Ruyi [published edition]

Ruyi fell asleep again in a daze for a while, then put on her clothes and went to talk to the old man.

As soon as the old man heard him say that he was going to catch fish, he kept saying, "My boy, Ah Heng, I mean, I want to eat fish soup. Why does he want you to catch fish?"

When Ruyi heard that it was the old man who wanted to eat fish, she seemed relieved, but slightly disappointed.

It's just that the old man was still complaining about Wu Ciren, Ruyi hurriedly stopped her, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I grew up in the water since I was a child. There is no fish that I can't catch. I will bring you a small bamboo stool. You Go to the river and watch me catch fish!"

When the old man heard that he had such a good skill, his face blossomed with joy, and he said with emotion, "Ah Heng is good at everything, but eating is like taking medicine. I feel distressed when I see him. It's better." Then he said happily, "I heard someone tell me a folk remedy, let's make him a soup at noon to cure his problem of not eating well!"

Ruyi listened to it and thought it right, so she hurried to catch fish.

It wasn't until the two of them went to the river that they realized that what Ruyi said was true.But after a while, the small bamboo basket was half filled, and the old man panicked, so he hurriedly supported it to prevent the fish from jumping out.

Ruyi rubbed the water on her face with the back of her hand, and seeing the old man in a hurry, she smiled and asked, "Grandma, where did you and Ah Heng come from?"

When the old man saw him asking, he said, "Well, you don't know, it's a small village next to Liangzhou."

Ruyi couldn't help being surprised, how could it take a month or two to travel from Liangzhou in the desert to the Jiangnan land where birds are singing and flowers are fragrant?How did you come so far to get here?

He couldn't help being curious, so he asked insincerely, "It must have been a hard walk, then?"

Hearing this, the old man really complained, "Isn't it? .This kid has been obedient since he was a child, and I have never seen him be so stubborn, alas."

Ruyi thought, since childhood?Isn't it half a year?Then he asked again, "Then why does he have to come here?"

The old man thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "It seems that a fortune teller told him that he can meet any noble people here? Well, it's been more than half a year, and I haven't met any noble people? Who knows what's going on? ? But it’s fine here, it’s not where I’ve been, I’m an old bone, as long as he’s well.”

Ruyi was stunned for a moment, she hated even going into temples, Wu Ciren was not like the kind of person who would believe the fortune-teller's nonsense.

When Wu Ciren came back at night, when he heard that the old man went to the river with him, his face became a little ugly. After sending the old lady back to the house, he said to him, "She is so old, what if something happens in the river?" ?”

Where did Ruyi think so much, but she still couldn't help feeling aggrieved, and argued, "I'm still here?"

Wu Ciren sneered, and said disdainfully, "What's the use of you?"

Ruyi was stunned, her heart skipped a beat, and she asked, "What do you mean by that?"

Wu Ciren glanced at him, and said mockingly, "It's as good as you want, but it's not as good as you want, what use is there for you?"

Ruyi stood up abruptly, stared at Wu Ciren, and asked, "What did you say?"

He did tell the man his name, but the man never called it, and he thought the man didn't remember it at all.

But what this person said just now, it seems that he knew who he was from the beginning.

Wu Ciren sneered, and said, "What auspicious and wishful thinking it is, it's useless at all."

Ruyi felt as if someone had punched her in the chest, she was stunned, and asked blankly, "Do you know who I am?"

He had always wanted to hear this person calling his name, but he didn't expect it to be like this, it was beyond his expectation.

Seeing his unbelievable look, Wu Ciren couldn't help laughing, and said, "Why do you think I moved all the way here? I didn't want you in the first place, but it's a pity that you are the only one who escaped."

Ruyi was speechless for a while, took a deep breath, and asked again, "You already know who I am?"

Wu Ciren glanced at him, and said, "If you don't see it, you can only say that you are too stupid, so who can you blame?"

Ruyi couldn't come back to her senses for a while, and just asked repeatedly, "Why?"

Wu Ciren tapped his fingers on the table impatiently and said, "Why are there so many reasons? I'm so tired of asking!"

