Chapter 67: Actually… The Situation Is Like This (Four thousand words, two-in-one)

Thinking about Sister Mimi on the second day after she left.

No.

Lin Xun wasn’t actually missing her.

Because as soon as he thought of Sister Mimi, Lin Xun felt a headache coming on.

Truthfully, Lin Xun really couldn’t think of any good solution.

Even if he died, it was impossible for him to abandon Qinger.

So what if he took Sister Mimi as a Secondary Wife?

Emmm…

Setting aside whether Sister Mimi would be willing to be a concubine (she definitely wouldn’t).

Lin Xun looked at the large rock facing him, and the thought vanished from his mind.

Lin Xun had already inspected it; that rock in the yard was indeed excellent Materials for a tombstone.

Of course, Lin Xun didn’t plan on using it so soon.

“Stop thinking, stop thinking, my head hurts.”

Lin Xun lay on the easy chair and pinched the corners of his eyes.

It was hard enough to get a day off from work; he didn’t want to add to his own troubles.

Just as Lin Xun performed a’salted fish flip’ and planned to head to the shop on West Street to see if the custom JK Sailor Suit he ordered was ready, a piercing scream suddenly gave him a fright!

“Ah!!! Don’t come over here! No! Stay away!”

From the neighboring courtyard, separated only by a wall, came Jiang Nongqin’s voice, sounding close to tears.

Suddenly, all sorts of plots from his previous life filled with Holy Light and Dark Pastors flashed wildly through Lin Xun’s mind.

It was simply inhuman (short for ‘unmentionable cruelty’).

Without a second thought, Lin Xun vaulted over the wall and jumped into Jiang Nongqin’s courtyard.

This was the first time Lin Xun had entered Jiang Nongqin’s courtyard.

After all, in ancient times, men were not supposed to enter a woman’s private quarters.

Plus, Qinger would sometimes narrow her eyes and say in a ‘yandere’ tone, “Actually, if Husband goes to Sister Nongqin’s courtyard to help out, Qinger won’t mind at all.”

Therefore, Jiang Nongqin’s courtyard had become a Forbidden Land for Lin Xun.

But Lin Xun couldn’t care about any of that now.

Just as Lin Xun was about to rush into Jiang Nongqin’s room, the door suddenly burst open. Jiang Nongqin, with her long hair disheveled and wearing only a thin gauze robe, came charging out.

Seeing Lin Xun, Jiang Nongqin immediately threw her arms around him.

“Are you hurt, Miss?”

“No… no… it’s just, Young Master… in the room… in the room…”

“It’s alright.”

Lin Xun patted her head, killing intent already permeating the entire courtyard. “Leave it to me.” Lin Xun strode into the room, but it was empty. Aside from Nong Qin’s delicate fragrance, there was no trace of anyone else’s presence.

“Squeak~~~”

Just as Lin Xun was completely bewildered, a sound reached his ears.

“Hmm?”

Lin Xun looked down, just as a rat nearly half the size of a cat looked up from the floor.

Man and rodent stared at each other.

Half an incense stick later.

In the courtyard, a fat rat was trapped in an iron cage. Lin Xun sat on a chair observing it, while Jiang Nongqin leaned over, half her body pressed against Lin Xun’s back, poking her small head out to peer at it fearfully.

Feeling the pressure from behind, Lin Xun felt that things were quite bad.

Lin Xun really wanted to say, “Miss, you’re leaning too close,” but her slight trembling from nervousness made him unable to find the heart to push her away.

“Sigh! Why am I so ‘Yasashi’? If I’m ever buried by Qinger one day, ninety-nine percent of the reason will be this damn tenderness of mine!” Lin Xun sighed inwardly, having already figured out his future cause of death.

“Your scream earlier… was because of this?” Forcing his attention away from his back, Lin Xun pointed at the fat rat and asked.

“Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.”

The girl pressed tightly against Lin Xun’s back nodded vigorously. Lin Xun facepalmed.

You are a Cultivator in the Golden Core Realm! Even if your Magic Zither Hall isn’t good at combat, dealing with a rat should be no problem, right?

“Squeak.”

The big rat let out a squeak… The girl was so scared she immediately shrank behind Lin Xun, pressing herself even closer, as if the more intimate she was with Lin Xun, the more secure she felt.

Lin Xun: “…”

He understood now. Regardless of their Realm, things like cockroaches and rats would probably always be a woman’s nightmare.

“Alright, I’m taking this big rat away.” Lin Xun wanted to get up and leave, otherwise Qinger would be coming home from work soon.

If Qinger saw him in Nong Qin’s courtyard with her hugging him tightly from behind…

Then Lin Xun could guarantee that the one locked in a cage might not be this Brother Rat.

No, this rat seemed to be female.

