Chapter 63: Immortality 63
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My name is unsinkable, I come from the wilderness, and our ancient bloodline is so long that I can't remember where I came from. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
I walked through the southern sea, through the desolate grasslands, through the hot desert. I have walked through the past and into the future. I will go wherever someone needs me, I am the undertaker, I specialize in fulfilling the wishes of the dying people, in exchange for them to give their souls to me, and their obsessions will fulfill my obsessions.
"Master, the master has a guest coming to the door!"
The newly recruited little apprentice came to knock on the door in a panic, and I sat in the quiet room took a deep breath, then slowly spit out and got up and patted the non-existent dust on my body.
He opened the door and said to the little apprentice, "Take two cups of tea and go to the front hall." ”
The little apprentice turned around and ran towards the kitchen. I walked slowly to the antechamber.
In the eyes is a young girl, dressed plainly, with a waist tag on her body, it seems that she is a maid from a large family.
Seeing her head down, I coughed lightly, and she immediately raised her head nervously, her face was full of worry, and she saw me kneeling down and crying
"Sir, sir, please save my young lady, please."
I took a step back, raised my hand and helped her up, and said, "I'm only going to take the dead alive, not to save people." "But everyone else says, ......," she looked at me with a tearful face.
I shook my head again, "The rumors are not credible. ”
She lowered her head with a dejected face and whispered, "Sir, my young lady is invited, please come with me for a trip." ”
I nodded, turned to the back kitchen and shouted, "Shaoyuan, take the box and go out with me." ”
He turned back to the girl and said, "This is my apprentice, and I can't do without him when I go out to run errands." She nodded and said, "Anu."
"Ahh
I was stunned for a moment, and she repeated again, "Anu." ”
I realized that this was her name, and then the little apprentice came running with a suitcase, and I bowed my head, "Miss Anu, you are ready to lead the way." ”
The maid named Anu nodded, wiped her tears with her sleeve, and said, "The carriage is ready, please come with me, sir." ”
I don't know how long it took for Shaoyuan and me to board the carriage. I only heard a shout from outside, "Mr. has arrived." ”
Shaoyuan and I got out of the car and raised our eyes, and the word Chen Fu came into view. This is a famous salt merchant in the south of the Yangtze River, and his family is wealthy.
As Anu led the way, we walked deeper and quieter into the depths, until we stopped in front of a courtyard, and then she turned her head and said, "Sir, Madame, you can go inside." ”
I pushed open the courtyard door and slowly entered, only to see a beautiful woman sitting in the hall on the beauty step, I raised my eyebrows and knew in my heart, "Madam, I only take the business of the dead, you ......"
The woman spoke, "Why should you pretend to be confused, if you have seen it, Mr. Busink? "I skewed my shoulders" Since I met an expert, I will tell the truth, are you a merman from the Southern Underworld? ”
She nodded, and I understood, "No wonder the Chen family is so rich, you yourself are profound, what are you looking for me?" She smiled and stretched out her hand, "Sir, take the pulse." "I reached out and gasped," you ......," she smiled bitterly, "Heavenly punishment." ”
I looked at her coquettishly reclining, like a beauty lying on the couch, but her face was bloodless, although she had no contact with the South China Sea mermaid clan, but I knew the beauty of the merman.
Now it seems that she has little left under the pressure of heavenly punishment, and she has long lost the beauty posture of the merman, I have a way to solve it, but I don't charge anything for it, but I also have my needs.
I shook my head, "You should know my rules, mermaid soulless, what do you exchange with me." ”
She spoke, "Afterwards, I will give you the merman pearl, the merman pearl condensed by the last tear of the merman is all the essence and blood of the merman equal to the soul." It is very beneficial for the gentleman to do things. ”
I lifted my forehead and sighed, "Tell me, your story." ”
Southern spirits, especially people.
Since I was born, there have been many mermaids hovering around me, and I have not been hurt in the slightest. I seem to be of noble status and have a prosperous life. But it only made me feel depressed, and I didn't want to run away all the time to find my freedom.
I was born in the Southern Underworld Sea, and I am the most precious bloodline of the merman clan. On my sixteenth birthday, I took advantage of the visit of Jiaoshen in the depths of the South China Sea with his son, sneaked out of the palace, looked back and saw everyone talking around Jiaoshen, and saw my parents' praise for Shenzi, I sneered, I knew that it was my future husband, although handsome and beautiful I didn't like it. The moment I surfaced, I breathed in the fresh air outside the sea, not like the candle incense in the palace, but with a faint salty smell, but it was such a smell that made me extremely happy.
"Help, help, no one, the ship is sinking, help!"
