Chapter 129 The Tumei Fairy Appears Again in the Painting
"I want you to help me steal something..." Lingxiang smiled cunningly, with a gleam in her eyes, which made Xiaobai feel uncomfortable.
What evil is this little fox plotting?
"Although I am a demon now, I was educated in my previous life. How could I do such petty theft?"
If it were in the past, he would have agreed without hesitation, and he might even have helped Lingxiang with some advice. But now he hadn't come out of his thoughts yet, and the tip of his tail still felt like it was still in Lingxiang's hand. For a moment, he lost his former elegance.
Lingxiang didn't seem anxious when she heard that, but smiled even more cunningly.
"Yo yo yo~" Xiao Bai was startled by the voice of an actor. "Look at what you said, you are still a scholar! If you are a scholar, how could you do such a thing as kidnapping a woman? Have you read all those sage books?"
Hearing her say this, Xiaobai didn't know how to refute for a moment, hesitating, just saying that he was confused at the time. Lingxiang found it even more funny, if it wasn't late at night, I'm afraid she would have laughed.
"Come on, we are kindred spirits. How can you be such a gentleman? Besides, even if you have studied, that was a thing of your previous life. Now that you live another life, why do you still care about these bullshit dogmas?" Lingxiang said as she actually got out of bed.
"Besides, I was stealing something that originally belonged to me. So, I should say that I was retrieving it, not stealing."
Xiao Bai couldn't help but wonder, "Your things? If your things are yours, then just take them openly. Why steal them?"
Lingxiang's expression darkened. "It does involve some past events, so let's not talk about it. But now that I have received information, I have guessed the approximate location, but I am not sure, so I decided to find out."
Lingxiang stood barefoot on the wooden couch in front of the bed. The skin on her feet was frighteningly white even in the darkness. Looking at her like this, Xiaobai remembered the incident in Langhuan Pavilion and softened his heart for a moment.
"It's still very cold outside and your foot injury has just healed. Don't torture yourself like this. I'll help you." As he said this, he wanted to go forward and help her back to bed, but when he raised his hand, he remembered what happened just now, and for a moment he didn't know whether to help her or not.
Lingxiang smiled softly and sat back on the bed: "Of course I have to go with you, otherwise how would you know what you are looking for?" After saying that, she found her shoes and socks and put them on.
Although Xiaobai is now a demon and his mind is very wandering, he is, after all, as he said, someone who has read the books of sages. When he saw Lingxiang's bare feet, he thought it was inappropriate to look at her, but he couldn't help wanting to look at her a few more times. He was absent-minded for a moment, cursing himself for being dirty, and quickly turned his back.
"You... your leg injury still needs a few days of recovery. Aren't you afraid of any future problems if you walk on the ground like this?"
Lingxiang replied while putting on her shoes: "I am a doctor myself, so I know that this injury needs to be treated well. But it is not like what my senior brother said. As long as I don't use my foot skills, I can walk without any problem."
After Lingxiang dressed up, she tiptoed out of the yard and went straight to Master Fuyin's study. Xiaobai was behind her, and seeing her like this, he couldn't help but think that this girl was really cute. Acting like this, she was exactly like the little fox in the den, which made him laugh, but he didn't dare to laugh out loud.
After all, what the two of them did could not be described as stealing.
Although Lingyun Pavilion of Prisoner Cloud Peak was built with Lingxiang often visiting, before Zhaoming Zhenren's Fire Spirit Pearl, he would live there for a long time every winter. He was so familiar with it that he could feel it even with his eyes closed. But Xiaobai was almost dizzy after following it around for a long time.
Just when he was wondering if Lingxiang had taken the wrong road, he saw her crouching figure suddenly stop, and after some hand gestures, her spiritual vision and hearing were fully activated. She looked around, and after confirming that there was no one in the room next door, she pulled the hairpin out of her hair.
Lingxiang actually doesn't like wearing any jewelry, but this hairpin was given to her by Mrs. Qiao herself, and it is really useful.
As for how to use it, she inserted the hairpin into the keyhole of the study and twisted it. It actually opened the door like a key, without leaving any trace on the lock.
When they entered the house, Xiaobai couldn't help but laugh at her, "I didn't know that an elder of a sect could have such tricks as this little thief." Lingxiang put the hairpin back on her head and said with a smile, "That's nothing. I know many tricks that you don't know. No matter they are from the upper nine classes or the lower nine classes, as long as they are useful, I know some."
However, Xiao Bai didn't seem to give her face, and said bluntly: "I remember that practitioners probably use some magic to easily open the padlock, but I have never seen anyone do it personally like you do."
Lingxiang glanced at Xiaobai after hearing that, and said unhappily, "You are really bringing up something irrelevant. If I had that kind of cultivation, why would I be so sneaky? I could have gotten in with just one escape technique, but you know so little and insisted on telling me. It's great to have cultivation, why don't you go to heaven? Besides, I'm doing it myself, what do you know?"
As he said this, he didn't care that Xiaobai was bent over with laughter, he reached into his pocket, took out a sound-silencing talisman and stuck it on the door.
Xiao Bai was puzzled when he saw this: "What are you doing?"
Lingxiang didn't explain to him and went straight to the bookshelf. According to Maidong's instructions, she moved the branches in the celadon vase into another white porcelain vase.
After hearing the sound of a mechanism rolling, Xiaobai finally understood what was going on.
If it were during the day, such a sound would not necessarily attract anyone's attention, but now it was late at night and everyone was asleep. If such a sound was heard out of nowhere, even the soundest sleeper would be awakened.
Lingxiang glanced at Xiaobai proudly, and the meaning in her eyes was self-evident - I have my own plans for doing things, you just need to watch, why are you so long-winded.
Xiaobai felt embarrassed for a moment, smiled, touched his nose, and followed Lingxiang into the secret room.
It looked like no one had been in the room for a long time. Many objects were covered with a layer of dust. The two of them walked around the room for a long time.
Lingxiang searched around, but Xiaobai didn't know what she was looking for, so she asked. Lingxiang forgot to say, so she just said if she saw something like an incense burner, she could show it to her.
However, after searching for a long time, the two of them did not find any incense burner. In the room, apart from books, there were swords, gossips and the like.
Lingxiang was flipping through the books while muttering to herself that this Sixth Senior Brother really didn't complain about being poor to her. These magical instruments and treasures were really too few, and he didn't collect some on a daily basis. He had more than a dozen disciples, but he didn't prepare anything presentable to pass on to them.
These nephews of the Guan generation, following a master like Senior Brother Fuyin, are really miserable...
Just as Lingxiang was searching everywhere, Xiaobai saw a painting. It was none other than the one Maidong had seen before.
"The night rain in the west window asks about the tea blossoms, the cold wind cuts the candle, the green smoke is so beautiful that it refuses to go away. Qingwei does not ask about the worldly idleness, holding the incense in her white hands, the lights are dim and there is no place to find..."
"It's really beautiful beyond words!"
Seeing the appearance of the woman in the painting, Xiaobai couldn't help but sigh. Suddenly, he came to his senses and found that there was no sound behind him. He turned around and saw that Lingxiang was actually...
But I saw Lingxiang's face was full of tears!
(End of this chapter)
