Collapse: Raising a Wife Since Childhood

"Hmm... am I too dirty?" Shen Yunie looked down at herself. She was covered in dust. She had sweated a lot while chopping trees with an axe, so she was indeed quite dirty. On the other hand, Chi Yuan had been lying in this stone room for several years and was still spotless, with skin as white as clouds.

He turned and left the stone chamber. Because of the spring rain, several small puddles of water had accumulated nearby, and Shen Yunie was washing his hands and face there.

Chi Yuan must be brought out, whether he is willing or not, as this has a lot to do with his subsequent treatment. Anyway, there is no medicine, so he should start with the most basic healthy life.

"Do not."

Chi Yuan still refused when he came over, and the coldness emanated naturally. The immortal could no longer move, but he still exuded a chilling coldness, as if a sharp sword that could cut his throat at any time was hanging in front of him.

Ordinary people would be scared away, but Shen Yunie was not afraid at all. She said with a smile: "Master, I won't hurt you. Although there may be some contact, I won't have any other distracting thoughts."

Chi Yuan stared at him intently. Only her eyes and words could resist him, but that alone could not scare him at all. She was not the number one immortal in the world, she was just a puppet now.

Shen Yunie stretched out her hand to hold the pair of slender legs together, stretched her hand from below, and passed her other hand behind her shoulders. Chi Yuan was so light that she only needed a little effort to pick her up. During this time, she could not resist, and her eyes became colder and colder.

As he said, Shen Yunie had no distractions, and even though it was a princess hug, he didn't let the other person stick to his chest. Fearing that Chi Yuan would be too resistant to this, he quickly picked her up and turned away.

"You're too thin, Masamune. You may be able to survive without food, but eating will speed up your healing process."

Shen Yunie could feel that her thighs were so thin that there was almost no flesh on them, and the same was true for her shoulders. If she squeezed them with a little force, she could feel the bones.

Chi Yuan made a sound and said, "No, let's go."

Unable to resist, she was almost numb.

The footsteps echoed in the stone corridor. Shen Yunie took her out without paying any attention. In an instant, Chi Yuan's eyes were no longer filled with gray and gold. She saw the azure sky with floating clouds, the mountain tops shrouded in mist, and the green grass and lush trees nearby.

The air scented with flowers and plants floated at the tip of my nose, while in the stone chamber there was only the unpleasant smell of dust mixed with the air.

Although Chi Yuan hated Shen Yunie's approach to her, she still brought her out despite her resistance, but she was still stunned when she saw the outside world. After all, she had been isolated from the outside world for too long, and no one would like a narrow stone room. Everyone yearned for a huge and free world.

She took a look and didn't want to look any longer, so she slowly closed her eyes.

Seeing her close her eyes, Shen Yunie asked in confusion: "Don't you want to take another look? After all, I haven't seen you for many years."

Chi Yuan did not answer. Before her body fully recovered, she was unwilling to accept anything from the outside world. That would make it difficult for her to stay in the stone chamber.

Shen Yunie will always abandon her. What if she never sees the light again?

Chi Yuan realized that he was put down and sat on a chair with his hands placed on the armrests. This chair was not well made, even the stone bed was much more comfortable than it.

After arranging her, Shen Yunie stepped back and said, "I'm not very good at carpentry. I will improve next time."

There was a pile of sawdust and felled tree trunks on the grass. Shen Yunie took an axe and chopped down a few trees. The first thing he made was the chair that Chi Yuan was sitting on. The next thing he had to make was a wooden bed and a house to shelter from the wind and rain.

He planned to continue living here. The ruined Fuyun Temple was obviously no longer habitable, but it was possible to rebuild it.

Seeing the position Chi Yuan was placed on the chair by him, Shen Yunie couldn't help but feel amused. He said, "Open your eyes whenever you are ready. I will wait until the day when you can move freely, so don't be afraid of not being able to see the outside world."

There was no response, Chi Yuan closed his eyes as if he was asleep.

Shen Yunie walked to the tree with the axe he had improved, and then swung it to chop it hard. With his previous memories, even an ordinary person's body was not that ordinary, and he had the courage to start over again. This was already the second time.

“Bang! Bang!”

Chi Yuan was disturbed by the noise. This person was annoying. He forced her to accept the outside world. She had never believed what he said.

She could endure it, and she really never opened her eyes again. The air with the fragrance of flowers and the warm sunshine now became a form of torture. Chi Yuan could endure it, and the numbness in her heart slowly filtered out all the sounds.

