Chapter 41: Flying Flowers

The winter rain always falls in a dense and continuous manner. The entire bamboo forest is shrouded in a mist of rain, and it looks as if the entire mountain is blurred.

On the veranda of the Bamboo Forest Villa, Ling Ruyue and I sat at the table, staring at each other, the atmosphere was very tense.

“I’m going to say this one last time. Are you going to eat? If you don’t, I’m not going to care about you anymore.” I was going crazy. My master and the others had left early to go to the Hungry Ghost Tomb. It was just me and Ling Ruyue left behind. Before leaving, my master told me to take good care of Ling Ruyue. I didn’t dare not to.

The so-called care is to cook for her, watch over her, and of course, if the master and the others are gone for a long time, I have to do the laundry.

Although I thought it was just a tomb and that my master and the others wouldn’t be gone for long, it was really hard to stay with this little girl. I worked hard to cook a meal for lunch, but she just took a bite and said she didn’t like it.

Ling Ruyue looked at me and said, “I don’t want to eat. Compared to what Grandma makes, yours is too bad to eat. Even Grandma Jin’s is a hundred times better than yours.”

“Don’t eat it.” I didn’t bother to talk to her. Where did this little girl come from? She looked like a rich young lady.

Is the food really that bad? I think it’s pretty good. It’s stewed wild chicken with bamboo shoots, bok choy, and fried bacon with pea shoots. Besides, my master hasn’t eaten the wild chicken he caught because it’s getting harder and harder to catch. If it weren’t for this little girl, my master wouldn’t have taken the trouble to clean it for me this morning so I could make soup for her.

She even complained about it!

I ate the vegetables and the soup in big mouthfuls. I had already made up my mind that if the little girl didn’t eat, she could starve to death. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to make it for her, it was that she didn’t want to eat it.

Moreover, I’m not afraid of her at all. When Grandma Ling Qing left, she took everything from the little girl, so I’m not afraid that she’ll use those weird and strange things to mess with me.

Seeing me eating so happily, Ling Ruyue swallowed her saliva.

I pretended not to see and resolutely ignored her.

After a while, Ling Ruyue suddenly said to me, “This soup is okay, I’ll have some soup. Brother, can you help me get a bowl, okay?”

“Help yourself.” I’m not a servant girl, and I don’t have to serve her soup. Besides, I’m not old Jiang, and I definitely won’t fall for her sweet talk.

“You do it!”

“Help yourself!”

Then, we just stared at each other.

“Sanwa, Sanwa…” Just as Ling Ruyue and I were glaring at each other, the sound of crispy meat came from outside the bamboo forest.

The kid saw me the day before yesterday, and only remembered to look for me today.

I put down my rice bowl and said to Ling Ruyue, “I’m going to pick up my friend. If you want soup, help yourself. I don’t care if you’re starving.”

Then, I ignored Ling Ruyue’s cursing me behind my back for being stingy, and got up to go pick up Su Rou.

Su Rou was wearing a new outfit and standing outside the bamboo forest. As soon as she saw me coming down, she rushed over, like a rolling meat ball, grabbed my shoulders and said, “Sanwa, you weren’t here during the winter vacation. You don’t know how boring I was.”

“I was in the county seat the other day. Come and visit me.”

“My parents took me to visit relatives and didn’t give me money to go to the county seat. Now that you’re back, I’ll find an excuse to come out and play with you.”

As we walked along, talking, we headed towards the bamboo forest. When we reached the bamboo forest hut, we found Ling Ruyue quietly drinking soup, mouthful by mouthful.

“Sanwa, this little girl is so cute, she’s nothing like you said.” Su Rou walked over, looked at the food on the table, and without any hesitation, went and got a pair of chopsticks and sat down.

“Hello, fat brother.” Ling Ruyue’s mouth was very sweet.

“Sanwa, this little girl is really good.” Su Rou praised Ling Ruyue to me while chewing on the wild chicken. What I told him in the bamboo forest was completely ignored by him. He is really a ‘good friend’.

I didn’t bother to talk to him, I just ate, and I wanted my master and them to come back quickly, and then get rid of this little girl.

“Fat brother, take me to the Hungry Ghost Tomb,” Ling Ruyue suddenly said.

