Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword
Chapter 153 - 148 Little Gold (1/3)

Chapter 153: Chapter 148 Little Gold (1/3)

"Yes, Young Master!" The man acquiesced immediately, showing no signs of impatience or displeasure, "Your subordinate has found Little Gold, but—Little Gold is currently in the hands of a woman, and she’s unwilling to return it!"

What’s so special about this Little Gold that women find it so likable? Zhou Heng couldn’t help but wonder.

"A woman? Is she pretty?" Mei Yixiang, on the other hand, was interested in something completely different.

"...Pretty!" The man hesitated for a moment, but ultimately didn’t dare to lie.

"Prettier than Miss Mei?" Mei Yixiang brushed her black hair off her shoulders, revealing a confident smile.

"To answer Young Master—"

"It’s Miss!" Mei Yixiang hastily corrected.

Zhou Heng sighed. Serving this master was truly not an easy task!

"Yes, Miss!" The man quickly nodded, "That woman and Miss are equally matched in beauty!" He couldn’t hide his fascinated gaze.

Mei Yi Xiang’s mood soured instantly, and she marched toward the door, saying, "How dare she be as pretty as Miss Mei! I’m going to teach her a lesson and make her willingly turn into an ugly woman!"

As she strode off, the maid immediately followed suit, while the old man with unfathomable strength lagged behind; with his power, however, even at a greater distance, no one could harm Mei Yixiang.

Zhou Heng followed them out, and the group stopped after passing just a few private rooms. The man who had come in to report earlier promptly knocked on the door.

"Come in!" A delicate, soft voice called out from inside, unbearably sweet and enchanting to the point that it almost made one’s bones melt.

Zhou Heng’s face twitched at once; he recognized that voice—it was Xiao Huoshui! Every time he saw this woman, his spirits would rise uncontrollably, which made her one of the last people he wanted to see.

Mei Yixiang led the way inside. Zhou Heng originally wanted to turn around and leave, but considering the favor he owed Xiao Yuheng, he couldn’t just stand by and do nothing, so he also entered.

Inside, there were only two women—the infamous Xiao Huoshui and another maid. Although the maid was also quite attractive, she paled in comparison to the disaster-level charm of Xiao Huoshui, which made one inadvertently overlook her.

Xiao Huoshui held a golden big cat in her arms; the cat’s ribs showed two protuberances, but thankfully they were hidden by a covering of golden fur, otherwise they would have looked rather unsightly.

Looking around, Zhou Heng didn’t see a third person. That meant this so-called Little Gold wasn’t a person at all, but a big cat, right?

No, that’s not a cat!

Zhou Heng’s gaze sharpened. This was clearly a tiger cub, its limbs were sturdy, nothing like the agility of a cat.

"Ugly woman, return Little Gold to Miss Mei!" Mei Yixiang was polite to Zhou Heng, but her attitude toward Xiao Huoshui couldn’t be more different, laden with arrogant command.

Indeed, beauties can never be friends. Lin Fuxiang and An Yumei shot daggers at each other with their eyes every time they met, stirring undercurrents of hostility; and now Mei Yixiang was just as uncompromising with Xiao Huoshui.

"Ugly woman?" Xiao Huoshui was initially stunned, but after a glance at Mei Yixiang’s chest, enlightenment dawned, and she burst into a sultry laugh, her voluptuous body trembling like blooming branches, waves of her bosom entrancing—alluring to the extreme. She was a natural seductress; any action she took became irresistibly tempting, especially the sight of a beautiful woman’s sweet laughter, which was enough to make hearts flutter.

"Little sister, where do I look ugly?" Standing up with confidence, her voluptuous figure was sensual but not exhibitionist, her demeanor enticing yet not lewd, and every pore of her exuded the charm of a mesmerizing woman.

"From top to bottom, every bit of you is ugly!" Mei Yixiang huffed, then turned to the tiger cub and called out, "Little Gold, come here!"

At her shout, the tiger cub, which had been lying comfortably in Xiao Huoshui’s arms, shuddered and instead buried its little head into the generous bosom of Xiao Huoshui! If the men of the Imperial Capital were to see this scene, they would undoubtedly cry out: "Release that tiger, let me do it!"

"Giggle, little sister, it seems your chest is underdeveloped, even little tiger cubs disdain you!" Xiao Huoshui proudly pushed forward her already protruding chest, making it appear even more majestic and sensual.

"My chest is perfect, not like yours that’s so fat it’s going to droop to the floor!" Mei Yixiang rebutted without showing weakness.

"Don’t be jealous of your sister’s figure!" Xiao Huoshui boasted while the cub in her arms laid one paw on her chest, opened its toothless mouth, and made a suckling gesture.

"You ungrateful Little Gold, I’m going to skin you and make roast tiger cub!" Mei Yixiang stomped her foot in anger.

"Young Master Zhou has also arrived?" Xiao Huoshui finally turned to Zhou Heng. The enmity amongst beautiful women was immense; only after dealing with Mei Yixiang did she find the time to pay attention to Zhou Heng.

"Let me introduce you. This is Miss Xiao Huoshui, the second young lady of the Xiao Family from the Imperial Capital! And this is Miss Mei Yixiang from Bright Moon Country!" Zhou Heng stiffly introduced the two, not wanting to witness a fight between the women. Xiao Huoshui would definitely lose, and even if Xiao Yuheng himself intervened, it wouldn’t help.

"Big breasted cow!"

"Flat-chested!"

The two women still faced off, with no signs of reconciliation. However, in the midst of this, the little tiger cub broke free from Xiao Huoshui’s embrace, leapt to the floor, and landed with surprising lightness.