Ruyi's eyes were slightly red, but she still looked at Wu Ciren stubbornly and asked, "Why?"

Wu Ciren glanced at him, finally turned his face away, and said coldly, "My mother's life is not good, and she will suffer a lot. I don't have the power to help her now. I thought that if there is auspiciousness, everything will be fine." It’s done. I didn’t expect to meet you by such a coincidence, and you insisted on pestering me, so I thought, if it’s you, it shouldn’t be much difference, but I didn’t expect you to be so useless.”

Holding a breath in his chest, Ruyi asked, "Who the hell are you?"

Wu Ciren sneered, and said lightly, "You don't deserve to know."

Ruyi was so angry that he couldn't speak for a long time, and finally walked over angrily, and kicked Wu Ciren's calf viciously.Wu Ciren frowned in pain, pushed him away forcefully, and cursed, "Why are you crazy?"

Ruyi only felt a pain in her chest, and her stomach was full of grievances and anger.He sat down angrily, poured himself a bowl of tea, sipped it, and said angrily when he finished drinking, "Who told you to lie to me! It's nothing to kick you. I just let out a sigh of relief. I'm still angry, my lord." Come on, don't provoke me!"

Wu Ciren laughed, and said indifferently, "I have no skills, but I have a good temper."

Ruyi felt sad when he heard his tone, and scolded angrily, "What? Your temple is so big, it can't accommodate a little god like me?"

It never occurred to him that it was no coincidence that he met this person in the first place.This person simply knows who he is and what he can do.Only he looks like an idiot, so he wants to post it.It's just a good show, and it's a joke.

When Ruyi thought of this, her nose became sour, and she was so angry that she couldn't help herself.

Wu Ciren narrowed his eyes, suddenly pinched his chin with his hands, and said domineeringly, "If you are saving your life, don't provoke me. If you are useless, I don't blame you."

Ruyi flushed and threw away Wu Ciren's hand, but the heart in her chest was beating wildly.At that moment, he actually thought... that this person was going to lean over and forcefully kiss him.

How could Wu Ciren know what was going on in his mind? Seeing him bowing his head in a hurry and freezing there motionless, he thought he was afraid, so he smiled in satisfaction and said, "Your heart is not bad, but you have too many eyes. Be more restrained in the future, and when I recover from my injury, I will naturally not treat you badly."

Ruyi kept silent, lowered his head and did not dare to raise his head, his heart was still beating wildly, making his eardrums tremble, and he couldn't hear what Wu Ciren said at all.When Wu Ciren pinched his chin and approached him, it was as if something collapsed in his heart, and he was in a mess.

He has been with Jixiang since he was a child, and has never been close to other people. At that moment, he had the idea that he shouldn't have.When he thought that Wu Ciren was going to kiss him, the things that were chaotic and hazy in the past seemed to brighten up in that panic, fear, but secret desire.

It turned out that he had such thoughts about Wu Ciren in his heart.

He was still wondering why this person treated him like this, but he was not angry, and he couldn't just walk away, but he was always worried, worried about this person's injury, and worried about this person's happiness.

Ruyi raised her eyes to look at Wu Ciren, and suddenly felt stupid and pitiful.

No matter how good-hearted this man is, no matter how gentle he is to people, those things are not for him, nor will they be given to him.

He is just the lowest elf in the Dragon Palace, if it wasn't for Dragon Mother's intentions, I'm afraid he wouldn't even live today.This person looked down on him at all, and he was not an ordinary person at all. It was just that he was in trouble and was entangled by him, so he had to keep him.

Why did he meet this person and take this person to heart?He obviously just wanted to be free and happy for a few days before he died, why did he meet this person?

Ruyi's eye sockets became wet unconsciously.

Seeing him crying suddenly, Wu Ciren felt a little inexplicably irritated in his heart, so he scolded him unhappily, "Why are you crying?"

Ruyi saw that Wu Ciren was annoyed by him, and suddenly burst into tears.

It doesn't take long for him to be free, and the days of freedom are numbered, so why should he still have trouble with himself?

He cares about this person, so what does it have to do with him whether this person thinks highly of him or cares about him?

