The two of them climbed the stairs and walked for about two quarters of an hour, the mountain path became narrower and narrower, and there were clusters of weeds growing between the stones that paved the road, stumbling and holding robes, the seventh prince was panting, and his pace became heavier, and he actually reached out to hold Zhou Kongmu, but in fact, he pressed on Zhou Kongmu's shoulder. Zhou Kongmu had to mention: "Why don't you call the shadow guard again?" ”

The Seventh Prince shook his head.

After walking for about a cup of tea, a platform appeared in front of me, and the trail seemed to come to an end, and beyond that, there was no longer even a trail of long grass, and the mountain was steeper, and a very narrow mud path could be seen between the trees and vines, which only woodcutters could climb. The destination of the Seven Princes is only here on the platform.

This is a small piece of flat land formed by the recess of the mountain, someone used to pave the stone slabs, now they are all submerged in the weeds, only the shadow of some stone slabs can be seen in the grass, quite rough, it should be the countrymen themselves, not the official system.

The branches of the small tree stretched diagonally at the intersection of the platform, and the seventh prince bent down, just about to drill, Zhou Kongmu sighed, raised his hand to pull the branch to the side for him, and drilled over, but saw a pear tree in front of him like snow.

Under the pear blossom tree, there is a very small house, so small that it can only accommodate the knee, and it seems to be an ancestral hall in terms of shape.

There is also an incense burner at the door of the hall, which is wide and round, round and lovely, and the earth has replaced the incense ash, and the wild grass in it grows vigorously, and even blooms. The flower was red, only the size of a fingernail, as if a fairy made of blood had cried here, shed tears.

A narrow miscellaneous wooden sign on the door of the small ancestral hall, with moss-mottled on it, can barely recognize the three words on it: Pear Blossom Temple.

Is it a shrine for this pear tree? Perhaps the spirit of the pear tree has shown some miracles, cured someone's illness or something. The sick person set up an ancestral shrine for it, but then it didn't work again, so the incense became extinct?

Zhou Kongmu looked through the half-collapsed door. The door was too low to be seen, and two statues were faintly visible, both wearing scholars' robes. Why are there two seats, and they are scholars?

The Seventh Prince stood in front of the furnace, half sideways, his eyes left the pear tree, and turned to face the ancestral door. But it didn't go in either. Instead, he squatted down with his hands on his knees.

Zhou Kongmu couldn't help but squat down next to him as well.

Two people, like children squatting at the head of the village, looked into the door together.

From this angle, you can see the whole body of the two statues in the shrine. It's two young men. The craftsman's craftsmanship is not very good. Both of them looked dull, but it could still be seen that he was trying his best to show the weakness and handsomeness of these two people.

The ancestral door was broken like a monster, and its mouth opened wide in anger. The two of them were in it, and it was very strange and incongruous.

"I'll tell you a story." The Seven Princes said.

Zhou Kongmu listened.

"Once upon a time, there were two people who studied in the same academy and had a good relationship and became brothers. Then one of them was going home, and told the other that he had a sister at home and could marry him. The Seventh Prince said.

The beginning of this story is very similar to the story of the pair of butterflies in the play? Eighteen send-offs, Yingtai's younger brother is a man dressed as a woman, and Xu's sister is herself. But her father betrothed her to someone else. The two of them couldn't get married, and they were very sad, and they both died and turned into butterflies.

Everyone is familiar with the story, why did the Seventh Prince mention it here, and his throat choked, he couldn't say it?

The Seventh Prince glanced at Zhou Kongmu, which meant: "What did you think of?" ”

Zhou Kongmu said carefully: "Is it what the prince said, that stupid brother didn't find out that the righteous brother was actually a girl, and he went to propose marriage too late, so he missed it...... Marriage? ”

He swallowed the words on his head again. Is the sadness on the face of the Seventh Prince too contagious? Zhou Kongmu felt that his heart was also blocked, and he was very uncomfortable.

The wind shook so that Konoha whimpered, and Zhou Kongmu squatted beside the Seventh Prince, looking at the old and crude double statue in the shadow of the broken ancestral hall, and he looked so sad that he was blurred.

The Seventh Prince finally said, "No. ”

Zhou Kongmu waited.

"They," the Seventh Lord said, pointing to the pair of statues, "they are all men. ”

It looks like it is.

"They became brothers in school, and the younger brother said that he would marry his sister to the senior brother, and the senior brother was very happy, the younger sister was born so beautiful, and she looked like the younger brother, Lan Xinhui was good, everything was good, but after getting married, the senior brother found out that it was not right. No matter how beautiful and beautiful it is, no matter how similar it is, if it's not that person, it's not right. It turned out that he wanted that person. This discovery is so ridiculous that he can't say it, but he can only be cold to his wife. His wife didn't know what she had done wrong, she was sad and wronged, and the junior brother knew about it, and came forward for her sister to question the senior brother. The senior brother was forced to tell the truth, and the senior brother was surprised and angry, and inconsiderate, but then ......"

