Chapter 109 Reunion
Chen Yunli woke up from a dream and found the weather outside sunny and warm.
The pale golden morning sunlight slanted into the room, falling on the low cabinet beside the bed, reflecting a celadon vase with ice cracks, and climbing up the branches of the locust flowers in full bloom in the vase.
Chen Yunli got up, washed, and changed his clothes. He added some more spiritual water into the bottle, allowing it to continue blooming forever. Then he carefully picked a white flower from the branch and pinned it on his lapel. He walked down the stairs and walked from the quiet inn into the world of fireworks.
Today is Mid-Autumn Festival. Since it is a festival of family reunion, people on the street are naturally full of joy. Occasionally, one or two people pass by with slightly frowning brows and sad eyes. Needless to say, it is obvious that their children who have been away from home have not been able to return in time. The hands holding the moon balls wrapped in oil paper are sinking weakly.
In the golden autumn of August, the sweet osmanthus flowers in the city have blossomed into a golden cloud. The flowers are everywhere, and the fragrance is everywhere. Even when Chen Yunli stepped into the long street of specialty food, the rich fragrance still followed him like a shadow. Only the moon cakes filled with sweet osmanthus and lotus seeds can compete with it.
"Guest, would you like to buy a moon cake?"
"Sir, would you like to try our small box of mooncakes? These bite-sized mooncakes come in six flavors. I guarantee you'll like them!"
"Big brother, buy me some osmanthus flowers!"
Chen Yunli walked through the long, bustling street, surrounded by the mist of hot food coming out of the oven and the salty, spicy aroma of cold food. Mixed in with the enthusiastic calls of vendors and solicitations, the place was bustling and full of vitality.
He couldn't help but buy a box of moon cakes, a platter of braised dishes, and two branches of fresh osmanthus flowers that the little girl had given him as a buy-one-get-one-free promotion, and returned home with a full load.
When they returned to the inn, the waiter prepared a seat by the window for him. When the screen was opened, it became a quiet little world.
"Yuetuan should be eaten with tea to avoid choking. Would you like a pot, sir?" The waiter asked with a smile, throwing the towel over his shoulder.
This person is a big customer of their store. He has lived in a high-end room for half a year, paying one or two taels of silver a day. He is also very generous when giving tips. He dare not neglect him.
Chen Yunli slowly opened the lid of the box and looked at the six small moon balls arranged like petals inside. He smiled and said, "This is just enough to fill my stomach. Brother, please bring me a pot of Longjing tea, a few of your specialties, and two bowls of porridge. Here, keep the rest for yourself."
After saying that, he threw a heavy silver coin to the waiter. The waiter weighed it as usual and immediately ran to the kitchen with a smile on his face.
Tea and porridge came first. Chen Yunli ate the moon cake with tea and ate the porridge with braised vegetables. He accidentally created a salty and sweet perpetual motion machine. No matter how much he ate, there was always a large space left in his stomach. It was really a mess.
His current cultivation level is high enough for him to practice fasting, but rather than being completely free from worldly desires, he doesn't want to miss out on the delicious food in the world.
No, let alone the whole world, he has been here for half a year without even leaving the city, and he is still far from collecting all kinds of delicacies.
At this time, more than half a year has passed since the reincarnation was reshaped, and the order of the human world has almost returned to normal. Three days ago, the system prompted Chen Yunli that the mission had been completed and he could leave the mission world at any time.
The phrase "you can leave at any time" is very intriguing.
Chen Yunli's third stage mission was to heal Chen Wenjian's "divine consciousness injury". Later they discovered that the source of the trauma came from the collapse of the world order, so Chen Wenjian transformed into reincarnation, and while healing the injury, he also turned his consciousness into nothingness.
This is a very tricky treatment method. I hope that in the future when the system has problems, I can use the hard drive formatting method to heal myself.
He thought so.
The system...how dare the system speak?
Chen Yunli didn't plan to leave too early because there were some things he hadn't done yet and some people he hadn't met yet.
Thinking of this, he swallowed the last bite of the moon ball, counted on his fingers, and murmured, "Today is the day."
Before he finished speaking, he disappeared from behind the screen in an instant.
…
In the south of the city, the wife of the head of the wealthy Luo family was nine months pregnant and went into labor at dawn today.
"Madam, madam, please use a little more force, yes, that's it..."
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Hot water, hot water! Bring it in quickly!"
