The Birds Keep Ringing Chapter 28
byChapter 28 Peace (end of text) Yunzhen is in my heart…
Qingzhou is a place to kill one’s will. After staying here for a long time, it is easy for people to forget that they were originally wanted criminals.
Yunzhen has been very busy recently.
His busyness is mainly reflected in two aspects: taking care of children and becoming a real hero.
The so-called taking care of a child means serving the bird spirit named Xiaoxiang.This thing didn’t look much better after it grew hair. The only difference was that it changed from a meat ball to a fur ball.
When Yunzhen was practicing his sword, it was beside him, chirping.
Jiang Zhi formulated a very inhumane training plan for Yunzhen.Since Yun Zhen wanted to learn a sword that could kill people, Jiang Zhi really took it seriously and taught him how to kill people.
Every morning, Yunzhen needs to hold a wooden sword and stab the air five hundred times.
Note that it is a “stab”, not a poke or a random swing. It must be a standard straight thrust. The shoulder must be flat, the elbow must be heavy, the wrist must be straight, and the tip of the sword cannot deviate by more than an inch.
For people with ADHD like Yunzhen, this is simply torture.Let him stand in the same place and do the same action more than ten times, and his soul will have already left his body.
“Four hundred and ninety-eight…four hundred and ninety-nine…five hundred!”
Yunzhen threw the wooden sword away and collapsed on the ground, panting and wiping his sweat, “Second senior brother, I think it’s almost done.”
Jiang Zhi stood in the corridor without raising his eyelids: “Three hundred and twenty-one.”
“You counted wrong!” Yun Zhenli retorted confidently, “The number in my mind is five hundred. Sometimes the movements are too fast and the naked eye cannot keep up. You are not mature enough.”
Jiang Zhi walked over, picked up the wooden sword, and put it back into his hand: “Add two hundred blows.”
Yunzhen looked at his master desperately, trying to seek help.
The master was lying on a wicker chair with a blanket covering his face. When he heard the movement, he opened the blanket a crack and said, “Don’t look at me. If you want to chase people and beat them in the future, just practice hard.”
Yunzhen had no choice but to get up and continue stabbing.
Sometimes he would be lazy, and when Jiang Zhi wasn’t paying attention, he would put Xiao Xiang on the tip of the sword. Xiao Xiang also cooperated very well, and as the sword shook, it made a sound similar to the sound of sword energy breaking through the air. One person and one bird cooperated so seamlessly that he could go to the street to perform acrobatics to cheat money.
Whenever this happens, Jiang Zhi will quietly appear behind Yunzhen, stretch out two slender fingers, and pinch the hair ball away.Xiaoxiang struggled desperately in his hands, but to no avail.
Then, Jiang Zhi stared at Yunzhen without saying anything, just looking at him.
This deep look is more intimidating than any words.Yunzhen knew that this was a silent threat, indicating that if you were lazy during the day, you would be punished at night.
Jiang Zhi took a step closer, pressed against Yunzhen’s back, moved his palms along his waist, and slowly moved up to adjust the height of his arms.
“Straighten your waist.” The voice was in his ear, and his breath brushed against Yunzhen’s neck, “It’s too soft.”
Why does this sound so unserious?
Yun Zhen cursed in his heart, but his body couldn’t help but leaned back and leaned over.
In order to prevent being “bullied” too much at night, Yunzhen had to hold on to the sword and start counting again.Although he knew that no matter whether he practiced well or not, there was a high probability that he would not be able to escape at night.
Days passed, and strangely, the pursuit order was not posted to Qingzhou.
Yunzhen went to the door of the Yamen specifically to see it. Apart from lost and found items, there was not even a portrait on the notice board.
Probably the Lu family changed the cause of Lu Ting’s death to the fact that he ascended during his cultivation for the sake of face. The hypocrite Lu Feng was probably too busy fighting for the family property with his seven aunts and eight aunts, and had no time to deal with these monsters.
The world is like this. You think you have done something earth-shattering, but in a few days everyone will forget about it. People are more concerned about whether the widow next door has remarried, or whether the price of pork has increased.
Except for Yunzhen who was suffering, everyone else was doing well.The food was so good that the fox became plump.
Yun Zhen’s mother changes her way of making soup for everyone every day. Today it’s old hens stewed with mushrooms, and tomorrow it’s turtles stewed with wolfberry.It is said that this is a special supplement. It is difficult to say what supplement it is, and everyone understands it tacitly.
Yunzhen always felt that his senior brother was strange.
He seems to like everything, and he seems to like nothing.Those romantic affairs in the past seemed to have never happened.The fox who fell in love with the one he met and dumped the one he loved suddenly turned into a salty fox who only knew how to eat and sleep, and eat when he slept.
