Chapter 63
Su Ying guffawed, and after a while, she said slowly, “But if you have not met me, you, the smartest person in the world, would still not survive, you… how should you repay me.”
Who would have expected Xiao Yu’er to laugh coldly instead, “Even if you did not save me, someone else would.”
Su Ying was again surprised, “Who?”
Xiao Yu’er replied, “Zhang San, Li Si, Wang Er, Ma Zi*, I don’t know who right now, but someone will certainly save me. Do you think I look like a short lived person?”
(Zhang San, Li Si, Wang Er, Ma Zi = same meaning as Tom, Dick or Harry)
Su Ying chewed her lips lightly, “So that means that I should not have saved you.”
Xiao Yu’er made a noise of agreement.
Su Ying continued, “I should have waited and see, see which idiot would come and save you.”
Xiao Yu’er laughed loudly, “That’s right, anyone who saves me is an idiot, you’re absolutely correct.”
Su Ying stamped her foot, “You… you…”
Xiao Yu’er propped his feet up and smiled lazily, “Anyway, even if there are no idiots saving me, I still would not die. ‘The good are never long lived, the bad will live a thousand years’, have you heard of this saying?”
Su Ying finally could not take it but burst out laughing, she chuckled “You… you little rascal, you really make others helpless.”
Xiao Yu’er grinned, “No matter what, you really should not have saved me, I’m afraid you are regretting that now.”
“Regret? … No matter what I do, I have never regretted anything before.”
She continued calmly, “After you were poisoned by the knife the other day, you lost consciousness not soon after. Wei Wu Ya was sure that you will certainly die, so he ordered others to carry you out to feed the rats.”
Xiao Yu’er stuck his tongue out and asked hoarsely, “Feed the rats?”
Su Ying replied, “Hmm.”
Xiao Yu’er felt his whole body itch, but he continued to laugh, “So lucky, so lucky.”
Su Ying asked, “So now you know that you were lucky.”
Xiao Yu’er smiled, “It’s not me who is lucky, it’s those rats who were really lucky.”
Su Ying was stunned, “You said the rats were lucky?”
Xiao Yu’er said with a straight face, “From the top to the bottom, from the inside to the outside, even my veins, skin and bones are all rotten. If the rats were to really eat me, it would be strange if they do not vomit or have diarrhea.” Before he can finish his words, Su Ying was already laughing so hard that she bent over.
Xiao Yu’er asked, “Are you feeling very happy?”
As Su Ying laughed, she suddenly stopped, and looked at him for a moment in a daze, before saying with a sad sigh, “Do you know, ever since I was born, I’ve never laughed so happily before.”
Her eyes suddenly reddened, she lowered her head, not talking further.
Xiao Yu’er stared at her for a long time, rubbed his nose and laughed, “Don’t be sad, I may be saying otherwise, but I’m still grateful towards you in my heart.”
Su Ying replied with her head lowered, “I know you may be saying bad things, but in your heart… in your heart you’re still a kind person, whereas some people may speak beautifully, but their hearts are uglier than anything else.”
Xiao Yu’er lifted his head heavenward and laughed loudly, “Do you think you’re very smart? Do you think you can see through people’s mind?”
Su Ying shook her head, not speaking. A while later, she continued slowly, “Actually I had no chance to save you that day, but an important guest of Wei Wu Ya came coincidentally, so he brought that person in to talk, because he never liked others to see me."
Xiao Yu’er laughed, “Because everyone else is born better looking than he is, of course he’s afraid others will snatch you away.”
These words seemed to have triggered off Su Ying’s melancholy. She lowered her head again, and only continued after a while, “Only after he left, was I able to tell that two little disciples of his to carry you here. I told them that there’s a kind of flower which must use a dead person as a fertilizer before it can bloom well…”
Xiao Yu’er laughed, “Those two idiotic disciples may believe such words, but how can Wei Wu Ya possibly believe it!”
Su Ying replied, “His disciples all fear him, that they dare not even utter a single word when they see him.”
Xiao Yu’er stretched lazily, and said “Could it be that you thought it would be such a pity for a smart man like me to die, that’s why you saved me.”
