Yunniang carried a large bucket of washed clothes and walked into the yard.
"Miss, let me come." Nan He saw it and reached out to take it.
Nan He is tall and has long legs, and moves neatly. He quickly pulls up the ropes for drying clothes among the trees in the yard, and neatly hangs wet clothes in the sunlight.
Yun Niang also held her hands and stood aside to look at him with a smile.
Ah Xiang's gentleman, although he speaks very little on weekdays and is a monster, he is actually very considerate and attentive.
After getting along for a long time, it can be seen that he is earnestly trying to adapt to the human way of life, and sincerely wants to spend a lifetime with Xiang'er.
Yun Niang thought with great relief.
And it's very easy to be shy, but looking at him like this for a while, it's a little unnatural to have his back turned to his figure.
Yuan Xianger and Hu Qing ran out of the kitchen and walked towards the stone table with a pot of fried balls just out of the pan.
"Sister, I'll go inside for a while." Yuan Xianger greeted Yunniang.
"Miss, the lunch in the kitchen is ready." Hu Qing also greeted.
The two were talking, and they disappeared after stepping on the table.
Wu Yuan led Saburo and Jin Yu to lift off the layers of clothes, and rushed over in a rush, making a noise,
"Croquettes, croquettes, I smell croquettes."
"Come on, go to the table."
"Cuckoo, cuckoo."
When the three little guys saw Yunniang, they stopped their hasty footsteps and said hello.
"Mistress."
"Mistress."
"Cuckoo."
I don't know why, but everyone is used to following Yuan Xianger to call Yunniang and Mistress. In the voices of the yard calling for the teacher one after another, Yunniang agreed with a smile.
In Yunniang's eyes now, Jin Yu can gradually see her appearance clearly.
Yun Niang especially doted on these three little ones, "Come on, be careful that the croquettes are eaten up."
The little guys cheered, jumped on the stone table, and quickly disappeared.
Yunniang took the empty wooden barrel from Nanhe and walked into the house. Standing on the eaves, she raised her hand to cover her eyebrows and looked at the dim clouds in the sky.
"It's finally sunny for a day, but don't rain anymore. This year's rain is a bit too much."
In the small world of the stone table, Wu Yuan squatted in a row, eating hot-mouthed meatballs while watching Danluo practice walking.
Danluo held on to the wall of the wooden house by the lake and walked a little bit reluctantly. After walking a few steps, his face turned pale, and he had to stop to take a breath.
"Don't force it, let's take a rest first?" Saburo said worriedly.
"That's right, you're obviously a fish, so it's okay if you can't walk. Although we've been calling you to come and play, we're not in a hurry." Wu Yuan was a little embarrassed. These days he always likes to lie on the side of the boat and hold The caterpillar teased Danluo, who had been sinking in the water, and wanted the black fish with half of its tail to come up and play with him.
"Come and sit for a while?" Yuan Xiang'er stuck out her head from the waterside pavilion.
There was already a large pot of hot balls in the waterside pavilion, and drinks were placed. The friends all sat down for a drink, and Nan He had already come in from outside.
Danluo walked a little slowly, he leaned on the railing, and with his new legs, slowly, with some difficulty, approached the lively circle.
Several arms reached out to him, lending him a helping hand.
"Come on, would you like a drink?" Yuan Xianger poured a glass of wine and gave it a toast.
This time, Dan Luo was silent for a moment and took the glass of wine from her hand.
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There was a faint sound of thunder in the sky, Yuan Xianger in the room raised her head from the piles of ancient books and looked out the window,
"It's going to rain again? Where's the clothes that Mistress only dried in the morning. There's been too much rain recently."
She muttered, and continued to bury her head in searching for records about Nanming in the mountain-like books.
Ever since she saw where Master was in the little astrolabe and was informed by Senior Su Bai that Master Yu Yao was trapped in Nanming, Yuan Xianger began to bury her head in looking for a way to go to Nanming.
But no matter which book I read, the records all pointed out that Nanming was at the end of the earth. The scarlet cliffs there are bottomless, the sea water is mysterious and unpredictable, and countless powerful sea monsters pass through it. It is a terrifying area without human footprints.
Of course, the most difficult thing to do is that its location is thousands of miles away from the Central Plains. Even with the speed of crossing the Shuo and Nanhe, it takes decades to travel.
Yuan Xianger was lying on the messy table in frustration, almost scratching her head bald.
"Isn't there any way?"
"Gu Gu... Gu Gu Gu Gu." Jin Yu appeared out of the window with her sleeves up, and stretched her neck to call her.
