Chapter 03 Time to eat

 Chapter 03 Time to eat

By Jiulu Feixiang,

Translated, Edited and Arranged by Angel Chua 10/09/2024

In March, the nights were still long. When the rooster crowed, it was still dark. Shen Li suddenly woke up from her dream, because she noticed the sound of footsteps on the ground. However, the moment she opened her eyes, she found that she had been covered by a piece of cloth without knowing when. She was shocked. Could it be that the Immortal Realm Lord's Qiankun Bag had captured her?

After a panicked struggle, her head finally breathed the outside air. There was no Immortal Realm Lord, and no pursuers. She was still sleeping under the grape trellis, and she was still like a hairless pheasant. The air was thick with dew. There was a subtle sound coming from the front yard, and Shen Li walked to the front yard cautiously.

The courtyard door was slightly open. There was a noisy noise outside. Shen Li secretly poked his head out through the crack of the door. The light of the torch illuminated the alley. Two carriages were parked in the alley. The commoner girl I saw yesterday was standing with her mother. The men in the family were loading things into the carriage, and Xingyun was helping. After all the things were loaded, other people got on the carriage one after another. Only the girl and her mother were still standing outside.

"Xingyun, your parents passed away early. Although we have been neighbors for many years, we have not been able to help you. Now I think about it and feel very guilty. I am afraid that we will never see each other again. You must take good care of yourself in the future."

"Don't worry, Auntie, Xingyun knows." He smiled and responded. The middle-aged woman seemed to be very sentimental. She sighed and covered her face and got on the carriage. The little girl was left standing face to face with Xingyun.

The girl bowed her head and said nothing. The jumping light of the torch reflected a sparkle in her eyes.

"If you go south now, there will be peach blossoms everywhere." Xingyun looked at the end of the alley and suddenly whispered, "I am not your good man." These four words were slightly heavy. Shen Li couldn't help but look up at him. His profile in the backlight was beautiful, but there was no fluctuation in his eyes. He was not ruthless, but really indifferent. Shen Li stared at him blankly, and suddenly felt that this man might be more complicated than she imagined.

After hearing this, the girl's eyes suddenly turned red, and two drops of tears fell. She bowed deeply and said goodbye: "Brother Xingyun, take care."

This time, there will be no return date, and we will never meet again in this life. Shen Li sighed, but saw Xingyun watching the carriage go away. In the rumbling sound of the wheels...the sound of her running away in the rumbling sound of the wheels would not be so obvious, right?

Shen Li's eyes suddenly lit up, and she looked around. There was no one around, only Xingyun was still watching the old neighbor. Shen Li squeezed out of the door and ran away in the direction of the alley.

Running to the street, there were vendors setting up breakfast on the street. Shen Li looked back and didn't see Xingyun following. She breathed a sigh of relief. This Xingyun was too mysterious. He could understand her but was not afraid of her at all.

She was seriously injured and had to avoid the pursuers from the Immortal Realm world. She really didn't have the energy to waste time with him. Wait... seriously injured?

Shen Li raised her wings in surprise. With the tossing and turning yesterday, where did she get the strength to support her running all the way?

Thinking carefully, it seemed that it was the same when she woke up yesterday morning. Her physical strength recovered very quickly. Could it be that Xingyun did something to her? Or was it because of the food she ate? Thinking of the abnormally delicious steamed bun and the too fragrant risotto last night, Shen Li stretched her neck unnaturally and swallowed her saliva.

"Where did this strange chicken come from!"

A man's rough voice suddenly came from behind, "You ran to the middle of the road, do you want me to pick you up for a snack?"

Shen Li turned her head and saw the burly man behind her reaching out to grab her wings. With yesterday's experience, she would not be caught so easily.

She immediately twisted her neck and pecked the big hand that was stretched out. The big man screamed in pain and said angrily: "Chicken! I will break your neck!"

Shen Li's figure flashed and crawled under the table of the street vendor. The big man chased her angrily and knocked over the stall. The vendor refused and quarreled with him.

Shen Li took this opportunity to shuttle between the stalls. The road ahead was blocked by a wooden board. She only stopped for a moment, and her neck was pinched, and then her whole body was lifted up: "Don't quarrel, don't quarrel, this chicken is here." Another vendor carried Shen Li and walked in that direction.

Shen Li held her breath, raised her claws, and left three bloody marks on the back of the man's hand: "Ah! What a wild broiler!"

The man felt pain and let go. Shen Li fell to the ground. She had no time to respond to his scolding. She rolled on the ground and turned into an alley like an arrow. She didn't stop until no one was chasing her. She lay on the ground and gasped. It's really not easy to be an ordinary chicken...

As she was thinking, the courtyard door behind her opened with a "creak", and a basin of water with mud and vegetable leaves "splashed" all over her: "The streets are so lively today."

