"Long time no see, how are Empress Sanhua and Yan An?" the Taoist asked casually as he walked into the room with a stick.
"Sanhua Empress and Yanzi are very good!" Sanhua Empress replied without hesitation.
"Everything is fine." Yanzi also replied.
"Where is Xiao Jianghan?" the Taoist asked again.
"How about Xiao Jianghan!" Sanhua Empress said, "Sanhua Empress plays with her every day, teaches her how to speak, and goes to the city to exorcise evil spirits every day to earn money. When she earns money, she can buy meat buns and porridge for her to eat!"
"Thank you for your hard work, Miss Sanhua."
"You've been gone for a long time!"
"It took a little longer than expected."
"You said it wouldn't take long!"
"Facts have proved that I am indeed not the founder of Tiansuan, and I don't have the skills of the old man."
"Are you hurt again?"
"It takes almost no effort."
"The power of blowing dust!"
"It's just very relaxing."
As the Taoist spoke, he looked at the baby girl next to him who was also wearing three-color clothes, but the colors were slightly different. Seeing her white and clean face and eyes as dark as night, he couldn't help but smile:
"It seems that Empress Sanhua has indeed taken good care of Xiao Jiang Han. If Fulong Temple can be passed on smoothly, Empress Sanhua will be the first to take credit."
"Top effort!"
Empress Sanhua repeated habitually, with a serious expression, and then turned her head and looked at Yanzi, not greedy for credit alone: "Yanzi also took care of Xiao Jianghan. If it weren't for him, Xiao Jianghan would have died."
"..."
The girl said it easily, as if life and death in Mao'er were just a common thing, but the Taoist was choked up after hearing this. He didn't know whether to be happy or scared, happy or worried.
Although in these days, it is not easy even for the children of the emperor's family to grow up smoothly. It is extremely common for children from ordinary people's families to die. Before the children grow up, no one can be sure whether their family's incense will be stable.
, but it’s a bit scary to be “nurturing to death” at every turn.
"If he is truly the destined successor of Fulong Temple, he will be favored by heaven."
Song You had no choice but to pinch the little girl's face, smile and say, and then looked her up and down: "Xiao Jiang Han seems to have grown a lot taller."
Xiao Jianghan just opened his eyes and looked at him, squeaking in his mouth, and his lips were moist with saliva.
"Really a lot?" Sanhua Empress asked doubtfully.
"I have indeed grown a lot taller."
"real?"
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing. Sanhua Empress also felt that she had grown taller just now, and she felt that Sanhua Empress had seen it with the wrong eyes."
"Empress Sanhua has been getting along with her and taking care of her every day. Her changes are accumulated over time and are difficult to detect over many days." Song You explained for her, "And I am separated from her.
We haven’t seen each other for such a long time, and now at first glance, comparing the two, the changes over the past few months have become one, and it naturally becomes obvious.”
"Well……"
Empress Sanhua felt that what he said made sense, but she still didn't want to believe it, so she asked again: "Is it really a lot?"
"It's really quite a lot."
"..."
"This is how people are when they are young, especially at this age. They grow very fast." The Taoist said to her, "Every few months, a year and a half, the clothes before can no longer be worn."
"Doesn't that mean buying a lot of clothes?"
"You can also buy something bigger when you buy it." Song You said to her, "If you have a big family and many children, one piece of clothing can be worn by many people."
"It's a pity that people can't change clothes."
"Of course she can't compare to Sanhua Empress."
The Taoist said with a smile, and looked at the little girl again, but he couldn't help but wonder: "What is she eating? Why is the food still in her mouth after eating for so long?"
Hearing these words, the swallow that had been turning its head to comb its feathers on the window sill finally stretched its head out again, turned its head sideways, and quietly stared at the room with one dark eye.
"Meat!"
The girl looked at the Taoist expressionlessly.
The smile on Song You's face gradually solidified.
The girl remained expressionless and looked at him without feeling anything wrong. She still insisted that she had to eat rats. Rats were a good thing and eating them would make her healthy.
If the Taoist priest doesn't eat it, it's the Taoist priest's fault.
You can't stop others from eating.
