Small yellow flowers and hairpins
The variety show was over and the meal was finished. Yi Ning no longer had any excuses to stay at Wu Siqi's house, and the two of them worked together to clean the table.
She originally wanted to wash the dishes, but Wu Siqi refused with a dark face. It was already embarrassing for her to cook, so how could she let the guests wash the dishes? Yi Ning insisted on washing them, saying that there was nothing wrong with it, but Wu Siqi's expression was a little too serious, so she gave up.
Put the pots and pans in the sink and soak them in hot water. Wu Siqi picked up the tied garbage bag and put it at the door. "I'll take you downstairs and take out the garbage while you're there."
Wu Siqi put on her coat to cover her exquisite figure.
Yi Ning pouted and said "Oh", then reluctantly took off his slippers and put on his own small leather shoes, trying to wash away his reluctance before Wu Siqi noticed. It would be the same when he returned to his demon body anyway.
She stood up, waiting for Wu Siqi to open the door, waited for Wu Siqi to press the elevator button, and waited for Wu Siqi to push open the security door. It was a little after three in the afternoon, and the green shade of the community painted patches of mottled black clouds on the concrete ground in the sunlight.
The garbage collection point is on the other side of the community gate. Yi Ning followed Wu Siqi. Wu Siqi knew she should go to the other side, but didn't say it.
Yi Ning: "Your community's greening is quite good."
"This is the scent of frangipani." She took a deep breath. "It smells so good. You should smell it too."
Having lived here for so many years, she knew that there were several frangipani trees planted at the corner leading to the drop-off point, but Wu Siqi also sniffed hard and said, "Yes, it smells good."
As they turned the corner, the frangipani trees were in full bloom. Beneath the pale blue sky, small yellow and white flowers clung to the branches. Yi Ning chuckled, "No wonder they smell so good and bloom so beautifully."
Wu Siqi: "Yes." She took two quick steps, opened the trash can and threw the trash in, then washed her hands twice carefully in the sink next to it.
On the way back, they passed by the frangipani tree. Before Yi Ning could say anything, a frangipani flower fell down. She quickly caught it and said, "Wow, I caught it." She held it up to Wu Siqi like a treasure and said, "Look."
Looking over, a small yellow and white flower lay in her palm. Wu Siqi said, "The flower is very beautiful. Let's go. I'll take you out of the community."
Instead of following her, Yi Ning stood with the flower pinned to his right ear and called out to Wu Siqi, "Am I beautiful?"
Wu Siqi turned around and saw her smiling foolishly. The flowers were so bright in the sunlight that they dazzled her eyes. "Beautiful."
Turning back, Wu Siqi said, "Let's go, little nympho."
Following her with a smile, Yi Ning chattered with Wu Siqi about the five trees and six flowers. Plumeria is one of the six flowers, representing holy rebirth, blah blah...
Wu Siqi listened quietly, occasionally responding, her hands always in her coat pockets.
Walking past their apartment building, past the community park where old men and women were chatting, past the two-wheeled vehicle parking lot, and when they were about to reach the gate of the community, Wu Siqi stopped under a banyan tree, and Yining stopped with her.
She turned to Yi Ning and took her hand out of her pocket. Wu Siqi took off the frangipani pinned to her ear and put it back in Yi Ning's palm. She then pinned the cat hairpin in her hand to her parted hair to hold down the tuft of her dyed white hair.
Wu Siqi took a half step back and said, "This is for you. I shouldn't have been so mean to you last night."
Wu Siqi added, "Press that white button and you can push the door open and go out. I'm going back and I have to wash the dishes."
Wu Siqi: "Bye."
She did it smoothly and in one go, and she ran home as if she was running for her life.
Yi Ning was bewildered. He looked at the frangipani in his hand, touched the hairpin on his head, and looked at her fleeing figure. He suddenly laughed out loud: "Ah, Xiaowu is shy."
Only after passing the corner that was invisible from the other side of the gate did Wu Siqi slow down her pace. She bought the hairpin when she passed by the stationery store at the door on her way to the supermarket. Looking at the kitten on the hairpin, she remembered Yi Nian's silly face. When she reacted, she was already scanning the code to pay.
The glass of the bulletin board reflected Wu Siqi's smiling face. She touched her nose and thought, "Are you sick? Why are you laughing so happily?" She clicked her tongue and put on her usual icy face full of office worker energy before going home satisfied.
After walking out of the gate of the residential complex, Yining found an empty corner and was about to transform. She raised her hand to awaken the Dao pattern, but Xiao Fan silently grabbed her wrist from behind. The man was dressed in black. She exclaimed, "Xiao Hei?"
Fan Yu's face was not good, and his expression was serious: "Let's talk."
Yi Ning opened his round eyes and asked, "What are we talking about?"
Fan Yu: "Talk about you."
It was a quiet, narrow alley, with no sunlight coming in. A few dripping clothes hung on the tangled electrical wires. The grey exterior wall had peeled off, revealing red bricks with some moss growing on them. The two people stood face to face in the middle of the alley, filling up the entire road.
