Genshin Impact: The Sage's Disciple Doesn't Want Fame

Ji Ming left his desk to add some dog food to the puppy's food, and the puppy stopped barking. It was quite cute when it was quiet.

I added some tobacco leaves to the pipe, struck a match against the rim of the box and made a hissing sound as it burned, then placed it in the pipe to light the tobacco leaves, and a few wisps of smoke drifted out.

Ji Ming had already asked many shops in Liyue Harbor. Those shops either maliciously tried to undercut the price to acquire the pipe, or they recognized the pipe's true value and dared not set a price on their own.

There's nothing I can do. Since I can't sell them, I'll just keep them for myself. Consider it a way to perk myself up; it has a certain luxurious appeal.

"Bang bang bang..."

Ji Ming reached out and pushed open the window, looked at Hu Tao clinging to the windowsill, and asked with a smile, "Oh ho, it's an honor to welcome you, Hall Master. May I ask what brings you here?"

Hu Tao didn't reply. Instead, she stared intently at the pipe in his hand, smacked her lips, and revealed her little tiger teeth: "How come you've learned to smoke a pipe?"

Grandpa smokes a pipe, Dad smokes a pipe, how come Ji Ming has started smoking a pipe too?!

Seeing Hu Tao's dissatisfaction, Ji Ming assumed that the girl disliked the smell of smoke, so he placed the pipe in the low ashtray on the desk and turned to explain, "Just consider it a way to wake myself up. This is the first time. I won't smoke in front of the hall master again."

"Call me Walnut. By the way, when did you get a dog?"

Hu Tao took off her ancestral hat, placed it on the desk over the window, and then nimbly leaped over the windowsill, making Ji Ming's eyelids twitch and quickly reach out to catch it.

Catched by a pair of strong hands, Hu Tao didn't blush. Instead, she turned her head and glanced at Ji Ming out of the corner of her eye, saying with dissatisfaction, "What are you doing? I, the hall master, can jump over here. I'm not a child."

“Minors should all be treated as children. Besides, shouldn’t Hu Tao have a key to my house? She can just walk through the front door. We’re practically family. This little dog is named White Sugar, a gift from a friend.”

Gently breaking free from Ji Ming's princess carry, Hu Tao patted the cheongsam she was wearing, pushed Ji Ming, who was sitting in the armchair, aside, picked up her pipe and began to examine it, not minding the moisture left on the mouthpiece at all.

The pipe looks very luxurious. Xiangling said that Ji Ming has recently made a fortune, but even if he has made a fortune, he shouldn't be able to afford a pipe like this.

He glanced into the pipe and, as expected, it contained the most common tobacco leaves. This pipe certainly didn't belong to Ji Ming; it was most likely a gift from someone else.

Could it be that he's hooked up with a widowed noblewoman? It's quite possible. Ji Ming seems to have a thing for older women, maybe even wives or widows?

"Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. If you keep squeezing too much, even Bu Bu Lu can't save you. When the time comes, I will definitely sell you the most expensive coffin in the Hall of Rebirth and squeeze out your last bit of Mora."

Ji Ming could tell that the girl was just saying one thing and meaning another; she was saying harsh words while secretly planning to stop him from continuing to smoke his pipe.

Its little mouth is hard, but its body is soft.

Feeling incredibly pleased to be cared for like this, Ji Ming emptied the unburnt tobacco from his pipe and jokingly asked, "Thank you for your concern, Master. So, is there something you need from me?"

"It's nothing. I just noticed that you haven't left the house for several days since you came back last time. In accordance with the philosophy of the Hall of Rebirth, I just wanted to check if you had died suddenly."

Hu Tao snorted and turned her head away from Ji Ming sitting next to her. This guy didn't even say anything when he came back, which made her run to the courtyard gate every day or two to take a look. When she was worried, she would run to Xiang Ling.

As Ji Ming's childhood friend and sweetheart, Xiang Ling took the matter very lightly, and could even be said to be completely unconcerned about Ji Ming's whereabouts, even when he was nowhere to be seen for several days in a row.

