Chapter 8: The Rain Lady
"Master," Bai Yu blocked the door of Master Keats early in the morning, and she knocked lightly on the wooden door, "Master Keats, are you there?"
The door was knocked lightly and then opened, Bai Yan walked in, there was no one in the room, she smelled an indescribable aroma, not like the sandalwood fragrance in the temple, very elegant taste, like some objects that evoke people's memories of the past, ancient but familiar.
"You're here?" A voice came from behind, Bai Yu hurriedly turned around, and saw Master Keats standing behind him, silent, Bai Yu was a little shocked for a while, "I just came over, I think I want to continue to see the Buddha bowl, I want to see what happened to the unswerving and Xiuyuan." β
Master Keats walked quietly past her and picked up the Buddha bowl from the table, there was also a white fat jade neck bottle on the table, Master Keats poured water into the Buddha bowl from the bottle, and then brought it to Bai Yan.
"You believe you're the nine-tailed fox demon?"
If simply seeing the face of the unswerving that is almost the same as her own can make her a maybe just an old monk become a trick, then after seeing the persistent eyes of the unswerving face of Xiuyuan, Bai Yu no longer doubts that he is the reincarnation of the nine-tailed fox demon.
Bai Yu nodded, "So I want to take another look." β
Monk Keats lowered his head and chanted a few words, and tapped the Buddha bowl lightly, "The story hasn't been finished yet, so follow me to see it." β
Bai Yu's eyes widened, watching the quiet water in the Buddha bowl in front of him slowly ripple, Bai Yu seemed to be sucked in at once, this time he saw the past immersively.
Lying on the stone bed, the breeze was slow, the moonlight came in from outside the cave, and he turned his head outside, Xiao Zhi slept on the side and was already lightly drunk, and he simply walked down without sleeping, and when he got to the outside of the cave, he found that tonight night was like day, the huge moon was in the sky, bright as Hao Fang, and he remembered the picture of Mo Chou and Xiu Yuan leaving, Mo Chou grabbed Xiu Yuan's hand and did not shy away from it, for fear that one would accidentally lose Xiu Yuan, Xiu Yuan slowly left with her, and took two steps forward, looking straight at the back of them leaving little by little, disappearing, and suddenly Xiu Yuan turned his head and glanced at him, his eyes were full of tears, he raised his hand and waved lightly in front of his shoulder, and Xiu Yuan nodded knowinglyand turned his head away.
A voice in Unstellar called out in his heart, "Cultivate Yuan." β
Xiu Yuan, who was miles away in the air, was also on the bed at this time, recalling everything that had happened in the past two days, recalling the unswerving face, his mind was full of the beautiful deep eyes when he looked at him, there seemed to be a fire in it, and her smile, so that he remembered everything that he said, their fate meeting began hundreds of years ago, he was the reincarnation of the Dragon Venerable, and she was the fox demon who had been waiting for hundreds of years.
He seemed to hear this voice when he was thinking about it, and the familiar voice penetrated everything to him, and she called his name, Xiu Yuan suddenly opened his eyes, and stepped out of bed to open the window, those eyes were gone, and the eyes that had been with him for sixteen years were gone.
Xiu Yuan sighed and closed the window.
Two people came to the Li family's mansion early in the morning, and the curious Mo Chou happened to see it when he passed by the side hall, and hurriedly walked away after a glance.
In the hall, the people who came were Mao Chun and Wang's friends who had not seen each other for many years, Miao Zhi and his twenty-year-old son Miao Xuehan.
Miao Zhi is about the same age as Maochun, the two families are world friends, and the two grew up together, although the Miao family was originally from Tiantai Town, but many years ago, a fire destroyed the Miao family's foundation, and only Miao Zhi survived the whole family, and then Miao Zhi, who was alone, borrowed a sum of money from the Li family to go to the field, and then married a wife and had children in the local area to engage in the dyeing business, and in recent years, it has also been doing well. He doubled the money he took from the Li family very early, and the two have maintained correspondence for so many years.
"I haven't seen you in the past two years, Brother Miao, you are looking a lot older?" Mao Chun saw that Miao Zhi looked tired, his temples were gray, and his expression showed embarrassment.
"It's hard to say, Brother Maochun," Miao Zhi wiped his forehead with the placket of his clothes, "It's not for my son," he said, patting Miao Xuehan beside him.
