Cultivating Immortality, Starts with Green Plum

Chapter 101 Xiao Mochi! Just a coward!
Zhu Cici, the grown-up daughter of the Zhu family, left Yuetan.

Only Nan Wenmo, who was already an "old girl", was left standing in the pavilion in the water.

Zhu Cici invited Sister Nan to go to the peach blossom forest to take a look, as she heard that the peach blossoms were in bloom.

But Nan Wenmo refused with the answer, "What's so beautiful about a few peach trees?"

Nan Wenmo looked at the younger generation's gradually moving away from his back and couldn't help but sigh, with a hint of worry on his face.

Proposing marriage to the Xu family is a way to repay a favor for her father. As for whether it will succeed in the end, Nan Wenmo doesn't care. She even hopes that Ci Ci will not agree.

Although the eldest son of the Xu family in Minghai County is a good match for me, the Xu family is too powerful, and the eldest son also gives me a similar feeling.

Cici's leisurely personality may indeed not make her suitable for being with the other person.

But Nan Wenmo really didn't want this younger generation with a bright future to be dragged down by the word "love".

"How much lovesickness and sorrow, the yellow flowers have fallen and people are bidding farewell to the old age." Looking at the girl in the distance, Nan Wenmo shook his head, "Why bother?"

Nan Wenmo withdrew his gaze and looked at the Moon Altar under the water pavilion. In his mind, an image of a scholar holding a book while reading and finally falling into the water appeared in his mind.

The woman couldn't help but curl her lips, and her eyes under her long eyelashes had an indescribable color, as if she was reminiscing, as if she was mocking herself: "Yeah. Why bother?"

With another sigh, the woman gathered her thoughts, kicked the man out of her mind, put her hands behind her back, and strode down the mountain.

Go back and report.

Just say that you, as a matchmaker, have done your best.

As the woman was walking down the mountain, she was stunned for a moment and stopped.

Not far away, there was a man with his butt sticking out, digging bamboo shoots, and he looked very hardworking.

The woman looked left and right.

Then he smiled happily, but didn't dare laugh out loud.

The woman sneaked up to the man, then found the right angle, raised her foot, and kicked the man directly on the butt.

"oops"

The man who was kicked fell forward, fell on the grass, and had a mouthful of mud.

"Who is it? Why are you so wicked? Why are you kicking me for no reason? Confucius said"

Just as the man was cursing and slapping his butt, standing up angrily and about to argue with the other party, his voice suddenly stopped.

"Confucius said, what did you say?" Nan Wenmo looked at the other party with a smile.

"Sister-in-law, long time no see. Why are you back to the academy?" the scholar said with a smile.

"I came to the academy to find a junior." Nan Wenmo crossed his arms across his chest, "Xiao Liu, you haven't told me yet, what do you mean by Confucius?"

"Confucius said: A year's plan begins in spring, and spring bamboo shoots are the most delicious." The man, whose full name is Lu Xiaoliu, smiled and wiped the bamboo shoots with his Confucian blue shirt. "Sister-in-law, why don't you bring some bamboo shoots over? The bamboo shoots in this academy are old and crispy, and they are even more delicious when stir-fried with meat."

Nan Wenmo didn't care at all that the other party addressed her as 'sister-in-law': "Xiao Liuzi, you said you were at least a gentleman in the academy, but you look so dirty and stick your butt out digging bamboo shoots, you don't look like a gentleman at all."

"Hehehe, sister-in-law, what are you talking about?" Lu Xiaoliu wiped the mud from his mouth, "Brother Xiao is still the 'upright gentleman' of the academy. He almost became the youngest president of the academy. Didn't he steal a chicken from the dean?" "You're so easy to say!" Nan Wenmo was so angry that he grabbed a stone and threw it at Lu Xiaoliu (Lu Xiaoliu dodged it swiftly), "That guy made me copy the Book of Rites a hundred times as punishment!"

Lu Xiaoliu felt a little aggrieved and muttered quietly: "Didn't you say you wanted to eat the chicken raised by the dean, so Brother Xiao caught it for you? At that time, you ate both chicken legs, and I only ate the chicken butt..."

"What did you say?" Nan Wenmo asked with his eyes narrowed.

"Nothing, nothing." Lu Xiaoliu shook his head quickly.

Nan Wenmo snorted twice: "Xiao Mochi has been down the mountain for nearly ten years, why are you still here? Why don't you go back to your Yue Kingdom?"

"Why are you going back to Yue?"

Lu Xiaoliu spread his hands, his tone filled with grievance.

"Now that my mother has redeemed me, she is living a good life. She refuses to let me go back, saying that if I go back to Yue, she will beat me out with a cane. Where can I go?

I said let's go to Wu State, but Brother Xiao said I would cause trouble for him and told me to get out of here."

As he was talking, Lu Xiaoliu raised his head and sighed heavily: "The world is so big, how come there is no place for me to go?"

Nan Wenmo rolled his eyes at Lu Xiaoliu and said, "I heard that the first dynasty of the human race, the Qin Kingdom, invited you to come over. Why don't you go?"

"The Qin State is too big." Lu Xiaoliu spread his hands. "If I, a foreigner, go to the Qin State to be an official, I will be squeezed to death by those officials."

Lu Xiaoliu weighed the bamboo shoots in his hand and said, "So, it's still more comfortable to stay in Bailu Academy. If you become an official in the dynasty, you will be affected by the luck of the mountains and rivers and consume your life essence.

Once you enter officialdom, it is like entering a deep sea. What if your life source is almost exhausted and you have not yet escaped from officialdom, or if you cannot break through and prolong your life after escaping, then that person is doomed, right?
Sister-in-law, you see, I dig spring bamboo shoots, go fishing, and pretend to read books every day, and I have already become a gentleman.

If I just keep hanging around and outlive those old guys, then I'll become an old scholar, right?"

"." Nan Wenmo hesitated. She wanted to say something in rebuttal, but after thinking carefully, it seemed that what Lu Xiaoliu said was not wrong.
Nan Wenmo shook his head: "Your elder brother Xiao said that your ambition is to serve in the court."

Lu Xiaoliu wiped the bamboo shoots in his hand and said, "Maybe it was true before, but I'm not sure now."

"You're so hesitant, just like a woman." Nan Wenmo snorted and continued to walk down the mountain. "Let's go, you can continue to dig your bamboo shoots."

"Sister-in-law." When Nan Wenmo gradually walked away, Lu Xiaoliu shouted from behind.

"What?" Nan Wenmo turned around.

Lu Xiaoliu smiled:
"Sister-in-law, don't think that Brother Xiao is stubborn or ruthless. I heard that Brother Xiao got drunk and passed out that night when he knew you were engaged.

Sister-in-law, you also know that what Brother Xiao wants to do is very difficult. If you are not careful, you will fall into the abyss. To accomplish those things, you need extremely great courage. In fact, Brother Xiao just doesn't want to drag you down.

Everything that Brother Xiao did was for what he pursued in his heart."

"Ah."

Nan Wenmo sneered, turned around and continued to leave. The voice came from behind the woman.

"For the pursuit in your heart? How can I talk about realizing that ideal when he doesn't even dare to marry me?
Xiao Mochi! You're just a coward! "

(End of this chapter)