"Brother Tianming, don't be impulsive. Your aunt is just worried about you," Jiang Hua said.
"Besides, you're their only son, so they definitely don't want you to go on a long trip."
After a long silence, Uncle Liu sighed deeply: "If you want to go, then go. Your mother and I won't stop you."
After saying that, he got up and walked out of the house.
"Brother Jiang, isn't protecting our country what every man should do?" Liu Tianming asked, sitting down next to Jiang Xingzhou.
"It's something everyone should do. What are the first two characters of 'defending the country'?" Jiang Xingzhou countered.
"Before making a decision, you should first consider your parents who gave you life and raised you. If you have any brothers or sisters, I think your parents would definitely not object to you being drafted into the army."
"But you are your parents' only child. On the battlefield, it's common to die nine times out of ten. Can you guarantee that you will be the one who survives?"
He grew up on the battlefield with his father and mother in his early years and had seen all kinds of things. Although the Great Sheng Kingdom was short of soldiers, it would never do anything to force people.
Because he believed that the Great Sheng Kingdom had no shortage of passionate and courageous men ready to fight on the battlefield, the conscription notice did not specify any fixed number of soldiers; it was all voluntary.
"Brother Jiang, are you going back to recruit soldiers?" Liu Tianming asked after thinking for a while. "Ah!"
"Shut up! Xiao Jiang has only been back for a few days, and he and Hua Hua have only been married for a short time!" Aunt Liu slapped her son mercilessly on the head.
"I was just asking, Mother! You really hit me hard!" Liu Tianming complained. "Between me and Jiang Hua, who is your real daughter?!"
"If you go to be drafted into the army, I'll pretend I never had a son like you!" Aunt Liu looked away and refused to look at him again.
"Mother, let me think about it some more, please don't be angry!" Liu Tianming said through gritted teeth.
"I'm going to find my father."
Without waiting for Aunt Liu's reply, he ran out.
"Huahua, is there something you need from your aunt today?"
"Auntie, when are you moving to Shili Village?" Jiang Hua asked.
"I was planning to move there in the next couple of days, but who would have thought that your brother Tianming would cause such a mess?" Aunt Liu replied.
"Auntie, it's like this, I'd like to move in with you all, so we can have our housewarming parties together," Jiang Hua suggested.
"We'll invite the villagers from Shili Village to a feast then, since we'll be living in the same village from now on."
"Do it together? Is that really okay?" Aunt Liu was a little unsure.
“Why not? Our two families can chip in,” Jiang Hua continued to persuade.
"Have you set a date yet?"
Jiang Hua glanced back at Jiang Xingzhou and saw him shake his head: "No, but Auntie, if our two families hold it together, the sooner the better."
"So urgent?" Aunt Liu looked at the two of them, puzzled.
“Yes, Auntie, we’ve been staying here for several days now. If you find it inconvenient, we can separate the rooms,” Jiang Hua changed her mind.
"No, after we move in a couple of days, I'll go ask someone which day is auspicious," Aunt Liu quickly replied.
"Is Auntie going to ask that fortune teller surnamed Zhu?"
Speaking of this, Jiang Hua remembered the sorceress that Madam Xu had found.
"How could I possibly go to her? She's just playing tricks." Aunt Liu said with a look of disgust.
"However, she doesn't even care about the money she makes from this business of choosing auspicious dates."
After chatting with Aunt Liu for a while, the two returned to Shili Village. After dinner, the village was quiet as night fell.
In the fourth courtyard, Jiang Hua, dressed in white, with her long hair, which she usually wore up, was down. She had just opened the door and stepped out.
"ah--!"
Frost Flower's shrill scream suddenly rang out, but the next second, Jiang Hua covered her mouth.
"It's me."
"Girl, how...how is it you?" Shuanghua looked at Jiang Hua's face, which was as white as the wall, and had two lines of bloody tears on it.
"What are you doing in my yard?" Jiang Hua asked back.
"Granny Luo sent me to ask you if you need a hot bath, young lady," Shuanghua replied timidly.
"No need, you can go now," Jiang Hua said calmly.
Shuanghua nodded and quickly left the four-courtyard house.
"You still have such leisure time?"
Jiang Hua was about to leave when, unexpectedly, Jiang Xingzhou came out of the study.
"I'm so bored, I can't sleep. I'm going out for a walk," Jiang Hua said without changing her expression.
"Where are we going? Can I come with you?"
Do you know how to use qinggong (lightweight kung fu)?
Seeing that Jiang Xingzhou nodded, Jiang Hua gestured, "Then let's go. There's a bamboo forest over at Xujia Village, let's go there."
Fifteen minutes later, the night breeze rustled through the bamboo forest, making a "swish" sound between the bamboo leaves.
In the pitch black, the house of the Bamboo Goddess was brightly lit and dazzling.
"Is she the sorceress who framed you?" Jiang Xingzhou had heard a little about this sorceress when he was in Xujia Village.
“We interrogated Ms. Xu before, and she said this was the place.”
Before he finished speaking, Jiang Xingzhou had already grabbed her waist and used his lightness skill to enter the Bamboo Goddess's courtyard.
"Could you use your internal energy to extinguish all the candles in the room?" Jiang Hua turned to the man who was holding her slender waist and asked.
"Wait."
The window in the room wasn't closed tightly, and Jiang Hua looked through it. The bamboo shaman that Xu had mentioned was already asleep.
I could clearly feel a gust of wind blowing into the room, extinguishing the blazing candlelight and plunging the room into darkness.
Jiang Hua kicked open the door to the inner room, waking up the sleeping Bamboo Goddess from the sound.
"Who? Who is it?" The bamboo shaman looked at the darkened room, and when no one answered, she murmured, "Could it be that the wind is too strong?"
As he spoke, he got up and went over to close the door that had been opened. Then he went to the altar, took out a tinderbox, and prepared to relight the extinguished candles and incense.
Just as I lit the tinderbox in my hand, I saw the pale face next to the altar.
"Ah—!" The bamboo witch was so frightened that she backed away repeatedly, even dropping the tinder in her hand to the ground.
"Who are you? Don't try to play tricks on me, I'm a sorceress!" the sorceress said, pulling out a talisman she always carried with her.
"Are you looking for me again?" Jiang Hua secretly took out a mini flashlight, the faint light just enough to highlight her white face covered in blood and tears.
"Don't come any closer! Don't come any closer! I have no grudge against you!" The bamboo witch suddenly collapsed to the ground, waving her hands frantically.
"Didn't you say you were a sorceress? Why don't you take me in?" Jiang Hua's ethereal voice echoed in the inner room.
"It's all fake, it's all fake. I'm just trying to make a living, I was just saying it offhand."
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