"Master, calm down! You can't help Madam if you go in, so just wait outside!"
Separated by a high wall, there was a lot of noise and hurried footsteps inside the wall, accompanied by a woman's shrill screams of pain, which showed the difficulty of "life".
Outside the wall, under the shadow of the green bamboo, Chen Yunli stood with his hands in his pockets. Hearing the lady's miserable screams, he flicked his fingers and cast a pain-relieving spell, which helped her to relieve the severe pain a little.
After the pain subsided a little, the lady, who had already exhausted herself, pursed her pale lips and began to exert force again according to the midwife's instructions.
Another half hour passed like this, and then a loud baby cry pierced the sky, and the child was born.
Chen Yunli breathed a sigh of relief, cast a spell to hide his figure, and walked through the wall into the courtyard.
In the delivery room in the backyard, Mr. Luo didn't even look at the child who was washed and held by the midwife. He hurriedly ran to the bed where the blood had not been cleaned up yet, and held the hand of his wife who had fainted from exhaustion.
The woman had a near-death experience during childbirth, and he had thought his wife was about to collapse. The words "safety first" kept turning over and over in his stomach. Fortunately, God blessed them, and both mother and child were safe.
While Mr. Luo was busy caring about his wife's condition, Chen Yunli added a spiritual power to his wife's body to strengthen her physique and help her recover soon.
After doing all this, he looked at the child who was quietly nestling in the midwife's arms not far away.
The child only cried twice when he was born, and then he stopped crying obediently. He opened his round eyes like black grapes and rolled them around, looking at this fresh and lively world curiously.
Normally, babies don’t fully grow up in the first few days after birth and look like wrinkled little monkeys. But he is different. He has a round, rosy face, delicate eyebrows and eyes, and is very cute.
Chen Yunli imitated this face and these facial features to simulate what he would look like when he grew up, and it was exactly the unrivaled face in his memory.
"Luo Qifang..."
Chen Yunli called his name silently, smiled gently, then stretched out his finger and touched his forehead. A golden light flickered, leaving a golden line that looked like a birthmark.
This is the "Golden Body Protection Seal", which contains half of Chen Yunli's spiritual power. It can protect him from all diseases and evil spirits, improve his efficiency in learning literature and martial arts, save his life in critical moments, etc.
From now on, everything will go smoothly for him and he will have a smooth journey.
“Aaaaaaa…”
The child seemed to sense a familiar breath. His eyes turned and he suddenly looked in the direction of Chen Yunli, leaning forward and reaching out to grab him.
Chen Yunli quickly moved away and smiled at the tender and cute little face.
"Leave."
…
After leaving the Luo family, Chen Yun was free from the cause and effect, and felt relaxed and comfortable all over.
He bought another box of moon cakes nearby and ate them while strolling back to the inn.
Passing by the bulletin board in the city, he saw that the entire street where the bulletin board was located was blocked by people. Curious, he tugged at the sleeve of the person next to him and asked, "Brother, what's going on over there? Why are there so many people?"
There was a lot of noise all around, and the man shouted back at the top of his voice: "Don't you know? Today is the day the autumn exam results are announced!"
"When will the autumn exam results be announced?"
Before Chen Yunli could react, he heard the sound of gongs and drums from the crowd, followed by the loud voice of a constable in official uniform:
"This year's top scorer—Wei Zixiu!"
"This year's runner-up—Lu Jiayun!"
"This year's third place winner - Bai Ai!"
"This year's Jinshi..."
The singing list was still going on, but there was only one name left in Chen Yunli's ears - Bai Ai.
"You little brat, you were being so servile, telling me you only wanted to pass the exam to become a scholar, but you actually got the third place in the imperial examination." He muttered with a smile, his gaze passing through the crowd, landing on the third name in the first row of the gold list. He breathed a sigh of relief, "Now that you've passed the exam to become the third place, will you still return to Lu Town to open a private school?"
The crowd was still playing out the various aspects of life because of the names being read out, but Chen Yunli turned around and left, leaving fame and fortune behind, and returned to the mundane world.
System: "It is detected that the auditor is in a state of complete contentment and has no regrets. Would you like to return to reality?"
The system's voice and wording returned to their original gentle and rational state, without any unnecessary emotion or sentiment.
Chen Yunli's heart moved, and he asked, "System, have you always been the one issuing tasks and task reminders for me?"
