Ruan Qiuping and Yu Huan were dawdling all the way, and were in a state of disarray. The two gods from heaven actually had to walk back.
Seeing Ruan Qiuping and Yu Huan finally came back, Ruan Shengfeng hurried over to greet them: "You two are finally back! Qiuping, if I hadn't known that Ji Shen was looking for you, I would have suspected that you fell into a pit halfway!"
After all, it is normal for a bad luck god to fall into a pit halfway.
Yu Huan greeted Ruan Shengfeng: "Hello, uncle."
"Okay." Ruan Shengfeng nodded with a smile.
Yu Huan said, "Then I won't bother you any more. I'll come visit you with my parents later."
Ruan Shengfeng continued to nod with a smile: "Okay, okay."
After Yu Huan left, Ruan Shengfeng turned to look at Ruan Qiuping: "But why are you so slow? What exquisite tableware did you pick?"
Ruan Qiuping took out a table from his Qiankun bag: "I chose a relatively ordinary solid wood table."
Ruan Shengfeng looked at the ordinary table in front of him with a disappointed expression: "… This is it, not impressive at all, it would be better to buy a golden one, it would be even better if it could be inlaid with a dragon."
Xia Fushui walked out of the room leisurely and gave a light comment: "The table is well chosen."
Hearing Xia Fushui's affirmation, Ruan Qiuping immediately felt happy and his eyes became curved.
Ruan Qiuping took out other things from his Qiankun bag one after another.
A beautiful dream chair, a small swing, a cool summer fan, a rice basket...
Everything you need.
As soon as Ruan Shengfeng saw the Dream Chair, he exclaimed and quickly sat on it, his face full of joy.
Ruan Dongdong ran over and touched the swing, and said happily: "Brother... Brother! This swing is so big!"
"It's the dong dong swing. Are you happy?"
"Happy!" Ruan Dongdong nodded vigorously.
Ruan Qiuping smiled and used magic to replace the old swing with the new one.
Ruan Dongdong immediately ran up and started playing excitedly.
Xia Fushui frowned almost inaudibly: "Qiuping, the money I gave you doesn't seem to be enough for you to buy these things."
Ruan Qiuping: "I won these in the lottery."
"Lottery?!" Ruan Shengfeng shouted in disbelief.
Ruan Qiuping was about to explain the good luck charm to them when he suddenly felt the sky darken. At the same time, Ruan Shengfeng suddenly shouted in panic: "-Qiuping! Be careful!!!"
Ruan Qiuping looked up and saw a huge roc that was almost as big as his building flying across the sky, blocking out the sun. The fruit in its claws fell down with a loud noise.
Ruan Qiuping subconsciously hugged his head and squatted down.
The sound of a fruit falling to the ground was heard, but the familiar pain in the head did not occur.
Ruan Qiuping stood up in disbelief and looked around.
The big roc that seemed to have a grudge against him and would grab him or throw fruit at him every time he saw him had already flown away. Ruan Shengfeng hadn't even finished casting the spell when the fruit hit him hard on the head. Ruan Dongdong, who was playing on the swing, was tightly protected by Xia Fushui's hard water ball, and was still swinging on the swing innocently without knowing anything.
Ruan Qiuping looked down and found that the fruit seeds were scattered all over the ground, but there was a circle around Ruan Qiuping, and not a single fruit fell on Ruan Qiuping.
Ruan Qiuping touched his head before he realized that it was the good luck charm from heaven that was secretly helping him.
Ruan Shengfeng rubbed his head which was hurt from being hit, and looked at Ruan Qiuping in shock: "Son, why didn't you get hit?"
It’s not Ruan Shengfeng’s fault that his words lacked fatherly love, it’s just that this big peng bird was not the first time to come, and every time it came, Ruan Qiuping would be injured to some extent.
Today, the fruits were scattered all over the ground, but Ruan Qiuping was not hit by any of them. This seemed a little abnormal.
"Qiuping was together with Jishen just now, so he must have been blessed with some good luck." Xia Fushui said slowly.
Ruan Qiuping shook his head.
"The God of Fortune has sealed off his luck. His luck is different from that of normal people now. However," Ruan Qiuping took out the lucky charm from his arms, "but he wrote me the lucky charm."
"Put on a good luck charm?!" Ruan Shengfeng shouted in shock.
Xia Fushui's expression seemed a little surprised.
"Um."
Ruan Qiuping took a deep breath, clenched the talisman in his hand, looked up at Xia Fushui's eyes, and said:
"With this talisman, I will no longer pass on bad luck to others."
"-Very good!"
Ruan Shengfeng shouted excitedly, with tears and snot almost flowing down together.
He turned his head and wiped his face embarrassedly, but the sound of blowing his nose was deafening.
The corners of Xia Fushui's lips curved slightly, and a barely audible smile flashed across her face. She looked at Ruan Qiuping with a touch of tenderness in her eyes: "Qiuping, you have been with Ji Shenxun for a few days now. Do you know what kind of food he likes to eat?"
This is to thank the auspicious god for Ruan Qiuping's favor.
