The rainy season did not last long. At least on the eve of Xia Fushui's birthday, the sky had completely cleared up.
Ruan Qiuping's family was poor, and they had birthdays every day, so their family kept birthday celebrations simple.
Nguyen Qiuping and Nguyen Shengfeng celebrated their birthdays in the simplest way, just having a bowl of longevity noodles at noon.
Ruan Dongdong is the youngest, but his birthday is the most grand. Birthday dress, birthday present, birthday cake, birthday party, everything is indispensable - although only the four of them attend the birthday party.
As for Xia Fushui's birthday standard, it is lower than Ruan Dongdong, but higher than Ruan Qiuping and Ruan Shengfeng.
For example, on Xia Fushui’s birthday a few days ago, they had four dishes and a soup for lunch. Ruan Shengfeng gave Xia Fushui a bouquet of flowers, and Ruan Qiuping gave Xia Fushui a pill. It was simple yet full of ritual.
Ruan Qiuping thought he would spend the day like this, but he didn't expect that Xia Fushui would wake him up at dawn to clean the house.
"Dad... what are you doing?" Ruan Qiuping asked Ruan Shengfeng quietly when he was sweeping the floor in front of him.
Ruan Shengfeng squatted on the ground and repaired the tables and chairs while saying, "It's nothing, it's just that your mother wants to have a simple meal with the Yu family on her birthday."
Ruan Qiuping: “…”
Xia Fushui was already suspended in the air and started to paint the wall. How could this be called a simple meal
"Ruan Shengfeng!" Xia Fushui fell from the bed and frowned, saying, "Is this table you repaired still usable?"
"Yes!" Ruan Shengfeng turned the table over and placed it on the ground, shaking it, and said happily, "Look, after I sawed off the other three legs, the table surface is flat, and the soup won't spill when you put it on it! I think it can be used for another hundred days!"
Xia Fushui looked at the table with disdain and said, "Go to the trading forest and buy another table! This broken table is so embarrassing!"
As she said that, she threw a purse to Ruan Shengfeng.
Ruan Shengfeng scratched his head and said, "Then let's go buy a luxurious European palace-style dining table, which is the most popular in the human world today?"
The luxurious European palace-style dining table sounds nice, but it doesn't match his dilapidated Chinese pastoral-style courtyard at all.
Xia Fushui took a deep breath and decided not to get angry on her birthday.
"Qiuping, go buy it!"
When Ruan Shengfeng handed the purse to Ruan Qiuping, he secretly gave Ruan Qiuping some small change and whispered, "I heard that the medicine shop in the trading forest has just put on a new colorful spiritual power pill today. If you buy one, your spiritual power will definitely increase greatly, and you will be closer to the enemy."
"Okay, thanks Dad!"
Ruan Qiuping took the change into his hand.
After Ruan Qiuping came down from the snow mountain a few days ago, he didn't know which meridians were opened up, but his cultivation level actually increased significantly, which made Ruan Shengfeng very excited. In the past two days, he has been getting pills from various places for Ruan Qiuping to eat.
Ruan Qiuping had searched through medicine books yesterday morning, trying to find out if there was any poison pill that could deplete his spiritual power. After the rain stopped last night, he looked at the apple tree and suddenly figured it out.
The previous God of Unlucky committed suicide after his family passed away after he was deified.
But he, Ruan Qiuping, was luckier than the previous God of Bad Luck, because he knew what tribulations the God of Bad Luck would have to go through before he could be deified.
He can live a normal life, and when he feels that his spiritual power has reached its limit and he is about to become a god, he will commit suicide in advance.
Ruan Qiuping calculated carefully and found that according to the current rate at which his spiritual power was surging from time to time, he was still at least two or three hundred years away from becoming a deity.
The human lifespan is only a hundred years, but one can still live a wonderful life. Ruan Qiuping can still live for another two or three hundred years. What is there to be afraid of
Trading Forest is a trading market that has only recently emerged.
The reason why the Trading Forest is called the Forest, rather than a street, is because some things that are not allowed to be sold are often sold there, such as small gadgets brought from the mortal world by immortals, and storybooks that make immortals blush but are not worth mentioning compared to the standards of the human world.
Therefore, this forest is very hidden, and even many immortals have to wear masks when buying things.
This is also the reason why Ruan Qiuping likes the Trading Forest very much and comes here to buy things every now and then.
