42 Not All Day
◎Peck his lips◎
Because his trip took a long time and he was afraid that Huang would be anxious, Tian Nongxi started running as soon as he left Ruoshui Academy.
But when she heard Tingluan walking slowly behind her, she was so angry that her eyes jumped and she almost hit that handsome face with her fist.
"Go, faster." Tian Nongxi said word by word, gritting his teeth.
Wen Tingluan nodded and reached out to pull her towards him.
The next second a horse rushed straight towards them.
They had already walked out of the city gate and there were not many people around. But this man and his horse wanted to take advantage of the opportunity and wanted to feed her with dust. Tian Nongxi pointed her finger and almost cursed, but the man stopped one meter away from her, walked quickly to the two of them, and bowed.
"Young Master."
Tian Nongxi awkwardly tucked her hair away with her pointed finger.
After they left, she looked at Wen Tingluan, who was leading the horse to invite her.
His tone was incredulous, his eyes were hurt and confused, "You have a horse?!"
"Huh?" Wen Tingluan was puzzled. "I thought Xiaoxi wanted to walk side by side with me."
“……?”
Tian Nongxi laughed angrily, pushed aside his hand and strode onto the horse with graceful and smooth movements.
This was her first time riding a horse, and it would be a lie to say she wasn't nervous, but the black horse beneath her was very docile, and she gradually calmed down, her eyes and eyebrows showing a proud smile.
There was only one horse. Tian Nongxi moved forward and patted the place behind him.
Wen Tingluan jumped onto the horse, held her in his arms with both hands, pulled the reins, and the horse started slowly.
The sound of Wen Tingluan's steady breathing was in my ears.
"Want to try it?"
Tian Nongxi shook his head.
She has to learn with her eyes first.
With a means of transportation, it was indeed much faster. It took less than half the walking time as before for Tiannongxi to see Tianjia Village.
Watching Wen Tingluan tie the horse to the tree, she touched its smooth fur reluctantly, which was noticed by Wen Tingluan.
Seeing that he was about to loosen the rope and take it home, Tian Nongxi grabbed the rope and shook his head, and had to persuade Wen Tingluan to give up.
It was the hottest time of the day. She walked in humming a song, waving the heat off her face with her hands.
He first fetched some water and then went into the main house to call Huang.
This shout suddenly cooled down the body that had just been hot from working.
Huang, who couldn't get out of bed before leaving, was not there!
Tian Yaozu is not here either!
Tian Nongxi's hair suddenly stood on end. He scratched his head with mixed emotions and went out, running wildly under Wen Tingluan's puzzled eyes.
It didn't take long for her to calm down - she didn't know where the two had gone, and she had no direction to look for them, so it would be useless to search.
Tsk.
She stood there, thinking that if these two people went to the Zhuang Mansion and caused trouble, the best she could do was to prepare a good coffin for them at the funeral.
As I was walking back with a frown on my face, I suddenly heard a loud wailing sound in my ears.
She glanced casually at the source of the sound, and the more she listened, the more she felt something was wrong. She held her breath and approached.
——Huang family!
Huang, who had just been lying in bed, was now standing at the door of a house, sobbing with her head down.
Standing on her left was the bewildered Tian Yaozu.
Neither of them saw Tian Nongxi.
The door was opened a little, and the person inside was saying something. Tian Nongxi couldn't hear clearly, but he could feel that the person's tone gradually became colder from gentle at the beginning.
In the end, he even let Huang cry and stopped talking.
Huang was tired of crying, so she thanked him softly and walked back with Tian Yaozu.
When she turned the corner, Tian Nongxi asked in surprise, as if she had just seen them: "Why are you here?"
Huang said weakly, "Borrow money."
"Your grandfather passed away, and the funeral cost a lot. The family was already broke, and now we have only expenses and no income. But we can't ignore Grandpa's illness."
At this time, there are only elderly people at home. They are soft-hearted due to their age, and they are all from the same clan, so they will help no matter what.
She also explained that she could only pay it back slowly. The entire village was made up of people with the same surname, and the idea of sharing happiness and hardships was deeply rooted in their hearts, so there were still many people willing to help.
Huang knew that there had been a lot of rumors about her family in the village over the past year - she had betrothed her granddaughter to an old man, and then, to make the best of a mistake, sent her to a dead person for a ghost marriage.
The most promising son in the family was captured by soldiers in broad daylight for some unknown crime.
In every aspect of the matter, they are indeed not an honest family.
She has lived a whole life and is now half buried in the ground. She doesn't care about these things.
She only cares about the bloodline of the Tian family.
