Chapter 25: Drunkenness and Troubleshooting
The densely packed spider spirits gathered increasingly towards Linghu Xian and the noblewomen, who fell to the ground; looking at Linghu Xian, every hair of sweat stood up, and goosebumps fell all over the place. For the spider spirits, these noblewomen were simply delicious food delivered to the door. How could they be allowed to run away? Only then did Linghu Xian realize why, once she entered the Azure Cloud Temple, apart from the monks who were men, the rest of the people burning incense and praying for blessings were women, and now only a few were left. Can it be that these spiders are specialized in eating women?
This considerable spider spirit in the lead crawled out from the abbot's human skin, stretched its long legs with teeth and claws towards Linghu Xian, and asked conspiratorially, "What? You're not afraid of me?" Oh, it turned out to be a female spider.
"Not afraid, just feel a bit disgusting. I don't like spiders." Linghu Xian replied sincerely.
"Hahahahaha, you're an interesting little girl; since you're so much fun, I'll let my children play with you for a while; I'll eat these first to fill my stomach."
It turned out that those little spiders were all her handiwork. The little spiders crawled towards Linghu Xian, who was dead set on guarding Mrs. Xie behind her. He said in his heart, "That who? You come instead! I can't hold on much longer!
Suddenly, with a gust of wind, a giant black wolf jumped in front of Linghu Xian, and with a roar, several tiny spiders close to him directly dissolved into nothingness. The giant spiders were shocked at sight and fought with the black wolf indignantly. Linghu Xian picked up the original Abbot's tin staff as a weapon and rolled it around, destroying several tiny spiders. Only to see the giant wolf ruthlessly stomp the spider essence under his feet; a force surprisingly directly crushed the spider essence into a puddle of black water. Not a moment later, it disappeared without a trace. The remaining tiny spiders fled in a panic and were eliminated by the black wolf and Linghu Xian left and right. At last, this time, the encounter with the spider essence of the Temple of the Azumanga was not dangerous. Linghu Xian, Mrs. Xie, and other people have been saved.
The black wolf was about to leave, and Linghu Xian ran to thank it: "Thank you. You were the last time I met in the woods, that black wolf, right? Well, that ... haven't we met before?"
"You still remember me?" That voice that appeared in his mind was actually from this wolf! Linghu Xian was surprised and delighted.
"So the voice that made me run away just now was from you? Then, did we know each other before?"
"Yes. However, do you still remember who I am?" That wolf asked a little hesitantly.
"I don't remember much; I only remember that I used to be a fox demon, and then I didn't know why I had to go to the earth to pass through the tribulation and cultivate, but I don't know exactly how. I also remember that in my last life, I had a perfect friend, Pi Dan, who was a big black dog! When he died, he gave me a dream and promised to come to me. Is that right? Are you Pi Dan? Come to me?"
The wolf didn't say yes or no but stared blankly at Linghu Xian. Thinking this was acquiescence, Linghu Xian hugged the wolf tightly and murmured, "I'm so happy you've come to me! I knew you wouldn't lie to me."
Black Wolf was hugged, but his heart was not right. When she was still Hu Cangcang, how much he wished to hug her, but he was Mr. Mo then, and she was his female disciple; now he was finally hugged by her, so warm and intimate, but she recognized herself as someone else.
Linghu Xian smiled and asked, "What's your name now?"
"Just call me Black Wolf."
"My name in this life is Linghu Xian. I am a slave girl in the Ouyang Mansion in the city. Let's meet again when we have the chance, okay? By the way, do you remember this?" She took out the crystallized fiery red peach kernel whistle, which she felt should have something to do with Black Wolf, "Look, this peach kernel whistle should be a token between you and me. Once I blow it, you come and find me, okay?"
Black Wolf nodded, then swept lightly on the ground; the short sword Hu Cangcang once used appeared. Black Wolf pushed the short sword to Linghu Xian, "Take this sword; although this place is currently free of Spider Goblins, I can feel that the several mountains nearby are still not peaceful. Learn to protect yourself."
"By the way," Linghu Xian asked, a bit puzzled, "Are you also a demon?"
