Chapter 62 His Love 2
◎It was a mistake◎
The scene in front of the egret leopard became more than ten times higher and larger. Just as he reacted, he found that he had turned into an eagle again. A familiar female voice came from above.
"Eh? Xiaobai, is this your friend?"
The egret leopard turned around and found that Bai Chen had also turned into a wolf cub. It suddenly stretched out its claws towards him and pressed the back of his head forward.
The egret leopard flapped its pitiful little wings, but was pressed down by the white dust with its forehead touching the ground, and had no power to resist at all. The woman above giggled: "Hahaha, are you saying hello to me?"
Your Majesty, are you...forcing me to bow to this mortal woman? ? ?
The egret leopard flapped his wings and climbed up, only to see his "master" tilting his head and rubbing the corner of Yan Yue's robe!
What shocked him even more was that Yan Yue scratched his master's forehead and asked, "So you are going to play with your good friend? You can bring your good friend home, and I can prepare a cage and water for it. Does it eat corn or millet?"
The egret leopard was so frightened that he took several steps back, flapping his featherless wings desperately and saying, "I am a buzzard! I eat meat!"
“Chirp, chirp, chirp!”
“Hahaha! How come the cry of this little bird sounds almost like a chicken…” Yan Yue laughed heartily, rubbed Xiaobai’s head and said, “Alright, alright, go play! But you must come back early at night, otherwise I won’t leave any food for you!”
The annoying figure disappeared, and Bai Lubao couldn't wait to ask: "Your Majesty, why are you pretending to be a dog? What handle did she catch on you?"
Bai Chen touched his nose and said, "Why? Is it wronged for you to bow to my disciple?"
"Master disciple?" Bai Lubao opened his mouth in shock: "A mortal???"
Bai Chen glanced over: "What? Do you have any objection?"
Bai Lubao quickly lowered his head and said, "I dare not."
Bai Chen said, "I already know about the clan's affairs. I will go back after I have arranged the affairs here. Go and stop Leopard Tail first, and tell him not to act rashly. Go ahead!"
Bai Lubao said aggrievedly, "I just saw you and you chased me away! Didn't she tell you to go back after dark? What are you going to do so early in the morning?"
Bai Chen touched his nose again: "Go find some money. It's not right for a master to always 'borrow' money from his apprentice!"
Yan Yue in the room was looking at her money box and thinking.
"I seem to be spending money rashly recently. Why can't I remember what I bought?"
"I must have been eating too much recently. I really can't eat out every meal!"
Yan Yue took out a silver ingot, bought a bird cage, took Chu Zhi and Nan Qing, and went to the place where Zhang Jicun said he found the thrush.
Shi Ting was a well-known lady in Linjiang City. Her unparalleled embroidery skills were praised by countless wealthy ladies.
According to Zhang Jicun, he fell in love with Shi Ting at first sight during a boat cruise three years ago and then began to pursue her passionately. Unfortunately, although Shi Ting also had a good impression of him, she doubted his sincerity, so her attitude was always lukewarm. The two people of marriageable age spent three years together but still failed to get married.
Shi Ting is good at embroidering flowers and birds, and once said that she liked the brilliant colors of the male White-throated Thrush. Zhang Ji kept it in mind, and finally three days ago, he found the rare thrush on a tree growing on a steep cliff.
The result was that Zhang Jicun fell to his death. If a passing woodcutter had not seen his body, I'm afraid that his body would have been completely destroyed.
Even after his death, he was still thinking about the bird that his beloved loved. Such infatuation was really touching. Yan Yue agreed to help him catch the thrush and give it to Shi Ting on his behalf on the Lantern Festival tomorrow, thus fulfilling his wish.
The three girls panted their way to the foot of the cliff and found a thrush's nest on a tree that grew diagonally through a crack in the cliff.
But what Zhang Jicun didn't say was that the thrushes were a pair.
The male bird is slightly larger than the female bird, with longer tail feathers. The feathers are bright and rich in color, with many patterns, and they reflect luster under the sunlight. The female bird is relatively inferior, with a smaller body, fewer patterns and lighter color.
Nan Qing squinted his eyes and looked up, saying, "I'll go catch that male bird."
"Stop!" Chu Zhi stretched out her hand to stop him. "Folk legend has it that thrushes are loyal birds and monogamous. If we capture the male bird, how will the female bird survive?"
Nan Qing asked: "Then catch both of them?"
Yan Yue looked at the cage in her hand and said hesitantly, "Forget it! Look at them snuggling with each other, free and at ease, how wonderful! If they are locked in this small cage, although they will have no worries about food and drink, they will be confined to a place the size of a palm, and it will be difficult for them to be happy."
Nan Qing agreed very much, but still asked: "What about Zhang Jicun? He is obsessed with giving this bird to his beloved!"
Yan Yue thought for a moment and said, "Let's go talk to Miss Shi. Maybe there are other ways to resolve his obsession."
The three returned empty-handed and ran into Bai Chen head-on.
"Oh, you didn't catch the bird?"
Yan Yue explained the reason, but Nan Qing asked suspiciously: "How do you know we are going to catch birds? When we talked about this yesterday, weren't you gone?"
Bai Chen was stunned for a moment, then evaded the question by saying, "I am a demon fairy who can tell fortunes. What is there that I don't know? Let's go ask that kind-hearted Miss Shi how to resolve the obsession of her unfortunate fiancé!"
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"What fiancé? My girl has never been married, so where does the fiancé come from? Don't talk nonsense and slander my innocence! Otherwise, I will report you to the police and arrest you!"
