The Birds Keep Ringing Chapter 21
byChapter 21 Transformed into a living bird. Could this be the legendary body-guarding jade…
Yunzhen talks a lot less these days.
This caused a lot of panic in Liuyun Sect.You know, this bird hero usually keeps talking, but now he is actually quiet, as if someone has knocked him out.
Xiao Fenzhi was a little unaccustomed to having no one praise him anymore: “What’s going on, little junior brother?”
The master stroked his beard: “I remember that back then, I had such a period of depression. At that time, I just discovered that those so-called immortals were actually liars.”
Wen Wan unceremoniously destroyed the situation: “Master, didn’t you become that liar later on?”
The master coughed twice in embarrassment: “That’s different. I am a conscientious liar. I only defraud the rich of their money, not the lives of the poor.”
Yunzhen huddled in Jiang Zhi’s clothes, his whole body wilting.It’s always wet in the south, and it’s like a ball of wet cotton, not as fluffy anymore.
Jiang Zhi lowered his head and glanced at the hair ball on his chest, took it out and pinched it.
It feels good, soft and elastic.
So he pinched it again.
“Chirp…” Yun Zhen yelled weakly, turned his head angrily, and bit his finger hard.
The group of people wandered around like this, and finally arrived at a big city.
In the distance, the city wall is towering, a bit more imposing than Luoyang. This is Yangzhou.
This place is very close to Yunzhen’s hometown, Qingzhou.It is estimated that in two days’ journey, Yunzhen will transform from the bird hero back to the young master.
When they entered the city, the lanterns were already on.
The master suddenly reined in the horse and shouted: “Boy, stop for a moment.”
Jiang Zhi looked back at him.
“Tomorrow morning you go buy something for Zhen’er’s parents, and we’ll take them to Qingzhou.”
“Why?” Yunzhen had just transformed into a human form and was sitting behind Jiang Zhi, chewing half of a sesame seed cake. Hearing this, he said vaguely, “They don’t lack anything.”
“You don’t understand.” Master taught earnestly, “When you go to someone’s home as a guest, can you go empty-handed? It’s your first time visiting someone’s house, so you have to bring something to express your gratitude.”
Yunzhen: “Huh?”
Are his parents short of something?There is no shortage.Not to mention ordinary gifts, even if there were mountains of gold and silver piled up at the door of his house, his father would not mind getting in the way.
Besides, since when did master know etiquette so well?This old man usually goes to other people’s houses to have food, but he always comes back empty-handed. When he leaves, he has to bring something back with him.
But Yun Zhen was in a bad mood and was too lazy to think about it, so he just bought it.
When we arrived at the hotel, as expected, in order to save money, the master started his skillful performance again.
The master stood in front of the shopkeeper, clasped his hands, and looked pitiful: “Shopkeeper, can it be cheaper? We are all monks, and we don’t have much money.”
“A monk?” The shopkeeper looked them up and down, his eyes lingering on Wen Wan for a moment, his eyes a little strange, “Is this girl also a monk?”
“Yes.” Master said seriously, “She is a nun.”
Wen Wan: “…”
“What about the young man in white?” The shopkeeper pointed at Xiao Fenzhi.
“He is…” Master rolled his eyes, “He is a monk who has returned to secular life.”
Xiao Fenzhi clasped his hands together and said: “Amitabha, the name of the poor monk… I meet you, donor. Meeting is fate, so give it a try.”
The shopkeeper looked at them suspiciously, and finally his eyes fell on the murderous young man.
“What about this knight in black? He can’t be a monk, right?”
Master: “He is the Dharma Protector Vajra.”
“…”
The shopkeeper probably thought that if there was no discount, these psychopaths might tear down the store, but he actually agreed in the end.
Before Yunzhen could react, she was grabbed by her senior sister and taken to her room like a chicken.
Wen Wan pointed to the only bed: “Zhenzhen, you sleep on the bed, and senior sister makes the floor.”
