Chapter 76: Night Rain in Bashan, Departure (Part 6) "This one, I...

In Hu Sanniang's sea of consciousness, I could only see her experiences, but in the Exiled Immortal's, their past was viewed from a new perspective. After

Sanniang's engagement was broken off, she was criticized. Li Zhixing, in her defense, went to the man's house and beat him up.

Ye Qingzhan and Wen Gu, wandering through Li Zhixing's sea of consciousness, crouched on the wall. Amidst the turmoil, they spotted Dr. Fox standing on the second floor.

He was still dressed in a white robe, a smiling fox mask seemingly embedded in his face.

Within the sea of consciousness, their figures could not be seen by anyone else, including the elusive Dr. Fox. Ye Qingzhan and Wen Gu crouched on the wall, one watching Dr. Fox, the other keeping an eye on the Exiled Immortal.

Dr. Fox stood quietly on the second-floor observation deck, his hands tucked into his sleeves, watching the fight in the courtyard. Ye Qingzhan had no idea what was beneath the smiling fox mask, but he appeared calm and composed. Ye Qingzhan always felt that he was sitting on the mountain watching the tigers fight, making plans.

She didn't like the feeling brought by the fox man, as if he held everyone's fate in his own hands and let them manipulate it.

Perhaps he had seen enough of the fight, Dr. Fox raised the whisk in his hand, and like a piece of thin paper, he appeared in front of everyone like a ghost.

The fight in the yard stopped because of his arrival.

Li Zhixing grabbed the collar of the young man surnamed Liu with one hand, and his fist stopped abruptly in the air. He looked up at the fox Taoist who suddenly appeared in front of him, and met his smiling fox eyes.

He had heard of this man's name, that he could catch ghosts and exorcise demons. After being brought back to life, the people respectfully called him "Fox Immortal".

But Li Zhixing did not believe in ghosts and gods, and the goddess in his heart was only one person.

Ye Qingzhan pulled Wen Gu and jumped down, hiding behind the pines and cypresses in the yard and watching with bated breath.

Wen Gu looked at her, raised his hand to smooth her twisted brows, just like she had done to him thousands of times. He said the same words to her: "Don't frown." She used to say this to him often, and another sentence was: "I like you to smile. "

Blocking the human hand without seeing it before, Ye Qingzhan blinked twice, and many similar images suddenly flooded into his mind - Wen Gu's actions to her seemed to be what she had done to him. After

a slight shake of his mind, Ye Qingzhan cast his gaze on the two people who were confronting each other in the yard.

Dr. Fox, dressed in a white Taoist robe, stood on one side with a whisk in his arms, looking at Li Zhixing with a smile, and a slow voice came from his mouth: "Young man, why are you so cruel, doing evil in other people's yard, and beating people into this state?"

The hostility in his eyes had not yet dissipated, and Li Zhixing, with bloodshot eyes, glared at the Taoist standing on the side: "What's it got to do with you?"

"You seriously injured someone for no reason. I am a guest at Mr. Liu's house. Since I have seen it, I have no reason to ignore it. Young man, put down your butcher knife and take care of yourself. "

Liu Meng, whose hands were handcuffed behind his back and pressed to the ground, spat out blood from his mouth and hurriedly said to Dr. Fox: "Immortal, save me, immortal, save me! I will listen to you in everything. I have followed your instructions and cancelled the engagement. What else do you want me to do? I will listen to you as long as you can save me!"

Before he finished speaking, Li Zhixing looked at Dr. Fox with a look that was nine points of poison - what was this fox doing? Why did he let this coward cancel the engagement! He hated all the men who went to the Hu Mansion to propose marriage and asked to marry the third lady. Even if the engagement was cancelled, it should be proposed by her herself. She can do without them, but these beasts will never say anything bad about her.

Upon hearing this, Dr. Fox lowered his head, swept his whisk across Liu Meng's face, and said slowly: "Young Master Liu is very obedient. I have calculated that Miss Hu is destined to be a concubine. Your wife is a perfect match, and she is on the way. But——" Dr. Fox changed the subject and his voice suddenly became softer, as if he was telling a secret. "How can you casually mention the reason for breaking off the engagement in front of outsiders? Aren't you afraid that the speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it to heart?"

