At this time, Hu Jinghong was undergoing a new round of cross-examination by his mother.
"How many times have I told you, I'm just talking nonsense!" Hu Jinghong said before that she wanted to marry a husband, but now she refused to admit it. She felt that there was a big gap between her and Shen Xuan, and she was deceiving herself and others when she said it. Shameful.
"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking, I'm telling you, don't even think about it!"
After asking for no result during the day, Hu Yidao pondered for half the night and suddenly figured it out. Then he rushed to his daughter's room angrily, pulled her up and scolded her.
Hu Jinghong glanced at his mother in surprise, then lowered his head in silence.
When Hu Yidao saw it, he felt even more irritated. His daughter was so weak and so dull that she didn't know who she looked like. "I asked you to drink flower wine, but I didn't ask you to marry a brother from Kuailu Pavilion. Those men It’s just a matter of fun. I never thought that you, a stupid person, would actually feel true love after you tasted the sweetness!”
The mother seemed to have misunderstood, but Hu Jinghong couldn't explain it. She just said listlessly: "I know, I don't want to marry a husband anymore."
"It's not that you are not allowed to marry a husband. This is a major event in life, and you should pay close attention to it. But you still have to be a well-matched man. At the very least, he has to have a clean life experience. Do you understand?"
For a moment, Hu Jinghong really wanted to confess. The Hu family and the Shen family were close friends, and they were family friends. There might be hope for her mother to propose marriage directly. But the figure of Shen Xuan quickly appeared in her mind. After thinking about it calmly, I couldn't help but feel ashamed, so in the end, I just nodded.
After Hu's mother left, Hu Jinghong got off the ground barefoot, opened the window, leaned on the window sill, rested his chin on his hands, and looked at the bright moon in the night sky.
"Next time this happens, I will marry you."
This was what Shen Xuan said during the day, but she couldn't figure out what it meant. Could she bump into him again and get married? But why did he say "marry" instead of marry?
Hu Jinghong sighed, feeling that this matter was so complicated. They were obviously family friends, but there seemed to be a long distance between them. She didn't understand Shen Xuan at all. Was there any hope for her?
The farthest distance in the world is when I look at you from afar on the earth, and you are like the bright moon.
In a city far away from Qiushui City, there is also a person at this moment, looking at the same bright moon as Hu Jinghong, thinking about the same person.
After waking up in the morning mist that day, Ning Cai'er embarked on the road to find immortality. It happened to be a coincidence that after a little inquiry with someone, she immediately got a clue.
Then he was defrauded of all his expenses within two days, and almost starved to death. In the end, he saved himself from starving by helping people read and write letters. However, his daily income was meager, and he could barely make ends meet, but he had no money to stay in a hotel.
After sleeping on the street for several nights in a row, I fell ill unexpectedly.
Ning Cai'er had a fever all day long. It was better when the sun was out during the day. But at night, the cold hit her and she was almost on the verge of death.
With her head leaning against the cold and hard bricks, Ning Cai'er put her hands in her sleeves and huddled in the corner of a dead-end street. This was the best sleeping place she could find, sheltered from the cold wind on three sides. The only drawback was that It was too humid and had a strong musty smell, making it difficult to lie down, so I had to sleep against the wall.
It was late at night, and there was no one on the street. The night was quiet, except for the occasional barking of someone's local dog in the distance.
"Dong!—Dong! Dong!" The bang sounded three times, from far to near.
Ning Cai'er's eyebrows furrowed slightly as she was woken up. Afraid that the watchkeeper would see her embarrassment of sleeping on the street, Ning Cai'er, who was dazed and weak, still hugged her legs and shrank back to the corner.
After a while, a faint light flashed past the entrance of the alley. It was the watchwoman who had passed by holding a lantern.
Because of the high fever, Ning Cai'er's thinking was a little slow, and she wanted to continue sleeping, but was afraid of not waking up. Just now, her mind was already racing. If it weren't for the sound of bangs, she might have been asleep.
Died.
In the chaotic dream, broken scenes of life flashed by one scene after another, from playing with friends in childhood, studying hard under the oil lamp, meeting the young master for the first time in the ruined temple, and then on the day of the wedding with the young master.
She took off the young master's clothes one by one, looked at his shy face, then took off her clothes and sat on him...
Recalling this, Ning Cai'er's already high fever became even hotter. She put the cold back of her hand against her flushed cheek to cool down. The marquee seemed to have gone astray, but she firmly believed that if she could see the young master again,
Then everything that follows will be realized.
It's a pity... I'm afraid I won't have the chance to see each other again in this life, because I'm about to die. I'll be found tomorrow morning. I'll be carried out of this damp and dark narrow alley, wrapped in a straw mat, and thrown into a mass grave. In the end, my body will be rotten to pieces.
