Chapter 13: Befriending Tsundere “I accidentally…
"I accidentally got a summoning card that can summon a god to save me in times of crisis."
Fu Li decided to tell the truth, but she told the truth selectively.
She would never tell anyone about her time travel.
"Summoning card? What is that?" Lingzhuzi was curious in his heart, but still looked very impatient.
Fu Li stretched out her left hand, and with a thought, the summoning card appeared in her palm: "Look, Immortal, this is it."
Lingzhuzi reached out to grab it like lightning, but missed it and his fingers passed through the shadow of the card.
Fu Li hurriedly explained, "I didn't mean to stop you from taking it. I don't know what happened."
Ling Zhuzi looked at her speechlessly, curled his lips and said, "This is because it recognizes its master, so of course others can't take it. How come you don't know anything about your own things?"
But he also realized that the last incident had nothing to do with this little girl.
However, no one knows which master created this summoning card, which could actually make the gods think that it was a believer praying for blessings and protection.
Oh, and there's one more thing I need to ask: "Which deity can you summon with this summoning card?"
Fu Li glanced at him cautiously and laughed dryly, "Before using it, you can summon anyone. After using it, you can only summon the one you found the first time."
——That is you.
Ling Zhuzi frowned and said unhappily, "In other words, from now on, if you are in danger, I have to come and save you?"
"Yes." Fu Li nodded, revealing a flattering smile. "Who says you have such powerful magic and the strongest sense of justice? Fortunately, it was you who I summoned. If I had accidentally summoned an evil god, my life would be over."
As she flattered him, Ling Zhuzi's frown gradually relaxed. He tried hard to suppress the corners of his mouth that were curled up, hummed, and said, "It's good that you know."
Fu Li immediately seized the opportunity and said with a twinkle in her eyes, "Sir Lingzhu, who is so powerful and full of justice, may I ask you for a favor?"
"What's the matter?" Lingzhuzi gave her a look.
Fu Li flattered, "A powerful person like you must have a lot of important things to do. You can't always be guarding me, right? Why don't you teach me some magic, at least some escape techniques, so that when I'm in danger and can't win, I can run away and I won't have to bother you."
I thought this was the best of both worlds, but Ling Zhuzi's face suddenly darkened and he sneered, "Why, you don't want to see me again?"
No, what happened to this ancestor?
Fu Li was a little dumbfounded, but her reaction was not slow at all. She quickly said, "Of course not. If possible, I wish I could be with you every day. It would make me feel so safe."
Ling Zhuzi's expression finally softened, and he raised his chin slightly, saying almsgivingly, "Since you are sensible, I will reluctantly accept you as my friend."
Fu Li's face was filled with surprise. "Ah, really? It's my honor."
But in fact, I was complaining in my heart: What a tsundere, will you die if you just say you want to make friends?
Lingzhuzi raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Of course it's your honor." After that, he walked back with his hands folded, feeling more comfortable than at home.
Fu Li had no choice but to follow. Just as she was wondering when to bring up the topic of learning magic again, Ling Zhuzi asked, "Why are you so nice to those slaves?"
"Ah?" Fu Li didn't understand why he asked that.
Ling Zhuzi said, "Many disciples of Jiejiao serve as officials in various places. They don't care about mortals at all. Even the nobles in the mortal world don't care about slaves. You are also a mortal noble, right? Why did you bother to save those two slaves?"
Fu Lixin said: I am not really a nobleman, I am just a commoner with some extra talents in my family.
Unable to speak the truth, she could only say, "They didn't deserve this suffering in the first place. It was all my fault. If I had to watch them die, my conscience would have been unbearable."
"Is it that simple?" Lingzhuzi stopped and turned to look at her.
"Do you need any other reason?" Fu Li also stopped and looked up at him.
Lingzhuzi thought about it and said, "It seems unnecessary."
Fu Li smiled and nodded, "Yes, there's no need for a reason to save someone."
Ling Zhuzi stared at her for a moment, then suddenly grinned and asked maliciously, "You don't need a reason to save someone, but what about killing someone?"
Fu Li didn't understand why, but she answered seriously: "Of course killing is necessary. How can you kill people for no reason?"
Saving people is spreading good thoughts, while killing people is releasing evil thoughts.
The former needs to be promoted, while the latter needs to be curbed. Punishing evil and promoting good is the only way for civilization to develop.
Lingzhuzi looked at her with a complicated look. When he met her slightly puzzled eyes, he immediately turned his head away and brought the topic back to where it had gone off track.
"Then do you know that the little leader you left behind today is already dead?"
"Dead?" Fu Li was stunned. "How did he die?"
"Of course he was killed by the soldiers around you." Ling Zhuzi's smile was a bit malicious, as if he deliberately wanted to see her lose her composure. "Not only was he dead, but he was also smashed into a pulp by the two slaves who carried the body. They used stones to hit him."
Fu Li was stunned for a moment, with a complicated expression, and just nodded slightly to show that she understood.
Not seeing the reaction he was hoping for, Ling Zhuzi frowned slightly and pressed on, "Two slaves fell ill because of you, and you took the trouble to save them. That little leader also died because of you, and you didn't even react at all?"
