Chapter Thirty-Nine: Drizzle and Green Mud
The night was as black as ink, and a thin line of rain had drifted since dusk. Pen~Fun~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Jin Luohua stood outside the closed door of Tanah Lot with a bamboo umbrella, feeling the coolness of the spring rain soaking into his skin, and patiently listening to the movement inside the door.
Wu Shanyue returned to Tanah Lot Temple alone after lunch, Lin Dui didn't know what was going on, and came with black beans, but was locked outside the temple. A person and a dog knocked on the door outside for a long time, but the little girl was silent, Jin Luohua called the confused Lin Du back home, and stood here slowly admonishing and waiting quietly. She had explained everything she should have explained, although she didn't say much, because there had been no response from inside the door, and she really didn't know what the little girl was thinking, and she didn't know how to continue. So in the end, she also fell silent, quietly watching the fresh and gloomy night in the drizzle outside the door, but she thought in her heart that the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is really the most difficult in the world, and the daughter-in-law is abusing her mother-in-law like this at such a young age.
There was a sound of soft footsteps inside the door, and then the temple door creaked open. Wu Shanyue thought that Jin Luohua had left, but before she could poke out, Jin Luohua poured into the temple gate with the slightest coolness of this rainy night. The little girl held a candle in her hand and looked at the smiling woman in front of her with a small face, with a deep helplessness on her face. In the candle flames, she turned around and walked inside, and Jin Luohua closed the temple door and followed. The two sat opposite each other on the edge of the bed, and Wu Shanyue put the candle on the candlestick, looking at the red and yellow flames slightly distracted.
"Still angry?" Jin Luohua smiled at the corner of his mouth, and was the first to break the silence.
The little girl said in a cold tone, "You shouldn't hide it from me, and Lin Duan shouldn't lie to me. ”
Jin Luohua's smile immediately froze on his face, and he asked with some confusion: "How did you say this? It's not right for me to hide from you, but it's none of Xiaodui's business, Xiaodui won't lie to you." ”
The little girl said angrily: "Hmph, he meditates behind the temple, pretending to be practicing, and deceives me into thinking that he really knows how to practice." ”
Jin Luohua didn't know until this time that the time when his baby son came to the temple to accompany Yue'er did not stop, and he had been meditating secretly. She was slightly stunned, couldn't help but shake her head, and said with a wry smile: "This kid is really true!Yue'er, this time you really misunderstood Xiao Dui, he didn't lie to you, he is really practicing very hard." In the past, in the Hou Mansion, he used a magic circle to test his qualifications, and the magic circle failed, and the result was that he could practice, so after he was found out that he couldn't practice, he always refused to believe it, and always wanted to prove it to us, and he meditated very seriously every day. I was afraid that he would be too obsessed, so I asked him to come and play with you, but I didn't know that he was still meditating when he got here. ”
"Really?" Wu Shanyue's eyes lit up a little, and through the dancing candle flame, it fell on Jin Luohua's face.
"Really!" Jin Luohua nodded affirmatively, and sighed faintly, "Xiao Dui, he has always felt that only by practicing can he protect the people around him, but it's a pity that this kid really doesn't have this qualification, but I will ......"
"I can practice!" Wu Shanyue suddenly interrupted Jin Luohua's words, "Mom said that I was born with a third-class qualification, which is rare in our family. I'll protect Twilight!"
Wu Shanyue's bright big eyes swelled with an indescribable look. Jin Luohua was slightly stunned, and then a gentle smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "Then don't you mind that Xiao Du can't practice?"
Wu Shanyue looked at her and shook her head slightly: "I decided to marry him, not because he is the young master of the Lin family, nor because he can practice. I don't want to depend on someone else, I don't care who he is, whether he can practice or not. I was angry because I thought he was lying to me, and knowing that he wasn't lying to me, I wouldn't be angry. ”
Jin Luohua looked at the girl opposite steadily, and a layer of shiny things poured out of her eyes. In fact, she should have thought that Yue'er didn't care about this, she never cared, but she cared too much about herself. After being in this world of cultivation for a long time, I have seen too much reality, too much utilitarianism, and too much obsession, and I have forgotten that there is still a pure and beautiful feeling in this world, so precious, so pure and clear, just like the crystal dew on the morning flower.
But such a good daughter-in-law was deceived by herself, she was ashamed and guilty, and she didn't know how Yue'er would end up knowing that this was a scam when she was sensible in the future, she could only love this child as much as she could.
She stood up and walked to Yue'er's side, hugged her tightly in her arms, Yue'er struggled a few times and didn't break away, looked up at her, and let her hold her like this. Outside the window was the silent drizzle of the night, and inside the window was Jin Luohua's whisper: "Don't worry, kid, I will not let you be wronged, I will definitely not ......"
