Chapter 1: Encounters (3)

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The girl who had been sleeping for a long time was awakened by a strange environment, and the first thing she saw when she opened her eyes was a blue sea with no end in sight. No wonder there is a feeling of freedom, no wonder the sun is wet and scorching, it turns out that she is on the sea.

In the vast sea, there is a force that is spurring Xinghai Yuelou forward......

Han Wen lay on the top of the nine-story tower, the highest part of the ship, in a daze, the red tiles and blue bricks under her were not as cold as when she woke up just now, but she was extremely shocked and surprised at the moment...... Why, why is she here? Where the hell is she? Although it is the sea, she is no stranger to the sea, but what is the matter with this ridiculously big ship? How did everything change when she woke up......

She vividly remembered that she was running on the bridge last night, and then she was hit by something and flew out and fell into the water. Yes, she fell into the water, but she shouldn't have fallen into the sea! She was right, she was really in the middle of the sea. A vast ocean, with no mainland islands in sight at the end of the spectrum.

There is a big difference between falling into the water and falling into the sea, could it be that she was carried to the sea by the current?

Han Wen shook his head, denying the ridiculous speculation. If it was overboard, then why was she on top of a tower built on a ship? Someone must have sent her here. Thinking like this, her heart is much more stable, but she is also much angry, where to send it is not good, but in such a high place, I don't know if she is afraid of heights and will not have the slightest martial arts. I scolded this person a thousand times in my heart. Han Wen tidied up her messy hair and clothes, and then carefully climbed down the eaves of the tower to the next floor, and it took her half a day to reach the gate at the bottom of the tower.

When I got to the ground, I realized that the ship was not ordinarily large. The nine-story tower was built at the highest point, and even on the first floor, there was an unobstructed view of the ship. Han Wen admired the people who designed and built the ship. It is rare to have such a talent to be able to play in this era.

She carefully watched the environment on the first floor. The view here is wide, except for the nine-story tower at the back, the other three sides face the sea on all sides. The blue brick sea and sky, the seagulls soar and gather, the white water lines are like a water snake stretching on the sea surface, and there are crystal shining light spots, dazzling like pearls, bright fantasy, very pure and beautiful; and then look at the boat, the whole is red, red houses, red corridors, red pavilions, and red trees..... I guess it's a maple tree. The courtyard planted with maple trees was some distance from her, and at first glance, she thought it was a red tower house.

The girl who was intoxicated by the gorgeous red scenery forgot the trouble just now, and forgot where she was in danger, until she ......

"Hurry up, Lord Wuyue's saffron must be delivered to Lord Ba Qing. From the corner of the corridor came an impatient voice, a shrill but delicate voice, and it was a woman's voice when you heard it.

At this time, another female voice sounded, and compared to the previous one, her voice was calm and low: "Yes, yes, the slave knows." ”

The sound was getting closer and closer, and Han Wen had no choice but to hide behind the door on the first floor in a panic and close the door carefully. In a short time, the two women came outside the door. She heard it better.

"Lord Ba Qing's alchemy medicine is just this saffron, if you weren't too stupid, all of us wouldn't be punished by Lord Ba Qing. The impatient maiden reproached, and it sounded like they had angered some terrible person, and they had been punished. Han Wen became curious, and put his ear to the door panel to listen carefully to the next conversation between the two -

"The slave is too stupid, and mistakenly sent the acacia beans to Lord Wuyue as saffron, thanks to the kindness of Lord Wuyue, he dissuaded Lord Ba Qing from not pulling us to alchemy. Utsuki-sama is really a good person. ”

"That's natural, Utsuki-sama is the most honorable person on board. Lord Ba Qing still has to listen to her waiting, and you and I are also lucky to be by Lord Wuyue's side. Lord Ba Qing was too strict, and the people under him were terrified. ”

"Didn't you say that Lord Dongyang was the most severe?"

"Lord Dongyang and Lord Wuyue are both protectors of the country, and their status is not comparable to that of Lord Ba Qing. Therefore, Toyo-sama generally does not care about people who make mistakes. ”

"Protector Mage...... Sounds amazing. ”

"Of course, the two great masters personally ordered by His Majesty the Emperor have noble status, and they are remarkable. ”

"But why let the national teacher go to sea?"

"It's classified, and I don't know. You little slave don't ask too much, you can't ask more questions on the Xinghaiyue Tower, listen up?"

"Yes, the slave knows. ”

Two girls in light pink plackets walked one after the other, turning the corner at the end of the corridor and going elsewhere.

After making sure that the two girls were gone, Han Wen was relieved to open the door and come out.

"What Lord Wuyue, Lord Ba Qing, and what other protector mage?" Han Wen was confused when he heard this, and he was almost dizzy. She looked down at the patterns on the mahogany bricks and thought, "Alchemy? Could it be refining the elixir?"

