When Leng Mushi woke up again, she was in a shaking carriage. She was very sure that Xiao Mian attacked her in a rage and used a lot of force. The first thing she did when she woke up was to touch her neck.
Fortunately, her head and neck were still connected.
It was just the pain in the back of her neck. Leng Mushi opened her eyes with a groan. Sitting next to her was her half-sister Leng Tianyin.
Leng Tianyin was sewing something with her head down, holding a needle between her slender fingertips. She was threading the needle very carefully with the help of the light coming in through the gap in the carriage window.
Leng Tianyin has had a deadpan face since she was young. Even though she is a concubine's daughter, she always puts on an aloof and arrogant look in front of her.
Leng Mushi didn't even look at her with half an eye, and of course she refused to admit that she was prettier than herself. She was annoyed by her expression as if she was going to burn paper at a grave all day long. But at this moment, her expression was unusually gentle. She lowered her head and approached the object in her hand, her neck drooping to form a thin, white and fragile neck, and she looked very serious.
Leng Mushi supported herself with her arms and sat up, and recognized at a glance that this was Xiao Mian's waist belt.
Wow!
No wonder.
Leng Mushi pushed open the small window and squinted her eyes to look outside. The sun was shining brightly and the road was flat. She didn't know where she was, but she saw three young immortal kings in white robes riding their horses in front of her. She had been unconscious for a whole night and half a day, so it should be noon the next day.
Her eyes were fixed on the back of one of the young immortals, who had a willow branch wrapped around his waist. Among the three, his back was particularly straight, and even when he rode his horse, he rode very straight and meticulously with his feet tucked into the stirrups.
In a sense, the male protagonist Xiao Mian is just as boring as her dead-faced sister.
No wonder they are a pair, a pair of iron trees collided and bloomed together!
Leng Mushi silently bared his teeth, touched his neck, and muttered: "You are really ruthless, it's just tearing off your waist belt..."
She closed the small window of the carriage and turned her head to look at Leng Tianyin who had already sewed the waist belt. Her expression showed a little relief. She pursed her lips, lifted the curtain of the carriage and took a look outside.
That shy and timid look made Leng Mushi get goosebumps all over her body.
Bastard.
Choking.
At this time, the carriage stopped and someone outside said, "There is a mountain stream ahead. Let's take a rest here."
The car stopped, Leng Tianyin was about to get out of the car holding the waist belt, when suddenly Leng Mushi felt a heat inside the storage bag, and then she heard a voice transmission that only she could hear - the following plot, snatch the waist belt, give it to Xiao Mian, and say that you sewed it.
I'm going to die!
What a loss!
Leng Mushi cursed in her heart, but her hands were quick. She opened the car curtain and jumped out of the car before Leng Tianyin, and grabbed the waist belt that she had just sewn in her hand.
By the time Leng Tianyin reacted and opened his mouth, Leng Mushi had already run away with the waist belt.
After jumping off the car, Leng Mushi ran directly towards Xiao Mian who was going up the mountain. While running, she covered her mouth and asked in a low voice: "Why do I remember that there is no such plot in the storybook..."
The rules in the stone-like book in the storage bag did not answer her immediately. It was only when she blocked Xiao Mian's way and dangled the waist belt in front of Xiao Mian, panting, that she said - in the plot, you have to show kindness to Xiao Mian at all costs and by all means.
Leng Mushi curled her lips and said, "Okay, it's her fault that she's the vicious female supporting role who facilitates the emotional drama between the male and female protagonists."
She stretched out her hand in front of Xiao Mian, forcing herself to get into the mood, imitating Leng Tianyin's shy and timid look just now, and said to Xiao Mian, who was staring with his eyes wide open and took a step back, as if he was extremely frightened by her blocking his way, "Here's the waist belt for you. I'm really sorry for last night. I was too rough in my excitement. I've already sewed it for you myself. Don't be angry with me, Brother Xiao."
Before Xiao Mian could say anything, two immortal kings who were not far away and were about to go up the mountain to fetch water from the stream laughed when they heard what he said.
These two people are Xiao Mian's senior brothers. Last night, Xiao Mian came back carrying the unconscious Leng Mushi, whose waist belt was torn. His senior brothers had already misunderstood him, and now that Leng Mushi spoke like this, the misunderstanding would only deepen.
Xiao Mian was not good at making excuses. His ears turned red with embarrassment. His usual solemn and serious expression could no longer be maintained. He said angrily, "Stop talking nonsense!"
The two brothers went up the mountain laughing, not embarrassing Xiao Mian, but Xiao Mian's neck was red. He looked at Leng Mushi as if he was looking at a monster. He had taken off the storage buckle on the waist belt, which was particularly important to him, and hung it around his neck. He did not take the waist belt immediately, but frowned and said, "Why is the waist belt in your hand?"
