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Chapter 81: So it was Like That

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    她一愣，巷子里有人？她好奇的刚想探出头去看，却被轩辕应按在了怀里，脑海里传来他的声音，“是杨锦和安姣娜！”

She was startled, there are people in the alley? She was about to take a look out of curiosity when Xuanyuan Ying kept her in place. His voice could be heard in her mind, “It’s Yangjin and An Jiaona!”

    听他这么一说，顾云兰就更好奇了，他们？可是刚刚她有听到巴掌声，难道他们打起来了？

Hearing his words, Gu Yunlan became even more curious. Them? But she heard a slap just now, are they fighting then?

    轩辕应低头看着她一脸好奇的模样，无奈的手一挥，一团黑雾包住了两人，他揽着她的腰往上一带，两人直接坐到了围墙上。

Xuanyuan Ying looked down at her curious expression, and waved his hand helplessly. A black fog covered the two of them. With his hand on her waist, they arrived on top of a surrounding wall.

    等到轩辕应撤去黑雾，顾云兰小心的探出头，看了过去。

Once Xuanyuan Ying dissipated the black fog, Gu Yunlan stuck out her head carefully to look over.

    果然是两人，两人之间的气氛有些嚣张跋扈，安姣娜愤怒的指着杨锦怒骂道，“杨锦！你不要脸！”

It was that those two. The atmosphere between the two of them was oppressive. An Jiaona pointed at Yangjin cursing, “Yangjin! You are too shameless!”

    杨锦摸了摸被打的脸，不屑的笑道，“不要脸？我只是卖你的一夜罢了！若是我心狠，直接把你丢到妓院，或充军妓！”

Yangjin rubbed his struck face, laughing disdainfully, “Shameless? I’ll just sell you off one night and be done! If I feel like it, I can directly throw you into the brothel, or banish you to the army!”

    顾云兰这才注意到安姣娜的衣服有些凌乱，头发蓬松，脚上的鞋子只有一只，显然是刚逃出来的。

Gu Yunlan just noticed An Jiaona’s clothing was a bit disheveled, her hair was loose, and there was only one shoe on her heat. Evidently she just ran out.

    她拢了拢衣服，眼泪哗啦哗啦的往下流，问道，“你这么欺负我，就不怕顾云兰找你算账？”

Tears fell from her eyes, as she shifted her clothes, asking, “Bullying me so much, you’re not afraid of Gu Yunlan finding you for vengeance?”

    杨锦用手挑起她的下巴，“你是笨蛋还是白痴？你几次惹火她，她恨你还来不及呢？会帮你？”

Yangjin lifted her chin, “Are you dumb or are you an idiot? You provoked her so many times, does she completely despise you? You think she’ll help you?”

    安姣娜用力的挥开他的手，“不会的，否则她上次也不会拼命为我挽回名声！”

An Jiaona forcefully pushed away his hand, “That won’t happen, she tried her hardest to help me recover my reputation that time!”

    “哈哈！”杨锦哈哈大笑，转身朝巷子口走去，“说你笨，你还不信，若不是牵连到顾家，她会帮你？不信的话，你明天可以试试！”

“Haha!” Yangjin laughed out loud, turning his body to leave the alleyway, “You don’t believe me when I say you’re stupid. If you didn’t have a connection to the Gu Family, why would she help you? If you don’t believe, you can go try it out tomorrow!”

    安姣娜一怔，愣愣的看着他的背影，眼泪再次哗啦哗啦的往下流，他说的不错，若不是因为她，顾云兰也不会中毒，她怎么可能帮她，她只能靠自己，可惜，她根本不是杨锦的对手，想到到杨锦的恐怖，她不禁缩缩脖子，一拐一瘸的跟了过去。

An Jiaona stared blankly, staring unmovingly at his leaving figure. Tears started to flow again, what he said wasn’t wrong; it wasn’t because of her. Gu Yunlan isn’t a pushover, why would she help her. She can only rely on herself, too bad, she’s not even close to being Yangjin’s opponent. Thinking about how frightening Yangjin is, she couldn’t help but shrink back her neck, and follow behind stiffly.

    顾云兰惊讶的看着安姣娜离去的背影，不会吧！杨锦居然没人性的把安姣娜拿去卖？这处子之身估计可以卖不少钱吧？她到现在还搞不明白，为什么杨锦不和安姣娜洞房呢？

Gu Yulan watched An Jiaona leaving with a surprised expression, no way! Yangjin is so inhumane as to sell of An Jiaona? A virgin’s body can probably sold for quite a lot right? Even now she couldn’t figure it out; why doesn’t Yangjin want An Jiaona?

