Chapter 44 First Meeting [Edit]
Child.
A child in gray clothes, holding a paper umbrella and hugging a few books in the drizzle.
Ning Mingmei said: "What did he say he was here for?"
Luo Xiao said: "The child said that he was an orphan living in the north of the city. More than a month ago, he came to the Gao Mansion to work with others. Master Gao saw that he liked reading, so he lent him a few books."
Ning Mingmei: "Well, then what?"
Luo Xiao continued: "Then something like that happened in Gao's house. He finished reading the books, but didn't find a chance to return them. These few days, he heard that someone came to Gao's house, invited by the Gao family. He wanted to return a few books now."
After Luo Xiao finished speaking, he saw Ning Mingmei tapping his chin, thinking.
His eyelashes were very long, casting a shadow on his pale cheeks.
"Have you heard of word tricks?" Ning Mingmei said to the system.
The system was still immersed in disbelief that the male protagonist actually took the initiative to find Ning Mingmei, and did not reply to him.
The way a person first appears in a novel and the related events will largely determine the reader's first impression of him.
The same is true in real life.
The orphan lived in poverty, but he studied hard. Borrow books to read, but be simple and trustworthy. Something big happened to the Gao family, and everyone tried to avoid them. But he is just a little orphan, and he still wants to repay other people's kindness.
He described his behavior of wandering around the crime scene and admiring it as evidence that he was honest and trustworthy, and that he would keep his promise to return the book even if Gao's mansion became a haunted house...
This guy is quite good at creating his own persona.
The immortal's eyelashes flickered, and Luo Xiao shuddered all over. She heard Ning Mingmei say, "Bring him in."
Ning Mingmei's voice was very faint, just like his own.
"Yes." Luo Xiao said.
The female disciple withdrew. After she left, Ning Mingmei said to the system: "If it weren't for me who knew his background completely, someone dumber would have been fooled by him."
However, even a dumb person can smell some clues of fabrication from the details.
He's an orphan, and he's fine, so why would Master Gao lend him books? Can a five-year-old orphan understand books? The Gao family has left. Wasn't it too artificial for him to pretend to return the book when this group of outsiders came?
The argument Lian Chengyue relied on to blur these contradictory details was that "he was only five years old."
Almost no one would think that a beautiful five-year-old child would lie.
——No matter how destructive the world is in the future, Lian Chengyue is still a five-year-old child after all.
Not mature enough, not understanding enough about the upper class, but desperately craving for an entry ticket because of his hurt self-esteem, weaving lies that do not exceed his own cognition, just beginning to realize his own uniqueness, and possessing the most childish arrogance.
Five years old, such a young age, this age was once a knife for the bad guy Lian Chengyue. Now he held the knife, nervous and cautious, yet ambitious, and walked proudly and childishly on the way to meet him.
He came to see the magnificent buildings and tall towers that he had glimpsed for the first time in his life among the misty clouds.
This knife is very good.
However, it will soon belong to Ning Mingmei.
He held Lian Chengyue's hand and used it to stab Lian Chengyue himself with the knife.
There are several corridors from the main gate of Gao Mansion to here. Ning Mingmei leaned back on the wooden chair and observed the medicine bead in his hand. Seeing that the system was slow to speak, he said casually, "What do you think? He came here by himself, didn't he?"
Ning Mingmei and other system reactions.
System: “Ahhhhhh!!!”
System: “Ahhhhhh!!!”
System: “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”
——The sound was so loud that Ning Mingmei blocked his ears. The system was ecstatic in his ears, shouting at a deafening volume: "Here she comes! Here she comes! Lian Chengyue is here! Why don't you get dressed quickly!!"
Ning Mingmei: "Me, for him?"
If you don’t know, you might think this is an old lady urging people to go out on blind dates.
After sitting on the wooden chair for half a day, the dark blue robe that had been sitting upright seemed to be a little saggy. Ning Mingmei was too lazy to pay attention to it and turned to look at the rain outside the window.
…
The drizzle is as soft as butter.
The girl was walking with something in her arms, looking worried.
Early this morning, after my mother-in-law went out, she stared at the bag of meat buns for a long time. Finally, he carefully took one out and put it in his mouth.
It smells really good.
She put away the remaining buns, picked out two and took them to A Yue, who saved her life.
But when he arrived at the dilapidated temple, the little boy was about to go out, and even took a few books with him.
"Ayue, where are you going?" she asked.
"Gao Mansion."
The girl was shocked by the answer. After a long while, she saw the little boy was about to leave, then she asked, "What are you going to do at Gao's house?"
"Return the book." said the little boy.
The little boy seemed to be in a good mood. Under normal circumstances, he would most likely not answer these questions.
The girl noticed this detail and found it even more ridiculous. Her eyes widened: "You are crazy! There is a ghost in Gao's house!"
