Chapter 2992 Taibai
Bai Shan was awakened before dawn.
The worst thing about living in an inn is that if someone in the same building gets up and makes a lot of noise, you will be woken up.
Bai Shan tilted his head slightly to look at Zhou Man, who was sleeping soundly with her arms around his. He reached out and touched her hair, and found that she was sweating a lot. Perhaps she also felt hot, so he let go of his arm, stepped back, and continued to sleep with his hands on his head, but his brows were slightly frowned, and he moved several times uncomfortably.
Bai Shan reached out and felt around the outside of the bed, and found a palm-leaf fan. He picked it up and fanned her. Zhou Man's brows relaxed, and she fell into a deep sleep again.
Bai Shan, however, was no longer sleepy and simply lay on her side, fanning herself slowly while thinking about something. After an unknown amount of time, she heard Tang He stretching outside and muttering, "Everyone hates the heat, but I love the long summer days. It's a nice day again today."
"Master, it's not even daybreak yet, and you know it's going to be fine weather?"
"Qingzhou rarely rains, how bad can it get? Don't give me a bad mouth, go get me some water to wash up, I'm going to the street to eat some fire cakes later."
Mingli responded and turned to go downstairs to get some water.
Tang He waved his arms and wanted to go downstairs for a walk.
In the room, Bai Shan turned her head to look at Zhou Man. She didn't know whether it was because Tang He's words disturbed her or because he mentioned the fire, but her eyelashes trembled slightly and she slowly opened her eyes.
Bai Shan couldn't help laughing when he saw it, "Awake?"
Zhou Man stretched lazily, turned her back and lay down for a while. The cool breeze from the palm-leaf fan fell on her, and she turned around to look at him again. "Just now, I seemed to hear someone say there was a fire."
Bai Shan held a palm-leaf fan in one hand and supported his head with the other, smiling at her, "Brother Tang said that. What? Are you greedy?"
Zhou Man put his hand on his stomach and said, "I'm not greedy, I'm hungry. Aren't you hungry after a night?"
Bai Shan was happy, got up from the bed, and reached out to pull her up, "Then get up."
The two of them got dressed and went out. Daji and Xibing also woke up. When they heard the noise, they came over to take a look and immediately turned around to go to the kitchen to get some hot water.
The two of them were in no hurry to wash up. Just as they were about to go downstairs to look for Tang He, they heard a light sound. They subconsciously looked up and saw Tang He standing in a protruding window, looking down at them. He waved and said with a smile, "Come up."
Bai Shan's eyes widened. He had stayed at the Qingzhou City Inn so many times, how come he didn't know there was another floor above?
He turned his head to look for the stairs, but Zhou Man had already found them and pulled him up directly.
When I got upstairs, I found that it was a small attic, which was turned into a tea room. This is the highest place in the area, with windows on three sides, and they are large windows. You can see the street view outside when you open them.
It was just dawn now, and there was no hustle and bustle outside. It took a long time before one or two people walked by.
But at this time, the windows on three sides were open, the wind blew in, and the three of them felt the coolness.
Zhou Man breathed a sigh of relief, "It's such a nice morning."
The three heard footsteps and looked back, only to see Yin Huo carefully walking up the stairs, robe in hand. When he stood in the room, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This attic is quite dangerous."
Bai Shan asked, "Are you afraid of heights?"
Yin Huo denied it, "I'm just not used to this kind of rootless height."
Tang He smiled slightly, smelling the aroma, and stretched his neck to take a look in the distance before saying, "Yes, that's the fire-baked bread I was talking about. I wanted to try it the last time I walked past his stall, but I was in a hurry to leave the city and had just finished breakfast, so I didn't get to try it."
Everyone leaned over to look, and after determining their location, they retracted their gaze and began to occupy a window in pairs to look at Qingzhou City which was about to wake up.
The brightest star in the night sky caught Zhou Man's eye, and she exclaimed, "The Taibai star is so bright today."
Tang He also looked up and saw that several stars far away from it had gradually dimmed in the light of the sky, while it was still hanging brightly in the sky. He smiled slightly and said, "Taibai Star is also called the Morning Star and the Dawn Star. It is not only the brightest star in the early morning, but sometimes it is also the brightest star at dusk. But Taibai Star is indeed brighter today."
Bai Shan looked at Zhou Man and said with a smile: "Come to think of it, you and it are actually related."
Not to mention Tang He, even Yin Huo couldn't help but look over, "Taibaixing? Are you talking about Taishang Laojun?"
Bai Shan nodded, and Zhou Man's face flushed. Seeing that he wanted to say more, he kicked him and said, "Don't talk nonsense!"
Bai Shan jumped away and laughed, "How can this be nonsense? This is well-founded."
Seeing him jumping around in the room, Yin Huo couldn't help but hold on to the window, his face turning a little pale.
The other three people in the room were observant and immediately stopped their fight. "Are you afraid of falling?"
"It won't fall. Even though it's a protruding room, it's very sturdy."
Yin Huo nodded, but did not let go of his hand.
Tang He smiled and changed the subject, "Is it because she is the reincarnation of a fairy?"
Bai Shan was surprised, "How did you know that, senior brother?"
This legend is only circulated around Qili Village.
Tang He: "Have you forgotten? I once went to Qili Village and the Taoist temple in Dali Village. I heard a lot of legends back then."
Bai Shan burst into laughter and said to Man Bao, "I didn't say that. Brother Tang knew it a long time ago."
Only then did Zhou Man stop making trouble with him.
Bai Shan said, "The villagers believe that Manbao is a disciple of the Supreme Lord Lao, and Taibai is his student, so aren't they relatives?"
Tang He smiled and shook his head, "Then why don't you just say Manbao is Taibai? They're both women anyway..."
He paused here, and suddenly said with a look of horror: "Oh my God, this can't be true?"
He turned and looked Zhou Man up and down, then asked, "Can you play the pipa? People believe that Taibai is a goddess dressed in yellow, wearing a cock's comb, and playing the pipa. You're also a disciple of Laojun. Perhaps you're Taibai's reincarnation?"
Zhou Man: "...Brother Tang, are you still asleep?"
Bai Shan seemed to be thinking about something, "It's not impossible, Taibai Sixu disease..."
He and Tang He looked at Zhou Man together.
Zhou Man couldn't help but take a step back, crossed his arms in front of his chest, and looked at them warily, "What do you want to do?"
Yin Huo said, "Such words wouldn't spread easily in the capital, but they're perfect in a remote and impoverished place like Qingzhou. Besides, you believe in Taoism, don't you? So there's no contradiction."
Zhou Man's eyes were full of confusion. "What's the purpose?"
Back then, her mother spread rumors everywhere that she was a boy under the throne of Tianzun because she "cured" her mother's illness, and her mother spread the rumor everywhere to protect her.
But now she is a famous imperial physician, so she doesn't need this reputation anymore, right?
See you at 10pm
(End of this chapter)
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