The cicadas sing as summer begins.

Even the wind seemed to have become warm.

Blue sky, white clouds, green waves rippling in the rice paddies, a double-arched stone bridge near the village, young women washing clothes under the bridge, and children playing and frolicking with bamboo sticks on the bridge.

Qin Luo and Hua Ying were dressed simply, and the children didn't pay any attention to them as they crossed the stone arch bridge.

"Look what I caught!!"

The boy with two horns on his head shouted loudly. He held a long bamboo stick in his hand, the end of which was bent into a circle with layers of spider silk hanging on it. It was a simple net made of spider silk.

"It's a cicada!"

There is a cicada inside the net.

The surrounding children immediately swarmed around.

Qin Luo turned to look at the group of excited children. Hua Ying raised an eyebrow. "Are you going to lecture them?"

"It's not that bad."

Qin Luo shook his head.

"Give it to me, give it to me..."

"This is mine, you're not allowed to take it."

The children all wanted to catch the cicada, and as they scrambled for it, the cicada's song suddenly stopped, as if the whole world had become quiet. The older children opened their hands, holding a broken, transparent cicada wing.

"Waaah, my cicada."

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."

"Hmph, I'm never playing with you guys again."

The children scattered, leaving the cicada abandoned on the ground. Someone had stepped on it, and its body was almost flattened. Qin Luo walked to the bridge and picked up the cicada.

Qin Luo stared at the injured cicada in his hand. "When I was little, I was just as playful as them, but not as clever. I mistook cockroaches for cicadas and gave a pencil case full of cockroaches to a girl in my village. She didn't talk to me for a long time after that."

"I knew you were stupid!"

Hua Ying was amused by Qin Luo's words.

Qin Luo shook his head and chuckled, "Later, my sister told me what a cicada is and told me many stories about cicadas. She told me that cicada pods could be exchanged for money. Every summer, I would collect cicada pods and take them to the town's pharmacy to exchange for money, and then buy popsicles. In the hot summer, eating popsicles and listening to the cicadas, I was carefree and happiness was simple. I hope that cicadas will not disappear and that I can collect more cicada pods next summer."

Hua Ying placed her palm on Qin Luo's palm, with the dying cicada lying between their hands.

When Hua Ying removed her hand, the cicada in Qin Luo's hand moved, and its body returned to normal.

The cicada remained on Qin Luo's hand.

Hua Ying saw the cicada trembling and said softly, "It seems that the experience just now has had a great impact on it. I thought the cicada had no memory, so I didn't use time reversal."

Qin Luo said softly, "Since you have memories, you must not forget the kindness of this fairy sister."

"My kindness is mainly because of you."

Hua Ying said, clutching her chest.

"Then let's go all the way and send it to a place far away from human habitation."

"Uh-huh."

Qin Luo and Hua Ying walked into the mountains.

After leaving Pingyuan County, the mountains and forests became more numerous. Qin Luo and his companions did not take the official road, but instead traveled along mountain paths. The mountain paths were winding and twisting, with insects chirping in the grass, birds singing in the branches, and colorful butterflies fluttering in the woods. Even the leaves rustled in the wind, but the cicada in Qin Luo's hand remained silent.

In the twilight.

A mountain stream flows gently.

Qin Luo placed the cicada on a pine tree by the stream.

Hua Ying picked up some dry branches from nearby and brought them back. With a smile in her eyes, she said gently, "There are plenty of fish and shrimp in the stream. I'll catch some to make you some porridge."

"Let's eat wild vegetable dumplings instead."

"How can this be? Your foundation in the Great Dao is damaged, and your body can no longer contain the benefits of creation. The effects of eating the morning dew and drinking the evening mist are negligible. We still have to walk such a long distance every day. How can we not eat something good?"

"It's okay, I can handle it."

Hua Ying said nothing more. She handed Qin Luo two wild vegetable dumplings, saying, "Eat slowly, don't choke."

Qin Luo smiled, picked up the wild vegetable dumplings, chewed them slowly, and watched the red sun set and the afterglow gradually fade.

Hua Ying sat on the blue stone by the stream. She took off her shoes, rolled up her trouser legs, and revealed her fair and slender calves.

Splash!

Hua Ying splashed water with her feet.

She rarely feels this relaxed.

Qin Luo ate a wild vegetable dumpling and said in a serious tone, "I originally planned to go to the stream for a drink after I finished eating."

Hua Ying raised her head slightly and said arrogantly, "You want to drink my foot bath water? No way."

"Cough cough."

Qin Luo almost choked.

He didn't expect Hua Ying to act unpredictably.

When Hua Ying saw Qin Luo's expression, she covered her mouth with her hand, but the joy in her eyes could not be hidden.

After finishing the wild vegetable dumplings, Qin Luo stood up to stretch his muscles and performed a set of extremely gentle boxing techniques.

Hua Ying removed the peach branch from her hair, her cascading purple hair cascading casually over her shoulders. She shook her head gently, her long hair fluttering in the wind, no longer pretending to be a married woman.

The bright moon had somehow climbed up the treetops, and its pure light spilled through the branches, illuminating the pretty face of the flower shadows.

Qin Luo noticed the flower shadow bathed in moonlight. Her brows were like distant mountains, her eyes were like autumn water, she had a fairy-like appearance, and a charming smile played on her lips.

Hua Ying noticed Qin Luo's gaze. She turned to look at Qin Luo, and when their eyes met, the world seemed to fall silent.

Cicadas chirping~

Qin Luo and Hua Ying looked at the pine tree by the stream, where the cicada they had saved had regained its vitality.

"Could you please stop yelling?"

Hua Ying pouted, and the cicada's song stopped abruptly. Qin Luo couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Look how scared you are of it."

Were you looking at me just now?

"Who taught you to be so good-looking?"

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