Chapter 337: Going Out Disguised 2
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Wait for me, I’ll fix myself first, then I’ll do it for you.” As Qi Qingyao said this, she walked to the side and fiddled in front of the mirror for a long time. Then she turned her head around.
Si Jin’s eyes almost popped out of his sockets. After stifling himself for a long time, he only managed to breathe one word, “Wow…”
“How is it?” Qi Qingyao looked at him with a smile and asked.
If it were not for her voice and tone, Si Jin feared he would have really thought she was someone else. This time, he answered seriously, “Ordinary.”
“I’ll take that as a compliment then.” Qi Qingyao then pulled Si Jin over and placed another “face” over Si Jin’s. After ten minutes, it was another ordinary face. Qi Qingyao pointed to the face in the mirror and asked Si Jin, “How’s it now? Two unrecognizable faces in a crowd!”
“Average-looking” Si Jin touched his own face while facing the mirror, seeming a little in disbelief. Was this really him?! It was so ordinary he could not remember his own looks.
Qi Qingyao laughed. “This is the result we want.”
She then did both of their hairs. Qi Qingyao looked in the mirror seriously. Clearly, their makeup and hair had not changed much from before, but they looked like two ordinary people in the city.
Once they were clothed in ordinary blue linen, Qi Qingyao almost could not recognize herself.
“You can bypa.s.s the guards at home and take me out discreetly, right?” She gulped and asked Si Jin cautiously.
Si Jin replied confidently, “Of course.”
However…
Si Jin said again, “Sister, why do you want to go out?” She was even doing it so mysteriously.
After being questioned like that.
Qi Qingyao was actually a little embarra.s.sed.
“It’s not that I want to do anything in particular, it’s just that…” She paused, then said in a lost and helpless manner, “How should I say it? I’m the kind of person who can choose to not go out, but I must reserve my right to go out if I want to. If there’s an external force confining me to this mansion, I’ll feel an inexplicable sense of oppression and imprisonment, which makes me want to go out even more. I’ll feel better as long as I get to go out, do you understand that feeling?”
“I get it.” She did not like to be controlled!
Si Jin thought that he should write down these words in a small notebook later.
She opened a small gap in the door and listened to the movements in the courtyard. After a while, Qi Qingyao closed the door. She then opened the back window and said to Si Jin, “Go go go!”
As soon as Si Jin heard the signal, he carried Qi Qingyao on his shoulder with one hand and leapt out of the window in an instant. Then, raising his inner energy, he soared up the roof.
Qi Qingyao felt herself being swung around suddenly a few times before her view had already reached the height of the roof. After that, she could only hear the sound of wind, but not the sound of Si Jin’s footsteps. Qi Qingyao was stunned. Was a rank-nine this awesome? Si Jin was extremely fast and within three blinks of her eyes, she felt herself landing in a small alleyway.
Si Jin put her down gently.
Qi Qingyao looked around for a while like a thief, then raised both her hands in a gesture of triumph. “I’m out at last, that’s great!”
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Zuixian Restaurant.
Second floor.
A few beautiful young ladies were sitting together, having a drink. They looked very majestic with their maids and squires standing by the side waiting on them.
These young ladies were all from famous families in Qingzhou City.
As they were chatting, someone suddenly mentioned a name.
“Let me tell you, that person called Qi Qingyao is really inhumane.”
The others were stupefied. One person reacted, “Right, she actually drove Jiang Siliu out of Qingzhou City!”
“She’s just a country b.u.mpkin, but she takes herself way too seriously.”
Others also began to parrot one after another.
“Didn’t Second Brother Jiang avenge Siliu?” someone asked.
“I heard that it happened in Hualian Mountain Springs Villa and many distinguished guests from Eastern Ling had been watching at that time. Under the gambling agreement, if they agree to the bet they must accept the loss, so Second Brother Jiang couldn’t intervene at all. If Jiang Siliu didn’t leave, it’s tantamount to their family becoming a joke for the distinguished guests from Eastern Ling, that the Jiang Family failed to abide by the agreement. So Siliu had to leave!” The woman’s tone was full of lament.
