This is probably a dream.
Zhuo Yunyi told herself so in her heart.
In this dream, I became Jiang Jin's land god.
"Ah, Xiaoyi, are you really going to kill me?"
In front of him was a dirt monster with an extremely ugly face. Its voice was rough and hoarse like a wasteland that had been dry for a long time, but it inexplicably revealed a feeling of nostalgia.
As the god of the earth, in the land shrine, although it is not easy to say, he can also defeat the opponent.
After a long and difficult battle, the opponent's body was covered with cracks, as long as she put in a little effort, she could defeat him.
However, when the mud on the monster's face cracked, revealing the pale and familiar face under the mud, Zhuo Yunyi's spells collapsed just like that.
Even though she wanted to protect the land of Jiang Jin and the human beings living in this land, that's why she fought hard.
But at the last moment, she hesitated, frightened, and backed away.
The nightmare of the past entangled himself again.
She lost the courage to fight, but she didn't want the person she once dreamed of and admired to make a bigger mistake, so, as if she materialized her nightmare, the girl's body was covered by an extremely hard rock, and finally became made a sculpture.
And in the eye socket of the sculpture, the only drop of water that is not covered by the stone crosses the stone surface and drops to the ground.
…
Zhuo Yunyi felt that she had had a dream for a long time, but when she opened her eyes, she couldn't remember anything, but there were still tears on her face.
"Have you had a nightmare?"
He raised his head because of the sound, sat on the edge of the bed, and the eldest lady who had saved him showed her the usual gentle smile.
At this moment, Zhuo Yunyi felt that maybe she was born in this world just to see this smile.
It has been more than a hundred years since she met the eldest lady. To be honest, she has almost forgotten all her experience as a mortal. She can't even remember the disgusting face of her stepfather and the submissive and cowardly appearance of her biological mother. , but only the day when I met the eldest lady, the warmth that seemed to make my already cold heart beat again is still fresh in my memory.
"Well, it seems to be." Zhuo Yunyi nodded, and then leaned towards the position of the eldest lady like a spoiled little girl: "Although I don't remember it, it must be a very sad and desperate person." Dream."
Even now, recalling the feeling in the dream, I still feel as if my heart is being grabbed by an invisible hand, and I feel bored and uncomfortable.
"Then be happy, don't humans often say that dreams and reality are opposite."
The eldest lady giggled, then lowered her head and bit off the colored thread in her hand, then handed the thing she was embroidering to Zhuo Yunyi: "Look, it's done well, I'm giving it to you, Xiaoyi!"
Zhuo Yunyi took it curiously, and found that the lady embroidered a brocade handkerchief, but for some reason, there were two ducks embroidered on the brocade handkerchief.
"Miss, is there any allusion to these two ducks?" So the girl asked curiously.
"It's not a duck, it's a mandarin duck, a mandarin duck!"
The eldest lady corrected with a serious face: "This kind of bird comes out in pairs, and it is a symbol of love!"
"Eh? But I remember that mandarin ducks are actually very caring birds. The male bird will come for a female bird every year. It should be the penguin that is really loyal?"
Zhuo Yunyi frowned and said subconsciously.
"How, how is it possible... By the way, what kind of bird is a penguin?" The eldest lady showed a shocked expression on her world view.
Zhuo Yunyi then described the penguin in her memory.
"Isn't that Yumin (a resident of a special country in Shan Hai Jing, many people think it is a penguin)?" The eldest lady's expression became a little confused: "And Xiaoyi, where did you know these things? of?"
"Well, don't remember..."
Zhuo Yunyi tilted his head and pondered for a long time, but he couldn't remember where he got these strange knowledge, so he had no choice but to give up in the end.
Then, the memory before she lost consciousness revived in her mind.
As a result, her face suddenly turned pale: "Miss, speaking of which, there are two strange people, they seem to want to find the land shrine..."
"Ah, for those two guests, I have already invited them in, remember that when you see them in the future, don't be too rude, you know?"
"..."
What is the purpose of those efforts...
Zhuo Yunyi's whole body was OTZ.
"Speaking of which, why did Missy start to learn embroidery all of a sudden?"
After sorting out her mood, Zhuo Yunyi continued to ask: "Didn't the eldest lady be more interested in boxing kung fu, medical pharmacology, and farming?"
"Because there has been a little change in mood." The eldest lady subconsciously gathered her hair bun with her hands.
