After closing the door, Lou Xingyao discovered that all the furniture in the room was the type that he liked.
It was from small tea sets and candlesticks to large tables, chairs, and benches. Even the bedding was prepared according to his preference, with a slightly harder mattress.
“Do you think rosewood or mahogany is better?”
“Do you think this teapot is better as blue and white or colored glaze?”
“Why do I feel like you didn’t rest well last night? Is there something about this inn that you don’t like?
……
Lou Xingyao’s mind suddenly recalled the questions Wen Hanshan had occasionally asked him when they were chatting along the way. He had felt that these questions were a bit strange at the time, but he answered them one by one according to his own preferences.
Now seeing the layout of the whole room, what did he not understand? Wen Hanshan was clearly buying furniture for him, but was afraid he wouldn’t like it.
As for why he didn’t say it clearly?
Lou Xingyao thought that he knew Wen Hanshan well. He was probably such an awkward person. Even if he was nice to others, he had to pretend he was ‘just doing it for the sake of convenience.’
It was just like the courtyard in front of him. If he hadn’t asked just now, Wen Hanshan might never mention it. Even if asked, he only got the casual answer of ‘I don’t have any requirements for living.’
The same was true for the furniture in this room.
If he asked, he would probably just get a sentence of ‘I just saw it, thought you would like it, and bought it.’ It was as if the indirect inquiries didn’t exist.
No matter what, Wen Hanshan’s thoughtful actions made Lou Xingyao feel very comfortable.
In particular, he was like rootless duckweed after coming to Tianming Continent. He knew where he came from, but he could never return there.
The Lou family handed him over to Mrs. He without hesitation for the sake of profit. The He family was very polite to him due to the substitute marriage, but it was only politeness.
Later, he arrived at the Zhou family and was driven out of the house by the person in charge of the Zhou family, whom he hadn’t even met, before he could see clearly the house that originally belonged to Wen Hanshan.
The rest of the time, Lou Xingyao was either running around or on the way to running around.
The Tianming Continent was huge, with one main city and 108 counties. However, there was no place for him.
Now the room in front of him, which was decorated according to Lou Xingyao’s preferences, told him that this wasn’t the case.
At least here, Wen Hanshan prepared carefully for him according to his wishes and preferences. A room that belonged to him was prepared.
In addition, in order to make Lou Xingyao feel at ease, he accepted the symbolic 100 taels of gold.
At this time, Lou Xingyao really felt at ‘home.’
It was due to Wen Hanshan, who was clearly bound by the contract.
Lou Xingyao thought of this and couldn’t help feeling distressed. What type of malice had Wen Hanshan encountered before that he was so willing to believe in the contract?
What type of loneliness would make him think of Lou Xingyao everywhere just due to a contract, when he was clearly unwilling to give any trust before?
No matter whether it was his white moonlight villain or the actual Wen Hanshan he met, it seemed that this person had always been so gentle.
Lou Xingyao couldn’t help smiling when he thought of this.
Soon, the smile on his face froze. So what happened in the next three years that made Wen Hanshan, such a gentle and awkward person, become the one in the novel?
This content hadn’t been mentioned in the original novel. No matter how hard Lou Xingyao thought about it, he couldn’t find any clues.
After thinking for a long time without any results, Lou Xingyao could only temporarily suppress the questions in his heart again. At the same time, he took out the two meridians reconnection pills.
He didn’t know what would happen in the future, but he understood one thing. All conspiracies and tricks were paper tigers in front of absolute strength.
Therefore, his top priority was to treat his own meridians, draw qi into his body as soon as possible, and improve his strength. It was only in this way that he could face the unknown accidents in the future and be able to block the enemy’s way.
After thinking about this clearly, Lou Xingyao’s desire for treatment suddenly became urgent.
However, thinking of Wen Hanshan’s instructions just now, Lou Xingyao didn’t take the meridians reconnection pill immediately. Instead, he flashed into the portable space.
Perhaps due to his obsession with dry land, there was a slight sense of weightlessness before Lou Xingyao fell directly on that land.
This was the first time he had entered this space since he had obtained it.
The feeling inside and outside the space didn’t differ much for Lou Xingyao. He first squatted down and touched the land under his feet.
The next moment, the place where his fingers touched turned into a handful of yellow sand under his strength.
Lou Xingyao saw this, and there was a flash of worry in his heart. “Is this land really salvageable?”
Then thinking of the description in the original text, he finally decided to try his best and walked to the well in two steps.
After getting closer, Lou Xingyao found that the well wasn’t deep. It was even very shallow. He could touch the bottom of the well with just a slight stretch of his hand.
Looking at the small hole at the bottom of the well with water flowing out, Lou Xingyao felt that it wasn’t so much a well as a spring eye surrounded by the shape of a well.
But such a spring gave him great convenience. At the very least, it could save a lot of effort in terms of fetching water.
Lou Xingyao’s mind moved, and a wooden barrel appeared in his hand. This was what he had put into the medicine cabinet just before entering the space.
This was also one of the conveniences of the space. No matter whether he was inside or outside the space, he could use the medicine cabinet at will.
