Volume 1 Chapter 15 Stealing Half a Day of Leisure (Happy Holidays)
"Little brother, little brother"
Bai Yunqing seemed to hear someone calling him in a trance, but he listened to it and heard it again, "Good, good"
He opened his eyes slowly, and the harsh sunlight shone on his face just along the eaves of the temple.
Everything was so familiar, there were no black and white lakes, no water dragons that suffocated him, only black candle handles remaining.
And Bai Yunqing also saw clearly that the person who shook and woke him up was an old woman, and the face carved by the years left a slight wrinkle, like a crack in the earth that could not be smoothed. With gray hair on her temples, a patched turban on her head, and plain, mended plain clothes and trousers, her face was full of worry at the moment, until she saw Bai Yun wake up, and couldn't help but turn her worries into joy.
Bai Yunqing has experienced the affairs of the Zhou family, and he already knows the warmth and coldness of the world, the old woman's every move can't help but remind him of Granny Ai, Bai Yunqing smiled slightly, maybe it is because of the existence of people like them that there will be so much light in the world.
"You've finally woken up! I'm scared to death of my wife! Little brother, you don't know, just now when I entered the temple to exchange tribute for the Qinglian monk, I saw that I was chilling all over my body, shaking badly, I saw your sleeping posture curled up in a ball, I wondered if you were homeless, you fell asleep here last night, and you were infected with the wind cold......
"Haha" Bai Yunqing laughed twice, then stood up straight with a somersault, and then said embarrassedly, "Thank you to the old man, but I'm not homeless, I'm a disciple of Danqing Mountain who went down the mountain to practice Bai Yunqing, because it has been three watches when I came to Shuijing Village last night, so it's not good to disturb the old man, so I found this temple and fell asleep......"
"So that's the case, since it's an immortal disciple, it's very good, I've heard that this immortal is like a Qinglian monk, who saves the suffering......
"Purr, purr, purr!" interrupted the old woman's words with a few disobedient voices.
"Hehe" Bai Yunqing's face was feverish, and he lowered his head embarrassedly.
"Hungry, this is cold and hungry, it's hard for you......" The old woman looked at Bai Yunqing with kind eyes, as if she was looking at her own child.
"It's not a secret, old man, I'm in a hurry, the dry food has long been eaten, and there is no one on the road, yesterday ...... I haven't eaten for a day yesterday" Bai Yunqing scratched his head, his eyes fluttered, and he said in his heart, this time his face is embarrassed, if my senior brother knows that I have become a beggar for food, I don't know how angry I will be!
"Ah! I haven't eaten for a day! What can I do! Brother Bai, you can go to my house with me, my daughter-in-law is at home, and there is still some food in the house, enough for us to eat for a long time!" When the old woman heard Bai Yunqing's words, she immediately jumped up, very shocked!
"What's so embarrassing about this?" Bai Yunqing hesitated, and said in his heart, this shouldn't be begging, after all, it was invited by the eldest mother, hehe.
"You clean up, and when I finish giving incense to the layman, come with me" The old woman saw that Bai Yunqing had no problem, but she was hungry, so she remembered the purpose of her coming to the layman temple, and then lit the incense, inserted it under the tribute platform, and then read in her mouth, "Qinglian monk, Qinglian monk who saves the suffering and rescues the suffering, please bless my family to gain fame in the examination, and glorify the ancestors......"
The more she spoke, the quieter she became, Bai Yunqing watched from the side, and naturally it was not easy to interrupt, after all, the eldest mother was really too pious!
"Haven't asked the old man's name yet?" Bai Yunqing then remembered that he was going to go to someone else's house to eat white food, and he didn't know what other people's names were, which was really a shame for the fairy family!
"What's the name there, women's family, you just call my aunt......" Bai Yunqing followed behind Aunt Fang and asked her a lot about Shuijing Village, Aunt Fang also knew everything, and after talking and laughing, Bai Yunqing already knew about Shuijing Village.
What shocked him the most was the Qinglian monk, who was almost the faith of Shuijing Village! Legend has it that a hundred years ago, the Qinglian monk saved the ancestors of Shuijing Village and gave them shelter, so this is why Shuijing Village is what it is today! And Bai Yunqing dared to conclude that he had escaped into his state of mind last night, and it must have been the Qinglian monk who helped him! If it weren't for him, I'm afraid Bai Yunqing would feel that he should have fallen into a demonic obstacle, not to mention that now that his cultivation has advanced a little more, his state of mind is more complete and enlightened!
Since it was late at night last night, he didn't have a good look at Shuijing Village, and following Aunt Fang, Bai Yunqing also kept looking at Shuijing Village.
As the old saying goes, one side of the water and soil raises the other side. Shuijing Village relies on Mingjing Lake and is basically safe.
Along the way, he kept encountering people greeting Aunt Fang, and Bai Yunqing listened to them.
"Sister-in-law Fang, go and pray for your son again! Don't worry, he will be admitted!"
"Aunt Fang, ask for your daughter-in-law's grandson?"
"Aunt Fang, I want to report to my grandson, I'm going to the Jushi Temple again!"
