Chapter Ninety-Two: Precocious

Once Master Clear-Void finished speaking, he immediately rose to his feet and strode off in high spirits.

When White Little Moon saw him enter Clear-Void Temple, she hurried over to Yan Crimson Hero’s side and, looking at the sword wound on the front of his robe, asked with deep concern:

“Brother, tell your sister quickly—when Immortal Xuanxuan stabbed you with that sword, it must have hurt terribly, yes?”

“Mm!” Yan Crimson Hero said, still shaken. “Sister, that stab hurt to the bone. It was unforgettable... it hurt so badly I fainted on the spot!”

Hearing this, White Little Moon could not help but shed tears of distress.

“Then... brother, does the wound still hurt now?”

“No, it doesn’t anymore,” Yan Crimson Hero replied. “Sister, why are you crying?”

“I’m not,” White Little Moon said with a sweet smile, quickly raising a hand to wipe away her tears. At that moment Little Bunny laughed and said:

“Hee-hee, Sister White, if you’re crying, then you’re crying. Why hide it and refuse to admit it? It’s only natural for you to feel sorry for Brother Yan when he’s been hurt!”

White Little Moon’s face flushed red.

“Little Bunny, what do you know?”

“Hee-hee...” Little Bunny made a naughty face. “Sister White, I don’t know anything at all. I’m still too young, so my heart hasn’t awakened to love yet!”

“Little Bunny, what nonsense are you saying?” White Little Moon said, blushing furiously.

Pine Cone could not help asking in his honest, rough voice:

“Little Bunny, what does ‘heart awakening to love’ mean?”

Little Bunny glanced at White Little Moon in great mischief and answered:

“Pine Cone, it means Sister White has taken a liking to—”

Before she could finish, White Little Moon hurriedly covered her mouth.

“Little Bunny, stop talking nonsense!”

Though White Little Moon had covered Little Bunny’s mouth to keep her from spouting further nonsense, Yan Crimson Hero also understood what Little Bunny had been about to say. His own face reddened, and suddenly he remembered how he had kissed Serpent Beauty in Doom Valley. Feeling that he had let White Little Moon down, he could not help blurting out:

“Sister, I... I...”

When she saw Yan Crimson Hero hesitate and stop short, White Little Moon grew very puzzled and quickly asked:

“Brother, what is it?”

“Yes!” Little Bunny also could not help asking. “Brother Yan, what’s wrong with you? Why are you speaking so haltingly? You’re making us anxious to death! If you have something to say, just say it plainly—there’s no one else here!”

“I...” Yan Crimson Hero’s face turned even redder. “Sister, in Doom Valley... I... I kissed Serpent Beauty...”

“What?!” White Little Moon’s heart gave a sudden tremor. She was just wondering what to say when Little Bunny cried out in alarm:

“Oh my! Brother Yan, how could you do that? Sister White belongs to you—you should be kissing Sister White! Why didn’t you kiss Sister White, and instead kissed that little vixen? Brother Yan, what you did was a bit...”

“Little Bunny, enough nonsense!” Before she could finish, White Little Moon, her face burning, interrupted her. “The reason your Brother Yan did that must have been his own reason!” Then she turned her gaze back to Yan Crimson Hero. “Brother, if I’m not mistaken, Serpent Beauty must have used some trick to threaten you, right?”

“That’s right!” Yan Crimson Hero nodded, red all the way to his ears, and then he recounted everything exactly as it had happened. When he finally said that, having no other choice, he had only kissed the back of Serpent Beauty’s hand, the knot in White Little Moon’s heart immediately loosened, and she blurted out in relief:

“That’s good. Thank goodness you didn’t kiss her there!”

Pine Cone was utterly baffled and asked in his honest way:

“Sister White, where is ‘there’?”

“Ah?” White Little Moon realized she had let something slip and flushed scarlet. “‘There’... means there!”

“Really?” Pine Cone still had not received a clear answer, so he scratched his scalp while muttering to himself, “There... where on earth is there?”

“Oh, come on!” Little Bunny could not help saying. “Pine Cone, you’re so dumb! What Sister White means by ‘there’ is, of course, here!” She pointed casually to her own sweet, rosy little mouth.

When Pine Cone saw that, he grinned and said in his rough voice:

“Heh-heh-heh, so ‘there’ is your lips, Little Bunny!”

“Not my lips,” Little Bunny corrected him at once. “Serpent Beauty’s lips.”

“What’s the matter with Serpent Beauty’s lips? Couldn’t Brother Yan kiss them?” Pine Cone asked unconcernedly.

Little Bunny glared at him angrily.

“Dummy! What do you know? Brother Yan kissing the back of Serpent Beauty’s hand is no big deal. But if he had kissed Serpent Beauty’s lips, then Brother Yan would have lost his first kiss! Brother Yan’s first kiss is precious beyond price—it has to be saved for Sister White...”

“Little Bunny, what are you saying?” White Little Moon’s heart was fluttering wildly, and she was too shy to bear it. “You’re still so young...”

“Hee-hee,” Little Bunny said, making another face and taking up the thread. “Sister White, does my being so young that I already know what a first kiss is count as being a little too precocious?”

White Little Moon did not dare speak again, afraid that one careless word would give Little Bunny more ammunition to seize upon. But Yan Crimson Hero, his face flushed bright red, laughed and said:

“Heh-heh, Little Bunny, you’re not just a little precocious—you’re outrageously precocious! Lucky for you that you’re a person. If you were a melon, you’d probably rot in the ground before you were even sold!”

“Hee-hee-hee...” Little Bunny laughed delightedly. “I don’t want to rot in the ground! Brother Yan, if I were a melon, Pine Cone would pick me before I rotted and put me in his basket...”

“Heh-heh...” Pine Cone immediately laughed. “Little Bunny, I’ll listen to you. Whenever you tell me to pick you, that’s when I’ll pick you—I’ll make sure you never rot in the ground.”

Yan Crimson Hero and White Little Moon both laughed.

After laughing, White Little Moon said to Yan Crimson Hero:

“Brother, where should I put the gold and these Five-Color Spirit Stones I have in my pocket?”

Yan Crimson Hero replied:

“Sister, put them all in my bedroom.”

“All right.” White Little Moon nodded. “Little Bunny, Pine Cone, come on, let’s work together.”

Little Bunny and Pine Cone agreed readily, and the four of them set about moving the Five-Color Spirit Stones into Yan Crimson Hero’s bedroom.

At that moment, Yan Crimson Hero suddenly remembered Serpent Beauty’s words, “I’d rather die than say it,” and could not help laughing.

“Heh-heh, Sister, Little Bunny, Pine Cone, isn’t Serpent Beauty interesting? In Doom Valley, when she gave me the Five-Color Spirit Stones, she made me swear never to tell anyone that she had a Five-Color Spirit Stone mine—she said to remember it clearly, that I should never say it even if I were beaten to death! But just now, when she came back here and saw you all, she blurted out herself that she has a Five-Color Spirit Stone mine... What do you think of her?”

“Hee-hee, she’s just showing off!” Little Bunny said with a laugh.

White Little Moon did not laugh. Instead, she said with sincere envy:

“And who could blame Serpent Beauty for showing off? She really does have the right to show off! Not only can she use the Clear-Wind Escape Art, but she also has many magical treasures in her storage ring, and in Doom Valley she even controls a whole Five-Color Spirit Stone mine!”