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(a)
I've known Shen Xu for about seven years. I crossed my fingers and counted, well, the exact date should be seven years, one month and nine days. Of course, Shen Xu's nerd won't remember, he only has those herbs in his eyes.
I stared at Yao Lou boredly, someone knocked on the door and came in, Shen Xu should go to the clinic again, although that nerd treats people for free every time, and he has to put on a bunch of medicinal materials.
It's a medical house, it's simple, it's not overly decorated, it's just a strong bitter smell, and the stove in the corner is smoking. I just sat there and watched the fire, occasionally making a face at Shen Xu when he looked at him.
"There's Dr. Lao Shen. You also know the situation in my family, This is a ...... middle-aged woman in coarse linen rubbed her hands crampedly, the expression on her face was indescribably embarrassed, and her eyes were hopeful. The child she was holding in her hand also looked pitifully at a few brown paper bags on the counter.
Shen Xu opened his mouth, sighed, and quickly showed a smile, "Aunt Zhang, don't worry, I won't charge you money, you can quickly take these medicines back and boil them for Xiaodouzi, it will be good to drink it, while it is not too serious now." โ
"Yes, yes, I knew that Dr. Shen, you are a good person, and you will definitely live a long life. The woman hurriedly thanked her, a flower bloomed on her face, and the child was also a clever one, bowing straight to Shen Xu, and her little pale face was full of gratitude.
Watching the backs of those two people disappear at the door of the medical room, I finally couldn't help but jump up from the stool, jumped in front of Shen Xu, poked his forehead with my fingers, and said with hatred, "Shen nerd, you let people eat for nothing again...... No, see a doctor in vain, the Shen family's old bottom will be defeated by your favor sooner or later! I'm really angry!"
I sat on the counter, dangling my legs and no longer paying attention to him, Shen Xu carefully rubbed my stabbed forehead, leaned over with a shy face and patted me gently, with a flattering tone, "Ah Lin, why are you angry again? Where did I provoke you again?"
I turned my head to look at Shen Xu, and suddenly found that this nerd was actually quite good-looking, with a handsome face and soft eyebrows. Of course, what satisfies me the most about this face is the eyes, Shen Xu has a pair of extremely beautiful eyes, inky black color, ripples, and when he looks at people, he flickers like stars.
"Ah Lin, Ah Lin......" seemed to find that I was distracted, and Shen Xu called me a few times in a row.
"Talk, talk, what are you doing so close!" I slapped away Shen Xu's handsome face that was getting closer and closer, but the tips of my ears were secretly red, I should be glad that I still have sideburns to hide it? Otherwise, I would be embarrassed and lose my hair.
"Ah Lin, why is your face red?Is it too hot?Or are you sick?" Before I could catch my breath, Shen Xu stared at me with blazing eyes as if he had found some rare treasure, chattering and asking.
"Shen Xu, don't touch me! I'm a flower demon!How could I be as sick as you fragile humans!" After roaring, I regretted it a little, peeking at the eye-catching red mark on Shen Xu's hand that I had taken out, and a strange feeling suddenly surged in my heart.
Shen Xu didn't care about it, he only pulled his sleeve to cover the red mark, looked up and smiled brightly at me, "Ah Lin, you don't have to worry about me, I'm fine." โ
"Who, who's worried about you! I didn't!" I retracted my gaze and tilted my head away with feigned disdain.
"Okay, okay, Ah Lin said no, that's no. Ah Lin, you play by yourself first, the herbs picked on the mountain yesterday haven't been sorted out yet, I have to go to the warehouse to take a look. Shen Xu used a child-like tone, gentle and doting. He wanted to touch my head, but when he saw me glaring at him with bared teeth, he withdrew his hand and smiled.
"Shen Xu, you bastard!" I sniffed, as if angry, and scolded at his back.
I saw Shen Xu pause slightly, and then he continued to walk forward as if he hadn't heard anything. Shen Xu obviously didn't turn his head, but I could easily imagine the doting smile on his face, and even the gentle ripples in his eyes.