Yi Ning: "What do I have to talk about?"
He broke free from the other person's restraints, turned around and prepared to leave, thinking that he should change his form to another place.
Fan Yu didn't stop her: "Do you know what you are doing?"
Yi Ning stood at the intersection of the alley and the road, with the sunlight just in front of her.
He said in a deep voice: "I know, it's none of your business."
Fan Yu: "Lai Siyuan has been reincarnated. She is Wu Siqi. Lai Siyuan drank Mengpo soup and entered the reincarnation cycle. She is no longer your Xiaowu. Even if they look alike, she is not her."
Ta-da-da! Yi Ning rushed over quickly and pressed her against the wall. His pupils turned into yellow, prismatic cat eyes, his fangs bared, and he glared at her fiercely: "I told you! I know! Don't say it anymore!"
Fan Yu's entire body transformed, revealing the appearance of a ghostly immortal. She easily shook off Yi Ning's hand on her shoulder, "You know? Oh, you know! Then what are you doing now? You transform into your original form and live as a mortal, but you don't act like you know anything at all."
Yi Ning felt guilty, so he turned his head away and didn't answer her.
Fan Yu put his hands on his hips and sneered at her, "Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. Don't be so foolish. Once we catch this evil spirit, we'll leave this city. I advise you to give up the thought of rekindling our past relationship as soon as possible."
Yi Ning's momentum weakened a little, his hunched shoulders deflated, and he argued, "I didn't do anything."
Fan Yu laughed in anger, pointed at her with his hands on his hips and asked, "What have you done yet? You're just about to take off your clothes and seduce her on the sofa. You haven't done anything. We've known each other for so many years. Have you ever cooked for us?"
"You old ghosts have become immortals and don't eat human food. I have to set up a formation and offer sacrifices to you before I can eat. It's so troublesome." Yi Ning said evasively.
Fan Yu: "Is that what I mean?" She grabbed Yi Ning and said, "Ning Ning, I know you are changing her fate. I looked through her fortune book. Her loneliness in this life is to atone for her sins in her past life. You secretly changed it for her. Ha, you are so bold."
Yi Ning was furious and pushed her away: "I was about to scold you, but it's not enough to punish me to work in your underworld for four hundred years, and you also want to punish her to live in loneliness for the rest of her life. Isn't that too much?"
Fan Yu retorted: "This is fate determined by heaven. You defy heaven and try to change your fate. You deserve to be struck by thunder!"
"Fuck you, God, the God is blind!" Yi Ning roared.
Fan Yu floated over and covered her mouth, "Stop saying things like 'I'll strike you dead!'" He sighed, "I really don't understand you. Four hundred years ago, you secretly entered the underworld for her, and now you're secretly changing fate for her. Are you really not afraid of death?"
Yi Nian, whose mouth was covered by her hand, looked at her seriously, with his eyes showing - what do you think?
Letting go of her hand, Fan Yu leaned against the wall, crossed her arms, and looked at her with a critical look: "Mother Meng helped you hide the traces of the fortune book. Do you know what trouble you got into because of your momentary willfulness? Mother Meng asked me to advise you not to act on your own will. The fate of this life and the past life has ended."
Fan Yu: "But I don't think you'll listen. What are you going to do? There's less than a year left. You have to return the immortal body that Hou Tu Niangniang gave you. You're just a little demon with over 400 years of cultivation, and you want to imitate Bai Suzhen? Your little ability can't be hidden from the heavens."
Yi Ning wanted to retort, but swallowed it back, slumping against the wall opposite her. "I don't know. I know I shouldn't continue like this, but...that's Xiao Wu."
With a chuckle, Fan Yu said, "She's not your Xiaowu. Lai Siyuan died in that meadow four hundred years ago. You've been a ghost messenger for four hundred years, and you understand that reincarnation is like a cleansing of the marrow. Her soul was plucked into threads, rewoven, and reborn into the world. Now she only has the experiences and memories of this life."
"You don't have to repeat yourself so many times!" Yi Ning shouted, "I know! I know everything! But her soul is Xiaowu's soul! Isn't it?!"
Fan Yu: "Yes, so what? She has forgotten her past." She spread her hands and said, "Forget it, you are stubborn and I can't reason with you. Don't forget to guide the souls tonight."
"Oh!" Yi Nian stuck out his tongue and rolled his eyes childishly, then flew out of the alley in a flash.
Watching her float towards Wu Siqi's residential area, Fan Yu spat at her.
"Why do you have to argue with her? When she is struck by lightning, she will feel the pain and give up, right?" Xie Ling floated out from the wall and stood beside her.
Fan Yu shook his hands fiercely and said dejectedly: "I'm free, okay?"
Xie Ling looked at her sideways, his tone mocking: "You and I have been together since birth, and have been sisters for hundreds of years. How could I not know you? My dear sister."
Fan Yu glanced at her, then turned and disappeared into the void. "I'm afraid she'll turn to ashes and pollute the environment."
"Hard on the outside, but soft on the inside." Xie Ling was in a very good mood after watching a good show. He hummed a song and disappeared into the void.
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