Chapter 2518
Chapter 10
Chapter 2518 Return to 10
Li Qiong couldn't sleep, so he took some wine and went to find Nian Cang.
As soon as Nian Cang saw the wine, he refused: "The goddess is here, let's drink this wine later and play chess."
Li Qiong frowned when he heard about playing chess, but he couldn't sleep. He couldn't drag Nian Cang out for a fly or watch him dance with the stone lock.
Then find a compromise: "Play military chess or beast chess."
It was childish stuff to play with, but he was weak and liked violence, and hated to use his brain, so Nian Cang had no choice but to agree.
As expected, after three games, he lost all three games.
Nian Cang threw down the chess piece first: "Let's stop playing and have some tea." There's no point in always winning, especially when you win against such a jerk.
There are several tea trees on the top and bottom of the mountain. The oldest one is 400 years old and was planted after the move to the sacred mountain. The tea produced by the tea trees on the top of the mountain is almost enough for drinking. The tea produced at the bottom of the mountain is rewarded to each village every year as a response to their offerings to the gods.
Each village also grows some tea trees, but the taste is definitely not as good as the one delivered by the sacred mountain.
The aroma of tea wafted in the air, and the two began chatting.
Nian Cang said slowly: "You didn't make a mistake this time. The goddess should be satisfied."
"Bilian has served me for decades. She is lively and bold. She is my favorite." Li Qiong lowered his eyebrows and looked very worried. This was a rare look he had before: "The goddess saved me twice. I can't let her down."
Once he was roasted dry, and another time he was cut into a stick and imprisoned. Both times the Lord God rescued him and divided a territory for him.
Li Qiong raised his eyes and said calmly and seriously: "Bilian's wisdom is shallow, and she basically relies on elixirs to maintain her intelligence, otherwise she would have left the mountain long ago. I know all her little thoughts and tolerate them. I am worthy of her."
Nian Cang raised the corner of his mouth slightly, helped Li Qiong add some tea, and changed the subject: "It seems that there are a few people who are interested in you. Maybe you can give it a try. After all, so much time has passed. When Zhao Xi got drunk not long ago, he insisted on you to help him go home, but nothing happened in the end."
At that time, Li Qiong relied on his great strength to bully men and women, and offended all the first generation gods, which led to the first generation gods uniting to fight back.
But since the Lord God mediated, Li Qiong stayed in his own territory and had no chance or idea to find other gods. When the Lord God got a cabinet that could actually produce humans, Li Qiong only slept with the maid.
Tens of thousands of years had passed, so all the first generation gods had experienced what they should have experienced. Even if they were replaced every thousand years, they had rotated several times. On the contrary, Li Qiong, who did not participate in the love affairs between the first generation gods, was not so averse to it.
Seeing Li Qiong remain silent for a long time, Nian Cang smiled faintly: "Humans and gods are different after all."
Li Qiong laughed. No matter how stupid he was, time had already sharpened his thorns like a polish. No matter how dumb he was, his accumulated experience was better than that of ordinary people. How could he not understand the meaning of the words?
After thinking for a while, he said, "Being human also has its advantages. Humans respect and love gods. Their life span is short. If they get tired of it one day and stop taking elixirs, they will soon disappear. There are many servants of gods here. Some are still serving in the bedchamber after one or two hundred years. Only your Lu Zhu is the only one. If he had not been very intelligent and cultivated himself to become a semi-immortal, he would have disappeared long ago. It turns out that his master is Zhao Xi."
Li Qiong picked up the teacup, just like holding a wine cup. He turned the teacup slightly and said indifferently: "Rather than being tired of each other after the love is exhausted, it is better to give a little favor to save trouble."
"It seems that you have figured out life." Nian Cang raised the teacup and toasted Li Qiong with tea instead of wine.
Li Qiong took a sip as a response, and said thoughtfully: "The goddess always comes back only after a long time. I don't know where she went and what she did when she left."
"Give up that thought!" Nian Cang was so frightened that his face changed. He looked around to see if there was anyone else around and lowered his voice: "We are servants of the goddess. Don't think about things you shouldn't think about."
Li Qiong carefully looked at Nian Cang's nervous face and suddenly laughed: "What are you thinking? The goddess is our mother. There is no need to worry about anything. All the servants of the entire sacred mountain, even if there is one who looks like the goddess, are sent to the goddess's ancestral temple to be goddesses. Apart from burning incense, practicing singing, dancing, playing the piano and music, they don't do any rough work. They don't even dare to touch people, let alone..."
"Okay, okay, I got it, stop talking!" Nian Cang interrupted quickly, saying that it was fine if there was nothing, so stop talking. "But..." Li Qiong looked at him, "Aren't you curious and don't want to know?"
"I don't want to know." Ni Cang responded directly. After living for so long, I understand one thing: as long as life can go smoothly, sometimes not knowing is a good thing.
Li Qiong curled his lips, picked up the teacup and took a sip.
At this time, a slight sound came from outside, as if a woman was calling...
Bilian developed a high fever that night, but no one went to take care of her. This was the punishment a sinner deserved, and everything was left to fate.
At this time, the wound is already red, swollen and numb, which is the body's own response. Since there is no pain reminder, it will block some of the pain.
She propped herself up, rolled out of bed, and struggled to crawl out of the house.
The yard was quiet and deserted. All the items collected had been put away, and on one shelf were only the laundry items that the laundry department had changed that night.
A small pond was filled with rice washing water.
Bilian thought that if she continued like this, she might not be able to hold on. If she wanted to die, there were ways, either by using a belt or drowning in the rice washing water. But she wanted to live, she wanted to live on...
A shrill cry rang out, and the voice was particularly loud and miserable in the middle of the night: "Please goddess, please save me, I am wrong, I am guilty, if I can survive, I will make offerings every day to thank the gods for their great kindness..."
Shouted over and over again.
The first people to be alarmed were the people in the laundry department, but they were basically in front of the doors and windows, looking at the people who had just arrived in the yard today, and lying on the ground begging with tears in their eyes.
The manager of the laundry department did not step forward to dissuade them. According to the regulations, no one could stop others from praying to the gods until the gods responded or they gave up.
After listening to it twice, when it sounded for the third time, Nian Cang frowned: "We can't let her continue to make trouble. Is she dead or alive?"
Li Qiong said expressionlessly: "She works in the laundry department now, you decide."
"Master!" Qingzhu shouted from outside the door, "Servant Qingzhu has something to report."
"Come in." Nian Cang responded.
The carved wooden door with bright tiles creaked open, and Qingzhu walked in. He bowed to the two gods: "God Nian Cang and God Li Qiong, the night watchman said that the goddess was disturbed."
Xining was woken up and was very angry. It was easy for her sister to come back and rest. She worked night shifts for several days and was woken up by the neighbor's child as soon as she fell asleep. Even if it was a relative's child, it was not allowed!
I rushed to the terrace and looked down, and saw two servants of God sitting by the torches on the terrace, chatting about something. They must have been specially arranged to keep watch.
It's annoying to do it yourself, so I focus on it.
The torch suddenly burned up to more than half a meter high, startling the two night watchmen who were chatting about women's matters. Looking around, they saw the goddess standing on the edge of the terrace, leaning half of her body out to look at them, before she retracted her body with an unhappy look on her face.
After thinking about it, it seemed that the goddess was unhappy about having her rest disturbed, so she went to Nian Cang Palace alone to report the news.