Chapter 22: Keep Your Hands Off Me!

Listening to the crowd’s one-sided opinions, Lingfei, standing below the stage, stamped her feet in anger and anxiety. “Wange! He... how can he distort the facts like that? He makes it sound as though you were the one being unreasonable, while he’s the victim!”

That was Song Jing’s true objective: to make Tang Wange the target of everyone’s hostility, the common enemy of all the girls.

There would always be a few hopeless romantics who could not tell right from wrong, taking Song Jing’s side and deliberately making trouble for her.

Now Song Jing even wanted to drag Lin Chao into it!

Song

After Shaoli’s grandfather finished washing Liu Shanliang, he applied medicine to his wounds. Seeing that Liu Shanliang’s trousers were beyond wear, he found a pair of Shaoli’s trousers and helped him change into them.

Those following behind to bind the sheaves worked with both hands and feet, enduring the prickling pain of the wheat awns as they hurriedly bundled and tied the cut wheat, then stacked it into piles right there in the field.

“All right, all right, I can’t argue with you! When I get back, I’ll take him to the Earth Marten’s territory and worship him like a living Buddha. Will that do?” Mouse said helplessly.

Although accompanying Princess Yunjing was dangerous, it was not necessarily a death sentence. More importantly, it was an opportunity for Zhou An—a chance to climb higher.

The Holy Mother of the Pure Land stared fixedly at Zhou An’s back, watching him walk away until he disappeared from her sight.

After searching for a long while, Sun Qian finally found a towel nearby and used it to cover his most private area. Then he countered,

With no cultivators here, the place had naturally become a paradise for demon beasts. In just three days, Huatian had encountered more than a hundred species of demon beast, and among them had even appeared a peak-grade spirit beast. Yet this was merely the outer region of Jueluo Mountain. No one could say what sort of existences might lurk in its depths.

“Yes, my name is Bai Xiaobai, and I’m a doctor. I know a little about traditional Chinese medicine, but I specialize in Western medicine.” Bai Xiaobai extended his hand to Sun Qian with gentlemanly grace.

Hearing Yuna say that, Jumang replied with a teasing joke. He seemed utterly unconcerned, and when those warm words left his lips, Yuna was immediately filled with sweetness.

It had been nothing more than an unconscious action, yet Zheng Chen discovered that the flow of demonic power entering his body had slowed. Everything was under his control.

Luo Mingyue noticed that steam was still rising from some of the plates, so she quickly stored them in her personal space. That way, even when she took them out next time, they would still be hot.

Seeing that no one was coming over, Ye Tianyu took out his phone and sent a message to Tan Lang, then forwarded the form as well.

The good news was that, as far as the mission requirement of winning a pet beast’s favor was concerned, Lin Ran would have no difficulty whatsoever.

“Hahahaha! Very well. Today, I swear here that should our great undertaking succeed, I shall never fail you. Together, we shall share the empire of Great Xia.”

Sure enough, they had discovered it. Threads of radiance blossomed above, dazzling even in broad daylight, shining continuously through the gaps in the pocket.

Still, after Sun Liangjin’s stern urging, the few of them felt somewhat guilty about running off in front of outsiders without so much as a word. After thinking it over, they decided to return with Sun Liangjin after all.

After finishing, Luo Mingyue once again arrived above Mohist Village. She had remembered that she had brought Hu Ziqiu there from Elegant City, and she had no idea how Hu Ziqiu was faring—whether the hard farm work had exhausted her to the point of clamoring to go home.

Had anyone else said those words, she might have doubted them and even teased the speaker a little. But because they had come from Li Que, she found herself able to believe them.

“But he didn’t notice this while moving the cabinet,” Conan said, taking out a matchbox.

Chen Xiao pressed the jade slip against his brow, and streams of information flowed through his mind. Quite a few of the messages had already been mentioned during everyone’s discussions, such as the possibility that the Third Princess of the Flowing Radiance Dynasty might descend, news concerning the Nine-Infant Fruit, and several maps of the Quicksand Sea from previous years.