Chapter 108: Rebuilding the Roots of Love
She was ill for half a month.
A girl who was originally as healthy as an ox suddenly began to cover her chest and say she felt uncomfortable every few days.
Mu Jin bought a small courtyard in an alley in Chang'an. There were seven rooms in total, and there was a long corridor surrounding the seven rooms, which cleverly passed through the seven rooms.
She was very ill, and Mu Jin had almost spent all their savings on her illness, but she still didn't get better.
Doctors from Chang'an were invited one after another, but they either said she was not sick or that a coffin should be prepared for her. Bowl after bowl of herbal medicine for treating angina pectoris were boiled, but she did not feel better after drinking it, and instead became weaker and weaker.
Mu Jin hated the book "Gao Shan Shou" more and more. He was sure that it was because of that evil book that she became like this.
Until one day, he was rushing back after delivering the painting and was tripped by a Taoist priest.
He stopped Mu Jin, pointed at her forehead and said, "There's too much evil spirit in your home. I'm afraid there's an evil spirit causing trouble."
Mu Jin didn't believe in these weird and supernatural things. If he really believed in them, he would have been scared to death countless times when he was a child.
He took a step forward and was about to leave. The Taoist priest refused to give in and counted with his fingers, "Young Master, there must be someone seriously ill in your family, isn't it?"
Mu Jin looked back at him. He was not so easily fooled. He was wondering where the Taoist got the information from. Could it be that the doctors who treated Jiaoran leaked it?
"No." Mu Jin left after saying these two words.
The Taoist priest tried to stop him, but was knocked back a few steps by him. He adjusted his hat and chuckled. "It seems I was right. It doesn't matter if you don't believe me. Here you go."
There was a white stone in his palm, which was somewhat transparent, as if it had been polished from a cow horn.
"What's this?"
"Your friend's illness is too serious. No ordinary doctor can cure him. I don't have that much ability either. But when you go back, find a rainy day and light this horn. When the strange fragrance rises, someone will tell you how to cure your friend's illness."
Mu Jin didn't believe him. "Thank you very much, but I won't accept the reward without merit."
The Taoist priest was anxious. Why didn't he just say so? "This is the five-colored deer antler from Wuliang Mountain. Burning it can communicate with the gods. Then someone will naturally be able to help you cure your illness."
Mu Jin still refused. The Taoist priest couldn't stand it anymore and stepped forward to put the horn into his hand. "Whether you want it or not, I'm giving it to you, so you have to accept it."
After saying that, he ran away.
He returned to the courtyard and saw Jiaoran basking in the sun at home. She seemed to look better. Then she turned her head and saw him, and her expression suddenly became strange.
Mu Jin was in great pain. He wondered whether he should leave her. Perhaps her illness was a heart disease. As long as she didn't see him and stopped talking to him, she would gradually get better.
But he felt that if he left again like he had plotted against her on the day he did, they might never see each other again. He couldn't imagine never seeing Jiaoran again for the rest of his life, and he would rather die.
So he had to remain silent as much as possible, as if he didn't exist in front of her, like a ball of air, as long as he was still by her side.
She turned away and looked at him after a long time, as if it took a lot of effort. "You're back?"
Mu Jin nodded without saying a word.
He put his arm around her waist and led her into the room. He was very familiar with this action, but she froze, as if she hadn't come back to her senses.
Also, over the past year, their physical contact has become less and less.
Jiaoran was placed by him on the bed. She felt a little awkward, as if she was unfamiliar with him. She tried to find something to say, "Yuan Jianlu sent me a letter saying that he and Wan'er had been married, and it was only delayed for a few months."
Mu Jin wasn't interested in her friends, but she cared about them even more than he did, so he had to pretend to be happy for them, "It's wonderful that lovers finally get married."
Jiao Ran said yes, and then asked a question that left him a little confused, "Why did two people get married?"
Mu Jin squatted in front of her, thought for a moment and said, "Love makes them willing to give up something in order to gain something."
"What did you give up, and what did you gain?"
Mu Jin said, "I gave up some freedom and gained some freedom."
Jiao Ran didn't understand, "Aren't they all the same?"
"It's different," he said. "Do you want to know what freedom is like?"
Jiaoran shook his head, feeling a little annoyed.
She felt like something was obscuring her mind. She had been able to figure out some very simple questions before, but now she couldn't.