What should they do if Master Gao's ghost comes to claim their lives?
The little boy said, "Yesterday a group of Taoist priests came to Gao's mansion. The ghosts in Gao's mansion should be gone."
Taoist Priest - Are you here to investigate the cause of Master Gao’s death? If so, will the Taoists discover that they killed Young Master Gao?
The little boy didn't respond to her fidgeting. Before he set off, he carefully checked the cloth shoes on his feet. Then he went down the mountain holding a broken umbrella and carrying a few books.
The girl sat in the dilapidated temple for a while. Finally, she kowtowed several times to the statue and went down the mountain trembling.
The girl couldn't understand what the boy was doing. The little boy always has his own ideas, from suddenly showing up and killing Master Gao, to living in a dilapidated temple, to going down the mountain - she only thinks about her own business.
What would happen if the fact that I killed Young Master Gao was exposed? Will someone arrest her and bring her to justice? She listened to the storytellers who said that killing someone means paying with one's life. When children kill their father, they are totally disregarding moral principles. She killed her "adoptive father" and must pay with her life!
But why? Why did Young Master Gao want to kill her, and in the end she was the one who had to pay with her life?
The young master’s life is his life. Isn’t her life a life?
She walked in a daze. When I got to the north, I saw another girl surrounded by four people at the corner of the street.
"Who asked you to sell the umbrella to us? What did that person look like? Think about it carefully."
"An old man? You tell me, let's draw his appearance."
She knew the other girl who was surrounded. The girl's name was Xiaocao. She was the daughter of the Zheng family and lived with her grandfather.
Xiaocao is a little dull and silly, and is often cheated by others. But she has a good heart. When the girl was asked by her mother-in-law to fetch water, she would pass by and see it, and would laugh and offer to help her.
Xiaocao was surrounded by them, stammering, and finally pieced together the appearance of a person. One of the boys was drawing a picture on rice paper: "Is this what you are talking about?"
"Yes or no?"
He was just a kid of eight or nine years old. Xiaocao almost cried when she was asked by them.
Although she was unable to take care of herself, the girl's chivalric disease came back again. She walked over to the group and shouted, "Xiao Cao has a problem. Why are you bullying her like this? What's your problem?"
She shouted and the teenagers were stunned for a moment, as if they just realized that their behavior was wrong. One of them turned to her and said sheepishly: "Actually, we are looking for someone...Have you seen this person?"
He held up the portrait to her.
The figure in the portrait is unfamiliar. The girl shook her head. She said, "I just got here not long ago... Is this person important?"
The boy said, "Our friend is sick. We must find him if we want to cure him."
My friend is sick. The girl said, "Then I'll take you to ask Granny Chen."
Granny Chen lives at the end of the street and knows everyone in town. The girl comforted the grass before leaving. She looks much older than her age and always wants to be a caring older sister. A boy asked her, "What's your name?"
Girl: "Xiaoshui."
Boy: "So your name is Xiaoshui? What's your last name?"
No last name. The girl didn't want to say her last name was Gao at all.
Granny Chen was sewing shoe soles by the door when she saw a few people coming. She first looked at the portrait and shook her head, saying, "There is no such person in the town..."
The boy didn't give up: "Hasn't anyone else come here?"
Granny Chen: "You are the only ones who have come these days. Are you the Taoist priests invited by the Gao family?"
boom--
There was a buzzing sound in Xiaoshui's head and she took two steps back. Anyone could see that something was wrong with her. One of the boys noticed it sharply: "Why, are you related to the Gao family?"
Granny Chen said, "She is the adopted daughter of the Gao family! When the Gao family left, she was abandoned and now she is adopted by Lao Lao."
The young man asked, "You are the adopted daughter of the Gao family? Then do you know the Gao family... why are you running away?"
Xiaoshui ran towards his home without looking back, and didn't even notice that he bumped into several people along the way.
Finished! Finished!
Those Taoists are about to find out that she has killed someone!
She ran all the way until she reached her doorstep, where she bumped into someone... The collision actually made her smell a faint scent of medicine.
"Why are you running so fast?" said the hoarse voice.
It was Granny Lao’s voice.
Xiaoshui: "I..."
The four teenagers also caught up. At this moment, the old woman frowned and stood in front of her.
"What can I do for my granddaughter?" she said.
This should have been a sheltered, joyous moment. But the girl stood blankly behind the old woman, suddenly filled with fear.
The girl is a very sensitive and careful person with a very good sense of smell.
Therefore, when she first entered the Gao family, she noticed something was wrong with the Gao family and noticed the strange, dying smell on Young Master Gao. Although, even so, she almost didn't escape the clutches of the devil.
And now, she smelled it again.