"Huh?" Zhou Kongmu furrowed his eyebrows. It can't be that the junior brother changed his mind, stayed with the senior brother, and left the younger sister aside, right? It is ridiculous to have a lover who eventually becomes a dependent.

Later, the younger brother also got married and was going to get married. Suddenly, he was faced with the same problem as a senior brother. He only knew that some feelings really can't be suppressed with reason, and if you can't help it, there's just no way. The Seventh Prince said very lightly and quickly, "There is really no way, the two of them will die together." ”

The leaves swayed, the dust in the sunlight fluttered like countless small flying insects, and the light and shadow swayed through the leaky roof on the faces of the statues in the ancestral hall, like a mysterious veil, covering up the rough craftsmanship of the craftsmen, as if they wanted to look around, stand up from the dust seat, and tell the injustice of their past lives. Zhou Kongmu didn't know why his hair stood on end, and his body was cold: "They died here?" ”

"Yes. The younger brother became depressed and sick, and the senior brother visited him. At that time, others were also a little aware of the problem between them. In the school, in the army, there are no women, comrades, Tongze, and the relationship is good to solve each other, and everyone understands it, but like them, it's not normal, for example, the mother loves her child, and she loves her child so much that she doesn't let her child marry someone else, it's disgusting. Among classmates, it's terrible to love so much that you can't marry someone else. If someone wants to stop this terrible thing from going on, they won't let them meet. Somehow, the senior brother still carried the junior brother out, and when others found them, they were here together and died. The Seventh Prince smiled strangely, "The parents of both sides were angry, saying that it was too embarrassing, and they wanted to destroy the corpse or something, and they dreamed that two people would join hands to fight indiscriminately, and they were frightened, so they buried all the bodies of the two here." Others were afraid that these two people would make a mistake, so they made a word hall to comfort them, but then they didn't make a mistake after all, and this place was deserted. ”

There is no woman dressed as a man, no butterfly. The story is rudimentary and too cold to be a story. But he was the previous life of the Seventh Prince.

The Seventh Prince has always vaguely remembered that he was in a room. That room had a nicely carved window. The carving is quiet and soft. The sun poured in from there, warm. He felt that the whole world was warm. Only he is cold. He was going to be melted away by the whole world and die quietly and politely.

There was a young woman sitting on the edge of the bed, very sad, very sad. He really cared about her, and she really cared about him. But in this world, they can't stand side by side. What a pity. He gave her the treasure of his life, and he himself died.

"Sister, don't be sad." He wanted to persuade her like this, but he couldn't.

Then she went out.

Then a man came in. It's weird, he can't remember his face. Can't think of it anyway. Maybe as heroic and ruthless as Cloud Sword? Maybe as helpless and gentle as Dongxun? Maybe as delicate and delicate as a butterfly laughing flower? It may even be, just like Zhou Kongmu, an ordinary person with a rough face, but at a certain time, it was embedded in his life, and he couldn't pull it out.

In this life, the Seventh Prince is in such a completely hopeless mood, collecting fragments similar to those in his previous life, but he also knows in his heart that he is afraid that person will never be able to find it again.

One by one, falling into the plum blossoms, they are gone.

When the soul falls, it will not be returned.

In the previous life, the sun fell on the window lattice, no one came in to light the lamp, and the room was gracefully dark. Senior brother comes in. The Seventh Prince in his previous life, that junior, couldn't see him at all, and knew that he was coming, so he laughed. If you know it's inappropriate, you still have to laugh. I knew that it was inappropriate, but I just said to my senior brother, "It's okay to take me out." ”

They didn't even ask him "if it was good", as if they knew that they didn't have time to ask "if it was good" anymore.

The senior brother picked up the seventh prince and walked out.

The Seventh Prince felt like a piece of snow. His body couldn't hold it anymore. But he said, "Let's go to a place where we can't see anyone else." ”

Leaving the warm and steady room, leaving the decoction at your fingertips, the Seventh Prince will die, right? But since he had begged, the senior brother took him and left, to go to a remote place, and went all the way up the hill to the foot of the pear tree, and there was no way. It's early spring, and it's so cold. The Seventh Prince felt like a spider, he couldn't tell how many hands and feet were on the outside, all frozen, only the belly, which was attached to the senior brother, and there was heating. And the senior brother never left him behind.

The footsteps stopped, and the seventh prince raised his eyes and saw a pear blossom tree, blooming like snow. The senior brother sat down there, afraid that the Seventh Prince would be cold, so he held him in his arms. The Seventh Prince still got cold a little bit, and he died if he got cold. I'm not afraid, I'm just sorry.

But before he really died, something very hot warmed him up, and he opened his eyes and saw that his senior brother had slit his wrist and warmed him with blood. It turned out that when he was brought out, this person was already ready to die with him, right? And so they died together.

The Seventh Prince couldn't describe this mood anymore. (To be continued......)