Chapter 47: Juggling

After entering the city, Bai Yuming didn’t know where he should lay his eyes on.

The festival in this city is very merry.

Carved beams and painted buildings, converged roads, colorful lanterns, and busy traffic. Everyone on the street was full of laughter, and the joy in their voices cannot be hidden. There’s the smell of firecrackers in the air, the scent of a charming lady’s perfume, also delicious aroma of various foods such as steamed buns, braised duck, beef noodles, fried dumplings, and roast chicken.

The happiness on the street infected Bai Yuming, and he, who didn’t want to go out at first, couldn’t help but sigh at the Spring Festival’s enthusiastic atmosphere.

It’s a pity that Bai Yuming doesn’t have money to buy food.

Bai Yuming glanced at Mo Shulin many times, but remembering that he warned his disciple to not spend money casually before they went out, Bai Yuming had to endure his appetite so as to not slap himself in the face.

There are also many ways to have fun without spending money, especially in this joyful moment of the whole city.

As soon as Bai Yuming walked two steps forward, he saw a hanging lantern with riddles.

Many talented and attractive individuals were focused to solve the riddles under the lantern. If anyone can guess one of the lantern’s riddle, they can take away a piece of candy or a child’s headband. If they guess ten riddles in a row, they can take away a mask. By analogy, the more guesses they answered, the better the prizes.

If someone can guess all the riddles, they can not only take a big lantern, but also write their name on a red paper at the prize redemption office. Everyone who came to solve the riddles could see the names, which would make them very popular.

Bai Yuming doesn’t know how to solve the lantern riddles, but after reading so many scripts, he can always find a few familiar ones.

He stared at it with outmost seriousness, planning to redeem a small prize later.

Mo Shulin followed Bai Yuming. Even if he’s small, he could also help Bai Yuming by taking a look at the riddles in the bottom part.

It’s just that all of his thoughts were spent on cultivation in his previous life, and even though he saw some familiar riddles, he didn’t know what the answer was.

People come and go at the streets.

But suddenly somebody pushed him from behind.

Mo Shulin staggered two steps back. He was about to grab Bai Yuming’s hand but the red robe beside him has changed into pink at some point. Mo Shulin became so frightened that he quickly raised his head, only to meet an ordinary-looking girl discussing lantern riddle with another sister beside her, while Bai Yuming, who was supposed to be next to him, has gone missing.

Mo Shulin got enraged that Bai Yuming left him behind and walked away all on his own, but this isn’t the time to be angry.

Mo Shulin is panicked, wanted to find Bai Yuming, but if he rushed out, he’s afraid it would be harder for Bai Yuming to find him considering there’s so many taller people surrounding him.

Mo Shulin decided to be sensible and stood in place. He can only hope that Bai Yuming will realize they got separated and come back to find him soon.

Many people passed by one after another.

It may have been a long time, or it might just be the time when the girl beside him has solved three riddles, but for Mo Shulin it was like a lifetime.

He thought that he wouldn’t care if he lose someone.

He has lived for ten thousand years before and never felt lonely.

Now when he got separated with Bai Yuming, his heart got suffocated as if he’s dying.

Mo Shulin has always thought the love and affection in stories were fake, and going through fire and water for friendship was just an exaggeration.

In Mo Shulin’s worldview, he only felt that family affection was the most sincere emotion, because only his parents would love him so desperately. Other so-called friendships and loves were all about gaining the benefits they needed.

But when Bai Yuming disappeared by his side, Mo Shulin realized that there were other feelings that could affect him.

The feeling of losing Bai Yuming is completely different from the feeling of losing his family.

After he lost his relatives, his world became bloody, he took step by step to get his revenge and plan carefully.

But without Bai Yuming, his world instantly lost it’s color and sound. Though he could see many passerby come and go but he couldn’t feel their presence, it was as if there’s an invisible barrier seperating the two worlds and he’s all alone in the dark.

