Traveling through the starry sky just for you, I was a koi in ancient times

Liu Laoshi and his wife each carried a load of firewood. Now they put the load down and lay beside the shaft of the cart, looking at the little nun who was curled up on the cart like a porcelain doll.

"Honestly, I thought someone's mule cart had gotten lost, but it turned out to be a nun."

"Let's go!"

"Honestly, this young master seems to be ill..."

As she spoke, Liu Laoshi reached out her hand to touch Wang Jinyi's forehead. As soon as her hand touched her forehead, she pulled it back as if it had been burned.

"Honestly, this young master is very ill and is about to catch fire. What should we do?"

Liu Laoshi slowly squatted beside the car, rubbing his hands and stammering, unable to speak.

The woman looked at the curled up figure with worry. Seeing that her husband didn't say anything, she took off her coarse cloth vest and silently put it on the little nun.

He walked back to the car, picked up the load, and looked back at Wang Jinyi's pale face in the cold wind.

Wang Jinyi, who was dazed by the fever, shuddered, her eyelashes trembling, and she muttered vaguely: "Chen, Chen Zhiyuan...don't run..."

"Listen, the young master is calling for help."

Liu Laoshi picked up the load and said to his wife, seeing that his wife had already walked forward with the load, he chased after her for two steps, pushed her, and said with determination:

"It's New Year's Day, we can't just ignore it. The biggest one around here is Qingyun Temple, why don't we send it there?"

"Boss, have you thought it through?"

"Didn't you say she was so hot she could make pancakes? If we don't care, she'll freeze to death in this freezing wind!!"

As he spoke, he pulled his wife back, and they both put down their burdens and discussed what to do.

After a moment of silence, the woman made up her mind:

"I'll carry her down the path. You wait here and see if you can sell the firewood or exchange it for something to eat."

"It's not close along the way, I'll give it to you!"

Liu Laoshi handed the hard pancake in his arms to the woman, but the woman blocked it with her hand.

"I'll take a small road and be back in half a day. Take the food! I don't know who owns this car..."

As he spoke, he untied the cotton belt around his waist, squatted slightly, picked up Wang Jinyi and put her on his wife's back, and tied her to her back with the belt.

Then she draped the woman's coarse cloth waistcoat over Wang Jinyi's back. Wang Jinyi was feverish and felt dizzy. In a daze, she gradually felt that her body was not so cold anymore, as if there was a stove in front of her, emitting heat.

She laid her head down comfortably and fell into a deep sleep.

I had barely smoked a pack of cigarettes when I saw a man running towards me on the road, mumbling something. The driver's face was red from the cold. Seeing Liu Laoshi hiding beside the car, he asked,

"What's wrong with this car?!"

Liu Laoshi didn't know how to answer, so the car owner changed his tone and said, "Fellow villager! Have you seen a little nun?"

"I saw it," Liu said honestly.

"That nun caught a cold, so my wife carried her to Qingyun Temple..."

There was a hint of cruelty in the boss's eyes, but he was smiling falsely.

"Thank you so much! This nunnery asked me to take someone to the clinic. I have to find them. Which way did they go?"

As he said this, he pulled the mule onto the official road again. Turning back, he saw Liu Laoshi pointing at the official road:

"He's going that way."

Before he finished speaking, the coachman cracked his whip twice, and the mule rushed out with a whoosh. In a blink of an eye, only the shadow of the carriage was left.

Here, Liu Laoshi braved the cold wind and placed two loads of firewood on the side of the official road.

It is said that the wife was anxious to return as soon as possible. After a while, she left the official road and headed straight for Qingyun Temple along the sheep farm path.

The coachman was anxious to rob the little nun on the road, so the mule cart ran very fast without stopping, and soon passed by the place where Liu Laoshi's wife got off the official road.

The car owner chased madly.

Mrs. Liu Laoshi hurried away.

In order to reach Qingyun Temple faster, she ran downhill, with Wang Jinyi swaying on her back. Finally, she woke up from a sleepy moment.

The broad and warm back gave Wang Jinyi a warm and secure feeling, but the midday sun was so bright that Wang Jinyi couldn't open her eyes.

She asked weakly on her back,

"who are you?"

Liu Laoshi's wife was startled and stopped immediately. She turned her head to look at the little nun and breathed softly:

"I found you on the road and wanted to take you to the nunnery. Is that okay?"

Wang Jinyi tried her best to open her eyes and identify the person who was speaking. When she heard where she was going to be sent, she bit her tongue hard with all her strength. For a moment, she regained consciousness and said forcefully:

"Go to the county town and deliver it to the Taisheng Grain... Shop..."

Wang Jinyi said this weakly and fell asleep again.

This puzzled Liu Laoshi's wife. She had already walked thirty miles of mountain roads. How could she return to the county town?

She panted and found a rock to sit on, panting while thinking about what to do.

Go ahead and cross two more ridges to reach Qingyun Temple. It's another ten miles to Qingyun County. What did the little nun just say? County? Taishengmi? What does that mean?

She didn't understand! But she knew she had to go and come back quickly.

After sitting on the rock for a while, she rubbed her frozen hands, looked up at the sun, and stood up to climb up the ridge in front of her.

I heard from this young master that it would take at least ten miles to get to the county town, so we had to hurry up and get back before dark.

"The boss is still waiting by the official road..."

She muttered something, but her hand unconsciously touched the person behind her.

Wang Jinyi's breath was scorching hot, seeping through her coarse clothes and making her heart feel uneasy.

"That's it, that's all."

She brushed the dirt off her pants, adjusted the strap on her back, and turned down another fork in the road.

Wang Jinyi woke up again in the turbulence.

This time, he barely opened his eyes and saw the woman gasping for breath. She could no longer hold on and leaned against an old locust tree.

Wang Jinyi woke up again,

"Who are you? Where is this?"

Liu Laoshi's wife quickly patted Wang Jinyi, took a deep breath, and soothed her softly:

"Don't be afraid, little master. I'll take you to Qingyun County. I'll take a rest and then we'll leave."

After a short rest, she did not dare to delay any longer and looked for the direction

"Almost there, little master, almost there."

She was breathing heavily and quickened her pace.

Qingyun County is a small town nestled in the mountains. The busiest street in the town is Cross Street, with a few shops dotted along the intersection.

After entering the county town, she asked for a pharmacy and went into various shops to ask:

"Boss, do you know where I can get some Taisheng rice?"

"Too raw rice?"

The guy frowned and said, "Let's go, let's go. What's too unfamiliar or too familiar? Let's go, let's go..."

"It's not about buying food, it's not about buying food." The wife waved her hands anxiously and pushed Wang Jinyi forward.

"There's a young chef here. She said she wants to see Taishengmi."

The waiter took a look and saw that Wang Jinyi was wearing tattered coarse cloth and had a bald head. He couldn't tell whether she was a monk or a nun.

While hesitating, a middle-aged man in a long gown walked out quickly and asked:

"What happened?"

The guy answered truthfully:

"This young master is looking for Taishengmi."

"Oh! Tae Seung is across the way."

He pointed to a small shop outside the door.

"Here, that's the one!"