Volume 1 The First Troubled Times Chapter 79 The Petals of the Third World
Yuan Li and Shangguan Yue have been staying together in this Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines for ten days, during these ten days, Yuan Li has always been collecting medicines during the day, and Shangguan Yue is constantly asking the names of various medicinal herbs and various Yuan Li's experiences in practicing medicine to save people, and at night, the two of them are sitting by the fire, eating the beasts they have caught, and watching Yuan Li refine those pills.
When Yuan Li was refining the pills, he gave Shangguan Yue a jade bottle, which was filled with many kinds of pills, large and small, and just to help Shangguan Yue distinguish the effects of these pills, the two of them spent two nights. When it was time to go to bed late at night, Shangguan Yue still kept teasing Yuan Li, but Yuan Li chose the latter among the momentary happiness and life.
Today, it was still Shangguan Yue who woke up from her sleep first, and saw that the person next to her was still asleep, so Shangguan Yue got up and went to find a pile of firewood, the sky outside was a little cloudy, and it was estimated that it might rain today.
The fire was quickly ignited, and Yuan Li also walked out of the tent at this time, and the two of them said a few words and began to eat breakfast. Before breakfast was finished, the cold wind poured in from the outside into the valley, and Shangguan Yue's delicate body unconsciously shivered, mainly due to her own injury, many of the clothes on her body were broken, and now the clothes she was wearing were too thin.
Prior to this, Yuan Li also said many times that he wanted to lend his clothes to Shangguan Yue, but Shangguan Yue kept teasing Yuan Li on the surface, but in fact, he was very resistant to contact with men, and even rejected wearing Yuan Li's clothes in his heart, so in the end, Shangguan Yue politely declined.
"You're not going to wear my clothes, are you?"
"No, I'm not cold. ”
"I know you're not cold, I'm worried that it will rain later, the rain will pour on you, your clothes are so thin, easy to ......"
"What's easy?" Shangguan Yue naturally understood the meaning of Yuan Li's words, and deliberately straightened her chest: "Won't you be given a chance these days? But Shangguan Yue still stretched out her hand, grabbed Yuan Li's clothes, and draped them directly on her body.
Yuan Li and Shangguan Yue got along for a while, and also knew Shangguan Yue's character, so he didn't dwell on this topic with Shangguan Yue, looked at the sky that was about to rain, Yuan Li began to tidy up the camp tent while eating, and prepared to go.
"It's going to rain, why are you in such a hurry? Can't we wait for the rain to stop before we go to collect medicine?"
"No, I can't. The main reason why I came to this Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines this time is because someone said that a flower has bloomed in this Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines, called Sansheng Flower. Once the flower is in full bloom, it will not wither until someone picks it. However, if there is heavy rain before the three-life flowers are picked again, then the three-born flowers will wither directly. ”
"I've never heard of Sanshenghua? ”
"Sanshenghua, it has nothing to do with you people who dance guns and sticks all day long. ”
"Flowers are flowers, why doesn't it matter to me? Isn't it that whoever owns it has something to do with whom?"
"It's a love flower, who does an assassin like you have love with?"
"With you. Shangguan Yue blurted out directly without thinking about it, and when she reacted, she was faced with Yuan Li with a stunned face, Shangguan Yue hurriedly pretended to be joking: "I signal you like that every night, isn't it because I have a good impression of you for a long time?"
Yuan Li also thought that Shangguan Yue was just teasing himself, so he didn't take Shangguan Yue's words to heart, and after eating the food in his hand, he urged Shangguan Yue to pack up the camp tent and prepare to set off to find Sanshenghua.
On the way, Shangguan Yue also learned about the origin of Sanshenghua. It is said that in the past, there was a couple who were very affectionate. One day, his wife died before her husband due to an accident, and the husband wanted to commit suicide and set foot on Huangquan Road with his wife. Just when the husband committed suicide, suddenly an old man with a childish face appeared in front of him and asked him why he couldn't think about it, the husband told the old man what happened, and the old man knew that the so-called Huangquan Road was not as the world thought. If you set foot on the road to Huangquan, the three souls and seven spirits will be trapped in the ten halls of hell respectively, and even if the man commits suicide now, he will not be able to find his wife when he arrives on the Huangquan Road.
When the man heard the old man's words, he knew that the old man was a master, so he asked the master if there was any way to find his wife back, and the old man left a flower seed for the man, telling the man that the flower was called Sanshenghua, the first life, the man had to take care of it before he was old, and before he died, the man needed to find Otogi, and then enter the gossip array, take Otogi as a replacement, and put Otogi on the side of the Sansheng flower, and then when the moon was full, he dripped his blood on Otogi, and the next day, Otogi withered, and the man could be thirty years younger.
