Chapter 154: Long Night of Snowfall
The summer in the mortal world is so hot that it is annoying.
She really wanted to bring Mu Jin into the wonderful land as well. The wonderful land was like spring all year round, so how could there be such hot weather?
Ever since Zhen'er and Mu Jin had a big fight that day, she rarely left her room and rarely met Jiaoran.
Jiaoran was planting a new tree in the backyard. For some reason, several trees in the front yard had died, so she thought of removing the dead trees and planting new ones.
Mu Jin came to her while she was planting trees and told her that everyone in the inn had left and only the two of them were left.
She wiped the sweat off her forehead, not understanding why he suddenly sent everyone away.
Mu Jin came over and wiped the sweat off her face. "How about we go and pay respect to our relatives in a few days?"
Jiaoran took the handkerchief and casually sat on the fallen tree behind him, "Okay."
Zhen'er poked her head out from upstairs and said, "Then I want to go too."
Mu Jin said, "She will leave tomorrow. Someone will come to pick her up. We don't have to take her with us."
Jiao Ran smiled and said, "We are going to pay respect to our relatives. Are you sure you want to go too?"
The little girl was angry and said, "Dad's relatives are my relatives. I want to go too."
Jiaoran shook his head and laughed.
"What delicious food should I make for lunch?"
Mu Jin asked, "What do you want to eat?"
"Wild vegetable dumplings." Zhen'er looked at Jiaoran provocatively.
Mu Jin frowned, "Did I ask you?"
Jiaoran was amused by the little girl and said, "Let's eat the wild vegetable dumplings."
"I have two fish in the tank. I plan to grill them for lunch. Don't you want to eat them?"
Jiao Ran hurriedly said, "Eat! Have you cleaned it? If not, how about I kill the fish?"
"No, just go ahead and do your thing. I'll call you when I'm done."
At noon, they saw wild vegetable dumplings on the table. The little girl stared at Jiaoran as if she had won a battle. She was very impressed. Jiaoran took a few bites of the fish and said, "Mu Jin, you are really good at cooking. This grilled fish is quite my style. Hey, did you know that grilled fish was my best dish at the inn before?"
He said casually, "Yeah, I know."
"You know?"
"Ask the people in Mianyuan. Maybe you don't understand me as well as I do now. I've gotten to know you thoroughly during these years. When did you steal someone's chicken and have them come to your house to claim it? When did you poke a hornet's nest and sting a passerby, leaving your father to clean up the mess? When did you go to the gambling house with Bu Yue to watch people gamble, only to be brought back by your mother and beaten up..."
Jiaoran suddenly felt ashamed, "Stop talking about it. It's been so long, it's just an old story."
"I can talk about this for three days and three nights."
The two of them were arguing back and forth, and Zhen'er had no chance to keep up with the conversation. She was so angry that she went back without finishing her meal. She was very upset when she saw Jiaoran pestering Mu Jin, but she couldn't bear to vent her anger on Mu Jin. When she quarreled with Jiaoran, Mu Jin's eyes would become very scary. She really wanted to poison Jiaoran to death immediately, so that she could avenge her mother.
When Mu Jin was sitting on a small stool washing dishes, she came over and said, "Zhen'er is so pitiful. In her heart, you are the closest person in the world. She regards you as her father. You should not be so mean to her all the time. Besides, she will be gone soon. Why should you make her sad when she leaves? Hmm?"
He raised his head and said, "Xiao Liu doesn't know how to take care of children. I have taken care of her for several years, but she always has an inexplicable hatred towards you. I am worried that one day she will harm you."
Jiao Ran said, "She wants to harm me. Just practice a little more and don't think too much about it. It won't be a problem. Besides, you've taken care of this child for many years. I don't want you to drive her away because of me. You must feel bad about it."
Mu Jin said, "No, I took care of the orphan of the Chai family out of consideration for Chai Che. Now that she has grown up, it would be better to send her back to Xiao Liu."
Jiaoran looked at his hands soaked in the greasy soup. When she first met him, he was like a fragile young master in the Governor's Mansion, needing care and waiting everywhere. Now he was actually washing his hands to cook soup and learning to take care of others. Jiaoran sighed, "I'll wash it. The cook doesn't have to wash the pot."
"Some of them are for you to wash, don't be in a hurry." He said.
