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The old man said, "Don't we need to investigate that mermaid girl?"
"No need!" the old woman said. "It seems that the Leopard Gate has found a way to reopen the entrance to the Crystal Palace. That little girl is no longer important."
"That's fine too. It's better to avoid trouble. Maybe we can take our time strolling around and then call it a day and head back to the prefecture."
"By the way, Yanxiang will also be coming to Anjun. After she found out that we were here, she still hopes that you can teach her the zither."
The old man snorted: "Musical skills are for killing, not for showing off like she does. What's the point of teaching them?"
He paused for a moment, then asked, "What is she doing in Anjun?"
The old woman said, "Who knows? Anyway, it's not a good thing. Everyone is working for the Marquis. It seems that An County will become important in the future, and she plans to place a piece here for the Marquis first."
As they were talking, a gust of wind swept by, and the two figures disappeared into the sandstorm.
The morning sun covered the back of Xiaodiancang Mountain. After all, it was already autumn, and the morning light struggled against the darkness of night before slowly moving further away.
Fu Hai sat in front of the house on the back hill, playing the Luoxia Qin, a gift from Fengwu Pavilion.
Although the sheet music given to him by Luoxia Qin was all at the beginner level, it was complete. When he played a piece, it was melodious and beautiful.
Fu Hai, who was labeled a "medium-level qin player," continued to deepen his understanding and mastery of the qin through practice.
If you disable the cheat, you still can't play the whole song; you can only manage to maintain the correct posture.
However, this skill is something that can only be mastered through practice. As long as he keeps practicing this skill, he should eventually become proficient and reach the same level without relying on cheats.
Xia Yuelan lay opposite him, listening, until she fell asleep.
She didn't understand the zither, but she thought her senior brother played it quite well.
If I had to give her a compliment, it would be... it would be... it would be quite nice to hear.
She was indeed not very educated and had never attended a private school. She learned to read and write only a little bit when she was a child at Baojitang, and she learned more from her senior brother after entering the mountains.
Reading novels is fine if you can recognize characters, but forget about classics, history, music, and the like.
Of course, Fu Hai doesn't dare to underestimate her at all now, after all, she is his junior sister with extraordinary comprehension in martial arts.
Who knows, we might have to rely on her to revitalize Xiaodiancang Mountain in the future.
Fu Hai pressed down on the strings, cutting off the lingering sound, and looked at his junior sister.
At this moment, the junior sister had changed back into her favorite pomegranate red Qi-Xiong Ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress).
A high-waisted ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress) looks beautiful on a young girl like her, needless to say.
She didn't know what she saw in her dream; her face was tilted, her lips were pursed, and she looked like she was grinning foolishly.
Fu Hai shook his head; he had originally intended to use the music to cultivate her sentiments.
It seems it's useless.
Of course, since I barely slept last night, it's normal to feel sleepy now.
Fu Hai got up, wanting to find a satin blanket to drape over her.
"Ah!" The little girl's cry suddenly rang out from inside the stone house.
Xia Yuelan suddenly sat up: "Ah, she's awake?" She got up and ran into the stone house.
Fu Hai really wanted to knock her on the head.
You get drowsy when I play the piano, but you wake up immediately when someone calls you.
What do you mean?
He followed his junior sister into the stone house.
The little girl was clutching the satin blanket, huddled in a corner of the stone bed, watching them enter with fear and trepidation.
"Don't be afraid!" Xia Yuelan waved her hand. "I've already chased away the bad guys. We rescued you in the mountains."
However, the little girl looked like a frightened rabbit, both panicked and wary.
"Could you tell us your name?"
Xia Yuelan could tell that the girl was very wary. She waved her hands to show that she was harmless and slowly approached. "Don't worry, I'm really not a bad person. I won't hurt you. This is my senior brother, and he... well, he probably won't bully you either."
Fu Hai's face darkened.
Junior sister, why do you sound so unsure? Xia Yuelan glanced back at her senior brother, noticing his dark complexion, and stuck out her tongue.
This isn't my fault, senior brother, you really don't seem like a good person anymore.
"Don't come any closer!" the little girl screamed. "I won't say anything, I won't say anything. Don't come any closer."
Xia Yuelan said, "We didn't press you for anything. I just wanted to know your name and where you live..."
Upon hearing the words "where do you live?", the little girl became even more wary, squeezing further into the corner and looking at them with a fearful yet determined gaze, as if she would rather die than confess.
Fu Hai's mind raced slightly: "Does she think we're in cahoots with the people chasing her, trying to force her to reveal clues about the 'Crystal Palace'?"
Suddenly, a "ding" sounded in my ear, and the system issued a notification.
[The captured mermaid beauty is overly wary; the host's right protector's attempt to extract a confession has failed.]
To obtain clues about Crystal Palace as quickly as possible, the host should use severe torture to extract information. Recommended method: physical punishment!
