Chapter 4063 — Nameless Wicked Flame

Though a kidnapping incident had occurred not long ago, this was, after all, still the territory of the Santie Pavilion on the Northern Island. So long as proper precautions were taken, there was no need to worry about the two women's personal safety.

The two of them immediately set out with Little Curly Bear, heading straight for the Hong Family Trading Company on the inner street of the market quarter. It happened to be an open day for the inner street, so the two women did not even need to reveal their identities—they simply followed the flow of the crowd straight through the gates of the Hong Family Trading Company.

On the Northern Island, female cultivators were already an exceedingly rare sight, and these two were peerless beauties of a kind rarely seen even once in a lifetime. Even amid the bustling crowds, wherever they went, they naturally became the center of attention.

The moment the two stepped inside the Hong Family Trading Company, a sharp-eyed clerk abandoned his other customers and came rushing up, his face wreathed in smiles. "Misses, might I ask what treasures you'd like to buy? How about I take you on a little tour of the shop?"

"No need. I'm looking for a certain young clerk of your Hong Family Trading Company!" Ning Xuefei said, barely able to contain her impatience.

"A young clerk? Aren't I a young clerk myself? What orders does the young lady have for me?" The clerk was briefly taken aback, then hastily put on a fawning smile. A beauty of such peerless charm coming to seek him out—could his lucky day have finally arrived?

Ning Xuefei covertly pinched Shangguan Lan'er, who was snickering beside her, and rolled her eyes in exasperation. "It's not you I'm looking for—I'm looking for a different young clerk!"

As she spoke, Ning Xuefei and Shangguan Lan'er, already the objects of much attention, became all the more the focus of the entire gathering. Everyone present could not help exchanging glances. Two little beauties who made mouths water, and they were looking for a mere clerk—what on earth was going on?

Could this be what people meant by fine flowers doomed to be planted in cow dung?

"Looking for a young clerk?" Si Haitao had just returned at that moment. Though he was already dead drunk, his cultivation ensured that no matter how drunk he got, he would never simply collapse.

Hearing the pleasing female voices drifting up from the crowd below, he groggily poked his head out from the private room on the second floor. When his eyes fell on Ning Xuefei and Shangguan Lan'er, Si Haitao's gaze went instantly rigid.

Holy hell! These two chicks are absolutely top-tier!

Earlier, the Nan Tianxiong and Nan Tianguan brothers had accompanied him on a debauched spree in a brothel—three girls at once, no less—but those were merely ordinary women, incomparable to the female cultivators of the Central Island, on an entirely different level. In the end, Si Haitao had never properly enjoyed himself.

Yet now, scarcely back at the Hong Family Trading Company, he had discovered two top-tier girls of a caliber rarely seen even on the Central Island. Si Haitao's appetite was instantly whetted. Leering at the two women, he stroked his chin and muttered, "Looking for a young clerk? What for? Don't tell me these two are some clerk's mistresses?"

At this moment Si Haitao was both dead drunk and thoroughly besotted with lust. Muddling through the thought in his haze, he found it highly plausible. Recently he had been busy straightening out internal affairs and had not yet paid a formal visit to the Santie Pavilion, so it was hardly surprising that he did not recognize Shangguan Lan'er.

In his understanding, there were simply no female cultivators on the Northern Island, so he had ruled out from the start the possibility that these two women were cultivators from the Santie Pavilion. Since these two little chicks had come looking for some damned clerk, then it was certain—they must be mistresses!

Damn it, which clerk is it, to have such luck as to land such peerless, top-tier girls? What a waste of heaven's gifts! Even I, a distinguished shopkeeper, have never enjoyed such romantic fortune.

The thought sent Si Haitao's lust surging. These two women must be ordinary women who had never seen the wider world. If they could take a fancy even to a mere clerk, then surely getting them into his bed was a simple matter of saying the word?

"Wahaha! Heaven means for me to enjoy romantic fortune—it simply cannot be stopped!" Si Haitao forcibly steadied his spirit and rose at once, impatient to head downstairs, all the while conjuring visions in his mind of two peerless beauties serving him together. That sensation would be enough to kill a man!

Just then, amid the crowd at the entrance, Wei Zhao's figure suddenly appeared.

Wei Zhao had come, naturally, to purchase the supplementary materials the Scrap King had instructed him to procure. Though Hong Zhong was no longer here, these were all ordinary, readily available goods—not rare treasures like the Star Ink Stone that could only be stumbled upon by chance—so he reckoned Si Haitao would not make trouble for him over such trifles.

Of course, if Si Haitao truly did, Wei Zhao could always buy elsewhere—from Chen Heihu, for instance. But Chen Heihu's operation could hardly compare with the vast resources of the Hong Family Trading Company. Even if he was willing to help, many of the materials would not be in stock, requiring him to seek out suppliers on short notice—a bit of a hassle.

The moment he stepped through the door, Wei Zhao noticed Ning Xuefei and Shangguan Lan'er, the center of the crowd's attention, and the sharp-eyed Little Curly Bear spotted Wei Zhao at once, leaping over the heads of the crowd straight onto his shoulder.

"Young clerk, so here you are! I was just looking for you!" Ning Xuefei's eyes lit up at once, and pulling Shangguan Lan'er along, she squeezed her way over.

Shangguan Lan'er, her face a picture of bewilderment, pointed at Ning Xuefei, then at Wei Zhao. "Huh? So he's the young clerk you were looking for? What are the odds?"

"What is it?" Ning Xuefei glanced at Shangguan Lan'er in confusion.

Shangguan Lan'er was dumbfounded for a moment before she said incredulously, "This young clerk of yours—he's actually the very junior fellow disciple I told you about, Wei Zhao!"

"Really? How can that be?" Ning Xuefei was startled at once.

Wei Zhao looked at Ning Xuefei in equal astonishment. What was she doing here? And she knew Shangguan Lan'er? Amid his shock, he could not help secretly marveling at how small this world was—that even something like this should happen to him!

But noting the peculiar stares of the others, Wei Zhao realized at once that this place was crowded and full of prying eyes. Better to take the two women somewhere quieter before they talked.

Yet before Wei Zhao could speak, Si Haitao had already shoved his way through the crowd, reeking of liquor, and squeezed over to them.

Already besotted with lust, Si Haitao grew all the more excited at the sudden appearance of Wei Zhao. Though he had never met Wei Zhao face to face, he had seen his portrait, and Shangguan Lan'er's words had just confirmed Wei Zhao's identity for him.

He had been pondering how to lure Wei Zhao out—and now, in the blink of an eye, the brat had delivered himself right to his door!

Already nursing a grudge to help the Nan Tianjiguang and Nan Tianxiong brothers deal with Wei Zhao, Si Haitao now saw that both little chicks knew Wei Zhao as well, and a nameless wicked flame abruptly flared in his heart. R1152