After coughing out the muddy water that had choked into his trachea, the scholar raised his head and looked at the land god Lori with disbelief.
"Xiangzhu... is she a fairy?"
"Ah, that's right."
The girl put her arms around her chest and said coldly: "Immortals are different, you should stop approaching the eldest lady."
"I refuse." The scholar wiped the corner of his mouth and replied without any hesitation.
"..."
"At first I thought that Xiangzhu was hiding from me because I got a good name in the exam. She has some... um, grudges about it." He paused for a while, and finally did not say 'inferiority', but replaced it with a comparison. Neutral words: "That's why I intend to impress her with sincerity. But since this is not the case, I can feel at ease."
"But you are not worthy of her!" The land god Lolita said bitterly.
"Isn't that better? It is precisely because I am not yet qualified to stand shoulder to shoulder with Xiangzhu, this unwillingness will turn into motivation, so that I will continue to work hard! One day, I will definitely become a There is no less man next to you!" I don't know if he saw through the girl's poor acting skills, the scholar smiled slightly: "I am very aggressive and narrow-minded."
"Even if this will make Missy's life worse than death, are you going to do it!"
Facing the scholar with a firm belief, Loli, the land god, finally lost control of her emotions, and said things that she didn't intend to tell the other party.
"Yunyi, what do you mean?" Sure enough, after hearing this sentence, the scholar showed a puzzled expression on his face, and since this matter was related to Zhuo Xiangzhu, he seemed to be planning to get to the bottom of it.
Now that it has been said, the land god Lolita does not intend to continue to hide it.
"Didn't I already say that immortality is different? The gap between you and the eldest lady is not about identity, but a tragedy that cannot be combined at all." The girl tried her best to control her emotions, and continued to say coldly: "This is not someone's It was fabricated to scare you. Although Tiantiao itself will not do anything to you as a mortal, the eldest lady, as Jiang Jin's land god, will continue to be tortured by heaven's punishment. Didn't you also feel her body a little bit before? Are you uncomfortable? That’s because the effect of Heaven’s Punishment has gradually emerged... If you continue to be obsessed with it, Miss, Miss..."
Speaking of this, the land god Loli choked up and couldn't continue: "Wow, why is Missy so stubborn!"
But the scholar showed a dazed expression of not knowing what to do. He sat down on the futon unsteadily in a trance, looking extremely confused.
No matter how unwilling to accept this fact, the things I experienced just now are by no means false. What's more, he also had some understanding of Zhuo Yunyi's character, knowing that girls would not make fun of Zhuo Xiangzhu's life safety.
After a long time, he seemed to be several decades old all of a sudden, and he looked extremely depressed.
The back that was as tall and straight as a ruler as a young man had also unknowingly bent down.
Loli, the land god, could even vaguely see a few strands of silver in his bun.
"... If I and Xiangzhu from now on..." He looked haggard, and when he said this, he bent down in pain, panting heavily, until his eyes were bloodshot. Then he said: "He Xiangzhu, if you cut off your friendship... will she recover?"
"Sure." Land God Loli nodded hastily.
"...In that case." The scholar tore off a piece of cloth from his body where the robe was still intact, bit his index finger, and wrote on it.
After a while, he threw a blood book into the arms of the land god Lolita: "You go and present it to Xiangzhu...Miss Zhuo has a look, from now on, I will have nothing to do with her."
Seeing his miserable appearance, which is more mournful than heart-death, even the land god Lori, who has always hated him, couldn't bear it, so she said, "As compensation, I can grant you one wish... Of course it can't exceed It’s within the limits of people’s ability.”
"If a person's heart has been gouged out, what's the use of wishing?"
The scholar struggled to get up from the ground, hunched over, ignored the land god Lori, and left the land temple slowly step by step.
…
"My lord, you look so haggard, is it because you have caught the wind and cold?"
The staff recruited by the scholar in Shangjing are showing great hospitality to him: "The humble official feels that the wind is strong in the river, and I can do things like supervisors. It's better for you to go back to your home to cultivate yourself, my lord."
Since leaving the Earth Temple, several people have asked him similar questions. Even when the scholar looked in the mirror, he felt that his face had become so unfamiliar that he didn't even recognize him.
But he didn't have the slightest intention to change about it.
"It's okay, I'll just watch here. The diversion of Lishui is a major event that even the current emperor has paid attention to, and it can't be missed."
So the scholar waved his hand, rejecting the staff's suggestion to go back to rest by himself.
To say that the governance of Lishui is indeed a matter that the imperial court attaches great importance to... Originally, under the prediction of Qin Tianjian, the Ministry of Industry had already prepared for the flood of Lishui, causing countless deaths and injuries, and was angered by the current emperor. Tube cap's ready.
But God damn it, after ten days of heavy rain, the water level grew so fast that it didn't break through that rudimentary dam and flooded...
But it's not the same thing to leave it alone, so the emperor ordered the Ministry of Industry to send officials to manage Lishui.
As a result, the bosses of the Ministry of Industry couldn't help but look at each other in blank dismay. One must know that one's life is safe if one's official hat is taken off, but this Lishui... If they just run to the riverside, the dam will be overwhelmed, and all the water will be released with a bang, then this statue of oneself is not worth ten thousand gold but At any rate, he also has a body of two hundred catties. Could it be that he can only feed the fish and shrimp in the river like those mud legs
Even if he barely survived, it is estimated that a big hat of poor governance will be held down by his political opponents, and he will never want to return to the Beijing court in this life.
So a group of people shirked and shirked over there, and finally the homesick scholar stood up and took the thankless job. It was precisely because of this that the sage Longxin was overjoyed, and he made an exception and appointed the scholar as a member of the fifth-rank water department, Wailang, who was in charge of Lishui affairs.
Even now, even though he knows that the Yiren that he cares about is not something he can touch, at least it doesn't matter if he sacrifices a little bit of his strength to protect Jiang Jin, the land where the girl lives...