Su Ying smiled, “I do not know why I saved you either, maybe… maybe it’s because of the air you had around you when you saw Wei Wu Ya, maybe it’s because after you were injured by the poisoned knife, you still looked at me and smiled… Someone who would smile at me before he died, how I can see him really die.”
Xiao Yu’er clasped his hands and laughed loudly, “That smile of mine, is really useful.”
Su Ying asked, “Could it be… could it be that you smiled at me, because you wanted me to save you?”
Xiao Yu’er chuckled, “I’m about to die, what else is there to smile about.”
Su Ying bit her lips and asked, “You… why didn’t you just lie to me, just said that it’s because after you saw me, you were enchanted, so you unconsciously smiled…”
Xiao Yu’er replied, “Now that you’ve already saved me, why should I still lie to you. Besides… the look when you’re angry, is so much better looking then when you’re smiling.”
Su Ying can’t help but break into a guffaw, and asked “Why exactly were you looking for Wei Wu Ya?”
Xiao Yu’er replied, “Haven’t I said the reason the other day?… I went to look for Wei Wu Ya, because I wanted to save my friend.”
Su Ying asked, “How do you know that your friend is there?”
Xiao Yu’er explained, “My friend secretly left signs along the way, the signs pointed towards that… that ghastly ‘Heaven Outside heaven’.”
Su Ying was silent for a moment before saying slowly, “But I can tell you, for these past three months, no one had gone to that place, only you… you’re the first person who barged into that place!”
Xiao Yu’er leaped up and shouted, “It can’t be!”
Su Ying asked, “How do you know if that’s not faked?”
Xiao Yu’er replied, “Besides they themselves, there will never be anyone else who can make those signs.”
Su Ying sighed and said, “Maybe they themselves dare not barge into that place, so they made you explore the area for them, to scout for them. Maybe they dislike you, so they’re sending you to your death!”
Xiao Yu’er collapsed onto the chair, his eyes staring straight ahead in a loss, mumbling, “Impossible, impossible… they raised me from young, why would they harm me now?… Why would they harm me?”
He suddenly jumped up again and dashed towards the iron bars, shouting “Let me out, let me out quickly, I want to find them and get to the bottom of this.”
Su Ying said gently, “You have not recovered from your injury, and the poison has not been purged totally, how can you leave…. You are the world’s smartest person, but why are you so impatient?”
Suddenly a person laughed sinisterly, “How gentle! How caring!”
Xiao Yu’er was shocked, and raised his voice, “Who is that?”
There’s no change in Su Ying’s expression at all, even the muscles on the sides of her mouth did not move. She only turned around slowly, and said calmly, “This place rarely sees any guests, no matter who comes, I will still welcome him.”
Someone giggled amongst the flowers, “A pity that I came at the wrong time, right?”
Su Ying smiled, “It doesn’t matter even if you do not wish to come out, it’s just that the flowers are thorny, and there’s poison on the thorns. If something were to happen to you, please don’t blame me for not knowing how to receive guests properly.”
Before she could finish her words, there was a person amongst the flowers jumped up, as if he had been kicked on the buttocks. This person has a triangular face, an eagle nose, and mousy eyes. The features make one nauseous on seeing it, but of all things, he was wearing a shiny brocade shirt.
When he saw Su Ying, he actually bowed his head and said, “I just made a little joke, and did not expect Miss Su to be a little startled by it, please forgive me.”
Xiao Yu’er saw that this person is actually someone that Su Ying knows, and is actually playing a prank on her, so he felt more at ease. But this person does not only look irritating, his words were even more irritating. Xiao Yu’er wanted so much to give him a ‘little’ slap, followed by a ‘little’ kick.
Su Ying’s expression turned somber, and asked coldly, “Why have you come? Didn’t your teacher tell you that this place is not for you to come as you will?”
That person simpered, “With my little guts, how would I dare to barge into Miss Su’s cave, but this time it is Teacher himself who asked me here.”
Su Ying rolled her eyes and said, “He asked you to come? Why have he asked you to come?”
That person’s eyes closed into a straight like and said with a smile, “He asked me to come take a look, the flower that must use a dead body as fertilizer, to see how beautiful it can actually bloom. He has a guest who would like to take a look at this strange flower.”
Once these words were said, Su Ying and Xiao Yu’er can’t help but feel startled.
