Chapter 116.
The gentle evening breeze that night stirred up the fragrance of flowers in the courtyard, but in Tangyuan's heart, the fragrance in the garden could not compare to the scent of the people behind her. It was so reassuring to her, like the dandelions that had been floating in the air for a long time, finally found a place to rest.
The two hugged each other and lay on the soft couch. Although it was not as comfortable as a canopy bed, this narrowness allowed them to get closer and closer.
Tang Yuan closed her eyes, her long eyelashes drooped, and she slept sweetly. She had solved her serious worries and felt refreshed. She no longer had to pay attention to the inexplicable voice in her heart. It was enough for her to know that it was false.
The arm on her waist gently left, but Tangyuan turned around, hugged Tangli behind her, and said softly, "Do you want to let me go while this slave is asleep?"
Tang Yuan opened her almond shaped eyes filled with laughter and said lively, "Humph, but in fact, this slave is not asleep at all. The miss must have been fooled!"
If she could deceive Tang Li, she felt that she was the most powerful person in the world.
Tang Li patted her lower back gently and joked, "It's outrageous. Now you want to lie to me too?"
Tang Yuan stood up and smoothed the hair on her chest, "Miss usually bully slave. No matter what, I have to let miss be bullied once."
She blinked her eyes cutely and looked at Tangli slyly. Now that the two of them had confessed their feelings to each other, she, who was already quite courageous, became even more out of control because she knew that Tangli would pamper her.
Tangli smiled good naturedly and pinched her chin with her hand. Her slender fingers still had the time to touch her lips. Tangli asked lazily, "Do I bully you all the time?"
"Yes." Tangyuan wanted to put away her hand, but as soon as she made a move, she saw Tangli getting up and hugging Tangyuan, kissing her savagely, pressing the back of her hair with her right hand, Tang Yuan couldn't escape, and could only be pulled by the domineering Tang Li and fall in love together.
After the kiss ended, Tangyuan leaned into her arms with a blushing face, breathing heavily, while Tangli leaned on the pillow and smiled contentedly.
"Yuanyuan, this is bullying, do you understand?"
"Miss, you... you are so unreasonable!"
"I have never been a reasonable person." Tangli stroked her hair, her eyes were so deep that one could not distinguish the emotions in her eyes, and one could only rely on intuition to feel her coldness and ruthlessness.
Tang Yuan bit her lip and said, "I don't like the way the miss looks like. No matter how the miss treats others, she can't do this to slave!"
"Silly Yuanyuan." Tangli laughed, her eyes showing joy, she hugged the person in her arms, contented.
Now she has figured out the tricks of rules in this other world. As long as Tang Yuan believes in her enough, the tricks of rules are just nonsense and of no use.
So Tangli felt particularly comfortable and relaxed tonight. She pulled up the quilt, kissed Tangyuan's lips, and said, "It's late at night, it's time for us to rest."
Tang Yuan nodded obediently, found a comfortable position and fell asleep slowly in her arms.
Because of the nonsense just now, Tangyuan's neckline was slightly open, revealing her snow white skin. Her unguarded look made Tangli sigh and couldn't help but use her hands to cover her clothes.
At this time, Tang Li also noticed the jade button. The jade material was not the best, with a dark yellow color and a slight turbidity. However, the jade button was of great significance, expressing Tang Yuan's longing for her mother, so the jade material was just a foil.
She held up the jade button with her hand and watched quietly. Thinking of their life experiences, Tangli's eyes rippled.
Tangli lowered her eyes and put down the jade button. In a blink of an eye, she seemed to see red veins, which were very shallow. If not for the change of angle, Tangli would not have noticed the red traces in the jade button at all.
Tangli always felt like she had seen this pattern somewhere, but she couldn't remember it.
Her movements never stopped. It was strange that Tang Yuan could sleep.
Tang Yuan had no choice but to ask, "Is there something wrong with my jade button? The miss stared at it for a long time."
When Tang Li's fingers touched the hem of her clothes, she was nervous and didn't dare to open her eyes. She thought that Tang Li would make other moves. She had already thought of what would happen in the storybook in her mind, but she didn't know that Tang Li stopped.
"Nothing."
Tangyuan held her jade button in her hand, thought for a moment and took it off.
She placed the jade button in Tangli's hand. She smiled and said, "Wouldn't it be clearer if you look at it this way?"
Tangli pursed her lips and smiled, stroking the smooth jade button. She lifted the quilt and got down to the floor. She took a candlestick and placed it on the soft low table. She carefully observed the jade button in the light.
Tang Yuan saw her busy and became curious. She wondered why she suddenly became interested in jade button, so she went over to take a look.
"Huh? Since when did there appear to be something like a red line in the jade button?"
Tangli's eyes darkened and asked, "Didn't the jade buttons from before have red lines?"