Fu Li asked back, "Do you pity him?"
This reaction was beyond his expectations. Ling Zhuzi raised an eyebrow and said bluntly, "No, I don't feel pity for them. I don't even feel pity for those two slaves. I just want to know why your reactions are so different when they are clearly two similar things."
Seeing that he insisted on an answer, Fu Li said helplessly, "Perhaps... I can sympathize more with the oppressed. The little leader was already killed by the soldiers, but that didn't satisfy the two slaves who carried him. They had to smash him into a pulp with stones. It's obvious that he abuses his power frequently. Even if the soldiers don't kill him, I might kill him in the future."
"Good!" Lingzhuzi clapped his hands and laughed, "I was right, you really are exactly what I like!"
If she was a pushover, Lingzhuzi would just despise her.
Fu Li didn't know what he was thinking. She glanced at him and thought to herself: Of course, you are a traitor in the Heavenly Court. You are famous for helping the weak.
As they were talking, the two had already returned to Fuli's yard. Jin Ning took the female slave and asked her many questions, and had already understood the current situation in Boyi.
Seeing them come back, Jin Ning waved to Ling Zhuzi and asked, "Are you really not going out to play with me tomorrow?"
"No, I want to see what she is doing." Lingzhuzi raised his chin towards Fuli.
Fu Li said, "I just farm and don't do anything else. I'm not as good as you..."
Ling Zhuzi interrupted her with a sneer: "Why, you want to make the decision for me?"
Fu Li: "...I didn't mean that. Didn't you say you'd made a friend of mine? It's a rare trip to Boyi, so as a friend, I certainly hope you have a great time."
Ling Zhuzi was immediately flattered and said with a forced smile: "I don't know how to have fun. Don't bother me."
Fu Li: "...Okay, okay, whatever you want, just do as you please."
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The next morning, Fu Li was brushing her teeth with a homemade boar bristle toothbrush when there was a knock on the door.
Without even thinking, she knew that the person knocking on the door must be Lingzhuzi. She looked down to see that she was dressed fairly neatly, then raised her chin to signal Fuyue to open the door.
When Fu Yue opened the door, she saw Ling Zhuzi standing there with his arms folded and one leg longer than the other. He first glanced into the room curiously, then said with disdain, "It's already this late, and you haven't cleaned up yet?"
Fu Li was brushing her teeth and ignored him.
Fu Yue smiled and ushered the person in: "Please take a seat, Immortal. Senior Sister will be ready soon."
Lingzhuzi walked in with a swagger, pushed aside the cushions on the bamboo mat, and sat down cross-legged on it.
Fu Li brushed her teeth, washed her face, and went back to the inner room to change her clothes. Fu Shuang had already brought in her breakfast with two female slaves.
"Senior Sister, someone sent half a tiger yesterday, and today's breakfast will include tiger meat."
"Tiger meat?" Fu Li's eyes widened, and a sense of guilt rose in her heart.
——That’s a beast that will spend the rest of his life in prison!
But she soon remembered that in this era when there were few people and many animals, anyone who could kill a tiger would be called a hero.
Talents are more like animals to be cherished and protected than herds of wild beasts.
"Lingzhuzi, would you like to eat something together?" Fu Li greeted politely.
As expected, Lingzhuzi snorted disdainfully, "I am a natural spiritual being, and I have been fasting since I transformed. Are these mundane things worthy of being eaten by me?"
"Then I'll eat it myself." Fu Li immediately invited the two senior sisters to sit down, picked up the ceramic bowl and took a bite of corn, picked up a piece of boiled tiger meat, dipped it in the bean sauce, and put it into her mouth to taste carefully.
To be honest, the meat of wild animals is not delicious, and the meat of carnivores is even more unpalatable.
Fu Li only tasted one piece and then turned his attention to venison and houttuynia cordata.
Fu Yue and Fu Shuang, however, had not experienced the modern food bombardment, and they enjoyed eating tiger meat, a relatively rare food.
Seeing that she took a bite and stopped eating, the two men knew that she didn't like it, so they stopped being polite and took turns to eat a piece, and soon finished the bowl of tiger meat.
After finishing the meal and rinsing her mouth, the two senior sisters had already discussed that Fu Yue would go out with her today, and Fu Shuang would stay to look after the courtyard.
Not seeing Jin Ning in the yard, Fu Li couldn't help but ask, "Has Fairy Jin Ning left yet?"
Ling Zhuzi said, "I left early. If I had waited for you, I'm afraid the flowers would have been cold by then."
Fu Li automatically filtered out all the arrogance in his words and only heard the information she needed: he went out early.
A carriage was already ready at the gate, and knowing that Lingzhuzi would be coming too, the patriarch prepared an extra one.
Fu Li first invited him to the front car. Just as she was about to join Fu Yue in the back, he pulled her in and said, "I have something else to ask you. Ask your junior sister to sit in the back."
Seeing this, Fu Yue got into the car behind very obediently.
The soldier driving the carriage whipped his horse whip, leaving a streak of hair in the air. With a "crack", the horse neighed loudly and galloped away.
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