I sell demon meat in the city

Chapter 296 Something is wrong

"What's with the arrogance? So what if you're a little more talented and have a slightly higher cultivation level? What's so great about that?"

As soon as the car door closed, Xia Rui muttered resentfully.

Xia Cheng instructed the driver to drive to the criminal investigation team, then turned his head to look out the window. Meng Qi was still standing there, looking at him expressionlessly.

"Shut up!"

Xia Cheng hissed at his younger sister, "Don't speak if you don't want to die."

With Meng Qi's cultivation level, she could definitely hear them from this distance. They came here to make friends, not to make enemies.

Once the car drove off the street and turned onto another road, Xia Cheng finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Brother, are you serious? I don't think Meng Qi is anything special. Why do you have to befriend her? You even dragged my sister and me along to pick up Xia Yi. Does she even deserve her?"

Xia Mei also felt that her older brother and parents were taking each other too seriously. Under the guise of picking up Xia Yi, they were actually there to let them get to know Meng Qi.

But looking at the other party's arrogant face, and what kind of rules did they say about Qingzhou? They thought, "Only Qingzhou has rules, only you are special, only you are different, right?"

What the hell!

To put it bluntly, it was just jealousy and resentment in their hearts, because the other party was younger than them, but their cultivation level was much higher, and they had such a great deal of influence in the city.

In comparison, they seem to be nothing at all.

Seeing his two younger sisters' attitude, Xia Cheng shook his head in disappointment.

"After we report to the criminal investigation team, you two can stay at the hotel and not go to see Xia Yi. I'll go alone."

They're both his sisters, but Xia Yi can be good friends with Meng Qi. What about them?

They are incapable and lack cultivation, yet they refuse to admit that others are better than them.

Just like when he was a child, he didn't want to admit that Xia Yi was better than the two of them in every way. He knew it in his heart at that time, but he still let them suppress and bully Xia Yi, pretending not to see it, just like his parents.

Xia Yi's introverted and unlikable personality is why her family ignores her and doesn't value her.

In short, the current situation between Xia Yi and her family is partly due to her parents' favoritism, but also related to her own personality.

Too tough and stubborn, unable to be coquettish or yielding, who would like a girl like that?

"If you don't want to go, then don't go. It's like we want to see her, right, sis?"

Xia Mei didn't say anything, but that was tantamount to her acquiescence, since she didn't really want to see Xia Yi either.

Watching the car disappear from sight, Xiao Qi withdrew her divine sense, too lazy to listen to the siblings' boring talk anymore.

But just as she was about to go back, someone grabbed the back of her collar.

Xiao Qi rolled her eyes, looked down at her belly button that was exposed because her clothes had been pulled, and said angrily, "Lu Xingyun, you've gone too far. If you keep pulling my collar like this, I'm not done with you."

Lu Xiaowu quickly let go of his hand.

Xiao Qi angrily straightened her clothes while asking fiercely, "What are you doing here again?"

As Lu Xiaowu smoothed the wrinkles on her back, he asked, "Was it a classmate who confessed to you tonight?"

"So many people have confessed their feelings to me, how would I know which one you're talking about?"

As she turned twenty, she shed the naivety of her sixteen-year-old self and blossomed into a beauty that could be described as breathtaking and unparalleled.

Of course, this only applies when she is sitting still and not speaking.

Once she opens her mouth, to paraphrase Luo Qiaodan, she ruins her entire being with just one word.

Even so, she still attracted the attention of many boys, such as their class's sports committee member.

The guy who confessed his feelings to her during the dinner party tonight was caught red-handed by Lu Xiaowu.

"Who else could it be besides him?"

Xiao Qi sighed, "Sigh, senior brother, you really are more like my father than my own father."

She held up two fingers. "I'm twenty years old. It's perfectly reasonable for me to want to be in a relationship, isn't it? Do you have to be watching me so closely?"

"You can't date ordinary people if you want to; that's what your mother says."

Perhaps because she had suffered in this area before, Meng Shulan repeatedly told Xiao Qi: Don't associate with ordinary people!