Shen Yunie occasionally looked back at Chi Yuan, and saw that she had never opened her eyes, and secretly sighed in her heart. Fu Hua was really unyielding now, but it was true, she was an immortal who protected the common people, and she had probably already left the scope of human beings.

Chi Yuan can wait, and Shen Yunie can wait too.

After cutting down a tree, he began to peel the bark. Among the tools he found was a plane. Shen Yunie sat astride the tree trunk and cut the wood board. Occasionally he would think about Leah and how to make Chi Yuan better.

More and more wooden boards were created under his hands, and time passed inadvertently until evening. Shen Yunie pieced the wooden boards together into a grid shape, and then made another wooden board and placed it in the stone chamber.

He and Chi Yuan would probably have to stay in the stone chamber for some time before they could build the house.

Cold liquid fell from the sky and dripped onto Shen Yunie's face. He looked up and found that dark clouds were gathering in the sky. The spring rain was coming with great force and the sound of rain was dripping.

Shen Yunie quickly stood up and walked towards Chi Yuan. She still kept her eyes closed stubbornly, her hair stuck to her cheeks, and her lips seemed to have become even more bloodless due to the rain.

No one talked to him, and Shen Yunie's words became much more concise, "It's raining, I'll take you back."

Then he bent over and picked up Chi Yuan.

"Rain?" Chi Yuan was stunned for a long time before he realized that it was rain falling on his body.

It seemed that it was raining like this on the day she was killed. She listened to the sound of the raindrops, and gradually she could no longer hear them clearly.

An inexplicable impulse suppressed all the disgust and stubbornness. Chi Yuan opened his eyes and stared at Yu Luo with empty eyes.

Shen Yunie asked: "Do you like rain?"

There was no response. He looked into those eyes and felt the same way. The ice-green eyes were empty, with unconcealed sadness and loss. Chi Yuan was not without emotions, but most of her emotions were hidden in her eyes, and that majesty made almost everyone dare not look directly into her eyes.

Shen Yunie brought Chi Yuan back to the stone room and put him back on the stone bed. The immortal had opened his eyes and stared blankly at the ceiling. The spring rain came unexpectedly, and both of them were soaked.

There was no cloth to wipe in the stone room. Normally, Shen Yunie would have let his body and hair dry, but not now. He was not sure whether Chi Yuan was immune to illness. If he got a typhoid fever due to the rain, it would be serious.

He ran to the ruins of Fuyun Temple and searched carefully, and finally found a piece of gray cloth. After washing it, he barely restored it to its white appearance.

Chi Yuan stared at Shen Yunie, who was dripping with water, and didn't understand why he was going back and forth. Then she saw the man holding up the white cloth in his hand and said, "Master Chi Yuan, I will help you wipe your hair."

"……Do not."

She had tried her best to make her voice cold, but Shen Yunie ignored her and helped Chi Yuan up, holding up her hip-length grey hair with one hand and wiping it carefully with the other. Her hair was very long, and wiping it reminded her of precious silk.

As for the body, Shen Yunie just wiped her face, hands and legs dry.

The immortal looked brand new, but in fact she was very clean to begin with.

Shen Yunie sat on the wooden board and said with a smile: "Take a rest. If it rains, we won't be able to go outside to see the view. Of course, if you like, I can help you go to the stone corridor to have a look."

Chi Yuan looked at him with empty eyes, "No."

141. A world for two with an immortal

Shen Yunie never thought that the first things he would do when he came to this world would be to chop trees and take care of patients.

After waking up, he took an axe and went to chop down trees, cut them into planks, and then tried to piece them together. After careful consideration, he decided to rebuild the burned Fuyun Temple. After all, only the four walls collapsed due to the fire, and a few pillars were still there. He just needed to repair the walls.

The wooden chair finally became more comfortable after Shen Yunie's continuous improvements. Sometimes when the weather was fine, he would take Chi Yuan out to bask in the sun.

The food problem was solved by picking wild vegetables and catching small animals in the woods.

Since the rain that day, Chi Yuan seemed to have awakened and closed her eyes all day without resistance. She would look at the scenery of Taixu Mountain and her eyes rarely moved. Sometimes Shen Yunie would get some new things to show her, but she would always respond indifferently.

She always spoke only one or two words, and I didn't know if it was intentional or if her body hadn't recovered yet.

Time flies, and a whole month has passed.

Chi Yuan was unwilling to admit it, but she could not deny that after Shen Yunie had moved her around tirelessly, the regeneration speed of her super-mutation factor had become faster. In her understanding, this man was so persistent that he was stubborn. She had already made it clear that he still wanted to stay here.