Grandma Lao also has her own scent - an old-fashioned smell that can only be smelled when you get close.
But today, contrary to her usual behavior, Grandma Lao did not have any old smell on her.
But it was a strange...weird medicinal scent.
Just like the strange smell of medicine that suddenly wafted out of Master Gao’s throat when he died.
…
Inside Gao's mansion, on the way to the main hall.
As a disciple of Jixian Peak, Luo Xiao could tell at a glance that the clothes the child was wearing were not made of good material. The shoes he wore did not fit him well. They were a little too large for the child's skinny ankles and made a clanking sound as he walked.
Generally speaking, children from this kind of family background always have a sense of being cramped - to put it bluntly, it is a "poor" feeling. They rarely dare to enter a new place alone, and even if they do, they will be at a loss.
Either the pressure of self-examination overwhelms them, and they walk on the street thinking only of whether they are "in line with the rules"; or they just look around at the outside world, eager to open their mouths to get close to others, and say stupid things they don't even understand the content of.
As a member of the immortal sect, Luo Xiao has seen many of these two types of people.
But this child is different. The child is short and thin, but quiet, polite, and mature and intelligent beyond his peers. Although he was wearing an old but clean linen robe, his hands and feet exposed through the robe were also clean.
What is even more impressive is his big black eyes. These eyes reminded one of some stone with magical powers.
When entering the door, the child carefully put the umbrella aside, and half of his shoulder was wet. Luo Xiao was puzzled at first, until she realized that the child didn't want the mud on the umbrella to wet Luo Xiao's skirt.
As a smart man on Jixian Peak, Luo Xiao is hardly ever moved by anyone. But this little detail - a little detail coming from a polite child who was perhaps nervous and pretending to be calm - actually made her feel a little pity for him.
So, she spoke up, a rare move.
"What's your name?" Luo Xiao asked.
"My name is A Yue." The child's voice is tender.
He answered whatever was asked, without any unnecessary questions or flattery, which made Luo Xiao like him even more. She said, "How come you didn't ask any questions along the way?"
The child said, "Are you busy, sister? I'm here to return the book and will leave after I'm done."
Ouch.
With just one sentence, Luo Xiao treated him as his own nephew.
So she couldn't help but comfort him a few words: "Master Ning Feng may look cold, but he is actually very kind. Don't be afraid of him no matter what questions he asks you."
The child said, "Thank you, sister. I understand."
Luo Xiao arrived as soon as he finished speaking. She went into the main room first.
During this journey, because she had her back to the child, she never noticed that in the child's doll-like eyes, from beginning to end -
There is no emotion at all.
Only the corners of his lips maintained a childish, awkward and shy smile. There is absolutely no trace of disguise.
The child also looked inside through Luo Xiao. He narrowed his eyes slightly, and finally saw the immortal he was looking for from the front for the first time.
Black hair.
White skin.
Slightly raised eyes.
The gorgeous ultramarine robe, with a hint of light gold, looked extremely luxurious. The posture of leaning against the wooden chair was casual and relaxed, completely different from those arrogant and restrained children of wealthy families. The strange yet beautiful lens was something he had never seen before.
He looked out the window with his side profile, as if he wasn't waiting for him to come over at all.
Is this the immortal from the Great Immortal Sect?
Looking at them, they are indeed somewhat different from those "immortals" of the Lian family.
A hundred years later, the boy, who had changed his surname to "Liancheng" and changed his name to "Lianchengyue", would still think of that afternoon countless times.
Despite the gloom and rain, the daylight was lackluster. The wrists of those people in green robes were still sparkling white. And the look he gave him was always separated by thick smoke, as if it was filled with thousands of words, or more like he was indifferent to him and said nothing.
Like a bright, cold gem.
Just like the entire world of cultivation that is high above him, yet so far away, and that he is obsessed with and wants to conquer.
The little boy stared at him intently, still without any emotion in his eyes.
"Okay. The Immortal Master wants you to come in." Luo Xiao said, squatting down to look at him, "The Immortal Master looks a little cold, don't be nervous, okay?"
It was the warm tone of an older sister caring for a child.
"Yeah." The child responded to her in a well-behaved tone.
Luo Xiao stepped back. The child lowered his head, straightened his clothes, and walked into the main room like a beautiful doll.
Finally, he heard the man's voice, which also seemed to be covered by fog or smoke.
"What's your name?"
"Ayue." The little boy lowered his head and replied in the same obedient tone as he responded to Luo Xiao.
"Ayue." said the man.
After saying this, there was no further news.
"I..." the little boy began.
"Find a place to kneel down."
"……?"
Soon, the man smiled.
"Just kidding. What are you standing there for?"
But the little boy clearly saw that there was no smile in his eyes.
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My evaluation: Learning to be deceived by a handsome brother is also a kind of practice in life
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