"It seems to be getting better," I squatted down beside the horse, brushed away the herbs covering its wound with my hand, carefully examined its wound, and told him not to worry, "However, it's better to rest a little longer, even if its wound is healing, it may not be able to take you out of here now, and it will be a long time before you return from here to a place where there are people." ”

This herb is very effective, I have seen the phoenix use this herb to treat the injuries of other animals, thinking that after about another day and a night's rest, the horses can recover, and at that time, they can leave Shaoshan and return to the city.

I didn't hear his answer, so I looked up at him.

He sat on the sidelines, looking thoughtfully, his eyes not as bright as before, and he looked preoccupied.

"What's wrong?" I thought he was worried about the horse's injury.

He just blinked, and the confusion in his eyes was swept away, as if just now, I was wrong.

I think this man is so strange, different from everything in the mountains, through his expressions and movements, he is completely incomprehensible, and he can't guess what he is thinking.

"You've lived here for so many years, don't you have a name?" He asked the same question again.

Name.

In all the years I've lived, I've never had a name. The old man of the land always called me a girl, and the phoenix never called me at all, for more than two hundred years, compared to what to call me, she always appeared in front of me first, I don't know what her name is, but I call her Phoenix, just like everyone in the mountains calls me the sycamore essence of the back mountain, or the one next to the phoenix.

"All people should have names." Yuan Jue told me very seriously. "Look, you know that my name is Yuan Jue, when you look for me, you can call my name, and when you can't find me, you can also ask other people if you know where Yuan Jue is, right."

He seems to have a good point.

Perhaps seeing that I was skeptical of his words, he stood up, walked over to me, and half-crouched down. "However, you don't have a name, and when I want to look for you, I don't know how to call you, and if I can't find you in the city, I can't ask anyone else where you've been, because I don't know what your name is, and I don't know anything else, right?"

I thought for a moment and said, "I don't go to the city, but in the mountains, and if you look for me, I'll know, and I can hear it." ”

The roots that have been rooted deep underground for hundreds of years have made me know everything in the mountains, and I can feel every movement.

However, I think my answer may have frightened him, and when I heard what I could hear, his eyes, especially beautiful eyes, had a very special affection in the deepest places, and even though he quickly concealed it, I still noticed.

It should be a pleasantly surprised, exciting feeling.

The distance between me and him is very close, like the distance between me and Phoenix, but it is a feeling I have never felt when I am with Phoenix, and the thump in my chest is inexplicably loud, which shocks my heart, and I forget what I want to say next sentence in my head.

Why, why is this happening?

It turned out that the color that had always made me curious in the depths of Yuan Jue's eyes was a dark gray that was very close to black, but lighter.

I looked him in the eye and didn't know what to do with the connection.

I only heard the chest, bang, bang, bang, so loud. What to do, will he hear.

He looked at me, suddenly smiled, the corners of his mouth rose just right, his outline seemed to be deeply imprinted into my heart at that moment, I stared straight at him in a daze, forgetting about the surroundings, he was really good-looking, better than all the scenery I have seen in all these years.

"Do you hear that?" He asked suddenly, but my head and eyes were deviated, I looked at him in front of me, the thin lips opened, as if to say something, under the snort, his lips had a very distinct arc, like the begonia flowers seen in the white moonlight, and through the light red. I just looked at him, and his voice was slightly smiling, and it was very nice to hear.

It took me a while to understand what he had said. Before he could think he was talking about a strange thumping sound in my chest, he lowered his head, reached out, and took my hand, slowly, close to his chest.

Bang, bang, bang......

It turned out that he was talking about strange voices in his chest.

It's strange why even he has such a strange voice in his chest.

Are we all sick?

What to do, probably, we are all sick. I suddenly panicked, the phoenix was not there, and I didn't tell me what the disease was, I pounced, put my ear to his chest, and listened carefully.

Bang, bang, bang...... But it is getting tighter and more intense.

"What to do," I was so anxious that I almost cried. It's the same in my chest, it's the same in his chest, I don't care about the shock in his moment, and I ignore the surprise in his eyes at that moment, I thought we would also die like other animals in the mountains, "What should I do, are you sick, will you die......?"

He laughed.

Grabbed my hand again. "Won't die."

I thought he lied to me, there had never been such a thing before, by the way, Phoenix said, there is a very dangerous thing called poison in this world, which can make people lose their lives without defense and without feeling at all, and we must have been given by the one called poison......

"Because I like it." He said. "Because I like you."

Like......

"What's that...... "Why don't I know this guy I like, what does he have to do with poison?"

He was stunned, then burst out laughing.

"But." Late at night, I sat side by side with him, "I just saw the pattern on your cuffs is so strange, it looks like an animal, but it doesn't look like an animal, I have never seen such an animal in Shaoshan for so many years." So what the hell is it. ”

"It's a unicorn." He looked up at the starry sky, unimpressed.

Unicorn? "What's that?"

Hearing me ask, he lowered his head, glanced sideways at me, and sighed with a smile. "It is an ancient beast like a phoenix, I heard the elders in my family say, at the beginning of the world was chaotic, the ancient beasts competed with each other, competing for the strongest among them, and then there was the green dragon white tiger Vermilion Bird and Xuanwu, the unicorn was not satisfied, and dared to stand up in the lower realm for a piece of heaven and earth, that is the ancestor of our Yuan clan, and also the patron saint of the Yuan clan, in order to remember, the people of the Yuan clan will embroider the unicorn pattern on the body."

Divine beast, it must be very powerful, as powerful as a phoenix.

