Chapter 44 Reluctancy

 Chapter 44 Reluctancy

By Jiulu Feixiang,

Translated, Edited and Arranged by Angel Chua 10/11/2024

On the second day, Shen Li was not in a hurry to go to the place called Xiyuan arranged by the Heavenly Lord. She was even a little reluctant to go there. But she took a walk around the Heaven Realm. The eyes she met were either wary or cautious. It would be fine if there were only one or two people, but Shen Li couldn't stand everyone looking at her like that. She was not angry or aggrieved, but she felt suffocated for those guys in the Heaven Realm. If they really didn't like her, they could just pick up a knife and chop her. Shen Li couldn't stand it

anymore. Instead of being stared at like that, she would rather go to Xiyuan and be embarrassed with Xingzhi.

What Shen Li didn't expect was that when she arrived at the legendary courtyard, there was no one inside. It was so quiet that it seemed like no one had lived there for years. What surprised Shen Li even more was that the layout of this courtyard was exactly the same as the courtyard of the mortal Xingyun in the human world, with every blade of grass and every tree, stone tables and stone chairs in the front yard, and a small pond dug under the grape vines in the backyard. The location was exactly the same, but the room was much larger than before, and there were many wing rooms on both sides. It was hard to tell how many years the wooden structure had been built. Although everything looked not new, it was not old either.

Compared with Xingyun's house, this should be considered an upgraded luxury version, but for those houses in the heavens that often use luminous colored glaze as tiles and precious stones and precious wood as houses, this place is really very simple.

Such an environment also made Shen Li subconsciously relax her guard. Shen Li thought that Xingzhi's memory was not erased when he went to the Mortal Realm, so his courtyard must have been arranged according to this layout. She still remembered that the furnishings here followed some formation, which could gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Staying here would help her concentrate on clearing the toxins in her body.

This poison was not left by the three fairies, but by Fu Sheng. I don't know how he made the poison. It took such a deep root. According to Shen Li's recovery speed, it is not easy to have residues after such a long time. Shen Li strolled around the house leisurely, and couldn't help but think of the guy in green and white clothes who was taking a rest in the sun under the grapevine. He was so leisurely. Perhaps, only when he was in the human world, he was wearing a mortal body, so he could be so casual. His behavior after returning to the throne of God had too many emotions and concerns that Shen Li couldn't understand. The difference in identity can really change a person too much... Shen Li was thinking about it when she heard the sound of water, crisp and pleasant.

Shen Li's eyes caught the pond in the backyard. She walked over and looked at the fat koi swimming in the pond. She raised her eyebrows slightly: "Fish that are not fed by anyone can grow so fat. The water in the heaven is good." She sat down by the pond and fiddled with the clear water in the pond. Suddenly, a white and tender hand held Shen Li's wrist. Shen Li was startled, her eyes met a pair of big watery eyes, and then, a silver light flashed, and several pairs of crystal clear eyes stared straight at her face. These koi... unexpectedly... have all turned into children. She was still in a daze, when she suddenly heard one of the children giggle: "Big sister, are you coming to play with us?" Shen Li listened to the sound of splashing water and shook her head subconsciously, but several pairs of white and fat claws had already grabbed her arms, "Sister, come and play!" The children's crisp voices were like a death warrant, pulling Shen Li and pushing her into the pond. Shen Li held her breath suddenly, and was pushed under the pond. She saw that it was not as small as it looked from the outside.

It was like a lake, but only the light came in from the mouth of the pond, and the darker it got the deeper it went. Shen Li's fear of water is almost innate. When her ears were filled with the "buzzing" sound of the water, her heart began to panic. Fortunately, she could still control this emotion. But when she found that she wanted to swim up desperately, the children with fish tails pulled her ankles as if playing. Shen Li was not calm. Looking at these children giggling and showing their white teeth, Shen Li felt that these cute faces were like ghosts from hell. She began to struggle. It was not a problem for Shen Li to hold her breath for half an hour, but it was different in the water. She wanted to scold those children in panic, but when she opened her mouth, water poured into her throat. When she wanted to spit it out, more water poured in. The water in heaven was sweet, but Shen Li really couldn't drink it...

