Chapter 14: Silent Night Thoughts

"What do you want?"

Ancient and distant voices kept ringing in the darkness. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Live, for a man? For women? ”

The voice of doubt was faintly forced.

"There is no distinction between men and women, yin and yang are not clear, how to cultivate the Tao? How to become an immortal? ”

The sleeping Ah Ku suddenly opened his eyes, and his full forehead was covered with panicked sweat.

It was the middle of the night, and the silvery moonlight poured in through the open window, swaying silver light everywhere. The chirping of frogs and insects in summer is like a chorus, bringing some vitality to the quiet medicine hall.

Ah Ku sat up from the bed panting, looked around in panic, realized that he was in a familiar environment, and then breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his head with his sleeve.

The heart that was beating "bang bang bang" gradually became regular, "Ha... Ha... Ha" The rapid breathing became smooth, and Ah Ku turned his head in the night, looking at the unicorn eggs placed on the medicine table and the two neatly folded new clothes in deep thought.

These two sets of new clothes were sent by Ji Tianzhenjun after dinner, and they were all Taoist robes that the disciples of Qingyuan Xianshan usually wore, and the size and proportions were exactly the same, and they were all made according to Ah Ku's size.

The only difference is that one is a pale cyan men's outfit and the other is a mint green men's outfit.

Compared with the light cyan low-key men's clothing, the mint green women's clothing is more eye-catching. The women's gown placed on the top, under the light of the bright moonlight, emitted a little light, like the stars in the sky.

Ah Ku stared at the women's clothes for a while, wanting to look away directly, but he was tightly attracted by the soft curves of the women's clothes. finally moved his attention to the men's clothes next to him, but the corners of his eyes still skimmed the shiny women's sari from time to time.

Her heart was tangled, and her thoughts were a little confused.

I made up my mind early in the morning! Live as a man in this life!

As if to escape, she hurried her gaze to the unicorn egg standing quietly upright on the far left.

The white unicorn egg has blended into the night, half moonlight, half shadow. There is a large shadow in the middle of the eggshell that moves slightly, like a sleeping baby occasionally shaking its body, which makes people feel a sense of pity.

The coquettishness of the unicorn egg made Ah Ku grin, and his depressed mood became slightly relaxed.

She got up and got out of bed, put on the white robe placed at the head of the bed, picked up the unicorn egg on the medicine table that was soaked in the night, and walked out of the medicine hall in the moonlight on the ground.

The bright moon hangs high, and the night breeze is slightly cool.

Ah Ku hugged the unicorn egg the size of a human head in his hand, and walked slowly on the wooden plank road by the Tianhu Lake, letting the cold evening breeze blow away his panicked thoughts.

"Live, for a man? For women? ”

An ancient and distant voice in my head seemed to be close to my ear.

"There is no distinction between men and women, yin and yang are not clear, how to cultivate the Tao? How to become an immortal? ”

It's like torture, so Ah Ku doesn't know how to answer.

Alas......

Ah Ku lowered his head and touched the unicorn egg on his chest, and the slightly warm feeling made Ah Ku's cold palm gradually warm.

"Why do you have to tell the difference?"

The small voice was complaining and uneasy.

"Wouldn't it be okay to just let me stay the way I am?"

Of course, the unicorn eggs that had not yet hatched could not answer her question, and Ah Ku looked up at the white full moon hanging high in the dark blue night sky, and her boredom once again overwhelmed her.

She never forgot her mother's earnest advice before she died, and Ah Ku, who had long been accustomed to a man's life, did not consider the restoration of a woman's body.

Maybe for others, restoring a woman's body is just a matter of changing a set of clothes, but for Ah Ku, it is a major event that shakes her whole life.

Once, she was also in some sleepless nights, thinking about her future, thinking about when she would return to her true body, after all, paper can't hold the fire, and she, a real woman, can't become a man after all. But these considerations, these thoughts, all ended in the mother's deteriorating condition.

