Chapter 133
"You mean, cream needs to be whipped, time needs to be whipped, cream needs air to be whipped, and time needs air to be whipped?"
Paradise asked.
The shadow laughed and said, "I didn't say that."
He shook his head: "But, it's not impossible to say that."
Paradise asked: "What do we do next?"
The shadow said, "You look hot. You need to rest."
Leyuan rubbed his wrist and said, "The wound is numb from the pain. I can't move. If I move, it hurts so much that I can't sleep. But when I'm still, it's like a piece of skin is missing from my back. Only the bones are still there. But it's a good thing that the bones are not there at this time."
The shadow whispered, "Go to sleep."
Leyuan responded, closed his eyes, and gradually fell asleep.
The door creaked open and Sick Aga came back from outside, holding a package of something that looked like medicine but also seemed not to be.
Unable to make out what it was, he put the thing down and walked quietly to the side of Leyuan. He heaved a sigh of relief when he found that Leyuan had rested. He turned around to get the thing and opened the package. Inside was a pile of black pills that looked like candies that had been packaged in a not-so-pretty way.
Sick Aga gave the pill to Leyuan to eat, then took out the ointment that someone had given him and applied it evenly on the wound on Leyuan's back. The next day, Leyuan woke up, sat up abruptly, and touched his back. It was sticky, partly due to sweat and partly due to the residue of the ointment. He quickly got up to wash his hands, and brushed his teeth and rinsed his mouth.
Sick Aga had gotten up a long time ago and was washing his face. When Leyuan walked over, Sick Aga was startled when he put down his hands. If you didn't know, you would think that he was preparing to play hide-and-seek and suddenly found that the person he was hiding was standing right in front of him.
Leyuan smiled at the sick Aga and said, "Thank you for taking care of me last night."
Sick Ajia pulled him back into the house with some concern: "It's windy outside. If you stand there, something bad might happen again."
Paradise said indifferently: "It won't be like that. I'm fine. I'm fine now."
Sick Aga didn't quite believe him, but nodded: "Okay."
He walked around the park twice and asked, "Hey, is your wound better? Does it hurt less?"
Leyuan said, "It doesn't hurt that much anymore. I think there's medicine. Did you give it to me last night?"
Sick Ajia said, "Yes, I was supposed to apply the medicine during the day, but you seemed to have other things to do, so I didn't tell you."
Leyuan sat down: "It's okay if you don't say anything."
Sick Aga asked: "Then shall I go get breakfast now?"
Leyuan looked at it hesitantly and asked, "Will they not send it over?"
Sick Aga said, "It depends on the situation. They don't know when we will wake up. Even if they can deliver food to us, they can only deliver it at a fixed time and place. If we get up late, the food they deliver will be cold. If we get up early, we will be starving when they deliver it to us. Isn't that appropriate?"
He paused. "In theory, they will come, but in reality, whether they come or not, I think they probably won't come. As far as I know, the kitchen is open 24 hours a day, so there's nothing wrong with that."
Leyuan waved his hand: "Then go ahead."
Sick Aga nodded.
Leyuan touched his back and felt that the wound was scabbing. He tore off a small piece and his back started bleeding again. Leyuan went out to wash his hands again and put on his clothes. He felt something sticky and found that it was the blood on his back that stuck to his clothes. No wonder it hurt when he moved.
Someone knocked on the door. Le Yuan went over and found that it was Wu Rizhao's people. He asked him to come over to meet them. to go."
Le Yuan whispered, "It's my fault."
Wu Rizhao smiled and said, "Sit down."
Leyuan nodded and carefully sat on the stool next to him. There was breakfast on the table.
Wu Rizhao said: "If you are hungry, you can eat now. Just listen to me while you eat."
Leyuan shook his head quickly. Although his eyes were still on the food on the table, he tried his best to draw his attention back and said to Wu Rizhao, "No, I'm not very hungry now. What do you want to say?"
Wu Rizhao asked, "Are you feeling better?"
Leyuan was stunned for a moment: "Better."
Wu Rizhao nodded: "What do you want to eat next?"
Leyuan said: "I don't have any particular likes, only some that I particularly dislike, and my brother knows them all."
Wu Rizhao asked: "You were beaten, don't you hate me?"
