Chapter 11: Sleepless Nights Strange People
Lin Shuihan didn't seem to understand, thought about it, and shook his head.
The old man laughed a few more times, "The flowers bloom and the hibiscus are concentric, the rhizomes on this wooden ring are the rhizomes of two Tianshan Snow Lotus, divided into two, turned into thin vines, and are wound on two thousand years of green sandalwood, the green sandalwood is formed by absorbing the essence of heaven, earth, sun and moon, and it has a spirit itself, plus the spirit of this rattan, and the person who has these two wooden rings can be together for a lifetime, and will never be separated." ”
Lin Shuihan finally understood what the old man meant, and he couldn't help but feel a trace of joy in his heart, so can he and Ning Xi be together for the rest of their lives?
"Grandpa, is this true?" he still couldn't believe it, and wanted to confirm it again.
"Well~ There are true and false, it depends on what the person who owns it thinks, if both people believe it, then this is true, if one person does not believe it, then this is fake!" The old man said very indifferently, but Lin Shuihan was greatly surprised, "Ah?
"Yes, so I just stood here all day, trying to see if I could find those two people with wooden rings, if I believe it, I am naturally inseparable, if I don't believe it, then I am alone!" When the old man said the last sentence, he looked at Lin Shuihan and smiled meaningfully.
Lin Shuihan suddenly felt furious in his heart, thinking of Ning Xi's sudden departure today, as well as his own uneasiness tonight, he was a little convinced that what the old man said was true!
"That'...... What then?" he asked weakly.
The old man patted him on the shoulder, "Little baby, parting is for a better meeting!" After that, he turned around and walked into the store, Lin Shuihan stood in a daze, echoing the sentence he had just said in his mind, and just wanted to go in to ask him for an explanation, he heard a strange voice behind him-
As soon as he turned around in surprise, he saw Lin Shu standing on the street with a wooden box and looking at him puzzled, "Sister!" He hurriedly walked in front of her, "What are you doing here?" Lin Shu looked at him curiously.
"I saw that my sister hadn't returned for a long time, and I wondered if something had happened, so I wanted to come to this empty city to look for you, but I met an old man in that shop, chatted with him for a few words, and forgot about business!" Lin Shuihan said 'truthfully', hiding the scene when he saw Lin Shu kneeling and painting.
Hearing this, Lin Shu looked at the shop he was in just now, it was the place where he bought the two wooden rings for him and Ning Xi yesterday, but there didn't seem to be any old man in that shop! But today Lin Shu was in a heavy mood, and he didn't have the heart to pursue these things, so he looked at Lin Shui lightly and gestured, "Let's go, go home." ”
Lin Shuihan nodded, then raised his hand to hug the wooden box in Lin Shu's hand, and smiled at her: "Sister is tired for a day, I'll help you get it!" Lin Shu wanted to refuse, but the wooden box was already in his hand, and she didn't bother to be polite to him anymore.
Today is the last day of the opening of the pupil gate, and all the people in the demon world must arrive at the pupil gate before the ugly hour tonight, and return to the demon world under the supervision of the two holy envoys of Zhuoxi and Liangxi, and at this time it is already a sub-hour, and there is still half an hour left before the ugly time, so everyone is also walking in the direction of the pupil gate.
From time to time, there were a few 'squeak' sounds in the night sky, and all kinds of dazzling lights swept through the night like meteors, and those were all people from the demon realm who cast spells and returned to the pupil gate, for fear of missing the hour and being burned by the scorching saint using fire punishment, but there were still some who walked slowly on the street, not in a hurry at all.
Lin Shuihan and Lin Shu went out of the city quietly all the way, walking on the way back to the village, with different thoughts.
Lin Shu has been thinking about her future life, now she is over the age of Taoli, but she is still unmarried, staying in that small village all day to sell paintings for a living, she has thought countless times, what is the meaning of this kind of life? How long will she stay here? A woman who has not married so far will be gossiped about sooner or later, and she will also listen to some gossip in the village, and if she continues like this, how will she accept everything when the time comes?
However, none of these questions have been answered.
Every sleepless night, she wondered, meeting Lin Shuihan, was it the reason why she was destined to live like this until death? If she had abandoned him ruthlessly, would she not have to come to this village and live such a miserable life?
The answer is no.
She is indeed not a cold-blooded and ruthless woman, people's hearts are always the weakest, not to mention that Lin Shuihan was still an infant baby at that time, what can he decide and change! Everything is just his own choice!
Perhaps, once a person makes a certain decision, although it seems inconspicuous, it is enough to make earth-shaking changes in his future life! No matter how angry he is, he will not be able to withstand the reality after all.
If that's the case, so be it!
