"How is it? Is there anyone following us?" Yu Shu hid behind an old locust tree. She held the silver pouch and peeked out.
"No, come here." Jing Chen stood at the entrance of the opposite alley and waved at her. Yu Shu quickly jogged over. The alarm was lifted, and she finally dared to take a deep breath. She fanned her ears with her palms.
An hour ago, she and Jing Chen made a lot of money at the Baoren Casino. When they left, a large group of people followed them. At first, they followed them secretly. Later on, it became an open carriage. The two of them walked half a circle around the east side of the city. Just now, they got rid of all the people following them.
"Look," Yu Shu held up the heavy silver pouch in her bosom for Jing Chen to see, and said with a proud smile, "I told you that you could help me. If it wasn't for you protecting me, where would we have gotten so much money?"
Jing Chen smiled noncommittally, thinking to himself, this person really recovered quickly. Last night by the river, she was still listless, but today she was full of energy. That time in the suburbs, she was also like this. She had escaped danger from the tiger's mouth, and the night passed. The next day, when he brought them back to the city, she was already talking and laughing on the way.
He had seen many people in the secular world since he left the mountain. The one in front of him was the one who understood life the most.
"Take it. This is your ten taels plus interest." Yu Shu took out a crumpled banknote and stuffed it into Jing Chen's hand. He didn't refuse. She tugged at her sweaty collar and leaned against the wall. When she touched her face, her hand was covered in black mud. When she smelled the stench of sweat on her body, she felt disgusted. On the other hand, Jing Chen still looked fresh and clean, which made her envious.
Jing Chen unsheathed the two swords on his back and took off his Daoist robe. He flipped it over and put it back on. He covered the black and white stripes of Dao patterns, turning it into an ordinary white robe, concealing his identity as a Daoist priest.
Yu Shu didn't know the function of this Taoist robe until this morning. She didn't notice it when she was washing his clothes.
After catching her breath, Yu Shu straightened her back and patted the money pouch in her arms. She said, "Let's go. We'll see you to the end and send me home. Otherwise, I'll be robbed on the road like a beggar."
Jing Chen nodded and turned to walk towards Lu Xi. Yu Shu followed behind him for a while before she felt that something was wrong. She asked curiously, "Eh, how did you know that my house is going that way?"
Last night, Jing Chen promised to help her by the river, so she went back to Zhao Hui's house alone. In the morning, they met by the river. Logically speaking, Jing Chen didn't know where Zhao Hui's house was, but he was walking in the direction of Zhao Hui's house.
Hearing this, Jing Chen stopped. He turned around and said, "Isn't it this way? Which way should I go?"
Yu Shu was speechless. She thought this person was leading the way blindly. She raised her hand and said, "Let's go. It's that way."
Jing Chen stopped this time. He waited for her to walk in front of him. Then he followed her at a distance. Yu Shu tried to pick a small path. Although there were many people on the street at dusk, no one paid much attention to a little beggar like her. There were many people in Yiyang City. Jing Chen, who was wearing a bamboo hat and holding a sword, didn't care.
The two pretended to be strangers. They returned to the alley of Zhao Hui's house one after another.
When Yu Shu walked to the door, she saw Jing Chen standing a few steps away. She stopped knocking on the door and waved at him. "Come on in. Have some tea and something to eat. You've been hungry the whole day."
Jing Chen shook his head. The gray cloth hanging from his bamboo hat covered his face. His expression couldn't be seen clearly. The setting sun behind him made his shadow elongate.
Yu Shu vaguely felt that something was wrong. She turned around and took two steps towards him. "Master Jing Chen?"
"Xiaoyu, you're home. Let's say goodbye."
As soon as Yu Shu heard this, she felt that something was amiss. It seemed as if they were going to part ways. "Should I look for you tomorrow?" She asked tentatively.
As it turned out, her hunch was right. Jing Chen's tone suddenly turned cold. "You don't have to look for me anymore. We're already fated. There's no need for us to be involved anymore."
Yu Shu immediately understood that Jing Xiaobai was planning to cut ties with her. They would not even be friends in the future.
Lin Yiqian wanted to be angry and laugh at the same time. When she heard that Jing Chen wanted to cut ties with her so easily, she could not help but feel helpless and wronged.
Although in the beginning, she approached Jing Chen with selfish intentions. She did not purely want to use him to learn some Daoist techniques. However, after she found her master, she no longer had any ideas about him.
She ran errands for him and helped him wash his clothes. Later, when she had nothing to do, she would go over to chat with him to relieve her boredom. She would also vent her frustrations at the same time. She had already regarded him as a worthy friend. Jing Chen never showed any impatience. Every time, he would quietly listen to her talk. Occasionally, he would even comfort her.
Even after such a big incident, he was willing to help her. Lin Yiqian had thought that they were already friends.
But after all this time, it turned out that she had been too eager to shave her head. This little bit of friendship, in Jing Daozhang's eyes, was nothing. With just one word, it could be done, and if he said no, it could be gone.
It was too … too frustrating!