I pulled the bitter Ding Ye in my hand fiercely, and thought to myself, it's really annoying, Shen Xu is really the most hated person in the world, there is no one.
My name is Yinlin, and as you can imagine, I'm not human. I'm a flower demon.
Silver flowers, leafless flowers, grow on cliffs, resemble stars, layer upon layer, full of silver light when in full bloom, have the miraculous effect of the flesh and bones of the living dead. In particular, the millennium silver flower is said to have become a fine, and eating it can keep young and immortal.
And I happen to be such a thousand-year-old silver flower.
When I first saw Shen Xu, the nerd was just a teenager, climbing the cliff for a Ganoderma lucidum, and his thin and thin body was swaying by the wind.
I sat on a tree with a crooked neck halfway up the mountain, and looked at him with my chin in my hands on my head. As for it? Isn't it just a Ganoderma lucidum, and if it goes on like this, I'm afraid I'll have to put my life on the line.
Of course, I'm not a badly kind demon, and I can't just save him because of that little mercy.
When I was tired of watching and was about to go back to the cave to cultivate, something happened to him, his feet slipped, and many fine stones fell from the stone wall, and I saw his body stagger.
I suddenly felt a pity in my heart, this person still had a medicine basket hanging around his waist, and a few green herbs were placed in a sparse place, and it seemed that such a young doctor would not survive.
There is no bottom below, I don't know how many white bones are piled up, just looking at the white mist that pervades my heart is panicking.
I pursed my lips and looked away a little boredly, ready to have some fun in a different place, when I suddenly felt an extra weight on my ankles. When I lowered my eyes, it turned out to be that handsome little boy, at that time, I didn't know what his name was, but I just thought he looked stupid, so I simply called him a nerd.
He was covered with a layer of sweat on his forehead, and he was hanging with one hand on the crooked-necked tree where I was perched, and he didn't dare to breathe, and the lower half of his body was almost hanging in the air, as if the wind would blow straight down.
My green shirt was hooked on a branch at some point, and he grabbed the hem of my shirt tightly.
This is what I bought from Ruby's stingy miserly fox with a lot of treasures, and I have never been willing to wear it.
"Let it go, you idiot!" I glared at him, and when I saw that he was still hanging there in fear, I suddenly remembered that I was invisible, and no one else could see it.
Just as he was about to pull out the corner of his clothes with force, he heard a clicking sound.
Unlucky, I cursed secretly, and my body was already being pulled and falling down by the nerd.
Damn, in a panic, I figured out, pinched my fingers and summoned a cloud of white smoke to carry the two of them firmly to the edge of the cliff.
"Thank you Sister Fairy for saving your life, my name is Shen Xu. The boy's crisp tone came to my ears, but I just stared at the fist-sized hole in my skirt, and it was over.
"You, you, you......" I pointed at him, and I cried without warning. While crying, he shouted in a nasal voice, "Woo woo, you pay me for my dress! This is what I got in exchange for a lot of treasures! You pay me!"
"Okay, I'll compensate you! Don't cry, people will think I'm bullying you when you see it. I remember that Shen Xu's expression at that time was helpless and a little funny, but he tried his best to make a serious expression with his face strained. Thinking about it, he probably knew that the woman in anger was the most unreasonable. If he had laughed, I would have thrown him off the cliff without mercy.
"Look at it, you were bullying me in the first place!" I sniffed, gritted my teeth and looked at him, my eyes were still wet, I saw my little face as mushy as a cat in his dark pupils, and quickly wiped my sleeve indiscriminately, and continued to stare at him.
"Yes, yes, yes. Shen Xu smiled at me good-naturedly, and looked down at what he was holding tightly in his hand. When I looked, it was the half of the Ganoderma lucidum that almost cost him his life, the purple-red color, which looked very attractive, probably decades old.
The culprit who ruined my skirt, I was so angry that I grabbed it and threw it down the cliff. But when he saw Shen Xu's pitiful little eyes, his heart softened suddenly, and he โกโก a few fleshy little faces in anger, and threw the Lingzhi into his arms.