She kicked those children to death and swam towards the light with her hands and feet. Her posture was ugly, needless to say. When she finally managed to stick her nose out of the water, she couldn't take a breath, and a little brat jumped out of the water excitedly, flipped over like a carp, and knocked Shen Li back down. Shen Li was furious, and she just wanted to light a fire to boil the water in the pond, scald these little brats, and pick them up one by one when she got ashore to eat them. But she didn't have the opportunity to use such a vicious trick. She only felt that the water flow around her became faster for no reason. Before she could react, a huge suction force sucked her out of the pond with the water. Shen Li fell to the ground like a dead fish along with several naked mermaid children. She covered her chest and coughed hard, her face red from coughing.

Those children were also jumping on the ground, and a fish tail slowly jumped into a human leg. A white face scarf was draped over Shen Li's face. Shen Li threw the face scarf away angrily, pointing at the well-dressed man in white and panting, "Twice...twice!" Xingzhi naturally knew what she meant by twice. Xingzhi smiled, "I didn't mean it this time." He casually broke off a thin vine from the grape rack, walked over, and gently slapped the white buttocks of the children on the ground one by one, "Come into the house." As soon as he called, the children covered their bare buttocks, felt a little aggrieved, and staggered into the house with unfamiliar steps. Xingzhi glanced at Shen Li and said, "I'll give you an explanation."

Shen Li was left on the ground like this and no one paid any attention to her. After a while, when Shen Li recovered her breath, she heard a soft whimpering sound coming from the room. It was a child crying. Shen Li thought about the thin vine that Xingzhi had just broken in his hand, and wondered if Xingzhi was beating those children... Well, they should be beaten hard, Shen Li thought so in her heart, and entered the room. She walked around the screen at the door and saw Xingzhi propping up his head, leaning on the couch, the thin vine in his hand swinging from time to time, and the child standing obediently in front of him.

There was a row of naked children, each with red eyes. Seeing Shen Li coming in, Xingzhi glanced at her and then looked at the children: "Well, where's the apology?" The child at the edge cried and wiped his tears randomly, and said vaguely: "Sister, I'm sorry, woo, I didn't know you couldn't swim, woo, I won't play like this again." As soon as he finished speaking, another child continued: "I'm sorry, woo, I'm sorry. We just want to play with others."

Then there were apologies and sobs one after another, mixed with the sound of sniffling. The scene was a bit chaotic. A group of half-grown children, naked, at a loss, apologized to her vaguely, although Shen Li didn't understand a word of the apology... After a while, Shen Li covered her face with one hand and waved to the children with the other hand: "Okay, okay, go back by yourselves, it's not a big deal." Shen Li's words didn't count. The children were sobbing, staring at Xingzhi with bright eyes. When Xingzhi nodded lightly, everyone ran out like fleeing. The room fell silent, and Xingzhi sat up straight, "When did Lord BiCang become so easy to talk to?"

"Such a group of half-grown children crying naked in front of me, making me look like an old witch who is taking yin to replenish yang." Shen Li said patiently, "Only the God can be indifferent to this scene." "

No, not indifferent." Xingzhi played with the thin vine in his hand, "I think their crying is quite funny."

Shen Li rubbed her temples. She thought it would be awkward to see Xingzhi, and she was even more certain of the idea of embarrassment after entering this courtyard. But after this incident, there was no awkward emotion between the two. Only Shen Li looked tired and cold: "God, please arrange a wing room for Shen Li. After tossing last night and today, Shen Li just wants to sleep peacefully."

"Please pick a wing room on the left."

The first day of living with Xingzhi again passed in a daze.

After that... there was nothing after that. Although they lived in the same courtyard, Xingzhi was often not seen, and Shen Li did not see him go out. It was estimated that he was practicing in seclusion in the house. Without being able to see him, Shen Li's awkward mood had not been expressed, but it was good this way. If this situation could continue until after the Hundred Flowers Banquet, the next time she wanted to see Xingzhi, it would be at her wedding banquet with Furongjun... and then there would be no day for them to meet.

With a pain in her scalp, Shen Li quietly looked at the little carp spirit behind her in the bronze mirror. The little carp spirit did not realize that it hurt Shen Li when combing her hair, and continued to comb her hair happily: "Your Highness's hair is really good." He said, "But it's too thick and too straight, it doesn't look like a woman's hair at all."

Shen Li did not respond to him.

These little carp spirits were originally servants of the West Garden. They followed Xingzhi's orders to serve her, but the more they served, the messier it became...

"Clang." Shen Li suddenly felt her back wet. A little carp spirit who was cleaning the room knocked over the basin that Shen Li had washed in, and splashed it all over the floor, soaking Shen Li's back and the carp spirit who was combing Shen Li's hair. Knowing that he had done something wrong, he stared at Shen Li with a confused and terrified look.

