River God
Fanghua Complaint: Fireworks are easy to be cold. For whom to bow down
? The night I got married, I was sunk in the river. When
I woke up, there was a river God husband. He had the posture of heaven and man, but he could not see or eat.
Every night I would look at his idol and say I liked him, and finally one night, he couldn’t help it.
“I have heard what is in your heart.”
“What?”
He was serious and awkward: “There is a difference between you and me. Don’t think about it any more.”
I blushed and said, “Do you think because you are a God, you are unattainable?”? If you can’t even hold hands, who wants to miss you?!
1
“The time has come to invite the bride to the sedan chair..”
A high-pitched voice sounded, and then I was thrown on the bamboo raft like a rice dumpling.
The raft drifted along the current, and suddenly the strong wind overturned the raft, and I was caught in the cold river.
The river choked into my mouth and nose, and before I lost consciousness, I felt a pair of hands pulling my wrists.
That hand is bitterly cold, is it the water ghost’s life?
After a long time, I slowly woke up, and what I saw was an enlarged handsome face.
“Ah-”
I screamed, and the “face” was obviously frightened by me, and the body retreated.
I sat up and looked around. “What is this place?”? And who are you?
“Temple of the River.”
I looked at the person in front of me in a daze. He looked like a handsome young man, but his whole body was still shining with silver.
Yes.. You saved me?
“My name is Long Yin, and I live here.” After listening to his words,
I felt a chill down my spine. I grew up
in this village, and I’ve never heard of anyone living in the temple of the river.
Thinking of this, I looked warily at the “man” in front of me. He was different from us. Not only was his whole body covered with silver light, but his hands were so cold when he saved me. Is
it difficult for him to be.
I panicked and struggled to escape. What are
you trying to say by looking at me with this expression? Don’t worry, I’m not a ghost.
I panicked even more. He knew what I was thinking?
He was amused by my reaction, as if he had found a little fun in the dull and repetitive days and thought it was interesting.
He deliberately looked up at the statue of the river God, and I looked up too? It’s kind of like.
I looked at him sharply. “You?”? Can’t you be him..?
Long Yin did not speak, but tore a chicken leg from the tribute and threw it to me. “The inner room is empty. You can live in it. Don’t worry. No one can bully you here.”
This sentence alone made me collapse in an instant.
Yeah, what am I afraid of? Where can I go?
I was a homeless orphan girl, and everyone said that I had killed my parents, so I was looked down upon from an early age.
Later, when I grew up, when I was sixteen years old, the village invited a Dharma Master to pray for rain. After several days and nights of tossing and turning, the rain did not come. Instead, he said that my eight characters were hard, and that there would be a disaster if I stayed in the village.
Later, the villagers and my black-hearted uncle and aunt jointly tied me up and sacrificed me to the river God.
This village has been in trouble for many years, either drought or waterlogging. Now they all pin their hopes on me, saying that if the river God is satisfied with my daughter-in-law, then the village will have good weather from now on.
I looked down at the chicken leg in my hand, and then looked at Longyin, my heart crossed, whether he was a person or a ghost?
He saved my life, which is better than those in the village who killed me. I haven’t had a good life
since I was a child, and I’m the best at understanding the current affairs.
Long Yin is not a human being, but since he has no malice towards me, I am willing to stay here and live on the spot.
I made a place for myself in the temple of the river, just behind the statue of the river.
Without the harassment of the villagers, I also opened up a vegetable plot in the backyard. When I had nothing to eat, I went up the mountain to pick wild fruits and set traps.
He also begged Long Yin to use the silver hairpin I wore when I “got married” to go to the market to exchange money and buy some pots and pans.
Long Yin often appears at my side out of the blue when I am busy.
He frowned as I made the temple of the river look like home.
Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of him looking at me. I was afraid of him, but I had to bite the bullet and look at him.
He was vaguely putting up with me, and finally his attitude was soft, his sleeves disappeared, and I was relieved.
I lived in the Temple of the River for more than two months, and I became more and more familiar with Longyin.
That day, as usual, I went to the backyard to take care of the vegetable garden. Long Yin was half lying in a tree reading a book. I called out to him, “Help me water it.” Under
the scorching sun, Long Yin did not move, but glanced at me, then snapped his fingers, and a small dark cloud came to the vegetable field. The
water poured down from the dark clouds, and the green vegetable leaves grew well.
Long Yin said, “I am a river God, but I am ordered by you to water the vegetable garden every day. It’s ridiculous.” Startled,
I stepped forward to take his hand.
Without waiting for his reaction, I was already burned by the fairy on his body. Holding back the pain,
I withdrew my hand and grabbed him by the sleeve. “Don’t be angry.”
Long Yin did not expect me to be burned like this, but also not afraid of him, the fundus of the eyes across a touch of softness.
“Let go!”
I was stunned. He sighed, “I’m not angry. I’ll get you some medicine.”
I laughed happily.
Since I was a child, no one has ever asked me whether I am hungry or not, whether I am in pain or not. Long Yin is the first one, even if he is not a “person.”.
He is a God who has made a mistake in heaven, and I am an ominous man in the world.
We can’t touch each other. This time I was burned by him. I raised him for a long time.
From then on, Long Yin kept a certain distance from me, and occasionally when I was annoyed, he would allow me to pull his sleeve, which was our most intimate action.
One day, I cooked a meal and set a pair of bowls and chopsticks for him.
“Long Yin, how long will you stay here?”
“I don’t know.”
“And how long have you been here?”
