West Lake!
The willows are green, the orioles are singing, the lake is beautiful, the sky is clear, and the scenery is pleasant.
On the bank of a long embankment with green willows, two women, one in white and one in green, were walking hand in hand. The one in white was graceful, while the one in green was misty. Both of them were stunningly beautiful, not like ordinary people. Passersby all stopped and stared at them along the way.
There were not many tourists at the West Lake in the morning, only a few talented men and beautiful women made appointments to visit together. Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing walked slowly along the long embankment, admiring the scenery of the West Lake and intoxicated by the beautiful lake light. Xiaoqing sighed for a moment and couldn't help but praise: "Everyone envies the sacred place of Yaochi above the nine heavens, but now it looks like the West Lake is not inferior. The West Lake Suzhou and Hangzhou really live up to their reputation."
Bai Suzhen felt the same way: "I have been practicing in the mountains for a thousand years, but this is the first time I have seen such a scenery." She saw three or four small boats floating on the lake in the distance and could not help but look admiring.
Xiao Qing caught a glimpse of Bai Suzhen's expression, followed her gaze, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Sister, do you want to go boating?"
Bai Suzhen shook her head and said with a smile, "Let's do it another day."
Xiaoqing knew that she was worried about finding someone, so she didn't force it. She just nodded and said, "If you are in a good mood someday, I will definitely accompany you to travel around the West Lake."
Bai Suzhen smiled and said, "Okay, I've taken note of Qing'er's words. If I ask you to go boating with me someday, you must not refuse."
Bai Suzhen was extremely beautiful, dressed in white, with an extraordinary temperament. With a faint smile, she was so charming that Xiaoqing was in a trance. She sighed in her heart that even a woman would be attracted to the woman in front of her. She didn't know who would be lucky enough to accompany her for life. Realizing that her thoughts had drifted away, Xiaoqing quickly regained her mind. As her eyes turned, she happened to catch a glimpse of a man standing alone under a willow tree not far away. Suddenly, she remembered what Guanyin said to Bai Suzhen, "You must look for it in the high places of West Lake." She thought to herself, "I don't know if the word "high" refers to the person's surname, height, or standing angle? This Bodhisattva is really something. He has to play dumb to help people and guess to hurt people. It's really troublesome. It's better to directly point out who Suzhen's savior is. Wouldn't that save a lot of trouble? It also prevents them from looking aimlessly like now. Isn't this deliberately making things difficult for people? She muttered a few words in her heart and complained to Guanyin Bodhisattva, but she still had to find this person. Pulling Bai Suzhen's sleeve, Xiaoqing said, "Sister, look at that man, he is tall and big, and he can be considered a tall man. You might as well calculate whether he is your savior." Pointing to the tall man standing under the willow tree, Xiaoqing didn't care what the word "tall" meant. Now she would rather kill a hundred people by mistake than let one go. Anyway, there was plenty of time, and she didn't believe that she couldn't find the little shepherd boy.
Bai Suzhen also couldn't figure out the meaning of those words said by Guanyin Bodhisattva. At this moment, when Xiaoqing asked her to calculate whether a tall man was her savior, she naturally thought of the sentence "You must look for him in the high places of West Lake". She nodded and thought that it made sense. Being tall is also related to the word "tall". Regardless of whether their understanding was correct or not, it wouldn't take much to calculate it first. She silently recited the formula and explored the man's experiences in several lives. After a long time, she shook her head in disappointment: "It's not him."
"Oh." Xiao Qing didn't expect that person to be Bai Suzhen's savior. If it was so easy for them to find the person, then Guanyin Bodhisattva wouldn't have to bother to guide them. "Let's continue looking."
Since Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing had no clear target, they had to look for a needle in a haystack. Bai Suzhen would count anyone who was tall, or had a surname of Gao, or who stood tall, to see if the person was her savior. However, after searching for a long time by the West Lake, they still made no progress.