The whisk swept across Liu Meng's face. He seemed to suddenly understand something. He raised his head and looked at Li Zhixing with extreme contempt. He shouted, "You rash man, I thought you were a thug hired by the casino to collect my debt, but you turned out to be the lover of that medicine jar. I can't believe that Miss Hu San would fall for a guy like you! Now I don’t want her anymore, isn’t that what you want? Why do you still come to hit me? You are really ungrateful, you and the fake sickly... "

Before he finished speaking, the Liu Mansion suddenly remembered a miserable scream. After this scream, Liu Meng completely fainted.

The servants in the yard with sticks had their eyelids twitching, but no one dared to step forward.

Li Zhixing broke Liu Meng’s teeth with one punch, and broke his ribs with another punch. His eyes were bloodshot, and he looked at the people around him with anger.

Dr. Fox, who was on the side, took a step back the moment he swung his fist, for fear that the blood would splash on him.

Looking at such a chaotic scene, Ye Qingzhan said in despair: "The exiled immortal has been tricked by the fox. "

If Li Zhixing hadn't thrown those two punches, he wouldn't have been able to prove what Dr. Fox said about coming for the third daughter of the Hu family. He had just thrown a punch so hard that anyone could see what he was thinking. In Li Zhixing's sea of consciousness, she and Wen Gu not only saw his past with Hu Sanniang, but also listened to his inner voice.

Li Zhixing was most afraid of hearing from others that she had a relationship with him.

But Dr. Fox's few words indirectly pointed out Li Zhixing's intentions to Liu Meng. Li Zhixing was already furious, so how could he realize that to the trap in the words.

Ye Qingzhan sighed and continued to watch the fire from the other side. Wen Gu, who was on the side, glanced at her, and the evil spirit slowly gathered in his palm.

The servants gathered in the yard saw that their master had fainted, and they were inevitably anxious. Liu Sanquan, the head of the Liu family, has always been violent, and he loves his son like his life. If Liu Meng was beaten to death by this man today, if Liu Sanquan knew that his son had no one to protect him, these servants would surely die without a burial place and be buried with him.

Dr. Fox put away the whisk, added fuel to the fire at the right time, turned around and said, "What are you waiting for? Waiting for the head of the Liu family to kill you? I don't know how to kill, so I will go first. "

The white-robed immortal took three steps forward and disappeared in the wind. The servants looked at each other, raised their sticks, and rushed towards Li Zhixing.

Li Zhixing, who had already fought hard to capture Liu Meng alive, was exhausted. He kicked him aside and looked at the people who surrounded him in a pool of blood.

The scattered blood flew behind him, and the oozing blood flowed down his forehead, staining half of his face red, as if he was wearing a mask of hell.

Li Zhixing stood sideways and glanced at the servants around him...

Ye Qingzhan's heart was tightly clenched until he saw Li Zhixing emerging from the crowd. She stood up from the bed and limped out of the Hu residence like a bloody corpse.

Wen Gu, who was beside her, went ahead to chase after the departing Dr. Fox.

The two reunited at the Hu family's courtyard and watched Hu Sanniang and the exiled immortal meet there.

Wen Gu told her that Dr. Fox had used a disguise to change into the skin of a famous doctor from Liudunling.

They both knew what happened later...

The person on the bed suddenly coughed, and Li Zhixing came back to his senses from the past. Ye Qingzhan and Wen Gu also emerged from his sea of consciousness at the right time and continued to hide behind Li Zhixing's hair in the form of willow catkins.

"How long have I slept?" Hu Tangqing sat up on the bed with her hands. Li Zhixing stood up and helped her, still kneeling beside the bed, lowering his head and saying, "About a quarter of an hour."

Hu Tangqing nodded gently, "I slept well. I dreamed of a boy I met in the past." She smiled, and suddenly reached out her hand to lift his chin. "Look closely, you and the boy in your dream are quite similar. At first glance, he looks very fierce, but after looking at him for a long time, you can see the gentleness hidden in his eyebrows and eyes."

The warmth on the cheek was delightful. Li Zhixing couldn't hear anything else at this moment. With a red neck, he turned his face away.