"If I don't look for ordinary people, am I supposed to look for my own people? I can't bring myself to do it, and there aren't any suitable ones either."

Lu Xiaowu's eyes flickered, and he said seemingly casually, "Dongfang Shuo is not bad, you can consider him."

Dongfang Shuo?
Xiao Qi suddenly remembered the joke the fairy had played on her in her dream four years ago, and goosebumps rose on her arms again. "What a joke, what's the difference between me looking for him and looking for a woman? Okay, you can go now, our party isn't over yet."

After she finished speaking, she turned to go back to the hotel, but Lu Xiaowu hurriedly said, "Master has refined a magic weapon, and this time it will probably be successful."

Yes, he came over tonight to tell her this news, but he didn't expect to run into a guy confessing his feelings to her.

"You've finally succeeded? It's been four years, that's no easy feat."

Xiao Qi didn't show much surprise on her face. She just stroked her chin and thought for a moment, "Tell Master not to rush to try it. I haven't seen Xiao Long for half a year. I need to say goodbye to him."

We've said goodbye eight times in four years, why are we saying goodbye again?

However, Lu Xiaowu didn't say anything, only asking her, "Do you want to go back after the party ends?"

“Wait for me, I have something to tell Xia Yi.”

Xiao Qi quickly returned to the hotel. Xia Yi happened to be coming out of the restroom and asked in surprise, "You went out?"

"Yes, we found a few outsiders who said they came to take you home."

Xia Yi was taken aback for a moment, then understood and chuckled, "That's really funny. No one saw me off when I came here, and no one asked about me when I didn't go back for four years. Now that I've graduated, someone's come to pick me up. Fine, they'll pick me up, but they didn't even think to call and let me know. Anyone who didn't know better would think they came here for a vacation."

They're here for tourism, aren't they? Before they even registered with the criminal investigation team, the two sisters were already discussing going to the most famous hot springs and trying the local snacks in the ancient street.

They never even considered seeing Xia Yi.

That guy looked somewhat decent, but not much of a difference.

"I'm going back to Sanqing Mountain tonight. If you don't want to see them, that's fine."

"See them? They've all come, why wouldn't you see them?" Xia Yi's eyes were icy cold. "It's been four years since we last met. I'd like to see how much the cultivation of these three siblings, on whom the Xia family has placed such high hopes, has improved." Meng Qi couldn't comment on this, because in her opinion, their cultivation was so low that they were practically defenseless. Even if the three of them joined forces, they might not be able to withstand three moves from Xia Yi.

Having come to terms with her past and no longer having any expectations of her family, Xia Yi made rapid progress in her internal energy cultivation. Coupled with her diligence and hard work, Meng Qi felt that even if she were to fight against Yang Yi, the young master of the Shan Hai Tang, she could hold her own for a dozen or twenty moves.

"Alright, your nominal older brother will come to see you tomorrow. If you need anything, call Ziyang and Qiaotai; they're both here."

"No need. If I can't even handle Xia Cheng, then I've wasted the last few years of my life."

After the party ended, Xiao Qi rode back to Sanqingshan in the jeep driven by Lu Xiaowu.

He enjoys driving and plans to take a road trip across the country with Xiaoqi after she graduates.

Zhang Jinwu had someone get him the driver's license, and even created a fake identity for him.

While Lu Xiaowu was driving, Xiao Qi sat in the passenger seat, looking down at her phone and giggling.

Lu Xiaowu glanced at her and asked, "What's so funny?"

"The boys in our class got drunk and clung to the lampposts outside the dorm, saying they were ladders to heaven and he wanted to climb them to pick the moon from the sky, hahaha, there's even a video of it."

Xiao Qi clicked on the video and turned up the volume. Immediately, a wailing voice assaulted her eardrums: "Moon Palace! I want to go to the Moon Palace! I want to pluck the moon! Plucking the moon! Catching rabbits! For Meng Qi!"

Xiao Qi:
She didn't see the end and didn't know she was involved.

This guy
"This must be the guy who confessed to you tonight, huh? Tsk, he can't hold his liquor."