He extended the bucket of water to the wellhead. He saw that the water level of the spring, which didn’t seem like much, didn’t decrease at all. It looked inexhaustible.
The magic of this space obviously couldn’t be explained by common sense. Lou Xingyao wasn’t surprised by this. He raised his hand and poured the bucket of water in his hand onto the dry land.
Perhaps it was due to it being abandoned for a long time, but in the blink of an eye, a whole bucket of water disappeared into the cracks in the land, and no trace could be found.
“Did I pour too little?”
Compared with the nearly one acre of land, this much spring water was indeed a drop in the bucket. Lou Xingyao thought this as he took out another bucket of spring water from the well and poured it down.
After four or five cycles, Lou Xingyao finally found that the cracked loess in the area where he splashed water had a faint tendency to gather.
Lou Xingyao couldn’t help speeding up his movements after discovering this change. He poured a few more buckets of spring water, and the cracked loess finally disappeared completely. Even the color of the land had a tendency to turn from yellow to black.
This piece of land hadn’t fully recovered, but it reached the point where it could be planted. At this time, Lou Xingyao finally confirmed that what the original novel said was true. The spring water did have the effect of nourishing the fields.
But looking up at another large area that was still dry and cracked, Lou Xingyao felt that it was dark in front of him.
He just carried nearly 20 buckets of water back and forth to restore the less than 1/20th area under his feet. If he really wanted to restore the entire field, his small body would be exhausted sooner or later!
There was a saying that nothing was difficult in the world as long as you were willing to give up.
However, after thinking about the workload for a while, Lou Xingyao decided to put the matter of restoring the vitality of the land on hold for the time being, and make plans when he could draw qi into his body and control the spring water with his mind.
After making a decision, Lou Xingyao returned to the well again and drew another bucket of water. This bucket of water was for his own use.
Just as Lou Xingyao was about to put the spring water into his mouth, his hand paused.
He only knew about the effect of well water in washing the meridians and marrow from the original novel. He hadn’t done any experiments and didn’t know whether it was true or not. It would be bad if he drank something wrong.
Lou Xingyao knew that he was affected by Wen Hanshan’s suspicious disease, but he felt that it wasn’t wrong to be cautious. He would never go wrong if he maintained a bold suspicion and careful attitude of seeking verification.
Lou Xingyao thought of this and put the well water away, preparing to find a new opportunity to catch a few livestock tomorrow to test for poison. If there was no problem, it wouldn’t be too late to use it himself.
After putting the wooden barrel and well water in it into the medicine cabinet for easy use tomorrow, Lou Xingyao walked around in the space again.
But at this moment, the space was empty with almost nothing. There was really nothing to visit.
He looked at the well, farmland, and empty cabin. Then the freshness in Lou Xingyao’s heart gradually disappeared. Instead, the fatigue of fetching water back and forth to restore the vitality of the land surged into his heart.
Lou Xingyao sensed the fatigue of his body and didn’t delay in the space for long. The idea of wanting to go out flashed in his mind, and there was the familiar feeling of weightlessness. The next moment, he returned to the place where he had just entered the space.
After washing himself from head to toe, Lou Xingyao fell directly on the bed and fell asleep.
It was a dreamless night. Once Lou Xingyao opened his eyes again, the sky outside the window was already bright. The dazzling sunlight became much softer through the window screen. It seemed to give everything in the house a layer of gold.
Perhaps it was due to the generosity of the sun that this very ordinary room looked like a fairyland on earth.
Lou Xingyao was a bit stunned for a while as he looked at the glittering scene in the house.
Soon, the memories in his mind gradually came back. He realized that he had arrived in Xilin County yesterday. This was his and Wen Hanshan’s home.
Home.
As long as he thought of this word, Lou Xingyao felt a great sense of satisfaction in his heart, and he became a bit excited.
At this moment, the sound of breaking air from time to time outside the house attracted his attention. Lou Xingyao turned over and got out of bed. The moment he opened the door, he saw Wen Hanshan dancing with a sword in the air.
The sound of breaking air that he had just heard from inside the room was the sound of the blade cutting through the air when Wen Hanshan danced with the sword.
Lou Xingyao’s limited knowledge of swordsmanship was from the martial arts dramas that he had watched in his previous life.
But even if he didn’t know enough, he could see that Wen Hanshan’s movements were much cleaner and more beautiful than those martial arts actors.
It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that he was as graceful as a dragon at this moment. There were no fancy moves, but it still made people feel dazzled and unclear.
Even though there was a distance of nearly ten meters between him and Wen Hanshan, he could still feel the thunder and lightning around the blade. This power seemed like it could destroy the world, and it made people not dare to look directly at it.
Lou Xingyao retreated slightly into the room and finally understood why Wen Hanshan was called the ‘number one swordsman on Tianming Continent’ in the original novel. Even the protagonist, who was a sword cultivation, couldn’t catch up with him when it came to the sword.
For a while, Lou Xingyao was a bit fascinated.
It wasn’t until Wen Hanshan made a beautiful sword flower in his hand and put the sword back into the scabbard that he gradually came back to his senses.
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Thanks for the chapter! ML is such an awkward creature, lol. What makes a house a home? Care.