Leyuan whispered, "When it hurt, I felt very disgusted, but now it doesn't hurt that much anymore. Besides, I was indeed at fault in this matter, and it is right for my brother to punish me. Mistakes should be punished, and good deeds should be rewarded. My brother has done nothing wrong, and I have no reason to resent him."
Wu Rizhao somehow heard the hidden meaning and said with a smile: "There is no reason, it's just that the mood in your heart still makes you think this way?"
Leyuan hesitated for a moment: "Not completely. After all, it hurts a lot. I can't guarantee that I don't have any resentment at all, but I definitely don't think that way now."
Wu Rizhao no longer bothered about this question: "Okay."
He waved his hand and asked someone to bring out some boxes. When they were opened, there were some things inside that looked very expensive. Leyuan looked at them and was not interested, but was in awe of them. Wu Rizhao said, "These things are all for you. When you go back, take them back and use them for yourself. You can leave them alone or just look at them."
Wu Rizhao pointed to a small blue bottle and said, "Royal jelly, with some herbs added, can be taken as a medicine. Food supplements are worse than medicine supplements. You have learned a little bit, so you should know this. I will not say more. When you drink water, ask your personal attendant to add a little for you. Stir it evenly, and it will be a good drink."
Rakuen nodded.
Wu Rizhao pointed to a white and blue translucent flower with slender petals that exuded an icy aura and said, "Ice Holy Lotus can reduce internal heat and relieve heat. Just put it in the house and it can also be cool in the summer. It has the effect of cooling down and relieving summer heat. If used as medicine, it is a good herbal medicine for detoxifying snake venom, relieving heat, and removing dampness, wind, cold, and heat. If soaked in water, the effect is similar to chrysanthemum tea, and it can also clear the mind and improve eyesight."
Paradise nodded.
Wu Rizhao pointed to an old diamond-shaped stone that was red, hot, and covered with cracks. It looked like a piece of mud hiding magma, or like chocolate wrapped in durian jam. He said to Leyuan, "This is magma stone. If you put it in the house, it can also keep warm in winter. Just don't make the house too big, and don't have too many people. You can open the windows for ventilation, but don't close them too tightly, or you'll suffocate."
Paradise curiously asked: "Why can't we put it in the house when there are many people?"
Wu Rizhao smiled and said, "It's not impossible, but if you use this thing in a room with a group of people, the room will soon become a steamer. This thing will become a flame, a stove, and a firewood that produces little smoke. I'm afraid something bad will happen."
Paradise asked: "So, the more people there are, the hotter it gets?"
Wu Rizhao nodded: "Yes, that's the case for now."
Rakuen nodded.
Wu Rizhao pointed to a pastry on a white porcelain plate nearby. It looked yellowish on the outside and pink inside, stacked layer by layer, crispy and hollow, sweet and rich in taste. Leyuan blinked, and Wu Rizhao said, "The one on this plate is a dish of flying phoenix peony rolls. It is said that it is made of real phoenix feathers."
Le Yuan murmured, "But, a phoenix is also a bird, right? If it is a bird, its feathers are probably not clean. This sounds like using bird feathers to add to dough to make pastries. It doesn't seem like it would be particularly delicious."
Wu Rizhao smiled and said, "That's not the case. Although it is said to be a phoenix, the phoenix mentioned here is from one day, at dusk, when a cloud of auspicious colors suddenly appeared in the sky, with large, complex and blurred characters. It looked like a phoenix spreading its wings and ready to fly. It was very beautiful. Everyone looked up and marveled at it. Later, the story of this day was spread to the palace.
When the emperor heard about it, he wrote a poem, saying that auspicious signs had descended from the sky and a phoenix was flying.
So, people called the auspicious clouds seen that night "Phoenix", and the appearance of the auspicious clouds was said to be a flying phoenix.
This thing is made of peony petals and peony nectar as the filling, peony leaves as the base, peony as decoration, jasmine tea as the base, rose and lemon peels boiled in water and mixed with flour to make the dough, lemon juice for seasoning, and a magical ingredient is added, which is phoenix feathers. The phoenix feathers here refer to a piece of golden powder that fell from the auspicious clouds in the sky, and some say it is real clouds.
If it is well made, it can be kept for at least one month, and up to three hundred years. "
Paradise asked: "What do you mean three hundred years? Has anyone tested it?"
