You Zi cast her chasing gaze at Aoki because she knew Aoki's weak personality too well.
She was not a strong and independent woman. She was sentimental. A woman like her needed a safe and stable harbor to entrust all her weak feelings. She was like a vine wrapped around a tree, hugging the tree tightly, never leaving, and always relying on the tree.
To be honest, deep down in his heart, he disliked women like her. However, at this point, who else could he choose among the 165 Mudmen in the Kun Pavilion?
Those mud women who could pass the test were very popular and sought after. They had the absolute right to choose and put on a high and mighty posture. Even if he wanted to throw the embroidered ball over, they would not accept it. Not only would he be asking for boredom, but he would also waste his efforts!
However, Huizi was different. She did not have enough pearls and was about to face elimination. Her heart was fragile and she looked down on herself. If someone was willing to help her, she would definitely be grateful and perhaps even devote herself to him. Therefore, pursuing her was like a barrier.
Since he might not be able to achieve anything if he pursued her across the mountains, why not pursue her? Besides, the pressing time was like a sword hanging over his head, and he could not slowly choose carefully.
Huizi lowered her head in silence, fiddling with a blade of grass with her two fingers. She felt that her fate was similar to the blade of grass in her hand. It was light and weightless, at the mercy of the wind, unable to be controlled by her own hands.
The last ray of light shone on her pale and melancholic face, making her look very pitiful.
He looked at her and said in a gentle tone,"
"Haven't you always dreamed of passing?”
She nodded and rubbed the grass in her hand into a ball.
"I can help you pass the test. I have 1,300 pearls in my hand. As long as I give you 300 pearls, you can pass the test!”
She threw away the grass in her hand and finally raised her head to look at him. A glimmer of hope flashed across her eyes as she asked softly,
"Are you really willing to help me?"
"As long as you're willing to follow me!”
“……”
She didn't answer immediately. If she agreed to his request, it would mean leaving Wei Zi. She was very reluctant to part with him.
"You're a discerning person. You should be able to see that Wei Zi definitely won't pass! Han Mu personally told me that I still have to help the two Mudmen pass the test. It's easier said than done in ten days! If he had a way, he wouldn't have come to me for advice!”
When Hui Zi heard him say this, she only hesitated for a moment before answering unexpectedly,
"Alright, I'll follow you!"
Her straightforwardness made him smile. Indeed, he had guessed correctly. He had only used 300 pearls to get her. From now on, she was his!
"Tomorrow, that silly tree will come looking for you again. Tell him personally that you are already my girlfriend. Tell him to stop daydreaming and stay away from you.”
Huizi did not speak. Her heart was in a mess and her mind was blank.
He reached out and hugged her slender waist, as if he was hugging an item he had just bought. He did not care if she was willing or not, he hugged her and caressed her wantonly. He vented on her as if he was trying to make up for the disappointment in his other relationship.
She only struggled a little, trying to break free from his touch.
"You belong to me now. You have to listen to me obediently!”
His tone became domineering and she did not dare to struggle anymore. She obediently let him do whatever he wanted, just like the grass in the wind.
When the first rays of the morning sun shone on her pale, tearful face, she staggered back to her room and threw herself on the bed. She covered her face with a pillow and sobbed for a long time before stopping.
She opened the box and took out the largest, whitest, and most sparkling pearl. She placed it in her palm and wanted to take one last look at the woman in the pearl.
Under the bamboo, the woman was combing her hair. Her hair was as black as a waterfall. A pure smile hung on her lips.
Huizi really didn't understand. How could a dusty woman with a fragile life and no future be able to smile when she was constantly facing the threat of death?
She looked at the woman worriedly. Her fingers gradually closed and she held the pearl tightly in her palm.
A series of footsteps sounded, and Wei Zi appeared in front of her on time. Her red and swollen eyes did not dare to look at him.
"What's wrong with you? Didn't sleep well last night?" He looked at her face and asked with concern.
She lowered her head and whispered,
"Yes, I had a nightmare last night and woke up in shock!”She made up a lie.
"Oh, you're worried about passing the test again. Don't worry, I'll think of a way!”
"Wei Zi, you…you don't have to help me anymore!”
"Why?"
"I…I already have six hundred pearls!”
"Really? How did you get 300 pearls?”He was surprised and pleasantly surprised.
"It's You Zi. He gave me 300 pearls!”She said calmly, not showing a trace of happiness.
"It's him? He was willing to give you three hundred pearls because he wanted to…"
There was no free lunch. He understood You Zi. Everything was about returns. She was good at gaining favors and was calculative. She would never give away 300 precious pearls for free.
She lowered her head and didn't say anything. Tears welled up in her eyes as she endured her grievances and didn't know how to explain it to him.
Wei Zi had already guessed it in his heart. He stood there silently for a while before pretending to be happy.
"I'm really happy for you that you can pass. I still have something to do. I have to go!”
When he reached the door, she suddenly called out to him,
"Wait, I have something for you!”