If he gets nothing in the end, will he look angry?

Shen Yunie had barely managed to piece together a few walls of the Fuyun Temple like blocks. Repairing the entire Taoist temple would require a large amount of wood, and it would be difficult to achieve with his carpentry skills.

As the night fell, the moon could not be seen through the small window of the stone room, and the time could only be determined by the light. After his body gradually recovered, Chi Yuan could hear the chirping of insects and frogs, and the rustling of the trees by the evening breeze while lying on the stone bed.

Turning her gaze, she found that the man had not yet fallen asleep. He was lying on a wooden bed, his black eyes shining like stars, and he seemed to be thinking about something.

Shen Yunie also noticed Chi Yuan's gaze and came back to his senses. A smile rose at the corner of his lips, "Master Chi Yuan, you should go to sleep. A good work and rest habit can make your body healthier."

Chi Yuan ignored him and silently looked away.

The next day came in a trance. Chi Yuan was woken up by Shen Yunie. Seeing her butterfly-like long eyelashes slowly opening, Shen Yunie smiled at her, "Master Chi Yuan, I have to go out for a while. In order to prevent anyone from coming into this stone room, I will close all the doors."

Chi Yuan felt that there was no need for the other party to tell her, and she did not welcome Shen Yunie to come. This man could do whatever he wanted.

I watched him turn and leave in silence, then pulled the stone door with a loud noise, closing it completely, and the sound of his footsteps gradually faded.

Chi Yuan's eyes fell on the intertwined light and he was stunned for a few seconds. Everything became the same as before, but it seemed that something indescribable had changed.

The reason Shen Yunie left was actually to go down the mountain. He had lived here for such a long time and had never seen anyone except Chi Yuan. He was tired of catching animals and eating wild vegetables all day long.

He had to go to the market at the foot of the mountain to buy some things. The most important thing was that with his carpentry skills, it was impossible to complete the construction of Fuyun Temple. He had to go to the market to find a few carpenters to help with the construction, and also consult on how to make the patient get better quickly.

The reason why he didn't sleep yesterday was that he was thinking about how to make money. This body is very ordinary and nothing extraordinary about it. After much thought, he decided to sell all the remaining wood.

After all, this mountain is regarded as a sacred mountain by people. The destructive energy in the air is in balance. It gradually erodes every blade of grass and every tree, greatly improving their toughness and quality. It is probably considered high-quality wood in the eyes of others.

Shen Yunie rolled up his sleeves, carried the wood and left along the mountain path.

When passing by the woods, he caught a glimpse of the unknown herbs mixed in with the bushes. Shen Yunie recorded the location of the herbs while thinking. As before, if he wanted to surpass ordinary people physically, eating herbs that were corroded by the collapse energy was an option, and he could also feed Chi Yuan some, which might help her body heal.

Just as I remembered, hundreds of years later, the town at the foot of the mountain was Taixu Town, and it still has the same name now. It was generally made of gray bricks and gray walls, with houses lined up in rows, interspersed with a few shops, and many vendors on both sides of the blue brick paved road. In the distance was a six-story pagoda-shaped building called Dengyue Tower.

In addition to the indigenous people, there are also many tourists coming and going.

Shen Yunie, who was carrying wood, blended in smoothly. Everyone thought he was a carpenter, and occasionally someone would be attracted by his handsome face that was still a little dusty.

Shen Yunie stopped in front of an old man's stall and asked, "Old lady, do you know where to buy wood?"

"Turn right at the street ahead and you'll find Wanli Store." The kind old man explained to him with a smile, "You look thin, young man, but I didn't expect you to be so strong. Is your family carpentry? Are you married?"

"Well...thank you." Shen Yunie thanked her without answering other questions and worked hard to move the wood forward.

There was a huge open space in the middle of the cross-shaped street. When Shen Yunie approached, she found that people were forming a circle here. People came one after another, making the circle bigger and bigger, and the sound of talking was noisy. Most of the people who came were young men, staring at a certain place with expectation in their eyes.

Shen Yunie passed by carrying wood. He glanced into the circle and saw a platform built on the open ground. The edges were decorated with flowers. A young woman in scarlet clothes was walking on the platform holding a hydrangea. Everyone was staring at her.

"Choosing a bride?" Shen Yunie was curious. In fact, the bride had already been chosen privately in this way, and she could just give it to the person she liked. The reason why she asked people to participate was just to make herself look more glorious.