So be it...

Exhausted at the time, she thought so.

Let's make do with it for the rest of my life...

Ah Ku sat on the long wooden chair by the lake with the unicorn egg in his arms, bent his body, curled himself into a ball, supported his chin with both hands, and stared blankly at the sparkling dark lake.

However, the situation is no longer the same.

There was a turning point in her life, and a major opportunity arose.

She passed the entrance exam of Qingyuan Immortal Mountain and became an official disciple of the head of the three mountains of the Southern Sect, and her life that had been gloomy and depressed for thirteen years was gradually moving towards the light, towards the light she had been looking forward to for a long time.

And his gender issue seems to have become a threshold between light and darkness.

What improvisation to keep as it is?

Or do you want to leave behind the baggage of the past and welcome a new life?

This is what Ah Ku has to decide before tomorrow's apprenticeship.

Alas......

Ah Ku sighed again, the unicorn egg in his arms was still warm, and there was a slight tremor from time to time.

"I really envy you, I sleep and sleep every day, I don't have to worry about these things, if only I were an egg..."

Ah Ku touched the eggshell with one hand, supported his chin with the other, and said babblingly.

Ah Ku is a girl's business, You Dong doesn't know about it, and Nan Zhen, who will make things more troublesome, probably can't give any good advice, so Ah Ku, who has no one to discuss, has to keep everything in his heart, depressed and entangled.

"Ding... Bite... Boom..."

On the silent moonlit night, the sound of the piano came, and the tone was fresh and simple, subtle and full of charm.

Ah Ku looked up and followed the sound, and in the dark night, there seemed to be a person sitting in the white pavilion of Tianhu Lake, stroking the long piano on the case, while chanting homesick poems in a low voice.

"The bright moonlight in front of the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground.

Raise your head to look at the bright moon and bow your head to think of your hometown. ”

The verses have stopped, but the melodious sound of the piano has not stopped.

Attracted by the quiet sound of the piano, Ah Ku held the unicorn egg in his arms and walked into the pavilion standing quietly in the lake step by step.

In the small and elegant pavilion, a man sits with his back to Aku, and the round table in the pavilion burns sandalwood, and the smell is fresh. Behind the incense burner there is a five-stringed piano more than three feet long, which emits a unique homesick sound in the man's slender and powerful hands.

After a song, the man playing the piano turned his head slightly, turned his back to Ah Ku and said, "What does the girl think of this song of silent night thoughts?" ”

The man's voice was low and gentle, like the five-stringed instrument, subtle and charming.

Ah Ku felt that the voice was familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it.

She lowered her voice slightly and said, "This senior brother has misunderstood, I am a man, not a girl." ”

Ah Ku is still dressed as a man, and she hasn't decided whether to restore her female body or not, so keeping it as it is for now is her best choice.

The man smiled lowly and sat on his side facing the moonlight, the silver-white moonlight through the man's handsome facial features, forming a three-dimensional dark shadow.

The man said, "Ah Ku girl, it's cold at night, why don't you sit down and drink a cup of hot tea with Shaoguang!" ”

Hearing that the other party was 'shaking light', Ah Ku's guard relaxed a little.

"You're... Nanzhen's senior brother, Shake Light Immortal Jun? ”

Ah Ku learned from the books given by the Eggplant Tianzhen Jun that after mortals ascend to the Immortal Dao, they can spy on the secrets of all things, and this is the reason why his daughter can be seen through by Xizhen Immortal Jun at a glance during the entrance exam.

Shadow's thin lips lifted slightly, nodded, and replied softly, "Exactly." ”

The man's voice was as clear as the sea breeze, and Ah Ku was sure that the owner of the voice was the one who covered his eyes with his hands in front of the heart wall and rescued himself from the illusion.