Tang Yuan shook her head without hesitation and explained, "Absolutely not. This jade button was my mother's dowry and was kept at the bottom of the box. Later, my parents passed away and my uncle took away my parents' belongings. The slave fought hard to get this jade button. After I got it, I will look at it every day. I hold it because I miss my parents, so if there is a red line on the jade button, the slave must have discovered it early."
She held the jade button in the palm of her hand and said to Tang Li, "Later, the slave was sold to Ren Yazi. I was afraid that it would be lost so I held it in my hand. I was so frightened along the way that I didn't even know if the palm of my hand was bleeding when I pinched it. It was the miss who treated the slave with medicine."
As soon as she finished speaking, an idea flashed in Tangli's mind, and she blurted out, "Blood, it's blood!"
She remembered it, and why she felt that the red lines in the jade buttons were familiar. She had seen them in a different world.
She still remember that the petals closest to the center of the pot of green roses have red lines, and the same is true for the snowflakes in the apocalypse.
So what does it mean to see it again now?
The snowflakes were streaked, and it had snowed heavily for many days, creating a harsh environment, and the apoclypse began immediately. It can be said that snowflakes are the beginning of the apoclypse and the source of viruses sprinkled by rules.
The pot of green roses does not appear in the plot, so it is an anomaly. She remember she said at the beginning that she accidentally cut her finger and the blood was swallowed up by the green light rose, and then she got the mutated plant.
Tangli sneered, so that's what happened.
Tang Yuan looked at her blankly, "Miss, you smile so horribly."
She held Tang Yuan's hand tightly and said seriously, "Yuan Yuan, can you lend me this jade button for a few days?"
Tang Yuan had no objection and asked again, "Is the jade button useful for miss?"
"Certainly."
She had just imitated Tang Li and looked at her for a long time without realizing anything. Then she yawned gracefully and said tiredly with drooped eyebrows, "Remember to return to your slave, miss."
"Don't worry Yuanyuan, I will protect it with all my heart."
Tang Yuan forced herself to stay strong, rubbed her eyes and leaned on Tang Li's shoulder, saying softly, "Speaking of which, I haven't heard your voice for a long time. It's really strange. Ever since I told the miss about the strange illness, It disappeared like a mute. But the slave thinks this is normal. It is a strange illness anyway. If we figure it out, the slave may become a weirdo."
Tears welled up in the corners of her eyes, and she was extremely sleepy. Seeing this, Tangli helped her lie back on the quilt, tucked her in, and said with a smile, "It's not mute. Maybe it's a guilty conscience."
Tangli sat on the soft couch and waited for a while. Seeing that she was sleeping peacefully, she picked up the coat hanging on the screen, put it on, and then took the candlestick to the study. She walked lightly and did not wake up other people.
Tangli locked the door and placed the candlestick on the desk. The flickering candlelight reflected her face. The warm light could not drive away the coldness in Tangli's eyes, "001."
[I am here! ]
"Keep an eye on my surroundings and remind me if anyone appears."
[No problem, Tangtang, what do you want to do? Why don't you sleep with Yuanyuan in the middle of the night? ]
Tangli pinched the jade button and talked in detail, "In the world of cultivating immortals, the rules take the opportunity to appear in the illusion to confuse me. As long as she uses the illusion to keep me, the mission must be a failure, but I recognized her and caught her. She became angry and increased the difficulty of the other world. Although she returned my memory to me, the heroine was embarrassed by her in two different worlds in succession."
"So if you want to continue to be a sneaky villain, then I can only destroy the jade button and cut off the connection between you and Yuanyuan."
"If you understand, then come out. If you don't understand, let's continue fighting. I don't know your identity, but I don't mind breaking up. When this mission is completed, I will go directly to see the minister, I'm really fed up with your existence, if she doesn't tell you your identity, then I'll just kill her, anyway you won't let me die, you will keep me, after all, our victory or defeat has not been decided yet."
Tangli's words shocked 001. It suddenly felt that it was not a qualified melon eating system. Why could it never keep up with Tangli's rhythm? Is it really a stupid system?
Her brows were cold, her lips were smiling, and she looked charming. Because of this, Tangli looked even more intimidating, and how could she be so good tempered like in front of Tangyuan?
Tangli stared at the jade button closely, and soon saw the red veins hidden in the jade button start to move, flowing around the jade button until it disappeared.
At this time, a woman was sitting on the desk, looking at Tangli with a smile.
"Haven't seen you for a long time."
Tangli was already prepared, but 001 was shocked.
[Ah ah ah ah, there is a ghost! No, this isn't Yuanyuan! No, she is not. ]
Tangli frowned and asked, "Why do you confront me with Yuanyuan's face?"
The rules were pretty, she brushed her cheeks with her fingers, and said sideways, "Who told you that I'm not her anymore? Why can't I use this face?"