“Poor Siliu, she was forced to leave Qingzhou City just like this by a country b.u.mpkin.”
Their voices are all full of pity.
Jiang Siliu was their friend.
Just the thought of not being able to see Jiang Siliu anymore made everyone begin to feel outraged unconsciously.
Especially the Lady of the Han Family, Han Ruomei.
She said angrily, “If I meet that Qi Qingyao, you can bet I’ll bust her lips and rip her face!”
“Hahahaha, she’s being backed by Lu Yan. Do you dare do it?” one of them quipped.
“I heard she has a good relations.h.i.+p with Heir Pei as well, are you sure you dare lay a finger on her?” The person had a tone of disbelief.
Han Ruomei said resoundingly, “Why should I dare? The one I want to beat up is just that country b.u.mpkin! Besides, you all said that she has a connection with Heir Pei and Lu Yan but what kind of connection can she possibly have? Did Lu Yan take her as a concubine? Or did Heir Pei take her as a s.e.x servant?” After a pause, Han Ruomei continued loudly, “Don’t think I don’t know anything. I had asked my brother to look into her. She’s nothing but a little widow with three children from the rural Baishui Town! She’s unethical and shameless! I don’t know how such a person made it here. But I heard that she has connections to Master Architect Li Qinglian and Divine Physician Su Hexiao; this is also probably the reason why Master Lu and Heir Pei are fascinated with her. They want to use her to look for Divine Physician Su Hexiao!” The woman’s brother was Young Master Han! How could she possibly be so afraid of such a country b.u.mpkin?
A young lady suddenly scratched her head in confusion, “Say…I have a slight idea who Su Hexiao is, he’s a very impressive divine physician. But who is Li Qinglian?”
Several other people also looked at the Lady of the Han Family curiously.
Han Ruomei looked in surprise at the few ladies who never cared about this aspect. “You guys don’t even know Li Qinglian? I heard the name Master Architect Li Qinglian from my father before, he told me he’s an amazing architect. The Yaochi Palace and Yuew.a.n.g Tower in Northern Liang were supervised, designed, and built by him. Anyway, he’s very famous!”
The several young ladies were all suddenly enlightened.
They were ladies who only cared about beautiful clothes and cosmetics! They never really cared about who built the houses.
“In that case, the few big shots who are protecting her are just using her. From the way I see it, as long as we don’t go overboard with teaching this country b.u.mpkin a lesson, no one will intervene.
Just as the lady of the Han Family finished speaking.
She heard a cool voice from behind.
“Who are you going to teach a lesson?”
The several young ladies turned their heads around and were met with a round-faced girl. The girl was a little fat and looked round, but her eyes were quite big. She would probably look better if she lost weight.
Han Ruomei was very displeased with the unwelcome guest that disturbed their gossiping and shot, “You fatty, who are you?”
“I am Gu Shanshan!”
Gu Shanshan had her hands on her waist, and she was even holding a chicken drumstick in her hand! When she was about to sit down and order food, she heard these people gossiping and even cursing Qi Qingyao behind her back!
She knew Qi Qingyao; she was the friend who stole a snack together with her that night, and was also the person who bet against Jiang Siliu the next morning!
Her brother had even brought back the painting of the beauties in the hot spring made by her. It was currently in her hands!
Gu Shanshan really adored Qi Qingyao. She adored that painting even more! When she headed back, she even planned on asking a few painters to imitate a few copies and send them as gifts to her sisters in the Capital City of Eastern Ling! As for the original work, of course she would keep it for herself!
She also really wanted to go look for Qi Qingyao at the Qi Residence, but her brother said that she could not go look for Qi Qingyao to play!
So, when she heard these conceited young ladies slandering Qi Qingyao, Gu Shanshan’s anger instantly soared to the height of a three-story building.
How could this be tolerated!
“Gu Shanshan, I don’t even know you.” Han Ruomei shook her head.
