Chapter 681: Tagging Along Like Dogskin Plaster
Tang Xiu frowned. After more than ten seconds in silence, only then did he slowly ask, "Who exactly is your Ancestress?"
Xue Yu gently raised her hand to uncover her veil. As the face of a woman that could topple a kingdom appeared in front of Tang Xiu, she then said with a slight smile, "That Old Ancestress of mine is someone blind who also comes from Miao Region like me. She knows the matter of the ancient as well as the present and walks on the path of life divination."
Startled, Tang Xiu asked with an astounded expression, "Old Blind has neither sons nor daughters, I believe. There's no way she has any family member whatsoever, no?"
"There are reasons why we address her as our Ancestress. It's not because we are related by blood." Xue Yu shook her head and said with a smile. "The Ancestress was fated to have fate claim her husband and halt her marriage, thus she naturally has no sons or daughters. However, she is actually the patron saint as well as the oldest elder for us, the Miao people. So, all the clans and tribes of the Miao People address her as Ancestress."
Tang Xiu understood in a flash. He then touched his nose and helplessly said, "You Ancestress is kind of listening to my commands, so shouldn't you listen to my command as well?"
A cunning light flashed in Xue Yu's eyes as she smilingly replied, "I can obey everything you order me to do other than the ancestor's custom that must not be changed. We, the Miao, have an ancient saying that our woman must stay faithful and content with the man she has married with. You are my future husband, thus I'll do whatever you ask me."
"Knock it off!"
Tang Xiu felt like he was stuck with the gum he chewed, and quickly said, "Rules are dead, but people are living! That custom passed down by your Ancestress need to be broken by the later generations. Miss Xue, I already have a girlfriend and we also have an excellent relationship, and with me taking you up as per your condition, do you really want to be a third person between us? Besides, I do think that Chu Yuan is the most suitable candidate for you."
"No, I don't think he is." Xue Yu shook her head.
With that said, she slowly took out a small porcelain bottle and poured out a black pill from it, saying, "I only have two choices if you don't want to accept me as per the custom of my clan. First is to kill you, and second is to commit suicide. I know your identity, thus I don't think I can kill you. So the only choice I have is the last one: commit suicide."
"If you wanna die, then do it yourself," said Tang Xiu with a frown.
Xue Yu's eyes turned dark and her jade-like hand straightly threw the pill into her mouth, and then slowly closed her eyes at this moment.
Tang Xiu was dumbfounded. He had already identified the efficacy of the black pill through its smell; it was definitely a highly poisonous pill. Let alone an ordinary person, even a cultivator with a low-level cultivation would die if he took it.
Bam…
His palm patted Xue Yu's chest. Though he could feel the plump and supple sensation from it, there was no evil in his mind. As his Primal Chaos Force entered Xue Yu's body, it wrapped and controlled the black pill that was about to melt in just half a second. Meanwhile, his hand pressed Xue Yu's cheek and forced the black pill out of her mouth.
"Stupid!" Scolded Tang Xiu coldly.
Xue Yu opened her eyes, but her eyes were still dead. She shook her head and said, "You can save me once, but you can't save me every time. I will die unless you promise to marry me."
Tang Xiu fell silent. After releasing Xue Yu's cheek, he thought for a few minutes before he slowly said, "I don't have a way to make change the custom of your clan, but that Old Blind should be able to, shouldn't she? You address her as Ancestress, so you should listen to her words."
"Ancestress told me personally before I came here that I would only be able to live normally if a certain honorable man were to help me. And she said that man is you. Also, she wanted me to convey a message to you. She said that she wouldn't appear before you again even if you are to burn three incenses, and she will meet you again later only on June this year in Shanghai's Everlasting Feast Hall."
"This Old Blind!"
Tang Xiu was flustered and exasperated, for he did not expect that Old Blind had already predicted that he would look for her and had unexpectedly prevented him to do so ahead of time. Suddenly, his expression slightly moved and faintly said, "I already have a girlfriend, thus it's utterly impossible to dump her just to marry you. Since you are the one who is weeping and wanting me to marry you, then you'll only be my lover! Or a mistress."
