My Enemy Became My Cultivation Companion-Chapter 806 - 503: Yin Xian Gu (Part 2)

After the flower cart passed, Ren Hui tiptoed and looked for a long time but couldn't see his figure. She secretly stomped her foot in annoyance, but had to lower her head and walk away, at least walking to a familiar place.

When the second watch of the Xushi hour sounded, the sachet in her sleeve was already soaked with sweat. Under the lights in the eastern market, girls of the same age were laughing and throwing sachets on the bridge. Ren Hui looked below the bridge, seeing a group of men looking expectantly, but his face wasn't among them.

Ren Hui didn't know how long she had walked, nor did she know where she had gone.

"Would the little lady like to buy a piece of jade?"

Suddenly, a shout reached her ears. She turned her head to see a peddler with a stall selling jade, uncovering a bamboo basket with warm yellow lights floating over green colors.

Ren Hui was about to shake her head, but suddenly thought that even if she didn't see him tonight, she could send a piece of jade as a token of her feelings in the future, and she whispered: "What's the price, if it's too expensive I won't buy it."

"Not expensive, not expensive, seeing you walk back and forth for so long, I'll give you a discount."

Ren Hui immediately looked at the jade, picking and choosing for a while, and finally chose a pleasing carved jade bowl.

"Sending it to your lover, right? I'll make it fifty wen for you," the peddler said while cracking his fingers.

Ren Hui's eyes lit up, surprised inside; fifty wen for a piece of jade was quite a bargain.

"Then I'll take it."

"No problem," the peddler paused, drawing out his voice, "but could you spare a moment to listen to a story?"

"Mm-hmm," Ren Hui replied carelessly.

She quickly fumbled in her pocket for some coins, just about to take the carved jade bowl when a hand suddenly reached in and grabbed the bowl.

Ren Hui was startled, a voice sounded next to her: "Dare to buy burial offerings, do you think you're invincible?"

Burial offerings?!

Ren Hui hesitated for a moment and turned pale instantly, seeing a snow-white dressed Daoist nun appear out of nowhere, smiling at her slightly before turning to the peddler.

The peddler sprang from the stall, jumped two steps, and turned into a cloud of black mist about to escape. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

The female crown turned over the bowl.

Look, that cloud of black mist seemed to walk backward and was covered by the bowl in an instant.

Ren Hui was stunned, rooted to the spot.

What did she encounter...?

"You...you..." After a long time, she stammered: "Such...such a living person...a living person."

"Living person? Look again."

Ren Hui stiffly turned her head at the sound,

Looking again at the bowl, she saw little limbs struggling, it was a black beetle overturned in the bowl.

So it was a tomb-raiding dung beetle.

......

"Are you looking for your lover?" Yin Weiyin's voice asked.

Under the lantern light, Ren Hui nodded forcefully, then her face blushed with a bit of shyness. She unconsciously touched the pearl hairpin he had given her on the seventh night of the seventh lunar month, as if it gave her some sense of security.

With just a little explanation, Ren Hui understood the woman before her was not a bad person, but a female crown from Taihua Mountain.

After a while, she cautiously asked in a low voice: "Immortal, can you help me find my lover?"

"Why?"

"Why..." Ren Hui asked shyly: "Immortal, don't you have a lover?"

It seems those who have lovers understand this feeling.

"You're mistaken," the female crown paused, "my question is, why are you looking for your lover instead of your lover finding you?"

Of course she understood.

"I got separated from him, why not look?" Ren Hui still didn't understand.

"You're just a weak girl, could you really search every place to find him, and if you do try, you might miss him. Instead, if your lover cares enough for you, he'll naturally search everywhere to find you," the female crown said gently, "The greatest sound is silence, Taoist skill follows nature, it's not about searching for him, but letting your lover find you. That way, you can lead him by the nose."

Those words suggested she really understood how to lead a lover by the nose.

Ren Hui still didn't understand, but she felt that there was some truth in what was said.

The female crown saw her half-understanding, just smiled faintly: "Go wander around."

She finished speaking, and suddenly there was no sound next to her. Ren Hui turned back, but there was no sign of the female crown.

The street was long, the night was long, fireworks burst on the rooftops, illuminating the ground in splendor.

