Chapter 8: The Banquet

The City Lord sent someone to settle Han Yu and invited the best pharmacist in Dongling City for him.

At this time, he had changed his clothes, a white robe with dark silver silk patterns and a big light blue robe, which made him look even more elegant and handsome, but the coldness and alienation in his face did not diminish at all.

The fact that he was injured by the Demon King but did not die was very strange. Han Yu himself couldn't think of the reason.

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The pharmacist also shook his head. He didn't know, so he just changed the bandage and put medicine on him.

Although this City Lord was not enthusiastic about him, Han Yu could see that he was extremely good at receiving guests.

The furnishings in the room were all luxurious. The smoke in the incense burner was curling up, with the scent of precious incense.

However, Han Yu hated these scents the most. With a wave of his light blue wide sleeves, the incense burner was completely wiped out. Even the last wisp of smoke was trapped in the incense burner and annihilated.

In the whole room, he only liked the Xuefeng tea in the pot.

He took a sip of tea.

Suddenly, he remembered that when the girl was buried in his chest, the smell of her breath was exactly the scent of tea.

No wonder he felt familiar.

The guard knocked on the door and entered the room. He asked respectfully, "There is a banquet tonight, and the City Lord respectfully invites you to come."

"No." He held the teacup and refused decisively.

After the guard left, he lay on the bed, propped his head with his hands, and closed his eyes.

He tried to recall what happened to him last night, but because of the injury, he completely lost consciousness.

In his memory, there was only the feeling of the warm and slender body clung to him.

Thinking of this, he immediately stopped thinking.

But as long as he calmed himself down, he heard the surrounding noise.

For example, a strange song.

——Lu la la, la la la (water splashing) ~

Han Yu frowned slightly.

Ugly.

It took a long time for the weird and untuned song to stop.

Han Yu suddenly realized that she was taking a bath when he heard the sound of splashing water.

His eyebrows twitched. He was about to set a sound insulating spell, but he heard her soft voice,

——Little Dandan[1], let me wash you~

Han Yu: ?

——You are so black... You look so beautiful. I'm afraid you are the most beautiful egg I have ever seen.

Han Yu's face suddenly became cold. She actually brought the Demon King Egg back?

However, the egg is already a dead egg.

The Demon King only lays one egg in five thousand years, and it must be watered with the blood of a living person on the fifteenth every month after birth.

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It took four years of sucking enough blood from forty-nine people for the egg to hatch.

As long as there was one interruption, the egg would die.

However, there was obviously no success in the sacrifice last night.

Since it's a dead egg, then let it be.

Lin Xiaocha held the fluorescent black egg in her hand. Her eyes were deep and thoughtful.

At this time, the door was knocked. Lin Xiaocha hurriedly covered the egg with her clothes and then returned to the tub by herself.

Her pair of eyes returned to their ignorant and innocent appearance.

A group of people entered the door carrying the rich reward from the City Lord.

Looking at those gold and silver jewels, the waves in her heart were turbulent, but her face was calm.

Across the screen, she said softly, "Thank the City Lord for me."

"You can thank him yourself during the banquet." A female voice that did not sound young sounded.

"Huh? Banquet?"

"Yes, the City Lord asked you to go."

An old woman who looked shrewd and capable walked behind the screen and took a cloth towel to help Lin Xiaocha take a bath.

Lin Xiaocha yelled. She embarrassedly put her hand around her chest and retracted into the tub.

"Don't be shy. Just get used to it."

Then Lin Xiaocha slowly came out, put her chin on the side of the bathtub, and looked at the old woman with dim eyes.

She was born graceful and looked even hazier in the mist.

"The girl is so pretty." The old woman couldn't help sighing." This old slave can't look away."

After Lin Xiaocha came out, the old woman helped her dry the water on her body. She sniffed Lin Xiaocha's body, "What's wrong with you? There is a smell of tea?"

Lin Xiaocha realized that after sniffing herself, it really smelled of green tea. Sweet with a bit of bitterness.

