Taiyin Fortune

“Jii… jiji…”

The Moon Rabbit shrank its little head, blinked its eyes a couple of times, it was unclear whether it understood its master’s threat or not.

Lu Qiancha no longer hesitated and quickly stuffed this troublemaker back into the Peach Blossom Spring.

Then she took out a small bottle of medicinal ointment that emitted a cool aura from her storage pouch.

She carefully pinched Gan Tang’s injured finger and evenly sprinkled the light green medicinal powder onto the bleeding tooth marks.

In a short while, the bleeding wound slowly healed.
Eventually, only a faint pink mark remained on the wound, which would completely disappear in no time.

However, the pain still lingered on Gan Tang’s hand.
She looked at her senior brother with teary eyes, her little mouth pouting, looking very pitiful.

“Ahem…” Lu Qiancha was most vulnerable to Gan Tang’s act, especially since this time, it was indeed her fault for not disciplining the Moon Rabbit properly.

“Don’t… don’t look at me like that…”

She tried to keep a straight face, but her voice had already softened: “It’s my fault, I didn’t watch the rabbit properly…”

“Senior brother~”

Gan Tang hugged Lu Qiancha’s arm and shook it gently, her words full of grievance.

“Alright, alright, I’ll make it up to you.
I’ll go down the mountain tomorrow and buy you sweet cakes.”

Lu Qiancha tried her best to stretch out her paw, stood on her tiptoes, and with Gan Tang’s cooperation, rubbed her head: “Three servings! Enough to fill you up! Is that okay?”

“Hehe, senior brother is the best!”

Gan Tang’s gloom was instantly swept away.
She returned to her room, content, not forgetting to turn back and shout, “Goodnight, senior brother! Goodnight, Auntie!”

“Remember to sleep, don’t stay up late reading novels by candlelight!” Lu Qiancha called out to the cheerful back.

“I know, senior brother!”

Gan Tang’s voice fell along with the sound of the door closing.

Xun Xue looked at her daughter’s helpless yet doting expression, the smile in her eyes deepening.

She walked forward, also reached out and gently rubbed the top of Lu Qiancha’s head, her voice gentle: “You should also rest early… don’t be too busy.”

Then Xun Xue also turned and her figure merged into her own room.

“Ngh~”

Lu Qiancha scratched her itchy ear with her paw, then suppressed the urge to lick her paw and went back to her room to sleep.

The next morning, Lu Qiancha strolled to Gan Tang’s door.
Her little paw had just touched the door panel.

“Creak—”

The door was suddenly pulled open from the inside.

“Senior brother, you were looking for me?” Gan Tang’s pink eyes lit up like a star lamp in an instant, her face filled with undisguised surprise.
“Come in quickly!”

Before her words had faded.

Lu Qiancha felt a tightening on her wrist, and Gan Tang pulled her into the room.

Then, “Click!” a crisp and somewhat abrupt sound of a lock being set was heard.

“?”

Lu Qiancha couldn’t help but take half a step back at this action.
She looked at Gan Tang in a daze and asked, “Junior sister, why did you lock the door?”

“Of course, it’s for you, senior brother.”

Gan Tang’s reply was as righteous and natural as could be.

“…”

Lu Qiancha was silent, a ray of light flashed in her paw, and a bottle of slightly cloudy potion was held in her paw.

If Gan Tang dared to make any strange moves, Lu Qiancha could immediately make her swing from the rafters for three days and three nights.

“Eh, eh, eh? Senior brother, what are you doing?”

Gan Tang’s gaze caught the familiar bottle of potion, her face instantly turning pale.
She subconsciously protected her chest with her hands and retreated in fear, her voice changing pitch: “Have mercy!”

“First, tell me, why did you lock the door?”

Lu Qiancha looked at Gan Tang with a gloomy expression, her eyes full of ill intent.

“I-I just saw that you hadn’t put on your disguise, senior brother!”

“What if Master suddenly pushes the door open…”

Gan Tang’s heart turned cold under that gaze, and she blurted out aggrievedly.