"..."
Song You was silent for a moment, thought about it, and then tactfully advised: "It would be better for Sanhua Empress not to feed her these things. Humans are different from cats, and humans are not as good as cats. Cats will be fine not long after they are born."
With a pair of small fangs capable of tearing flesh, a kitten can grow into a big cat in one year, but a human is still a child in just one year. He has just learned to talk and walk. He may not even have learned it, and he has no teeth at all.
She has grown and developed to the point where she can eat common meat, let alone Sanhua Empress’s homemade dried meat. Look, after so long, she still hasn’t chewed it up.”
"Well……"
"Sanhua Empress should give her the stuffing in meat steamed buns, or lean meat porridge or something like that."
"..."
Sanhua Empress looked at him and then at Xiao Jiang Han. After thinking for a moment, she felt that what he said made sense: "Next time Sanhua Empress will cook it into porridge and boil it for her to eat."
"..."
"Are you injured?"
"No……"
"Then why are you like this?"
"I'm just... just a little tired." Song You said helplessly, "I just came down from the sky and I'm a little tired."
"Then just take a nap and you'll be fine."
"Thank you, Miss Sanhua."
Song You looked at the bed in the room.
It was a very ordinary wooden canopy bed with a mattress on it and the quilts were folded into a long strip and placed in the innermost part, as if it was still the same as when I left a few months ago.
The Taoist does not think that Sanhua Empress can fold quilts.
He lowered his head and looked next to the bed——
There was a felt on the ground, a cloth blanket on top of the felt, and wool blankets piled on top. It looked a little messy, but it seemed very warm.
Yes.
In fact, Sanhua Empress still doesn’t like sleeping on the bed until now. Apart from Taoist sleeping on the bed, she may turn into a cat and sleep on the pillow or at the end of the bed. This also depends on the environment. Generally speaking, the environment makes her feel
If she feels comfortable and safe, she may sleep at the head of the bed. If the environment makes her uncomfortable and makes her alert, she will sleep at the end of the bed to stay alert and stand guard for the Taoist. In addition, she actually prefers to sleep in some strange places.
Places, such as next to the horse, such as in the clothes that the Taoist took off, such as in the sackcloth, in the luggage, or on her own small cloth blanket.
"Is Xiao Jianghan sleeping next to Empress Sanhua?"
"Yes!"
"I'll take a nap first."
"OK!"
The Taoist walked over and climbed onto the bed.
The spring chill has subsided a lot. The quilt was a little cold at first, but it quickly became warm when covered with it.
Although Empress Sanhua told him to go to bed, she hadn't seen him for a long time. She couldn't help but turn back into a cat and no longer care about the little man. She came to the Taoist's bedside and asked him questions.
"Is Heavenly Palace fun?"
"Quite fun."
"What does it look like?"
"What does it look like...let me think about it..."
"Did you think of it?"
"There are cotton-like clouds. They are soft when you step on them. You can twist a cloud out of it. If you don't have magical powers, it will slowly dissipate. If you have magical powers, you can keep playing with it. You can even pick out a large cloud from it.
Take out a small flower from the cloud and fly on it in the sky... There are many fairy islands in the clouds. Each fairy island has palaces and pavilions built on it. Immortals live on it, and there are many cranes flying..."
The Taoist's voice has actually become quieter and quieter.
The cat listened very attentively.
She couldn't even help but follow the Taoist's words and imagine that scene. The softer the Taoist's voice became, the more she became immersed in it.
In the cat's imagination, clouds should be soft, like cotton, and can be stood on. Thinking about it this way, maybe he shouldn't ask the swallow, maybe he shouldn't conquer the white crane so early - after asking the swallow
There are no more clouds like that. Ever since I first flew into the sky on a white crane, all the clouds that appeared in my dream have become unapproachable and turned into mist when I got close.
It turns out that there really are such clouds in the Heavenly Palace.
No wonder so many people like to be gods. According to what Mao'er thinks, even if they can go to such a place to play, they are willing to become gods.
It's better if there are mice in the clouds...
Catching mice in cotton clouds...
Sanhua Empress sat still, thinking about things.
