Like your hands
Lin Yuan's nose suddenly felt sore and tears welled up in her eyes.
Yuan Xuanlang felt her trembling, and quickly held her face in his hands and wiped away her tears, "Who bullied you? Tell me, I'll beat him up!"
Lin Yuan shook her head. "No, let's go back first. I'm sleepy."
Yuan Xuanlang turned his back and squatted down, "Come, brother will carry you back!"
Lin Yuan scratched her hair and after some consideration, she chose to restrain herself. "It's not like I don't have legs. I can walk."
Yuan Xuanlang stood up and said, "Okay, Xiaoyuan, you can ask me to carry you anytime if you feel tired."
"I know, I know. If we don't leave now, it will be dawn soon."
Lin Yuan walked quickly in front.
Today was really overwhelming for Lin Yuan. He didn't care about recovering his memory, bandits, or kidnapping. He just fell asleep as soon as he got on the bed.
The next day, she woke up in a daze when it was already bright outside. Seeing that the sun was already high in the sky, she suddenly became sober.
Oh my god! How long have I slept? Where is Yuan Xuanlang?
Lin Yuan pushed open the door and saw two bowls of porridge on the square table in the yard. Yuan Xuanlang came out of the kitchen with a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
"Eh? The sun is rising from the west, and brother can cook too?" Lin Yuan sat down and teased him. As long as she didn't care, nothing would have happened yesterday.
He was not annoyed. "This hero has been in the martial arts world for many years, and this is the basic method."
"Oh, then let me, a food connoisseur, have a try!" Lin Yuan picked up a piece of scrambled eggs with chopsticks and put it in his mouth.
He stared at her expectantly. "Well, I'm a capable warrior, and I'm a capable cook."
Lin Yuan said nothing and quickly drank a mouthful of soup to wash away the sweetness in her mouth. She laughed angrily, "You put sugar in your scrambled eggs with tomatoes?"
"What? It's always been like this in my family."
Lin Yuan understood and nodded, "Okay, okay, regional differences are understandable, but why do you put chili in this soup?"
"It's not chili, it's pepper. This is hot and sour soup, it's appetizing and refreshing!"
This soup is colorful, "painted" with the brightest colors of crayons such as goose yellow, persimmon red, and emerald green.
Lin Yuan took a sip, and the sour, spicy, fresh and fragrant flavors came to her, exploding into every part of her mouth, strong and unrestrained. The bamboo shoots, wood ear mushrooms and dried mushrooms blended their umami flavor into the thick soup, which was topped with delicate egg drops.
"Not bad!" Lin Yuan's eyes sparkled.
"Of course! Your senior brother is the most talented person in the world, and he is also an expert at making soup!" He jumped onto the stool with joy.
Lin Yuan has become resistant to his narcissism. "Yes, yes, drink your soup. I have something to talk to you after dinner."
"Can't you tell me now?"
"Walls have ears."
"Who do you choose to believe?" Lin Yuan asked him.
The sound of villagers working outside the window became the background music. At this moment, inside the house, two people sat opposite each other at a three-meter-long wooden table.
Yuan Xuanlang stroked the pattern on the Lingxu Sword: "It's confusing. Don't trust anyone here."
"So, you are not trustworthy either?" Lin Yuan raised his eyelids and asked in doubt, with a mischievous smile in his eyes.
"I—you can trust me unconditionally."
Lin Yuan supported his chin with one hand, right?
"Xiao Yuan, you haven't given me an answer yet?"
Lin Yuan honestly said, "Totally trusting someone is like... walking on a tightrope. It's very precarious. If you're not careful, you could fall and be smashed to pieces. I'm really scared of falling."
Yuan Xuanlang said frankly: "It's okay, you can trust me a little bit, but I'm saying 'I like you'."
He would never say something stupid like "I'm not confessing my feelings to you just to win your like."
What is coming will eventually come. Lin Yuan stood up and walked away: "I'm sorry, I can't give you a satisfactory answer."
She didn't dare look at him.
"Xiao Yuan, are you at all fond of me?" He stood up and took a step closer.
"Maybe, but just liking each other is not enough. People who love each other may not necessarily be together." Lin Yuan smiled bitterly.
He took a step closer and asked, "How do you know if it works if you don't try?"
"Do you like snow?"
"Ah? I like it." He didn't know why she wanted to change the subject.
Lin Yuan looked at the bright summer sun outside the window, with a gloom in her eyes.
The chirping of cicadas drifted out from the sycamore tree and spread all around.
"Why like snow? It only lives for one winter. It doesn't exist in spring, summer, and autumn."
He moved closer again, so close that there was a wall behind Lin Yuan that she couldn't escape from.
"I like snow. I don't care how short it lasts or when it disappears." He stared into her eyes and said every word.
She has no way out. A cornered rabbit will bite.
She lifted his chin and sneered, "Why do you like me?"
"You have a pretty face, but unfortunately I'm not obsessed with looks, but..."
She parted her cherry lips and smiled coldly, which made people marvel. Such an innocent and harmless face should be unrestrained, full of laughter and playfulness, like a cute and adorable daughter, and should never show such an expression.
