Shuang Er said, “Miss also said, if you have anything to say, you can write a letter to her directly.”
With a flutter, a white crane flew down from the sky. While flapping its wings, it landed outside of the library. Water slowly flowed down from its feathers.
Chen Chang Sheng looked at the white crane and nodded.
The white crane moved near him and touched his right arm using its neck. It appeared to be very affectionate towards him.
“Did you live well all these years?” he spoke to the white crane.
White Crane tweeted as if it was answering.
Seeing this image, Shuang Er was very surprised.
Last night when the white crane flew back, Chen Chang Sheng felt that he had forgotten something. Back then, he thought it was the black dragon under the abandoned garden but now he recalled that he should write a letter and let the white crane take it to Xu You Rong. There were many things to say so it’s better to communicate directly.
Shuang Er had been playing a role in the communication between Xu You Rong and him, he didn’t like that.
From the time he arrived at the capital, he had only received one letter from Xu You Rong. In this letter, there were only three words and it was very concise, “Please behave yourself.”
Chen Chang Sheng held pen and thought for a while about how determined, meaningful, and arrogant the words he wrote should be, so that he could reply to her without losing his honor.
This was the first letter he wrote to her after ten years.
However, after all this thought, he only wrote a normal letter, with normal words about normal things.
He didn’t really want to get in a fight(not physical) with little girl.
Even if she was Xu You Rong, even if she was only three days younger than him, he considered her a little girl.
In the South, ten thousands miles away, it was the Mountain Virgin.
The land under the Mountain Virgin was all forbidden. But three hundred miles away, there was a small town. The inhabitants were all commoners. There were blacksmiths, a liquor store, a meat store and a casino. Usually, people play dice or dominoes, but in the depths of this casino, there was a simple room. In the room there was a table.
People were playing Mahjong there.
Sitting at the East hand was a beautiful girl.
The girl was around fourteen. She was so beautiful that it seems as if she wasn’t a regular human.
The other three people at the table knew she definitely was a regular human.
Two years ago, the boss of the casino was going to do something evil to her. The fact that she looked young and small and therefore weak, made it even easier to arouse a person’s desire to commit a crime. He died in a very scary way. The dealer then took over the casino. He was the middle aged man sitting at the west of the table.
Since that day, after a period of time, this girl would come to the small town and play Mahjong. She wouldn’t stop without playing continuously for two days and a night.
The simple room would only open once in several months. The people who were playing Mahjong with her were the three from the very beginning. Nothing changed. The three people were commoners, how could they expect to meet such special thing?
From the endless fear in the very beginning to eventually playing without trembling their hands, they played a very long time. By now, they could already naturally get along with that little goddess. In game, they would no longer go easy, but would play for real and sometimes, they even dared to complain.
Being able to play Mahjong with such a pretty goddess, how fortunate were they?
And sometimes, they could really win money.
A crane’s tweet came up outside the window and little girl said, “I have something to do tonight, can’t play anymore.”
The three people were very surprised. They all thought: What happened? She actually ended it so early this time? How about the rule of playing continuous for two days and a night?
The girl took out several golden leaves and left them on the table as compensation. She then turned around and left.
The three stared at each other. A lady worried and said, “It seems that something happened to the girl. She’s not so interested in the game.”
On a cliff away from the small town, Xu You Rong unfastened the letter from the white crane’s leg and opened it casually.
Under the starlights, the paper could be seen clearly. The words were common, the handwriting was clear, and the paragraph wasn’t long but she took a long time to read it.
Among the words and handwriting, she saw reservedness. She didn’t see any hatred or negative emotion at all.
She could hardly imagine how a youngster, after experiencing so many troubles in the capital, could still remain calm.
If she was him, she definitely couldn’t do so.
She remembered that he was only three days older.