Chapter 2646: Auspicious Night's Meeting

"The family's dog barbecuing meat" wasn't entirely a lie.

Jiang An'an herself came to the teahouse to experience the world, without having "Stupid Gray" follow her.

That stupid dog was just in the west courtyard of the city, spraying fire from its dog mouth, beautifully roasting a large beef leg.

Snow flew all over the sky, the courtyard blocked the west wind, one barbecue grill, one fire-breathing dog.

When the whistle sound like startled birds swept across the sky, Stupid Gray suddenly swallowed the fire in one gulp, the flame light on all four of its feet extinguished, and it lay down on the ground, transforming into an ordinary large gray dog wearing a flowered jacket.

The flowered jacket was bulging with cotton, its tail was fluffy, its big mouth grinned, and its tail wagged non-stop.

Master had ordered that when going out, it must try to keep a low profile, not show its spiritual form, and in front of people, it could only behave like an earth dog.

It strictly followed the imperial decree!

The courtyard door was soon pushed open, annoying frost wind pushing snow particles, and master and a strange woman walked in.

Stupid Gray wagging its tail then went up to welcome them, and under the gaze of that woman, it suddenly felt a huge danger, as if a high mountain had tilted over, its entire dog body lay on the ground, sinking three inches into the snow.

But this danger instead stirred up its ferocity; master was in danger beside her!

It instinctively bared its teeth, blood color ignited in its dog eyes, its claws fiercely scratched the ground, and a red true fire initially formed leaped in its throat.

"Stupid Gray, guests have come!" Jiang An'an's stern rebuke suppressed Stupid Gray's spiritual form.

"Guests" this word, Stupid Gray understood, and immediately restrained its fierce appearance. Wagging its tail to the barbecue grill beside, it bit a piece of firewood and put it into the fire pile. It barked lightly twice, its dog nose pointing at the beef leg on the rack, indicating for the guests to enjoy. Saliva dripped from the gaps in its dog teeth.

This period of long journey was very hard, but it did not lose weight, instead it got much fatter.

The various local delicacies that Jiang An'an couldn't finish eating all filled its belly.

"Little Cloud Mister raises a dog; it has quite some spirituality," Dark Moon sized up this small courtyard and casually praised.

"Dark Moon girl is still not familiar with it, so you think this way. Actually, this stupid dog is greedy and stupid. I just raised it from young, and I'm also reluctant to throw it away," Jiang An'an said.

Because of her childhood experiences, she didn't waste extravagantly, but after all, she had today's family background and wasn't someone who would wrong herself. This small courtyard where she was temporarily staying in "Aurora City" wasn't luxurious, but it could be called exquisite. The main location was extremely good; pushing the window open allowed one to see the snow mountain.

She directly bought it, planning to bring Sister Qing Yu to vacation later. If not, reselling it wouldn't result in a loss either.

Dark Moon caught snow as a knife, cut a piece of beef leg meat, sniffed lightly, and praised with satisfaction: "The fire is just right!"

"I forgot to ask Little Cloud Mister," she threw this piece of beef into Stupid Gray's mouth, turned to look, and asked with a smile: "How old are you?"

She seemed more like the master of this courtyard!

"I am thirty-one," Jiang An'an said, according to her own brother's age.

"Thirty and standing firm, yet not married?" Dark Moon smiled and asked.

Jiang An'an boldly said: "I aim at the nine heavens, look up at the vast universe, and look down at the vast mountains and rivers. With the myriad ancient magnificent scenes in my embrace, I am ashamed to see snow, moon, wind, and flowers!"

Who said this line? A member of "Dou Zhao Ge" or a member of "Qin Zhi Zhen Ge"?

Never mind him, use it first.

Dark Moon meaningfully said: "What great husband worries about having no wife!"

Jiang An'an followed up: "How could a great woman lack good fortune!"

"Oh, Little Cloud Mister is truly young and promising. I am already thirty-three, and I often feel that years are hard to chase—" Dark Moon changed the topic: "Call me sister."

