You Want to Use Me as a Shield with Just One Meal?

In a private room at the brothel.

"Murong, why do I get the feeling you're so hostile toward those people from the Southern Pacification Bureau?"

While they waited for the food, Wei Xuanfeng voiced the question that had been on his mind.

"Am... am I?" Fox Murong smiled sweetly.

After three months together, Wei Xuanfeng saw through her at a glance. This fox enchantress was definitely hiding something.

"It's way too obvious," Wei Xuanfeng said bluntly.

"Pah, I just can't stand the way those cowardly turtles act!" Fox Murong scrunched up her little nose. "Old Wei, you know exactly how we survived these past three months. But look at those bastards from the Southern Pacification Bureau—they didn't even dare leave the city. What the hell are they good for?"

When the pack of Xuanlan Wolf Demons besieged the Northern Pacification Bureau, the Northern Pacification Bureau had repeatedly sent requests for aid to the city's defenders and the Southern Pacification Bureau.

But the Southern Pacification Bureau refused to help, claiming they had to guard the city and prevent demonic beasts from entering.

Over this matter, everyone in the Northern Pacification Bureau harbored deep resentment.

"I'm a little angry, but not surprised."

In his previous life as a mercenary, Wei Xuanfeng had seen far too many cases of people protecting themselves wisely while standing by and watching others die.

In his eyes, the Southern Pacification Bureau not stabbing them in the back already counted as preserving a faint glimmer of humanity.

"Forget it, forget it. Talking about them just fills me with rage!" Fox Murong waved a hand. "And that old man Yang is no better! He spent three months refining pills while we were surrounded for three months. Then what happened? The moment he came out of seclusion, he slaughtered the entire wolf pack with one slash! If he was capable of that, why didn't he do it sooner?"

"Maybe, in his eyes, our lives didn't count as lives." Wei Xuanfeng sneered. "Murong, you've been complaining a lot today. Be careful—disaster comes from the mouth."

"You're right. We came out to have fun, to relax." Fox Murong took a deep breath, then shouted toward the door, "Is everyone outside dead? Where are the dishes? Are my four cold dishes and four meat dishes ready or not?!"

"Please don't be impatient, sir! The dishes are here!"

The private room's door was pushed open, and Wei Xuanfeng immediately caught a faceful of rouge fragrance!

Rows of young, beautiful girls filed in. They wore matching sheer skirts over dudou, with black hair, slender waists, and long legs.

Every one of them had bright eyes and pearly teeth, breathtakingly lovely.

Especially the fabric on their bodies—put together, it might not even amount to more than one pair of Wei Xuanfeng's underpants...

As soon as the eight girls entered, four of them immediately sat behind the screen. The sounds of strings, flutes, and pipes soon rose.

Of the remaining four, two nestled up to Fox Murong's sides, while one sat beside Wei Xuanfeng and another beside Wen Shihan.

The instant she sat down, Wei Xuanfeng felt his arm enveloped by two soft mounds...

"Fox Murong, this is the fine food you were talking about?"

Wen Shihan shoved the girl away and glared at her furiously.

"I... I didn't order these girls..." Fox Murong was stunned as well, but when she saw Wei Xuanfeng enjoying himself, a surge of anger immediately rose within her. "Madam, get in here!"

"C-coming, my lord. What are your instructions?"

"What is the meaning of this?! Where are my four cold dishes and four meat dishes?!"

"Th-this... aren't they all here?" The madam froze, pointing at the girls. "The four cold ones—the four ladies of Huishang Yujiao—and the four hot ones—the four ladies of Plum, Orchid, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum—are all present."

"I meant dishes when I said four cold dishes and four meat dishes!" Fox Murong said with restrained anger.

"These girls... are the dishes... the dishes..." The madam dropped to her knees in terror.

At that, Wei Xuanfeng burst out laughing.

The meat dishes of this brothel had something in common with drinking tea in his previous life.

Both cloaked filthy deeds in elegant words.

"Murong, didn't you say you'd been here before..." Wei Xuanfeng teased.

Leaning against the beauty's bosom, Wei Xuanfeng smiled as he watched the embarrassed and enraged Fox Murong and Wen Shihan.

Honestly, one of these girls was aloof and icy, while the other was seductive and enchanting.

Both possessed the beauty of celestial maidens.

Being with them every day, the girls in this brothel truly could not catch Wei Xuanfeng's eye.

But...

Then again, after feasting on delicacies from land and sea every day, even a bowl of instant noodles tasted exquisite once in a while.

Before long, beneath Wei Xuanfeng's large hands covered in blade calluses, the girl beside him was flushed crimson from ear to ear, begging for mercy again and again...

"I... I have been here before!"

"Then how... forget it, let's leave it at that. Besides, didn't you want to have some fun too?" Wei Xuanfeng said with a smile, then looked at Wen Shihan. "Shihan, if you don't like her, you can give this young lady to me."

As he spoke, he beckoned to the girl beside Wen Shihan, who had been trembling in fright.

Seeing that he wore a smile the whole time and looked quite amiable, the girl finally gathered her courage and moved closer to Wei Xuanfeng.

Even as she did, she muttered to herself, Why would women come to a place like this? Isn't that just asking for trouble...

