Priceless: A widow with a baby asks the prince to marry again

"At that time, there were not as many people as there are now, and I was the only stall here, so I was the only one who saw it that day."

The stall owner had his wish fulfilled at the Baitian Temple in his early years, but he felt that it was difficult to worship the gods. It just so happened that he had the skill to make noodles, so he set up a stall here. It was a way to make a living and he also wanted to sell bowls of noodles and bowls of noodle water.

"That day I was sitting by the stall and saw the young man from afar, coming from the official road in the south, kneeling every three steps and knocking every nine steps. He seemed to be begging without knowing anything... He was wearing a thin piece of coarse cloth, with nothing to pad his knees, and his pants were already worn out by the time he got here."

"His knees were bruised, his forehead was bruised... He was much more pious than some of the pilgrims today. I think he was able to fulfill his wish because he was so sincere."

Liu Rusi's eyes could not hide the pain in her heart. She thought about the road they had taken this morning. Although the team was not moving fast because of the infantry, if they had to kneel and kowtow all the way here, they would probably have to endure for several days...

He doesn't know anything yet. Maybe he hasn't prepared anything and brought any food or drinks for the trip?

"Does the shopkeeper know what the young man wants?"

The stall owner smiled with a little pride: "The boy didn't want to say it at first, so I told him that Baitian Temple doesn't care about anything that won't work if you tell him. Instead, you have to say that what you come to Baitian Temple to ask for is just an opportunity. Maybe the person you meet on the road is the opportunity."

"What the store owner said makes some sense!"

"Hehe, this is what the temple master said, but he is just repeating what others said."

"Shopkeeper, please continue to tell us what the boy's wish is!" Someone was eager to hear the story.

The stall owner coughed and continued, "Young man, his only relative is seriously ill, and he came to ask God to leave him a relative."

Everyone understood after hearing this. Isn't this what they were striving for?

Liu Rusi knew it very well. Qin Lie had told her that ten years ago, it was the early rice harvest season.

Qin Lie and his grandmother were the only ones left in the Qin family. They had three mu of land to harvest. Actually, Qin Lie could have finished the harvest by himself if he worked harder. But his grandmother couldn't bear to see him busy alone and insisted on going to the fields to help him harvest. Qin Lie had no choice but to speed up and harvest more so that his grandmother could harvest less.

But that's what happened. My grandmother got heatstroke after the harvest. It wasn't just a mild heatstroke. According to Liu Rusi, it should be called heat stroke... Her body temperature rose but she didn't sweat. Her consciousness was a little fuzzy. She didn't fall into a coma, but she had a headache, felt unwell, and felt weak all over. She fell ill in bed all of a sudden.

Qin Lie immediately went to ask for help from the doctors in the city. Those doctors had average medical skills to begin with, and were even more troublesome when it came to heat stroke, which was a very troublesome disease even in modern times. However, he had never heard of any famous doctors within a hundred miles, so he had no other choice.

Several doctors in the city were invited and prescribed medicine, but the patient did not get better and became increasingly weaker. A few days later, the doctor even told Qin Lie to prepare for his death...

Qin Lie didn't tell her that he came to worship and pray, he just said that his grandmother had been lying in bed for more than half a month and finally passed away.

"What happened next? When did the boy come to fulfill his vow? Did his relative recover from his illness?" someone asked.

This is also what Liu Rusi couldn't understand. Her grandmother had clearly passed away, so why did Qin Lie come to fulfill his vow?

The stall owner sighed and said quietly, "He was no longer a teenager when he came to fulfill his vow. He came six years ago and he knelt every three steps. He already looked like a mature man... His relative's illness was not cured and he died that year."

"Why are you here to fulfill your vow when your relative's illness hasn't recovered yet? Moreover, several years have passed, why are you here suddenly to fulfill your vow?" One of the listeners looked excited, but also looked aggrieved. He was so pious, but God did not grant the young man's wish!

The stall owner sighed again: "The boy... I'll call him the boy. He said that when he decided to guard the border for the rest of his life, a girl suddenly bumped into him. The girl was in trouble, and he could help her if he stayed. The girl was beautiful and sympathetic, so he stayed."

"What does this have to do with what you are asking for?"

"Don't be impatient! Listen to me slowly!" The stall owner soothed her and continued, "At that time, the girl asked the boy if he was willing to marry her. The boy knew that the girl was desperate, but he had been lonely for a long time and was still moved. He was willing to do everything he could to make it come true."