Xue Yu stared blankly, then a look of shame and anger flashed in her eyes for a moment, and yet, she kept silent for a long while before she nodded with an unsightly expression and said, "I will become your lover without legal certificate and recognition, but you have to go with me to the Miao region and hold a matrimony ceremony to marry me."
"You agreed with you becoming a lover and even a mistress?" Asked Tang Xiu in anger. "Did your brain get fried or something?"
"To live is better than to die," said Xue Yu honestly. "I'm still young, I don't want to die yet. Besides, it's not like the polyandry and polygamy practices do not exist among the clans and tribes in the Miao Region, to begin with. There was also a custom in ancient times that a man can have three wives and four concubines, so I can accept this."
"Holy shit!" Tang Xiu was truly rendered speechless and was utterly defeated by Xue Yu without any argument to refute her.
He had seen this practice of having three wives and four concubines way too much in the Immortal World, since numerous Immortal hegemons there had numerous Immortal partners and mistresses. Even among the ordinary people, particularly those empire royalties, the Emperor also had seven palaces and six manors to house seventy-two concubines, while the number of princes and nobilities who had more wives and concubines was also too many to count. It was to the extent that a man having a lot of women was considered as proof of his ability in some countries.
However, this place is the Earth, for God's sake!
More so that this is the 21st century. Such an anamnesis of feudalism is terribly appalling, that even a woman such as Xue Yu is not exempted from such custom!
Only when the plane took off did Tang Xiu turn his head to Xue Yu and said, "I don't care whatever you're thinking. Since you want to be my lover, then don't affect my normal life, and there is no way the others can find out about our relationship either. I'll give you a house to live after we arrive in Shanghai, and unless I take the initiative to contact you, then you are not allowed to do so. Of course, if you want to leave me after you've thought it through, you can just leave straightly without calling me."
"No problem." Xue Yu nodded.
Tang Xiu still wanted to admonish her, but immediately lost the intention to do so upon seeing her cold expression. He did not want to pay attention to her again, so he closed his eyes and slept.
Shanghai Airport.
Right as Tang Xiu led Mo Awu and Xue Yu out of the airport exit, Chi Nan, who had received a call from Mo Awu earlier, was waiting for them outside.
"It's been laborious on you, Boss."
Chi Nan looked energetic, and she looked several years younger than the first time Tang Xiu met her. Her appearance looked like she was twenty-seven-plus years old, and even her looks and figure looked more alluring and attractive than before,
"Not bad. You seem to have gotten a lot of cultivation resources." Tang Xiu nodded. "However, do not take too many medicinal pills or elixirs, and it's best for you to cultivate diligently to lay a solid foundation. Else, you'll get obsessed and deviate if your cultivation rapidly enhances."
With a change in expression, Chi Nan immediately replied seriously, "Understood, this subordinate will remember it."
Tang Xiu did not speak anymore and followed her to the parking lot outside, boarded the car, and then directly headed to Bluestar Villa Complex. After Chi Nan left, he then looked at Xue Yu and faintly said, "The first floor has a lot of rooms, pick one of them. I'll take you to your new residence tomorrow."
"But I want to stay together with you," asked Xue Yu.
"The number of times we met is less than the fingers on my hand, you know!" Said Tang Xiu with an annoyed expression. "Do you think living together with me now is the appropriate thing to do? Even if we do become lovers, everything must move forward gradually and normally to cultivate the affection between each other, no?"
"It's exactly because we are lovers that desire should be more important than feelings." Xue Yu shook her head. "Also, I don't feel secure at all if you don't want my body."
"What absurdity!"
Tang Xiu had not the slightest desire toward Xue Yu's body now. He just slated her in a low voice and then turned around to head to the second floor. As for Mo Awu, though it was his first time visiting the place, he seemed to be quite familiar with the house and soon picked a room.
On the second floor.
