Chapter 249: Chapter 218: Lightning Tribtion Strikes Once More


    Jiang Cheng picked up the keys, gently opened the front door, and tried to control the sound as much as possible.


    The house was pitch ck, and the snake wasn’t in the living room or on the balcony.


    Jiang Cheng quietly entered, silently changing his shoes, then tiptoed out of the entryway and into the living room.


    The living room was still lit, the lighting from Liu Qing’s room, through the crack under the door of the master bedroom.


    Liu Qing still had the light on, which meant she hadn’t gone to sleep yet.


    Jiang Cheng, with level ten Snake Tongue, silently searched his mind for relevant phrases.


    Not allowing inside the house = the snake is unhappy.


    Not allowing inside the house but giving keys = the snake is unhappy, but wants to give you a chance.


    No lights inside the house = the snake doesn’t wee your return.


    No lights inside the house but the bedroom is lit = the snake doesn’t wee you, but she hasn’t gone to sleep yet.


    Although Liu Qing hadn’t said anything from start to finish, Jiang Cheng felt, she meant what he had guessed.<div>


    Liu Qing’s greatest strength was her simplicity, her easy-going nature, and her stable emotions.


    Her biggest weakness was that she wasn’t very good at speaking humannguage.


    But there was no helping it, she wasn’t human after all. What’s wrong with a top predator not speaking a foreignnguage?


    “Liu Qing? What would you like for breakfast tomorrow?”


    Jiang Cheng stood at Liu Qing’s bedroom door and tentatively asked.


    No response from the snake.


    Jiang Cheng tried another question.


    “How about we go out for a walk tomorrow?”


    All was quiet.


    After some thought, Jiang Cheng added, “Tomorrow, I n to visit my senior’s ce. It’s a bit of a journey, and I’d like to have a good friend with me. Would you like toe along?”


    Silence.


    “If a good friend doesn’t want to go, I’ll have to invite Shen or Yue instead. Too bad.”


    “I’ll go.”


    Phew.


    Upon hearing Liu Qing’s response, Jiang Cheng breathed a sigh of relief.


    Based on his understanding of snake behavior, if she was willing to acknowledge you, it signified the end of this “cold war among friends”.


    To confirm the situation, Jiang Cheng repeated the first question.


    “What would you like for breakfast tomorrow?”


    No reply.<div>


    Jiang Cheng doubted his Snake Tongue: Could I have guessed wrong?


    “Meat pie, cake,” came Liu Qing’s voice from the bedroom.


    That breakfast made Jiang Cheng frown.


    Quite thebination of high calories, fat, and sugar.<div>


    She still loved “junk food” so much.


    But if Liu Qing wished to eat that way, at least it indicated she was in a good mood.


    Jiang Cheng respected Liu Qing’s choice.


    After all, she was a cultivator in the Mahayana Realm, and particrly a snake skilled at digestion among Mahayana cultivators. High calories were the least of her problems; she could probably eat Capital City in one bite without getting a stomachache.


    In order to fulfill his promise to Liu Qing, Jiang Cheng did not sleep much that night, instead staying up all night toplete the “Heaven Thunder Exorcism Talisman” design proposal and contract.


    Inside the master bedroom, Liu Qing was lying on the bed covered with a thin nket.


    Her body, lying on its side, was like a winding range of hills, stunningly beautiful.


    In her hands, Liu Qing held a small puppet specially made for her by Jiang Cheng, controlling another puppet on Jiang Cheng’s bed in the second bedroom, making it rise and throw shadow punches at Jiang Cheng’s back.


    “Hitting you. Hitting you,” she whispered softly, not wanting to disturb the person working at the desk.


    …


    Liang Hong’s Chu Royal Mansion was located in the suburbs of Capital City.


    The location was average, but its advantage was its vastnd area.


    Combining the mansion with the surroundingwns and gardens, they covered an area of fifty or sixty acres.<div>


    Liang Hong, aware that Jiang Cheng wasing, promptly put the mansion on first-level alert.


    Jiang Cheng hade all this way; the least he could do was invite him to stay for lunch, right?


    “Princess Consort, I have a junioring over. Bring out the ‘Spring White Dew’ from your dowry,” he said.


    “You dare!” eximed the Princess Consort from the Hai family, her eyes widened.


    “Liang Hong, that is my dowry! A single bottle is worth ten thousand Spirit Stones. Is your junior a saint from the Immortal Sect? Can he even afford such expensive wine?”


    “Listen to me.”


    “I won’t listen.”


    “No, just listen to me first.”


    “I just won’t listen!”


    Liang Hong showed a wry smile; the Princess Consort wouldn’t listen to him, and he was at a loss.


    “This junior of mine is not ordinary. You know about my father shutting himself away? Just three days after my junior entered the pce, only three days, he threw the harem into chaos to the extent that my father had no choice but to confront him face to face. With my eldest brother in jail, my second brother powerless, my fifth brother too young, and my sisters not a concern, whether I can seize the throne and ascend depends on this junior’s support!”


    “Your junior, is he Jiang Cheng?”


    The name Jiang Cheng was somewhat known to the Hai family.<div>


    “Yes, yes, that’s him.” Liang Hong persisted, sweet-talking her, “Whether you can be the Empress depends on him. You understand? Bring out the wine.”


    Hai nodded her head.


    If Jiang Cheng could help Liang Hong ascend the throne, then he deserved to drink that wine.


    “I have a condition,” said Hai.


    “What is it?”


    “Ask Jiang Cheng if he has a Daopanion.”


    “What for?”


    “Tsk, have you forgotten about my sister’s situation? She’s getting on in years and she’s beautiful; she wouldn’t be a bad match for Jiang Cheng.”


    Liang Hong looked troubled; his aunt was no pushover, a woman who aimed high butcked the matching capability.


    She was of the Howling Celestial Dog caliber, but with the standards of Eng Shen.


    Seeing Liang Hong hesitant, Hai spoke inly, “What? Is it too difficult for you? I’m thinking of your interests too. Just imagine, if my sister could actually marry Jiang Cheng, then you and Jiang Cheng would be rtives. Wouldn’t he work hard to help you ascend? ”


    Liang Hong thought about it and it made sense.


    “Okay, I’ll ask him during the meal. You go prepare a table of good dishes. And remember to bring out the Spring White Dew!”<div>


    Before long, Jiang Cheng arrived at the Chu Royal Mansion with Liu Qing.


    Liang Hong personally came to the mansion’s gate to wee them.


    “Hahaha, Jiang, it’s been days since west met, as if years have passed. And this is… holy shit!”


    Upon seeing Liu Qing, Liang Hong was taken aback.


    As a prince, he naturally had seen many sights, but even so, Liu Qing was still a beauty he had rarely encountered in his life.