After about a while, Luo Chuan found the village chief here and used the gold to find a relatively beautiful courtyard nearby surrounded by streams.
I saw the courtyard in front of me embedded in the green hills, surrounded by bamboo fences and covered with green vines.
The stream outside the courtyard is gurgling and clear to the bottom. You can clearly see the fish swimming on the rocks and the weeping willows on the shore. The catkins sway gently when the wind blows.
There are several old osmanthus trees in the courtyard, their petals rustling on the bluestone, mixed with the fragrance of soil and vegetation.
In the distance, there are green peaks and dense clouds. The sun shines through the forest and casts off shimmering waves. It is as quiet and beautiful as a smudged Shuimo.
"This will be the place where you become mortal from now on. Please tidy up the room. We will live here during this period."
Luo Chuan picked up the broom on the side and started cleaning the dust in the room.
Li Muwan also filled a basin of water and started cleaning the cabinets and so on. Although she was a little uncomfortable without using her spiritual power, she gradually discovered that mortal life was quite interesting.
It is not as boring as the world of cultivation. Instead, it is accompanied by green mountains and surrounded by green water. This is absolutely beneficial and harmless to Li Muwan.
By evening, the dust in the courtyard was cleared.
Looking at the courtyard that looked like a home in front of her, Li Muwan happily revealed her two little tiger teeth, with a somewhat soft look on her beautiful face.
Maybe this kind of life is what she dreams of.
Being able to live in the countryside and live a fulfilling life every day is something that Li Muwan, who has been practicing Buddhism for hundreds of years, has never imagined.
"You are the new neighbors, right?"
At this moment, the wooden door of the courtyard was pushed open, and a man and a woman wearing simple clothes walked in, and the woman was the pregnant mother of Zhou Ru.
"I am your neighbor. My name is Zhou Lin. I wonder what my brother's name is?"
"Luo Chuan."
Zhou Lin walked over with a smile, placed the food he brought from home on the table, and then arranged for his wife to chat with Li Muwan.
After all, they will be neighbors from now on, and it is the right thing to take care of each other.
Zhou Ru's mother took Li Muwan's hands with a smile and said softly, "You should be from the Chu Kingdom's capital city. Why did we come to live in the village? Did something happen at home?"
Li Muwan glanced at the position of senior Luo Chuan and realized that he was not a cultivator now. He regarded himself as an ordinary person. He smiled warmly and answered the other party's question.
"We came from a nearby town. Our family encountered difficulties, so we came here to live. I shouldn't bother you."
The beautiful woman smiled and said softly, "See what you said, we will be neighbors from now on. If you need anything, just ask. Your brother-in-law and I brought some wild boar meat today, just in time to bring it over for you to taste."
"That's too polite, we can't have it."
Li Muwan was about to refuse, but the beautiful woman took her hands and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter, we will be neighbors from now on. If you need anything, just ask."
The twilight is closing, the laurel trees in the courtyard are sifting through the fine moon shadow, and the evening breeze carries the coolness of the stream, blowing away the fatigue of the day.
As soon as Luo Chuan moved the clean wooden table into the courtyard, Zhou Lin walked in with a big step, carrying a jar of wine and two plates of side dishes, with a hearty smile on his face.
"Brother Luo Chuan, I just heard my wife say that you have packed up. I specially brought a jar of home-brewed rice wine and came over to have a drink with you!"
Luo Chuan raised his eyes and saw that the pottery altar in his hand was wrapped in coarse cloth and the mouth of the altar was stuffed with oil paper. He could vaguely smell the mellow aroma of wine, so he smiled and turned sideways to let him into the room.
"Brother Zhou is interested, please take a seat."
As he spoke, he took out three stoneware bowls from the house and placed them on the table.
Li Muwan came out with freshly brewed hot tea. Seeing this scene, he also smiled and bought a bamboo chair for Zhou Lin: "Brother Zhou, sit down quickly and have a cup of tea to warm yourself up."
Zhou Lin was not polite. He placed the wine jar on the table and opened the oil paper stopper. A clear aroma of wine instantly spread out, mixed with the fragrance of osmanthus, which was refreshing.
"I made this stuff with the glutinous rice I grew at home last fall and buried it under the old locust tree in the yard. I dug it out today to try it!"
Zhou Lin said, lifting the wine jar and pouring a full bowl for Luo Chuan and himself. The amber wine liquid had fine bubbles and swayed slightly along the rim of the bowl.
"First of all, a toast to brother Luo Chuan!"
Zhou Lin picked up the wine bowl, raised his arms, and said with a smile, "You have just moved here, and you will be neighbors from now on. If you have any difficulties, just ask. Most of the people in our village are sincere, and it is necessary to help each other!"
Before he finished speaking, Zhou Lin raised his head and drank most of the drink. His Adam's apple rolled and made a happy sound. When he put down the bowl, he wiped the water stains from the corners of his mouth.
"Happy!"
Luo Chuan also picked up the bowl, raised it towards him, and took a sip.
The sweetness of rice wine melts on the tip of the tongue, with the sweetness of glutinous rice, without the spiciness of spirits, but it is warm and long, sliding down the throat and warming the chest and abdomen.
He rarely drinks alcohol on weekdays. Although the nectar and jade liquid in the world of cultivation can improve his cultivation, it lacks such pure smoke and smoke. Now he drinks the rice wine of a mortal, and he feels that it has a different taste.
"Brother Zhou, you're welcome. I'll trouble you more in the future."
Li Muwan sat aside, holding a warm tea cup, watching the two drinking together, with a slight smile on his lips.
Although she didn't drink, she was still infected by the lively atmosphere. She looked at Zhou Lin's cheerful appearance and listened to him telling interesting things about the village.
Whose chicken laid double-yolked eggs, whose child went up the mountain to pick wild fruits and got lost, and was sent back by the hunters in the back mountain. Every piece of the story is full of simplicity and freshness, which is completely different from the boring world of cultivation.
Zhou Lin got drunk and filled up the wine for Luo Chuan, and the conversation started completely. "Brother Luo Chuan, I see you have an extraordinary bearing. You don't look like someone who works in the fields all year round. Why do you want to settle in our remote village?"
He asked straightforwardly, but he had no intention of prying, just pure curiosity.
Luo Chuan's hand holding the bowl paused, his eyes swept over the stream and distant mountains outside the courtyard, and he said with a faint smile, "The life in the city is too noisy, it is better to be quiet in the countryside, guarding the green mountains and green waters, and feel at ease."
"That's right!"
Zhou Lin patted his thigh and felt the same, and said, "Although our village is remote, the mountains Qingshui are beautiful. When you are hungry, you can grow your own food. When you are free, you can go up the mountain to pick some wild fruits and go down to the river to catch two fish. Although your life is not rich, it is solid and stable."
Zhou Lin took another sip of wine, his eyes full of satisfaction, and immediately said again, "My wife is pregnant. The doctor in the village said that the mountains and rivers here are good, and it is also good for raising babies."
"If I can become an immortal in the future, my Zhou family will be like smoke rising from the ancestral graves."
Li Muwan followed his words and asked about the customs and customs of the village. Zhou Lin told him everything. When he got excited, he couldn't help but make gestures.