Ye Qingzhan, who was lying on his shoulder, only then saw some of the shyness and embarrassment in Li Zhixing's expression. And this kind of expression only appeared when he was facing Hu Sanniang.

Hu Sanniang's behavior of teasing the banished immortal was the same as when she was at the gates of hell.

Suddenly, a laugh came from his ear, without the usual gentleness, but with a little more coquettishness. Li Zhixing turned his face away again, and the hand holding his chin loosened. For some reason, he suddenly felt lost.

"Were you shy just now?" Hu Tangqing sat up, her feet dangling over the edge of the bed, her expression more relaxed than ever. But upon seeing Li Zhixing's kneeling position, her handsome brows furrowed. "Kneel, kneel, kneel. Do you like kneeling so much?"

His disappointment quickly gave way to anxiety. Li Zhixing hurriedly stood up and heard Hu Tangqing say again, "Help me up. I finally escaped from the mansion. I won't sleep any more, no matter what." She extended her hand, "You're not allowed to kneel again. A man's knees are made of gold. How can you kneel just like that?"

Li Zhixing supported her outstretched arm and nodded repeatedly, "Yes."

"Kneel again, and I'll ignore you." Hu Tangqing put on her shoes, walked a few steps into the room, and asked, "Was it Doctor Mo who came after I fainted?" "

Yes." Li Zhixing helped her over to the table and handed her a cup of tea.

Hearing the word "Doctor," Ye Qingzhan glanced sideways at Wen Gu.

The doctor who just gave the medicine was Dr. Fox in disguise. So, can this medicine that can relieve pain but not prolong life really be taken?

Wen Gu read her worry in her eyes and said, "We can check it."

Ye Qingzhan was relieved and nodded with satisfaction: "That's good, just don't let it be a poison that harms people."

The two turned their eyes back again. Madam Wang came in with medicine and food. When she saw Miss Hu who had woken up, tears welled up in her eyes.

"Miss, it's a good thing you woke up. I was really scared to death." Madam Wang put the medicine and food on the table and handed them to her.

Hu Tangqing took it with a smile, drank the medicine first, and then said to the two people who surrounded her and stared at her closely: "Sit down and eat with me." As she said that, she reached out and pulled the two people.

Li Zhixing glanced at Madam Wang and sat down next to her.

Madam Wang snorted coldly and started eating with chopsticks. After taking a bite, he seemed a little embarrassed and stammered, "In the past, I was in charge of laundry in the mansion, not cooking. The taste of the food..."

Hu Tangqing, holding the food in her mouth, found it difficult to swallow the first bite, but forced herself to eat it out of courtesy. Now that Lady Wang said it herself, she couldn't bear to blame her. She wanted to say something to comfort her, but the person next to her spoke first.

Li Zhixing put down his bowl and chopsticks, took a look at the dishes on the table, and said seriously, "From now on, I will cook the meals and buy the vegetables." In the surprised eyes of the two, he added at the end, "Let me wash the clothes too."

Amid the rumbling of his stomach, Ye Qingzhan had the same reaction as the people at the table.

Wen Gu on the side was calm and said, "I can do these too."

Ye Qingzhan's eyes almost popped out.

***

In Hu Tangqing's sea of consciousness, Ye Qingzhan saw Li Zhixing's "wealth-attracting" as a gold medal fighter. He stored all his savings over the years in the money shop, as if he had waited for so many years just for this day.

Li Zhixing changed into a clean and tidy blue cloth gown, and his usually slightly hunched waist straightened up. He looked more and more like the exiled immortal she knew with his energetic look.

Unfortunately, there were always some vicious dogs blocking the way.

On the way back from buying vegetables, Li Zhixing was surrounded.

Even though she appeared in the form of willow catkins in Hu Sanniang's sea of consciousness, she was still afraid of being stepped on, so she found a tree and squatted behind it to hide. While she was looking for a tree, Li Zhixing knocked the people who were blocking him to the ground with a few crackling sounds, and the food was not spilled at all.

Ye Qingzhan stood up from the ground and followed behind him, waiting to go back to "watch the meal" - in the sea of consciousness, she couldn't eat, and couldn't enjoy the feast, but she was indeed impressed by the cooking skills of the exiled immortal in the past few days, and she feasted her eyes on several meals.

