Chapter 51: Sure enough, it's sweet and sour
Mei'er pouted, put down the cotton towel, took the cup handed over by Qing'e, and said: "These days, the emperor has indeed treated me very well, according to common sense, I shouldn't doubt his heart for me, but I occasionally find that sometimes he looks at me very strangely, as if it is strange, and it seems to be fear, I can't say what it feels, but as soon as I see him showing that kind of look, my heart is not steady, maybe he has an unbearable past in his heart, or maybe this past is related to my amnesia Since he refuses to say it to me, I have to find out the roots myself, Qing'e, tell me quickly, what happened to me after I turned sixteen? ”
Qing'e cleared her throat and said with an embarrassed expression: "Sister, when I officially met you, you were twenty-three years old, I don't know much about your previous experience, let me think about it later." ”
Mei'er was quite surprised, and said in a low voice: "The emperor said, I came here when I was seventeen years old, and you have been living here, how can you not see me?" ”
Qing'e smiled reluctantly, kneading her eyebrows with her heart, and muttered: "You did come here that year, but I just glanced at it, and I didn't pay special attention to it, our real intersection began when I was twenty-three years old." ”
Qing'e was sorting out the fragment of the first time she saw Mei'er that year, but she saw Mei'er spread out her palm, and a swarthy bead was rolling on it.
Qing'e took a closer look, the beads were simple and unpretentious, and she couldn't see anything special.
Mei'er said in a low voice: "This bead was given to me by the emperor, and he said that I killed a green dragon in a ruin, and this bead is the dragon ball in the body of the green dragon, and I and he also met at that time." Yesterday he brought me here and told me that this wilderness was the ruins of the past, but why, this place was completely different from the ruins that appeared in my dreams? ”
Qing'e stretched out her hand to take the beads, remembering the scene when she was lying in the grass and watching Mei'er hold a cold snow sword and slay the dragon in a chic manner, she played with the beads for a while, returned it to Mei'er, and said: "What the emperor said is true, I was seventeen years old that year, you should also be seventeen years old, I saw you cut down a green dragon flying out of the basin, I was hiding in the dry grass at that time, you didn't notice me, but I remembered your appearance, Mei'er, I also saw you and your brother-in-law walking into a canyon together, it's a pity, The canyon had collapsed a hundred years ago. ”
Mei'er's eyes widened in astonishment, Qing'e's face was pale when she spoke, even her eyes were pale and there was no fluctuation, obviously she didn't want to talk about this past.
It's true, the emperor didn't lie to me, I did come here that year, slashed a green dragon, obtained a cloud dragon ball, and got acquainted with the emperor.
Qing'e turned around and took a plate of fruit and put it in front of Mei'er, and said, "Taste it, this fruit is sweet and sour, I loved this taste the most when I was a child." ”
She picked up a fruit and said while eating: "At that time, I was very envious that you had such a powerful snow sword, but unfortunately you ran too fast, and I couldn't catch up with you. ”
Mei'er's face was gloomy, she had no impression of the past that Qing'e talked about, and the only snow sword that could connect the past was nowhere to be found.
"My snow sword, for some reason, was lost. That was the only thought my mother had left me, and I had to get it back. ”
Qing'e hummed disapprovingly and said, "Your snow sword? I've seen it once, and I remember that when I moved, I would bring up snowflakes in the sky, and it was really amazing. But with your power, why wield that sword? When you and I met again a few years later, I didn't know how thick the sky was, and I offended you, and you almost pinched me to death with just a slight flick of your sleeve. ”
Mei'er sighed, quickly stood up, and saluted Qing'e: "I forgot all about the things back then, if there is such a thing, then it is not mine." ”
Qing'e smiled embarrassedly, pulled Mei'er to sit down again, and said: "Actually, I can't blame you, it's me who made trouble first, I acted extremely reckless when I was young, I didn't know how to think about the future, and I blindly came nonsense, Mei'er, fortunately you forgot about these, otherwise, how could I have the face to revisit the old things to you, sister." ”
She looked at Mei'er's bright beauty, and remembered that the Emperor of Heaven said that this face was painted by him with his own hand, and she couldn't help but touch it lightly with her hand, and it was really soft and smooth, and she couldn't see any flaws.
Qing'e couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that my brother-in-law has used a lot of energy on you!" ”
Mei'er's face turned red, and she was quite puzzled why Qing'e teased that piece again.
"Qing'e, what then?"
Qing'e continued to chew on the sweet and sour berries, which were her favorite fruits when she was a girl, and whenever she remembered the past, she loved to eat a few, reminiscing about the past with this familiar taste.
Mei'er saw that Qing'e was eating vigorously, so she also twisted one and put it in her mouth, and when the sweet and sour juice touched the taste buds on her tongue, she couldn't help frowning slightly.