    “他是狐妖，若是女妖还好，可以吸收人类的精气，男妖就不同了，破处一个不好就会反噬，精尽人亡！”轩辕应的手依旧在顾云兰的腰上，源源不断的热气送到了她的体内。

“He’s a fox spirit, if a female spirit isn’t too bad, he can absorb that person’s energy. A male spirit is different; if they devour the wrong one then the absorption will reverse, death by energy loss!” Xuanyuan Ying’s hand stayed on Gu Yunlan’s waist, a steady flow of warmth was sent into her body.

    “呀！”顾云兰惊讶的看着他，“风险这么大？”

“Yah!” Gu Yunlan looked him in surprise, “Such a big risk?”

    轩辕应点点头，继续道，“狐妖的欲念很强，若是同房了一次，就必须月月笙歌，这也是为什么他不敢碰女人的原因！”

Xuanyuan Ying nodded, then continued, “A fox spirit’s desire is very strong, if they were to share a room even once, then he must []. This is the reason he doesn’t dare touch a woman!”

    顾云兰再次惊呆了，“难怪人们常用狐狸精骂那些不守妇道的人，或者骂骚狐狸！原来还真有这么一回事？”

Gu Yunlan was once again stupefied, “No wonder people use fox spirits to scold disloyal people, or to scold saying ‘filthy fox spirit’! So it was like this?”

    轩辕应点点头，“女妖就要好些，没有那么多限制，所以现在那些大城市的歌女，很多是狐狸精！”

Xuanyuan Ying nodded his head, “Female spirits are a bit better. They don’t have that many restrictions, so a lot of those female singers in the major cities are fox spirits!”

    “哇！你怎么知道这么多？”顾云兰惊讶的看着他，那可是大城市！离这里十万八千里呢！

“Wow! How do you know so much?” Gu Yunlan looked at him with wide eyes, he’s talking about major cities! The closest is Ten thousand eight thousand miles away!

    “想那么多干嘛？”轩辕应紧了紧手，有些无奈，“安姣娜的事，你管不管？”

“Why the need to know?” Xuanyuan Ying clenched his fist, rather helplessly, “Are you going to do anything about An Jiaona’s situation?”

    顾云兰眉一挑，“当然要管，正愁怎么拿杨锦开刀呢！他送上门，哼哼！”

Gu Yunlan lifted her eyebrows, “Of course I’m going to do something, I was just thinking about where to start moving against him! He brought the answer right to my door, humph!”

    “那我们现在回去么？”轩辕应迟疑的问道，看她那么兴致勃勃的模样。

“Then shall we return now?” Xuanyuan Ying asked her hesitatingly when he saw her looking so enthusiastic.

    “不回去，我们继续逛逛！我们只是游了下船，还没猜灯谜呢！”顾云兰摇摇头，她有种预感，接下来的日子，她就没有这么清闲了。

“Not yet, let’s keep strolling around! We’ve only played with the boat, we haven’t guessed the lantern riddles yet!” Gu Yunlan shook her head. She had a slight premonition that in the upcoming days, she won’t be able to be as leisurely as now.

Tln: 猜灯谜, guessing lantern riddles is a tradition where on New Years people stick riddles on lanterns and have people solve them. A sort of ‘who’s the smartest/wisest’ match of sorts. Source: https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E7%8C%9C%E7%81%AF%E8%B0%9C/1851428

    轩辕应揽着她，轻轻一跃，从墙上跃了下来，他放开她，两人一前一后出了巷子。

Xuanyuan Ying, still holding onto her, jumped up lightly off the wall. He let go of her, and the two walked out of the alleyway one after another.

    灯会还没散会，依旧人山人海，轩辕应怕两人走丢了，一把抓住顾云兰的手，两人在人群中慢慢向前。

The lantern activities has not dispersed yet, it was as crowded as before. In order to avoid getting separated, Xuanyuan Ying firmly held onto Gu Yunlan’s hand as they slowly moved forward in the crowd.

    “咦？那里有猜谜的！”顾云兰兴致勃勃的拉着轩辕应挤了过去，人很多，还有欢呼声，掌声，显然已经对上了。

“Yi? There’s a riddle over there!” Gu Yunlan tugged on Xuanyuan Ying excitedly as they squeezed through. There were a lot of people, many of whom are yelling and clapping; clearly, the riddle has already been solved.

