“Ahhh! You’re actually awake …… No …… it turns out that Ting Nu has saved you!” Téngshé shouted incoherently, hurriedly stuffed the cake in his mouth, turned his head and left, while saying vaguely, “I forgot, I thought you were still sleeping. Sorry, I ate your food.”
Seeing his surprise, Linglong exclaimed, “Who are you?”
Téngshé raised its head proudly and laughed: “Who am I? I am the famous Lord Téngshé! Haven’t you heard of me?”
Linglong looked at him suspiciously, from his fierce face to his snow-white hair, and the more she looked at him, the more she felt that he didn’t look like a good person. She frowned and said, “How can the Shaoyang Sect allow you to run around! Get out of here! Or I’ll have someone arrest you immediately!”
Téngshé immediately became annoyed, he craned his neck and pointed at his own face, and said, “I’m running around? Please, ! I wouldn’t come even if I was begged! It was that little stinky girl who forced me to come, okay? I’ve never seen such an ignorant young lady like you. Téngshé, Téngshé! You’ve never heard of it?”
“Who cares about you serpents and stinky snakes!” Linglong was also furious, “Get out of here!”
Téngshé grunted and turned his face away. He remembered! It was her! He thought she was a good person when he saw her sleeping there that day, so cute and sweet, but he was very wrong. By the way, there is a saying among mortals, what is it?
“Similar things come together[1], people are divided by groups, those who handle cinnabar are stained red; those who work with ink are stained black[2]! You’re the sister of that little stinky girl, and you’re really no good either!”
Téngshé grabbed the remaining cakes from the shrine, put them in his sleeve, kicked open the door and was about to leave.
Linglong shouted, “What are you stealing? How dare you! Put it back!”
Téngshé carried what he was eating in his arms, how could there be a reason to return it? He pretended that he didn’t hear but she suddenly screamed from behind: “Stealing! There are thieves! Someone come quickly!”
He immediately panicked, calling someone else is good, but in case that little stinky girl was called, he does not know how he would be tortured.
“Hey! Don’t scream!” Téngshé rushed to cover her mouth, and threatened viciously, “If you call again … I …… I will set fire to you!” After saying that, a small cluster of fingertip-sized crimson flames were raised in his hand, a little candle is more like it, but burning a person will probably only burn off a few hairs.
Linglong saw his fierce look, and was so scared she grabbed his arm and bit down. Téngshé screamed in pain. The fire in his palm was extinguished instantly, and he heard her scream again: “Kill! Fire!” He quickly tapped her on the top of the head, Linglong immediately froze, not to mention screaming, she could not even move her eyelids, she looked at him with enough fierceness to strike him dead, wanting to see him in a hole.
Téngshé breathed a sigh of relief and poked his head out to see, very good, no one was outside. He shrank back and closed the window, saying angrily, “I just ate a few pieces of cake, why are you screaming like this? Tch, the stinky little lady they worked so hard to save is some kind of beautiful woman, but the end result is this. Boring goods! If you don’t want to eat it, you don’t want to eat it, I’ll give it back to you!”
He threw the cakes in his sleeve over her head, the powdered sugar stained her face, white and black, looks very funny. He laughed twice and childishly dabbed his hand with the powdered sugar and drew a snake on her face, saying maliciously, “You hate snakes, don’t you? I’ll draw two snakes on your face, it’s beautiful!”
Linglong was so angry that her chest was about to split, but she couldn’t move a single finger, so she was holding back her tears. Seeing that he had made her cry, Téngshé was embarrassed and muttered, “Yuck, useless mortal girl, she only cries and cries!” He still doesn’t dare to let her move, in case she screams again, he will be out of luck. So he gave her a push on the shoulder, and Linglong fell down in response. He straightened the quilt over her. He then patted his hands and laughed, “Someone is willing to take a big risk for you and went out to save you. You are crying over something like this, his tears will flow to the sea.”
He saw Linglong’s thoughtful look, and said, “I …… I’m leaving now. You promise not to scream, I’ll unlock the spell.” He touched Linglong’s face and unlocked part of the spell, and said, “If you promise not to scream, you will grin twice.”
The corners of Linglong’s mouth were slightly hooked, and she did grin twice. Téngshé laughed, “Well, if you still scream when I release the spell, I will really set fire to you this time …… Well, burn your hair off! You will be bald for the rest of your life!”
There is no young girl without a love of beauty, if he used other methods to threaten, she simply will not take it seriously. But when she heard that her hair would be burned off and she would become bald, she was really scared. Téngshé patted her head again and Linglong made a soft ‘Ah’ sound, but she didn’t call any more, just staring at him.
Téngshé laughed proudly and said, “That’s good. I’m going.”
“Wait!” Linglong suddenly called out to him. Téngshé looked back warily, “What for?”
Linglong hesitated for a moment, then said, “I just heard you say that you took a big risk to bring me back for …… them to save me? They …… have not told me how they saved me. You and they are together, right? You tell me, okay?”
Téngshé was a little startled. In fact, he knew nothing about this matter. Xuanji only vaguely told him about this and he didn’t know exactly how she was saved. But he was so conceited, how could he be willing to say that he didn’t know, he cleared his throat and said, “Well, of course I know. In order to save you, someone went undercover with the bad guy and stole your soul! Very simple.”
“Undercover?” Linglong suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart.
Téngshé nodded: “That’s right. But it seems that he was deceived into becoming an undercover agent. He thought he could get you back by being an undercover agent, but he didn’t know that the soul was a fake. So the undercover guy had to steal it himself! Oh, it seems that in order to gain the trust of the bad guys, he also killed someone …… that person …… what’s his name? The stinky little lady called him the second brother, died quite miserably, was chopped into pieces ……”
“Second Brother?” Linglong screamed out of breath, startling him.
She jumped out of bed with the covers off, grabbed his collar and said sternly, “Who? Who is the undercover agent? Tell me now!”
Téngshé said, “How can I remember the name of a mortal? Anyway, that’s the guy! The stinky girl called him Sixth Brother! He was accompanied by a man who almost stabbed Yu Sifeng to death ……”
Before he finished speaking, he felt Linglong slumped softly, and his face was pale, as if she was not able to get a breath of air and passed out. Téngshé hurriedly pinched her in the middle and patted her face: “Hey? Are you okay? Don’t scare me! If the little girl knows, I can ……”
Linglong didn’t hear what he said afterwards, and fainted in anger. When she woke up, she turned around and couldn’t help crying loudly. She understood! Why everyone who came to see her was hesitant to say anything, and why Zhong Minyan never showed up. She was so stupid! She thought that Zhong Minyan had abandoned her! When he was breaking his heart for her, she was still lying on the bed, weeping and sighing.
Seeing that she was crying hard, Téngshé thought that he couldn’t stay in this place for a long time. When she started crying, he was afraid that it would be endless, so it was important to leave quickly.
He went to the door and was about to open it when he heard her ask again, “Where …… is he working undercover?”
He subconsciously replied, “Bu Zhou Mountain …… its not somewhere a mortal can go at will.”
Waiting for a while, she did not say anything more. Téngshé flew away, only fearing that if she entangles him again, the trouble would be endless.
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[1]: 物以类聚 (wù yǐ lèijù) – an idiom which translates as, ‘Similar things come together‘. An English idiom with a similar meaning would be, ‘Birds of a feather flock together.’
[2]: 近朱者赤，近墨者黑 (jìn zhū zhě chì, jìn mò zhě hēi) – an idiom which translates as, ‘Those who handle cinnabar are stained red; those who work with ink are stained black.’ Meaning: You are the product of your environment.
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