A beauty is a beauty, even when she frowns.
Leng Mushi stood on the uphill side, looking at Xiao Mian, who was standing on the downhill side, at eye level. The sunlight poured down through the mottled shadows of the trees and was blown by the wind, flowing over Xiao Mian's body, making his face suddenly look like an otherworldly person, and making people feel even more shaken.
It’s a pity that this is someone else’s snack, not hers.
Leng Mushi glanced behind Xiao Mian and saw Leng Tianyin walking towards them hesitantly. She said helplessly in her heart, "Namo Amitabha, what a sin!"
Then she said, "Of course it's in my hands. What else could it be? Could it be that Brother Xiao still expected my sister to sew it for you? She never touches strange men's things, and she won't even look at a man twice. If she sews this waist belt for Brother Xiao, wouldn't it be a disgrace to her reputation?"
What Leng Mushi said was indeed true. Leng Tianyin strictly abided by the female virtues at home, and her reputation was many times better than her, the legitimate daughter who fooled around everywhere. No matter how dashing and romantic the young man from a noble family was, she would not even glance at him.
If not for this, after her mother died, her father wouldn't have scolded her every time he spoke to her, and wouldn't have used Leng Tianyin to teach her a lesson every time.
Upon hearing that, Xiao Mian raised his hand to grab the waist belt. He didn't want to say a word to Leng Mushi, but just as he reached out his hand, Leng Mushi suddenly turned her wrist, and Xiao Mian didn't grab the waist belt, but grabbed the back of her hand.
Xiao Mian: …
"Pah!" Leng Mushi pressed the back of Xiao Mian's hand to prevent him from pulling it back. She deliberately said to Xiao Mian in front of Leng Tianyin, who was embarrassed after hearing what she said not far away, "Brother Xiao, let's go get some water together. I'm a little hungry. I wonder if there are any fruits in the forest that I can eat... Can you find some for me?"
Leng Tianyin saw the two people holding hands. She naturally could not see the disgusted expression on Xiao Mian's face from the back of his head, and it was even more impossible for her to rush up to explain that it was she who sewed the waist belt, so she turned around and went back to the carriage with the water bag.
The storage bag feels hot inside - the plot is completed.
Leng Mushi immediately let go of Xiao Mian. He pulled his hand with too much force, but Leng Mushi suddenly let go. He staggered back and stood still, looking up and glaring at Leng Mushi.
Leng Mushi raised her hands, made an innocent surrender gesture, smiled apologetically, and folded her waist belt several times in front of Xiao Mian. Xiao Mian watched helplessly as the waist belt he always wore around his waist bent and twisted under her fingertips, and finally softened into a small square towel.
Leng Mushi respectfully handed the waist belt to Xiao Mian with both hands: "Don't be angry, Xiao Xianjun, tie it on quickly."
Xiao Mian looked at her warily. He had noticed last night that her expression changed as fast as turning the pages of a book. He couldn't help but scan her body with his spiritual sense again to confirm that there was no demonic aura. Then he pursed his lips and took the waist belt.
Leng Mushi did not act up this time. Apart from the plot, she had no interest in interfering in the affairs between the male and female protagonists. It would be better for her to spend that time thinking about what she would do in the future.
Xiao Mian actually didn't want this waist belt anymore. He didn't know why, but the way the waist belt bent around Leng Mushi's fingertips just now was always lingering in his mind. After he tied it around his waist, even his waist felt inexplicably hot.
He tiptoed impatiently and jumped up the mountain without looking back.
Leng Mushi turned back to the carriage, took out her water bag, and prepared to go to the mountain to fetch water.
"You," Leng Tianyin blocked Leng Mushi's way beside the carriage.
"Don't provoke Xiao Xianjun the way you get along with your bad friends. He has done us a favor. When we go to Taichu Mountain in the future, maybe he will be our senior brother. How can you..."
"What's wrong with me?" Leng Mushi didn't want to talk to Leng Tianyin at all, but when she heard the words "fox friends", she felt as if her heart was stabbed, "Fox friends? Why don't you make a fox friend who is willing to risk the annihilation of his clan to cover up your tracks for you and see!"
"Dad is dead, and now you are taking over to teach me a lesson?" Leng Mushi took a deep breath and said to Leng Tianyin, "Don't even think about controlling me. Dad can't control me, so why should you?!"
"Because your mother forced my mother to death, or because my father likes to use you to teach me a lesson?!" Leng Mushi really didn't want to be laughed at at this time, but she was really fed up with Leng Tianyin's preaching. Seeing Leng Tianyin's pale face, she snorted and ran away with the kettle.
She ran to the mountain stream, drank a lot of water, filled some more, and held the cold kettle in her arms. Only then did she feel that the depression in her heart was somewhat extinguished by the cool stream water. Then she sat down by the tree in the mountain stream and hugged her knees.
