Chapter 24: Immortality 24
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"The wind was howling, the snow was blowing, and the streets were deserted in a small town called Sakas on the mainland of Kyushu, and people were crowded in thick leather jackets to the house of Pikath, the richest man in the town. The people in the town www.biquge.info know that the wife of the great good man Pikas gave birth today, and that petite, cute and enthusiastic girl is finally going to be a mother after three years of marrying Picas, and the people in the town are sincerely happy for them.
The crowd on the street is pouring in one direction, and from time to time they meet acquaintances, and everyone will greet each other:
"Hey, man, are you going to Mr. Picas's house?"
"yes, are you going too?"
"Of course, Mrs. Pikas gave birth today, and I'm going to rush to help."
"Uncle Shalong, this is a decoction made by Aunt Jiusha, she said that she would have to go later if she had something, so I asked you to send this decoction to Mrs. first, and drink it while it was hot!"
"Haole, hand over the decoction to me, let Jiusha rest assured!"
Everyone knows that Mr. Pikas came to this town fourteen years ago, he gave everyone money, built houses, taught the villagers to hunt, gave the villagers the means to do business, and he led everyone to prosperity day by day, and the villagers of Sakas Town are sincerely grateful to him.
I didn't hear that Mr. Picas's wife had given birth today, and everyone was anxious to go to congratulate him, hoping that he could do something for Mr. Picas. After all, they had received a lot of favors from Mr. Picas, and now they wanted to do what they could.
People were busy greeting each other for Mr. Pickas, and everyone was looking forward to the arrival of a new life.
There was only one person who seemed to think differently than they did
This person is sloppy in dress, his hair is dirty, his face is black, the whole person looks weak, and there are only those big eyes that are translucent and scary, as if he can see through all the injustices in the world.
He staggered down the street on crutches, and he was not as eager as the others to get to Mr. Picas's house, but he was wandering down the street, and when he heard the cheerful words of passers-by, he looked up at the sky, and saw that the dark clouds were slowly covering the sunset, and gradually spreading. He took a sip of wine and looked at the golden pocket watch hanging in front of him,
Then he closed the pocket watch with a snap, and chanted drunkenly in his mouth:
"I came from the heavens in search of God's will,
I am the darling of heaven and earth, and he told me that I was born with a mission.
When I climbed to the sacred mountain where the sun rose, I went to find the light I longed for.
But God told me, 'My dear believer, your faith is in the world, go and find your light in the world.' ’
I passed through the hell of pain,
I woke up in the darkness of the forest,
Because I have lost my way in the ancient path. ”
He followed the crowd to Mr. Picas's house, and instead of entering, he chose to sit in the corner in the cold wind, listening to the sound of people hurrying, he lit his pipe, and with the howling of the cold wind, he took a deep breath and another sip of wine.
I only heard the shouts of the midwife in the house
"Madam, work hard, ma'am, you can't sleep!"
And the moans of women:
"It hurts, it hurts, ah! Ah......h
The sloppy man outside the door, his eyes blazing, looked at the distant sky, and the black clouds with purple thunder and lightning were slowly spreading in this direction.
He continued to chant:
"Alas, how difficult it is to tell how desolate, how rugged, and how primeval the woodland is.
When I think about it, I am terrified!
How bitter it was, and death was nothing more than that;
But to explore the goodness I found there,
In order to cut off the evil of this world,
In order that the bright sun may live forever in the world,
I'll have to tell you about the other things I saw. ”
……
The screams of pain grew louder and louder inside the house, and Mr. Pikas walked up and down in a panic outside, and the courtyard was full of worried townspeople.
The cries of pain grew louder and louder, and the voice of his chant grew louder and louder;
"I can't tell you how I got to that forest.
For when I forsake the way of truth,
I was so sleepy.
But when I got to the foot of a hill over there,
(The valley that terrifies my soul,
The end of it is in that place),
I looked up and saw the hill's shoulder
has long been clothed in the brilliance of that "planet" (1),
It guides people straight ahead on every road.
