Chapter 80 Confession
Kong Xuan said these frightening words with a blank expression. Lin Yang gasped a few times: "...No, no, you are scaring me, right ?!"
Tan Xiao usually likes to speak in a way that is half true and half false. Lin Yang couldn't tell the truth from the falsehood when listening to Kong Xuan's words.
Kong Xuan's behavior was indeed strange before, but under normal circumstances, who would think that he was not human? Just now, he just guessed that Kong Xuan was also a wizard. But what kind of awesome person is Kong Xuan saying that the Kitchen God would stand up to greet you...
Lin Yang felt like his cerebellum was about to atrophy. Wasn't our Xiaozai's deskmate a human being?
But he would never have thought that Kong Xuan was a god. Instead, he heard from Tan Xiao that many monsters like to brag about themselves, and Kong Xuan usually speaks in a rather arrogant tone and often bullies him with extremely poor character.
For example, now, Kong Xuan replied sarcastically: "You can scare yourself to death."
have a look.
He just didn't have the knowledge in this area, so he was scared.
"Xiaozai, you are my classmate. Is it really because of him that the Kitchen God stood up? Is he trying to scare people on purpose? Is he really a human being?" Lin Yang was a little suspicious after a series of blows. After all, everything was different from what he thought. He was a down-and-out scholar, and his classmate had become a real wizard.
Tan Xiao looked at Kong Xuan and asked implicitly, "What do you think?"
"It should be because he scared me." Lin Yang thought for a long time, but there was no evidence to prove that the Kitchen God stood up because of Kong Xuan. He said to himself, "Why does he need to take physics lessons when he is so powerful..."
Didn't you just get the test paper? No, I shouldn't have to go to class at all. How can I torture myself?
When the boy guarding the meal heard this, he was so happy that he lay down on the stove and kicked his legs.
Kong Xuan: “…”
Tan Xiao almost laughed, "Then think about it this way." Thinking too much is not a good thing, "I will do a ritual for you first, and ask the Kitchen God to accept the gift."
"Okay! Okay! This is still the most important thing." Lin Yang wiped away the tears that were almost dried by the wind.
There were no props for the ritual, but fortunately Tan Xiao had some connections, and the Kitchen God usually didn't require much pomp. Tan Xiao used the materials available on the farm, found paper, cut it into paper horses, and brought in fodder, fruits, candies, bacon, and a rooster, which was also raised on the farm.
"Hold this chicken." Tan Xiao asked Lin Yang to hold the chicken.
"Hmm..." Lin Yang smelled a strong odor, and probably there was chicken shit on the chicken claws, but he still had to hold it tightly. The rooster didn't want him to hold it and was struggling hard.
"Don't move, don't move!" Lin Yang tried to comfort the big rooster, only to feel the rooster flap its wings and something flew into its mouth.
Lin Yang froze. He wasn't even sure what had come out of the rooster's body, grass or chicken shit, because in his mouth it tasted like goose liver!
"Pooh, pooh, pooh!" Lin Yang cried again, not daring to think about it any further.
"Quiet." Tan Xiao glanced at Lin Yang.
Lin Yang stopped moving immediately, trying to hold back the taste of the foie gras in his mouth. He felt that although Tan Xiao was not wearing sacrificial clothes and did not hold any props, his cold look made him silent instantly and he dared not to be presumptuous.
"There is still one thing missing. I need to write a petition." Tan Xiao thought about the format and decided to change the title to Kitchen God.
"What do you mean by that?" Lin Yang asked tremblingly.
"It's just a statement of the situation." Tan Xiao usually wrote with a brush, but there was no brush here, so he used a ballpoint pen and homework paper to write, "When you hire someone to do something, you have to explain the situation clearly."
"The Nine Heavens East Kitchen Si Ming Taiyi Yuanhuang Dingfu Zoushan Tianzun..." Tan Xiao wrote while listening to the boy guarding the meal reading the full title. With the boy guarding the meal present, the format of the official document would naturally be correct.