Probably.. Hundreds of years.
He was dressed in white, his whole body was covered with silver light, and he answered me in a faint way.
He was really good-looking, better looking than all the dudes in town, and I watched him in a trance.
I remember the first day I saw him. He pulled me out of the river when I was drowning. At that time, I thought he was a ghost. Now it seems that sometimes ghosts are better than people.
“You are the God of this river. You are in the temple every day. Don’t you have to do anything?”
I think that over the years, the situation here is getting worse year by year. When the harvest is not good, most of the villagers are hungry. Everyone says that the river God is angry.
“This is what they deserve.” Long Yin’s face was expressionless.
I was suddenly frightened, but I shut up when I thought of the bullying and barbarism of those people.
The days passed smoothly. I don’t know if it was because I was sacrificed. Others couldn’t see him at all, but I could.
On that day, I went to the back hill to pick wild fruits as usual, but I was chased and beaten by the villagers.
“You were sacrificed to the river God, but you did not die.”
“Somebody, kill her! The bride of the river God has run away! The river God will punish our whole village!”
“Kill this witch! Kill her!” The strong men in the
village rushed at me with hoes and knives, and I ran into the mountains desperately to escape the disaster. When I
returned to the temple of the river, I was covered in scars. When
Long Yin saw me coming back like this, his face turned black in vain. He said nothing and went out with a calm face.
That night, there was a strong wind and torrential rain in the village, and the houses of the people who hit me were washed away by the water, and the village almost died. After
that night, there were many rumors about the river temple in the village.
I asked Long Yin if he was helping me avenge the thunderstorm that night?
Long Yin told me that no matter what, I was his wife. There’s no one
in the world to protect me. He has to protect me.
I listened to the pain in my eyes, deliberately pulled the corners of my mouth and laughed happily, but tears did not fall down.
Long Yin looked at me, not knowing what to do.
He is so beautiful that he can’t even wipe my tears. After
that day, I cooked for him in different ways every day.
“If you eat alone, you don’t have to think about it.” He never touches the bowl I set for him.
I know that he is a God, and naturally he does not eat anything, but I do not care, because this is my heart.
I just smiled at him and said, “I’d love to.”
I was extroverted and began to tell him about me every day.
For example, when I was a child, I met some strange things, such as how much I sold the Ganoderma lucidum I picked in the market before, and what interesting things I heard in the pharmacy.
Long Yin talks little and only listens but does not speak.
After a long time, he finally talked to me. Only then did
I know that Long Yin had been here for hundreds of years, and I watched him grow up. He knows everything I said, and he even knows a lot of things I don’t know.
For example, my parents who died early were a loving couple. For example, in the village where I lived, someone committed a natural taboo a hundred years ago, so there was a natural punishment.
“When will it be ready?”
“The cycle of cause and effect is the only way to atone for sin.”
Therefore, it is not that offering sacrifices to the river God will bring good weather, but that people are not greedy enough to cause trouble.
Long Yin said this, his face was expressionless. He had seen too much life and death, but I was different.
“Why, you want to help them?” He asked.
I shook my head. “I don’t have feelings for these people.”
If really serious, that only hate, and hatred.
Long Yin looked at me with pity. Rumors about the Temple of the River grew louder and louder
outside. I thought the villagers had been taught a lesson and dared not come again. I had a calm life with Longyin.
I often have a sense of trance that we are really husband and wife, living a day of sunrise and sunset.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and that night the villagers broke into the temple of the river in the dark.
It’s you! You’re a woman who doesn’t know whether to live or die, and you’re married to a river God, and you dare to live!
“The disaster in the village was all because of her. The last time there was an accident in the village, it was because they couldn’t kill her that the river God got angry!”.
The patriarch has calculated that the river God is not here tonight, and we must kill her! Otherwise, when the river God comes back and sees that she is still alive, he will bring disaster on the whole village.
Dozens of them shouted at me, “Kill!”! Kill!
“Scrape her skin, separate her flesh from her bones, and give her to the river God!” I felt
a burst of fear in my heart, and I retreated step by step, struggling desperately.
I told them that I was Long Yin’s wife.
“Don’t you hurt me!”
But no matter what I said, they were all red-eyed.
I had no choice but to shout, “Long Yin!”! Help me!
But when these people heard this strange name, they were as crazy as evil spirits. They smashed it in the temple. The house I decorated was destroyed by them. Only the river God was safe.
I looked at the cold idol on the high platform, crying so hard that I couldn’t help myself, and suddenly I felt sad.
I fought back crazily, knowing that I was outnumbered and no longer tried to reason, and took out the fire I had prepared for a long time.
I opened a corner of the river temple, and they saw several boxes of black powder.
“It’s that kind of thing!”
“If you come forward again, we will die here together.”
The villagers were finally afraid and went crazy and left quickly.
I do not know how long, my side came a voice, I looked like a frightened bird, and saw the dragon Yin standing beside me.
I looked at him with red eyes and could not speak.
Say you don’t blame him? Complaint, but so what? God and man cannot stand side by side.
“What wife? It’s a joke.”
He squatted down and looked at me. “Are you angry?”
I turned my back on him, ignored him, and silently picked up the broken things.
My wrist was hurt, there was a big blood stain, and I was holding something tightly in the mess that I was going to give him.
It was a man’s headband made of white brocade. The way
he looked at me was no longer pity, but pity.
“It’s my fault.”
I was so wronged that tears filled my eyes. I ignored him and let my emotions go. I’m alive
tonight, thanks to what I’ve got.
