Volume 1: Opening Chapter 38: The Divine Fortune Host Lin Kite
There will be the same wild fruit on the incense case every day, and one day, the glass ghost will pick up a slightly reddish one, and eat a bite, full of sour and astringent taste, but slightly sweet, it seems to be a little different from the last time I ate.
The glass didn't spit it out, and tasted the taste carefully, although it was barely acceptable, but after all, I didn't like it.
Why would anyone offer such a sour fruit to her?
Li thought about it, pinched a trick in his hand, and pointed it on the Mortal Void Mirror.
The mirror soon revealed a dilapidated hilltop temple, a shrine that seemed to have been built a long, long time ago.
Li thought about it, pinched a trick in his hand, and pointed it on the Mortal Void Mirror.
The mirror soon revealed a dilapidated hilltop temple, a shrine that seemed to have been built very early.
It was in a dilapidated state, and even the statues were covered in dust and spider silk.
But there were a few green and red fruits with tender leaves quietly placed on the incense table under the statue of the god, and there was a very good-looking girl sitting next to the incense table, who looked to be only about eleven or twelve years old, and the fabric on her body had long been unable to see the color, gray was not gray or black; Her long hair was messy and tied up in a bun with a dry branch, she looked like a little beggar, and she also held the half-green wild fruit in her hand, and looked like she had no sense of taste, and she ate it with an expressionless face.
Li looked at the fruit in his hand curiously, wondering if her one was different from what she had eaten.
After eating one, it didn't seem to be full, and Luo Jiuli clearly heard the sound coming from her stomach.
The girl sighed, she got up and looked at the idol, then at the wild fruit on the incense table, and finally turned and left the ruined temple.
If you're hungry, why don't you eat the rest of the fruit?
The glass ghost sent the god to follow her with the Mortal Void Mirror for two days, and unexpectedly found that the divine luck that had been lost for many days was actually on this girl.
The girl's name is Lin Yuan, born in a remote mountain village where the folk customs are relatively simple, her father Lin Qing was a scholar, and her mother was a Qinglou woman.
Lin Kite's mother's name is Yan Ran, and she is a well-known Oiran in the Qinglou in the mountain city, but she falls in love with Lin Qing, a scholar.
It is rumored that Lin Qing borrowed money everywhere in order to redeem her, and used all the family's savings to redeem her body, after getting married, I thought I would live a good life, but I didn't expect Yan Ran to repay the debt with Lin Qing because she disliked Lin Qing's poor family, and after Yan Ran, who couldn't bear the hardship, gave birth to Lin Kite, she ran away with others.
So the women in the village sympathized with her and occasionally helped her family, but the children in the village didn't seem to like her very much, and gave her many titles such as decaying ghost and mildew god.
There are some things that even gods can't observe too much, and after thinking about it, Luo Jiuli took out a bit of his divine sense and put it into the Mortal Void Mirror, and his divine sense turned into a light ice-blue butterfly and followed Lin Kite to the mountain village.
The temple is located halfway up the mountain, and at the foot of the mountain is a small village, with only about 30 or 40 households.
At this time, it is the evening sunset, the roofs of every house in the mountain village are emitting green smoke, curling up, the first house at the entrance of the village is the village chief's house, the village chief's wife is sitting in the yard to choose vegetables and chat with the neighbor next door aunt, Lin Kite just walked in front of the house, the woman in the courtyard stopped her and said: "Ah kite, you wait a minute." ”
Lin Yuan stopped, seeing that the village chief's wife did not speak, the woman got up and went into the house, took two snow-white steamed buns, handed them to Ah Yuan, and said softly: "Take them and eat them, this is what Auntie left for you." ”
Lin Yuan still didn't make a sound, just took the steamed bun, nodded at her to thank her, turned around and rushed home.
The village chief's wife returned to the courtyard to continue to choose vegetables, and the woman standing by the fence said with disgust: "In this village, you are so kind-hearted, but I advise you to ignore her, be careful that one day you have bad luck and no place to cry, her father is also unlucky enough, gave birth to such an unlucky ghost, and became like this, how much has to do with her and her slut mother." ”
The reason why the neighbor woman who spoke looked down on Lin Yuan so much was just because Lin Qing originally had a marriage contract with her, but he didn't expect that in the end, he ran to marry a Qinglou woman.
The village chief's wife couldn't listen to it, so she chose to throw the yellow vegetable leaves to the chickens in the courtyard, and said with some displeasure: "Xue Niangzi, don't talk about it, your man may be back soon, if he hears that you can't forget Lin Qing, maybe he will get angry again." “
After saying that, she picked up the vegetable basket and was about to go to the house, that Xue Niangzi listened to her sarcasm, and stomped her feet angrily, but she had no choice but to hurry home, her man is a well-known vinegar jar, if it is really heard, then she is afraid that she will be beaten up tonight.
Suddenly, a big man hurriedly ran in, holding on to the fence of the courtyard and panting, and before he could make a sound, he frightened Xue Niangzi, who was just about to go back by the fence, and turned pale.
It's really Cao Cao, Cao Cao.
