Chapter 99: You Are My Person

“The sun is shining, the chrysanthemums are smiling~”

Killing a person or two at night makes one’s mood improve for no reason.

Ding Suian stood in front of the Military Patrol Post, shielding his eyes with his hand, looking at the scorching sun early in the morning, and actually found it quite cute.

“Old Li, two sesame cakes and a bowl of cold noodles!”

“Officer Ding, coming right up~”

Li Quan, who had just set up his small stall under the tree, skillfully grabbed a bowl, sliced the noodles, seasoned them, and a moment later, walked to the Military Patrol Post with a bowl in one hand and two sesame cakes in the other.

Ding Suian took them, sat on the steps in front of the door, turned his head and shouted: “Old Li’s sesame cakes and cold noodles, anyone want some?”

“Boss, bring us some too!”

Chest Hair’s response came from the back room of the Military Patrol Post.

“Twenty sesame cakes, ten bowls of cold noodles, extra vinegar and extra garlic.”

“Right away, Officer Ding~”

Li Quan turned back to his stall, beaming.

The frustration of selling three fewer sesame cakes in the Huaining Ward this morning was swept away.

“Officer Ding, what’s the occasion? You look so happy~”

Li Quan, busy with his work, didn’t let that stop him from chatting with Ding Suian across the street.

“Don’t call me Officer, you’re about the same age as my dad, calling me that will shorten my life!”

“Then, what should this little one call you?”

“Call me, just call me ‘The Dutou who hates the sky has no handles, hates the earth has no rings, shakes the Honglu Temple Ward, Xingning Ward, Xingping Ward, and parts of the Huaining Ward, is peerless, and braved the tiger’s den to win the beauty’.”

“…, hahaha, Dutou Ding, that nickname is so long, I can’t remember it.”

A moment later, Li Quan had all the food ready and brought it over on a tray.

Ding Suian didn’t let him enter the Military Patrol Post, but took it outside the door himself and carried it into the room.

“Here, the extra is your tip.”

Ding Suian tossed out a silver coin, and Li Quan hurriedly caught it, happily saying: “Thank you, ‘The Dutou who hates the sky has no handles, hates the earth has no rings’…” He couldn’t remember the middle part, just the ending, “…braved the tiger’s den to win the beauty, thanks to Dutou Ding~”

Just then, Wang Xigui walked out of the back room of the Military Patrol Post, grabbed a sesame cake and took a bite, walked to Ding Suian’s side and whispered: “Boss, I’ve calculated it.”

“How much?”

“Two thousand one hundred and thirteen ten-tael silver notes, making twenty-one thousand one hundred and thirty taels; three hundred and fifty-five twenty-tael notes, making seven thousand three hundred taels; a total of twenty-eight thousand three hundred and thirty taels. One hundred and seventy-one huaju pills, one hundred and fifty-two made by the military department of Sheng and Yong, and nineteen made by the Imperial City Shangdan Bureau.”

Even someone as cautious and low-key as Wang Xigui couldn’t help but let his voice tremble when he got to the end.

Ding Suian wasn’t surprised; that was Qin Shou’s life savings, wiped out by them in one fell swoop!

And this was just the start; they hadn’t touched the bulk of the jewelry and gold and silver yet, leaving them for those bastards at the West Yamen.

Hmm?

Did he just insult himself too?

Ding Suian tilted his head and poured the vinegar and garlic water from the cold noodles down his throat, then stood up and walked back into the room, “Old Li, I’ll bring the bowls out to you in a bit.”

“Alright! ‘The Dutou who hates the sky has no handles, hates the earth has no rings, braved the tiger’s den’…”

Li Quan hadn’t finished the prefix yet, and Ding Suian had already closed the doors of the Military Patrol Post and bolted them.

In the back room of the Military Patrol Post, the nine Squad Leaders besides Wang Xigui were staring at Ding Suian, their eyes burning.

On the table, stacks of silver notes were arranged neatly.

The biggest taboo in the military is hoarding spoils. As a group, the Elite Cavalry of the Vermilion Bird Army couldn’t hoard spoils either.

