Chapter 1176: Preparing to Make a Move
After the Zhongyuan Festival passed, another torrential rain came pouring down.
Little Yin and Lin Yuanmiao sat beneath the covered corridor, watching the rain.
The rain was heavy, so much so that the raindrops became indistinguishable from one another, like a curtain of water.
Countless drops struck the roof tiles, washing them until they shone black. The rivulets that gathered slipped down from the eaves like mini waterfalls.
Neither of them stood on ceremony and simply sat on the threshold.
Lin Yuanmiao patted his knee and recited, “I lament how short life is, without knowing that my own return was a funeral march. I dislike ambitions too small, then end up shackled. In this noisy world, I take the stage when your song ends. How absurd it is for one’s labor to end up benefiting others.”
Little Yin propped her chin with both hands, bored out of her mind. “Old Lin, who are you even talking about in that sarcastic tone?”
“I’m just lamenting from the heart.” Lin Yuanmiao gazed beyond the rain corridor at the crisscrossing flow of Daoists. Some carried uniform yellow oil-paper umbrellas, so they resembled fallen leaves drifting by. Some relied on their cultivation and carried no umbrella.
Lin Yuanmiao sighed again. “The world knows that Immortals are good, yet only fame and rank cannot be forgotten.”
Ke Qingqing walked over and complained. “How is it still pouring? Where did all this rain come from?”
Little Yin leaped to her feet and blocked Ke Qingqing. “Where are those two? Did they sneak off on a secret rendezvous without me?!”
Ke Qingqing stopped in her tracks, not daring to offend Chief Deputy Qi and Second Deputy Zhang’s favorite. Strictly speaking, Little Yin was beloved by everyone. Chief Deputy Qi and Deputy Chief Zhang were hardly approachable, yet both were extremely fond of this little girl. Not only that, the quiet old Zaohua-stage Heavenly Being got along exceedingly well with Little Yin and was rarely seen apart from her. The elusive Madam Qi likewise doted on this child. Rumor had it that the elder was rather stingy, yet Little Yin still managed to receive gifts from her.