Chapter 190: The Lonely Man and the Widow in the Broken Temple
For some reason, it started to rain in the sky. It was already midnight, and there were not many pedestrians on the road, so the light rain did not seem to bring any inconvenience to people. After all, except for those who were thinking of a trick,
The scholars who were named on the gold list were still burning the midnight oil to read, while the rest had gone to bed early.
The originally dry air seemed to be moistened by the light rain.
The figures of the two people on the street were walking in a hurry. Even if it rained lightly, the girl was not willing to let the raindrops stain her clothes. However, the man beside the girl did not take it seriously and continued to walk slowly.
"Oh, can you hurry up? The rain will be heavy soon." Ling Shiqing looked at Li Longqian who was taking a leisurely pace, with a bit of anger in her voice. After all, it's raining and you don't know how to run. Except for fools, everyone else seems to be doing it.
This won't happen.
"What's the use if it's fast? The raindrops hitting my body are very pleasant."
Li Long replied with a slight smile, his steps still unhurried.
"Comfortable, I will make you comfortable."
Ling Shiqing gritted her silver teeth and shouted, angrily ran to Li Longqian's side, then grabbed Li Longqian's ears and started running forward.
"Hey, hey, just run away, why are you pulling my ears?"
Li Longqian struggled with a somewhat painful expression.
"If I don't drag you, I don't think you have any intention of running away." Ling Shiqing replied fiercely, subconsciously increasing the strength on her hand.
Li Longqian had no choice but to follow Ling Shiqing's wishes and run towards the ruined temple at the front.
"That's it, take shelter from the rain first."
Li Longqian stretched out his hand to push Ling Shiqing away, pointed at the ruined temple door and shouted.
Ling Shiqing moved quickly and hid under the eaves of the ruined temple. She stared and shouted, "You really want to take me to live in such a ruined place?"
"It's already around this time, the inns must be closed, and the inns aren't safe either. It's safer here." Li Long replied with a smile, and stretched out his hand to push open the wooden door of the ruined temple.
Ling Shiqing stood under the eaves, silent for a moment, and then followed in with steps, but the curse words never stopped. After all, Ling Shiqing had never spent the night in such a place, and she felt a little bit resentful in her heart.
Normal.
After Li Longqian entered the ruined temple, he looked around and found that there were no beggars spending the night in the temple. However, if there were a few more beggars, Ling Shiqing would probably scold him even more harshly.
"Is this place inhabited?"
Ling Shiqing stood behind Li Longqian and shouted at the top of her lungs.
"Love can't live forever."
Li Longqian whispered back and walked into the ruined temple.
After entering this dilapidated temple, Li Longqian realized why there were no beggars spending the night here. This was because the temple was too dilapidated. Except for the house in the main hall, which was barely habitable, all the other rooms had collapsed, and
The statue enshrined in the main hall may have been badly damaged due to neglect for many years. The paintwork fell off and the clay statue was exposed. Half of the statue's body was missing, so it was impossible to tell what it was enshrined in.
Who.
"Why do I feel it's weird here? How about we change places?"
A woman is a woman. Ling Shiqing was very noisy just now, but after seeing the scene inside this ruined temple, she became obviously quieter and spoke a bit more quietly.
Li Longqian ignored Ling Shiqing, took a step forward, frowned and stared at the statue on the altar. Li Longqian discovered that the statue had not lost half of its body due to age, but had been split in two with a sharp weapon.
Half, the gentle fracture marks on the statue's body are the best evidence.
"There is such a cruel person who dares to split the statue in half. He is really not afraid of the retribution of reincarnation." Li Longqian shook his head helplessly, turned to Ling Shiqing and said, "Let's rest here today, let's go out now.
I guess I can’t find a better place to take shelter from the rain.”
"But, I think it's eerie." Ling Shiqing replied cautiously like a frightened little rabbit.
"It's okay, it's just like this because no one here often pays attention to me."
While Li Longqian was talking, he found some wood and dead grass on the ground.
"You want to start a fire?" Ling Shiqing asked with a frown.
"Um."
After Li Longqian agreed, he squatted on the ground and piled branches together. He found two stones at random. After a simple collision, a few sparks fell on the dead grass, and the dead branches were instantly ignited by Li Longqian.
Ling Shiqing looked at the fire on the ground, and her mood suddenly improved a lot. She quickly stepped forward to look at Li Long and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to have such ability."
"I used to live in a ruined temple with Lao Nu. He relied on this method to light the fire." For some reason, Li Longqian always mentioned Lao Nu's name intentionally or unintentionally.
Ling Shiqing stood by the fire in silence for a moment, looking at the man's appearance outlined by the firelight, and she was actually a little lost in thought.
"Why are you so stunned?" Li Longqian looked at Ling Shiqing and asked.
"No...it's nothing." Ling Shiqing agreed in a daze, turned around, looked around, curled her lips and shouted: "How do you want me to sleep in this place? There is no place to sleep at all."
"It's really troublesome."
Li Longqian muttered irritably, bent down to pick up some straw and spread it on the ground.
"That's good."
Li Longqian clapped his hands and said with a smile.
"You're just going to let me live here?"
Ling Shiqing frowned slightly and her tone was a bit unbelievable.
"Yes, otherwise where else would you like to live?" Li Longqian's answer was matter-of-fact.
"call."
Ling Shiqing looked cute and took a deep breath, hugged her shoulders and walked to the haystack, kicked the straw and said with a small mouth: "This place is for pigs, and pigs don't even live there."
"Sleep or not, I find that you rich kids are so difficult to take care of when you come out."
Li Longqian replied irritably and lay down directly on the ground. Ling Shiqing stood there with her lips pursed. She really couldn't imagine what it would be like to sleep on this straw, so Ling Shiqing made up her mind to pay attention.
I couldn't lie down no matter what, and I didn't believe he could watch me stand all night.
Ling Shiqing had just finished paying attention when she heard Li Longqian's sleeping breathing.
"Hello?"
Ling Shiqing shouted tentatively, but Li Longqian had no response.
"Hey, are you really asleep?"
Ling Shiqing took a step forward and shouted through gritted teeth.
But Li Longqian still didn't seem to react at all.
"How come there are people like you in this world?"
Ling Shiqing stomped her little feet and cursed, grabbed her slim waist and took a step forward, reaching out to push Li Longqian, but as soon as she stretched out her hand, she was grabbed by the man.
"ah!"
Ling Shiqing exclaimed, leaned forward, and threw herself directly into Li Longqian's arms.