"Sincerity can move stone, and the girl was not stone-hearted. Two years passed quickly, and the girl stayed with the boy, and they officially became husband and wife. But that day, the boy learned something and was shocked to find that the girl was another relative sent by God. The boy was grateful for the gift from God, so he came to fulfill his wish."

The stall owner paused, and the listener quickly asked, "What did the young man know?!"

"I don't know either. The boy doesn't want to say." The stall owner also felt regretful and wanted to know what happened.

And Liu Rusi, who was among the listeners, had already raised her hands to cover her face, and there was a faint wetness between her fingers. She knew it.

When she was fifteen years old and came of age, Qin Lie organized a special formal wedding banquet, helped her prepare a dowry, and completed the three books and six ceremonies that she had not done before. She knew that this was a real marriage in Qin Lie's eyes, and she readily agreed.

On the day of the wedding banquet, Liu Rusi felt that she was too young to spend the bridal chamber, and Qin Lie agreed to wait until she was eighteen years old. He was very determined, and the two of them lay in the yard in their wedding dresses and looked at the stars.

Two years, no, it was even earlier, Liu Rusi had complete trust in Qin Lie, because he was too sincere. Up to now, when she thought about it, Qin Lie had never told her a lie, at most he would remain silent if he didn't want to.

Qin Lie is so good that Liu Rusi is sure that he is her soulmate, and even thinks that it is not bad to exchange 10 million for such a life...

So on that starry night, she told Qin Lie why she changed her name when she arrived at his house, told him what kind of world she came from, and told him about her past before she met him...

That night, Qin Lie couldn't help but hold her hand tightly. There were many things in his eyes, but all Liu Rusi could tell was that he hoped she would stay.

So she smiled and said that she didn't want to go back either, because she was not living well in that world.

A month after the wedding, Qin Lie told her that he was going out for a few days. It turned out that he was here to fulfill a vow...

No wonder his forehead was bruised and scratched after he returned. He said it was caused by hitting the ground. She found it unbelievable at the time, but she didn't expect it to be true.

The audience at the noodle stall were either puzzled or sighed, while some seemed to understand and said, "It is rare to find true love in life. It is indeed a rare blessing to have a lovely wife to accompany you. It is not what you ask for, but it is what you want."

"What a great story this store has! Today's bowl of noodles is totally worth it!" One listener clapped his hands excitedly.

The stall owner smiled mysteriously and said, "I haven't finished yet!"

Everyone was confused, and Liu Rusi also looked at the stall owner through her fingers. Isn’t the wish-fulfilling process over?

"The boy is here to fulfill two wishes!" the stall owner exclaimed in surprise.

The audience was all shocked. Fulfilling a vow twice! This was really unheard of, at least they had never heard of it.

"Four years ago, the boy appeared again, kneeling every three steps. I was curious when I saw him, but he was smiling."

"The boy said that the last time he made a wish, it was also an implicit wish, hoping that the girl could stay with him safely forever. But years ago, his wife became pregnant, and the boy's biological mother died while bringing him into the world. He knew very well that it was dangerous for a woman to give birth, and he was terrified during the ten months of pregnancy..."

"Fortunately, God granted man's wish. Mother and child are safe. The young man did not lose his beloved and gained a son. Naturally, he was very grateful! So he not only knelt down to fulfill his vow for the second time, but also brought a calf to Baitian Temple as a gift!" The stall owner finally ended the story and drank a mouthful of noodle soup to moisten his throat.

"Good! Good story! Good ending!"

The audience all stood up and applauded. Who wouldn't say it was a good story about a poor young man who finally got a beautiful wife and a son after all the hard work?

Suddenly, a sob sounded, and a woman covered her face and stood up and ran away from the noodle stall...

"Mom!" A little child ran after her with tears in his eyes. A tall man followed the child with a heavy look in his eyes. A young girl with red eyes from crying also quickly followed.

Several young men at another table also stood up immediately. A man who looked like a scholar threw out a silver ingot and ran out, saying quickly, "No need to change the money for these two tables."

When the stall owner took it, it turned out to be ten taels, and the two tables of food were only forty wen! He hurriedly tried to chase after it, but was stopped and told to keep it.

Liu Rusi trotted into the trees beside the dirt field. After running a little further, she finally couldn't help crying under the cover of the trees...

What good story? What good ending? So all those good stories that end with marriage and children are like this?

What happened next?! Qin Lie suffered so much for so many years, begged so many times, and tried his best, but is this the only few years he got?!