I coughed and sprayed the soup in my mouth all over Su Rou’s face. Su Rou looked at me innocently, and when he thought about Ling Ruyue’s words more carefully, a hint of excitement flashed in Su Rou’s eyes. This is a guy who is afraid that the world will not be in chaos.

“Sanwa, Master Jiang went to the Hungry Ghost Tomb?” He didn’t care that he was wearing new clothes, wiped his face, and then asked me.

“Don’t you kid around.” I looked at Su Rou warily.

Su Rou didn’t say anything, but at this time Ling Ruyue said, “We’re so bored here. Don’t you want to go to the Hungry Ghost Tomb and take a look? When I heard about it from my grandmother on the way here, I really wanted to go and take a look.”

Su Rou looked at me with eager eyes. I was also itching to go. I knew about the Hungry Ghost Tomb since I was a child. It would be a lie to say that I didn’t want to go and take a look. However, the Hungry Ghost Tomb is so dangerous. I…

Ling Ruyue, however, said in a way that was not afraid of chaos: “You say that the hungry ghost worm, I heard from Grandma Jin in the village that it is called the ghost king worm in our place, and it is also a first-class powerful insect, but it is very rare, and I don’t know which village chief has it.

I was originally curious, and couldn’t help but look at Ling Ruyue and say, “Do you know about the hungry ghost bugs?”

“Yes, I know how to restrain them.” Ling Ruyue looked innocent, but when she talked about the hungry ghost bugs, she sounded like she was talking about ordinary bugs.

“They are so powerful, can you control them?” Su Rou looked unconvinced.

“Powerful? They’re not as powerful as my Flower Feifei.” Ling Ruyue looked disdainful.

“Flower Feifei?” Su Rou completely didn’t understand what Flower Feifei was.

But Ling Ruyue flipped her hand, and her movements were so fast that suddenly a spider the size of a human palm was on the table. I didn’t know how she got it out.

“This is Hua Feifei, isn’t she cute?” Ling Ruyue’s appearance is indeed pure and lovely, but it doesn’t match a big spider at all. I can’t face this picture at all. She actually said that a spider is cute.

I’m not afraid of anything, except spiders. When the big spider appeared on the table, my body was already stiff, and I didn’t dare to move. Didn’t Grandma Ling Qing take away all the strange things on Ling Ruyue’s body? Why is there still a big spider?

Su Rou’s face was also very ugly. He was not afraid of spiders. Who in the countryside had not seen a big spider? But this one was really terrifying. It was as big as someone’s palm, and the hairs on its body could be seen clearly. Moreover, the five-colored patterns looked extremely strange. I swear I have never seen this kind of spider before.

“Isn’t it cute?” Ling Ruyue was dissatisfied with the lack of an answer from me and Su Rou, and continued to ask.

While talking, she stretched out her snow-white hand and gently touched the spider. Su Rou couldn’t help but shake his face. Although my whole body was tense, I couldn’t help but remind him, “Be careful, it’s poisonous, don’t touch it.”

Ling Ruyue looked at me and made a face, scolding me, “You’re a coward!”

Then she reached out her hand, and the spider actually climbed onto her hand. It was such a big spider, almost as big as an adult man’s hand, and her hand was still small, not half as big as the spider.

“Of course I know it’s poisonous. Feifei was given to me by Grandma Jin. It’s the king of poisonous insects, but it’s very obedient. Its poison can poison ghosts.”

I really couldn’t stand it anymore. A pure and lovely girl, like the moon in the sky, holding a spider in her hand, and telling you that the spider’s poison can poison ghosts, really…

Besides, ghosts are spiritual beings, so what poison could they be affected by?

Su Rou finally came to her senses and asked, somewhat shakily, “Why is it called Hua Feifei? If you say it’s Hua, I’ll accept it. It’s really dazzling, but how can it be called Feifei?”

Ling Ruyue smiled, just like a fairy in the sky. She held the spider up and said, “Fly, fly and show them one.”

Then we saw the spider suddenly fly up in the air in a strange way. It flew to the top of the corridor very quickly. It climbed twice. Ling Ruyue took out a small whistle and blew it. I saw the spider flying towards me very quickly and suddenly stopped on my shoulder.

I fell off the stool with a loud ‘thud’ and landed firmly on the ground.