Wu Rizhao said: "There is no test, but if someone really tests this, they would have died long ago, without descendants, and can only ask others to watch. Others don't care, can't eat, and have no blood relationship, so why would they care? Even if it can last for 300 years, no one knows if it is really 300 years. Unless someone uses this as a gimmick, it is not impossible.
However, I am not telling you that it will take three hundred years. I am just saying that based on the situation of this cake, you can rest assured that as long as it is not broken up, even if you die in two hundred years, you will still have time to eat it before it rots."
Rakuen smiled and said, “That’s great.”
Wu Rizhao said: "Yes, it's very good."
He casually introduced some other things, waved his hand and said to Leyuan: "These are given to you first. If you don't need them, just put them in the room. If you want to eat or use them, just take them out. It doesn't matter if you don't remember them. Just ask your personal attendant to remember them. By the way, where are the people?"
Leyuan said, "I went to the kitchen to find me breakfast."
Wu Rizhao smiled and said, "Okay, it seems that he can't handle it all by himself. However, if I find out that he leaves you alone and goes out again, I will regard it as dereliction of duty and punish him severely."
Le Yuan blinked and said, "I will tell him about this."
Wu Rizhao smiled and said, "That's nothing. He doesn't know. Next time I see him, I might ask him about it."
Leyuan didn't know how to answer, so she just responded.
Wu Rizhao asked: "Did he tell you when he would be back?"
Leyuan shook his head: "No."
Wu Rizhao made the decision and said, "Then you should have a breakfast here before leaving. You might be hungry again when you go back. It's already late, and you just came back today. I don't want you to go to greet your teacher. Now that you have made up your mind, you should go back to class tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."
Paradise said, “I understand.”
Wu Rizhao let Leyuan eat something, watched him walk out, waved to him and said they would meet again when they were free. Leyuan nodded. Wu Rizhao thought about it and asked someone to carry Leyuan back in a sedan chair. Leyuan didn't want to walk anymore, and when he heard there was a sedan chair available, he agreed. A group of people carried the sedan chair and took things, and followed him all the way. It was really a long and mighty procession.
When they reached the door, the sedan fell to the ground. Leyuan was almost asleep. She felt like she could go in now. She opened her eyes and a hand reached out from the side to help her get off the sedan. Leyuan turned around and saw that it was Sick Ajia. She smiled and said, "Ah, you're back? What did you bring?"
Leyuan said, looking around in his hand, but didn't see it. He looked at Bing Ajia in confusion. Bing Ajia said, "I brought it. I put it in the room. I thought the person was in the room. I went in and didn't see it, so I came out. I didn't expect the person to be here. He just arrived."
Leyuan nodded: "Then let's go in together."
As he walked, he asked, "Have you eaten?"
Sick Ajia said, "I didn't eat. I didn't dare to eat before my master had eaten. I was afraid that I would be late and my master would have to wait for a long time."
Paradise said, “Then you are pretty good.”
Sick Aga smiled.
A group of people followed in, each holding a box in their hands. Bing Ajia glanced at them. They stood respectfully and orderly beside him in a row. Leyuan sat down and said, "They were sent by my brother to deliver something to me. Now that the things have arrived, they can probably leave. They still have to go back. The boxes in their hands are what my brother wants to give me. He asked me to bring them back. Let me have a look.
Arrange it and put it wherever you like, as long as you can take it out and find it when you need it. "
Sick Aga asked, "Can I see what these are?"
Leyuan said, "Sure, let them show you."
Those people opened the boxes and introduced them one by one.
Sick Aga was amazed, blinked, nodded, and said to those people in a righteous and solemn tone: "I know everything. You can put down your things and leave now."
They looked at each other and were about to leave, but after thinking for a while, they said, "We can put our things here and leave later. Let us do this little thing. It's okay, it won't take long, and the adults won't punish us for it."
Sick Aga blinked and looked towards Le Yuan, who said, "It's a good thing that they want to help, let them help."
Sick Aga nodded and said to those people, "Okay, follow me."
Paradise is sitting here. This is the place to receive guests, eat, rest and play. It is the main hall. Next to it are the bedroom, bathroom and utility room. It is not good to put these things in the utility room, but they can be placed in the treasure and antique storage room next door. There is also a library. Bing Ajia asked people to put the things and send them out. Then they all left. It became quiet here and it seemed a lot emptier.