After all, once he puts on the mask, no one can recognize him as the God of Bad Luck, and he can also buy things, chat or bargain with others like a normal person.
Ruan Qiuping was bargaining enthusiastically with the stall owner for the simple and elegant mahogany table when there was suddenly a commotion beside him and a series of familiar names came into Ruan Qiuping's ears one after another.
"Go! The lucky god is coming!"
"You didn't even turn invisible? You didn't even wear a mask?!"
"I heard that Ji Shen sealed off the destiny. Is that true?"
"No! I don't believe it! I finally got to see him, I have to try my luck!"
"I want it too! I want it too! It's a great deal if I can get it!!!"
Ruan Qiuping turned around blankly and suddenly saw Yu Huan's figure in the crowd.
The Trading Forest was a mixed bag of people. The immortals were dressed in strange clothes and wore all kinds of masks on their faces, including bull heads and ghost masks. It looked chaotic and noisy.
But Yu Huan was still wearing a white robe, with picturesque eyebrows and a handsome face. Even the swing of his sleeves had a fairy-like air that was different from everyone else.
There seems to be such people in the world.
Wherever he stood, everything in front and behind him became his background.
If he is silent, there will be chaos behind him.
If he is strong, those behind him will appear dull.
Ruan Qiuping was stunned for a moment.
Ruan Qiuping hadn't seen Yu Huan for two days.
After he poured the Reminiscence Soup that day and cried in front of the apple tree, he brought Yu Huan some Cold-Repelling Soup as promised.
That day, Yu Huan took advantage of his weak body and made many requests.
After personally feeding Yu Huan with spoonfuls of cold-repelling soup, he lit a stove for Yu Huan, tucked in the quilt, and coaxed him to sleep.
Yu Huan reached out and grabbed his wrist, his eyes sparkling in the light of the stove: "It's getting late, Ruan Ruan, please don't leave tonight, okay?"
Ruan Qiuping was still feeling dizzy because of the Recalling Love Soup incident, so he pulled Yu Huan's wrist away and said, "Go to bed early."
After saying that, he left.
When he walked out of the cave, Yu Huan seemed to call out his name.
But Ruan Qiuping did not stop.
In fact, Ruan Qiuping has always been a person who recovers quickly.
Recovery is not just about the physical aspect of the injury, it is also about the mental aspect.
When Ruan Qiuping was six years old, he accidentally heard his mother say that she wanted to abandon him. Although his mother apologized to him, he still knew that he was a burden to the whole family, so he ran away from home the next night.
Six-year-old Ruan Qiuping walked for three days and three nights, and finally fainted on the ground due to hunger because he could not find anything to eat.
When he woke up, he was already lying on the bed at home.
His mother looked at him with a haggard face and said, "Qiuping, can you forget what your mother said?"
Ruan Qiuping nodded and said to her mother with a very bright face: "Mom, I forgot everything!"
When Ruan Qiuping was 106 years old, he accidentally learned the price of being deified by the God of Unlucky. After crying for three hours, he decided to be a useless god who would no longer practice martial arts from then on.
By the afternoon of the second day, he was already able to happily accept the spiritual power given by his father, and lied without blushing or beating his heart, saying that he was going to the back mountain to practice martial arts.
Two days ago, Ruan Qiuping learned that he could no longer control his rapidly increasing spiritual power.
After thinking it over carefully for a while, he decided to save his family's lives by committing suicide in advance, and was ready to spend every day before becoming a god happily.
Ruan Qiuping actually never understood whether this was considered a good ability to manage and control his emotions or an ability to shut off his emotions.
But regardless, it is a very useful ability.
After Ruan Qiuping poured out the Love Recalling Soup, he was indeed very sad, and he cried bitterly in front of the mortal Yu Huan's grave.
But by the next afternoon, he had figured it out.
In fact, it is not necessarily a bad thing that Yu Huan does not recover his memory.
First of all, unlike Jishen's idea, Ruan Qiuping firmly believed that Jishen and Yu Huan in the mortal world were the same person.
Even though he cried in front of Yu Huan's grave that day, he was only mourning the forgotten memory, instead of regarding Yu Huan and Ji Shen as two completely different entities.
When Yu Huan came to the mortal world, he always knew that Yu Huan was a lucky god.
When Yu Huan died of old age, he comforted himself that Yu Huan was just returning to heaven.
