(1) The Covenant of the Tenth Generations (Part II)

Chenbei always felt that I was sarcastic about her by giving Si Ming this name, so he felt very happy, happy that I finally had a conscience and helped him once. I didn't give him any explanation for this, because I didn't think it made much difference whether I explained or was silent in terms of his intelligence, and I didn't bother to talk to him. And at this time, the most important thing for me is whether my golden jade clothes will work on Si Ming, and I don't want to pay more attention to those useless things.

Si Ming slept in the golden jade robe for a full seventy-seven and forty-nine days, and on the fiftieth day, she disappeared into front of our eyes out of thin air.

I am very pleased with this, because it marks the success of my efforts. So I began to look forward to her return, and every other fifty or sixty years I stood by the golden jade robe, thinking about when she would appear again.

People always like to measure time by length, but for time itself, length does not have any meaning, because compared to the limited life of human beings, time is eternal and endless, it does not need and has no way to measure, but it belongs to the individual time is limited, so people account for the length of time. And for someone like me, who can be considered almost immortal, time doesn't play much of a role for me, but despite this, I'm still tired of waiting, just as I don't like celery.

So after waiting for Changsheng for hundreds of years and never waiting for her to come back, I finally lost interest in her, threw off the golden jade robe, and let it dust in my treasure pavilion, and never looked at it again.

I didn't know what to think at that time, Changsheng didn't come back for so long, and I never worried about whether something had happened to her, and I didn't even think about whether there was something wrong with the golden jade clothes that didn't let her enter reincarnation smoothly. If it weren't for her coming back to me many years later, I'm afraid I'd have forgotten that she ever existed.

The reunion of an old friend should always be joyful, but for both of us, she was more glad that she had come back at the right time and had time to save my life, while I was at a loss and couldn't tell whether what was in front of me was real or dreamy.

I thought we all deserved to die, but the truth is, we're all alive.

When I didn't know Changsheng before, I always said to Sinan that fate is the most popular joke in this world. Although Sinan always corrected my grammatical mistakes in response to this sentence, every time, he did not negate my conclusion. So we were naturally also played a joke by fate, and this joke almost took the lives of several people.

It was only after we had a long time resting for the afterlife that I began to ask about Changsheng's experiences over the years. Changsheng said that I have this ability, let me see for myself. So without hesitation, I spent an afternoon reading her experience in the past ten lifetimes, and then I couldn't help but ask her if she still remembered what happened in this life.

According to common sense, it is a bit redundant for me to ask this question, because every soul who walks across the Naihe Bridge on the Lechuan River has to drink a bowl of Meng Po soup to wash away the memories of the previous life and re-enter reincarnation. But a few of us weren't common sense people in the first place, so the answer she gave me was naturally to remember.

She said that the Meng Po soup only played a role when she was limited by samsara, and when she was beyond samsara, the experience of the ten lifetimes also came back to her mind.

When I heard her explanation, I suddenly felt a little sad, because her luck was not so good, and this tenth reincarnation can be said to have endured all the suffering, and did not enjoy the so-called happiness at all. If I hadn't known the truth of this matter, I would have seen what she had gone through, and I would have been able to think that she had angered the Emperor and was exiled to the human realm to be punished. But she didn't react negatively to it, and talked and laughed with me about these things, as if what she said and what I watched was someone else's story, and it had nothing to do with her.

Since I don't care about it, there's no need for me to dwell on this matter, so when this topic comes to an end, we can't help but mention our plans for the future. I asked her if she had given up her plans to be a human being again after this experience and stayed in the heavenly realm to work hard. She didn't answer me after thinking about it for a long time, but asked me the same question.

Why didn't I ask her how I was resurrected?

She asked this question so much that I wanted to cry without tears, and said in my heart that she would fight when she met Chenbei, and she would just pinch when she spoke, why didn't she let me go, and asked me to answer this question that I didn't dare to face at all. But people have to answer my questions, and I can't shirk it, so I can only bite the bullet and say that I don't dare to ask.

So she asked me why I didn't dare to ask, and I had no choice but to talk to her, saying that I couldn't afford to owe such a big favor to human life, and it was best to run away if I could, and avoid it if I could.

She reassured me that I didn't have to, because before she could make this suggestion, she had gone through the horoscope to make sure that the lives of the men were not in danger.

I smiled helplessly at her, saying that this kind of thing can't be counted according to the result, and everything that happens in the process should be borne by me. So she asked me in turn if I knew what she had done for me.

When she asked, I immediately remembered that in addition to the things that Sinan and the others had gathered, if they wanted to save my life, they also needed a divine vein, and these people of the divine clan I knew had not lost their divine veins, so my expression began to become panicked when I looked at her. When she saw me like this, she was very serious at first, but then she couldn't help it, and laughed stupidly, and explained to me while laughing, saying that she had no soul and no spirit, so she had nothing to sacrifice even if she wanted to, and I didn't have to worry.

With her words, my hanging heart was relaxed. After this relaxation, I began to wonder again what was replacing that divine vein. She said mysteriously, let me guess, I glanced at her, and without thinking about it, I blurted out that it couldn't be the golden jade robe.

I didn't mean to mention it, but I didn't know that it was in exchange for her nod. I looked at her with wide eyes, but she smiled at me, and it was the silk thread that threaded the jade pieces that saved my life.