"But in recent generations, the people of the Yuan clan have scattered and are no longer what they used to be. The world is in turmoil, and the various tribes are based on the territory, killing each other and crusading against each other. He frowned slowly, and when he spoke of the outside world, he seemed powerless, full of chagrin that his ambition was too hard to carry out. The seniors in the family said that it was the disrespect of the descendants of the Yuan clan for the ancestors that lost our own protection, and if we want to end the current dispute between the princes and unify the world, so that all people can end killing and coexist peacefully, we still need to use the power of divine beasts. Someone once said that I had seen a phoenix in this mountain, so I wanted to try it, maybe I could meet a phoenix, maybe I could convince it, and the phoenix might have mercy on the world to help me. ”

He said, turning his head to the side again, this time, he didn't just look at me.

He looked at me as if to ask me if I would like to help him.

I hurriedly avoided his gaze. "I haven't seen a phoenix."

If I let Phoenix know that I leaked her whereabouts, she must be angry, so I can't. It's just that when Yuan Jue seemed to ask me, I was so embarrassed that I almost wanted to sue him.

"You're the Phoenix." Yuan Jue suddenly asked.

I was horrified, wondering why he had mistaken me for a phoenix. I kept my head down and didn't know how to explain it.

"I found the feathers of a phoenix in the cave where you lived." Yuan Jue didn't seem to care about this matter at all, his tone was so soft that people unconsciously wanted to float up, as if he didn't need me to explain anything, "Before I met you, I also put my hope on using the power of the divine beast to show my ambitions, but when I saw you, I found that your world is different from ours, there is no trouble, no intrigue, no unhappiness, I feel that no matter what excuse, it is selfish to bring you from such peace to the outside world." ”

Obviously, he misunderstood my intention to be silent, but really decided that I was a phoenix.

"So, I decided to try it on my own, instead of relying on the power of the so-called divine beasts, maybe the process will be a little more difficult, but if it is to protect the person I like, I should be able to persevere. I like the place where you live, if one day, I can make the outside world so peaceful and peaceful, would you like to go out of here and go to my world to accompany me. "He asked seriously, and I wanted to say yes.

It's just that I'm not a phoenix, I'm just a sycamore.

The phoenix is a mythical beast, worshiped by the world, she can be invited by the heavenly realm to participate in the feast, and I am rooted in the mountains, even the gatekeepers of the heavenly realm can laugh at me and ridicule me, I am not a phoenix, she is noble, and I am humble.

The cold treatment I suffered at the gates of the Heavenly Realm, I could have a big fight with them.

But at this time, I was suddenly sad.

For more than 200 years, there has never been a time when I have felt more clearly than now, the so-called high and low.

"Since you said you don't have a name. Then I'll call you Niyin. "He believed that I was a phoenix, so he didn't think about why I was sad, he completely misunderstood, thinking that I didn't explain it or acquiesced, but now, I don't know how to tell him about it.

Neon, it's really good.

I nodded, and I guess I agreed. In the past, I didn't have a name, and everyone in this mountain called me Sycamore, but now, I'm not just a Sycamore, I also have a name, called Niyin.

"Tomorrow, I'm leaving Shaoshan," he said to himself, a little lost, "Promise me, if one day you are willing to go out of Shaoshan to see the outside world, come to me, okay?" ”

Will I be, will there be a day when I will leave Shaoshan?

He didn't get my answer as expected, but he didn't follow up, but changed the topic and said to me with a smile, "When I was young, I thought it was really a very lucky thing to be born in the Yuan family. My father was a very remarkable man, and though he was only a prince, everyone in our territory would praise him for his greatness, and I admired him as much as everyone else, and I was proud to be his son. ”

Yuan Jue was talking to me about him, it was the world outside Shaoshan.

And that world is completely unfamiliar to me, I can't imagine what that world is like, but because he is suddenly curious, he is full of expectations for the world that seems to be different from Shaoshan.

Yuan Jue said that his father had a small country with only a few thousand people in the country. He said that his mother was the daughter of another prince, a noble and beautiful princess named Qi Mo.

Just this name makes me feel unimaginably beautiful, the most beautiful person I have ever seen, is probably the phoenix.

Yuan Jue said that his father had a total of four wives, and his mother was his father's wife, that is, the highest status of the four wives. His parents were united by marriage, and his mother and maid Yun Chu came all the way to marry here, and when they became his father's wife, they were only 14 years old. Yun Chu was two years older than her, because Qi Mo was not a concubine, so she had no sisters to marry, and even the one who sent her here to marry was not her father and brother, but a lowly guard.

Over the years, Qi Mo and Yun Chu have been like sisters, perhaps because they had no relatives when they first married here, so they have spent so many years relying on each other.

Yuan Jue told me, Qi Mo's maid, Yun Chu treated him very well, much better than Qi Mo.

He said, "If you come to see it one day, you will be surprised that I look very similar to Aunt Yun Chu." ”

That night, Yuan Jue told me a lot of things related to him, about his childhood, about his ambitions, about ......

After dawn, Yuan Jue left.

I thought I would probably never see him again, human beings have a short lifespan, and for me it was just a rush. The phoenix once told me that we are different from human beings, so we should concentrate on our cultivation and not spend our minds on other things, otherwise we will definitely experience a painful loss in our lifetime.

Yuan Jue's appearance, like a dream, came and left in a hurry, except for leaving a blank in my heart, as if there was no trace to prove that he had appeared.

Maybe that's just right.

Humanity and we are not one world per se. Except for the occasional thought of him, a qiē is fine.

But since then, I've had a name, Niyin.

I was mentally prepared to miss him forever, but I thought that because of an unexpected fire, Yiqi's fate was changed.

A fire in Shaoshan burned away everything in the mountain, and there was nothing left. I looked at the barren Yiqiē, dragging my scarred body, not knowing where to go.

I thought, maybe this is an opportunity, and I'll have to find a place to settle until the phoenix comes back to solve this qiē.