Seeing that his face was full of tears, but he was smiling brightly, Wu Ciren said angrily, "Go away."

After speaking, he was about to stand up, but frowned.

Ruyi knew that she kicked extremely hard just now, so she bit her lower lip and asked in a low voice, "Does your leg... hurt?"

It would be good if he didn't say anything, but when he said Wu Ciren, his face darkened, and he said, "Since you've already kicked him, don't pretend to be kind."

Ruyi said nothing, squatted down and pulled Wu Ciren's trousers.Wu Ciren was stunned for a moment, as if he wanted to push him away, but seeing the expression on Ruyi's face, as if heartbroken, Wu Ciren frowned, didn't speak, and let him go.Ruyi carefully rolled up Wu Ciren's trouser legs. Seeing that Wu Ciren's calf was bruised and purple, she felt so distressed that she stood up abruptly, pursed her lips, and said, "I'm going to get some medicine, where are you?" Don't go, wait for me to come back."

Wu Ciren held him back, his face seemed unnatural, and he just said, "You don't need to worry about it."

Ruyi lowered her head and said softly, "I didn't mean to kick you, it's just just now..."

It's just that just now...he was so angry.

But he couldn't say that.

Wu Ciren looked at him, puzzled, and said, "I think you are very smart, but why do you keep doing stupid things."

Ruyi's heart trembled, he had said this auspiciously, and hearing it from Wu Ciren now made him feel in a trance.

Ruyi wiped the tears from her face, then pulled her own face, then said with a smile, "I have done all the clever things, then you won't be able to show your shrewdness, sir."

Wu Ciren glanced at him with a half-smile, and said, "Wipe your nose, too."

Ruyi hurriedly touched his nose, and Wu Ciren couldn't help laughing. Only then did he realize that this person was teasing him. He didn't know what it was like, so he just said bitterly, "Master, have you seen enough? Have you seen enough? The villain went to cook for the master and the old lady."

Wu Ciren said amusedly, "Look at you? Don't put gold on your face! I don't pay attention to the goddess Yaoji, what are you?"

Ruyi's heart trembled, she pretended not to care, turned around and walked out.But after closing the door, I couldn't help feeling sad for a while.

He cooked fish soup at noon, and he put a lot of thought into it. It was delicious and unusual. The old man ate happily and praised him again and again, but Wu Ciren was still the same as usual, neither saying good nor bad, just eating those, Let him feel a little blocked.

When he first came here, he felt that Wu had no interest in giving people food.At that time, he only thought that this person could not cook and wasted good things for nothing, but after he cooked the rice, he did not see that this person ate a few more bites, so he felt a little angry and cooked dishes in different ways. But I still don't see what this person likes to eat, and I don't see this person eat more.

Ruyi watched Wu Ciren frowned and drank the soup, feeling unhappy in his heart, but he didn't ask until the old man left his seat, "What do you like to eat?"

Wu Ciren drank the soup in the bowl slowly, and then said to him, "Don't ask, I don't like anything."

Ruyi really wanted to grab this man's throat and pull out his tongue to take a closer look. Could it be that he is different from other people?How can there be such a person?There are so many delicacies in this world, and this person actually said that he doesn't like any of them.

Ruyi didn't give up, and said, "No matter how rare something is, you can talk about it."

Wu Ciren looked at him seriously for a long time, and then said, "You don't need to ask, I only eat one thing, and nothing else is of any use to me, so whether I like it or not is meaningless."

Ruyi was stunned for a while, she could only eat one thing in her life to survive...?

"Then what do you eat?" Ruyi suddenly felt very sad.

Wu Ciren seemed to think he was funny, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, he approached his ear, and said softly, "Dragon meat."

Ruyi was stunned, speechless for a long time.

He had heard that there was a kind of big bird in the West Sea, which only ate dragons when it was born. It was the nemesis of dragons, and even the Buddha in the West Heaven could not subdue it.

His heart was pounding, and he finally understood a little bit, but he felt a kind of despair, thinking, how could it be like this?

Wu Ciren laughed happily, put his chopsticks aside, and said to him, "Go wash the dishes."

