Mistaking My Wife for a Spirit Pet - Chapter 20
Chapter 20
When she woke up again, all she saw were plain bed curtains.
The soft couch beneath her made Nan Zhi feel like she was in the clouds, which was extremely uncomfortable.
Nan Zhi struggled to prop herself up and looked around.
It was empty.
But… judging by the room’s layout, it was probably an inn, probably a high-class room, and probably the work of the Young City Lord.
She immediately threw off the blanket, wanting to get out of bed. The moment her feet touched the ground, her legs almost gave out and she almost knelt.
At this moment, the door creaked open. A tired Yu Shu pushed the door open. Seeing the scene in the room, she quickly went forward to help Nan Zhi up and asked anxiously, “Is there anywhere you still feel uncomfortable?”
Nan Zhi rolled her eyes, wanting to say that she felt uncomfortable all over. But before she could speak, she was helped back to bed.
Nan Zhi remained silent, thinking to herself that she wasn’t that weak yet.
But…
What was with the Young City Lord running around taking care of her?
Nan Zhi couldn’t imagine that this precious little tiger would be so meticulous in her care, so much so that it made her feel strange.
A white jade spoon was handed to her lips.
Before it was handed over, it was gently blown on.
Nan Zhi was silent. She forced a smile and said, “Young City Lord, let me do it.”
Being personally fed by the Young City Lord would probably shorten her lifespan.
She snatched the soup bowl from Yu Shu’s hand. The black soup in the bowl had a smell that made her stomach churn.
It had a strange sense of familiarity.
Nan Zhi was silent for a moment. She couldn’t help but ask, “Did the Young City Lord brew this medicine?”
The noble Young City Lord nodded her head.
“…”
I’ll die if I drink this bowl of medicine.
And the Young City Lord wouldn’t ask a medical cultivator for help. She would just go ahead and refine some useless stomach pain artifact herself.
She couldn’t help but swallow her saliva and asked in a low voice, “Can I not drink it?”
The Young City Lord shook her head and asked, “Why?”
Because I’ll die. I’ll die from how bad it tastes.
Nan Zhi tactfully said, “The cultivation technique I practice clashes with one of the herbs in the medicine. I’ll suffer qi deviation.”
The Young City Lord frowned, as if in thought.
Nan Zhi saw it clearly. She thought to herself, I don’t have to die.
However, the Young City Lord asked, “Which herb? What cultivation technique? The people from Medicine Immortal Valley are so unreliable. They couldn’t even find this out.”
Medicine Immortal Valley?
Nan Zhi’s brows twitched slightly. So the Young City Lord found a medical cultivator for her. She lowered her head. This black bowl of medicine suddenly felt authoritative.
“I remembered it wrong.”
Such an authoritative medicine would be a waste not to drink. But the color of this medicine was too ugly. She swallowed her saliva, closed her eyes, and took a gulp.
“Ugh…”
The authority of the Medicine Immortal Valley was no match for the Young City Lord’s poison. She shouldn’t have believed in such nonsense.
“Are you done drinking? I’ll go get a few more bowls…”
Nan Zhi’s heart felt bitter. She immediately grabbed Yu Shu’s hand and smiled understandingly. “It’s too much work for the Young City Lord to go back and forth like this. How about you rest for a bit? Don’t tire yourself out.”
Yu Shu: …
Is this flattery a little too much?
So love can not only blind one’s eyes but also hijack one’s lips.
Her face suddenly turned red. She didn’t want to go along with Nan Zhi’s wishes and changed the subject. “Now that you’re awake, there’s something I want to tell you.”
Nan Zhi: “What is it?”
“You…” Yu Shu looked at Nan Zhi’s pale face. She felt a little bad and hesitated to speak. “When you were unconscious, your sister-in-law borrowed all the spiritual stones from you.”
Nan Zhi: …
Borrowed all of them when I was unconscious?
How can I understand this when you put these two things together?
Nan Zhi subconsciously touched her storage bag. After a quick scan with her divine sense, she looked up in shock, in disbelief.
Nan Zhi was so angry she laughed. Her chest was rising and falling. She ground her back teeth and asked, “Young City Lord, you just let her borrow them?”
