Chapter 4: Fragrant Bath

  Xiang Qiushui stared blankly at this majestic, ancient, and peculiar mansion, her soul suddenly entering a desolate, yet thrilling atmosphere that was beyond description.

  The soul seems to be wandering, leaping and rising in the desolate ancient battlefield of a distant era, trembling wave after wave, as if it wants to escape from this smelly skin bag...

  At this moment, his appearance is actually consistent with Ah Diao's usual stupid and numb expression, so it didn't attract anyone's attention.

  "Stupid child! What are you staring at? Don't you recognize your own home? Let's go in!" A relieved smile appeared on her mother's haggard face. This dramatic turn of events, filled with sorrow and joy, had also left her exhausted.

  "Oh! Wife goes first, son helps you in."

  Xiang Qiushui respectfully replied, stretching out his right hand to gently hold his mother Zhang's plain hand.

  It was strange that Mother Zhang did not immediately move forward, but instead her pupils suddenly enlarged, and her red and swollen peony eyes revealed a hint of sharpness, staring straight at Xiang Qiushui's dazed expression.

  "How strange! This child has suddenly become sensible and clear-headed since coming out of the coffin. Could it be that 'Hui Yu' is blessing my child to suddenly wake up? What a wonderful thing..."

  The relatives and family members around him, including the uncle and aunt, were all staring at Xiang Qiushui in a daze, with a look of astonishment in their eyes.

  "What's wrong? Did I do something wrong, did it show?" Xiang Qiushui hastily scanned herself from head to toe, sneaking a glance at her mother Zhang Shi, and felt a little uneasy in her heart.

  "Alright! Let's go!" Zhang shook her head slightly, as if she thought her own inference was absurd, and didn't say anything else. She slowly walked into the courtyard with light steps.

  Xiang Qiushui was after all a clever person and immediately guessed the reason for the Xiang family's confusion.

  This foolish son is usually silly and stupid, how can he still stretch out his hand to support his mother Zhang Shi, and the tone of his voice reveals filial piety.

  The normal reaction should be ignoring him and walking or running into the house alone...

  "Xiang Qiushui! In this unfamiliar place, there are hidden dangers everywhere. Now that I'm in this frail and weak body, compared to the innate experts of Huaxia, I'm completely not on the same level, so I have to be extra careful. To return to Huaxia, at least I need to keep my life safe first..." Xiang Qiushui walked slowly with his mother Zhang Shi, his emotions complex.

  Step across the thick, sturdy wooden door with a copper package in a slightly blackish yellow color!

  In the courtyard, there is a very large sky well, square and over 150 meters wide. The sky well is actually a huge pool, filled with all kinds of lotus flowers, competing for beauty, breathtakingly beautiful.

  Big and small goldfish are swimming freely in the pool, playing, chasing each other, so happy. In the center of the pool, there is also a pavilion with four eaves rising high, fake hills, ponds, flying eaves, wood carvings, stone carvings, ring corridors, strip pillars...

  Serene and secluded!

  Mrs Zhang walked directly through the corridor surrounding the house and headed towards a row of houses on the east side.

  Bang! Bang! Bang!

  He went straight up to the fourth floor. The courtyard was crowded with people, bustling about. Now that the young master has come back to life, of course all the funeral things should be removed.

  Some are taking down the black mourning drapes, others are clearing out the funeral parlor, getting rid of all those inauspicious white, yellow and black funeral items and burning them.

  Get lost!

  However! Those girls looked at Ah-Dai's eyes with some flicker, and their bodies also trembled slightly, keeping a distance from him. I guess it's still a bit hard to accept the fact that a dead person can blow up from a coffin and come back to life, so they're all a bit frightened.

  Xiang Qiushui knew that the square mansion was divided into four directions: east, south, west and north. From Ah Dai's vague memory, he understood that because Ah Dai's father Xiang Huaiyi had been the county magistrate of Haigang County, during the war due to his good work in logistics, by coincidence, he even saved the life of the princess, so he received a special reward from the governor-general. He should have been promoted to county magistrate, but...

  His father, Xiang Huaiyi, used this reward money to renovate the Xiang family's mansion. As a result, when the house was redistributed, Xiang Qiushui's branch of the family got the entire eastern wing, which is about 180 meters long and has at least one or two hundred rooms.

  The gate is right in front of you.

  The northern main hall of the house, of course, was owned by the clan leader, Da Bo Xiang Huaiyi. The opposite side, that is, the western part, was jointly owned by Er Bo Xiang Huaiqu and San Bo Xiang Huagui, each with half.

  The gate head is just this, the south-facing residence of the fourth uncle Xiang Huifeng and the fifth uncle Xiang Huaishun. The situation is roughly like this, and Ah-Dai's memory is also very vague.

  Xiang Qiushui followed her mother, Zhang Shi, into the main hall of their own house. On both sides of the hall were placed a row of intricately carved wooden chairs with classical designs, and in the center of the main hall was placed a shiny, tiger-skin carved chair like those used by ancient emperors.

  Next to it was a slightly smaller, round fox-shaped backrest carved wooden chair. Mother Zhang stretched out her white orchid finger and lovingly stroked the tiger skin chair, but didn't sit on it, instead sitting on the small chair next to it, guessing that the tiger skin chair was where Father Xiang Huaiyi used to sit.

  Ah Diao first stepped over the fire basin to dispel the bad luck. Then, symbolically washed his hands with holy water (temple water) in a copper basin, indicating farewell to the past.

