Young Master, Don't Show Off - Chapter 220

[Chapter 220 Sympathy]

In the room, Lin Xiu leaned against the head of the bed, covered with two layers of quilts.

In fact, he was not cold, and even if he was cold, he could generate heat to keep warm. However, the opportunity to lie comfortably on the bed with Qin Wan sitting beside the bed and feeding him ginger soup spoon by spoon was not always available.

Even though the two kissed and hugged each other, and Lin Xiu tried her craft twice, nothing else happened between them.

Whether it was when they were kissing passionately or hugging each other, Qin Wan would not even allow his hands to move.

He knew that this was her routine, but he could not force it.

Lin Xiu had a vague premonition that if she continued like this, he might really lose.

She was a goblin.

Qin Wan fed Lin Xiu spoonful by spoonful. Zhao Lingyin stood at the door and watched for a while. Finally, she couldn’t help but walked in and said, “Let me feed him. I made him like this.”

Qin Wan said, “No, I still owe him a lot of silver. Feeding him once can save ten coins.”

Zhao Lingyin looked at Qin Wan. She knew what this woman was thinking.

Qin Wan owed Lin Xiu 10,000 taels of silver. If she continued to pay it back, she would have to pay it back for several lifetimes.

She just relied on him.

But what can she do?

Her sister didn’t have the right to control her, let alone her.

She just regretted it now. Why did she show off just now? If she didn’t show off and had to prove that she was better than him, Qin Wan would have no chance to take advantage of it.

But she did hope that she was better than Lin Xiu, perhaps because the people who needed her protection in the past had slowly surpassed her, which made her feel disappointed, or perhaps, she wanted to protect him as before…

After drinking the ginger soup, Lin Xiu wrapped herself in the quilt and thought about something.

He didn’t know the detailed rules of the small competition before, but he just felt that with his strength, it would be easy to get a place in the big competition.

After the small competition, there is still half a year before the big competition. In this half year, he can slowly improve his cultivation to the earth level, which is completely in time.

But now there is a problem.

During the small competition, the earth level has a protection mechanism that will not let them be eliminated in the first two rounds, but the Xuan level does not have it. The minimum requirement to participate in the competition is the Xuan level.

If he meets Zhao Lingjun in the first or second round, or a seeded player who has been promoted to the earth level for several years, he may be overturned.

No wonder Princess Minghe has been depressed these days. She has not made a breakthrough yet. Like Lin Xiu, if she encounters Zhao Lingjun or other earth-level strongmen in the draw, she will be eliminated in the first round and will not even be qualified to participate in the big competition.

On the stage, everyone is treated equally. Under the watchful eyes of the public, even Emperor Xia cannot openly make special arrangements.

She can’t, let alone Lin Xiu.

To be honest, this rule is very cruel, especially for those who are at the peak of the Xuan-level upper realm. If they are unlucky, they will lose the opportunity to participate in the big competition in the first round. Some weaker than them can easily advance if they draw weak opponents.

But for the court, those young earth-level geniuses are the hope of the big competition. Those below the earth-level are their stepping stones. There is no difference between being eliminated in the small competition and being eliminated in the big competition.

Lin Xiu rarely does things that he is not sure of. Even if the risk is small, it always exists. At this time, there is still a month before the small competition. If he can sneak into the Leidu Java Kingdom where Li Baizhang practices, he may not be able to break through before the small competition.

After making a decision in his heart, Lin Xiu came to the Xue family.

Old Duke Xue did not allow him to have too close contact with Ning’er, but he could not control the two of them practicing together. He and Ning’er fed each other moves in the yard, but the moves were soft and powerless. It didn’t look like they were practicing, but it seemed like they were flirting.

Old Duke Xue sat at the stone table. Although the expression on his face was not very good, he didn’t say anything.

Lin Xiu asked, “Ning’er, have you registered at the Department of Extraordinary Arts?”

Xue Ning’er said, “I went there this morning.”

She lightly slapped Lin Xiu on the chest and took the opportunity to secretly touch his pectoral muscles. She suddenly asked, “Do you think we will meet during the competition? What if we do?”

She just liked to daydream. Lin Xiu replied, “Although the possibility is not high, it cannot be completely ruled out.”

Xue Ning’er said with a smile, “If I meet you, I will admit defeat.”

It doesn’t matter whether she wins or not, but Lin Xiu must not lose. She is still waiting for him to win the competition and marry her.

Old Duke Xue coughed heavily and said, “If you dare to admit defeat, I will take back my previous promise. If he wants to marry you, he should show some real ability and marry you uprightly. Don’t let me look down on him!”

Lin Xiu squeezed Xue Ning’er’s hand and said, “Don’t worry. There are 800 people participating in the competition. It’s not a coincidence that we just met.”

Lin Xiu and Ning’er chatted while feeding their moves and learned that the Xue family also had several of her brothers participating in the competition this time.

However, none of them reached the Earth Rank.

Compared with other families, the Xue family did have some successors, no wonder Old Duke Xue placed all his hopes on Ning’er.

Before leaving, Lin Xiu said to Ning’er, “I may not be able to come to see you this month. I plan to go out to practice and look for opportunities. Before the small competition, I will try my best to improve my cultivation to the Earth Rank. This will be more secure.” Although

Xue Ning’er was a little reluctant, she nodded and said, “You said that if the love between two people lasts for a long time, why should we be together day and night? I will wait for you to come back.”

She secretly kissed him on the face while Old Duke Xue was not looking.

When Lin Xiu was leaving Xue’s house, a voice suddenly came from behind him: “Stop.”

Lin Xiu turned around, and Old Duke Xue handed him a palm-sized jade box and said, “Take it.”

