The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#652 - Caramel aroma

After leaving Qiu Moli's residence, Lu Jing felt a sense of emptiness in his heart. The joy of receiving guidance from a master earlier had also been diminished quite a bit.

He walked with his head down after leaving, so much so that he didn't even hear the bearded man calling his name not far away.

It wasn't until he arrived at the gate of the Sitianjian again that the minor official, supporting his chin, said, "Tsk tsk, did Qiu Moli dislike you and beat you up?"

"Don't talk nonsense."

"Then it's that you disliked Qiu Moli and wanted to beat her up, but ended up getting beaten by her instead."

"Is there any difference?"

"The main thing is that looking at your dispirited appearance, it's hard to believe that you weren't the one who got beaten."

"I still prefer you the way you were when I first met you, too lazy to say a few extra words."

Lu Jing called back Amu and the black cat, intending to leave.

But then he noticed the bearded man leading a large group of people towards him. The way those people looked at him was like a group of single men in their forties and fifties looking at a virgin.

Lu Jing felt a little creeped out by their gazes. At this moment, the minor official of the Sitianjian spoke again, leisurely saying, "Tell me what happened inside, and I'll let you leave through the back door of the office."

"No need for so much trouble."

After Lu Jing finished speaking, he led Amu and the black cat directly back into the Sitianjian.

The minor official also wanted to chase in when he saw this, but he didn't forget his duty after all, and shouted the jingle that he always had on his lips to the surrounding martial arts heroes.

"To file a complaint or grievance, go to the Dali Temple or the Censorate. To study and become a disciple, go to the Imperial College. Foreign envoys entering the capital to pay tribute, look for the Honglu Temple. To observe fate and fortune, turn left outside and go to the Qixia Temple. This is the Sitianjian, just a place to look at the stars. We don't entertain anyone, thank you."

Although those martial arts people all wanted to get to know Lu Jing, the most popular top expert in the martial arts world recently, they were all respectable people with status, and they couldn't do anything like forcibly breaking into a government office.

So upon hearing this, they looked at each other and could only stand outside the door, waiting for Lu Jing to come out again.

And seeing that he had stabilized the situation, the minor official also quickly put away his small stool and ran towards the office.

But Lu Jing's shadow was already gone. He turned around the Sitianjian several times before seeing a footprint on a courtyard wall.

… … … …

Lu Jing jumped over the wall and got rid of the enthusiastic little tails behind him, finally able to get down to business.

Then he found another sugar figurine shop. This time, Lu Jing learned from his previous experience and first bought twelve sugar figurines, making up the twelve zodiac signs.

Then he inquired about the sugar figurine that wouldn't melt. The result wasn't much different from before. Afterwards, Lu Jing even mentioned the name of Grandma Sugar Figurine, but everyone in the sugar figurine shop, from the shopkeeper to the shop assistant, looked blank, and it didn't seem fake.

This made Lu Jing start to suspect that Fire Element Sun was lying to him.

It wasn't until the shop assistant remembered something that he said again, "You said a sugar figurine that wouldn't melt. I remember someone else asked about it a month ago. Earlier than that, it seems like other people have asked too. I thought someone was deliberately teasing us at the time. Are you really all looking for a sugar figurine that won't melt?"

"Who knows," Lu Jing said vaguely.

After speaking, he turned around and left again with Amu.

The shop assistant shouted from behind, "Hey… Customer, you haven't taken your sugar figurines."

"Leave them for you," Lu Jing waved his hand.

After leaving the door of Sugar Figurine Li's, Lu Jing didn't go to find the next one, but instead took Amu to a teahouse not far away to drink tea.

And the black cat took advantage of this gap to run somewhere to hunt for luck again.

Speaking of which, after Lu Jing changed his luck last time, there hasn't been any reaction until now, which made him wonder if he should change another one.

It's just that after starting the great ginseng planting business, Lu Jing had a stable source of income, and he wasn't so eager for luck or anything.

However, he was now regretting changing that peach blossom luck before, otherwise maybe there would still be a turning point in his relationship with Yan Jun.

Just as Lu Jing was drinking tea and wondering whether to get some luck of reconciliation or rekindling old feelings to change, he heard a somewhat immature voice ringing downstairs.

"Sugar figurines, selling sugar figurines, sugar figurines that won't melt."

Lu Jing leaned out and saw a little girl about twelve or thirteen years old selling sugar figurines downstairs.

Several idlers heard her hawking and swayed over, smiling and saying, "Where is the sugar figurine that won't melt? Give me one. If I let it melt, how are you going to compensate me?"

The little girl lowered her head and didn't speak, looking very scared.

The man was about to say more, but suddenly a hand was already on his shoulder, "Friend, this sugar figurine is not for sale to you."

"Then who is it for, you?"

As the man spoke, he reached out to slap Lu Jing's palm away, but in the next moment, he only felt a heat current rushing into his body from his shoulder, and his body immediately softened, almost collapsing to the ground.

So the man knew that he had encountered a martial arts expert, immediately put away his previous cheeky smile, and quickly walked away without saying a word, fleeing as if flying away.

The other people were also hooligans who frequented the market, and they knew how to size up the situation best. Seeing one person running so decisively, they looked at Lu Jing a few times and then retreated.

And the little girl raised her head again, "Big brother, do you want to buy a sugar figurine that won't melt?"

"That's right, it's me."

"Then follow the fragrance of maltose."

Lu Jing knew that the so-called maltose was malt sugar, one of the earliest types of sugar to be produced, and also an important raw material for making sugar figurines.

Lu Jing still wanted to ask a few more questions, but then he saw the girl suddenly run away.

Chasing Lu Jing could catch up, but since the other party had exposed herself in the open, it meant that starting from her, it would be difficult to dig out more things.

And it just so happened that Lu Jing smelled a faint fragrance of maltose at this time, so he took Amu and followed the fragrance.