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"Little brother, don't laugh, everyone likes to tease me" Aunt Fang was full of smiles, and her red face was full of happiness.
"This is due to the temperament of the villagers, simple and honest, I like it tightly!" Bai Yunqing's words came from the heart, and he saw through the deceit of the Zhou family, and the villagers of Shuijing Village did give him a very peaceful feeling, a very natural drunkenness.
"Here! Hongli, there's a guest coming!"
As Aunt Fang shouted in a loud voice, Bai Yunqing also arrived at Aunt Fang's house.
Aunt Fang's home should be far away from the lake, not gathered together like other villagers, her house is also three feet away from the neighbors, probably so that her son can concentrate on studying.
The house was made of wood and mud, and around it was a fence made of bamboo poles, and on the periphery of the house you could see several roosters with their necks and feathers standing around a hen, crowing and croaking.
Next to the house is a simple chicken shed made of bamboo strips and wooden planks.
The dam in the middle is still relatively wide, and on the dam are several large sieves with fish, beans, and some pickled dishes.
On the right side of the dam is a chicken shed, and on the left is a couple of long bamboo poles for drying clothes, where a woman is fetching water from the well.
Hearing Aunt Fang's shout, the woman also stopped what she was doing, happily opened the fence door, and said happily, "Mother, which guest is it!"
Only then did Bai Yunqing see the woman's appearance clearly, her hands were like soft wattles, her skin was like clotted fat, her teeth were like rhinoceros, her head was like a moth, her smile was clever, and her eyes were beautiful.
"It's the disciple of the Immortal Family, Brother Bai!" Aunt Fang looked at this woman, her eyes were very satisfied, and she pulled Bai Yunqing to introduce her.
Bai Yunqing was embarrassed, his cheeks were slightly red, and he said with a simple smile, "Since Aunt Fang said that your name is Hongli, and you are older than me, then I will call you Sister Hongli."
Hongli looked at the simple Bai Yunqing, stunned, and at the same time frowned, and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes.
"Okay, I also want to have a younger brother, if you don't dislike it, I'll call you Little Brother Bai" Hongli pursed his lips and smiled, that was enough to turn all beings upside down.
It's just that Bai Yunqing was not affected, but his stomach seemed to be urged, and he snorted.
"Hehe" Bai Yun stood there without speaking, his face was already extremely red, no worse than a monkey's ass!
"Haha! Why don't you go and get some food for Brother Bai, he can be hungry for a day and a night!" Aunt Fang hurriedly urged Hongli, she asked Hongli to stare at Bai Yunqing silently, thinking that Hongli didn't like Bai Yunqing, but when she thought that Bai Yunqing had been hungry for so long, she couldn't help but worry in her heart.
"Oh, I'll go!" ......Hongli walked into the house in a panic, looking quite unnatural.
Bai Yunqing looked at the departing Hongli, his eyes also glanced at her twice, and then kept spinning and pondering.
"Brother Bai, don't mind, my daughter-in-law doesn't usually see people much, and I'm a little afraid of ......"
"Where, where, I thought I was scary! Don't scare Sister Hongli!"
Come into the house, Brother Bai, I'm sorry to let you stand for so long!"
Aunt Fang took Bai Yunqing and walked inside, Bai Yunqing looked at the courtyard and the house, and a glint flashed in her eyes!
The furnishings in the house are very simple, not much different from ordinary people's homes, in the middle of the hall is a dining table, four long benches, next to the dining table is a small table, only about fifty inches, and next to the dining table is a cabinet, which is used to hold alcohol.
One of the doors on the right side of the hall is the stove room, the other door is also a back room, and there are two doors on the left, which should be two back rooms.
As Hongli put one dish after another on the table, Bai Yunqing, who was sitting on the side, couldn't hold it anymore!
A plate of braised tofu, a plate of fried vegetables, a few white steamed buns, and a small bowl of sauce, Bai Yunqing held chopsticks in one hand and a steamed bun in the other, and stuffed something into his mouth vigorously, and then swallowed it after just two strokes in his mouth.
"Woo...... Woo...... It's delicious, it's delicious" Seeing that Bai Yunqing couldn't talk clearly, Aunt Fang couldn't help laughing, and shouted Slow down, slow down, it's not enough.
Hongli also couldn't help but purse her lips and chuckle, but she controlled it well, but her face was still flushed, and she was a little out of breath.
"If you want to laugh, laugh, Sister Hongli" Bai Yunqing looked at Hongli, who endured and endured, and muttered two sentences in his heart.
"Hahahaha" Hongli couldn't help it, and hurriedly covered her face with her cuffs, not letting Aunt Fang and Bai Yunqing look at her, and then she used her other hand to hold her waist, don't look over, and laughed, but her voice was not as unrestrained as Aunt Fang.
Finally, Aunt Fang was still laughing, laughing while telling Bai Yunqing interesting stories about Shuijing Village.
On the other side, Hongli also controlled his laughter, turned around, and gently wiped the tears from his laughter.
"Mother, we're back!"
At this moment, the voices of two men came from outside the door......