The Fat Little Prodigal
On this day, Feichu was carried on someone's shoulders and walked into a strange room.
At first it was a little confused, until it walked into the room and saw a familiar person, it immediately chirped excitedly and flapped its wings to fly towards her.
“Chirp~!”
“Chirp! Chirp! Chirp chirp—”
Anyone with a discerning eye can see the joy of birds, but the unadorned pure emotions of these little animals are always more touching.
Lu Qinghe's brows, which originally contained a hint of sadness, relaxed. She caught the little bird that was acting coquettishly towards her and said softly, "Thank you, Mi Gao."
Fatty: “Jiu~?”
It leaned its head against the human's palm, and its soft feathers rubbed against the girl's fingers. It was rare for it to act so actively and coquettishly.
It turns out that the little bird also knows about parting.
Falling down in front of it that day must have scared it.
Feeling guilty, Lu Qinghe soothed the bird in her palm more gently. Thinking about what the people in Medicine King Valley said to her after she woke up, she felt more resolute.
The audience was delighted:
[The young lady is awake, yay! Kick over all the bentos! ]
[I feel like the young lady looks a little melancholy. I hope she doesn't do anything stupid. ]
[No, no, everyone is here, we can persuade them to stop! ]
In the camera, several people also talked about this topic.
Ye Shuyu was the first to feel grief-stricken, pointing fingers at his friends: "I was really scared to death! Qinghe, why are you so stupid! What kind of poison did you take? You are not the one who should die!!"
“Chirp!”
The eldest lady on the bed lowered her eyes and was silent like a quail. This situation made the little fat bird on her shoulder bark at Ye Shuyu in a defensive way, and even tried to nip the other's fingertips to make him retreat.
Ye Shuyu:……? ?
She laughed in anger, tapped Feiqiu's head, and said sinisterly: "You heartless stinky bird, I just laid a few eggs for you, and now you attack me to protect others? Well, you still want to hit me? Believe it or not, I will eat all those eggs!"
Fatty: ! !
Doudou's eyes were full of shock, and Feiqiu stopped nagging people as if he was in the wrong. He lowered his head and let Ye Shuyu tap on his head, looking very docile.
Narration Probe:
"The prodigal son took pity on the young lady who had just recovered, and he accidentally attacked the female knight, completely forgetting that the female knight had just conceived the fruit of their love."
"It was not until the female knight accused him that he felt guilty, gave in and apologized, and never dared to interfere in the disputes among the harem again."
[Moving his mouth, correcting.]
[Hahahahaha, the scumbag in the original work was outrageous, but now the female hero cheating on Xiao Niao is also outrageous hahahaha, the key is that Fei Chu believed it! ]
[Fei Ju: Diary of a Crazy Bird, so scary, don’t mess with it, don’t mess with it QAQ! ]
[After all, it’s just a stupid little bird that could be tricked out of the forest by a few spikes…]
[I am dying of laughter. Did the heroine read the narration script? Why are her words so funny? Hahaha. ]
Seeing this, Ye Shuyu almost couldn't hold back his laughter, and quickly adjusted himself, snorted coldly and called the bird: "Mi Gao, come here."
“Chirp~”
The fat bird tidied the eldest lady's temples with pity, as if giving her a final consolation, then flapped its wings and flew back to Ye Shuyu's shoulder, curling up obediently.
Others: Phew.
The serious atmosphere disappeared after being teased by this funny guy. Even Lu Qinghe, who originally didn't dare to talk to his friends, couldn't help but ask with a smile: "What happened to Mi Gao these days? What did you do to it that made it so obedient?"
Fearing that the bird would understand again, Ye Shuyu first asked the Taoist priest to take the bird out to play, and then told the story of how the two of them were courted by the bird, and how they collected its feathers to coax the bird and then turned into eggs to trick the bird.
Lu Qinghe pursed his lips and smiled: "So many interesting things happened when I was unconscious. It's a pity to miss them."
Ye Shuyu took advantage of the opportunity and said, "Live well after that and don't miss out."
Lu Qinghe lowered his eyes, but did not immediately agree. Instead, he suddenly raised his eyes to look at Luosha beside him, and asked in a low voice: "Luosha, do you blame me?"
Luosha said calmly: "I don't blame you. We are all helpless. Just be at peace with yourself."
But the eldest daughter obviously didn't have as open-minded a mindset as her.