“This is…” Lin Xiu took the jade box, opened it and looked inside, and found that it was a fifth-level Yuan Crystal. He hurriedly said, “Old Xue, this is too precious…”

Old Duke Xue waved his hand and said, “Ning’er is already at the Earth level, and this thing is useless. The remaining guys in the family are also useless. It would be a waste to give it to them. You should keep it for use.”

Fifth-level alien beasts are easy to kill, but Yuan Crystals are rare. Even the royal family does not have extra ones. This gift is as light as nothing, but it is also as heavy as ten thousand pounds.

Old Duke Xue glanced at Lin Xiu and said, “This old man has only this one granddaughter, don’t let her down…”

To this day, he has completely regarded Lin Xiu as his own.

Originally, he was resistant and unacceptable to the granddaughter of a dignified Heaven-level strongman, the second-class Duke of Daxia, marrying someone else as a concubine.

Later, he thought that his legal wife was Zhao Lingjun.

If it was anyone else, he might not agree.

But if it was Zhao Lingjun, Ning’er would not be wronged.

Of course, more importantly, Lin Xiu’s performance in the past few days has been remarkable. Except for being too unfaithful, he seems to have no other shortcomings. As long as he can be good to Ning’er and Ning’er can be happy, it’s fine…

After leaving Xue Mansion, Lin Xiu came to Changchun Palace.

In the past few months, he has been away from Beijing more and more frequently. This time he may not be in the capital for another month, so he naturally cannot forget to tell the imperial concubine.

The imperial concubine is painting in the palace. She has nothing to do in Changchun Palace on weekdays. When she is bored, she will use these things to relieve her loneliness.

After listening to Lin Xiu, she said with a melancholy tone, “I have to leave again…”

Lin Xiu said, “I have prepared a gift for the queen. When I come back, it should be ready soon.”

She was a little disappointed when she heard that Lin Xiu would be gone for a month, but she was full of expectations when she heard that Lin Xiu had prepared a gift for her and it would take a whole month to prepare it. She didn’t know what the gift was, but it took so long to prepare it.

Lin Xiu didn’t say much, just said, “The queen will know when the time comes.”

He didn’t plan to tell her so early, but to give her a surprise when the time comes, but thinking that he would be away for a month, he still gave her some expectations. As long as people have expectations, they won’t feel that life is so boring.

Lin Xiu didn’t tell her, and the imperial concubine didn’t ask any more questions. She asked Linglong to take away the half-painted peony painting and said to Lin Xiu, “You sit there, I will draw a picture for you and Nannan. If she misses you during your absence, I will let her see the painting…”

Lin Xiu sat on a stone bench with a pet in his arms. The imperial concubine stood not far away, looked for a while, and then slowly put down her pen.

Lin Xiu was sitting there bored, so he chatted with the little guy “meow meow meow”.

He and the Imperial Concubine both wanted to send the little guy home, but it was too small and didn’t know where its home was.

Lin Xiu had found in a book called “Records of Strange Beasts” in the library of the Academy of Strange Arts that it was very similar to a strange beast called the Cloud Wing Tiger. This strange beast generally only lives in the territory of strange beasts and rarely appears in human countries.

On the mainland, humans occupied almost all the plains. The sea tribe generally lived deep in the sea. The poor mountains, swamps, and primitive forests were mostly the territory of strange beasts. Humans killed strange beasts to take Yuanjing, and strange beasts would also form a beast tide and attack human cities. Many cute strange beasts would become people’s spiritual pets. Once they left their habitat, it would be almost impossible to go back.

After an unknown amount of time, the Imperial Concubine put down her pen and said, “Okay.”

Lin Xiu walked over with her spiritual pet in her arms, and when she saw the Imperial Concubine’s painting, she was also startled.

The people in the picture are lifelike, and their expressions are even more vivid. He only knew that the queen was good at painting scenery, but he didn’t expect that she was better at painting people.

She took the painting into a palace, and Lin Xiu followed her in. She found that the walls of the palace were covered with paintings. There were hundreds of paintings, including scenery and people. Most of the scenery was the scenery of Jiangnan.

Among those portraits, Lin Xiu saw the Empress Dowager, Emperor Xia, Linglong and Shuangshuang, and more than a dozen of pets. These should be painted when she was bored.

Painting is to kill time, which shows how lonely she has been in this harem for more than ten years.

When leaving Changchun Palace, a figure ran out from the palace next to it. Princess Minghe said, “You are leaving again. What should I do if you leave?”

She had just climbed a tree and eavesdropped. Lin Xiu said, “You can practice with Lingyin. I will tell her before I leave. Anyway, it won’t take long every day. She will help you.”

Princess Minghe shook her head and said, “I don’t want to practice with her.”

Over the years, they have always been on par with each other. Now Zhao Lingyin has reached the Earth Level, and she is still wandering in the Mysterious Level. Seeing Zhao Lingyin makes her feel uncomfortable. Practicing with her, doesn’t it make her feel uncomfortable every day?

Lin Xiu said helplessly, “Then there is no way. I think dual cultivation seems to have no effect on breaking through the realm, so I want to try my luck outside…”

Princess Minghe also knew this. She didn’t increase her Yuanli when they practiced together these days.

She sighed softly. Zhao Lingyin, Qin Wan, Xue Ning’er, in the past few months, the people around her have broken through to the Earth Level one after another, and even the King Qin has broken through, but she is still wandering in the Mysterious Level…

Fortunately, there is Lin Xiu to accompany her, which makes her feel more comforted.

A feeling of sympathy arises spontaneously, and even he seems to be more pleasing to the eye. He even feels that he has a handsome face, and the more he looks at him, the more handsome he becomes. Why didn’t I notice this before…

(End of this chapter)