Chapter 11: Sacrifice

"Qiao Mu, my body is not as good as day by day, I'm afraid I won't be able to survive this winter. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Don't worry, no matter what happens, I'll always be with you."

"I'm not worried about myself, I'm worried about you, I'm worried that after I'm gone, you'll be left alone to guard the desolation and loneliness of this half of the world."

"I will find you, no matter how much time it takes, no matter how far it takes, I will find you."

"Really?"

"Really."

It's just that when we meet again, I hope you don't forget me.

"What happened to that man, he looked like he was badly injured that night." Cui Minghan put Wu Xi on the sofa and brought her a cup of tea.

"He's fine."

In his later years, King Yingzheng of Qin was keen to seek immortal medicine, hoping to find an immortal elixir to ensure his immortality and the country of Wandai not to change hands. He had sent Xu Fu to the sea to find the elixir of immortality for himself, but he had returned again and again in vain. Qiao Mu said that this is just a record of history, and this is not the case.

In fact, when Xu Fu went to sea for the fourth time, he had found the magic medicine that could make people immortal and immortal, but when he presented it to Yingzheng on the top of the main hall, he was snatched away by a fox hiding behind a pillar. King Yingzheng of Qin was furious because of this change, and the courtiers were even more chaotic, scrambling to take down the demon fox and seize the immortal medicine to make a contribution. But just when the fox was forced into a corner by everyone and had nowhere to escape, a raging fire suddenly broke out in the temple.

The fire burned for three months, burning the majestic Afang Palace to ashes, and the fox and the elixir disappeared together in the fire.

"This is too mysterious, do you mean that Qiao Mu is the fox who stole medicine?"

Wu Xi smiled at him, "If you believe it, if you don't believe it, you don't believe it, you have the right to listen to it as a story." ”

There is another version of this story, when not one fox but two came to the palace that day, and the fox guarding outside the palace saw that his companion was almost killed, and he knocked down the candlestick and set fire to the curtain, burning the entire palace.

The Afang Palace was burned, causing countless lives and treasures to be destroyed overnight. Its behavior caused the First Emperor to be furious, and he invited the Great Witch to burn it to death on the fire, and smashed its soul into the earth, and the three realms of hungry ghosts could not be reborn forever.

"Do you know what it means to give up?" Wu Xi looked at Cui Minghan, who was fascinated.

In order to save the soul from the Three Evil Realms and no longer suffer from purgatory, another person must replace her, and death is the only way to atone for her sins. Therefore, Qiao Mu destroyed his physical body in the most tragic way every time, and then after recovering, he went to find his reincarnated lover.

Sometimes he would have it easy to find her when she was a baby, but sometimes it would take him a lifetime to find her. He wandered in the world over and over again, just to meet that familiar figure.

"Why steal the elixir? Don't you feel that living freely in this mountain forest is already a fairy-like day? ”

"You don't understand, that elixir is something that even the emperor Lao Tzu is looking for, if I get it, the two of us will be half of each other, not seeking immortality, at least we can transform into human form and enjoy the glory of the world."

"As long as I can be by your side, whether it's a person or a fox, I don't care."

Cui Minghan stood up from the sofa, "Wu Xi, what kind of thing do you say about my little love now, I still can't sleep all day long for your business." I decided to let go of all this from today onwards and change my mind and become a new person.

"I don't regret it." Qiao Mu blocked Wu Xi's finger and gently pushed it aside.

"You've lived for so many years, can you be a little humble to the children?"

"No, you can't." He said as he put down a sunspot, "You've lost again." ”

Wu Xi grimaced at him, she stood up and carefully looked at this study room with only a few dozen square meters. "Why do you have such a strange name? Different? What is the meaning. ”

"Reincarnation is reincarnation, different, change. I hope that in my long life, in the cycle of reincarnation, I can change the mistakes I have made. ”

"Qiao Mu," Wu Xi stared at him seriously, "How did you recognize her, life after life, she should have changed her appearance a long time ago." ”

Qiao Mu lowered his head and smiled, this is easy.

It was winter, and I was alone in the snow, feeling like my whole body was going to be crushed by loneliness and pain. Just then, I saw a girl wearing a red silk scarf walking in front of me. The moment she walked past me, I felt the flowers in my heart bloom, as if spring had once again patronized my long-frozen chest, and I knew that she was coming. The next thing was when the bridge for the conversation broke, and I deliberately loosened her shoelaces, and then appeared in front of her at the right time when she needed help the most.

"Wait, red silk scarf, shoelaces, is this legend your story?"

Qiao Mu continued to talk to himself: Her parents soon found out about our secret relationship, and in those days, my behavior was tantamount to playing hooligan. She came from a cadre family, and her parents didn't want her to marry an unknown boy, and they even investigated my background. But before the investigation could come out, one of her distant relatives found my tombstone, yes, the one you saw at Songshan Cemetery.

I thought she would be scared out of this and stay away from me. But I didn't expect that three days later, she came to me with two train tickets, and she said: Qiao Mu, I have already thought about it, even if you are really a monster of unknown origin as they say, I am willing to follow you. In this way, I fled with her, and we traveled from place to place, hiding from her parents, just for that little bit of hard-won happiness.

"It turns out that behind this terrifying legend is such a poignant love." Wu Xi sighed.

"It's not early, I'll send you home." Qiao Mu locked the door and walked out side by side with Wu Xi. Spring has arrived, and the willow trees on the side of the street show bunches of new leaves, fluttering in the wind, graceful and graceful. Wu Xi felt that the lingering sorrow in her heart was also dispersed by the spring breeze, she felt a burst of relaxation, and even her steps became brisk.

"This is it," she looked at the familiar courtyard door, "I'll go to the Strange Book House tomorrow to play chess with you......"

Before the words fell, a long sword suddenly reached the throats of the two of them.

"Xu Xing, it seems that you are not at peace here."