Looking up along the bride's snow-white swan neck, Shen Yunie found that the bride was actually looking at her. Then the small hydrangea flew up in the air, and the colorful hydrangea seemed to shine under the light, and it fell in mid-air.

Shen Yunie felt something hit her chest, and then fell to her feet. "...Hydrangea?"

The bride threw the bouquet to him, but shouldn't this thing be given to the one she loves?

……

At sunset, the stone chamber was silent. There was no trace of spirit in Chi Yuan's empty eyes. For some reason, she felt that time had slowed down a lot today. The evening breeze was blowing, and the sounds of insects and frogs began to be heard. She never thought about whether Shen Yunie had really left.

The only thing that suddenly came to my mind was what the evening would be like today? Would it be like yesterday, burning silently and burning the surrounding clouds red?

The setting sun disappeared, and the dark clouds seemed to gather very densely in the night sky tonight, blocking the moonlight, and there was no light in the small window of the stone room.

In a trance, Chi Yuan heard a roar coming from the stone door. The breeze blew up her hair scattered on the stone bed. After the dead silence was broken, the darkness disappeared. The orange light filled every corner of this small stone room. She came back to her senses and looked in the direction of the door.

Shen Yunie was standing there holding an oil lamp, with a lot of things placed at her feet. "Sorry, I seem to be back late."

"Why?" Chi Yuan asked. Didn't he leave? Why did he come back?

"I went to Taixu Town. I need some daily necessities for life."

Shen Yunie used the money from selling the wood to buy food and then went to ask the carpenter for the cost of repairing Fuyun Temple. He wiped the red and swollen parts of his face, and after putting down the oil lamp, several bells appeared in his hand as if by magic, "Master Chi Yuan, look at the wind chimes I bought."

Chi Yuan looked away. This man was really stubborn and persistent.

Shen Yunie still explained to her, "I may have to go to the town often in the future. I was afraid that you would be bored staying alone, so I bought a wind chime. It will ring every time the wind blows, and it will also ring when I come back."

He straightened the string, causing the wind chimes to swing and make clear, pleasant sounds.

Shen Yunie laid out the rice and noodles she had bought. "Today when I went to the town, I ran into someone choosing a bride, and that hydrangea fell on me..."

The hydrangea hit him squarely, and when Shen Yunie came to his senses, he was surrounded by people. He didn't want to be the groom, so he carried the wood and pushed through the crowd to escape. The bride who chose him also had prestige in the town, and in order to avoid losing face, she sent servants to catch him.

The wound on Shen Yunie's face was caused by a conflict with the servants. Fortunately, he managed to get rid of that group of people in the end.

Chi Yuan looked at the red and swollen spots on his face and suddenly said, "You can go now."

Shen Yunie was stunned, and looked at her in surprise, "You can say three words? That's great, I will go and make herbs to treat your injuries now, I'm sure you will get better faster."

Chi Yuan, "..."

This person couldn't be persuaded to leave. She was also surprised in her heart. In eight years, the super-mutation factor had not been able to heal her respiratory organs to the point where she could speak completely. Now, in just one month, she could barely say three or even more words.

The wind chimes were hung on the stone door, and the breeze that blew into the stone corridor made them emit pleasant ringing sounds. Chi Yuan caught a glimpse of a small cloth doll placed on the wooden bed. It had gray hair and green eyes and looked somewhat like her. It was also bought by Shen Yunie from a peddler.

The sound of collision continued to ring out, and Chi Yuan saw Shen Yunie sitting on the spot, holding a stone pestle in his hand and constantly stuffing herbs into the stone mortar to crush them. She smelled the fragrance of flowers and plants in the air, and her slowly beating heart suddenly shrank, and her eyes were fixed on the herbs.

Those were not real herbs, they were all plants that were severely corroded by Honkai energy. There were people in the world who took a lot of these things, introduced Honkai energy into their bodies, and eventually turned into creatures in the state of dead soldiers, which was called "being possessed by the devil".

Shen Yunie added a lot of it, and after the impurities were separated through the filter, only a rich green liquid remained. He poured the liquid into the cup with satisfaction, raised his hand and prepared to drink it.

"You will die, don't eat it." Chi Yuan spoke.

A dosage of that level would most likely completely transform a person into a dead soldier. With today's technological civilization, it is difficult to deal with such a monster with swords alone. Shen Yunie, who has turned into a dead soldier, would most likely slaughter the people in Taixu Town, or even eat her.

No matter what happened, she didn't want to see it.

Shen Yunie paused and said, "It's okay. I won't die."

He drank up the juice, and the Honkai energy virus quickly spread throughout his body.