Yunzhen refused. This was related to a man’s dignity: “Sister, you are a girl, how can you be allowed to sleep on the floor? I sleep on the floor! I am a hero. Heroes all sleep on ropes or tree branches. Sleeping on the ground is already a pleasure.”
“No.” Wen Wan said firmly, “You are senior sister’s precious junior brother. How can senior sister let you sleep on the floor? What if you catch a cold?”
The two started a half-hour debate over who should sleep on the floor.In the end, Wen Wan finally compromised under Yun Zhen’s threat of “I’ll scream all night if you let me sleep on the bed.”
It’s late at night.
Yunzhen was lying on the ground, covered with a quilt and pillowed on a hard pillow.The moonlight from the window shone in, making the ground pale and pale, as if it was covered with a layer of frost.
He stared at the ceiling with his eyes open, unable to fall asleep no matter what. The scenes of that day kept replaying in his mind, like a revolving lantern.Just when he was about to count the thousandth sheep, there was a slight noise outside the window.
Yunzhen immediately became alert.
Could it be an assassin?Or a flower picker?Or is it a killer sent by the Lu family?
He climbed up quietly, walked to the window, and stuck his head out to look out.
Under the moonlight, a black figure stood outside, tall and straight.
Yunzhen was startled and was about to shout to catch the thief when he saw the face clearly in the moonlight.
Second senior brother.
What was he doing there?Basking in the moon?Still thinking about cats?
Jiang Zhi saw him and made a “come down” gesture to him.
Yunzhen pointed at himself, then pointed down, and asked with his mouth: “Jump down?”
Jiang Zhi nodded.
Yunzhen looked back at Wen Wan on the bed. She was sleeping deeply and breathing steadily.
He was on the second floor, not very high, so he was only half disabled after falling.Yunzhen hesitated for a moment and was about to climb out.
“Ahem.”
Yunzhen froze, with one leg still hanging on the window frame. He was in a dilemma, and his posture was extremely inelegant: “…Senior sister, are you not sleeping?”
Wen Wan turned over and turned her back to him, “Go back quickly. You must be back before dawn.”
Yunzhen agreed quietly.
He closed his eyes, his heart skipped a beat, and he fell into a strong embrace.Jiang Zhi caught him steadily and had no intention of putting Yunzhen down immediately. Instead, he carried him for a few steps.
Yunzhen quickly struggled and jumped down: “I can walk on my own! I’m not disabled!”
“Where are you going?” Yunzhen adjusted his clothes, trying to regain some of his dignity as a hero.
“Follow me.”
The two of them rode a horse together and walked through several quiet alleys to the outside of the city.
In front of you is a river beach with beautiful scenery. The reeds on the shore are swaying gently in the breeze.
There was a fish on the fire by the river. This time it was not skewered with a sword, but with an unknown branch.
The fish was grilled until it was golden and crispy, and the aroma was fragrant. Yunzhen’s stomach growled unsatisfactorily.
“I told you before,” Jiang Zhi turned the fish over, “I want to compensate you.”
Yun Zhen was silent.
He thought it was just a joke.Unexpectedly, although this man couldn’t speak, he could still remember everything he said, even small things like owing a grilled fish.
He took the fish and took a bite.Charred on the outside, tender on the inside, moderately salty, and 10,000 times more delicious than the last time.
“Is it delicious?”
“It’s delicious.” Yun Zhen ate so deliciously that there was a circle of oil around his mouth, “Don’t you want to eat it?”
“Not hungry.”
“Second Senior Brother, are you really not going to eat it? It’s delicious.” Yunzhen asked again, trying to pass the fish over.
Jiang Zhi shook his head. Seeing Yun Zhen eating so deliciously, the corner of his mouth moved slightly.
Yun Zhen was stunned for a moment and almost swallowed the fish bones.
