Free Web NovelThe moonlight was like water.
Tree shadows swayed, rustling softly with the night wind.
Li Mo turned his head at the sound, only to see a figure with hands clasped behind his back, stretched long on the clean floor of the Buddhist hall.
She stood quietly in the ancient temple under the cold moon, her eyes lowered, adding a touch of Immortal Qi to the serene place, as if even the Bodhisattva statue not far away paled in comparison.
“The sachet fell down, I wanted to hang it back up.”
Li Mo quickly tied a knot in the sachet, made sure it wouldn't loosen, then jumped down.
“What’s inside the sachet?”
“If I say it, will it... stop working?”
Tianjiao Xiao Li, who was never superstitious, jumped down from the tree and, after a moment of contemplation, asked with a serious expression.
“......”
Ying Bing’s lips parted slightly, her gaze fixed on the sachet swaying on the branch, as if she wanted to see through it.
She had wanted to say how a tree could determine one's fate.
But then she remembered that when she left the Qingluan Clan, the Qingluan Clan woman had repeatedly warned her not to let anyone know the contents of the sachet...
“Alright.”
Ying Bing stopped asking, her figure rose with the wind, and she lightly stood on the tree crown, also taking out a sachet and hanging it up.
Her movements were swift, and she quickly returned to the ground.
Then she saw the young man looking up at the sachet, longing to see through it.
“The one you hung...”
“If I say it, it won’t work.”
Ying Bing spoke softly, and without even seeing the curve of her lips, one could hear the hint of a smile in her tone.
“......Alright.” Li Mo sat down.
“......” Ying Bing sat beside him.
They sat together, looking at the moon, just like many nights before.
If a passing Yao Race member were to see them, their jaw would probably drop to the ground in shock.
The Qingluan Goddess and the Peerless Sky蛟, who might have met with bloodshed, were actually sitting together admiring the moon so naturally and casually?
“Ice Cube, you’ve become much stronger again.”
Li Mo looked at the girl, the obscureness in his eyes dissipating, becoming clear.
The Tianming Divine Eye said so.
Ice Cube’s progress in 관신 was even faster than his.
“Mm.”
“What did you do in the Southern Border?”
And so.
Ying Bing, in a serene voice, began to recount her experiences since arriving in the Southern Border, starting with how she shaved the scalp of a Peng Demon.
In summary, it was very simple.
Observing Divine Intention, slaying demons.
“You didn’t do anything else besides that?”
Li Mo clicked his tongue; Ice Cube was as diligent as Princess Xiao Jiang, truly her.
Speaking of which, Princess Xiao Jiang also had a hobby of collecting trash.
“Mm...”
Ying Bing stroked the boy with a large head.
Does spacing out count as doing something?
“Oh, right, what about you?”
She looked up, her eyes, bathed in moonlight, seemed capable of seeing into one’s heart.
“Peerless Sky蛟?”
“......”
Xiao Li suddenly felt a bit hot.
Strange, summer had clearly passed!
“Well, the Water Race, you know, they’re quite open-minded when it comes to choosing a mate.”
“Mm.”
“At that time, during the Water Race’s open selection, I thought I needed to perform well to be qualified to come to the Hanging Temple.”
“And then?”
“I don’t know which Yao Race member was talking nonsense, saying I had True Dragon Bloodline, and then it got more and more exaggerated, causing many Water Race women to come and give me gifts.”
Ying Bing’s delicate brows furrowed slightly.
She also didn’t know how to describe this feeling.
It was just that the image of Li Mo being surrounded by a group of female demon spirits popped into her mind, and her hand couldn't help but want to reach for her sword...
“The Yao Race’s tradition is very strange; accepting a gift means agreeing.”
“So I didn’t accept a single gift.”
The only gift Li Mo accepted in person was Zhen Bang’s pearls, and he paid for them, including the very large one; all other gifts he found ways to return.
He was about to continue speaking.
Crack—
“!”
Li Mo felt a chill on his neck, then saw the boy with a large head’s neck twisted open by slender, jade-like fingers.