"I tell you, if it weren't for the fact that you are so small and pitiful, I would have to eat you. As I spoke, I made a hideous expression to scare him. I thought that the little broken boy would be scared to cry by me, but who knew that he actually took my hand with a grateful face, "Sister fairy, you are really a good person!
God, this kid can't have a problem with his head......
I rolled my eyes speechlessly.
This was my first encounter with Shen Xu, in order to let him compensate me for my skirt, I resolutely packed up my baggage and left Wanguo Mountain, which had been in the house for thousands of years. He followed him to the world and lived in a small hospital called Renhetang, where he lived for seven years and never left......
(b)
On a rare sunny day, the small county town of Anping has not seen the sun for several months, and it has been shrouded in dark clouds and drizzle.
I moved the old green rattan recliner to the yard, and at this time, I was lying on it leisurely absorbing the essence of sunlight, and the rattan chair swayed and creaked by me.
"Ah Lin, come over and help. I turned my head to look over, and Shen Xu was moving the wooden shelf with a hum, and the white single clothes were already soaked and wet and sticking to my back.
There was a lot of trouble, I muttered a word, turned over, a small ball of light popped out from my fingertips, and the wooden shelf swayed and automatically floated to where it should have been placed, and fell down with a thud.
Yinlin, I've told you many times, don't use demon magic casually, this is in the world, not Wangu Mountain. Shen Xu's expression became serious all of a sudden, and he walked in front of me in a few steps, condescendingly, and looked at me with serious eyes. His beautiful eyes were as black as ink, like two bottomless whirlpools.
Got it, got it, not next time. I looked away and waved my hand at him perfunctorily, but I didn't care much in my heart, I was a thousand-year-old flower demon, how could I compare with ordinary monsters.
I know that Shen Xu is worried about me, a few days ago, a Taoist priest came to the county town, everyone thought he was a charlatan who mixed rice, how did he know that he really caught a fox demon from Fang Daniu's house who opened a cloth shop. Fang Da Niu was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, he didn't expect that the wife he got along with day and night turned out to be a monster with a big fluffy tail. However, the Taoist priest has only been practicing Taoism for more than ten years, and he can only deal with a little monster like Liniang, and if he changes me, he can be crushed with one finger. Thinking about it, I still think that Liniang is too pitiful, in love with human beings, and she did everything she could to end up like this.
Seeing that I didn't want to pay attention to him, Shen Xu sighed and walked over to sort out the medicinal herbs that were drying.
I was all curled up and drowsy. Shen Xu suddenly mentioned the meeting when I met him for the first time, I thought that human beings had a bad memory, and he had forgotten about it a long time ago, so he couldn't help but hold his breath and secretly bundled his ears to listen.
When I first saw you, I thought I had met a fairy on the mountain, as beautiful as a painting, even better than my mother. Hearing this, the corners of my mouth quietly opened an arc, Shen Xu's mother's name is Bai Ling, and she was a famous beauty in Anping County when she was young.
Then, I just said a word and you started crying, and then the more you cried, the louder you cried, you couldn't coax you, your eyes were swollen like walnuts, you spoke with a nasal voice, and even hiccups several times. If people see the hard-to-find thousand-year-old silver flower demon like this, they will have to laugh off their big teeth. When Shen Xu said this, his eyes turned into two crescents, and I gritted my teeth angrily, then walked over and slapped his handsome face mercilessly. Hmph, it's been so long anyway, I won't admit such a shameful thing.
Sure enough, Ah Lin still has to be so energetic to look good. Shen Xu raised his eyebrows and smiled brightly at me, his hair was untied, all of them were scattered behind him, his sideburns were slightly wet with sweat, his eyebrows and eyes were gentle, and his fleshy lips were pursed with a small arc, revealing the faint white teeth inside.
I don't know why, as soon as I met his eyes, my heart was slightly hot, and I quickly moved my eyes down. Probably because the weather was too hot, the neckline of Shen Xu's white undershirt was opened very low, and I could easily see his delicate collarbones, and further down, there were two faint dots of cherry red, damn tempting......