Regardless of his personal relationship with Li Baicheng and Chen Yi, they had to have a share of this money.

When superiors and subordinates are united, if news leaks, the higher-ups will take the initiative to smooth things over.

Building merit with a superior is far less effective than dragging the superior into the water with you.

Ding Suian raised his hand and divided the silver notes on the table into three portions, pointing to one of the piles: “Split these up, take them back, and make sure they are distributed to every brother. Each Squad Leader, go to Old Wang and collect one huaju pill made by the Shangdan Bureau.”

About half an hour later.

The gate of the Military Patrol Post opened, and Chest Hair personally returned a stack of bowls to Li Quan’s stall.

Li Quan took the bowls and happened to see Squad Leader Wang Jar and a group of comrades walking out of the Military Patrol Post, everyone’s faces were flushed, and their expressions were wild.

It seemed they hadn’t recovered from some huge joy.

That Wang Jar was walking as if he were floating.

“What happened to Squad Leader Wang today?”

Li Quan asked curiously, and Chest Hair looked back, laughing: “Him? His wife gave birth to a son for the neighbor, he’s happy.”

“So that’s how it is?”

Throughout the day, Central Heaven was calm.

It is said that this morning, only Sect Master Hao of the Tiandao Palace entered the city, first going to the Ministry of Justice, and then to the West Yamen.

Only now did Ding Suian grasp the situation.

Your Majesty getting sick really happened at the right time!

Because of the illness, the nine gates had been locked for several days, creating the reality of isolation between inside and outside last night; because of the illness, it was inconvenient to see people, so even if the saint of the State Religion came to plead, they couldn’t force the sick Your Majesty to meet, right?

Because of the illness, everything last night was the work of the West Yamen and the Prince of Shuochuan.

It wasn’t that Your Majesty wanted to shift the blame to Princess Xingguo and Chen Yi; after all, one was his daughter, the other his grandson.

But Your Majesty was stepping aside, and if the State Religion reacted too strongly, he could come out after ‘recovering’ and say, ‘Oh! She’s still a child, she doesn’t know any better.’

Hey! No wonder the news of his illness was spread everywhere a few days ago.

Father and daughter, what a great act they put on together.

Returned home in the evening.

Ding Suian sat cross-legged on the bed, spending two hours on Qi Circulation and Astral cultivation.

After entering the Astral stage, not only did his physical strength, reaction, agility, and power improve significantly, but his Qi Sea at the Zhongji Acupoint also became deeper and wider.

The Yang excess that used to come whenever it pleased had not appeared for a long time.

Should he try something new?

End of the Hai hour.

After completing his daily homework, he went to the washroom to bathe.

“Little swallow, wearing a flower coat, coming here every spring, I ask the swallow why you come, the swallow says: First, take care of yourself, swallow, how can I live without you!”

In the washroom, accompanied by the sound of splashing water, strange songs were sung intermittently.

The quiet back courtyard of the Ding Family.

A shadow that looked like a person was moving quickly, sticking upside down to the eaves in a way that defied common sense. Hearing the singing, the shadow paused slightly, its soft limbs, seemingly boneless, like slowly flowing water, moved to coil around a pillar, wrapping around it for a circle.

A quarter of an hour later, Ding Suian tied a cloth around his waist and walked back to the bedroom leisurely.

Close the door, bolt it, turn around.

“!”

Ding Suian had experienced the feeling of his Soul emerging and his scalp going numb twice.

The last time was that black-clad person who valued his furniture so much.

The second time was now.

Xu Jiuxi was standing in front of him, silent as a ghost.

The two were less than two feet apart.

She just looked at him quietly, not even the movement of her breathing could be seen.

Presumably, she came for what happened last night.

While Ding Suian’s brain was spinning rapidly, he stretched his head forward, staring at that bewitching little face so close at hand, and muttered to himself in confusion, “Huh! It must be that I’ve been thinking about her day and night, and now I’m hallucinating.”

As he spoke, he extended his right index finger, gently and slowly poking at the ‘hallucination’s’ extremely full chest.

Xu Jiuxi was expressionless, but her eyes slowly turned, following his approaching index finger.

“…”

He was in a bind now!