The woman's voice sounded, and Shen Li felt the rotten vegetable leaves sliding down from her head and "pa pa" falling to the ground. She was stunned with anger that was about to erupt, and slowly turned her head to look at the young woman behind her. What the hell was this thing that was poured on her... It's really... so presumptuous!

The two eyes met the woman's pupils.

The height difference made Shen Li suddenly realize her current identity.

Combining the experience of yesterday and today, Shen Li just said badly in his heart, and the woman was grabbed by the wings: "Whose chicken is this? Why let it out after the feathers are plucked?"

Shen Li kicked her legs and struggled desperately, but saw a man coming out of the house: "No one raises chickens next door. I don't know where they came from, so stew them.

It happens that there is a lot of work today, and I will come back to make up for it in the evening."Stew your uncle! Shen Li was so angry that he wanted to curse the sky. Don't want to eat chicken as soon as you see it! It's a life after all, how can you all say it so lightly!

The man sorted out his clothes and was about to go out. The woman sent him to the door. Before going out, the man reached out and touched the woman's head: "My wife will work hard again today."

The woman blushed and her hand loosened. Shen Li took the opportunity to turn back and bite her. The woman screamed, Shen Li broke free from the restraints and fell to the ground, then ran away desperately, leaving the couple to continue their affection.

Running all the way until noon, when she reached the outskirts of the city, Shen Li met at least ten guys who wanted to catch her and eat her. She really couldn't run anymore, tired and hungry, so she sat down on the grass by the river, put her head in the river and drank two sips of water, then quietly looked at the overcast sky, watching a spring rain about to fall.

"You want to kill me, right?" She asked the sky, her voice desolate.

The spring thunder sounded, and the raindrops fell. Shen Li struggled to prop herself up and tried to find a place to shelter from the rain. Turning around, she saw the man in blue and white clothes standing on the river bank with a backpack on his back. When their eyes met, Shen Li couldn't help but feel a little moved. It was like walking through the eighteenth level of hell, and suddenly seeing the little yellow flower in the sun again, her soul was soothed. Although the man on the embankment was far better than the little yellow flower, and although the gaze between the man and the chicken made the picture not very beautiful.

Through the increasingly hazy rain curtain, Xingyun stared at the dusty Shen Li for a long time, then suddenly lowered his head and laughed with his lips covered.

This... This is definitely a mockery!

"Stupid chicken." Xingyun muttered, but took out an oil-paper fan from the basket behind him and opened it, then walked slowly towards Shen Li step by step.

Shen Li was no longer able to escape, nor did she want to escape. Although she didn't know what Xingyun was, for Shen Li now, the worst result was just being stewed. At least she could have something good to eat before she died here with Xingyun. The oil-paper fan above her head created a clear sky: "Kluk Kluk, I thought you would never come back after running away. So, you are waiting for me to come home here." Shen Li hung her head and ignored him. Xingyun picked her up and put her in his backpack without feeling dirty. "You are really capable. You can make yourself so embarrassed in just half a day. You have great skills."

"Kluk Kluk !" Go your way! Shen Li couldn't help but scold, "Kluk kluk!" You talk too much nonsense.

Xingyun laughed and stopped talking. A paper fan completely blocked the rain on her head, and not a drop fell on Shen Li's naked body.

After being tired for most of the day, Shen Li followed the bumpy curve of his backpack and fell asleep in a short while. However, she was awakened by a chill not long after she slept. She subconsciously twitched her whole body, stretched out her claws, and opened her mouth to bite people.

"You are such a fierce broiler." Xingyun took a step back with the ladle.

Shen Li shook the water off the two wings and stared at him warily: "What?"

"What can I do?" Xingyun asked her with a smile, "You are as dirty as something just dug out of the soil. I will help you and them wash it together. Otherwise, do you prefer to go to the pond to play in the water?"

Shen Li glanced to the side and found that she was in a large wooden basin with a bunch of wild ginseng. She used her claws to dig the ginseng that looked like a lump of soil. Xingyun grabbed her claws and said, "Be gentle, it won't sell for a good price if it's damaged."

"You... are selling this kind of ginseng?"

"Which one is it?" Xingyun grabbed her claws, rubbed them with the loofah net beside him, and grabbed another one after washing it. As if he had thought of something, he paused and looked at Shen Li with a smile, "Which one do you think it is?"

The distance was too close, and the beautiful face made Shen Li's heart beat a beat. Looking at the smile on Xingyun's lips, she felt like she was being teased. Lord BiCang was angry and shouted, "How dare you!" The sharp beak poked forward and pecked directly at Xingyun's nose. Xingyun was unprepared and was poked back. He took several steps back before he stabilized his body, covering his nose and not raising his head.