Shen Xu, can you dress properly! My cheeks were hot, I blindfolded my eyes with one hand, and pointed to his wide open placket with the other, and yelled angrily.
Shen Xu's temperament has always been gentle, and when I looked down, I was a little shy, but I could see my rare red face and red ears, and I couldn't help but burst out laughing. Ah Lin, your face is like a monkey's ass.
Shen nerd, you wait for the old lady. Damn, it's a shame. I stopped looking at him and stumbled towards the house.
Shen Xu was about to speak, but a green shirt flew from the door and covered his face.
Ah Lin, this girl, is becoming more and more like a person. Shen Xu smiled helplessly, tore off his green shirt and draped it on his body, raised his feet and was about to enter the house to take a look, but the door slammed shut. At the same time, I shouted angrily, Shen nerd, you just stay outside and reflect!
I leaned my back against the door panel, trying to calm my restless mind. It's really strange, it turns out that the demon also has a heart, and this time, my fingertips can clearly feel that the living heart is beating restlessly......
It would be nice if it went on like this. Shen Xu and I, just the two of us, one person, one flower.
In case, if Shen Xu met a girl he liked, I would wish them happiness, wave his hand freely and leave, and go back to Wangu Mountain to continue cultivating. Although I will definitely feel uncomfortable in my heart, but who am I Yinlin, a thousand-year-old flower demon, where will I be so childish, at most, I will give them some treasures from my collection as wedding gifts.
When I asked Shen Xu, he was stunned. I had to repeat patiently, nerd, what kind of girl do you like? gentle and petty, or glamorous? or ...... I was going to say, or something like Yoo Miao-miao. But before I finished speaking, Shen Xu nodded my forehead with a smile, he only used half of his strength, and the cold temperature was still there. Shen Xu's voice revealed helplessness, and asked me, why did you suddenly talk about this?
I pinched the corner of my clothes, and it took a while for a while to blush, and I glared at him hard, it's not that Liu girl, I heard what you said that day, she likes you, and the matchmaker has come to the door, and she wants to hide it from me. You said that a girl's family is so open-minded, what are you pretending to be reserved. When I said the last sentence, I couldn't suppress the sudden anger in my heart, and my tone couldn't help but become bitter. In the words of the world, it is a living jealous woman.
Shen Xu's eyes froze, and he was stunned for a long time before he asked me, you, ...... I didn't reply, I just snorted, thinking to myself that I had not only heard, but also seen. Most of Liu Miaomiao's white breasts are about to stick to your face, and it's the first time I've seen a shameless woman like Liu Miaomiao. What makes me most angry is that Shen Xu's nerd still looks at Liu Miaomiao with that kind of gentle eyes, and even says that he refuses as if he wants to refuse and welcome, no wonder Liu Miaomiao still doesn't give up and invites all the matchmakers.
Seeing the resentful look on my face, the corners of Shen Xu's mouth actually opened a laughing arc, the fleshy lips were stretched out at a very beautiful angle, and an inexplicable glimmer flashed in his eyes, like sadness and joy, obviously uncertain. I heard his voice different, a sadness that I couldn't put into words. Ah Lin, I do have a girl I like, but we probably will never be together, after all......
Shen Xu didn't finish the rest of the words, but no matter how much I asked, Shen Xu kept silent and didn't talk about it anymore, just said that he wouldn't marry. I saw that he was firm, as if I was going to turn my face against me if I said one more word, so I had to stop my mouth. Although I know very well in my heart that it is impossible for a gentle person like Shen Xu to be angry with me, I still subconsciously hope that he will not marry......
(c)
If only it had always been that way. In the twilight of his life, I watched over him until I sowed a silver flower seed in front of his grave.
Shen Xu will go to reincarnate, and the next one may no longer be called Shen Xu, or he may no longer remember the flower demon called Yinlin. As for me, I will continue to cultivate in the Ten Thousand Caves Mountain, slowly forgetting him, all this is like a dream. In the short decades of life, for demons, it is just a moment.
