Chapter 22: Progress in Huangquan
There was nothing in this Huangquan village, and the two of them walked for most of the day, only seeing a few scattered houses along the way, but after knocking on the door, they found that there were no residents among them, and the houses were already full of dust. It was not easy to see a child in it, but the man was holding firewood, and when he saw them, he hurriedly ran away, and then hid in the house, and did not open the door no matter how they screamed.
Su Jue took a step back, looking like he was about to kick the door open.
"What are you doing? We scared him. β
"I want him to tell me the whereabouts of Su Yelou. β
"He's just a child, why are you so anxious? Xiao Zhi said, there have been no outsiders here for many years, this kid should be afraid of life, don't force him anymore." β
Hearing this person say this, Su Jue had no choice but to give up.
"Where is the Xiao Zhi you are talking about?"
"I remember it was around here. Yue Qianlong looked around again, and before she could remember, there was a shout behind her.
"Chitaki?"
She turned her head and saw a young man with a medicine basket standing not far away.
"Xiao Zhi!" Yue Qianlong raised his hand happily and hurriedly greeted him.
As soon as the young man saw them coming, he quickly covered most of his face with his sleeves, and it could be seen from his forehead that this person's face was badly damaged, and the scars were stacked on top of each other, and it looked terrible.
"Why are you back again?"
"It's a long story, let's go back first. β
After returning home, Xiao Zhi made tea for them, and put on a mask himself, only showing his two eyes, he sat around with a little simple pastry, and asked: "I heard that Yingfujun said that you have all left the netherworld, this time when you come back, could it be that you have encountered something difficult?"
"Brother Xiao, we're here to find someone. β
"Looking for someone in this Huangquan Village?"
Yue Qianlong glanced at Su Jue, and it was not easy to answer by himself.
"Have you heard of Su Yelou?"
"Su Yelou......" Xiao Zhi muttered the name, and shook his head again: "I've never heard it here." β
How is this possible?!Could it be that Yan Jun Chiling is lying to him?
However, no one in Huangquan Village has a common name, and maybe he won't be called by that name when he comes. β
Su Jue ignited a glimmer of hope and asked, "Then who live here?"
"In addition to me, there are three people in the village, an old man, a woman, and a child. β
Woman, old man, child...... No, no, none of these are true.
"When they arrive in Huangquan Village, will they change their appearance and body shape? For example, will this young man become a child, or will he become an old man?"
"According to Fujun's statement, no, what is generally what it looks like before death, what it is like when you arrive in this Huangquan Village. β
In this way, those three people are definitely not Su Yelou.
Suddenly, Su Jue looked up at the person in front of him, "Can you take off the mask?"
"Brother Su, what is this going to do?"
Su Jue accentuated his tone again and said, "Please take off your mask!"
Since this person is so resolute, Xiao Zhi is not easy to refuse.
"So, the two of you may be frightened. β
Xiao Zhi slowly took off his mask, and sure enough, all he revealed was a scarred face, and he couldn't see his previous appearance at all.
"Why is this happening?"
Xiao Zhi was slightly startled, he had clearly told Su Jue before, had this person forgotten?
Seeing Xiao Zhi's doubts, Yue Qianlong only explained: "Ah Jue was injured before, and after waking up, he had forgotten the past, including the days of the netherworld. β
Xiao Zhi said, "I see", and then explained: "The people who were brought to Huangquan Village were all people who did not want to reincarnate and did not want to cross the Nai He Bridge, and in the Netherworld every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, the gate to the Netherworld in Huangquan Village will be opened, and we will be taken to the Nai He Bridge again, and we will be asked again if we are willing to reincarnate, if we don't want to, the scars on our face and body will be one more point, and then our memories of our previous life will be one less point, and by now, I don't remember the events of my previous life at all." β
Don't remember? Su Jue hurriedly asked, "Then do you remember how long you have been here?"
How long have you been here?Xiao Zhi immediately replied, "If you count it according to the time of the Netherworld, it is four thousand seven hundred and eighty-two years. β
"Why do you remember so clearly?"
"This is simple, how many scars on this body are how many years I have been in Huangquan Village, although I don't remember the events of my previous life, but I will remember everything after coming to the Netherworld. β
Four thousand seven hundred and eighty-two years, in the human world, it is four thousand seven hundred and eighty-two daysβit is thirteen years, one month and six days, if you use the calendar of the Northern Regions to calculate, pushing forward thirteen years, one month and six days is the 14th day of January in the twenty-third year of Xiao Beihuang Yongjia, which happens to be the day when he and Su Yelou were hunted down......! Besides, this man said his surname was 'Xiao'!
"You...... Why don't you want to go to reincarnation?"
"Why?" Xiao Zhi thought about it again and said, "I don't remember, there are always some things I don't want to let go, but I can't remember what it is, it seems to be ...... It seems to be waiting for someone. β
Wait for someone?!Su Jue's eyes welled up with tears, and when he saw that the person was about to put on a mask, Su Jue stopped him with his hand.
"It's you. β
Xiao Zhi was confused, "What? What is Brother Su talking about?"