    等到两人挤到前排才发现打擂台的两人，他们都认识，紫罗兰和张起扬！两人之间的气氛有些紧张，此刻不再是猜老板的谜了，而是两个打擂的人互相出谜！

Only when the two finally squeezed to the front row did they round the two people on the stage were familiar to them -Zi Luolan and Zhang Qiyang! The atmosphere between the two was rather tense. There were no longer guessing the owner’s riddle, rather, they two were giving each other riddles to solve!

    “赤兔！”张起扬抚了抚额头的刘海，轻轻吐出两个字。

“Scarlet rabbit!” Zhang Qiyang wiped off the sweat on his forehead as he lightly spat out those two words.

Tln: scarlet rabbit is a horse. It’s either real life reddish brown horse, or mythically a fire horse. Ponyta! jk

    “驰！”紫罗兰思索片刻，自信满满的就吐出一个字。

“驰!” Zi Luolan thought for a second before saying that one word confidently.

    顾云兰一愣，没错，赤兔马也，罗兰反应好快啊！要是她，这方面她反应很慢。

Gu Yunlan marveled at that, that’s right, scarlet rabbit horse, Lulan reacts really quickly! If it were her, she would’ve been much slower.

    紫罗兰微微一笑，道，“形单影只等日出！打一字！”

Zi Luolan smiled wanly, then said, “A lonely soul waits for the sun to rise! One word!”

    “但！”张起扬眉一挑，脱口而出，“一点难度也没有！”

“但!” Zhang Qiyang raised his brows, blurted out, “Not even hard at all!”

Tln; dan(但), the left side is a 单人旁 translating literally to lone person while the 日 means sun. 

    “噗！”顾云兰笑出声，骚包！她转过头，对轩辕应道，“走吧！不好玩，高智商的东西！脑子不够用！”

“Hah!” Gu Yunlan laughed out loud, show-off! She turned her head to say to Xuanyuan Ying, “Let’s go now! No fun, it’s for people with high IQ! My brain isn’t good enough!”

    轩辕应含笑的揽着她，转身离去，在两人离去时，一道视线看了过来，顾云兰连忙转头看了过去，却没有发现是谁！她纳闷的被他带出了人群。

Xuanyuan Ying looked at her smilingly, then tuned the leave. As the two of them left, a gaze looked over at them. Gu Yunlan turned to look and couldn’t figure out who! She was brought out the crowd still bewildered.

    “怎么了？”轩辕应推开人群，带着她往前走，就想不通，人类怎么会喜欢挤到一起？难道这样好玩？

“What happened?” Xuanyuan Ying pushed aside the crowd, bringing her to walk forward. He couldn’t understand why humans liked so crowded place so much? Is it fun like that?

    “感觉刚刚有人在看我，那视线很强烈！”顾云兰眉头皱起，随即又散开来，“算了！我们回去吧！人太多了！估计你也不喜欢！”

“I felt as if someone was watching me just now. The gaze was very strong!” Gu Yunlan wrinkled her brow, then immediately waved it all away, “Forget it! Let’s go back! There’s too many people, I’m guessing you don’t like it!”

    轩辕应松了口气，连忙点头。等两人挤出了人群已经是满身大汗。

Xuanyuan Ying released a breath and immediately nodded. By the time the two squeezed out of the crowd, they were covered in sweat.

    “我们去罗兰的酒楼看看！”顾云兰捂住嘴偷笑道，不知道他们有没有吃完。

“Let’s go take a look at Luolan’s restaurant!” Gu Yunlan giggled in her hands. Who knows when they’d finish eating.

    等到两人到了酒楼，问了之前侍候他们的女子才知道人走了有一会儿，难怪刚刚在灯会有看到张起扬。

When the two got to the restaurant, they found out from the woman serving them before that they have already left a while ago. No wonder they saw Zhang Qiyang at the lantern activities.

    “他们全吃完了？”顾云兰纳闷的问道，这么快？

“They all finished eating?” Gu Yunlan asked puzzledly, that quickly?

    “他们之中有个大胃王，菜肴基本都进了她的肚子！”女子不自然的笑道。

“Someone there has a big stomach; all the meat and vegetables were practically all eaten by her!” The woman said naturally as she laughed.

    顾云兰和轩辕应对视一眼，大胃王？难道是白晚春？随即她道，“还弄菜么？我打包一些回家！”

Gu Yunlan and Xuanyuan Meng looked at each, big stomach? Could it be Bai Nightspring? She followed up, “Are you still open? I want to bring some food back to eat!”

