Why do you always want to be my Taoist partner?

Mu Bingning couldn't deceive herself after all, and couldn't weave a hypocritical lie to deceive Bai Sheng. She looked towards the gloomy sky in the distance, her long eyelashes drooping, "What happened back then... was my fault, not his, but... don't ask anymore."

After saying this, Mu Bingning's expression suddenly became a little tired.

It seemed as if recalling this incident had exhausted her energy, and she was so tired that she just wanted to lie down and have a good sleep.

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It's drizzling today.

When Jiang Li arrived at the peach blossom forest, the rain had stopped. There were not many people in the forest today. Jiang Li set up his easel, moved a stool, and began to paint peach blossoms in the forest.

He painted more than one picture, and each of them was a different peach tree. Some of them depicted the entire tree, while others only showed partial branches. But what cannot be denied is that his painting skills were so good that even the most famous painter in Xuantian Dao Ji Zong would have to admit defeat.

But he didn't paint these peach trees to sell them.

Gradually, people in the peach forest became aware of his presence. A junior sister who had flirted with him before came to him skipping and looking at the peach trees he had drawn. "Which girl is Senior Brother Jiang Li going to make happy now?"

The junior sister's tone was playful, but there was a kind of unspeakable jealousy in her eyes. Jiang Li smiled at her, then took down a peach blossom painting and gave it to her.

"give you."

The junior sister was slightly startled, and happily took the peach blossom painting. She wanted to say something else, but Jiang Li quickly started to paint the next peach blossom. The junior sister said a few words, but Jiang Li just ignored her. She knew she was boring, so she said goodbye to Jiang Li.

But soon more junior and senior sisters came to Jiang Li and looked at the paintings placed in front of Jiang Li. These junior and senior sisters were all from the same circle, and Jiang Li knew most of them.

After all, as long as you know one beautiful fairy, then you will most likely have the opportunity to know many beautiful fairies. Fairies come in groups. Jiang Li remembered that the senior sisters in front of him seemed to think that he had quarreled before, but now they are smiling at each other. So women's friendship is really wonderful.

Jiang Li gave each of the senior sisters in front of him a painting of peach blossoms. The senior sisters happily accepted them, while some felt embarrassed to just accept them and left some spirit stones for Jiang Li. Jiang Li did not refuse, but just silently painted peach blossoms here. From dawn to dusk, he painted a total of one hundred paintings. The last one was of the peach tree in front of him.

The peach tree in front of you is the most gorgeous and leafy peach tree in the peach blossom forest.

Many junior and senior sisters who were watching the fun were behind him, watching him complete the painting. This was definitely the best painting he had ever made. Almost everyone who saw the paintings Jiang Li drew today would get one. He would give one to any junior and senior sisters he saw, so many girls were secretly looking forward to who would get the painting in the end.

But after Jiang Li finished the painting, he wrote a poem on it, waited for the ink to dry, then rolled up the painting and put it back into his storage ring. It seemed that he had no intention of giving the painting away.

Many of the waiting sisters and senior sisters inevitably showed some disappointment in their eyes. One brave sister asked Jiang Li, "Junior brother Jiang Li, will you come tomorrow?"

"I won't be here tomorrow, and I won't be here for a long time."

"Which girl will the painting be given to in the end?"

When Jiang Li heard her question, the gentle expression on his face gradually stiffened. He lowered his head slightly and remained silent for a long time. "The girl I want to give the painting to...she probably won't accept my painting, so I decided not to give it to her."

"So Junior Brother Jiang Li also has a girl he can't pick up. Which senior sister is it? Or junior sister? Let us help you?"

Jiang Li shook his head. "Thank you for your kindness, senior sisters. I don't think that girl and I are destined to be together. I won't bother you to disturb her."

After saying that, Jiang Li put away the disappointment in his eyes, stood up, put away the easel and drawing board, smiled gently, and then said goodbye to his senior sisters.

They would make the best extras.

Convey everything Jiang Li wants to express.

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Bai Sheng did not talk about Jiang Li with Mu Bingning again.

After Jiang Li was mentioned earlier, Bai Sheng noticed Mu Bingning's fatigue. It was obviously Mu Bingning who mentioned Jiang Li the most before. Mu Bingning would often mention Jiang Li a sentence or two when chatting with her, but most of the time she was cursing, using names like scum, villain, and rat.

But the interesting thing is that Bai Sheng only saw Mu Bingning scold Jiang Li, but did not see that Mu Bingning was dissatisfied with anyone in the sect.

Bai Sheng and Mu Bingning have known each other for three years. She knows that Senior Sister Mu, who is usually serious and cold, is actually a very kind and gentle person. She is just used to being alone and has been envied by countless people, so people say she is cold and unkind.

Bai Sheng had known Jiang Li before out of curiosity, so she recognized Jiang Li when she first met him. She knew that before Mu Bingning rejected Jiang Li, Jiang Li did not seem to have any ambiguous news with any woman. Jiang Li was not very famous at that time. The only reason people knew him was that he was ranked second in Hidden Sword Peak and happened to have participated in an exploration of the secret realm of Zhongzhou.