Jiang An'an was eloquent at home, but for the first time, she felt that she couldn't keep up with the conversation. She quickly rushed to end the topic, showing Ye Xiao Yun's chivalrous demeanor: "Jianghu children, one laugh wipes away enmities! If you don't trust me, I will take you back to see. Now the meat has been eaten, the dog has been seen, and the courtyard has been checked. Are the matters between us also settled?"

"You mean you eavesdropped on the highest secret of my 'Three Points Fragrance Building'—resulting in me bearing a heavy responsibility of life and death, and potentially being punished by the building master at any time?" Dark Moon asked.

"I didn't eavesdrop!" Jiang An'an gritted her teeth and said.

"Here," Dark Moon cut a piece of beef and handed it over. Seeing her refuse, she casually pulled down her veil, tilted her head as if drinking wine, and threw it into her own red lips.

That face, gorgeous beyond this world, like an exquisite small painting, just like this unfolded in the flying snow, in a black robe.

Plump red lips, and the fragrance of meat, emitted a silent invitation.

"Mmm... not bad!" She ate this piece of beef, praising endlessly, then asked: "Then how do you explain that everyone else didn't notice our meeting, only you saw and heard?"

Jiang An'an subconsciously swallowed her saliva.

This beef leg was taken from the "Song Zan Cow" in "Yellow Dragon Prefecture", which was top-grade barbecued meat, renowned throughout the world. The "Crown Prince" of "Qi Country's East Palace", "Jiang Wu Hua", had recorded it in his "Qing Huan" written last year, naming it as one of the eighty-eight kinds of ultimate ingredients.

She brought it from "Jing Country", carefully preserving it, precisely to enjoy it in the snow. Paired with "Deer Cry Wine", she could appreciate the ultimate taste.

The demoness from "Three Points Fragrance Building" was not polite at all, and was still dividing the meat!

"I just happened to be doing heart-guarding cultivation, so I wasn't affected by your divine ability, and I didn't intentionally spy. Moreover, I only heard you greet them throughout the entire process; I didn't hear anything else!" Jiang An'an said annoyedly: "Dark Moon girl is a high-level cultivator of 'Three Points Fragrance Building', a senior cultivator. Whether I really heard anything or not, how could you not know?"

"Ah ya ya, this might not be certain. There are so many secret methods in the world, who dares to guarantee they can defend against all of them?" Dark Moon's tone was leisurely: "Knowing a person's face doesn't mean knowing their heart! Who knows what kind of person you, Ye Xiao Yun, are in your bones?"

Jiang An'an felt deeply powerless: "Dark Moon girl, what exactly do you want?"

Dark Moon casually gripped the back of the knife as snow, patted her hands, then绕 around the barbecue grill and walked inside, her posture graceful, like a flower swaying in the snow: "I'll live in the east wing."

"Hey, no, how can you just live here... hey!!" Before Jiang An'an was careful, the door was already closed.

The demoness's voice sounded from inside the room: "Men and women are not intimate. Little Cloud Mister, you mustn't recklessly burst in."

Jiang An'an didn't care about being reckless, but she couldn't win.

Turning back to look at Stupid Gray, Stupid Gray looked at her innocently, reluctantly put the beef in its mouth down, and pushed it towards her side with its claw.

"Eat it yourself! Eat until you become a big fat pig!" Jiang An'an returned to her room with a belly full of anger.

Angry or not, the homework that should be done still had to be done. Not only cultivation homework, but also recording the sights of "Aurora City" to supplement "Ye Xiao Yun's Ten Thousand Miles Travelogue".

For "Bai Yu Jing", the latter was more important cultivation, because elder brother strongly advocated the power of "knowledge and insight".

Just like this, she cultivated until midnight, then Jiang An'an packed up and prepared to sleep. She was already an inner mansion realm cultivator, theoretically able to use cultivation to replace sleep, but after all, she didn't have an elder brother's terrifying will and still needed physical and mental rest.