When she came back to her senses, she wanted to ask the Taoist again, but the Taoist had already fallen asleep next to her.
"?"
The calico cat was stunned for a moment, then stood up and walked over to check again to make sure that the Taoist was still breathing. Then he shook his head, walked back into the house, and pulled down Xiao Jiang Han who almost climbed up the window.
…
I haven't slept in the human world for a long time.
Heavenly Palace is really magical——
The gods in heaven do not need to sleep. They rest occasionally, but the time is not fixed. Taoists are in heaven and have never had a good sleep.
I was really tired at this time.
The feeling of human beings is also different from that of heaven.
There are dreams in the world, but not in heaven.
Maybe heaven is just a dream on earth.
The Taoist returned to the human world, fell asleep, and had a dream.
The dream was a desert dusk.
It seemed to be a certain desert that I and Sanhua Empress had walked through before, but I couldn't be sure. I and Sanhua Empress had walked through too many deserts, and the deserts almost all looked the same, so it was difficult to tell them apart.
The dusk in the desert is a beautiful sight that is hard to find in the world. The sky is already dark, showing many stars. The sky has beautiful gradient colors, and the sand dunes are undulating into silhouettes. A woman is holding a small lantern, and in the lantern is a star from the earth.
Wearing a white dress, she walked towards the Taoist. The wind in the evening was so strong that it caused her clothes to flutter and her hair to flutter in one direction.
Such a woman really shouldn't exist in the mortal world.
The woman seemed to be talking to him.
After seeing him for a long time, I miss him a lot. When I see the beautiful scenery, it's like seeing the wintersweet blooming in Changjing. I immediately want to share it with him, but unfortunately we are too far apart after we say goodbye.
The wind was so strong in the desert at night that the sound was difficult to hear.
The woman was accompanied by a maid.
But this maid was exceptionally well-behaved. She sat on her knees in the desert, raised her head and told him that after they parted ways last winter, they had been walking along the same path that he and Empress Sanhua had walked, and saw many people who had traveled there when they were in Yuezhou.
I am often amazed by the beautiful scenery that I have never seen in the past hundreds of years.
The woman also told him that there were plum blossoms blooming outside the deserts of the Western Regions, but they were not wax plums but white plums. It was a custom among friends to give plum blossoms to each other, so she also broke one branch.
When the Taoist woke up, it was already afternoon.
After all, the things in the dream do not belong to the human world, and they quickly dissipate in the memory. I only remember the woman in white holding a lantern and running barefoot in the desert, as if chasing the wind and the glow. The sand mountains were very high, and she ran all the way to the sand.
He stopped at the edge of the top of the mountain, looked back at him, and asked him where he was.
How can a Taoist still remember this?
I opened my eyes vaguely and stood up. The window of the inn was still open, facing west, showing a golden and red sunset.
The light of the setting sun shines into the room through the window. Where the light shines on the ground, a cat and a girl sit upright, leaving only two figures behind him, both staring at the setting sun, basking in the sun, and scratching their heads.
Except for the difference between dropping a human and a cat, the actions are almost exactly the same.
"..."
The Taoist sniffed and smelled a wisp of fragrance.
Looking down -
There is a white plum beside the bed.
"..."
The Taoist picked it up and looked at it carefully.
There are branches and flowers but no leaves. The petals are snow-white and slightly yellow and green when you look closely. They are really cute. The stamens in the middle show obvious yellow and green. They are very delicate and are embedded in the branches one by one.
The fragrance is obviously different from wintersweet.
After the separation of friends in the world, there is a saying, "Once we say goodbye, we are far away from each other. If you want to send plum blossoms, don't send plum blossoms." In front of the great demon with great magic power and supernatural powers, the distance between the worlds is nothing.
"Hiss..."
There was a sound of breathing from the front.
The calico cat turned its head and looked at the Taoist. Just when he was about to ask him if he was awake, he saw the plum blossom in the Taoist's hand. He continued to take a few breaths and smelled the fragrance of the flowers: "Hey! Where did you get the tree flowers from?"
The Taoist hesitated and didn't know how to explain it for a moment.