“…”
The system fell strangely silent.
Chen Yunli smiled and said, "Machines don't lie, so the answer is no. Let me ask you another question."
"Excuse me, auditor." The system's tone was a little more cautious and restrained.
"Chen Wenjian... is a real person, right?" Chen Yunli said in an affirmative tone.
After five seconds of silence, the system switched to a stereotyped prompt tone:
"Mission accomplished, transferring the auditor's consciousness back to reality—"
"System, I tell you, if you don't answer, it means you agree—"
The strong jolt of his consciousness turning back made the tail end of his voice turn into a duck's quack. The dust and clouds in front of his eyes became darker and darker. After an unknown amount of time, a little light gradually appeared in his field of vision.
That was the incandescent light at the top of the hall.
"Hiss... I'm back..."
Chen Yun suddenly felt a cramp-like twisting and soreness at the corners of his eyes. He closed his eyes and raised his hands to press twice. He waited until the pain subsided before opening his eyes again.
As expected, this task only took him a few minutes, and it took so "long" because the three stages of the task were started continuously without any rest in between.
However, what was better than the previous two times was that this time he was not in a bad mood. Instead, he felt a little happy and expectant. The reason was naturally the last question he had that was not answered by the system.
In fact, he has always been confused - why are his three missions all related to Chen Wenjian?
He used to think that Chen Wenjian was a piece of system data and considered the possibility that it was a bug, but he decisively abandoned this idea after realizing where the audit system came from.
Even if it was a bug, it would not be possible for it to occur so many times given the computing power of the God Realm system.
Although the God of Information and Technology in the divine world is a little crazy and likes to write strange programs to change the wallpaper of their boss's computer screen, he is not a useless person. It is probably easier for him to eliminate a piece of buggy data than to breathe.
But he didn't do so, which means that Chen Wenjian is not an ordinary program, he may even... not be a program at all.
If that's not a procedure, what is it?
Another auditor? A trainee god undergoing training or assessment?
Chen Yunli's speculation ends here. There is no basis for it, and any further speculation is nothing but wishful thinking.
But at least he and Chen Wenjian have the possibility of meeting in real life, and even his next review task may be related to him.
As expected, this job is the best in the world!
It's leisurely, interesting, high salary and good benefits.
Also gifted to boyfriend!
Chen Yunli felt refreshed. He stood up, stretched, and took out his cell phone to play games.
All he had to do now was to sit back and wait for the entity behind the name "Chen Wenjian" to fall into his trap.
Don't ask him if he can, he definitely can.
Just as Chen Yunli was thinking about it, he just clicked on a video website to watch two episodes of the latest updated Chinese cartoon, when he heard a prompt sound from the computer.
He put down his phone and looked at the lower right corner of the screen. The new email alerts flashed like continuous fireworks on New Year's Eve.
Chen Yunli smiled, moved the mouse over and clicked it.
Dear Auditor:
Hello.
Congratulations on completing all assessment tasks this week. Your bonus and vacation allowance have been sent to your dedicated employee account. Click here (highlighted in blue) to confirm your vacation time.
In addition, since you have completed all tasks with a perfect level, Boss (crossed out), your direct supervisor has prepared a two-day and one-night fully-expenses-paid trip to a tourist area opened by the divine realm in the human world for you. You can claim it after confirming your vacation time.
Divine Realm Office
January 15
Chen Yunli laughed out loud.
Isn’t it here?
He set his vacation for next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, so that he could travel seamlessly after the weekend and received the benefits given by his boss.
"Don't let me down." Chen Yunli poked the speaker with a smile, "System."
…
At nine o'clock in the morning on January 18, Chen Yunli went out with a packed small suitcase, checking the notifications sent by the system on his mobile phone as he walked.
"Someone will come to pick me up and take me to the tourist area? This is such a thoughtful service. Is it employee benefits or family benefits?"
He muttered a few words casually, and the moment he stepped out of the door, a breeze mixed with the fragrance of plum blossoms blew away the loose hair on his forehead.
The breeze also brought his familiar voice:
“It’s family welfare.”
This sentence froze Chen Yunli in his tracks. He looked up in a daze, his gaze passing through the bright sunlight and landing on the tall and straight figure under the plum tree not far away.
The handsome and elegant man smiled at him and extended his hand: "Let me introduce myself again. My name is Meng Jian, or you can call me by another name... Chen Wenjian."
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