At that time, I wanted to earn some money to repair the temple of the river, so I heard a passing miner say that I could blow up the mountain to get the ore to sell, so I prepared it. At first
I thought I was bold, but now I’m a little lucky. “I almost couldn’t wait for you,”
I murmured.
Long Yin crouched down in a mess and sat in front of me.
I looked at his beautiful eyebrows and eyes, no longer so distant as a glacier, a little more human fireworks.
“I went out to buy you this.” With a wave of his sleeve,
he had a delicate bronze mirror in his palm. The
mirror reflected my appearance, a beautiful girl of sixteen or seventeen years old. I remembered that I complained to him a few days ago that it was inconvenient to wash in the temple every day. It would be nice to have a mirror.
At that time, I had the cheek to say, “I’m a famous pretty girl from all over the country, but now I don’t even know what I look like.”
“Long Yin.” I looked at him with red eyes, took the bronze mirror and held it in my hand.
I suddenly felt that I had lost my temper so badly that I blushed and put the headband in his hand that I was going to give him into his hand.
“Here you are. Return the gift.” Then he stopped looking at him.
I silently tidied up the things in the temple, and Long Yin couldn’t help laughing.
Long Yin properly put away the headband, got up and waved his sleeve. In an instant, everything was restored to its original state, and no trace of smashing could be seen any more.
“Don’t go out for a few days, just stay in the temple.”
I nodded my head.
He got up to go out again, but I stopped him. “Don’t bother them again.”
His whole body is filled with silver light. The book says that this kind of God is generally of high status. He is afraid that he has made some mistakes so that he is trapped here to practice again.
If he’s guilty, don’t make any more trouble for me.
“I’m not weak and boneless. I only know how to cling to the ladies of my family. I won’t let them bully me.” The
last time I was thrown into the river, it was because.. They drugged me when I was unprepared, and I fell into the trap.
I blushed. “I won’t let them get away with it again.”
Long Yin finally answered me. I got his gift and went to reheat the meal happily.
Since then, there have been more topics between me and Long Yin. When I slept in the temple
at night, I would occasionally look at his idol and say something in my heart that could not be known by outsiders.
Long Yin looked at me more and more wrong, several times to speak and stop.
I don’t know why, but my love for him is growing day by day. Every night before I go to bed, I look at his idol for a long time and don’t speak.
Finally one night, Long Yin couldn’t help it.
“I have heard what is in your heart.”
“What?” There was a boom in
my head.
Long Yin looked at me seriously and awkwardly. “There is a difference between you and me. Don’t think about it any more.” Suddenly
my mind was blank, not only because my girl’s mind was known by him, but also because of his words!
He knew, and he turned me down.
I was sad, but I pretended not to care: “Do you think you are a God, so you are unattainable?”? Although people and gods are different, but I can taste delicious, play fun, people can have seven emotions and six desires, but also can find two people who love each other to sleep together, but you? You can only look at it forever. When I’m with you, I can’t even touch you or hold your hand. Who wants to miss you?
“You don’t have to remind me.” I turned my head stubbornly and looked out of the window.
I felt the temperature drop around me, and Long Yin didn’t speak for a long time.
After waiting for a long time, I finally couldn’t help looking back at him, only to see him standing at the end of the lamp, with the corners of his mouth tightly pursed and his body covered with indescribable loneliness.
He disappeared before me.
From that day on, Long Yin and I were strangers for a long time. I was mine in the temple. He only appeared occasionally for a while, and no longer accompanied me to eat and talk.
That night, Long Yin performed the Dharma in the temple. I was confused, but I deliberately did not ask. After being
busy for a long time, Long Yin finally said, “Tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year. I will leave the Temple of the River for one day. This boundary will protect you. Don’t go out.”
It turned out that he did this to prevent the villagers from hurting me.
I wanted to thank him, but because I wanted to fight for that tone in my heart, I didn’t say anything.
Early in the morning, Long Yin left early in the morning as usual.
I got up to wash when I heard footsteps outside the temple. Bearing in mind Long Yin’s words,
I would never take half a step, so I just looked up.
Outside, it was strange to see a ragged mother-in-law lying under a locust tree in front of the temple, crying out in pain: “Girl, help me!” “What’s the matter with you, old woman?”
I asked warily.
Mother-in-law, I have a sore on my waist, and I’m going to die without a cure. Some people say that there are immortals living in this temple, and they want me to come and worship them. I’m old, and I’ve been walking for three days and three nights, and I really can’t walk any more. Come and help me. As she
spoke, she opened the corner of her coat and showed it to me. It was a big sore and the flesh was rotten.
The old woman cried and said, “Girl, please help me. Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. If the river God were here, he would be willing to help me.”
I am in a dilemma, this is the person who comes to the door in troubled times, the person who believes that Long Yin can save her.
I didn’t go out all the time, and the old woman’s voice became more and more fierce, and finally she even fainted.
I watched helplessly as the frail old woman fell down, and with a pain in my heart, I threw caution to the wind to save people.
“Granny!”
Who knew that as soon as I stepped out of the threshold, many villagers surrounded me.
The first two people who came out were my black-hearted uncle and aunt.
My aunt said, “I haven’t seen you for a few months, but you’ve put on some weight and become more and more beautiful.” I
knew that I had fallen into the trap, and I kept retreating, trying to escape into the temple, but the old woman I had wanted to save leisurely woke up and grabbed my hind legs in the confusion: “Good girl, don’t run away, I’m trying to save you.”