Xiao Qing gradually became impatient: "I have been searching for so long but have found nothing. I really don't know when I will be able to find the end."
Bai Suzhen looked at Xiaoqing and said apologetically, "Thank you for following me, sister."
Xiaoqing couldn't stand soft words, and her original irritability and impatience disappeared in an instant because of Bai Suzhen's words. She pulled her lips, and couldn't help but laugh at herself: she followed Bai Suzhen to find an opportunity to punish her, but now, not only did she not do anything to her, but she became her follower and was busy helping her find people. Was she stupid? Sighing secretly, she comforted Bai Suzhen: "Sister, I just complained a few words, I didn't mean anything else."
Seeing beads of sweat on Xiaoqing's forehead, Bai Suzhen stepped forward, took out her handkerchief and carefully wiped it for her: "Let's stop here today. It's getting late. Let's go back first and make plans tomorrow." It was almost noon and time for lunch. Since they couldn't find anyone today, they would have to continue another day.
A faint fragrance wafted into Xiaoqing's nostrils. Bai Suzhen's brocade handkerchief carried her unique body fragrance, which made Xiaoqing's heart skip a beat for no reason. She pulled back a step, her face slightly red, and she suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
"Qing'er, what's wrong?" Bai Suzhen felt a little strange because of Xiaoqing's sudden alienation.
"No...nothing, I just suddenly felt a little hungry. Sister, let's go back quickly." Xiaoqing avoided Bai Suzhen's gaze and quickly changed the subject. After she finished speaking, she rushed back in the direction they came from.
Bai Suzhen looked at Xiaoqing's back and saw that she was walking in a hurry, so she thought she was really hungry, so she smiled and walked back with her.
Xiaoqing was walking in a hurry and didn't pay attention to the road. She accidentally bumped into someone coming towards her. A cry of pain came to her ears and she came to her senses suddenly. She was startled and thought to herself: Oh no!
"Hey, you little bitch, do you want to kill me?" A very magnetic male voice came to my ears with an angry shout, but the other party's tone was a bit arrogant and overbearing.
Xiaoqing was originally preparing to apologize after bumping into someone, but she never expected that the other party would start to attack her before she could even open her mouth, speaking rudely. This made Xiaoqing, who was already a little irritable, suddenly furious. She snorted coldly, raised her sword-like eyebrows, and was about to explode, but she was stunned when she looked up and saw the face of the person in front of her: "It's you? Why are you here, little brat?" He was wearing a green shirt and a yellow shirt, with a golden crown on his hair, and he looked like a handsome, elegant, and modest gentleman. But at this moment, he was grinning, looking as if he was in pain, and muttering in dissatisfaction: "What bad luck, I just ran into a stinky monk, and now I'm bumped into by someone. Could it be that this young master didn't check the auspicious day before going out, so he's so unlucky?"
The man complained and rubbed his sore chest, not paying any attention to Xiaoqing's question.
Xiao Qing's mouth twitched, and he stroked his forehead with his hand. He raised his voice helplessly and shouted, "Hey, brat, stop pretending, okay? It's just a bump, is it that serious? You are a seven-foot-tall man, can't you even bear this little pain?"
"Qing'er—" Bai Suzhen called Xiaoqing and shook her head gently: "Don't be so rude."
Xiaoqing curled her lips, looking noncommittal.
Huh? Why does the voice just now sound so familiar? It sounds a bit like Third Sister's voice.
The man in green shirt raised his eyebrows and looked at Xiaoqing hesitantly. Xiaoqing curled the corners of her lips and glared at the man in green shirt unhappily: "Stinky boy, why don't you stay at home and run around everywhere?"
"Third sister, it's you!" The man in green was overjoyed when he saw Xiaoqing. He grabbed Xiaoqing's hand and laughed happily, "Haha, it's really like searching for something without any effort! I can actually find you here. I can finally fulfill my promise. That's great."