At the third quarter of the Xushi hour, Ren Hui clutched the koi pouch she had embroidered for a month, the female crown's words lingered in her mind as she wandered around the lantern market.

Will he really find her?

Ren Hui felt inexplicably disheartened.

The Golden Silk Phoenix Lotus Lantern hung atop the highest bamboo rack, the riddle paper beneath fluttered with the night wind.

"Do you also want this lantern, miss?"

Ren Hui hurriedly turned around, the corner of her robe embroidered with green bamboo brushing past the lantern's shadow. The scholar's sleeve was still dusted from his journey here. With his fingertip resting on the riddle's surface: "'Round when drawn, square when written, short in winter, long in summer' — the answer is..."

"The sun." Ren Hui blurted out.

She looked up to see his eyes filled with amusement, his cheeks illuminated by the warm glow of the lantern.

The lantern craftsman suddenly chuckled and said, "There's only one of these big lotus lanterns left, do you two want to guess together?"

...

The flower carriage slowly approached from a distance.

Ren Hui and the scholar stood side by side beneath a roof's eave, waiting for the carriage to pass by.

The primordial spirit of the female crown stood atop a flower lantern, gazing afar.

"Do you know, just now I encountered an Immortal, she said you should come find me, not the other way around."

"Hey, is that really true?"

"Yes, so I just walked and waited there, and here you are."

"The Immortal was right, you should wait for me, I've been searching for so long."

"What if you stop searching halfway? Then I won't find you."

The scholar laughed and said, "How could that be?"

Ren Hui glanced at him under the lantern light, suddenly got angry, and complained, "Of course, if I grow old, you won't come looking for me."

Yin Weiyin frowned, finding it hard to understand why this mortal woman suddenly got angry.

The scholar coaxed, "Don't be angry, don't be angry, I'll surely find you, even if I have to turn the whole Shantong City upside down. You surely aren't truly angry."

"Hmm, I'm pretending to be angry so you can coax me."

Yin Weiyin suddenly realized, and pondered for a moment.

So that's what it means...

It could be kept in mind, he would use it next time, to catch another glimpse of her.

It's just these subtle connections that can extend over a thousand miles.

Yin Weiyin secretly felt that her maneuver was getting harder to trace, naturally, Taoist Skill speaks of nature.

The lantern flames lined up one after another, as they burned, the orange-red turned into an elderly yellow, indistinct, appearing as colorful lines from afar. Yin Weiyin leaned on the railing, darkly pondering that dealing with him now required a lot of thought, falling to the inferior position.

Yet it's necessary to fall to the inferior position.

Though infatuated enough to be docile, but in careful contemplation, he still won't listen to her, bit by bit.

Yin Weiyin thought of this, gently shaking her head.

It should be bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit...

The flower carriage was already near, only to see the high platform empty.

There were several cries from both sides of the street, not knowing why, as the carriage got closer, all the continuous flower lanterns extinguished one by one.

Yin Weiyin turned aside, and the crowd only saw a white-robed female crown, gently alighting onto the flower carriage.

On the other side, the scholar and the lady were still speaking softly.

"You should be angry more often in the future, I love coaxing you most...."

Before the scholar could finish his words, he was suddenly silenced.

A point of warmth fell on his forehead, as he looked up again,

A gentle breeze came from the high platform, flower lanterns lit one after another, their light cascading down like a gentle rain, descending from the thin clouds in the sky.

It was then that the white-clad woman fully unfurled the scroll, a lively little Daoist child rushed out, took a deep breath, and lit the whole city's lanterns...

.........

The Daoists' banquet dispersed.

The host and guests were all cheerful.

A story that fulfilled the romance between a couple concluded after the banquet, naturally, Taichua Goddess received endless praise.

At Taihua Mountain, the Supreme Forget Emotion was practiced, forgetting emotion to fulfill affection, what a remarkable lady.

Yet Yin Weiyin tossed those compliments aside, only thinking of that couple,

Indeed they were loving, but would Chen Yi be the same with her?

Yin Weiyin suddenly longed to see him, but he wouldn't come to Taihua Mountain so soon.

However, there's no need to fear, since he came looking for her,

She would go look for him.

I wonder how much he misses her?