Ruyi couldn't sleep anymore, so he simply got up and went to the ground. He looked out the window and saw that it was only midnight, the moon was high, the stars were thin and the mist was thin.
Since she couldn't sleep, she wanted to do some work. She went to the laundry room to put the clothes everyone had changed out in the past few days into a basin, and took them to the courtyard to prepare for washing.
Halfway through washing, she heard a pleasant voice behind her: "You should give me two pieces of clothing."
She turned her head and saw Ancestor Long holding the wooden basin and smiling at her.
"Well……"
Before Ruyi could say anything, he fetched water, moved a small wooden stool, sat next to Ruyi, reached out and took several pieces of clothing from Ruyi's basin into his own basin.
He quickly soaped up his clothes and scrubbed them.
Ruyi said no more and buried her head in scrubbing the clothes in the basin.
The man next to me spoke first: "There is something I don't understand. Can you explain it clearly?"
"Yeah." Her tone was cold and emotionless.
"You usually talk and laugh with everyone in the yard, but why do you find excuses to leave as soon as I come? Are you... hiding from me? I'm just a mortal, there's nothing to be afraid of." Long Zu asked
.
Ruyi didn't know how to answer, so she prevaricated: "I'm not avoiding you, I just happened to have something to do."
Long Zu said: "Except for the excuses that you have something wrong, I have used the excuses of stomachache, dizziness, soft feet, and sleepiness many times. When I saw you fighting the python spirit, you didn't look so weak and sick.
Actually, if you don’t want to see me, you can just tell me, why bother being so evasive."
Ruyi stopped what she was doing and suddenly said: "You have been staying in Yunshuiwu for two months. They say that it takes a hundred days to break your muscles and bones. After the next month, your injury will be fine."
It's almost time. When the time comes, leave."
"Are you driving me away?"
"Humans and monsters are different, and they shouldn't have any advantages. Besides, we won't stay here for long, at most a year and a half. You'd better find a way out for the future as soon as possible." Ruyi means very much.
clear.
Longzu stopped talking.
There was silence in the courtyard, except for the rustling of the clothes they were washing in their hands.
After a long while, he raised his head and said: "If this is the result you want, then I will leave when the time comes."
When he said this, Ruyi felt a little guilty. The words seemed to be too harsh, but the same meaning could be expressed better.
After a while, Long Zu asked her: "Do I look similar to someone you know?"
Ruyi stopped her hand and glanced sideways at him - his hair was standing high in a ponytail hanging behind his head, he was full of heroism, his hands were on his legs, and he was holding wet clothes in his hands.
More than just a resemblance, they were almost the same person. If he didn't have the fairy spirit in him, she probably wouldn't even have the courage to sit with him.
She didn't answer, turned her head and continued washing her clothes.
"What did that person do to you? To make you hate him so much?"
Ruyi smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "I don't hate him. From beginning to end, I don't have any hatred towards him. He is probably the person I cherish most in this world."
On the contrary, she only has love for him in her heart, a love that goes deep into her bones, a love that can torture people into madness.
"If possible, can you talk to me?"
"I...don't want to say..."
"I am just a person with no past. Even if you tell me, I have no one to share it with. The secret will always be a secret." Long Zu said.