So, I spent the night in such misery
Constantly in the lake of my heart
The concussive horror calmed down slightly.
It's like a man who escaped from the sea to the shore, wheezing......"
At this point, the wind and snow became heavier and stronger, the cold wind blew coldly, and the night became deeper and darker. The air grew colder, and he sighed softly, picked up the flask at his waist, and took a long sip of wine. Ha out of the heat.
At this time, there was a panicked cry from the midwife:
"Oh no, no, sir, Madame has a difficult birth!"
"What!"
Picarth was flustered and nervous:
"What then!"
The midwife looked back nervously but worriedly at the woman who was still in pain in labor in the house, and said hesitantly:
"Madame's birth canal is not open, and she needs the proflora in the canyon to induce labor. But this snow covers the mountains......"
"Go and lead my horse!"
Pikas turned to the servant and commanded:
"The canyon is not far from here, and I will pick it myself."
After saying that, he turned to the townsfolk in the courtyard and pleaded:
"My wife had a difficult birth and needed the flowers in the canyon as a guide. As the husband of my beloved wife, I can't take the place of her to taste the pain of childbirth, so I wish I could pick the flowers for her that will save her life. I'm about to leave now, and I hope the kind people can take care of this place for me, please. ”
After speaking, he ignored the dissuasion of the crowd, turned around and rode out on horseback.
The man who sat by the door, in the smoke from his pipe, watched Picas's departure with his bright eyes until he was gone, and then began to chant again:
"Oh, poor man,
God said, 'He will eventually go to hell, to hell, to hell because of the creation of demons.'
Because he has a pact with the devil. ’
I'm still here, I'm still looking forward to it, looking forward to it
The sun rises with the stars,
When 'God's love' first made these beautiful things work
They are with the sun
It's dawn,
This day is the warmest season. ”
The thunderclouds are getting closer and closer to Pikath's house, and the purple lightning is getting denser.
The man leaning outside the door, intoxicated by the smoke, whispered:
"I restrained the fear in my heart,
I watched the darkness come,
But I still have great hope;
But no,
But I saw it
A 'lion' appeared in front of me and was terrified
It straightened its head, with a fierce hunger,
That's the power of evil burning!
It is devouring, devouring the power of good!
There is also a 'she-wolf' beside it
Her thinness, Yu seems to have boundless desire;
They are all slaves to darkness and symbols of evil. ”
At this moment, a frightened cry suddenly erupted in the courtyard, he stopped singing, and took the flask again, this time he only took a sip gently, and there was no other movement, he kept looking at the sky, as if waiting for something......
Pikath, who was hurrying in the snow, frowned and thought about something, the icy cold wind was about to freeze his body. No matter how warm the leather jacket is, it can't stop the invasion of cold wind and snow.
Pikath's consciousness was in a trance in the cold wind, his eyes were hazy, but his body subconsciously crawled in the valley, and a voice kept telling him:
"Hold on, keep going!"
His heart has always insisted:
He firmly believed in the prophecy he had received in the temple that year: "The Son of God will come to this world because of this woman!" ”
They met in an accident when she was hunted down, and he saved the woman because of the temple prophecy, and lived incognito with her, and fourteen years later, she was indeed conceived as a virgin as the temple had prophesied. He could be confident that it was the Son of God's chance to come to earth.
His lips were purple from the cold, his eyebrows were covered with frost, and the slightest exhalation could condense into ice at the speed of the naked eye.
Pikas was not afraid, he firmly believed that the Son of God would come, and he tried his best to move forward, and finally found a blooming flower in the depths of the canyon. He ran over excitedly, holding it tightly, ah, hope! But in his excitement, he didn't notice the pair of glowing green eyes behind him.
It was a vicious wolf that had been trapped in the canyon for three days, and it had no food during the snowy season. Now in the face of the fresh delicacy in front of it, it whimpered and pounced, biting Picas's throat fiercely.
