Chapter 55: Three Big Bowls (Part 2) Do you want to try Phytophthora? ...
(Fifty-five)
Li Shanglu was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help laughing out loud, as if he had heard a very funny joke. The more he thought about it, the funnier it became, and he laughed so hard that his stomach hurt.
"Do you know what my husband means?" She tapped Xiao Huang's chest and wiped away the tears of laughter from the corners of her eyes.
Xiao Huang didn't understand why she was laughing, but thought she was happy, so he also raised the corners of his lips, "I know, your husband can do intimate things with you, and I can do it too. Shang Lu, do you want to try it?"
Li Shanglu stopped laughing instantly. "Who taught you that?"
"I saw it myself," Xiao Huang confessed everything to her without reservation. "Shang Lu and Shen Changyi were intimate. I saw it all."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Shanglu's face turned red and he pushed him away in anger.
At that time, she had simply dismissed Xiao Huang as a wooden figure, not giving it much thought. Furthermore, she felt that Xiao Huang was simply a spirit, destined to return to Shen Changyi's body sooner or later. Who could have known he would actually say such words, truly considering himself a different person from Shen Changyi?
Being pushed away by Li Shanglu, Xiao Huang followed her confusedly, "Did I answer wrong?"
Li Shanglu bit his lower lip and ignored him, but suddenly heard the footsteps behind him stop.
The sound of a long sword being unsheathed was heard. She paused and turned to look at Xiao Huang.
Under the cold white moonlight, he held the long sword calmly and chopped off his arm without changing his expression.
Li Shanglu's pupils shrank slightly, and her breath caught in her throat. Seeing that he was about to swing the sword again, she quickly stepped forward, grabbed his wrist, and scolded, "What are you doing?"
Doing this kind of thing with a face that is exactly the same as Shen Changyi's is really terrifying and makes one's scalp tingle and the whole body uncomfortable.
Xiao Huang stared at her solemnly, the demonic energy on his body became stronger, emitting a thick inky fog like boiling water.
"This is...the punishment for displeasing Shang Lu."
"I'm not unhappy," Li Shanglu said incredulously. "Besides, who said I'd punish you?"
Hearing this, those dark and empty eyes moved towards her, and Xiao Huang slowly raised his lips, revealing a pure smile that made people's backs chill.
"Really? That's great."
Li Shanglu looked at the face that looked exactly like Shen Changyi's, but a chill rose in his heart.
The fact that Xiao Huang wanted to replace Shen Changyi was strange enough, but he would actually hurt himself so cruelly and ruthlessly, just like those evil cultivators.
Her eyes darkened and she snatched the sword from his hand. "Will it not hurt?"
Xiao Huang nodded.
As expected, he wasn't a human, just a puppet, feeling no pain or fear. His thoughts were completely different from a human's, just like a newborn baby; he would become what he was taught.
Those demonic cultivators might have instilled in Xiao Huang something like "Shen Changyi deserves to die" in the past five years, which is why Xiao Huang is so repulsed by his own true form.
Li Shanglu ordered him seriously, "From now on, don't hurt yourself. Remember this sentence in your mind forever. Do you understand?"
Hearing this, Xiao Huang was stunned for a moment, then nodded obediently.
Seeing that he was still obedient, Li Shanglu breathed a sigh of relief and took hold of the red rope, "Come back to Ming Zhou Sect with me."
Xiao Huang pursed his lips and looked reluctant, but still followed her obediently.
Along the way, Xiao Huang hardly spoke, and only answered a few words when Li Shanglu asked him.
"You said Chen Changyi wouldn't let you see the child. Why? Did you do anything bad to the child?"
"I didn't. He beat me as soon as we met."
"Who made the first move?"
"I."
“…”
Li Shanglu's head began to hurt. What kind of thing was it that the main body and the soul were fighting? As expected, the main body was an idiot, and the soul was not much better.
Under Xiao Huang's guidance, Li Shanglu spent two days and finally arrived at the foot of Mingzhou Mountain.
The mountain gate remains the same, with not much change apparent, except that it was spring before I left and midsummer when I returned.
The branches of the peach trees are heavy with fruits, the shade of the trees is dark green, the sky is as blue as the sea, the stream flows gurgling between the rocks, and the cicadas sing in a long and undulating voice.
When he reached the green steps, the person behind him suddenly stopped.
"Shanglu, this is all I can do."
Li Shanglu looked back at Xiao Huang, who was standing under a tree. His skin was so white that it had a faint bluish hue. Even on a sunny day, he seemed to be surrounded by a thick aura of death, as if his body would disappear in the next second.
"What do you mean?" she asked, confused.