Rules swung her feet up, and it was obvious that she had the same face, but the coquettishness in her manner and expression allowed Tangli to clearly identify who she was.
Tangli touched the tip of her tongue to the roof of her mouth and looked at the rules coldly.
Rules didn't care about her annoyance and said scornfully, "If we are not the same person, why should I make every heroine in another world be her."
[Wow, then Tangtang, how can you kill her... I said you can't set the flag casually! ]
Halfway through, the rules corrected herself, "No, I'm not a human being. I should be regarded as an obsession in her heart. That's right, I was born because of you. Don't stare at me. That's the fact."
Tangli finally had a different expression and asked nervously: "What do you mean by this?"
"It's hard to understand? She is the master of another world."
Rules put her hands on the desk, her eyes were smiling, but her words had a creepy meaning.
"Do you know why the space-time management bureau has countless world planes?"
Because behind the space-time management bureau, there are several huge World Trees standing. If the world plane is a structured house, then the World Tree is the foundation. Without the existence of the World Tree, it would be impossible to construct a strong and stable house.
All things are born with spirits, and the same is certainly true of the World Tree.
They create worlds one after another and spare no effort to maintain the existence of the world. Just like lamps that light up because of the power supply, they radiate their own power and light up the world.
But they are not immortal, and their power will be exhausted one day.
From birth to death, it is the order of heaven and earth, and World Tree cannot escape it.
When it dies, obsession is born.
It is the evil side, selfish and overbearing. Why should it be lonely when it is about to die? It does not want to die quietly. Even if it dies, it will be accompanied by Tangli's tears.
Rules seemed to be telling someone else's story, with a different kind of hoarseness in the night. Rules' eyes moved, and suddenly she said,."Do you still remember the novice mission back then?"
Tangli lost all reason. She seemed to be unable to hear the questions asked by the rules. All she could think about was death.
She didn't speak, but 001 spoke.
[I remember that Tangtang's first novice task was very difficult and it was completely inconsistent with the regulations. I reported it to the minister, but she only said that she would handle it and nothing else. ]
"You mean, she already appeared during my first novice mission?"
Rules clapped and said with a smile,."As expected of you, your sense of smell is indeed very sensitive. I won't mention the novice tasks here. You already have the memory anyway."
"How should I save her." Tangli didn't care about anything else, she only cared about this.
"Help her shape her soul and separate it from the body of the World Tree. The other world is a disaster for her, and she needs your help. I am just a puppet, a gardener who takes care of the other world. She is the one who really makes the decision. In other words, the disaster is set based on her own situation. She is the disaster, and the disaster is her. And completing the task means that the soul is being shaped."
As soon as I said these words, I regretted it. It seemed that I was describing myself as a useless little pitiful person. Even if she is a gardener, she is still a gardener with huge destructive power. You can't say that.
She quickly added, "Actually, I am also very powerful. This catastrophe of being separated from the World Tree and becoming a soul was originally her mission alone, but she misses you and wants to have a soul because of you, so I just simply brought you in, Tangli, you should thank me."
Tangli couldn't help but hold her forehead. She fell silent. The amount of information today was too large, and her brain capacity could not bear it.
"What does it mean to be successful in soul shaping?"
Rules shrugged and said helplessly, "Your memory can be cleaned, because you are an outsider, and when you come here as a guest, you naturally have to obey our orders. Then her memory is a disaster. When it recovers, it means that the soul has been successfully shaped. If she doesn't succeed, then she is really not far from death. On the contrary, she has hope of survival. By the way, increasing the difficulty is not what I want to do, it is a disaster."
[Tang...Tangtang! I feel like I'm a little dizzy and can't understand. ]
Rules jumped down from the desk and stopped in front of Tangli.
She bent over slightly, put her hands on her knees, and said warmly, "I'm really sorry for dragging you into this mess, but you surprised me. I didn't expect you to go so smoothly, so you are her destiny. If not of you, I'm afraid it will be difficult for her to be alone."
Tangli had mixed feelings. There were many things she wanted to say, but now she couldn't say anything.
They looked at each other, and Tang Li said, "It doesn't matter, you don't have to apologize. Anyway, I have said bad things about you in private, so I can treat it as if we are even."
[Hahahaha, it seems so, we have scolded her quite a lot. ]
Rule pinched her waist and snorted dissatisfiedly, "You are a heartless woman. Her feelings were purged after a disagreement on the novice mission, which made her want to continue to get close to you, but she was also worried that you would not treat her like before."
Tang Li murmured in annoyance, "According to you, didn't we miss a lot? But during the novice mission, I didn't realize that anyone liked me. I am a vicious female supporting character, and everyone hates me so much. That kind of thing, so after completing the task, I will cleanse my emotions according to the instructions in the newcomer's manual."