Xue Han is twenty years old, with a delicate face and a slightly thin body, compared to Miao Zhi, although Xue Han's eyebrows are young, he can also see that he was born with a serious illness, and his complexion is extremely poor.
Mao Chun looked at Xue Han, "Xue Han, is there any kind of disease?" Wang also looked at him strangely.
Miao Zhi sighed, "I found some Langzhong, and at first said that it was tuberculosis, but I didn't see how heavy Xuehan's cough was, and I didn't get better after taking a lot of medicine, so I lost weight day and night, and I didn't look good." β
Miao Zhi said, his eyes began to moisten, "I am a hard-lived person, I killed my parents back then, and my family was defeated, so I finally started from scratch, married a wife and had children, but Xuehan's mother died of dystocia, I killed my wife, and I haven't continued to continue these years, just such a person brought him up, in the past two years, Xuehan has also begun to get seriously ill, and his body is getting worse, I'm really afraid, I'm just such a son, I don't want to be in Ke my son, so I have to entrust Brother Maochun to take care of my son for me, and help him find a good doctor to cure the disease as soon as possible." β
Listening to Miao Zhi's crying voice, Mao Chun's heart also softened, "How can Brother Miao say this about himself? Xue Han is very reassuring to me, but let's still ask the doctor to be important, don't blindly say that your life is like this." β
Wang also nodded one after another, Xue Han looked at his father, and coughed a few more times, "Father, Xue Han is really reluctant to father." β
Miao Zhi saw that his son was coughing again, and hurriedly patted his son's back, "Child, I have no choice but to make this decision for my father, and the doctor has asked all over the place and I don't see you, except for this reason, my father really doesn't know what else it can be, and I don't know what I can do for you, but you have to live." Miao Zhi began to choke, Xue Han lowered his head, tears in his eyes, Mao Chun saw this and hurriedly stepped forward to comfort the father and son, "No matter what, let Xue Han live first, and Brother Miao will live here for a while." Miao Zhi waved his hand, "I'm leaving, the family business is inseparable from people, and I am already relieved that my son entrusts you." β
Mao Chun nodded and it was inconvenient to keep it anymore, Miao Zhi got up and returned to his seat, "By the way, I married a wife for Xue Han last year, named Yu Niang is still in the inn, and later I will bother Brother Maochun to arrange for the two of them to live." β
Mao Chun nodded, "Since I have already married a wife, of course, I will come to live together, and I will order someone to pick it up." β
Xiu Yuan was painting in the room, Mo Chou pushed the door in, "I saw someone coming to the house." β
Xiu Yuan turned his head, "Well, I heard from my father yesterday that he has been a friend for many years, and Uncle Miao and his son are coming." β
"Oh, I saw a young man, presumably your uncle's son. β
"Oh, you mean Brother Xue Han," Xiu Yuan put down his pen and got up seriously, "I haven't seen him for a few years, yesterday I heard my father say that Brother Xue Han has suffered from a serious illness in the past year, and the cause is unknown, and he can't be cured by visiting famous doctors. β
"Haha," Mo Chou couldn't help but want to laugh, "Your Uncle Miao really believes in witches and not doctors, how can he believe in numerology and say that he is a son." β
"I don't blame Uncle Miao, my wife died in childbirth when she gave birth to Brother Xuehan, and she hasn't continued for so many years, and it's not easy to take Brother Xuehan alone, just such a son, of course, has to save his life no matter what, so it is inevitable that he will go to the hospital in a hurry. β
Mo Chou nodded, feeling that what Xiu Yuan said made sense, "It's really a poor family to say this." β
Xiu Yuan pursed his lips and smiled, "Let's go, I'll take you to visit Brother Xue Han and them." β
The two left the room as they spoke, and when they passed by the side hall, they happened to see the butler taking a woman to the main hall.
"Steward Li," Xiu Yuan called out to the two people in front of him.
The two people in front turned their heads, Xiu Yuan and Mo Chou saw a petite white and thin young woman also turned her head, with pretty Danfeng eyes, pointed melon seed face, eyebrows and affectionate eyes, and she was very pleasing.
"Who is this?" Xiu Yuan asked.
The housekeeper Li Yi said, "This is the wife of the young master Xuehan, who was just at the inn, and the master ordered me to pick it up." β
"Oh, it turned out to be my sister-in-law," Xiu Yuan bowed slightly, and the woman Yu Niang bowed slightly, glanced at Xiu Yuan, and a casual look between her eyebrows, although it was slight, she was still looked at by Mo Chou on the side.