It was the same in any era, official documents for praying to gods also had a format. Tan Xiao quickly wrote the petition, asked Lin Yang to sign and seal it, and put it in the stove. The boy guarding the meal then took the petition and delivered it urgently.
Then he recited the precious edict, and ordered Lin Yang to hold the chicken's head and push it into the hay, and do this three times.
"He is in charge of the kitchen... He is in charge of the Big Dipper and observes good and evil in the East Kitchen." Tan Xiao dipped his finger in water and flicked it at the rooster's head. Seeing the rooster trembling continuously like it was having a seizure, he knew it was possible, as it meant the Kitchen God had accepted it. If he hadn't, he would have slaughtered the rooster as a sacrifice.
Lin Yang grabbed the chicken, too stiff to move, "?"
"Just burn the straw for the paper horse." Tan Xiao gathered the straw and the paper horse together. Kong Xuan snapped his fingers, and flames leapt out of the straw, burning it to ashes.
Lin Yang opened his mouth. He had just convinced himself that Kong Xuan might be bluffing...
Tan Xiao also splashed some water on Lin Yang's face, "That's enough, put the chicken down if you're still standing there."
Lin Yang threw the rooster, and the chicken, which was convulsing just now, landed on the ground, flapped its wings and ran away in panic.
"Then I'll do it right now, okay?" Lin Yang smacked his lips, and there was no taste in his mouth. He usually joked about going to Tan Xiao's house to learn cooking, but this was the first time Tan Xiao had cooked for him, it was amazing.
Tan Xiao: "Why don't you try eating some chicken shit?"
“…Hehe.” Lin Yang didn’t think it was funny, because he might have really eaten something dirty just now. He rinsed his mouth with tap water, then cut a small piece of apple and put it in his mouth.
It has a normal sweet taste.
"Amazing! So amazing!" Lin Yang wanted to hug Tan Xiao excitedly, but was pushed away by Kong Xuan.
"Let's go, everyone is asking where we are going." Tan Xiao looked around and saw that the other classmates were all asking about them because they hadn't seen them for a long time.
Lin Yang saw Kong Xuan walking out of the kitchen with a breeze, and thought, "I feel like he..."
"What? Any new guess?" Tan Xiao said casually.
"Since you are a wizard," Lin Yang thought about Kong Xuan's viciousness, "Is he some kind of poisonous insect you raised, or a monster that you signed a work contract with?"
Tan Xiao said vaguely: "It's a family heirloom anyway."
"Wow!" Lin Yang said excitedly, even more fashionable, "Awesome, did you inherit it?! No wonder he knew you before, but you didn't know him."
Kong Xuan walked in front: "..."
At this time, the lively lawn could be seen from afar. Some people were singing K, some were barbecuing, and Tan Chunying was not playing mahjong, but playing poker.
Lin Yang looked at it and couldn't help but ask, "Yes, and Auntie, did you inherit Kong Xuan from Auntie?"
Tan Xiao shook his head. "That's not true. My mother doesn't know much about this. Don't tell her or anyone else about it."
"I understand this, and I've been saying every day that you're a wizard, but no one believes me now." Lin Yang is very self-aware. His actions are similar to "crying wolf". "It's not inherited from auntie, where did you inherit it from?"
Tan Xiao thought for a moment and said, "It should be from our ancestors, so it can be considered as inheritance from the previous generation?"
"..." Kong Xuan gritted his teeth and said, "I can hear it!"
Don't think I can't be angry just because you have a birthday! Who inherits whom?
…
"Where have you three gone? You've disappeared without a trace." Yu Zhenzhen said to them while holding the microphone, "The two of them are in love, but the three of you were playing Landlord?"
Lin Yang rubbed his stomach: "I feel uncomfortable, so I took some time to drink some magic water."