Smelly.
But strangely, she has no regrets. If she chooses again, she will still look for immortality, but she must be smarter next time and not be deceived out of all her money...
With endless sentimentality, Ning Cai'er looked up at the moon and couldn't help but sigh in her heart: The moonlight tonight is so bright and bright, just like the bowl under the young master, it is big and round. When we eat in the ruined temple, we feel,
The rice is delicious...
Her mind became more and more dizzy, and the things in her eyes began to become blurry and deformed. The moon looked like a bowl, and it also looked like the young master's face smiling at her.
In an almost inaudible voice, Ning Cai'er murmured repeatedly: "Master, Master..." Finally, her head tilted and bumped against the wall, but she had no voice anymore.
The noble young master whom Ning Cai'er longed for was currently walking home with another beautiful woman, one behind the other, bumping up and down.
Han Yue did not stay after the meal. Shen Xuan originally wanted to stay one night with Sister Qian Shuang in Linfeng Tower. After all, it was getting late, the rooms were all available, and he was a frugal person. Unexpectedly, Shen Qianshuang not only disagreed,
He also warned him to stop.
Shen Xuan didn't understand. These days, is it wrong to want to get up with her sister?
Since Dabao was a burden, it was inconvenient to take Feijian home, so Shen Qianshuang took Shen Xuan back on foot. To be more precise, Shen Qianshuang walked and led the donkey, and Shen Xuan rode the donkey.
Because the distance was not far, Shen Xuan didn't have to fight over who would ride. It was pretty much the same up and down.
On the way, the two also communicated, but most of the time it was Shen Xuan who talked. Shen Qianshuang occasionally said a few words, but she was still the concise type who cherished her words like gold. Shen Xuan was used to this. If she wasn't cold, she wouldn't be Shen Qianshuang.
Climbing a small hillside, the vision suddenly opened up. Shen Qianshuang stopped walking. Shen Xuan looked at her back and did not rush him, but accompanied her to experience this quiet night.
"The moonlight is so beautiful tonight." Shen Qianshuang said suddenly.
"I agree, the moon is beautiful, and you are just like the moon." Shen Xuan praised casually but sincerely.
Shen Qianshuang stood there, silent for a long time, and then said leisurely: "You compare me to the bright moon, but I am not the bright moon, I am just the moon in the water."
Shen Qianshuang's voice seemed to be wrapped in unbreakable sorrow, which made Shen Xuan frown. This was not like the sister Qian Shuang he knew. He clamped his legs on the donkey's belly, and Dabao also knew the current situation and took a few steps forward. .
Shen Xuan sat on the donkey's back, picked up one of Sister Qian Shuang's hands from behind, held it in his palm and said: "The moon in the well is the moon in the sky, and the person in front of you is your sweetheart."
Seeing Sister Shen Qian's shoulders trembling slightly, Shen Xuan continued: "I don't care if you are the moon in the sky, the moon in the water, or the sailor moon. I only know that you are my Sister Qian Shuang, unique."
Shen Qianshuang turned around, her eyebrows furrowed, as if she was tangled, and she asked in an unhappy tone: "Am I your sweetheart?"
"You are my sister, a member of my family, and of course my sweetheart, hahahaha..."
He couldn't explain that he just said a golden sentence casually, so he could only deal with it by laughing. Moreover, Shen Xuan himself couldn't tell what meaning he had in mind when he said this sentence.
Shen Qianshuang's frown deepened, but she still patted the back of his hand and said, "That's not how the words are used. Don't talk nonsense to others in the future."
"Okay, from now on I will only say this to Sister Qian Shuang." Shen Xuan smiled brightly, with a hint of flattery.
Seeing Sister Qian Shuang nodding slightly with satisfaction and even showing a smile, Shen Xuan quickly struck while the iron was hot and asked with a more enthusiastic smile: "Then can you return the belt to me?"
"cannot!"
The refusal was so decisive that Shen Xuan's enthusiastic smile froze on his face. Shen Qianshuang didn't give him a chance to say more, took the reins and walked forward. After walking for a while, Shen Qianshuang suddenly Said: "By the way, what is Shui Bingyue you just mentioned? It sounds like a personal name."
"He's an old JK. He's considered the first generation of Mahou bartender."
"What a mess, what is that old KJ?"
"It is a promised thing for all boys, but JK is a rare thing, and not everyone can have it, just like my white jade belt."
"The more you talk, the more confused you are. I think you don't want the belt anymore."
"Then if I make it clear, you will return it to me?"
"cannot!"
"That's fine then."
“Is the first Mahou Soju a kind of wine?”
"It's not wine, it's the tentacle monster's lifelong enemy."