It was only then that Zhuo Yunyi realized that there was a luxurious jade hairpin in her bun.
Normally, Miss Land God would have stuck a mahogany branch with flower buds as a hairpin.
"This jade hairpin," Zhuo Yunyi blinked, realizing that he actually had an impression of this jade hairpin: "Could it be that scholar's..."
"That's right," the eldest lady didn't hide, but nodded generously and admitted, "Because they gave me all these things, so I at least want to show something. For example..."
"Duck handkerchief?"
"It's a mandarin duck handkerchief!"
"But miss, immortality is different..." Zhuo Yunyi wanted to say something, but was stopped by the latter.
"I know, Xiaoyi." Her smile became a little lonely: "Don't worry, I won't get too deep."
…
Xu Shenxing and the others lived in the Land Shrine for about three days.
However, judging from the daily changing calendar on the wall, I am afraid that the timeline in the dream has already passed more than half a year.
During this period of time, Zhuo Xiangzhu and the scholar had a hot fight, and their relationship developed further.
But at the same time, this time span also made Xu Shenxing and the others discover something unusual.
"Hey, old Xu, do you think the former land god's health is getting worse?"
Even the mortal Xiao Zhengyi noticed something was wrong. One day, he sat on a wooden chair bored and asked Xu Shenxing.
Probably only Zhuo Yunyi and the scholar, who had been with each other day and night, hadn't clearly felt this.
"Not only that, according to Jasmine's perception, even her divine power seems to be declining."
Xu Shenxing nodded: "If I'm not mistaken, this should be the so-called Heaven's Punishment."
"God's punishment... what the hell is that?" Xiao Zhengyi asked, frowning.
"Probably some kind of curse."
Xu Shenxing thought for a moment, and then replied: "I have seen similar things in Fusang, but the punishment of heaven over there is more unreasonable than here, the love between gods and humans, the final punishment is was applied to human beings..."
"Is there nothing you and Jasmine can do? For example, 'Undo the curse (physics)?'" Xiao Zhengyi could not help but continue to ask.
"Unfortunately, no." Xu Shenxing spread his hands: "If I have to say it, I can follow the karma of the curse and beat the person who cast the curse to death with one punch... and Jasmine is better at cursing than breaking the curse. "
"If that's the case, then the last resort is to destroy the love between the two..."
In the end, Xiao Zhengyi could only mutter to himself like this.
At this moment, the gate of the courtyard of the Earth Shrine was opened from the outside, and Zhuo Yunyi and Jasmine walked in from the outside.
Unlike Jasmine who walked in leisurely with a basket on her head (you could vaguely see the basket full of peaches), Zhuo Yunyi's face was full of anxiety.
"Where is Missy?"
As soon as she entered the door, she yelled at Xu Shenxing and the others.
After all, theoretically, Xu Shenxing and the others lived here for half a year. After the initial misunderstanding was resolved, the girl and them were already familiar.
Xu Shenxing pouted towards the bell in the hall: "I was called out by that thing again."
"Ah, why at this time..."
The girl scratched her hair with both hands, looking more irritable.
"Did something happen?"
Xiao Zhengyi also asked curiously.
"It's too late to explain!" The girl yelled.
This made Xu Shenxing inexplicably want to continue to say "get in the car", but he still held back with great perseverance.
"Anyway, I'm going to get the eldest lady back. If anyone else comes here later, try to delay the time as much as possible, you know!"
As soon as she said that, the girl ran out of the yard in a hurry.
"What's the matter?" Xiao Zhengyi was confused.
"It seems that we have triggered a hidden plot."
Xu Shenxing looked thoughtful.
"Still hiding the plot... Do you really treat this as a game?"
Xiao Zhengyi couldn't help complaining.
"Landlord, help me out."
However, Jasmine was not interested in the conversation between the two of them, and even stuffed the basket on Xu Shenxing's hand into Xu Shenxing's hand, and it was indeed full of peaches the size of goose eggs.
"Is now the time to leisurely peel the peaches?!" Xiao Zhengyi felt that he almost had no energy to complain about these two people.
"How can a person who can't even peel a peach save the world!"
Xu Shenxing fought with Tao Zi justly and righteously until his hands were full of juice.
"No, I don't think these two things have anything in common..."
Just as the two of them started running the train meaninglessly again, there was a knock on the courtyard door that Zhuo Yunyi had slammed shut.
