Hu Mei's words scared the last bit of sleep out of me.
"What are you babbling about?"
I thought Hu Mei was joking with me, but I didn't expect her to be very serious with me.
"Anyway, sooner or later I have to find a man to marry, I think you are worth relying on, how about it, do you want to consider it, to tell you the truth, I'm still a fledgling until now, no loss to you."
I stared at Hu Mei's dark and shiny eyes and swallowed hard.
Hu Mei is the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life, she knitted her brows and smiled, can tug at my heartstrings, if I say I have no idea about her, that is my hypocrisy.
But ...
Hu Mei saw my delayed response and asked me straightforwardly.
"Am I not pretty enough?"
"No."
"Then you resent that my body has been seen by your master?"
"Neither."
She was a little angry.
"This is neither, that is neither, so why don't you?"
When she finished, she ripped open her neckline, revealing a large area of snow-white skin.
"Just promise that you can do whatever you want to me right now."
This is undoubtedly a huge temptation, my eyes simply can not move away from Hu Mei's body, at this time I have an uncontainable urge inside me, want to pounce, want to take Hu Mei as their own.
But in the end, I held back.
I used great perseverance to suppress the evil thoughts in my mind, I asked Hu Mei a question.
"What do you want?"
Hu Mei froze for a moment.
"What do you mean?"
"Although I have known you for less than a month, I have found that you are a very purposeful person...
In order to avenge your mother, you were deliberately captured by your master and endured inhuman torture day and night, just to avenge your mother's death.
I am just an ordinary person who should have had no use for you.
But you chose to follow me, and even willing to commit yourself to me.
So, you must be harboring an agenda that I don't know about."
Hu Mei was slightly silent for a moment.
"Haven't you ever heard the story of the fox returning the favor? I just want to repay you for your kindness."
I laughed.
"I've never believed in such a lame story as giving my life to someone else since I was a kid."
Hu Mei glared at me and put his clothes back in order.
She snapped.
"It's no fun at all to have a good atmosphere spoiled by you."
She got up and found the breakfast voucher we were given at the front desk yesterday and turned her head to me.
"I'm going to go get something to eat while you hurry up and take a shower, your hair stinks! I'll bring you back your breakfast."
After saying that, she left the room.
I turned my head to look out the window, the sun was just rising in the east, I can't believe I slept the whole day.
I got up, went to the bathroom, took a shower with cool water, which put the impulse that remained in my heart, completely suppressed.
What I just said to Hu Mei is not a deliberate test, but my true thoughts.
From the time she offered to stay with me, I was already wary in my mind.
Hu Mei is indeed out of cultivation, perhaps she is not lying, now back in the mountains, she will indeed be in danger.
But if you stay in human society, with her looks, you can definitely mix it up.
So there is no reason for her to follow me anyhow.
If my guess is right, I must still have some secret hidden in me, a secret that makes her feel that it is worth it to give her life!
I promised her to follow me, and not to see her pity or sympathy, but I want her knowledge and experience to deal with the four ghosts of the deserted mountains.
To be brutal, both of us are vain and use each other.
After showering, I blow-dried my hair and only had time to put on my pants when I heard the sound of a card swipe coming from outside my room.
Hu Mei came in with breakfast, she saw my naked upper body and did not avoid it, instead, she walked up to me and pinched my stomach with her fingers.
"Men, ah, have abs to sexy, you should strengthen the exercise."
Hu Mei no matter the action or tone, are full of ambiguity, and I am indifferent, expressionless dressing.
Hu Mei skimmed his lips and put the breakfast he brought me on the table.
"Buns and soy milk, there's nothing good for breakfast in this hotel, let's make do!"
I did not eat last night, has long been hungry, three two on the stuffing into the stomach two buns.
Hu Mei opened his mouth in one side.
"With the money we have left, we can only stay in a hotel for a week at most... Have you thought about what to do for a living?"
This is a question that is difficult for me.
Before I knew that Master was going to harm me, my plan was to wait for my eighteenth birthday and follow the other youth in the village and go to the big city to work together.
May go to the electronics factory screw, may also choose to deliver, after all, like me without education, it is difficult to find a very good job.
But now I can not choose so, not to mention that follow me Hu Mei, just to help the four ghosts carved statues pretending to be gods, also need a lot of money.
"Didn't you say that there were friends of yours in the Springs, anyone who could help us?"
Hu Mei skimmed his mouth.
"You want to defect to the demons? Are not afraid of being eaten by them? Those friends of mine, it's okay to do some business with them, but defecting to ... I don't want to go anyway."
"So what do you have in mind?"
Hu Mei cupped his chin with his hand and thought seriously for a while.
"It's not the first time I've left the mountains, the last time I came to the city I worked as a bartender in a bar, not that I'm boasting, the drinks I make are very good, if we can open a bar, we can definitely make money."
Open a bar?
It may be a good idea, but how much money do you need to open a bar? I only have $2,000 left on me.
"We don't have that much money."
"I know."
Hu Mei got up.
"Let's go out for a stroll! You can't make money sitting here dry."
The two of us left the hotel and wandered around a few streets in the neighborhood for fun, and as the sun rose high, the streets became more and more crowded.
I have to say, the big city is a lot more lively than the small rural areas.
I felt a strong sense of unfamiliarity deep inside me, just from the tall buildings and the streets with traffic everywhere.
Hu Mei probably really wanted to open a bar, and while shopping, she asked around where there were stores that she wanted to transfer.
It turned out that she really was asked, an uncle who has opened a newsstand for twenty years told us that in an alley to the east, there is an old tavern that has been closed for eighteen years.
We followed the path pointed out by the uncle and found the alley.
The alley is located at the edge of the scenic area, although deep, but the traffic is not too small, the alley opened many stores with special features, business is very good.
Hu Mei and I walked from the head of the alley to the end of the alley, finally was to see the old tavern in the mouth of the newsstand owner.
This tavern decoration is very antique, but the materials used are extremely sophisticated, even the sign hanging on the door, the use of expensive carved rosewood.
Hu Mei looked up and read out the name of the old tavern.
"Seeking Ren Tavern?"