However, Lin Xun tried to get up, but Nong Qin was still holding him tightly, as if she never planned to let go.

“Um… Miss Jiang… your hands…” Lin Xun reminded her.

“Ah?”

Jiang Nongqin only then realized her hands were clasped around Your Highness’s eight-pack abs, her body pressed tightly against his solid back, and she was only wearing a sleeping gauze.

In an instant, a flush of red climbed up the girl’s fair, swan-like neck. The blush rose like an elevator, like a red thermometer reaching its limit.

“Puff puff~~~” The ripened girl was like a boiling kettle, with white steam practically coming out of her head and ears.

“Nong Qin won’t see the Young Master out. Please, help yourself…”

The girl clutched her collar and ran back into her bedroom in a panic, leaving behind a faint fragrance.

Like a student throwing off their backpack after school, Lin Xun felt much lighter after finally getting rid of the “backpack.”

But…

Lin Xun frowned slightly.

He discovered that, actually, feeling the weight of ‘knowledge’ was also quite nice.

Nice my foot!

Lin Xun quickly shook off those dangerous thoughts!

Carrying the iron cage, Lin Xun vaulted back over the wall.

Except, once back in his own courtyard, he kept thinking of the weight of ‘knowledge’.

“Emergencies call for desperate measures. This was the first time I jumped the wall, and it will be the last!”

Lin Xun warned himself in his heart.

Then, looking at the squeaking rat and remembering how Nong Qin had just been scared out of her wits, Lin Xun suddenly had a bold idea.

If a rat appeared at home and Qinger saw it, and while Qinger was in a panic, he appeared just in time!

Wouldn’t Qinger then cling to him like a Koala?

No time like the present!

Lin Xun opened the cage and tossed the big rat into the kitchen.

After making all the preparations, the sound of the front door opening came from the courtyard.

Lin Xun hurried out of the yard, picked up a book, and began to flip through it.

“Husband?”

Jiang Qingshang walked to Lin Xun’s side, her slender hands lightly resting on her knees as she leaned down to look at him.

“Ah… yeah.”

Lin Xun looked up and saw his wife’s beautiful face; a strand of hair brushed past her ear, making her look even more exquisite. Especially since his wife was completely unguarded around him, and he accidentally caught a glimpse of snowy white, the book in Lin Xun’s hand suddenly lost its appeal.

If Qinger wasn’t a relative of the City Lord of Luocheng, Qu Ke, and didn’t have a connection to Sister Mimi, who was the current Empress, Lin Xun felt that with Qinger’s looks, he would have had to deal with quite a few playboy scions.

In fact, if the Emperor of the Qian Kingdom were a man and wanted to hold a beauty pageant among the commoners, Lin Xun might have had to make the Qian Kingdom change its Emperor.

“What is Husband thinking about?” Jiang Qingshang asked.

“Nothing, just reading a book.” Lin Xun looked at the “book” with a serious expression!

Following Lin Xun’s gaze, Jiang Qingshang looked down, and a blush flitted across her pretty face.

“What exactly is Husband looking at…” Jiang Qingshang covered her collar and stood up, flicking his forehead in mock annoyance.

“Sigh, what a pity, what a pity.”

Lin Xun lamented with profound grief.

Seeing Lin Xun’s look of utter despair because the scenery had vanished, Jiang Qingshang chuckled softly.

“I’m going to cook now.”

Jiang Qingshang’s fair, slender finger tapped Lin Xun’s nose as she walked toward the kitchen. “By the way, Husband, are you reading your book upside down?”

Before she had taken more than a few steps, Jiang Qingshang turned around and said with a smile.

Only then did Lin Xun notice that he was indeed holding the book upside down.

Lin Xun somewhat awkwardly turned the book right side up.

At this moment, Qinger’s slender back moved to the kitchen door, her small white hand reaching out to push it open.

Lin Xun had already put down the book and stood up, straightening his clothes, waiting for Qinger to be scared by that big rat and leap into his arms.

“Creak.”

The girl’s soft fingers pushed the door open, and Lin Xun already had his arms spread wide.

The result…

In the kitchen, the rat that was eating butter looked up at the sound, and Jiang Qingshang also looked down.

Man and rodent stared at each other.

The scene was momentarily silent, as if time had paused.

One second. Two seconds. Three seconds…

Something’s not right, why isn’t Qinger screaming yet?

Could it be that Qinger isn’t afraid of rats?

Just as Lin Xun was filled with doubt, the girl suddenly slammed the door shut with a “bang.”

Immediately after, Qinger walked back toward the room with a blank expression, the light having faded from her eyes.

When Qinger came back out, her fair palm held a Fire Starter.

*Whoosh.*

The Fire Starter was lit.

“Spare the house!”

