[GL]Whose Wife Is Always Acting Pitiful? Oh, It Turns Out It’s Mine 30

Chapter 30: Swindling the Divine Pills

Xue Mu was originally having lunch with Dugu Yuan’an in the Dugu Manor, chatting about interesting things from the past few years with great interest. Then Xue Xue came to deliver the message. How could she tolerate that? She had no choice but to fly onto her horse and rush over, leaving Yuan’an alone there. Seeing her own people injured and Mu Ruo frightened, she felt like flaying the troublemakers alive.

“Blue Wind Mountain Sect?” Xue Mu narrowed her eyes at the disciples in long robes. She had heard of the Blue Wind Mountain Sect’s reputation. “Everyone says the Blue Wind Mountain Sect acts openly and righteously. Why did you injure people from my Xue Star Tower indiscriminately?”

Yu Qingdong stepped forward to introduce himself and pulled the other seven junior brothers to apologize. Xue Duanhun explained the whole story in detail. Xue Mu was quite interested in the man who had fled, so she said, “So that’s what happened. But sir’s attack was a bit too ruthless. This claw technique is…”

“It is a claw technique created by my master. In a moment of urgency, I used this move and injured the Guardian Star maiden. I truly blame myself endlessly,” Yu Qingdong said with an apologetic look.

Xue Duanhun said, “Young Mistress Xue does not blame you. However, you must give an explanation for injuring the Guardian Star maiden.”

Yu Qingdong hurriedly said, “Yes, yes!”

Xue Mu glanced at Xue Duanhun and suddenly realized who the “Senior Martial Aunt Xue” Yu Qingdong mentioned was. She was secretly surprised: So Master was once a disciple of the Blue Wind Mountain Sect. No wonder the claw marks Yu Qingdong left on Xue Wuluo’s right shoulder looked familiar. Thinking about it now, aren’t these the three pit holes Master left on the wood with that claw technique!

Xue Duanhun pondered and said, “Do you still have the Snow Wind Blue Flower Pill on you?”

Yu Qingdong nodded repeatedly. “Yes, yes!”

“Snow Wind Blue Flower Pill?” Xue Mu asked. “What is that?”

“Young Mistress may not know, but taking this Snow Wind Blue Flower Pill can make one’s mind clear and heart pure as if washed. If the opportunity arrives, it makes it easier to comprehend the true meaning of martial arts and fully reveal one’s potential,” Xue Duanhun said.

“What Senior Martial Aunt said is absolutely correct. The production of the Snow Wind Blue Flower Pill is extremely exquisite. It requires collecting blue flower petals growing on Blue Wind Mountain in the cold winter, mixing them with snow water melted at noon, adding three superior medicinal ingredients—Morning Dew Grass, Spiritual Heart Vine, and Ice Spirit Fruit—and going through twenty-eight refining processes to form a pill,” Yu Qingdong said respectfully. “Only thirty to forty bottles can be refined at most each year. If the climate is bad, there will only be a dozen bottles.”

Xue Mu’s eyes flashed, and an idea suddenly arose in her heart. She pretended to be cold and said, “Does the Blue Wind Mountain Sect want to dismiss the Xue Star Tower with just one bottle of pills?”

Yu Qingdong stammered, “That… that…”

Xue Mu shouted, “What this and that! Just say it, you injured someone from my Xue Star Tower, do you want to settle this matter with just one bottle of pills?”

Yu Qingdong looked at Xue Duanhun. Xue Duanhun just stared at him with a smile without speaking, seemingly not prepared to help him make up for it.

After Xue Wuluo was injured by the claw technique, Xue Duanhun had already sealed the acupoints on her right shoulder. It was now numb, and she couldn’t feel pain. She said in a low voice, “Young Mistress, I’ll go see Maiden Mu.”

Xue Mu didn’t want to waste time either, so she said, “Sir, make a decision quickly!”

Yu Qingdong gritted his teeth and took out two blue porcelain bottles from his bosom. The other disciples exclaimed, “Second Senior Brother!”

“This was awarded to you by the Sect Leader Master! We have never received it. You were awarded one bottle each year by the Sect Leader Master only because you performed well in the past two years—if you take out two bottles at once, how will you explain to the Sect Leader Master when you go back!”

Xue Mu also knew that these pills were precious, but her expression showed a bit of disdain. “Can injuring someone be explained properly to your respected master?”