Seeing that Wu Ciren was about to leave, Ruyi suddenly called out to him, "Hello!"

Wu Ciren squinted his eyes and looked back at him, Ruyi smiled and asked, "Dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground, tomorrow I will cook donkey meat soup for you, okay?"

Wu Ciren frowned, wanted to get angry, but still didn't, and just said, "It's up to you."

Ruyi also caught a lot of fish in the river that day, how could the three of them eat so much, he specially pickled some of them, and put them in china clay jars.

The next day he got up earlier than Wu Ciren, cooked the fish, carefully wrapped it in lotus leaves, put it in a clean porcelain jar, put the lid on it, and put it on Wu Ciren's burden.Then he said to Wu Ciren, "You pick vegetables to sell today, and take them to distribute to those neighbors. It is said that they take care of your business, and they have never paid back. The family cooks some small dishes. Try it. good."

Wu Ciren took it over in doubt, frowned, and said, "Trouble!"

Ruyi was too angry to bother with him, and said, "I don't bother to make it for you because you can't eat something good or bad. Take it out and try it out. If they don't ask you to give it away in the future, I won't be called Ruyi, but Bai Ten thousand."

Wu Ciren looked at the porcelain altar disapprovingly, picked up the burden, looked at him with a half-smile and said, "Millions are pretty good, like Yihao."

Ruyi blushed, knowing that this person was just taking the opportunity to laugh at his stupidity back then, but still couldn't help but be moved.

Wu Ciren nodded slightly at him, and Ruyi hurriedly pushed Wu Ciren out of the door, cursing, "Hurry up, standing here is an eyesore."

Wu Ciren glanced at him and left without looking back. Ruyi stood outside watching for a long time before walking back slowly.

The old man said that he had rescued a golden bird.

He had never seen it before, so he didn't know if the legendary Garuda was really that golden and vulgar.

But he knows which kind of bird only eats dragons, and there is probably only that kind in this world.

It was an unruly bird who was born to eat only dragons.I heard that garudas will swallow dragons alive, and then spit them out and eat them slowly when they are really hungry, so garudas will not appear on weekdays, and it takes a long time to go out to hunt once.And when the Garuda flies to the sea surface to prey, the sea surface will set off a raging wave due to the mournful cry of the dragon clan, which will not calm down for a long time.

However, he didn't want Wu Ciren to be transformed by a Garuda.

In that case, the two of them would really be too far apart.

Fifty paces may still catch up, but a hundred paces is a bit farther, but you can still see it.But the divine bird that even the Buddha can't do anything about will meet by chance only when it's in trouble...

Ruyi slowly held the old man's shoulders, and finally couldn't help but lead the conversation to Wu Ciren again. He begged, "Can you tell me about the bird you rescued before?"

Recalling the situation at that time, the old man showed awe in his eyes, and said slowly, "I have never seen such a bird before."

The old man raised his head, and seemed to fall back into the memory of that time, "...I saw it on the road at that time, it was already injured, its body was covered with blood, and it seemed to be dying. But it had golden feathers, although it was seriously injured It looks like that, but it still glows, that kind of light makes people want to kneel down and worship it, I think it must be a divine bird in the sky.”

"So I hugged it back, but..." The old man's head suddenly hurt. She thought about it, but those things in the past seemed to be hidden in the clouds, and she couldn't see clearly at all.

She slowly shook her head and said, "I don't remember much about what happened afterwards..."

Ruyi was a little disappointed, but didn't say anything.

The old man suddenly asked him, "Million, I have a question for you."

"You ask."

The old man asked him hesitantly, "If it were you, would you take the opportunity to kill the bird and exchange the bird's feathers for money?"

Ruyi became angry and said without thinking, "I wouldn't do that kind of thing, it hurt like that."

The old man nodded in satisfaction.

But Ruyi thought about it, and said with a smile, "It's okay to pull out a few more roots and sell them after it heals."

The old man was funny and angry, poked his forehead with his finger, and said helplessly, "You..."

Ruyi stuck out her tongue, but didn't answer.

