The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#126 - White-robed minister

It was obvious that Gu Caiwei cared a lot about this place.

After buying this house, she had it carefully renovated.

Lu Jing noticed that the gate and walls had been repainted. Besides that, some wooden beams and railings had also been replaced. Many of the furnishings were new, and a lot of new flowers and trees had been transplanted in the yard, creating a pleasing mix of red and green.

Moreover, it was clear that someone had been cleaning regularly while waiting for him.

There wasn't a speck of dust on the windowsills or tables, and the water in the pond had been freshly changed, with a few koi swimming around in it.

In addition, all the daily necessities were fully prepared.

The rice and flour containers were actually full, and there was plenty of vegetables and mutton as well.

Lu Jing had originally planned to take a walk around the nearby market after putting his things down, but now it seemed unnecessary.

Once the porters brought the medicinal herbs he had brought from Wujiang City, he chose an empty room to store them in.

Then, on a whim, he picked up his Zen staff and performed a set of Mad Demon's 108 Staff Techniques in the yard.

This staff technique originally followed a path of unparalleled power, but after grinding it to the point of mastery, Lu Jing was now able to control it freely, making the heavy seem light.

If he wanted to, he could wield this seventy-nine-pound Zen staff as if it were an embroidery needle.

Even the delicate and fragile crabapple tree not far away was not affected in the slightest, its petals and branches remaining motionless.

However, if anyone dared to underestimate Lu Jing's skills because of this, and personally tried to block a strike, they would immediately understand what Mount Tai pressing down felt like.

After finishing the set, Lu Jing was very satisfied with his current skills, but after checking his internal energy consumption, he couldn't be happy anymore.

He looked up at the sky, then opened the wine gourd at his waist and took a sip of Fallen into the Mortal World inside.

It wasn't until he felt the internal energy in his dantian begin to dissipate rapidly under the effect of Fallen into the Mortal World that he breathed a sigh of relief.

Just then, Lu Jing heard a knock on the door.

He first looked at Amu, who was sitting on the ground, and seeing that Amu had no reaction, he walked to the gate.

Opening the door, he saw a young master standing outside, dressed in a plain white cool shirt, with a jade pendant hanging from his waist and a folding fan in his hand.

His eyes sparkled with elegance and grace. The so-called white-robed prime minister, a talented poet, was probably no more than this, captivating the girls on the street, who almost couldn't walk.

"Brother Lu," the handsome young master cupped his fist and smiled when he saw Lu Jing, "I heard that you've arrived in the capital. My younger sister is very excited, but she's busy with a big deal and can't come to see you right away, so she asked me, her older brother, to greet you first."

"Is that so," Lu Jing raised his eyebrows, noncommittal, then said, "You're Gu Caiwei's distant cousin? I heard earlier that you wrote a poem after drinking, satirizing the court, and were reported by the supervising censor, and have been exiled to the South Sea."

"There was such a thing, but luckily I have some powerful friends in the court. After their activities, although I lost my official position and became a commoner, I was lucky enough to continue to stay in the capital."

"Then congratulations. May I ask where Master Gu is currently employed?"

"I wouldn't dare to call it employment. After becoming a free man, I still rely on my cousin's support to make a living. That's why, in order not to be a useless person who only eats free food, I can only be driven by her to do things for her everywhere."

The white-clothed young master smiled as if he didn't hear the hidden hostility in Lu Jing's words.

"You have a good temper."

"There's no way around it. All the world is bustling for profit, and all the world is hurrying for profit. Even I, in order to make a living, can only lower this good-looking head of mine. Oh, right."

Speaking of this, the white-clothed young master seemed to remember something and handed over the small package he was carrying, "My cousin asked me to buy the fire lantern grass and white-eyed silkworm clothes for you in your previous letter. She also gave this matter to me.

"In order to find medicine for Brother Lu, I ran all over the pharmacies in the city and found some friends in the pugilistic world, but unfortunately, these two things are very tight right now, and I only found these."

"Thanks." After taking the package and taking a look, Lu Jing roughly estimated that the fire lantern grass and white-eyed silkworm clothes inside were enough for him to drink for another three months, so his tone improved a lot.

When he re-tied the package and looked up again, he found that the white-clothed young master was still smiling at him, without leaving.

"Is there anything else?" Lu Jing asked.

"I heard my cousin say earlier that Brother Lu is a rare and righteous gentleman in the world, who acts boldly and clearly distinguishes between gratitude and grievances, but now that I see the real person, I find… um, it seems that there is a little bit of exaggeration."

"Oh."

"Oh?" The white-clothed young master was stunned. "Brother Lu, don't you ask me where the exaggeration is?"

Lu Jing was amused by him. "Just say what you want to do."

"I've been running around for Brother Lu for many days. I think this effort should be worth entering your mansion to ask Brother Lu for a cup of tea," the white-clothed young master opened his folding fan and said leisurely.

"Okay."

After Lu Jing finished speaking, he took a step forward, but directly hugged the white-clothed young master into his arms, ignoring the screams of the girls on the street, and carried the stunned white-clothed young master into the mansion, and then closed the door.

Only the little fans of the white-clothed young master were left with mournful faces, as if they had lost their parents.

After a long while, one of them opened her mouth and said, "To, to rob someone in the street, should we report this to the officials?"

"But I heard earlier that Young Master Gu himself wanted to go in," another girl said hesitantly.

"Going in is not the way to go in, right?" The third girl's tears had already flowed out, feeling that her heart had been broken into pieces.

Then the three girls hugged each other and cried again.

…………

The white-clothed young master on the other side of the gate obviously didn't know that he was being worried about by others. In fact, after experiencing the initial blush and astonishment, he had now returned to normal, blinking his big eyes.

"Brother Lu is too polite. He even saves guests the trouble of walking when inviting them in. He is really hospitable… Oh, Brother Lu, Brother Lu, what are you looking for?"

"Looking for a bamboo stick to spank your butt."

"Ah, Caiwei already knows she's wrong. I just wanted to see if Lu Lang still remembers me after not seeing each other for two years. Who would have thought that I would be seen through by Lu Lang's fiery eyes the moment we met? Lu Lang, please put me down."

The white-clothed young master's deliberately lowered voice had already turned back into a woman's voice, begging.

However, before Lu Jing could answer, she pitifully added in a low voice, "But… if Lu Lang really wants to hit me, then you can gently hit me a few times."

Lu Jing almost spurted blood from his nose when he heard the last sentence.