Because there were fewer people, the park was more relaxed. I looked at the sick Aga who was walking back slowly and asked, "You didn't go anywhere else, did you?"
The sick Aga asked, "Where? I went to the kitchen and walked back from the kitchen. I didn't go anywhere else."
Le Yuan smiled and said, "Okay."
He told Bing Ajia what Wu Rizhao was going to say, and Bing Ajia nodded: "I understand."
Leyuan said, "It's just that if there are too many people around me, I hate them and the situation. If it's just you, there will be times when I have no one around me. I usually live by myself. Maybe my brother thought that I was healthy and mentally sound at that time, so he didn't care about many things so that I wouldn't feel restricted. After this incident, my brother's impression of me has changed.
He thinks that I am not healthy enough and my mind is not clear enough. If I don't take care of it, something bad might happen. Not to mention something bigger, even if it is the same thing, he can't help it and will put two more people around me. "
Bing Ajia said, "It's okay to release two people. We just don't disturb the master."
He paused, looked at the park and asked, "Master, do you mind having two more people here?"
Leyuan said, "It would be good if they don't let me see them, only work in the room when I'm not there, go out when I'm not there, and don't follow me when I'm there. Things here really need some manpower. If other people come here every day, I can't stand it. I just don't know how my brother arranged it."
Sick Aga asked: "If I go to the adults to discuss and say that you need servants, do you think there can be two more people here?"
Le Yuan frowned: "I don't like it. If that's the case, I won't be happy. However, there are so many things to do, and other people are indeed needed. But how can you be sure that your brother will agree to you? You are being punished."
Bing Ajia said: "If the master wants to punish me, I should accept it. However, the master did not treat me like the servant before, because I was with the master. The master was concerned about the master's face and was afraid of hurting the relationship between the two of us, so he spared my life. I know the situation and I am already grateful.
If there are other people here, you don't have to worry about hurting me. I won't be able to serve the master properly. In fact, if you want to punish me, it's right no matter what. If I just want to escape, maybe the master will find out and be unhappy. It's better to accept this as soon as possible. If you keep delaying, you don't know what will happen. "
Paradise said, "Well, go ahead."
Bing Ajia nodded. After a while, he came back with two cleaning women, two watering maids, four senior maids and four servants. When they got closer, they smelled a bloody smell, probably because his back was also injured.
Leyuan nodded to them and told them to go back to their respective tasks and not to come in front of him.
They walked away.
Bing Ajia stood there, hesitated for a moment, and was about to leave, but Leyuan stopped him and asked, "Hey, among those people, who is the one who brings me food every day?"
Patient Aga said: "The food will be delivered, and they will go to the door to get it. When they are finished, they will take it away and send it to the kitchen to be washed. Naturally, someone in the kitchen will take care of the used dishes. Then they can come back."
Leyuan asked: "So what do they usually do?"
Bing Ajia said: "They clean the house, water the flowers, plants and trees, loosen the soil and catch insects, wash clothes, carry things and move things. If there are other things, you can also ask them to do it."
Leyuan asked: "Did you or my brother mean those four boys?"
Sick Ajia said, "What the master meant is that if the master wants to go to school, it's right, but he is injured and won't recover for a while. It's not safe for him to go alone. If something happens, we can't ask the teacher to move him out. The servants are afraid of something happening, so they let him go and come back, help him get things, and watch him so he doesn't run around and go out again."
Paradise: "Oh, so you're here to see me. Guard?"
Bing Ajia smiled and said, "If the master wants to go out again, it will definitely be more dangerous than last time. It is better not to go out for the time being. The master is also thinking about the master."
Leyuan glanced at him and said, "Do you think I don't know? If I didn't know, I would have made a scene. I haven't even lost my temper yet, so why are you so anxious to persuade me to do something?"
Sick Aga smiled and said, "It's my fault. I offended the master, so I deserve to be beaten."
Leyuan said, "That's not necessary. I have something else to ask you. Are those servants responsible for carrying the sedan chair?"
Sick Aga said: "They can carry the sedan chair, but we don't have one here at the moment, and the distance is not far, so the adults still want the master to walk there by himself. If the master is sick, they can take turns to find a way to send him back."