Just as Tang Xiu entered his bedroom and shot a look at Xue Yu who followed him behind, he was immediately at a loss whether he had to cry or laugh and said, "Tell me something, Jade Beauty, is there a need to be so adamant in clinging to me? Just let me relax for a while after the long travel, will you? Just a few days. Yeah, it's been a few days. You, a woman, also have several uncomfortable days every month, whereas I, as a man, also need to take a breather! You should have heard from your Ancestress that the trip to Kanas this time was like a hairbreadth escape, and it's been with great difficulty that I could come back to recuperate from my injuries. Can you just let me have a good rest?"
"This… alright!"
Xue Yu scrunched up for a moment and then turned around, directly opened the door of the opposite room and went in.
Bam…
After the door was closed, Tang Xiu walked to the bed with a helpless expression and straightly laid himself down while cursing inside, What a dogskin plaster living ancestor!
"Now that I think about it, the Heavenly Law of this place is kind of affecting me. Is it because I was hurt by love when I was in the Immortal World and now I'm getting compensated after returning to Earth? Else this kind of peach blossoms tribulation is not supposed to be like this!"
Tang Xiu revived the scenes when he was in the Immortal World. He never found any other woman who liked him in the ten thousand years there other than Xue Qingcheng. Logically speaking, he was a prominent hegemon with a terrifying cultivation. Wasn't it said that beauties loved heroic men? But why he did not have them at that time?
He was not sure as he had never thought of this aspect when he was in the Immortal World, especially after he had Xue Qingcheng, as he fully devoted his heart to her and no other women could enter his eyes. How would he know how many billion women admired him when he was there?
But after returning to Earth, he had to consider about romance solely due to his Mother and also had to find himself a wife to bear his children. Else he was afraid that his mother would get angry and also feared that his refusal would make her distressed.
Tang Xiu exempted himself from cultivating that night. Although he had fully healed from his injuries, tossing around for nights and days still made him weary and struck with fatigue. He then took a shower and changed his clothes. Just as he was about to go to bed, a knocking sound was heard from his door, as Xue Yu's pleasant voice was transmitted from the outside.
"Tang Xiu, I need to wash and change clothes."
Chapter 682: Mistress Relationship
Tang Xiu, who was lying in bed, did not want to move. What he wanted the most now was straightly head to dreamland and have a date with Duke Zhou's daughter. And yet, that brazen faced Xue Yu who kept close to him made him weary and tired.
However, he knew that Xue Yu would definitely open the door and enter his room if he did not give her spare clothes given her disposition. It was highly likely that she would go above board and want more. After struggling hard to stay awake, Tang Xiu sluggishly walked to the cloakroom and found several sets of new clothes Kang Xia bought for herself when she came over. Then, he took one set and also took a piece of underwear, albeit hesitating at first. After he walked outside, he then said, "Whether these suit you or not, just use them for tonight. We'll go out and buy some for you tomorrow."
Xue Yu took them without speaking. These clothes made her sure that Tang Xiu did not lie as he definitely had a woman already. Furthermore, she could tell that this woman should be quite busty judging from the model of the bra. She did not like her own conjecture at all, but she had no other choice. Upon seeing that Tang Xiu looked tired, her expression suddenly moved and said, "I'll take a shower first, and then I'll massage you afterward."
With that said, she did not give Tang Xiu a chance to refuse and quickly turned back to the opposite room and slammed the door.
A massage?
Tang Xiu rolled his eyes at the shut door. After returning to his bedroom, he went straight to bed and tried to sleep, saving himself from having Xue Yu disturb him again. However, the more he wanted to sleep, the more he couldn't. He only felt he was mentally tired and evidently had symptoms of insomnia.
He did not force himself as he felt that he really could not fall asleep at all, and quietly thought about what he would do next. Shanghai University had already started classes after the winter vacation. On one hand he had to go back to school to attend classes and on the other hand, he also had to start the construction project in Shanghai as well.
For that plot of land, Kang Xia had led several senior executives of the Magnificent Tang Corporation previously, and also contacted some government officials of Shanghai and spent quite a sum of money to buy it. Its location was rather remote, almost near the boundary with Su City, and yet was very expensive, while property rights were due for 50 years.
