My Cloud and My Lotus

Chapter 32: Future

The sun rose from the east, as birds chirps on the branches on the nearby trees. Morning had finally arrived, as everyone who studies in Gusu, woke up up early as usual, to get to there morning classes for this year.

As always Jingyi was woken up by his cousin Lan Sizhui to get ready for the day. Meanwhile Jin Ling was on his own room, getting ready preparing to leave, having a few complaints before going out of his room.

Zizhen who was still in his room, basically struggling with his shoes, after a coupe of minutes he went out of his room, the place was already bright.

Like always the quadro always meets at the bridge where it leads to the orchid room, the weather today was kinda different from the other days.

Especially today having a hard breeze, some of there lectures have been postpone due to it's strong wind, the place was about to fall a heavy set of rain which is coming up pretty soon.

"Man what a bad time to enjoy a day." Zizhen said as he looked up to the sky to see the clouds being heavy grey color, "It is better for us to go before the rain arrives, we do not want to get drench in rain water do we?" Sizhui spoke as he starts to walk to the directions of there rooms, then someone commented

"Why don't we have a secret sleepover since our classes has been postpone? what do you guys say? you guys inn?" Said Jingyi as he placed his arm on sizhui's shoulder with a huge smile on his face.

"And what if we get caught, would you take all the blame" Jin Ling spoe up to jingyi who stuck out his tounge to the other, "You unlan!" Jin Ling said who was about to pounce on Jingyi who dared to stuck his tounge out again.

"Have respect for the sect leader of LanLingJin!" he said and the two started to bicker again and Sizhui and Zizhen sighed at one another.

Acting like it is a normal day for them for those two to bicker like always, which actually was it is very rare for them not bicker as the two get on each other's nerves pretty quickly.

"Will the two of you stop, you two always bicker every single day, can the two of you stop just for a day without fighting? Like you two need to fight every single day, what is this a daily habit?" Zizhen said with an unbothered face, he actually had enough of the two fighting constantly, more likely the two have been fighting since the moment they all met.

The two were then seperated by zizhen who stand in the middle of them. "Zizhen is right, a-yi, a-ling, why don't we try Jingyi's suggestion on having a sleep over, let just ask permission to Grand-Uncle?" Sizhui said and then JingYi spoke

"Would he even agree? His so strict more stricter than.... a-niang" Jingyi said the last part he was kinda quite, but the three immediatly forgot about it and didn't mind it. Rain then hits the ground, zizhen stuck out his hand and the rain water hit his palm, he turned his head two sizhui who was talking with jin ling.

"Let's hurry the rain is about to hit, there is lready a couple rain drops a head before it gets stronger." The three nodded to him they decided to take shelter at the library, "Is it alright for us to stay here? What if Grandmaster Lan sees us and scold us for staying at the library." jin ling asked as the rain starts to sets in,

"Don't worry my father, spends his time here mostly during his younger years here." sizhui said and then he added "Let's go in we don't want to get wet by the wind don't we?" He said and the four walked inside "If we still get punish, the punishment won't be brutal, we are just told to copy the rules, twenty to fifty times." he added again, making the other three frown at his comment.

"That's okay for you sizhui, like it isn't out thing to rewrite the gusulan rules over again, it's very tiring even if it's only ten times." jingyi said as he looked around the library, some of the books are just old books of poerty, some about cultivation, and more other, nothing particular has caught jingyi's eye. Expect one book he saw, having a dark blue leather cover saying Bēishāng zhī shū(悲伤之书)

"Hey sizhui, have this book been in the library? This looks new to me." said jingyi as he took out the book from the shelf and showed it to sizhui who has is right eyebrow raised. "Hm, it looks pretty old to me, isn't these types of books should be in the forbidden library?" he said as jingyi handed the book to sizhui.

The other two got confused on what they were looking at and went closer, "This better not be like the other times that it has a secret talisman, and will transport us to another dimension, or a different timeline." zizhen said agreed with a nod with jin ling, "zizhen, is right we don't even know if it has a talisman or not.",

"It looked like a pretty old book to me, a-ling.", "You are not sure, what if the young mistress is right" , "Wow it's the first time the two of you agreed to one another, i like it." zizhen said in reply with a chuckle, "zizhen, stop it.", "Fine, Fine i will.

6*+🕤 6What are the contents of the book sizhui got any info about it?" he asked as he looked at the book, with a little dissapointment on his face.

"Who ever wrote this, must be a veryvbad writer to me." zizhen commented, "indeed, very bad that you can't even pronounce it." added by jingyi.

"I wonder who wrote this, the book doesn't looked too old nor new at the same time.", "is there no exact date sizhui?" jin ling asked him and the other nodded in response.

The weather outside did not went clear, it only got worse apparently, "It looks like there is an upcoming storm ahead."zizhen said as he looked out of the door, as the rain heavily poured on.

"Then what do we do? We can't just stay in the library all day, you don't know what if we might get hungry?" said Jingyi as looked around the shelfs. "You always think about food." Zizhen said to him, as he went closer to Jin Ling and Sizhui who was looking through the contents of the book and he spoke. "Why read it, the persons calligraphy isn't even good, you can't force yourself to understand it."

"Zizhen is right just let it off, maybe this is just a dumb book that someone wrote and accidentally left it in the library." Jingyi spoke agreeing with the other. "I wonder when will the rain will stop, it's getting even gloomy than before.", "Zizhen is right, but we still have to stay in, the rain can make us sick.", sizhui said.

The wind around them starts to get harder then the rain entered the library, so does the wind everything that was on the shelf started to fall, from brushes and inks to the books placed accordingly, turned into a chaos around the place. The book fell of the hands of sizhui, jin ling was about to grab it, but it glowed mercifully pushing him away from the book.

Sizhui held the other tightly as the wind around them starts to get even more stronger than before, "What's happening?!" jin ling exclaimed then suddenly, they where started to be dragged inside the book slowly, "Ah! what's happening!" zizhen screamed slowly being dragged inside, jingyi tried to pull zizhen towards him, unfortunately failed and getting tragged with him inside the book.

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