Is this smell on the original owner?

The old woman frowned, "There is incense in the reward. This old slave will light it for you later. If you are lucky enough to be favored by the City Lord, you should not smell bitter for him."

Lin Xiaocha covered her mouth with her sleeve, "Huh?" She seemed to be surprised by what the old woman said.

The old woman looked ambiguous, "Silly girl, don't you have such a good opportunity to get close to the City Lord? Do you want to be a refugee for your whole life?"

The old woman saw that Lin Xiaocha didn't understand her.

She couldn't help sighing. It was a pity that she has this face but was not clever.

Han Yu found that today, he was unwilling to be disturbed by outside sounds.

In the end, he cast a sound-insulating spell to sleep, but his brows were slightly folded even when he was asleep.

Lin Xiaocha touched the gold and silver jewelry, silk and the brocade back and forth in the room.

Luxury.

She likes it.

She remembered that when she was in junior high school, many of her classmates wore brand-name clothes. She didn't say anything, but she was envious in her heart.

A boy with a good family environment in the school gave her a pair of expensive sneakers.

A pair of shoes cost thousands are too expensive for a junior high school student. She dared not accept it, and she felt that it was wrong to accept other people's things.

But those shoes were really good-looking.

When she came home, she begged her mother. She also wanted a pair of brand-name sneakers. The discounted out-of-season ones would be fine, and she would not buy any new clothes or shoes for two years.

She thought her mother would reject it all at once, but she didn't expect her to say that it would be fine if she managed to enter the top five in the mid-term examination.

She remembered that at that time, she read vocabulary in the morning and crazily doing exercises like she was injected with chicken blood.

She was learning when eating and sleeping.

In the next midterm exam, she really went from twentieth to fourth in the class.

When she was looking for her mother with her grades happily, her mother said, "Look, wasn't learning could bring you unexpected happiness?"

"A pair of shoes is not important at all."

She broke her promise.

If she refused at first, Lin Xiaocha would not be sad. After all, her family's economy had only begun to improve.

But the saddest thing in the world is to look forward to something with full expectation and discover that it is a complete lie.

It was also a lie under the banner of "for your good."

Lin Xiaocha cried all night bitterly.

She had such a fierce reaction for the first time in her life.

Her mother was so embarrassed that she picked up Lin Xiaocha, who was crying under the quilt, and scolded her for not knowing how difficult it was for her to be a single parent! She didn't study well for herself and did not understand that she could only make herself live better after studying!

Then she took out a notebook with a clear note of how much money she spent on Lin Xiaocha, saying that she would ask her for all these in the future.

She said she was a white-eyed wolf, not knowing that she had worked hard for her.

She said it was not good to use her mind to compare eating and dressing with others, instead of learning.

Then she angrily threw out all her shoes and gave her a pair of grandma's old cloth shoes.

To make her remember the bitterness and sweetness so she would think about the bitterness of her older generation.

To make her focus on learning and study at school, so naturally, no one would look down on her!

Adults just use their own ideas to measure the world of children.

As everyone knows, the cruelty of a child's world is no less than that of an adult.

She was ridiculed by her classmates when she wore the old cloth shoes the next day. She still remembered her tingling scalp.

She was lying on the table and couldn't raise her head.

Until the boy put those shoes on her table again...

And she found out that she had opened the door to a new world.

...

A burst of strong fragrance interrupted Lin Xiaocha's thoughts.

She looked at the brass-colored incense burner with a smoke curling up inside, thinking that the old woman had lit it before leaving.

She put out the incense burner and felt that the tea smell on her body was quite good. It was much more elegant than the strong fragrance.

She held a pale green dress and looked at it in front of the bronze mirror, with a charming smile on her beautiful face.

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Translator Note:

[1] MC called the little demon king egg "Dandan." Dan means egg, so it's basically a cute name like "egg egg" or "eggsy."

Note from Pure: it’s also a slang for the male’s *cough*. Because two eggs, get it? XD