Practice and Vow to be Reborn
The moon was dancing and already getting dark. It was not until the morning of the following day that the two of them left the cave through the small path. When they passed by the West Street theater with its lanterns extinguished, it was as if it were daytime again.
Gui Yao wrapped her hands around the man's strong and firm waist, rested her head on his back, and her forehead drooped.
In order to return home earlier, she offered to ride a horse. Now she realizes what kind of hardship she had brought upon herself.
She could see the big map of the mind-reading notebook in her mind as soon as she closed her eyes. Ah Ji had already returned to the bamboo forest residence in the general's mansion, and the system was helping her to sort out the clues of the side quests... That was good.
The mechanical female voice reminded calmly: "Host, don't fall off the horse later. You won't have enough points to treat it."
The night was dim, and Guiyao's lotus-pink cloak fluttered in the wind. Her cheeks, which were originally thin in flesh, slowly changed their position and pressed tightly against the man's back.
There was a heavy roar of wind beside me. If I listened carefully, I seemed to hear someone's rooster crowing early.
She snorted.
"I'm not sleepy."
When I opened my eyes again, the sun was already high in the sky.
When Gui Yao opened her eyes, she saw a sea of white. She felt as if her neck was about to be broken.
"Miao Miao, save..."
The lion cat sensed the movement of the person and rolled over on her delicately.
Yes, second critical hit.
She pushed the cat down and pinched its soft belly several times with both hands.
You are acting like a spoiled child, right? You are acting like a spoiled child, right?
The evil Gui Xiaoniang finally woke up by petting the cat, and heard Miaomiao's meowing in her mind.
"That bad dog has two more chickens in his yard, each uglier than the other, and it's annoying the cat."
The kitten rolled over after saying this.
"Meow!!"
Rolled off the bed.
Miaomiao jumped back up with a whoosh, the little scarf around her neck swaying with her movements, and she mumbled, "I want its feathers, but I can't get them. Little General won't let me get them, and neither will Momo."
What a mess this is.
"So you were driven here?"
"Humph, that's not the case. I don't want to play with them, so I came here to find someone to warm my bed, meow."
Guiyao imitated its tone, squinted her eyes and hugged it tightly again. The long-haired cat weighing more than ten pounds was like a fragrant and soft healing medicine, but when its hair fell on the tip of her nose - "Ahem!" It was so itchy.
She shook her head and heard a light knock on the door. After a while, it was Guiyue's voice: "Are you awake?"
Another sneeze.
Miaomiao, the instigator, heard the uninterested voice, yawned and continued to shrink back into the bed curtains.
Kittens don't want socializing.
"Enter."
Guiyue put the medicine on the shelf beside her and opened the food box to serve Guiyao.
The dishes collided, making a crisp sound.
She lowered her eyes and saw that her clothes were disheveled and her knees were exposed. Gui Yao noticed her gaze and lowered her eyes to look at the bandage on her knee that had obviously been changed.
"When did I get back last night?"
Gui Yue said in a faint voice, "He returned at noon. Everyone in the general's mansion saw General Ren carrying my daughter back."
Hearing this, Gui Yao paused, swallowed the food in her mouth, and asked hesitantly, "The injury on the knee, but..."
"You two haven't married yet, but General Ren wouldn't be so reckless. The injury was inflicted by this servant."
Guiyao raised her eyes.
"Thank you, Sister Guiyue. Since I call you sister, could you please not call yourself a servant when speaking to me?"
Gui Yue leaned against the door, holding the lid of the food box in her hand, and said in a steady voice, "My indenture has been in the general's mansion for over ten years."
Her smile was also genuine.
"What do you think, Miss Gui? I shouldn't call myself a slave anymore."
Guiyao did not comment.
She looked at the rich dishes on the carved table, propped up her face with her hands and asked, "Sister Guiyue, you've been in the General's Mansion for so long. Do you know anything about General Ren? His preferences, his habits, or...his birthday?"
"I used to do odd jobs in the Madam Dowager's courtyard, and I'm not familiar with General Ren." Guiyue answered fluently.
She noticed the subtle temptation in her words and was about to be on guard, but she only saw Gui Yao curl her eyes at her and hold the chopsticks to eat seriously.
Sweet and sour fish, braised pork meatballs, and three-fresh soup were all to Guiyao's liking. She ate until she was 80% full, which was rare for her. Then she stood up and took the medicine beside her in her hand. When she lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes trembled slightly.
Blow, blow, although the white smoke is thin, it seems to be approaching her lips step by step.
She suddenly raised her eyes and said, "Sister Guiyue, do you know Jiuchong?"
Gui Yao looked at Gui Yue without fear. The surprise in the other's eyes prevailed, but soon, she returned to her seemingly indifferent look.