The man in green shirt was none other than Ao Yufeng, the fourth prince of the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea, Xiaoqing's fourth brother. He came to the mortal world from the East China Sea this time just to find Xiaoqing. Thinking back to the day when Xiaoqing fought with the thousand-year-old evil dragon, her soul was scattered, and then she was reincarnated. Logically, she should have returned to the Dragon Palace long ago, but she was nowhere to be seen. The Dragon King and the Dragon Mother were very worried. Ao Yufeng was also very concerned about his third sister, so he volunteered to go out and look for Xiaoqing. However, he had been looking for more than a month but there was no news. Ao Yufeng had no choice but to go to the underworld to find Mo Yun, the Hades who was responsible for the reincarnation of his third sister, and ask where his third sister was now. From Mo Yun's hesitant words, he learned that she might be in Suzhou and Hangzhou, so Ao Yufeng went to look for her. Unexpectedly, he really found Xiaoqing by the West Lake.
Xiaoqing was naturally very happy to reunite with her relatives after a long separation. Moreover, among her four siblings, she and Yufeng were the closest in age and had the best relationship. In the past, they always fought together no matter what happened. She hadn't seen this boy for a long time since her reincarnation. To be honest, she missed him very much.
"How are you these days, little brat? Are you still attracting attention everywhere?"
Ao Yufeng chuckled and said, "Third sister, it's not that I want to attract bees and butterflies. It's just that I look too suave and handsome. Those beauties approached me on their own initiative when they saw me. I didn't deliberately provoke them."
"Stop being so conceited!" Xiaoqing rolled her eyes in annoyance. There was nothing she could do about it; her fourth brother was good in every way except that he was a little too narcissistic.
"Qing'er, who is this?" Bai Suzhen stood aside and did not speak for a long time. At this moment, she looked at Xiaoqing and then at Ao Yufeng, with obvious confusion in her eyes. Seeing Xiaoqing chatting and laughing with the man in green, it seemed that they were very familiar with each other, and the man in green actually called Xiaoqing "third sister"! Could it be that Xiaoqing and he were really siblings? Then why did Xiaoqing come to Qiantang County alone instead of being with her family? Bai Suzhen looked at the two of them, frowning slightly, with countless questions in her heart. Although she and Xiaoqing had only known each other for a short day, she had already regarded Xiaoqing as her own sister in her heart. It was only now that she realized that she didn't seem to know much about Xiaoqing at all.
"He is... my sworn brother." Xiaoqing was startled, then she remembered that Bai Suzhen was still beside her. She didn't want Bai Suzhen to know her true identity, so she said perfunctorily, "Yufeng, this is my sister, her last name is Bai and her name is Suzhen." Xiaoqing secretly winked at Ao Yufeng, asking him not to let it slip and reveal his identity. Ao Yufeng understood, and immediately clasped his fists slightly and said to Bai Suzhen, "I am... Long Yufeng, nice to meet Miss Bai."
Bai Suzhen smiled slightly, bowed, and said, "So you are Qing'er's younger brother. Suzhen is honored to meet you."
Ao Yufeng had been busy talking to Xiaoqing just now, and had not noticed Bai Suzhen standing beside him. Now that he had taken a closer look at her, he could not help but secretly praise her: She is graceful and elegant, and has a charming temperament. I never thought there would be such a beauty in the world! She is really no less beautiful than the Queen Mother of the Nine Heavens!
"Don't set your sights on her, you little brat!" Seeing Ao Yufeng staring at Bai Suzhen with an infatuated look, Xiaoqing suddenly felt annoyed and warned him in a low voice, "If you dare to set your sights on her, I'll be rude to you."
"Uh~ Third sister, I just looked at her a few more times, but I didn't have any improper thoughts." Ao Yufeng smiled awkwardly and retracted his gaze. "Everyone loves beauty."
Xiao Qing snorted and ignored him, only asking, "What did you mean by finding me and then you can fulfill your promise?"
"Oh, I almost forgot." Ao Yufeng slapped his forehead and shouted, "Come on, follow me to a place, someone wants to see you."