Hearing the call, I swam over curiously.
At that glance, I saw him, Chen Jing. He was calm and calm, without the slightest panic of the shipwreck, and commanded the people to lower the boat and seek escape in the face of danger. I was intrigued, so I stunned them and sent them to the shore, and I sat in their wrecked boat and waited for him to wake up.
I don't know how long it took, Chen Jing slowly opened his eyes and saw me smiling gently:
"Girl, you saved me?"
Although he has experienced hardships and shabby clothes, it is still difficult to hide his aristocratic temperament, Chen Jing's elegant appearance makes me lose my mind, and I nodded stupidly.
But he laughed at my appearance, and it took a long time for him to subside:
"Where is the girl and what is her name?"
I shook my head, the Southern Immortal Shark was born in the depths of the deep sea, and did not see the light of day, and the commoners had no surname, and only those in the royal family who performed the hairpin ceremony at the age of eighteen would be given a surname when they were crowned, and I had not yet reached the eighteenth coronation.
I saw Chen Jing frowning slightly:
"No surname? Nameless? Is it an orphan? ”
I nodded, looking at him nervously.
Chen Jing suddenly smiled, stood up and stretched out his hand to me:
"Since there is no name and no surname, this place in the South China Sea is where you and I meet, how about you call Nanling? If you have nowhere to go, will you be by my side from now on? ”
Looking at that kind of laughter, I suddenly felt that the world had lost all color, only his laughter, I hope this kind of smile will be kept forever, so I forgot my identity, forgot the concerns of sneaking out, forgot the clan rules and punishment, nodded stupidly like that, and let him go.
"Do you regret it?" I asked with a sip of tea and a smile.
Nan Ling smiled bitterly:
"When I was confined in this small world, looking at the trees that were getting bleak and his less and less visits and his indifferent back, I often asked myself, do you regret it?
If I had followed the rules at the beginning, maybe I would be the noble king of the shark clan and the most favored queen of the Jiao clan now......
But, sir. Did you know that love is like a poison that often makes people like us worse than life and death, but willingly. Even if I had to do it all over again, I think I would still choose to go with him without hesitation.
I looked at the soon-to-be-dying mermaid in front of me in a daze, and kept thinking back to what she had just said, and I put down the teacup in my hand with some choked words to hide my embarrassment.
For a moment, we were all silent.
"Sir, I was so surprised at my answer. Did the gentleman ever love? ”
Just when I didn't know how to open my mouth before continuing, Nan Ling opened his mouth first, breaking the calm of the moment.
Outside the window, the sound of birds and birds is very pleasant. There is flowing water again, and the sky is full of peach blossoms. There are also a few maids laughing and playing in the pavilion, and if it weren't for the gloomy and bleak scene in this house, this is really a holy place for recuperation.
Hearing that Nan Ling was in a rare good mood, and asked such a playful word, I lowered my head and smiled, looking at the scenery outside the window to avoid Nan Ling's suspicious gaze. I want to hide my lonely eyes.
Love?
How long ago was that, the girl who was like the sun, the girl who laughed like spring, the girl who laughed so that all the flowers bloomed, the girl I loved, she lost her ......
"Sun......
I whispered softly, a tear slipped quietly, and I hurriedly covered my cheek with the wide sleeves of my cold and wiped away my tears, I didn't want people to see them.
After calming down the fluctuating state of mind in my heart, I regained my gentle face and turned to look back at Nan Ling, who was still waiting for an answer:
"Madame, do you not know where I come from, and know that God has no love. This kind of ****, how could I have tasted it. ”
After that, I raised the tea cup on the small table with a trembling hand in my left hand, and gently teased the tea with the tea lid, hoping to use this rich tea fragrance to calm the turbulence in my heart.
Madame continued, not listening.
When Nan Ling heard my reply, she didn't say much, just glanced at me meaningfully, and then slowly opened her mouth and continued her story.
Nanping City is not peaceful, in the twelfth year of Changlong, the king issued an edict to take back the right of salt merchants to sell salt, and it was classified as an official camp.
But the world is flooded with salt merchants, and selling salt is the bulk of the profits, and the royal family suddenly wants to take back the salt rights, how can the salt merchants be willing to lose this profit, and the salt rights have not been recovered for two or three years. In the fifteenth year of Changlong, my king was furious, and the first to take the salt city of Nanping to open the knife, this killing chicken to the monkey to show the brunt of the Chen family.
At the beginning of November, the weather was almost cold.
"Anu, go and see if the young master has come back, it's too late."
Nan Ling greeted Anu while setting the meal.
"It's back, it's back, the young master is back!"