She didn't like drinking hot medicine. She always felt that the heat flowing through her throat would burn her heart.
So she always reminds herself of this.
Her greatest reliance is her intuition.
"During the epidemic, I'm sure my sister knows that it wasn't just my parents who died, but also my uncle and aunt's children."
"Last night, Kunou told me that he had miscalculated."
The medicine burned her mouth, so Guiyao bit her lip and swallowed it all, with a few choking sounds.
"Cough, cough, cough."
To relax, she pulled out two chairs, placed them side by side, close together, as if leaning on each other.
She saw her pupils tremble slightly, and said with bated breath:
"The beginning of autumn in the year of Guisi."
"It can be said that nothing has been missed. My brother who died young was born at this time."
"Impossible!" Guiyue rested her hands on the table.
The untreated cat scratch on the back of her hand was very conspicuous. She put the soup bowl back on the table, as if a few drops of medicine had fallen on the edge of the bowl. She said firmly, "He won't make the same mistake a second time."
After a while.
She looked into her eyes and scoffed.
"You lied to me, Guiyao."
Guiyue looked at the slightly red corners of Guiyao's eyes and her lips that were slightly open but not responding to her, and she couldn't help but feel confused. She pinched her thin chin with her bony hands, forcing her to lift up her extremely beautiful eyes.
Their expressions seemed to have returned to the stubbornness they had when they were at Shuxi Mountain.
The moon is bright, while the osmanthus tree is in the dark.
"What did Ren Beixi tell you?"
It was terribly quiet.
"Say something, Guiyao, say something!" A tear fell from the corner of Guiyue's eyes, and she wanted to use force with her hands.
The strength went from rage to suffocation.
Loosen up.
Gui Yao's eyes flickered, and she suddenly took her hand and placed it against her cheek.
Their body temperatures were very different. Guiyue shivered from the cold and wanted to pull away, but could only look into her bright eyes.
"Sister, I've missed my birthday twice."
"Can you help me clear this up?"
From caressing to holding her wrist, Guiyue found that she could not do anything to Guiyao, just like ten years ago.
Her breathing stopped, and her hatred finally became apparent.
"Gui Xiaoniang, you shouldn't wake up."
It seemed as if a few tears had soaked into Guiyao's wrist. Guiyue could only look at her almost collapsed, and through her, look at her in the depths of her memory.
His eyes seemed to want to remember Guiyao deeply in his mind, which was extremely painful.
"Back then, you were six years old, sitting by the pond at the entrance of the village. Your eyes weren't as bright as they are now. That was the first time we met."
"It was also the first time he met you."
Her voice fell, and she turned back to lean against the chair, feeling the restraint on her wrist finally being loosened.
But their hands were leaning loosely on the table, not too far away and not too close, and no one pulled back.
Guiyao's knuckles trembled slightly.
Ren Beixi? No, she could even sense that Gui Yue's hostility towards Ren Beixi was no less than hers.
If that happens, there won't be many people left.
"Aren't you going to ask me who he is?"
Gui Yao narrowed her eyes. The answer was obviously not difficult to guess, but she couldn't figure out how these things were connected.
She held Guiyue's hand that was hanging by her side again.
"I don't ask about that."
There is clearly a gap between them.
From Shuxi Mountain to Chaochun Tower, all kinds of things were involved because of Guiyue, Jiuchong and Renzhong.
That song of Phoenix Drink.
The cry of a golden pheasant.
Guiyao looked at Guiyue's drooping eyelashes, her eyes filled with endless sorrow, as if silent.
"Sister Guiyue, why are you called Guiyue?"
"The moon is high above the treetops, and the golden osmanthus is fragrant. You were also born at the beginning of autumn."
"call out--"
A red-feathered crossbow arrow shot out of the window and hit the swaying branches of the vase in the room at such a fast speed that the peach petals fell all over the ground.
Gui Yao subconsciously pulled Gui Yue beside her to hide behind the wall. When she looked up, she found that the wooden beams of the window beside her had been lifted up in vain.
The man was dressed in black, except for the crown he usually wore which had become a few strands of red silk threads.
His gaze fell on her, burning hot.
Gui Yao was slightly startled and subconsciously released the hand that was holding Gui Yue: "When did General Ren come?"
Naturally, there were no outsiders in the general's mansion, and she had never thought that there were eavesdroppers on the walls.
She opened her lips slightly, and for a moment, her fair face turned pale: "Li Qiu?"
The crossbow arrow just now was frighteningly fast. Gui Yao realized it belatedly and covered her chest with her hands to slow her breathing. She raised her eyes to look at Ren Beixi. The man outside the window was holding a sword, silent.
Look into his dark eyes.
The vague confrontation just now seemed to have never happened. It seemed that no matter what happened, he would not lose his composure and he always remained calm.