"It turns out that you are here, it turns out that we have met before, why didn't I recognize it!" Su Jue said and hugged this person tightly in his arms, and choked up: "Brother, Yelou...... I've finally found you, brother......"
Yue Qianlong on the side was also stunned, this person is Su Yelou? Su Jue's brother who has been looking for so many years is actually Xiao Zhi, who has helped them in the Netherworld and has been with them for more than half a year?! Yue Qianlong didn't come back to his senses for a while, this is really providential, and they actually returned to their original place after going around and around, as if Su Jue had told him before that he had a sense of familiarity and intimacy with Xiao Zhi, but neither of them thought about it in that direction.
"Brother, brother, Brother Su is calling me?"
Su Jue immediately knelt down on the ground, stroked the scars on his face and said: "It's Xiao Jue's mistake, it's my fault that I don't know people and was played with by Ye Sha, it's all my fault, if I had known and recognized you earlier...... You, you wouldn't have suffered so much here!"
Four thousand seven hundred and eighty-two years, that is, this person has a total of four thousand seven hundred and eighty-two years of Dao scars on his face and body, what is it that makes this person obsessed with this, what makes him unwilling to go to reincarnation again?
"Yesha clan?" By the way, Xiao Zhi suddenly remembered that a long time ago, he had given that person a dream on the Wangxiang Terrace to beware of the ambitions of the Ye Clan, but the dream was seriously distorted after the rotation of the Wangxiang Terrace, and he didn't know what Su Jue saw, speaking of this, Xiao Zhi hurriedly asked, "Did you help the Ye Clan open the Destruction Realm?"
"I ......," Su Jue had no choice but to nod.
"Oh no, it's bad, Yingfujun said that as soon as the destruction of the realm opens, the common people in the world will be doomed, and the underworld may also be affected by it, I wanted to dream of you and let you be careful, it seems that you still haven't understood. β
"Dream?"
Su Jue remembered the dream at this time, in which Xiao Zhi did appear, and Su Yan of Yue Qianlong, but it was all the situation of daily life, and he skipped it without caring about it.
"I, I thought that you were the one who fell asleep in the city of the day. β
Xiao Zhi also inquired a lot about Su Jue in the netherworld, he knew that Su Jue had been thinking about resurrecting his brother Su Yelou, but looking at the attitude of Ying Zhen and Cui Fujun, the person Su Jue struggled to rescue should not be his brother, but the great witch during the flood. But Xiao Zhi never expected that Su Jue would now recognize him as a brother.
"You, why do you think I'm your brother?"
"I asked Yan Jun Chiling, and he said that Su Yelou had died in the twenty-third year of Yongjia, and his name was not on the book of life and death and the reincarnation spectrum, and he was in this Huangquan Village except for wandering in the world. I learned some soul channeling techniques in Yesha, and if his soul was still in the world, I couldn't have felt it at all in the past ten years, so he must have arrived in this Huangquan Village. And the time when you arrived in the Netherworld happened to be the time when my brother died in the Netherworld, so who else could there be besides you Xiao Zhi?"
Xiao Zhi hesitated for half a minute and said, "What did you say about your brother, when he was alive?"
"I was originally an orphan, it was Xiao Beihuang who took me in and made me and Su Yelou's brother, the name 'Su Jue' was given by my brother, we have been living in the Beibi Mountains in the extreme north of the Northern Regions, and it was not until Xiao Beihuang died that he said his father-son relationship with you, and your identity as the prince of the Northern Regions. β
"Northland, Prince?"
"That's right, Su Yelou is the only son of the first emperor of the Northern Regions, and his original name was surnamed 'Xiao'. β
surnamed Xiao, Xiao Zhi vaguely remembered that when he first arrived in Huangquan Village, he carved the word 'Xiao surname' on the bedside, thinking that he was afraid that he would forget it, and left it, Xiao surname must not be forgotten.
"Xiao Beihuang originally called us back to let my brother inherit the throne, but I didn't expect the news to leak, his two younger brothers Xiao Qizhao and Xiao Yilu heard about it, and first falsely spread the edict of Xiao Beihuang to give the throne to Xiao Qizhao, and then chased and killed you and me with Yinqi guards, and it was also when I walked to the southern border of the Northern Regions that my brother ...... was killed by Xiao Qizhao and Xiao Yilu. β
"Northern Regions, Xiao Yilu, Xiao Qi Call?"
I don't have the slightest impression of the sluggish completion of these personnel.
"Brother Su, I'm afraid that if you make a mistake, you will be delayed. β
"It won't be wrong, it won't be wrong!" Su Jue hurriedly shook his hand again and said, "You call me Xiao Jue, you took this name, and this jade pendant ......"
Su Jue untied the jade from his waist and handed it to Xiao Zhi, "Do you remember this jade pendant? This is what Xiao Beihuang asked you to wear on your body, and he said that with this, you can prove your identity." β
Xiao Zhi looked at the jade stone and shook his head.
"It's okay, brother, it's okay if you don't remember, I'll save you out, I'll let you back to your old appearance and voice, and I'm going to get back everything that the Northern Regions owes you. β