Just as Qinger was about to toss the Fire Starter onto a pile of hay outside the kitchen, Lin Xun rushed over and scooped his wife up in his arms.

“Husband! Let me go! There’s a rat inside!” Qinger struggled in Lin Xun’s arms.

“I know there’s a rat inside, but you can’t burn the house down…”

“If I don’t burn the house, it will come out.”

“What kind of logic is that? You can ask me to catch the rat.”

“Eh?” In Lin Xun’s arms, the girl’s jewel-like eyes blinked. “Is Husband not afraid of rats?”

“Of course n—” Just as Lin Xun was about to say he wasn’t afraid and that he used to eat them when he was starving as a kid, he changed his tune. “Actually, I’m quite afraid, but for your sake, Qinger, I’m willing to do anything.”

“As expected, Husband is also afraid…” The soft girl in Lin Xun’s arms shrank closer to his chest and said softly, “Then we should definitely burn the house down.”

Lin Xun: “???”

Wait, shouldn’t the next part be Qinger begging him to catch the rat, and then him bargaining, saying he’d give his all for just one kiss?

Why are we still burning the house down?

Seeing Lin Xun’s confusion, Jiang Qingshang’s small hands gripped the fabric of his shirt. Her face turned red as she whispered, “Qinger doesn’t want to make Husband do something he doesn’t like to do.”

*Thump!*

Jiang Qingshang’s words struck Lin Xun’s heart like a heavy blow.

Lin Xun felt as though he had been buffed, his entire body filled with strength.

“It’s alright.” Lin Xun leaned down and gently kissed his wife’s smooth forehead. “As long as it’s for you, I love doing it.”

He set his wife down, patted her head, rolled up his sleeves, and walked into the kitchen, closing the door behind him.

“Boom boom boom! Clang clang clang!”

Half an incense stick later, Lin Xun emerged holding the big rat by the scruff of its neck. The rat looked like it had been broken, its legs twitching as Lin Xun held it up.

At this moment, Lin Xun noticed that Qinger’s eyes were filled with nothing but admiration (or so Lin Xun thought).

“Alright, Qinger, go get that iron cage. I’ll put it inside.”

Lin Xun said in a triumphant tone.

Jiang Qingshang was dazed for a moment before coming to her senses and going to fetch the cage from the corner of the yard.

Looking at the iron cage, Jiang Qingshang knit her brows slightly.

She seemed to have seen this cage in Nong Qin’s courtyard before; it looked like the one Nong Qin used for her parrot.

But why was it in her own home? And there was even a small tuft of fur inside the cage, the color similar to that of the rat.

“Qinger, what’s wrong?” Lin Xun, completely unaware of the danger, called out proudly from behind.

“Coming,” Jiang Qingshang replied, her voice as clear as a silver bell.

Jiang Qingshang jogged over with the cage and placed it on the table. Lin Xun tossed the rat in and closed it inside the birdcage with extremely practiced movements.

“Alright, I’m going to wash my hands… Qinger?”

Lin Xun was about to get up from the stool when the girl sat down on his lap, her slender arms wrapping around his.

“Qinger, it’s fine.”

Lin Xun put his arm around his wife’s slim waist. “Look, isn’t the rat locked up now?” “Yes… it’s locked up.”

Leaning against Lin Xun’s shoulder, Jiang Qingshang spoke softly. If she just lifted her head, she could bite Lin Xun’s neck.

“But Husband, didn’t you say you were also afraid of rats? Why were your movements so practiced?”

“For your sake, Qinger, this little bit of Universe, your Husband can still burst forth with it.” Lin Xun said, feeling a bit flustered. Had he known, he wouldn’t have been so efficient!

“Is that so?” The girl sitting on Lin Xun’s lap straightened her waist slightly, her teeth less than an inch from Lin Xun’s neck. Lin Xun could even feel the breath from Qinger’s cherry lips.

“Yes!” Lin Xun swallowed nervously.

“Then Husband, why did I just see some of this rat’s fur inside the cage?”

“Ha… really? That…”

“Also, why does Husband have Sister Nongqin’s birdcage?”

“!” Lin Xun was shocked. Oh no! Qinger had seen this cage before!

“Husband, can you explain?” Qinger’s pearly teeth were already touching Lin Xun’s neck.

“Actually… the situation is like this… ah… ow ow ow… Qinger, don’t bite my neck…”

“Wait, biting my ear isn’t okay either! Qinger, wait, aren’t you going to listen to my explanation? Qinger, I was wrong! Qinger—”

…【Writing a little bit of daily life, need to prepare before entering the next story arc~~~

If nothing goes wrong, it will be released next Friday. After it’s released, there will definitely be at least two updates daily~~~ After all, I need to get that attendance bonus~~~】