“Help me?” I laughed.
A group of people who tried to kill me several times said they wanted to save me?
I looked at them with a chill in my heart. “I’m just a poor orphan girl. Why do you have to kill me?”
My uncle looked serious. “Why are we going to kill you?”? We’ve come this time for your own good. Since you’re not dead, it means that God won’t accept you. If you continue to live in the temple, you’ll only disturb the peace of the immortals, and the whole village will suffer. You might as well go to the town and enjoy a happy life.
My aunt smiled and said, “It just so happened that Wu yuanwai in the town wanted to buy a concubine. The village discussed it and they all said you were the most suitable.”
I smile sadly, when I am stupid? It was
clear that Wu yuanwai said that as long as a girl was sent to him in the village, he would invest in repairing the well in the village.
Besides, I’ve heard of Wu yuanwai. He’s an old pervert in his fifties. There are dozens of girls who have been tortured to death by him. If I go, there’s no way out.
I was angry and struggled to the death, but they remembered the last lesson and no longer allowed me to escape by stratagem.
I was quickly tied up, and someone even touched me restlessly, and I was red-eyed.
I hit them hard, and the small bronze mirror I carried with me fell to the ground and broke.
Moments later, there was a sudden silver light around.
Long Yin came and I cried. I didn’t cry when I was fighting
with those people, but now I’m looking at Longyin with tears streaming down my face.
Long Yin untied my rope, and I stumbled into his arms. Before he could react, I was burned by Xianze again.
I collapsed on the ground, wiped my tears and cried bitterly.
Long Yin was so sad that he wanted to embrace me but couldn’t. His eyes were terribly cold.
He looked at the fleeing villagers and said, “You go in, and I’ll go into the village.”
“What are you going to do?”
He was silent.
I came to my senses and grabbed him by the sleeve. “We don’t care if they are unkind and unjust, but you must not commit crimes.”
“Do you defend them when they do this to you?”
“Long Yin, it was never them I wanted to protect, it was you!”
I looked up at him with tears in my eyes and said, “If you hurt people’s lives because of this, won’t you have suffered for hundreds of years in vain?”
Long Yin froze in place, and I tried my best to stand up.
“Long Yin, I am in pain.”
My soft and weak appearance made people pity me. He had no choice but to collect the hostility in his eyes and take care of me first.
After this incident, we were no longer angry, and our relationship was the same as before.
I knew that those words had hurt him before, and I would be more careful in the future.
I will always remember the way he wanted to hold me but couldn’t.
“Long Yin, help me clean up the herbs in the courtyard.” In order to make him feel better, I often asked him to do things on purpose. As soon as
he waved his sleeve, all the messy herbs were put on the shelf in an instant.
I laughed and teased him, “You always throw everything away. It’s a lot less fun.”
“Fun?”
I cleared my throat and said, “You see, this is housework, and you have to do it yourself to have fun. There’s also the food you eat every day. I know you immortals only eat morning dew, but the food is full of desire. Isn’t that all fun?” When
he had finished with the herbs, I prepared the meal and set the table for him. “You must taste it today.”
Long Yin could not help chuckling, unable to withstand my hot eyes, really picked up the bowl to eat.
I know he’s just not used to eating, not that he can’t eat.
He looked at me as if I were facing a formidable enemy and looked forward to it, and suddenly he smiled.
“It’s really good.”
Long Yin reached out his hand and touched my head.
I raised my eyes and bumped into thousands of tender eyes in his eyes.
…… In order to protect me,
Long Yin cast a spell on me directly.
If someone had evil intentions towards me again, the magic would rebound to protect me. Later, on the first day of each month, Long Yin simply took me away when he left.
Although I still don’t know what he is going to do on the day he leaves every month, I only know that he sends me to the inn in town on the morning of the first day of every month.
He went on errands, and when he came back, he accompanied me to the nearby market.
I obviously found that there were more smiles on Long Yin’s face, and people were no longer so cold.
I always like to look for new things to make him laugh, and sometimes he can’t keep his face straight, so he falls from the immortal in the sky to my husband in the world. After
a long time, I became more and more greedy to be with him, although I could only hold his sleeve and could not do anything.
I knew that there was a gap between man and God, so I hid my mind tightly and never let him know again. The fifteenth day of the
first lunar month is the Lantern Festival in the mortal world. Long Yin and I did not go back to the Temple of the River
this day, but stayed in the town for the Lantern Festival. Pedestrians on the
street in a hurry, thousands of lights, I touched Longyin’s hand through my clothes.
Long Yin looked down at me, our two lines of sight collided, my heart jumped on the trace of sour. It’s a good time in
the world, the person I love is around, but I can’t do anything.
I pulled my hand back, but he grabbed me.
Through the sleeve, I felt his hand was very cold, cold to the bone.
At night, Long Yin and I stayed at the inn. After he settled down, he would disappear. I pulled him.
“Long Yin, I’m afraid.” What are you
afraid of?
I kept silent for a long time before I said, “I’m afraid you’ll be separated from me.”
“I was walking with you today, and I saw the lights of thousands of houses, and suddenly I thought of this.” I looked at the side of his face and said, “You are a God who will not die for thousands of years, but I am a mortal whose life span is only a few decades.”
Long Yin doesn’t speak.
I stared at the top of the bed in a daze. “Long Yin, do you think mortals can become immortals?”
Long Yin turned to look at me and tucked me in the corner of the quilt.
“It’s getting late. Go to sleep.”