Xu Shenxing looked at Jasmine, and Jasmine looked at Xiao Zhengyi.
"Okay, I'll go and open the door..."
Xiao Zhengyi, who was at the bottom of the food chain, had no choice but to run errands.
Standing outside the gate of the courtyard was an imposing man. He was wearing the costumes worn by aristocratic boys and buddies in ancient costume dramas. He seemed to be slightly older than Xu Shenxing (and had more hair than Xu Shenxing). , put it in modern times and throw it into that TV series, you can easily win a group of die-hard fans with good looks, and you still don't need a little bit of acting skills, you have both literary and military skills, and you only read 12345 lines, the kind that fans don't mind.
"Well, you are..."
Xiao Zhengyi asked suspiciously.
At first glance, the person in front of him is not the kind of public-faced NPC who only repeats one or two lines of lines. In terms of handsomeness, he is either the male lead or the villain. In Xu Shenxing's words, this guy is definitely a hidden character, although I don't know the identity of the other party, but it is correct to be polite.
"Hasn't Xiangzhu told you servants?"
The other party frowned: "I am Lishui Dragon King, and also the land god of this place, the fiancé of your master Zhuo Xiangzhu."
"WTF?!"
Xiao Zhengyi couldn't help blurting out.
Lishui is a large river beside the Jinjiang River in ancient times, and it belongs to the tributary of the Yangtze River. However, because of the diversion of the flood, the water control officials knew that it was better to block it than to dredge it, so they simply dug a few ditches to divert all the Lishui, and finally flowed into the East China Sea. , the river disappeared on the map.
Of course, it wasn't the Jiang problem that made Xiao Zhengyi feel f**cked, but the current plot seems to have become a little strange... At least in the ancient books Qin Xingyan found, there was no mention of the Dragon King who was NTRed by the scholar.
Seeing that Xiao Zhengyi didn't seem to be able to handle it, Xu Shenxing also stuffed the half-peeled peach into Jasmine's mouth, and walked forward quickly.
"Master Dragon King? I have long admired your name..."
"Huh, it's easy to say." The other party raised his nose arrogantly, and seemed to like compliments.
"Although it's a bit impolite, may I ask if you were the one that was blown up by the monkey, or the one that was blown up by Nezha?"
"It's really rude! I haven't been beaten by monkeys or Nezha before!"
"Could it be the one that was ridden by Tang Seng for nineteen years!"
"Riding on your head! Besides, he is also an eight-part dragon, show me some respect!"
"Is that the one that rushed into your temple?" Xu Shenxing praised.
"Attack your sister! How prejudiced are you against the Dragon King!"
Lishui Dragon King looked like he wanted to swallow Xu Shenxing alive.
Well, if it wasn't for taking into account the feelings of my fiancée, maybe I would have eaten it alive.
"Probably to the extent that you can't beat a monkey."
"Nonsense, even if the entire Heavenly Court is shoulder to shoulder, how many gods can beat that monkey... No, who the hell are you?"
Speaking of this, Lishui Dragon King has become somewhat suspicious: "Although Xiangzhu is rebellious and always becomes a mortal traveling in the secular world, he will definitely not invite a guy like you to be a manager or servant... What are you? Who?"
"Good question, this starts with the birth of the earth 4.5 billion years ago!"
"It's been too long, hey! No, the earth is a mess! Isn't this world a round sky!"
"So, your dragon clan is still a pattern, no wonder you can't beat monkeys, you need to learn more postures to know the greatness of this world, you know!"
"Ah, you bastard is so annoying, even if you try to be blamed by Xiangzhu, I will kill you!"
While speaking, Lishui Dragon King released his divine power, wanting to directly pat Xu Shenxing into small cakes.
Xu Shenxing was a little secretly happy at first, after all, such things as dragon slaying are the routine of the protagonists regardless of the East and the West.
But before he could make a move, the scene he saw in the corner of his eyes made him curl his lips helplessly, and he could only hold back the desire to make a move.
"Stop it all!"
Zhuo Xiangzhu, the land god of Jiangjin in this era, rushed back at a critical moment.
"Tch, you're lucky!"
Lishui Dragon King, who had no idea that he had walked on the edge of the Quanlong Banquet just now, could only restrain his killing intent and divine power, returned to his handsome appearance before, and turned to greet his fiancée.