The cranerotated its head and body and ignored it’s owner. He was way too talkative; itwas even too much for a mystical crane to bear.
The youngman seemed to already be used to the crane’s behavior. He smiled and didn’t payit any more attention. He took a look over the entire valley and sighed, “Ihaven’t been back in three years and look what this place had become. If masterand xi mu find out, they will be sad.I am such a nice person, I should find some time and come back and tidy thisplace up. I must let master and xi mufeel comfortable. Aiya, there’s so much to take care of….”
He went onand on for a while before he turned his attention to the person lying in themiddle of the garden.
When hecaught sight of the perfect and beautiful face, he shuddered and couldn’t helpbut reached out and touched his own chest. He said uncontrollably, “Oh no,Xiaohe. My heart’s beating out of my chest. What is going on. Am I sick? Do youknow, Xiaohe?”
“……” Themystical crane pretended that it couldn’t hear him.
“So fast.Why did my heart suddenly beat so fast after I saw this girl? I must take somemedications. Xiaohe, what should I take?”
Chirp!
The mysticalcrane let out another loud chirp and resorted to turning and walking away. Itwasn’t going to pay him any attention at all!
“Hey,Xiaohe! How could you be so heartless!” scolded the young man at the back ofthe mystical crane as it was walking away. Hearing those words, it almost tooka tumble after it heard his words. Finally it flapped it wings and flew awayquickly.
“Aiya,Xiaohe. How could you do that to me? I, your owner, merely grumbled a littlebit about you and you just ditched me like that? Ai, you are so lucky to havesomeone kind like me as your owner; otherwise, I’d pull out all of yourfeathers. Hrm!”
After goingon and on for even longer, he carefully turned his attention back to Cheng XiaoXiao. With a mischievous look in his eyes, he stared at the pretty girl infront of him for a long time before he came to.
His lipswere shut tightly, giving it a perfect shape. Blinking lightly, he said tohimself, “No wonder I have calculated that something was going on over here; abeautiful girl was here waiting to be saved by me.
“Hmmmm,should I do some calculation on whether we are good match for each other?
“No, wait!She is hurt. I should check on her first!”
Afterfinally making a decision, he looked back at the person who wasn’t looking toowell. A flash of light flashed pa.s.sed his ink-black eyes. His perfect lipsformed into a curve and he smiled, “Since fate had brought me to you, I will begenerous and give you a revival dan.1
Upon sayingthat, the young man produced a jade bottle in his hand and poured out a pillthat has an underlying gold color and fed it to Cheng Xiao Xiao.
Seeing thatshe was able to swallow it, he smiled with satisfaction. Then he pulled out ahandkerchief and cleaned her face. A beautiful smile radiated from his handsomeface.
“I must dosome calculations to see if we are related. I certainly hope so, otherwise Ihave given away too much without any returns. I have always taken advantage ofothers; I never let others take advantage of me. Miss, you certainly wouldn’t do that to me, would you?”
As he wasmumbling non stop, he started calculating2 with his slender fingers. He triedand tried, and the smile disappeared from his face. His frown deepened, asthough he was getting progressively more unsatisfied with the result.
“No, wait.That’s not right. How come I can’t get the result? I am genius mathematician, Ican calculate the fate of everybody who walk this earth. Why is it that I can’tsee into her future?
“That can’tbe right. Let me start over again…”
Startingover, this time he used both of his hands. They moved faster and faster and he lookedworse and worse.
“No, wait. Iam still not getting anything?!”
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Notes:
1. a pill that shapes like a sphere (not circularand flat like western pills)
2. By“calculating” here, it’s really like a form of fortune telling. They use amethod of “calculating” to see the future. I tried to look for a video to noavail, but imagine the way of “calculating” is touching the tip of one’s thumbto the tip of the other fingers back and forth in random order. Just want myreaders to get an mental image of what he was doing. J That being said, thischaracter is h.e.l.la annoying; he talked too much. J
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