I curled my lips, knowing that I was dreaming. After
that night, although I didn’t say anything, I began to think of ways secretly.
For example, whenever there is a market, he looks for people to find out all kinds of ways to practice, and tries to deal with the prodigals and talented people, but unfortunately most of them are swindlers.
I saved some money and was cheated out of it. I hid all
these things from Long Yin.
Later, I went to the Lantern Festival with Long Yin several times, and each time I fell asleep unconsciously, and when I woke up again, I had returned to the Temple of the River. When I went out
these times, I felt the coolness on Longyin’s fingertips getting heavier and heavier.
In the evening, Long Yin and I were having dinner when suddenly a man came to the front hall.
Ripples? Are you really here?
I looked at the man in a daze, and surprise flashed across his face: “Is it Sung Wen’s brother?” Didn’t
you go to Beijing to take the exam? Why are you back?
“I passed the exam, and this time I came back to take my parents to Beijing.”
I was so excited that tears came to my eyes.
Song Wen and I are childhood sweethearts. When I left home three years ago, I went to see him off. He said. He will come back to pick me up after high school.
Song Wen held my hand tightly. With a
bang, Long Yin deliberately dropped the chopsticks in his hand, and I was startled.
Song Wen: “What’s the sound?”
I looked at Long Yin and realized that he was unhappy. I suppressed a smile and said, “There’s no sound. It’s probably a mouse in this temple.”
I deliberately changed the subject: “Congratulations, brother Sung Wen, high school. When will you leave?”
“Ripples, it’s us. You come with me. I’ve come to pick you up this time.”
“Pick me up?” I don’t take seriously the promises I made when I
was young and ignorant.
Song Wen has a bright future, and I have already married Long Yin, not to mention. I like Longyin.
Song Wen waited anxiously for me to answer.
“Boom, boom..” There was a sudden flash of thunder and lightning
outside. I turned to look at Long Yin. He was fiddling with his sleeve, pretending that nothing had happened.
Long Yin has always been cold, and this is the first time I have seen my emotions exposed.
My eyes were full of smiles, as if I had never experienced the interest of husband and wife.
“I’m fine here. I’m not leaving.” I said to Song Wen. When I
said this, I quietly looked at Longyin, whose eyebrows relaxed, and then fell into another deep.
I pushed Sung Wen to leave, but he still refused to give up. “Lianyi, don’t worry. I’ve already told my parents about you. Just get your things ready. I’ll pick you up in three days.”
Song Wen did not allow me to refuse, leaving these words, directly out of the temple gate.
Back at the dinner table, Long Yin’s face darkened, and I smiled happily at him. “I didn’t expect that we could produce a pillar of talent in this remote place.”. Long Yin, if we have a child in the future, I will also let him study, and when he grows up, he will work for the well-being of the people and make some achievements.
Long Yin: “Child?” I had
a meal on my hand, and my smile froze on my face.
I suddenly remembered that Long Yin and I could not have children, and we could not even hold hands.
I shook my head and said, “You’re kidding. You know I hate children the most. They can break the world when they cry. The vegetables in my yard have also been eaten by them.”
“You go.” Long Yin interrupted me.
Go? Where shall I go?
“Go anywhere and live the life that belongs to you.”
Long Yin got up to go, and I quickly grabbed his sleeve.
Long Yin looked down at me and said, “You don’t belong here. You have to leave sooner or later. It’s time for you to leave.”
“I’m not leaving. I’m your wife.”
“Shit, my wife!”
Long Yin suddenly gave a low roar, and the food on the table trembled.
I was frightened by his anger, the top of the skull, the pressure hit, the mortal body can not stand the pressure of God, nosebleeds drop by drop.
Yeah, what kind of couple are we?
He is a God, I am a man, and we can do nothing but eat at the same table.
No skin-to-skin contact, no reality of husband and wife, how can there be such a couple in the world? I
have been stubborn since I was a child, and no one can change what I believe.
I looked at Long Yin and said, “I don’t like Song Wen anymore. I won’t go with him.”
At night, I stared at the river idol again before I went to bed.
I won’t talk to him, and he won’t talk to me anymore.
When I fell asleep, I felt Longyin coming to me.
I opened my eyes and reached out to touch him, but as expected, I was burned by him.
Long Yin looked at me in the dark and said, “Be obedient. I can’t give you anything. You will only bring danger to yourself if you stay here.”. No one can see me. What you do here is a madman in the eyes of the villagers.
“So what?” It is impossible for a
man to live his whole life without fear of the world. You’re a woman. Don’t you want to get a good reputation? Can
fame be a meal? What about women? Should women in this world live on fame?
I know that because of the protection of Longyin, others can’t hurt me, and people outside are more afraid of me, demonizing me, discussing how to catch me all day, but so what?
“I only know that I will treat anyone who treats me well. Since I am willing to take you as my husband, I will spend my whole life with you in this temple of the river.”
“Ridiculous!”
I said angrily, “Don’t always think about pushing me out. What if I follow Sung Wen? I can’t be an official’s wife. I’m not made for this.”
The dragon sings and sighs silently.
“Ripple, if you stay here, I will be distracted to take care of you and protect you. You will only delay my spiritual practice.”
I looked up at him suddenly.
He said so many words I do not believe, only this sentence, I believe.
He is here to complete his spiritual practice and return to the Heavenly Palace, and I will only delay him.
Long Yin no longer looked at me, pinched a decision, the figure slowly became shallow.
“Go to sleep. I’ve been out on business for a few days and I won’t be back.”