Every ten nights, she would at least leave one night to enter deep sleep and ease her overly tense spirit. Today was a day she could sleep well.

Of course, thanks to her elder brother's words and deeds, before sleeping, she waved her hand like rain, setting up a full thirteen kinds of warning secret techniques, covering sound, color, the five elements, and other aspects.

After lying down, she suddenly became alert. There was someone else living in this courtyard tonight.

She had actually overlooked the danger of that demoness!

Was it a subconscious feeling that this person was harmless, or was she influenced by some divine ability?

After thinking about it, Jiang An'an, of course, tended towards the latter, so she didn't plan to sleep again. Since she was already lying down, she didn't get up either, and just started to practice soul secret techniques like this.

Strive to cultivate, make progress early, so that the demoness would no longer dare to mess with her and entangle her!

After a while.

Knock knock knock.

The sound of knocking on the door sounded.

The demoness's voice also sounded at the door: "Hey, chat for two sentences?"

"Asleep!" Jiang An'an said forcefully.

"Oh, good," the demoness's voice said.

The room door was already pushed open. Cold wind also swarmed into the room.

Jiang An'an jumped out of bed with a face full of grief and indignation: "Demoness! You are bullying people too much!"

No one had ever dared to disturb her, Jiang An'an, while she was sleeping!

Except for the brother who would carry her out for a run when she was late for class.

The teacher in class was also an exception.

The demoness at this moment untied that unsightly black robe, wearing only a simple long skirt, which fully displayed her grace. Her hairpin slanted in her cloud-like hair, full of charm.

Her left hand carried a pot of wine, and her right hand carried a food box, from which fragrance rushed out one after another.

"Drink some?" she asked.

Jiang An'an unconsciously sniffed. Suppressing a little 'hehe': "Girl, it's so late at night, please..."

She originally wanted to say "please have some self-respect."

But the demoness had already put down the wine pot and was stacking dishes one by one.

Steamed dragon fish, stewed rain sheep, kite heart roast, braised nine wings, stir-fried phoenix tongue...

"Please sit," she said.

Not because she was greedy. A visitor was a guest, and she, the host, couldn't neglect them.

Great hero Ye Xiao Yun was a person with etiquette!

"Suddenly discovered that tonight is New Year's Eve," Dark Moon said persuasive words: "Just happened to eat your Song Zan beef this afternoon, so I prepared some dishes and came to drink a cup with you."

New Year's Eve was a day for family reunion, the most important festival of the year.

Who wouldn't remember it?

What kind of person would "suddenly discover" it?

Naturally, it was someone who had never celebrated this festival.

What was the meaning of the festival?

It was for people who needed it, specially leaving days worthy of commemoration in their tiring lives.

It was for commemorating those people in life together.

In Dark Moon's life, these did not yet exist.

But in the beautiful eyes of the woman in front of her, Jiang An'an did not see pity.

She was just saying ordinary words in an ordinary tone.

So Jiang An'an also just said: "Didn't think Dark Moon girl also has research on food; she actually recognizes Song Zan beef. It needs to bathe in ten years of Buddha light, chew ten years of Sanskrit flowers, and can only be slaughtered after a full life, with limited production."

Speaking of food tasting, she was an expert. When "Duke of Huai" took her to visit, she talked and laughed with the world's number one culinary master, "Duke of Yu".

"I have no research on food," Dark Moon shook her head: "I research people."

Jiang An'an understood.

Dark Moon ate beef in the afternoon and discovered that she was a person who had pursuits in food, so she prepared such exquisite midnight snacks.

People who were too good at observing words and expressions often had unfortunate childhoods.

Once she also would carefully watch the faces of adults.

It was brother who told her—you don't have to be so sensible.

Later she would also chase chickens and scare dogs, and anger the teacher until his beard blew up. She would indulge in laughter.

"Good night, beautiful wine, come drink!" Jiang An'an used her bold posture again.

Dark Moon smiled and clinked cups with her.