She was looking forward to what dishes the exiled immortal would cook today. Wen Gu,

who was guarding the Hu family's villa, was waiting for her to come back on the roof. He had sent out Yin Sha to investigate Dr. Fox, but returned empty-handed. After Dr. Fox tore off Doctor Mo's skin, he disappeared.

He also used Yin Sha to test whether the medicine was poisonous. The answer was no.

Hu Tangqing in the courtyard was copying a calligraphy in the pavilion, her eyebrows and eyes full of the leisurely and carefreeness of spring. After hearing the familiar footsteps, she lifted her skirt and ran to meet him, but was tripped by the corner of her skirt and bumped into the arms of the returning person.

Li Zhixing caught her.

When their eyes met, Hu Tangqing blinked slightly, and for the first time her face turned red before him. After standing firm, she turned sideways.

Ye Qingzhan looked at the two of them, chuckled, and was picked up by Wen Gu on the roof with Yin Sha. The two sat side by side, looking at the two people standing opposite each other in the courtyard, and quietly exchanged the news they had received.

Spring is fading, and summer is approaching.

Hu Tangqing changed into a light dress, and just when she was hugged by the man in front of her, the place where their skin touched felt hot. This time it was a feeling she had never had before. Her face was burning and her heart was beating fast, as if she was scorched by the early summer heat.

Li Zhixing, who was stunned on the spot, picked up the dishes in his hands and ran to the kitchen. After taking a few steps, he was stopped by the person behind him. He turned around.

The sunlight fell on this small courtyard. The woman standing in the light smiled and said to him, "Li Zhixing, I will teach you to read and write."

Li Zhixing was stunned for a moment.

He could wash clothes and cook, chop wood and fetch water. In order to survive, he was asked by others to beat people everywhere, and was chased by people. Since his parents passed away, it seemed that no one would smile at him anymore, and no one cared about his past and future.

But today, at this moment, a woman as bright as the sun spoke to him, "Once you learn to read and write, you won't have to undertake those life-threatening missions anymore. After I'm gone, you can go somewhere where no one knows you and start a new life. Then, you can become a teacher, open a school, teach more people, and complete my unfinished work."

Hu Tangqing didn't want to entrust her aspirations to anyone else, but simply wanted to leave a hope for the young man so close.

She had sat in the courtyard through long nights of pain, always with someone beside her. She had woken from dreams to hear him mumbling in his sleep, watching over her bedside.

He said, "Tangqing, Tangqing."

"Don't leave."

"What should I do if you leave?"

The young man, his brows etched with sorrow, dared to call her name only in his dreams. How could she not know his feelings?

Drops of water from the green leaves dripped onto the back of his hand. Li Zhixing suppressed the melancholy in his heart and said each word seriously, "I can learn to read and write. But I can't teach and educate people. Only you can do it."

In the slightly surprised eyes of his beloved, he added, "Hu Tangqing, you will live a long life."

It was pious words, and even more so pious blessings. This was a believer's support for the gods.

Time flowed in the sea of consciousness, and the two of them were together day and night.

Li Zhixing constantly solved the troubles that came to him, and stayed by the bedside for a full year. On

a snowy day, Madam Wang smiled and said to Hu Tangqing on the bed: "Miss, after today, spring will be here. Congratulations, you are another year older."

Hearing this, Li Zhixing, who was making tea at the side, paused, turned to look at her, and asked: "Is tomorrow your birthday?"

Hu Tangqing nodded slightly.

"Is there anything you want?" He handed her the brewed tea and asked.

"I want to go somewhere." Hu Tangqing's eyes were extremely clear, "I heard that there is an ancient temple there, and the two immortals enshrined in the temple are very powerful. I want to go and worship them." She wanted to pray to the immortals and gods to give her more time in the world.

She also wanted to spend more time with them.

Ye Qingzhan, who was acting like a snowball beside the bed, heard what the people in the room said, and couldn't help but think of the ancient temple next to Zhuxi. There were two immortals standing in the ancient temple, who were the parents of the young man next to him.

Wen Gu turned his head and met her eyes.

