Marrying a White Snake Wife is Super Cool-Chapter 56: Daoist Longchuan: "Casually Tampering With My Daoist Talismans Is Drawing a Snake and Adding Feet!!
Zhao Qiao’Er had personally overseen the decoration of this East Wing over the past few days.
The furniture, the various little trinkets—she had poured her heart into every detail.
And yet...
’He’s just moved in and he’s already unhappy?’
’Is he going to tear the place apart?’
Seeing the bewildered look on Aunt Zhao’s face,
Lu Yuan explained with a perfectly straight face:
"Once this thing is built, we’ll only need coal to stay warm in the winter.
The best part is how effective it is. Even in the dead of winter, when it’s blizzarding outside, you could be stark naked indoors and not feel the slightest chill!"
Zhao Qiao’Er: "???"
The old butler: "???"
At his side, Su Liyan blinked and blinked at her husband.
For Lu Yuan to say something like that... it sounded a little like he was full of hot air.
No, not ’a little like’.
He was!
After all, even with Spirit Stones for heating, you still had to wear a thick layer of clothing indoors during the dead of winter.
’How could burning coal possibly surpass using Spirit Stones?’
After they all just stared at each other blankly for a moment, Lu Yuan figured he might as well just explain the basic principles.
It wouldn’t take long.
Just then, however, a man from the nursing home hurried in and announced:
"Madam, the Officials have arrived."
Hearing this, Zhao Qiao’Er nodded.
She picked up a handkerchief and gently dabbed her sensual, red lips. When she saw Lu Yuan’s dead-serious expression,
Zhao Qiao’Er suddenly couldn’t help but press her lips together and let out a laugh.
While Lu Yuan’s face was a mask of confusion, Zhao Qiao’Er stood up, smiled at him, and said:
"That’s right~~
This is exactly how it should be~~
Do whatever you want, however you want. Aren’t the children of wealthy families supposed to be a little wild?
If you don’t stir things up, people on the outside might think our family’s run out of money."
Lu Yuan: "???"
Then, with a beaming smile, Zhao Qiao’Er pinched Lu Yuan’s cheek and said with immense fondness:
"Do whatever you want. Young people should pursue their ideas. It’s not as if our family can’t afford your little projects."
With that, Zhao Qiao’Er put on the cloak a Maid had prepared for her and added another instruction:
"Your aunt is busy for the next few days, but once this is over, I’ll take you two out for a proper tour."
Then, smiling, Zhao Qiao’Er led her people away.
How to describe the scene?
It was the very picture of a doting mother spoiling her son rotten.
Lu Yuan, however, was a little displeased.
’Heh.’
’So she doesn’t believe me at all, huh?’
’Fine, fine, fine!’
’Just wait until I get that Underground Heating System built. Don’t you come trying to sneak into our room then!’
"Do you believe me?"
After Aunt Zhao left, Lu Yuan suddenly turned to Su Liyan beside him and asked conspiratorially.
Su Liyan blinked her eyes and, without the slightest hesitation, nodded and said in a sweet, gentle voice:
"I believe you~~
If you say it will work, then it will definitely work~~"
Seeing his wife act this way, Lu Yuan’s heart swelled with satisfaction.
’My wife really is the best~’
’That adorable look of hers really makes me dote on her to no end~’
After the two finished their meal, someone else came to clear the table.
Lu Yuan was a man of action.
He decided the Underground Heating System definitely had to be installed, and not just here in the East Wing.
Their own large mansion needed one, too.
Today was the perfect opportunity to go take a look and design the Underground Heating System for the mansion.
It might seem like an Underground Heating System is just about digging channels under a house, but it was actually quite sophisticated.
You had to consider the building’s orientation and the design of the internal smoke channels.
Otherwise, it would be like lighting a stove in a country home during winter; if the flue pipe wasn’t right, the whole house would fill with smoke the moment you lit a fire.
Lu Yuan didn’t know if this would be the world’s first Underground Heating System.
To be honest, this sort of thing had existed long ago in ancient China.
It existed as far back as the Ming Dynasty.
The Forbidden City had Warm Pavilions.
However, the Warm Pavilions in the Forbidden City were constructed by elevating the entire building and lighting fires in the space below.
The principle was similar to that of a heated brick bed.
But the Divine Ling Empire probably didn’t have anything like it.
First, if such a thing existed, a family as wealthy as Aunt Zhao’s would have certainly been able to afford one.
Second, as they say, necessity is the mother of invention.
Earth didn’t have anything like Spirit Stones, so people in ancient times had to devise other methods for staying warm.
But here, since they had Spirit Stones, people probably never bothered to research such mundane things.
In any case, Lu Yuan was determined to build this Underground Heating System.
