Chapter 48 National Treasure

  A man, when he is under attack and feeling down - especially one like me who gets killed by several groups of people in a single day - what does he need most? The answer is a woman. Of course, even if the man is at the peak of his success, he still needs a woman. Actually, you can tell the answer just from the question itself... men always need women.

  I really didn't expect Su Jing to suggest... sleeping with me, right now. Isn't it a bit too rushed? I think we can still drag it out for a few more chapters. I stuttered: "H-how do you want to sleep?" Has she had a change of heart and wants to use a special way to make up for my mental loss?

  Su Jingdao said: "From now on, I want to be with you every moment, and as you've seen, Lu Renjia can appear unexpectedly at any time and place."

  I couldn't help but feel disappointed and said: "You came all this way just for this?"

  Su Jingdao said: "You are the last hope of the Federal Continent, I absolutely cannot afford to lose you."

  I opened the door with dissatisfaction and pointed at the bed saying: "Then how are you going to sleep?"

  My bed is different from other rooms, other rooms are all two beds, I am alone, specially booked a 1.8m double bed...

  Su Jing looked at him and seemed to feel a bit cramped too, finally she said: "You sleep on the bed, I'll sleep on the sofa."

  I scratched my head and said, "How can this be?"

  "It's settled then." Su Jing walked in, picked up a thin blanket and sat down on the sofa.

  I looked down and saw that I was only wearing a small pair of shorts, so I quickly slipped under the covers. I asked her: "Aren't you going to take a bath?"

  Su Jing's eyes stared at the bathroom door for a moment, hesitated for a while before saying: "I'll wash it tomorrow."

  "Oh, I'll watch TV, you don't mind, right?"

  "Look."

  I was flipping through channels, first there were almost half a dozen stations that had agreed to air a terrible TV series together. Then there were several stations doing extra-long commercials, and finally there were a few stations with weak-looking young men talking about the stock market. In the end, I still chose to watch local news. On screen, a bald old man was holding a brocade box in front of flashing lights, smiling benevolently at the camera. The voiceover said: "Mr. Ma, who has been living abroad for half a century, finally returned home on the 20th of this month. As a gift, he donated a golden silk garment that had been passed down through his ancestors to the city museum. According to expert analysis, the garment was made during the late Western Han dynasty and is one of the burial items of an important royal family. Its age and well-preserved state are extremely rare. With the arrival of this golden silk garment, the city museum has also welcomed its own treasure. The donation ceremony will be held tomorrow at 9 am at the museum, and our station will broadcast the entire process live to commemorate this historic day."

  "Wow, this is priceless!" I looked at Su Jing again and saw that she had her arm propped up on the tea table, resting her cheek on it, seemingly asleep. No wonder, after a whole day of fighting, even a sword god would be exhausted.

  I quietly turned off the TV, went to the bathroom, and then sneaked back into bed, closing my eyes for a while. I finally couldn't help but get out again, and poked Su Jing with my mouth: "Hey."

  Su Jing Meng suddenly opened his eyes and said: "What?"

  "Come sleep."

  "It's all right."

  I said, "How can you guarantee that you'll have the energy to protect me if you sit like this all night? You're not going to stay here for a day or two." The hotel sofa wasn't like one at home, so Su Jing could only doze off sitting up. Considering my safety, I decided to give in and let him take half of the bed space. Of course, there was also a consideration for my reputation - I was afraid that others would gossip about me later: "That guy was alone in a room with a beautiful girl and didn't even try to get her into bed..."

  Su Jing thought for a moment about what I said, and unexpectedly no longer pushed back, walking straightforwardly to the bedside, turning her back to me, taking off her outer clothes, wearing only a bra and small underwear, and drilling into the other end of the quilt.

  "Huh......" I was taken aback by her actions.

  Su Jing lay steadily on her side and asked me: "What's wrong?"

  "Nothing... don't be too nervous, I won't take advantage of you." Now that she's in bed, as for what to do next, I basically have no ideas - no matter how beautiful the woman is, if a finger can crush you to death, you are absolutely more like a gentleman than me...

  Who would have thought that Su Jing would suddenly come out with a sentence that almost choked me to death: "Okay, I won't invade your territory either." I had forgotten that she was from the Daughter State, where women always take the initiative, and for her, my current behavior had already created a convenient condition for "self-recommendation", and she wouldn't invade me either, out of dignity and courtesy.