When Yu Huan turned into Ji Shen and lost his memory, he began to try his best to make Memory Soup to help Yu Huan regain his memory.
From the beginning to the end, he never regarded Yu Huan and Ji Shen as two different people.
Yu Huan doesn't have to recover his memory.
Yu Huan said that he felt that his self in the mortal world was very unfamiliar.
Yu Huan thought that everything he experienced in this world was just a dream.
But Yu Huan said that the Yu Huan in the mortal world was not himself, so it was not possible.
The mortal Yu Huan and the god Ji have the same appearance, the same voice and the same soul, so how can they not be the same person
Does a change in personality, and the feeling that one's original self is a stranger, mean that they are two different people
Ruan Qiuping still feels very strange about the time when he was bullied as a child and remained silent, foolishly enduring the pain of not saying anything. Does this mean that he is a completely different person from himself as a child
How is that possible
At that time, Yu Huan also used the saying "Oranges grown in the south of the Huai River are oranges, while those grown in the north of the Huai River are tangerines" to describe himself.
But Ruan Qiuping checked the book and found that what Yan Yu said was wrong.
Tangerine belongs to the genus Citrus in the Rutaceae family, while trifoliate orange belongs to the genus Trifoliate orange in the Rutaceae family. Tangerine and trifoliate orange are not the same species, so how could they be the same
But Yu Huan in the mortal world and Yu Huan in the heavens belong to the same soul.
After thinking this through, Ruan Qiuping immediately felt relieved.
Doesn’t Yu Huan just not want to drink the love soup
Doesn’t Yu Huan think that worldly affairs should be kept to earthly matters
Ruan Qiuping listened to him.
Actually, this is a good thing.
Yu Huan in the mortal world fell in love with him, so he indulged Yu Huan without knowing it, and finally they became lovers.
Now that Yu Huan doesn't remember anything about the mortal world, doesn't have the easily emotional nature of the mortal world, and doesn't have any feelings for him, he can start over with Yu Huan.
This time, they might make the right choice.
Ruan Qiuping took a deep breath and continued to look up at the man in the center of his sight.
—His former lover and future best friend.
"Yes, have you heard that the God of Fortune is going to marry the God of Bad Luck on the fifteenth of next month!"
"Don't say it, I'm going to cry, is there anyone who wants to form a group to smash the wedding stone?!"
Hearing these two sentences, Ruan Qiuping slowly frowned.
Yes.
He almost forgot that he and his future best friend had an engagement.
… What to do
The friendship option is once again at risk.
"Brother Chigui, okay, okay, don't bargain with me. I'll sell it to you at the price you said. Take it away quickly. I still have to close the stall and go to see the lucky god!" The furniture stall owner interrupted Ruan Qiuping's thoughts.
"Oh, okay, thank you boss!" Ruan Qiuping quickly lowered his head and took money out of his purse.
Ruan Qiuping dug around for a while before taking out the small change from his purse and handing it to the stall owner. But the stall owner just stood there in a daze, staring straight behind Ruan Qiuping.
Only then did Ruan Qiuping realize that the surroundings had become quiet.
The familiar feeling came over him like a wave. Ruan Qiuping slowly turned around and suddenly saw Yu Huan getting closer and closer to him.
The fairies in this trading forest were also very curious. When the God of Fortune was far away, they all clamored to get closer and squeeze in, thinking that they would make a profit if they could get in touch with him.
But now that Yu Huan came over, they took two steps back and consciously made way for Ji Shen.
Yu Huan walked towards Ruan Qiuping step by step from the crowd.
Beside Yu Huan was a bunch of fairies wearing various masks. Most of the masks were grotesque in shape and bared fangs and claws. At first glance, they seemed to be filled with all kinds of evil spirits. Only Yu Huan was alone, as bright as the clear moon and clear breeze, like an immortal king hidden among ghosts.
Ruan Qiuping subconsciously touched the red ghost mask on his face, feeling that he was also one of these demons.
But Yu Huan was able to find him among the countless demons and monsters.
Under the gaze of the crowd, he stopped in front of Ruan Qiuping, stretched out his hand, and took off the red-faced, fang-covered mask on Ruan Qiuping's face.
The moment the mask was lifted, his eyes revealed a gentle expression like ripples on a spring lake:
"Ruan Ruan, I found you."