Senior brother is very lazy.In addition to eating and sleeping, he didn’t even bother to change his human form, let alone get involved with women. He just slept on the soft cushion every day, flicking his tail.
I don’t know what I’m thinking, maybe I’m just exhausted.
“Elder brother,” Yun Zhen poked the fox lying on the cushion, “should you lose weight? If you are like this, Mr. Xie won’t be able to recognize you if he comes after you.”
The fox turned over, revealing his round belly, and said lazily: “It’s best if you don’t recognize me. I’m a fox and I don’t wear clothes. What does it matter if I’m fat or thin?”
“You are deceiving yourself.”
The fox yawned: “I have nothing to say to you humans. What’s wrong with being fat? Only you care about other people’s opinions.”
The senior brother turned over and continued to sleep, leaving Yunzhen with only the furry back of his head.
Senior sister really blends in here.She would go to the Salesian Bureau in the city every day to help teach the children how to read and write. The children liked her very much and called her “Sister Wen.”
One time Yunzhen went to watch and saw a little girl holding her senior sister’s skirt and crying: “Sister Wen, I want to go home with you, and I want to marry you!”
Wen Wan knelt down and gently wiped away the little girl’s tears: “Good boy, can we wait until you grow up?”
Little girl: “Then I’ll eat a lot and grow fast!”
Yunzhen was shocked, thinking that the charm of his senior sister had transcended age boundaries.
On this day, everyone was sitting in the lobby of the inn.
It was drizzling outside, as rain always does in the south of the Yangtze River, and it would never stop raining.
Yun Zhen was braiding Xiao Xiang’s hair.Although it had no hair and only had a few dull hairs, Yun Zhen insisted on tying the hair on its head into a sky-high braid.
“Does it look good?” Yun Zhen raised Xiao Xiang in front of Jiang Zhi, asking for praise.
Jiang Zhi glanced at it: “It doesn’t look good.”
“Can you just deal with it?” Yunzhen was a little hurt, “I’ve been waiting for a long time.”
Jiang Zhi decided to comply with his request and said seriously: “It’s not ugly.”
Yunzhen rolled his eyes, turned to his master and asked, “Master, when will we go back?”
“Go back?” Master paused while eating melon seeds, “Go back to where?”
“Liuyun Sect.” Yunzhen said, “Those houses are still there. They are my assets. My father said that real estate is the best store of value.”
The master didn’t speak, his eyes were a little wandering, as if he was looking far away.
“Let’s talk about it later,” Master said vaguely, “We’ll talk about it after the rain stops.”
But the rain didn’t stop.
A few days later, a courier from the inn stumbled in, soaked to the skin.
“The fight is about to begin!” he shouted, “The fight is about to begin!”
Everyone in the inn looked at him, stopped drinking tea, and even Xiao Xiang shut his mouth.
“Where did the fight start?” Someone asked, “Are they Zhang Butcher and Li Tiejiang from the east of the city?”
“Central Plains.” The man gasped, picked up the tea on the table and poured it into his mouth. “The emperor passed away. He seemed to have choked to death from taking medicine. He didn’t even have time to write his posthumous edict. Now several vassal princes are fighting over each other for the chair!”
There was dead silence in the hall, except for the patter of rain.
“What about Xuanping Town?” Yunzhen stood up suddenly and hit his knee on the table, making him grimace in pain.
The postman glanced at him: “Xuanping Town? There was no one there when I passed by. They had all disappeared.”
The melon seeds in Yunzhen’s hand fell to the ground.
They can’t go back.
Yun Zhen suddenly felt sad, a feeling of emptiness, as if a piece was missing in his heart.
“Master…” Yunzhen turned his head, his eyes a little red.
Master is still eating melon seeds.
“Click.”
The master patted the crumbs on his hands and stood up slowly.The wretched old man who always talked about running trains actually looked a little tall and straight at this moment, like a pine tree.
“Why are you crying?” Master glanced at Yunzhen with disgust, “How big of a deal is it worth dropping the golden bean on?”
“But Liuyun Sect is gone…”
“Who said it’s gone?”
The master pointed at them.
“Aren’t they all here?”
The master smiled: “Silly disciple, if the house collapses, it can be rebuilt, and if the hilltop is bald, grass can grow again.”
The master took out the leader’s token from his arms that never left his body. It was actually just a broken piece of wood.He knocked on the table casually, “Qingzhou is not bad. Let’s start from scratch here. This time we won’t call it Liuyun Sect.”
“What’s that called?” Yunzhen sniffed, “The Broken Sect?”
“Eating sect?” Xiao Fenzhi interrupted.
“There is no future.” The master scolded them, “Called the Changsheng Sect. They are dead, but we are still alive.”
Everyone laughed.
In the laughter, the stuff that makes people breathless seems to be much lighter.Yes, as long as you are alive, you can start all over again.
