The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#327 - Wonderful Items

Lu Jing could only guess again, "Is it a knife?"

"Well... the scope is still a bit too broad, but I'll勉强(miǎn qiǎng-barely) count you as passing," Wang Wan said. "The reason I invited Yan Yun to Wujiang City is that I wanted her to help me with something."

"What help?" Lu Jing asked, and before Wang Wan could open her mouth, he continued, "You said I was cheating, but I think your answer is even more of a cheat. You only say a little bit each time, deliberately not making it clear, tempting me to keep asking questions. But if this goes on, even if I ask ten questions, I'm afraid I won't get the answer I want."

"What you said makes sense." Wang Wan actually nodded in agreement, then pointed to the empty chair opposite her. "Why doesn't Great俠(xiá-knight errant) Lu take a seat first?"

Lu Jing didn't waste any words when he heard this and sat down opposite Wang Wan.

Wang Wan reached out with her chopsticks and picked up a duck palm, wanting to bring it to Lu Jing's face.

However, the table was for seven or eight people to eat together, and the table top was very wide, so Wang Wan couldn't reach across half the table to pick up food for Lu Jing.

Seeing this, Wang Wan planned to get up, but Lu Jing had already moved his bowl under the duck palm.

Wang Wan smiled slightly, released her chopsticks, and gently placed the duck palm into Lu Jing's bowl, while softly saying, "Try it, this recipe was bought from a boss who used to run a卤味(lǔ wèi-braised food) shop in the capital, and it cost me five hundred taels of silver.

"But after buying it, I found that there was no man worthy of me cooking this dish for him, until I met Great俠(xiá-knight errant) Lu, and this was the first time I made this dish."

"Madam Wang thinks too highly of me."

"It's strange, I had heard people talk about Great俠(xiá-knight errant) Lu before, but I didn't feel much at the time, until I saw you at first sight, just like in those operas, I only felt that my whole soul was勾(gōu-hook) away by you."

Wang Wan smiled charmingly at Lu Jing as she spoke.

"Madam Wang, please respect yourself."

Lu Jing was speechless. He now realized that his recent桃花运(táo huā yùn-luck in love) seemed a little too abnormal, but he clearly remembered that what he had exchanged from Black Cat was横财运(héng cái yùn-unexpected fortune).

"What's there to respect?" Wang Wan said quietly. "My man is already dead, and even if he wasn't dead, there wouldn't be any feelings left between us. Perhaps before I married him, I had some expectations for him, but the day after our wedding night, he went to drink花酒(huā jiǔ-wine with prostitutes) with his friends.

"But doing business, this kind of thing is inevitable, and I'm not the kind of unreasonable jealous woman, but later, in the few days before I was about to give birth, he also used the excuse of being busy with business, but hid in the brothel for half a month without returning. From that time on, I had already given up on him.

"Hehe, he doesn't even know that the two children living with him are not his at all."

Lu Jing didn't expect to hear such a狗血(gǒu xuè-melodramatic) gossip, and subconsciously asked, "Then who did you have Bao'er and Chai'er with?"

"They weren't born to me either," Wang Wan said lightly.

An ominous premonition vaguely rose in Lu Jing's heart. "What did you do to them?"

"Chai'er has already done what she needs to do, and now only Bao'er is left," Wang Wan sighed.

"What can they do at such a young age?" The ominous feeling in Lu Jing's heart grew stronger and stronger. "Madam Wang, tell me honestly, is Chai'er already dead?"

"Dead? Well... according to most people's understanding, Chai'er is indeed dead."

"You killed her?!" Lu Jing felt a little unbelievable. "Why?"

"There's no way, I need her to help me deal with Yan Yun," Wang Wan said. "And her own寿元(shòu yuán-lifespan) was only one year left. Even if I didn't do anything, she would still die after one year."

Lu Jing looked at Wang Wan's somewhat pale and morbid face under the moonlight and suspected that this woman had gone mad.

"I know what you're thinking," Wang Wan said. "You must think I'm crazy."

"Aren't you?" Lu Jing asked back.

"Interesting," Wang Wan met Lu Jing's eyes, and after a moment, she suddenly laughed again. "Book Academy disciples should have seen strange things, so there's no reason to ask this kind of question."

Lu Jing's heart stirred. "How do you know about the Book Academy? Could it be that you've been possessed by a strange thing?"

"No," Wang Wan shook her head. "You and Yan Yun are the same. It seems that you've all been taught傻(shǎ-foolish) by those 古板(gǔ bǎn-rigid) old guys at the Book Academy,沉迷(chén mí-addicted) to their set of monitoring the human world and taking in strange things, but you actually don't really use this power.

"It's not that I don't want to explain it to you. What I'm doing and planning to do, you just need to understand these things... be a little more open-minded."

"How to be open-minded?"

Wang Wan didn't answer Lu Jing immediately, but asked him a completely irrelevant question, "Your little wooden dummy, did you take it to the司天监(Sī tiān jiān-Directorate of Astronomy) to see the判官(pàn guān-judge of hell)?"

Lu Jing was silent.

Wang Wan also read the answer to this question from his reaction, and grinned, "You already knew, right? That little wooden dummy is not a strange thing, hahahaha, when I first saw that little wooden dummy, I almost thought you were one of us. I don't know how you hid it from the judge, but I don't care about that kind of thing."

"What exactly is A'mu?" Lu Jing's heart trembled, and he asked.

"It seems that you have a good relationship with that little wooden dummy, and you even gave it a name, but I advise you, it's better not to know some things," Wang Wan rarely put away the smile on her face and advised.

But Lu Jing had already guessed something, but the answer was so creepy that even his heart felt a chill.

"It's the same as Bao'er and Chai'er? You guys... are you using living people to refine strange things?!"

"The Book Academy should have taught you that strange things are naturally generated between heaven and earth and cannot be refined. Well, there's naturally nothing wrong with saying that, but... if you master the correct method, you can indeed refine things similar to strange things. We generally call them奇物(qí wù-rare item)."

Wang Wan actually admitted it very simply, "Compared to strange things,奇物(qí wù-rare item) are easier to control and have infinite uses."