Others were very calm: "Oh. How much did they charge you?"
Lin Yang quickly replied, "Eighty dollars and fifty cents."
Then everyone burst into laughter.
Lin Yang and Tan Xiao winked at each other. What did he say?
"You guys are back just in time. We were just playing a game, and then we lost the truth or dare game." Yu Zhenzhen finished singing the last line and ran over with a bottle in her hand, "Hurry up, hurry up, sit down."
"Hey, is this fun, squad leader?" Someone has already wailed, "I'm afraid to play this with you. Last time on a picnic, you asked me to go catch □□. I'm afraid of you!"
It's still pitch black here, who knows what tricks the squad leader will come up with.
"Tan Xiao's birthday is in a few hours. I promise not to overdo it. Let's just have a little fun." Yu Zhenzhen looked at him with a look of "How can you be so weak?" "Besides, my aunt is still here. What can I do?"
That’s right, there are parents around, so everyone will definitely not make too much noise.
"Okay... what game should we play? How about playing poker?"
Tan Chunying was playing Landlord next to him, but the farm must have extra cards, so according to the general rules, they drew the big and small jokers.
"NO, let's guess the object, which is the ancient game of guessing covers. The object is hidden in a box, and then others guess it by divination." Yu Zhenzhen was playing truth or dare, and the preparatory game was so difficult. When everyone heard it, they shouted, "Oh my god, we don't know how to tell fortunes."
"Divination is hard to understand, we use tarot cards, you can just treat it as a card drawing game." With Yu Zhenzhen's popular science, everyone really knows a little bit about tarot. "Just let your imagination run wild, and those who don't guess will be punished. I have learned tarot, so I'm the opposite of you. I'll tell fortunes, I'm new to this, is that okay?"
Everyone: “…”
Wouldn't that mean the entire army will be annihilated?
However, everyone was still interested in the game of guessing the cover that Yu Zhenzhen talked about.
Yu Zhenzhen found a staff member to be the host, "Sister, just put something in there, let's play it lightly first. As long as it's related, you don't lose. For example, you can at least explain what you do, or what the five elements are."
It would be better if the conditions were relaxed so that everyone would be more interested.
Everyone turned around and waited for the host to put their things away before turning back.
Then everyone took turns drawing cards and guessing by looking at the cards. Yu Zhenzhen used the Novice Tarot, which marked the attributes and corresponding constellations. In addition, the pictures could be used to tell the story, so the information was relatively abundant and intuitive. It all depended on each person's ability to associate.
Lin Yang drew a "Ten of Wands". The card showed a person carrying ten wands, which looked very heavy. "Hmm, fire attribute. There are a lot of these wands, and there are houses behind them. Could they be matches?"
Yu Zhenzhen used the Eastern metaphysics she had just learned to guess, "Zhen, Zhen is a wooden product? It seems to be somewhat similar to Lin Yang's, and it also has the image of firewood!"
"Then I'll draw Tarot cards too?" Tan Xiao knew how to tell fortunes, but according to the rules he had to draw cards he was not familiar with. He looked at the card and saw the Eight of Pentacles, which showed a man holding tools and making coins. "This man also had a stick in his hand, so it seemed like the object was long and might be a handmade product."
Kong Xuan also drew a card. Although he could tell what the item was with just a thought, he restrained himself from looking at it. When he drew it, he saw that it was a Lovers card. "The items inside may come in pairs?"
Everyone guessed something and then opened the box to take a look.
"oh!!"
Inside was the farm's special handmade bamboo water cup, with the word "Happiness" engraved on it.
The guesses made by Yu Zhenzhen, Tan Xiao and Kong Xuan were not wrong. Yu Zhenzhen's guess was a little far-fetched, but it was also close.
"I was almost there!" Lin Yang yelled in dissatisfaction, "I should have guessed wood, at least it's related, I shouldn't have said matches."
