Chu Qianli hesitated for a long time and couldn't name the village's specialty. She felt extremely humiliated and racked her brains to think of a way to appease her desk mate.

Unfortunately, Tan Muxing lives in a scenic area compound. He has seen everything in the world and is not easy to fool.

Although Tan Muxing had no intention of making things difficult for her, Chu Qianli was quite persistent and had been thinking about specialty products recently.

In the villa, Chu Qianli informed her parents that she was going back to the village with her classmates. Yu Xin and He Zhenghe didn't know whether the classmate was a boy or a girl, so they just treated them as children playing together and reminded them about safety issues.

He Shichen was still in training. He heard the news while talking to his family on the phone. He felt strange for a moment: "Are you going back with Tan Muxing?"

"Yes, just strolling around the village."

"You still want him to carry your bag when you go back to the village?" He Shichen said indifferently, "You don't even let him off during the summer vacation?"

If someone else was traveling with Chu Qianli, He Shichen would definitely feel something was wrong, but when it was Tan Muxing, he just felt pity. He had never met anyone more patient than Tan Muxing. Sometimes even he wanted to beat up the naughty kid, but she still had the patience to coax her.

Chu Qianli: "Brother, what you said is really too much. It has caused great harm to my young mind. I must be compensated for the mental damages."

"Didn't you just give me money on my birthday? And you didn't even give me a gift on my birthday?"

"Okay, then I'll go back to the village right away and give you a week of cleanliness."

“…”

He Shichen repeatedly emphasized that he had to do his homework and would let Tan Muxing supervise it before hanging up the phone.

A few days later, inside the station.

Chu Qianli and Tan Muxing met successfully. They queued to pass through the gate, found the high-speed rail carriage, and started their journey back to the village.

Tan Muxing had never traveled abroad with Chu Qianli before. When he saw her happily pulling her suitcase forward, he suddenly remembered Qiu Qingkong's overseas appointment and their future. The light in his eyes dimmed and he felt inexplicably upset.

The high-speed train started slowly, the scenery outside the window moved, and the two of them sat in the double seat by the window and chatted leisurely.

Chu Qianli stole a glance at Tan Muxing and scratched her head in confusion: "Why do I always feel like you're unhappy?"

Tan Muxing was stunned, and quickly waved his hand and said, "No, I just rarely take the high-speed rail, so I'm not used to it yet."

"So do you usually take a plane?"

"It's usually an airplane. I think it was a high-speed train once." Tan Muxing looked around and said tentatively, "But there are fewer seats than in this carriage."

Chu Qianli looked strange: "Great, I have always been curious about who sits in the first class cabin of the high-speed rail, and now I finally see the real person."

"If you didn't buy the gold, you could have gone first class, wouldn't that have made you a lot of money?"

"No, actually I just want to cooperate with you. I usually keep my sword back."

"…Thank you then."

Chu Qianli turned her head and looked out the window. The tall buildings in the city gradually disappeared and were slowly replaced by fields and distant mountains.

Tan Muxing looked at her quietly.

Chu Qianli noticed his gaze, she turned around and asked again: "What happened?"

Tan Muxing smiled and said, "No, it just feels like sitting like this, a bit like the Hogwarts Express."

Chu Qianli asked curiously, "So we are the wizards who are going to school?"

"I..." Tan Muxing subconsciously wanted to say that he was not a wizard, he should be an ordinary person, but suddenly he stopped talking and changed the topic, "Yeah, a little bit."

The journey didn’t take long. When they finished watching the anime, the high-speed train had already arrived at the station.

After exiting the station, they took a taxi and after some time, they arrived at a beautiful and peaceful village.

Yinlong Village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with beautiful scenery. It is close to the wide road and looks quite nice. It is evening, and the golden light of the setting sun breaks through the clouds, spreading a layer of warm colors over the mountains and fields, and even the sparkling rivers not far away.

Tan Muxing actually received a text message from the locals welcoming him to the province. He looked around and exclaimed, "It's really beautiful."

"Of course, the Feng Shui is not worse than Qianshan. Qianshan still lacks water, while here we are surrounded by mountains and water." Chu Qianli looked very pleased, and added, "Of course Qianshan is in the imperial capital, so its meaning is different again."

Tan Muxing pulled the suitcase and followed her to the village entrance. Seeing how happy she was, he suggested, "Can we stay a little longer?"

Chu Qianli seems to like the village very much. There is still time during the summer vacation, so there is no need to rush.

Chu Qianli was just smug, but now he changed his tone decisively: "Forget it, it's too much trouble to order a cup of milk tea. A week is enough. Modern people can't stay away from modern life."

Tan Muxing: “?”

Before the two reached the entrance of the village, they saw a woman waiting in the distance.

