Young man, please stay

Chapter 16 Offending the Princess
  After killing the fish and cleaning it, Qin Lang decided to use part of it to eat freshly and the other part to dry the fish.

The reason for this condition actually has something to do with Jianping County itself.

Qingzhou is a major salt-producing state, and there is a well salt mine to the south of Jianping County. Therefore, the price of salt in the local counties in Qingzhou is cheap, and many people have one or two coarse salt stones stored in their homes.

Although this also belongs to the category of private salt, the nature of it is different between personal use and mass sales.

In addition, Qingzhou was sparsely populated, remote, and the law did not punish the public. The people used some cheap and private salt for themselves, but the court actually turned a blind eye.

Qin Lang is now taking advantage of the cheap local salt price to marinate dozens of dried fish and hang them on a rope outside the house to dry.

Qingzhou has long sunshine and a relatively dry climate. Even during the Waking of Insects season, it is not too humid, so it is no problem to dry fish.

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"...If your heart is as clear as ice, you won't be surprised if the sky falls..."

"...Senior sister is in my heart, I feel happy and calm..."

"...Selfless and loyal, senior sister comes first..."

After drying the dried fish, Qin Lang cleaned up and sat cross-legged under the old locust tree, silently running the inner strength and mental method written by the Tianshan woman - "Filial Piety Jue" in his body.

……

Su Yinping insists on practicing internal skills every morning, and Qin Lang has actually been practicing during the past half month when he has time.

After all, he now has to practice his internal strength from scratch. Granny Jin's Xingnao Pills from the county and the ordinary poisons used to deal with the Blood Knife Sect are fine, but they can't cure all poisons.

What's more, internal strength is not only used to resist poison. As the core of Da Zhou's martial arts system, internal strength has a substantial bonus to most martial arts and defensive skills.

Only a handful of ruthless people who specialize in external skills may be able to suppress opponents of the same realm who practice internal power with their physical bodies alone.

But even so, the upper limit for such people is destined to be unable to be raised.

……

Unlike the two girls, Qin Lang was not injured, so in addition to internal skills, he could also practice external skills.

I don't know why, but it may be the same reason that his internal energy disappeared after he went down to Tianshan Mountain. In short, Qin Lang's current speed of cultivating internal energy is basically less than 20% of that on Tianshan Mountain.

If it is more concrete, for example, if a normal person practices from scratch for half a month, his internal energy can condense into a drop of water in his Dantian.

But Qin Lang practiced for half a month, but there was only a wisp of water vapor, which was extremely slow!

Unfortunately, internal strength can only be practiced effectively for a short period of time every day under normal circumstances. After Qin Lang finished practicing, he began to punch the thick trunk under the locust tree.

boom!
  boom!
  ……

After about fifty punches, bark fragments fell off all over the ground, and Qin Lang began to lie on the ground and do push-ups again.

After another fifty, I started doing sit-ups.

After fifty sit-ups, Qin Lang started running in a circle, from the locust tree to the granary hut, to the east gate of the county, to the foot of Qingniugang, and back to the locust tree in Qingniugang.

There were five laps to run in total. On the third lap, a certain heroine in the room couldn't help it anymore. She held a stack of newly made quilts and poked Gu Jin beside her with her elbow:

"Hey...Jin'er, have you seen it?"

"No."

Without raising her head, Gu Jin picked up some bloody dirty clothes and threw them into the bamboo clothes basket:
  "Jin'er is not a lady, and she has no habit of peeking at men."

"You! Humph, Sumire, you have changed..."

"..."

"You have become a bad girl, always talking nonsense..."

After all, Su Yinping was a princess, and she was also a heroine outside.

Is there any princess or heroine in the world who likes to peek at men?
  There are some in books, such as those essays that my sister likes to read...

It's just that the heroine and princess there all ended up...

Su Yinping blushed and shook her head, forgetting the indecent words and pictures in her sister's books.

In short, such a dignified and self-loving woman like her is definitely not suitable to be called someone who likes to peek at men.

"Jing'er, I'm serious. Qin Lang is beating trees outside and driving piles on the ground..."

"..."

"...He was running around again after a while. What are you doing?"

"Probably practicing."

"Practice?"

"External strength."

"External Kung Fu...how can you practice it like this? There are no moves or postures at all, at least a horse stance or something? Look at what he does...it's almost like lifting a stone lock and doing tricks near the Jiuyan Bridge in the capital..."

"Well, it's a bit similar."

Having said this, Gu Jin also temporarily put down the clothes in her hands, raised her eyes through a small window that was pushed open, and looked at the back of the man running in the distance outside:

"However... although these actions are unstructured, they can indeed strengthen the body."

"But if you are practicing external skills, isn't it more important to be more proficient in martial arts? No matter how strong your body is, in the end you still have to rely on internal strength to support it. If it's just physical strength...oh!"

What did the clever princess think of:
  "Doesn't he want to be like Liu, the head of the Kyushu Escort Agency, practicing Kung Fu and becoming a master physically?"

"probably not…"

Gu Jin looked suspicious, but finally shook her head.

Being a physical master is easier said than done. Although he is invincible at the same level, he cannot reach the next level after all.

This is also why the Six Sects only have one Jiuzhou Escort Agency and only one Liu Escort Head.

"By the way...it's not hot today, why do you have to take off your clothes..."

