Early in the morning, Nijan often goes to the dining area reserved for families, gets rice and food to bring back to the monastery.
Their portion was only enough for two meals, but as much as they tried to divide it evenly, it could still be divided into three meals. Of course, each meal was at most only a bowl of rice and some green vegetables and fatty meat.
Other families in the palace often do not cook for themselves, they choose to go to the dormitory to eat.
Firstly, they don't need to cook for themselves, secondly, they don't need to wash their own dishes.
Of course, only the cook can know whether hygiene is guaranteed or not.
After returning to the Marquis' residence, the two Nijin brothers also came here to eat several times.
However, after being ridiculed and contradicted many times, the two brothers chose to bring food home to cook for themselves.
Althought Nijin is naive, through many times living in and out of the valley, he has learned how to cook like a normal person.
Nijin diligently cooked rice, her hands constantly painting and drawing.
Nijin spent the whole afternoon remembering six more words on the piece of paper. He planned to wait until his sister came home to ask.
After cooking, the sky was already dark, at that moment Nijin heard his sister's footsteps.
From far away, Nijan's voice came.
"Brother! See what this is?"
I just woke up last night."
Nijin looked at her sister worriedly.
His sister's body was weak, but every time she got better, she bounced around like a little bird. No matter how many times he told her, she still couldn't change it.
"Okay, I know."
Nijan chuckled, slowed down her steps, walked in front of her brother, held her right hand behind her back, and extended it.
In front of him was a package of oiled paper, inside contained something that gave off a nose-aching scent.
"What smells so good?" Nijin's eyes shone, staring at the paper package, holding it with both hands and slowly opening it.
Inside is half a grilled chicken, golden brown in color and fragrant.
"Grilled chicken with honey, did Nishan give it to you?" Nijin vaguely guessed and turned around to ask carefully.
"That's right! Nishan is not happy today. Grandma sent someone to cook grilled chicken for her. If she doesn't eat it all, I'll bring it home."
Nijan replied with a smile.
"Oh! So that's it.
Didn't you say anything when you brought her back?" Nijan asked suspiciously.
"No, she told me to take it away too."
Nijan shook her head in response.
Nijin was a bit confused. Normally, he did not have the opportunity to interact with Shengyou. When he did, it was only a passing encounter.
However, up until now, this girl has never cared about him. Perhaps who his brothers are, she may not have paid attention.
Nijan has been serving Nishan for the third year now and has never seen her bring anything home.
"Brother! Don't be dumb anymore, go eat."
Nijan saw her brother absentmindedly and laughed.
She quickly brought bowls, chopsticks, and food and placed them on the table.
Nijin doesn't want to think anymore at this time. After all, the status of his two brothers is low, so people probably don't want to harm him.
The two brothers ate such a delicious meal for the first time. In just a moment, the rice and water were clean.
After washing the dishes, Nijin immediately began asking his sister about the six words he learned on the page.
"Ah! These six words are read as "Ancient has autumn, winter, spring, and summer" brother, how do you know these words?" After Nijan finished reading, she immediately asked her brother in doubt.
She remembered that in the Nan family library, there were a few books about ancient insects, but she didn't understand how her brother knew these words.
"I accidentally saw it in a book and remembered it so I asked you.
But what is ancient? What is spring, summer, autumn, winter?" Nijin replied ambiguously, in fact, he did not want to hide it from his sister, but he could not say these six words on that page, if he said it, it would only I'm afraid something strange will happen again
"Oh! I see, let me show you."
Nijan thought for a moment, then pointed to the word ancient and said, "The ancient here is probably the ancient worm, and spring, summer, autumn, winter represent the four seasons of the year.
Legend has it that in ancient times, when "Logan" fought against the wood demon "Bone Demon" for more than a hundred days without winning or losing, in the end, the two stopped evenly and the monster escaped.
Although this monster escaped, its injuries were not many, blood was all over the ground, and Logan could not clean it all with his magic power.
At that time, the animals in the forest smelled the blood of the "Bone Demon" and each one couldn't stand firmly and scattered away.
In the end, only the inanimate, fearless insects remained."
Nijan took a sip of water, organized her memory, and continued speaking.
"These insects are numerous in number and come in all shapes and sizes.
Because they smelled blood for too long, they began to act boldly, devouring their own kind, and in the end, only a hundred were left alive.
After devouring their own kind, these insects began to devour other species. It is said that in the end only ten insects were left alive.
These ten animals are extremely strange, each of them has perverted powers. They can't do anything to each other, so they flock to the village to cause trouble for the people.
After causing disaster, these insects immediately disappeared. Occasionally, people passing through the forest saw some strange creatures.
When the group saw that strange creature, after returning to the village, they immediately told the village chief about it, and the village chief invited Logan to come and exterminate these insects."
"What then?" Nijin's eyes shined, although he knew this was just a legend.
What if there is a legend? What about rumors? Who doesn't like to listen to myths? Who doesn't have a fairy dream in their hearts?
Nijan saw her brother being so interested and smiled.
"After Logan appeared, he looked towards the mountains and forests, clicked his fingers, and said with a slightly condensed look.
