Chapter 54: Back then
The Emperor of Heaven held Mei'er's hand with his backhand and replaced it with a gentle smile: "The old and the new alternate, all things are renewed, this is the law of nature, this is a land of rebirth, all the structures, nature is determined according to the pattern after rebirth, what has passed, it should be annihilated forever, okay, that's it." β
Qing'e didn't dare to argue anymore, the emperor let himself sit in the position of the holy ancestor of the Jinling family, this is indeed an incomparable glory, but secretly weigh his own catties, it seems that there is still a long way off, only two sisters in the Jinling royal family, Mei'er has become a noble person in the heavenly palace, she can't let her bend her knees and return to this barren land to be a holy ancestor, she had to laugh bitterly, bent down and said: "Qing'e thanked the emperor." β
Mei'er suddenly asked, "Qing'e, who is our ancestor?" What is the past of the Jinling family? β
Qing'e raised her hand and wiped the broken hair hanging on her forehead, and said with sweat: "About the past of the ancestor, in fact, I don't know very well, my father died too early, the history of the family, my mother knows very little, this past, maybe my brother-in-law can tell you in detail, Mei'er, my sister knows everything you know, if you have any doubts in your heart, you should ask the people around you!" β
Mei'er turned her head to look at the emperor beside her, his eyes were as deep as the sea, and he couldn't see the depth.
The Emperor of Heaven raised his eyebrows, raised the sleeves of his robe, brought up a cool breeze, rolled up the stunned Qing'e and his wife, and sent them into the forest, Mei'er was startled, and after sobering up, Qing'e was nowhere to be found, she grabbed the Emperor's hand and said, "Emperor, where did you get my sister?" We still have a lot to say! β
The Emperor of Heaven picked up Mei'er with one hand and walked into the clouds, he said indifferently: "Didn't you listen to her, have you already finished what you should say?" I can tell you the rest slowly, if you hold Qing'e again, she and her husband have even robbed Jiu'er of the wood to build the house, can you bear it? β
Mei'er's heart was blocked, the emperor's words were quite scoundrels, she was silent for a while, and finally couldn't help but grab the emperor's clothes with one hand, and said angrily: "You are nonsense, the wood is gone, can't you cut it again?" The trees of that mangrove forest are more than enough to recreate a heavenly palace! Qing'e and I have only been together for a long time, and the conversation has just begun, why do you want to forcibly take me away? β
The Emperor of Heaven tapped her forehead lightly and said in a low voice, "Does the lady want to do it with her husband?" I'm not taking you away, but I'm taking you back to the route where you and I met, don't you really want to know everything that happened after the age of sixteen? β
Mei'er poked her head out of his arms, looking at the continuous manglin below, the emperor stretched out his fingers, and the dense canopy of the manglin cracked, and he smiled and said: "Look, Qing'e's family is busy below, and you are embarrassed to hinder their work!" β
Mei Er Huo turned her head to look at him and said coldly: "Emperor, these are two different things. You said a few days ago that you were going to take me here to find the source, but I didn't even touch the source, but you kept it secret! Do you have something to hide from meβa past that has to do with this land, don't you? You were afraid that Qing'e would tell me about it, so you took her away, just now I could see it clearly, you glared at Qing'e, Qing'e was so frightened that her legs and feet trembled, and her face turned white Emperor, why do you want to do this? β
The Emperor's face changed slightly, but he was calm as usual in an instant, and said softly: "I'm not afraid, but Qing'e knows too little about this history, if you don't trace it back to the source, just one person's one-sided narrative, after you listen to it, you may have a heart of resentment, I said, this is an ancient story of desolation and helplessness, bloody and tragic, Mei'er, do you want to listen?" β
The emperor's face was as calm as the night sky in the middle of the night, and Mei'er knew that in this case, what she could do was to shut up and listen to him quietly.
But the emperor didn't speak immediately, he held Mei'er, slowly walking in the vast world, he was thinking about which angle to start narrating the past of the year, so that Mei'er could better accept this established reality.
The afternoon wind is hot and dry, this barren land that has been barren for a hundred years, under the hard work of Qing'e's family, has surged with weak vitality in recent years, although it feels sluggish, but it is not very desolate.
"Mei'er, the mood you feel when you look at this land now must have changed a lot compared to a hundred years ago, isn't it?"
Mei'er was greatly depressed, if I knew how I felt a hundred years ago, I wouldn't have been moved around like a puppet by you.
"Emperor Hexi, where are you going to take me?"
"Ahead, well, it's here!"
The Emperor of Heaven pointed to a depression with sparse green grass growing in front of him, "That year, you wandered alone in this ruin, walking around here, and spent five days alone, and then came to this basin in a daze, and the green dragon dormant in the basin smelled your unique breath and broke out from under the soil."