Leyuan frowned: "So they can only get things for me? I don't have so many things that I need them to come?"
Sick Aga smiled and said, "It's always better to have someone holding things than to do everything yourself."
Leyuan was not interested: "Oh, but I don't have much stuff. Don't you have it? You can get it for me. Why do I need them?"
He remembered: "My brother was afraid that you would suddenly disappear halfway, and asked me to look for you. If something happened again, he would be uneasy, so he asked them to watch me and guard against you, and by the way, he cut you apart and told you not to go to school with me anymore?"
Sick Aga said, “Yes.”
Leyuan laughed and said, "So that's how it is."
He changed his position on the sofa and looked up and asked, "So you have nothing to do here? What do you do?"
Bing Ajia said, "I will continue to be the master's personal attendant, but the four maids can also serve as the master's personal servants. If the master has something to do, he can tell them as if he were telling me."
Leyuan said, "But they are not you, and you are not them. You came earlier than them, and although you told me something, you did your best for me. My brother asked so many people to come, wasn't he trying to squeeze you out? If you leave, I don't know them at all, what's the point?"
As he spoke, he turned the table again, looking a little depressed.
Sick Aga said: "It doesn't matter, the master will get familiar with them sooner or later."
Paradise said, "I don't want them."
Bing Ajia said, "Then wait until the master sees the master and tells him in person. Otherwise, if I tell him, the master will misunderstand me as someone who is jealous of others' talents, and I will not be able to stay with the master any more."
Leyuan laughed and said, "I know."
He gradually fell asleep.
Seeing that he stopped talking, Bing Ajia tiptoed out, closed the door, and told everyone else to speak in a low voice.
Those people nodded, and then Sick Aga walked away.
They didn't know where Sick Ajia was going, so they just looked at each other, thinking it was a bit strange, and even wanted to report him.
When Le Yuan woke up, it was already night. A group of people surrounded him, asking cautiously, "What's wrong? How are you? Do you want something to eat?"
Leyuan squinted his eyes, but could not see the sick Ajia among the blurry faces, so he asked them, "Where is the person who was here before you came? He is gone again? Where did he go to neglect his duties? Why didn't you keep an eye on him?"
They whispered, "We are not looking at him."
A big maid came out and said to Leyuan, "That man has gone out and hasn't come back for a long time. We don't know where he went. He didn't tell us anything when he left, and we weren't ordered to look after him. If you want to see him, you'll have to wait until he remembers and comes back on his own. Now is not the right time. He seems to be busy. Maybe he'll come back on his own if we wait for a while."
Leyuan glanced at her and smiled: "Well, you all go out."
Seeing that they were not leaving, Leyuan repeated, "Get out."
Those people walked out reluctantly, closing the door behind them. The room was completely dark. Leyuan curled up on the sofa and murmured to the shadow, "Strange, strange. There are already so many people here, why does he keep going outside? If you don't know, you would think there are many things going on outside."
Leyuan paused and asked in confusion: "Didn't he tell me anything before? Did I forget to ask him? Although he is gone, he clearly promised to go to the teacher's residence to find something for me before he left. Where is the thing? Where did he find it? He can't even be found, and I haven't asked him yet. Why did he just leave like that?"
The shadow said, "It's useless to say more. He's not here now. What's the point of asking? Can you guarantee that what he says is the truth? He didn't bring it up on his own initiative. Maybe he didn't want to talk about it, or he forgot about it. But, you can't say it doesn't matter. Even if he forgot about it at first, he should have remembered it later. Just like you now, it's still his business.
He should have known and remembered it earlier than you, but he didn't tell you before, you should know what he was thinking. He didn't want to tell you these things, either because he treated you as an outsider, or because he treated you as someone who shouldn't know these things. "
Paradise asked: "Is there any difference between outsiders and those who shouldn't know?"
The shadow laughed and said, "To outsiders, it just shows that he has never considered you as close. You shouldn't know that maybe he wants to protect you, but that's all. He doesn't even want to tell you the truth. You can't really think that he is sincere to you, right?
Come to think of it, he is a bit contradictory. On the one hand, he takes care of you personally and says those nonsense, but on the other hand, he avoids you and runs away everywhere. I don’t know where he goes and he is always missing. Is he thinking of something to kill you?"