That Xue Niangzi stammered in fear: "Xu.... Brother Xu... I really forgot about him, you have to trust me. ”
The big man who was called Brother Xu didn't hear their conversation, but he didn't want to hear his daughter-in-law say this, and he exploded in an instant, he stepped forward in three steps and grabbed Xue Niangzi's hair, if it wasn't for a few men who came from behind to stop him, it is estimated that Xue Niangzi would inevitably be beaten again.
A young man grabbed him and said, "Brother Xu, you first dissipate your anger and do your business first." ”
The big man threw Xue Niangzi aside and spitted, "I'll clean you up when I come back later." ”
Turning his head and asking the village chief's wife, "Sister-in-law, have you seen the child of the Lin family?" ”
The village chief's wife was stunned and said, "What's the matter, she just passed here, what's wrong?" You're all in a hurry. ”
The big man said with a somewhat forbearant expression: "Lin Qing is drunk, at the foot of the mountain...... Alas, we're not coming back to find help. ”
The village chief's wife was shocked: "How could this happen, so you go to save people, and I will go to find Ah Kite." ”
The ice-blue butterfly stopped on the fence, and after a few moments, flew away from the yard, looking for the trail of the forest kite.
The voices in the courtyard became farther and farther away, and after a lot of commotion, it seemed that they were all out of the courtyard.
Lin Kite carefully held the two steamed buns, returned to the already tattered house at the end of the village, but did not see her father, she put the steamed buns in a broken bowl, picked some wild vegetables in the yard, fried a dish of vegetables without oil and water, put them on the table, and waited for her father to come back.
The sky was getting darker and darker, and the dishes were cold, but Lin Qing hadn't come back yet, and Lin Kite's stomach had already growled several times.
Suddenly there was a voice outside the door, but it was not his father, but the village chief's wife.
Lin Yuan opened the broken fence that was not a door, looked at her suspiciously, and only heard the village chief's wife say, "Ah Kite, your father fell into the ditch and drowned when he was drunk." ”
With a clang, the dishes in his hand fell to the ground and shattered, Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment, the words of the village chief's wife were like thunder, and his scalp was numb, Lin Yuan looked up at the village chief's wife in disbelief.
The next moment, he stumbled towards the bottom of the mountain.
The butterfly flapped its wings and flew away.
The foot of the mountain was already full of people, Lin Kite seemed to be the last to know, he pushed aside the crowd, walked in, on the edge of the ditch, the ground was full of water stains, and a man in ragged clothes was lying flat on the ground, his body and face covered with straw mats.
Lin Yuan slowly lifted the straw mat covering her face with trembling hands, and cried silently.
The onlookers whispered, "Poor thing, I lost my parents at such a young age." ”
"What's the pitiful, what I said before, it's only a matter of time before this baby kills her father."
"Well, you don't say a word."
Villagers, you say a word to me, the voice is neither loud nor small, but it is just enough for people to hear clearly.
The village chief's wife followed and rushed over, and stepped forward to gently hug Lin Kite and comfort her.
The discussion continued, but in Lin Kite's ears, it was a buzzing sound, and the gloomy sky finally couldn't help but start to rain heavily.
The village chief's wife sighed, looked up at the sky and muttered: "Even God can't bear it, Lin Yuan, this child is still so young, what kind of sin has the Lin family done." ”
With the help of the village chief, Lin Kite's father's funeral affairs were quickly dealt with, and Ah Kite became an orphan completely.
The glazed butterfly followed her for three days, watching how they mortals bid farewell to life and death.
At the funeral, Li saw Lin Qing's soul standing beside Lin Kite, caressing his face with reluctance and pain, but Wushi's hand only passed through Lin Kite's body.
When Lin Qing's body was buried, black and white impermanence also appeared beside Lin Qing, taking him out of the world, and when parting, Bai Wuchang saw the ice blue butterfly on the side, stunned for a moment, seemed to feel something, and respectfully saluted her.
Lin Kite didn't come to the shrine for a long time, because the time to turn into a butterfly was limited, and Li didn't follow her all the time.
After a period of observation, the divine luck of bad luck did not cause any harm to other people in her body, but her own bad luck was repeated.
Li Qian went to the Jishi Hall to find Yao Lao and ask if there was any way to extract the divine luck from the mortal body, but the boy informed that Yao Lao had gone to the Antarctic Immortal Weng and would come back for a while.
In the final analysis, the cause of all this is caused by her, maybe it is because she can't bear to see Lin Kite living so pitifully, or Penglai is too boring, after Li returned to the temple, she declared that she was in retreat and went directly to the Goddess Mountain.
She stood next to the dusty statue of the god, changed into a red feather coat, and wore a dust whisk on her arm in a plain dress, like a Taoist aunt.
When you look at it from the mirror, you know that this temple is in tatters, but the glass stands here only to find that it is not as bad as it is seen in the mirror, although the bricks and tiles have fallen almost, but the beams and pillars are good, there is no trace of erosion at all, just a layer of lacquer, I think that the workmanship was done with heart.
Glass used magic to restore the original state of the house, but it also retains the traces of the temple that has experienced thousands of years of wind and frost.
She doesn't pay much attention to where she lives, as long as it doesn't leak wind or rain.