As usual, Black Wolf did not nod or shake his head. He glanced at her, jumped out of the courtyard wall, and left.
One by one, the ladies lying on the ground showed signs of waking up, but Linghu Xian thought about it. If they remembered that they had encountered a demon, I am afraid it would be very troublesome, and their identities would not be clear. Linghu Xian repeated the trick, spitting out their spirit beads for the ladies to eliminate the memory of the demon's encounter and clean up the battlefield. His magic power is only this: hey, become a cleaning woman.
Linghu Xian, the ladies, one by one, help the carriage to settle down, and so we wake up, roughly about the encounter with thugs and villains; the ladies fainted in shock because every day to follow the young MasterMaster, more or less will be some three-legged kung fu, it resisted one or two, and led the ladies even the temple did not enter the rush to the city ran away. A few ladies were shocked, there is no doubt about it, but also repeatedly praised Linghu Xian for protecting the merit and returning to the heavy reward cloud.
Unexpectedly, Linghu Xian, accompanied by the ladies who had just returned to the residence to settle down, heard the young Master himself alone riding a horseback.
She ran back to see that the young Master was bored with the long sword in the courtyard up and down, point ZaZa stabbed Can, constantly bored in the heart, through the hands of the long sword to express out. Linghu Xian can see he is unhappy again but can not say it, so he has to find something to vent.
Okay, look at nothing; it's pretty good! Linghu Xian nodded, patted the dust on her body, and prepared to work as usual. She was about to turn around but was called by Ouyang Zhong: ''What are you doing? Are you leaving as soon as I come back?"
Linghu Xian thought to herself that this young Master was childish. What was I doing leaving when I lived here? Then he returned and replied respectfully, "Greetings to the eldest young Master! Seeing that the Eldest Young Master has returned, she will prepare your meal and tea to receive you."
Ouyang Zhong stared at her as she slowly approached step by step, observing her intently; after not seeing her for more than two months, she had gotten taller as if she had also become somewhat womanly. The clothes on her body were a lot shorter and had been too inappropriate. Her face looked like she had just returned from the outside, running red, lips also Yin out of a light peach color, just like the ripe begonias in this yard. A strand of hair was scattered from her temples, but it looked playful and cute.
"You help me change my clothes; I'll go and greet Mother. And at night, help me prepare some good dishes and serve a pot of wine." Ouyang Zhong faintly instructed, but his eyes became dark and uncertain, and he never left Linghu Xian.
Linghu Xian could feel the burning gaze that fell on her, which made her heart a little hairy. However, she did not meet Ouyang Zhong's gaze but continued to salute in response to the rules, "As you wish, Nu will go and make arrangements."
Ouyang Zhong returned this time. He didn't sneak back in a young master's temper, but rather, he was the first to report the happy news to the Ouyang family.
The eldest Princess of Nanling had long heard that Ouyang Zhong was both talented and good-looking and that he was appointed as a Lantai Order Historian at a young age, so it was evident that he was well-educated and immensely appreciated. This time, Ouyang Ming with Ouyang Zhong visited the Princess House the day the Princess to VIP etiquette stayed overnight, a stay of more than two months. With the contact and understanding of these days with Ouyang Zhong, the eldest Princess more and more like this child. Later, she made an exception by letting Princess Joyful Sun come out to get to know the guests.
Although their grade must still be at the princess level, their royal style and demeanor are decent. They have moral character and do not have the outwardly arrogant and domineering Miss temper, or at least in the past two months to see the performance of the different, everything is perfect. Everyone felt that Princess Jiao Yang and Ouyang Zhong were a match made in heaven, a good marriage match. Therefore, the Princess and her husband and wife quickly read a letter to the Emperor to give a wedding. The Joyful County Princess married to the Ouyang family and chose a date to finish the marriage.
This, for the Ouyang family, is simply great joy, the whole house lights and colors, as the principal mother of Mrs. Xie is also busy. As a result, she forgot all about Linghu Xian saving them on the road today. On the contrary, Ouyang Zhong mentioned to the steward, took a few clean new clothes, and sent them to Linghu Xian. Grand Duke Ouyang's meaning was, at least from his courtyard, a big girl's family dressed so untidy, can't lose his face.
