Lu Xiao stared at him, his voice surprisingly cold, “You want to leave? “
Qiu Yutong didn’t say anything. He was extremely uncomfortable, and his voice was hoarse, which, combined with the shame of having his dignity destroyed, made him not want to talk to Lu Xiao much at all.
Lu Xiao cupped his jaw and forced his face around, “Where do you want to go? “
Qiu Yutong was already very uncomfortable after being humiliated by him like that. Now that he was forced to look at the culprit, he felt humiliated and frustrated, and he really wanted to get angry, but when he looked at the five scars on Lu Xiao’s chest and thought about what he had done, he couldn’t get angry. He could only say sullenly, “I’m going back to North Snow City.”
Lu Xiao sneered, “North Snow City? What’s so great about the freezing cold there? “
“It’s better than here,” Qiu Yutong paused and couldn’t help but say, “Back then, I shouldn’t have come down from the mountain, let alone met you…”
Lu Xiao sounded like he was gritting his teeth, “Oh? You shouldn’t have come down from the mountain and met me? Why?”
Qiu Yutong whispered, “If I hadn’t met you, it might have been better for both of us.”
Lu Xiao’s face was so gloomy that he could almost wring water out of it*, “So that’s how it is, Shizun regrets it? Shizun wants to go back to North Snow City, to look after your good brother and to teach your good pupil? “
[T/N: gloomy in CN can also mean an overcast sky that looks like its about to rain, so “water” can come out of it.]
Qiu Yutong wanted to explain that Chen Yuelin wasn’t his disciple, but on second thought, he had already explained but Lu Xiao did not believe him, and even if he did, there was no point in explaining such a trivial matter, so he silently shut his mouth.
For some reason, Qiu Yutong didn’t say anything, and Lu Xiao looked even angrier instead, “What, was I right? Did you know that your crippled senior brother is a hypocrite who traded you, his junior brother, with me for the decree of the Leader of the immortal Alliance! And your new disciple is as stupid as a pig!”
When he scolded him, Qiu Yutong got annoyed too and retorted, “Sect Leader is not a hypocrite, he’s just thinking about the bigger picture! As for Yuelin, he may not be as gifted as you, but he’s at least more obedient than you!”
“Oh, so that Chen Yuelin, is now your most beloved pupil? No wonder when I just took one look at him during the Immortal Alliance Conference, you were as nervous as anything…” Lu Xiao said, squeezing the slender fingers holding Qiu Yutong’s lower jaw, almost unconsciously. “So he’s the good disciple and I am the evil one.”
“Let go of me!” Qiu Yutong was hurt by his pinch and was so irritated that he couldn’t help but brush his hand away and cursed, “Yes, you are a traitor! I’ll have you banished from the sect!”
“What did you say?!” Lu Xiao froze, then was so angry that he yanked the person over, lowered his head and kissed him viciously, kissing while messily tugging at Qiu Yutong’s already loose inner shirt, “You want to expel me from the sect? Well, I’m going to be banished anyway, so I’ll have to do more of the things that evil disciples do! Where is your good pupil? Where is your sect leader? Let them come to your rescue! I wonder what they’ll think when they see you like this? “
“You sinful disciple… wu wu…” Qiu Yutong was so angry that his brain was dizzy, and he could not breathe from the kiss. His arms and legs were all pinned down. Gradually, he became dizzier and dizzier, and his arms and legs became softer and softer until he couldn’t move anymore; even his voice became softer.
Lu Xiao paused, “You’re not feeling well? “
Qiu Yutong was already very uncomfortable. After pushing and shoving Lu Xiao, he was extremely dizzy, and he could only barely stare at Lu Xiao, not even wanting to say anything.
“Really uncomfortable?” Lu Xiao was silent for a while, gently turned him over onto his knees, and examined him carefully again. Only after a while did he mutter, “It seems a bit serious… Why didn’t you say so earlier.”
Qiu Yutong was so ashamed and annoyed, so angry and so anxious, but his hands and feet were too weak to resist, so he let him examine him with no dignity, so ashamed and embarrassed that he wanted to disappear immediately.
After a while, Lu Xiao finally got up, and Qiu Yutong had just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the evil disciple rustling around inside of the outer robe folded on the shelf. Lu Xiao actually sat back down, and then, an icy cold sensation came from behind him. He knew that it was Lu Xiao who was administering the medicine, and with the resentment and shame in his heart, he did not want to show weakness despite the pain, silently nibbling on the quilt without saying a word.
After the medicine was administered, his whole body was lost. He felt that he had lost all his face and all his dignity.
He put one arm around Qiu Yutong, combed his long, thick black hair with the other hand, and pecked the back of his bare, white neck soothingly, “It doesn’t hurt anymore.”