"Borrow money? Why do you want to borrow money?" The granddaughter's voice brought Huang back to her senses. "I've already got the medicine back."
“…”
Tian Nongxi frowned and said, "I've written a new prescription and prescribed the medicine."
“…”
No matter how she tried to persuade Huang, she didn't respond. In desperation, she had to drag her home and pointed to the medicine on the table for her to see.
"This was prescribed at Li's Pharmacy. It was personally prescribed by Li Huji, the head Pharmacy owner."
After hearing Li Huji's name, Huang blinked slowly and asked, "Doctor Li?" Li Huji often went to the countryside to provide free medical treatment, and she had also received his kindness.
After receiving her granddaughter's affirmation, Huang slumped down on the chair, placed Tian Yaozu's hand on her chest, closed her eyes, and said, "My dear granddaughter, you are saved, you are saved..."
"Doctor Li said this medicine needs to be boiled quickly for best results."
Huang's expression softened, she glanced sideways at Tian Nongxi, and asked, "Then why didn't you come back earlier?"
Tian Nongxi choked up and didn't say it was because it was too late. She knew that not only was it too late, but even if there were hungry wolves and tigers on the way back to Tianjia Village, she couldn't delay Tian Yaozu.
So she just lied and said she went to see her second uncle.
Huang was about to ask more questions, but Tian Nongxi walked out of the main house with a smile, and did not forget to ask her to boil the medicine quickly.
Seeing Huang enter the kitchen and busy herself, the unique aroma of Chinese medicine soon wafted in, and Tian Nongxi sighed with relief.
Wen Tingluan chuckled and knocked on the wooden box on the table.
Attracted by the noise, Tian Nongxi discovered that a wooden box had appeared on the table. She looked up at Wen Tingluan, asking with her eyes what it was.
"My...investment?" Wen Tingluan recalled and said with a smile, "Open it and take a look."
Tian Nongxi tried to pull the wooden box, but he couldn't move it no matter how hard he tried because of its weight, so he had to stand up and pry open the lock.
The moment the items inside saw the light of day, she was blinded.
He quickly closed the box and peeked into the kitchen like a thief. He was relieved to see that Huang hadn't seen him. He asked hesitantly, "What is this for?"
Wen Tingluan said with certainty: "Invest."
Tian Nongxi sat back on the stone bench with a dark face, his pupils still imprinted with what he had just seen - gold.
There were at least dozens of ingots of gold that shone brightly and brilliantly.
No wonder it’s so heavy!
She didn't even have time to think about why Wen Tingluan suddenly said this, she just murmured, "What shares should I invest in?"
"Your butt."
"..." Tian Nongxi calmed down and smiled bitterly, "There's no need to go to such lengths for me."
When she first learned of Wen Tingluan's identity, she tried every possible way to deduct some from him, but...
He is interested in her.
She couldn't respond to him, let alone take his things.
There were two people fighting in Tian Nongxi's mind.
If someone says he likes you, shouldn't he pay for you? Besides, if you don't make money, you will die. Making money by all means is the most important thing.
Another person said, are you sure you want to use his money, borrow his power, give him hope, and then walk away?
Tian Nongxi quickly calmed down and looked at the hot wooden box on the table.
With a click, she opened the wooden box and took out a gold ingot. She weighed it and smiled. "This much is enough. I can't pay back any more."
Wen Tingluan thought she would be happy, but he never found a trace of a genuine smile in her eyes.
His handsome eyebrows frowned slightly.
Tian Nongxi saw it all.
As smart and calm as he is, he showed a brief look of panic and helplessness.
"I don't want to owe you too much."
She looked him straight in the eyes and said a belated refusal.
Wen Tingluan burst out laughing, shook his head pretending not to understand, and said softly: "You don't owe me anything."
He didn't look at her, but lowered his head to observe the familiar stone table.
Tian Nongxi suddenly felt soft-hearted and held up his face to look at the smoke rising from the kitchen.
silence.
Still silent.
The endless silence was about to end when Tian Nongxi suddenly said, "I'm not her."
She lowered her head and fiddled with the gold in her hand, her fingertips trembling slightly. "I will leave."
"Two years later... a year later... or a few months later..."
Her voice was low and light, almost inaudible, but it struck Wen Tingluan's heart, deafening him.
"Yeah." He raised his eyes and chuckled, "I'll help you leave."
Hearing Pingjing's unexpected answer, Tian Nongxi looked up in surprise and couldn't utter a word for a long time.
Wen Tingluan had already guessed it.
As early as when he first stepped into the Tian family, he sent people to investigate.
Perhaps Tian Nongxi's acting skills were too poor, or perhaps she subconsciously didn't care about hiding her identity at all. In short, she revealed countless flaws.