He wanted to go with her to send little Qin Hao to the academy, he also wanted to visit other towns with her every ten-year anniversary, he really wanted to know what she would look like when she was old...he had so many wishes!

"God is not fair to you at all! Why do you worship him?!"

The warm little body was lying on her back, and the tender voice was crying: "Mom...it turns out that Dad asked us to come..."

Liu Rusi turned around and hugged little Qin Hao. Yes, Qin Lie had been losing his relatives, and all he wanted was for her and Qin Hao to stay safely, but he forgot that he was also what they wanted...

Chu Shiyu stood at the edge of the woods a few feet away, silently watching the mother and son hugging and crying. At this moment, he had no right to interfere with their sadness...

He really regretted stopping here to rest and regretted letting them go to that noodle stall.

Qin Lie died, but this was a gap that he could hardly cross... It was already difficult, and now a sword from heaven had cut open an endless abyss.

What should he do to resist Qin Lie's sincere plea?

Are you going to kneel down every three steps and beg God to give her to him?

No, he couldn't do it! It wasn't that he didn't want to kneel down for Liu Rusi, but he didn't believe that God could let people get whatever they wanted! What he always wanted was to fight and seize!

Qin Lie asked, and even though he got what he and his partner both wanted, in the end, what he got was not what he asked for…

But he didn't want to exchange anything for anything. Instead of asking for this inexplicable arrangement of God, he might as well give his all to fight for it!

"Prince Qin... please go and pass it to him." Cai Yunji said quietly, holding a handkerchief and handing it to Chu Shiyu, and pointed at Liu Rusi and her son, "Go ahead, you can't do anything just standing here!"

Chu Shiyu paused, then hummed inaudibly, took the handkerchief and walked towards the mother and son nervously. He didn't have the habit of carrying handkerchiefs, so he could prepare a few more in the future...

Liu Rusi's emotions gradually calmed down, and a white handkerchief was handed to her.

When she raised her eyes, Chu Shiyu was not looking directly at her, but was deliberately looking at the tree beside him, with his hand stretched straight.

"Thank you."

Taking the handkerchief, Liu Rusi pulled Xiao Qinhao to stand up, sniffed, stood still, looked directly at Chu Shiyu and said, "I'm sorry, but... can you delay for a while? I want to go to the temple to pay homage."

I don’t want you to go. Chu Shiyu nodded and said in a deep voice: “Okay, it doesn’t matter if you go for one day.”

The group walked out of the woods and looked around. They couldn't see the way to Baitian Temple. Liu Rusi walked straight to the noodle stand, not caring about her red and swollen eyes. She smiled and asked, "Shopkeeper, do you know how to get to Chaotian Temple?"

The stall owner vaguely realized that the woman who just ran away crying was related to the story, but after looking at the man behind her with cold and warning eyes, the stall owner chose not to be curious. He raised his hand and pointed at a few trees not far from the stall and said, "See those trees with no grass growing next to them? Walk along the place where there is no grass. There will be stone steps after walking for a while. Just keep walking and you will go up!"

As the stall owner was talking, several people walked towards the trees and hid in the forest...

"Since there are stone steps, why not build them to the side of the road?" Caiyun asked curiously.

"There are fifty great ways, forty-nine of which are derived from heaven and one of which is escaped by humans. The abbot said that Baitian Temple is just one of the escaped ones, and since it has escaped, it cannot appear in the world directly. The stone steps were built by a wealthy businessman who fulfilled a vow three years ago, and the abbot said nothing would allow them to be built to the roadside." The stall owner knew almost everything about the area near Chaotian Temple.

Chu Shiyu looked back at the huge dirt floor. A team of more than a thousand people could be accommodated here, but the perfect round shape did not seem natural. He could not help but ask, "Is this dirt floor the Baitian Temple?"

"Hey! I dare not say that! The abbot has repeatedly emphasized that this is Tianyuan, Tianyan's Sijiu is here, and Baitian Temple was built according to this Tianyuan! Cause and effect cannot be reversed!" said the stall owner with a serious expression.

"How long has the sky been round? How long has the temple been worshipping the sky?" Chu Shiyu asked again.

"Who knows how long Tianyuan has been here? I guess Tianyuan has been here since the official road was built... When I heard about Baitian Temple, it seemed to have been built only two or three years ago, so it should be more than 20 years ago."

Chu Shiyu looked at the official road in the distance. There were many dynasties before Daxia, and many official roads existed many dynasties ago. Each dynasty would maintain the official roads of the previous dynasty, and the history of some official roads can no longer be verified.