Ah Ku hugged the unicorn egg, bent down and said, "It turned out to be the Immortal Monarch, Ah Ku was rude before." ”

Shaking Light Immortal Jun got up, turned around and helped him, and said softly: "Ah Ku girl doesn't need to be polite, although I have ascended to the Immortal Dao, my age is not much older than you." Since you are Nanzhen's friend, let Nanzhen call me senior brother! ”

Ah Ku did not dare to overstep, she is a person who abides by her duty, since she has not yet held an apprenticeship ceremony, then her Wang Ah Ku is still just an ordinary mountain villager, and she has to call each other 'Xianjun'.

She bowed her head and said, "Don't dare, the Immortal Monarch ascended to the Immortal Dao at the age of eighteen, and I am just an ordinary civilian who has not yet started, so I can't be disrespectful." ”

What happened in front of the heart wall, You Dongdu later told Ah Ku 1510, including the eldest disciple of Penglai Tianzun who had ever ascended to immortal at the youngest age - Shaking Light Immortal Jun.

Shaking Light Immortal Jun smiled bitterly, and said a little helplessly: "Could it be that Miss Aku dislikes me because I am not from Qingyuan, so she refuses to call me a senior brother?" ”

Shaking the light is a joke, but Ah Ku takes it seriously.

She wanted to raise her hand and wave her hand to indicate no, but she forgot the big unicorn egg she was holding in her hand, but fortunately, with a wave of her sleeves in time, the unicorn egg returned to Ah Ku's arms safely.

"This is the unicorn egg you brought back from the Red-Eyed Forest?"

In order to avoid any more moths, he sat down at the round table with a wave of his sleeves, and the incense disappeared, replaced by a set of white and delicate porcelain enamel tea sets.

Ah Ku then took his seat and said, "Yes, I asked Zhenjun to send the Qilin eggs back to the Qilin clan, but Zhenjun said that I would raise them directly. ”

The startling just now completely drove away Ah Ku's cautiousness, and now her whole attention is on the unicorn egg that is finally safe and sound, and she has no alienation and indifference just now for the shaking light on the other side.

Shake the light in his eyes and smile with his lips raised.

He stretched out his hand to add tea to Ah Ku, and his movements were like flowing water, elegant and beautiful.

He said: "The Qilin people love the cold and live in the far north, and there is no place to contain it in the south. ”

Ah Ku raised his head in surprise and asked, "Then why..."

Shaking Light smiled and looked at Ah Ku without answering, his eyes in the night swayed like the black heavenly lake under the moon.

Ah Ku was panicked by his staring, but there was no shame that would automatically appear when ordinary women were stared at by handsome men.

She hugged the unicorn egg in her arms uneasily and asked, "... Immortal? ”

Shaking Light chuckled, did not continue the topic, and instead asked directly: "Miss Ah Ku doesn't sleep so late, but she is worried about the dress problem at tomorrow's apprenticeship?" ”

Ah Ku was taken aback, and she didn't know why the other party knew her inner thoughts, but she had always been steady, and after a little thought, she asked: "Xianjun is still playing the piano by the lake so late, is it entrusted by someone?" Or do you just do it? ”

Shaking Light laughed when he heard this, and his bright eyes were bent like an upside-down crescent moon.

He reached out and touched the top of Ah Ku's hair lovingly, and his doting appearance was no less than that of his little sister Nanzhen.

Ah Ku has been used to touching the top of his head by Eggplant Tianzhenjun for a while, but the different touches still make Ah Ku's face blush slightly, and the roots of his ears are dry.

"You're a smart kid!"

Shaking Guang, who is only in his twenties, behaves like an old master in his fifties at this time.

"Good is like water, go with your heart."

Ah Ku's long eyelashes blinked slightly, like a dark butterfly fluttering in the night.

His eyes were brighter than the full moon in the sky, and his hair fluttering with the night wind made him even more handsome.

"You're going to make the best decision."

Ah Ku's heartbeat skipped a beat.