Yu Shu frowned. The questioning made her voice gradually sink. “Are you mad at me?”
The topic jumped too quickly. Nan Zhi was suddenly stunned.
“Nan Zhi, you’re actually mad at me?”
“…”
This tone, why does it give the illusion of a heartless person?
Nan Zhi immediately threw her money to the back of her mind and softened her voice. “Of course not. How could I have such a thought?”
Yu Shu was still angry and didn’t spare her a single glance.
Nan Zhi sighed helplessly. She lightly poked Yu Shu’s waist. “Are you mad?”
Yu Shu didn’t want to talk to her even more.
Nan Zhi relentlessly poked her. “Please, don’t be angry, okay? How could I dare to be mad at you? I was just anxious about my sister-in-law’s whereabouts.”
Yu Shu glanced at her and huffed, but didn’t say anything.
“My storage bag contains my savings from all these years. If my sister-in-law borrows all of them, won’t I have to drink the cold wind from now on?”
“You won’t.” Yu Shu’s resolve wavered. She glanced at Nan Zhi and said softly, “You won’t have to drink the cold wind.” Finally, she added, “But you are not allowed to use that tone with me again.”
Nan Zhi laughed. Without thinking, she said, “Okay.”
As she spoke, Yu Shu moved her gaze back. She said again, “Your sister-in-law said she’ll pay it back.”
In fact, Su Yao’s original words were—
Stealing? How can it be considered stealing when it’s between relatives? Even if I divorced Nan Xiang, we’re still relatives. Of course, as the good girl’s aunt, it’s not too much to borrow some spiritual stones.
As for paying it back—
That’s a debt for the children. Let the little niece pay it back a thousand years from now, if she can wait that long.
Nan Zhi’s fingertips trembled from anger after hearing that.
That woman, Su Yao, had always been deceiving her. She should have held onto her money bag the first time and not let herself be completely ransacked.
However, that Young City Lord was still poking at her sore spot.
“It’s fine. It’s only ten thousand spiritual stones.”
“…”
I worked year-round, reselling spiritual herbs from the secret realm, and now it’s just ‘it’s fine.’
Yu Shu didn’t care. After all, ten thousand spiritual stones were just an ordinary meal in the City Lord’s residence.
She tried to comfort her. “You don’t have to worry too much. Look on the bright side.”
“…Huh?”
“It’s not easy for your sister-in-law to raise your little niece through hardship. While you were unconscious, I already provided a lot of help. You don’t have to worry too much about them.”
Nan Zhi: “Huh?”
Should I ask why the Young City Lord so skillfully called her ‘sister-in-law’? Or should I ask—
What does ‘provided a lot of help’ mean?
“You… provided help?”
Yu Shu nodded and explained, “Based on the prices in the Nine Provinces, fifty thousand spiritual stones should be enough for their food and clothing for the next ten years, so you don’t have to worry too much.”
“…” Nan Zhi’s face was expressionless. She thought about it for a while. The more she thought, the less she understood. She couldn’t help but ask, “Young City Lord, did you provide help because you two are old acquaintances?”
Yu Shu: “We don’t know each other, but… she’s your sister-in-law.”
Nan Zhi couldn’t understand. She was even greatly shocked. “She’s my sister-in-law, what does that have to do with you?” Finally, she pressed on, “Why do you need to provide help?”
Yu Shu frowned. Her almond-shaped eyes were burning with warmth. Her voice sank. “You’re mad at me again.”
“…”
Nan Zhi covered her eyes. The corner of her mouth couldn’t help but twitch. She laughed out of anger. After being speechless for a while, she asked, “Young City Lord, have you ever thought that my former sister-in-law was deceiving you because you’re a fool with a lot of money?”
“A fool with a lot of money?” She didn’t know what she was thinking, but Yu Shu’s expression gradually turned cold. “So that’s what you think, Nan Zhi.”
So that’s what Nan Zhi thinks.
I was worried about Nan Zhi, so I was also worried about Nan Zhi’s relatives, and in the end, all I get is being called a fool with a lot of money?
A surge of frustration suddenly welled up in Yu Shu’s heart.
Others always say that you don’t cherish something once you have it. Nan Zhi hadn’t even expressed her feelings to her yet, but she was already trampling on her good intentions.