She then realized that the sky today was scorchingly bright.
"General Ren, what important matter do you have to tell me?"
Gui Yao felt her ears burning. She had naturally intended to hide it from Ren Beixi, but now he had interrupted the conversation which was neither an interrogation nor a casual chat.
"I'll wait for you to get dressed and try on your wedding dress." The man looked at her gradually red face and closed the window with one hand.
Gui Yao said "Hey", stood up and opened the window again, looked at Ren Beixi for a moment, turned around and stuffed Miaomiao, who was still rolling on the quilt, into his arms.
The young girl in a light-colored skirt smiled and curved her eyes, then slammed the window shut with a bang, and one could tell there was some emotion in her voice.
When she returned to the house, Guiyue had already put away the food box, washed her hands, and then quietly tied her hair.
Gui Yao looked at her through the bronze mirror. She looked to be in her twenties or thirties, with thin lips and long eyebrows. If she were not wearing the clothes and attire of a maidservant, she would be extremely handsome.
She looked up at herself in the mirror.
"Don't move." Guiyue's hand pressed back on her slender neck, as if to punish her for the shackles she had just put on her.
Guiyao stared at her hairstyle today, which was a bit heavy.
She remembered what Ren Beixiong had just said he wanted to take her to try on, a wedding dress? The wedding was approaching, so it was time to start preparing for it.
Her makeup was only slightly touched up, and when the phoenix hairpin was pinned on her head, Guiyao lowered her eyes slightly.
"General's order, Phoenix Drink."
"Flying light, flying light, the spirit of the bright moon is dead, and there is no glass soul left. The jade on the hill is shattered and trapped in the beautiful night."
Gui Yao stretched out her arms, and the maid beside her put the wedding dress on her layer by layer.
Due to an illness she had when she was young, her ears had no piercings, so her specially made pearl and jade earrings were changed to the style of a phoenix tail hanging behind the phoenix crown, and were now held firmly on the red cloth.
At this moment, the girl was not wearing any makeup and had a plain face.
Her rosy cheeks were slightly flushed, and her aunt beside her was smiling with her eyes curved, looking very satisfied.
The lady sat in front of the hall and took a short rest. At the end, she heard Aunt Lan Fang clapping her hands and saying with a smile, "It's very suitable."
"How does she look?" Li Yuqing looked at the bamboo leaves in the hall, as if the end of spring was approaching.
"It's truly a match made in heaven!" Even Lan Fang, who was usually steady, could hardly look happy now.
She looked up at the high gate of the general's mansion in the distance, where the clouds were burning hotter than anything else.
Someone in the carriage lifted the curtain, and a pair of peach blossom eyes stared at the man with the sword and smiled.
The woman dressed as a maid knelt down and said goodbye to her.
"That's very good." She turned around and asked the guard to close the door.
Ten years have passed, and it turns out that man proposes, God disposes.
She was the one who had to chew it up and swallow it and bring up the old things again. It was not just her who was trapped by the gate of the general's mansion.
The osmanthus fruit was buried in a flowerpot in her yard.
Placed in front of the window, very close to her bed.
/ Congratulations to the host, the completion of the Phoenix Drink quest has reached 100% /
/ 600 points have been credited to your account. Please use them wisely in the Mind Reading Notebook. /
Gui Yao listened to the notification sound in her mind that the side quest had been completed, and clenched the handkerchief embroidered with the word "wedding" in her hand.
She turned around and saw that the dark shadow outside the window had returned without her noticing.
She was wearing a wedding dress, and she picked up the man behind the window. Her red lips were made up very stunningly, and she looked much better. She looked at him, and seemed to see that his usually silent black eyes had some ripples for some reason.
In the days that followed, the maidservant beside her was replaced by a servant brought by her aunt, and she never saw Guiyue again.
The golden pheasant named Aji lived very comfortably in the general's mansion with the pheasants, but was afraid of cats. So she asked Miaomiao to accompany her and used threats and bribes to coerce it into telling her many stories about the past of Shuxi Mountain.
But this chicken is not curious about people at all.
He just loves running around in the mountains all day, and the only useful information he provides is what Guiyao had guessed long ago: Guiyue, Jiuchong, and Renzhong have a close relationship.
Why was the timing of this mission so unclear? No one gave her an answer, just as if the days she was waiting to be married, when she saw Ren Beixi, were also unclear.
"Is there a third side quest in Xianyu City?"
"The host's current exploration level of Xianyu City is 79 percent. Congratulations to the host."
She often asked Ren Beixi to accompany her to stroll around Xianyu City, and occasionally she would meet Li Cong, who was doing something unknown.
I have been to Yunchuan Temple more than once, but every time I could not find the same mood as before.
In the blink of an eye, Grain Rain is about to arrive.
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