The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits-Chapter 1437 - 1449: Seeking Immortality (14)

From afar, Su Li saw a delicate young girl leaning on the pavilion’s railing, occasionally scattering fish food to the koi fish in the lotus pond, causing the colorful koi to compete eagerly for food.

The girl let out a burst of laughter from time to time, clearly amused and delighted by the fish.

Upon closer inspection, he realized that the pavilion didn’t house any young girl; it was Tang Xianxian leaning over the railing and tossing the fish food.

With her innocent and charming appearance, it’s easy for people to mistake her, especially when her hair is styled back into a youthful bun.

Entering the pavilion, Su Li carefully observed Tang Xianxian for a moment and discovered her habit of crying had inexplicably healed, and the melancholy on her face had vanished. Standing next to Su Li, they resembled a pair of sisters.

Upon hearing footsteps, Tang Xianxian glanced back. At the first sight of Su Li, she tossed all the fish food in her hand into the water and joyfully ran towards Su Li with her skirt hem pinched.

"Ah Lee, Ah Lee, you’re here."

Su Li stared expressionlessly at the woman who seemed eager to throw herself onto him, pondering whether he had given Tang Xianxian some kind of wrong impression these days, making her increasingly less afraid of him and vastly more daring.

Initially, the two resembled sisters, but as soon as Tang Xianxian spoke, they looked like mother and daughter.

And Tang Xianxian was the daughter, Su Li the mother.

This strange illusion didn’t linger in Su Li’s mind for even a second before she quickly dispelled it.

It must all be an illusion.

Listening to Tang Xianxian’s chattering, Su Li realized that the pavilion surprisingly held a third person’s presence.

Uncle Deaf stood silently, head bowed, and hunched behind the pavilion’s stone pillar, quietly making people overlook his existence.

Su Li’s eyes flicked and asked, "When did Uncle Deaf arrive?"

Tang Xianxian replied curiously, "Uncle Deaf has been here all along."

Su Li quickly dropped the matter, took out a box of Combined Fragrance and said, "Just made it."

They had brought many powder boxes, and Su Li had consolidated these incense powders into Combined Fragrance, burning a box every night.

The Compounded Fragrance she made was named Clearing God Solid Incense, which was the most basic incense in the Incense Dao, capable of boosting health and further stabilizing the soul.

For ordinary people today who can’t introduce Spiritual Energy into their bodies, it fits perfectly.

The damaged soul bodies in the seams of time slowly repaired as the mystical incense soul entered the body. The body of the original owner also benefited significantly, replenishing the loss brought from the womb.

Tang Xianxian’s body was somewhat weak as well, so Su Li combined two extra boxes to give to her. Since then, Tang Xianxian fell in love with this variety of Combined Fragrance.

The effectiveness of incense synthesized from various existing powders is far inferior to that made from raw materials, but they are currently in a pinch and can only make do temporarily.

What Su Li considered temporary solace was nothing short of awe-inspiring to Tang Xianxian.

Without waiting to return to the room, Tang Xianxian impatiently burned a stick of Combined Fragrance right in the pavilion.

Light blue smoke swirled and floated in the pavilion, moving in circles; the mystical aroma rushed straight to one’s spirit platform through the nostrils, refreshing one’s spirit, seemingly cleansing the whole being. Even the vision brought by the smoke was ignored.

Not everyone was as inexperienced as Tang Xianxian. At least Su Li noticed the flash of shock and disbelief in Uncle Deaf’s eyes, evidently recognizing the incense’s extraordinariness, even straightening his hunched back slightly.

The instant heavy breathing displayed his inner unease, although it was quickly concealed, it couldn’t escape Su Li’s perceptive eye.

Uncle Deaf seemed to hide secrets too; the aura revealed under his unease was quite remarkable.

That very night, the enigmatic Uncle Deaf appeared in Su Li’s bedroom in the darkness.

The gentle sound of the incense burner being moved was not obvious in the silent night. The intruder’s movements were light, like a ghost.

The burning stick incense was snapped, and the swirling blue smoke in the room instantly shed a layer of color and fragrance.

Su Li, reclining lazily on the bed, suddenly inhaled sharply; the soft blue smoke in the room was instantly drawn into her mouth and nose, clearing the room immediately.

Once the smoke entered her body, Su Li gently exhaled a breath of impure energy before opening her eyes.

The solemn change in the room startled the intruder, quickening their pace, ignoring the potential noise as they crashed through the carved wooden window, attempting to leap outside.

"Since you’re here, have a cup of tea and sit, Uncle Deaf."

At the moment Su Li called out the intruder’s name, the half-foot hanging out the window immediately retracted.

The candlelight in the room brightened, and after the intruder lowered their mask, they revealed a face with elegant features.

"How did you recognize me?" Perhaps unused to speaking, Uncle Deaf’s voice was stuttering and faltering, his tongue somewhat tangled.

In this state, he looked vastly different from the deaf mute image of Uncle Deaf.

Furthermore, his posture was erect, appearing like an average-looking middle-aged man, which wouldn’t typically be associated with the Tang Residence’s gatekeeper.

Su Li: "Is it really so difficult to recognize?"

Uncle Deaf: "....."

Since he had been identified, Uncle Deaf straightforwardly didn’t deny it, or perhaps he hadn’t intended to hide it initially.

"As expected of the Tang family’s legitimate bloodline, so impressive."

This left Su Li speechless. Somehow, it all tied back to the Tang family bloodline, demonstrating Uncle Deaf’s profound love for the Tang family.

"You are a Tang family member and have nothing in common with the despicable Su Family...you have inherited the Tang family’s gifted talent in incense making." Uncle Deaf’s eyes were filled with fervor and delight.

"Su Mo’er probably doesn’t know of your talent, right?" Given Su Mo’er’s selfish intentions and scheming, if she truly knew, she definitely wouldn’t let the young lady and little young lady reside long in the Tang family’s residence.

Sure enough, Su Li’s previous intuition was correct. Uncle Deaf harbored animosity towards Old Lady Su, not just average animosity.

Considering his current expression of wishing to end the old lady’s life, it was clear. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Su Li speculated that it was the daytime’s Combined Fragrance that attracted Uncle Deaf to come. She tapped on the bed panel beneath her, signaling, "Please begin your explanation."

Uncle Deaf, in complex tones, uttered, "You’re nothing like the young lady."

Collecting his thoughts, Uncle Deaf organized his words in his mind before narrating to Su Li.

Over thirty years ago, the Tang family was also a famous household in the city, particularly revered for their impressive incense-making methods, highly sought after.

The Tang family’s produced incense powder was also favored by imperial dynasty’s nobles.

Especially as the Tang family possessed many ancestral incense powder recipes, their remarkable effects furnishing the Tang family with tremendous wealth.

It wasn’t without envy from others, yet the Tang family’s incense-making technique was unique and thus, even stealing to learn wouldn’t help if one wasn’t part of the Tang family.

If it was just this, there wasn’t much to it.

But thirty years ago, rumors began spreading from unknown origins.