Chapter 42: Soul Contract (I) Putting my head on his chest, naturally intimate...
"My senior brother has already repaired most of the organs damaged by the demonic energy. Madam Yao, please ask the spiritual doctor to prescribe medicine for the remaining organs. He will then rest for a month or so."
Yao Taotao bowed and Zhu Ciying hurried to help her up.
Yao Taotao shook her hand and said, "Miss Yu, my husband and the girls from Sixiang City are so safe and sound. Thank you so much for your help and that of your fellow disciples."
"As the acting mayor of Four Symbols City, I'm unable to save my people. I can't rest in peace day and night, and I feel extremely guilty," she said self-deprecatingly. "So, I hope you can bear this bow."
"Madam Yao, there's no need to underestimate yourself," Zhu Ciying said. "During City Lord Yan's absence, Sixiang City remained peaceful and stable, with no major disturbances. This is sufficient proof of your ability."
"Yes, Madam!" Even though Yan Chengyun was lying in bed, he had to cheer for his wife, "Madam, you are the best!"
Yao Taotao glared at him and said, "Shut up, you're so noisy!"
Yan Chengyun made a gesture as if to sew his mouth shut and shut up.
Zhu Ciying and Xie Rangchen's eyes met briefly, and the helplessness in their hearts was self-evident.
How could someone as sensitive as Yao Taotao not notice that her fellow students were watching them flirting?
"Let's not talk about that." She wanted to tease them a bit, "That day, Miss Yu had a fierce battle with the great demon. Fellow Daoist Jiang was very worried. He left the mansion in a hurry before even eating."
She still remembers that scene.
At that time, she saw Xie Rangchen vomiting blood and thought he had a sudden internal injury, so she wanted to ask a spiritual doctor to come and help him.
Xie Rangchen refused.
He said, "My junior sister is in danger. I must go."
Yao Taotao didn't know that he had once lost a junior sister and watched her die without being able to do anything.
For most of his life, Xie Rangchen had been exceptionally gifted and powerful, highly regarded by his master and admired by his fellow disciples. He descended the mountain at sixteen and, relying solely on his sword, secured the top spot on the Immortal Ascension Ranking, achieving fame and renown at a young age.
In the end, he ascended to become an immortal, but ended up with the destruction of his sect and the tragic deaths of his fellow disciples.
He failed to protect anything he held dear.
Now he has no interest in practicing and ascending.
He just wanted to protect his junior sister.
The junior sister he recognized was Zhu Ciying.
"The big demon said that the space created by Jiangyu is impossible for others to find. Then how did senior brother know my location?" Zhu Ciying had wanted to ask for a long time.
Xie Rangchen stared at the flickering candlelight in the room, his eyes moving slightly.
After leaving the City Lord's Mansion, he searched the Sixiang City but could not find any trace of Zhu Ciying anywhere.
The autumn wind is blowing and the red leaves are fluttering.
He walked alone through the deserted streets of Sixiang City, as if he had passed through the gates of hell and waded across the Forgetful River many years ago.
Junior sister.
Xie Rangchen felt powerless for the first time in a long time.
He rubbed his aching forehead and bent his back slightly.
The mind that had been cultivated for many years should have been as calm as water without ripples, but at this moment it suddenly collapsed again.
"jingle."
The sound of a calming bell came from the distant sky, and Xie Rangchen suddenly looked up.
He thought that he was not completely helpless.
Let him mess up his mind!
Make the bells ring louder!
More haste!
"Junior sister, the bell on your wrist is my bell." Xie Rangchen gave the simplest explanation. As for the other functions of the bell, he did not say.
Of course Zhu Ciying didn't ask.
She rang the bell twice, but there was no sound.
"It's actually a dumbbell?" Yao Taotao put on a somewhat regretful expression. "I thought Fellow Daoist Jiang was using the sound of the bell to find Miss Yu..."
Xie Rangchen smiled but said nothing.
He raised his eyes to look at the silver bell on Zhu Ciying's wrist. The more he looked, the heavier his heart felt, because at the moment she rang the bell, the sound of "ding-ling-ding-ling" seemed to ring in his ears again.
