The little fox demon from Qiantang Mountain felt that she could no longer just react passively, pinning all her hopes on Zhao Rong and Teacher Zhu to save the day.
Otherwise, sooner or later, her cover would be blown, and she would be beaten to a pulp alongside Zhao Rong.
Actually, she didn’t mind; she even wanted to reveal her identity as a romantic rival directly to Lingfei and earnestly tell her that in matters of love, it’s not about who has better cultivation and martial arts skills, appearance, or family background to be superior.
The willingness to silently devote the latter half of one’s life to someone, the unique affection for each other, and the uncontainable fondness evident in the eyes during silent moments together are what truly mattered.
That is the most important criterion.
The right one, is the best one.
So, the little fox demon wasn’t afraid of being beaten to a pulp; she covered her little head and ran, but... she was afraid of dragging down a certain heartbreaker she was willing to hit but could not bear to let others hit.
He told her that afternoon that he wasn’t ready yet, but he would definitely give her an explanation.
At this moment, Su Xiaoxiao felt she needed to take the initiative to confront this very impressive woman from Taiching Prefecture...
"Is... is she here alone, um?"
While shoveling food, Su Xiaoxiao put down a rice bowl bigger than her face and answered seriously.
A grain of white rice clung to the corner of her rosy lips.
Paired with her earnest little face, she looked incredibly cute.
Lingfei nodded, "Oh, is that so."
Zhao Rong couldn’t help but glance at Su Xiaoxiao, feeling that this timid silly girl was behaving somewhat differently than before, as if she had become... braver.
Did she learn this from some blue-clothed girl?
"Little Su..." Lingfei began, smiling lightly at her, "I just asked you, and you seemed a bit confused about where exactly Qiantang Mountain is, like a little road idiot. Yet you had such courage to come down the mountain alone, and come to Du You all by yourself..."
As she spoke, Lingfei couldn’t help but laugh.
Zhao Rong, quietly eating, felt his eyelid twitch, unable to suppress it any longer.
Qing Jun was approaching a breakthrough in the case.
Before he and the tacitly understanding Yourong could come up with a strategy, the little fox demon was already unhappy with what she heard.
"I... I’m not a little road idiot. Um, I know the way."
Su Xiaoxiao insisted, her voice soft and delicate:
"Isn’t Du You City just up in the north? After coming down the mountain, just head north, and find an Immortal market, and that’s it, um. There, not only are Mountain And River Maps sold, but you can also take some unscrupulous companies’ Cloud Sea Ferries. Little Su knows all this, um."
Lingfei softly asked, "Unscrupulous companies?"
The little fox demon nodded her head, explaining each point very carefully:
"I just bought a ferry ticket to Du You City, which cost me forty-five... six... seven, forty-seven Spirit Stones! Um, that’s enough to buy lots and lots of talented and beautiful people’s books, my purse was almost flat, and then they even tried to trick Little Su into paying more for a VIP cabin, kept recommending, saying it has some... extra special services."
The attention of everyone present was suddenly drawn, and the distressed Zhao Rong also startle turned his head.
Beside them, even the carefree Zhao Shopkeeper, who was biting a toothpick, widened his eyes as the toothpick fell from his mouth, looking at this little fox girl who seemed not very shrewd...
They all watched as Su Xiaoxiao paused, tilting her little head:
"I asked them if the VIP cabin was a bit bigger, with a bigger bed, and besides having free meals, if it also provided free midnight snacks and drinks, because the standard cabin also had free meals.
"They told me that indeed, both the cabin and bed were much larger and could sleep several people. However, the originally free meals were now extra, and so were the midnight snacks and drinks, seeming even more expensive. But they covered their mouths and mysteriously hinted to me that the VIP cabin had additional special services..."
"They said, if you order midnight snacks or drinks at night, depending on the different drink package prices, suitable servants would personally deliver them, providing door-to-door service, and I could decide whenever they leave..."
"Um, those unscrupulous companies, they really don’t take Little Su for a fox. Though I just came out from the big mountain, I am also not stupid. We are from the Fox Clan, not the Dumb Fox Clan. Our ancestors were smart and formidable, and with inherited bloodlines, Little Su is also not stupid, so I immediately refused them, hmm."
The little fox demon put down her chopsticks and pounded the table with her small fists, her little face full of indignation.
It seemed that thinking about the matter now, she still felt the indignity of a ’fox trader’ being insulted.
The hall was then utterly silent.
Many people seemed stunned, holding their bowls and chopsticks, with their mouths slightly open, looking at the little fox demon firm in her belief that she carried the excellent bloodline of the Fox Clan.
Zhao Rong’s eyes widened, good gracious, the Qingfeng Pavilion ferry had such special services? The young master only found out now, damn it, why didn’t you tell me sooner?
In the midst of his astonishment, he felt deeply regretful.
At that time, just boarding the ferry, Zhao Rong was very curious about everything on the mountain. It was his first time taking a Cloud Sea Ferry; although unfamiliar, he guessed it might be similar to most hotels from past lives, having people sliding small cards through the cabin door cracks late at night.
Well, maybe here it wasn’t small cards, but something else, only the form was different, the essence the same.
However, Zhao Rong at that time waited on the ship for half a month, turned into Sherlock Holmes, attentive by day, expecting by night, even picking up on the slightest movement upstairs, only to find out in the end... Nothing happened, hilarious, not a single fart came my way.