“Go away, fatty,” another young lady said.
“Who are you cursing at!” Although Gu Shanshan was a little fat, she had never taken a blow from anyone in her entire life, whether in Eastern Ling or anywhere else!
Gu Shanshan immediately instructed the little maid behind her, “Xingtao, teach her a lesson!”
“Yes, my lady!”
Although Xingtao had an ordinary name, she was very tall.
Her height was close to one hundred and seventy centimeters, and she was not very thin.
It was likely that she ate well alongside Lady Gu Shanshan.
She looked tall and mighty.
Her face was void of any expression, cold and indifferent.
When she walked over alone, Han Ruomei and the others felt intimidated.
Han Ruomei immediately said.
“Where did this fatty come from? How dare you try to teach us a lesson? Are you really trying to go against the ones in power?”
She cast a meaningful look at the circle of squires around her.
These bodyguards who followed the young ladies out rarely had the opportunity to show their abilities off because everyone in Qingzhou City knew this group of close friends. Who would ever dare bully them?
Now there was finally a chance to show off their abilities.
It made this group of bodyguards quite excited.
Gu Shanshan did not even care about the group of bodyguards. She said even more arrogantly, “You guys want to teach Qi Qingyao a lesson, but she is my friend! You all even called me fat, so I’m going to beat up you nosy b*tches!”
A young lady sneered, “Don’t you know whose territory this place is? How dare you be so arrogant!”
Gu Shanshan told Xingtao, while eating the chicken drumstick in her hand, “Xingtao, if you lose today, your monthly salary this month will be deducted by three taels!”
Xingtao, who had a cold and indifferent expression, immediately looked aggrievedly at Gu Shanshan.
She thought to herself that she was a rank six.
Dealing with these few people should not be a problem.
Gu Shanshan took another fierce bite of the chicken drumstick and said with great arrogance, “Although I’m fat, at least I’m a rank-four pract.i.tioner. I have to beat you nosy b*tches to death today.”
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Qi Qingyao said excitedly when she walked with Si Jin to the entrance of Zuixian Restaurant, “I asked the pa.s.sersby just now. They said this Zuixian Restaurant is as famous as Chunjiang Restaurant, but the difference is that there’s no members.h.i.+p requirement! Anyone can enter, it’s just that the food is more expensive. But we have money! We certainly can afford it.”
Si Jin just smiled.
He did not have a penchant for eating, but he was happy seeing that Qi Qingyao was happy.
As soon as they entered, they found that there were not many people in the lobby, but there were sporadic sounds of tables smas.h.i.+ng coming from upstairs. Broken pieces of tables and chairs even fell from the second floor from time to time. The scene looked very…shocking.
The servant stood by the side, dozing off like it was something commonplace.
Qi Qingyao prodded the servant. “What happened here?”
The servant rubbed his eyes and looked at the ordinary-looking guest in front of him with a fawning smile on his face. “There are guests fighting on the second floor! Miss, if you’re not busy having your meal now, you can go and watch.”
“???” ‘Watch? This servant’s… brain! He probably has some issues.’
The servant got even more excited. “It’s not every day you get to watch this kind of liveliness.”
Qi Qingyao, “…” She suddenly recalled the “customs” of Qingzhou City, and thought that perhaps this was the usual “main dish” of Qingzhou City!
While going up the stairs, she asked a few guests who were heading down.
“Who’s fighting with whom?”
An uncle laughed.
“A very fat girl is fighting with a few young ladies from Qingzhou City, it’s raucous!”
“But that fat girl is probably a foreigner. Her accent doesn’t sound like it’s from Qingzhou City,” another person said.
However, as soon as that person finished speaking, someone poked fun at them. “Aren’t you talking nonsense? There are plenty of foreigners in Qingzhou City, alright?”
That pa.s.serby said seriously, “That’s different. Those young ladies are from Qingzhou City and are well-connected. If they get beaten, then the little fat girl will be in big trouble when she goes back.”