Qiu Yutong had always loved to save face, but he knew in his heart that he was a bit unworldly, so he hated being treated like a child by his brothers. He was so depressed that he wanted to cry, “What more do you want? “
Lu Xiao was silent for a while before he said, “I want you to make it up to me.”
“I’ve already compensated you, you said you wanted to…” Qiu Yutong paused, really a little unable to continue and could only vaguely say, “You said you wanted to… a taste, even this kind of thing, I have agreed, how else do you want me to compensate? “
Lu Xiao’s expression became a little stiff, “I’m didn’t…”
“I know that you don’t like me, you just want to get back at me. Now that you’ve achieved your goal, just let me go, okay? You have so many concubines, so why bother…”
As Lu Xiao listened, his face gradually sank and he couldn’t help but sneer, “Yes, I do have many concubines, three thousand beauties in three palaces and six courtyards, all of them beautiful and gentle, able to sing and dance. To put it bluntly, the taste of Shizun is just that, but what you owe me, you haven’t paid.”
“How else do you want me to pay it back? “
Lu Xiao said coldly, “You dug up my core and sunk me into a cold pool for twenty years. This is only one night with me, and you think you’ve paid it back? There is no such thing as a bargain in the world. “
Qiu Yutong was dumbfounded, “Do you want me to stay with you for twenty years? “
“Twenty years?” Lu Xiao gave a cold snort, “When Shizun was on earth, money and mundane objects were avoided, so I’m sure Shizun has never been in a bank. Now, I’ll calculate with you at the usual twenty-eight percent compound interest, without the remainder, and you’ll have to stay with me for a hundred and fifty years.”
“One hundred and fifty years?” Qiu Yutong’s entire body froze.
Lu Xiao wanted to lock him up here for a hundred and fifty years and toss him around like this every day? Qiu Yutong didn’t know much about these money algorithms, so although Lu Xiao was just making things up, he was actually caught off guard and his face turned white, “One hundred and fifty years? How is this possible?”
Lu Xiao looked at his panicked look and his face sank, “A cultivator’s life span is long so what’s a mere hundred and fifty years?”
Qiu Yutong said urgently, “You locked me up in this place where I can’t see the light of day and treated me like that, just for a day or two, but for a hundred and fifty years, how can I survive?”
“How have I treated you, and are you not comfortable? Did Shizun forget how you screamed last night?”
“You, you have the nerve to say that!” Qiu Yutong was simply furious, and for a moment he didn’t even care about his face, “Last night, I won’t mention the rest, you know I’m afraid of burning, I’ve said no, I’ve begged you, and you still, you still… and you did it every time… you did it on purpose, on purpose to make fun of me…”
As he spoke, his voice shook with anger, but he was too embarrassed to say it too bluntly, so he could only glare at Lu Xiao viciously and accusingly.
Lu Xiao also seemed to have remembered what he had done and did not say anything.
Inside the room, there was an awkward silence.
After a long time, Lu Xiao said in a hoarse voice, “I can’t be blamed for this. How could I hold back when you begged me like that…”
Qiu Yutong was simply exasperated by him, “So you’re blaming me? You evil disciple!”
Because of the core digging incident, Qiu Yutong had been extremely guilty, and in front of Lu Xiao, he had simply lowered his head to the lowest level. But now, he felt like he had paid back some of the debt. While the experience was extremely embarrassing, he did pay back some of his debt, so he was no longer as guilty and regained a bit of the temper he had when he was a Shizun.
Lu Xiao silently bowed his head and didn’t say anything back, resembling the obedient young disciple of old.
“You’re simply bullying your teacher!” Qiu Yutong couldn’t help but curse twice more, and then, feeling that cursing alone wasn’t enough, he propped himself up and raised his hand to give Lu Xiao two blows, but his knees suddenly went weak and he fell forward with a plop.
In this fall, he coincidentally pressed down on Lu Xiao. Lu Xiao didn’t fight back against the pressure. Qiu Yutong was also hardpressed to get up as he messily pressed against a sturdy chest, waiting to climb up. However, after a few failures, Lu Xiao was staring dazedly, his pupils had dilated and his breathing picked up, looking like he couldn’t endure.
Qiu Yutong suddenly felt something and his face turned blue then red, “You, you again… Why are you like this!”
Lu Xiao looking very wretched, hurriedly rolled over and got out of bed, “I’ll go out first, you have injuries, rest obediently.”
He had just reached the door when he suddenly turned around again and said in general warning, “For the sake of your brothers and disciples, don’t always think about going back to North Snow City.”
Dropping this threat, Lu Xiao turned around and went out.