"These insects will not cause harm to the villagers anymore, as long as everyone does not tease them.
Um! Maybe in the future, they will contribute some effort to help us destroy that wood demon." Logan finished speaking and disappeared.
Later, the "Ding" family ruled the country and the "Bone Devil" came again, but unfortunately for him, he was surrounded by a Taoist priest, and ten insects and killed him.
Later, the Taoists named those ten insects "suffering", but the people found the word suffering a bit difficult to hear, so they read it as "old" for convenience.
"So, is that Taoist stronger than Logan?" Nijin asked a little surprised.
"How is that possible...! Logan was originally a dragon, his nature was underwater, he went up the mountain with all his strength but he could only develop three cities.
That Jupiter is different. He was originally fertilized and cultivated. Being in the Wood Planet forest is considered an advantage, his cultivation level is not suppressed and even increases sharply.
Speaking of hundreds of days and nights of great fighting, that monster's body was covered in wounds. If it weren't for its deep roots in the ground, I'm afraid it wouldn't have survived even one day."
Nijin shook her head, not thinking it was right.
"So what happened to that group of insects later? And where did you hear that legend from?" Hearing that, Nijin nodded and started asking again.
"This is the legend of "Dragon Logan and Aurora", who are also our ancestors.
Those ten great ancient insects, some people later said they transformed into cocoons, only breaking out of their cocoons once a year.
As for the issue of right and wrong, it is difficult to verify."
Nijan replied.
"Don't they have descendants? They must have died since ancient times?" Nijin asked again.
"I don't know, but I saw it written in the book.
Every year there will be a type of Gu worm appearing, but these Gu worms are very weak and not harmful enough, perhaps they are descendants of those other Gu worms."
Nijan calmly answered the question.
When Nijin heard this, he was very suspicious. If that legend was true, perhaps those insects would have died.
From ancient times until now, hundreds of thousands of years have passed, but who can live that long? Nijin definitely doesn't believe in gods, but if those ancient insects don't exist, then why are the words?"LingKing" But the six words he had just learned also mentioned the roots of autumn, winter, spring, and summer.
"Hmm! Perhaps these ten insects still have descendants."
Nijin thought about this and opened her mouth to ask her sister.
"Do you know if there's any of those ancient insects named "Ha Corpse"?"
When Nijan heard her brother's question, she was startled and turned to question him.
"Brother! How do you know that among those ancient insects, there is one named Ling? That's right, one of them is named King."
Nijin saw her sister's questioning eyes and laughed, scratching her head and saying.
"I already told you, this morning when I was looking for grandpa, I accidentally read a book, it was written about these ancient insects."
Nijan was still skeptical, but she did not doubt her brother, she finally said.
"Brother! It's okay if you want to find out, but don't get involved with them.
They are not things that we can touch.
In fact, don't talk about our brothers, even Grandpa doesn't dare to touch them."
Hearing that, Nijin nodded vigorously. Although he didn't believe it, he also didn't want to worry his sister.
In his heart, he was now thinking, "What about ancient insects? In the end, they are just butterflies, grasshoppers, or something, they can be easily captured and killed.
Even though Grandpa still doesn't dare to move... Who is Grandpa Thai? Wukan's number one expert, aren't those insects even stronger than the ultimate expert?"
Seeing that her brother had no more questions to ask, Nijan then took a needle and thread and started sewing clothes.
Nijin thought for a while and finally put the insects out of her mind.
He made an excuse to go out for some fresh air and walked out the door.
Outside the yard, a cold wind rushed in, Nijin smiled, his mind was strangely alert at this time, he took out a small piece of paper and continued to research.
Early the next morning, Nijin as usual got up from bed, washed his face, ate, then went to work, but as soon as he got out the door he turned around.
He patted his head, his face turned pale. Now he remembered that the Marquis had guests coming today, and Nishou had told him not to go out.
Nijin rushed back to the room, saw her sister still in the room, and opened her mouth.
"Nijan! The Marquis has guests today, we don't need to go to work"
Nijan heard that and asked hesitantly.
"What's wrong? I didn't hear Nishan say she had to rest?"
"It was Nishou who told me yesterday, my mind is not good, sometimes I remember, and sometimes I forget. Luckily, if I didn't remember, we wouldn't have been able to avoid an unfair beating."
Nijin shivered coldly before speaking with a sigh of relief.
"Um! That's good."
Nijan nodded in response.
Although the two brothers wouldn't have any money if they didn't work, this was a forced situation, so she didn't dare to disobey orders.
"Sister! If you're free today, why don't you tell me the legend of Dragon Logan and Aurora?"
Nijin sat on a bamboo bed, rubbing her hands and talking.
"Okay! The story goes that..." Nijan started telling from beginning to end, Nijin listened very attentively, many times he couldn't help but applaud Logan for being so good.
After listening to the story, Nijin started asking about some of the words he remembered on the small piece of paper.
Last night he was stunned for a long time, but he remembered a lot.
An hour later...
Nijin was focusing intently on learning how to write when he suddenly shivered.
He stood up and turned to look at his sister, only to see that her face was similar to his, showing a look of panic.