The Virgin Mary in the Book: I Decide My Life with Two Swords

Cangyue Country - Nanlai - Paradise

Fifteen days later, it was already early June. Xue Jingchuan's wound had basically healed, and he could now move freely without a wheelchair. But he still had to be careful. If he was not careful, the wound would split open three times, which would be really fatal.

The scenery in the mountains in June is beautiful. The stream flows slowly forward, and various wild flowers bloom on the shore. Looking around, it is full of vitality.

Under the big tree beside the stream, there were two big blankets, and on the small table on the blankets were fruits and herbal tea. Xue Jingchuan and Ge You were lying and sitting, drinking tea while watching Ye Ling and Wan Qi playing in the stream.

"There are fish, there are fish," Wanqi shouted.

"Don't move, don't move, I'll catch it." Ye Ling took off his coat and boots, rolled up his trouser sleeves, carefully went into the water, and slowly approached a fish that Wan Qi had found. When she bent down to grab it, the fish ran away.

"Run away" Wan Qi was helpless.

"It's okay, there are more here." Ye Ling continued to walk in the diving area, staring at the water carefully, determined to catch a fish, no matter how big or small.

Xue Jingchuan slowly stood up and walked to the stream: "Be careful, the rocks under the water are covered with moss and are very slippery."

"I get it. Don't keep muttering like Tang Monk," Ye Ling replied perfunctorily.

The stream was gurgling. Xue Jingchuan stopped talking, his eyes involuntarily attracted by the touch of white in the stream.

Ye Ling was completely unaware of this. She stared intently at the fish in the water, her hands ready to strike at any moment. Her calves were faintly visible in the water, her skin as white as snow, emitting a charming luster in the sunlight.

Xue Jingchuan couldn't help but stare in a daze. He had never seen such beautiful skin before. The snow-white calf seemed to be carved from mutton-fat jade, delicate and smooth, without a single flaw. An inexplicable urge surged in his heart, wanting to reach out and touch that snow-white skin.

Ye Ling seemed to sense Xue Jingchuan's gaze. She raised her head and a bright smile appeared on her face: "What are you looking at?"

"Huh?" Xue Jingchuan realized he had lost his composure and immediately turned away from Ye Ling in embarrassment. "I was just wondering if you could catch a fish like this? How about making a harpoon?"

"No," Wan Qi objected, "We want to keep the fish alive. The harpoon will kill them."

"Miss" Jiuyou came with a homemade fishing net: "Why did you go into the water and take off your clothes? Come up quickly," Jiuyou said without forgetting to glare at Xue Jingchuan, meaning: What are you looking at? Close your eyes.

Ye Ling slowly came ashore. Jiu You, like a puppy guarding its food, immediately pulled down Ye Ling's trouser legs and put on his coat. As he did so, he muttered, "Don't take off your clothes in front of men anymore. What if a gangster sees you?"

Ye Ling smiled: "If a gangster meets me, he's probably the one who's afraid, right? I can make him childless in a minute."

"Some hooligans hide themselves and appear to be decent people, but they are actually extremely lecherous and will deceive women."

"Who are you referring to?" Xue Jingchuan heard that the boy was talking about him.

"Everyone knows who the pervert is." Jiuyou helped Ye Ling put on clothes and started fishing with a fishing net.

"Come on, Brother Jiuyou!" Wan Qi said with anticipation, holding the fish cage.

Ye Ling imitated Wan Qi and said, "Brother Jiuyou, come on! I'll sit over there and wait for your good news."

Jiuyou was so startled that he almost lost his balance. He turned around and smiled dotingly and helplessly, "Miss, please... go sit down and rest. I will try my best to catch some live fish."

"Okay, come on, Brother Jiuyou!" Ye Ling said while blinking her eyes to act cute.

"You really have all kinds of personalities!" Xue Jingchuan sighed.

"Go sit over there, don't run around." Ye Ling said as they walked over, "People should live their lives in the most comfortable way. When you're happy, you should laugh more, when you're unhappy, you should cry, and when you're angry, you should get angry. These are the so-called seven emotions and six desires."

Xue Jingchuan covered his wound and sat down carefully. "Emotions and desires are human nature, that's true, but do you feel that you're a completely different person when you're killing people? Who would have thought that a woman who acts coquettishly to her subordinates would be such a murderous expert?"

"Life is life, and killing is killing. Besides, killing is to save one's own life, so how can they be the same? Also, women who love to act coquettishly have good lives, do you believe it?"

“Not really”

"Tsk~ I can't tell you that, but my Jiuyou just loves it. Whenever I encounter something he doesn't let me do, I act like a spoiled brat and he immediately can't resist and agrees." Ye Ling was very proud.

Xue Jingchuan looked at the fishermen in the distance and said, "Jiuyou, this kid is so lucky! I don't know how many lifetimes he must have cultivated to be able to meet you in this life."

"That being said, didn't you also meet me?"

"Yes, we met." Xue Jingchuan smiled bitterly, thinking to himself: What's the point of meeting you? I can't accompany you to the end of the world, and I can't make you the center of everything. What's the point of such an encounter?

"Why did you suddenly stop talking? What are you thinking about?" Ye Ling asked while eating fruit.

Xue Jingchuan smiled and said, "Ye Ling, I seem to have fallen in love with you. What should I do?"