Long Yin left and really didn’t come back for two days.
Three days later, early in the morning, Song Wen came as promised.
I opened the door alone, and Sung Wen looked at me with a smile. “Let’s go.”
I followed him to the dock at the entrance of the village with a heavy heart.
Sung Wen is particularly happy: “The weather is really good today, and it’s really a rare warm and sunny day.”
I looked up at the sky. It was blue and there was no wind.
“It’s hot and stuffy. Where is it good?” I suddenly felt some pantothenic acid in my heart and deliberately looked behind me, but I still couldn’t see the figure of Longyin.
Song Wen stood on the boat and called to me, “Ripple, the boat is about to sail. Come on up.”
He held out his hand to me, and I hesitated for a moment, but handed it to him. Instead of boarding the boat,
I handed over the package in my hand.
Song Wen looked at me in surprise. “Ripples?”
“I planted all this food with my own hands. Uncle Song and Auntie are the few people in the village who are kind to me. These are my thoughts.”
Sung Wen threw down the bundle and jumped off the boat. What are you doing? Not for you to come with me?
I smiled and shook my head. “I just came to see you off. I won’t go with you. My husband is here.”
When Sung Wen heard the word “husband,” his face changed.
I urged him, “It’s getting late. Hurry up.”
I turned around and almost trotted all the way back to the river temple.
Sure enough, when I pushed open the door of the temple, I was looking at Longyin.
He was squatting down to take care of my vegetable plot, and when he saw me, he looked stunned.
“You?”
I know. He wants to ask me why I came back.
I gasped and smiled at him. “I’m afraid of the water. I can’t go by water.”
Long Yin looked at me, and I said with a smile, “This time my bamboo horse has run away. You’ll have to take me in for the rest of your life.” The two of
us looked at each other, and there was an indescribable softness in Long Yin’s cold face.
I rolled up my sleeves, took the bucket from his hand, and skillfully watered the vegetables I planted.
Everything was as usual, as if I had never had Song Wen to pick me up.
I deliberately asked him, “Don’t you know magic?”? Why did you use a bucket to water it just now? Is it so hard for that?
He did not speak. After a long time, he looked down at me and said, “Maybe I want to feel the hardship of your daily work.”
“Hiss..” Long Yin finished, a light hum.
“What’s wrong with you?”
“Nothing.”
He pretended as if nothing had happened, and when I pressed him, he said, “I have to rest for a few days because of the recent spell transition.”
I was angry with him for not taking care of his body, but I felt vaguely uneasy.
Long Yin looked at me seriously and said, “Ripple, I gave you a chance, but you refused to leave. Don’t regret it in the future.”
“I will never regret it!”
Thinking of the torment in my heart these days, I scooped up a ladle of water and poured it on him.
The two of them frolicked, and Long Yin could not dodge. Most of the brocade robe was wet, but he just let me be happy, as if he had given me all his tenderness.
I stared at him.
I found that Long Yin changed, he became no longer cold, no longer so unworldly.
He seemed to have seven emotions and six desires, but he hid them so deep that he hid them from himself.
That night, there was a sudden strong wind around.
I moved and woke up with a start.
This village is only like this when Long Yin is angry. What happened today?
Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly there was a flash of strong light, followed by thunder and lightning into the temple.
I got up and went out. Long Yin was not there. There was a man standing outside the temple of the river.
“Brother Sung Wen?”
Song Wen, regardless of speaking, only took my hand and took me out.
I broke away from his hand and said, “Brother Sung Wen, what are you doing?”
“I’ve invited a famous doctor from Beijing, and I’ll take you to see a doctor.” “I’m not sick. What’s wrong with me?”
I struggled to break free of Sung Wen’s hand.
I felt vaguely that something was wrong. As soon as I broke away from Song Wen, several other people rushed in from outside in the rain.
“Mad dog disease is rampant outside, and there are already a few people like this. The symptoms are all topsy-turvy talk, the idea of getting promoted and making a fortune, and a very few like you, who always feel that there are people around them.”
Song Wen was anxious and tied me tightly, and I struggled harder.
In a hurry, Sung Wen shouted at me, “Ripples!”! Don’t be stubborn. You’re already infected with this madness. How can you not see the disease?
It turned out that Song Wen did not force me to go with him that day because he had already decided to do so.
He thought I was sick, suffering from hysteria.
He’s all for me, but I’m not sick at all!
“Long Yin!” Just when I was helpless and helpless, there was another burst of thunder. The deafening
thunder resounded through the temple of the river.
Someone called Song Wen, “Lord Song!”
Song Wen immediately looked at the bright place, he could not see the people in the thunder, only vaguely felt a burst of pressure.
I said to Song Wen, “My husband is back.”
“Lord Sung, this place is too weird to be trifled with!”
They looked at me like a demon and dragged Song Wen away, not letting him take care of me, a crazy woman.
Suddenly, there was a flash of white light in front of my eyes, and a thunder came towards me, and then a man fell out of the void, protecting me tightly.
“Long Yin?”
The man was covered in blood and extremely weak. At the end of the
thunder, I heard Long Yin’s weak voice: “It’s all right. Don’t be afraid.”
It turned out that the thunder tonight was Long Yin crossing the robbery. In order to protect me, he hurried out.
Finally, the thunder struck me, and he was seriously injured in order to protect me.
Long Yin’s wound took a full year to recover in the temple of the river. Since then, no one has dared to set foot in this place again. People around him even think that the river God is an evil God.