He didn’t want to live in dread for the rest of his life.

He need to retrieve Bai Yuming.

Mo Shulin closed his eyes but before he had time to search with his spiritual consciousness, he heard a familiar but deliberately dull voice on his side.

“Little kid, uncle invites you to eat some sweets, how about you come and go home with uncle?”

Bai Yuming was wearing a mask, planning to wait for the moment Mo Shulin turned around and jump scare the kid.

However, before he had time to move, a cannon-ball like Mo Shulin has thrown himself into his arms.

“You jerk.” Mo Shulin grabbed Bai Yuming’s clothes and scolded him in hysteria.

“Hey, it’s my fault, it’s my fault. Don’t cry, don’t cry.” Bai Yuming just went to prize redemption office to claim his reward but after seeing Mo Shulin, who calmly find a corner to hide, he thought there’s nothing wrong, but turns out he scared the kid to this point without realizing it.

“I didn’t cry.” Mo Shulin raised his head, gave Bai Yuming a fierce stare with a pair red but tearless eyes.

But when Mo Shulin look up, he was confronted with the rabbit mask on Bai Yuming’s face.

He became even more furious.

Bai Yuming left him because of this mask.

“Yes, yes, you didn’t cry. Oh, my cute and brave little disciple.” Bai Yuming quickly took off the mask on his face and put it on Mo Shulin’s head diagonally, “This is the gift that master gave you. Wear it quickly. Show it to master.”

Mo Shulin couldn’t get angry when he saw Bai Yuming’s hippie smile.

He was anxious, afraid that he would annoy Bai Yuming if he got angry.

He didn’t want to experience losing Bai Yuming again in this world.

“It’s so beautiful. This is a gift from master, you have to keep it.” Bai Yuming took the opportunity to pinch Mo Shulin’s cheek. It’s soft and tender, and it’s really easy to squeeze.

Because Bai Yuming had returned, the grey world has regained it’s color again, and the noises that has disappeared could finally be heard.

For the sake of Bai Yuming’s apology, Mo Shulin didn’t get angry.

But after he got a scare, both of his hands kept holding Bai Yuming’s sleeves, refusing to let go.

Bai Yuming had to hold Mo Shulin’s hand, indicating that he wouldn’t leave suddenly anymore.

Mo Shulin stares at Bai Yuming’s sleeve, then move his gaze towards the hands that held a touch of warmth, finally decided to hold it.

After another distance, Bai Yuming heard voices of applause and cheers, so he took Mo Shulin’s hand and walked towards the crowd. He wanted Mo Shulin to watch a juggling performance and relax.

“Come here, I’ll bring a Little Shushu to see the world.” Bai Yuming was coaxing the child.

Mo Shulin was indifferent, letting Bai Yuming take him to the group of performers.

When the juggler was performing to the excited masses, Mo Shulin felt so crowded that he wanted to go, but Bai Yuming looked straight ahead, can’t walk around anymore.

The jugglers are a man, a woman and a monkey.

All three of them are beginner cultivators in the Qi refining period. It can be seen from their age that they have ordinary spirit roots, and there’s no such thing as a ordinary cultivator that got accepted into a sect.

But because they have a little bit of cultivation skills and are willing to do business for money, their performances are better than ordinary people.

The male juggler strode forward and threw fireball after fireball into the air with his bare hands. He suddenly merge the two fireballs together, and it doubled in size. Then he merge another one, making the fireball became three times larger.

He began to knead the fireball until it changed in his hand.

As he squeeze it, the fireball turned into a ring of fire, then he sprayed a fire into the ring. When the two fires met, they suddenly turned into water, the water continued to twist into the figure of a charming and graceful woman.

Just when the audience began to feel enthusiastic that the figure was about to become a beautiful woman, a monkey with exaggerated heavy makeup suddenly appeared from the water.

The audience was disappointed and couldn’t help but laugh at the monkey’s scratching head.