Xiao Huang pointed to the sky and whispered, "Chen Changyi spent three years setting up a killing array. When a demon cultivator stepped into it, they were reduced to ashes."
Li Shanglu couldn't see the so-called killing formation. He thought that Shen Changyi had set up an extremely powerful killing formation specifically to protect the two cubs, which even a Yuanying stage cultivator couldn't detect.
She nodded in understanding, "Then Shen Changyi and I will come to pick you up later."
Hearing her words, Xiao Huang's lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but he hesitated for a long while, and only said softly, "Okay."
Li Shanglu stepped onto the green steps and his figure quickly disappeared on the long mountain road.
Xiao Huang stared at her intently, and a magical mist appeared beside him for no reason. Qian Xu's figure gradually walked out of the mist.
“I’ve said before, only if you kill Shen Changyi and show yourself to be strong enough can you completely replace his position in Li Shanglu’s heart, otherwise she will always trust Shen Changyi.”
He smiled and said in a gentle and persuasive tone, "Go back. When the time is right, I will help you get rid of Shen Changyi."
Hearing his words, Xiao Huang clenched her fingertips, "Shang Lu said she would come to pick me up."
"Chen Changyi wouldn't let her come." Qian Xu said coldly, "Even if they really came, they would only come to kill you and take back your soul. It's been five years, and you still don't understand?"
Xiao Huang was still staring at the direction where Li Shanglu disappeared. After a long time, his eyes dimmed.
"When will the time come?"
Qianxu narrowed his eyes and whispered with satisfaction, "It will be soon, don't worry."
Xiao Huang looked indifferent and finally looked away.
"Let's go."
*
Tomorrow Sect.
Li Shanglu looked along the way and found that there were many unfamiliar disciples in the sect. A lot must have happened in the past five years.
Before reaching Shutong Pavilion, Li Shanglu saw from afar a little girl sitting by the roadside eating a steamed bun. She was wearing an apricot-pink skirt and curled up like a glutinous rice dumpling.
Her heart skipped a beat and she stepped forward subconsciously.
There was a shadow over her head. The little girl looked up in confusion. When she saw Li Shanglu, she blinked. It seemed that she thought Li Shanglu wanted to eat the steamed bun in her hand, so she handed the bun to her.
That face... is exactly a shrunken version of Li Shanglu!
She immediately realized that the little girl in front of her was Xiaojuzi, and her breathing quickened. Li Shanglu was not yet prepared to see the two little kids, and his mind was in a mess. "Why are you here alone?"
Little Orange got up from the ground obediently and pointed to the peach tree not far away without saying a word.
Li Shanglu followed her finger and saw another small ball hanging on the top of the peach tree.
She loves to climb trees, which is good, just like she did when she was a child.
After a pause, she suddenly turned around and noticed something was wrong. "Why aren't you talking?"
Could it be that Little Orange...
"Daddy said, don't talk while eating." Little Orange held up the steamed bun in his hand to show Li Shanglu, his voice soft and slow.
Seeing that she could speak, Li Shanglu breathed a sigh of relief. She leaned over and lovingly brushed off the dust on the hem of Juzi's skirt. "Silly Juzi, where is your dad?"
He actually left the two little kids outside and didn't care about them. Did he want to die?
"Daddy's out..." the cub answered her slowly, and suddenly opened his doe-like eyes wide, "Why do you know my name?"
Li Shanglu held her in his arms and said casually, "I also know that you wet the bed with your brother when you were a child."
Orange leaned on her shoulder and sniffed her scent like a puppy. It was so fragrant. "Let me tell you, I haven't wet the bed for a long time."
"Hmm? Since when?"
"Today, no pee."
Li Shanglu burst out laughing and rubbed her head. Only then did he notice that she had two messy little buns tied at the back of her head. "Is that how your father tied your hair?"
Five years, and you can’t even learn how to tie your hair?
Li Shanglu felt a little annoyed and dissatisfied with Shen Changyi again. It would have been fine if he had just abandoned the child on the roadside, but he actually let the child have such ugly hair. What on earth was that idiot doing?
"No," Orange nuzzled her neck affectionately, seeming to like her scent. "My hair got loose after skipping rubber bands, so my brother tied it up for me."
After hearing this, Li Shanglu's unhappiness calmed down a little, and he turned to look for Xiao Shizi.
The little cub on the treetop was shaky and about to fall. Seeing that he lost his balance and fell, Li Shanglu rushed over and caught the cub.
It's quite heavy.
Fortunately, her body has been reshaped. In the past, this blow would have broken her bones.
Li Shanglu placed the cub on the ground with lingering fear and said in a deep voice, "It was so dangerous just now. Who told you to climb so high?"