"Ji Ming is a sentimental person. Even if he disappears for a year or two, I won't be worried or scared. He'll come back to me anyway. That's how it was before, and it will be like that in the future. Hu Tao doesn't need to worry either."

As Xiangling said this, Hu Tao was shocked by Xiangling's trust in Ji Ming. If Ji Ming were her childhood playmate and sweetheart, and if he disappeared for a year or two without reason, she might not be able to resist burying him.

Ji Ming propped his cheek on his hand, his fingers curling and tapping on the table. The thumping sound brought Hu Tao back to her senses. He said with a smile, "Hu Tao, it wasn't just for this, was it?"

"Of course, is the Half-Immortal Gan Yu of Yuehai Pavilion your senior sister? I've been wanting to ask you this ever since the housewarming banquet."

At the housewarming party, although Ji Ming did not directly address Gan Yu as "senior sister," the respect and closeness in his eyes were completely undisguised, which Hu Tao noticed at the time.

There were also the aloof beauty and the gossipy, eccentric noblewoman beside Miss Gan Yu. When Ji Ming went up to offer a toast, his eyes were filled with respect and affection, a look that Hu Tao had never seen before.

Even Xiangling had never seen such a look before, right? Hu Tao had been filled with curiosity these past few days, but after the housewarming party, she was back to her busy work schedule. After having some free time, Ji Ming closed his doors to guests for several days.

I finally met him today, and I have to interrogate this guy properly.

"Yes, Gan Yu is my senior sister, as is Shen He, who sits next to me. They are both my senior sisters."

"Where is that noblewoman who calls herself 'Xianyun'?"

"Elder, I don't know him."

Hu Tao sighed, then flattened her palm into a chop shape and gently chopped Ji Ming on the head, saying with dissatisfaction, "You might as well take my surname, the Hu of 'Nonsense'."

The look in his eyes back then was unmistakable. Ji Ming really loves to lie. Does he even lie to his friends?

Think about it, Ji Ming doesn't usually have many friends, but suddenly several beautiful women have appeared around him. Anyone would be curious, right?

Forget it, if you don't want to tell the truth, I won't ask. Anyway, it's not a very important matter, and Hu Tao is just a little concerned.

"Hey."

“My name isn’t Hey, it’s Hu Ming, the Hu as in 'nonsense'.”

Hu Tao's eyes widened in surprise. "They actually changed their surname! How shameless!"

Ji Ming raised an eyebrow smugly: "What use is face to a wanderer like me?"

Putting away her fair and delicate hands, Hu Tao nudged Ji Ming a few times and asked with a sidelong glance, "To be honest, why did you secretly teach those bad people who spoke ill of me a lesson when you were fifteen?"

"Protect my younger sister."

"Why don't you die!"

Hu Tao was annoyed. Did this guy really want to change his surname to "Hu"?

Well, at least this guy is willing to admit what happened back then. We can ask him about it later; there's still a long way to go.

Thinking this, Hu Tao stood up from the armchair. The heat generated by the friction between her clothes began to dissipate, and she suddenly felt a sense of loss.

Ji Ming remained seated in the armchair, waving his hand and saying, "Are you leaving? Goodbye, I have some things to do."

"Okay, you don't need to take me. Just stay home quietly."

This time, Hu Tao finally chose to go through the main gate. She stood in front of the gate and looked back. After a moment of hesitation, her eyes hardened, and she revealed her little tiger teeth, threateningly saying:

"You're not allowed to smoke a pipe anymore. Smoking a pipe is bad for your health. I want to personally send you off after you pass away. Don't let me die young."

This time, not only was her body soft, but even her little mouth became soft.

Chapter 29 The rain outside the Bronze Sparrow Temple has stopped

Rain falls on Yujing Terrace in Liyue Harbor.

Ke Qing looked out the window, her face flushed. She couldn't see anything through the rain. Even birds wouldn't venture out in this weather, let alone the nobles living in Yujingtai.

While there were still vendors and pedestrians busy seeking shelter from the rain on the streets of Liyue Harbor, Keqing felt a sense of loneliness at this moment. Her subordinates, both men and women, had relatives and friends holding umbrellas to greet them, but she could only silently wait for the rain to stop.