He had always thought that Jiang Zhi was an ice cube turned into spirit, but now, with the firelight reflecting on his face, he looked a little…gentle?
He read that right.
“Second senior brother.”
“Huh?”
“I want to ask you a question.” Yunzhen swallowed the fish in his mouth, “When did you start… liking me?”
Jiang Zhi said without hesitation, “This is the first time I’ve seen you.”
“Ah?” Yunzhen was surprised, “So early? At that time, I was squatting on the ground like a fool. Are you blind?”
Jiang Zhi looked at him.
Even a fool is a beautiful fool.
“I have something for you.” Jiang Zhi suddenly took out something from his arms and handed it to Yunzhen.
“What is it?” Yun Zhen took it, not feeling too disturbed in his heart.He was mentally prepared, it was probably something weird again.
By the light of the fire, he saw clearly that it was a book.
The book looks to be quite old, it doesn’t even have a name, and the cover is still a bit old, but it’s well preserved.
Yunzhen turned to the first page, and there were many stick figures drawn on it.
A real stick figure, the head is a circle, the body is a line, and the limbs are four sticks.But these funny stick figures were densely written with comments in sharp handwriting, and it looked like they were written by Jiang Zhi himself.
The stick figures are in various poses, some are swinging swords, and some are dodging.
Detailed instructions are marked next to each posture, such as:
“The point of exerting force here is at the waist, don’t trip yourself up.”
“If you can’t beat them, attack the three routes.”
This is a secret book tailor-made for Yunzhen. Detailed notes are written next to each move, and it even predicts the mistakes he may make.
This thing cannot be written in a day or two.The thickness and the comments would have taken at least a year or two to write.
“You…” Yunzhen’s throat was a little blocked, and he felt like the fish was no longer fragrant. “When did you write it?”
“Before.”
“Why have you been ignoring me before?” Yun Zhen was a little angry and glared at the other person, “As if I owe you millions of taels of silver, you put on a bad face every day, but you write this kind of thing to me behind my back? Are you a cat demon? Can a cat demon just ignore people?”
Jiang Zhi was silent for a while.The wind blew his hair, revealing his eyes that were particularly deep in the night.
“You hate cats.”
Yun Zhen was stunned for a moment and tried to recall that he seemed to have indeed said that.It was when he first joined Liuyun Sect, and his senior sister asked him what animals he liked, and he said he liked everything except cats.Because cats are very bad and like to catch birds for fun.
At that time, he had no idea that Jiang Zhi was a cat demon.
“…”
Yunzhen defended, “I don’t hate cats, I’m afraid of cats. Besides, you’re not an ordinary cat, you are… you are…”
You are a cat that can turn into a human, is this the same?
“I’m afraid too.” Jiang Zhi looked at him, “I’m afraid I won’t be able to control it.”
“Can’t control what? Eat me?” Yunzhen asked half-jokingly, “I was a human at that time, not a bird.”
Jiang Zhi admitted frankly: “Sometimes I want to take a bite.”
Yunzhen: “…”
This reason is too real, isn’t it? His second senior brother has been struggling with appetite in the past few years?
This is so scary.
“It wasn’t until that day,” Jiang Zhi took a step forward and stood in front of Yunzhen, “that I was sure that I could control it after killing Lu Ting.”
He didn’t know if he could control the instinct in his blood until he personally killed the man who gave him this desire and cut off that bloodline.
That’s why he was able to take out this book and stand here and say these words.
“Yun Zhen.”
“What…what?” Yunzhen was a little nervous and subconsciously took half a step back, but his wrist was grabbed.
“Don’t be afraid, I will always be with you.”
Yunzhen looked at him in horror: “Second Senior Brother, have you been kidnapped? Are you able to say this?”
Jiang Zhi: “No.”
“Then how did you…”
“It’s written in a book.” Jiang Zhi replied seriously, “There are instructions in the book “Eighteen Styles of Spring Night”.”