Once they had eaten their fill, the two returned to their room, put on thick clothes, and prepared to head out, Lu Yuan holding his wife’s delicate little hand.
He planned to go to the front courtyard first to find the head of the nursing home.
He’d ask him to find someone to take the two of them to see the large mansion.
As the two walked along the covered corridor toward the front courtyard, Su Liyan suddenly stopped in her tracks.
’Hm?’
Lu Yuan turned his head and saw Su Liyan, head tilted, staring at several Daoist Talismans on the corridor’s pillars.
"My love~ these talismans aren’t quite right."
Su Liyan suddenly turned her head to her husband and said in her sweet, soft voice.
’My wife is getting more charming and gentle by the day,’ Lu Yuan thought. ’Even her voice is as soft as cotton.’
"Hmm?"
’What’s wrong with them?’
Lu Yuan asked curiously.
These Daoist Talismans must have been put up by Daoist Longchuan after he returned from outside the city.
When Lu Yuan had visited before, there were talismans in the courtyard, but not these ones.
After all, Lu Yuan had read *Celestial Master*.
The previous talismans were for exorcising evil spirits and slaying ghosts, whereas these were for protection.
The two types were different.
He figured Daoist Longchuan must have set them up anew before he left.
But as for whether they were placed correctly, Lu Yuan couldn’t tell; his own Daoist cultivation was too shallow.
But Su Liyan began to explain to her husband:
"My love~ look~ this talisman here, if you swap it with that one over there.
Because this is the west-facing side, it’s in the shade, so this talisman shouldn’t be placed like this.
And then if you swap this one and that one, and then..."
"..."
Su Liyan went on, leaving Lu Yuan completely baffled.
But Lu Yuan understood the gist of it. Simply put, the positions of these Daoist Talismans were slightly off.
As they were currently placed, they could only exert a fraction of their potential power.
If they were rearranged according to his wife’s instructions, their effect would be much greater.
Honestly, if this were anyone else’s home, Su Liyan would have seen it and kept her mouth shut.
But this was Aunt Zhao’s home.
Aunt Zhao treated her well, and she treated her husband well.
So, Su Liyan couldn’t help but point it out.
’This doesn’t really count as exposing my abilities, does it...’ Su Liyan mused.
’After all, my mother was the village witch. I’ve been seeing this kind of thing since I was a child...’
’In any case, there’s no harm in telling my husband.’
After listening to her, Lu Yuan didn’t hesitate. With a single leap, he tore all the talismans from the pillars, ready to reposition them.
Su Liyan was startled and quickly whispered:
"My love, shouldn’t we tell Aunt Zhao about this first?"
But Lu Yuan just turned to his wife, blinked, and said:
"Why?
Why make things so complicated? If it’s wrong, we can just fix it on the spot."
Su Liyan blinked at her husband, then said in her soft, sweet voice:
"My love... you trust me that much?"
In response to his wife’s words, Lu Yuan couldn’t help but laugh.
"Heh, what a thing to say. You’re my wife. If I don’t trust you, who would I trust?
There are plenty of big fools in this world who ignore the good advice of their own family, treating it like hot air.
But they’ll treasure every word from some random scoundrel on the street.
I’m not one of those big fools. I trust my own family.
It’s just like how you believe I can build that Underground Heating System that’s even better than a Spirit Stone Furnace.
Come on, how do we re-stick these things? Let’s put them up again together."
After Lu Yuan finished speaking, Su Liyan gently bit her alluring, cherry-red lips, her soul-snatching, beautiful eyes turning a little misty.
Then, Su Liyan stepped forward and hugged her husband, looking up at him with a face full of emotion and a touch of coquettishness, and said:
"My love~~
You’re the best~"
Lu Yuan blinked. The next second, with a little yelp from Su Liyan, he swept his wife into his arms and started walking toward the East Wing.
Held in her husband’s arms, Su Liyan looked utterly astonished and asked:
"My love??
What are you doing??"
Lu Yuan didn’t break his stride. He walked in, shut the door right behind him, and then said, feigning a fierce tone:
"I’m going to have my way with you!
Have my wicked way with you!
We didn’t do anything last night, so we have to make up for it today!"
Once she realized what was happening, Su Liyan’s stunning face instantly flushed crimson. After her husband placed her on the bed,
Su Liyan sat perched on the edge of the bed, looking as succulent as a dew-kissed flower, and said shyly to her husband:
"My love~~ you’re so bad~~"
And so the morning was spent in a storm of passion, a boat drifting freely on a rushing tide...
...
「Six days later.」
In the main hall of the Zhao Family’s front courtyard.
Daoist Longchuan, his face a mask of fury, slammed several Daoist Talismans onto the table and roared:
"To tamper with my Daoist Talismans is to gild the lily!!
Who did this!!
Drag them out here this instant!!"
