It was unknown how much time had passed before the morning light filtered through the thin window paper, casting its glow on Chu Siyu's face. Her eyelashes fluttered lightly as she finally awoke from her dream, staring blankly at the ceiling of the inn's room.
Her uncle had been called away last night and never returned. Thanks to the appearance of her mother in the last part of her dream, she had slept well in the latter half of the night, arguably the deepest sleep she had experienced in ten years.
That feeling, even after waking up, still lingered with a faint warmth, bringing her a sense of peace.
Strangely, after crying all night, her face felt no discomfort upon waking, but instead was incredibly refreshed, as if her face had been washed in her dreams.
After a moment of daze, Chu Siyu decided to get up and find a new inn to stay in. She acted on her decision immediately, throwing off the covers and was about to get out of bed when her gaze was suddenly drawn to something by the bedside, plunging her into a long stupor.
It was a large bunch of pale blue Zhu Guang flowers.
...
In the bustling market of the small town –
Su Hui, yawning, returned to the inn where he was staying. As he just opened the door, he saw Cao Yi and Luo Yuanhe sitting at the small hall tea table having breakfast.
He pounded his leg, casually took a bun from Cao Yi's plate, and snatched the chicken leg that Luo Yuanhe hadn't had time to eat yet, biting it fiercely.
"..."
Luo Yuanhe bared his teeth; his chicken leg was gone, so he could only lower his head to drink the bland porridge. Fortunately, he still had a meat bun in front of him to eat.
Cao Yi looked at Su Hui with a puzzled expression: "Where did you sneak around last night? You didn't come back all night, did you?"
Su Hui was slightly stunned.
"How do you know I didn't come back?"
"Hiss... Could it be that you wanted to sneak up on me at night?"
"Did you hear that, Luo Yuanhe? Boys must also protect themselves when they go out!"
"Beware of such female hooligans like Cao Yi!"
Cao Yi became furious, snatched the meat bun from Luo Yuanhe's plate, and threw it at Su Hui's head with a whoosh.
"Who said I was going to sneak up on you!"
Su Hui caught the bun with his hand and stuffed it into his mouth.
"That's right, you're such a female ghost!"
Luo Yuanhe: "..."
You two flirt, but why do you have to snatch my breakfast? Who did I offend?!
Forget it, not eating anymore, I'm full of anger.
He put down his chopsticks and looked at Su Hui with a smile.
"Brother Su, when we were in the Great Yan Dynasty, I said we would go to Qing... Ahem, go to a refined place to relax, and you said that kind of place even dogs wouldn't go..."
"So, Brother Su didn't come back last night because..."
Su Hui twitched at the corner of his mouth: "Don't you slander me!"
"I went to save someone last night."
Luo Yuanhe and Cao Yi spoke in unison: "Save someone!?"
Su Hui nodded.
"Yes, to save someone."
"Last night, I went out for a walk and saw a middle-aged man fall into the lake, shouting for help in the water.
As a good young man of the three virtues, could I watch him drown!?
That's definitely impossible!
So I immediately jumped into the lake to press... Ah, no, to save him."
Cao Yi blinked: "Where is the person you saved?"
"I didn't save him."
Su Hui raised his head, squeezing out a tear like a crocodile.
"The lake was too dangerous, you didn't see it at the time, a group of aquatic monsters saw someone fall into the water and rushed up!"
"It was too dangerous, I was scared too!"
"So I saved him, but I didn't succeed."
"..."
Luo Yuanhe sighed: "Ah... Brother Su has done his best, that person had this disaster in his life, it's not your fault, you don't have to blame yourself for a whole night."
"I didn't blame myself for a whole night..."
"Why didn't Brother Su come back last night then?"
"Oh, the man who fell into the water said he had a young niece, alone and helpless, quite pitiful, and entrusted her to me before he died."
"A young niece? How young?"
"She is still a young girl of eight years old, waiting to be fed."