Jiang An'an always felt that those charming eyes were like hooks, hooking people's thoughts, making people involuntarily want to explore them one by one—

What kind of woman was this? What story did she have?

If she were really Ye Xiao Yun, a man sitting here, she would surely have fallen.

It was a pity that she was Jiang An'an.

Cold as she was, she decided to get this woman drunk... and then escape far away.

She no longer wanted to explore any secrets. This demoness had too many tricks, and she feared that she might fall into a trap one day.

"Today is a good time; our meeting is good fortune!" Jiang An'an brought out several jars of truly good wine moved from "Qi Country", originating from "Deer Cry", the kind that could intoxicate cultivators, and boldly said: "Let's all not use vital energy to dissolve the wine, suppress the instincts of our dao bodies, and truly drink and get truly drunk, seeking happiness! How about it?"

Dark Moon smiled and raised her cup: "Respect to fate!"

Jiang An'an got very drunk.

The lone sword wandering jianghu great hero Ye Xiao Yun ultimately could not outdrink the demoness from "Three Points Fragrance Building".

At first, she still tried to extract some words, but later she was the only one talking, mumbling a lot.

Wine intent was hazy, her spirit floated in the sky. Nonsense wandered all over the room, and someone was smiling and listening.

At a certain moment, Dark Moon seemed to awaken from a dream. The wine intent in her beautiful eyes instantly scattered.

She quietly looked at Jiang An'an lying on the table for a while, got up and carried her to the bed, to avoid triggering those various defense secret techniques, she did not undress her. She shook open the quilt and properly covered her.

Looking at the yellow-faced man who kept talking in her dreams, she smiled and said: "I'm going out to handle some things, don't try to escape, okay?"

"I am a very, very bad woman, and I can do anything."

She issued a fierce threat to the person on the bed: "If I come back and you have already slipped away, I will... kill your dog."

The Stupid Gray who was chewing bones under the table stupidly lifted its head: Woof?

"Hahaha," Dark Moon pointed at it: "I'm just saying to you. Remember, okay!"

Getting up, she turned into a wisp of ghostly wind, melting into the thick night.

Crackling!

The new moon year after year wished people well, and the sound of firecrackers urged the end of the night.

On this first New Year's Eve away from home alone, Jiang An'an slept very peacefully. She dreamed of the days of roasting cloud cranes in the "Ling Xiao secret realm", dreamed of her home in "Flying Horse Alley", dreamed of the small river in "Feng Xi Town", and dreamed of... pearl light, treasure gas, a large piece of golden brilliance.

"So much gold!"

She happily laughed, pulling large handfuls into her embrace. Pulling and pulling, she suddenly grabbed a soft hand, pinching it. The familiar feeling suddenly awakened her from the wine.

She opened her eyes and saw that familiar, extremely beautiful face.

She didn't know if she was awake or dreaming, but she knew it was someone she had been thinking of.

This most intimate person was smilingly looking at her.

The same brilliant smile, but Sister Qing Yu and that Dark Moon were also different... Jiang An'an thought inexplicably.

Dark Moon's smile moved the heart and soul.

Sister Qing Yu's smile, however, made you feel that the world was beautiful.

"Sister Qing Yu! Why are you here?" Jiang An'an was both happy and inexplicably nervous.

Only then did she discover that she was lying on the bed, her clothes were not undone, and the quilt was covered well. There were still leftover wine and cold dishes on the table, and it was still night outside.

It seemed... she hadn't been drunk for long.

Ye Qing Yu sat by the bedside looking at her, her eyes smiling: "Have you forgotten what day it is today, and also forgotten who I am?"

Her body was covered in golden light dots, gathering into a red robe and a gold belt. Pearl light and treasure gas piled up like auspicious crowns, and good fortune and blessing clouds were carved into auspicious jade. Joyful and full of wealth.

The vaguely otherworldly cloud fairy instantly transformed into a smiling and gentle "God of Wealth".

The God of Wealth entered the door, and wealth would not leave people. She took out a large gold ingot, placed it in Jiang An'an's hand, and smiled: "Happy New Year, congratulations on getting rich!"

