Chapter 109: How could he not bow his head when she held the rope?

Xie Yanyu's birth date and time were deduced.

The year, month, day and hour, and each corresponding Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches were written neatly on paper.

After that, she and Li Xun’s horoscopes would be used to compare their fortunes.

People who practice cultivation have already defied fate and changed their destiny. They do not need to use the original eight characters to match their marriages like ordinary people do. When monks arrange marriages, they usually go to places where gods and Buddhas are enshrined, place the eight characters of both parties under the statues, kowtow devoutly, and then cast a lot to ask whether the marriage will be good or bad.

In the Shangqing Immortal Palace, there is indeed a place where gods and Buddhas are enshrined.

That place is called the Observatory, located on the highest peak in the sect. It is full of spiritual energy and is the place closest to the sky.

The elders of the sect often go to the observatory to read the stars and observe the celestial phenomena.

The disciples of the sect can go in and out of the observatory, where they can offer sacrifices to the gods and Buddhas and ask for a fortune or two on weekdays.

Therefore, Xie Yanyu and Xie Chengjin went to the observatory together again.

Along the way, she didn't ask much, but just looked at Xie Chengjin thoughtfully.

Because they were flying over on a sword, Xie Chengjin was in front with his back to her.

But even so, he could still sense her gaze.

But he didn't look back at her.

It wasn't until they reached the destination that he felt she had turned her gaze away.

Then, before the sword even hit the ground, she jumped off it—

Landing on tiptoe, stepping firmly,

The figure that was originally behind him landed on the ground, took two steps forward, and came in front of him, and thus appeared in his sight.

I saw her walking towards the observatory. Even though her pace was neither fast nor slow, I could see a subtle sense of urgency...

Maybe it’s not urgent, but it’s overly positive.

Why do you have to cooperate like this?

Xie Chengjin stared at her back.

She is obviously extremely stubborn. She always pretends to obey and secretly resists everything she does. She is full of her own ideas and no one can really make her do something she doesn't want to do.

So she is cooperating now only because she wants to.

What are you thinking about? I want to get engaged to Li Xun as soon as possible.

Xie Chengjin suddenly felt a surge of anger.

So he put away his sword, but did not move or follow her.

Her birth date was written down and placed with him. At this time, he put away his sword, and all that was left in his hand was a piece of paper with her birth date written on it. He held the paper, his knuckles turning white, and stared at her back with a heavy gaze, as if he was silently angry with her.

A word suddenly popped up in his mind, and that word was "childish". Even the children of the Xie family would not do such a thing after they were enlightened. But he was standing here at the moment, wanting to see when she would turn back.

But before long,

Then I saw her stop and turn slightly, as if she was about to look back.

Xie Chengjin pinched the paper and straightened his sleeves, but the next second, he saw her looking in another direction.

Another figure appeared in that direction.

He was wearing red clothes and was conspicuous. He appeared there with a sword, then jumped down from the sword in a nonchalant manner and raised his hand to hook her shoulders.

She called Li Xun over as well.

Yes, according to the rules, there is nothing wrong with her calling the man over for the marriage.

But Li Xun held her shoulders and she did not struggle. At this time, she turned her head back.

From beginning to end, I never looked back at him.

The paper in Xie Chengjin's hand was suddenly crumpled.

He stood there for a while, his eyes becoming increasingly gloomy.

The next second, as if he could no longer hold back his anger, he lifted up his skirt and strode forward again.

*

The observatory is not just a building.

Because gods and Buddhas are enshrined here, it looks a bit like a temple or Taoist temple on earth, but it is not exactly the same.

Walk in from the outside and enter a courtyard first.

Because it is located between the peaks, the yard has a wide view, but it is surrounded by mountains on all sides. Looking out, you can see the clouds halfway up the mountain. In the closer places, there are ancient sacred trees planted, standing in forests, emitting the scent of some of the spiritual plants themselves. It smells calming, and the smell lingers in the nose, as if you can see a piece of green even with your eyes closed.

Right in front of the yard, there is a temple-like building, which is a shrine where statues of gods are enshrined.

On the east side is a five or six-story building that looks tall and imposing. This place is used for stargazing.

On the south side is a very small library. Unlike the large library in the sect, this library is used to store files related to stargazing.

Because they were there to find a marriage, the group went straight into the temple.

Li Xun placed his horoscope on the altar.