Now everyone felt the fun of the game deeply, it was quite interesting, they played a round of truth or dare and a round of cover, and the losers basically chose truth or dare.
Lin Yang always almost failed, saying that there was something wrong with his thinking and was about to say the color of her underwear.
As a result of playing like this, people gradually discovered that everyone else, including Yu Zhenzhen, had wins and losses, but Tan Xiao and Kong Xuan had never lost. Their divinations were as vague as everyone else's, and even if they were not right, they were always related.
"Is this a wizard? Tarot is so accurate, you must be from Ravenclaw." Yu Zhenzhen sighed, still brooding over the fact that neither of them had ever lost. "It's fine if you're the birthday boy, but Kong Xuan, tsk tsk, no, always winning means losing, don't you understand?"
Kong Xuan sneered. He had never heard of this saying before. There are people who like to lose. "I don't understand."
"You are so stupid. You said that if there is someone you like here, you have never dared to confess. Now, if I happen to choose you and let you confess to this person..." Yu Zhenzhen looked at him with contempt. She didn't understand Kong Xuan's scheming.
Kong Xuan: “…”
Yu Zhenzhen continued: "For example, if you are telling the truth, I would like you to tell me what was your impression of him/her when you first met him/her?"
Kong Xuan: “…………”
Why didn’t you say so earlier?! Kong Xuan was secretly annoyed, “… continue playing.”
"Go play!" Yu Zhenzhen stood up. The adults had already gone to rest, leaving the young people to play by themselves. "It's almost twelve o'clock. I'll go get the cake."
Yu Zhenzhen ran away.
Tan Xiao saw that Kong Xuan didn't say anything, but his hands were already pulling out the weeds, and he pulled them down angrily.
…
Yu Zhenzhen went to the refrigerator and took out Tan Xiao’s birthday cake. This was ordered by Tan Chunying, and there was a little wizard wearing a peacock Nuo mask on it.
Everyone presented the gifts they had prepared one by one. Tan Xiao did not open them immediately, "Thank you."
He saw Kong Xuan also stuffed a small box in his pocket, and wondered what Kong Xuan had prepared.
"It's twelve o'clock, it's twelve o'clock, blow out the candles!" Lin Yang lit the candles, and then began to sing a birthday song for Tan Xiao, "Make a wish!"
Tan Xiao closed his eyes, the candlelight flickered on his face, blending into a warm hue, magnifying the shadow of his eyelashes. Beside him were his classmates who were singing in the chorus. Kong Xuan was also staring at him intently, and belatedly asked the others, "Why didn't he say his wish?"
"It won't work if you say it out loud."
"Nonsense, how will it work if I don't say it out loud?" Kong Xuan snorted.
Yu Zhenzhen held up her camera to take pictures. When she captured this scene through the viewfinder, her eyes narrowed involuntarily.
"Happy birthday!"
"Happy 18th birthday, Xiaozai!"
Then, as Tan Xiao blew out the candles, cheers and blessings rang out again.
Tan Xiao cut the cake into pieces, giving each person a small piece. They were not allowed to eat too much at night, otherwise they would get indigestion.
Tan Xiao cut the piece of cake with the wizard statue and gave it to Kong Xuan. Kong Xuan wanted to eat it, but didn't want to cut the little wizard into pieces. He looked at it hesitantly for a long time and found that Tan Xiao was still staring at him, as if waiting to see how he would eat it.
Oh, what can I do...
Lin Yang encouraged from the side: “Swallow it in one gulp!”
Everyone cheered in unison: "One bite! One bite!"
"..." Kong Xuan really opened his mouth wide and stuffed the entire cream wizard into his mouth in one gulp. His cheeks were puffed up and there was some cream on the corners of his mouth.
Tan Xiao looked up and clapped his hands for him, "Very impressive."
"Hahahahaha awesome!"
Kong Xuan's cheeks turned slightly red and he waved his hand to indicate that it was nothing.
