Chapter 9: The Immortal Soul

In the stream outside the ancient city, waves of light curtains like ripples spread out in the space, sparkling, and at any time there is a little bit of starlight, quietly dividing the ancient city from the suburban space. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

The little girl smiled like a flower, a pair of big eyes stared at Zuo Xingguo, she knew that the person who was following her just now was the person in front of her, Zuo Xingguo also seemed to understand what the little girl saw from him, but he didn't know why the little girl deliberately attracted him.

"Young man, how did you get here?"

Obviously, the woman didn't know about the situation when the little girl went out before, and at this moment, the little girl was also winking at him, and Zuo Xingguo suddenly understood what the little girl meant.

"I'm chopping wood in the mountains and getting lost, I wonder if my sister-in-law can give me some food to satisfy my hunger?"

Zuo Xingguo had no choice but to bite the words and be stunned by the ancient scholars, and cooperate with the little girl to hide from the world, he saw the little girl's true heart to be like this.

The woman nodded suspiciously, looked Zuo Xingguo's strange outfit up and down again, and then urged the little girl: "Miao Miao, hurry up and get some dry food for this brother!"

"Sister-in-law, it's getting late today, can you stay overnight and let me go on the road tomorrow?"

Zuo Xingguo opened his mouth to ask, in fact, when the little girl went to get him dry food, the little girl told him to stay tonight with his mouth, he was a little dazed, he didn't know what the little girl was doing this for, but Zuo Xingguo was still willing to trust his intuition.

"This ......" The woman was obviously a little hesitant, looking at Zuo Xingguo's strange outfit, the nerve string in the woman's heart still did not relax.

"Mother, let the eldest brother stay for one night! There have been no outsiders here for a long time, so let him stay for one night, mother!"

The little girl held the nest head in her hand, so she had to rub her head around the woman, looking like a flattering coquettish, and at the same time, the little girl squeezed her eyes at Zuo Xingguo while being coquettish.

The woman was helpless by the little girl, so she had to glance at the little girl reproachfully, and said to Zuo Xingguo helplessly: "Little brother, then you can rest here for the night, and you can hurry early tomorrow morning!"

As soon as Zuo Xingguo saw that the woman had agreed to him, he hurriedly bowed to the woman, pretending to be full of gratitude, and thanked her for a while.

Entering the thatched house, Zuo Xingguo glanced around, this home can be described as a family with four walls, there is only a table that is about to fall apart, two or three stools made of wooden stakes, and a grass bed, the bed is covered with soft thatch, looking at the mother and daughter who live in such a grass hut but have a happy face, Zuo Xingguo has a colic in his heart.

Sitting down to eat dry food, Zuo Xingguo was still thinking about why the little girl had brought him here, but the little girl took out something from her thin clothes, put it on the table, and then stared at him closely.

"Oh hey", the thing hit the wooden table top, making a metal-specific sound, Zuo Xingguo came back to his senses and saw a bronze knife coin token on the table, which was engraved with ancient characters: "Qin!"

Zuo Xingguo picked up the token, only to see that this bronze token is a little special, in addition to one side engraved with the logo of the ancient Qin Dynasty army, there is also a furnace engraved on the other side, similar to the three-legged round tripod used in ancient Taoist alchemy, which makes Zuo Xingguo a little surprised, such a token form is rarely mentioned in Chinese history, let alone in the Qin Dynasty, where the army discipline is particularly strict?

"Qin Dynasty tokens, are you an ancient person of the Qin Dynasty?"

Zuo Xingguo rubbed the token in his hand and quickly judged in his mind, the shock in his heart reached a peak, he felt like he had fallen into a prey that had already been set up a trap, and he was lured here step by step, the little girl in front of him was like a monster with a bloody mouth open, and the smile on his face was more like a mockery of him at this time.

"Yes, we lived in the Qin Dynasty, only later ......"

The woman who had never spoken on the side took over the conversation at this moment, and a trace of pain appeared on her face with a smile like a flower, and there was a little bit of hideousness in this pain, where is the gentleness and weakness that a woman should have?

The woman didn't finish speaking, the tears in the corners of her eyes had already burst out of her eyes, and the green tendons on her neck jumped out, which spread to her face, the pain in her heart, and the frightened Zuo Xingguo who saw it, the little girl Miao Miao had already choked with fright, and kept holding the woman's arm and not letting go, crying in her mouth: "Mother, wake up! Mother, wake up, wake up......"

"Big brother, please save my mother......! Poisoned!"

Miao Miao cried heartbreakingly, looking at her mother who was in unbearable pain, she suddenly knelt down and moved to Zuo Xingguo, opened a pair of big eyes with tears, and pleaded pitifully in a begging tone: "Big brother, can you save my mother?"

"Miao Miao, hurry up, hurry up!"

Zuo Xingguo hurriedly bent down to help Miao Miao, who was hazy with teary eyes, but the stubborn Miao Miao curled up backwards while repeating the words of pleading, so that Zuo Xingguo didn't know what to do.

"Big brother, if you don't promise me, I won't get up!"

Miao Miao stubbornly raised her head and looked at Zuo Xingguo, who was in a dilemma, the tears in her eyes were dripping and rolling in her eyes, looking like a poor little girl, and the tears that came out of her eyes at any time were very likely to be because of Zuo Xingguo's refusal and like a flood bursting the embankment, and they were out of control.

"Okay, brother promises you, you can get up!" Zuo Xingguo agreed, looking at such a sensible and endearing little pity, his soft heart was touched, and he decided to stay and help this little girl!