Thinking back to the wedding banquet a few days ago, the young master of the Kun family, who was the groom, didn't smile much at the banquet. He was probably a pitiful person who was used as a tool for political marriage.

At this moment, Ke Qing felt a sense of shared misfortune. She was unsure if she would suffer the same fate in the future, and the rain in her heart seemed as heavy as the rain outside the window.

Those poor red cloth shoes, destined never to meet their future lover, have instead been given away to some lecherous man. One can only hope that lecherous man doesn't do anything too outrageous to the shoes.

Ke Qing was filled with regret. After sighing, she prepared to continue watching the torrential rain. But when she looked out the window, she suddenly saw a pair of eyes staring straight at her with a mocking look.

"Good afternoon, Lord Yuheng Star."

"lecher!"

Ji Ming shrugged, tilting the yellow paper umbrella in his hand slightly. Raindrops dripped down his collar, and he couldn't help but shiver.

"I was originally planning to pick up a lonely person from the Jade Balance Star after get off work, but I didn't expect to get scolded just for saying hello. It's really..."

After saying that, Ji Ming chuckled and kept the last "That was awesome" to himself. This girl was quite pleasing to the eye when she cursed, after all, she only knew one word: "lecherous scoundrel".

Looking at the yellow paper umbrella in Ji Ming's hand, Ke Qing couldn't help but feel a little guilty. She turned her head and said softly, "I'm sorry, since we dislike each other, why did you still come to pick me up?"

Ji Ming didn't rush to speak, but pointed to the Moon Sea Pavilion not far away and smiled smugly: "Picking you up was just a side thing. I went to pick up my senior sister before you. By the way, when I went to pick her up from get off work, my senior sister praised me a lot, unlike some Yuheng Star."

Pshaw, who cares if you pick them up? You're just clinging to your Senior Sister Gan Yu all the time. You'd probably cry if you left her.

Ke Qing crossed her arms and glanced sideways, saying irritably, "By the way? Then why didn't you just go home instead of coming back to pick me up?"

"A melancholy purple-haired cat head peeks out from the window; it's hard not to notice it."

In just a few days, this Yuheng Star's arrogance has reached a new level; many years later, it will probably evolve to the height of the Qunyu Pavilion.

Ji Ming bowed and extended his hand in an invitation: "Please, Lord Yuheng Star, do me the honor of accompanying you for a few laps?"

"So you still had ill intentions, didn't you? I knew it, otherwise you wouldn't have taken my red cloth..."

Keqing blushed deeply, her left brain refuting her right brain's earlier statement: "Never mind, there's nothing there!"

Free umbrella machines, might as well use them.

As Ke Qing stepped out of the office area and entered the shade of the yellow paper umbrella, she immediately noticed that the umbrella was tilted slightly towards her, blocking the fine raindrops.

A certain lecherous man gently touched her shoulder, pulling Ke Qing close to his side with a slight effort. He reached out a finger to catch the raindrops sliding down her neck, revealing a roguish and lazy smile:

"Lord Yuhengxing, that red cloth embroidered shoe is now my most treasured possession."

The wrong thing is to place a talisman for warding off evil spirits and protecting the house at the head of the bed.

"lecher!"

To be honest, when Ji Ming supported Ke Qing's shoulder, she almost used Star Return to Position. Fortunately, he simply supported her and did not make any further presumptuous moves, so she just cursed him verbally.

Hearing that the red cloth shoes hadn't been used for anything bad, Ke Qing felt much relieved and let Ji Ming lean on her shoulder for support.

The rain seemed a little less intense.

Ji Ming stared straight ahead and grinned, "It's hard to imagine that two people who hate each other would be standing so close together like this. Does Lord Yuheng Star feel any impulse?"

"Yes, I have an urge to draw my sword and kill you."

He's quite handsome when he's not talking, but he just happens to have an extra mouth.

Ji Ming smiled but didn't say anything, while Ke Qing took the initiative to start a conversation: "Is Bai Tang being good at your house?"