Chapter 38: Resentment (Part 2) The silver Flowing Cloud Dao hairpin fell...
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"Little persimmon, little orange?"
The clan leader couldn't help but laugh, "What an interesting name! I can tell it was chosen by the Shanglu Society."
Li Shanglu blushed slightly as he looked at the little persimmon in her arms sucking on her fingers. "I just think it's easy to raise."
After a while, she seemed to remember something and lowered her voice to lean close to the Sect Master's ear and ask, "Did you feel any pain when you gave birth?"
Hearing this, the sect leader was a little surprised, "Of course."
Giving birth is never painless. She almost lost her life when she gave birth to Xie Du.
Suddenly, she finally noticed that Li Shanglu's face was rosy and his expression was calm. There was no trace of fatigue in his eyes. He didn't look like someone who had just given birth. The sect leader asked in surprise, "Don't you feel any pain?"
Li Shanglu was also puzzled and whispered, "I didn't feel anything at all. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought someone else gave birth to me."
The two of them discussed this for a long time, and the sect leader said softly, "Perhaps it's because Shang Lu is a blessed person. There's no need to think too much about it. As long as there's nothing wrong with his health, it's fine."
At this point, Li Shanglu's expression changed slightly. She suddenly stretched out her arm and pinched herself hard, then said in disbelief, "It still doesn't hurt."
The sect leader had never seen anything so miraculous. After pondering for a long time, he whispered, "Let Elder Teng investigate carefully someday. However, you'd better not hurt yourself intentionally, lest if the pain comes back, you'll be the one to suffer."
Li Shanglu nodded. She just felt it was strange.
It would be great if I could stay like this without feeling any pain, so that I won’t have pain during my periods in the future.
Two days later, the sect leader took time out every day to accompany her, and sometimes he would bring Qiu Hanyu with him. Each of them would hold a little cub and love it very much.
When she heard that Li Shanglu disliked ugliness, the clan leader smiled and said that Xie Du would look better when he grew up. Xie Du was even uglier when he was a child. She thought she had given birth to a little monkey.
But after they left, Li Shanglu still couldn't help but feel unable to take care of some things.
She never thought she would have two children. She had no experience in taking care of one, let alone two.
Sometimes, right after feeding Little Persimmon, Little Orange would start crying, and after Little Orange finished feeding Little Persimmon, Little Persimmon would urinate again.
Little Orange was relatively well-behaved. He didn't cry too much and drank his milk quietly before sucking his fingers. Little Persimmon was simply a little rascal who came to collect debts. He would cry and beg for milk every once in a while.
She inexplicably thought that perhaps her mother thought the same way about her when she was a child, and she couldn't help laughing out loud.
Shen Changyi said he would be back within three days, which means he would be back tomorrow.
Li Shanglu felt that she could only hold on for one more day at most, and she would not be able to endure it for most of the day. When Shen Changyi came back, she would throw all the work to him.
At night, there was another knock on the door.
Li Shanglu put the small persimmon under the quilt and got up tiredly.
Who would come so late? Could it be that Shen Changyi came back early?
"Phytolacca."
Outside the door, Helan Jin slowly raised his eyes and handed over a red envelope.
"Congratulations."
Li Shanglu didn't expect that he would come. When he saw his face, he remembered Chen Changyi's jealous and angry look that day.
She took the red envelope, opened it and counted it. It was not a small amount. She accepted it with a smile, and she could already imagine Shen Changyi's expression when he knew that the red envelope was sent by Helan Jin.
"Why are you here so late? Are you afraid of running into Chen Changyi during the day?" Li Shanglu didn't open the door to let him in. He just leaned against the door frame and said, "I really didn't mean to hide it from you. I told you about the pregnancy a long time ago. You won't hold a grudge against me, will you?"
Holding a grudge? Helan Jin looked at her quietly. That face was not to his taste, but somehow he found it pleasing to the eye.
The only person he hated from beginning to end was Chen Changyi. Every time he thought of this name, he wished he could kill him with his own hands.
"It's cold at night, you should go back."
Helan Jin said calmly, "I know he's not here. If you need help, come find me."
After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave without even waiting for Li Shanglu's reply. He caught a glimpse of the hairpin on her head from the corner of his eye, which was particularly eye-catching.
That was Shen Changyi's Taoist hairpin, and he stopped suddenly.
Looking at his lonely figure leaving, Li Shanglu pursed his lips for a while, then took a step back and was about to close the door.
A hand suddenly pressed against the door.
She was slightly startled, and when she looked up, Helan Jin had actually turned back.
"Wait," he stared at Li Shanglu and said in a deep voice, "I have something else to say."
He still couldn't help but say it, he had to say it out loud.
Why was Shen Changyi so lucky? He was born with the supreme magical powers that others longed for. Others cultivated for hundreds of years, but he could easily kill them with a few swords, leaving only a remnant of their souls. Everyone in the sect admired him and worshipped him as a god. He had thought that there was at least one other person in the world who resented Shen Changyi as much as he did, but he had never imagined that person would personally give birth to two children for Shen Changyi.
Li Shanglu looked at him in confusion. "Go ahead, I'm not stopping you."
Seeing her indifferent attitude, Helan Jin suddenly smiled, "You don't resent him anymore, do you?"
Li Shanglu's expression paused slightly. She seemed to have never told Helan Jin that she resented Chen Changyi. She only said that she once hated this person.
She seemed to vaguely guess that he was going to say something she didn't want to hear. Li Shanglu frowned and was about to close the door.
But Helan Jin held the door with one hand, not giving her a chance.
Helan Jin stared at her steadily, his eyes flushed red as he sneered, "Li Shanglu, you and I are the same kind of people."
