This Crayfish Is Not Edible - Chapter 219

Xia pulled Long over to an abandoned alleyway and squatted down. With his spiritual energy, he cloaked their presence so that no one would notice them.

Glancing at each other, they nodded and walked out. Xia held tightly onto his makeshift walking stick and Long walked by him, supporting him. “What is you plan?” he whispered softly.

Xia glanced up at him with his head tilted, “I don’t have a plan. Let’s just follow that man, my instinct tells me that he might lead us to Raijin,” he whispered softly.

Long glanced at him sceptically. “but I don’t smell Raijin on him… just some annoying herb,”

Xia rolled his eyes and hobbled pass the crowd. Few humans noticed their pitiful state and threw few coins at them. Xia happily picked them up and blessed them. He cheerfully handed it to Long and hobbled around.

Long smirked and bit his lips. ‘ahh, why is my Xia so cute? I just want to take a bit off of him,’ he thought, scratching his nose. He slowly leaned closer, but a bad stench assaulted his nostrils. He moved back immediately and pinched his nose close. ‘stinky!’

As if knowing his thoughts, Xia glared at him and pinched his arms subtly.

Xia and Long secretly followed the golden robed man. After walking through many streets, the man walked into a brothel.

“a brothel? I thought he would lead us to Raijin, che, we wasted our time,” Xia grumbled, kicking some rocks next to his feet. “Long let’s go search somewhere else. Long? LONG!”

Long was seriously peering into the brothel door. He glanced back and cupped his mouth close. “You are right, Raijin is here!” he whispered excitedly.

“Really?”

“Really, I can smell a strong scent of a special herb. Hunters usually use this herd to cleanse away the scent of blood. This place reeks of it,” Long whispered. From all the clues, it looked like Raijin was badly wounded when he was brought here. These people might have used the herd to cleanse away Raijin’s scent along with his blood smell. He pulled Xia to the corner and tore his dirty shirt swiftly.

“what are you doing? My disguise!!” Xia exclaimed and picked up the torn up shirt.

Long apologetically glanced at him. “Xia baby, we can’t go inside a brothel dressed as beggars. Why dint we dress up properly,” he whispered.

Xia pouted and pulled out a few shirts from his space. He changed his clothes as well and wiped the clay from his face and hands. “But now our face can be seen,” he whispered sadly. He also summoned a bar of sandal to help remove the residual stink from their body.

Long cupped Xia’s face and finally stole a kiss. “Waa, my Xia smells so delicious,” he mumbled. “and….I have a solution for your problem. Wait here,” he said and dashed out.

He came back in just minutes with a small paper parcel in hand. There were two wooden masks inside. One carved as a tiger and another as a rabbit. Long cheerfully helped Xia wear the rabbit mask and wore the tiger mask. “let’s go,”

“Hmm, I heard crab dishes inside this brothel are good,” Xia mumbled, licking his lips expectantly.

“Where did you hear that?”

“On the passing. Did you notice? People are not defensive next to beggars.” Xia proudly whispered back.

Long patted Xia’s head lovingly. “hmm, you are really smart. But next time let’s not wearing any disguise, your lover is powerful enough to protect you from anyone and anything.”

Xia blushed red and nodded.

They both happily entered the brothel. But as soon as they stepped inside, Xia paused. Few woman was standing next to the transparent screen. As soon as they noticed their presence they all ran towards Long and tugged at his shirt coltishly.

Some tried to get close to Xia, but Long hugged him close and pushed them away gently.

“Ladies, my lover heard that crab dished here are popular. Please bring two sets of it,” Long shouted loudly. Few girls dejectedly left but two maintained a decent distance and followed them to the private room.

The private room was just in name private, because there were no walls, just four screens separating them from outsiders. Long vigilantly glanced around and pulled Xia closer.

One of the girls walked closer confidently and sat delicately next to Long. “Sirs, what type of wine would you like? We have moon wine, peach wine, rice wine, white wine and our brothels famous, thousand year old drunkard wine,” she said in a soft tone.

Long did not even spare her a glance. He peered at Xia and gestured for him to choose.

“White wine, please,” Xia cheerfully whispered.

Their wine was brought in. Since the mask they wore covered their mouth, they inevitably had to remove it to have their drink. Long sniffed the drink. Once he was assured that it did not have any problems, he handed it to Xia.