    “好的！请稍等！”女子点点头，转身去拿了菜单。

“Alright! Please hold a moment!” The woman nodded her head, then turned around to fetch the menu.

    顾云兰叹了口气掏出紫金卡，估计这次之后，她一年都甭想来这里了，人家不可能让她这样吃下去啊！

Gu Yunlan sighed as she took out the purple gold card. After this, she probably can’t eat here for the next year. They can’t let her eat all that for free!

    提着打包好的东西，两人走到无人处，顾云兰才把手里的东西收到了储物袋。

Carrying the take-out foods, the two went to an empty place. Only then did Gu Yunlan put the food into her storage pouch.

    轩辕应沉默许久，才问道，“伊然说，你被将臣抓去过，没事吧？”

Xuanyuan Ying was silent for a while before finally asking, “Yiran said you were captured by Jiangchen. Are you alright?”

    顾云兰拢了拢衣服，“没有，他提着我进了个密室，然后就关着我，后来他进来也是问些无关紧要的。”

Gu Yunlan fixed her clothes, “No such thing, he’s talking about how I entered a secret room and got trapped in it. When he came later we just talked about some miniscule things.”

    轩辕应眉头一皱，伸出手放到她腰间，顾云兰顿时感觉身体暖烘烘的，“你没说认识我吧？”

Xuanyuan Ying creased his brows. He reached out and put his hand on her waist, warming up Gu Yunlan’s body, “You didn’t say you know me right?”

    顾云兰斜了他一眼，“我有那么笨么？就算当时不知道你们是仇敌，我也不敢说你啊！人家万一不认识你，报了也没用！”

Gu Yunlan lifted at him sideways, “Am I that dumb? Even if I didn’t know you two were rivals back then, I wouldn’t dare talk about you! If it turns out they didn’t know you, saying so would be useless!”

    “嘴贫！”轩辕应没好气的把她往身边带了带。

“You talk too much!” Xuanyuan Ying grumpily leaned her backwards.

    “不过，他为什么带面具？”顾云兰有些不解，怕自己太帅？可是轩辕也没有那么遮掩啊！

“However, why does he wear a mask?” Gu Yunlan didn’t really get it, scared that he’s too handsome. But Xuanyuan Ying doesn’t cover his face like that!

    “僵尸的实力若是下降，一部分的地方就会恢复原型，以他将臣那骚包的性格，怎么可能无缘无故的带面具，估计实力还没恢复，上次又被你们那一闹，他估计伤的不轻，一段时间不会出来了，这段时间，你加油提升实力！”轩辕应眉头松开，没事就好。

“If a jianshi’s strength were to go down, then some parts will return to its original state. How can a flashy person like Jiangchen wear a mask for no reason. So it’s probably because he hasn’t recovered yet, and adding on the trouble you brought, his injuries can’t be light. He won’t come out for the time being. In that time, you need to hurry and get stronger!” Xuanyuan Ying loosened his brows. As long as everything is fine.

    “这还是要多谢梦梦的符箓！太有用了！”顾云兰见他没有怪自己，一脸的笑意。

“It was largely in thanks to Mengmeng’s talismans! So useful!” Seeing he didn’t blame her, Gu Yunlan smiled.

    “她的符箓都是出自她外公之手，里面蕴含的灵力不少，否则以你们的实力很难重伤他！”轩辕应含笑的点点头，“炸白琳珑的那一下，估计耗尽了梦梦的存货！”

“Her talismans came from her grandfather. The spirit power contained in there isn’t small, otherwise your own powers could barely scratch him!” Xuanyuan Ying smiled as he nodded, “As for exploding Bai Linlong that time, it probably wiped out Mengmeng’s inventory!”

    “这就是你留她留在我身边的原因吧？”顾云兰感激的仰着头看着他，不管出于什么目的，他愿意护着自己，又不伤害自己，已经是最好的了，她现在才知道自己的体质太惹人注意了，一个不慎就会丧命！

“Is that the reason why you kept her by my side?” Gu Yunlan faced him gratefully. No matter what the goal was, since he was willing to protect her and not harm her, it was already the best circumstance. She knows now that her physique attracts too much unwanted attention, a small slip could end her life!