Chu Qianli's eyes lit up, and he waved desperately at the other party, shouting loudly: "Ping Ping!"

Wang Ping came over after hearing the voice. She looked to be in her twenties, with a neat ponytail. She said in surprise, "Why didn't you come back alone? I thought you were yelling at the intersection because you couldn't drag your luggage again."

Chu Qianli muttered: "I am an adult."

"Forget it." Wang Ping wanted to help Chu Qianli with the luggage, but suddenly realized that the other party didn't take anything. She looked at Tan Muxing behind her blankly.

Tan Muxing bowed subconsciously and said shyly, "Hello."

Chu Qianli introduced cheerfully: "This is my classmate Tan Muxing, he came to the village to play."

Wang Ping: "What's so fun in the village? Why did you trick people into coming here?"

"Ah, I also asked you if you had any local specialties."

"I'll dig you two scoops of soil from the mountain. Can that be considered a local specialty?"

Wang Ping speaks Mandarin with a local accent. She has a sharp and straightforward personality and is quite familiar with Chu Qianli.

Chu Qianli said that Wang Ping was a neighbor who used to work outside but now lived in the village.

Wang Ping said casually, "Now I raise chickens and ducks in the village, and occasionally I bring someone home to stay for a week."

"What do you want to eat tonight?" Wang Ping turned around and asked Tan Muxing, "What does your classmate want to eat? He can't cook with you, right?"

Tan Muxing said hurriedly: "I can eat anything."

Chu Qianli: "Hey, eat whatever you prepare."

"How did you know I was prepared? If I wasn't prepared, you two would be left starving?"

"I knew you were ready."

"...Okay, that's all you can do. You can't do anything else."

Tan Muxing overheard the conversation between the two and felt that Wang Ping should be Chu Qianli's village breeder. As expected, she needed someone to help her clean up the stall no matter where she went.

The little master only knows how to gaze at the stars and the moon, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon. If he really wants to fill his stomach with simple meals, he still needs the help of mortals.

Tan Muxing followed Chu Qianli silently, which made Wang Ping quite uncomfortable.

Wang Ping asked curiously, "Why doesn't your classmate speak?"

When Tan Muxing was named, he immediately became flustered: "Ah..."

Chu Qianli came to the rescue and said, "He is more introverted and shy."

Wang Ping nodded in understanding: "Indeed, he looks different from the kids running around in the village, and also different from you who always talks about running trains."

"Okay, as long as you don't kidnap him."

Tan Muxing said softly: "...she shouldn't be able to kidnap me."

"Then you underestimate her."

Wang Ping confirmed that Tan Muxing had this kind of personality, so she stopped forcing him to speak and instead chatted with Chu Qianli about the daily life in the village. She had a loud voice and spoke directly, and smiled and said, "You came back too late and didn't have time to see the excitement. Not long ago, Chen Lili's divorce was a hot topic, and her brother also had a fight with someone from the next village, and the village chief was so angry that he almost cursed..."

"He cares a lot about building a civilized village. He said this was not civilized at all. If they want to get a divorce, they should get it over with. What's the big deal about fighting in the village?" Wang Ping said. "It was such a mess. I was so happy."

Chu Qianli was stunned: "Are you still leaving?"

"That's right. Didn't she ask you to come and see her, and you euphemistically said it wasn't suitable, but she turned her head away?" Wang Ping sneered, "You can't say she's stupid, but you can't say she's not stupid either. Even if she wasn't stupid, she wouldn't have married that guy, but she still knew to live in our village, so she can't be considered particularly stupid."

"If she had gone to the next village with that guy, I don't know what would have happened to her. Now at least her family is here and someone can help her out. I think she should have listened to you in the beginning. She just refused to believe in evil."

Chu Qianli lowered her eyes helplessly: "That's not the way it should be said. Knowing is one thing, accepting is another. If someone is in a relationship and is told that it's going to break up, anyone would feel unhappy."

"The truth is hard to hear, otherwise why would we need rhetoric?" Chu Qianli sighed, "So sometimes it's useless to talk it out. I can only offer suggestions, but people have feelings, and you can't just break up with them."

Wang Ping shook her head: "I don't understand this kind of thing anyway. I know that there is no result in following this person, so I'll run away as soon as possible. What a waste of time!"

Tan Muxing was listening to the village gossip and suddenly felt uncomfortable.

The three of them had dinner at Wang Ping's house. Wang Ping specially cooked chicken soup and stir-fried wild vegetables from the mountains. The taste was really good.

After dinner, the two of them went to the next room with their new beddings, planning to pack up and get ready for rest.

