26 Pillar of the Country 5 (2/2)
The clean pure air assaulted her nose. It was so refreshing!
When she looks in the middle of the place, a pristine and dazzling lake came into her sight. It was surrounded by flowers and there are even some patches of light lingering in it.
Xi Sheng kneels down and looks at the lake, it reflected her face.
It was so clean and clear that she could see the bottom of the lake. There are even some kinds of fish swimming in it.
The reflected face softens, and the lips arched slightly upwards.
”Fuck!”
The reflected face creased its eyebrows while its ears are turning red.
Who's that devastating hottie?!
Xi Sheng looks at her reflection.
Oh, it's just me. Sometimes, my beauty even startles myself. I'm such a sinful wo...man?
The hell? She examined her facial features with anxiousness.
It's still the same face, so when did it become androgynous?
Xi Sheng tried to smile, but the result astonished her.
Is this even a smile?
Then she remembered her quirk, mild facial paralysis.
Anyway, this kind of smile is already devastating. What will happen if she 'truly' smiles? It could cause a downfall of a country.
Xi Sheng shakes her head.
I should stop bullshitting. I don't want to become Narcissus[1].
Xi Sheng stopped trolling with herself and became partly serious.
She scanned the area and found the plant she's searching for... Bleu-mist lady slipper!
True to its name, the plant is coloured blue and resembles a mist. Maybe because of its water composition, the plant, if handled wrongly, would slip in the hands and like a lady, would disappear. It would appear again at night.
The plant is only small in size, but it surrounded the whole lake.
Newbies would pluck the plant straight away, but that's wrong. Although Bleu-mist lady slipper has a huge population, its price is very expensive. Because only a few of it could be plucked perfectly.
”Ignorant fools,” Xi Sheng muttered to herself.
In order to capture these plants, the great me will show you magnanimously.
First, Xi Sheng took a sharp rock and torn the part of her robe. Together with her hands, she washed the cloth thoroughly. She didn't squeeze the cloth and let it soak to accommodate the lake water.
Next, she carefully removes the main plant from its stem, so it would still continue to grow even if the head is gone. Then placed it in the wet cloth. She collected for at least twenty of them.
The sky already lost its passionate glare. She spent so much time in the forest; the people in the temple might he worried...or maybe not. Xi Sheng felt a sudden uneasiness.
She should go back, but she felt nervous about what to say when she faced them. Will he still accept her?
She shrugs it off. If she's suddenly kicked out, the forest is available anyway. She lived as a 'feral' anyway.
It's probably four to five in the afternoon when she decided to go back.
”Ah!”
Xi Sheng's ears tingle. She looks at the eastern direction of the forest.
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Was it her imagination?
Xi Sheng's ears caught another faint sound of shouting.
”Hel...me”
Her instinct told her that there's really someone, maybe about a kilometre, crying for help.
Maybe living in the forest and acting out with the animals has some benefits, though she wasn't sure whether that benefit is good or bad.
Should she respond or not? It's not like it would do her some good.
Hiss!
Xi Sheng's eyes turned unfocused for a bit.
That memory again.
She glared at the direction of the eastern part. Although she felt that something bad would happen if she helps them, but...
Xi Sheng clicked her tongue in annoyance. While her expression is still uncaring, her eyes state otherwise.
In a mild and irritating tone, she voiced out: ”How annoying.”
Xi Sheng put the cloth containing bleu-mist lady slipper plants into a part of the lake where it won't float far away.
She quickly stretches her body and jumps from trunk to trunk of the trees.
Her silhouette vanished in the wilderness.
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Footnotes:
[1] Narcissus- In Greek mythology, Narcissus is the man who fell in love with his reflection. He walked by a pool of water and decided to drink some. He saw his reflection, became entranced by it, and killed himself because he could not have his object of desire. Narcissus did not realize it was merely his own reflection and fell deeply in love with it as if it were somebody else.