Yunzhen: “…”
That broken book actually has this function?Why doesn’t he remember?Aren’t they just teaching how to do those shameful things?
“You…” Yun Zhen stammered, his face red as if he was about to bleed, “Why do you want to read that book?”
“You gave it to me.” Jiang Zhi gently touched Yunzhen’s red ears with his fingertips. The touch was very hot, “Have you forgotten?”
Yun Zhen was speechless. He did like to send things to Jiang Zhi in the past, including all sorts of messy things. He probably got that book mixed in some time.
What a serious mistake this was. With the learning ability of his second senior brother, this was simply shooting himself in the foot!
Jiang Zhi had no intention of letting him go, and said honestly: “The writing in the front is pretty good, but the postures in the back are too complicated and I can’t understand them. Can you?”
Yun Zhen felt like he was burning up.
Shut up!He would rather the second senior brother be mute now.
What does “can you” mean?Is it okay to ask this kind of question casually?
“I can’t! How could I!” Yunzhen shouted.
Jiang Zhi walked forward, and Yun Zhen stepped back.
During the tug, Yunzhen’s foot slipped and he grabbed Jiang Zhi. They both fell to the grass on the river beach.
Jiang Zhi pressed on him, not knowing what he was thinking. He lowered his head and touched Yunzhen’s lips lightly in a tentative way.
It’s very soft and has the aroma of grilled fish.
He tasted it and it seemed good, so he licked it again.
“Aren’t you hungry? Why are you hungry again now?” Yun Zhen started talking nonsense when he got nervous.
“…”
Jiang Zhi ignored his nonsense just a few seconds after the two pieces of skin came into contact.
Yunzhen felt some familiar changes.
The body begins to shrink, the bones begin to reorganize, and feathers begin to sprout.
“Wait…” Yun Zhen wanted to speak, but his voice had turned into a “chirp”.
The person under Jiang Zhi disappeared, replaced by a pearl bird with fried feathers, lying in a pile of clothes with a confused look on its face.
“Chirp?”
Where is my man!
Jiang Zhi maintained the kissing posture, like a stone sculpture.
He kissed a bird, or in other words, he kissed Yun Zhen into a bird.
“…”
“…”
One person and one bird stared at each other with big eyes and small eyes.
After a moment, Jiang Zhi, with a dark face, grabbed the bird, stuffed it into his arms, and got on his horse.
He ran all the way into the inn, kicked open the master’s door without even knocking.
The master was sleeping with his arms stretched out, and he was so frightened by the loud noise that he almost rolled off the bed.
“The money is in the sole of the shoe!” the master shouted.
With a dark face, Jiang Zhi took out the dazed bird from his arms and raised it in front of his master.
The master glanced at the bird, then at Jiang Zhi, and was half awake in an instant.
“Oh,” Master slapped his forehead and suddenly realized, “Look at my memory, I tend to forget things easily as I get older.”
“That formation,” the master rubbed his hands with an innocent look on his face, “has some minor side effects.”
“What?”
“Just… don’t be too emotional.” Master explained, “Once you are stimulated by something, you will change back to your original shape. This is a self-protection mechanism, just like a turtle shrinks its head when it encounters danger.”
Jiang Zhi: “…”
Yunzhen: “Chirp?”
What, do you turn into a bird when you get excited?Then how will he…how will he do those things drawn in the book with his second senior brother?
Could this be the legendary Jade-Keeping Mantra?
The master suddenly came closer, with an extremely gossipy smile on his face, and his eyes glanced back and forth between the person and the bird.
“Second brother, I’m very curious as a teacher. What did you do in the middle of the night? Can you make him so excited?”
Jiang Zhi turned around and left, leaving his master with a cold back.
The master shouted from behind: “Hey! Young people should exercise restraint. The heart of a bird is very small and cannot withstand too much stimulation.”
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The author has something to say: Second Senior Brother: Applying formulas is fast
Bird, you’d better read less messy books!