In the evening, Linghu Xian changed into new clothes and prepared the evening meal for the eldest young Master. He also prepared wine and water, waiting for him to return as he wished. The most senior young Master returned to the courtyard and saw Linghu Xian standing under the begonia tree enjoying the moon in a moon-white Ru skirt and a head of satin black hair pulled up in a young girl's bun. The breeze swept the hem of the dress, and a pair of tiny jade feet flickered and disappeared. This picture caused Ouyang Zhong to refuse to disturb them for a long time; he wanted to put this beautiful scene deep in his brain and heart so that he could always rummage out to savor it in the future.
Linghu Xian suddenly felt as if someone was looking at her and turned her head back, locking eyes with Ouyang Zhong. This was the first time they had looked at each other face to face in months, and it seemed like the only time they had looked at each other from a distance like this. Linghu Xian appeared to see some strange sentiment in Ouyang Zhong's eyes, and as she remembered that long embrace before he left, she couldn't help but lower her head with a slight blush on her face.
"This outfit, it suits you." Ouyang Zhong first broke the awkwardness between them, then Linghu Xian nodded and followed into the young Master's room, refilling his wine and laying out the food. Ouyang Zhong just sat down, looked at her, and said, "You also come and have a drink with me!" Then he took Linghu Xian's hand and made her sit beside him.
Linghu Xian wanted to refuse; this needed to be in order, but was stopped by Ouyang Zhong. Ouyang Zhong said with some sadness, "If I don't tell, no one will know. You drink with me once. Can't you even do that?"
Linghu Xian had never seen this kind of Ouyang Zhong; he was so proud and confident, the arrogance of the proud son of heaven, but today, with this kind of slight low request tone of speech to her, she had to sit back again, for him to pour wine.
After three rounds of wine, Ouyang Zhong looked up at the moon and asked Linghu Xian, "Do you still remember our first meeting?"
Linghu Xian was unsure because the first time she remembered seeing the eldest young Master was on the night when her mother was unlucky enough to run into Ouyang Ming. Or was it that Ouyang Zhong referred to the first time she knelt in this courtyard as a subordinate and listened to the Great Young Master's qin strokes after burning incense for an eternity? Linghu Xian couldn't figure out what Ouyang Zhong was referring to, so she had to shake her head.
Ouyang Zhong smiled bitterly and said, ''It seems you don't remember ah! The first time I saw you was in a dream. I should have been less than three years old at that time. Haha, I'm afraid you wouldn't believe it either." He tilted the wine in his cup into it once more and spoke to himself:
"That dream has been done over and over again for many years. In it, you were a little fox, and then you turned into a little girl, about two years old, and then the last time you appeared in my dream, you were the way you are now, all in moonlight white, with long hair draped over your shoulders. I always felt that this dream was so inexplicable that I never mentioned it to anyone. At first, I didn't believe there could be such a coincidence in this world, so I didn't pay much attention to it.
But when I was six years old, my mother and father took me to the temple fair at the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, and I happened to see you on the street, who was only two years old, and I realized that I had been waiting for you, and you had finally come!
Then, when I was ten, I saw you and your mother in the backyard, and I tried to find a way to get you into the mansion—chained you to my side, to find out which is the real you in the dream or reality?
You're a liar, Linghu Xian! You lied to me for so many years! I thought you and the dream were simply two people, so I didn't pay any attention to you over the years, and the matter passed. But that day, when you were reciting poetry and dancing with a sword in the courtyard, I finally realized that you were pretending and were the one in my dream! Why did you lie to me?
Heh heh heh, it's too late for that now. I'm going to get married to Princess Jiao Yang soon. Then I'll move from here to the Sheriff's residence to become a royal relative, and you and I will never see each other again. You say I've been waiting for you for so many years. How can you bear it? Who the hell are you? Heh heh heh, yes, you're a liar!" Ouyang Zhong drinks after drinking a pot of wine to the bottom. Ouyang Zhong drunkenly lay on the mat and fell into a deep sleep, but the hand still pulled Linghu Xian's hand tightly.