"Are there any dishes left to be washed? I'll go get them and wash them."
"It's not dishes and chopsticks," he said.
It was very hot in the afternoon, so he kept pestering her.
"It's not dark yet."
"I know."
"You are committing adultery in broad daylight."
"Then do you agree?"
"I..." Jiao Ran chuckled twice, then took over and pressed him down on the bed, "How can I not allow you?"
Their lips and tongues covered all the words, and for a moment the only sound in the room was the sound of kissing. Jiao Ran said distractedly, "It's so hot, I'm sweating a lot."
"It's okay, I'll wash it later."
"I've already taken a cold shower, I don't want to take another one."
"I didn't ask you to wash the dishes."
"So you were waiting for me here."
"I'll join you when you wash."
"No, the water is overflowing and all over the floor."
"I didn't ask you to clean it up."
He pinched her chin, caressed her face with his lips, and stopped at her lips.
In the summer, both of them were wearing thin clothes. Jiaoran's hand had already reached into his wide sleeves. He explored her slightly changed facial features with his lips, and she used her fingers to set fire to him.
"You did it on purpose..." He was already breathing heavily. He stripped off Jiaoran's clothes and put his arms around her shoulders.
Jiaoran was also addicted to it and let him control him.
"When you were out there... did you miss me a lot..."
He was still asking her such questions. Jiaoran wanted to honestly tell him that she had forgotten about him most of the time and only remembered him later, but honestly speaking, she would definitely be sad, so she said, "Every day."
He knew every part of her body, knew how to make her happy, and of course, knew how to hurt her, "Lie."
Jiaoran also gripped his shoulders solemnly, "It hurts."
"Who told you to lie?"
Jiaoran said stubbornly, "I just miss you every day."
"It's all lies," he said, his breath brushing against her back.
Jiaoran also felt that it was not good to lie to him, so he said honestly, "Okay, I forgot about you at first, but then I remembered and came back to find you."
She wanted to turn around to see his expression, afraid that he was sad, but he stopped her from looking back and entered her from behind.
Jiaoran was a little afraid that he would be sad, so she said, "Actually, I didn't mean to forget you. It's just that I thought I was dead at first, and then they suddenly elevated me to a high position and made me into someone else. Not only did I forget you, I also forgot that I was Jiaoran."
She felt that this time was particularly long. Mu Jin seemed to slow down his movements again and again after hearing her words, and deliberately caressed and explored her whole body.
Jiaoran didn't understand what was wrong with him. He was still in her body and he refused to leave immediately, as if he was afraid of losing her.
"Why do you keep touching me? Do you want to touch every single strand of my hair?" Jiaoran said with a smile.
He said, "I want to remember you. If I forget you, I want to think of you immediately when I meet you next time. I want to be familiar with every part of you."
Jiao Ran chuckled and said, "No, they won't erase your memory. They just want me to be obedient."
Mu Jin suddenly asked her, "Do you prefer to be a mortal or a fairy?"
"If I'm with you, I just want to be a mortal."
Mu Jin asked, "If I weren't there, would you want to become an immortal?"
Jiaoran's silence was a kind of acknowledgment.
Mu Jin didn't force her to say anything. He touched her spine, stroking every inch back and forth countless times.
He not only wanted to remember her appearance, but also her bone structure. If possible, he even wanted to enter her body to remember her soul, but he knew that he couldn't.
She wiped the water off her body and hair after showering in front of the dressing mirror and was combing her long hair carefully. Mu Jin stood behind her, looking at her in the mirror, as if he didn't recognize her.
Jiao Ran couldn't help laughing, "Don't tell me you don't know who I am now?"
"Yes, who are you? I can't remember."
Jiao Ran laughed and hit his arm lightly, "How annoying."
He held her shoulders, tilted his head and kissed her, "Play for a while longer, okay?"
Jiaoran nodded, and he separated her in front of the dressing table. This table was the desk she used when she was a child. She often carved on it back then. Now when she touched the scribbled patterns on it, she seemed to be back in her childhood.
Jiaoran was afraid that the table was useless, "Go slowly, don't break it."
"No," he said. "I've reinforced your desks. I'm afraid they'll break before me and can't wait for you to come back."
Jiao Ran felt a little sad, and went forward to embrace him, hugging him tightly, "Why are you so nice, Mu Jin?"
