Chapter 37

Chapter 37: Sometimes she really wants to call the police

“You’ll live in the left house.”

Yan Yuan handed Sang Nian a key.

Sang Nian looked at the thatched cottage that looked like a dilapidated building, her mouth twitched:

“Is there any need for a lock on this door?”

A hint of embarrassment flashed across Yan Yuan’s face:

“I didn’t expect anyone else to live here besides me.”

He quickly offered a solution:

“I’ll have people come and renovate the house. You can stay with Chu Yao and the others for now.”

Sang Nian didn’t understand: “Isn’t there any magic that can create a new house?”

Yan Yuan: “I’m a sword cultivator, I only know how to use swords.”

Okay, everyone has their own specialty.

Sang Nian didn’t dwell on this issue, she walked around the house and pointed to a patch of empty land:

“Can I have a small garden?”

Yan Yuan nodded.

Sang Nian said happily:

“Then I’m going, remember to tell me when the house is renovated.”

After receiving an affirmative reply, she excitedly left along the path down the mountain.

Jumping down the last step of the stone steps, she caught sight of a familiar figure ahead.

Broad shoulders, narrow waist, tall and slender.

It was Xie Chenzhou, no mistake.

She quickly ran over and patted his shoulder.

As he turned around, she jumped in front of him with her hands behind her back:

“Here I am.”

Xie Chenzhou turned around, “Boring.”

Sang Nian walked backwards in front of him, asking him:

“Were you looking for me?”

Xie Chenzhou: “Passing by.”

The Second Elder’s Baohua Peak was right next to Guzhu Peak, no matter if you went to the academy, the dining hall, or the martial arts field, you would pass this way.

Sang Nian “Oh”ed, and excitedly said:

“My master is going to renovate the house, he’s also going to give me a small garden, then I can plant flowers in it.”

Xie Chenzhou looked at her smiling face, puzzled:

“Just a garden, is it worth being so happy about?”

Sang Nian: “It’s worth it.”

Xie Chenzhou still couldn’t understand.

Sang Nian said: “Flowers are beautiful, aren’t they?”

Beautiful?

Xie Chenzhou looked at the side of the road.

There was a patch of lush wood sorrel growing there.

Tiny yellow flowers were scattered among the grass leaves, the petals were soaked in a layer of oily luster in the sunlight.

A few light purple butterflies were entangled as they flew by, the scales on their wings shimmered.

Beside her ear, the girl’s voice was clear:

“It’s the first time I’ve seen this kind of butterfly, it’s so beautiful.”

Xie Chenzhou pursed his lips: “You like it?”

Sang Nian nodded: “I do.”

The next moment, she saw a blur in front of her, before she could see what he did, a butterfly was already caught in his palm.

Xie Chenzhou stretched out his hand in front of her, opening it.

The beautiful creature that had been fluttering among the flowers just now had broken wings, it was motionless.

Sang Nian’s smile froze on her lips.

“Didn’t you like it?” he was impatient.

Sang Nian was quiet for a while, she gently took the broken butterfly.

She looked around, found a patch of soft soil, squatted down and used a small knife to dig a small hole.

Xie Chenzhou: “What are you doing?”

Sang Nian: “Bury it.”

Xie Chenzhou frowned: “You don’t like it?”

“I do.” She put the butterfly in the hole, the soil slowly covered the beautiful light purple wings, and she tamped it down.

She patted the dust off her hands and sighed a long sigh:

“Xie Chenzhou, don’t do that again.”

Xie Chenzhou’s brows furrowed in confusion.

Sang Nian said seriously:

“I like this butterfly, so I hope it can live freely, not be squeezed to death like that.”

“To like someone is to want them to be happy, not to possess and destroy them.”

Xie Chenzhou looked down at his palm, where some scales had rubbed off, they shimmered in the bright sunlight.

He fell into a long silence.

Sang Nian used her sleeve to wipe off the scales, and whispered:

“Let’s go, let’s eat.”

The two of them continued walking forward, neither of them spoke again.

The Xiaoyao sect dining hall was very big, it had five floors, and there was a lot of variety in the food.

It was bustling with people, she saw Wen Buyu and the others sitting by the window, she quickly pulled Xie Chenzhou over.

She greeted them: “Brother Wen.”

Wen Buyu said with a smile:

“I was worried that you wouldn’t be able to find your way here and would miss dinner, it seems my worries were unnecessary.”

Sang Nian curiously asked:

“Didn’t you already reach the state of abstaining from food? Do you still need to eat with us?”

Before Wen Buyu could speak, Chu Yao rolled her eyes:

“Abstaining from food just means we can live without eating, it doesn’t mean we don’t have a craving for food, we’re not Xiao Zhuochen, we don’t practice the Path of No Desire and are half-dead all day long.”

That’s right, after all, who can do that after practicing swordsmanship three thousand five hundred and twelve times and memorizing ten basic cultivation books, and then still drag their tired body back to drink the northwest wind?

Just thinking about it is miserably depressing.

Sang Nian fully expressed her understanding: “Do you mind if we share a table?”

They moved in a bit, making room for two seats.

There was a lottery box on the table, each lottery sticks had a dish name written on it, some Sang Nian recognized, others she didn’t.

She looked at them carefully from beginning to end, and asked them:

“I want lotus leaf chicken, what about you?”

Wen Buyu took a skewer, “Steamed perch.”

Chu Yao was too lazy to move, she directed him to take a skewer: “Braised mutton.”

Su Xueyin: “Same as my senior sister.”

Sang Nian asked Xie Chenzhou beside her: “What about you?”

Xie Chenzhou: “Whatever.”

So she really randomly picked a skewer and gave it to Wen Buyu.

Wen Buyu opened the hidden box under the table and put all the bamboo sticks in it.

The bamboo sticks disappeared.

While waiting for the food, Sang Nian told them about the renovation of her temporary residence.

Su Xueyin happily said:

“We have an empty bed there, you can come with us after dinner.”

Sang Nian: “Okay.”

Su Xueyin curiously asked: “But what did the Sect Master want to talk to you about today?”

Hearing this, Chu Yao, who was talking to Wen Buyu, pricked up her ears, she turned her head to look at Sang Nian.

Sang Nian didn’t mention Jing Xian and the Ephemeral Dream, she only said:

“He gave me a sword.”

“A sword?”

Everyone was interested, “What kind of sword?”

“Just a normal one.” Sang Nian took the sword out of her storage bag, “Here, this one.”

Wen Buyu took it and examined it carefully.

He also flicked the blade with his finger, and said:

“This is a sword forged from meteorite iron.”

Here we go again.

Hearing the familiar list of ingredients, Sang Nian held her forehead:

“Stop talking about meteorite iron, I’ve been tricked once, I won’t believe there’s such a thing in the world again.”

Every day a different scam, different scams every day.

Sometimes she really wants to call the police.