The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#383 - Come together

While Qinglan was still hesitating, she saw Jieyu stride up to the zither-playing woman, ready to start applying her makeup.

The zither-playing woman removed her veil, revealing a face that could topple kingdoms and cities.

If Jieyu was a delicate crabapple flower, then she was a dignified and luxurious peony, born the king of all flowers, possessing unparalleled grace with every glance.

This wasn't the first time Jieyu had seen that face, but she still couldn't help but sigh, "It won't be easy to make you look like someone from this establishment."

"It doesn't matter, just give it a try," the zither-playing woman said calmly.

Seeing this, Qinglan could only stomp her foot. She knew that the zither-playing woman was gentle on the outside but firm on the inside, and once she made a decision, she would rarely change it, so further persuasion would be useless.

It was better to leave with Lu Jing immediately, because if the two of them could escape from here, they could attract most of the attention of the opponents, preventing those guys from carefully searching this building.

Therefore, Qinglan no longer hesitated, because every extra moment of delay would reduce their chances of escape.

She had even prepared to fight to the death. If they were truly no match, she would kill Lu Jing first, then commit suicide, so as not to betray the zither-playing woman hidden in the building.

Having made up her mind, Qinglan said to Lu Jing, "Let's go, follow me and fight our way out!"

Unexpectedly, Lu Jing shook his head and said, "I'm not leaving. I was dragged around by you all the way on Niu Xing Street last time. No matter what you say this time, I won't run anymore."

Qinglan was dumbfounded when she heard this. She didn't expect that this escape plan would ultimately be stuck with Lu Jing.

You should know that the zither-playing woman took a great risk to give him a chance of survival, but he didn't seem to appreciate it at all.

Qinglan said angrily, "It doesn't matter if you want to die, but can you please not implicate others? Have you ever thought that if you are caught, Fu… my lady and Mr. Nan Zhai will be in big trouble."

"Then just don't get caught."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Qinglan suspected that Lu Jing's brain had been frightened silly.

"I'm not talking nonsense. I've never lost a fight," Lu Jing said seriously, "So if a problem can be solved by fighting, then let's solve it by fighting."

"You don't even know what kind of enemies you're facing," Qinglan felt like she was going crazy.

"You can send that same sentence back to the other side."

"… … … …"

Qinglan was choked speechless by these words.

Qinglan was really stunned this time.

At this moment, another burst of footsteps came from the street, obviously more people had arrived, and there were quite a few of them.

Then a rough voice rang out, "The Heavenly Dragon Gate is handling affairs, please step aside."

"The people from the Heavenly Dragon Gate are here too." Qinglan's face suddenly became even more unsightly.

Because she knew that the hope of escaping was getting smaller and smaller.

Hearing this, the zither-playing woman patted Jieyu's hand, signaling her not to apply makeup anymore, and then put the black veil back on her head, without showing much frustration.

Qinglan was still racking her brains, trying to find a new way out of this predicament.

However, the burly man who shouted had already entered the building.

The madam downstairs went up and said a few words to him. Seeing the gleaming long knife hanging from his waist, she wisely stepped aside.

Then the burly man walked upstairs and came to the outside of the room where Lu Jing and the three women were. He stretched out his fan-like hand and pushed it, but failed to open the door.

Seeing this, he was not in a hurry, but grinned.

He pushed again with both hands in the same posture, but this time he used internal force. The wooden door, which looked quite solid, was instantly shattered into pieces under his palm.

After showing off a beautiful internal martial art, the strong man from the Heavenly Dragon Gate walked into the room, his eyes first swept over the faces of the three women, revealing a hint of greed, but he finally did not forget his business and looked at Lu Jing not far away.

Then he drew out the iron knife that looked quite heavy from his waist and chuckled, "You have nowhere to escape. If you know what's good for you, tie up your own hands and feet, otherwise, if I have to do it, I won't necessarily tie you up where you want."

"Bold villain!" Qinglan was furious, and one hand was already on the hilt of her sword.

However, before she could draw her sword, someone had already made a move. Lu Jing took out two pieces of candied fruit from the plate and flicked them at the strong man standing in front of the door.

One of the candied fruits hit the iron knife in his hand. As a result, the strong man from the Heavenly Dragon Gate only felt a burst of soreness in his wrist, and he could no longer hold his weapon. He had to let go, watching helplessly as the iron knife slipped from his palm.

It was also his bad luck that the knife just happened to land on the back of his foot. Although the height was not too high, it couldn't withstand the weight of his knife, which weighed more than thirty pounds. With this knife, half of his big toe was cut off.

The burly man from the Heavenly Dragon Gate let out a scream. Before he could check his injury, the second candied fruit had already flown to his face and hit him in the chest.

The burly man from the Heavenly Dragon Gate had never imagined that such a soft-looking, slow-moving candied fruit hitting his body would cause such a terrifying effect.

At that time, he felt as if he had been hit in the chest with a sledgehammer, and he directly spat out a mouthful of blood and flew backwards!

The three women in the room were all stunned.

Qinglan, as the only one who knew martial arts among the three women, was stunned for even longer. She knew that some martial arts masters, after cultivating their internal strength to an extremely profound level, could hurt people with a flower or a leaf.

But knowing was knowing, she had never seen it before.

Moreover, the burly man from the Heavenly Dragon Gate could crack a wooden door with his bare hands. His internal strength was at least above the third-rate level, and he could be called a master anywhere, but he was actually knocked down with a candied fruit and seriously injured.

If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, Qinglan would never have believed such a thing.

As the burly man from the Heavenly Dragon Gate was repelled, a voice rang out again outside the door, this time a voice that was neither male nor female, "Hehe, let me learn from your Excellency's skills!"

Before the voice fell, his sword was already out of its sheath, and then a flash of cold light was seen, and a figure pierced towards Lu Jing along with the sword light.

This sword had quite a feeling of man and sword becoming one.

Qinglan was also a sword user, so she was very knowledgeable. Just feeling the chill on the blade made the hairs on her body stand on end. As a result, she saw Lu Jing still only extending two fingers to meet the enemy.

This time, his fingers directly flicked on the precious sword.

Accompanied by a crisp sound, the seemingly sharp sword was flicked out with a crack by Lu Jing.

The effeminate man who drew the sword also repeated the mistakes of his previous companion.

He flew out the way he came in.

And Lu Jing's voice also came from his ear, "Come on together, don't send them one by one, it's a waste of time."