Chapter 83 Are you really sure he is Zhu Qing?
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[Three days have passed since Zhu Qing left in anger.]
During these three days, I have been looking forward to his coming.
But apart from the meals that were delivered regularly every day, he was never seen again.
The information about his movements was accidentally leaked by Mother Earth when she came to see me.
Mother Earth teased, "Are you going to marry Chongli?"
The corners of my mouth twitched, and when I saw the "malicious" smile on Mother Earth's face, I knew that she was here to watch the show.
I don’t know why he, a god, loves gossip so much every day.
"Did Zhuqing tell you that?" I asked back.
Mother Earth waved her hand and put the fruits in her hand aside.
"When did Chongli become a talkative person? He's always silent and doesn't think twice before speaking. I'm afraid he'll kick me out if I ask too many questions."
Compared to me who likes to call him Zhuqing, Mother Earth seems to prefer to call him Chongli.
I understand that, after all, Zhu Qing is using Chong Li's body now.
Mother Earth and Chongli have a close relationship and a deep connection. In his eyes, Chongli is more important.
I had no intention of discussing with him who was the dominant person in this body. I was just curious: "Then how did you know he was going to marry me?"
Mother Earth didn't put on airs and said bluntly, "He doesn't like to talk, but the whereabouts of the envoy of the Temple of Light betrayed him long ago."
"Just look at how busy the Radiant Temple has been these past two days. His messengers are either going to the Goddess of Night to ask for favors, or to the God of Time to ask for the crane..."
"He even took away half of my cattle and sheep, saying he would slaughter them for a feast to entertain the gods on our wedding day."
Mother Earth smiled, feeling distressed, and said, "With such a big scene, I'm afraid the entire God Realm knows about it. Only you, the person involved, are trapped here and know nothing."
After listening to what Mother Earth said, I felt very sad.
Among the cattle and sheep raised by Mother Earth, half of them are mine!
Now they have all been killed by that prodigal son Zhu Qing and used for a banquet. What will I eat next?
Thinking about this, I turned my head and saw Mother Earth, feeling distressed but not daring to say anything. I was angry at her for not fighting back and said:
"You just let him take those cattle and sheep? Why didn't you fight back? He was committing such robbery, and not a single god came out to stop him?!"
"Isn't the Goddess of Night the most irritable? She's so busy with work all day, how could she have time to make wedding clothes? Didn't she scold him?"
"And the God of Time, hasn't he always treasured those cranes the most, raising them like his daughters? Zhu Qing just said a word, and he sent the cranes here? Does he have such a good temper?"
Mother Earth picked up the apple from the fruit bowl and took a big bite. She gritted her teeth as if she was not biting an apple, but the flesh and blood of a god.
"Argue with reason? How dare you ask that?! Let me ask you, who told you to use my name to beg for food in Chongli?"
"If you like it, can't you grow it yourself? Even if you don't know how to grow it, can't you eat less?"
"You've been asking for food almost every few days for hundreds of years, and Chongli has blamed it all on me."
"As soon as he started talking about this, I felt like I was half a head shorter than him. How can I be right?"
When I heard this, I remembered what I had done before, and my arrogance diminished by half.
However, Mother Earth in front of him disagreed with her rebuttal, "What do you mean it's all your fault?"
"You always eat a lot of the dishes I ordered! And if you hadn't tipped me off, how would I know what dishes were ready at the Temple of Light?"
"You were too embarrassed to ask for it yourself, so you asked me to ask for it for you. Now you're resentful of my diligence in asking for it? Why didn't you tell me when you were eating it?"
Mother Earth hunched over in anger. "Now, neither you nor I can clean ourselves up. Let's just consider it as paying off our debt together. We'll each pay half of those hundreds of cattle and sheep."
I sighed deeply and could only nod, but I still refused to give in.
"You gave it to him just because he asked for it? Why couldn't you just pretend to deny it and put the blame on me? Then he might not be too embarrassed to ask for it..."
Mother Earth looked at me as if I were a scoundrel: "I've known you for tens of thousands of years, and this is the first time I've heard you say something like this."
"That's hundreds of years of debt. Chongli sent a little boy to collect it. If I don't pay it back and word gets out, how am I going to survive in this God Realm in the future?"
Feeling regretful, I picked up the apple from the fruit bowl and took a bite.
Then he asked, "What about the goddess of night? Is she willing to be driven? Is her work done, so she can make me a wedding dress?"
Mother Earth took a bite of the apple and said, "The work is not finished, of course it is done by overtime."
"What else can she do? She owed Chongli a favor before, and now Chongli asks her for help, can she refuse?"
"But speaking of which, Chongli is quite attentive to you. He even found the goddess of night, who has the best craftsmanship among all the gods, to make your wedding dress."
"It's said that gods can't be too capable. Look at the Goddess of Night. It's because she's too capable that Chong Li targeted her."
I chuckled twice and didn't have the nerve to tell Mother Earth that the deity in charge of my wedding still didn't know when it would be held...
"What about the God of Time? Although he's not as difficult to deal with as the Goddess of Night, he's not someone you can easily talk to. So, can Zhu Qing just ask for the crane?"
Mother Earth smiled bitterly and said, "Have you forgotten that the God of Time loves to drink?"
"Back then, he promised Chong Li everything in exchange for those two bottles of wine."
"Now that Chongli has come to collect the debt, he'll be too embarrassed to say he didn't say that back then, right?"
Me: "Could it be that the entire God Realm owes Zhu Qing a debt of gratitude?"
Mother Earth nodded and said, "You are right!"
"Zhongli has been living in seclusion these past few years, with no desires or requests. He can't ask the gods for anything."
"But the gods are no match for him. They all owe him a debt of gratitude, to some degree."
Mother Earth suddenly reached out and patted my shoulder. "But everyone is pretty happy now."
"I used to think these debts of gratitude were hard to repay, but your wedding has already used up almost half of them."
Mother Earth smiled and said, "Right now, the gods outside are discussing whether they should help you escape your marriage. By the time Chongli holds his second wedding, these debts of gratitude will have been repaid!"
I looked at Mother Earth with a smile, and for a moment I didn't know what to say to the group of people outside.
In their eyes, tens of thousands of years of friendship were wasted.
Mother Earth suddenly stopped smiling and looked at me with a solemn expression.
"I'm telling you this because I want to tell you that Chongli knows a lot about the entire God Realm."
"I'm very sure that the god who appeared before you from beginning to end was Chongli. There was absolutely no trace of another person on him."
"Are you absolutely sure that he is your lover Zhu Qing in the mortal world?"
The smile on my lips froze, and my mind went blank.
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