Chapter 297 Behind You
The timeline moves forward a little.
At the same time Ning Changge and his group returned to the palace.
the other side.
In Liuyun City, in the bamboo pavilion in the east courtyard of the Yun family, the afternoon sun was slicing through the carved window panes.
Five women, including an unmarried girl, a middle-aged young woman, and a mother with a baby, sat around a bluestone table. The scent of soapberries on the silk and satin mixed with the smell of powder floated in the steaming water vapor.
Yun Xi picked up the last teacup with bamboo tweezers and placed it in front of Bao Ma. Amid the crisp sound of celadon porcelain knocking against each other, she counted the faces in front of her - Xiutao from the dyeing workshop in the north of the city, Meili from the palace on South Street, as well as Aqing and Ruhua. All her childhood friends were finally there.
Seeing Yun Xi looking over, Bao Ma A Qing picked up the teacup and took a sip, smiling and saying, "The tea tastes good! I just don't know why the busy Yun family master suddenly called us sisters over. Is it possible that we just want to drink tea and chat?"
"You just know how to play dumb, Sister Qing." The young woman Wang Meili glanced at Yun Xi, whose black hair was carefully combed into a bun, and suddenly sighed softly:
"Alas! I don't know which young man is so heartless that he took our sister Yun's body and then just walked away, forcing weak women like us to come and drink tea with him every day to settle the grudge."
Upon hearing this, Chengbei Xiutao looked at Yunxi in surprise and said, "Sister Yun, you got married without saying anything! Who is the man? Could it be Liu Qian, the son of the richest man in the city? No, no! Although that guy is not bad looking, he is definitely not as beautiful as you. Who is he?"
Xiutao had been going out with her father to sell cloth in several nearby cities for the past few months. She just came back yesterday and was called to the Yun Mansion before she had a good rest. As a result, she heard the shocking news that Yun Xi was getting married before she had even had a few sips of tea.
Young woman Wang Meili said disdainfully: "Liu Qian? Ha, this guy even carries shoes for Master Ning... No! You shouldn't compare Master Ning with him, this is simply an insult to Master Ning!"
That night, Wang Meili would never forget the image of Ning Changge in red walking on the moon and destroying the Demon Sect with his sword. She hated those people in the Demon Sect to death. Why was the poison only effective on cultivators, and why were mortals not considered human?
If I was also poisoned by love at that time, then Ning Changge would have come to save me just like she saved Yun Xi! I don’t understand. Sister Yun is also a mortal, how could she be poisoned?
Xiu Tao frowned and asked, "Mr. Ning, who is that? Could it be Sister Yun's husband?"
Young woman Wang Meili rolled her eyes at Xiutao and said, "You don't even know who Mr. Ning is! Oh, I almost forgot that you haven't been home for the past few months. Let me tell you, Mr. Ning is..."
Yun Xi glared at Wang Meili and interrupted her: "Even water can't stop her mouth!"
The young woman Wang Meili said with a grin, "It can't be stopped!"
Yun Xi raised her hand and said, "You want a beating, right?"
Seeing this, the young woman Wang Meili quickly stood up, held Yun Xi's hand, and said with an apologetic smile: "I'm wrong, I'm wrong, Sister Yun. But I'm saying all this to defend you. Although Master Ning is an immortal, and although it was extremely urgent at the time, how could he just take Miss Yun and leave afterwards?!"
"No matter what, you and he are already married, so he should take you away."
"Meili is right!" The widow Ruhua slammed the table so hard that the tea splashed a little. "Is being an immortal so great? Are immortals not responsible? Don't you know that a woman's innocence is more important than her life?"
Yun Xi lowered her eyes and looked at the cup. Her thick and curly eyelashes trembled slightly. The scene of Ning Changge flying on a sword four days ago seemed to appear on the steaming cup, as if that day was replaying again. The afterimage of the red dress was deeply imprinted in her eyes.
"He said early on that he would take me to the Immortal Gate, but I didn't want to go."
Young woman Wang Meili and widow Ruhua were very puzzled: "Why not go?! You know, that's Qingyun Immortal Sect, there is no one in the East Wasteland who doesn't want to go! A thousand Yun family masters are not as good as a piece of stone there!"
"Um..." Xiu Tao interrupted, "Which good sister can tell me who this Mr. Ning is?"
"Let me do it." Bao's mother A Qing told Xiutao everything she knew.
After a while, Xiu Tao sighed deeply in the bamboo pavilion: "Alas! There has never been an immortal in your family, so you will never understand Sister Yun's feelings. It's not that she doesn't want to go. On the contrary, she really wants to go!"
"It's just that there is a difference between immortals and mortals!"
Young woman Wang Meili and widow Ruhua retorted: "What's the big deal? I see that there are also monks in the city who have affairs with mortal women."
"I just heard from Sister Aqing that this Mr. Ning is not only a disciple of Qingyun Immortal Sect, but also has a very high talent." Xiutao said with a wry smile:
"If you still don't understand the meaning of these two sentences, think about it this way. Sister Yun can live with Mr. Ning for ten or twenty years, but what if it's another fifty, eighty, or a hundred years?"
"Mr. Ning is still a handsome young man, but Sister Yun is an old woman with a dying candle in the wind. Who would want to become an ugly and old woman in front of the person they love?"
The pavilion suddenly became quiet. The girls had actually thought that it was not good for mortals and monks to be together, but they had not thought that far. They had never imagined that there would be a scene like what Sister Xiutao described.
If that time really comes, it will be a million times more painful than being betrayed by the one you love.
"Sister Yun..." They wanted to comfort Yun Xi, but they didn't know what to say.
"What are you doing? I asked you to come here to drink tea and chat with me, not to make you sad. I'm not sad at all. Why are you all pulling bitter melons here? If you pull again, you all go back."
Yun Xi looked at the girls with great dissatisfaction. She seemed not to have heard what Xiu Tao had just said.
Everyone was stunned at first, then they all laughed and said, "Hahaha! Anyway, he is not our husband, why are we being sad here? Let's drink tea!"
After saying that, they picked up the teacups and took a few sips.
But for some reason, the taste of the tea this time was no longer as sweet and delicious as before. Instead, it was bitter and hard to drink. Or maybe it was just like Sister Yun’s mood at the moment!
The sky soon changed from warm tea to the afterglow of the setting sun. They were all a group of mortal women. They had to go back before dark after all, their families were waiting for them.
In the Yun Mansion, Yun Xi was the only one left, along with a group of maids.
The spacious room was filled with the scent of incense, and the candlelight exploded into tiny golden stars in the bronze mirror.
Yun Xi sat in front of the dressing table, still wearing the gentle and beautiful makeup she had in the afternoon. Her pink and delicate lips exuded a charming halo, and her beautiful light golden eyes had a bit of a second-dimensional flavor.
Now, she no longer needs to deliberately make herself look ugly in the mansion.
Looking at the stunning beauty in the bronze mirror, Yun Xi's lips curled up with a hint of bitterness, and she murmured softly: "Women dress up to please themselves, but where is my lover?"
"Behind you."
Yun Xi suddenly felt like she fell into a familiar embrace. The embrace was warm and warm, but also very unreal, as if this embrace only appeared in her dreams.
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