Listening to the maid's voice, Nan Ling put down the rice bowl in his hand and got up to go out to greet him.
Before he stepped on the threshold, he was greeted back by a pair of slightly cool hands:
"Ah Ling, go back quickly, it's cold and be careful of the cold and drink bitter medicine soup."
Nan Ling glanced at Chen Jing:
"How can you be so delicate."
Chen Jing took back the coat on his body and said with a smile:
"Then who got typhoid fever just in the autumn, lying on the sickbed all day long screaming and not drinking medicine, and still had to be coaxed?"
Without waiting for Nan Ling to reply, he sat down at the table with a smile:
"It's so hearty."
Seeing that Nan Ling also sat down and picked up the dishes and chopsticks:
"Ah Ling is so late, you haven't eaten yet?"
Nan Ling nodded:
"I'm waiting for you."
Chen Jing heard that he put down the dishes and chopsticks and sighed:
"Ah Ling, the Chen family is in an eventful autumn, I am busy day and night and have no time to take care of you, don't let me worry, okay?"
Nan Ling nervously held Chen Jing's hand:
"Ah Jing, don't be angry, I will be obedient, the Chen family is really in danger?"
Chen Jing patted Nan Ling's hand, "Ah Ling, don't worry, I have my own way." After that, he got up and left the table and walked to the inner room, Nan Ling sat at the table alone and looked at Chen Jing's back, his mouth opened a few times, but he still couldn't make a sound, so he had to give up, looked at Chen Jing, and went to the bed to rest.
This is the first time this month, and although Ah Jing is still gentle with himself as before, the time when he comes back is getting better and better day by day. The sadness on his face grew worse day by day.
The distance between them is also becoming more and more distant. Nan Ling could no longer understand the heart of this man who had been tender and kind to her, or that she had never understood him. What he made her understand, what made her happy, was always what he was willing to let her see, those secret things, he never let her understand......
Nan Ling didn't understand, they were husband and wife, didn't they, why did they cover it up like this, evade and deceive, obviously today he went to the right prime minister's house and had a sumptuous dinner with the right prime minister's family, and he also had a ...... with the right prime minister's daughter
The tea cup in Nan Ling's clenched hand:
"Ah Jing, what the hell are you looking at me. I only want you to be happy forever, why do you prefer to believe what the right prime minister's daughter says, rather than confide in me about the difficulties you are experiencing, do you really think that I am so useless? ”
The curtains cover up layer by layer, bringing infinite ambiguity to the inner room, usually at such a time Chen Jing and his wife always like to joke and laugh, but today, it is silent and terrible.
On the bed, Chen Jing, who raised his eyes and looked at the bed curtain, heard the sound of Nanling bathing from the clean room, but at this time, he had no longer the frolicking mind of the past, and his brain kept thinking about today's dinner. My father seemed to be very happy......
This night is destined to be sleepless.
At night, Nan Ling woke up and looked at Chen Jing, who was sleeping soundly beside him, patted him lightly and shouted in a low voice:
"Ah Jing, Ah Jing."
Seeing that Chen Jing didn't move, he turned over and got out of bed and walked outside the house.
A burst of candle incense passed Nan Ling and left the house safely, looked around and skimmed towards the sea. The fifteenth moon is brighter against the background of the dark sea, Nan Ling takes a deep breath and sweeps towards the deep sea, this is a secret that no one knows, in the depths of the South China Sea is the entrance to the South Underworld.
There is a pond of flowers at the bottom of the South Stygian Sea, planted with large swaths of dreams, they know all the secrets of the world, and they also know the future process, this is the secret that the merman clan has guarded for generations, and no one knows it except for the successors of the past generations.
Nan Ling carefully dodged all the patrols, and entered the secret place with a palace waist bell, and Nan Ling carefully squatted in front of the flower basket and fed it with blood.
"Flower basket, flower basket, tell me the fate of the Chen family."
The flower baskets that were full for a while opened their mouths one after another:
"Lives are coming to an end, families are ruined, families are ruined."
Nan Ling sat on the ground in shock, not knowing what to do, just as he was feeding with blood again to find a solution.
Unexpectedly, the pearl outside the country lit up:
"Quick, the soldiers over there have quickened, and the secret land has been broken into." Nan Ling bit his lower lip, looked back at the flower basket, and made up his mind to take away a piece of the flower basket with a wave of his sleeve.
When the pursuers arrived at the secret land and saw no trace, a soldier came to report:
"My lord, no one."
The leader looked back at the flower basket and said coldly:
"It doesn't matter, dig and take away the flower basket without permission, and we will be punished when we go to sea, and there will be no escape, and we will only have to wait for the rabbit at that time. Unless ......"