Ruan Qiuping looked at the gentle smile on Xia Fushui's lips, and felt as if his heart was being gently held up by a warm and soft hand, so warm that his nose felt a little sour.
At this moment, Ruan Dongdong suddenly came running over with his short legs, looking up, and said to Ruan Qiuping with sparkling eyes, "Brother! Yesterday when I was in kindergarten, I heard the teacher say that you didn't touch me because if you touched me, I would be unlucky... But you just said that you won't spread bad luck to others now, so can I hug Dongdong now?"
After saying that, she stretched out her arms and closed her eyes, like a small, stretched-out sunflower, and said in a soft and sticky voice, "Brother! Hug me!"
Ruan Qiuping's heart suddenly started beating wildly.
Sweat oozed from the tip of his nose, and his palms were wet. He took a small step forward carefully, his voice dry and hoarse: "I..."
"Dongdong!" Xia Fushui frowned and interrupted Ruan Qiuping, "Have you finished the homework assigned by the kindergarten today? You don't do homework when you first go to school, right?"
Ruan Qiuping's heart and body temperature, which had been beating rapidly the moment before, dropped instantly.
The cold wind of late autumn blew past, cooling all the sweat on his body, making it wet and cold.
Ruan Dongdong was afraid of Xia Fushui, but when he heard this, he immediately ran back to the room to do his homework with a guilty conscience.
Ruan Shengfeng touched his nose and whispered to Xia Fushui: "... Dongdong likes brother, so why don't you let Qiuping hug him? Qiuping has a talisman given by the God of Fortune on him, so even if he hugs her, it shouldn't be a big deal."
"Dongdong is only three years old." Xia Fushui glanced at Ruan Shengfeng and said coldly, "Can you take risks with him?"
… take risks.
Touching him is a risk.
Ruan Qiuping lowered his head and took a few steps back.
He was silent for a while, and when he looked up at Ruan Shengfeng again, his expression had become very obedient and docile: "Dad, Mom is right. Although I have the talisman in my hand, I'd better be careful. Dongdong is still young and can't stand any harm."
He paused, turned to look at Xia Fushui, and answered the question: "Yu Huan likes to eat fish, but his taste is relatively light and he doesn't eat coriander."
"It seems there are no fish at home..." Ruan Shengfeng frowned.
Ruan Qiuping said, "I'm going to the mountain to catch one now and will be back soon."
Ruan Qiuping quickly caught the fish and then helped in the kitchen with Ruan Shengfeng.
After Xia Fushui coaxed Ruan Dongdong into taking a nap, she went to the kitchen to cook.
The two of them were busy in the kitchen for a long time, but it seemed a little quiet because no one said anything extra.
It was Ruan Shengfeng who broke the silence: "There are no more green onions. I'll go to the vegetable garden in the courtyard to pick some green onions."
Ruan Qiuping was about to say: Aren’t the onions in the basket next to it
But before he could finish his words, Ruan Shengfeng walked out.
Xia Fushui and Ruan Qiuping were the only ones left in the room.
Suddenly, everything became quiet.
When Ruan Shengfeng walked in, he had a happy look on his face. He didn't have any onions in his hand, but he was holding a bouquet of flowers.
His flowers were packaged very delicately, with all kinds of shapes and colors, there were actually ninety-nine different flowers.
And because Xia Fushui's real body was a lotus, all the flowers that Ruan Shengfeng sent were brought with roots and soil, and were well protected with magic. Xia Fushui would take them and plant them in the yard.
Now, in addition to a vegetable garden, their yard is a whole sea of flowers.
Every year on Xia Fushui’s birthday, Ruan Shengfeng would send her flowers like this.
And Xia Fushui likes it every year.
Now it is.
"Wife! Happy birthday!" Ruan Shengfeng said with a happy smile.
Xia Fushui took the flower, her cheeks slightly flushed, but she still couldn't help but said coquettishly: "You are so unromantic. We are going to have dinner at someone else's house today, why didn't you send it to me at the table?"
Ruan Shengfeng said with a smile: "I send flowers to my wife every year. If I send them in front of others today, it will seem like a show."
Xia Fushui lowered her eyes, smelled the fragrance of the flowers, and her eyebrows and eyes softened: "Then I will go and place these flowers in the courtyard first."
After saying that, he turned and left.
The gift that Ruan Qiuping prepared for Xia Fushui was placed in her own small building. Seeing this, she called Ruan Shengfeng and went to get the gift.
On Xia Fushui's birthday, Ruan Qiuping gives her a spiritual power pill every year, and this year is no exception.
But Ruan Qiuping made two pills this year.
One is Lian Sheng Dan and the other is Fu Mushroom Dan.
Xia Fushui didn't like the Lotus Birth Pill, but the thousand-year-old lotus was picked by Yu Huan himself for Ruan Qiuping. Ruan Qiuping was reluctant to waste it, so he made the Lotus Birth Pill anyway.
The Mushroom Pill was his birthday gift to Xia Fushui. The Mushroom Pill was made from 299 kinds of mushrooms. Ruan Qiuping had spent a lot of time looking for these mushrooms and had not slept much in the past few days.
I hope mom likes it.
When Ruan Qiuping walked into the kitchen with the mushroom pill, he did not see Xia Fushui.