"Ah, Jin Yu, do you think someone is looking for me?" Yuan Xiang'er put down the book and walked out holding Jin Yu's hand.
The big flower appeared outside the door of the yard with a gift.
"Dahua? Are you coming back to your mother's house?" Yuan Xianger happily let her friend into the living room,
Dahua was wearing a new twisted jacket with small sleeves and a refreshing high bun. The bun was pinned to the golden hairpin that Yuan Xianger gave her makeup when she got married.
The person has tanned a bit, but his spirit is much better than when Yuan Xianger met him more than half a year ago. His eyebrows are brighter, his behavior is neat and generous, and he has the hearty appearance before his marriage.
She put the stack of food containers in her hand on Yuan Xianger's table.
"The smell of good fragrance, what is it?" Yuan Xiang'er asked.
"It's all brined bacon, pork trotters in sauce, crispy sausages in cold sauce, and barbecued pork in honey sauce. I made it myself, remember you used to like it very much."
"It's good, I've been greedy recently, and I was thinking about it." Yuan Xiang'er took it over after thanking her, "Have you had time to make these things lately?"
"Ah Xiang, when you came to see me last time, I didn't wear this hairpin. In fact, life at home was difficult and I was pawned." Dahua touched the golden hairpin on her temples and brought it with her. I was embarrassed and said, "Although you didn't ask questions at that time, I was very nervous at that time, and I was asked that question by you."
She held Yuan Xiang'er's hand: "I am the daughter of a butcher, and I am not good at anything else. Since I was a child, I only learned to cook the remaining ingredients of the meat stall at home. After you left last year, I thought and thought, and I gritted my teeth in the market. I opened a brine stall at the beginning. Fortunately, it was blessed by the gods, and the business was still good. Today, I finally calm down and can redeem the hairpin you gave. Today, I specially brought it to show you. "
"Really? Your mother-in-law didn't object?" Yuan Xianger was happy for Dahua. But she also knows that although Dahua's mother-in-law covets their family's dowry, she still looks down on her father as a butcher. The scholars of this era look down on the merchants who do business for a living. She never imagined that the domineering mother-in-law of Dahua would allow her to show her face and set up a stall.
"My mother-in-law is naturally unwilling." Dahua spread her hands, "but the family is obviously unable to open the pot, and the husband still has to study and go to school, so he can't rely on me to sell the dowry and my sister-in-law to embroider and weave cloth day and night for money. My mother-in-law is against it, but I made up my mind that as long as my husband supports me, she will throw the pot and the pot and scold the world, and I will ignore it."
"Yes, yes. This is the big flower in my family." Yuan Xianger patted her shoulder.
"Besides last year's Qiuwei, my husband fell off the list." Dahua approached Yuan Xianger, and didn't mind talking about her loss to her best friend, "After falling off the list, the faces of those who were very enthusiastic relatives all turned cold. , and it has become neither salty nor light to us. My mother-in-law also feels boring, and she can't stand the air. "
"Your husband is still young, what are you afraid of, don't put pressure on him, just take the test slowly." Yuan Xianger comforted, she remembered Zhang Xun, the husband who met Dahua last time, the young man with his shoulders and backs He was dragging countless gloomy monsters, big and small, obviously overwhelmed by the pressure from all parties.
She took out the talisman paper, and calmly drew a talisman. The fingertips moved flexibly, folded it into a triangle, and handed it to Dahua.
"This is a talisman to get rid of evil spirits and calm your mind. Let your husband wear it on your body."
Dahua was overjoyed and got up to be blessed.
"There has been too much rain recently. The spring flood is fierce and the water level has risen. Even the River Temple in our Lianghe Town has been flooded. Although my home is on a high place, my parents are still not at ease, so they sent A Brother, go and take me and my husband's family over."
"Has the River Temple been flooded?" Yuan Xiang'er felt a little sighed in her heart, but she could not have imagined that without Danluo's reckless actions, there would still be a flood in Lianghe Town.
"Yeah, the old people said that Yuanshui hasn't risen sharply for decades. It should be like this, and even the Lord River God can't bless him." "But I'm very happy to be able to live in my mother's house for a while. You don't know, my father is not like the snobbish relative of the Zhang family. He only knows that Lang Jun is a scholar and a baby. Not only did he treat the husband alone. A quiet and quiet study room. I also call my son-in-law all day long, and let him just concentrate on reading and not have to think about anything."
She remembered her father's attitude towards her husband, and couldn't help laughing, "She also asked my brother-in-law's mud monkey, who can't sit on the bench, to get close to her husband and learn a few big characters. My brother-in-law screamed all day long. Even the husband himself said that living in my house is a lot easier for everyone."