Qi Qingyao was so puzzled, what fat girl…
When she went upstairs, she noticed that the landing was already full of people and they were all twittering away.
“Fights between girls are so exciting!”
“Although that girl is fat, she’s very agile! She knows what she’s doing.”
“Two people are up against a whole group of people and they still haven’t lost. That little fat girl is awesome.”
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“Fat girl?” Qi Qingyao chewed on the word, and for some reason, she recalled the little fat girl she met in the kitchen that night in Hualian Hot Mountain Springs Villa.
Si Jin asked Qi Qingyao if she wanted to squeeze into the front.
Qi Qingyao said, “Of course.”
The two of them squeezed in between the crowd for a long time, and finally made their way to the front.
They were greeted by the scene of a few bodyguards and the young ladies, who had joined the mess of a fight. They were pulling out all the stops to rip at hairs and tear at faces.
The little fat girl in the middle of the encirclement caught Qi Qingyao’s attention.
“Eh!”
Gu Shanshan and Xingtao were completely outnumbered since they were fighting a large group of opponents.
Gu Shanshan was currently wedged between a few young ladies, unable to move at all but she had enough weight that she could kick the few young ladies to the corner by s.h.i.+fting her body. She shouted to the bodyguards.
“If you guys beat me to death, my brother will come after you.”
Han Ruomei got up, her hair and clothes in a mess. She no longer cared about her image and told Gu Shanshan angrily, “You still dare pick a fight with us with only you and your maid! In Qingzhou City, even if we beat you to death, no one would dare to do anything to us!”
“Xingtao, we have to go all out.” Gu Shanshan told Xingtao.
However, she was cursing to herself.
She was careless.
This was not Eastern Ling.
Besides, she only brought Xingtao today. She initially thought that Xingtao, being a rank six, should be enough. Who knew, however, that these bunch of nosy b*tches had rank seven bodyguards!
What a disadvantage!
Qi Qingyao looked at Gu Shanshan who had sword wounds on her face and arms. The injuries suffered by that tall and large maid seemed to be worse than hers; she almost could not stand on her feet.
She tugged at the corner of Si Jin’s s.h.i.+rt.
“Si Jin, can you secretly help her?”
“Help who?” Si Jin asked in an endearingly silly manner.
Qi Qingyao pointed to the middle. “Help that chubby girl.”
“If Sister asks me to help, then I’ll help!” Si Jin pointed to the people at the side very seriously, “Leave the chubby girl and her maid alone, and kill all the rest?”
Kill? Qi Qingyao suddenly shuddered and quickly added, “No need to kill, just incapacitate them.”
Incapacitate…
That easy?
Si Jin was a little shocked. He swiftly walked to the side and grabbed a handful of chopsticks from a chopsticks holder then walked back.
Everyone was so busy watching the bustling scene that no one was paying attention to Si Jin walking back and forth.
Because he looked really…inconspicuous.
Then…
Si Jin lifted his hands.
Chopsticks shot out from his hands like hidden weapons.
Those who were about to besiege Gu Shanshan and Xingtao…
The rank seven powerhouse only felt something come piercing through the air and as soon as he turned his head, a chopstick with a strong inner energy hit his throat directly, killing him on the spot.
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The others were lucky, the chopsticks mostly hit their hands and limbs!
“Who the f*ck threw the chopsticks!!”
“Ah!”
“My leg!”
“My hand!”
“Who is it? Who threw the chopsticks!”
It was less like shooting targets.
It was more like…
Those chopsticks were like arrows, shooting through these people’s hands and limbs,
Han Ruomei and the few young ladies… were no exception.
Han Ruomei watched her rank seven powerhouse die unexpectedly, and the corners of her eyes started twitching. When she was about to yell at the person who hurt her people, a bodyguard whose limbs had been pierced by chopsticks rushed over to stop her.
“Young lady, there’s a powerhouse helping her here, we can’t win against her.”
“Come, let’s go home first.”
