A small thin figure was squatting by an inconspicuous street corner yawning his head off. His half closed eyes were looking at the patrolling teams roving on the bustling street as he pulled out an apple from within his clothes and began to take bites out of it in a big show of utter boredom.
Dressed in beggar's rags, old, tattered and filthy, his dirty face was even well smeared with mud and grime, his hair wrapped within a broken rag, looking every inch an malnourished skinny little beggar. Nobody would have guessed that the very one person who had so greatly angered the town's mayor as to make him order an all out search for that woman from the brothel would be this little beggar by the street corner.
"What bad luck! How do I get out of here? Even if I have the patience to wait, the poison in my body wouldn't allow it!" Taking bites out from the apple, Feng Jiu sighed softly. If she had known that the vulgar and disgusting man that she killed last night was the town mayor's only son, she would have at least let him live, and the mayor wouldn't have deployed all the guards to comb the entire town to search for her.
But, who was that black robed man then? Assassin?
Remembering the energy that had surrounded that man's body when he made executed his moves, she began to feel a little jittery. She had thought that after being reborn, she would at most just have to deal with living under the rule of some ancient dynasty. Who would have thought that the people here cultivated immortality? Immortal Cultivation, that was something that entered the realm of fantasy! But thinking back to the fact that she, a person from the twenty first century, had even been reborn into a god damned place like this, made everything else seem not as strange anymore.
Immortal Cultivation! Then her whole arsenal of skills her body possessed would amount to nought before these cultivators of immortality!
She flung the half eaten apple away and sat there sighing to herself, dispirited. Until a crisp and clear sound rang out right before her.
'Clink! Clink! Clink!'
The broken bowl before her suddenly had a tiny nugget of silver spinning in a circle within it before settling down in the middle. Feng Jiu stared blankly at the silver within the broken bowl and picked it up to inspect it. It felt not different from a common rock except that it was silver on the outside.
She looked up and turned her head towards the person who had thrown the silver nugget into her bowl and saw the wide back of a person dressed in a black robe. He was walking slowly, his steps light but firm, and a chilling aura emanated from his entire being that drove people to stay away from him.
With that turn of her head, without even thinking about it, she leapt up to grab at that man's leg, wailing pitifully in a loud voice: "Woo hooo….. Brother in law! I've found you at last, oh my brother in law!" The man suddenly dodged in a flash and she ended up grabbing at air and she fell forward from the forward momentum, scraping both her hands and groaning in pain.
The black robed man frowned, his sharp and penetrating gaze sweeping over the little beggar on the ground briefly, before he resumed his steps to continue striding forward. A single glance, and he was able to determine that the beggar on the ground was just a commoner that did not practice cultivation.
Of course, Feng Jiu at that moment was just a common and ordinary person. The little bit of cultivation that her body's previous owner had achieved had been completely undone by the poison that Su Ruo Yun had forced into her mouth, and she was now just a ordinary person who did not possess any cultivation powers.
And it was exactly because of that that when those cultivators of immortality saw her, an ordinary person who had no cultivation, would relax their guard against one such as her.
"Brother in law! Do not desert me! Wah….. I suffered so much hardship before I managed to find brother in law! Brother in law….." She got up and pounced once again, falling a few more times, until, the black robed man in front finally stopped in his tracks.
"BROTHER IN LAW!" The chance was not to be missed! Feng Jiu clasped both her hands and feet to hug herself round the man's leg, clinging on tightly, as she raised her tear brimmed eyes, injected with some timidness, to look at the man.
And when she saw the man's countenance, her mouth suddenly developed an involuntary twitch….. This leg she was clinging on to like a koala, might have been a mistake?
Looking at broad back, the man before her eyes stood out as a great example epitomising what made a man. But when she saw his face, she only felt like slapping herself on the forehead to say with a long sigh: Come on! This is obviously the face of an aged uncle already in his thirties!
The sharp featured, stalwart and hard face was half covered in his beard and his face shape could hardly be made out just as was his countenance. Although the pair of eyes were endlessly deep and mysterious, but whichever way you chose to look at it, he was an uncle in his thirties, and he couldn't quite fit into the profile of being anything like her young nubile body's brother in law.
But, she had no other choice in the matter before her and she was not going to let go of the leg she was latched on to, so she continued to cry out: "Brother in law! Boo hoo….. I finally found you….. Oh brother in law….."
Ling Mo Han's up slanted brows creased together as he stared at the koala like little beggar latched onto his leg. As he was unused to being touched, his entire body was currently completely frozen. He tried to shake the beggar off his leg and he gave a low holler: "You've mistaken me for someone else! Let go!" However, the little beggar was clinging on too tightly and he could not shake him off.
"Woo hoo….. Brother in law, I am not mistaken. My sister told me you had a great big beard. I saw you when I was very young and I will not mistake you for anyone else. Boo hoo….. Brother in law, don't drive me away, there is no one at home anymore and my stepmother wants to sell me off! Boo hoo... Brother in law….."
"I am not your brother in law! You've really got the wrong person!"
Ling Mo Han's expression was turning chilly and the chilling aura emanating from his being was intensifying terrifyingly. But the little beggar clinging onto his leg was not loosening his grip in the slightest. He shook his leg a few more times but he still failed to dislodge the person. When he stretched out his hand wanting to pick the little beggar off, he suddenly screamed and held on even tighter, his head even pushing against a sensitive area between his legs, and his body suddenly stiffened, his face darkening immediately.
"Let go!"
"No way! Unless you agree to take me with you."
She was stuck unabashedly onto the man's leg and completely unaware her head was pushing against the person's sensitive part, secretly celebrating in silent glee that although the aged uncle was a little cold in his demeanor, but fortunately, he was harsh only with his mouth and not in his actions, seemingly like he wouldn't use his powers on a commoner who did not practice cultivation.
Valiantly suppressing the urge to kill, Ling Mo Han drew in a deep breath before he said: "Let go! I'll let you come with me!"
"Sniff….. Brother in law, I knew you wouldn't desert me!" She wiped at her dry eyes which had not been wet in the slightest and she quickly got to her feet. Seeing that the man had already turned and walked away, she immediately hurried to catch up.
Seeing the distance between them being pulled apart, Feng Jiu's eyes flashed and smile curled up on her face. No wonder he had agreed for her to follow him so easily. So this was what he had planned to do, to leave her behind like this?
Unfortunately for him, he had gravely miscalculated. There was no way she wouldn't be able to keep up with his pace! At the very least, before she manages set foot outside of this Da Lang City, she needed to stick to him. This man was obviously not from a simple background and sticking by him would ensure that the guards will not dare to stop them.
"Brother in law! Wait up, I can't keep up! Brother in law….." She ran slowly behind him and when she saw that he was going towards the city gates, her heart leapt with joy and she quickened her pace to catch up.
Ling Mo Han's steps faltered, as he turned his head around slightly. He saw the little beggar's filthy little hand was tugging at a corner of his robe. He flicked his arm down to brush off the little beggar and he continued on with his wide strides forward.
"Brother in law! Brother in law, don't be angry with me, at most I won't pull at your clothes anymore….. Brother in law!"
She jogged along as she cried out pitifully, noticing from out of the corner of her eyes that the guards at the city gates suddenly stiffened when they spotted the uncle in front of her, and lowering their heads to bow in subservience. The guards who had been marching straight towards her suddenly froze in their spots when they heard her address the man as brother in law, their faces greatly puzzled as they discreetly assessed the two people.
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