Song Wen, as a parent official, had a personal encounter here, and the identity of Longyin Evil God was completely confirmed. The faith and worship of the
world are completely broken.
After recuperating, Long Yin asked me, “Ripple, have you thought about the future?”
“Later?”
Long Yin knew that my life was getting harder and harder now. He looked at me with pity and said, “You should always plan for your future.”
“My future is you. I want to be with you all the time. I’m here. I’m not going anywhere.” When I
said this, I fixed my eyes on Longyin and let him see my determination.
“Silly girl.” Long Yin chuckled.
Days in the light of moving forward, I do not know why, the village began to gradually favorable weather.
I asked Long Yin if he had done something again? He only said that the opportunity had come.
One day, when I sewed his new clothes and wanted to change them for him, I found that there were many scars on his back, some of which had just healed. The
day thunder’s wound already healed, where did these new wounds on his body come from?
“It’s just spiritual practice. It doesn’t matter.”
Long Yin explained lightly.
I do not understand, he left me in addition to one day a month, the rest of the time with me, how can there be such a serious injury?
Long Yin comforted me, “Don’t think so much. Things in this world are always like this. You have to give whatever you want. It’s fair.”
I understand that maybe this is the only way for Longyin to practice.
Two years later, on my twentieth birthday, Long Yin gave me a big gift. He took me to the town to watch the fireworks. When the
fireworks dispersed, Long Yin suddenly took my hand. For the first time,
our skin touched, not through our sleeves.
I was shocked: “Your fairy did not hurt me?”
Long Yin smiled and touched my face. “Are you happy?”
I nodded and wept with joy. How did
you do that? Have you made progress in your cultivation?
Long Yin nodded. “Yes.”
He stood side by side with me, holding hands, and we finally looked like a real mortal couple.
Long Yin had a light in his eyes. He looked at me and smiled, “It’s really worth it.”
“What?”
“It’s nothing. People often say that a smile is worth a thousand pieces of gold, but it’s true.”
“That’s about beauty. I’m not.”
Long Yin stared at me for a moment and said, “My wife is very beautiful.”
Later, I learned that there are rules in the sky.
Long Yin wants to taste the ups and downs of life with me, but how can people and gods fall in love?
If he wanted to be close to me, he and I would be punished by heaven. Long Yin could not bear to involve me, so he only wanted to touch my skin. With this request
alone, he will be punished by thunder every month. The wounds on
his back were his unspeakable feelings. When
I was secretly pleased, I didn’t know that he had paid a great price for it.
In this year, there was no offering at all in the temple, and there was very little incense.
Long Yin I do not know if it is because of this reason, the power gradually empty, even the dark clouds can not easily summon, I also have some of their own ideas.
I learned to weave cloth for money to keep up my expenses, and at the same time I adopted some children, orphans who had no one to depend on.
Orphans and widows live a harder life when there are more people.
Long Yin did not understand why I did so and quarreled with me several times to persuade me to send the children away.
When I refused, he pulled a face.
On one occasion, in order to earn more stuttering for my children, I went into the mountains to look for Ganoderma lucidum and nearly fell off the cliff. Long Yin finally caught fire with me.
“Long Yin, people are always going to die. I don’t want you to be lonely when I’m gone in the future.”. Besides, now that the temple has cut off the incense, what must I do to renew this merit for you?
My words stopped Long Yin, and he stared at me.
I turned my head away stubbornly.
Behind him came a sigh from the dragon.
I went on to say, “I raised them, and they are your children. When they come back to see you after a hundred years, it will be as if I were with you.”
He never dies, but I will grow old. If there is someone who will accompany him instead of me, it will be life after life.
Long Yin finally stopped making trouble with me because of the children. Not only that, he also planned for the children for me. Through my mouth,
he taught the children to read and write, and taught them the way of managing the world.
Time flies, and in a twinkling of an eye, the children have grown up, and finally, as I wish, all of them are promising.
On this day, the children in Beijing came back to see me and wanted me to move out of the river temple. As soon as
I sent them away, Long Yin came back from the outside.
Long Yin looked at me, who was no longer young, with pity in his eyes. “It’s rare for these children to have filial piety. Even if you don’t go to live there, you should go out with me to relax.”
I shook my head, and Long Yin sighed helplessly. Knowing that I was stubborn, he did not persuade me.
I know Long Yin has been trying to get me out of this river temple for so many years, but he’s here, and I don’t want to go anywhere.
I thought the days would always be so peaceful, until one day I saw in the mirror that I had a lot of wrinkles around my eyes and white hair on my temples.
I am old, but Long Yin is still the same.
I finally know that there is always a natural barrier between man and God.
In those days, I was unhappy and full of worries. Whenever I looked at his still handsome and young face, I felt sad. We
used to stand together as a pair of people, but now we stand together again, more like an old woman with a handsome son.
Later, all the bronze mirrors at home disappeared, and when Long Yin appeared in front of me again, his temples were white and his face was old.
I laughed and laughed and cried, and cried and laughed.
He said, “I can’t be with you forever, but I can be with you when you grow old.”
Even if this is only a mirror, but the husband so, I have been satisfied. One morning,
ten years later, I was sitting in the courtyard, leaning against Longyin.
Long Yin was afraid I would catch cold and wanted to carry me into the room. I tugged at his sleeve and said, “It’s a nice day today. Let me sit down for a while.”
“Come back later in the afternoon, when the sun is warm.”
I shook my head and said, “Long Yin, a few days ago the children said that they had built a well and a dam for the village. I want to go and have a look.”