[Tangtang was very well behaved when she was a novice. She strictly abided by the rules for newcomers of the space-time management bureau. Unlike now, she can break it if he wants to. ]
"Hmph." She turned around and disappeared into a wisp of smoke.
Tangli raised her hand and looked at the jade button. There were no more red lines. It seemed that the sarcastic voice would not appear in the future.
[Tangtang, I suddenly realized that it's not the rules that are treacherous, but your wife! ]
Tangli laughed and tightened her grip on the jade button, "Who says it's not the case? I fell into her trap."
[Is this called the pull of love? Or is it your interest? ]
"...."
Tang Li lips twitched and said helplessly, "When everything is over, I will definitely take you to a class to learn how to use vocabulary correctly."
[Woo, did I say something wrong? If you don't scold your wife, you will scold me cruelly. ]
"You've already said it, that's my wife. Wife is for caring, not for scolding."
[Offline! ]
Tangli gathered her outer shirt and sat quietly to sort out the thoughts in her mind. After a long time, she raised her lips and smiled.
"This is probably Jiang Taigong fishing, whoever wants to take the bait can take the bait."
She held the candlestick and walked all the way back to the inner room, walking slowly. The cool breeze at night made Tangli's reason clearer.
Tangli opened the door and saw the woman sleeping on her side. She put down the candlestick and sat beside the couch.
She traced Tang Yuan's face with her eyes, and finally landed on Tang Yuan's lips, "I won't let you die."
Since you agree with me to join this chaos, your life and death are half mine, so I won't let you die.
The cold lips and affectionate words instantly woke Tang Yuan up.
Tangyuan's eyelashes trembled. After seeing it was her, she couldn't help but smile. Tangyuan hugged her waist with her arms and half-sit up with her strength.
Putting her cheek against Tangli, she felt a chill. Tangyuan asked in confusion, "Why is the miss's body so cold?"
Tangli got on the couch, the two of them shared a quilt, "I woke you up, I'm sorry."
"It's okay, it was miss who woke up the slave, not someone else."
Tangli's expression changed, and her fingertips tightened around her waist. These words made Tangli's heart soften, and she wanted to do something to express her feelings.
Tangli whispered, "Are you still sleepy?"
"No, the miss hasn't told this slave what you just did. You must not have stayed on the bed, otherwise your body would not be cold."
Tang Li chuckled and said, "I have a strange illness, and I need Yuanyuan's kiss to cure it."
She couldn't help but kiss Tangyuan, slowly tasting Tangyuan's sweetness.
Tang Yuan meekly endured the throbbing caused by her, held her hand tightly, and the two of them got into the quilt.
Gradually, the coolness on Tangli's body was quickly taken over by warmth, making her sigh comfortably.
The night is still very long, and everything is developing in an orderly manner.
The moon and the stars, she and her.
Stay together forever and never separate.
*
On this day, Tang Yuan's eyebrows were poked by Tang Li, and then she said, "Don't you want to eat red bean cake? Let's go to the cook's place and have a look."
"Miss, please praise me again."
Old God Tangli was flipping through the account book on the ground, "Go and look in the mirror. How red is your face? You still want me to continue to praise you? I'm afraid that if I continue to praise you, you will be shy and dare not come to see me. That's not okay, I still miss you."
Tang Yuan covered her hot cheeks. She didn't want to hear compliments for no reason. It was because she found that her sarcastic heart was gone. It might be an accident once, it might be an accident twice, but it was several times. Damn it, that's why Tangyuan asked Tangli to verify it.
"That strange illness really disappeared?"
Tang Li said meaningfully, "If Yuanyuan wants it to disappear, won't it just disappear?"
Tang Yuan smiled and lay on the table, "Does it listen to my words so much? Is it because the voice of its heart is very similar to mine?"
Tang Li tapped her head with her finger, "What an idiot."
"This slave is not stupid, this slave is so smart!"
Tangli raised her eyebrows, she agreed very much with this statement.
"So Yuanyuan is both stupid and smart?"
"Ignore you, I'll go find the cook!"
Tangli looked at her back and smiled.
The corridor was filled with the fragrance of flowers, and Tang Yuan was jumping across the arched wall. She was no longer troubled by the strange illness, so of course she was smiling.
At this time, she heard someone talking at the rockery. Tangyuan thought about it and hid quietly aside. It was not that she wanted to eavesdrop, but she was worried that she would be discovered if she walked around casually. Wouldn't that be more embarrassing? It's better to stay where you are, maybe that person will leave soon.
Unexpectedly, just by staying, she heard her name.
"Master, I have already checked. There is no problem with that maid Tangyuan's identity. She is just a country girl. But... the second miss had her slave status canceled, so now that maid has a good status."
"What!?"