However. When Shen Xu and I had known each other for seven years, nine months and three days, a plague suddenly broke out and destroyed everything......
Ah Lin. I didn't answer when Shen Xu called me for the first time, I was still immersed in my own thoughts, and my head was dizzy.
Just a few hours ago, Liu Miaomiao's woman came again, and it was clear to Shen Xu that she would not marry her, let alone marry her. But Liu Miaomiao just doesn't give up, Shen Gongzi, I am sincere to you, I can't help it from the first time I see you...... Look, how explicit this was, I coughed violently at the time, staring at Liu Miaomiao, and almost couldn't help but smash the medicine grinder on her face that was not very beautiful. Fortunately, Shen Xu took advantage of the fact that I was not angry, so he directly pushed Liu Miaomiao to the door, and said coldly, Miss Liu, don't come again in the future. I do not like you. Also, the girl's family, it's better to be reserved.
Hmph, Shen Xu, this nerd is still a good acquaintance. I waved my hand and kicked up a cloud of green smoke, and the heavy wooden door was tightly shut.
Liu Miaomiao covered the red envelope that was knocked out of her forehead, and finally couldn't help the tears falling down one after another. I made a click gesture towards the closed door, regardless of whether Liu Miaomiao could see it or not. Hmph, I'll eat you if you dare to come again anyway!
What I didn't guess was that Liu Miaomiao really never came again. She contracted the plague. In just a few hours, the beautiful woman has become a cold corpse.
Ah Lin, I want to go out and practice medicine to save people. Shen Xu walked to the window, and his footsteps revealed a solemnity that had never been seen before. He pushed a small crack in the window. I followed his line of sight and looked out, outside was the famous Gudao Street in Anping, which was supposed to be a downtown and bustling crowd, but there would be no figure in sight. Doors and windows were closed in every household. In the sparse stalls, the debris on the ground was blown up by the wind, and there was an indescribable loneliness. It was foggy, I couldn't see anything clearly, and the sky was gloomy. Anping has been enveloped by a terrible plague.
Shen Xu, you are crazy! I stared at him with wide eyes, and even nervously used the teleportation technique to grab his clothes. I thought he would reach out and flick my forehead with a smile as he usually did, and say to me, "Funny to you, silly Ah Lin."
But he didn't.
Shen Xu smiled at me, even brighter than before, but the words he said made my heart suddenly cold, like falling into an ice cellar. He said, Ah Lin, you know, our Shen family has practiced medicine for generations. What's more, as the old saying goes, saving a life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter.
I interrupted him, gritted my teeth, and said, yes, your Shen family has practiced medicine for generations, and your mother was beaten to death by the family because she accidentally killed a patient, and she was beaten to death by that family, leaving you alone! And yourself, have you forgotten how Zhu Meng treated you as a life-saving benefactor? He kicked you hard, and even said that you were just a stinky begging for food, and he really thought that he had some ability. He doesn't want to think about how his father begged you to save him in the first place, and he turned his face and didn't recognize anyone! Don't tell me anything about human nature, monsters know how to repay kindness, but what about people? If you don't say anything, you will take revenge if you return the favor! If you go out, even if you are not infected with the plague, you will be killed by them, and maybe the source of the plague will be set on you. I can say it first, I won't follow you out to save people, I'm not so virgin, I don't know how many greedy humans hurt our demon clan. I muttered, my eyebrows furrowed.
How would I know that the angry words I said casually were just to scare and scare Shen Xu, and then it really came true.
Shen Xu still left the hospital without hesitation, ready to save the people in the world. Before leaving, he carried the medicine box on his back and said to me comfortingly, Ah Lin, if I am lucky enough to survive, I will go to Wanguo Mountain to find you, and we will come back and dig out a few jars of pear blossom wine buried under the old locust tree. It's been more than seven years, and it should taste good.