Yunzhen looked out the window, the rain was still falling.This world is big, big enough to accommodate the changes of dynasties and countless joys and sorrows, but also small, so small that only this table and a few people are left.
Under the table, a hand reached out and held his hand with just the right amount of force, neither light nor heavy.
“Chirp!”
Xiao Xiang escaped from Yunzhen’s clutches at some point and flew onto Jiang Zhi’s head, jumping several times in a showy manner.
Yunzhen looked at the stupid bird on Jiang Zhi’s head, the master, senior brother and the smiling senior sister who were grabbing the last piece of snacks.
He held Jiang Zhi’s hand and intertwined their fingers.
It’s late at night, the dew is heavy, and everything is silent.
The inn was closed and everyone had fallen asleep. Jiang Zhi and Yunzhen sneaked up to the roof.
The roof was sloping, covered with black tiles, and very slippery.The two sat down carefully and looked at the dark silhouette in the distance.
“Second senior brother.”
“Yeah.”
“I’ll go practice Qigong early tomorrow morning.”
“Okay.”
“I want to become a very powerful hero, even more powerful than you!”
“Okay.”
“You are not allowed to let me go, and you are not allowed to feel sorry for me.”
After a while, Jiang Zhi said: “Okay.”
Yun Zhen turned to look at him, a little dissatisfied: “Can you say a few more words in the future? Every time it’s okay and um, I didn’t know you thought you could only say these two words, you are so perfunctory.”
The drizzle was gentle and silently wetted his eyelashes. Jiang Zhi’s eyes fell on Yunzhen’s slightly parted lips.He suddenly reached out his hand and gently wiped off a drop of rainwater on it.
“I like it.”
“Huh?” Yun Zhen didn’t react, his eyes widened.
“I like you.” Jiang Zhi repeated, “Zhenzhen, I have coveted you for a long time. From the first time I saw you, you have been mine.”
Like a bewitched baby bird, Yun Zhen leaned over in a daze and pressed a wet kiss on that stern face.
Just when he was about to retreat, a hand clasped the back of his head, instantly pulling him back and deepening the kiss.
I can’t feel anything anymore, and the rain is completely isolated.
Jiang Zhi’s kissing skills have improved by leaps and bounds. He has evolved from a beginner who only knows how to nibble to a master who knows how to conquer the city. He knows how to make every attack long and deep, how to use the tip of his tongue to forcefully open the teeth, hook and grind, and suck the penis.
The raindrops on my face were cold, but my lips and tongue were hot and fierce.
He also knew how to suck all the air out of the opponent’s lungs, leaving Yunzhen to hold on to him tightly in this suffocating feeling that was close to drowning.
Yunzhen’s whole body went limp from being kissed, as if it had also been dissolved by the rain that had been falling for several days. Everything was soaked and turned into a puddle of water, empty and full at the same time, even the bones were so crisp that they had no shape.
After a long time, the lips parted.
His breath was disordered, Yun Zhen gasped for air, his eyes were watery due to lack of oxygen and emotion, and his chattering mouth opened and closed: “You are a sneak attack, you have no martial ethics!”
“Yes.” Jiang Zhi admitted frankly, with a smile on his lips, “A soldier never tires of deceit.”
“…”
Yunzhen no longer had the strength to refute, so she could only bury her face in his neck.
The moon emerged from the clouds, and its silver light was like water, spreading over Qingzhou and shining on the two people who were clinging to each other.
It continues to roll forward, taking away the old dynasty and crushing the ambitions of countless people.
On this small rooftop, everything has just begun.
The war has not reached Jiangnan yet, and it may not reach it.Even if they get burned, they will still be together.
The night wind blew by, and the sound of the watchman’s beat could be heard in the distance, long and slow, passing through the streets and alleys.
“It’s the middle of the night…peace-safe-nothing-”
Peace.
Yunzhen recited these two words silently in his heart and felt that they were the best words in the world.
He smelled the air after the rain and fell asleep.
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The author has something to say: First of all, thank you all for reading this. It is your clicks and comments that make this story more lively and interesting ~
The story is actually very simple. It’s about a crouching tiger, hidden dragon, insane sect, a somewhat reckless and noisy little bird, and a calm, taciturn, cold-faced senior brother. They torture each other, and by the way, make the world uneasy.
For me, it’s about recording the scenes of them jumping up and down in my head every day.There is no logic, just a collection of nonsensical and absurd jokes from hell, and real stand-up comedy performances (.
The rain has stopped and the story has ended, but life goes on.
The journey of Zhenzhen and his second senior brother has just begun, and they will continue to dance like cats and birds in the days to come.
There is still a lot I want to write, and there will be more extras~
ps: Cats and birds really can’t be raised together, protect the little bird [red heart]