The little princess was torn, and the demon emperor patched her up

Chapter 58 Why aren’t we together?
As the white light gradually dissipated, a pair of white cranes snuggled up to each other, spread their wings and flew away!

They circled around the ruined temple for a long time, making clear and high-pitched crane calls, and then flew out of the temple in pairs.

Xiao Baojing clearly saw that one of the claws was wearing a silver bracelet wrapped with red thread!
She hurriedly chased out of the ruined temple.

The white cranes spread their wings and fluttered in pursuit of each other through the rain, heading straight for the highest waterfall in Xiangshui County.

They turned into the new center of the formation, replacing the two bronze fish, and reopened the formation for flood control and water management, guarding this land that depends on water for survival.

"It's Linghong and Ji Shanchuan!" Xiao Baojing grabbed Shang Bingjiu's sleeve in disbelief, and jumped up and down, pointing at the waterfall in the distance, "Look, peddler!"

It was dawn and the east was bright.

As the formation was activated, a few rays of golden light penetrated the thick dark clouds and shone onto the Xiang River.

It is bright.

The breeze was gentle and the raging flood waters gradually receded, revealing the original stone bridges and streets, the new color of willows by the water, and white jasmine flowers blooming in the corners of the walls and in the cracks between the bricks.

The people tentatively opened the windows and whispered to each other in confusion, not understanding why this catastrophic rain had suddenly stopped.

A ray of golden merit light silently merged into Xiao Baojing's body.

Xiao Baojing smiled brightly, his voice crisp and sweet, like a pear in July or August: "Seller, is Linghong alive again? Does this count as them being together?"

Shang Bingjiu's eyes fell on her hands.

The girl's white, slender little hand tightly grasped the corner of his sleeve, and her pale pink and crystal nails covered the crane feathers on his cuffs, which was a different kind of gentle color in the dim morning light.

She was sharing his joy.

He bent his fox eyes and said, "Why aren't we together?"

Noticing his gaze, Xiao Baojing belatedly retracted his hand.

In the ancient world, men and women were not allowed to touch each other.

The peddler already has a girl he likes, and maybe that girl likes him too.

What's the point of her interfering?

She put her hands behind her back, and her originally excited mood suddenly became a little disappointed for some reason.

She returned to the dilapidated temple and picked up the paper umbrella with a peach blossom painted on it.

The paper umbrella kept spinning in my hand, and the tender pink peach blossoms were almost turning into a circle.

The circles are round, like the girl’s complicated and unspeakable thoughts.

She looked back at Shang Bingjiu and said hesitantly, "By the way, you... the girl you like, what's her name and where does she live? Have you... have you known each other for a long time? Where is she now?"

"She...she has already been eaten by me."

Xiao Baojing opened his almond-shaped eyes wide.

eat...

Eat her?
Is that what she meant?

She bit her lip and blushed.

She thought the peddler was a virgin, but she didn't expect that he had started having sex so early.

The corner of her eye secretly glanced at Shang Bingjiu's lower abdomen, and she stammered: "You...you look only eighteen or nineteen years old now, so you were really young when you ate her. You...can you do it?"

Is it developed well?
Shang Bingjiu: "Just use your mouth."

Use... use your mouth?

Xiao Baojing imagined a certain scene and his face suddenly turned red as blood.

Help!

Can you just say something like this?!
She said sullenly, "It's enough for you to know about this kind of thing. Why are you telling others about it? It's so embarrassing..."

"What's there to be embarrassed about?" Shang Bingjiu picked up an egg from the basket, "Eating her is just like eating this egg."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Baojing looked at him in shock.

He swallowed the egg: "She was an orange tree, and the oranges she produced were delicious. I was very hungry at the time, and I ate everything in that place, but I was still very hungry. I liked her very much, so I saved her for last. Although I didn't know whether it was male or female at the time, she could bloom, so I guessed she was probably a female."

Xiao Baojing: "..."

what?
What is this person talking about?
After all this time, the girl he likes is an orange tree?!
She looked at Shang Bingjiu as if he were a fool.

And she actually fell in love with a fool!
Xiao Baojing was angry and explained in a crisp voice: "I am talking about normal human girls! The love I mentioned is the love between men and women, like Ling Hong and Ji Shanchuan, not the love for food! Peddler, do you understand?"

The young man in the Taoist robe with crane feathers stood in front of the ruined temple, looking at Xiao Baojing quietly.

After a while, just when Xiao Baojing expected that he had realized it, he said seriously: "I'm hungry."

Xiao Baojing: "..."

This guy has no idea about love!
He only knows how to eat!
She stuffed the Pisces bronze mirror and paper umbrella into her persimmon-studded shoulder bag and walked out of the dilapidated temple with a pout.

Shang Bingjiu followed her with a basket on his back: "You are angry."

"No."

"You're angry."

"no!"

...

Xiao Baojing planned to send Princess Wumian's body back to the capital, so he and Shang Bingjiu returned to the southern suburbs, found her body in the wilderness, and hid it together with the coffin in her persimmon bag.

The two came to Xiangshui County again. It was already the Dragon Boat Festival and the county town was bustling with activity.

Crown Prince Xiao Qian was returning from the Julu Mountains on a cloud boat and passed through Xiangshui County. He came here specifically to visit his maternal grandfather, but was told by local officials about what happened that year. He also learned that his maternal grandfather Ji Wen died at the hands of Princess Wumian.

Xiao Qian sighed and went to Ji Wen’s grave to pay his respects in person.

The trusted official accompanying him frowned and said, "This case has a bad influence. I'm afraid it has already been reported to the palace. The Empress is not the biological daughter of Princess Wumian, but the daughter of a palace maid... I wonder if it will affect the reputation of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

Xiao Qian offered incense earnestly: "A person's reputation is built up by his own words and deeds, and should not be changed by the status of his parents. Xiao Qian is Xiao Qian, even if his grandmother is just a palace maid, but Xiao Qian is still Xiao Qian, and he is still Xiao Qian who has made 'establishing a heart for the world and a life for the people' as his lifelong ambition."

Another local official asked, "Should we catch the peddler and the monster?"

"My grandfather cheated me into marriage, which was unkind. He murdered the princess, which was disloyal." Xiao Qian closed his eyes. "Although I am close to my grandfather, I know that no one else can be blamed for this. As the heir to the throne, I must not abuse my power to seek revenge."

With the prince's attitude, the government no longer targeted Xiao Baojing and Shang Bingjiu.

Seeing the two people entering the city, the government still asked Xiao Baojing to play the role of Lady Xiang and pray for the Xiangshui County God Parade.

After participating in the parade, Shang Bingjiu was generous for once. Instead of taking Xiao Baojing to stay in the dilapidated temple, he invited her to stay in the best inn.

The inn is built by the water. Standing by the flower window, you can overlook the entire Xiang River. There are pearl curtains and green curtains, a splendid dressing table, a thick velvet carpet on the floor, a gorgeous carved and painted bed hung with draperies, and a burner of incense burning in the corner.

It was the first time for Xiao Baojing to stay in an ancient inn, and it was such a good inn at that!

(End of this chapter)