Then a group of four people went to the main hall together, and in the main hall, Xiu Yuan and Mo Chou saw Miao Xuehan and Miao Zhi, and Xiu Yuan met and saluted, "Uncle Miao is good." β
Miao Zhi saw Xiu Yuan hurriedly went over and helped him who was saluting, "My beloved nephew hasn't seen an adult who has been born for a few years, he is so strong, Brother Li is so blessed." β
In contrast, when Mao Chun saw Xiu Yuan, he was obviously a few years younger than Xue Han, but his face was ruddy and healthy, and he immediately felt that he was a rare blessing.
Xue Han also came over, and Xiu Yuan held Xue Han's thin arm, "Brother Xue Han, I haven't seen you for a long time, how are you?"
Xue Han was ashamed and also held Xiuyuan, "It's good, it's good, it's just that this damn body is not angry, which makes my father worried, and it also makes trouble for Uncle Li and Brother Xiuyuan." "If this is the case, I grew up with your father since childhood, how can I say that this is such a trivial matter in the love of these years, even if it is a big help, we have to help." Mao Chun took over.
"Oh yes, this is my daughter-in-law, Yu Niang, come and meet your Uncle Li's family. As he spoke, he beckoned his daughter-in-law to come over and salute.
Yu Niang politely walked over and bowed one by one, and her words were decent, maybe she was too petite and slender, and Mo Chou always felt that there was a flutter between her steps.
After the group greeted, after eating the Chinese meal of the Li family's hospitality, Miao Zhi hurried back, Maochun was not good to keep, and ordered someone to take care of Miao Zhi and send Miao Zhi away, and then Mrs. Wang prepared a good guest room for Xue Han and Yu Niang to let the two live.
Xue Han was not in good health, so she went back to the room to rest during the banquet, Yu Niang took her husband back to the room, passed by Xiu Yuan before leaving, glanced at it inadvertently, and a faint smile between her lips, this slight action was seen by Mo Chou in her eyes, she couldn't help frowning, this woman was so frivolous, and she suddenly had no good impression of her.
After the meal, Xiu Yuan also returned to the room, and Mo Chou followed, frowning and not saying a word.
"What's wrong?" Xiu Yuan saw that she didn't speak, not like she usually said a lot, "Why don't you say a word?"
Mo Chou looked at him very solemnly, "I think that rain girl is very problematic." β
Xiu Yuan looked at her with a smile, "What's the problem?"
Mo Chou walked into the room with Xiu Yuan, and she cautiously inserted the door, "I just feel this way, there must be something wrong with this woman." Mo Chou can't say what, is it because she looked at Xiu Yuan a few more times and made her feel frivolous, she herself knows that it is not all because of vinegar, if it is Long Bu Shao that fox demon looking at Xiu Yuan, she will really be more angry, but even if she is angry, when she sees the eyes of Xiu Yuan looking at Xiu Yuan, she also feels that it is indeed a harmless look that is only because of love for Xiu Yuan, but this rain girl, who is obviously married to a woman and still has this kind of restless look, which makes her feel disgusted at first, and this look itself makes people feel indescribableγ
"You continue your instinct to hunt demons, don't you? I think my sister-in-law is very good, Brother Xue Han immediately helped him back to the room when he was unwell, and took care of people very decently. Xiu Yuan didn't care about what Mo Chou said, and smiled.
Mo Chou looked at Xiu Yuan unhappily, "You men are, when you see a beautiful woman, you don't have the consciousness to distinguish between right and wrong." β
Xiu Yuan blinked, thinking that he might have spoken inappropriately, and scratched his head, "I don't, and I don't think my sister-in-law looks as good as you, you see it's okay." β
Mo Chou was amused by him, "Forget it, don't worry about you, I'm going back to sleep, you also rest early and lock the door." Since the last time Xiu Yuan was taken away by Xiao Zhi overnight, Mo Chou would tell him this once before going to bed, and Xiu Yuan always nodded tacitly, and did it with a slight smile.
Outside the window, the transformed into a human form was quietly hiding behind the bushes, watching all this, hearing Mo Chou's words, and also having doubts about this woman named Yu Niang, I was about to take a look, only to see a long shadow flickering on the ground, startled, hurriedly chased it, only to see a thing I don't know what it was very quickly crossed, and before I caught up with that thing, the thing disappeared in a flash.