Mei Yixiang rejoiced, momentarily forgetting her previous intention to roast the tiger cub, and quickly crouched down, opening her arms to the little tiger.

"Little Tiger, come back!" Xiao Huoshui also crouched down, luring the cub like one would do with a puppy. Due to her posture, her ample chest was squeezed into a prominent bulge, offering a glimpse of spring from her neckline that could make one’s nose bleed.

However, the tiger cub paid no heed and staggered towards Mei Yixiang, making her smugly triumphant.

"Little Gold, let sister hold you!" As the tiger cub approached, Mei Yixiang intended to pick it up, but the cub took a sharp turn, stopped on a dime, and then scurried to Zhou Heng’s feet, nuzzling his ankles.

Both women’s faces darkened as they realized they had been bested by Zhou Heng, a situation they found unbearable!

"This must be a female tiger!" They unprecedentedly shared the same thought.

Feeling the cub’s obvious affection, Zhou Heng couldn’t help but pick it up. The little tiger flung itself into his embrace, incessantly scratching at his chest with its paws and opening its toothless mouth, drool flowing freely.

"Haha, Young Master Zhou, it looks like you’ll need to feed it milk!" Xiao Huoshui, who knew nothing of restraint, immediately teased Zhou Heng, heedless of whether such a remark was appropriate for a woman to make to a man.

Zhou Heng was caught between laughter and tears. What was going on with this tiger cub, and how did it come to think it could find milk with him?

Animals are naturally sensitive and would never mistake their mother, so could there be something on him that attracted the cub? Zhou Heng felt around his body and pulled out three small, semi-transparent beads the size of soybeans.

"Ao, ao, ao—" The cub immediately let out a not-so-loud cry, its limbs flailing even more energetically.

"Moon Bead?" Mei Yixiang, being worldly, immediately recognized them.

Was the cub drawn to him because of the Moon Beads?

Zhou Heng tried feeding a Moon Bead to the cub, which the little guy gulped down whole since it had no teeth to chew.

"No kidding, don’t let it choke to death!" Zhou Heng frowned. The tiger wasn’t his, and if it died from the Moon Bead, that would be a huge problem. He tilted the cub’s head downward and repeatedly shook it up and down.

"What are you doing!" Mei Yixiang quickly snatched over Little Golden Tiger, pursing her lips in disapproval, "How can you mistreat such adorable Little Gold? You’re so heartless!"

Zhou Heng chuckled and said, "I wonder who it was that mentioned eating roasted milk tiger earlier!"

"Hmm, who said that? Who said that? How dare they think of eating Miss’s pet?" Mei Yixiang pouted indignantly.

"It was you—" Zhou Heng and Xiao Huoshui both pointed at her simultaneously.

"Nonsense, how could I say something so cruel? You’re both too mean!" Mei Yixiang shook her head vigorously, but the little tiger in her arms, far from giving her face, struggled to jump down, only held back by her tight grip. It could only look pitifully at Zhou Heng with big, sad eyes.

"Hey, if you squeeze any tighter you really might kill it!" Zhou Heng cautioned.

"Ah!" Mei Yixiang immediately loosened her hold, and the little tiger seized the opportunity to break free, scampering back to Zhou Heng’s feet to act spoiled.

"Looks like it really likes eating Moon Beads!" This time, Mei Yixiang wasn’t angry but showed a thoughtful expression.

"Then this little rascal really is high maintenance. I admit I can’t afford to keep it and don’t want it anymore!" Xiao Huoshui shook her head rapidly. A joke, of course—Moon Beads needed a Spiritual Sea Realm Expert to capture the Essence of Moonlight to make, and which expert would be so idle as to make Moon Beads every day?

This item was also exorbitantly expensive and virtually priceless in the Cold Blue Country. If the milk tiger’s diet was Moon Beads, then nobody in Cold Blue Country could afford to keep it except for Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng tossed the remaining two Moon Beads to the milk tiger, which the little creature eagerly gobbled down. He wasn’t very concerned about the Moon Beads; there were four days out of every week he forgot to take out the Treasure Moon Mirror, so he only had three Moon Beads in total.

Sure enough, anyone with milk was a mother; the little tiger stayed at Zhou Heng’s feet, refusing to leave, seemingly having acknowledged a godfather. It would get angry with anyone who tried to carry it off, hissing with a toothless mouth.

"Forget it, I’ll give this silly tiger to you!" Mei Yixiang said, peeved.

"What’s the story with this tiger cub?" Zhou Heng asked her, because a cub that could feed on Moon Beads surely couldn’t be an ordinary breed.

"Don’t know, just picked it up on the way here!" Mei Yixiang shrugged nonchalantly.

This woman’s luck was truly incredible, to casually pick up an Exotic Tiger that fed on Moon Beads!

Zhou Heng decided to accept Mei Yixiang’s favor, saying, "Then I won’t be polite!"

Knock, knock, knock!

Just then, the room door was knocked on once again, but since it was already ajar, it was immediately pushed open, revealing a handsome man with a slender figure.

"Xiang!" The handsome man’s gaze swept immediately to Mei Yixiang, his face lighting up with a bright smile, "I heard you were here and hurried over too!"

"Ying Bingfeng, can’t you just disappear?" Mei Yixiang said, annoyed.

However, the handsome man seemed not to mind at all, his gaze on Mei Yixiang was one of infatuation, but when he spared Zhou Heng a glance, a trace of killing intent flashed across his face. Upon seeing Xiao Huoshui, his eyes gleamed, showing a hint of amazement. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it at qidian.com. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to continue reading.)