The construction must start after the New Year. It was a unanimous decision he and Kang Xia made, and both of them were rather confused since all the construction companies they were familiar with had their hands already full with projects. More so that the scale of their projects was very large, making them unable to invest more in a short term. They did consider cooperating with other large domestic construction companies, yet it needed to be analyzed first.
Eventually, they decided to conduct a tender in Shanghai, and those who had qualifications to bid in the tender were at least the top 20 major construction companies in China.
Tang Xiu was thinking about this matter and decided to set a bidding date half a month later. He also needed to consider other affairs in this span of time. For instance, tempering his body with a power generator. If it did work well and had the expected effects, he would carry on the plan on a large scale and would apply it for all the cultivators he groomed.
"A pity that the gravitational force of all the regions on Earth is almost the same. In contrast, there are some special star fields in the Immortal World with a particular gravitational force that would be great in tempering my men," sighed Tang Xiu inwardly.
Umm?
Suddenly, his expression slightly moved as he suddenly remembered some high-tech means. If he were to employ some hi-tech means to create an area with increased gravitational force or some gravity chambers, it would not become an issue, would it?
As Tang Xiu thought up to there, he was a bit excited. If he could employ those hi-tech methods to create a gravity chamber that was several times higher than Earth's gravitational force to temper a cultivator's body, that would bring about an excellent effect.
No rush. When the research team has been transferred to Shanghai, it won't be an issue to conduct the research in this area, though I still have to discuss it with Mo Yi in advance and try to recruit a lot of scientists and researchers in this field in a short time.
Time passed, and the more Tang Xiu thought, the more he felt fatigue, but various inspirations constantly emerged inside his mind. Only after the door was knocked and a beautiful figure entered his room did the various thoughts in his mind gradually returned to normal.
"You…"
Tang Xiu looked at the figure dressed in Kang Xia's clothes. It was alluringly beautiful. The dazzling beauty, Xue Yu. Despite being used to see outstanding beauties, he could still feel his heartbeat increase and the increased secretion of his hormones. Her white skin was like a Mutton Fat Jade, smooth and bright, coupled with slim and tall flawless body with an untied opening of her outer upper clothes that revealed two satellites and its visible white ravine in between.
"I once learned a Miao massage from some elders in the clan. It has a soothing and treatment-like effect." Xue Yu came to the bedside and stepped on the bed with bare feet.
Tang Xiu sobered up from his stunned state. He could feel the changes of his own little brother as he waved his hand and hastily said, "No no no. I'm afraid you can't practice your massage on me. I'm dead tired after working hard for a long time. Just go to rest! I was actually nearly asleep when you entered."
Xue Yu let out a faint smile and simply ignored Tang Xiu's words. She straightly squatted down and pulled him from the bed. With the bedding pushed aside, she forcefully made Tang Xiu fall down.
"Ugh, just forget it. I'm an adult gentleman. If I don't eat a beauty who is offering herself to me, then I shall offer my ancestor veneration towards Liu Xiahui." Tang Xiu steeled himself and straightly turned over. He could feel Xue Yu sitting on his bottom, and despite being separated by their clothes, he could still feel the warmth transmitted from her body.
"Relax your body and ease your spirit."
With hands gently leaning down, Xue Yu's slender, jade-like fingers pressed Tang Xiu's shoulders. As his body relaxed, her fingers gently massaged him.
It was comfortable. Tang Xiu found that Xue Yu's massage technique was rather interesting as it could clearly press the route of acupoints, either pinching, rubbing, and kneading. She fully understood and thoroughly mastered the distribution of muscle strength of her body, while lightly rubbing the small crevices of the backbone, lightly pinching and pressing the muscles that could ease them, giving off a relaxed sensation and comfort from the inside out.
Gradually, Tang Xiu's eyelids turned heavy, and the desire that was ignited a while ago subsided in the comfort. Drowning in drowsiness, he fell asleep under Xue Yu's massage.
A smile outlined on the corner of Xue Yu's mouth and climbed up her face. She only massaged Tang Xiu for a few minutes and he already fell asleep.... It gave her a sense of accomplishment. However, she felt both annoyed and helpless upon recalling as how resistant Tang Xiu was towards her.