"What are you doing!" The carp spirit behind him was furious, and with a force, he pulled out many strands of Shen Li's hair. Shen Li covered the back of her head and took a deep breath. But in the end, he couldn't help it, and didn't care whether his hair was combed properly or not. He slammed the table and stood up, holding the two children by the back of their collars in one hand, lifted them up and shook them, and both of them turned into koi. Shen Li hugged them in his arms, kicked the door and went out. Whenever he saw a carp spirit, he treated it with the same trick, and finally threw the fat carp with different patterns in his arms into the pond.

"Don't come out, or I'll steam you."

She stood by the pond and threatened the little carp spirits fiercely. All of them had red eyes and poked their heads out of the water aggrievedly. One of them asked, "But, the God said that the prince is different from the immortals. He will be hungry if he doesn't eat. If we don't serve you, the prince will starve to death..."

"He won't starve to death." Shen Li turned around and took two steps, then turned back to warn, "Don't come out!"

The carp spirits were silent, staring at Shen Li with sparkling eyes.

Shen Li scratched his hair, thinking that he would just tie it up as usual, but when he turned around, he saw Xingzhi standing at the door of his room in a white robe, with the morning light reflected in his slightly curved eyes, too beautiful: "What are you making a fuss about so early in the morning?"

Shen Li had been angry for a few days: "They are here to make trouble for me on your orders."

Xingzhi raised his eyebrows: "I have never told you so." The little carp spirit said aggrievedly, "We are really serving the prince with all our heart..."

Shen Li rubbed his forehead and blurted out: "Is this called serving! If you really want to serve me, then you, the God, can do it." This was originally Shen Li's angry words, but as soon as the voice fell, the other side replied lightly with the word "OK"

The air seemed to be quiet for a moment, not only Shen Li was slightly stunned, but even the little carp spirits in the pond were stunned.

A light "dong" sound broke the silence. Shen Li turned around and saw Goddess Luo Tian standing at the door of the backyard in a daze. The fruit she was holding rolled all over the floor. Xingzhi turned around and looked at her quietly: "Why is You Lan here?"

You Lan seemed to come to her senses and hurriedly bent down to pick up the fruit. She explained: "The Heavenly King asked me to inform Lord BiCang that today is the day to enter the marrow washing pool. I thought that the prince lived with the Godly King, so I took the opportunity to bring him some fairy fruits. The gate outside the courtyard was not closed, so I came in directly..."

She didn't say anything else, but everyone knew what she heard. Xingzhi nodded, his expression was very calm. Shen Li cleared her cough, turned around and left: "Since it is the Heavenly King's order, there is no time to delay, let's go quickly." The miasma in the Immortal Realm world is heavy. Shen Li has been in the Immortal Realm world for many years and inevitably contaminated with miasma. Therefore, before attending the Hundred Flowers Banquet, she had to go to the marrow washing pool to cleanse herself. This was the process Shen Li knew before coming.

Youlan looked at Shen Li's back as she left quickly, then looked back at Xingzhi, bowed, put the fruit in the house, and left with Shen Li.

"Your Majesty." After leaving Xiyuan for a long time, Youlan suddenly called Shen Li, as if she had been thinking for a long time, and finally couldn't help but speak, "Youlan went to the Immortal Realm Realm a few days ago. Although I didn't explore it in detail, I still saw the environment of the Immortal Realm Realm. I know that the people of the Immortal Realm Clan must be dissatisfied with the Heavenly Realm."

Shen Li paused and looked back at her: "Goddess, just say it directly."

Youlan's face was solemn: "But whether it's dissatisfaction or resentment, I hope that the prince and the people of the Immortal Realm Realm will be careful about the degree." She stared at Shen Li steadily, "There is only one god left in the three realms, and no one can afford the price of losing him."

Shen Li suddenly remembered that Xingzhi had told her before that the reason why Qingye was stripped of his godhood was that he went against the will of heaven for a private affair... So what Youlan meant by this was that the Immortal Realm Realm had a heart to rebel against the Heavenly Realm and used her to seduce Xingzhi, intending to strip Xingzhi of his godhood? Shen Li smiled and felt it was ridiculous: "Goddess, regardless of whether Shen Li is as capable as you expected, as for the matter of losing the god, if Xingzhi is unable to preserve his divinity, that is his business.

What's the point of you telling me?" After saying that, Shen Li turned and left, leaving Youlan alone with a cold look in her eyes.

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