CH 135

“You want to take me out?”

In fact, she was really lazy to move lately, she felt tired even after a short walk, not to mention that these few days were the hottest days of the year, she was not able to stroll for long before she would get dizzy from the sun exposure.

“You don’t want to go?”

“Can we go out a little later? It’s too hot right now.”

Zhao Zhi looked at the sun outside, it was indeed a bit harsh to the eyes. He nodded, “Mmh, then let’s go out in two hours.”

Ming Zhu breathed a sigh of relief, then she combed her hair in a simple bun, it looked fresh and cool, making her look like a thornless little white flower that did not know the ways of the world.

Chapter 135

(48.3)

It was still early before sunset, so Ming Zhu went to the bookshelf to find two books she had yet to read. Inadvertently, she found a piece of paper with words she had written herself days before.

There were extra annotations in red on it.

On each page, a neat comment was written, or there was a correction of her mistakes.

Ming Zhu didn’t even know when Zhao Zhi had written those annotations on it, but his words were always pleasing to the eye.

After midday was past, the sun outside was not so burning hot anymore.

Zhao Zhi took Ming Zhu outside. As they walked on the streets, they could hear the shouting of snacks vendors all along the street.

Zhao Zhi, afraid that she would get lost, firmly buckled her fingers in his, clutching her hand. From time to time, he also took a look beside him to check. When they passed by the stalls selling rouge and jewelry, the man decided to stop for a little while longer.

“Do you want to take a look?”

Ming Zhu, who already had enough jewelry, had a flash of light in her mind. She asked, “Did you bring money with you?”

Zhao Zhi placed the purse on his waist in her hand, it was quite heavy, there was probably a lot of money in it, “That’s everything I brought along.”

He added, “I’ll order someone to bring more if it’s not enough.”

Ming Zhu hugged his purse, “It’s enough.”

Next to the rouge stall, there was an old-fashioned stall with two big words written on the signboard: “Fortune telling”.

There was an old Taoist, dressed in shabby clothes, with a white beard and white hair, looking a little deranged.

As Ming Zhu passed by his stall, he suddenly called out, “Miss, do you want to read your fortune?”

Perhaps because she was a person who was reborn, she had an inner deep fear of that kind of thing. She shook her head, “No, I don’t.”

Zhao Zhi coldly glanced at the old Taoist and shielded her behind him, “Let’s go.”

The old Taoist narrowed his eyes and smiled, “Miss, I’ll tell you for free.”

Ming Zhu’s heart itched from curiosity, she wanted to listen but also did not dare to listen. She had always felt that fortune-telling magicians were scammers.

Zhao Zhi was not a man who believed in gods or the Buddha at all. He was someone who had slaughtered a lot of people, usually he only went to the temple to suppress the foul killing energy a little.

The old Taoist stroked his beard and stared at Zhao Zhi with his pair of shrewd eyes, smiling at him, he said crazy words who sounded half true, half false, “Gongzi, your wife is destined to have a short life ah.”

Zhao Zhi’s face immediately blackened, and with a kick, he overturned his stall.

(49.1)

The old Taoist looked absolutely out of place, he was wearing a patched Taoist robe, he also looked dirty, and the words coming out of his mouth were crazy, he was simply spouting nonsense.

Zhao Zhi’s kick had great force, and he directly overturned his stall, all of the talismans to ward off evil spirits that were on display fell and scattered on the ground.

The old Taoist was very irritated, “Gongzi, how can you be so crude?

The old Taoist was not afraid of the cold look in the eyes of the man, he picked up one talisman on the ground and held it in his arms. He stared at the woman behind him with narrowed eyes, “I’m telling your wife’s fortune for free, how can you repay kindness with enmity?”

Ming Zhu could feel that Zhao Zhi was on the verge of exploding in rage, she hurriedly pulled his arm, “Your Highness, let’s go.”

The old Taoist shouted, “The world is crumbling down, the world is crumbling down ah.”

He set his stall back up again, and his gaze fell back on Ming Zhu once again, staring straight at her, he said, “I only told you this because you and I had the fate to meet today. Such a pitiful person, even your life will be short.”

The two words “short life” really stabbed Zhao Zhi’s most painful spot.

By clinging tightly to his waist, Ming Zhu managed to stop him from continuing to smash the stall, and she got him away from the fortune telling stall by dragging and pulling him away.

Ming Zhu’s back turned cold, did this old Taoist priest saw that she was going to die in order to escape, which was why he said that she would have a short life? Or did he see her past life?

In her last life, she was indeed a short-lived ghost. At just twenty years old, she had yet to even live one day of carefreeness, before she was granted death by Zhao Zhi.

Coming back to her senses, Ming Zhu raised her head and looked up at Zhao Zhi’s expression, the man’s eyes were frosty, the look in his eyes was as cold as ice, filled with cold energy. It seemed that he was really enraged.

She had really never expected Zhao Zhi would get so angry, the one who was cursed to have a short life wasn’t even him, did he have to get so angry? Besides, he actually did not even believe in gods and ghosts at all, he should have taken it as a funny joke in the first place, how could he take it so seriously?

Ming Zhu’s fingers hurt a little from being clutched by him, she endured the pain and whispered to him, “Your Highness, he’s most definitely a scammer.”

Zhao Zhi lowered his eyelashes, under the daylight, the surface of his pupils gradually changed color, “That’s right, he is but a scammer.”