Since ancient times, all monarchs, in addition to the success and defeat of the king is a classic of fighting for power, there is also the alchemy of immortals is the tireless pursuit of monarchs. For thousands of years, how many people have pursued immortality desperately, one after another, and how many people have died on it. Even in the future, more than a thousand years from now, this is supernatural and has no scientific basis. Therefore, alchemy and seeking immortality are just a ridiculous pursuit of ignorant people.

Han Wen never believed in any elixir in his heart, what is the benefit of alchemy other than eating the dead, and he doesn't know who His Majesty the Emperor listened to, and actually spent a huge amount of money to build this big ship, is it possible to follow the example of Qin Shi Huang and cross the East to seek immortal island to get the elixir?

"No, no. How outrageous is there a crossing. She patted her chest to soothe the turmoil in her heart, trying to calm herself down and stop thinking nonsense. Looking at this antique and luxurious ship, I thought of the pair of girls just now that the name of this ship is Xinghai Yuelou, it seems that this is ancient times. It won't be her in Dayin's territory, the ancient temple country. But the architectural style of this hull is not like the style of the ancient temple country, could it be the Central Plains?

Now, that's the only possibility. From the moment she crossed into this world, she knew that she was in a history that was not recorded in the history books. This history is strange, different from the history in which she was originally from. The history of this world has the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, but after the fall of the Han Dynasty, there was no situation of three kingdoms in the late Eastern Han Dynasty as in the original world, but into five kingdoms. The Dayin Dynasty is one of them. The development of the five countries has been divided and merged, and it has a history of several hundred years, and now she is in an era of peace after the end of the troubled times, and there is no war for a long time. The only ones that are not peaceful are the ancient temples of Dayin and the neighboring countries, which are located in the remote middle of the five countries, and have been fighting for territory for many years, and have only eased up in recent years. Because it is not peaceful, Dayin and the ancient temple have not been listed as countries in the Central Plains by the other three countries, and have always been isolated countries, and there is not much intersection with the Central Plains.

She originally traveled through the territory of the Great Yin Kingdom, where she lived for four years, during which she never set foot in the Central Plains, but she was not alone about it. There are too many histories in this world that are staggered in the original history that she doesn't know, but the history before the Qin and Han dynasties is still the history she knows. So now that she is in the Central Plains, she is not too afraid, but she is interested in seeing where the ship is going and what its purpose is.

Blinking her bright eyes, she collected her mood, looked left and right, and decided to follow the path of the pair of girls.

But after a short time of following, she got lost. When she came to a courtyard, there was a small pool led by the stream, and there were cherry blossom trees that were rarely seen.

The courtyard is divided into two parts by a square corridor, one facing a vermilion gate and the other leading to a winding path.

Two directions, two options. Hangeul couldn't make a decision, so he had to use the method he had when he was a child...... Point the soldiers, point to whom—"Winding path." She muttered, glancing at the door behind her. Forget it, there are a lot of big things, so she should take a walk and take risks.

Along the way, she appreciated the luxury crystallization of the Central Plains. See many exotic trees, and even gold trees and silver flowers. Hangul thought it was fake gold and silver. I deliberately stole a few pieces and put them in my mouth to bite them, but it turned out to be true. She couldn't help but exclaim, who is so rich, a local tyrant! Thinking that she was poor now, she quickly picked some more and put them in her pocket.

Continuing to walk forward, I saw many beautiful ladies and slaves on the way, but fortunately she was sharp enough to hide in the corner so that no one could find her. In the beginning, there were people on the trail, but the further you go, the easier it is, and the fewer people you do. She couldn't help but wonder what kind of place this was.

The trail was very long, and she didn't know how long it had been, but it had been for most of the day anyway. There were other forks in the road, but she kept going in a straight line, and she wanted to know where it leads.

Finally, at the end of the trail is a step that extends upwards, a step made of mahogany. No one came here, so it should be a forbidden place for idlers to enter. Han Wen's heart blossomed, she likes to explore the place with secrets the most, this Xinghai Moon Tower has too many secrets, and now that she meets one, she wants to know what kind of secret it is.

At the end of the stairs, when she came to the high platform, she turned her head to see a covered bridge between the two platforms. She leaned on the bridge and looked down, only to see the golden trees and silver flowers shining in the sunlight below, and the thin stream flowing from the rockery spring, like a silver line zigzag and stretched in the golden and gorgeous scenery. This scenery can't be described only as luxurious, it's a living tyrannical thing!

She suddenly had the idea of beating up this person who built the Xinghai Moon Tower.

She crossed the bridge, reached another platform, and descended the steps.