"What do you want to say?" Li Shanglu was finally provoked by him and said impatiently, "If you have anything to say, we can talk about it tomorrow."
Helan Jin suddenly raised his hand and pinched her face, forcing her to look at him.
"I gave you the poison that day." His voice was very soft, and he seemed to be laughing. "Why didn't you poison him? Don't you hate him so much that you want to kill him?"
Li Shanglu looked at him in disbelief. The face at this moment became extremely unfamiliar, gradually changing into the face of the person who stuffed the medicine bag into her palm.
"Li Shanglu," Helan Jin calmly said, his expression changing back to normal. "I know you far better than Shen Changyi. You are a vicious and vindictive woman. You and I are the same. No one can clear themselves of this. Since you've forgotten, I'll help you remember."
"What are you going to do?" Li Shanglu's lips turned pale. He struggled to break free from him and wanted to call for help but his lips were covered.
Helan Jin leaned close to her ear and said in a deep voice, "I just want to help you remember what happened that day. I also want to know why you didn't put the medicine in that day."
Suddenly, sand and wind blew up in front of my eyes, blurring my vision.
Li Shanglu struggled hard, but Helan Jin was much stronger than her.
In just a moment, everything before my eyes changed.
She looked at the familiar courtyard in front of her in astonishment. It was her and Shen Changyi's home in the mountains.
The sun is shining and it is noon.
A woman who looked exactly like her walked past, holding a white medicine bag in her hand.
Helan Jin's voice rang in his ears. He said coldly, "This is an illusion. Everything that happened in it is what happened in your memory. Li Shanglu, open your eyes and see clearly."
Hearing his words, Li Shanglu instantly guessed what would happen next. She struggled hard, but was firmly controlled and unable to move at all. Helan Jin turned her face and forced her to see clearly what was in front of her.
"That's not right." Helan Jin frowned and looked at her, confused. "Chen Changyi clearly came back at night that day. How could it be noon in your dream?"
Li Shanglu watched helplessly as everything happened again before his eyes.
She knew the reason, because this was in her previous life.
At noon that day, Shen Changyi came back and she had prepared food, all of which were Shen Changyi's favorites, a plate of red and green bean jelly, stir-fried pork with leeks, and a plate of stir-fried bamboo shoots and mushrooms.
She and Shen Changyi had just had a big fight over the six months of demon exorcism. She angrily opened the medicine bag and poured it all into the prepared food.
In the illusion, Shen Changyi walked into the kitchen and looked at the food without any suspicion.
He said softly, "I'll serve it, you go and rest."
Li Shanglu watched him pick up the plate of poisoned cold cakes, and suddenly reached out and held him down, "Wait."
Her voice was deep, with a slight tremor that was barely noticeable. "I'll carry it myself. You go back and sit down."
Shen Changyi raised his eyes to look at her, as if he sensed something was wrong with her, but he and Li Shanglu were not in a relationship where they could confide in each other, so he could only purse his lips and leave obediently.
After he left, Li Shanglu stared at the plate of red and mung bean jelly for a long time, so long that time seemed to stop. She suddenly picked up the plate, as if she wanted to throw the jelly away.
But after a pause, she suddenly began to have a severe headache and put her hand on her forehead. In just a moment, Li Shanglu's eyes became dazed, and he put the plate of cold cake back without moving it.
Helan Jin stood there in a daze.
Everything in the illusion came from her memory, which meant that these were all things that really happened.
Li Shanglu looked at herself in the illusion and stood up calmly, taking away the poisoned food. Her breathing suddenly became rapid. She could not feel the pain, but her heartbeat became faster and faster.
He stretched out his hand, reaching out with his fingertips as hard as he could, trying to stop "her".
But nothing can be done, what has happened is destined to happen.
So that's why. No wonder Shen Changyi died in the end. He was indeed poisoned to death by her.
——That day, she didn't throw away the poisoned food at all.
She thought she threw it away and made a new table, but no, she didn't.
It was she who killed Shen Changyi with her own hands. She had been deceiving herself, confusing her memory, deceiving herself that she had replaced the food, deceiving herself that Shen Changyi was not killed by her, and there was nothing wrong with deceiving herself!
Seeing that her complexion was getting worse, Helan Jin's expression changed slightly and he supported her, "What's wrong with you?"
Li Shanglu was speechless and breathless, with tears streaming down his cheeks.
She lowered her head, her hair scattered, and the silver flowing cloud hairpin fell to the ground and rolled into the dust.
Helan Jin's eyes were complicated. He took out a pill from his arms and put it into her mouth. He gently held her trembling shoulders and whispered, "Shanglu, do you see clearly?"
"Fate is determined by heaven. You and he are not destined to be on the same path."
He tilted his head to look at Shen Changyi who was eating the meal in the illusion. Everything here was not fake. Li Shanglu had indeed used the medicine he gave to kill Shen Changyi. It was as incredible as his past and present life.
But... Li Shanglu clearly hesitated for a moment, but his eyes suddenly seemed to be controlled, and he put the food back exactly as it was.
Helan Jin's brows were tightly knitted together. His state was definitely not normal. It seemed as if he was being controlled by some demonic spell.
The scene where Li Shanglu asked him to try the medicine suddenly emerged in her mind. She said that the pill for purifying anger and purifying thoughts was taught to her by Shangjun, and it could eliminate the remaining evil spirit in the body.
Could it be the evil energy of the magic cultivator's spell?
Who cast the curse on Li Shanglu? There are actually other demon cultivators besides him who know his plan.
Looking at Li Shanglu who was crying in his arms until he was exhausted and lost his voice, a dark light flashed in his eyes, but in the end he said nothing.
It’s best never to know.
People like them rely on hatred to survive, whether they hate him, hate Chen Changyi, or hate themselves...
In short, he must not be left alone to live in resentment.
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