Chapter 80 Why are you crying?
The old ancestor was determined to die.
When Duan Jiuyou woke up, he had already returned to the Tenth Realm.
The weather outside was gloomy, and even under a thick quilt, it felt damp and cold. She lay inside, but Di Jiang, who should have been sleeping on the outside, was nowhere to be found.
A soft white fox fur cloak lay beside her pillow, presumably placed there by Di Jiang out of concern that she might be cold.
She got up, put on her shoes, wrapped her fox fur coat around herself, and walked familiarly along the carved corridor toward the flower hall.
It was snowing outside today, and the fine snowflakes drifted down on her body, covering her without her noticing. She had thought that Di Jiang would be warming himself by the fire in the flower hall in such weather, but she did not expect that he would be outside in the snow. The way he was covered in snow was rather funny, a rare sight indeed.
He was dressed in the most luxurious clothes and was squatting outside the hall, coaxing a child.
Half of his magnificent brocade robe, with its gold-trimmed pattern extending past his shoulders, was covered in snow. The robe was covered with a thin layer of snow, indicating that he had been outside for a while.
The child was not tall, about the size of a human child of five or six years old. She had silver hair that was half combed and half tied up, with a small bun on each side. She was dressed as elegantly as Di Jiang, but she looked timid and had her small hands tucked in. Di Jiang reached out to coax her, but she dodged it. He offered her some snacks, but she wouldn't take them.
The vassal standing beside the emperor held a plate of various kinds of snacks and said with a mixture of disdain and helplessness.
"Your Excellency, can't you tell? This child is afraid of you; he'll cry if you try to comfort him any longer."
The emperor ignored his vassals and turned his head to look at the four seasons.
The girl arrived with a long face, and instead of dispelling the gloom, she brought a heavy snowfall. He brought her down here hoping for sunny weather, but now things are even worse.
He raised his hand, and the vassal could only lower his body and hand the snacks on the plate to him.
Di Jiang selected a rabbit-shaped candy cake and presented it to Siji. He deliberately adjusted his mood and said with a smile, "This is the third plate already. Don't you like it yet? Why are you so hard to please? Cheer up and let the snow stop. Do you want to freeze someone to death? Look at this rabbit pastry, isn't it cute? How about we eat the head first? This head has syrup inside and is filled with sweet jam made from red sour fruit. It tastes sweet and sour, and you'll definitely like it."
Siji watched him nervously. She had been holding back for a long time. She didn't want it to snow either, but she felt a chill in her heart whenever she saw him. He even made her eat rabbit heads and said there was syrup inside.
As Siji conjured up some bloody images, in the blink of an eye, "whoosh," the snow outside began to fall even harder.
This was the heaviest snowfall in the Ten Realms of Breaking Wind. It wasn't just a simple "fall"; large, dense snowflakes pounded down, covering the head and body of the Emperor and his vassals. In the blink of an eye, they were transformed into two snowmen.
Di Jiang closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the smile was gone from his face.
His skin was so pale, and his features so striking that when he put on a cold face, he looked like a monstrous demon ready to kill. Snowflakes clung to his long eyelashes, further emphasizing his chilling appearance.
Siji was already afraid of him, and when he looked at her, her eyes quickly filled with tears.
Di Jiang frowned slightly, controlling his temper, and wanted to pat her head. As soon as he reached out, Siji trembled all over, and tears fell as fist-sized hailstones followed...
"Why are you crying?" Di Jiang asked, puzzled, pulling Siji along to ask what was wrong.
The vassal knew that his lord was not one to be coaxed like a child, so he quickly stopped him.
"You should go in first, or you'll freeze to death if you don't get smashed to death."
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Duan Jiuyou laughed so hard he almost fell over. Having known Di Jiang for so long, this was the first time he'd seen him helpless against someone. He walked out of the corridor, still laughing.
Little Siji felt as if she had been granted a pardon and opened her arms to be hugged by Duan Jiuyou.
Jiuyou smiled and picked up the child, saying, "You're not coaxing a child, you're clearly torturing him. You're using threats and bribes, and if he doesn't behave, you're not going to resort to torture, are you?"
When Di Jiang saw that she was wearing the cloak he had prepared, his expression softened considerably. He stood up and asked, "When did you arrive? You've given me a free ride."
Jiuyou couldn't help but laugh, saying that he had been there for a while: "I originally wanted to see how Lord Huangzhu would coax the child, but who knew that he would use snacks and candies and even scare the child to tears."
Di Jiang sighed, "I can probably only coax you. I can't coax anyone else. Spending the whole morning with her almost killed me."
Duan Jiuyou said, "Coax me? When? I always remember it being me who coaxed you?"
Di Jiang was speechless. When the two of them were together, she had indeed mostly been the one comforting him, so he changed his tune, saying, "You were sleeping so soundly, I couldn't wake you up at all. I carried you all the way back from Earthly Breath Mountain. You took my kindness and didn't even speak up for me? Have you no conscience?"
Upon hearing this, the vassal confirmed, "Your Majesty carried your luggage and held you in your arms. You've never been so disheveled in your life. You put me on the bed while holding your breath, and you still had to go back to pick up Siji."