At this time, when a man enters the second life, he must live in this world with a new identity, while continuing to take care of the three living flowers, and before he dies in this life, he must find Ding Huo and C Shui. With Ding Huo, the water is placed on both sides of his body, and then when the moon is waning, he commits suicide in the time of the child.
In the early morning of the next day, the man's soul will not enter the Huangquan Road, but will exist in the form of a dead spirit in the world, and then wait on the side of the road to the death, waiting for thirty years, her wife's dead soul will pass by the road of death, at this time, if the man can recognize the woman's soul consciousness, he can step forward to lead her, and then the two of them will be remodeled in the flesh, so far, the three flowers will wither.
"It's just a legend, though. The current Sansheng Flower does not have the effect of bringing people back from the dead, and as for the way to life, it is even more invisible. ”
"And what's the use of this flower?"
"Sansheng has a total of three petals, the first one, called to make love. Remove this petal and make it into two pills, and the two will fall in love and never give up. The second piece is called acacia. If you take this petal and put it into medicine, the person who takes the medicine will be loyal to one person for the rest of your life, whether the other person is alive or dead, if there is the slightest idea of betrayal, you will be poisoned and killed. The third piece is called parting. Those who take the medicine made from this petal will forget all the memories of the person they love most. ”
"Except for the first petal, it's not a good thing. ”
"I think it's all good, the world suffers from love, and if you eat parting, you won't suffer from it. And those who want to know whether the other party is loyal or not, just feed him acacia. However, the three-life flower is hard to find, and a petal is usually bought by a thousand daughters, so how can it be obtained by secular people?"
"I think those who talk about love, love, and love all day long don't understand the hardships of this world. Like us assassins, we can die at any time, and love is not as important to us as the knife we use to kill people. ”
"Love, love, although it seems worldly. But if there weren't these, wouldn't this world be too cold?" Yuan Li looked at Shangguan Yue, his slightly smiling eyes seemed to cut through the dark sky, and Shangguan Yue's heart felt a trace of throbbing.
The two continued to walk in the valley, in the past few days, the two had walked together more than half of the Ten Thousand Medicine Valley, although there were many precious medicinal materials, but the world often said that the heavenly and earthly treasures, the two of them had not seen any of them. Therefore, Shangguan Yue didn't think that such a precious medicinal material as Sanshenghua would appear here, but she wouldn't say it, she still wanted to stay here with Yuan Li for a while longer. But unbeknownst to the two, danger was creeping in her waelders.
"Big brother, it seems that there was a fire here last night. One of his subordinates ran to Wang Hu's side to report. Wang Hu was hired by Shangguan Yue's target to protect himself, and in the past, Shangguan Yue came to assassinate him, but he fell into Wang Hu's trap before he was injured and fled. Wang Hu originally thought that the injured body of Shang Guanyue would be enough for the men he sent out to deal with. But after three days, Wang Hu did not get any news.
Wang Hu began to feel bad in his heart, and hurriedly sent all his subordinates to search and check in the direction of the previous pursuit, and finally a team of people found the body of their companion at the mouth of the Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines, and hurriedly reported it to Wang Hu. When Wang Hu found out, he immediately gave an order and ordered all his subordinates to march towards the Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines.
After arriving at the Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines, seeing the dead bodies of the beasts living near the Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines, even Wang Hu was a little shocked in his heart: after being poisoned by himself, he could still fight against so many people and beasts with the strength of one person, and he still needed to be cautious in his next actions.
Wang Hu led his subordinates into the Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines, and soon, some of his subordinates found traces of Yuan Li and Shangguan Yue's fire, and along the way, Wang Hu and his party chased Yuan Li and Shangguan Yue from behind according to the traces of fire.
In the past few days, Wang Hu and his party have been traveling almost day and night, and they also know that if Shangguan Yue's injuries are completely recovered and then escape, then they can't help but become more difficult, and each of them will be targeted by this killer, although they are outlaws, but today, no one will want to take the initiative to become the list of dead people in the hearts of the god killer.
Finally, in the early morning of this day, Wang Hu and his party finally saw a fire that had not been completely extinguished, which indicated that they were very close to the killer, and success or failure was here.
Wang Hu hurriedly gathered his subordinates together, and then began to assign tasks, among which his two cronies' subordinates Li San and Li Si led a part of the people to advance from the mountains and forests on the left and right, and quickly pursued, while Wang Hu himself led the rest of his subordinates to pursue from behind. "Whoever discovers the spider first, don't act rashly, wait for the opportunity to signal to the sky, and then the rest of the people will quickly support, this time, you must leave that woman here, understand?"