Jiang An'an then reacted. It was New Year's, who wouldn't worship the God of Wealth once?

These days were the time when the power of the God of Wealth was strongest! Several days of god path cultivation could offset several months of hard work. With Sister Qing Yu's efforts after taking charge of "Ling Xiao Pavilion", she surely wouldn't miss these precious days.

She felt even more moved and said beautifully: "Such a big gold ingot! Like a treasure ship!"

"Indeed, it's a ship," the God of Wealth pointed at the gold ingot: "Don't say this thing is vulgar. To the poor common people, it is a ferry boat in the bitter sea!"

Sister was a bit different from before...

Being a god worshipped by people inevitably meant being tied to people.

An otherworldly fairy, yet she bore the weight of the dust.

Suppressing the inexplicable emotion in her heart, Jiang An'an put away this ingot overflowing with divine power and happily said: "Thank you, sister, I also wish you a Happy New Year! I wish you step-by-step advancement, and wish you happiness as you wish!"

Ye Qing Yu lifted her finger to straighten Jiang An'an's forehead hair and said with a smile: "Every New Year's Eve, it's just the two of us together. Suddenly you went out to travel, sister is really a bit not used to it, so I came to see you. It just so happens that I can't delay my cultivation these days, following the wishes of the worshipped gods, I also manifested here."

She also said: "Your brother is stubborn; he said that Jiang An'an has already grown up, and it's exactly the age to wander. How can parents stare at her every day? But I saw him today, holding the jade you gave him, and he stared blankly for a long time!"

Jiang An'an suddenly really wanted to fly back to "Cloud City".

She wanted to knock her brother on the back of the head and ask him, do you also miss Jiang An'an?

Ye Qing Yu tucked the quilt for her and then smiled and asked: "When I came, there was no one else. Who were you drinking so much with?"

Speaking of Jiang An'an since she arrived at "Cloud City", it had always been she who brought her up. At first, it was to keep a promise, afraid that An'an would be unfamiliar and wronged, so she personally looked after her. Later, she genuinely liked this child... After a long time, she truly became like an elder sister and a mother.

Jiang An'an felt inexplicably guilty and thought before saying: "Just a friend I met!"

The God of Wealth just smiled, her eyes bent like gold ingots: "An'an has grown up; she surely knows when she can get drunk."

Sister Qing Yu of the god path, compared to Sister Qing Yu of the immortal path, was a bit more gentle in temperament... Jiang An'an thought inexplicably.

Sister Qing Yu would never truly criticize her about anything. Instead, this kind of gentle encouragement always made her unable to parry.

Jiang An'an determined painfully: "From now on, I won't drink outside anymore!"

She thought and added: "Unless brother and Sister Qing Yu are there!"

Ye Qing Yu's eyes smiled and bent, gently tapping her forehead: "You ah... Happy New Year!"

The blessing bestowed by the God of Wealth was already effective; in the coming year, she would have smooth wealth, and pick up money on the road.

Dots of golden light had already scattered, only the gold ingot with remaining warmth in her embrace reminded Jiang An'an that this was not a drunk dream.

The God of Wealth couldn't be idle these days; she had to go everywhere to bestow blessings and respond to faith. She didn't know how she squeezed in the time to come on this trip.

Really good, ah, really good. Sister Qing Yu is really good, ah.

Jiang An'an hugged the big gold ingot and had a simple happy mood.

Suddenly, she chuckled: "Happy New Year! Congratulations on getting rich!"

The warmth in the room overflowed the window, meeting the cold current and converging into a wisp of wind. It rolled over the door eaves and brushed the couplets hung at some time in front of the door one by one—

May the world's four directions have no guilty people, and may happiness always dwell.

Hope that fated people from ancient times to the present always have money.

Author's Note

New Year's Eve in the novel world, the fifth day in the real world.

"Fifth day, welcome the God of Wealth!"

Wish book friends a rich New Year!

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