It was after he was rejected by Mu Bingning that his reputation as a scumbag slowly began to take shape, but surprisingly, his reputation was actually quite good. When the women who had previously had ambiguous relationships with him mentioned Jiang Li, few of them said anything bad about him.

Bai Sheng was already full of curiosity about Jiang Li at that time, because with Mu Bingning's gentle nature, it was very unusual for her to curse someone like that.

The two women stopped talking about Jiang Li, but after chatting for a few sentences, they found that they were both a little bored.

Bai Sheng bit her lip lightly, stood up, and looked at Mu Bingning, "Senior Sister Cen Yumo is giving a sermon at Jijian Mountain tonight. Is Senior Sister Bingning interested?"

"Her swordsmanship doesn't match mine, so you go ahead."

Bai Sheng nodded lightly, and discussed sword skills with Mu Bingning in the yard for two hours. To be precise, Mu Bingning taught her sword skills. After practicing until exhaustion, the two women went to the bathing pool in the back mountain together. After bathing, Mu Bingning returned to her cave first, while Bai Sheng changed into a white Taoist robe and went to Jijian Mountain.

The sermon had not yet begun, but the female nuns sitting on the floor were chattering particularly loudly. Bai Sheng sat in the corner, pricked up his ears slightly.

"Look, Senior Brother Jiang Li also gave me a painting today."

"Humph, do you think you're the only one who has that? Your painting only has peach branches, but mine has a whole peach tree."

"It's just a whole tree... There's nothing to be proud of. Brother Jiang Li just gives it away casually anyway."

"I just don't know who Senior Brother Jiang Li gave the peach tree he painted at the end to."

"How would I know? Senior Brother Jiang Li actually has a girl he can't handle... My sisters and I have guessed several people, but none of them seem right. It can't be Mu Bingning, right?"

Bai Sheng hesitated for a long time. She stood up and came to the sisters who were discussing. She gently grasped the corner of her clothes and finally asked in a low voice, "Senior sisters...what interesting things are you talking about?"

Chapter 23: Chapter Love and Sincerity

Bai Sheng heard the whole story from several female disciples.

Today Jiang left the peach blossom forest, where he painted many peach blossom pictures and gave them to many girls who passed by. But when he was painting the last picture, his eyes were filled with loss and sadness, which broke the hearts of many senior sisters.

In the end, he did not send the picture away, but when his senior sister asked about it, the sadness and loss in his eyes could not be erased.

In the end, Senior Brother Jiang Li hesitated to speak, and finally said nothing. He turned around and left the peach blossom forest sadly.

...Is this a painting for Senior Sister Mu Bingning?

Bai Sheng muttered quietly in her heart, but subconsciously another possibility came to her mind. However, as soon as the thought came out, it was completely strangled in her head.

how come?

The scumbag senior brother had only met her a few times, so how could he... lose his mind over her?

But why did he paint peach blossoms...?

Bai Sheng was thinking in a daze the whole night, and in the end she didn't hear a word of what the senior sister of Jijian Mountain said. She returned to the yard in a daze. After feeding the rabbits, she lay down on the bed, but began to toss and turn all night long and couldn't fall asleep.

She stayed awake all night again.

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the other side.

Jiang Li contentedly prepared a meal of pickled fish for himself and shared the dinner with Dabai. Today, he even practiced drawing talismans for half an hour less and lay down on the bed early, ready to have a good sleep.

I worked hard on myself today!

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early morning.

There was a morning mist over Xuantian Dao Ji Zong today, so Jiang Li decided to stay in bed for one more hour. It was really hard for him to paint those one hundred peach blossoms yesterday. What's more, he had to keep that look of wanting but not getting what he wanted, which was really too exhausting.

Dabai was sleeping soundly in his arms, but in a daze, Jiang Li heard a knock on the door.

"Dabai, go open the door." Jiang Li muttered to himself. Dabai reluctantly whipped his face with his tail and refused to move. Finally, Jiang Li had to stand up and open the door by himself. Bai Sheng was standing outside the door, wearing a white Taoist robe and holding the box of peach pastry in his hand.

She raised her head and looked at Jiang Li, but her eyes dodged for a second. She said hurriedly, "I asked my senior sister, and she doesn't like eating peach cakes either. She was afraid that it would be wasted... so she sent it back to you."

"Ah... okay, okay, come in and sit for a while?" Jiang Li took the peach pastry and returned to the room. Bai Sheng followed him into the room.

Jiang Li, with his back to her, raised a helpless smile at the corner of his lips, and then he shrank back into the quilt. He pinched Dabai's tail in the quilt, and Dabai woke up, then ran into Bai Sheng's arms.

Bai Sheng sat on Jiang Li's chair. He saw the rolled-up painting on the table and quickly looked away. "Senior Brother Jiang Li is so lazy. He hasn't gotten up yet."

"I was exhausted from painting those 100 peach blossoms yesterday. Let me sleep a little longer."

