Yu Nian was momentarily stunned. The moment she saw who was coming, all her drowsiness vanished.
She saw He Zhiping clumsily pushing aside his seven - colored long hair, sobbing with tears streaming down his face.
Yu Nian was silent for a while. "New look? Not bad," she said. There was a kind of heart - stopping beauty to it.
He Zhiping shook his head like a rattle drum, on the verge of a breakdown. "No! I woke up like this. Even fertilized seedlings couldn't grow this fast overnight! There must be someone pulling the strings behind this! If I catch them, I'll make them pay!"
Yu Nian carefully sized up He Zhiping. There was not a trace of resentment or demonic aura on him.
This was strange.
Yu Nian picked up a pair of scissors and cut at He Zhiping's hair. But to her surprise, the next second, his hair grew back at a visible speed, and it grew faster and faster, like spreading vines. In the blink of an eye, it was hanging down to his waist again.
He Zhiping's face suddenly turned deathly pale. He covered his face and said, "Was I a mop spirit in my past life?"
Yu Nian:......
"Come with me to the yard and have a look."
But as soon as Yu Nian took a step, He Zhiping suddenly blocked her way, firmly blocking the door.
"No, I can't go out. There are pilgrims outside now. If they see me, they'll laugh their heads off!"
Just then, there came a series of urgent knocks on the door.
Ming Mingzhong, trying to keep his voice down, said in a panicked tone, "Master, open the door and let me in!"
He Zhiping naturally refused. One inside the door and the other outside, they were in a life - and - death standoff.
Yu Nian was annoyed by their noise. She yanked the door open forcefully, and a person with the same seven - colored long hair stumbled in.
He Zhiping and Ming Mingzhong stared at each other blankly for a moment and said in unison, "Your hair..."
The two who had been at odds just now suddenly felt a sense of sympathy for each other.
Ming Mingzhong wiped away a tear and took out a little cat with seven - colored fur from his bosom. "Who on earth did this? They didn't even spare Qingqing. It's so cruel!"
Qingqing meowed softly and angrily kicked her legs in protest.
Yu Nian took a light breath. Now, except for her, everyone in the Pure Heart Taoist Temple had seven - colored long hair. What about Feng Chengyuan?
She quickly ran to Feng Chengyuan's room and knocked on the door.
There was no response from inside.
Yu Nian knocked twice more, but the room remained silent. Yu Nian's heart sank. Was she about to have a seven - colored contract partner?
Just as Yu Nian was about to push the door open, the man's hoarse voice came a beat late.
"Don't..."
The warm sunlight shone into the room, and Yu Nian was instantly stunned.
There was no seven - colored contract partner as she had imagined. Instead, the man's tall figure came into view. His slender waist and perfect muscle lines were fully exposed. The mark of the character "Yu" on his chest was glowing with a faint golden light. The buttons of his trousers were not yet fastened, and his V - line was faintly visible...
Feng Chengyuan's face was an unnatural pale, and his hair tips were damp with sweat.
Perhaps it was because he had clashed with the evil magnetic field in Qin Hao's villa yesterday, and then caught a cold on the way back to the Taoist temple. He had a bad cold.
After a night of suffering, his clothes were soaked with sweat. He was just changing his clothes when he didn't expect Yu Nian to suddenly barge in.
Feng Chengyuan's eyebrows were cold and his lips were tightly pursed. His whole face looked cold and aloof, a bit intimidating, but the tips of his ears were already bright red.
Feng Chengyuan, who had a fever, was dazed, and his handsome face was full of surprise.
"Yu Nian, I..."
Yu Nian suddenly came back to her senses, closed the door, and instructed, "Put on your clothes first."
Not long after, Feng Chengyuan walked out of the room fully covered.
Yu Nian turned to look at the high - hanging sun and sincerely asked, "Aren't you hot?"
Feng Chengyuan shook his head. At this moment, his breath was burning hot, but his whole body was cold.
This feeling was both strange and familiar to him. When he was a child, he was weak and would have to stay in bed for a long time whenever he got sick. Since he became an adult, he rarely got sick, but he didn't expect to fall ill so unexpectedly this time.
Yu Nian touched his forehead. It was frighteningly hot. She frowned and said, "Do you want to go to the hospital?"
Yu Nian's hand was cold and felt very comfortable on his forehead. Feng Chengyuan shook his head. "I want to sleep a little longer."
Yu Nian responded and drew a talisman in his palm. After watching Feng Chengyuan enter the room, she turned around and left.
He and Ming were still frowning. Yu Nian felt something was even more wrong, so she asked, "What did you two do after you came back from Xiyin's house yesterday?"
"After we entered the Taoist temple, it was already dawn. We were a bit hungry, so we went to the vegetable garden in the backyard to pick some tomatoes and cucumbers. Oh, right, I also pulled out some grass."
Yu Nian tilted her head. "What kind of grass?"
"Just weeds." He Zhiping thought for a while and added, "There was also a very strange - looking plant. Its leaves were brown, and its root was oblong, as long as my arm. At first glance, it looked like a person with hands and feet. I'd never seen such a thing before. I was worried it was poisonous, so I pulled it out and threw it into the trash can."
Yu Nian was silent for a moment. "Where did you throw it? Take me there and have a look."
Everyone followed He Zhiping to the empty trash can. He Zhiping was puzzled. "It's gone? How could this be?"
Yu Nian understood everything now. She slowly walked to the vegetable garden. After some calculations, she stood in a certain corner and then waved to He Zhiping. "Come and have a look. Is this the grass you pulled out yesterday?"
He Zhiping walked forward blankly. Taking a closer look, he suddenly exclaimed, "Yes, it is. How did it grow back?"
Yu Nian said leisurely, "This is not just any grass. This is a thousand - year - old Polygonum multiflorum."
Ming Mingzhong beside her was stunned for a moment and instantly understood. Polygonum multiflorum promotes hair growth. No wonder their hair had grown so long overnight.
Looking at the Polygonum multiflorum firmly rooted in the ground, the two of them were a bit angry. They each grabbed its plump leaves and tried their best to pull it out.
But unexpectedly, this Polygonum multiflorum was like it was tied to a thousand - jin weight. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't move it an inch.
Suddenly, there were two soft cracking sounds. Immediately, a strong wind howled, the vegetable garden under their feet churned, and dozens of identical Polygonum multiflorum plants broke through the ground. They were all huge and had taken on human forms. At this moment, they were crazily ramming into everyone present in a very strange and eerie posture.
The scene was extremely strange. He Zhiping and Ming Mingzhong were being rammed and howled in pain. Yu Nian twitched the corner of her mouth. "After living for a thousand years, why do you still like to play such pranks?"
Yu Nian walked straight into the chaos without hesitation. The red string on her fair finger fluttered. Yu Nian's eyes were fixed on a huge Polygonum multiflorum and she whispered, "Go."
Ganoderma lucidum, ginseng, Polygonum multiflorum, and Cordyceps sinensis are known as the four great immortal herbs. In legend, they are nurtured by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, are highly perceptive, and are very likely to escape when being dug.
But as the saying goes, every problem has a solution. The way to crack this is to tie them up with a red string in advance, and then they will be fixed in place and unable to move.
The red string immediately rose into the air, twirled in a circle, and went straight towards the Polygonum multiflorum.
The Polygonum multiflorum seemed to sense something and quickly fled, but was suddenly wrapped around its roots and leaves by the red string and couldn't move anymore.
At the same time, the other flying Polygonum multiflorum plants in the sky seemed to have been pressed on the pause button at this moment. They all fell back into the pits and turned into unremarkable weeds.