She held his hand and admired it carefully. "You can chop off your hand and give it to me. I like your hand."
She lifted her eyelids, revealing her amber puppy dog eyes. Her gaze was hot and crazy, like scarlet magma rolling, burning people.
Seeing him silent, she thought to herself, just give up when you know it's difficult. Good boy, no normal person can accept such a crazy request.
"It's all yours. I'm all yours." He held her hand and slowly approached, isolating himself from everything around him, as long as Lin Yuan only had him in her eyes.
Lin Yuan was stunned and didn't know how to react for a moment.
“Don’t think about anything, just feel it.”
Danger was at hand, his breath was getting closer and closer, Lin Yuan's sanity was close to collapse, but he was still struggling with his emotions and fighting stubbornly.
This feeling of wanting to get close but also feeling uneasy and wanting to escape is really contradictory.
She felt the flitting of butterfly wings, the skimming of the water by dragonflies, or perhaps it was all a figment of her imagination.
"Brother Yuan!"
The crisp sound broke all the illusions.
Xiao Cui stood at the door like a stone statue, with an expression of disbelief.
Lin Yuan looked at Xiao Cui, feeling anxious.
Yuan Xuanlang kissed her on the cheek and looked at Xiao Cui with a proud look on his face.
"You...you guys..." Xiao Cui was tongue-tied and looked extremely ugly.
Lin Yuan was embarrassed and annoyed. She pushed him away, ran out of the house, and hopped away like a rabbit.
He leaned against the wall, raised his chin arrogantly: "As you can see, we are not siblings."
Xiao Cui was heartbroken and ran away crying.
He waited for a long time, but even the sun was at its highest point in the sky and no one showed up.
Am I pushing too hard? He didn't go to find Lin Yuan, wanting to give her some time.
Finally, he waited for Lin Yuan to come back.
"Well...I need some time." Lin Yuan stammered.
"It's okay, you don't have to reply to me now, I can wait for you."
Lin Yuan raised her head and looked at him. Wait for me? Time will wear away a person's enthusiasm.
"Thank you." She thanked him with an indescribable emotion.
"Sister?" Erzhu half of his body was exposed outside the door frame.
Seeing that it was Erzhu, Lin Yuan walked to the door frame, bent down, and said in a gentle voice: "Erzhu, does your mother know that you ran away secretly?"
Erzhu shook his head, "She is not my mother."
"Do you know any other child like you?" She pulled Erzhu into the house and closed the door.
"My current mother's little treasure, the children they brought home from outside were all younger than me."
She turned around and looked at him, "Call the police?" Such a large-scale trafficking case could not be solved by the two of them alone.
"Does your mother know about this?" he asked Erzhu.
"My mother didn't know. She thought the child was sent by the Bodhisattva in the village temple. Because if they worship the Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva will grant them a child after a month behind the statue."
He seemed to have grasped some clues: "Could the Bodhisattva bring blessings or bring disasters?"
Erzhu opened his eyes wide and nodded vigorously: "They say that bandits are a disaster, drought and poor crops are also disasters, and the Bodhisattva wants to punish those in the village who are not prosperous and willing to work hard."
"Erzhu, don't tell anyone about this. Go home secretly now. Your brothers and sisters will investigate the matter and then send you home."
Erzhu nodded vigorously and slipped away like a little mouse.
"Let's go to the ancestral hall in the afternoon."
…
In the ancestral hall, the tablet was quietly placed in front of the table under the light. The Bodhisattva sat in the center behind it, holding a jade bottle with willow branches in it. She looked at the woman in front of her who was fulfilling her wish with kindness and gentleness.
The village chief stroked his beard and said with a smile, "Ms. Liu, Guanyin has given you a son. Now you can go and see him."
Liu smiled widely, thanked him several times, and took out a chubby white baby from the basket behind the statue.
After Liu left the ancestral hall, Yuan and Lin appeared at the right time and met with the village chief.
"Guanyin bestowed a child. We all saw it, village chief." Yuan Xuanlang said solemnly.
The village chief nodded and lowered his brows: "What do you want?"
"Do you feel any guilt at all? You gave the child you forced upon them by deception. Do you still have the face to face the ancestors on the altar?!" His anger was evident.
The village chief sighed and looked at the tablets of his ancestors. "No, my clan has been here for generations. I did this to ensure the continuation of the clan. I will go to the underworld to apologize to my ancestors."
"Those children were killed by the bandits, right? You begged me not to kill them that day."
"Yes, if you want to stand up for them, then go out from here, head east, walk out of the misty forest, and report to the authorities."
Lin Yuan couldn't help but worry about his intelligence. After telling us all the dangers, of course we wouldn't take that road.
"That's the only way to the outside world," the village chief added.
Lin Yuan: “…”
Yuan Xuanlang threatened him: "Aren't you afraid that I will reveal the truth?"
The village chief shook his head and chuckled, "Tell me, does anyone believe you? The Bodhisattva's gift of a child is a miracle in their eyes, a fact in their eyes."
Yes, when everyone thinks something is right, your one "wrong" word is a fallacy.
"Hmph, we will never let you down." He glanced coldly and took Lin Yuan back.
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