"Ah?...... Thank you, brother!"

Miao Miao thought she had misheard at first, but when Zuo Xingguo nodded again, Miao Miao jumped into his arms and gave Zuo Xingguo a koala-like hug.

"How can you feel a faint body temperature? Then Miao Miao is not a so-called soul!"

Zuo Xingguo touched Miao Miao's small body, and a faint body temperature came from his fingertips, and Zuo Xingguo's heart suddenly overturned his previous thoughts, because he knew that the ancient saying said that the soul has no temperature.

"Come down, tell my brother what's going on with your mother's illness?"

Zuo Xingguo patted Miao Miao's back gently, and whispered, comforting Miao Miao's young heart, and he wanted to get some news from Miao Miao's mouth.

"Hmm!"

Miao Miao relaxed her legs, and slid to the ground with Zuo Xingguo's body, smiling brightly at Zuo Xingguo with joy on her face, like a spring breeze.

"Put your mother-in-law on the bed first, and then tell your brother about your mother's condition!"

Zuo Xingguo picked up the woman and put it on the bed covered with thatch, saying that the bed was actually a patchwork of several wooden boards, and after the woman was a little stable and placed the woman, Zuo Xingguo sat on the stool on the stake lane, looking at the back of Miao Miao, who was carefully fiddling with the woman lying in front of the bed, Zuo Xingguo suddenly thought of his sister at home, Zuo Qingying.

My sister Zuo Qingying should be a few years old from Miao Miao, and she used to stick to herself all day long, and she didn't want to let go for a moment, just like a little fart, and she couldn't get rid of it if she wanted to.

Thinking of some memories of the past, Zuo Xingguo suddenly felt that he had not contacted the nest that had made him happy for a long time, and the voices and smiles of his mother and father were gradually blurred by time, but the joy and happiness of the past have not passed with time, but it is like wine, the longer the time, the stronger the taste!

"Brother, why do you cry?

Miao Miao's voice of weak concern came from her ears, and the little girl's innocent eyes stared at the big brother who was teary-eyed in her memories, and when she thought of her usual appearance when she thought of her mother, she simply thought that Zuo Xingguo was also homesick.

"Big brother is fine, it's just that I accidentally got a bug in my eye, Miao Miao don't worry!"

Zuo Xingguo comforted the cute and cute little girl in front of her, although she was dressed in coarse linen, but she still couldn't hide her little appearance of pink carved jade, she must be a peerless beauty when she grows up!

"Hmm!"

The little girl nodded as if she didn't understand, touched Zuo Xingguo's cheek with her pink little hand, stared at it for a long time, and suddenly kissed Zuo Xingguo's cheek, and then laughed.

"Huh?"

Zuo Xingguo suddenly felt his blood surging, he had grown so big This is the first time he has had intimate contact with a girl, even if he is a little girl, he is still a little flustered in his heart, his face can't help but turn red, and his body is as stiff as a piece of wood.

"Hee-hee, big brother blushes so shy, it's funny! Hee-hee-hop ......"

Miao Miao laughed heartily, her face was red with laughter, and tears were even more exaggerated in her eyes, as if she had encountered something that rarely made her so funny.

"Hmm...... Let's talk about your mother's condition first, okay?"

Zuo Xingguo was so embarrassed by the laughter that he really felt uncomfortable that he changed the topic and asked about what he cared about the most.

Miao Miao wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, rubbed her little belly, breathed quietly, and waited until her smiling red face changed back to normal color a little, and Miao Miao was about to speak.

"My mother and I are indeed people living in the Qin Dynasty, and we have been living in seclusion in the mountains and living a carefree life before, but then a middle-aged man who looks like a literati suddenly came here, and brought a lot of Qin soldiers to ...... the old aunt of the Zhang family and the grandmother of the Wu family in our village."

In the end, Miao Miao's eyes suddenly turned red, and bright tears hung in her eyes, as long as she blinked an eye, she burst out, like a silver star in the sky, turning into a shower of stars and falling into the dust.

"The people in the village were killed by the Qin soldiers, and they also set fire to the village, and the whole village was in flames, and my mother and I hid in a stream, and we thought we had escaped, but then we were discovered by the stinky literati, who took us to a strange place, said a lot of strange things, and finally forced us to eat it...... Ate the Immortal Poison......"

When Miao Miao said that the middle-aged man who looked like a literati, her eyes were obviously fierce, like a little fierce beast, obviously this person left a heavy wound on her young heart, it was that person who would make her and her mother become the miserable situation she is now, she hated that person!

"Immortal poison? Is it ......?"

Zuo Xingguo may have guessed in his heart who the middle-aged man with the appearance of a literati Miao Miao was talking about, but there is no need to mention it anymore, once it is mentioned again, it will definitely awaken the pain in Miao Miao's heart.

"After eating that poison, my mother and I became this unsightly ghost, and ordinary people couldn't even notice our existence, a bit like ...... Like a ghost!"

Miao Miao also knew that her body was in a big condition, and she played freely in the crowded places in the city during the day, but people just couldn't see her, so she was depressed for many years, and then slowly as time passed, many years later, the literati came here, and told her with a hideous face: She has become an immortal soul who will never grow up!

Moreover, the man also invited a group of strange people to build a high platform at the foot of the mountain where she lived, saying that he wanted to seal this place completely, so that she and her mother and her mother would live here forever.

"Immortal souls?" Hearing this, Zuo Xingguo suddenly felt a spirit, and thought that there might be a way to solve his strange disease.

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