The Journey of Flower Chapter 138

As soon as the ice and snow melted, Hua Qiangu could not stay idle anymore, she has been throwing a tantrum wanted to go down the mountain lone to earn experience.

"Shifu, you promised me, you promised…."

Her clear bright eyes made Bai Zihua did not dare to look at her directly and in the end could only agreed with her: "Okay, you have to be careful."

He cast a spell on her, so that ordinary people can not see her or remember her appearance cleary. Hua Qiangu happily pack up and ran down the mountain in enthusiasm. Even though she still hasn't finished learning magic spells and sword techniques, during this period she has studied and practiced hard, and her qinggong skill has improved a lot. (Qinggong- martial art technique for making the body extremely light as a feather.)

Bai Zihua watching her in secret and recalled the days when they had traveled together in the human realm. There was a sudden mixed feeling in his heart. He originally worried that she would be afraid to come into contact with strangers like her first time, being inexperience and easily cheated. But he found that she's so familiar with the human world as if she has come here so many times. Even some famous interesting spots and snack shops locations, she knew them all clearly. She knew how to deal with the situation when she encountered a wicked person or wanted to help the weak. She's just like an experienced traveler in Jianghu, doesn't seem to need his help at all.

Because of this, the poor child could only roamed around freely and happily for three days and was taken back to Mount Cloud by her shifu.

An amulet was dropped on her feet, Bai Zihua's face immediately became frosty.

"What is this?"

Hua Qiangu has been hiding this from him all this time, it makes her feel very guilty, and now this crime came to light. She confessed in a low voice: "A friend gave me."

Bai Zihua asked with a Fierce eyes: "Who?"

"Dongfang Yuqing."

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Slightly took a step back, a look of tiredness appeared in the eyes. He has guessed it this kind of item only Dongfang Yuqing has them, but he still holds on a hope that it was given to her by Sha Qianmu. The man he has been most afraid of for so long turned out to be Dongfang Yuqing. The reason why he let down his guard this time because 11 years ago when Dongfang Yuqing helped him find Sha Qianmu, he was already in his twenties. He should have died a few years ago. The heaven punishment, on one from Yi Xiu Ge Pavillion can escape. It's impossible for him to have a chance to borrow the life and live for two lifetimes. Therefore, when he saw Hua Qiangu slowly changed herself, it never occurred to him it was Dongfang Yuqing. He felt Dongfang Yuqing is like a hunting ghost, no matter what unwilling to let both of them go.

His hands tightly gripped, the amulet paper on the ground suddenly turned into flying ash: "You are not allowed to see him again."

"Shifu!" Hua Qiangu stamped on her feet in anxious.

"You unexpectedly learned to lie to me. Go into your room and reflect on yourself. You are not allowed to come out for a month!"

Hua Qiangu felt so aggrieved: "Dongfang is a good person. He's my friend, why don't you let me see him!"

"Are you able to distinguish a good or bad person with your eyes? Why can't you ever change your bad habit of trusting people so easily?"

"I didn't…" Watching Bai Zihua flung out of the room, her eyes turned red. Obviously it was him who did not tell anything, took her as a fool. In his heart can't forget that Hua Qiangu and everything she does is all wrong!

After staying in the room for a few days, she felt more and more restless. Is shifu really angry at her this time? He didn't even come to see her and only left the food on the table at the regular time. She knew that if she admits her mistake in front of shifu, he will forgive her. But the more she thought about it, the more she felt she didn't do anything wrong, why should she say sorry. Before, she didn't understand things and felt that living in the mountain with shifu was not a bad idea, but later when she came to know Dongfang, she discovered that the world is so big but her world is limited by shifu and seemed that there is no one else in her life but shifu. The outside world is so big, she wants to have friends, she wants freedom!

Eventually she still couldn't sit still when she thought of how shifu has painstaking to teach and nurture her, but herself disobeyed him, he must have been upset. Thinking like this, her heart became softer and decided to admit her mistake to him. But it's impossible not to let her see Dongfang. She wanted to marry him!

However, she looked for Bai Zihua everywhere and couldn't find him. Did he go out? Suddenly a place came to her mind, she then ran to the bamboo garden. As expected, she saw a dim light through the half closed door from a long distance. She pushed the door in and saw the house was full of mess. Bai Zihua was leaning against the wall, and his body emitting on and off silver light. His white clothes is particularly dazzling.

"Shifu!" Hua Qiangu was about to cry from anxiousness, and quickly went to help him. She saw his eyes shut tightly, and sweat trickled down his head, holding his left arm, the blue veins on his neck are popping in a very painful look. Sheets of white paper scattered around, they are all the portraits of shifu she saw last time.

"Xiao Gu…." Bai Zihua frowned and whispered softly.

"Shifu! I am here! What happened to you?" Hua Qiangu took a lot of effort to lift him from the ground.

"How can you…."

"Shifu, Xiao Gu admits my mistake. Don't scare me like this!" Hua Qiangu hugged him tightly and cried.

Bai Zihua's mind was fuzzy, and the whole body was cramping with pain. He pushed away the person in front of him and grashed those portraits tightly onto his chest. It's like thousands of years of melancholy that has accumulated and has nowhere to release it, and could only cry out quietly. 

"Don't leave me again…."

Hua Qiangu stood up and slowly step back while looking at him. She then turned around and ran out as her tears could not stop from flowing.

In shifu's eyes, she will always be a substitute. In this world, only Dongfang who is really treating her well!

Back to her room, she curled up in bed and cried for a long time, before she knew it, she has cried herself to sleep. While in her sleep, she heard someone opened the door. She opened her eyes and saw Bai Zihua coming in. His complexion was pale, and  looked so weak. He looked like a thin piece of paper that could easily poke into hole.

A bowl of peach blossom soup was placed on the table. Bai Zihua then sat quietly beside her bed.

"Xiao Gu…. you already knew everything that happened in the past?"  She reacted so strongly. Dongfang Yuqing must have told her everything.

Hua Qiangu suddenly hated this name. She did not answer, just covered her head with a quilt, but Bai Zihua's voice was so clear even though she tried to avoid it.

"Dongfang Yuqing carried thousands of years of memory into reincarnation. Even though he's just a human, there is nothing that he doesn't know. Everything is in his control. You became like that in last life, it could say most part is my responsibility, but he also has been pushing hands in secret. No one knows if he is being sincere or pretend. I'm not letting you having any contact with him is for your own good."

Hua Qiangu still didn't respond. Bai Zihua stayed silent for a long time, seemed to want to explain something, but in the end, he did not know how to open his mouth. He then took a deep sighed, got up and left.

Hua Qiangu stuck her head out and looked around. After making sure that Bai Zihua was really gone, she decided to get out of the bed. Looking at the bowl of peach blossom soup, her stomach started to growl. After two mouthfuls of eating, with tears flowed into the bowl, she felt very sad and bitter. There was also some sort of nausea feeling.

Throwing the spoon to the side, she got up and began to pack. Cloud Mountain, she can't stay here any longer. She's going to find Dongfang. In fact, shifu doesn't need her at all, he need the former Hua Qiangu. But she's not her, she doesn't want to pretend anymore!

Sneak out of the room like a thief and on her way to go down the mountain. However, she didn't expect to see the white dazzling back view by the stream and heard his voice was as calm as usual could not tell whether he's sad or happy, asking her:

"Where do you want to go?"

Chapter end