He said, "Then you should be nicer to me, a little nicer."
She knew that Mu Jin was sometimes very reserved, so she said, "I will love you a little more every day, so that we will never be apart."
The little girl covered her ears but could still hear the noises. She was extremely angry and now she even hated Mu Jin.
The next day she would set off to be with Chai Xiao.
Before leaving, she specifically said, "You've been unhappy all these days because of me. Zhen'er knows she was wrong. This glass of wine is to apologize to Aunt Jiaoran."
Jiaoran took it and said, "Then I will let this go with a glass of wine. From now on, please don't be angry with me all the time."
Mu Jin was a little worried. He took the wine glass and said, "No, it's too hot to drink. You should leave now. Someone is waiting for you outside."
Zhen'er's eyes suddenly turned extremely disappointed. "You're not even willing to accept the last glass of wine?"
Jiaoran snatched it back, raised his head and drank it, then poured out the empty glass to indicate that he had finished it.
Unexpectedly, Zhen'er burst into laughter just after she finished drinking, "Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, you've been tricked, the wine is poisonous, let's see how you can seduce my father, go to hell, when you see my mother, remember to kneel in front of her and admit your mistake to her, saying that you are a shameless woman who shouldn't have seduced my father."
Mu Jin was shocked to see bright red blood flowing from the corner of Jiaoran's mouth.
"Give me the antidote!" He immediately grabbed Zhen'er's neck with his backhand, "Give it to me!"
Zhen'er refused to give it to her. "Okay, at worst you can just kill me. If you kill me, I will die with her and go see my mother..."
Unexpectedly, Mu Jin let her go, poured another glass of wine from the same glass and drank it.
Zhen'er was terrified. "Spit it out! It's poisonous, Daddy... please..."
She cried and took out the antidote, wanting to give it to Mu Jin, but Mu Jin snatched it away and tried to feed it to Jiao Ran.
Jiaoran took the wine jug from the table, raised his head and drank another glass, then rinsed his mouth, and the bright red in his mouth slowly dissipated.
Seeing them stunned, Jiao Ran said, "Oh, this is not poisonous. I replaced the poisonous wine you had long ago. Just now, there was paint in my mouth, it's okay."
Zhen'er said angrily, "You did it on purpose!"
Jiao Ran said yes, "I just wanted to show you what Mu Jin would do if I was poisoned. If I die, he will die too. If you want to poison me, that's up to you, but you don't have the ability. Go back to Chai Xiao."
Zhen'er was frustrated again and stamped her feet in anger. Seeing how deeply in love the two were, she didn't want to stay any longer and turned around and left.
Seeing Mu Jin turn around and walk towards the backyard, Jiao Ran hurried to comfort her, "What's wrong? Are you angry too?"
Mu Jin just ignored her.
"Oh, why are you angry again? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to lie to you, I just wanted to tease her."
"Do you know you almost scared me to death just now?!"
Jiao Ran hurriedly hugged his waist from behind and clung to him. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was wrong, I was wrong. If you want to hear me admit my mistake, I can say it a hundred times, a thousand times. Don't be angry, okay? I want to teach her a lesson so that she won't dare do such a stupid thing again."
"Have you ever thought about what I would do if you really died..."
Jiao Ran said, "No, I won't leave you alone. Unless one day you no longer love me and no longer need me, I will never leave you and will not let you live alone."
He also hugged her and said, "That day will never come. Never. In heaven and on earth, I only love you."
Jiaoran wrote on wooden plaques, one plaque had Jiaoran written on it, and the other plaque had Mujin written on it.
"What is this?" He watched her write and carve words on the wooden sign, and then smudge the words with ink.
Jiao Ran said, "When I was little, I prayed for my mother's safety, so I carved a peace tablet and threw it on the book. The red silk of the wooden tablet was hung on it."
She tied up the red silk with the wooden sign with the two of them written on it, threw it onto a big tree behind the yard, and closed her eyes to pray.
Mu Jin smiled, "You are considered an immortal, and you still pray to the gods for favors?"
Jiao Ran said, "No, I pray to the heavens, look, let our signs be hung together, so that Jiao Ran and Mu Jin will never be separated, okay?"
He looked at the drooping red silk and smiled knowingly, "Okay, then we will...never separate."
Jiaoran had already been thinking about how to take him to the wonderful land, so that they would never be separated.