Luo Yuanhe didn't speak.
Cao Yi looked down on Su Hui, turned her head and whispered a curse.
Beast?
This is a misunderstanding!
Su Hui sighed.
Is he a beast? Of course not!
Have you ever seen a beast go to a girl's room and do nothing, just squat by the bedside and carefully wipe tears for a whole night?
He Su Hui is the embodiment of true goodness and beauty!
"Forget it, I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you, I didn't sleep last night, I'm a bit sleepy, I'll go to sleep first."
"Don't sleep, we are all cultivators, not sleeping for one night won't kill you, get up and cultivate!"
"Cultivate a hammer, good night."
Su Hui slammed the door of his room.
Cultivators with high cultivation can indeed not sleep, but except for those who are in seclusion, basically no one will really not sleep, because sleeping and eating are the pleasures of being a "person."
In the ancient period of the fairy realm, there was an immortal emperor who once said that if you don't touch grains, don't touch meat, don't be greedy for rest, and don't touch all emotions, you can achieve immortality.
The words of this immortal emperor did indeed lead a trend in history for a period of time.
Unfortunately, later cultivators found that the more they cultivated, the less human they became.
Uninterested in anything, not eating or drinking, abandoning wives and children, not seeing parents, no friends, not sleeping, just closing the door and cultivating every day.
What's the result?
Cultivation is up, but slowly lost a sense of existence, purely for the sake of cultivation, and there is no difference from the stones on the ground...
Later, another immortal emperor couldn't bear to watch it, and directly announced to the entire fairy realm:
"Matuo Great Emperor is the spirit of jade embryo enlightenment, why do you mortals imitate?"
It means that Matuo Great Emperor was originally a stone who became an immortal through enlightenment, and was born without emotional entanglements, and did not need to eat or sleep. Are you a group of mortals sick? What are you learning from a stone for nothing?
So people knew that they made a fool of themselves and suddenly realized.
In later generations, no one deliberately refused to eat or sleep.
Retaining these habits as a "person", retaining the seven emotions and six desires, may indeed breed demons, but it also allows people to find the meaning of their existence in the world.
The sun is high.
Su Hui is snoring in the inn, but the incident of a corpse floating in the small town lake is making a fuss.
There are witnesses saying that the victim was taken to the lake by a man in black, and kicked into the lake.
The victim was extremely panicked, but he was very good at swimming, several times swimming back to the shore alone, but each time he was kicked and fell into the water again by the man in black.
Later, the victim finally despaired, shouted for help, and some onlookers thought that saving a life is better than building a seven-level floating pagoda, so they were ready to go down to the water to save people.
Who knew that the man in black was extremely arrogant, hanging in mid-air, just one finger cut a hundred meters of water waves in the lake, and shouted loudly: to water as the boundary, those who enter without permission will die...
Everyone was shocked, and the people who were going to save people climbed up the shore silently, no one dared to mention the matter of saving people again.
So the victim was in everyone's onlooker, sinking and floating, and finally the man in black was impatient, and actually directly condensed a huge hand in the void, and pressed him into the bottom of the lake...
It's really heartless!
Cao Yi and Luo Yuanhe were mixed in the crowd, and after hearing the witness's words, they were all silent.
This is the rescue Su Hui said in his mouth!?
The Buddha heard it and had to cry and ask you not to save it!!!
Chu Siyu, who is looking for a new place to live, also listened silently.
She didn't feel sad in her heart, but there was a bit of relief.
Whether it was the good sleep quality last night, or the bunch of Zhu Guang flowers that appeared on the bedside for no reason in the morning, it made Chu Siyu reluctant to leave that inn.
Although curious, even afraid, reason makes her leave there, but the sentiment is hard
to give up.
If you can sleep carefree every day, who is willing to wander again?
I just don't know who my uncle offended, and was so cruelly killed, and I don't know if that heartless murderer will be angry with her...