"Get out! All of you, get the hell out! I don't feel like playing anymore!" The moment Fox Murong saw Wei Xuanfeng smiling with such smug satisfaction, her belly filled with inexplicable anger. "Madam, hurry up and bring me food—food I can eat! Understand?"

"Y-yes... understood..."

With a single look from the madam, all the girls filed out one after another.

Though she was a woman past her prime, what sort of people had she not seen?

There were certainly women who came to brothels before, but...

Someone like Fox Murong? She had truly never seen one.

If not for the other party's identity as part of the Demon Suppression Directorate, she would have had someone throw them out long ago.

"You're putting on a brave face when you can't afford to..." Wei Xuanfeng wiped his fingers and smiled. "You come to a brothel but don't play with women or listen to music. You might as well find a restaurant and have a meal!"

"I like it this way!"

As the madam led the girls away, only Wei Xuanfeng's group of three remained in the private room.

Just as Fox Murong was preparing for her usual verbal sparring match with Wei Xuanfeng, another burst of hurried footsteps sounded outside the door.

"Which room is that female blade catcher in?"

"She's... she's..."

Bang.

The door was kicked open, and a group of blade catchers clad in flying-fish uniforms rushed in.

"Which one of you beat my men? Step forward..." The leader had just begun to draw his saber when he froze upon seeing Fox Murong. "Qin Zhaodi, is that you?"

"Good son, you can't even get your mother's name right." The instant Fox Murong saw him, her little face turned icy. "I'm now a Banner Officer of the Northern Pacification Bureau, Fox Murong!"

Hearing their exchange, Wei Xuanfeng's thoughts flashed like lightning.

Fox Murong's strange behavior today was explained all at once.

"Hmph, you're just a mere Banner Officer. I'm a Hundred-Household Commander!" the leader snorted. "Never thought I'd run into you here today. Qin Zhaodi, Qin Zhaodi, you really are capable. When you fled from the marriage back then, I thought you'd already fucked off out of Kang City!"

"Gongsun Su, quit yapping about that stale sesame and rotten millet nonsense." Fox Murong said coldly, "I'm treating my colleagues to drinks today. Don't ruin my mood. Either take your people and get out now, or I'll send you out myself!"

Before she had even finished speaking, she slammed her embroidered-spring saber onto the table.

"Back then, I was softhearted enough not to fuck a slut like you first. Now that you've gained a little skill, you dare talk to me like that?" Gongsun Su waved a hand, signaling his subordinates to surround the three of them. "Qin Zhaodi, I'll give you two choices too. First, tonight, you and that sour-faced bitch of yours serve me and my brothers properly, and I'll let the three of you off!"

"I choose the second."

"Heh... fine..." Gongsun Su drew his embroidered-spring saber, its blade pointing directly at Fox Murong. "Assaulting an investigator is tantamount to treason. Under Great Jin law, I can execute you first and report it afterward, without asking the reason!"

"You want to kill me? Are your blades faster than mine?"

What Wei Xuanfeng had not expected was that Fox Murong would be the first to make a move.

With a flash of her body, she darted to Gongsun Su's side like a swimming dragon.

A flash of blade light—then, amid spraying blood, an ear appeared in Fox Murong's hand...

"Ah..."

Only when the pain struck did Gongsun Su come back to his senses.

"This place is too cramped. Come outside and fight!"

Then Fox Murong leaped up. After glancing at Wei Xuanfeng and Wen Shihan, she jumped straight from the private room into the main hall on the first floor.

"Kill her! Kill her!"

Gongsun Su pointed with bloodshot eyes as he commanded them.

Behind him, a crowd of demon slayers from the Southern Pacification Bureau charged out in a stream.

In an instant, the first-floor hall descended into chaos, with patrons and girls scattering in all directions.

"Wei Xuanfeng, should we help her?"

At some point, Wen Shihan had quietly moved beside Wei Xuanfeng and asked softly.

Her hand had already reached the meteor hammer at her waist.

"Help?" Wei Xuanfeng smiled. "If I help her, I'll just be letting her use me as a weapon!"

How could he fail to see that Fox Murong had a grudge against this Hundred-Household Commander named Gongsun Su?

Logically speaking, one needed to be at least in the Martial Master realm to qualify as a Hundred-Household Commander.

Even Jiao Yu had only become a Hundred-Household Commander after reaching the peak of the Martial Master realm and being appointed in the midst of crisis after her superior's death.

Yet this Gongsun Su was only in the Martial Warrior realm. He could not even beat Fox Murong, yet he had still become a Hundred-Household Commander.

It was easy to imagine just how powerful his backing was.

Offending someone like that over a single drinking session was hardly worth it!

And they had not even had a drink yet!

"Then what do we do next?" Wen Shihan asked.

"Of course, we watch the show with a smile..."

Wei Xuanfeng grinned.

While Gongsun Su was having his bleeding stopped, he saw the two chatting and laughing, and noticed neither of them wore Flying Fish uniforms.

He simply took them for Fox Murong's pack of shady friends.

"Damn it, chop these two little bastards down first! Mince their corpses and feed them to the dogs!"

Taking his hatred for the house and extending it to the crow, Gongsun Su pointed at Wei Xuanfeng and shouted.

Hearing that...

Wei Xuanfeng: No longer grinning.

Damn it, he had still fallen into Fox Murong's trap in the end!

"Shihan, don't kill them."

"Alright."