Are you hallucinating?
His Dao heart was so unstable that he needed to go into seclusion.
Yao Taotao was very disappointed with the reaction of her senior brothers and sisters. When they were together, they always felt like an old married couple. Why couldn't they be as tempting as the sparks they had when they were apart?
"Haha, that's enough, Madam, please stop teasing those brothers and sisters." Yan Chengyun understood his wife's thoughts very clearly. If he wanted to bring people together, he couldn't be so blunt. He had to be more flexible.
Yao Taotao came up with an idea and walked back to his bedside.
Yan Chengyun: "...Madam, I have a brilliant plan. Let's..."
Yao Taotao's figure gradually grew larger in his eyes, until her soft lips touched his, and an ancient and majestic voice sounded in Yan Chengyun's mind.
[The soul contract is formed.]
The hexagram between her eyebrows flashed by, Yao Taotao left Yan Chengyun and turned around to look, her eyes twitching slightly.
"Senior brother?" Zhu Ciying blinked innocently, her long and soft eyelashes like bird feathers, tickling people's palms.
Xie Rangchen put his hand down: "Don't look at anything inappropriate."
Zhu Ciying pursed her lips and nodded.
In her previous life, she had actually secretly seen her second senior brother and third senior sister kissing, and was almost discovered by them.
Fortunately, Xie Rangchen appeared in time to help her cover it up.
"Brother, brother, I can't see!"
"Aying, don't look at anything inappropriate."
"But you saw it too, Senior Brother. It's so unfair that I can't!"
Xie Rangchen chuckled, "Brother, you're old. Whether in the cultivation world or the mortal world, you're at the age of marriage. Why shouldn't you see it? Ah Ying is still young. Seeing her too much won't help to strengthen her Dao heart."
"So, does Senior Brother have a girl he likes? Do you want to become her Taoist partner?"
Xie Rangchen rubbed his junior sister's head, ruffling the soft hair on her forehead until it frizzled up, then waved his hand: "No."
"Brother, I have no mood for love. I just want to protect Huaijiang Mountain, Qingwei Sect, my fellow disciples, and Aying."
Zhu Ciying smoothed down her frizzy hair, thought for a moment, then took Xie Rangchen's hand and smiled the bright smile a young girl should have since they came up the mountain. "Brother, when I grow up, I'll take care of you."
She has always been looking forward to growing up.
Grow up and become stronger, shorten the distance between you and your senior brother, and one day you will be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with him.
But, the past is hard to come by...
"Brother, Senior Sister Xu is safe and sound. We should prepare to return to Shaoyang Sect."
"Miss Yu, don't be in such a hurry to leave." Yao Taotao no longer brooded over her failure in initiating her fellow apprentices. "Tomorrow, the city residents will hold a spontaneous celebration. Sixiang City's scenery changes with the seasons, and it's hard to find such a beautiful place outside the city. You can enjoy it for a day before leaving."
Considering Qu Wanqing and Zhou Mingran's love of lively atmosphere, it was only a matter of time before they stayed in Sixiang City, so Zhu Ciying agreed first.
The road from the City Lord's Mansion to Taoyuan Residence is neither long nor short.
A pastry shop was bustling with people, three layers deep and three layers deep, surrounding it.
Zhu Ciying lined up and pointed at several exquisite and sweet pastries one by one.
"Boss, plum blossom cake, purple rice cake, lotus cake, Biluochun pancake and silver thread cake, two pounds each."
The boss said "Oh" and weighed each item one by one and put them into oil paper bags.
Zhu Ciying took out two spirit stones and handed them to him.
Xie Rangchen stayed by her side throughout the whole process.
The autumn sunshine in Sixiang City warms the people around them, and occasionally a cool breeze blows through the streets and alleys, blowing the cloth on the shops, the sleeves of passers-by, and the long hair of the girls. It is a peaceful and tranquil time.
Xie Rangchen squinted his eyes lazily, then yawned again.
Looking at Zhu Ciying again, the girl standing in front of the shop was much shorter from behind.
A pink and white crabapple flower hairpin, a goose yellow skirt, a light blue shawl, and purple embroidered shoes.