He also spent a few days with Wu Ciren, and he could see it.If you just use the old man as a cover to hide in the world, there is no need to work so hard.Wu Ciren really took care of the old man as his own mother, this man, the old man saved his life, let alone plucking a few feathers, I'm afraid he would have nothing against his life.

Ruyi sighed deeply, thinking infinitely sadly, why wasn't he the one who saved him back then?In that case, hehe, Wu Ciren is the dough in his hands, he can knead it however he wants, he can do whatever he wants...

Ruyi became frustrated, how could he become such a useless person who only thinks about impossible things.

When Wu Ciren came back, he was so tired that he was sweating profusely. As soon as he put down the burden, Ruyi went to wipe his face with a towel.Wu Ciren took the towel and wiped his sweat. Ruyi couldn't help but feel disappointed, so she asked him without words, "Have you sent all those fish away?"

Wu Ciren glanced at him and said, "If you don't send it out, why don't you wait until it stinks?"

Ruyi gritted her teeth and asked again, "Then what did they say?"

Wu Ciren didn't say a word, and after wiping his face slowly, he took out a money bag from his arms and threw it to him.Ruyi caught it involuntarily, weighed it, was surprised and delighted, and said, "So much?"

Then I held the purse and counted it one penny at a time.

Wu Ciren untied his leggings while watching him count the money, seemed a little surprised, frowned, and said with disdain in his tone, "I didn't expect you to love money so much."

Ruyi was so angry that he couldn't speak, he wasn't counting money for himself, he was giving money to Wu, okay?Why did he become a money-grubbing ghost?

Wu Ciren untied his leggings and exhaled, as if he was very tired, but he still said, "I'll go to the river to wash my body."

Ruyi hurriedly put away the money, and said, "I'll go too."

Wu Ciren looked at him suspiciously, as if he felt that he was joining in the fun, and asked, "What are you doing?"

Ruyi thought to herself, you are so tired, I will help you wipe your body.But he didn't say it, he just followed.

Wu Ciren didn't bother to pay attention to him, took a change of clothes, and left.

Ruyi followed behind him, seeing that his back was wet with sweat, she couldn't help asking him, "Where did you go, why are you so tired?"

Wu Ciren glanced at him and asked him back, "Why are you talking more today than in the past?"

Ruyi knew that this person was unwilling to tell her, so she mustered up her courage, "I asked your mother about the past today, but she doesn't seem to remember clearly..."

Wu Ciren's complexion turned ugly, and he lost his temper and said, "Didn't I tell you not to talk nonsense to her!"

Ruyi knew she was wrong, and muttered in a low voice, "It won't happen in the future."

Wu Ciren looked at him with a sullen face, and said after a long time, "You don't know, her own son died half a year ago. At that time, my mother was seriously ill and almost lost her eyes from crying. Don't bring up the past again. , it's a good thing she can't remember."

Ruo suggested that he take the initiative to explain, although his tone was not good, he felt relieved, and said softly, "Don't be angry, I won't ask again."

Wu Ciren frowned, and said, "It's okay for you to talk to her to relieve boredom, just don't ask about her son, and don't ask about me."

Ruyi was stabbed by his cold attitude, and forced a smile and said, "Whoever wants to ask about you seems to care about you."

Wu Ciren seemed to give him an extra look before saying to him, "It's not the best."

After speaking, he took off his clothes and went to the river.

Standing by the river, Ruyi originally wanted to go down with her, but was blocked by those words and couldn't go down again, so she asked awkwardly by the river, "Do you want me to wipe your back for you?"

Wu Ciren was holding water, when he heard him ask, he stopped, didn't speak for a long time, and then asked him with a half-smile, "Why do I feel that you like serving me so much?"

Ruyi blushed and said loudly, "Don't forget it, I have to go back and cook!"

Wu Ciren raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Yes, why not? Come down."

Ruyi blushed and thought heartbeatingly, the appearance of this person turned into a mortal is obviously ordinary, but when he laughs, he is so radiant and captivating, it is really hateful, he is probably confused by his smile.

Obviously there are few times when it is sincere, but the smile is so heart-warming.