Su Ying’s icy features immediately warmed up, and she said with a smile, “Since that is the case, I’ll bring you to take a look at that flower.”
That person replied, “But now I have no need to see it. Since the fertilizer is still drinking wine, naturally that flower has not bloomed, right?”
Su Ying’s eyes shone, and she cajoled, “Then you… what do you intend to do?”
“With my little guts, how would I dare to lie to Teacher, unless…” That person grinned and continued, “Unless Miss can make my guts bigger.”
Su Ying smiled, “And how can your guts become bigger?”
That person looked at Su Ying through narrowed eyes and said, “As they always say, ‘The guts of a lewd is greater than heaven!’ Have Miss not heard of this saying before?”
Su Ying’s expression changed slightly, but she still smiled and said, “You’re not afraid your Teacher would be jealous?”
That person chuckled, “That’s right, Teacher will indeed be very jealous, if he were to know that the fertilizer is drinking wine… hee hee, by then I’m afraid he would not be too courteous towards Miss”
Su Ying chewed on her lips and replied, “Actually why do you need to threaten me, I had already wanted to be with you…” As she spoke, her hands seemingly leaned onto the bars unconsciously.
That person suddenly laughed loudly, “Could it be Miss is thinking of letting the fertilizer out to silence me… hee hee, as soon as Miss’s hand touches it, I will leave immediately. In a little while, Teacher would come over!”
Su Ying really put her hands down and said with a smile, “You’re really a suspicious person. But this is not the place to…. to talk, let’s go into the house!”
That person hurriedly shook his hands, “No need, no need… I’ve long heard that Miss’s house is full of intricate traps, if I were to follow Miss in, I’m afraid my little life will be in danger.”
Su Ying said gently, “Then you… you’re thinking of here…” She smiled coquettishly, and walked over step by step.
Who would have expected that person to retreat a few steps suddenly, exclaiming, “Don’t come over…”
Su Ying giggled, “Since you want me… why won’t you let me go over?”
That person smiled sinisterly, “Naturally I want Miss to come over, it’s just that I want Miss to take off your clothes first, and you must take off everything, not a single item to be left.”
Su Ying replied, “Whether I know martial arts or not, don’t you already know?”
That person said, “Although Miss does not know martial arts, but you’re full of tricks, so how can I take it, it’s just that…” He continued with a grin, “If Miss were to take off all your clothes, then I would be much relieved. If a woman is totally naked, there’s no tricks that she can play.”
Xiao Yu’er was almost bursting with anger while witnessing the scene from the side. This person is wilier than a fox, more slithery than a snake, no matter who is the person who meets someone like him, that person must be in really bad luck.
However Su Ying smiled, and her slender hands, really reached up to loosen her clothes.
Xiao Yu’er can’t help but cry out, “So infuriating I can die.”
Su Ying said gently, “You will certainly not die, and I will certainly not…”
Suddenly, there was a ‘swoosh’ sound, an extremely sharp, extremely strong sound of the wind swished past. That person was startled and turned around, but there was nothing behind.
He was stunned for a moment before he turned back slowly and mumbled, “Could I have seen a ghost.”
A green bamboo flew over with a ‘swoosh’, and impaled him onto the ground, fresh blood spurting like rain. That person twitched on the ground for a moment, and then he can never move again!
Even with Xiao Yu’er’s eyesight, he still could not see how this person fell. The speed of the attack by the killer, is really shocking!
Su Ying’s face paled, and she asked, “Who… who is the Elder who have lent a helping hand, please come out so that I can offer my gratitude.”
The wind blew past the leaves, making rustling noises, but there was no reply.
Xiao Yu’er raised his voice, “At a time like this, you still won’t let me out so that I can go take a look?”
Su Ying sighed, “If I were to let you out now, is akin to harming you. I have never cared about the life or death of another person on my whole life, but only you.”
Xiao Yu’er replied angrily, “I’d rather die, what can you do?”
Su Ying smiled, “Once I’ve decided on something, I will never change… even if you were to really commit suicide now, I’ll think of all ways to save you.”
Xiao Yu’er exclaimed, “You… you’re not human, you’re a female spirit.”
Su Ying covered her mouth and smiled, “A female spirit with a little imp, isn’t it a match made in heaven?”