Ye Ling was stunned for a long time before she spoke: "Your directness caught me off guard!"

"Haha... just kidding! I'm a natural wanderer who can't settle down. I'm not suitable for having a family."

"So, Chanjuan, you never mention it?" Ye Ling suddenly asked with a cold face.

Xue Jingchuan was stunned and didn't know how to answer.

Ye Ling suddenly laughed again: "I was just joking, did you take it seriously?"

Xue Jingchuan forced a smile. He knew Ye Ling was not joking and was asking the question out of genuine anger.

They were both silent for a moment. After a while, Xue Jingchuan spoke up, "Do you want to hear a story? It's about a princess who was married off to a foreign country and her brother who was held as a hostage."

"You mean King Wen's mother?"

"Yes, you've heard of it?"

"Youminglang told me a little bit"

"Her name was Princess Showa. She and her younger brother were born to the same mother. Their mother was only a consort, of low status and not valued. When the Great Kingdom was defeated, they became victims, forced to survive in a strange enemy country. Every day was like walking on thin ice. The slightest mistake would result in a beating or scolding. Even the emperor wouldn't even look at them. To be honest, they were worse than the servants in the palace. But what else could they do? They could only endure and survive. Until the end, Princess Showa unexpectedly became pregnant, but she passed away on the day of giving birth, gone forever."

"She...had a difficult birth?"

"How is that possible? Have you ever seen someone's body turn black after dying in childbirth?"

"You mean poisoned?"

"How could the Queen let her give birth to a dragon child and still be alive?"

"Her brother should have been dead by then, right? Youminglang said he was burned to death?"

"Yes, he was burned to death in a fire when he was three years old. Some hatred, once the seeds are planted, will take root and sprout."

Ye Ling looked at Xue Jingchuan: "How do you know so much?"

"King Beichen said that he had a good relationship with King Wen, so they often reminisced about the past together," Xue Jingchuan explained.

"The imperial family is the most ruthless, it's true, so I will never marry into an imperial family in my life. Life there is tiring and dirty," said Ye Ling.

"It's indeed dirty. You can't even imagine how dirty the inner palace is. So your decision is very good. I support it."

"That is..." Ye Ling paused for a moment before speaking, "Jingchuan, if you were King Wen, would you think of seeking revenge and seizing the throne?"

Xue Jingchuan was visibly stunned. "That... I don't know. But then again, with King Wen's body, he has the will but not the strength."

"That may not be true. It's easier to draw the skin of a tiger than its bones. You can know a person's face but not his heart. Don't be fooled by King Wen's weak appearance. He is not a simple person. Just like you, he never shows his true face to others," said Ye Ling.

Xue Jingchuan was helpless: "Why are you involving me again?"

"Just talking, why are you so nervous?"

"I'm not nervous, it's just that the speed at which you switch questions is too fast, I can't keep up."

"Guilty," Ye Ling said as he stood up: "I'll go check on the fish. Jiuyou, how is it?"

"Miss, Brother Jiuyou caught a small fish," Wan Qi said.

"That's good, my work was not in vain." Ye Ling praised while also wanting to try his luck.

Xue Jingchuan still sat there motionless. She knew that Ye Ling had something else to say, but there were some things he really couldn't say. When the dust settled one day, she would tell him everything. She hoped that Ye Ling would still care then.

Soon another day passed. In the evening, several people sat in the yard to eat, laughing and talking.

Xue Jingchuan was very curious: "Why did you catch so many live fish?"

"Raise them! I will be leaving soon to go to the Bright Society to challenge Gu Feixiang, so I won't be back for a long time. Qianqing has difficulty catching fish, so I asked Jiuyou to catch more and raise them in the pond over there, so that there will be endless fish meat to eat," Ye Ling explained.

"This is indeed a good idea. Dead fish will become smelly if they are left for too long, but if they are alive you can keep them for as long as you like."

"Yes! If you're hungry, you can kill a chicken and eat it."

"So that's why you raise chickens!"

"I can't let them starve, right? Taking them out isn't realistic either. This is the only solution I can think of. It's not bad."

"We have rice, noodles, chicken, fish and meat. Life is so happy!"

"Since you like it so much, why don't you stay and accompany them?" Ye Ling said with a smile.

"Do not make jokes"

"That's right, our Master Xue is not an ordinary person. He certainly won't waste his days in a place like this."

"Alas~" Xue Jingchuan was unable to refute and could only lower his head and continue eating.

After dinner, Ye Ling and Jiu You came to the cellar.

Looking at An Kui who was like a dog, Ye Ling said, "How is it? You've been here for more than half a month. Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"Just kill me!" An Kui is now living a life worse than death.

"I'm afraid of dirtying my hands if I kill you. I told you that you can commit suicide," Ye Ling said.

An Kui stopped talking. Ye Ling sneered, "For someone like you, you're a personal guard of the Ye family. I think you're nothing special! You don't even have the courage to commit suicide."

"Miss, there is only one personal soldier like him in the Ye family," Jiuyou explained.

Ye Ling smiled: "Okay, you have the final say, An Kui. I just came down to see if you were dead. Now it seems that you are alive and well. You can even beg on the street."

"Miss, please go out. It smells too bad," Jiuyou said.

"really"

After the two of them went out, they covered the lid and then went back to rest.