  Finally, under the leadership of the two lovely girls, Lianxiang and Lianxiao, they entered the inner room to bathe and change clothes. Although Ah Duan had already been thoroughly cleaned by 'Qing Shi Po' when he was put in his coffin, and his clothes were also newly changed.

  But now I still have to take a bath and change clothes again. That high-end silk fabric coffin garment, of course, has to be burned.

  Because Ah Dai was foolish from childhood, his parents specially arranged for him to be served by two maidservants, Lianxiang and Lianxian, who had been attending to him since he was young. Therefore, the two of them were very close to Ah Dai. The other maidservants still feared Ah Dai, this person who had just exploded out of his coffin.

  But they were not afraid at all.

  Lotus fragrance poured water into the wooden bucket, and Lotus Fragrance skillfully stretched out her delicate hands to help Ah-Dai undo his buttons. Xiang Qiushui reflexively dodged to the side. He was a modern Chinese man, after all, and had never experienced such amorous treatment before!

  Although in my previous life, I occasionally went to the sauna massage room with friends, but I took off my clothes myself. This time, two beautiful girls around 18 years old suddenly appeared and wanted to undress me, which made my body feel itchy and uncomfortable all over.

  Lotus fragrance felt a bit dazed and thought: "What's wrong with Master today? Did he hit his head?"

  Because the rarely outgoing Ah-Dai yesterday actually asked to go play in the mountains, as a result, he accidentally fell down from a small mountain. In fact, at that time Ah-Dai felt like someone had pushed him from behind, "whoosh" and then everything went black, he didn't know anything anymore.

  At that time, he directly fell into a heap of rotten and smelly weeds. Strangely, there was not a single wound on his body, only a slight scratch on the skin, which disappeared soon after. In fact, he was in a state of apparent death at that time.

  Later, Mother Zhang specially invited the most famous Dr. Xue Miao Shou Lang from Haicheng County to come and examine her. After Doctor Xue's careful examination, he concluded that she had suffered a severe brain injury, with blood stasis leading to death.

  Xiang Qiushui dodged to the side and saw Yā Huán Liánxīng's shocked expression, immediately coming back to her senses. She silently scolded herself: "Xiang Qiushui, you've forgotten your identity again! You're a fool, so you should act like one. Earlier, even as a fool, I suspected that someone had pushed me down the mountain. Not even sparing a fool shows that Xiang Fu is also extremely unsafe, full of crises and dangers. Before reaching the 'Wushi' level, I have no ability to protect myself, so for now, let's just continue pretending to be a fool... Don't end up losing your life, or you won't even have the chance to return to Huaxia..."

  Thinking of these things.

  Xie Qiushui's eyes immediately dimmed, and she tried her best to contort her facial muscles into a stupid expression. Having been an airhead for nearly 10 years, it didn't take long for her to get back into character after merging with the memories of an airhead. At this moment, she had completely restored her idiotic appearance.

  The whole person stood stupidly in front of the wooden bucket, letting Lian Xiang give him a wide robe and untie his belt. However, when Lian Xiang used her slender tender hands to take off Xiang Qiu Shui's underwear, Xiang Qiu Shui still trembled inexplicably for a moment.

  "A-Dai, isn't it cold? Hurry up and get into the bathtub, you won't be cold once you're in the hot water." Lian-Xin asked with concern, helping A-Dai into the wooden tub.

  She also thought that Ah-Dai was afraid of the cold, because Ah-Dai had been thin and weak since childhood, to the point where even on a hot summer evening like this, taking a bath would elicit a "brrr" sound indicating fear of the cold. Therefore, Xiang Qiushui's reserved behavior just now had misled her.

  Alas! This luxurious bath was simply cruel torture for Xia Qiushui, a modern person who wasn't stupid. Under the gentle care of Lian Xiang and Lian Xiang, two lovely girls with their breasts already standing upright, they carefully scrubbed his back, massaged his waist, and washed his feet...

  What made Xiang Qiu spit blood first was that the two girls would take off their own green skirts when serving him in bathing, leaving only knee-length flower underwear and bright red belly wraps, possibly because they were afraid of getting wet or dirty.

  A servant girl, even if the master is very good to you, it's impossible for him to make several sets of clothes for you every year. Moreover, Ah-Dai's family is not extremely wealthy, probably just a small fortune at most.

  That erect meat peak, when moving, would occasionally pop out of the belly band, and in front of Xiang Qiushui's eyes, it would sway back and forth.

  Because 'Ah-Dai' is an idiot, she's not afraid of him watching, and even if he does watch, he won't react. So the two of them are also used to it, probably can't even dream that the current 'Ah-Dai' is actually a fake 'idiot'.

  Secondly, sometimes unintentionally, the two of them would rub tightly against (Ah-Dai) Xiang Qiushui's thin chest, their soft hair lightly brushing against Xiang Qiushui's face, a wave of pure and delicate fragrance directly rushed into Xiang Qiushui's nostrils, making him itch so much that he almost directly sneezed out nosebleeds.

  In my heart, I was reciting the "Sukyō no rōsō" that I often recite when I have nothing to do, the "Qīng xīn zhòu" N times, but that stupid and impulsive male dragon root still secretly raised its head while hiding, scaring Xiǎo Qiūshuǐ to quickly clench her legs tightly together, lest she "accidentally fire"...

  "My goodness! I finally survived that painful 'fragrant bath', sigh! If only there was a 'close sensation skill', eyes wouldn't see, heart wouldn't tremble." Xiang Qiushui had just come out of the bathroom, and secretly wiped away the sweat on his face while the maids weren't paying attention.

  "Muttering to himself, 'It's not easy being a fool! I really admire Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump, he played the role of stupid Forrest so convincingly.'"