    “张宇送你父亲回去时，我有让他给她外祖父带信，那时候也估计她那败家的模式，库存也不多了。谁知道你们会惹上将臣！”轩辕应叹了口气，这也多亏自己未雨绸缪。

“When Zhangyu was sending your father, I had him send Mengmeng’s grandfather a message. By that time, the crafts of that falling family of hers must not have much left. Who knew they’d provoke Jiangchen!” Xuanyuan Ying sighed, luckily he had prepared beforehand.

    听到他的话， 顾云兰连忙低下头，讪笑道，“多亏轩辕叔叔神机妙算！我们才能保住小命！”

Hearing this, Gu Yunlan immediately lowered her head, mocking, “Luckily Uncle Xuanyuan has such divine methods! Only then were our lowly lives saved!”

    “你们啊！”轩辕应无奈的带着她往前走，“惹得麻烦一大堆，还个个是厉害的！”

“You guys!” Xuanyuan Ying helplessly walked alongside her, “The trouble brought this time is big, each one strong characters!”

    “所以你今天晚上才把他们全送回去？”顾云兰觉得有些不好意思了，她的事故体，不是普通的厉害。

“So that’s why you sent all of them away tonight?” Gu Yunlan got a little embarrassed. Her trouble-magnet self is too strong.

    “不送回去，难道还要我天天跟在后面？”轩辕应拍了一下她的头，“行了！快到了Ｘ去好好洗个澡，我们明天晚上再去天井！”

“If they weren’t sent back, you’d think it’d be better for them to follow my tail daily?” Xuanyuan Ying patted her head, “Enough! We’re almost there.Take a nice shower, and we’ll go to the veranda tomorrow night!”

    两人回到府里已经是半夜，分了一些给守候的欣儿，两人洗过澡后，温了些酒，在院子里，开始了夜宵。

It was midnight by the time the two returned to the mansion. They split some food for the waiting Xin’er. After the two showered, they sat in the courtyard with warmed wine and started their late-night snack.

    “吱呀！”院门被推开了，轩辕梦一脸委屈的走了进来，原本这个院子是她和云兰住的，老哥一回来，直接把她提了出去，她才不要和张紫妍那个凶女人住一个院子，明天她一定要换院子！

“Aiya!” The courtyard door burst open, Xuanyuan Meng walked in with a wronged expression. This courtyard was supposed to be shared between her and Gu Yunlan, and when the eldest brother saunters in, she was directly kicked out. She had no will to live in the same courtyard as that ferocious woman. She must move elsewhere by tomorrow!

    “你怎么来了？”轩辕应眉头皱起的看着轩辕梦，有几分不悦！

“What happened?” Xuanyuan Ying creased slightly as he looked at Xuanyuan Meng, he was rather annoyed.

    “哥哥！”轩辕梦有几分委屈，她在顾云兰位子旁边坐了下来，“人家晚上没吃，刚回来！”

“Big Brother!” Xuanyuan Meng sounded aggrieved as she sat down in the seat next to Gu Yunlan, “I didn’t get to eat yet and just got back!”

    “你怎么才回来？”顾云兰拿了双筷子回来，刚好听到这句话。

“How come you only just got back?” Gu Yunlan brought back her chopsticks, having just heard what she said.

    “你不知道！”轩辕梦话说一半，先拿起筷子直接吃了几口，等吞下嘴里的东西，她才道，“我和张宇出了酒楼，本打算去寻你的，谁知没找到你们，看到杨锦和安姣娜！”

“You don’t know!” Xuanyuan Meng didn’t say everything. She first picked up a pair of chopsticks and ate a few bites, she started talking after swallowing the food, “Zhangyu and I left the restaurant, wanting to go look for you at first. Who knew that even though we didn’t find you guys, we saw Yangjin and An Jiaona!”

    “他们怎么了！”顾云兰眼角含笑的给她倒了杯温水。

“What about them!” Gu Yunlan’s eyes smiled as she poured her a cup of water.

    轩辕梦压低声音，道，“杨锦那个人真不是人，他把安姣娜骗到灯会，然后居然把她卖给了一个老头，收了这么大堆的银洋！”

Xuanyuan Meng suddenly lowered her voice, saying, “That Yangjin is really inhuman. He cheated An Jiaona into the lantern festival and sold her to an old man. He this big of a pile of silver coins!”

    看着轩辕梦比划着，她迟疑的问道，“你不会拉着张宇听墙角去了吧？”

Seeing Xuanyuan gesturing about, she asked hesitatingly, “You didn’t eavesdrop on them with Zhangyu did you?”

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