"Understood!" said his men in unison.
"Let's go!" With a command, the team of nearly a hundred people quickly divided into three groups, and then quickly began to march towards the target.
"Yuan Li, what is this herb?" Shangguan Yue plucked a piece of herb from the ground, and was about to ask Yuan Li when the assassin's instinct made her feel a hint of murderous intent. Shangguan Yue hurriedly waved the spider silk in his hand and protected Yuan Li's side, "Who is there!"
"Sky Spider, where do you think you're going this time?" Li San, who knew that he had been exposed, took his men out of the hidden dense forest with his subordinates after signaling the arrow, and pulled out a wide-mouthed broadsword from his waist, Li San raised his arms, and the team of thirty people rushed directly to Shangguan Yue and Yuan Li. At the same time, Li Si and Wang Hu, who had received the signal, immediately urged their subordinates to quickly march towards Li San's location.
Shangguan Yue brandished spider silk to fight with Li San, as a killer, what he was best at was killing with a silent blow, and now that his position was completely exposed, Shangguan Yue was already at a disadvantage, coupled with the fact that the enemy was outnumbered, Shangguan Yue only barely resisted a few attacks, and then took Yuan Li's hand and ran away quickly.
"Chase Lao Tzu!" Li San swung his knife in the back, and the shouting of killing shook the entire valley. At this moment, the sky, which had been dark from early in the morning, began to rain heavily.
Shangguan Yue pulled Yuan Li to escape, but the Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines is only a long and narrow valley, and the valley is flanked by cliffs and dense forests, if Shangguan Yue goes to both sides, judging from Yuan Li's ability, the speed of the two of them will be delayed a lot. To be precise, after Shangguan Yue ran with Yuan Li for half an hour, Yuan Li basically couldn't run.
Although Shangguan Yue wanted to keep Yuan Li here, he comforted himself and said that these people would not hurt him. But Shangguan Yue really couldn't do it, it was obvious that the group of people behind him had already regarded Yuan Li as their accomplices, and leaving him to them at this time was tantamount to falling into the mouth of a tiger.
Shangguan Yue and Yuan Li stopped, and they saw that in the dense forest ahead, another team of people appeared, and it was Li Si who sent people to chase after them.
And before that, the people led by Wang Hu had already met with Li San, and now the north and south ends of the Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines were blocked by Wang Hu's people, Shangguan Yue took Yuan Li, distributed the spider silk around him, and then began to look for a way to escape.
Li San rushed up with nearly twenty people, Shangguan Yue's spider silk waved, and the two people immediately lost their vitality, but more people had already broken through the spider silk, and the knife raised in their hands was about to cut at the two of them. As soon as Shangguan Yue's spider silk was collected, two people's lives were accepted along the way, and then he used the spider silk as a bind to tie himself and Yuan Li, and the other end was tied to a tree in the distance, and then as soon as he exerted force, the bodies of the two were free from the encirclement of Li San and others. Shangguan Yue left a few more spider silks, and then pulled Yuan Li to escape into the depths of the dense forest.
"Chase me!" Li San shouted with a knife.
"Don't worry. Wang Hu stretched out his hand to stop him, "After this dense forest is a cliff, they can't escape now, let's wait for them here for a few days, and when their energy is almost exhausted, let's do it." Now, let's bury the bodies of the brothers who died just now, and let's send them on their last journey. ”
Yuan Li and Shangguan Yue ran to the depths of the dense forest, and when they saw that there was no one chasing and killing behind, the exhausted two dared to lean against the tree and rest: "Shangguan Yue, without me, you will definitely be able to escape from them, you don't care about me, you can escape by yourself." ”
"And what do you do?"
"I'm a doctor, and people who walk the rivers and lakes won't kill us casually. ”
"Yuan Li, that's what you think the rivers and lakes are. In the rivers and lakes I have come into contact with, morality is always talked about by those like the Ten Swords of the Imperial Capital, and people like us who are not strong enough to talk about morality are only a dead end. Being alive is more important than anything else. ”
Yuan Li was silent, he knew that Shangguan Yue's words were true, and when he said this, he just wanted Shangguan Yue to go. Although people like Shangguan Yue have always walked on the tip of a knife, and she herself has said that there is nothing to fear from death, Yuan Li still doesn't want this good-looking girl to end her life so early.
And themselves, their father taught their brothers since childhood, people who practice medicine do not rely on medical skills to save people, but rely on their own benevolence, if their own sacrifices can be exchanged for others to live well, then it is also okay.