Wang Ping cleaned the house in advance, and now the rooms are quite clean. Chu Qianli asked: "Do you want to live in Grandpa's room or my original room? But the beds in both rooms are empty, you need to go in and make the bed yourself."

"I can do anything."

Tan Muxing followed Chu Qianli around and finally chose his deskmate's former room. Chu Qianli's grandfather seemed to be a Feng Shui master, and the room had a strange layout, which made Tan Muxing, who resisted metaphysics, not quite adaptable.

The two of them cleaned up the room, reported safety to their families, checked the situation inside the house, and then walked around in the yard.

The land at the door was also planted with green vegetables and onions and garlic, which were probably grown by Wang Ping, and were obviously well taken care of.

Tan Muxing looked up at the sky, and he really saw a vast expanse of stars. Chu Qianli was not lying, the starry sky in the village was more vast than that in the city.

Chu Qianli was making a fuss in the corner. She tilted her head and looked at him curiously, touching left and right.

Tan Muxing thought about the casual chat during the day and asked, "Was Chen Lili your former client in the village?"

"Yes, the villagers have to choose an auspicious date for their weddings, and she asked me to calculate it at first." Chu Qianli explained, "Actually, it was my grandfather who left behind a clientele. Originally, it was my grandfather who calculated for the villagers, and later it was me."

Tan Muxing: "Didn't you say that fate cannot be simply judged as good or bad? Many people are not qualified to predict others' fate, so why can they predict marriage?"

"Do you still remember what I said?" Chu Qianli looked back at him and said patiently, "Astrologers really can't make a definitive conclusion. Everything is a trend rather than a result, but trends also have different probabilities."

"Probability?"

"Yes, the probability of good things happening is 90%, and the probability of bad things happening is 10%. I cannot say that good things happening is 100%, but the probability of good things happening is high."

Chu Qianli added: "I didn't predict that Chen Lili would definitely get divorced, but I predicted that she and her spouse would have difficulties. Their conflicts are likely to lead to divorce, and there is a small chance that they will not get divorced but their relationship will be affected. There are differences in the manifestations, but the trend has not changed."

Tan Muxing lowered his eyes, his voice slightly hoarse: "...So, doesn't it mean that fate cannot be changed?"

"You can change, but it's very difficult. It's essentially a kind of deduction. If you want to break the established course, you have to overthrow yourself and rebuild yourself. This process is too painful, so some people can't change."

Chu Qianli poked the chicken coop with a small stick and said calmly: "So sometimes I advise people not to calculate. Everyone is curious about their future, but in fact, it is difficult to change whether you know or not. Sometimes it is better not to know."

In the darkness of the night, Tan Muxing saw her sitting alone in the corner. He had been feeling low from time to time recently, and occasionally her conversation with Taoist Xu Qian would come to his mind, causing him an uncontrollable pain of separation.

However, as he stood under the starry sky, communicating with her freely, he suddenly felt the pain fading away, or rather, the intense pain numbed him and turned into a calmness and peace that he had not felt for a long time.

Tan Muxing said gently: "You are still a person who knows magic."

Chu Qianli was at a loss.

Tan Muxing smiled bitterly: "Because you know the future, you think it's better not to know. But for ordinary people like us, if we don't find someone to calculate it, we won't even have the opportunity to choose."

"Is this considered a siege? I'm not saying that everything has to be counted, but if I don't know some things, I might regret it for the rest of my life." Tan Muxing said softly, "Chen Lili's choice after knowing it and Chen Lili's choice without knowing it will have completely different results. What you did is not meaningless."

"Is it different?"

"Yes, she may face painful consequences, but she also has the opportunity to choose."

Chu Qianli stared at Tan Muxing for a long time. She finally puffed up her cheeks in dissatisfaction and said with her head down: "I've learned a lesson. I'm just an ordinary person. Today, I've also been taught a lesson by someone who doesn't know magic."

Tan Muxing waved her hands in panic: "I don't mean to teach you a lesson!"

Chu Qianli was rarely sarcastic: "Humph, whatever the young master with a courtyard says is right."

Tan Muxing suddenly felt a headache. He was thinking about how to persuade his deskmate when he suddenly heard a long sound coming from the chicken coop!

The next second, the hen in the chicken coop suddenly jumped out of the cage. It was strong and flapped its wings, and swooped towards Chu Qianli who was causing trouble, making a series of cackling sounds.

Chu Qianli was just playing with the cage when she was suddenly attacked by the big hen. She quickly ran behind Tan Muxing and cried out in sobs, "Save me! Save me! Save me!"

When Tan Muxing faced the sudden situation, he subconsciously protected Chu Qianli and actually calmed down the crazy chicken.

The big hen hesitated for a moment, trying to bypass Tan Muxing and attack Chu Qianli behind her, but was blocked by the big white bear bodyguard.