Young Master Ding just wanted to use this action to express the logic that he was admiring her too much, had hallucinations, and then poked to break the hallucination.

Who knew, she actually… didn’t Move or dodge!

If he withdrew now, wouldn’t it expose that he had been acting all along?

Brainstorming, but it couldn’t stop the passage of time.

The one-foot distance finally had an end.

Finger met soft flesh.

Sinking deeper and deeper.

Xu Jiuxi, who had been silent like a statue, trembled.

The next moment, she suddenly pursed her full lips, and a pale red mist sprayed out from them.

The mist looked slow, but was actually extremely fast.

Ding Suian only felt a wave of dizziness, and his Divine Court began to ache without warning.

It’s here!

It’s probably another Divine Ability of the State Religion, but he didn’t know what kind of reaction he should have after being controlled by this kind of Divine Ability.

He could only stand stiffly in place, confused and dazed.

Only then did Xu Jiuxi take a step back, breaking away from the attack of the poking finger.

“Last night, was it you who killed Qin Shou?”

“Yes.”

The Divine Court ache remained, but what was with the dizziness?

It felt like the experience of accidentally eating poisonous mushrooms in Yunnan in his previous life.

Did the mist just now have spiritual control combined with poison damage?

“Why did you kill him?”

“I have a grudge against him, and I need to cut the weeds and eliminate the roots.”

Xu Jiuxi put her hands behind her back and paced calmly in Ding Suian’s bedroom.

She seemed to think that Ding Suian had fallen completely under her control. After all, the latter only had a cloth around his waist now, and it was impossible for him to have any Magical Artifacts to break illusions or the like on his body.

This woman really knows how to choose the timing for a sneak attack.

Ding Suian, however, took advantage of her back being turned to him to ponder whether he could win with one strike.

“Are you truly serving the State Religion?”

“No.”

“Oh?”

Xu Jiuxi chuckled, twisting her snake-like waist, her skirt overlapping, and walked to Ding Suian’s side, “Then why did you borrow Jiang Yuan’s hand to teach the Law Academy the Simplified Character Notation? What do you want to do?”

Ding Suian’s eyes were vacant, staring straight ahead at the Void Realm, “I have long admired the Head of the Law Academy, Xu Jiuxi, and wanted to use this method to get close to her.”

“Oh?” Xu Jiuxi’s expression remained as usual, without any surprise, shyness, anger, or other emotions, just playful, “Besides that, have you used any other methods?”

“In order to attract her attention, the first time I met her, I deliberately turned a blind eye to her.”

“Hehehe~”

Xu Jiuxi seemed to be watching a child play tricks, covering her mouth and laughing, her body trembling.

Whether he was truly serving the State Religion or pretending was all within Xu Jiuxi’s expectations, but she never expected it to be like this.

But one thing was certain. Young Master Ding can be used.

After thinking for a moment, Xu Jiuxi sprayed another puff of pale white mist at Ding Suian.

“…”

Ding Suian was a bit numb. What is this again!

So many Moves, harder to guess than the mind of the Tax King!

Two or three breaths later, seeing that he was still in a dazed state, Xu Jiuxi raised her hand and patted Ding Suian’s cheek, “Wake up~”

“Hoo~”

Ding Suian took a big breath, looked around blankly, and after his dazed eyes fell on Xu Jiuxi, he quickly rubbed his eyes, “Headmaster! Why are you in my house? Just now I thought I was dreaming!”

Xu Jiuxi didn’t answer, raised her right index finger and poked Ding Suian’s chest.

Ding Suian subconsciously protected his chest, “Headmaster, what is this?”

“Hand away! You poked me just now, let me poke you back!”

“…”

They were even!

Xu Jiuxi walked to the door, threw a diamond-shaped pill back, “The Qin Shou you killed was Sect Master Hao’s man. This is a One-Thought Pill. If you encounter danger, crush this pill, and This Seat will sense it and come to save you.”

Ding Suian raised his hand to catch it, “Is the Headmaster saying that Sect Master Hao will come to me for revenge?”

Her back swayed, her footsteps did not stop, “You are my person, if he dares to touch you, I will kill him!”