#439 - A glass of wine to boost your spirits

In the soft starlight, the carriage slowly stopped in front of the small house.

Wei Changtian first took Xu Sui Sui, who had completely fallen asleep, to the guest room, and then returned to his room reeking of alcohol.

"You're back?"

Xu Qingwan, who was calculating accounts in the room, immediately greeted him and hung up his outer robe: "Oh? You went drinking with Miss Xu?"

"Yeah, I had a little drink with her after buying things."

Wei Changtian breathed a sigh of relief: "This day has exhausted me."

"It's just buying things, what's so tiring about it?"

Xu Qingwan poured a cup of tea, smiled, and placed it in front of Wei Changtian: "Miss Xu traveled a long way to find you, so you, as her brother, should treat her a little better."

"I'm good enough to her."

Wei Changtian curled his lips and drank the tea in one gulp: "Do you know how much silver she spent today?"

"How much?"

Little Xu said with a smile: "It's as if you would feel sorry for the silver."

"I don't feel sorry, but I think you will."

Wei Changtian muttered in a low voice, and then, under Xu Qingwan's curious gaze, he stated a number.

"More than eight hundred taels."

"Eight hundred taels?"

Xu Qingwan's expression froze, and her face was instantly filled with distress.

Although she is very rich now, she is still very frugal in her daily life, perfectly embodying what it means to be "the richer you are, the stingier you become."

So, hearing that Xu Sui Sui spent eight hundred taels in one day, it would definitely be a lie to say she didn't feel sorry.

After all, there is no doubt that the money came out of Wei Changtian's pocket.

"What did Miss Xu buy that cost so much?"

Clutching the corner of her clothes, Little Xu asked pitifully at first, and then quickly added: "I, I don't feel sorry for the silver..."

"Hahaha! I knew you couldn't bear it!"

Looking at her stubborn appearance of "clearly feeling sorry but not wanting to show it", Wei Changtian couldn't help but chuckle: "Didn't you just say that I should treat her better?"

"Alright, she just bought some necessary things, which would have to be bought sooner or later anyway, so don't feel sorry."

"Besides, how many tens of thousands of taels don't go in and out of Yingfengsheng's accounts every day now? Since you are already the great shopkeeper of such a large business, then you must change your mentality."

"Change, change my mentality?"

"Oh, it means change your mentality, don't be too petty. As the saying goes, you can only make money if you spend it!"

"Where does that saying come from?"

"Never mind where it comes from, just tell me if it makes sense or not."

"."

A series of consolations failed to change Little Xu's "hoarding" personality, and the latter still couldn't forget the eight hundred taels of silver.

Seeing this, Wei Changtian had no choice but to "take action", forcibly turning the page on the matter with a "pre-sleep exercise."

Afterwards, Xu Qingwan really stopped nagging, and lay softly in Wei Changtian's arms, closing her eyes to rest.

The two of them chatted like this, and then, as they talked, the topic turned to Xu Sui Sui again.

"Changtian, I always feel that Miss Xu's words and actions are a bit strange."

"Well, maybe the customs over in Daqian are different from those in Daning."

Wei Changtian explained casually.

"Is that so?"

Xu Qingwan nestled into Wei Changtian's arms: "Anyway, she's quite similar to you sometimes."

"Similar?"

Wei Changtian was taken aback: "How are we similar?"

"It's just the way you talk, you both like to say new words that we don't understand."

Xu Qingwan joked with a smile: "Changtian, could it be that you've also been to Daqian?"

"Uh..."

Opening his mouth, Wei Changtian couldn't respond for a moment.

Obviously, these words were just a casual remark from Xu Qingwan, and she wasn't really suspecting anything.

And this may also be the most fundamental reason why Wei Changtian agreed to establish a "revolutionary friendship" with Xu Sui Sui.

"We are siblings after all."

After a pause, Wei Changtian finally found a plausible reason: "It's normal to be a little similar, right?"

"Well, that makes sense."

Nodding, Xu Qingwan's voice became smaller and smaller: "Changtian, I'm sleepy."

"Let's go to sleep."

"."

When the bright moon traveled to the middle of the sky, the "husband and wife night talk" session came to an end, and Little Xu quickly fell asleep with a satisfied expression.

Wei Changtian flicked his finger, releasing a burst of inner strength to extinguish the candle in the room, and then looked back at Xu Qingwan's sleeping face.

Her breathing was even, and her long hair was scattered on the pillow, like ripples on the surface of a pond stirred by the wind.

"."

"Comrade Wei! This old lady will down a bottle for you!"

"Wow! I have hair again!"

"I knew it! How could I die so easily at such a young age!"

"Hahahaha! This old lady's illness is cured!!!"

"."

Imagining Xu Sui Sui holding her hair and exclaiming loudly, Wei Changtian suddenly realized that he hadn't been this relaxed in a long time.

He seemed to be infected by Xu Sui Sui's optimistic spirit, and his whole person was able to temporarily escape from all kinds of "family feuds and national hatred" and "scheming and plotting."

Wei Changtian didn't know how long this good mood would last, but at this moment, he couldn't help but think of two lines of poetry—

A thousand sails pass by the sunken boat, and ten thousand trees bloom in front of the diseased tree.

Today I listen to you sing a song, temporarily relying on wine to boost my spirit.

Three months ago.

Daqian Dynasty, Demon Slayer Division.

"Xu Quan!"

"Where is Xu Quan?"

"Isn't it his turn to patrol tonight? Why hasn't he come?"

"Reporting, sir, this humble one only knows that Brother Xu hurriedly left the city this afternoon."

"Left the city? Does anyone know what he went to do?"

"This humble one does not know."

"Hmm?"

"."

Thirty miles outside the capital of Daqian.

Just as a group of people in the Demon Slayer Division were looking at each other, a man dressed in black was riding his horse swiftly on a small road.

This road is far away from the main road, and there are very few pedestrians on weekdays, and no one dares to walk at night, because ferocious beasts often haunt nearby.

However, the man did not encounter any danger along the way.

It was not because he was lucky, but because the monsters hiding in the mountains were all trembling and prostrate on the ground at this moment, as if they had been subjected to some unknown shock.

"Da da da, da da da..."

The rapid sound of horses' hooves pierced the night, and dirt and gravel were raised into the air.

The man stared ahead expressionlessly, holding the reins with one hand, while the other hand tightly grasped a small note.

【Brother, I'm leaving, don't look for me】

After going out for a trip, he returned to find that his younger sister, who he depended on for life, was gone, leaving only this dusty note.

The man lost his parents at a young age and only had this one relative.

Therefore, no matter what reason his younger sister left for, the man must find her.

"Giddy up!"

With a soft shout, the horse's hooves suddenly became a bit faster.

The moonlight overhead suddenly dimmed, as a giant beast with a blue-black body leaped over the man and horse.

《Classic of Mountains and Seas · Western Mountain Classic Three》: Lu Wu, the Hill of Kunlun, is actually the lower capital of the Emperor, and the god Lu Wu is in charge of it.

Xu Quan, the way of the demon.