"I'm fine."
Persimmon didn't seem to be afraid at all. He looked up and saw the face that was extremely similar to Xiaojuzi's. He was stunned for a moment, "You look like my sister."
Li Shanglu: “…”
She leaned over and pinched Persimmon's face, "Because I'm your mother."
Hearing her words, the two cubs were stunned.
Li Shanglu led them back to Shutong Pavilion. Although the sect had changed, everything in Shutong Pavilion was the same as before, except that the two cribs had been removed and replaced with two small rooms in the attic.
She carried the cubs to a stool, walked to the kitchen, rolled up her sleeves and started cooking.
Shen Changyi, that heartless man, actually let her Orange sit on the roadside and eat steamed buns. She looked so pitiful.
"Just sit still and wait."
She hadn't cooked for a long time, so she could only pick up the ingredients in the kitchen to make a meal. Fortunately, Shen Changyi always kept the kitchen very tidy and the ingredients were very fresh.
Li Shanglu was cooking in the kitchen. The two kids were sitting on stools. After a while, they looked at each other.
Persimmon hadn't come back to his senses yet, and his expression was dazed, "Mother..."
Orange naively repeated her brother's words, "Mother..."
Persimmon always thought that her mother would never come back.
Although Shen Changyi said that his mother was just living outside and would return home sooner or later, he overheard the monks in the sect say that his mother was taken away and hidden by bad guys. Those bad guys were very scary and would not let her come back alive.
He cried for a long time after hearing it.
How would those bad guys treat his mother? Would they beat her? Would they hurt her? Would they deny her food? Every time he thought of that scene, he was terrified and wanted to cry.
"Juzi, mother is back." He didn't know why his eyes were hot, so he rubbed them and asked, "Am I dreaming?"
Orange slowly reached out and pinched him, and Persimmon's tears, which had been refusing to fall, finally fell.
She said seriously, "It doesn't seem so."
Persimmon covered the place where she pinched him, and his face wrinkled.
It hurts so much.
It seems that it was not a dream, my mother really came back.
"Stupid orange, don't pinch so hard next time."
"Um."
The two kids climbed down from the stool and quietly walked to the kitchen to peek.
Mother is so beautiful, just as he imagined, and looks very gentle. Dad would definitely be happy if he knew that Mother was back, so why did he go out today?
"Brother, I want a hug from mother."
"I want to..." But he didn't dare to say it.
When Li Shanglu turned around, he saw two little heads timidly crowding outside the door and peeking at him.
She paused slightly, leaned down and waved to them.
The cubs hesitated for a moment, then walked over cautiously and nestled into her arms.
No one spoke for a long time, and then the low whimpers of the cubs began to be heard in the room.
Li Shanglu's eyelashes trembled slightly and he kissed them lightly on the forehead.
It’s all that damn Tiandao’s fault. The first thing she did after ascending to heaven was to cut down that broken peach tree.
Li Shanglu took out a handkerchief and wiped the tears from their faces, then asked softly, "Is your father good to you?"
"Um!"
She asked suspiciously, "Why isn't Orange eating and is just chewing on the steamed bun?"
Persimmon shook her head and explained, "Orange has eaten lunch. She can eat three big bowls of rice for each meal. She gets hungry very easily, so I always carry a few steamed buns with me and give them to her when she's hungry."
Li Shanglu choked and turned his head to look at the somewhat shy Orange. How could such a small thing be so greedy?
After she came back, she spent a long time picking out Shen Changyi's faults, but in the end, none of them were done by Shen Changyi.
It seems that he still has some sense of being a father, and he has not given up on himself even though she is gone.
As she was thinking, Li Shanglu suddenly remembered Xiao Huang, whom she had left at the foot of the mountain. She quickly wiped her hands and whispered, "I'll go down the mountain. You guys wait at home."
There is bamboo shoot soup cooking in the porcelain pot, and it will be cooked by the time I get back.
The two cubs stared at her reluctantly. Orange clung to the door frame, her eyes moist as she whispered, "Will Mommy come back?"
Her heart ached, and she rubbed Orange's little head, "Of course, this is my home."
Before she could stand up, a shadow suddenly appeared in front of her and Li Shanglu stopped.
Orange tilted his head and said softly,
"Hey, Daddy is back."
Li Shanglu's heart inexplicably skipped a beat and he slowly turned around.
A tall figure stood alone against the skylight, his eyes fixed on her.
"Chen Changyi..." She stood up and was about to explain to him what happened that day, but her lips were kissed unexpectedly.
He pinched her waist and pulled her into his arms, biting down all the words that Li Shanglu couldn't say.
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