novelraw Chapter 624 - 0363 The Vision That Should Be (Two-in-One)
Chapter 624 - 0363 The Vision That Should Be (Two-in-One)
One side of the Stone Ship.
A little girl was holding an umbrella, quietly watching others work on the deck.
Normally, she wouldn’t be this obedient, but after all, it was Zhu Pingniang working here now.
The mistress of the Flower Moon Building, Miss Zhu, rolled up her sleeves and skirt edge, sitting on a clean small stool, busy at the side of the Stone Ship... washing dishes.
The little girl was just one of the most ordinary girls in the Flower Moon Building. Suddenly captured by Miss Lu as a laborer, she was told that something needed to be done, so she came over to hold an umbrella for Zhu Pingniang.
She dared not disobey Miss Lu, especially since serving Ms. Zhu was what they should and liked to do.
The little girl thought Zhu Pingniang looked very beautiful today, both in her red dress embroidered with golden threads and her makeup, clearly having been deliberately dressed up.
Especially what the sisters unanimously deemed, Miss Zhu’s pair of extremely beautiful hands, her long, slender, jade-like fingers were particularly eye-catching even in the dim rainy days.
But...
This Zhu Pingniang seemed in an extremely good mood, squandering the makeup and the dress, rolling up her sleeves and skirt, doing work that should be done by the servants.
The beautiful dress got wet.
The beautiful hands rubbed the porcelain bowls.
She sat on the little stool, her fair and delicate legs exposed in the air, swaying slightly with the little tune.
Zhu Pingniang hummed a tune that all the girls in Flower Moon Building knew, seriously washing the dishes and wine cups.
The little girl held the umbrella for Zhu Pingniang from the side, standing under the falling rain, listening to the rustling sound of the oil-paper umbrella overhead.
The water in the basin looked very cold, yet Zhu Pingniang seemed to feel nothing, still cleaning the already clean wine cups.
Finally, the little girl couldn’t help but speak up: "Ms. Zhu."
"Hmm?" Zhu Pingniang responded, but her hands continued moving.
"Sis, you... you..."
"What’s the matter with me?" Zhu Pingniang then stopped her hand movements, looking rather surprisingly at the little girl, who was just in her early teens, still a budding flower.
"It’s fine to leave these tasks to us. Such tedious work, how can... how can you do it yourself?" The little girl mustered the courage to say.
She hadn’t studied much, not knowing what it meant to spoil good things through misuse, but she understood that such beautiful attire, such beautiful makeup... wasn’t meant for washing dishes.
It would be better if they did it.
Zhu Pingniang heard this and laughed.
"Ni Zi, I’m preparing for the evening banquet, even the bowls and chopsticks for entertaining guests need to be washed clean by myself."
"...?"
A cute question mark popped up in the little girl’s eyes, her face full of confusion.
"Did you mean to say that, or did your auntie instruct you?" Zhu Pingniang looked dotingly at the blushing young girl: "I know, those girls are embarrassed that I do such things and make them lose face."
Hearing Zhu Pingniang’s words, the little girl’s face flushed.
"The sisters... did not... just..."
Seeing the young girl really getting anxious, Zhu Pingniang laughed even more happily.
"Alright, just joking, why are you getting so worked up... Ni Zi, how did your auntie teach you?"
"She said that sis is the mistress of Flower Moon Building."
"And what else?"
"Listen to what you say."
"What else?"
"You’re an Immortal Sect..." The little girl raised her head, with her little mind unable to comprehend the deeper meaning of why sis was playing around here.
"Immortal Sect..." Zhu Pingniang sighed: "This little secret of mine, is there really anyone who doesn’t know it."
No wonder many girls think she couldn’t make it in the Immortal Sect and came out to take over the brothel.
After all, saying she’s actually an Immortal with cultivation, not many would believe, right.
Zhu Pingniang picked up a ladle and scooped some water from the basin, pouring it into the porcelain bowl, tilting her head: "Ni Zi, what do you think the Immortal Sect should be like?"
Watching Zhu Pingniang wipe the wine cup in her hand, the little girl felt like a student called upon by the teacher, very nervous.
She held the umbrella, dazedly standing for quite a while, then said.
"Immortal Sect? The Immortal Sect tidies up the house, casts a spell, and it’s done... Oh right, when washing dishes, the hands aren’t cold either."
That’s what she thought of the Immortal Sect.
Should it be?
No, the Immortal Sect should also cast spells for washing dishes.
Anyway, it couldn’t be like what Miss Zhu is doing, crouching by the sink and washing by hand.
Saying this, no wonder, no wonder the aunties in the building said Miss Zhu might not be doing well in the Immortal Sect.
After all, she didn’t have a shred of what an Immortal should possess.
Hearing the little girl’s words, Zhu Pingniang was slightly stunned as well, curling her lips: "A hopeless girl... indeed, if one’s perspective isn’t high, what they see would be like this."
Just like a beggar fantasizing that an emperor would beg with a golden bowl.
Perspective determines what a person is able to see.
The girl wasn’t from the Immortal Sect, so she thought the particularity of the Immortal Sect only extended to things like tidying up a room, not even having cold hands while washing dishes.
"Miss Zhu..." The little girl was suddenly called hopeless by Zhu Pingniang, her eyes gradually reddened, her lips moved slightly, her eyes filled with grievance.
"Alright, I wasn’t talking about you." Zhu Pingniang’s hands, damp with water, pinched the little girl’s face, then pointed at her own heart: "I was talking about myself."
She was hopeless, someone with no perspective.
"Sis?" The little girl didn’t understand and tried thinking hard, and the tears naturally went back.
"Is there any Immortal Sect in the world that can’t block rainwater and needs you to hold an umbrella?" Zhu Pingniang suddenly asked.