Xie Yanyu touched her sleeve pocket and then she remembered that the piece of paper with her birth date was with Xie Chengjin.

So she turned her head to look at him again: "Brother."

Xie Chengjin looked indifferent.

He has always been like this. Xie Yanyu couldn't see much emotion from his face.

At this moment, there was still no expression on his face, and he looked like a piece of emotionless ice.

When he heard her calling him, his expression was very indifferent, and he only responded with a "Hmm?"

Xie Yanyu reminded: "Eight characters."

After saying this, Xie Chengjin seemed to remember that the things were still with him.

Then he slowly took out the piece of paper.

The paper should have been very flat.

But now, it is a little wrinkled, as if it has been rubbed by someone.

Xie Yanyu's eyes fell on the paper, looking at her own birth chart, and then she reached out to take the paper. However, Xie Chengjin didn't hand it to him, probably because he was also very close to the altar. So after taking out the paper, he smoothed the page and placed it directly on the altar.

Then he looked at Xie Yanyu and said, "According to the rules, the woman will draw the lot for Naji."

Xie Yanyu nodded: "Yes, I know."

Xie Chengjin took down the lottery box again and asked calmly, "Will it?"

Really not.

Unlike shaking lots in mortal temples, mortals pray to gods and Buddhas mostly for peace of mind, but monks are already cultivating immortality and are much closer to gods and Buddhas. Therefore, when monks shake lots, they are not praying to gods for peace of mind, but are seriously asking questions to the gods and communicating with them directly.

Therefore, the steps of drawing lots are naturally different from those in the mortal world.

In the mortal world, people only need to randomly shake out a lot from the lot holder, but when monks shake the lot, they need to use their spiritual power to write a specific formula on the lot holder, then use their spiritual power to write their own question, and then draw a formation on the lot holder.

After completing these steps, the sticks in the stick bucket will move by themselves.

Eventually, a lot will fall out of the tube by itself, and this lot is the answer given by the gods.

The sticks in the tube are all white and have no words on them. After the sticks fall out, it will take a quarter of an hour before words appear on them.

There are five types of handwriting: very bad, slightly bad, average, slightly lucky, and very lucky.

Xie Yanyu didn't know how to draw the divination formation.

But she didn't say no, she just held the lottery box and didn't say anything.

Xie Chengjin looked at her for a while, knowing that she probably didn't know how to do it, and suddenly raised his hand to cover the back of her hand: "I'll teach you."

However, the moment he was about to touch her,

Then I heard Li Xun behind me suddenly say, "It's not appropriate."

Xie Chengjin turned around and met Li Xun's eyes.

Li Xun, with a forced smile, met his gaze and called him, "Uncle."

Xie Chengjin said coldly: "We are not married yet, so there is no need to call me that."

Li Xun tutted his words and said, "It's okay. We're getting married soon. It doesn't matter whether we call you that now or later."

He pulled Xie Yanyu closer to him and said lightly, "Although you are my wife's brother, you are not a blood relative after all. Moreover, we are not children anymore. There should be differences between men and women. It would be inappropriate to teach you step by step, right?"

Xie Chengjin's gaze suddenly turned cold.

Li Xun moved closer to Xie Yanyu and said, "I'll teach you."

He pretended to squeeze Xie Yanyu's hand.

However, before his hand touched it, it was pushed away by an invisible air flow.

Li Xun paused for a moment, then pinched his fingertips and realized that it was Xie Chengjin who was stopping him.

He looked at Xie Chengjin again.

This time, the smile on his face was a little cold.

He always felt that Xie Chengjin was a little strange.

In the previous life, Xie Chengjin and Xie Yanyu were not very close.

Even after Xie Yanyu was placed under house arrest, he went to see Xie Yanyu, and Xie Chengjin agreed with an expressionless face.

But now it's not right.

The person in front of me still had a blank expression on his face, cold and emotionless.

Li Xun glared at him, his tone sinister: "What's the matter? Can't I touch my wife? Uncle."

Every word reminded him of his identity.

But Xie Chengjin's tone was still cold, and he seemed to be very obedient to the rules: "The marriage is not yet completed, so we shouldn't be so close."

The two of them were in a stalemate, neither of them letting the other touch Xie Yanyu.

But the stalemate didn't last long. The next second, the sound of the lottery box was heard -

Xie Yanyu has already finished shaking the lot.

A stick was shaken out of the stick tube and fell to the ground with a "click".

There was a moment of silence in the air.