Therefore, Lu Qinghe decided to accept the invitation of the people in Yaowang Valley and stay here to provide blood to help them make and test medicines. She would consider leaving only when her blood could save more people than she had harmed in the past.
Um? ?
Ye Shuyu fell into deep thought.
She remembered that when Lu Qinghe was sent here, the people from Medicine King Valley had already taken the blood containing the mother Gu's dying information.
And now that the mother Gu's corpse has been taken out, Lu Qinghe's body will soon be flowing with new clean blood. Why would he still need her cooperation in making medicine?
"It's just to give that lady a chance to forgive herself."
The disciple of Yaowang Valley fanned the medicine pot while answering Ye Shuyu's question:
"A young lady like this who has been taught and fooled by the corrupt rules of the court always needs to sacrifice something before she feels it is reasonable."
"Alas, I really don't understand what's going on over there. They're obviously scheming and trying to eliminate dissidents with dirty tricks, but they insist on using such etiquette as a fig leaf. They've really fooled my daughter into thinking that she was born to contribute and that enjoying life is a sin."
The disciple rolled his eyes and pointed at the forest outside the window.
"How can such a thing happen?"
"Who in the world doesn't want to live a good life in the beginning? If you are born with this or that, it would be better not to be born, as it is like suffering for the rest of your life!"
"You guys still have things to do outside, right? Then why not let that young lady stay with us and change her mind."
After boiling the medicine, she handed the bowl to Ye Shuyu and asked, "Send it to her and tell her that it is a test drug for today. Tell her to drink it as soon as possible."
She scratched her face and said, "This is the first time I've sent tonic medicine as a test drug... As expected, this kind of lady is troublesome. I would rather it was the kind of shameless Jianghu people who took the initiative to ask for medicine, so I wouldn't have to go through so much trouble."
Walking out of the corridor with the medicine in hand, Ye Shuyu saw Luosha helping a disciple to remove snake venom. The Taoist priest was surrounded by a group of curious disciples who were telling fortunes. The birds that were pecking at food on the ground saw her come out and flew beside her, chirping cheerfully.
Thinking of the master's request when he went out of the valley for training, Ye Shuyu seemed to have some feelings.
Sure enough, the world of martial arts is still better.
Only when there is love, righteousness, gratitude and hatred can there be no constraints and everyone is free.
Well...so the Tianji Tower, which is the culprit that destroyed this situation, cannot be kept.
Whether it is to avenge a friend or to prevent the disgusting rules of the court from polluting the world, action must be taken.
Ye Shuyu, who is still a rookie, is eager to try, because he is excited and yearning for the rare and accurate grand goal.
Although I am just a small person, it is really exciting to have accidentally entered into a huge event.
“Chirp?”
At this time, Fei Jiu and Taoist Qing Heng were staring at each other.
After leaving the valley, the attack on Tianji Tower and the imperial court began. It was normal for Luosha, as the person involved, to be busy. The only abnormal thing was that Ye Shuyu, who had always been a stable person, also became excited and used his identity as a disciple of Youlan Valley to look for forces everywhere to recruit teams.
Only Taoist Qingheng, who had the weakest fighting power, was left, so he could only stay inside to tell fortunes every day and take care of Feiqiu.
[The female hero's character growth is obvious, she is becoming more and more stylish now! ]
【Caring for empty-nest fat birds is everyone’s responsibility. 】
[Master, you are so stupid, hahahahahaha, don’t you really like observing psychics? Now I’ll show you enough hehe! ]
Before, Taoist Qingheng could often discover the unusual intelligence of the bird.
For example, he led them into the small town to see what Tianji Tower was doing; or he led them to meet the Rakshasa so that they could get in touch with the people inside Tianji Tower; or he flew into the Zhenguo Mansion that night...
Although it seems that these things can be done by ordinary birds and are just coincidences, the Taoist priest firmly believes that there must be a reason why psychics do this.
But now, when he actually got along with this bird and saw its series of ordinary behaviors, the Taoist priest was confused again.
Why did the psychic appear, apart from being occasionally a little smart? What did it do?
"Master——"
That day, Ye Shuyu came back from outside in a hurry and threw down a pile of yellowed account books.
These are the treasures that Tianji Tower coveted when they were ordered to exterminate the entire family over the years.