After a long while, only then did Xue Yu stop massaging him. She gently got out of bed and pulled the quilt over Tang Xiu's body. After all, she was still a woman who had never had sex with anyone before. Though she did show gestures of giving herself to him, yet a woman's constraint nature and timidity inside her were actually there.
She might not resist if Tang Xiu really wanted her tonight. But it would genuinely create a feeling of rejection inside her. Fortunately, what happened tonight made her realize that this man was a good man and not a pervert who could not see a beauty.
The next day.
It was already eight in the morning when Tang Xiu woke up from his sleep. When he came downstairs, he saw Xue Yu donning an apron and sitting in the living room while quietly reading a magazine, whereas the housekeeper, Auntie Zhang, was wiping home appliances with a rag while stealing glances at her from time to time.
"Mr. Tang."
Upon finding that Tang Xiu had come down, Zhang Xinlan hurriedly straightened up her body and called out.
Tang Xiu nodded to her in response and said with a smile, "Did you have a great New Year, Zhang Xinlan?"
With a happy expression, Zhang Xinlan nodded and answered, "Your treatment toward us has been great, Mr. Tang, so my family passed a bountiful year."
Tang Xiu nodded with a smile. Suddenly, he recalled something and put his hand into his clothes' pocket and quietly took out two stacks of 100 yuan bills from his interspatial ring. After which, he said with a smile, "Aunt Zhang, I left Shanghai in a rush before the New Year, thus I forgot to send you a red envelope. Anyways, this is 20,000 yuan for both you and Aunt Liu; 10,000 yuan for each. It's a red envelope for the two of you from me!"
"No need to do that, Mr. Tang." Zhang Xinlan quickly waved. "The salary and benefits you give us are already very high, how can we…"
Tang Xiu walked towards her with a smile and then stuffed the money into her hands, saying, "Just take it, Aunt Zhang! It's been quite laborious on you, so please don't regard me as a stranger later."
"This… thank you, Mr. Tang," said Zhang Xinlan gratefully.
Tang nodded at her with a smile. Then, he looked at Xue Yu, who stood up and came to him stretching out her hand. That made him immediately baffled as he asked, "What are you doing?"
"I've given all the money I have to the elders of the clan when I left the Miao Region," said Xue Yu. "I will no longer manage the family business in the future, and thus cannot receive money from the family for my spending. Besides, I'm your lover now, so you gotta spend money to support me."
"I…"
Upon seeing a matter-of-factly expression on her face, Tang Xiu immediately forced out a bitter smile. He stuffed his hand into the pocket again to take out a bank card from his interspatial ring, then handed it over to her and said, "There should be some money in this card if I remember correctly. The PIN is written on the back."
A content and satisfied smile appeared on Xue Yu's face. After receiving the bankcard, she said, "I'll look for a job in Shanghai after settling down. Alright, the breakfast is still in the kitchen, I'll reheat it."
At the side, Zhang Xinlan watched Tang Xiu and Xue Yu with a strange expression. Never did she dream that such an exquisite beauty who was much more beautiful than celebrities would actually be Tang Xiu's lover. She had seen many of Tang Xiu's female friends, such as Kang Xia, who had sex with him, Ouyang Lulu, who often came over, as well as Mu Wanying, his fellow student in the campus… Yet, it was her first time seeing this… lover. She secretly sighed inwardly and felt fortunate that Tang Xiu had not yet married, or else this lover would really have to sit tight in between.
"Miss Xue, let me do the reheating!" Yet, Zhang Xinlan did not look down on Xue Yu and hurriedly interjected.
"I'll do that myself, Aunt Zhang." Xue Yu shook her head. "I'm his woman, so I must take care of his daily life. Also, this medicated diet is very special, there are still many things in it that need attention despite only reheating it."
Wearing an apron, it really made her look like a housewife.
Upon seeing that Zhang Xinlan would speak again, Tang Xiu immediately shook his head at her. Since Xue Yu was willingly serving him, he naturally had to take it for granted.
As it should be! Like a mistress who took her man's money, they sometimes still need to do things to please her man as well.