The male juggler also seemed to be surprised, exaggerated his acting when holding his heart, indicating that this scene is very eye-catching.

At this moment, the monkey who was scratching it’s head turned around and became the female juggler. The female juggler cast a wink at her partner, and the male juggler smiled immediately.

But when he was about to approach and wanted to kiss the female juggler, she turned around and transformed back into the monkey.

The male juggler’s kiss fell on the monkey’s face.

While he got panicked, the monkey became shy, and the audience laughed.

Bai Yuming also laughed. Although the plot is very old-fashioned and the spells are simple, the two and one monkey cooperate very tacitly so the performance is very smooth.

Bai Yuming seemed very pleased and wanted to applaud, but since he didn’t let go of Mo Shulin’s hand this time, he lowered his head and smiled at Mo Shulin.

Mo Shulin was helpless.

He’s short so didn’t see the juggler’s performance, he only saw other people’s back one after another. However, his master was fascinated by this simple trick, while he can’t see the situation at all.

Bai Yuming is really not suitable for raising children.

Fortunately, Mo Shulin isn’t a real child and has no interest in juggling.

Some people has passed by.

The two were accidentally pushed a little bit to the front row.

Bai Yuming saw that there was also a little flower demon in this bustling group.

The little flower demon is a small daisy with pale yellow stamens and white petals. It’s whole body is no more than knee height, holding a big bowl with it’s leaves, walking around the onlookers over and over again, hoping to receive rewards from them.

Not everyone who watched the performance will give a reward, some will give their money, while others will ignore the little daisy demon after watching their group’s performance for a long time.

It shouldn’t have been a long time after the little daisy became a flower demon. It can’t say anything, and could only convey it’s emotions using it’s limbs.

If someone throws a reward money, it’ll swing around with joy. If it has twirl around for a long time and no one rewards it, the little daisy will hang down, and became frustrated.

Mo Shulin felt that the little daisy demon resemble his master, especially when it became very unhappy but still had to work hard.

Bai Yuming poked Mo Shulin, his eyes averted to Mo Shulin’s storage bag.

This is the first time Bai Yuming has asked Mo Shulin for money since entering the city.

Originally, Bai Yuming just wanted to pass by and have a look, but this performance is really entertaining. Since he really likes it, Bai Yuming still has to give some rewards and respect other people’s labor.

Bai Yuming thought of asking for two pieces of spirit stones, but Mo Shulin directly untied his storage bag and gave Bai Yuming the entire bag of money.

Looking at the storage bag in his hand, Bai Yuming got stunned, even more at a loss than the male juggler who had kissed the monkey.

“Master, I’ve given you all of me, so you have to hold me and can’t leave me anymore.” Mo Shulin solemnly said, with tension and desperate courage in his tone.

Bai Yuming was stumped.

In fact, he only wanted to take a little bit of spirit stone from the bag, but inexplicably, he accepted Mo Shulin’s entire storage bag.

Bai Yuming still took the storage bag, knowing that he would have to take care of Mo Shulin after taking it.

With the permission of the owner, Bai Yuming can open Mo Shulin’s storage bag.

He originally wanted to give the little daisy demon six low-grade spirit stones, but seeing the little daisy who was so tired that it’s roots began to shake while still trying to hold the bowl for money, he finally took out a high-grade spirit stone.

The high-grade spirit stone was thrown into the bowl, not only the little daisy demon was shocked, but even the performers who were still doing business were surprised by Bai Yuming’s wealth.

They quickly stopped their movements and thanked Bai Yuming.

Bai Yuming just smiled lightly, didn’t communicate with them too much, only turned and left, setting foot on his own future.

Other people’s path are different after all.

Some people can dedicate everything to others, and for some it’s just a flash of smoke that causes disturbance in their hearts.

In the crowd, Mo Shulin tightly held Bai Yuming, and Bai Yuming firmly held Mo Shulin back.