Xiao Qi turned off the video and pouted, "Not only is his alcohol tolerance bad, but his drinking manners are also terrible. When he was drunk, he even ran up to me and tried to hug me, but our class monitor stopped him. If I didn't know he wasn't a bad person, I would have wanted to push him into the latrine to sober him up."

I thought my fifth senior brother would verbally reprimand the boy, but to my surprise, he actually spoke up for him, saying, "Forget it, he didn't do anything wrong, he just has bad eyesight."

Xiao Qi nodded. "His eyesight is more than just bad. Hey? What do you mean?"

Lu Xiaowu's lips curled slightly as he pursed his lips and looked at the road ahead.

Xiao Qi glared at him from the side, but she felt that her reproachful gaze was far from enough, so she reached her claws towards his waist, pinched the soft flesh above, and rotated it 180 degrees like turning on a switch.

hiss.
This move is too ruthless; no matter how high one's cultivation level is, one cannot withstand it.

Lu Xiaowu held the steering wheel with one hand and grabbed Xiao Qi's small hand with the other, preventing her from turning the wheel any further.

Xiao Qi was no match for Fifth Senior Brother in terms of strength, so after she couldn't twist him, she tried to pull her hand back, but Lu Xiaowu wouldn't let go.

"Hey, I'm not twisting anymore, let it loose."

Lu Xiaowu held on tightly, without moving.

Xiao Qi glared at him, "I'm really not twisting anymore, let go and drive properly."

"I can drive very well with one hand."

He held her hand on his thigh, showing no intention of letting go.

Lu Xingyun

Lu Xiaowu

Fifth Senior Brother

She called out his name, but her hand was gripped tighter and tighter. Slowly, Xiao Qi finally realized that something was wrong.

She tilted her head to the side and looked at their hands clasped together. Her senior brother's hands were big and his fingers were long, almost completely enveloping her soft, fair hands.

But actually his hands are quite white, with well-defined bones, and delicate, fair skin.

Xiao Qi touched the back of his hand with her other hand; it was smooth, cool, and very comfortable.

Lu Xiaowu glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, but still showed no intention of letting go of her hand. He didn't move his hand either, letting her touch it.

The two had had physical contact before; back in the cultivation world, Lu Xiaowu had even slept while holding her.

It's just a handshake now, why does it feel so strange?

Xiao Qi stopped touching the back of his hand and didn't struggle to pull her hand back. She just let him hold it, and then sat up straight and turned to look out the window.

The two didn't speak to each other the whole way, and Xiao Qi didn't look at her phone either.

Lu Xiaowu let go of his hand just before entering Qingshui Town and noticing his master's divine sense sweeping over.

"They're all numb."

Xiao Qi muttered something under her breath, but after she finished speaking, her ears turned completely red, and her fair face turned pink.

Lu Xiaowu did not stay in Qingshui Town, but drove directly to Sanqing Mountain.

"Let's go, Master is waiting upstairs."

After parking the car in the base's parking lot, the two walked up the mountain one after the other.

Just like an ordinary person, I climbed the stairs step by step.

"It's too late today, you can go find Xiaolong tomorrow."

Lu Xiaowu tried to make conversation, and Xiao Qi, walking ahead, hummed in agreement.

"If the repairs are successful, should we go on a road trip? We've been here for several years and I've never left Qingzhou."

Xiao Qi stopped and turned to look at him. "Senior brother, you've been to the Grand Canyon." Back when you were still a soul.

"That doesn't count. I was only focused on protecting you and didn't pay attention to anything else. Besides, you haven't been to any other places besides the Grand Canyon. We can go and explore."

After graduation, Xiaoqi really didn't have much to do, so it would be nice to go out and have fun for a year or two.

Grandpa's health is very good now, and he should live to be over a hundred, so he can rest assured even without her.

Thinking of this, he nodded, "Okay, if Master can fix it this time, we'll leave in a few days."

Seeing that she agreed, Lu Xiaowu was very happy and reached out to pinch her cheek.

He used to do this often; it was just a habit.

But Xiao Qi blushed again after he pinched her, glared at him, and turned to walk quickly upstairs.

(End of this chapter)