But she couldn't let Zhu Su know, he would definitely not agree with her doing this.
Talk to Hayate, maybe she will help her.
But shouldn’t we also discuss this with Mu Jin? What if he doesn’t want to go to the wonderland and just wants to be a mortal?
"Mu Jin, do you want to be immortal and stay young forever?"
Mu Jin didn't answer her and said, "This winter, let's come under this tree and I'll tell you."
A few months later, heavy snow fell and they came under the tree again.
Mu Jin said, "Did you see it?"
Jiaoran looked at the falling leaves and said, "Hmm."
He wanted to tell her that he preferred to follow nature and the four seasons. Life and death, flourishing and withering, rebirth, and rotation were all the ways of nature, and he did not want to go beyond this limit.
"Then I'll be a mortal too. I don't want to become an immortal." Jiaoran said.
He spoke sternly, "Don't give up the path you've chosen for anyone, Jiaoran. I have my choices, and you have yours. If love prevents you from moving forward, it means that love is an obstacle, not a help. I always hope that you can achieve everything you want to do."
"What about you? What do you want to do?"
"Mortal. It's good to be a mortal, especially to be a mortal who receives all your love. Jiaoran, please just spend one mortal life to love me. That's all I ask for."
"Human life is so short. A hundred years pass in a flash. We might not even live a hundred years."
He smiled and said, "Don't be too greedy, just seize the moment."
"But I want to love you forever, every moment of your life."
"What did we have for dinner this morning?" he suddenly asked her.
"It looks like an egg pancake."
He asked, "What do you think about when you recall having egg pancakes this morning?"
Jiao Ran said, "The egg pancakes are quite fragrant. Next time, I'll try the fennel pancakes, fennel."
Mu Jin smiled. "Look, how can anyone love another person every moment? Long-lasting love is even harder. So, Jiaoran, just follow your heart. Love when you think of it, and love when you are together. Otherwise, love will be too heavy, isn't it?"
"But I..."
Mu Jin patted the big tree lightly with his palm, and the snow on the tree fell down. Jiaoran stood under the tree, and the sky was full of snow.
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha, you became a snowman."
Jiaoran brushed the snow off his face and said, "Okay, then I want you to become a snowman too."
The two of them threw snowballs at each other, and there was laughter in the snow.
It snowed all night long, and they hugged each other, listening to the sound of snow falling all over the mountain.
He was in high spirits as he lit the lamp to continue the day. He held her in his arms and lay down. "Why did you hold my hand in yours to warm it when we were in the Governor's Mansion?"
Jiaoran dozed off due to sleepiness. "Why didn't you turn off the lights? That was so many years ago. You were so cold back then, I thought you would freeze to death. Your face was so pale every day, so pitiful. Besides, I was your maid back then."
"It turns out that it's not because you like me, but because you feel sorry for me..." Mu Jin turned his back.
She quickly turned him over and explained, "That's not the case. I love you and that's why I feel sorry for you. Otherwise, I would warm the hands and feet of any man on the street, right?"
"Listen, the wind blows and there is a sound of broken jade." He kissed her and said.
Jiaoran listened carefully, "The heavy snow must have broken the branches."
He smiled and said, "It's snowing heavily. It's so cold. Warm me up again."
Jiaoran laughed and said, "Where are you going to put it to keep warm..."
"It's going to snow heavily tomorrow, let's go fly a kite."
Jiao Ran said, "Why fly a kite in the middle of winter?"
"No matter what, I want to let go."
"But none of us have kites."
"Let's make one, shall we? It's going to snow tomorrow anyway, so we can just make a kite at home."
"Flying a kite in winter, you're amazing."
He tickled her waist, "Will you come with me?"
"I'm really good at making kites. How about I make you a butterfly tomorrow?"
"Okay, then make another puppy."
Jiao Ran was puzzled. "Why, you still want a puppy? I can't make a puppy."
"I'll do it. You release the puppy and I'll release the butterfly."
"Okay, you said I'm a puppy, right?" Jiaoran turned over and pressed him down, "Then I'll show you how a puppy bites."
The lights went out at some point, and the sounds in the house gradually faded away.
The heavy snow in the desert covered the wind and sand, and it seemed that the wind in the rivers and lakes was also covered, and everything was far away from them.
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