"That tentacle monster..."
Shen Qianshuang kept asking questions, and Shen Xuan deliberately annoyed her by giving some incomprehensible answers, but Shen Qianshuang was not annoyed. The two of them kept doing this, asking and answering questions, on the mountain road at night when they were alone. , further and further away.
…
When Ning Cai'er was in a daze, she heard someone calling her name. She opened her eyes and saw a woman dressed as an official, holding a white horse standing at the entrance of the alley.
"Please take the exam." The man said.
Ning Cai'er stood up and suddenly felt that her pain had disappeared, and her body was as light as a swallow. However, she was still confused and asked: "What test do you want me to take?"
"Don't ask any more questions, just hurry up."
After the man finished speaking, Ning Cai'er was still full of questions, but her body seemed to be disobedient and she got on the horse.
At first, she could still see some familiar scenery around her, but after passing through the fog, she no longer knew where she was. The buildings she saw were all tall and towering, as if she had entered the royal capital.
The journey was very bizarre. She seemed to have arrived in the imperial city all at once, and then entered the examination room again. When she recalled what she saw when she came, she found that her memory had been completely blurred.
There was an examiner-like figure sitting in the main hall, and there were nearly a thousand tables outside the hall. At this time, they were almost full of people. However, the faces of these people, including the examiner, were all blurred, and even if they stared at them, they couldn't tell their facial features.
She felt vaguely strange, but when she wanted to think about it carefully, she felt that it was normal for people to not be able to see their faces clearly. Ning Cai'er didn't need anyone to teach her, so she found a place to sit down.
Not long after, the test question came down: "One person and two people, intentional and unintentional."
Her mind was blocked from thinking about other things, but she was able to use her mind on the test questions. Ning Caier made a draft first, then picked up the pen and wrote: "If you intend to do good, you will not be rewarded even if you do good; if you have no intention of doing evil, you will not be punished even if you are evil."
"
After the exam, everyone left, but Ning Cai'er felt like there were roots under her body. She couldn't stand up or move, which made her anxious and angry, and she almost shed tears of shame and anger.
"Ning Caier, a native of Luoxing, was born in..."
A high and majestic voice first reported some information about her life, then praised her article, and finally asked: "Nowadays, Jingu City is short of a city god. Are you willing to take up this position?"
It stands to reason that Ning Cai'er should have been overjoyed at this time, or fearful. If she had a better attitude, she might even make a "three push and three give way". Who would have thought that when she heard this, she would immediately sit down at the desk and burst into tears.
The examiner thought she was crying with joy, so she let her cry for a while. Ning Cai'er raised her face, with tears in her eyes, and asked with sobs and sobs: "I...am...am I...dead...dead?"
"There is still a breath left, but also..."
Ning Cai'er cried again at her desk, wailing: "I still have my fate to die, I can't die yet, I don't want to be a city god, I want to see the young master!"
"I feel sorry for your young age, but I also cherish your talents. Please tell me your unfulfilled wish first."
Ning Cai'er also knew that this matter was related to her life and death, so she did not dare to cry anymore. She carefully stated her past with Shen Xuan, and then said very solemnly: "If I can't see the young master again and spend my life with him, what do I mean?
Nor can I be a city god."
"There are so many bullshit, do it if you like, or get out if you don't!" The tall and majestic old woman's voice disappeared and suddenly turned into a crisp and childish female voice.
Because the contrast was too huge, Ning Cai'er couldn't accept it for a while, and she stared blankly at the examiner in the hall.
"What the hell are you looking for? How can I find a young man for you? A man can charm you like this, and he can still grow flowers on his face. Why should a big girl not have a husband?"
Now Ning Cai'er finally came to her senses and said hurriedly: "I don't need you to help me find the young master, I just want you to let me go back."
"If I let you go back, you won't survive tonight. You will die sooner or later. Is it just one day?"
"Then what should I do?" Ning Cai'er let out a long sound, and she wanted to cry again.
"Shut up! Hold it back and let me think." Since his true nature was exposed, the examiner became very rude. After thinking for a moment, the crisp female voice said again: "Let's do this, I will send your soul back."
I'll give you some medical elixirs, but you also have to temporarily take over the position of City God of Jingu City. During the day, you go to the City God's Temple to pray, and at night, your soul leaves your body and becomes the City God. How about that?"
Ning Cai'er couldn't be more satisfied with this result. She was cured of her illness, got a good job, and may also take the opportunity to learn the magic of the immortal family. She really killed three birds with one stone, killing three birds with one stone.
, one fart three times.
"I agree, I agree, thank you sir."
"In that case, then you can take these."
The examiner waved, and three things flew into Ning Cai'er's hand: a pill, a small seal, and a book.