The same body, even if some behaviors are abnormal, it doesn’t prove anything.
Does anyone ever imagine that the ordinary people around them could be replaced at some point and become completely new people from another world?
With this idea in mind, Tian Nongxi became increasingly lazy about pretending.
But she regretted it as soon as she said it.
She couldn't see Qi Hengan, but had to spend every day with Wen Tingluan.
If she uses this incident as an excuse, even if the person in front of her really believes it, the most likely thing she will do is slam the table and call on the soldiers to arrest her.
Tian Nongxi silently expected a sneer, so that she could pretend that she had done everything she could to reject his feelings.
But I didn't expect to get such an answer.
She curled her lips and laughed stiffly twice, "Haha, you really believe it?"
"Actually, I..."
"Believe it." Wen Tingluan said resolutely, "You don't want to accept my feelings because, as you said, you will leave soon."
"Maybe he doesn't like you..."
He turned a deaf ear to the story and said, "If you are short of money, I will give you ten thousand taels of gold; if your hometown is not the Western Dynasty, I can lead the army to reclaim it; if you are a spy of a foreign race..." He narrowed his eyes and said happily, "Very unsuccessful."
“…”
Tian Nongxi shook his head hesitantly and asked, "Do you have the bad habit of immersing pigs in a cage here?"
"Um?"
She slapped her forehead with a grin, looking helpless, and whispered close to him: "Actually, you..."
The sudden voice of the system suddenly penetrated Tian Nongxi's mind.
"Warning!! Warning!! We've detected the host is attempting to destroy this world!"
"Host, please stop this behavior immediately!! Otherwise, the host and his world will perish together!!"
Tian Nongxi: “…”
She patted Wen Tingluan's shoulder and sat back on the stone bench to coax him, "Stop talking, I'm really teasing you."
"...Okay." Wen Tingluan's eyes were serious.
All under heaven belongs to the king.
leave? ……
Tian Nongxi stretched and said, "Haha, I'm a little sleepy. I'll go out for a walk."
She looked back every few steps and said, "No need to bother following me."
After going out, seeing that Wen Tingluan had not caught up with him, Tian Nongxi unconsciously quickened his pace until he reached a secluded corner and stopped.
There were no trees or flowers to block the view, and the secret guards could not catch up.
She casually swept the floor beneath her feet and sat down without any disdain.
"Cai Cai?"
"Cai Cai is here!"
Tian Nongxi looked up at the sky in disappointment. "Why did I just get warned? I've already discussed this matter with another person before, so why did this person get warned?!"
"Host, it wasn't Cai Cai just now~ But Cai Cai is happy to answer the question for you! Your act of revealing your identity is a personal right, and we will not compensate for any losses incurred afterwards~ But you must not reveal the truth about this world. If everyone in this world knows that their world is not the real world, the world will collapse, and you will be buried. For your own sake, please, as the protagonist, forgive the world you are parasitizing, and forgive yourself."
"The protagonist?" Tian Nongxi frowned. "Me?" Isn't the protagonist of this book Tian Yaozu?
"The host is the protagonist of this world~"
She was still confused and asked her doubts.
"This is a whole new world, host."
"When the host arrives, this world begins to function; when the host leaves, this world will also disappear."
Tian Nongxi couldn't sit still any longer. Her legs unconsciously arched up into a small mound of dirt. She asked, "But I've read this book. It has a protagonist and an ending."
"Without the host, it is dead; only when the host comes, it comes alive. Therefore, the host is the savior~"
Tian Nongxi was suddenly pressed down by a huge crown, and his eyes widened silently.
These days she has long regarded everything around her as a living thing, but she was told that everything was caused by her.
Tian Erniang is not dead, Tian Nong Le is in jail, Tian Yaozu is sick, and even Wen Tingluan is stranded in Ruiyang...all these have become established facts because of her arrival.
“…Why me?”
"After our investigation, the host is physically and mentally healthy and has no connection with the original world. He is the most suitable candidate!"
It was such an outrageous reason that Tian Nongxi burst out laughing.
After a long time, she suddenly said, "It's not that I have no connection with the world..."
Cai Cai had already hung up, leaving her alone whispering to the faint chirping of insects.
She stood up, but staggered because she had been sitting for a long time, and her forearm was suddenly grabbed tightly.
Tian Nongxi stared blankly at the person who was supporting him.
The only connection between the two worlds.
The buzzing of insects made her feel uneasy.
Tian Nongxi grabbed Wen Tingluan's sleeve to prevent him from letting go. In his dark eyes, she saw herself slowly standing on tiptoe and lightly pecking the corner of his lips.
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