Chapter 203: Xue Yanxiang, the "Decadent and Alluring Voice"
Corporal punishment?
What kind of stick or rod?
But as Fu Hai subconsciously asked himself this question, he immediately realized... I might really not be a good person!
Waaaaah, I used to be such an innocent and good young man, it's all because of this garbage system.
However, this lousy system's "corporal punishment" is probably the kind of corporal punishment I'm thinking of now.
That said, this mermaid girl has two legs and an anus, but no anus. This corporal punishment...
Fu Hai took a deep breath, trying to clear his mind of the strange thoughts.
He felt that he had indeed been corrupted recently. But ultimately, he was genuinely worried about the little girl.
The Five Stresses and Four Beauties education he received in his previous life, along with the morality he cultivated in the first ten years of this life, means that even though he has been exposed to a lot of pornography now, he still essentially wants to be a good person.
“Listen to me,” Fu Hai slowly approached the stone bed, softening his tone, “My name is Fu Hai, and this is Xiaodiancang Mountain. I know you might not believe us, but we really just want to help you…”
The little girl suddenly grabbed the satin blanket and covered herself completely, tightly covering her ears in bed.
Fu Hai and his junior sister exchanged a glance.
This little girl is too wary, and they don't know what to do.
Fu Hai looked at the system again, and the words "corporal punishment" kept popping up in the taskbar.
Fu Hai and Xia Yuelan left the stone house and went outside.
"Senior brother, she doesn't trust us at all, how can we help her?" Xia Yuelan tilted her head. "Even if we want to send her home, we need to know where she lives."
Fu Hai pondered: "The key is that there's no way to report it to the authorities."
“Those people last night dared to impersonate government officials, and there must be other forces behind them. Reporting to the authorities would only expose her.”
"Besides, she may not be an ordinary human being, and reporting her to the authorities is more likely to harm her."
Xia Yuelan said, "Then what should we do? Just let her stay here like this?"
Fu Hai said, "Let her stay here and let her leg injury heal. Once it's healed, if she insists on leaving, there's nothing we can do."
As they were talking, Xiao Ye floated over from the other side: "Brother! Yue Lan! Is she awake?"
Fu Hai looked at Xiao Ye: "She's awake, but she doesn't believe us at all and won't say anything."
"She must be hungry too, right? You and Yuelan should try to persuade her to eat something first, and let her recover from her injuries here."
Xiaoye nodded gently: "Okay! Brother, you should go and rest too. Leave this to us."
Fu Hai then left first.
As Fu Hai walked back to the front peak, he thought to himself, "Actually, it's understandable that she doesn't believe us."
"Since the Crystal Palace mentioned by the system is so secretive, if it were to be discovered by others, the consequences for the dragon clan living in the Crystal Palace would be unpredictable."
"I don't really want to take over the Crystal Palace and those so-called thousand or so mermaid beauties. Once this girl has recovered from her injuries, I can just send her away."
He wasn't particularly interested in this so-called side quest to begin with.
Initially, I was worried about this seemingly uneasy little girl, but now I have successfully rescued her from the four fake constables who were chasing her.
Then all I have to do is wait for her to recover and send her away, and then I can rest easy.
Thinking about it this way, he felt at ease.
Back at the front peak, they saw Lingyue in the kitchen. Junior Sister Lingyue had already cooked breakfast porridge for them.
After finishing his breakfast porridge, Fu Hai left the matters on the back mountain to them and went to rest.
I slept until noon, then went down the mountain to the inn and chatted with Sister Qiu Ying for a while.
It rained yesterday, and now the sky is clear and bright, but wisps of gray clouds are gathering in the far north and there are signs that they are blowing in this direction.
"It might rain again tonight." Fu Hai stood at the entrance of the inn, looking outside. "This rain just won't stop."
Sister Qiu Ying came to his side, looked north, and said, "It rained heavily here yesterday, but it didn't seem to rain in the north of the city."
"Since the Lantern Festival, it's often raining in the south of the city while the north remains sunny. This weather seems a bit abnormal."
Fu Hai turned his head and said in surprise, "Is that so? That's quite strange."
Looking at Sister Qiu Ying, who had her hair styled in the most ordinary layered bun, she had a beautiful face. However, she was wearing a coarse skirt and no fancy decorations that young women usually wear. She looked like an ordinary village girl who was quite pleasing to the eye.
He thought to himself, "Lingyue said that Sister Qiu Ying was probably a rich young lady in the past, but you really can't tell from her appearance."
Qiu Ying turned around, glanced at him, and perhaps blushed a little from his stare. She then turned back and slowly walked back to the counter.
Watching Qiu Ying's retreating figure, he continued to think: "Back then, according to what Qiu Ying said, it seemed that she had seen me when I was little."
"But I just can't remember if she really was a rich heiress... but I didn't know any rich heiresses when I was little, did I?"
Secretly open the character's profile in the system's attribute panel.