There are a lot of pastries and cold dishes in the annex, and they say that they are just appetizing, and there are still some I like to eat.

In addition to them, four more girls came, and they wiped my wet hair with a brocade handkerchief, and the woman sat beside me with her cheeks in a daze, and I ate quietly, and ate as much as I could, and I didn't even realize that I was so hungry.

After eating a lot, I finally got full, I put down my chopsticks, and the woman came back to her senses and said, "It seems that my appetite is still quite good." ”

"Hmm." I answered.

A girl handed over fragrant tea: "Young lady, rinse your mouth." ”

I glanced at the fragrant tea, but didn't answer, and the woman said, "Why don't you drink it?" ”

I frowned: "Uncomfortable." ”

The woman reached out to take it and said lightly: "If you don't take her tea, she won't be comfortable stiff like this." ”

I looked at the girl, and she hurriedly shook her hand: "Don't dare, slave don't dare." ”

"Let's go." The woman took a sip of tea and put it down, "Let's go out for a walk." ”

The two girls came with her, but the woman turned back and said, "Don't you come, don't you hear her uncomfortable?" ”

They pursed their lower lipes and hung their heads.

The woman took me by the hand and said, "Let's go." ”

I couldn't tell what time it was, it was still dark, and the moon was very large, round and bright, illuminating the road under my feet.

The wind was clear, the insects were chirping in the grass, and I followed her, wearing only a white bedgown, and her hair hanging down from freshly washed, without the slightest hair ornament.

On the way to Merlin there was a long sloping stone path, and I hung my head and stepped on the small broken stones in the earth.

The woman looked with me for a long time, and said, "How long do you see that the tip of your shoe will not produce a flower." ”

I looked up at her.

She said: "These girls are not from the Yang family, and they can be seen from their actions, and they don't have the atmosphere of being trained by those people around your mother-in-law." ”

I didn't speak.

She said: "We are coming back from Cangshi, when you were in Chenzhou Anzhuan, your master wrote to the Yang family to report safety, these maids are the Yang clan relatives in Qiongzhou who don't know which line they went to specially selected to be a well-behaved little girl, wait a few days, your mother-in-law's mother will bring someone over." You can keep a few of these people if you like them, and if you don't like them, you may have to send them back. ”

I nodded.

She sighed lightly: "Chu Jiu, do you know why I am telling you this? ”

"I don't know."

"This means that everyone knows that you are safe, if Yang Xiuyi gets the news. He'll be back soon. ”

I was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Really?" ”

"It's up to him to know it." She glanced at me in disgust, "Your eyes light up at the mention of him." ”

"Rush back," I wondered. "Where did he go?"

"You only know now that you know where he went," she retracted her gaze and looked up at the bright moon in the sky, "but on the ninth day of the first month, once he comes back, we won't have a chance." ”

"What?"

Her expression became solemn, she withdrew her gaze and looked into my eyes, and said calmly: "Chu Jiu, something big is going to happen." ”

I frowned slightly: "Big deal? ”

"Do you like your master, do you like Yang Xiuyi?"

I didn't hesitate: "Yes." ”

"That. If something happens, will you want to protect them? ”

"Protection?"

She paused, walked forward, and said in a very faint and soft voice: "Many poets like to praise the prosperity of the peace, the world is indeed a great stability, and the world is also clear, but there has never been a real long-term peace in this world. Yizhou Baoben has to have a earth movement every few years, and Dingyun County, Yinzhou has recently reported that the fox demon has stolen babies, and the plague has broken out in the river in the middle of the water, with tens of thousands of dead and injured. These disasters are everywhere. ”

"Hmm."

"Right now, there is something more terrible than these about to happen, and it is about to happen in Kunlun."

I followed: "What's going to happen?" ”

"Catastrophe," her voice grew softer. Turning to look at me, "Chu Jiu, do you remember your people?" ”

"Clansmen?"

"Those girls left behind by your aunt back then, the group of rats and dogs of the Ten Witches used them to sacrifice the blood array, and they have already led the catastrophe to Kunlun with the blood of the Yue family, these fools just want to stir up chaos in the mortal world. Fortunately, they are revived in the troubled times, they are delusional, and it is not enough, but these three thousand people in the world are not only troubled, and there are countless people who covet our great rivers and mountains, if others take advantage of the void to enter, it will be a great injury to this world! ”

I looked at her, confused, not knowing what to say.

"And the battle in the Demon Realm," her voice was still soft, but her tone was a little urgent, "The people of the Wanzhu Realm have formed factions everywhere and dispatched troops, but it is still not easy and there is no end in sight. Now that the calamity has finally returned, and you are about to die, they will try their best to find you! You're the only person in the world who has ever been involved in the Blood Curse, and for them, it's almost time to take a gamble, what terrible thing do you think they'll do? ”

"On the ninth day of the first month, if Kunlun really collapses and the eight major sects are really destroyed, do you know what this means to the world? There are eggs under the nest, even if the Yang family and your master don't fall, they will lose most of their vitality, are you willing to watch your master and Yang Xiuyi suffer? ”

I didn't speak, I was still slow to react.

She held my arm: "Ninth day! Only you can stop the catastrophe, you are sober! ”

I looked into her eyes for a long time and said, "Turning into a catastrophe......"

"It's just stupid!" She frowned, "Do you remember that silly hair?" ”

"What do you want me to do?" I asked.