Bai Sheng was stunned for a moment. Jiang Li's words were too straightforward, so that none of the ten excuses she had prepared in her mind could match them. So at this moment, she could only improvise, "I heard about it."

"Then let me sleep more." Jiang Li muttered while hugging the quilt.

Bai Sheng stroked the cat in his arms and tried to ask in a calm tone, "Brother Jiang Li, did you intend to give the last painting to Sister Bing Ning?"

"What do you ask for this?"

"Can't I ask?"

"Of course, I'm just curious why you ask." Jiang Li opened his eyes and looked at Bai Sheng in front of him with interest. He stared at her for several seconds and asked, "Junior Sister Bai Sheng, who do you think I'm going to give it to?"

Bai Sheng felt uncomfortable under his gaze, and turned away hastily, looking at the thick fog outside the window, "How should I know?"

"Of course it's not for Mu Bingning, silly junior sister. If I send her a painting, wouldn't that be humiliating myself?"

"Then... who is it for?"

"Guess?" Jiang Li smiled playfully.

Although Bai Sheng was not looking at Jiang Li, her fingertips pulling at her robe betrayed her.

"I don't want to guess." Bai Sheng spoke a little faster.

Jiang Li, who was lying on the bed at the moment, laughed happily. He sat up and said, "Try a piece of peach cake first, and I will tell you the answer."

Bai Sheng reached out, picked up a piece of peach cake and brought it to his mouth.

In fact, it was not that she didn't like peach cakes, but she always pretended to reject them before. But when she took a bite of the peach cake, Bai Sheng realized it.

The peach cakes made by Senior Brother Jiang Li are so delicious!

"It tastes good, right?" Jiang Li looked quite smug.

Bai Sheng hummed vaguely, but her eyes looked at Jiang Li. It seemed that at this moment, she was more curious about what Jiang Li's answer was.

Clearly, from the moment she entered the room until now, she had not seen the scumbag senior brother look heartbroken at all.

"Because Senior Brother Jiang Li needs to maintain his image."

Bai Sheng had just swallowed the peach cake. Seeing Jiang Li's innocent expression, she widened her eyes and couldn't help but let out a cry, "Huh?!"

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"Think about it, when I usually flirt with my senior sisters and junior sisters, they all know that I'm a scumbag, so wouldn't it be difficult for me to make them fall in love with me from the beginning?"

"So I have to maintain an affectionate persona from time to time. I'm not promiscuous. I've just been trying hard and making mistakes. I've always been lacking love. I want to find someone who can truly love me, or someone I love. That was the purpose of painting peach blossoms yesterday. I never intended to give the last painting of peach blossoms to anyone. I just wanted to let my senior and junior sisters guess that I'm actually very affectionate. I'm being so promiscuous now only because I can't get the love I want, so I'm just using it to numb myself."

It took Bai Sheng several seconds to finally react, and then he looked into Jiang Li's eyes... probably showing that he wanted to kill him.

What should I do if I really want to kill Jiang Li right now with one sword? !

"Junior Sister Bai Sheng, you can't tell this to other junior sisters and senior sisters. I'm telling you this because we have a good relationship. It's a little secret that I only tell you." Jiang Li said to Bai Sheng with a smile.

"Senior Brother Jiang Li, just go die." Bai Sheng said gritting his teeth.

"Don't do this kind of thing... By the way, Junior Sister Bai Sheng."

Jiang Li sat up from the bed again, and handed the scroll to Bai Sheng in front of him, "Here you go."

Bai Sheng was startled, "What do you want me to do?"

"Anyway, I won't give this painting to anyone else. It took me a lot of effort. It's better to give it to my own people than to give it to outsiders. So I'll give it to you."

"I don't want it." There was obvious hesitation in Bai Sheng's eyes.

"I think Taohua and Junior Sister Bai Sheng are a good match, and there's a handwritten inscription from Senior Brother Jiang Li on it, so it's definitely worth it if I accept it." Jiang Li's tone was very frivolous and even a bit childish.

Bai Sheng unfolded the painting. The peach tree in the painting was lush and leafy, and there was also a rain in the painting. It was clearly a painting of peach blossoms, but Bai Sheng inexplicably felt a sense of loneliness and solitude from the painting.

There is also a poem inscribed on the painting.

The beauty of April is gone, and the peach blossoms on the mountain are in full bloom.

Everlasting Hatred Spring returns to nowhere, I don't know how to turn into it.

"The poem was written by Senior Brother Jiang Li?"

"Of course not." Jiang Li curled his lips, "I bought it from an unknown pedantic writer when I went down the mountain. I bought it, so it's mine."

Bai Sheng's eyes became more and more resentful when he looked at Jiang Li.

Why are there such shameless people in this world!!!

"So this painting doesn't actually have the twists and turns of a love story that they imagined. It's just a painting. It's just right to give it to Junior Sister Bai Sheng. I have no place to put this painting."

Bai Sheng looked at the peach tree in the painting.

"Why can such a shameless person like Senior Brother Jiang Li draw such a beautiful picture?"