"Is Mom still planting flowers and hasn't come back yet?" Ruan Qiuping asked.
"No." Ruan Shengfeng said, "Your mother is looking for plates in the warehouse. Those plates for entertaining guests have not been used in our family for more than 200 years. I guess they are hard to find. Go and help her look for them."
When Ruan Qiuping arrived at the warehouse, he vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what it was.
Ruan Qiuping walked around the pile of betrothal gifts in the warehouse and found Xia Fushui in a corner.
"Mom, have you found the plate?"
“Found it.”
Xia Fushui came out holding a stack of beautiful plates and touched them again and again, reluctant to let go. "These plates have not seen the light of day for more than two hundred years, but luckily they were made as fairy dowry by me using lotus pods when I got married, and they have been well preserved for all these years."
This disk has been lying in the warehouse for more than two hundred years.
Because since Ruan Qiuping was born, there have been no guests visiting their home.
Ruan Qiuping took out the mushroom pill from his arms and handed it to Xia Fushui: "Happy birthday, Mom."
Xia Fushui wanted to reach out to take it, but when her hand was about to touch the box, Ruan Qiuping suddenly stepped back a few steps and used magic to pass the pill to Xia Fushui.
Xia Fushui was stunned for a moment, then caught the pill from the air.
He placed the plate in his hand on the wooden box beside him and gently opened the medicine box.
The moment he saw the pill, he frowned.
Fu Mushroom Dan knew that there were nearly 300 kinds of mushrooms, not only were they very difficult to find, but there was also a kind of ember mushroom that only grew in the "ashes" of places that had been burned and the grass and trees had died.
It has been raining all this time and it only stopped last night. Where can Ruan Qiuping go to find the place where the fire burned and the grass died
Suddenly he thought of something, frowned, looked at Ruan Qiuping's dark long-sleeved shirt that he had worn for two days, and said, "Roll up your sleeves."
Ruan Qiuping is not alive.
Xia Fushui waved her sleeves and used magic to push Ruan Qiuping's sleeves up.
Xia Fushui's breath was choked.
—There were several deep cuts on Ruan Qiuping’s left arm. The wounds were very smooth and it was obvious that he had cut them with a dagger.
Xia Fushui: "You used your own blood... to create the ember land where mushrooms grow?"
Ruan Qiuping's blood was very unlucky. People who got touched by it would be injured, things would rot, and flowers, plants, and trees that got touched by it would be like being burned by fire and would soon die.
Ember mushrooms might grow from where his blood was spilled.
Ruan Qiuping put his sleeves down again and smiled at Xia Fushui: "Mom, your cultivation has been stagnant in the past two years. I think the Mushroom Pill may be useful."
Xia Fushui's lips trembled, but she said nothing.
Ruan Qiuping reached out to pick up the tray on the wooden box: "Let's go, Dad is waiting for the tray."
When Ruan Qiuping picked up the box, he suddenly discovered that the box containing the betrothal gifts seemed to have changed.
The red silk ribbon hanging on the box originally had the word "Yu" printed on it, but now it has been changed to "Ruan".
Ruan Qiuping was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Xia Fushui: "This betrothal gift box..."
"I have exchanged all the betrothal gifts. Their family is not as wealthy as the Yu family, so they can't afford too much dowry. Some time ago, I went with your father to exchange all the betrothal gifts given by the Yu family, and added a few things. Don't worry, your father and I bought them carefully. Except for the gold and silver that cannot be distinguished, all other jewelry and treasures have been exchanged in the trading forest and Donghai, so that the people of the Yu family will not look down on you." Xia Fushui said.
Ruan Qiuping didn't say anything.
Xia Fu looked at the pill box in her hand, and was silent for a long time before she slowly spoke: "Qiuping, when I was pregnant with you, I almost had a miscarriage five times, but our family was still rich at the time, so we used various pills to keep you alive. When you were born, we knew your identity, and at that moment I knew that our mother and I were always destined to be together."
Xia Fushui held the medicine box tightly and placed it at the position of her heart.
He stretched out his other hand and paused lightly in the air.
Then he placed it on Ruan Qiuping's head.
He stroked it twice with a somewhat unnatural gesture and stiff technique.
By the third time, her technique became natural, like that of an ordinary, gentle mother.
He touched Ruan Qiuping's head and said, "I have never been a good mother. You can blame me all you want."
A warm, soft and somewhat strange touch came from above my head.
This was the first time that Ruan Qiuping could remember that someone other than Yu Huan had taken the initiative to touch him.
This person is his mother.
When his mother gently touched his head, he felt as if a gentle, huge petal was gently embracing him.
Ruan Qiuping felt a sour feeling in his nose and tears suddenly fell from his eyes.
He never resented Xia Fushui.
But in the end, there was still some reluctance and grievance.
But he is such a person who is easily satisfied.
The resentment and grievance that had appeared in the past, the loneliness and pain curled up in the quilt, the silent crying for a while, all disappeared in this gentle touch.
He was injured so many times that he became less likely to get injured again.
Even if I'm injured.
It is easy to be governed.
Just touch it lightly and gently.