Su Yinping looked out the window at the sweaty young hero, his strong legs, tall figure... As he looked at it, his eyes became straight, and he clenched the quilt in his hands with both hands. She was almost out of water, but she was still criticizing in a low voice:
  "Tsk, men are so... so unkempt..."

"..."

Gu Jin glanced at his wife's twinkling apricot eyes, drooped her eyelids, and reached out to close the window.

Snapped.

"? Sumire, what are you doing?"

"Madam, don't you peek at men..."

"I...I am helping him to be alert to his surroundings..."

Su Yinping blinked his eyes randomly and raised his hand to tuck the hair around his ears:
  "He's so slovenly. What if some woman from the county with bad intentions later comes to bully him and seduce him... or something..."

"..."

While Su Yinping was talking, he quietly stretched out his jade hand to push the window open, but was spotted by the sharp-eyed guard, who slapped him in the face. Snapped!
  "Hiss... Sumire, you hit me again!"

"Spank me next time."

……

A woman with bad intentions and unruly women...

It’s hard to say whether the county has it or not.

Anyway, there is one in this hut.

To punish such a woman, of course she must be spanked.

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After running a few laps and practicing his exercises, Qin Lang went to blow the wind under the locust tree, and then returned to the house to prepare lunch.

However, what surprised him a little was that in just one morning, his home seemed to have been completely renovated.

From the bed and quilt to the table and cabinets, from the stove to the doors and windows, everything has become neat and tidy.

Looking at the small earthen stove again, a familiar figure put on a local simple blue hemp skirt and lotus root embroidered shoes, but his figure was still plump. When he squatted on the ground to add firewood, his slender waist , full and swollen like a gentle arc like a jade plate, and it is even more heavy and alluring.

"..."

I have to say that the skirt made of linen is really solid, and it would have collapsed long ago if it were made of silk.

Qin Lang was a serious person, so he didn't take a closer look. Then he looked at another cold figure standing next to Su Yinping. At this time, he was actually holding a kitchen knife to help cut tofu.

"Uh... Miss Sumire."

Qin Lang walked over and looked at the horrible chopped tofu on the cutting board, dumbfounded:

"Well, thank you for your busy work this morning."

"No, it was all done by the madam, I only did it first..."

"I'm just helping. As for chopping vegetables, I'll do it. You can rest first."

"..."

Gu Jin lowered his head and took a look at his masterpiece.

The vengeful knife skills made her silent after reading it. Finally, she put the kitchen knife on the cutting board and walked aside.

"Hmm... Do you want to learn?

Qin Lang thought for a while:
  "I teach you?"

"..."

The girl turned her head coldly.

Isn't it just cutting vegetables? She is a dead soldier who can use daggers. She can't cut vegetables. She only needs to cut people. Why should she learn this...

"I'll try it."

Gu Jin ignored Qin Lang, so naturally someone did.

Su Yinping stood up and wiped her skirt, which was stained with kitchen ashes, with her hands, just like an ordinary young woman, she raised her knife and carefully cut up the remaining tofu.

"No, no, no, you, you took the knife wrong."

"Eh?"

"Your posture is to hold a saber, not a kitchen knife. If you want to do this, put one finger here..."

……

Qin Lang smiled and saw that the princess was still a princess. It seemed that she had no cooking experience, so she taught Su Yinping how to cut vegetables step by step, starting from holding a knife.

"The tofu is very soft, just cut it straight down without shaking or wiping it..."

Qin Lang stood behind Su Yinping. His height advantage allowed him to surpass Su Yinping's height and see the cutting board. Su Nuxia soon felt that she seemed to be surrounded by this man's aura. .

"If it is cut too thick, it will not be easy to taste and it will not be easy to eat."

"Um…"

"If you cut it too thin, the fish soup will easily become rotten, so that's pretty much it."

"Uh-huh…"

Su Yinping's head was a little dizzy, and she could only respond randomly in the end. Rather than learning to chop vegetables, what she cared about more was someone's chin hitting the top of her head from time to time. Someone's arms almost hugged his waist, and someone's generous hands wrapped around his delicate little hands...

Every bit of physical contact, feeling Qin Shaoxia's strong body remotely, was the first time for the princess to have such close contact with a man.

Of course, if the acupuncture time counts, this is the second time...

Compared with her, Qin Lang is much more honest and responsible.

He was seriously teaching Su Yinping how to cut vegetables. As for how soft and smooth Su Yinping's hands were, how nice Su Yinping's hair smelled, how delicate Su Yinping's body was...

It's not that Qin Lang didn't feel these things, he just didn't pay special attention to them.

It wasn't until he found that Su Yinping's head was buried deeper and deeper in front of him, his voice was getting softer and softer, his cheeks were getting redder and redder, and his small ears were getting hotter and hotter, that Qin Lang realized that he was in contact with the princess. It seems a bit "overstepping".

"Ahem...Nvxia Su...Princess Princess, I'm sorry, I'm a little offended..."

"No...not that..."

It's not offensive at all...

At most, I took a risk...

I haven’t started committing the crime yet…

"Then I'll fry the fish first..."

"Wait...wait!"

"?"

"I haven't...learned...just a little bit..."

"..."

Well, the most fearful thing about learning is giving up halfway.

At the request of the studious princess, Qin Lang had no choice but to continue teaching her how to chop vegetables.

……

And a certain girl who had been sitting on the small bench next to her the whole time, pretending to wipe the dagger, but actually using the dagger's reflection to see all this, her eyes were complicated for a long time, and then she took a deep breath and walked out of the room silently...

(End of this chapter)