"That must have been very kind of you," Duan Jiuyou said with a smile, thanking him.
"No need for thanks. Just try not to upset me too much. Have you seen any of your disciples since you woke up?"
Duan Jiuyou said, "I haven't had time yet, I'll go in a bit."
"Go now." Di Jiang patted the snow off his clothes, reached out to Siji to take the child, and said to Duan Jiuyou, "The officials were told to move back to their abandoned houses, but they refused to come, saying they were waiting for your orders. Just now, with the snow and hail, the dilapidated thatched houses on the mountain almost collapsed. Go there sooner and let them come back with you so they can suffer less."
Duan Jiuyou thought about it and agreed. Just as he was about to hand over the Four Seasons to Dijiang, he was pulled into a tight embrace.
"I'm not going to his place! I'm not going to his place!"
The little guy refused to go, clinging to Duan Jiuyou's neck and showing Di Jiang the back of his head.
Di Jiang's hands froze in place, making Duan Jiuyou laugh again.
She coaxed Siji, saying, "No, no, we won't go to that bad guy's place. I'll hold you tight, you can stay safe, he won't hit you."
Then he said to Di Jiang, "You go in first. I'll take Siji up the mountain to pick her up. If you still want to coax her, wait until she's calmer. And your clothes, you're only concerned with looking good. You're wearing such thin clothes. With your looks, what wouldn't look good on you?"
Di Jiang pretended not to hear, turned around, and walked towards the flower hall with his hands behind his back.
Duan Jiuyou said to Xiao Siji with amusement, "Look at him, doesn't he look like a child? He's over seven thousand years old and doesn't even know to put on more clothes."
The four seasons steal glances at the imperial territory.
Lord Wilderness walked away without looking back, still trying to justify himself: "The weather wasn't this cold when I wasn't coaxing her!"
Duan Jiu was overjoyed, rarely getting the chance to make fun of him. Di Jiang turned around in the flower hall and burst into laughter. His usually austere face suddenly seemed to come alive, revealing a hint of unintentional youthful spirit.
"Are you done yet? Hurry up and bring the person back. I'll be waiting for you to come back for dinner."
Xiao Siji looked at Di Jiang from Duan Jiuyou's arms and realized that he was only truly gentle when facing Old Ancestor Duan.
That kind of genuine laughter is an emotion that naturally comes from the heart and is reflected on the face, unlike the half-hearted attempt to comfort myself earlier.
On her way to pick up the person, she asked Duan Jiuyou, "Lord Wilderness, he must like you very much, right?"
Duan Jiuyou was focused on riding the clouds and did not answer the question about the four seasons.
After a while, Xiao Siji asked again, "So, do you like him?"
There has still been no response.
Siji looked at Duan Jiuyou with a puzzled expression: "But you two seem to get along very well, it's not that you don't want to be together. Sister Duan, what are you worried about?"
Children are not necessarily less insightful than adults; on the contrary, their simple minds allow them to express their inner thoughts more accurately.
Happy is happy, unhappy is unhappy.
Just like the four seasons, when it snows, you know she's afraid; when the weather is sunny, you feel relaxed and happy.
The adults are different. They are in different positions and keep their worries to themselves. For example, Sister Duan has concerns and troubles, and the seemingly calm Lord Huangzhu seems to have even more things weighing on his mind.
He deliberately sent Sister Duan away; he must have something else to tell her, right?
He and Sister Duan seemed to have reached some kind of tacit understanding: Sister Duan would not interfere in his affairs, and he would try his best to keep some boundaries for Sister Duan in his decisions.
So just now, even though Sister Duan knew that the Lord of the Wasteland's excuse of asking her to bring her disciple back was to send her away, she didn't expose him.
...
"My lord, the people who went have returned. They say it's Yuan Chi's side..."
After Duan Jiuyou left, Qi Shen, one of the four fierce generals, walked in from outside and whispered something in Di Jiang's ear.
Di Jiang listened expressionlessly, without giving any further instructions. Qi Shen knew that this meant he was to continue guarding the area.
A moment later, another person entered. Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that they were wearing the Blazing Feather Robe of the Ascending Dragon Clan. This was an agent planted in the Heavenly Realm by the Imperial Army, considered a "Feifei" of the Wilderness Clan, but far more powerful than Feifei. Their cultivation was above "demigod," and they could not only traverse the Three Realms to deliver messages but also transform into various appearances.
Emperor Jiang did give him some instructions.
“Go to Cloud Ridge and take the calamity beast Zhu Yan to retrieve the God-Slaying Blade. Tell him that within ten days, I want the head of the Mountain Lord of Fuyu.”
Four Seasons guessed correctly; he did indeed have many things to deal with. Things related to the Ten Realms, the Heavenly Realm, others' things, and his own.
The most important thing is still his relationship with Duan Jiuyou.
He can be more considerate of her in his relationships with other people, but not with her.
His uncle played a terrible move for him. To break the deadlock, he had to eliminate everyone involved. Young Master Huang, the master of Fuyu Mountain, could not be allowed to live.
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