The rain continued to fall until the afternoon of the next day, but apart from the gloomy and damp weather, there was nothing different from usual.
Su'er seemed to have listened to Jin Luohua's dissuasion, completely left the matter of converting to the true religion behind, cleaned up after lunch, and sat quietly at the door of the building, reading her little talking book to the drizzle. No one noticed that the book in her hand had never turned a page, and she was a little too quiet, her expression, her eyes, and even her brain and blood all seemed to freeze together, turning into a beautiful statue.
Jin Luohua sat in the room flying needles and threads, and continued to do fine work on her embroidery, just embroidering, she suddenly shook her whole body, An Tian's expression became nervous in an instant, and the needle was pierced on her fingers. She didn't care about wiping the blood beads oozing from her hands, put down the needle and thread and spread out her left hand, with the urging of star power, a ball of blood gradually exploded in the palm of her hand, and a red bead the size of a soybean flew out of her palm, she pinched it between her fingers and observed it for a while, then stood up and took down the bamboo umbrella hanging at the head of the bed.
The next moment, Lin Dui, who was lying on the windowsill on the second floor and looking down, saw her mother going out. She walked in a hurry, did not go upstairs to greet him, held up a bamboo umbrella and went out into the street, all the way east along the street, and soon disappeared under the gloomy sky.
I don't know what my mother is going to do in such a weather, and she is in such a hurry. Lin Du scratched her head and withdrew her gaze from afar, but when she looked down, she saw that Su'er also walked out of the building with an umbrella, and she hurriedly walked along the street to the west, in the opposite direction of her mother. Su'er had to go to the street to buy things almost every day, and Lin Du didn't find it strange. He put the bookbuckle open in his hand on the windowsill, held his chin boringly, swept his eyes over a few locust trees in front of the building, and then raised his eyes to look at the gloomy sky outside the window, then flicked his fingertips and took back the talent of the "Tree Man Alliance" maintained on the old locust tree.
In this kind of drizzly weather, this talent can hardly bring any cultivation effect, and can only consume star power in vain. These days, he has tried the "Tree Man Alliance" on all kinds of flowers and trees he has seen, and found that it is the old locust tree that brings the most star energy, but not much. On a clear day, only the harvest of a day and night is equivalent to two hours of meditation, and the part of Ceres's automatic practice is equivalent to eight or nine hours of meditation a day. This cultivation speed is actually not much slower than when you sit dry every day, but the absorbed star energy will still be poured into that black vortex, and it will not leave a single cent for that little Ceres. It seems that planets without qualifications are indeed unable to absorb star energy, so it is difficult for Ceres to ascend, which makes Lin Du very unhappy.
Yue'er didn't come to him today, and I don't know if it was because of the rain, but her sudden onset of young lady's temper yesterday made Lin Du feel very inexplicable. However, Yue'er's temper was originally so weird, she would dump the shrimp and crabs she gave her, and she would also push herself into the pond for no reason, Lin Du was no longer surprised.
Thinking about it carefully, it seems that the temper of girls is very bad, and Miss Pei Xuan will also be angry inexplicably, only Sister Pei Li looks gentle and easy to bully, but who knows if she is pretending? Speaking of which, I haven't seen them for more than half a year, and I don't know how it has been, will I still have to suffer from Mr. Ji's ruler, and I have to get up in the middle of the night to climb the stargazing platform in a daze?
Mom and Sister Su'er have gone out, so should I go to find Yue'er? Obviously, my mother said that Yue'er was not angry anymore, but why didn't she come over to play today? Is it because the flowers have been planted?
Thinking of the flowers in the garden, Lin Dui suddenly came to his senses. After so long in the rain, is it time for the seeds to germinate? They jumped away from the south window, ran to the high north windowsill, moved a stool and stepped on it, pushed open the window and looked out into the small garden, and the clammy and fresh air poured in at once.
The soil in the garden was moistened by the drizzle, and in the middle of the garden was a path that was not muddy, dividing a dozen tofu-like flower fields neatly. The distant flower fields were sown early, and after a night of spring rains, they were already covered with a tender layer of green. In the middle of that layer of green, through the hazy rain curtain like smoke, you can see a delicate girl strolling leisurely. With shoulder-length black hair and a skirt with green flowers on a white background, she did not have an umbrella, her hair and skirt were slightly **, just like a green and fresh flower seedling.
The girl walked into the distance with her back to Lin Dui, a little black dog shook her head and tail at her feet, and suddenly the little black dog stopped and turned around to look, the girl also seemed to sense something, turned around and cast a clear gaze at Lin Dui's window.
