Chapter 108 - 79: The Changeable Wind and Clouds
March, the time of orioles, also known as the Month of Peaches.
At this time, it was late spring, the sky was clear and the wind was warm. On the Linhe River Path, the painting boats were bustling with activity. The peach blossoms on the embankment smiled, and the willow leaves extended their eyebrows, resembling the picturesque scenes of Jiangnan.
Under the Shuimen Bridge, scholars and poets rode on black-roofed boats, viewing the river; women out for a spring outing carried wine and food as they passed by the bridgehead.
Besides these leisurely people enjoying flowers and spring, the streets were full of busy vendors and workers, each with their destinations, either struggling for a living or working hard for worldly matters.
In a courtyard with its main gate tightly closed, locust trees took root in fertile soil, striving to sprout.
The Dang Ling Flower seeds planted in the courtyard had somehow sprouted into three-inch tall seedlings. This flower could sense the presence of corpses, gather yin energy, and bring evil spirits—being a flower of the gloomy kind.
Though the Dang Ling Flower had yet to bloom, the seedlings had already formed a lush green patch. Whenever the shadowy wind blew past, it rippled like waves.
In front of a stone table, a legless antique chair wobbled, as if someone was taking a nap on it; under the eaves, a beast’s skull served as a wind chime, welcoming the evil spirits into the entire courtyard.
On the roof ridge, an entirely black cat, without a single trace of other colors, walked gracefully.
It leaped from the roof ridge to the wall, then landed in the courtyard.