He turned around and looked at her. She stretched out her right hand and released her clenched fingers. In her palm, there was a crystal pearl.
Wei Zi immediately recognized that it was the pearl that he had fallen for.
"Here-I know you like this bead! I'll give it to you now!"
His eyes suddenly became moist. She knew his heart very well and had long seen that he loved that dusty woman. His gaze turned from the pearl to her face.
"Huizi, you…"
"I already have 600 Miao Pearls now. Without it, it won't affect my passing. However, you can't come to my place often in the future. Let it accompany you!"
"Huizi, thank you!"
"If nothing unexpected happens, including me, you have 79 Mudmen who have a chance of passing the test. You just have to work harder and help one Mudman pass the test! You have to go all out! At that time, I don't want to see you continue to stay here…"
Her voice was choked with sobs, and tears finally flowed down her delicate face, dripping onto the pearl in her hand.
At this moment, he finally understood that Huizi had agreed to You Zi's request for his sake. His heart was instantly drowned by bitter tears. He replied in a low voice,
"Huizi, don't worry, I will pass. I promise you, I will pass! I'm leaving…"
When he said the last sentence, Wei Zi's eyes welled up with tears. In order not to let Hui Zi see the tears in his eyes, he hurriedly turned around and left with his head lowered.
Wei Zi returned to the control center. He had been sitting there all evening, tasting the pain and anxiety alone. His heart was filled with heavy thoughts, and he was almost suffocating.
Time was like a wild hare. The more one wanted to catch it and chase it, the faster it fled. In the blink of an eye, six days of time flew past him.
Fortunately, the past six days had been sunny and sunny. There had been no storms or bad news about Miao Zhu's loss. However, the deadline was close at hand. There were only four days left!
To Wei Zi, the situation was like a millstone hanging from the eaves of a house-the eaves were very strict: Within four days, if not a single Mudman managed to obtain a pass, then he would have no hope of passing the test. It could be said that his life was hanging by a thread!
He walked into the control center and sat at a table, thinking hard about a solution.
On the table in front of him, there was an old cloth bag that he carried with him. There was a pearl in it--the pearl that Huizi had given him.
He casually opened the cloth bag and wanted to take out the pearl. To be honest, he could not leave the pearl. He could not get enough of it and always wanted to hold it in his hand. Only in this way could his anxious heart find a trace of peace.
Perhaps, the pure smile of that dusty woman was like the long-lost bright sunshine, which could dispel the melancholy haze in his heart.
When he took out Miao Zhu, he accidentally took out a piece of paper.
Seeing this piece of paper, he recalled the scene on the first day he entered the Kun Pavilion. The man had personally handed him a piece of paper and told him that his duties and management matters had been listed on the paper. He could do as he was told. Finally, he had said to him," I believe you can do it!”
He silently recited those words in his heart again:
"The vastness and narrowness of the world are all due to self-creation. Time is long, but busy people naturally hasten; Heaven and earth are broad, but humble people naturally narrow; Wind, flowers, snow and moon are originally idle, but those who are tired and busy are naturally redundant.”
He repeatedly read it silently, but he still could not understand. Why did the ointment man want him to do it according to the words on the note? They still believed that he could do it?
However, he did not do it now. He had already fallen into a state of confusion and did not know what to do!
He grabbed the note in frustration, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it on the ground. He condensed his long-suppressed depression into one sentence and shouted angrily at it,
"Xiu! Go to hell-"
The ball of paper rolled on the ground a few times, but it did not go to see a ghost. Instead, it stopped steadily on the floor.
Wei Zi's wild shout vented the pent-up frustrations in his heart, and his mind gradually calmed down.
After a long time, he got up and slowly walked to the ball of paper. He picked it up and smoothed it out again.
It didn't matter when he unfolded it, but Wei Zi had an unexpected discovery-the piece of paper in his hand wasn't the piece of paper that the cream man had given him because the words on the paper were completely different from the original few sentences.
He quickly reached into his bag and took out two more pieces of paper. In other words, there were a total of three pieces of paper in his bag.
He carefully unfolded the crumpled piece of paper and saw that it wrote:
" The leader of the Kun Pavilion has the right to adjust the pearls in any box flexibly. He also has the privilege to select a thousand pearls from the boxes of the 165 mud men and buy the stairs from the Dust Layer Sector to the Kun Pavilion to help a dusty woman transform into a mud man!”
This was truly an amazing discovery! And it was just in time, just as the deadline was approaching, just as he was secretly in love with a dusty woman.
It was as if there was a rush of blood rushing to his head. His heart was beating like a deer, and the hand holding the note trembled slightly.
Who gave him this note? Why hadn't he noticed it? Was what was written on the note true? Would it be possible to follow the instructions on the note?
Don't think too much! It was as if a voice was urging him to do it! Go and try it immediately, hurry up and try it! This is your last hope to pass!
He couldn't hold it in any longer, and his heart began to race.
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