Chu Qianli used her deskmate as a shield. She immediately became bolder and provoked the hen, "Come over here?"

The big hen paced back and forth anxiously, and from time to time she made noises, as if scolding the little bear for being so cunning and unsportsmanlike.

The two people and the chicken were in a standoff and began to circle around in place.

Tan Muxing had never seen such a posture before, so he said with gritted teeth: "Should we drive it back to the cage?"

At this moment, Wang Ping from next door heard the noise. She walked out of the house with a stick and said angrily: "Chu Qianli, are you teasing the chicken again? I have never seen a child as irritable as you. You can't beat it but you keep provoking it--"

Wang Ping picked up a stick and drove the big hen back to the cage, then scolded Chu Qianli, saying that sooner or later she would learn her lesson after being pecked in the eyes by a chicken.

Chu Qianli muttered unhappily: "Can't we stew it?"

"Didn't you just have chicken soup tonight? I think you've been stewed!"

When Tan Muxing witnessed this scene, he suddenly wanted to take a photo as a souvenir. He always felt that He Shichen had changed his gender and changed his career to raising chickens in the village.

After all the ups and downs, he finally felt the reality of being in the village. This was where she grew up, and she was surrounded by people who had grown up with her, which made him feel relaxed and happy.

Tan Muxing went back to the house to wash up first, leaving only Chu Qianli and Wang Ping in the yard.

Wang Ping winked at Chu Qianli, raised her chin towards the house and asked, "Who is that? I really don't understand you kids."

"My deskmate." Chu Qianli added, "and my best friend in the city school."

Wang Ping looked strange: "You treat him as a friend, right? What kind of friend would follow you back to the village?"

"So we are best friends." Chu Qianli saw through the other person's expression and explained seriously, "It's not the kind of relationship you think, Pingping."

Wang Ping couldn't help but tease: "You don't even know what I'm thinking, how can you say no?"

"Because the kind of feelings you think are too simple, I know it's not true."

Wang Ping was puzzled and asked, "What kind of feeling is that?"

"It's Zhishi's feelings." Chu Qianli pondered for a few seconds and said solemnly, "It's a more pure, more selfless, and more unrequited feeling."

"Everything is gained and every thing is lost, and that is a feeling that I cannot repay."

Chu Qianli can fool around with He Shichen, they are both aware of the loss of the wrong identity, so it doesn't matter. She will be more restrained with Qiu Qingkong, Wang Ping and others, and she is also much more obedient in front of her parents, controlling the balance between giving and receiving.

However, Tan Muxing never let her count for anything, he never owed her anything.

He claimed to be an ordinary person who could not use magic, but for him who did not believe in magic, her ability to use magic was actually useless. The two were completely equal, and he had even seen something.

She didn't know if she had a future, so she didn't know how to repay him.

"Why can't you pay it back? If you have a good relationship, don't worry about it!" Wang Ping said generously, "Take your friend around tomorrow. Although there is nothing in the village, you are here anyway, so don't be so gloomy."

Chu Qianli patted her cheeks, cheered herself up, and asked tentatively: "Okay, can we stew this chicken tomorrow?"

"No, if you try to take advantage of it again, I'll open the cage and let it reason with you."

The next day, Chu Qianli and Tan Muxing were fed by Wang Ping in the morning, and then decided to follow her up the mountain for a walk.

Wang Ping led the two of them along a small path in the mountains and suggested, "I'll go borrow a car from the village chief and take you up the mountain to pick some things. This won't be a wasted trip. People from the city don't often go into the mountains, right?"

Tan Muxing said amiably: "Thank you..."

Chu Qianli: "He is a city dweller among city dwellers. His family used to own a mountain!"

Tan Muxing was afraid that Wang Ping would be unhappy, so he waved his hands awkwardly: "No, no!"

Wang Ping said calmly: "What's the big deal? My family used to have a mountain, and now Yinlong Mountain has also been incorporated into the village."

Chu Qianli continued to boast: "Pingping, I am now super rich. I can definitely support you. You can't even count the zeros in my account!"

Wang Ping heard the bragging of the kid, she raised her eyebrows and asked in surprise: "Now people in the city can put ghost money in their accounts?"

"What ghost money? It must be money from the living world!"

Wang Ping sneered: "I know you are trying to deceive me again. Do you really think I am ignorant and don't go online? That is Zimbabwean dollars. I didn't go to the factory until I finished high school."

Tan Muxing: “…” How many times has one been cheated to have this mentality?

Tan Muxing was originally worried that Wang Ping was unhappy, but now he thought that people who dealt with naughty kids were basically not ordinary people, and controlling Chu Qianli was like kneading a chicken.