"Hold it, little girl."
"Thanks."
Aying held the paper bag, turned around, raised her palm-sized face, and smiled at him as brightly as the clouds.
It was like going back three hundred years to an ordinary day when they sneaked down the mountain.
"Brother, let's go back to the mountain."
"Brother, let's go back."
The two voices overlapped, Xie Rangchen's eyes were dazzled, Aying's figure gradually became blurred, replaced by Zhu Ciying holding a paper bag.
"Brother, what are you thinking about? I called you a few times, but you were always lost in thought."
"I'm thinking of a sister at home."
"Sister?" Zhu Ciying was delighted. "Do you remember what happened in the past?"
Xie Rangchen: "I don't remember clearly."
"It's okay. Eat a piece of cake first and think about it slowly."
"Given your current situation, the first person you think of is your sister. She must be very important to you."
"When we return to Shaoyang Sect, we'll find an opportunity to investigate her first. It would be best if we could find a way for you to meet. Maybe once you meet her, you'll be able to remember everything..."
Xie Rangchen took the sugar cake from her arms very smoothly, took out a piece of cake to eat, and walked with her silently, listening to her analyze this and plan that.
The two walked from the beginning to the end of the street, their shadows, one long and one short, stretched out by the setting sun.
Zhu Ciying told the news of the celebration to several senior brothers and sisters.
Qu Wanqing made plans for tomorrow's outing with Zhou Mingran and Xu Shuguan that night.
Yun Bujin, Xu Feihuai volunteered to be their free porter.
Xie Rangchen said that he would go into seclusion for a day tomorrow.
The two injured soldiers, Zhu Ciying and Ji Feibai, were arranged to rest in bed.
On the second day, the celebration began in full swing with great fanfare.
When Xie Rangchen came out of seclusion, the sun had already set.
To celebrate the occasion, the owner of Taoyuanju hung a long string of colorful lanterns in the corridor.
Xie Rangchen knocked on Zhu Ciying's door several times, but the lights were off inside and there was no response for a long time.
He went to Ji Feibai's house again.
"I haven't seen Junior Sister Yingying since lunch today." Ji Feibai recalled, "It's so lively outside, maybe she went to play with Zhou Mingran and the others."
Xie Rangchen turned and walked out. He was standing downstairs of Taoyuanju and was about to go to the street to look for someone when he suddenly remembered what happened on Penglai Island.
He looked up at the tall wooden building and quickly arrived at the roof of Taoyuanju.
The moon is bright and the wine is rich.
He stepped on the tiles, walked steadily towards the drunk girl, and squatted in front of her. "Junior sister."
Zhu Ciying shook her head, with his hands holding her head. She looked at him for a long time, as if she finally recognized who he was, and suddenly threw herself into his arms.
“Senior Brother!”
"You've come out of seclusion!"
She smelled strongly of alcohol, and happily put her head against his chest and rubbed it affectionately.
"The kitchen just received a batch of snow pears. They'll be delicious if made into pear syrup candy."
"I was worried that Master and the other brothers might steal some, so I secretly left some for you and buried it under the third osmanthus tree in the back mountain."
She grabbed his hand and pretended to jump off the roof: "Let's go dig out the pear candy now!"
Xie Rangchen held her shoulders and waited until she calmed down before saying, "Junior sister, you are drunk."
He picked up an empty wine bottle at her feet, sniffed it, and put it back.
A very strong drink.
"Drinking is harmful to your health."
"Is there something upsetting?"
Zhu Ciying's eyes were blurry, as if she was thinking.
"Brother, you have been in seclusion for too long."
Xie Rangchen was slightly stunned: "Just because of this?"
"Um!"
Zhu Ciying nodded heavily.
The senior brother is in seclusion, the second and third senior brothers are busy preparing for the wedding, the fifth and sixth senior brothers are called by the master to refine weapons, and all the fellow disciples of Qingwei Sect have something to do.
She was the only one idle.
There was no one to practice swordplay with her, chat with her, study swordsmanship, or go down the mountain for fun...
During those days, she missed her senior brother so much, she missed him so much...
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