the inn.
Their Dragon Claw Inn has only three rooms in total, known as the "Guan" rooms (or "upper rooms").
Each room has a hall, pavilion, and terrace; after all, any room costs about one or two taels of silver per night.
Guests in the top-tier rooms usually bring their own servants, which is generally more convenient for the inn. Because Dragon Claw Inn is located outside the city, it occupies a large area, making its top-tier rooms more spacious than those in inns within the city. However, these rooms are rarely occupied, especially this year when business has been particularly bad.
Fu Hai once joked that if all else failed, the three of them could each have a room and move in. Of course, that was just talk; in reality, it would never be as comfortable as living on the mountain.
The pavilions and courtyards on the mountain are much older than this inn, and not as beautiful as these guest rooms, but they are obviously more comfortable. Dao Yao arrived at room number two of the "Heaven" class, and the door was open.
Li Xianrui and her three junior sisters, Zheng Guo, were sitting together at a round table in the middle of the main hall, talking.
There were several flowerpots on the balcony beyond the hall. Sunlight fell on the balcony, which faced east and offered a view of the distant official road and mountains. "I can't believe something so big happened!" Ji Xiangtao exclaimed in surprise after hearing what had happened last night. "Luckily, I didn't go into the city last night." Although she had been confined to the inn because of a fight with the junior sister from the Dragon Claw Inn the day before yesterday.
"Young Miss, Young Master Fu has arrived!" Ya Hui stepped forward and said. Li Xianrui stood up and said, "Please sit down, Young Master!"
Her voice remained low, sounding noble and aloof, without any meowing. "Miss Xianrui, you're too kind!" Fu Hai said after settling down.
Li Xianrui then personally served him tea and, in front of her three junior sisters, expressed many polite and grateful words. Fu Hai was also very polite, saying that he was simply doing his duty by observing injustice.
The two of them can talk about their things privately, but at this time, Sister Xianrui still needs to try her best to be a good senior sister and set a good example for her three junior sisters.
Zhu Xiuhui and Zhao Xiangmei exchanged a quick glance.
In their eyes, this young master Fu's infatuation with his senior sister was bordering on obsessive.
However, although the eldest sister was grateful for the other party's life-saving grace, she was so aloof and distant. Even when she was repaying the debt, she said that Yucheng Mountain would definitely repay her in the future, without mentioning herself at all.
It seems that Senior Sister truly has absolutely no interest in this Young Master Fu. "Speaking of which, I was also at fault!"
Li Xianrui sighed softly and said in a low voice, "I shouldn't keep my failure to break through this time and not reach the middle grade."
retreat.
"I was originally arrogant and confident that I would succeed, but I failed, and my skills even declined. Afterwards, I couldn't swallow my pride and didn't explain the situation to you, which almost led to a serious mistake."
Fu Hai couldn't help but think that if it weren't for this, he probably wouldn't have been able to develop such a close relationship with Sister Xianrui.
Thinking about it carefully, the pale-faced scholar and his companions misjudged Sister Xianrui's strength. They were determined to win, but they didn't expect that Sister Xianrui had already entered the middle rank, and her strength was considerable.
The earthquake shocked everyone present.
What happened next?
The three junior sisters were also very curious. Zhu Xiuhui said, "Senior Sister, you're not the kind of person who would say something you're not sure about."
"What exactly happened that caused you, Celestial Master, to fail your breakthrough and even regress in your power?" Li Xianrui gritted her teeth: "It's all because of that book, 'The Young Hero's Adventures.'"
Without that book, those people last night would have underestimated her true strength, which would have been tantamount to suicide.
She wouldn't have faced such perilous and thrilling situations, nor would she have been poisoned by the aphrodisiac along with Fu Lang, forced to lose her virginity, and helplessly lost her first time as a young woman.
This one thing, in particular, made her angrier the more she thought about it; it became a persistent inner demon. Unless she found the author of that book and dealt with the situation, her mind wouldn't be at peace.
Chapter 154 Not only was her face pale, but her legs were also weak!
As soon as Li Xianrui finished speaking, her three junior sisters suddenly realized, "Ah, that book really does make you angrier the more you read it."
"I just don't understand, why does such a good book end up making people blind and irritated?"
"Yeah, yeah, it's infuriating. I keep thinking, who did the protagonist actually marry? Let's not even talk about marrying both Setsuna and Touma, at least one of them should be happy! It's so infuriating."
"Yeah, but the protagonist is such a nice guy, it's really hard to hate him. So in the end, the person I want to punch the most is the author who wrote the book."
