Villain: I am not good at fighting.

Chapter 454: Heaven's Punishment Devours the Heart, Kindness is Like Water

A feeling of unreality filled her mind. Liu Muqing shook her head and looked at her parents, sister and brother in confusion.

At that moment, the dream flashed into reality, as if it were a lifetime ago, but she soon returned to normal and denied it in her heart.

Dreams are just dreams, they have no beginning or end, with all those demon giants, Taoist gods, and reincarnations of immortals. They are even more outrageous than vernacular novels.

"Qingqing, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"

Her mother Dou Hong noticed her condition and asked with concern.

Liu Muqing felt a strange feeling in her heart, as if it was the first time that her mother cared about her so much.

"Mom, I'm fine."

Suppressing the discomfort in her heart, Liu Muqing focused her attention on the pork belly brought by Liu Aoyang.

"It must be that my elder sister didn't sleep well last night, which caused me to have nightmares and not rest well."

She picked up the chopsticks to stop the pork belly that Liu Xianlan was holding. In that era, meat was a luxury, although their family was well off.

But we can’t afford to eat meat every day, let alone the most appetizing part of meat, the pork belly.

"Second brother, my elder sister is still growing, so you should eat less."

Liu Xianlan didn't indulge her either. She argued with her while persuading her to stop. Such unruly scenes were the norm in this family.

His father watched with a smile while holding a cup of tea, his mother was beside him advising girls to be reserved and not be so rude, and Liu Aoyang hid aside to avoid any trouble.

"Aoyang, go to the study and get some writing brushes and ink!"

The eldest sister Liu Xianlan, who lost the competition, put down her chopsticks, put her hands on her waist, and angrily ordered the third child in the family.

"Big sister, tell me the direction and I'll write it for you."

As the winner, Liu Muqing imitated her old father and sipped the tea leisurely.

At this moment, she was fully awake and adapted to the daily life of this family. Dreams could not affect her at all, and even poetry could hardly create ripples in her heart.

"Well, I have to appear to be very powerful, very unique, very... in short, very, very powerful!"

It’s hard to describe how Liu Xianlan is not a bookworm. As her younger sister, Liu Muqing lives with her day and night and roughly understands her thoughts.

"Do you want to attract everyone's attention?"

"Yeah."

Liu Xianlan nodded like a chick pecking at rice. She wanted to make the county magistrate's youngest son fall in love with her.

"Let me think about it~"

Liu Muqing tried hard to recall the nightmare she had last night, hoping to find some inspiration from it, but she found that she was awake after having a good meal.

My dream experience became increasingly vague, I could not remember the specific content, and the sense of detachment that I was specifically pursuing became increasingly weak.

On the contrary, the expectations in the eyes of my parents and sister, and the admiration in the eyes of my brother are more real. They are all looking forward to the performance of this "scholar".

Taking the ink-stained brush, Liu Muqing wrote a few beautiful characters on the white rice paper.

"Xuan paper seems to be supplied exclusively to the royal family. How could my family..."

Liu Muqing's thoughts were interrupted by her elder sister Liu Xianlan's gesture.

"Hold the sun and moon, and pick the stars~

There is no one like me in this world."

"Sister, you actually recognize all these words?"

Liu Muqing looked up in surprise. Her elder sister was not a good student. She was the one who taught her all, but she was a failure.

"I'm just not good at reading, but I'm not illiterate. Don't interrupt me. There's still half a poem left."

"If I, Liu Xianlan, had not been born, the Great Zhou would have been in darkness forever~"

As Liu Muqing put pen to paper, thunder exploded in her heart. Her pupils were confused for a moment, then she remained silent and drank the tea beside her in one gulp.

"Hahaha, second brother's poetry talent is amazing. Even though I don't understand poetry, you can intuitively understand it... Uh, second brother, why did you drink ink?"

After receiving the poem, Liu Xianlan danced with joy and excitement. Suddenly, she found that Liu Muqing picked up the inkstone and drank all the ink, with dark liquid remaining at the corners of her mouth.

"So it's ink. I was wondering why it was so fishy."

It was as fishy as the black blood that was punished by heaven. Liu Muqing wiped it calmly, then looked at her father Liu Bai with a smile on her lips.

"Dad, we should go to Mr. Taiyue's house to pay New Year's greetings."

Liu Bai was still holding his tea without noticing. He slowly responded when he heard Liu Muqing speak. He turned his head and said to his mother Dou Hong with a smile:

"Madam, go and get the gift money."

Dou Hong nodded, stood up and walked towards the inner room. Liu Muqing looked down at herself. There was golden sand in her soulless chest. Her body was being assimilated.

Rumble…

The thunder gradually faded, and the unrealistic feeling of detachment once again lingered in Liu Muqing's mind until she was completely awake.

She and her father had already gotten into a carriage, and the horses made a ticking sound as they stepped on the bluestone ground.

"Dad, I'll sleep a little longer. Call me when you get there."

The taste of ink left in my mouth cannot be washed away no matter how hard I try. I was just laughed at by my elder sister and younger brother. I have been too obsessed with vernacular novels recently.

"Qingqing, your classmates are outside."

Liu Muqing was awakened by her father in a trance. She looked out through the car window with hazy eyes. How come they were almost there? It felt like she had just closed her eyes for a moment?

Outside the carriage, a girl in a yellow skirt was standing on the roadside, holding three thick books in her hands and waving at her with a patched sack on her waist.

"Mu Qing~"

Li Zhiyun from Lijiazhuang, she and Xie Xiaoyu from Xiejiaao are both students of Mr. Taiyue, and also classmates and friends of Liu Muqing.

"Zhiyun, get in the car quickly."

I have the impression that on the first day of every year, they would go to Mr. Taiyue's house to pay New Year's greetings without an appointment. The kindness of Mr. Taiyue in teaching them is second only to the kindness of their parents in raising them.

Whether it was raining or snowing, it never stopped.

"Hello, Uncle Liu!"

Li Zhiyun trotted over and climbed onto the carriage. She saluted Liu Bai first, then sat next to Liu Muqing and said hurriedly:

"Mu Qing, how are you doing with the homework assigned by the teacher? I only remember half of it. If the teacher tests me later, what should I do?"

Li Zhiyun's family was poor, her mother was in poor health, and her father worked as a cook all year round to earn money to supplement the family income, so she went to Mr. Taiyue's house to pay New Year's greetings alone.

"Homework, I still have homework?"

Liu Muqing reached out to take the three books in Li Zhiyun's arms and flipped through them...

The three religions of "The Highest Good is Like Water", "The Great Righteousness" and "The Original Vow of Bodhi" merge and take the best from each.

She had homework, sure, but she didn't remember a single word of it.

"Dad, why didn't you remind me?"

Liu Muqing cast a questioning look at her father Liu Bai, who then realized and said:

"You have been a role model in the family since you were young, and you have always been very self-conscious. I have never been to school, so I don't remember anything."

"never mind."

Mr. Taiyue's home is on Changzhu Mountain outside Liujiazhuang. It would take some time to climb the mountain in the heavy snow, so Liu Muqing hurriedly flipped through books and began to cram.

Why didn’t I remember that I had homework before? Damn it!

The highest good is like water. Water benefits all things without contention. It stays in places that people hate. Therefore, it is close to the Tao. It occupies a good place, has a deep heart, is kind to others, is trustworthy in words, is just in governing, is capable in doing things, and acts at the right time. Because it does not contend, it is free from blame.

The whole article encourages people to be good. Liu Muqing recited it several times but found that she always forgot one sentence after another.