“Bang!!” Qiu Yutong was so angry that he yanked a pillow and smashed it hard against the back of the door.
He glared at the closed door, took two breaths and slumped back down, pulling the covers up over his head.
He wanted to kick the blanket to vent his anger and break the delicate decorations in the house, but his body still hurt, and his legs were too weak to work, so he could only grit his teeth and sulk for a while, then started to curse Lu Xiao. The only words he could come up with were “evil disciple, offensive, expelled from the sect.”
He was unwell, cursed for a while, and was also a little tired, so he finally fell asleep in a daze.
……
It wasn’t known how long it had been, but suddenly he heard a click on the door, and Qiu Yutong was so sleepy that he thought Lu Xiao had come again and didn’t bother to pay any attention.
“Immortal Master Qiu, this is a pastry sent by His Majesty.”
Qiu Yutong froze, hurriedly lifted the covers, tugged at his sash and rolled over to get up.
The two brothers, Wu Liu and Wu Qi, were respectfully placing the four small delicate plates from the food box on the rosewood table in the room.
“What is it? “Qiu Yutong draped his outer robe and walked over in confusion, only to see four plates of exquisite pastries on the table: jade cake, hibiscus cake, crystal cake, and date paste. There were cute green ones, soft, white ones, some that smelled sweet and fragrant; this really whetted people’s appetite.
He stayed for a moment and couldn’t help but say, “These pastries, did Lu Xiao ask you to send them here? “
Wu Liu said respectfully, “Yes, His Majesty has specially instructed that they should be eaten while they are still hot.”
Wu Qi sighed, “Immortal Master Qiu, His Majesty is all alone and it’s not easy… Although I don’t understand what’s going on between you, you are always His Majesty’s Shizun, so perhaps you can persuade His Majesty…”
“Alone? Where are his three palaces and six courtyards? Didn’t he say that he had many concubines?” Qiu Yutong was a little puzzled as to how Lu Xiao could be alone. Did he not have a harem of three thousand beauties, all of whom could sing and dance well?
“Three palaces and six courtyards? Concubines?” Wu Liu slightly froze, then seemed to understand something, fiercely glared at the talkative Wu Qi, and smiled at Qiu Yutong, “In His Majesty’s harem, there are naturally as many beauties as there are clouds, Immortal Master Qiu need not worry too much.”
“Oh,” Qiu Yutong nodded, though inwardly he felt something was off.
After Wu Liu and Wu Qi had set out the pastries, they respectfully retreated. Qiu Yutong stared at the delicate plates of pastries on the table and looked at them silently for a while, hesitating in his heart.
This was something given by that evil disciple who had deceived his master. He could not eat a single bite, absolutely not… But, although the evil disciple was bad, the pastries were innocent, and he could not casually take his anger out on them, which went against the elegant demeanor of a great cultivator.
Yes, that’s right.
After Qiu Yutong figured it out, he was simply relieved and directly ate a piece of hibiscus cake, another piece of jade cake, and then another piece of date paste… After eating four or five pastries, he took two more sips of hot tea and was finally in a slightly better mood. His body was also quite comfortable so he then pondered over it again.
Lu Xiao, this evil disciple, looked like he was not going to let him go anytime soon, but that didn’t mean that he had to stay here obediently. He could only sneak away in this situation, and he must not cause too much commotion or else Lu Xiao would catch up with him halfway, and he himself could not bear to cut his disciple down.
The best way was to sneak away and find a small place in the countryside to hide and not go back to North Snow City for a while; Lu Xiao wouldn’t find anyone anywhere and after a while, that anger would subside, and he would drop it.
With this very good idea in mind, Qiu Yutong carried a shark’s oil candle and plopped his whole body down on the granite wall, tapping around and trying to find a weak spot.
He had noticed before that the cell should have been built on a mountain and that, apart from the door, the walls everywhere else seemed to be solid. However, if he broke out through the walls, he would definitely alert the guards and Lu Xiao would immediately rush over, so he had to find another way to escape secretly.
Qiu Yutong had been tapping away for a while when he suddenly heard a clunking sound and was slightly pleased.
The granite sounded very hollow under his tapping, so it was obvious that there were probably caves or cracks in the mountain behind it, so he might be able to escape by following it, and if he came across a narrow place, he could still do the loach technique and squeeze his way through.
Qiu Yutong was always a man of action, and since he had thought about it, he didn’t hesitate. He took a slight step back and squeezed his left hand in a vague manner; the hazy Tianzhao Yunhai immediately appeared.
He took a deep breath, raised his Tianzhao Yunhai and slashed hard at the piece of granite!
The author has something to say:
Qiuqiu, Xiao Xiao is calculating it as a high-interest loan. You’d better not fall for it!
