Li Xiang the Immortal
47 - Winning Bets

"You slept on the floor." Xiao Xing Fu.

"Is this your revenge because I always told you to sleep downstairs?" Li Xiang pouted.

"Yes." Yeah." Xiao Xing Fu replied without a second thought.

Li Xiang sighed, "Alright, this is better than having to sleep outside anyway." He lay on the floor near the bed. While Xiao Xing Fu was, he immediately slept on his bed.

***

It was very late at night, more precisely dawn. The festival has been over since midnight. Many of the residents were soundly asleep in a happy state. But also tired.

Someone was standing on top of a house. "So here they keep it?" He muttered to himself. He immediately jumped down and faced the house.

"There's no guard here at all." He walked towards the door while looking around. Then when he saw the open window by the door, he went straight to him and entered slowly, without making a sound.

When he went inside, he was in a living room. He walked through several rooms without stopping. His steps came to a halt only when he found a room with a closed door that had sunflower sculptures. "Here is it? At first I thought it might be there. But it turns out they kept it in the village chief's house." He opened the door and entered it.

The room was filled with many books of varying colors and sizes. There is also a chair and a round table in the corner of the room. He closed the door that was opened. After that, he pushed one of the thousands of books in this place. The book is red with a higanbana painting.

The book that was pushed by him seemed to go inside. Shortly after, the bookshelf beside him opened to the side, revealing a stairway leading down. "It turns out you're keeping it down there." He smiled cynically. "Look, you won't be able to see her again."

***

Xiao Xing Fu opened his eyes when it was already morning. He rubbed his eyes and came down from the bed, walking to the front of the window. "Hoams... Is it morning now?" Mumbled. He slowly opened the window until the typical cold morning breeze went inside. The sun is just about to come out at this time.

He glanced back when he heard the loud snoring from earlier. "He's so noisy." Resenting. "Do I need to cover it with a pillow?" He walked over to Li Xiang who was asleep on the floor.

"Wake up, fool!" Shouted Xiao Xing Fu.

"Eng.. Mn.. Ms.." Li Xiang simply muttered an indistinct murmur without opening his eyes. He seemed reluctant to wake up.

Xiao Xing Fu crouched down beside Li Xiang and shook his hands, "Wake up!!"

"Eng.. Mn.. Mn.. Hm. quiet.."

"Just keep sleeping!" The Upset Xiao Xing Fu. He threw his face the other way. However he looked back at Li Xiang when he remembered something. "Right.if she's still asleep, I can try to see her."

He started touching Li Xiang's neck and intended to open the bandage around his neck.

"Mn? What do you want to do?"

Xiao Xing Fu was shocked as his wrist was held back by Li Xiang, even before he had the chance to open his bandage. His teacher opened his eyes and looked at him lazily.

"A-that's.." Xiao Xing Fu could not say anything. He could only turn his eyes the other way.

Li Xiang was still staring at Xiao Xing Fu lazily and sleepily. "Don't bother me. I want to sleep, hoams.."

Xiao Xing Fu pulled his hand from Li Xiang's clutch, "It's morning now! Don't sleep on!"

Li Xiang closed his eyes again, "Hoams. Very tiring. I want to sleep longer. If you're going to leave, I'll get up and be ready to go with you. Don't wake me up now." He snored again loudly.

***

The day continued, until now it had been 1 month since Xiao Lei had come along with Xiao Xing Fu. In accordance with the agreement, Xiao Lei could not bring her grandson because during this month Xiao Xing Fu was not dying on the journey with Li Xiang.

"Hehehe. I won this bet. Give me 500 gold coins and you go back to your sect." Li Xiang rubbed both hands. He seemed to be impatient with the money that Xiao Lei would give.

Xiao Lei sighed. "Why should I make a bet like this with him? I was too careless. If it's like this, I won't be able to bring Fu'er to the sect."

Xiao Lei threw a bag full of gold coins at Li Xiang suddenly, making the teenager fall with a pile of gold coins in a bag that was on his stomach.

"Hehe. I will always win betting with you. Because I have absolute luck!" The arrogant Li Xiang.

"Sih, it's up to you." Xiao Lei faced Xiao Xing Fu dejectedly, "It seems like getting here only grandfather can come with you. But promise me one day you'll visit the sect to see grandfather, Fu'er." He immediately hugged Xiao Xing Fu.

Xiao Xing Fu hugged his grandfather. He smiled softly, "Yes, I will visit grandfather one day. Thank you for accompanying me, Grandpa."

After a while, the two finally let go of his embrace. Xiao Lei smiled at Xiao Xing Fu, although he actually felt sad. "This is for you, Fu'er. It's not much, but Grandpa wants you to take it. Inside is your father's token."

Xiao Xing Fu directly took the space ring that Xiao Lei had thrust at him, "Father's Token? Thanks. grandpa." He looked at Xiao Lei sadly. For a month with his grandfather, he was comfortable and used to it. But now he has to part with her.

Xiao Lei nodded, "I'm sorry you had to experience all that, Fu'er. I'm sorry at the time that Grandpa wasn't next to you.. At that time, you must have been very scared and lonely.. But grandfather is not there for you. Sorry grandpa.." He lowered his head as a sign of regret.

"No," Xiao Xing Fu shook his head. "Grandfather didn't do anything wrong to me. So there's no need to apologize."

Xiao Lei smiled faintly, "Then grandfather leave now."

Li Xiang suddenly withdrew Xiao Xing Fu's hand and made the granddaughter and grandfather slightly move away. He pulled his disciple walking away from Xiao Lei.

"Hey, what are you doing?!" The Upset Xiao Xing Fu. "Don't come to pull me! I want to see Grandpa in a minute!" He glanced back to look at Xiao Lei who also looked annoyed with Li Xiang.

"All right, see you, Lei. Maybe next time we can meet again." Li Xiang waved his hand without looking back.

"Take a look if something bad happens to my Fu'er, Jian! I'll find you!" Shouted Xiao Lei. "No matter what will happen to me, I will still look for you if something bad happens to her! Hey, Jian! You hear me?!"

"Yes, I heard you, old man. No need to scream like that." Li Xiang shouted lazily.

"Take me off. I want to see her before she leaves!" Xiao Xing Fu tried to take his hand off Li Xiang. However, his teacher was unwilling to let go.

"If you see his departure, you'll only get sadder. So don't look back. Just look ahead. Anyway, you can meet him again someday." Ketus Li Xiang's.

Xiao Xing Fu glanced back. Xiao Lei had already started walking away from his place, walking in the opposite direction to him. In the afternoon today, in the meadow, they had to part ways.

"I told you, don't look back."

When he heard Li Xiang's words, Xiao Xing Fu looked back to the front, "Yes, yes, now let go of my hand."

Li Xiang removed Xiao Xing Fu's hand from him. "It."