Chapter 67 Lotus Falls
The sun shines brightly and the sky is clear.
In Ruyi Marquis' Mansion, on a hundred-foot platform, Si Qing held a wine glass in one hand and pressed the railing in the other, looking into the distance.
Flying dragon ships were floating in the air. A series of lights flew from the sky.
In front of the Marquis' Mansion, there were crowds of people, all of them were practitioners from all over Ruyi County. First, congratulate him on becoming Ruyi Hou, and participate in or visit the next nine palaces to perform martial arts.
Si Qing turned around and smiled in his jackal-like voice: "If you are a friend from all over the world, Si Qing will do it first!" He drank the wine in the glass and finished it.
There was a banquet on the high platform, and there were a group of monks, including men and women, monks and laymen. They were all extraordinary in character, including hundreds of monks and sects. There was only one standard for sitting here, the Golden Pill monks who had survived the second heavenly tribulation.
Gu Yanying was also in it, raised her wine glass and smiled slightly. Si Bao ignored Si Qing, squeezed into a seat with her, and asked Qian Rongzhi about it, "How is she? Will she come to participate in the Nine Palaces martial arts performance this time?"
Everyone raised their glasses and congratulated Si Qing again.
Gu Yanying said to Si Bao: "She is practicing now!"
At this moment, in the Tingfeng Shui Pavilion, Qian Rongzhi was paddling a boat, rippling in the sea of flowers. The breeze came gently, the sea of flowers was rising and falling, and the fragrance of flowers was overflowing, like a fairyland.
But on her face, there was no ease at all. While searching for the sea of flowers, she cursed Gu Yanying in her heart.
All of this was because Gu Yanying said before leaving, "I want to eat lotus seed soup!"
Qian Rongzhi had to search for this sea of flowers. It was originally a vast and boundless lotus, which should have been an extremely simple thing, but this space has always been maintained in spring and summer, and lotus flowers are always blooming. Lotus seeds are things that will only mature in autumn and winter, after the lotus withered.
Moreover, this sea of flowers is both real and illusory. Sometimes when I see a lotus, I reach out and touch a sky. I can’t even fly in the sky with my divine thoughts to explore. I can only row the boat and search slowly.
She had been searching for several hours, but she had not even collected a lotus seed, but she could not give up. Thinking of these days, she stayed here in Tingfeng Shui Pavilion, Gu Yanying did not teach her any way to practice, but instead ordered her to do all kinds of miscellaneous things, and she could not even do normal practice.
It was like she was deliberately spending her time, leaving her trapped here for the rest of her life, being a slave and a servant, and not being able to make a fortune, so she would find a way to leave here as soon as possible.
But Gu Yanying's last words dispelled this idea, "Your performance these days is quite satisfactory to your teacher. Even if you can complete it, you will pass on your "Hell Sutra Change Picture" by your teacher. If you can't, you will be expelled from your teacher. Wherever you love, you will go!"
Qian Rongzhi could only wait and continue to search, and her mood gradually calmed down. The rich fragrance of flowers seemed to soak her body. The snake of Hell fell into a deep sleep again and no longer happily fed with her pain.
And she did not feel any more pain. Not only did the pain brought by the snake of hell, but the anxiety and rage, jealousy and hatred were all calmed down. She had almost forgotten that living in this world was such a relaxed and pleasant thing.
She stood at the bow of the boat in dismay, and looked back and heard that the Fengshui Pavilion had disappeared, and she was completely lost in this sea of flowers.
Memories of the past come one after another. My mother was washing clothes not far away and told her: "Be careful!" She stared at a small fish in the shallow stream in deaf ears, and pounced on the air. Her father walked home along the ridge of the field, carrying the fish caught from the paddy fields. She jumped behind her. The boy next door secretly took the candy from the house for her. Later, he had come to see her, looking embarrassed and disappointed...
Have these things really happened? Then why have you forgotten them?
She vaguely understood that it was closely related to this sea of flowers, but were these memories real? Or, it was just the hallucinations created by this strange sea of flowers, she was not sure about it, but her eyes were a little wet, and she felt a strange soreness in her heart. This feeling was not painful, but like tears of happiness, although bitter but sweet.
In a trance, she saw a lotus flower in the distance, withering at a speed visible to the naked eye. In a blink of an eye, only a lonely lotus pod was left, and even the green flower stems turned yellow and withered, as if all their vitality had been exhausted during the long flowering period and could not support the weight of the lotus pod. With a thump, the lotus pod fell into the lake.
Qian Rongzhi didn't have to think too much, and flew into the water to catch the lotus pod. Because she was covered by endless lotus leaves, the lake was dark and unexpectedly deep. Flower stems stretched out from the dark bottom, like a forest under the water.
But it could not hinder her vision. She saw the lotus pod falling into place with her own eyes. She walked around clusters of flower stems like a swimming fish and reached out to catch them. But the moment her fingertips touched the mud, her whole body shook and her pupils dilated.
The flower stems emerged from the mud and quickly expanded and grew. The force was so great that it supported her whole body and rose up. It quickly broke through the lake and bloomed lotus flowers.
She suddenly understood a little, sat cross-legged at the bow of the boat, closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and let the fragrance of flowers completely soak her lungs.
Beside her, lotus flowers began to wither. She let the lotus pods fall into the deep lake water, and then stretch out from the mud and bloom again. From one to ten to ten, from ten to hundreds, filling the lake surface, clustered around the boat, stacked layer by layer, completely submerged her.
There was a faint sob sound from it, which turned into a hysterical cry.
On the platform, Gu Yanying's heart moved, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of her lips. At this moment, the strong wind blew across the platform, brushing her clothes and long hair. The monks present, even the monks who became monks, could not help but be moved by her grace and praised her secretly, saying that they were worthy of being the daughter of the Eagle God.
Si Qing said: "Yanying, recently I heard that Li Qingshan, your subordinate, did another big thing, and killed the foundation-building monks who were brave enough to kill three painters."
Gu Yanying nodded and said, "I heard about it, but it seemed that the three of them set up an ambush in advance to kill him, but they were not strong enough and were killed by him."
Si Qing said: "Then let him tell me what's going on. This is in Ruyi County. As a Ruyi Hou, I cannot ignore it."
Gu Yanying blew and said, "Okay!" and said, "Li Qingshan, come here, Your Highness, please invite him!" The voice was not very high, but it went with the wind and reached every monk's ears, looking at each other.
After a while, Li Qingshan did not appear, Jia Zhen said, "It seems that you are not worthy of your face! He dares not come today, but it is considered disrespectful."
Ed Dan said: "I think he knew he had committed a serious crime and escaped for fear of the crime? Commander Gu would rather issue the registration to arrest him immediately!"
Chapter completed!