As she spoke, she blushed, and she ran away with reddening cheeks.
Xiao Yu’er looked at her, as if in a daze, and then he mumbled with a bitter smile, “There’s actually a woman like this in the world, what a rarity. It seems like she’s intent on following me, this is really a troublesome matter.”
Su Ying can be heard saying from far away, “You wait here, I’ll go and take a look where that Elder is, I’ll be back immediately.”
Xiao Yu’er can’t help but call out, “That person’s martial arts in unfathomable, you… you be careful.”
Su Ying laughed, “Don’t you worry. You’re not dead yet, so I can’t bear to die as well. Besides, since this Elder saved me, how can he harbor evil intentions towards me.” The sound of her voice got further, disappearing into the trees and flowers.
Xiao Yu’er shook his head and sighed, “This person seemed weaker than everyone else, but who would have expected her to be so brave, and so stubborn?”
As Su Ying walked amongst the flowers, she smiled and said, “This place may look beautiful, but there are deathly traps everywhere. Elder, you have saved me, if you are injured here, how can I feel good?”
She is faced with a mysterious person, with unfathomable skills, but she was not concerned with her own safety at all. Instead, she kept saying that she’s afraid the other party will be hurt. A pity that even if that person heard her, he was not appreciative at all, and still ignored her.
Su Ying sighed, and muttered “This person is really strange, since he saved me, but he dare not see me, why is that so?”
The lamps at the porch are still lighted, and no one can be seen. That ‘chair’ is still there, and does not seem like it has been touched by anyone else.
Su Ying went in a circle and returned to that cave… and only now did her expression change. The bars on the cave has been deactivated by someone, and Xiao Yu’er has already disappeared! Could it be that he has escaped regardless of everything? Impossible, he will never escape on his own, he can never deactivate the iron bars. Those who can deactivate the iron bars, are only Wei Wu Ya and his head disciple Wei Ma Yi. Could it be that they’ve come here and captured Xiao Yu’er?
If it were someone else, that person would have certainly panicked once he thought of this point, and totally helpless as well, but Su Ying calmed down instead.
If Xiao Yu’er has really been captured by Wei Wu Ya, then where have that martial arts exponent who saved her earlier have gone to? Could it be that he left immediately after he saved her?
Besides, if it was really Wei Wu Ya who had come, how is it possible that Xiao Yu’er did not make any noise at all, and just let himself be captured?
Su Ying secretly sighed, and suddenly she heard in the distance someone scolding in alarm. This voice is made by Xiao Yu’er.
Xiao Yu’er watched Su Ying walked away, and was about to lift his wine cup when suddenly there was a ‘clang’, and a small stone struck onto the iron bar, with sparks flying. Then, the iron bar rose slowly.
Xiao Yu’er was both surprised and overjoyed, and for a moment he was actually stunned. In the darkness a shadow appeared like a spirit, with long robes and a tall hat, his eerie gaze staring icily at Xiao Yu’er, but he did not speak.
Xiao Yu’er heaved a long sigh and asked, “You’ve come to save me?”
That person replied, ‘Yes.”
Xiao Yu’er asked, “The person who killed Wei Wu Ya’s disciple, is it you as well?”
That person replied, ‘Yes.”
Xiao Yu’er queried, “Who are you actually? Who do you want to save me?”
That person smiled coldly, “If you do not wish to come out, I don’t mind putting the iron bars back down again…”
Xiao Yu’er rolled his eyes and smiled, “You have to know, no matter what is the reason you saved me, I will not show appreciation, and all the more I will not repay you in gratitude.”
That person replied, “If you were to repay me, I would not have saved you.”
Xiao Yu’er laughed, “Since we are now clear on this, I must at least let you save me once then.”
Others have saved him, but not only is he not thankful, it seems that he wants other to be grateful to him instead, and that person is not in the least offended at all.
Xiao Yu’er leaped out and with a smile, mumbled “Miss Su Ying, my apologies. I may come and see you when I am free in future. As for your kind intentions towards me, I am thankful…”
That person seems to be floating, riding on the wind as he moved. Xiao Yu’er followed behind and smiled, “Your Lightness Skill is not bad at all, but where exactly are you bringing me?”
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