"Young Master Fu, have you read the book 'The Young Hero's Adventures'?" "Young Master Fu... Aunt, why is your face so pale?" Fu Hai's face was pale, and his legs were trembling.
He stammered, unsure how to answer for a moment.
Seeing that he was not in good spirits, and thinking about how he had narrowly escaped death last night and was still in shock, and how she had called him here instead of letting him get some rest, Li Xianrui felt quite sorry for him. She said in a low voice, "Young Master Fu, you were busy all night too, so you should get some rest."
Fu Hai stood up. Xianrui's murderous words, "It's all because of that book, 'The Young Hero's Adventures in Heaven,'" had made his legs go weak.
Li Xianrui glanced at him and said to her three junior sisters, "You should rest first. I'll escort Young Master Fu downstairs." Her tone was aloof, so the three junior sisters naturally didn't think much of it.
The stairwell to the upper room was winding and long, designed to separate it from the middle and lower rooms. Li Xianrui accompanied Fu Lang downstairs to the bend, where the three junior sisters could no longer see them.
"Fu Lang!" She raised her hand with pity and touched the boy's face. "You should rest well first, meow. I'll come and keep you company tonight after I've dealt with them."
After she finished speaking, she pressed her face against his chest.
Fu Hailou was with Fairy Cat Sister, and Butterfly Girl said she would accompany him tonight, as did Little Night Sister.
However, he had just had an unspeakable relationship with Fairy Cat Sister last night. Fairy Cat Sister is a female disciple of a prestigious sect. Given the life-saving grace and the physical intimacy, and considering that women in this era value chastity highly, she would naturally remain faithful to him to the end.
He couldn't very well push her away at this moment and say, "Don't do this, I have two other beautiful girls who want to keep me company tonight," could he? He simply couldn't bring himself to say that!
"Sister Xianrui, you should get some rest too," he said softly. "We'll go see the lanterns together tonight."
At this point, that was the only way to put it, and it had to be said happily... To be honest, it was actually quite enjoyable. The two lingered for a while before reluctantly parting ways.
After Fu Hai went downstairs, he first washed up in the backyard, then ate his fill at the inn before leaving.
I was supposed to go to sleep, but then I remembered something and decided to ask Xiaoye about it, so I headed towards the library.
Despite the terrifying experience last night, Fu Hai was not tired at all.
Looking back, aside from the final effort to cure the poison, which involved his full strength and constant exertion, he did indeed expend a great deal of energy and essence.
The rest of the time he was always lying on Sister Xianrui's back, hugging her and touching her all over. If we're talking about credit, his credit is definitely huge.
As for energy, most of the time he tries to control himself and not accidentally start touching the young lady of the Painting Immortal Pavilion.
Autumn has already begun, and even though the morning sun is shining brightly and it looks like it will be a good day, a cool feeling still lingers over the mountains.
On the way to the library, Fu Hai thought, "I heard Xiao Ye say that the freak baby of Peach Doll's mother and Zheng Wei, who caused the serial mummies, seem to be the same kind of monster."
"But the body of that freak I just saw is still lying on the ground. Is this really okay?"
Although I felt that Xiaoye wouldn't have overlooked it, I still went to ask.
Then he thought, "Also, how about I tell Xiaoye that I won't be spending time with her tonight?"
"If you just want to go shopping together, there's plenty of time later." They arrived at Xiaoye's place.
The library is quite far from where he, Lingyue, and Yuelan live.
Previously, apart from Lingyue occasionally coming over to tidy up, it was basically left unattended. Yuelan would also come sometimes, but she would only make it more chaotic.
Now, Xiaoye lives here. Although she has only lived here for a little over a month, she has cleared out the clutter, tidied up the flower garden, and swept the two Hengzi near the library.
This area looks neat and clean.
Fu Hai thought that girls are very thoughtful. If more girls lived in the mountains, wouldn't the whole Xiaodiancang Mountain be completely transformed?
The library was quite large, although the truly valuable books had long since been sold. Xiaoye's room was right next to the library.
He reached the door, raised his hand, and gently knocked: "Xiao Ye?" "Brother!" came Xiao Ye's voice from inside, "Come in."
Fu Hai pushed open the door and entered, only to see Xiao Ye standing in front of a bronze mirror as tall as herself.
She found this bronze mirror half a month ago from the storage room on the west side. It was originally covered in rust, but she polished it herself and it looks brand new now.
At this moment, Xiaoye was wearing a jade-red lower garment.