And Lin Shuihan, who had been walking beside her, didn't know anything about her sister's thoughts, and always recalled everything that the old man said in her mind, leaving was for a better meeting, what did this mean? Could it be that Ning Xi would leave him?
Can these two wooden rings really make people never be separated for the rest of their lives? He was really confused in his heart.
The two of them walked all the way, but they didn't notice that not far behind them, there was a person who had been following them silently, Su Qing had been following Lin Shu, and when he saw Lin Shuihan, he couldn't help but have some suspicions in his heart, he was the baby.
But what made him embarrassed was that he wanted to cast a spell to find out that Lin Shuihan's physique and see if he was the human form conjured up by the Nine Glass Beads, but that guy had a thousand-year-old green sandalwood ring in his hand, and there were rhizomes of the snow lotus on the Snow Mountain and the Tianshan Mountain on it, just getting close made him feel unwell, let alone casting a spell.
What's more, with his body as a guardian demon, he actually felt a vague immortal aura on that kid, which was strange, except for the first head of the Qilin Sect, Shu Xie Zhenren, who had become an immortal, he really didn't know that there were other immortals in this world.
Could it be that guy is the reincarnation of some ancient god?
Su Qing gradually became confused...... It seems that the whereabouts of the Demon Emperor are more difficult to find than he imagined!
The moonlight tonight is very solemn, under the cover of dark clouds in the night, the faint moonlight seems to have a pair of sharp eyes that see through everything, Lin Shu is holding the ingot of silver in his hand, Lin Shuihan is holding the wooden ring in his hand, and the two of them are afraid that they will lose sleep tonight......
Su Qing stayed at the door of Lin Shu's house all night, wanting to enter Lin Shu's dream to find clues, but the woman didn't sleep all night for some reason...... And that kid too, who didn't close his eyes all night......
The next day, Lin Shuihan and Lin Shu got up early, because they didn't sleep all night, their mental state didn't seem to be very good, and after a simple breakfast, they discussed going out to buy some things today.
Lin Shu's original pen, ink and paper were almost used up, and he wanted to go to the market to buy some, and when he saw that there was no extra food at home, he also asked Lin Shuihan to go to the market to buy some meat dishes and come back, so he cleaned up the house, and Lin Shu took Lin Shuihan out.
Maybe it was because Lin Shu proposed to take him to Zaikong City to buy things for the first time, Lin Shuihan was more or less happy in his heart, but when he thought of going to Zaikong City, he unconsciously recalled what the old man said yesterday and what happened about Ning Xi.
It is estimated that before he saw Ning Xi, he probably would have been worried about this matter all along!
He followed behind Lin Shu dejectedly, and Lin Shu didn't pay attention to his mood at this time, just silently calculated in his heart how much silver taels would cost the things he would buy later.
Su Qing had already left the Lin family at dawn, left the village, and wandered for a long time at the foot of the sacrificial and mountain, until the sky was slightly bright, he turned around and walked in the direction of Mengze Mountain, just when he walked to Mengze Mountain, a few beautiful lights suddenly flashed in the bright sky, he glanced at it, and immediately looked up, and found that those lights were all decent disciples from the flight of the imperial sword, seeing that they were dressed in light blue clothes, they must be disciples of the Qilin Sect.
'The disciple of the Qilin Sect actually appeared at this time?' He couldn't help frowning, these people, could it be that they had discovered him, the guardian demon spirit?
A trace of fear couldn't help but swell in his heart, he hurriedly turned into a puff of green smoke and disappeared at the foot of Mengze Mountain, and then escaped the cold and scorching sight and returned to the Demon Realm.
In any case, he can't be discovered by the disciples of the Qilin Gate, if they know that the Hitomi Gate is useless to him, the guardian demon spirit, maybe that Shu Xie and Liuye will find trouble in the Demon Realm again, once it causes Su Ci and the other people to be dissatisfied, at that time, Su Ci will have even more excuses to incite the people of the Demon Realm to become enemies of the Human Realm!
In fact, his worries were superfluous, the disciples of the Qilin Sect did not find any trace of him, but there was another reason why they appeared here early in the morning, that is, the head of the sect was still in the night, and yesterday he had already discovered the whereabouts of one of the nine spirits, the dementor rod!
The village is very lively in the early morning, the plan of the day lies in the morning, the village is full of smoke, bursts of thick fog drift out of the chimneys of every house, all kinds of noisy sounds mixed with the sound of speech make the whole village full of vitality, but in this peaceful scene, there is a great crisis!
A man from nowhere, unkempt and tattered appeared in the village, he was covered in dirt and mess, like a man who had just crawled out of the dirt, full of mud marks, his bare feet were scarred and bloodstained, his eyes were extremely panicked and frightened, his hands were tightly clasped in his arms, and in his shabby clothes faintly visible the glimmer of blood red in his body, as if there was a scarlet evil hidden in his body.