Seeing this, Qing'e smiled faintly and said: "You must not be used to eating it, this taste is sour, with a little bitterness, and the sweetness is only a little bit, but this is the only snack I could eat when I was a child, sister, although you are fostered in your uncle's house, you have been living a life of fine clothes and food, and later married the emperor as your wife, and your life is noble, how can you look at such a rough fruit?" ”
Mei'er swallowed the fruit and explained in a low voice: "Qing'e, you misunderstood, I also love this taste. We fought? What happened? ”
Qing'e smiled, took a sip of water from the cup, and said, "Later, we met the emperor and ......."
She knocked on her forehead and smiled strangely: "It's nothing, and then the emperor will take you back to the Heavenly Palace, you are already the emperor's wife at that time, so naturally you won't stay here for long." ”
Mei'er's heart is strange, Qing'e's words don't seem to be fake, but the process won't be so simple, right?
Qing'e's face was pale, and she said: "Maybe you have been in chaos all these years, and you have not noticed the passage of time, so you refuse to recognize everything you see in front of you, this land was indeed very decadent and desolate a hundred years ago, looking at the past is full of yellow sand, collapsing broken walls, and the wind blowing in no direction or day and night, you feel very desolate when you see it, don't you?" And then I can't help but want to shed tears, don't you? ”
Mei'er silently recalled the portrait in her dream, nodded and said, "Yes, since I was seven years old, I have been dreaming of this boundless ruin, I am running aimlessly in it, and there is a very strange voice that keeps calling me - come back, come back!" But strangely, since I woke up in the palace of Qinse, I have never dreamed this dream again, I doubted in my heart, so I went to consult the emperor, and the emperor told me that this land is the place of my roots, and he brought me here, let me feel the desolation in it, Qing'e, what was our home like in the past? Has the West always been so desolate, or has it been destroyed by external forces to such a zero? ”
Qing'e clutched the wooden table beside her, her pointed nails were almost all submerged in the thick solid wood, she had already let go of the past with the Heavenly Palace, but as long as she remembered the sadness contained in this land, the hatred in her heart was still like a terrifying wave, roaring.
With a snap, the wooden table made of a hundred-year-old tree heart actually broke off a piece for Qing'e, Mei'er was startled, picked up Qing'e's hand and said, "Qing'e, what's wrong with you?" Can it hurt? ”
Qing'e was taken aback, the Emperor's half-threatening and half-pleading words yesterday sounded in her ears, she hurriedly took a deep breath, and said with a smile: "It's okay, this wooden table has been used for a long time, and I can't help but suppress it." ”
Mei'er was not at ease, holding her hand and looking back and forth a few times, although the palm was a little rough, it was intact, and there was no cracked wound, she sighed. Putting down Qing'e's hand, he said with a smile: "Fortunately, no wooden thorns have been pierced into it, I just saw that your forehead was full of sweat, and I thought you were stabbed!" ”
Qing'e stroked her forehead, and sure enough, her forehead was full of sweat, and she couldn't help but secretly sneer: "A hundred-year-old person is still so unbreathable!" ”
If it was Qing'e a hundred years ago, when she thought that the Jinling family was destroyed by the gang of bandits in the Heavenly Palace, she must have been afraid of the case and scolded the hundreds of generations of ancestors of the Heavenly Palace, but now it is different, her heart has tended to be peaceful, and she is no longer unscrupulous when she was young, and in the past hundred years, the Heavenly Palace has taken care of this region in the west quite a lot, and Xiao He has also failed and Xiao He, since she personally surrendered to the Emperor of Heaven back then, and was willing to submit to the rule of the Heavenly Palace forever, those humiliating pasts can only be erased.
Besides, if you lose your words and shake out what you shouldn't say, and spoil the good thing that the Emperor of Heaven revisits the mandarin dream, the consequences are very likely to be the family turned into ashes.
Qing'e can't afford such consequences.
Qing'e smiled bitterly, suppressed all her emotions, lowered her voice and said to Mei'er: "Why did this land become like this, in fact, my sister should ask my brother-in-law, my brother-in-law is the lord of the heavens, and the changes in the area are within his control, this point, please forgive my sister for not being able to tell me, just because what I know is only a scale and half a claw, if my extreme words mislead my sister's thinking, it will not help your recovery!" ”
Mei'er hung her head and was silent, her fingertips trembled slightly and twisted another fruit, took a bite, and said with an astringent smile: "It's really sour and sweet." ”
The Ice and Snow Mountain Villa has been reduced to a frozen ground from Guangxia to a frozen land, the reason is the reincarnation of heaven in the mouth of the emperor, with the emperor's vision at the top of the nine heavens to overlook the hustle and bustle below, the rise and fall alternate is a very natural thing, but this alternation, how many creatures will be involved in the instant disillusionment?
And the desolate land under his feet is also caused by the so-called reincarnation of the Heavenly Dao?
Her heart throbbed for no reason, why did the places that were involved with me be tainted with such "good things"?