Dare to Cancel the Engagement? I Will Marry Your Ancestor! - Chapter 36

Long Qianqian walked ahead quickly. Mo Ling could only smile bitterly and follow her.

“This whole street is full of shops. Should we split up to search?”

Long Qianqian looked around at the shops. There were girls at every door trying to pull in customers.

Mo Ling teased her on purpose, since she was usually very serious. “Are you really not worried about me?”

Long Qianqian glared at him. Her eyes were sharp. Then she raised her chin confidently. “You have me now. Why would you look at these little wildflowers?”

Mo Ling laughed and stopped her. “Alright. Let’s go to the best shop. Look at that tallest one in the middle. I think those two men are more likely to be there.”

“Why?”

“You don’t understand how men think. If you spend more time with your husband, you’ll learn.”

Long Qianqian rolled her eyes, but she still followed him to a place called Fragrant Courtyard.

Two women with decent looks came over quickly. They smiled and used sweet words to pull Mo Ling and Long Qianqian inside.

Long Qianqian felt very uncomfortable. She said, “Don’t pull me. I’m just here to find someone.”

The women laughed loudly. “Aren’t we all here looking for someone?”

One woman touched Long Qianqian’s hand, making her blush. “I’m looking for two old men—my granduncles. They wear ragged clothes. Did you see them?”

The two women pretended to think but actually just laughed quietly and said, “No. There are too many people here. We can’t notice everyone.”

Long Qianqian looked helplessly at Mo Ling but saw he was calmly following the woman inside. She got jealous and quickly chased after him.

Then she heard Mo Ling joking with the woman.

“I’m here to help my friend find his uncles. Those two old guys love coming to brothels even without money. Every time they get locked up, my friend has to come pay to get them out. I always tell him to stop helping, but he won’t listen!”

The woman was shocked. “No money?”

Mo Ling nodded seriously. “Nope. They’re magicians. Their silver coins are all fake.”

The woman’s face changed. She quickly invited them to sit and smiled sweetly. “Wait here. I’ll go get some food and drinks.”

Long Qianqian moved closer to Mo Ling and whispered, “She’s going to report them, right?”

Mo Ling smiled and ate a peanut from the table. “Let’s wait for the show.”

Soon, four strong men burst open a door upstairs and dragged out two half-dressed old men.

“You old fools! No money, and you still come to the brothel!”

The women heard they had no money and came out angrily. They scolded the old men and left.

“Pfft! You said you were rich and would save us. Save yourselves first!”

Mo Ling laughed as he watched. The two old men tried to take out a money pouch, but it was knocked away.

“You think we can’t tell it’s fake?”

The old men held their thin bodies and looked at each other in shock.

“Fake? Who says it’s fake?”

The guards ignored them and pushed them out. They didn’t even get to take their clothes.

After being blown around by the wind outside, the two calmed down.

“Who would play such a joke on us?”

Mo Ling and Long Qianqian walked out, smiling. “Life is full of surprises.”

The old men stared at them but couldn’t recognize them. Still, their eyes turned dangerous, like hungry wolves.

Mo Ling asked, “You want to fight already? I thought you two were kind masters who wanted to help the world!”

The two old men quickly smiled. “Young man, have we met before?”

Mo Ling nodded. “You don’t remember?”

The old men guessed he might be someone they had tricked before, so they tried to change the subject.

“We were just trying to tell those poor girls to change their ways, but they kicked us out.”

Long Qianqian smiled coldly. “Such good hearts you have, going to a brothel to help women change. Are you also heading to Thousand Buddha Temple to pray?”

The old men agreed quickly. “Yes, yes. We wanted to do some good along the way. Too bad.”

Mo Ling laughed loudly. “Perfect! My brother and I are also going there. Why don’t we travel together? I’ll pay for everything!”

“Oh no, that’s too much.”

Mo Ling showed off a money pouch full of gold. The old men folded their hands together in thanks. “Then thank you, young man!”

“No need to thank me. Travelling with masters like you is a blessing.”

They bought the old men some simple clothes. Then the group set off in two carriages.

Later, Mo Ling called out, “Masters, it’s too late. Let’s rest in the forest tonight.”

The old men, still thinking about the gold, agreed quickly.

After Mo Ling and Long Qianqian “fell asleep,” the two old men silently got out and killed the coachman with flying needles.

They heard snoring from the other carriage, so they opened the curtain and threw more needles inside. The sound stopped. They jumped in to steal the gold.

But they were trapped in a barrier set by Mo Ling.

“What?!”

Mo Ling and Long Qianqian sat up and threw the needles back down.

“Haha, I knew you couldn’t resist the gold. How do you like my trap?”

The old men, realizing they were tricked, suddenly smiled instead.

“You think this little barrier can hold us?”

Mo Ling pretended to look regretful. “Of course not.”

The old men sneered. “Then why bother? Before, we might have given you a quick death. Now, you’ll die badly!”

They broke out of the barrier and stood outside.

Long Qianqian shouted, “Be careful!”

The two men looked at each other and laughed wickedly. “Nice! We’ll get both the gold and the girl tonight!”

Long Qianqian grew angry and raised her jade flute to attack.

Mo Ling stopped her. “Don’t bother. Remember the corpse-poison I brought from Mirror Ring Mountain? They’re already infected. We just need to wait.”

“The corpse-poison! You were there in the ground crevice?!”

Mo Ling removed his fake face and smiled. “You forgot me already?”

The old men recognized him and began to worry about the poison.

“Force it out!”

They faced each other and hit their pressure points to try to remove the poison from their bodies.

But…

“Why is there no sign of poison?!”