Yu Zhenzhen recorded these one by one so that she could look back on the evening breeze of her youth years later.
"Look, look, a shooting star! It's a shooting star!"
Suddenly someone shouted excitedly.
Everyone looked up and clearly saw a meteor in the sky, like a fireball, with a long tail across the sky.
"Fireball!" Yu Zhenzhen sometimes takes pictures of the stars, but it's a pity that she didn't bring more professional equipment today, otherwise she would have been able to take clearer pictures.
"Stop talking and make a wish!"
"Today is a big giveaway, not only the birthday boy can make a wish, haha."
"The view here isn't good enough, it's blocked by trees. How about we go to the rooftop to watch? What if there are meteors?"
The visibility in the sky today is very high. Even if you don’t watch the meteors, you can still enjoy the sky full of stars.
“Let’s go!”
Everyone carried their stools and ran upstairs.
Tan Xiao took another sip of orange juice, then slowly gathered all the gifts together, teasing Kong Xuan who stayed beside him: "Master, what antique did you give me again?"
Kong Xuan had no private property in the world, but he still had other good things, such as the ancient jade he had given to Tan Xiao.
Under normal circumstances, Kong Xuan would have immediately shouted out what good things he had given, but now he was unusually silent.
"Let me see now?" Tan Xiao tore open the package. Inside was a brocade bag. After opening it, he saw a few glittering feathers inside, which were extremely eye-catching in the dark.
"This is..." Tan Xiao was so dazzled by the color that he held his breath for a moment.
"Yeah." Kong Xuan put down the fork he was using to eat the cake, looking distressed. "I don't know what you wished for, but I want to give you this."
He didn't know how the popular custom became eating cake and making wishes silently, not speaking them out loud or informing the gods by name. How was he supposed to know what to give Tan Xiao?
"Kong Xuan, do you want to know my wish?" Tan Xiao suddenly said.
Kong Xuan immediately said, "Okay."
Tan Xiao smiled at Kong Xuan.
Kong Xuan's heart started pounding - he still remembered that Tan Xiao once smiled without hiding from him, which made him wonder why there was any point in hiding the smile.
But at this moment, there was a smile in Tan Xiao's eyes, like flowing water, flowing coolly through his heart, filling his heart.
It turns out that some things are silent but leave traces, and are so obvious.
"I want to give this birthday wish to you. Now, it's your turn to make a wish."
Tan Xiao said softly with a smile.
The long chirping of insects, the laughter of classmates, the dazzling reflection of moonlight on metal, the decorative light strings hanging like stars, all of these are fading away and blurring.
Kong Xuan heard his own heartbeat ringing in his ears, getting faster and faster. The blood was rushing into the ventricles, pressing his heart, making it shrink. At the same time, the courage that rose from that smile was expanding infinitely.
Kong Xuan's mind went blank for a few seconds before he remembered that he could speak. He did not make a wish immediately. When he opened his mouth, he found that his mouth was dry. He finished the truth that he had not been able to say, "...The first impression was, I think, I must have left him an indelible impression.
“But actually, I was just deeply impressed.
"The spirit is curled up and stays, the bright light is endless."
The witch bends her waist and dances, the gods linger and do not leave, the divine light is bright and radiant, shining on her body, how beautiful it is.
Judging from the shape of the word, "ling" is the image of a witch praying and dancing. The "ling" used by the Chu people has many meanings, including witch and god. "The word ling refers to witches and gods."
Because the witch is possessed by a spirit, she is also called a spirit.
Kong Xuan's Adam's apple slid, and he put one hand around Tan Xiao's waist, lifting him up and making him sit on a table as high as an altar, slightly higher than his line of sight. This was a completely opposite perspective from usual.
Tan Xiao looked at him.
Kong Xuan raised his head slightly, his eyelashes fluttering, and closed his eyes to make a wish to his believers: "I hope the spirit will bless me and fulfill my wish."