One was upstairs by the window, the other was downstairs in the garden, and the boy and girl looked at each other and smiled sweetly. The boy put his hands to his lips and shouted outward, "Yue'er, wait for me!", then turned around and ran out of the door and downstairs. The girl just nodded lightly and reached out to brush the hair on her forehead.
In this season, the drizzle is green and muddy, and the goose is yellow and green.
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Dressed in gray and wearing a hat, the cuttlefish sat in the corner of the third floor of Haiyun Restaurant. There is a wine jug on the table, a wine glass next to the wine jug, next to the wine glass is a window, outside the window is a pond, the drizzle drifts in front of the window, wrapped in the slightest wisp of wine, falls on the surface of the pond water, splashes ripples, layer by layer, spreads out, collides with each other, blends with each other or fights, and finally disappears into nothingness.
At this time, the cuttlefish should have appeared in the square in the center of the city, not this deserted restaurant. It was inconvenient for the city lord Lin Yingqi to come forward to accompany Gong Ximing to preach to the church, so this accompanying task fell on his head as a matter of course, but he didn't want to go.
Lin Yingqi is an ambitious person, and the cuttlefish also intends to rely on this ambition to achieve the responsibility he has to shoulder, and it is his voluntary choice to do things for Lin Yingqi, but this city lord hooks up with Gong Ximing. Gong Ximing is evil, and often gives the city lord some treacherous and vicious strategies, and instigates the eldest young master to enjoy himself in the name of cultivation. The cuttlefish really can't stand it, but there is no way to persuade it, so he often takes the initiative to receive some tasks to go out, so that he can't be out of sight and out of mind. Now that Gong Ximing is going to preach loudly, claiming that he can let ordinary people gain the ability to cultivate, how can he not know that there must be a conspiracy in this from the perspective of a cuttlefish? I don't know how many innocent civilians will be killed. After he and Gong Ximing left the city lord's mansion, they parted ways and came to this Haiyun restaurant alone.
He was ashamed to be in the company of an unscrupulous villain like Gong Ximing, but he couldn't dissuade Lin Yingqi from relying on Gong Ximing, so he could only sit here drinking and watching the rain, and his heart was like the spring in the north outside the window, confused with layers of rain and fog.
Today's restaurant is far less lively than usual. Despite the light rain, the enthusiasm was still high, and people flocked to the center of the city to listen to the preaching of the holy teachers of the Conversion Sect and to observe the miracles of ordinary people being transformed into cultivators. There is only one guest on the third floor, cuttlefish, and you can drink sake alone. The two maids were wiping the table and wiping the table very boredly, and they saw a middle-aged man about forty years old walking quickly upstairs and entering the private room.
The cuttlefish kept looking out the window, his head was not raised, his eyes were not squinted, but he knew very well that the man did not have an umbrella, the rain was not dripping on his body, he walked steadily like the wind, his eyes were as bright as electricity, and he was obviously a cultivator with good strength. This kind of person rarely appeared in Shashui City, but he was in no mood to pay attention to it today. After drinking the wine from the glass, he lifted the flask and filled himself with a glass, but he did not pick up the glass when he put the flask down. He saw another man come upstairs and hurried into the private room. Recognizing the man's identity, he couldn't help but feel a stir in his heart.
Jin Luohua, the third lady of the Hou Mansion! Why did she appear here?
Jin Luohua was a little unsteady in her mind, and she hurried upstairs, completely ignoring the cuttlefish in the corner. The cuttlefish's hat is very low, and it always likes to be restrained, and few people pay attention to such an ordinary-looking drinker. But the cuttlefish recognized Jin Luohua dressed as a civilian woman at a glance. She was meeting with that practitioner here, and it seemed that there was something to discuss?
Jin Luohua settled in this remote town with her children, which is already a bit strange. Lin Yingqi suspected early on that her arrival meant that the Huaiqing Marquis Mansion was eyeing this strange Phantom Sea Desert, and Jin Luohua did not shy away from exploring the desert, so that the cuttlefish would be urgently assigned to the depths of the desert to contact and integrate the sand pirates. There was a great secret behind the formation of the Phantom Sea Desert, which was related to whether Lin Yingqi's ambition could be realized, so the gaze cast by the Huaiqing Marquis Mansion made him worry and had to speed up his actions.
Jin Luohua has not made any other moves for more than half a year, but today he has made a secret appointment with the cultivator here, and the cuttlefish is immediately keenly aware that he may be able to detect some movements in the Hou Mansion here, and at the moment he has a right hand, and the silver and blue runes light up at the same time.
The rain was still falling, but it was suddenly quiet. The waitress who was wiping the table stopped and thumped her waist, and casually glanced up at the window, and saw that the flask and glass were on the table, and the guest with the hat had quietly left.