Li Zhixing in the room said again: "Okay, I know where you want to go, I will take you there."

He never prayed to Buddha, but only regarded her as the only god. But for her, he would kneel in front of Buddha for a long time, just to pray that she would be happy for the rest of her life and worry-free for a thousand years.

The snow outside the house stopped, and the sea of consciousness changed.

Ye Qingzhan, who was shaped like a snowflake by the window, felt dizzy the moment he looked at Wen Gu. In the dizziness, they became fresh fruits on the altar.

Li Zhixing knelt on the cushion in front of the table, kowtowed to the two stone statues of immortals again and again. Hu Tangqing, who was also kneeling beside him, clasped his hands together and spoke devoutly to the stone statues.

"I heard that the two immortals here are the most effective. Once a couple came here to rest when they were in trouble. The husband gave one of the two fruits in his arms to his wife and split the other in half as a gift to the two immortals here. He didn't say anything, but the immortals heard everything."

The candlelight reflected on the pale snow face, and Hu Tangqing slowly closed her eyes, "It turns out that this man prayed silently in his heart, asking for his wife's health and happiness throughout her life. Even if it meant shortening his own life."

Ye Qingzhan was listening intently on the altar, and turned to look at the two stone statues behind her - just as she expected, the two immortals enshrined here were Wen Hua and Mu Wanzhou.

Aren't they monks from the sect? How could they become immortals?

She secretly glanced at the "fresh fruit" next to her that was the same as hers. Wen Gu looked back at her, his eyes asking: What's wrong?

Ye Qingzhan looked at him carefully for a while, then turned back to stare at the stone statues. Finally, her gaze returned to Wen Gu, filled with questions: Could he even recognize that the two stone statues behind him bore many resemblances to him?

Before she could ask, she heard Hu Tangqing continue, "Guess what happened next? After that night, the wife's health improved, and the man's business prospered. They also had a daughter. To thank the two immortals, the man spent a fortune restoring the ancient temple and spread the word. From then on, the temple became known to even more people. Unfortunately, for some unknown reason, it fell into its current state."

The stone statues were missing pieces here and there, and dust settled everywhere. The incense on the altar was broken into pieces, and the ashes were scattered everywhere. Spider webs and weeds were tangled.

Hearing this, the strings in Ye Qingzhan's mind snapped, and sealed memories began to connect.

The story Hu Tangqing was telling was one the servants in the mansion often told, about Ye Shaolin's past.

She remembered it.

Tears suddenly fell amidst the sound of slow footsteps. Ye Qingzhan looked at the person with wet eyes. His eyes suddenly widened and he grabbed the person beside him.

Seeing her crying, Wen Gu's heart was furrowed. The hand that grasped his sleeve, the warm touch made his heartbeat disordered for a moment, and he looked in the direction of her gaze.

It was actually him who stepped into the ancient temple, with someone in his arms.

Ye Qingzhan naturally saw the woman who was tightly wrapped around his neck, hanging on him like a child. The tears on his face had not dried yet, and ripples of discomfort spread in his heart.

- No wonder he was so skilled in holding a child in the illusion. It turned out that he was holding such a big girl in his arms like a child.

If he is not skilled, who would be?

Ye Qingzhan, who was furious like a pufferfish in an instant, decided to never pay attention to this hypocritical and deceptive person next to him again...

Wait!

Wen Gu walked into the ancient temple from outside, nodded slightly to the girl kneeling on the palm-leaf fan, and wanted to put the woman hanging on him on the straw mat in the different looks between the two.

But just as he put her down, the girl with her eyes closed came up again like a water snake, muttering: "Don't go, don't go! Don't leave me alone! We have hugged and kissed, why are you shy! If you dare to leave, I will bite you!"

As he said, he opened his mouth and bit the side of "Wen Gu's" neck.

The face changed almost in an instant. Ye Qingzhan felt that his face was about to be boiled, and he wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

This person, this voice!

Isn't it her?

Oh my God, what did she do!

Ye Qingzhan lowered his head in shame and anger, but heard a muffled laugh in his ears.

Wen Gu bent down, his hot breath sprinkled on the side of her ear, and his lips were almost touching. He said: "I bit this bite back."