I just came to another place and the scenery suddenly changed. There are no glittering golden trees and honeysuckle, only a corridor. On both sides are open spaces without flowers, grass and trees, the ground is made of cold gray stone bricks, the corridors are not unobstructed, there are sliding doors every ten columns, and each door is made of agarwood, the fragrance is probably lowered by the cool temperature here, and becomes a faint fragrant fragrance. What was even more surprising was that each door was carved with a circular pattern, and a piece of red letter that resembled a rune was attached to the pattern, as if some kind of charm was sealing something.

She couldn't bear it anymore and pushed open one agarwood door after another, and with each push, the cool smell in the air became heavier. She didn't dare to move the door until she was about to open the last door, and wanted to run away from this hellish place, but curiosity overcame her fear, and she pushed it open, and after entering the door, she really wanted to retreat. The world behind the door has returned to a gorgeous scenery, but this gorgeous scenery is a ghost forest.

Behind the door is a new world, the exquisite palace is located next to the rockery, facing a sky surrounded by a square wall, in front of the low-lying wetland, planted with emerald green lotus leaves, begonia pots are placed in a row on both sides of the wetland, under the sky, a cherry tree blooms in full bloom, blooming like clouds and mist, the flowers are gorgeous, full of trees.

Han Wen looked at the vermilion plaque hanging on the lintel of the palace in a daze, on which the three big characters of "Zhonghua Palace" were written.

As far as she knew, the bell flower was a very old name, another name for a cherry blossom tree. In her original world, Bell Cherry has a unique and elegant name...... Cold scarlet cherry blossoms. As the name suggests, they are red cherry blossoms that bloom in the cold early spring. She looked at the cherry blossom trees in front of her with fascination, they were really red, like flowers with bells flying in the air, beautiful to a fairyland.

It's really strange, this season is the time of the alternation of spring and summer, not early spring, and the bell cherries should not bloom. Although there was a strange cold air inside and outside the palace, the sky above was blue, the clouds were white, and the sun was hot, but it was cold here.

She looked around and saw how wonderful this place was. It turned out that beside the wall, there were large chunks of frozen ice buried in the soil, and the surrounding soil was frozen into a solidified layer of soil, and even the surface of the gravel was covered with a layer of fine frost, not to mention the mist that lingered in the depression beside the trees, which was also cold, and added a bit of yin to the place.

After staying here for a long time, she was awakened by the cold qi. Yin Qi seeped into people, and a layer of goosebumps appeared on her body, she quickly picked up her arms and rubbed the two exposed arms, so that she could warm up her body. Now she remembered that the single clothes on her body were really not ordinarily thin, only a red ankle-length skirt, no collar and no sleeves, very ...... Hate bad morals. In this history of low male power and low women, this idiom should be used to describe her dress at this time.

No matter how strange and cold this strange and seeping palace garden is. Anyway, she hadn't seen a single figure after standing here for a long time, so this place must be more forbidden than a forbidden place. It was too cold, she shivered into the palace, and it took a lot of effort to push the heavy agarwood door open, and as soon as she stepped into the hall, a smoky fragrance came to her face, and she knew that it was a precious raw incense, a good fragrance after steaming. Looking at it again, the hall is empty and lonely; the cloud-roofed sandalwood is used as a beam, the crystal jade is used as a lamp, the black stone is paved with bricks, and a long cloud veil hangs from the beam to the ground, layer after layer, like a long cloud mist filling this fragrant space; there are no objects in the hall, only the lotus-shaped candlestick hangs on the gold-inlaid pillar. The lights are faint, the doors and windows are closed, the light is dim, and with the clouds and dark candles, the inside of this hall is not much deeper than the outside.

She felt less cold, the heating in the room was warm, she relaxed and took a big gulp of air, the warm air filled her chest, and her limbs slowly became flexible from stiffness to free stretching. But after a while, she suddenly felt that something was wrong, this fragrance smelled for a long time, and the whole stomach ...... No, the whole body was on fire, and the brain was starting to get groggy.

Is the scent toxic?

She doesn't understand incense, but the fragrance is strong, and it rushes to all parts of her body, and there is a feeling of numbness. The problem is that the hall is empty, there is not an incense burner to burn incense, and there is no incense cloud lingering, where the incense wafts from is full of the hall. In addition to being dizzy and numb at the moment, Han Wen also inexplicably thought of the poems he had read before:

The flowers are steaming and the ancient Ding smoke, the water is sinking in the spring to reveal the freshness, the heart is clear and flawless, the ambergris is counted, the beggar and the sick man are in the tent, you might as well be drunk and sleeping, and the three realms of general smoke are swept away.

Han Wen covered her nose with her hands, and her body staggered towards the depths of the hall, and after lifting the countless layers of cloud veil, she was stunned.

"Beautiful sister...... Beauty. As she spoke, she stood still, motionless, like a puppet without clockwork, and the expression on her face was frozen in surprise.