Picass was frightened by this sudden change, and the pain that followed made Picas's brain have a brief lucidity, but as the blood passed, Picas's vision became more and more blurred, and the pain in his neck made him gradually lose the strength to struggle, his vision became more and more hazy, and his body became colder and colder. The flower clenched in his hand was loosened and fell into the depths of the canyon.
Pikas closed his eyes in despair, and his vision ended up with a pair of glowing eyes. The wolf who had eaten the delicious food held his head high and howled at the moon to express his joy at the food he had eaten for so long.
In the town, the people of Pikath's house are still waiting for his return, unaware of his sad fate of being buried in the belly of a wolf. It's just that the dark clouds that were still in the sky have already fallen on the Pikas family's house, and the wind and snow are even more anxious.
When the man in the wind and snow saw this scene, he threw the pipe in his hand, accompanied by the twisting of his body, and sang loudly:
"Darkness has come,
His countenance was terrifying
Makes my heart so heavy,
I lost all hope of ascending!
Like a man who desires profit
When failure is on the verge of death
Wailing and weeping, and all kinds of pain in my heart. ”
The man chanted, and a bolt of lightning struck the man directly, and the man knelt down in the snow, blood gradually coming out of the corners of his mouth and eyes.
Suddenly, there was a purple-black light in the courtyard, and I heard an exclamation:
"Madame, Madame, Madame is born!"
The people in the courtyard exuded amazement and surprise. But soon the surprise turned into an exclamation.
There is also a mixture of panic for help.
。 Outside the door, the man kneeling on his knees watched the blood gradually spread out from the crack in the door, and at this time, a touch of early warmth shone in the far east, and the corner of the man's dry mouth grinned, and he sang the last verse with difficulty:
"I walked through that forest and saw no hope,
I walked through that valley and did not find the hope I believed in.
But by the river where the yellow spring flows, I discovered the secret of God!
It turns out that a son is a twin,
One lotus and two colors. ”
He looked up at the faint light, and he cried out loudly:
"The Light will always come!
The darkness will always fall,
Sunshine will always be there!
The faith I hope will come eventually! ”
After singing, the man fell to the ground and lost his breath, his eyes were still round, and he still didn't forget to look at the bright existence.
In the imperial city, a child was born with a golden light on the temple, and he was watched by thousands of people.
But who knows, on this day, a total of two children were born in the Kyushu continent, one with purple eyes and black hair, born with wind and snow, his birth made the originally lively and lively town instantly become a dead city full of corpses, and the other silver-haired and golden-eyed, born with a warm light, his birth made the thousands of people in the imperial city who were suffering from illness and suffering to be healed, let the frozen earth bloom in spring, he brought warmth to the cold imperial city for a long time......
But after this, who remembers what the troubadour once sang:
"In the place where the yellow spring springs up, I discovered the secret of God,
It turned out that there were twins
One lotus and two colors. ”
Note (1): Planet: Sun
Some people always say that the daughters of the sea will always be a little more heroic than others, because they have been riding the wind and waves since childhood, I don't know if this is true or not, but no matter what, Yao Tianxue was born in the South China Sea.
In the winter of 1912, the first year of the Republic of China, it snowed suddenly around the South China Sea, which was amazing, and at the same time, in a large village on the edge of the South China Sea, the cry of a loud baby girl sounded from inside......
"Hurry up, hurry up, Madame is going to give birth, hurry up."
A middle-aged woman kept urging in the door, and her mind kept looking at the door, when she suddenly saw a burly man walking towards this side, and hurriedly greeted him with a smile:
"Mang'er, why did you come, this lady has been in the delivery room for many hours."
"How is the lady giving birth, boy and girl?"
The reckless man untied the leather whip from his waist and handed it to the entourage beside him, asking nervously, with a little caution and fleeting anticipation between his words.
"Oh, look at you, you're in a hurry, you haven't given birth yet, and it's not the first time you've been a father, why are you still so nervous."
The woman laughed and quipped,
"Aunt Aoi, this is indeed not the first time to be a father, but this is the father of a stinky boy, and this is the first time that this pink and tender girl is here, of course I am nervous, haha."