It was like she used to be able to clearly see a candied fruit stall not far away opposite the Huiying Inn, but one day she couldn't see it anymore. But someone walked up to her and said, "Oh, so that's the candied fruit stall you're looking for. It's right there."
He sat beside her, side by side with Jiaoran.
Then he pressed his jade-white face against Jiaoran's neck, and her earlobe was pressed against his forehead, making her ears numb.
Jiaoran sat quietly for a while.
Then she tilted her head slightly, closed her eyes and kissed his forehead.
His eyes widened as if he was frightened. It had been so long since they left the Governor's Mansion, and Jiaoran had never kissed him like this again. Later, she kissed him out of anger and was sick for more than ten days.
He wondered if he really was an unlucky star, bringing misfortune to anyone he met. When they were young, Chai Che was the only one willing to approach him, but soon after, he was taken to Chang'an and forced to separate from his parents. He fell in love with Jiao Ran, and thought they would live like a couple after leaving the Governor's Mansion. But Jiao Ran's temperament suddenly changed, and he gradually became unfamiliar with her.
He didn't think it was Jiaoran's fault, he just felt that the problem was all his own.
Jiaoran poked him with his finger, "What else?"
He was stunned. "What else?"
She was a little angry. She stood up and took off her clothes one by one according to her instinct. "Is that so?"
Mu Jin clumsily gathered her clothes and tucked her into the quilt. "It's cold, why did you take off everything?"
Jiao Ran said, "I don't know either. I just wanted to do this when I saw you."
He sighed, clearly feeling that Jiaoran was indeed different from before. The Jiaoran in front of him seemed to be more insensitive to emotions than when she first came to him many years ago.
She was completely naked, throwing her clothes on the ground, showing a courage to face death.
Mu Jin sat on the edge of the bed without looking at her, and no one knew what he was thinking.
He didn't think for long. Jiaoran heard him say, "Well, let's start over."
He undid her clothes and let her body fall into his hands.
The weather is getting colder.
He pressed against her, and she shivered a little, wondering if it was because he was not very warm.
She couldn't wait for him to undress, so she lifted a corner of the quilt, revealing her smooth shoulders.
Mu Jin was amused by her eagerness. He had felt a little sad just now, but now seeing her impatience, he lowered his head and laughed a few times.
"What are you laughing at?" Jiaoran asked him.
He thought he had to guide her because she was even more ignorant than before, as if she had never known about such matters between men and women.
Mu Jin kissed her once and quickly left her lips. Seeing that she just trembled a little and did not look as pale as when she fainted on the street that day, he felt relieved.
He kissed her more calmly.
But he still kissed her for a while and then let her go to see if she was uncomfortable.
Jiaoran raised her hand and leaned in front of him, stroking his eyebrows, corners of his eyes, chin, and Adam's apple as if she had found a toy that she had never cared about before.
As she did so, more memories flooded into her mind.
She seemed to have done this countless times.
It turned out to be him who was as interesting to her as the sword techniques.
He closed his eyes as she stroked him.
Jiao Ran whispered in his ear, "I understand."
"Know what?"
Jiaoran said, "You are so beautiful."
Mu Jin was somewhat helpless, "If I'm no longer pretty, you'll stop loving me?"
like?
What is that?
Jiaoran asked him.
He wanted to explain to her, but after thinking for too long, he didn't know how to start.
So he turned over slightly and pressed her down. Just when Jiaoran thought he would kiss her lips like he did just now, he didn't. He moved down a little.
Very humid.
It's also very warm.
She would rather he kissed her lips.
Jiaoran's tears welled up in her eyes. She had never known such happiness before, but in the midst of extreme happiness, she suddenly felt as if she had experienced such happiness a long time ago.
Then she started crying and asked him to stop, but he didn't. He didn't let her go until she took a series of rapid breaths.
Mu Jin poked his head out and saw that there were indeed traces of tears on her face. He wiped her tears with the back of his hand and asked, "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
"no."
"Now that you feel better, don't cry, okay?"
Jiao Ran asked him, "Is this the love you're talking about?"
Mu Jin said no, "Love is happier than this."
"Happier?"
"Yes, you knew it before, but you may have forgotten it now. But it doesn't matter, you will understand it later."
Jiaoran was a little tired. He looked at her, but she avoided his eyes, looked to the other side, and then slowly closed her eyes.
He pushed her sweat-soaked hair away from the corner of her lips and looked at her quietly. Her face was like the white petals of some flower, quiet and comfortable.