Recalling the Taoist's fortune-telling skills and thinking that it was really leisurely for him to stay in the stronghold and tell fortunes and feed the birds every day, Ye Shuyu asked the Taoist to take a month to organize it as much as possible. It would be best if he could find any survivors.
In addition, there is actually another reason.
Ye Shuyu remembered that when they traveled that month, Tianji Tower was first mentioned. It was the Taoist priest who first told them that there had been an incident of genocide and treasure plundering in Tianji Tower. She didn't believe it at the time, but now thinking about it, the Taoist priest might have been an eyewitness to it.
Then let's leave this matter to the Taoist priest to solve, I hope he can untie his knot.
Taoist Qing Heng was silent for a long time, and then he took the account book and murmured, "I may not be able to predict things that are related to me accurately. I am afraid it will take a lot of effort..."
Ye Shuyu: "Ah? Then my name is..."
Taoist Qing Heng: "No need, I'll take it."
There was a glimmer of melancholy in his clear eyes, like a flame that had been burning secretly for a long time.
"These crimes and the innocent people must be made clear to everyone in the world."
"Even if I have to die trying, I am willing to do that."
Of course, the Taoist priest will not handle this matter alone. There are many martial arts masters protecting him.
They were a little unconvinced at first, but Taoist Qingheng told them his master's school.
Xuanyang Temple was once the most famous Taoist temple in the martial arts world. Each of its disciples was a top-notch talent and they were all guests of honor in all major sects and organizations in the martial arts world.
But a few years ago, because there were too many strange things happening in the martial arts world and too many big names dying suddenly, Tianji Tower and the imperial court jointly investigated and discovered that it was Xuanyang Temple that was secretly casting spells, so they wiped out the entire temple in one day.
Taoist Qingheng is from Xuanyang Temple and has joined such an investigation. It turns out that a few years ago... there was another huge injustice!
"The imperial court used assassins raised by Tianji Tower to eliminate dissidents, but now it's our fault." Facing everyone's previous doubts, Taoist Qingheng finally couldn't help but cursed in a low voice, "What use are the dead to us? Are the people in the martial arts world completely brainless?! Even if it's for power and wealth, fortune-telling, it has to be done by living people. Why are we, a group of Taoists who only like to study the stars and hexagrams, killing people?!"
"If there really is such a vicious trick to kill people from a distance, how could the whole family be wiped out?!"
[Damn, the Taoist priest is also so miserable...]
[Among the team, the female hero has the purest and best background. ]
[In the martial arts world, a master is like a family. To have his clan wiped out and to have such a disgusting crime levied on him, from being a guest of honor to being a street rat, is too outrageous.]
“Chirp.”
Feichu squatted on his shoulder and saw that the Taoist priest was very excited with red eyes, but he was not scared. Instead, he pecked his chin comfortingly.
Taoist Qingheng calmed down.
"Let's go, don't waste time here."
He waved his sleeves and left first.
They spent more than half a month linking the treasures in the account book with the tragic cases. During the whole process, Fei Jiu followed the Taoist priest.
At first, Taoist Qingheng thought that Xiaoniao followed him because the two people he was closest to were not around. But one day when Ye Shuyu was free, Feichu did not go to find her, but continued to follow the Taoist to watch him overturn the tragic cases.
Birds probably don't understand human feelings.
Its clean black eyes remained innocent even after hearing so many conspiracies.
When it follows the Taoist priest, it will not be stroked or fed all the time. Occasionally, when the Taoist priest gets excited and lifts up his hat, it will be chilled by the cold wind.
But it still followed the Taoist priest, standing on his shoulder, staring at the long-buried truth before its eyes with its small eyes that seemed like they would never change, and occasionally tilting its head.
The Taoist priest, who had been unable to empathize with these cases, calmed down inexplicably when he saw Fei Jiu's performance. His mind became clear and the results of his divination became more and more accurate.
Looking at the performance of the bird on his shoulder, Taoist Qingheng seemed to have realized something.
That day, after vindicating his master, he walked alone to the monument he had erected for his teachers in the mountains.
"You, did you see everything?"
Watching the bird fly away from his shoulder and land on the low, crooked tombstone, Taoist Qingheng suddenly spoke.
Fatty: “Jiu~?”
The little bird tilted its head and raised one of its thin black claws, looking extremely cute.
The Taoist priest ignored it and said to himself:
"My divination has always been praised by teachers and seniors. They say I am a rare genius in a century and that my inspiration is beyond the scope of what they can teach."
