NCCnovel Chapter 141 The Reason for Heaven's Way
Chapter 141 The Reason for Heaven's Way
As the year draws to a close, all the shops on the street are closing down.
Early in the morning, a girl dressed in a scarlet dress arrived in front of Jilan Cottage, looking somewhat impatient at the tightly closed shop door.
"Are you here to see Miss Xue?" Manager Tong, who was standing at the entrance of the cloth shop, asked.
“That’s right. My young lady ordered something from this Jilan Xiaozhu. It was originally agreed that she would pick it up in half a month, but she needs it urgently right now, so she sent me to ask if it could be expedited.” The girl spoke as if she had found a savior, her eyes full of hope.
The middle-aged man pointed to the end of the long street: "The two sisters rented a house in the city a few days ago and moved out. This shop has been closed for a few days. If you really want to find them, you can go to Qianxiu Pavilion and ask."
The young woman hurriedly bowed to Manager Tong in front of her, and then headed towards Qianxiu Pavilion.
Since arriving at Yu Niang's house, Xue Tong has had nothing to do. The little girl sits to the side with a book every day, watching Xue Lan craft the golden crown that was made for the nobleman.
The blueprints for the golden crown are extremely complex, and in the very center, a beast's head needs to be made using gold wire. Xue Lan is currently preparing the gold wire.
Xue Tong pointed to the beast head on the drawing: "That's a Xie Zhi, isn't it? The epitome of loyalty and righteousness."
Xue Lan looked up in surprise and asked, "You know about this?"
Xue Tong replied somewhat disgruntledly, "I'm not stupid, I read books every day!"
The girl patted the book in her hand, but before she could speak again, the two heard a rapid knocking on the door.
"Boom boom boom!"
"Is Miss Xue home? It's me, Liu Yan!" A young girl's voice called from outside the door.
"Xiao Tong, open the door!" Xue Lan said.
Xue Tong went to open the door and saw an anxious face.
Liu Yan hurried after Xue Tong to Xue Lan's side. Before her was a large table, as wide as two door panels. A girl in a light blue dress sat at the table, carving a beast's head.
It's the one on her young lady's golden crown.
The maid breathed a sigh of relief. Who knows how panicked she was when she saw the tightly closed shop door this morning? She was really afraid that the girl was a swindler who had run away with her mistress's gold bars.
Xue Lan seemed to sense what the girl was thinking, paused in his movements, and gave a strange smile.
Liu Yan took a step forward and took out a silver ingot from her sleeve, which was about five taels: "Miss Xue, my young lady urgently needs this golden crown. I hope you can expedite the process and make the golden crown in ten days."
The girl with grayish-white eyes looked up at her and said, "Of course you can. Since Miss Liu Yan has already come all this way, why don't you come here next time you pick up your goods? I'm blind, so it's not appropriate for me to run around outside."
Liu Yan readily agreed, and her steps quickened as she left.
Xue Tong picked up the five-tael silver ingot and weighed it in her hand for a few moments: [This young lady is quite generous. She just threw out five taels of silver.]
Xue Lan continued with her work, her clear, bright voice asking, "Do you think she's a good person?"
Xue Tong was taken aback by Xue Lan's words: "What's wrong? Is she a bad person?"
Xue Lan didn't say anything more to her, gently shook her head and said no more.
The gold thread noodles in his hands were coiled into a majestic beast head. Xue Lan held the beast head up to his eyes, as if examining it closely.
Xue Tong put the book away: [What are you reading?]
Xue Lan replied to her, "Cause and effect!"
In Xue Lan's eyes, the beast head, which should have shone brightly in the sunlight, was a strange, pitch-black color, and was entangled with countless resentments and malevolent energy.
She then looked at the silver ingot in Xue Tong's hand, which was also shrouded in resentment and hostility.
Xue Lan set the xiezhi beast head aside and asked Xue Tong, "Do you remember what I said when I wanted the Golden Crow essence beneath the War Puppet Mansion back then?"
Xue Tong immediately replied: "If there's no cause and effect, then forcibly impose a connection. I remember it clearly!"
Xue Lan nodded in satisfaction: "I need a reason now to interfere in the fate of the Great Shun Dynasty. What reason do you think I need?"
With a clatter, the silver ingot in Xue Tong's hand fell to the ground, hitting the corner of the table.
The little girl's voice trembled slightly; "Xue Lan, isn't it normal for you to be so unruly in your cultivation?"
"I am essentially a demon, so I don't need to abide by this rule!" Xue Lan's voice was indifferent.
"No..." Xue Tong tried to pull Xue Lan back from the brink of disaster: "I'm telling you this with absolute certainty: cultivators! Any cultivator who interferes in the fate of a mortal dynasty never ends well. They're all villains, you understand?"
Hearing Xue Tong's angry voice, Xue Lan slowly asked, "What is a villain?"
Xue Tong spoke without thinking: "Those who oppose the protagonist will ultimately be reduced to ashes..."
The conversation abruptly ended halfway through when Xue Tong heard Xue Lan's amused voice: "Didn't what I did before make me a qualified villain?"
Xue Tong was surprised, speechless, and unable to refute.
Driven by her, there is no villain more villainous than Xue Lan in this world.
Xue Lan rested her cheek on one hand, her voice carrying a hint of eeriness.
"Your task now is to give me a legitimate reason to interfere in the fate of the Great Shun Dynasty!"
The little girl pouted, not wanting to talk to Xue Lan because of her recent setback.
[Once you've made up your mind, just do it. Even without a reason, is there anyone in this world who can stop you?]
Xue Lan clapped her hands: "Of course not! But we must have a reason."
Xue Tong rolled her eyes: [What's the point?]
"To make Heaven feel a little better!"
Xue Tong thought to herself, "You're really considerate. You've offended them so much, yet you still take care of their feelings."
Tell me your reasoning!
"Firstly," Xue Lan held up one finger, "the Great Shun Dynasty is located at the border of the Yuanming Lower Realm and the Desolate Region, and has suffered greatly from the chaos caused by the Demon Race. Mortals have already suffered enough. We cannot allow man-made disasters to occur when the Demon Race invades. If that happens, the Great Shun Dynasty will be finished!"
"Secondly, my master, Ling Yuanzi, was a member of the royal family of the Great Shun Dynasty before he began cultivating immortality. He has a destiny entangled with the people here, and as his first disciple, it is my duty to intervene!"
"That was five hundred years ago!" Xue Tong retorted.
"Those two reasons are already difficult enough for me. Just say it like this, anyway, He can't kill me all at once, can he?"
Xue Tong sighed and finally resigned himself to his fate and went to find the Heavenly Dao.
After the little girl's figure disappeared, Xue Lan picked up the beast head of the Xie Zhi again.
"A new emperor brings a new court. How much more so a female emperor."