Now she no longer looked like the murderous Jiaoran who had returned to Huiying Inn, nor did she look like the Jiaoran who had broken into the Governor's Mansion again and caused trouble everywhere. Instead, she looked like the first time he saw her when he entered the Governor's Mansion.
It's raining outside, what a coincidence.
She was fast asleep too.
Mu Jin saw the white stone fallen to the ground.
Cut some off and mix it in the incense burner.
Then he lay down beside Jiaoran, his eyelids growing heavier.
He walked through a forest and a stream. There were countless crows on the trees on both sides, and each crow was as big as a human.
Mu Jin was a little scared, but he smelled the fragrance, which seemed to be guiding him forward.
Somehow, he felt that someone was waiting for him.
After walking for a while, he saw a blue lake with huge round rocks on the shore.
There was a fisherman holding a purple jade fishing rod, fishing with his back to him, and Mu Jin could not see his face clearly.
He said, "You're here."
Mu Jin said yes, "You want to see me?"
This mortal was quite interesting. It was obvious that he had something to ask of him, so Zhu Su clenched his fishing rod.
"If you have nothing else to ask me, I'm leaving now."
Zhu Su didn't even look back and just continued fishing.
"Okay, then you just wait to collect her body."
"What do you mean? You know she's very ill."
Zhu Su said, "If it weren't for you, how could she be in so much pain?"
"Me? Because of me?"
Zhu Su said, "Don't you realize that every time she's heartbroken it's because of you. If you're not by her side, she'll feel better."
"Did you do anything?"
Zhu Su paused and denied it, "You should blame yourself. You shouldn't have disturbed her mood."
"She needs me, so I should be with her."
"Maybe she doesn't need you."
Mu Jin said, "That's not up to you to decide."
Zhu Su sneered, "How dare you speak to me like that."
"Because I'm not asking you for anything."
Zhu Su then turned around and gave him a disdainful look, "Oh?"
"I just wanted to see what kind of extraordinary person he was, but I didn't expect him to be just like this."
Zhu Su grabbed the fishing rod, and the hook was immediately in front of him. If it was only a hair's length away, he could blind Mu Jin's eyes, but Mu Jin just stood there motionless.
His hook changed direction and cut a deep gash on his face, and blood dripped down his flawless face.
Mu Jin smiled and said, "So that's how it is."
"funny?"
Mu Jin said, "You are jealous."
"That's nonsense."
"It was just a dream, wasn't it?"
Zhu Su was also stunned for a moment because he didn't expect someone to realize it was a dream so quickly after falling asleep. Mu Jin was more difficult to deal with than he thought. Yes, if he didn't have a delicate heart, how could he coax her around.
"Since you know this is a dream, you should remember that I am not an ordinary person. You should do as I say."
"You want me to leave her, but I can't."
Zhu Su said, "She is a person of great fortune. She has her own path. You are restricting her with the love between a father and a daughter. This will only make her unable to see that love is an illusion. If you have even a little consideration for her in your heart, you should not block her path."
"Her way? If her way doesn't include me, then I will never let go."
"In this way, you will only get a corpse."
"She...will die?"
"Jiao Ran has mastered the 'High Mountain Longevity' technique, an extraordinary spiritual method that requires a complete renunciation of all emotions. If you allow her to harbor romantic desires again, the spiritual method she has mastered will interfere with her emotions, causing her natural suffering. The best solution is to stop her from loving."
Mu Jin said, "I don't believe it."
"You can give it a try, but the price is her life. If she gets emotional a few more times, I'm afraid you'll only see a dead Jiaoran."
The water surface was still calm, but the crows on the tree behind him were startled and a golden dragon coiled around the tree and reached the top of the tree.
In the blink of an eye, he transformed into a human form and jumped down, "You are so despicable."
Zhu Su was unmoved, "I'm doing this for her own good."
"Her heartache is unbearable because her love has sprouted again. As long as this period of time passes, she will be reborn and her love roots will be rebuilt. You pulled out one of her love roots and sealed her others, but you didn't expect that her love roots would regenerate after only a year. You are afraid, so you want to use tricks again to make Mu Jin leave her on her own initiative."
Zhu Su hummed, "I do think so. What about you?"
Ji Feng was silent, unable to defend himself.
"Don't you have the same selfish motives as me? The Phoenix Chick will find her soon after it's trained. You and I both know the final outcome. I erased her memory and uprooted her love roots according to the Divine Lord's punishment. You've been with her for so long, but you never told her. Because you didn't want her to stay in the mortal world."
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