“Good.”
Now my sons and daughters have made a fortune doing business in the capital and come back to benefit the village. I am very gratified.
Once upon a time, people said that the Temple of the River was an evil temple. Later, seeing that the children who came out of the temple were the top students in high school, all of them were outstanding, it was renamed the Temple of the River with outstanding people.
Now my reputation in the village is high.
Recently, the children offered to let me go to the capital to retire, but I refused.
I said to them, “This is my house, and where shall I go when my husband is here?”
The children had never seen Longyin, but felt that I had become more stubborn in recent years and that hysteria had become more serious.
Nevertheless, they still depend on me.
I went out with Long Yin, and now my body was getting worse and worse, and I was panting badly after a few steps. The
sun shines on my face and makes me warm.
I suddenly felt sleepy, so I found a place to sit down and said, “I’m really old, and after a while I’m sleepy again.”
Long Yin turned sideways and asked me to lean on him. “Where are you getting old?”? You are still young.
I looked at Long Yin, who seemed to be more than ten years older than me. I smiled. “You don’t understand. I’m afraid I’m going to leave you.” It
was a long time before he talked to me, and all he talked about was things in the village.
“The village has changed a lot in recent years.”
“Yes, after the children have built a charity hall, they want to build a school so that the children in the village can study.”
“They also built dikes and dams, accumulating a great deal of merit.”
“This is all their promise.”
“Your mother taught you well.” Long Yin said.
Somehow, I felt a little sad and held Long Yin’s hand tightly.
I am no longer the stubborn and clever woman in those days, and now I move slowly, and I can’t hold him.
He raised his hand and stroked my hair, just as he had done in the past. Suddenly my eyes were a little wet. “Long Yin, after I die, I don’t need to set up a grave. Burn me and scatter me in the wind. I want to be with you all the time.”
“Long Yin, after I leave, you must practice well and try to leave as soon as possible.”
Long Yin, my life is too ordinary and too short. I can’t stay with you till the end.
Maybe my life is just a drop in the ocean for him, but this is the best and most precious thing I can give him.
“In the future, no one will ask you to help grow vegetables and cook together, no one will be angry and let you take you to the lantern club to watch the fireworks, and no one will be as noisy as I am.”
Long Yin did not answer me, but gently took me into his arms, as lenient and indulgent as when he was young.
“Long Yin, do you think we will meet again?”
“Yes.”
I smiled, in fact, I know, goodbye. I can’t.
“Long Yin, I’m sleepy..”
Long Yin’s voice choked with sobs: “Sleep for a while if you’re sleepy. I’ll take you home later.”
“Good..”
I slowly closed my eyes. According to
later generations, there was a heavy rain that night, and the century-old Temple of the River collapsed with the heavy rain. People in
the village say that the gods in the temple have returned to their positions, and the weather here will be good from now on.
There are also people who say that God moved the mortal heart, lost his wife, and ended his spiritual practice in this way. What is
the truth, who knows?
In the coming year, the warbler will fly and the grass will grow, and the temple of the river, which once offered sacrifices to young girls, will eventually dissipate in the world.
I am the God of atonement in the world, and I control one side of the village, but the weather is not good here. It
is said that because the people in the village are used to doing immoral things, they are punished by heaven.
When I first saw the ripples, it was the day she was born.
It was a night of Lunar New Year’s Eve. The street market was noisy and thousands of families were reunited, but there was a couple lying in front of my temple covered in blood.
The husband was seriously injured by the bad guys and died at the gate of the river temple. The wife also had fetal gas and died after giving birth to a baby girl.
I still remember that the woman held her breath, named her daughter Ripple, and then asked my idol to bless her child to live.
To tell you the truth, a man of practice like me has long been used to seeing life and death, and it is difficult for me to feel compassion.
So for the next sixteen years, I only occasionally went to see the ripples.
She grew up in her uncle’s house and lived a life of beating and scolding.
I don’t want to care too much, thinking that they are relatives, the worst is just so so, but I never thought that they were black-hearted enough to use her to sink the river. When I came back
that day, I saw a red coat floating and sinking in the river. When I picked it up, I saw ripples.
This girl is lucky, after all, she has recovered. I left her in the temple of the river, at least I can protect her safety.
I thought she would be afraid of me, but she lived a good life in my temple.
And then, after all, I sank into my heart first.
We were together for decades, and finally I watched her die in my arms, her face old, as if she had fallen asleep.
I followed her wishes and scattered her in the wind. A night of heavy rain knocked down many orange apricots in the yard.
In fact, I have already completed my merits and virtues.
It was on that rainy night that the temple of the river, which had sheltered her all her life, collapsed.
……
I traded hundreds of years of merit for an encounter in the afterlife.
In this life, she and I were born in a famous family, peaceful and prosperous times, the children of an aristocratic family, white jade for the hall of gold as a horse.
We knew each other when we were young, and I protected her and accompanied her to grow up freely. In the third year after
she died, we had a very lively wedding. The royal family gave her a gift, and the prince Taifu personally hired her for me. On
the wedding night, I was dressed in a wedding dress, and I lifted the handkerchief with a wishful rod. Under the handkerchief, her eyes were shining, and she asked me with a shy smile, “Husband?”
In this life, I finally seek a fulfillment.
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Author: Yunbin Huayan
Record No.: YX01VmYJ9oaMgq9rR
Princess Wanfu
Fanghua Complaint: Fireworks Are Easy to Be Cold, For Whom to Bow Down
, Fat Da Feifei, etc.