Mei'er was quite curious, jumped into the basin and walked back and forth, the basin was solid and dry, what method did the green dragon use to hide in it for many years?
"Emperor, that Qinglong is the house protector beast here, right?"
The Emperor of Heaven bowed his head and said: "However, according to the records of the Heavenly Palace, the Jinling family has domesticated the green dragon as a gatekeeper spirit animal since the twentieth century, and the place under your feet should have been a lake back then." β
Mei'er sighed, she leaned over and gently stroked the half-soaked grass under her feet, and sighed: "It's a pity, Emperor, what happened to the green dragon after it came out?" β
The ancient rock of a hundred years ago was still lying in the wilderness, and the Emperor of Heaven sat on the stone with Mei'er in his arms, and said with a smile: "The green dragon is hungry and wants to eat you in his stomach, you are very brave, take out the snow sword you carry, cut the green dragon with a click, and after taking the dragon ball in its body, you will run here to rest." β
He smiled strangely, his eyes looked at Mei'er from time to time, Mei'er frowned and said: "Look at your evil smile, could it be that you have been following me back then, raising your hands to admire the way I ran away in embarrassment?" β
The Emperor of Heaven shouted: "Mei'er, you have wronged me, as soon as the green dragon came out, I didn't have time to draw my sword, you had already cut it, and I secretly praised it at that time, this little girl is not simple!" β
Mei'er stretched out her hand, the round and dark cloud dragon ball rolled in her palm, she looked at the inconspicuous bead thoughtfully, and said gloomily: "This green dragon is guarding this land, I actually killed my own poultry, what a sin." β
The Emperor of Heaven sighed, twisted the beads, and seemed to be thinking about something.
Mei'er's face was full of frustration, and she held her head and looked at the dark brown land in the distance: "If I knew that this green dragon was raised by my family at that time, I would not have harmed it, Hexi, you are the supreme venerable of the heavenly realm, you can control the life and death of all things, can you let the green dragon be reborn?" β
This girl's request was whimsical, and the emperor smiled slightly bitterly, and before he could speak, Mei'er had already poked the back of his hand and said, "I came in to play that year, so why did you come in?" You're not like me, just idle and bored, running in and admiring this desolation with nothing, right? β
The emperor wiped the bridge of his tall nose, thought for a while, and said with a serious face: "To be honest, I did come to play that year, many years ago, I longed to set foot in this mysterious land to see what was going on, and meeting you was an accident."
When I met you, I was reborn in the future, but if I hadn't met you, you would have held the Jinling sword that took my life that year
The Emperor of Heaven is astringent in his heart, and I don't know, whether it is better to meet you when you are young and fall into a sweet and sour dream love since then, or to wait for the phoenix crown to marry naturally?
If you take up the family sword that will never return, your erased family mark will return immediately, and you and I will become undying enemies
The emperor's heart throbbed faintly, is the will of heaven really so cruel?
Mei'er was hanging her head and playing with the beads in her hand, not noticing the change in the emperor's face.
The Emperor of Heaven thought for a moment, and said: "Mei'er, you try to use your strength to see if you can crush this bead, if you can, maybe the spirit of the bead is still there, you mix your own blood with the broken bead and integrate it into the ground, maybe you have the opportunity to evolve another alien beast, as the guardian beast of this land." β
Mei'er immediately pinched it hard, but the beads only emitted a blue glow and were not broken.
Mei'er looked gloomy and looked at the bead with regret: "A hundred years have passed, the inner spirit of this bead has disappeared, this is all my fault, why do you want to kill your own spirit beast?" β
The Emperor of Heaven was also stunned, his hand swept over Mei'er's hanging hair, and a little disappointment rose in his eyes, Mei'er touched his eyes, and his heart was suddenly shocked, why did the emperor look so disappointed when he saw that I couldn't crush this cloud dragon ball?
She pressed her fingertips again, trying to crush the beads, but the small beads were solid and intact.
"Forget it, don't try again, you don't have the ability of hers at all."
The emperor's voice was clear and light, vaguely gloomy.
Mei'er's hand trembled, and the beads fell to the ground with a snap - forget it, don't try again, you don't have her ability at all!
She, who is she?
She looked at the emperor timidly, his face was shrouded in heavy sadness, and his hand was covered with the cloud dragon bead that was still dripping and circling, and with a little force, the bead suddenly shattered into dust and was scattered in the wilderness with the wind.
Mei'er lowered her head, did I say the wrong thing, or did something wrong to make the emperor sad? I had tried my best just now, but the bead was so hard that I couldn't crush it.
In the future, I will cultivate hard, at least, I can't let the emperor underestimate me, who did he compare me to just now? Is she more important than me in the emperor's heart?
Suddenly, her nose became sour, am I really his wife who has been married for many years, as the emperor said?
She panicked, turned her back and didn't dare to face the emperor.