"So, the divination results that I can be sure of are never wrong."
"The stars were unusual that day. I waited for you for many years, and finally things took a turn for the better."
Feiqiu couldn't understand what people said, and seeing that people seemed to be just talking to themselves, he began to jump around on the tombstone, as if looking for insects to eat.
"Your behavior is so stupid. Although you have some spirit at times, you look like an ordinary bird. I doubt myself many times."
"I tossed and turned all night, wondering why you appeared? What are you doing? What does this world have to do with you? Where is the other world?"
Feichu lifted his tail and dived to the ground. As if he was suddenly attracted by something on the tombstone, he tilted his head to look at it.
"Hahaha……"
Seeing this, the Taoist priest laughed so hard that he bent down.
Fatty was startled by him and was hesitating whether to fly to a distant tree to hide, when he saw the bent human half-kneeling on the ground, pointing at the bloody words on the tombstone, staring at it with burning eyes and saying:
"Now I finally know."
"You are a simple bird, but you are indeed a psychic."
"Everything you hear, see, and feel is the other side's record of this world."
"That's the only way to explain your closeness to me now, your action of flying into the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion that night, and the things that happened because of you along the way."
In the live broadcast room, the barrage of comments fell silent for a moment, and then exploded.
【Fuck! ! 】
【What the hell! What the hell! ! 】
[Ahhhhhh help! There's a paper man alive here! ! ]
[Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, what do you want to do? Do you want to silence me? Chubao, fly away! ! ]
"Chiu~?"
Fatty was totally unaware. He tilted his head naively and when he saw the fingers in front of him, he naturally stepped on them.
There is no danger.
After receiving the bird, Taoist Qingheng simply sat down without any manners, letting the mud stain his clothes, and then continued:
"In Beijing, I had a few words with the storyteller."
"The story he told was so absurd that I rebuked him, but he said something I didn't expect."
"Guess what it is?"
Fatty: ...
The bird pecked the young man's wrist angrily and pretended to fly away.
The Taoist priest stopped the bird, soothed its head, and answered himself:
"He said that since the truth is hard to tell, he would hide the truth in such an absurd story."
"He has been hiding in the capital for such a long time, but he can only pass on half-truths in such an environment."
"This is our powerlessness, which has enabled us to redress some facts only now. Perhaps many years later, when we are powerless again, there will be such injustices and tragedies, and the truth will be hidden in the dark and covered up."
He raised his hand and looked into the eyes of the nodding little bird in his hand. He looked into those innocent eyes, which were filled with great seriousness:
"You have followed me all the way, so you will not be deceived by others."
"This is the meaning of the other side's existence. Even if our story is discredited and tampered with, you, no, you all, will definitely remember it, right?"
[…Hiss.]
[Help! Is the Taoist priest talking to us? ]
【Secret observation.jpg】
The bird naturally didn't understand what humans said. It was annoyed at being held down, so it flapped its wings to try to break free.
The Taoist priest smiled and did not continue to speak. He just let go of the bird and continued to talk to himself:
"I didn't intend to tell you this. Just assume that I am still pursuing it and can't find the answer."
"But, I don't want such good teachers like mine to be forgotten, so I will be greedy and say a few more words. Even if it is difficult to leave a trace in this world, I can still show up in the other world."
"The eldest sister loves flowers and plants, and she always wants to go to the Medicine King Valley to learn from her. She is always very friendly to her junior brothers and sisters..."
"Second Brother has a ferocious face. Every time he tells fortunes for people, they get scared. So he has to wear a mask. Every time he comes back, he complains to us..."
"Third Brother..."
“Master…”
Every word he spoke was about the past events in his school that he had not dared to recall over the years. It was a record and also a final farewell.
As he spoke, tears began to flow unconsciously, and he sighed as he touched the bloody words on the tombstone.
“…Now, everything is in this small place.”
The forest was very quiet, with the occasional sound of birds singing, but none of them were chirping sounds.
The little bird just stood quietly on the treetop above, looking at the familiar person below, tilting its head and listening attentively, without calling out to interrupt him.
It was not until Taoist Qingheng adjusted his breathing and raised his hand towards it that it naturally flew down and landed in his hand, chirping softly.
"Let's go."
The Taoist priest turned around without looking back.
"There are still many things that need you to witness. Don't let the truth be obscured, psychic."
And his selfishness has come to an end.
One more chapter to end!
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