"That's great, that's how it should be." Yuan Xianger was really happy for her friend.
It started to rain with a clatter outside the window, and Dahua got up to leave, with a worried look on her face: "I don't know what will happen to the town if it rains again?"
When Yuan Xianger took her to the door, her husband Zhang Xun was coming out of the yard diagonally opposite the door, and came to pick her up with an umbrella.
"Why did you come to pick me up after such a few steps?" Dahua complained, but his face was full of sweet smiles.
The couple held hands and said goodbye to Yuan Xianger.
Yuan Xianger looked at the backs of the pairs in the rain curtain.
On the back of the young man, the monsters, big and small, who once clinged to his shoulders when the human spirit was weak have disappeared. Falling off the list may not necessarily be a bad thing for him, but it makes him completely let go of the excessive burden in his heart.
The young man Lang Jun, who was once overwhelmed, straightened his back while holding the bamboo umbrella. Walk in the rain while protecting your wife.
This heavy rain has been falling for days after another, and flooding has inevitably occurred in towns along the river.
Queqiu is located at the foot of Tianlang Mountain, and the terrain is relatively high. In addition, Yuan Xianger led the apostles to protect them before the flood came, and they crossed the flood peak without any risk.
However, Lianghe Town, along the Yuanshui River in Chenzhou, and even Dingzhou by the Dongting Lake have all suffered from severe floods that have not been seen for many years.
Yuan Xianger stood on the top of the mountain range near Lianghe Town, watching the turbid river flowing eastward.
In Lianghe Town not far away, the familiar river temple has been completely submerged by the flood, only the golden gourd on the top of the temple still shows a small trace of the temple's existence in the monstrous flood.
The people in the town abandoned their homes and ran away. Countless human beings have been displaced by natural disasters, and the once prosperous and lively town is now full of mud and mourning everywhere.
Nanhe stands in the air, attracting the power of the stars to change the landscape, diverting the flood as much as possible, and buying time for the humans in the town to escape.
Dushuo stood on the top of the mountain, transporting the power of space to reinforce the embankment and block the flood.
Hu Qing and others also performed their own magic, trying their best to help the residents of the town escape without being noticed.
Even so, casualties are inevitable.
Yuan Xianger stood on the top of the mountain and watched as a dead child's body and broken furniture and debris drifted past her in front of her eyes.
And at the foot of the mountain behind her, countless people of the same kind with their families and their families walked hard on the muddy mountain road in the torrential rain.
Humans once felt that they were very powerful, and it was only when they faced the power of nature that they found that their power was always so weak and weak. As long as you want, any kind of power in this world can shatter those sunny days at any time.
There is still her reluctant support with the apostles, and Yuan Xianger can't even imagine the disasters in other places.
She can only try not to see too tragic scenes, stand in the wind and rain, calmly drive her spiritual power, and do her part for those who are struggling in the disaster.
"I didn't expect fellow Daoist to come too." A somewhat familiar voice sounded nearby.
Yuan Xianger opened her eyes and saw that it was Qingyuan who was leading the disciples of the Qing sect.
Those warlocks with bamboo hats and hydration suits were soaked all over, their shoes and socks were covered with mud, obviously they were just like Yuan Xianger, they were tired from running around for a long time.
Yuan Xianger bowed her head as a salute, "Senior has worked hard."
"People who practice cultivation live in the world with spiritual energy as their own body. Those who are capable work hard, and those who are strong bear the burden. When they are free, they live in seclusion in the mountains and forests, and when they are in trouble, they contribute to the common people. This is the teaching of my school." Although Qingyuan was covered in mud, he sat on his On the apostle's back, he still had the same calm look, "It's admirable that the little fellow Daoist is young and alone, yet he can protect a town of people."
"Senior's praise, meager power, how can it be compared with the predecessor."
Although the two of them are both practitioners, they have been walking between rivers and lakes. When there is no conflict, they are also very good at lifting each other's sedan chairs.
While talking here, a monster with a fish tail appeared in the river.
The wet Danluo returned to Yuan Xianger's side,
"I've widened the waterway to clear the mud." He grabbed his wet hair behind his head, and didn't look at the source of the clear water in front of him, he only talked to Yuan Xianger, "This time the flood is raging, my injuries have not healed, and my mana is insufficient. , it can only do so much right now.”
Yuan Xianger thanked him very seriously, "Thank you for your hard work, Danluo."
Qingyuan stared blankly at the demon who had been tossing for a long time and couldn't get it, and at the conspicuous contract mark on his forehead, he completely lost his calm and indifferent appearance.
"You, you, you have another apostle? No, I said how on earth did you accept him as an apostle?"