Her family was wiped out just two months ago, but Leng Mushi was not sad at all because her father had married a concubine with a child, who was only one year younger than her. When the child killed her weak mother, her whole family had already died.
But her life was even more miserable than her mother's. On the day when her family was wiped out by a big monster, she escaped by luck, but she found out that she was a vicious female supporting role living in a storybook.
Using the stone that claimed to be the law in the book, she confirmed the plot for two whole months. In the end, she had to accept her fate. She was just a supporting role born to be a miserable contrast to her half-sister Leng Tianyin.
Irritable!
Not convinced!
But when she thinks about it carefully, she, the legitimate daughter, has lived until now under the shadow of her half-sister Leng Tianyin. Even her gentle and kind mother died of depression because of her mother's marriage. Her father is as hard-hearted as stone and can only see her half-sister. Even her "friends" who she had made friends with for several years took them in and hid because they liked Leng Tianyin - can this world ever be a better place!
Leng Mushi kicked a small stone beside her, sniffed, and suddenly a fruit was handed to her.
She turned her head to look, against the sunlight, her vision was blurry. She reached out and wiped it hard before she could see clearly that it was Xiao Mian. He looked at her sternly and handed the red fruit to her, "Here you go."
Don't cry.
Of course, he didn't say the latter part. He just happened to see her crying silently nearby, just happened to come across edible fruits, and just happened to remember that her relatives had just died, so he did this.
Leng Mushi's subconscious reaction was to touch her storage bag. The stones inside were not hot. This was not the time to follow the plot. She asked in confusion, "What are you doing?"
Since she was sitting and Xiao Mian was standing, she squinted her watery eyes and looked at Xiao Mian. She herself did not realize that she was crying. She never did such useless things. After her mother died, she never cried even when her father punished her. She just felt that God was unfair a little, a little bit, very little.
But soon the storage bag felt hot, and Leng Mushi's hands were faster than her brain, and she immediately grabbed the fruit, along with Xiao Mian's hand.
She even rubbed the back of his hand with her fingers, and then said in a nasal voice like she had just cried: "Thank you, Brother Xiao..."
here we go again!
The skin on the back of Xiao Mian's neck tightened, he shook off her hand and ran away.
Xiao Mian ran away. Leng Mushi looked around but did not see Leng Tianyin.
As the stone heated up, Leng Mushi reached out to touch the storage bag on her waist, reached in and poked the stone twice, and muttered in confusion: "Are you broken? My sister can't see, and there is no plot to follow..."
The stone turned into an ordinary stone and did not answer. Leng Mushi took it out and threw it back. With this interruption, her brief sadness disappeared.
She picked up the small fruit that she took from Xiao Mian, brought it to her mouth and took a bite. Instantly, juice splashed in her mouth and her fox eyes widened - this small fruit was not good-looking, but it was very sweet!
Leng Mushi hadn't eaten anything since last night, and such a small thing was not enough to fill her teeth, but it successfully made her stomach growl.
When she was hungry, she had no time to be sad or hesitant about the future. After all, her abilities were very limited, so she had to take it one step at a time... Filling her stomach was the most important thing!
So she carried the full water bag and prepared to go back to the carriage to eat some dry food with water, but before she reached the carriage, she saw Leng Tianyin and Xiao Mian talking next to a small tree not far away.
Tsk tsk tsk.
This is a hurry to explain the waist belt issue.
This is the plot. No matter how many misunderstandings the vicious female supporting role causes, the male and female protagonists will quickly resolve them and their relationship will be further enhanced as a result.
The rule says that after completing all the plots, she will be free and find a way out for herself.
Leng Mushi also wanted to join the immortal sect, even though in the plot, her spiritual roots were very mixed and Taichu Sect might not even look upon her.
But she did not seek immortality, even being an outer disciple would be fine. She just hoped to stay away from this couple, get rid of Leng Tianyin's shadow, and live her own life.
Her mouth was about to turn upside down as she walked to the side of the carriage. Xiao Mian looked in her direction and frowned subconsciously. Leng Mushi had almost turned away, but suddenly she squeezed her face and made a very ugly face at him.
Xiao Mian: ... He was actually startled!
It wasn't that he was frightened by the ghost face, but he couldn't imagine a woman would be so careless about her image...
"Xiao Xianjun?" Leng Tianyin saw that he didn't respond, so she continued, "My sister actually didn't mean to offend you. She just... has a very active temper. I hope you don't take it to heart."
Xiao Mian: … She did this unintentionally, what would happen if she did it on purpose
For the first time in his life, he experienced what it meant to be in a dilemma. He glanced at the side of the carriage and saw Leng Mushi already sitting there eating a biscuit.
