Niezhen Xuan's beard and eyebrows were practically twisting to one side, and his thin lips trembled for a long time without managing to squeeze out a single syllable.
Xu Ruoping was so terrified that her hands and feet turned ice-cold. All her lofty ambitions froze into an ice block in an instant, and she stood there dumbfounded.
The corners of Niezhen Xuan's eyes twitched a few times before he finally started hopping madly and shouting, "Good heavens! The hard work of most of my life! Sister, do you have any idea how hard it is to build a thatched cottage on Qifeng Mountain? Do you know that every single piece of wood gets eaten away by charm-insects wherever there is even the tiniest gap without a protective talisman drawn on it? Do you know—"
Chapter 156