How ridiculous.
Yu Shu’s face became colder and colder. She suddenly stood up.
“A fool with a lot of money, that’s what I’ve always been.”
“It’s just as you said.”
“…”
The Young City Lord’s temper came too quickly. Nan Zhi hadn’t even had time to react before she heard the door slam.
She didn’t understand which sentence was the problem.
But…
The Young City Lord seems to be very angry, more than ever before.
Thinking this, Nan Zhi immediately got up and walked out of the room.
A striking white figure appeared around the corner. She quickly walked over and called out, “Young City Lord, wait.”
The figure was gone in a flash.
Nan Zhi quickened her pace, but after she got there, the white figure was nowhere to be found.
She suddenly got a headache. She took out her communication jade and began to contact Yu Shu. After infusing a wisp of spiritual energy, she quietly waited for a response.
A very, very long time passed. It was like a stone sinking into the sea.
Nan Zhi rubbed her forehead and sighed helplessly.
It seems that if the Young City Lord doesn’t want to see her, she probably can’t be found. Oh well.
Nan Zhi turned back to her room. After two steps, she stopped. She expressionlessly changed her direction and walked out of the inn.
If she was careless and went back to the room to rest, she would probably have to coax her for ten days to half a month in the future. After all, this little tiger holds grudges.
But… where is she? She took out a few copper coins and lightly rubbed them with her fingertips, wondering if she should do a divination.
Yes.
She raised her hand and threw the copper coins upward, her eyes fixed on the strange way they were falling.
Suddenly—
A slender hand intercepted the three copper coins.
Nan Zhi expressionlessly looked up, her expression very surprised.
This person was one of her few friends. However, thinking of what she had seen and heard in the Ancient Moon Pavilion, she couldn’t help but say, “Ning Wan, you’ve really improved.”
Her friend, Ning Wan, looked confused.
Nan Zhi added, “The guy in the Ancient Moon Pavilion was so sick, and you still dared to put a bad luck talisman on him.”
Ning Wan’s eyebrows twitched. She said guiltily, “How do you know?”
“I drew the talisman. How could I not know?”
When she went there that day, the Pavilion Master of the Ancient Moon Pavilion was extremely angry. He even wanted to secretly stop Nan Zhi and ask her to find the location of the fallen Golden Cicada Escape Talisman with them, but the Young City Lord stopped him.
In short, Ning Wan had caused trouble, and it was quite serious.
If the Pavilion Master of the Ancient Moon Pavilion insisted on it, she didn’t know if the Dragon Clan would be able to protect her friend.
Thinking this, Nan Zhi frowned. “You clearly have the Golden Cicada Escape Talisman, but you stayed in the Ancient Moon Pavilion for so long and even put a bad luck talisman on Miss Shen. You were deliberately retaliating.”
“What are you thinking?” Ning Wan rolled her eyes. She unhappily opened her palm. “Look.”
Nan Zhi lowered her head and looked closely—it was wisp after wisp of floating spiritual marrow.
“The Ancient Moon Pavilion is too much. They even used Spiritual Dispersion Powder. I had to search a few courtyards to find this. If it weren’t for that, why would I have stayed for so long?”
“But… the bad luck talisman was an accident.”
“I finally found you. Take this!”
With that, Ning Wan threw a storage bag at her. Nan Zhi subconsciously caught it. She infused spiritual energy into it, and her heart was filled with shock.
“Did you go to the Ancient Moon Pavilion to steal spiritual stones?”
Ning Wan angrily hit Nan Zhi with her sword and said in a nasty tone, “I got on a boat from Yulin City. I sold all of your talismans.”
“…”
For some reason, her ears started to itch when she heard the name of Yulin City.
“And then?”
“That lucky cat thought we were rogue cultivators, so she took all the talismans and asked if the person who drew them would be willing to be an esteemed guest of Yulin City and hang the talismans in the auction house. Are you interested?”
Nan Zhi silently took out the Yulin City esteemed guest token.
“When did you get in touch with that lucky cat?” Ning Wan was greatly surprised.
She didn’t.
She didn’t get in touch with the lucky cat.
But she got in touch with the little tiger.