Han Ruomei looked at her injured thigh and knew that she had to quickly retreat! Otherwise…
Gu Shanshan was about to go all out. When she saw these people retreating, however, she guffawed excitedly, “Hahahaha, you nosy b*tches!”
The young ladies who were defeated left in a hurry.
The guests who were watching the commotion also dispersed somewhat unsatedly.
One of them looked at the arrogant little fat girl curiously and asked in bewilderment.
“Hey you, do you know who you were beating up just now?”
“I don’t know!” Gu Shanshan ignored her injuries, holding her head up very proudly and saying, “Since she cursed Qi Qingyao behind her back and cursed me for being fat, I just have to beat her up!!”
That person who spoke shook his head and left helplessly.
When Qi Qingyao heard it, her expression was somewhat complicated.
Right before coming down the stairs, someone spoke to Gu Shanshan.
“They’re all young ladies of famous families in Qingzhou City and they live in the Upper East side. You can’t mess with them. You—you’re done for.”
“So what if they’re from Qingzhou City Upper East side? I’m from Eastern Ling’s Gu Family, and my brother won’t let me die,” Gu Shanshan continued saying boastfully.
Qi Qingyao smiled.
The servant walked over and looked at Gu Shanshan with a smile. He was about to ask who would be responsible for the shop’s losses.
Gu Shanshan patted her chest and said she would.
After that, the servant then asked her whether she wanted to continue eating, or leave.
Gu Shanshan was hesitating, and glanced at the sword wounds on Xingtao…
Qi Qingyao stepped forward, lowered her voice, and said, “I’m a doctor, let me help you treat your wounds.”
“You’re such a nice person.” Gu Shanshan’s chubby little face was delighted. “Thank you.”
Qi Qingyao turned her head and said, “Servant, help me buy some bandages and gauze.”
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When the servants were cleaning up the mess on the second floor, their gaze swept across the dead man. They asked their boss about it, who instructed them to get someone to send the person whose throat was pierced back to the Han Residence.
That was a bodyguard from the Han Family, after all.
Over an hour had pa.s.sed when the corpse was sent to the Han Family…
The Han Family’s servants looked at the corpse that was sent back and their hearts rattled in their chests.
This was a rank-seven powerhouse!
They quickly called the young master over.
Young Master Han was hugging girls in Huayue Building. When he was called back, he was very unhappy, but when he heard a rank-seven powerhouse died…
His expression suddenly changed.
He also called the corpse collector Ke Yishan over.
After all, Ke Yishan had seen many dead people, so he was also very experienced in autopsies.
When Ke Yishan saw the rank seven powerhouse whose neck had been pierced by a chopstick, the corpse collector’s face suddenly turned as white as paper!
Rank-seven.
Dead just like that.
By a chopstick…
This method of killing was too casual, and too… savage!
“Mr. Ke, quick, say something.”
“A rank-eight doesn’t have this capability, even if a rank-nine has the capability, they won’t be able to do it so neatly and cleanly! Besides, Young Master, your sister and a few witnesses also said that multiple chopsticks were thrown out at once!”
“So? Is the murderer a rank-nine?”
“If a chopstick simply killed a rank-seven in one blow, I would think that the murderer is a rank-nine. But a bunch of chopsticks were thrown out casually at once, and each chopstick carried such a strong inner energy, which indicates…”
“Indicates what?”
“…”
It could not be.
Ke Yishan was silent.
For some reason, he recalled the Lingyun Restaurant Ma.s.sacre where no one was able to flee the scene.
It was similar this time. A bunch of chopsticks were thrown out casually; the purpose was not to kill, but to incapacitate these people. If the opponent had aimed a little more accurately and hit the head directly, with this force, it would directly penetrate the skull!
Then the conclusion was, a bunch of people… could have … been killed in one blow by a bunch of chopsticks that were casually thrown out!
This!!!!
This technique could only belong to a grand master.
Ke Yishan suddenly felt cold sweat dripping down his back, and sat on the ground in terror.
The corpse collector’s expression also made Young Master Han nervous…
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