Xia cheerfully sipped his wine. “ahh, Long, this is so good.” He exclaimed, gulping down the whole cup.

Another girl hesitantly walked closer and sat next to Xia. “Sirs, my town is nearby. It is a small town. There are a lot of Vineyards there. Even my father owns an acre of vineyard. That’s why the wine here is always fresh and aromatic,” she whispered softly. Her voice was not that delicate as the first girl, but it was alluring in its own way. Xia listened to her talk about her hometown and how they made wine.

After speaking for a while, the girl hesitantly glanced at him. “Sirs, you both…are you really a pair?”

“Yes! We are,” Xia said, glancing up at Long with a smirk.

“oh, that sounds wonderful. You both look very handsome,” the second girl said cheerfully.

Xia and Long chuckled. Long subtly nudged xia and winked.

Xia got the signal and started talking about random things to her. All of a sudden he started talking about suikal and how they passed through it.

“‘gasp,’ sirs, you passed through that town. I heard everything was destroyed there. That dreadful thunder beast destroyed everything,” she said, shaking her head disappointedly.

Xia’s ears went sharp when she mentioned the thunder beast, but he remained calm. “Hmm, there was not even one survivor there,” he continued swirling around the wine in his cup. “The assailants….. they cruelly murdered many,”

The first girl sat up all of a sudden and excused herself while the second girl started asking him about their journey. Xia subtly pinched Long’s thigh.

Long suddenly moaned loudly. He leaned down and hugged his knees.

“What’s wrong?” Xia whispered, holding his shoulders. He him close and glanced at his face. Long was sweating profusely. “Baby, what’s wrong?”

“I—I think my stomach is upset….” he whispered lowly.

“Oh sir, there is a lavatory nearby. Just go to your left and take a right next to the second wooden post,” the girl said worriedly.

Long winked at Xia and slowly walked out the room. He did not forget to wear his mask, and he eyed for Xia to wear his as well.

Xia tied his mask up and started cheerfully continued talking to her. As he was taking, he questioned about this kingdom.

The woman casually talked to him. “Sirs you might not know this, our prince brought peace to our kingdom at last. All these years we were troubled by the Ameterus islands. But now thanks to the golden tribe, we have the blessings of the golden sun.” She said.

“is the golden tribe so powerful?” Xia whispered, sipping his wine. ‘Those golden tribe guys, they have complexly whitewashed everyone’s thoughts,’ he thought.

“hmm, it is. They have a holy beast Kirin as their guardian and recently they have also tamed the holy thunder beast saving many villages and towns from its rampage”

“Thunder beast? hmm,” Xia faked curiosity.

The girl enthusiastically continued, “oh it’s mostly a thunder wolf. It was only thought to be a myth. But the golden tribe managed to tame one. ohh, ohh sir, they are going to parade the beast tomorrow. You have to see it. It is going to be written in history,” she said with sparkling eyes.

Xia woodenly placed his wine cup down. “It is going to go down in history,” he whispered mysteriously.

The woman swiftly filled his cup and gestured for him to drink.

Xia glance data her curiously and whispered, “Why are you so friendly to me?”

“I—I…it’s a secret,” she whispered with a blush.

Xia peered at her reactions. ‘wait, is this girl in love with me? No, that can’t be. I already established my relationship to her. Then why is she blushing?’ he thought with his hands on his chin. “What secret?”

The girl wiggled around nervously. She hesitantly glanced up at him and gestured him to come close.

Xia complied. “tell me, I won’t reveal you secret,” he whispered.

The girl cleared her throat and whispered, “I have a painting….”

Xia leaned back and frowned. “What painting?” he whispered, but inside he thought, ‘what painting could it be? A scandalous one maybe?’

The girl blushed hard. “it’s a painting of you two sirs…kissing,” noticing xia’s confused glance she further explained, “you see, last month I was shopping for some rouge, but on the way I noticed a beautiful scroll. Curiosity ate at me, so I took a look. It was a painting of you two sirs kissing. I felt my soul leave my body at that moment. It felt magical!”

“ohhhhh, I don’t know what painting that is,” Xia said and went about drinking his wine. But inside he was continuously screaming. ‘It’s definitely that chicken painting.. How did it spread from Juikal to this farthest town in with west? Ahhhh this is so embarrassing,’ he thought, hiding his hot face with his sleeve.