I coldly slapped his outstretched hand away, thinking to myself, what a fluke, you will definitely survive, with my dignified Lord Yinlin, what is the little plague, I will definitely protect you. To be honest, I just can't get used to his appearance as a bad person, obviously as long as he is good, it is enough, why do you have to care about others.
I have refuted Shen Xu more than once, he always thinks that people's hearts are kind, as long as you are good to others, there will definitely be a good ending. Maybe the demon was unintentional, naturally cool.
Shen Xu's back slowly disappeared, and I blinked, feeling inexplicably sour. Shen Xu, you are a nerd, you know it, as long as you beg me a little, I will definitely follow you. Even though I hate human beings, even if I don't like saving people.
I knew that he was going to the capital. It was the source of the plague and, today, the most infected.
Shen Xu arrived in the capital in only half a day, and on the way he saved five patients, one of whom was a rich man, and because he was grateful to Shen Xu for saving his wife, he asked the servants to send Shen Xu to the capital in a carriage.
I followed Shen Xu all the way, put a protective shield on him to avoid contracting the plague, and solved a few ill-intentioned thieves for him.
I guess someone as smart as Shen Xu probably knew, along the way, he turned back more than ten times, and every time he was almost discovered by him, fortunately my stealth technique was used in time.
So, I simply stopped following and took a few hundred steps back. I watched the carriage that Shen Xu was sitting in enter the city gate, and then slowly came out of the forest.
Girl, this capital is not peaceful, many people have been infected by the plague, if you come to visit relatives and friends, don't enter.
I was swaggering towards the city gate, but I was suddenly stopped by the young soldier with a halberd and a light armor. I pointed to my nose in disbelief, just in time for his pitiful gaze, and there was a beautiful woman dressed in green in those eyes. Isn't that me? Done, I forgot to be invisible, I tapped my head, and I couldn't help but feel annoyed.
In the end, I used my tricks to get out of his hands. However, my smug expression was revealed, and my whole face collapsed. It's just because, at the root of the city wall, Shen Xu is leaning on an old locust tree and smiling at me, and that handsome face looks damn hateful.
Ah Lin, I knew you were a knife-mouthed tofu heart. Obviously relieved that I was alone, and pretended to have such a fierce expression. Shen Xu looked at me with his cheeks raised, his eyebrows stretched, and the smile on the corner of his lips was like a spring breeze, incredibly soft.
Stop. I'm just...... I'm afraid that you will be fooled and you will have to help with the money. Yes, that's it, it's not because you're stupid!" I grabbed the pastry from the plate and shoved it into my mouth, gobbling it up and retorting angrily. The white debris sprayed Shen Xu's face, hum, I did it on purpose, who let Shen Xu that guy always say something misleading.
Shen continued him, he actually licked it clean! God, I swear with the dignity of my demon, I am absolutely not mistaken. Shen Xu, that guy actually stretched out his tongue directly and licked the pastry crumbs on his mouth, and at the end, he raised his eyebrows and smiled brightly at me, Ah Lin, this hibiscus cake really tastes good, do you want another piece?
My face turned red all of a sudden, my eyes were dull, and I pointed at him with trembling hands, and it took me a while to hold back a sentence, Shen Xu, you are shameless! That earth-shattering roar was enough to shake off the dust that had accumulated in the guest room for several years, but fortunately, I reacted quickly and set up the enchantment in time.
Later, I followed Shen Xu and accompanied him to practice medicine and save people in the capital, he checked people's pulses, and I boiled medicine on the side, occasionally wiping sweat for him.
We have saved poor beggars, court officials or wealthy merchants. Shen continued to say that there is no distinction between high and low people, but they are just from different backgrounds. I don't seem to understand, the demon doesn't need to pay attention to so much, as long as the strength is strong, it is enough.
Shen Xu often asked me, Ah Lin, how do you think of saving people? Isn't it much happier? I looked at his gentle jet-black pupils and nodded involuntarily. Actually, my mind flew early. At that time, I stared at his pale lips as if I was fascinated. There is only one thought in my heart, what does the world have to do with me, as long as Shen Xu is by my side, it is enough. 166 Reading Network