  I sneaked over there and whispered: "Actually, I don't mind you invading me, really."

  Su Jing said faintly: "I'm not a casual person, sleep." As he spoke, a burst of sword energy popped out and turned off the corridor lamp.

  I hastily moved a bit closer to myself: "You don't have the habit of sleepwalking, do you?"

  She is ignoring me now.

  In the darkness, I could vaguely see the person lying beside me, with a slender figure, softly lit by the moonlight. The delicate scent of a girl's body wafted from her nostrils, and I couldn't help but turn to the other side, facing the wall in a daze. I found myself unaccustomed to sleeping on this side, so I turned back again. In my boredom, I noticed Su Jing's scattered hair on the pillow, and I gently picked up a strand to count how many hairs there were. Just then, Su Jing suddenly asked, "You're still not asleep?"

  I was startled: "Your hair is split ends, don't use the hotel's shampoo from now on, I'll buy you some good ones tomorrow."

  Su Jing said softly: "Actually, you are still quite kind sometimes."

  I smiled and said: "A bottle of shampoo sent you packing?"

  "What I'm saying is Duan Tianya, don't look at how you scold him, in fact you're not bad to him. Someone who can treat their enemy like this must be either extremely kind or have a terrifyingly deep mind."

  I waved my hand and said, "Don't be too philosophical, neither of the two things you mentioned has anything to do with me. I've even hit a cat named Chun with a stone before, but if you ask me to step on it, I really can't bring myself to do it. If I weren't afraid that little brat surnamed Duan would die and cause trouble for me, I wouldn't care about him."

  "This is also a kind of goodness, believe me. Some people are born prepared to slaughter others, like the people from the Black Geese Continent. Actually, before I came to you, I had a concern that you might be one of those people. But after meeting you, although you're timid and afraid of trouble, with a slippery tongue, but you're not a bad person. This made me feel at ease."

  "Are you flattering me?"

  Su Jing suddenly turned his head around and looked at me in the dark, saying: "Have you ever thought that maybe one day you will inevitably kill someone?"

  I honestly said: "Never thought of it, since I was a kid, my dad didn't even let me get into a fight." I said, "Aren't you afraid that I'm that kind of person?"

  "What if he's a bad guy?"

  I rubbed my chin and said: "To be honest, I've never had many good people around me since I was a kid. You already know what kind of person my dad is, don't you?"

  "What I mean by bad people are those who take pleasure in depriving others of their lives. Our country's great general, who has spent her whole life leading troops and killing countless people, but she did it for her own country. I think she is a good person."

  I sighed and said: "This kind of thinking is very dangerous, Hitler, Mussolini, and those who carried out racial extermination were all like this at first."

  "What kind of people are they?"

  I helplessly said: "On such a beautiful night, a lonely man and woman sleeping in the same bed, what can we talk about? You're really boring, you don't look bad, but you can actually bore the man next to you to sleep."

  Su Jing smiled: "Then sleep, you've had a hard day today. I know all this is because of me, and here I solemnly apologize to you."

  "It's already this late, don't talk nonsense anymore. If you're not going to bother me, I'm really going to sleep."

  Su Jing: "......"

  What happened later was a matter of course - Su Jing did not invade me, and I actually fell asleep. Later, I thought back countless times, this is really a wonderful night!

  ……

  The next day I woke up at 8:30, Su Jing was already dressed and sitting on the sofa opposite me, seeing that I was awake, she said: "Originally wanted to let you sleep a little longer."

  "I unexpectedly said: 'When did you become so kind?'"

  Su Jing looked a bit worried: "I think we have a new task now - if nothing unexpected happens, your powers are probably back to more than half, but how to retrieve them is still unclear to me. I think it's time to shift the focus." She fiddled with the bracelet on her wrist, "Time is running out, and if that day is coming soon, I need to make sure you take all the powers we've found so far when you leave." The bracelet had been a stone just a few days ago, but now it had a small section that was crystal clear and radiant, about one-tenth of the whole.

  "I didn't think you were a pragmatist, this is just looting as much as possible before the big retreat."

  Su Jingdao said, "I've thought it through. You can come back with me without having to take action. I just need you to give the Federation Continent confidence. The rest of the matters will be handled by me. But at least you have to look like a Sword God."

  "I got dressed and said: 'Let's go down and have breakfast first.'"