Xie Yanyu picked up the stick and placed it back on the altar: "I can draw it and shake it myself."

*

Of course Xie Yanyu didn't know that formation.

But she was lying.

She didn't want to shake the stick seriously, so she just used some spiritual power and tapped the stick box twice.

A stick fell out and she put it back on the altar.

Because the sticks that came out were all blank, it would take a quarter of an hour for the words to appear on the sticks, so she made an excuse to go out and wait, and left the temple, and ordered Li Xun to help her get something.

So Xie Chengjin was the only one left in the temple.

The system said: [Why are you shaking it randomly? What if a big monster appears?]

Xie Yanyu didn’t seem to understand the question: Huh?

System: [If a serious evil appears, won’t your engagement be cancelled?]

Xie Yanyu said: If you don’t want to let me, then don’t let me.

The system is stuck: [Huh?]

It said: "Even if Xie Chengjin doesn't agree, if you want to get engaged, you can find a way to force it. But if that's the case, why did you go through so much trouble and go through all this process? You're so obedient now, following Xie Chengjin's instructions and going through all this trouble, isn't it just to get him to agree?"

Xie Yanyu looked back.

Through the crack in the door, I saw Xie Chengjin sitting in the temple.

She said: Going through this process is just to confirm some things.

System: [What?]

Xie Yanyu was quiet for a while.

Then she pulled out a white ticket from her sleeve.

It was the stick that had just fallen out of the stick holder.

The system was a little confused and didn't know what she was going to do for a moment. The fortune stick was in her sleeve, so where did the fortune stick she put on the altar just now come from?

It wanted to ask a question, but didn't know how to ask it for a moment.

Fortunately, Xie Yanyu seems to be in a good mood today.

She actually took the initiative to explain to it: I brought a fortune stick with me, and the one on the altar was the lucky stick. No matter what I shook out, I would eventually replace the blank stick with the lucky stick.

The system suddenly realized: [So you didn't care what lottery results were. You just shook the lottery randomly and didn't follow the steps at all!]

Xie Yanyu: Yes.

The system still doesn't understand: [Then what do you want to confirm? ]

Xie Yanyu: Guess what, if the fortune is very auspicious, will Xie Chengjin agree to this marriage?

System: [Ah? Why do you ask?]

Xie Yanyu said nothing more.

She put the white stick back into her sleeve.

The system watched her movements.

It originally wanted to say that since the agreement was signed, Naji would pass the test, and Xie Chengjin would definitely agree to the marriage.

But the words were stuck in his mouth, and his mind slowly turned around and suddenly he came to his senses -

What Xie Yanyu wanted to test was Xie Chengjin's attitude.

Because Xie Chengjin has been really weird lately.

He is obviously a person who doesn't mind other people's business, but he comes to meddle in her marriage. She has already said that she wants to get engaged, but he still finds excuses to delay it.

Xie Yanyu followed his instructions to go through these procedures, not just to wait for his nod. She would never follow anyone like this. She had her own ideas and hated being controlled the most. Now that she wanted to get engaged, how could she wait for others to control her?

She just wanted to see whether Xie Chengjin would abide by the rules or simply didn't want her to get engaged.

He changed the lot to a lucky one, then left on the pretext of something, leaving Xie Chengjin alone in the temple.

If Xie Chengjin really didn't want her to marry, then when he saw this auspicious sign, would he hypocritically change it to a bad one? And then naturally reject the marriage?

The system came to its senses and asked again: [Then why are you testing him? He doesn't want you to marry him because—]

Speaking of this.

The system paused again.

Why doesn't Xie Chengjin want her to get engaged to someone else?

What else could it be?

Xie Yanyu is sharp.

If it could sense that something was wrong, she must have felt it silently a long time ago.

She just remained calm and didn't say anything, and then used this roundabout way to test and confirm. Wasn't that how she tested Helan Wei little by little at that time?

She became increasingly clear about how to control others.

She still has many things she wants to do and many things she wants. Sometimes, emotions and power are equally useful. They can help her achieve her goals faster and easier, and allow her to control others and let others help her achieve her goals.

Even if it's just a little bit of liking for her, or a little bit of desire for her, these can become weapons and ropes in her hands.

Even if the other party is Xie Chengjin, as long as she finds out something and she holds the rope, how can he not bow his head?

system:【……】

It just knows!

She would never cooperate with anyone so obediently. It turned out that she was waiting here.