Chapter 104: Osmanthus Fragrance Wafts
She was raised by her grandmother and only saw her grandfather when she was very young. Her memories of him are vague, and she can't recall what he looked like.
It was under this osmanthus tree when she was five years old that her grandmother told her about her origins.
That autumn, the osmanthus flowers were in full bloom, and the fragrance of osmanthus filled the entire village.
In the middle of the night, grandma heard a cry and got up to open the door. She found a baby lying under the osmanthus tree, wrapped in a red brocade, but there was no one beside him.
Seeing the baby crying loudly, she softened and picked up the baby.
Who would have thought that as soon as the baby was in her arms, she stopped crying, and with those big round eyes staring at her, she melted her heart.
As soon as she picked up the baby, she found something in the swaddle. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be six pieces of exquisite gold and silver jewelry, which must have been prepared by the baby's father or mother as a token of appreciation for foster care.
The kind grandmother adopted the baby, but was opposed by her family. In desperation, the grandmother pawned all her jewelry and used it as the baby's living expenses, and her several sons and daughters reluctantly agreed to come down.
The grandmother put away the brocade, wanting to leave a keepsake for the baby. Who would have thought that her several sons and daughters secretly took it out to sell, dividing the money among themselves? It wasn't until half a year later that the grandmother discovered the brocade was gone. She interrogated her children, only then did she learn the truth, but by then it was too late, and they couldn't find it anymore.
As for the loss of the brocade, Luo Yu didn't mind, but her grandmother was full of guilt and sadness, so Luo Yu often comforted her.
Luo Yu grew up quietly in this village, and was no different from the other children in the village. Everyone played together and caused trouble together.
She got along well with several of her cousins, but three uncles were always lukewarm towards her, which she never took to heart.
The old people in the village always say that her parents abandoned her because of their preference for sons over daughters. Now with family planning, if they had kept her, her parents wouldn't have been able to have a second child.
Luoyu didn't care why her parents abandoned her. Since they left gold and silver jewelry, sending her to her grandmother's side, it was already not bad, at least she wouldn't starve to death or be sold as a slave, but would grow up slowly like an ordinary rural girl, although the days were bitter, there were also many pleasures.
More than twenty years have passed, the cassia tree is still there, the moonlight is bright and clear, but Luo Yu's brow has slowly furrowed.
Everything is just like in memory, but it's too much like a memory. She had just thought of the insects chirping and frogs croaking when she immediately heard a grand countryside chorus.
She had just thought of the broken tiles and crumbling walls when a dilapidated house overgrown with weeds appeared next door to her home.
When she was a child, she often ran into the dilapidated house with her little friends to play. However, it's deep night now, would a woman in white float out from inside?
Suddenly. A gust of dark wind, a woman in white clothes with a pale face, long hair flowing, and a scarlet tongue sticking out, floated in mid-air, drifting towards Luo Yu.
Luo Yu was amused and burst out laughing: "Isn't this the Sadako version of the female ghost? Actually, I like the Qianni version of the female ghost the most. Beautiful and charming."
The female ghost in the air paused for a moment, but her appearance didn't change at all. She floated silently to Luo Yu's side, exhaling cold air that sent chills down his spine.
Luoyu should have felt afraid, but she didn't feel a bit of fear. There was an idea in her mind that seemed to be able to burn the female ghost to death with just one flip of her hand.
She lifted her palm, just about to flip it over, when the female ghost's red tongue extended into her hand. It licked once, sticky and cool.
"Ugh, I'm going to be sick! Get out of here quickly, or else I'll kill you!"
Luo Yu kicked out with one foot, but saw the female ghost drift to one side with the wind, dodging her shadowless kick.
"It's really annoying, I'm going home to sleep." Luo Yu waved her hand and turned towards the door of her house.
When she was a kid, she would often be scared to tears by ghost stories. Even when she grew up, she didn't dare watch horror movies at night. But now that she's seen a female ghost with her own eyes, she's not afraid at all - in fact, she even dares to kick the ghost! When did she become so brave? This is just too unscientific!
Unscientific? Uh (⊙o⊙), fantasy?
Luoyu turned around, looking at the ferocious female ghost chasing after her. She smiled slightly, raised her right hand, and a burst of spiritual light flashed out. The female ghost slowly disintegrated into powder and disappeared.
Back home, Luo Yu looked at her grandmother's peaceful sleeping face, and tears slowly flowed down.
"Grandma, I regret not spending more time with you when I had the chance. After graduation, I thought about staying in the big city to earn more money so that I could buy many things to take care of you. However, as a newcomer to society, my salary was not high and after working for a year, aside from the cost of returning home, there wasn't much money left over. During the Spring Festival holiday, I bought some nutritional supplements and happily returned home to see you, only to find that you were bedridden with illness."
Luo Yu stroked her grandmother's wrinkled face, tears wetting the quilt: "I quit my job and devoted myself to taking care of you, but I found that you are after all too old, your oil is exhausted and your lamp is dry, and you left a month later?????? I know, you always worry that I have no one to take care of me, it's too hard for me to be alone. But now I have a family, they treat me well, I'm very happy, you can rest assured??????"
Luo Yu wiped away her tears, gazed at her grandmother with deep affection for a moment, then pointed downwards. Her grandmother transformed into a light shadow and slowly disappeared. Everything around them twisted and distorted like ripples, gradually dispersing.
Bang! With a loud thud, Luo Yu fell down, her body hitting the ground, her buttocks pointing towards the sky.
"It's a good thing I desperately protected my face, so my beautiful appearance was preserved. Tonight, I'll find an opportunity to tell ??????"
Suddenly a sentence popped up in her mind, and Luo Yu burst out laughing, rubbing her face. Even if it was broken, it didn't matter, anyway she didn't need to confess to anyone.
Luoyu struggled to her feet, raised her head and looked around. Indeed, she was now in a large circular hall with snow-white walls and mysterious patterns, but there were no other decorations.
There were over a dozen people floating in the air, their bodies straight and their faces downward. It was clear that as soon as they flew into the Mystic Tower, they had been pulled into an illusion. She must have also been one of them at some point.
"Sister, are you hurt?" A handsome young man walked over, his eyes filled with concern.
"Brother!" Luo Yu excitedly pulled on Zi Yun's sleeve, "You've also come in, did you escape the illusion a long time ago?"
"I just woke up too, sister, what's with your cultivation?????"
The conversation was cut off by a loud thud, and another person woke up. The brother and sister turned their heads in unison.
"If Jade sister was as sturdy as in the dream, hehe, then we can practice together!!!!" Sun Daniu muttered regretfully while getting up from the ground.
As soon as the two words "dual cultivation" entered her ears, Luo Yu's willow eyebrows inverted in anger, and Zi Ye also showed a hint of annoyance, so he coughed heavily twice.
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No manuscript available, written slowly, please forgive me, dear reader.