Gan Tang’s voice explained anxiously, with a hint of grievance for “good intentions not being rewarded”: “W-what if we’re discovered?! I just wanted to help senior brother cover up!”

“…Alright.” Lu Qiancha’s movement with her paw paused, the condensed chilliness receded like a tide, and her tense body relaxed.

She reluctantly accepted her junior sister’s reason and put the potion back into her storage ring.

Only then did Gan Tang let out a long-held breath, patting her not-so-small chest with lingering fear.

“Then… senior brother, why did you come looking for me so early in the morning… what’s the matter?”

Lu Qiancha’s eyes lit up slightly.
She lowered her voice, with a hint of solemnity: “I want to ask you… to do a little experiment with me.”

“?!”

Gan Tang instantly became vigilant.
She subconsciously crossed her arms to protect her chest, her lips tightly pursed, her pink eyes filled with a mixture of fear and terror: “S-senior brother?!”

Gan Tang’s voice trembled: “W-what strange and bizarre potion do you want to test on me again?!”

“Junior sister, don’t be afraid, it’s not a dangerous medicine…”

Lu Qiancha subconsciously comforted her.

“…” The corners of Gan Tang’s mouth visibly drooped downwards, her head shaking like a rattle-drum: “Senior brother, you always say that! And what happens in the end?!”

“Ahem, ahem, don’t be afraid, it’s not a medicine test this time.”

Hearing this, Lu Qiancha coughed guiltily and then said, “I want to play a game with you.”

“A game?”

Gan Tang’s vigilance slightly relaxed.
“What game?”

Lu Qiancha said no more.
She opened her paw, revealing two dice polished from animal bones.

“Comparing sizes, winning spirit stones.” Lu Qiancha announced the rules.

“Oh…”

Gan Tang’s interest was lacking as she drew out her tone, her shoulders also slumping.

Her master doted on her, so she always had enough spirit stones.

However, since it was her senior brother’s request, Gan Tang still forced herself to cheer up and squeezed out a slightly perfunctory smile: “Okay… then I’ll play with senior brother~”

“Clack.”

“Clack.” The dice fell into the shallow white jade plate, making a crisp clinking sound.

For the first ten rounds, victory and defeat were uncertain.

Lu Qiancha won four rounds and lost six.
In the end, she had even given Gan Tang three low-grade spirit stones.

Starting from the eleventh round, a deep blue light flashed in Lu Qiancha’s eyes.

In her dantian, the wisp of silvery-white Taiyin Wealth Incense that was circling around her Nascent Soul was instantly activated.

An extremely faint, cool aura, like moonlight, quietly overflowed from her fingertips and silently merged into her personal luck.

“Clack!”

The dice fell into the shallow plate again!

For the next ten rounds, the results were simply bizarre.

No matter how Lu Qiancha threw the dice, the final points would always be fixed at two glaringly red sixes facing up.

Gan Tang hadn’t won a single round!

A dozen or so low-grade spirit stones had already clinked and rolled into Lu Qiancha’s storage pouch.

“Stop—!!!”

Gan Tang finally exploded.

She stood up with a “thump,” her pink eyes wide and round, her fair fingers pointing at the pair of 6-point dice in the plate in front of Lu Qiancha: “Senior brother! You’re cheating!”

Gan Tang’s voice was full of grievance and accusation: “How can you roll the maximum points every time? Did you put a spell on the dice?!”

“…” Lu Qiancha opened her mouth.

The four words “I didn’t cheat” were stuck in her throat, feeling quite scorching.

Using the Taiyin Wealth Incense, this seemed to count as external force intervention.

It seemed that the essential difference from cheating was just that it sounded a little more elegant…

“Ahem…” She decisively gave up her pale defense and switched tactics: “Junior sister, don’t be angry…”

Lu Qiancha tried her best to squeeze out the most sincere smile: “I’ll go down the mountain later and buy you the best crispy snowflake cakes from Fu Ji’s shop, plus a string of candied haws.”

“No.”

Gan Tang turned her head away forcefully, her cheeks puffed out.