Yu Qingdong naturally felt extremely pained, but with Senior Martial Aunt Xue, whom he hadn’t seen for years, watching here, how could he show such a spineless expression? So he offered them with both hands: “Young Mistress Xue, for injuring the Guardian Star maiden of the Xue Star Tower today, Yu Qingdong offers two bottles of Snow Wind Blue Flower Pills as an apology. I ask Young Mistress Xue and the Guardian Star maiden to forgive this matter!”

Xue Mu nodded coldly, signaling Xue Wuluo to accept them. Then she clasped her fists towards the disciples. “Xue Mu is not a person who haggles over every little thing. It’s just that something happened in my Xue Star Tower, and others might misunderstand if they hear about it. If you gentlemen don’t hold a grudge, then relax and eat and drink in my Xue Star Tower!”

Xue Duanhun nodded and smiled. Encouraged, Yu Qingdong said, “Okay!”

After this disturbance, the shop girls served wine and dishes again. Xue Mu signaled Xue Wuluo to go upstairs. Yu Qingdong wanted to talk to Xue Duanhun, but she had already returned behind the counter to calculate accounts. The opera continued on the high stage. Seeing that the matter was settled, the guests talked and laughed, drank wine and ate food, and continued to listen to the opera.

Xue Mu simply sat at the square table and talked with the disciples of the Blue Wind Mountain Sect. With a few words, she dissolved the resentment of those disciples over giving away the precious pills, and they drank happily.

Xue Mu wanted to know what important matters the disciples of the Blue Wind Mountain Sect had for coming down the mountain this time. Yu Qingdong didn’t hide it, thinking that this news would spread soon anyway, so he said, “Young Mistress Xue may not know, but we came down the mountain this time to represent the Blue Wind Mountain Sect on a trip to Huangding Mountain!”

“Huangding Mountain? You are going to Jiangnan?” Xue Mu was puzzled. “Huangding Mountain is steep and dangerous, covered in clouds and mist all year round. What are you going there for?”

“The new location for the Discourse on the Dao Conference is at Huangding Mountain. At that time, whether it’s disciples of major sects or heroes of the Jianghu, everyone can go there to participate in the discourse,” Yu Qingdong said. “The last Discourse on the Dao Conference was fifteen years ago.”

The last Discourse on the Dao Conference…

Yu Qingdong sighed and whispered, “I have had no parents since I was young. It was Senior Martial Aunt Xue who picked me up and brought me back to Blue Wind Mountain. But she was already leaving at that time and entrusted me to the Sect Leader Master, who hadn’t become the Sect Leader yet.”

Xue Mu looked at Xue Duanhun, who had an indifferent expression by the counter, and wanted to know more. “Mas… Why did Head Manager Xue leave the Blue Wind Mountain Sect?”

“The Sect Leader Master never mentioned this matter, and few people in the Blue Wind Mountain Sect know of Senior Martial Aunt Xue’s existence nowadays,” Yu Qingdong lowered his voice. “I only know that when I mentioned Senior Martial Aunt Xue to the Sect Leader Master when I was young, I had to practice kung fu all day that day, without rest, not allowed to sleep, eat, or drink.”

Xue Mu wanted to laugh a little but held it back. “Oh… it seems there is a rift between Sect Leader Qi Qing and Head Manager Xue.”

“Perhaps, but the Sect Leader Master truly cares for me.” As Yu Qingdong spoke, his hand holding the wine cup trembled due to excessive emotion. “I never thought that Senior Martial Aunt Xue, who left the Blue Wind Mountain Sect seventeen years ago… I would actually see her again!”

Xue Mu thought to herself: If I tell you I have already taken your Senior Martial Aunt Xue as my master, I’m afraid you would call me Junior Sister.

“Big Brother Yu, I want to ask, is there poison in your claw technique?” she said.

Yu Qingdong hurriedly said, “Naturally not! I… I haven’t mastered my kung fu yet, so I only left wounds. If I had comprehended the essentials of the ‘Life Lost in the Yellow Springs Claw’ technique, this move would have crippled the Guardian Star maiden’s… meridians.”

So this claw technique is called “Life Lost in the Yellow Springs Claw.” What a cold-blooded name!

Xue Mu was startled. Master doesn’t teach me this claw technique; could it be she is afraid I will hurt others after learning it?