  Downstairs, Xiao Qian had already gotten up early and finished cleaning the hygiene. The TV was on, but it was unknown who turned it on. Hei Shan Lao Yao and Duan Tian Ya were curiously staring at the screen, one on each side. All local channels were broadcasting the same program: a live broadcast of an overseas Chinese donating a golden silk garment to the city museum.

  The museum has been renovated and looks brand new. The municipal leaders, honor guards, journalists, armed police and police are all in position. The host outside the screen is introducing the long history of the city's museum and the ancestors of Huaiyuan Ma Lai Shui with an excited tone similar to that on the eve of the Olympic Games opening ceremony, naturally mentioning the precious Golden Thread and Jade Clothes.

  At 9 o'clock, a black car slowly drove into people's sight amidst the sound of firecrackers. The host shouted like he had stepped on his tail: "It's coming! It's coming! An exciting historical moment is about to arrive, Mr. Ma Lai Shui's car has arrived at the museum entrance..."

  His ups and downs tone attracted Old Wu and Jin Chengwu, and I and Su Jing held instant noodles at the counter also looked up.

  The car stopped, the team leader wearing white gloves put one hand behind his back, bent down to open the door for Malai Shui, Malai Shui held a brocade box in both hands and got out of the car, the honor guard played music, the municipal party secretary, mayor, and museum director, three old men, came up together to shake hands with Malai Shui and express their gratitude...

  Lao Wu also excitedly said: "Although it's several hundred years later than me, it's still considered to be from the same era as me. As Lao Jin would say, we're both from before and after the Common Era. If I have the chance, I'll definitely go take a look."

  Next, the city leaders and museum director gave speeches, followed by a speech by Ma Lai Shui. It was clear that Old Ma was truly moved, his eyes were filled with hot tears and his voice was trembling. He first briefly introduced the history of Jin Lun Yu Yi, then talked about the origin of the Ma family and this national treasure. It turned out that Ma Lai Shui's grandfather and father were both experts in antique research, and the time when this cultural relic was unearthed was in the 1960s. At that time, China was in turmoil, and almost no one paid attention to these national-level historical relics. Ma Lai Shui's father saw that Jin Lun Yu Yi had an uncertain future, and he risked being labeled a traitor by taking the treasure abroad. However, he always reminded his descendants that this thing belonged to the country, but he was unable to return to his hometown in his lifetime. The ideal of returning the treasure to its rightful place could only be inherited by Ma Lai Shui. Today, Ma Lai Shui felt that the time was ripe and finally set foot on his hometown soil. Because his father was a local person, and Jin Lun Yu Yi was unearthed here, he was willing to donate the treasure to the local museum for collection. It can be said that this thing has carried on the pursuit and beliefs of the Ma family for generations. Today, the moment when the ideal is realized has finally arrived.

  The old horse's words moved even me, and I sighed: "It's really not easy."

  Old Horse finished speaking, and walked up the red carpet in the dazzling flash lights. The red carpet led from outside to the newly built showcase of the museum. Old Horse was going to walk this distance to put the Golden Silk Robe into the showcase, which was also a symbol, indicating the difficult and tortuous journey home of the national treasure. At this moment, the leaders did not dare to breathe loudly, and followed closely behind Ma Lai Shui. The crowd walked slowly towards the exhibition hall, with countless reporters taking pictures, wanting to capture this historic moment in their lenses.

  The band played music, all armed police officers stood solemnly at attention. The host said with deep feeling: "A history of 2000 years, a wait of half a century, the golden and jade clothes have finally returned to the motherland's embrace..."

  Led by the Mayor, several elderly men walked slowly up the red carpet, and the crowd cheered warmly wherever they passed. The whole process was solemn but not lacking in sincerity, and people believed that this piece of history and its images would become a wonderful story for the city...

  Hei Shan Lao Yao felt quite bored after Ma Lai Shui finished telling the story, she looked at those old men still ten meters away from the exhibition hall and said to Lao Wu: "Master, what if someone suddenly appeared and snatched the national treasure now?"

  Lao Wu's face turned serious at first, then he couldn't help but laugh and say: "Nonsense, how could such a thing happen?"

  But just as he finished saying this, a person suddenly rushed out from the direction of the audience on the right side of the screen. This person was extremely fast, and he burst out of the crowd, running towards the opposite side without stopping his feet. As he passed by Malai Shui's side, he swung his arm and snatched the brocade box containing the golden silk clothes into his arms, then rushed out of the crowd without looking back, and disappeared into the distance...

  Division line

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