Pfft. What fated fate? Did he really think that he was a deity just because he wore a white robe and could fly?
She secretly gritted her teeth and thought for a long time. Finally, she thought of a reason that caused them to be 'destined to be together'. She immediately said in a bad mood, "Hey, are you still angry that I lost the small stone you gave me?"
Last night, she had mentioned the stone. That was why he had turned against her and told her not to look for him anymore. She would never believe that he had nothing to do with the stone. “.....”
Jing Chen's silence further confirmed Yu Shu's suspicions. She pursed her lips and pulled a long face. After a long time, she said with a sullen face, "I'm sorry. I really didn't know that the stone was so important. When you gave it to me, I thought it was just a small toy. If I had known earlier, I would have taken good care of it. How about, how about this? Give me a few days. I'll look for that stone. Maybe I lost my hand and it's still at home. When I find it, you can take back what you said just now, 'fate has come to an end, let's part ways', okay? "
She looked at Jing Chen sincerely, even with a hint of pleading. Seeing that he was still silent, as if he had already made up his mind and there was no room for discussion, she felt a burst of irritation in her heart. The joy of earning enough medical fees disappeared without a trace. Raising her hand to scratch her hair, she said gloomily, "Say something if it's okay or not. If it's really not okay, then just leave. In any case, you're not from Yiyang City and will leave sooner or later. Who knows if you'll remember me in the future."
His eyelids moved. Jing Chen finally had a reaction. He suddenly asked, "Yellowfrost Stone has another name. Do you know what it is?"
Yu Shu shook her head blankly. "What's it called?"
"The Adversity Blocking Stone." Jing Chen sighed. He couldn't help but tell her. Well, it was better to make it clear to her and let her complain.
Adversity Blocking Stone? Yu Shu asked suspiciously, "What do you mean? Can that stone block disasters?"
"Yes. The Adversity Blocking Stone is a treasure of my sect. It was given to me by my master when I left the mountain."
Yu Shu had heard a lot about treasures that could attract good fortune and avoid disasters from Qing Zheng. But she had never heard of the Adversity Blocking Stone. She had never seen it sold in the market.
Yu Shu was puzzled. "Since it is a treasure, why were you willing to give it to me? We were not familiar at that time, right?"
Since Jing Chen had opened his mouth, he didn't intend to hide it from her. He prepared his words and asked first, "Have you heard of the Nine Luminaries?"
Yu Shu nodded hesitantly. Qing Zheng had taught her that the Nine Luminaries were the Sun, Moon, Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Ketu, and Rahu. They were the nine stars that affected the fortune and misfortune of the human world. Once, when they were watching the stars at night, he specially reminded her that Ketu and Rahu were the two most ominous stars.
Jing Chen lowered his head slightly and let the curtain cover his sight. He said softly, "I was born to offend the Ketu Star. It doesn't matter to me, but anyone who is involved with me will definitely get into trouble. The more complicated the fate of the person is, the more serious the disaster will be. If I'm not wrong, you were in danger in the suburbs before, and then you were kicked out of your home. You suffered physical pain and almost lived on the streets, including the disaster of losing money these two days. It's all because of me. " "That day, when I brought you back from the suburbs to the city, I didn't want to be involved with you anymore. But I felt that I was constantly involved. I was afraid that you would have nowhere to go in the future, so I left a place for you to go and let you find me if you needed anything. Later, I saw that you looked ordinary and kind, so I gave you the Adversity Blocking Stone. I thought that with it, you wouldn't get into trouble —"
"Wait, wait!" Yu Shu interrupted Jing Chen. She squinted her eyes and organized Jing Chen's words, trying to find the key point in the chaos.
"You mean … the reason why I've been so unlucky these days is all because I met you?"
She opened her eyes with a tangled face and pointed at Jing Chen's chest.
Jing Chen nodded and quietly looked at her face. He couldn't tell if she was angry or angry now.
Yu Shu licked her lips. She was unwilling to believe that she had been unlucky these days because of Jing Chen. After thinking about it, an idea flashed in her mind. She punched her palm, "That's not right! What you said just now is wrong. According to what you said, I was taken to the suburbs by the group of human traffickers. It had nothing to do with you. I didn't know you at that time. "
"You saw me before that." Jing Chen said.
"How?" Yu Shu thought, Could it be that the previous "her" had seen him?
Jing Chen said, "It was the day you were taken away. On the bank of the river, I was in the plum forest on the opposite bank. You were flying paper kites."
Yu Shu rolled her eyes. "That's because you saw me, okay? According to what you said, you're too powerful. I'll be unlucky just by looking at me?"
Jing Chen shook his head and said lightly, "You saw me too."
"I …" Wait a minute. That afternoon, she and Yu Xiaoxiu went to fly a kite. On the river, she looked at the plum forest opposite for a long time. It seemed, seemed, probably … She did see a white shadow. At that time, she thought her eyes were playing tricks on her.
When Jing Chen saw her widened eyes, he knew that she had remembered.
"That … That shouldn't be the case. We were so far away. I just took a look at you. I didn't see clearly at all. How did I get involved with you?"
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