He nodded: "It's okay, Miss Leng, go eat something and continue on your journey. We have to travel until late at night to reach the next town."
Leng Tianyin nodded, and Xiao Mian took out a handkerchief from his arms and spread it out. Inside were five or six small fruits like the ones he had given to Leng Mushi just now.
"I found this in the mountains. It's edible. Miss Leng, please have some." Xiao Mian handed over the handkerchief. Leng Tianyin pursed her lips to thank him. Just as she was about to reach out her hand, Leng Mushi appeared out of nowhere and snatched it all away.
"Brother Xiao is the best. My sister doesn't like to eat these things. I just tasted one and it was very sour. I'd better eat it!" Leng Mushi said as she picked up one, took a bite, and made an expression that it was so sour.
Xiao Mian moved his lips... He didn't eat either.
But he didn't say anything in the end. He glanced at the stunned Leng Tianyin, turned around and walked towards his senior brother.
Leng Mushi ate some fruit while walking towards the carriage, muttering in a low voice that only she could hear: "This plot is a bit trivial, rules, rules, is it okay for you to always make me do this kind of thing to annoy people? If the male and female protagonists are fed up with me and hit it off, and throw me away halfway, then I will be useless..."
-Don't worry, the evil female supporting role can jump to the finale. The town will encounter evil spirits at night, so you have to be prepared.
"Prepare... for what?" Leng Mushi had a bad feeling.
Sure enough, the next moment the rule said - be prepared to kill the heroine.
Leng Mushi: ... The little fruit suddenly isn’t sweet anymore.
Although she was annoyed with Leng Tianyin, this annoyance had nothing to do with hatred. She...
The rule seemed to have heard her thoughts and said again - the heroine cannot be killed.
Leng Mushi was immediately relieved. According to the plot she had verified, Leng Tianyin was indeed invincible and God was on her side.
That's good, Leng Mushi thought, she should finish all the plots quickly so that she can escape the fate of being a supporting role.
When the team started moving again, Leng Mushi ate the last small fruit in the carriage, and Leng Tianyin suddenly said: "You..."
"Whatever you want to say, don't say it," Leng Mushi sat up and threw the fruit core out of the car window, and said to Leng Tianyin calmly, "When we get to Taichu Sect, you and I will definitely not be able to be in the same place. Our home is gone, and there is no relationship between you and me as sisters. Let's just end it now."
"What are you talking about!" Leng Tianyin became anxious and tried to pull Leng Mushi, but she dodged him.
Leng Tianyin said: "But in this world, we are the only two left who depend on each other. We are blood relatives, how can we break off the relationship?"
"Why not?" Leng Mushi looked at Leng Tianyin and thought to herself, now that we are in Taichu Sect, you are the head disciple and I am an outer disciple who cannot enter. It is impossible for us to depend on each other. It would be better for me to leave you. Otherwise, I will be compared with you in an ugly way.
"Just give me a chance to live." Leng Mushi clasped her hands together devoutly and bowed to Leng Tianyin. "You have been saving small animals for many years and have the reputation of being a little living Bodhisattva. Can you please have mercy on me?"
"elder sister!"
It’s too late to call her sister now!
Seeing that she couldn't make sense, Leng Mushi turned over and lay on the carriage with her back to Leng Tianyin, lifted her skirt and covered her head, refusing to communicate.
She lay there, thinking about all sorts of things. The carriage kept shaking, and finally Leng Mushi fell asleep.
When Leng Mushi woke up again, it was past midnight. They had already entered the town, but there were only sparse lantern lights swaying in the night breeze on the streets. At this time, most inns and restaurants were closed.
They walked two streets and finally found an inn that was still open. Tired from the long journey, Leng Mushi opened the carriage curtain with sleepy eyes. The lobby of the tavern was actually brightly lit, and there were several tables of guests still drinking and chatting.
Leng Tianyin leaned against the carriage with a tired look on his face. Only the three immortal kings were still energetic. They could have flown thousands of miles a day on their swords, but because Leng Mushi and Leng Tianyin's mortal bodies could not withstand the speed of flying on swords, they had to travel by carriage.
The carriage was handed over to the two waiters who came out to greet them, and after everyone got off the carriage, they entered the hall.
The shopkeeper who opened the room had a pair of triangular eyes and smiled kindly, but there was a sense of discomfort in his expression.
Leng Mushi had slept all the way and was now refreshed. Senior Brother Xiao Mian was negotiating with the shopkeeper to book a room. Leng Mushi yawned and glanced at the shopkeeper. She saw that their eyebrows were uneven, one close to the eyes, and the other raised so high that it seemed to go into the top of the head. It was obvious that they had drawn them sloppily in a hurry to meet someone.
The shopkeeper spoke in a clumsy, halting voice: "Sir, there are only two upper rooms left."
Here comes the plot.