Shen Li was still angry in her heart, but seeing that Xingyun kept his head down, she wondered if she had bitten too hard. What should she do if she poked him out? And... if he wanted to deal with her now... Shen Li was silent. Just when she was at a loss, Xingyun's shoulders trembled slightly. Shen Li looked at him in confusion, and heard him laugh. Shen Li was more and more stunned. Was her beak poisonous? Did it peck him silly?

Xingyun put down his hand, walked over with a red and swollen nose, and patted her head gently: "Good skills." He was not angry at all, took the loofah net and continued to wash the ginseng.

Shen Li sat down in the wooden basin in surprise. It was the first time that she couldn't understand a person...

"Stupid chicken." With this light call, Shen Li raised her head, and a ball of wet mud "popped" on her face. The mud flowed down and blocked Shen Li's small nostrils. She opened her mouth to breathe, but the mud and sand got into her mouth again. Shen Li coughed and rolled in the basin.

Xingyun continued to wash the ginseng calmly. This guy... this guy is just a child! A little kid with a strong sense of revenge!

Shen Li decided to stay at Xingyun's house for two reasons. First, her physical strength recovered very quickly here. In just two or three days, the wounds left by Mofang on her body had no effect on her movements. Second, she didn't want to be caught and stewed. What made Shen Li worried was that she didn't know when her magic power would be restored. She didn't know when she would be restored to her human form, when she would be able to leave here, and when the pursuers from the Immortal Realm world would arrive. Fortunately, time in heaven always passed faster than on earth, which bought her a lot of time.

"It's time to eat." Xingyun called in the room, and Shen Li jumped to the dining table and sat down.

Shen Li believed that it was the food made by Xingyun that made her physical strength recover so quickly, so she ate everything he made every day, but... "Why is it steamed buns again?" Shen Li stared at the food on the plate in front of her and tapped the edge of the plate with her claws in dissatisfaction. No matter how delicious the food is, eating it every day is enough to make people sick. The most important thing is that she wants to eat meat!

"Is it not tasty?"

"It's delicious, but I want to eat meat."

"No money."

Shen Li was startled by these two overly decisive words. She looked up at Xingyun who was also eating a steamed bun and looked him up and down: "Can't you eat meat occasionally? Although you don't look rich, you shouldn't be very poor, right?"

Xingyun smiled calmly: "I am very poor, but I have a very good temperament." Although this sounded uncomfortable, it was true. Shen Li turned her head and looked at the ginseng he dried in the yard and said, "What about the wild ginseng you sold? This should make a lot of money."

"I exchanged it with the owner of the medicine shop for medicine." He said this lightly, as if he didn't care about his illness.

Shen Li was stunned when he heard it, and stammered for a long time. He didn't dare to say more, and just buried his head in eating the steamed bun in silence.

In the middle of the night, Shen Li guessed that Xingyun had fallen asleep. Most of the night, she gathered her inner breath for a long time in the yard with the help of the moonlight, then stretched out her claws and touched the white stone in front of her. The white stone flashed with golden light, as if it had turned into gold, but in just a moment, the light faded, and it was still an ordinary stone.

Shen Li sighed, it really didn't work. The breath in her body was empty, and she couldn't even do a simple spell to turn stone into gold. She sat down beside the stone in a somewhat dejected manner. This kind of helplessness was the first time she felt in her life.

Shen Li looked into the dark room. The night wind brought out some of the medicinal fragrance in the room. Shen Li flapped her wings twice, mustered up her strength again and stood up again, and continued to look up at the moonlight, concentrating and holding her breath.

Xingyun was kind to her, and she knew the principle of repaying kindness. However, although Shen Li was a prince, he was a military officer. He was good at killing enemies and fighting, but not at saving people and curing diseases. Since he couldn't cure this sickly person, let him live a better life in his lifetime.

Shen Li took a deep breath and absorbed the moonlight into her body. She leaned over and pecked the white stone lightly. The light was brighter. Shen Li opened her eyes and saw the golden light in the white stone constantly jumping, but it still disappeared in the end. She was angry and kicked the white stone hard: "Useless thing!" Before she finished speaking, she curled her claws and cried out in pain, "It hurts." After jumping two circles on one foot, Shen Li glared at the white stone and scolded it, "Stubborn stone!"

At the end, she stood in front of the stone again and continued to perform the method of turning stone into gold.

Shen Li, who threw herself on a stone with all her heart, didn't know that behind the dark door of the hut, there was a pair of eyes, smiling all the time, watching her actions. After Shen Li failed for who knows how many times, Qing Yi fluttered her skirt and turned to go into the inner room.

Xingyun rummaged through the cabinet, took out a dozen copper coins, weighed them twice and said: "Go buy two taels of meat tomorrow."