Then...
From within, she took out a... jade feather whistle?
“The Qingluan Clan makes musical instruments that sound like bird calls, based on their own voices.”
The jade feather whistle lay in the girl’s palm, seeming to glow with a moist luster.
“I originally intended to come to the Southern Border and bring some things back for you as a souvenir, but I didn’t expect you to come to the Hanging Temple, you...”
“I especially like it.”
Li Mo’s expression was serious, his eyes clear, and his tone resolute!
“But you haven’t heard its sound yet.”
“No need, it sounds good just by looking at it.”
“......”
Xiao Li quickly took off the red string from his wrist, then threaded the jade feather whistle onto it, and put it back on. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com
Ying Bing casually looked elsewhere, her lips pressed together lightly.
“Oh, right, I also prepared a gift for you; it’s made of pearl white lotus root silk, and I made quite a few.”
“What?”
“Silk socks.”
“?”
“I don’t know if they’re suitable, I suggest you try them on now.”
Li Mo felt that the Qin Race in the Qingluan Clan probably didn’t produce such things as silk socks.
When giving gifts, one should give something that the recipient can use and that is not easily obtained.
—Lu Xun.
Xiao Li had always been very good at understanding the principles of the Senior.
And not only did he understand the principles, but he also understood practice!
If he hadn’t practiced, what good was it to understand so much?
How could it be called the unity of knowledge and action?
“You...”
“No need for more words.”
With his back to the tree shade, Li Mo reached out and took off the Qingluan Goddess’s shoes, revealing her exquisite, jade-like feet.
Li Mo said with a righteous expression: “See, what did I tell you, it’s really hard to buy socks in the Southern Border, it must be very uncomfortable not to wear socks.”
“I haven’t even...”
The small foot in his palm, warm like soft jade, curled slightly.
“It’s fragrant, it’s fragrant!”
Li Mo felt that if this were soaked in water, people could dilute it and drink it for several years.
Who could say it wasn’t fragrant?
What if her small feet got chafed without socks? Where would she go to complain?
What if the texture wasn’t good? Who would be responsible?
Li Mo gently pinched it, confirmed that the texture was the same soft jade and warm fragrance, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, putting the silk socks on her.
“Finished wearing them.”
“I’m wearing them, of course I know.”
“Then your hand...” Ying Bing’s eyes were deep.
“Occupational hazard.”
Li Mo rubbed his nose.
Indeed, while the feel of pearl white lotus root silk was good, it depended on what it was compared to.
He then took out a few more pairs of silk socks for Ice Cube.
Of course, he made more than just these few pairs.
But Li, a true gentleman, Mo, felt that the styles of some pairs were not suitable to be taken out now.
“Mo Laoda, Mo Laoda? Where are you?”
Wumeng was looking for him for some reason, his raspy voice cutting through the night sky.
“It should be about the divine jade competition, I’m going back now.”
“Mm.”
Watching ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) the young man’s figure disappear into the darkness, she didn’t look away for a long time.
Plop—
Suddenly, something appeared in her palm.
Ying Bing looked down and found it was a sachet, clearly just tied to the Marriage Tree by the young man, but for some reason, it had fallen again.
It fell by itself.
If it fell, she could look, right?
Gently opening it and seeing what was inside, the girl’s eyelashes, dyed silver-white by the moonlight, trembled slightly.
Half a piece of ice skin red bean mooncake.
Why half a piece? Because besides the Ice Cube pattern, the other half had been eaten, and it even had tooth marks.
Silence for a long while.
She took out the sachet from her sleeve and opened it.
From inside, she also took out half a lotus seed paste mooncake.
Two halves.
Put together, they made one whole.
Held up, it could just cover the moon in the sky.
A perfect reunion.
......
PS:
My sister came from school, and I promised to take her out to eat something delicious. I, the little Flop, also need to clear my head and relax, and think about the details of the heavenly divine jade competition. So, only two updates today.
I want to be charged fiercely by the audience, hehe.