Leyuan glanced at the shadow and said, "I don't think so. If he wanted to kill me, he could have killed me long ago. Why wait until today?"
The shadow laughed and said, "That's not necessarily the case. Maybe he just wants to kill you to vent his anger. If you think he's a good person and he kills you, you will think he's a good person until you die. You will think he has his own difficulties and can be forgiven. Or, you will hate him so much that you hope he will go to hell with you."
Le Yuan laughed and said, "You make it sound like I'm already in hell."
The shadow paused, turned around, and asked the shadow of the paradise on the wall: "Why not? In fact, there are many kinds of hells. Whether it is the real hell or the hell described by various religions, they are all different. Some hells are extremely painful and are places where people suffer. Some hells are extremely boring and are places that drive people crazy. Some hells are beautiful like illusions and make people degenerate.
The good place you think of does have its advantages, but is it really as good as you imagine?
I don't want to tell you this. There is no such thing as good or bad without reason. I just think they are mentally ill. They are not mentally ill just now. The problem is that some people are normal, but they either don't admit it, or after admitting it, they become even more abnormal, even more abnormal than those who were not normal in the first place. What can I do? I just watch them.
I wish it was all true, but you and I both know that’s not possible. It’s pretty sad, isn’t it?
Le Yuan narrowed his eyes and said, "It's not impossible."
The shadow turned around, looked at Le Yuan and asked, "Do you know who I am?"
Leyuan shook his head: "I don't recognize it."
The shadow asked: "Who do you think I am?"
Leyuan looked at it for a while, and suddenly found that its face was rippling like water ripples, and it suddenly had a somewhat strange color, and it looked like it had some outlines of facial features, like a sick Aga.
Leyuan was suddenly shocked: "You can't be him."
The shadow smiled and said, "Of course it's impossible. Have you forgotten what I told you? I will look like whoever you want to see. But I am not them after all. Sooner or later you will forget them all, except for one person. However, you don't remember what that person looks like. It's better to say that you have never really seen and realized what that person's face should look like."
In fact, you desperately hope that he doesn't have a real face at all, so that you can live happily forever. Isn't it? "
Paradise was confused: "Really? I don't know. If I knew so much, I wouldn't be like this now. I don't know this or that, and I find this strange and that weird. There are still so many things I don't recognize. How can this place be fake? No, I mean, even if this place is fake, it is definitely not an illusion created by me.
Because, as far as I know, a person cannot know something he does not know in his dream. Now if we are in a hallucination, we cannot know things we do not know. But I heard, saw, and touched it, so how can it be considered fake? I don't know. It would be great if I knew everything. Unfortunately, even if I was dreaming, I would not dare to do that.
Because once I have such a dream, I will wake up, and I know very clearly that if such a thing happens, it must not be real. But now it is not like that, I don’t feel that way, maybe so far, my brain has been fed too much by happiness, and it can’t hold other things. Only false happiness can make me feel that the world is real.
I don’t like fake things, but I don’t like real things either. If I have to compare, I might as well choose fake things, at least, they can make me feel happy. I like happiness. What’s wrong with this? What’s wrong with this? I don’t understand. ”
Paradise sighed.
The shadow smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. We are not dead yet, which means we don't know the unknown things and our lives are not in danger. We can continue to live like this. Anyway, it's over until we die. After we die, we don't need to care about anything. If we don't die, it's even better. We can play and have fun however we want. How wonderful it is."
Just be happy, this is your idea, my idea, and the reality we need. If the world is such a beautiful background for life, true and false are the most unimportant things. You see, you love happiness, and I love it too. So, here we are, always with happiness, what a happy thing it is!
Everything is good, there is nothing bad about it, that's enough, that's how it should be! Isn't it?
This is how normal people's lives should be, happy. It's okay to have nothing but happiness. Because such a world is so beautiful. Do you understand what I mean? "
Paradise said: "I know roughly. You have described it in detail. I know it clearly. But what if one day I am not happy enough and everyone around me dies?"
The shadow smiled and said, "Then let's go with them. If this is fake and there is no happiness, there is no need to continue. If this is real, we will be happy again if we follow them. There is nothing wrong with that."
Paradise said, “Yes.”
He murmured, "That's it."
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