Shi Ting's maid pushed Chu Zhi angrily and slammed the door shut with such force that she almost wanted to slap Chu Zhi in the face!
Nan Qing helped Chu Zhi steady herself and asked Yan Yue in confusion, "Are there two Miss Shi Ting? Did we find the wrong one?"
Yan Yue hesitated: "Well, let's ask around!"
The four of them worked in pairs and inquired around the Shi family for a long time, but the results they got were unexpected.
There was no doubt about the person, it was the girl from the Shi family, but there was no romantic relationship between the two as Zhang Jicun said.
In the eyes of Shi’s neighbors, Zhang Jicun was indeed a love-struck man.
Shi Ting likes flowers.
The year Zhang Jicun first met her, he sent her a bouquet of flowers every day in spring, summer and autumn. In winter, when there were few flowers, he would fold colorful paper flowers and send them to her. He sent flowers for a whole year until Shi Ting had a fight with him and the flower sending behavior stopped.
Shi Ting loves to eat mandarin fish.
Mandarin fish prefer to be active at night. In order to send her the freshest mandarin fish, Zhang Jicun rowed a boat in the river and fished until dawn. He was carrying a wooden barrel containing two plump and fresh mandarin fish that he had caught late at night, but Shi Ting overturned the barrel and did not even let him into the house.
Upon learning that Shi Ting was going to burn incense and pray, Zhang Jicun rushed to the temple at dawn and grabbed the first incense stick. However, Shi Ting broke the incense that he had worked so hard to get, and smashed it on him in front of countless pilgrims!
Zhang Jicun also stayed in the embroidery tower that Shi Ting often visited, reading aloud the love poems he wrote for her under the scorching sun; he once released hundreds of river lanterns for Shi Ting during the Qiqiao Festival; he once offended the Pear Garden because of Shi Ting and became a guest banned from entering the garden.
But everything he did failed to win Shi Ting's favor, and instead made her more annoyed with him.
The neighbors all praised Zhang Jicun. Everyone felt sorry for the hardships and humiliations he had endured for Shi Ting, and they all regretted that he had given his love to the wrong person.
Some people said that after so long, even if Shi Ting had a heart of stone, it was time to warm up; some people said that Zhang Jicun was just from an ordinary family, and Shi Ting was too picky, so she might want to marry someone higher up; some people said that Shi Ting was deliberately torturing Zhang Jicun so that she could control him after marriage; and some people said that Shi Ting was just looking for a better option while she was still waiting!
Chu Zhi was indignant: "Zhang Jicun is such a fool! He even lost his life for Shi Ting, but he still wanted to give her a thrush. But Shi Ting doesn't care about his life or death at all!"
Bai Chen saw Yan Yue was in deep thought and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Yan Yue shook her head gently: "I can't really explain it, but I just feel like something is wrong."
Nan Qing said: "Let's go back first! Then ask Zhang Jicun what the situation is."
Faced with Chu Zhi speaking up for him, Zhang Jicun appeared very calm.
He smiled and advised Chu Zhi: "Tingting is interested in me, but she is introverted and shy, and doesn't like being watched by many people. She once said that I have occupied most of her life, so I know that I am extremely important to her."
Chu Zhi was still unhappy: "But she didn't even listen to what we said today, and she just closed the door!"
Zhang Jicun explained for Shi Ting, "We haven't confirmed the engagement yet. She would be embarrassed and angry when she heard the word fiancé. Although I only occupy most of her life, she is everything in my life. If nothing happened to me, I would have given her a thrush on the Lantern Festival, and we would have definitely been able to get engaged."
"Are you sure this is not just your wishful thinking?" Yan Yue was very skeptical.
Zhang Jicun vowed: "To me, Tingting is unique, and to her, I am irreplaceable. Everyone says that we are a perfect match, how can it be my wishful thinking?"
Yan Yue agreed: "Okay! I will go see Miss Shi again tomorrow."
Zhang Jicun reminded again: "Take the thrush with you! If you can't bear it, you can give both of them to her. Tingting is kind-hearted and will definitely treat them well!"
Yan Yue did not try to catch the pair of thrushes, but knocked on Shi's door again.
The Shi family said that today was the Lantern Festival and there would be an exhibition of embroidered lanterns in the Embroidery Tower. Shi Ting also had three lanterns, so they went to the Embroidery Tower early.
It was the Lantern Festival, so Yan Yue was in no hurry. She ate, drank, walked around, and didn't arrive at the embroidery building until the afternoon.
The Embroidery Tower is a place where women embroiderers gather. Most of the women’s embroidery works are resold through the Embroidery Tower. It can almost be said that the most outstanding embroidery works in the city all come from here.
Today is the Lantern Festival and Xiulou held an event. In order to become famous, the girls and women tried their best to embroider lifelike flowers, plants, animals, landscapes, etc. on the thin cloth.
Yan Yue was dazzled by the embroidered lanterns and couldn't help but sigh: "Such delicate needlework must have taken a lot of effort!"
Nan Qing also sighed: “This business is very profitable. I should have advised Shen Xuezhou to change to the embroidery building earlier.”
The two of them were talking in a whisper, and Chu Zhi suddenly waved: "Boss, Sister Nanqing, come and see!"
Yan Yue and Nan Qing moved closer and saw a square lantern.
There are four different embroideries on the four sides of the lantern. A pair of bulbuls stood on the branches, some leaning against each other, some looking at the sky, some looking into each other's eyes, and some opening their mouths to sing.
The thrush embroidery was colorful and lifelike, and the flames in the lanterns danced as if the bird would spread its wings and fly away at any moment.
Yan Yue stared at it for a long time and couldn't help asking, "Why does it look familiar?"
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