She lowered her hand and turned to look at Merlin in the distance: "It's not me...... It's a few elders in Kunlun, something big happened in Kunlun, and in the three days you have been asleep, they have been talking about your master and master in the mountains, and your master has been thundering and angry every time, and they have been bombarded down the mountain every time. ”

"My master."

"That's right," she pursed her lips, "they want to use you as a blood array to lure the catastrophe to the Dust Island of the Minghai Sea or the Thirty Thousand Dust Mountains of the Eastern Wilderness to reseal it." ”

"Am I going to die, then?"

"You don't have long to live," she looked back at me, "Chu Jiu, it's up to you to decide this matter, if you agree, I'll take you to those elders, and if you don't want to, I'll help you deal with them together." ”

I didn't speak, I was silent for a long time, and I said, "I want to meet Yang Xiuyi." ”

"The ninth day of the first month." Her brow furrowed even deeper, "I won't be able to take you with him when he comes back." ”

"But," I said sadly, "I miss him so much." ”

She sighed. He stopped talking, looked up at the sky, and said, "It's about to dawn, your master is about to come to you, go back." ”

I looked ahead at Merlin. The shadows of the trees are swaying, and the plum petals are sprinkled like rain.

I whispered, "I really, really miss him." ”

Qing Luo took me back to the house, the candle flame in the room was still there, the window sash was clearly open, but it was still quietly clustered on the candlestick, the gold thread was slender, not moved by the evening breeze.

I picked up a booklet and opened it, the ink stains were a little lighter. I stared blankly at the words on it, but my eyes seemed to drift out, far, far away, and I didn't know what I was thinking.

At dawn, a girl came in and told me that Master had woken up, and when I got up and went over, Master had just come out of the kitchen with rice porridge in one hand and two steamed buns in the other, ready to come to me. A pair of eyes exposed outside the gauze were bloodshot.

The courtyard was breezy and we sat on the stone steps, and he ate directly on his lap, and a few girls on the side said that they were going to move the small square table. He shouted to stop him, and then walked away.

"I'm used to being clean and leisurely on the mountain, and I'm really not used to so many little girls suddenly appearing." He muttered to me.

I asked, "Is it enough to eat so much?" ”

He stuffed the last mouthful of steamed buns into his mouth, swallowed the rice porridge, and set the empty bowl aside. got up and said, "Let's go, take you to loosen your muscles and bones, and I'll let you enter the battle later." ”

I got up with him: "Okay." ”

When I got up in the coldest morning, the woman came out with a cloak, and the master put it on for me, and then he took me along the path outside the Ziwei Pavilion to the Taiqing Palace, step by step through the tall bookcase in the Qingxin Pavilion, and told me a lot of stories while telling me.

The master sent someone to find us, but the master did not come with him, and after sending me to the door, he said lightly: "If the master wants to sit here, you can go." ”

"You can get some sleep." I said.

He nodded, "Okay." ”

I turned to leave, walked far away, stopped and turned back, the Master was still standing there looking at me, and when he met my gaze, he waved his hand and entered the pavilion.

I saw the master in the cold hall behind the Quanyue Tower, and there were two seniors with him, and after those girls left, they closed the door of the hall, and the whole hall suddenly became desolate and silent.

"Have you eaten?" Shizun asked, his face always stern and indifferent.

I nodded.

"Do you know these two uncles?"

I looked at them, thought for a moment, and shook my head.

They sighed and were a little disappointed.

"Why?" The one who is a little taller.

"It's not like I didn't hurt you when I was a child, how much sugar did I stuff you, I fed it for nothing!" Another shouted.

Shizun coughed lightly.

He raised his eyebrows: "What are you coughing up, I'm not your disciple, the little girl can't remember that I'm not allowed to be sad?" ”

"What are you yelling about!" The tall man shouted, "Show the girl." ”

"Haven't you seen it all the other days, dead horses are live horses, I'll go get the guys," he turned and muttered, "These methods would have been used long ago if they could have been useful, and it would have been too late until now." ”

"Shut up! Say less! The tall man rebuked and looked at me, "Come, girl, go and lie down there." ”

I looked at Shizun, who walked over and said to me, "Let's go." ”

There is a square pond in the hall, there is a white jade platform next to the pond, it is very short but very big, the shape is irregular, it seems to be a simple carved jade, there are two layers up and down, a large piece in the middle is hollow, scattered with medicinal incense.

There is a tall wooden case on the south side of the jade platform, and there is a bronze square tripod on the top, and the moon Luo Xianglu continues to gush down in the tripod, infiltrates into the hollow place of the jade platform, and then flows into the pond from the other side.

I took off my cloak and lay down on the jade platform, and the master took a white silk to cover my eyes, and said, "It will hurt a little at first, but you must remember not to sleep." ”

I nodded, "Okay." ”

I lay quietly as I lay quietly, and my viscera seemed to stir in my abdomen, and the pain came and became more and more intense, but at the same time the sleepiness became more and more intense.

I tried to hold my mind, and opened my eyes wide under the white silk, and through the white silk, the sky above my body was bright, as if there was a jade paved with stars, moving in the air.

The pain in my body gradually dissipated, but my sleepiness did not fade but increased, I clenched my fists, inserted my fingers in the palms, and forcibly held my eyelids, but in the end it backfired, and I fell back into the darkness. (To be continued.) )