Ouyang Zhong's words stunned Linghu Xian; she did not know what to say was good. She gently broke away from Ouyang Zhong's hand and used this hand to brush away the tears that filled her face. It turned out that he had been waiting for her; it turned out that he was Ni Zhong, who had promised him that he would find him! How can one be so stupid, waiting for so long, looking for so long, the most important person, it turns out, has always been around ah!
She gently removed Ouyang Zhong's coat and covered him with the quilt. Then, just like this, she sat by his side and looked at him silently for a long time. Raising her head again, the moon set, the sun rose, and the east was white.
That night, Linghu Xian thought a lot. She remembered the previous life of the small fox; they seemed to know each other; later in his first life on earth, he became her companion, best friend, and black dog PiDan; now he was reincarnated in this life as a person into the Ouyang family's son Ouyang Zhong, and she became his servant Linghu Xian, every day to meet but do not know each other, and finally recognize each other, but can only forget each other in the river and lake! The world is where you can't see each other, but you can only forget about each other. God, you like to play tricks on people!
Linghu Xian pulled up Ouyang Zhong's hand, placed it on her face to feel the warmth transmitted by her fingertips, and gently whispered: ''Chong, I remembered you. I'm sorry for making you wait for me for so long. You must be very aggrieved in your heart, right? Will it be my turn to wait for you this time? We will meet again. I still owe you my life! Let's pull the hook. I won't cheat and not pay back." Then she pulled his with her little finger, again pulling the hook and vowing not to regret this life.
She took advantage of the fact that Ouyang Zhong had not woken up, laid out paper and ink, and neatly wrote a poem:
I will be rewarded with a papaya, and in return, I will be rewarded with an agar jelly.
I will never be able to repay you for your kindness!
I'll be rewarded with an agarwood peach.
I'll never be able to repay you, but I'll always think of you as a good person!
I'll take the plum for the agar jelly.
I'll never be able to repay you for that!
Getting up, Linghu Xian slowly walked out of the room. Ouyang Zhong quietly opened his eyes, and a tear silently slipped down.
Since sending Erlang Shen away, Nanji Xianweng had gained one more little habit. He would still go to the torture platform, as usual, every day to receive the punishment of those three heavenly thunderbolts. He had not complained a single word for a thousand years because this was his willingness, willingly. This was the punishment he deserved for the faults he had committed.
After his punishment, he would go to the rock that Shan Xiaohu had changed into and sit on it for a while, either basking in the sun or taking out his gourd to sip a small drink and pour some for himself. He removed the weeds from the top of Shan Xiaohu's rock while talking and chatting with him:
"Little Tiger, Master Teacher has come to see you. I know you are still angry with Master Teacher. Unfortunately, your MasterMaster is incapable and can only use such extreme methods to train you and protect you.
Little Tiger, do you know what this substantial pointy mountain you are stepping on is? It's a tooth of your old ancestor, Lu Wu, that turned into one. He can also see you often. He has told me more than once that he likes you from the bottom of his heart, but unfortunately, his duties prevent him from meeting you. He told me to take good care of you and train you to be talented. In the future, you can leave the Kunlun Mountains and go to a broader world to make a career and find your world.
Little Tiger, in less than a hundred years, Master'sMaster's thunder sentence will be over, and your training will also be over. At that time, let's master and disciple have a good time under the peach blossom tree, drinking tea and eating peaches. That way, even if we encounter anything in the future, the three of you can face it independently when you have fundamental skills."
Nanji Immortal Weng gently stroked the rock underneath him as if he were stroking Shan Xiaohu's big furry head and the two strands of long hair on those ears.
Single Little Tiger, confined in the rock, although he could not speak or move, became quieter and grew faster. Whether it was his mind or his art, he understood more and more of his Master's Master's intentions and was happy to become closer to his old ancestor and Master. One hundred years and a hundred more to go, he would not desert. His Master and all his brothers were still waiting for him, and the Fox Little Fairy, who was practicing on earth, was still waiting for him.