Chapter 443: Final Chapter + Epilogue
An Lan felt an indescribable pain in her heart, but she didn't know whether it was for him, or for herself, or for Cui Wenjun, or for Granny An...... At that moment, many people and many things flashed through her mind.
She never regretted meeting him, following him, and falling in love with him.
These things have never shaken her inner pursuit.
If she had to do it all over again, she would know that she would just as much as she would fall in love with him.
After a long time, An Lan turned around and raised her face: "Sir, everything has been calculated, including letting my fragrance blend into Mr.'s fragrance, did Mr. not expect that I would definitely agree from the beginning." β
Jing Yan lowered his eyes and looked at her, his eyes were clear and gentle: "I'm not a prophet, I can't do anything in advance, I just ...... It's not impossible to think so. As he said this, he brushed the hair from her face and ran his fingers over her cheeks, "That's right, everything I do is to make your fragrance melt into mine." If you don't want this time, I won't force it, but there will be a next time, because only here is the end of this matter. β
Only when the two have the same mind, and both parties are willing to put everything they have into each other's hands, can their incense realm achieve perfect integration, and he can smoothly cross Nirvana to her incense realm. And he is incomparable to her in terms of strength and experience, plus she knows where the door of her fragrance realm is from the beginning, so even if both sides can affect this fusion fragrance realm at the moment, the real control is actually in his hands.
In the hands of whoever controls it, the power of life and death is in whom's hands.
He looked at her dark eyes and couldn't help but raise his hand and caress the tail of her brow.
She was a jewel in the first place, and unfortunately she was dusted. Fortunately, it bloomed in his hands with a dazzling brilliance, and this brilliance even fell in love with him.
The movements of his fingertips were gentle, as if he was clearing his mind, he had spent so much effort, waited for so long, played such a big game of chess, and pulled the entire Changxiang Hall to stage such a life and death drama together. Do it all. Finally achieved his goal, and Nirvana could be lifted.
She was cultivated by him, and only she could merge with his fragrance. It's his perfect stand-in.
But, ironically, to kill her, you must first fall in love with her. If you want her sincerity, you must give your sincerity.
He knew it from the start. This love cannot be faked, the opportunity is in front of you, and there is no choice.
So, want to live. You have to crush your heart first.
An Lan frowned slightly, Jing Yan's fingertips gently smoothed her eyebrows, and her voice was low. In a soft tone, "You already feel the power of Nirvana. β
An Lan nodded, the scorching sensation was not in the body. But in the heart, in the depths of the soul, it is a force that is violent, raging, uncontrollable, and can burn everything.
"What does the gentleman want to do?" It was only now that she finally understood that he had faced such a threat after so many years. She felt very uncomfortable, and the sour, painful feeling filled her heart to the brim.
Jing Yan said: "If you want to dissolve Nirvana, you can only let it burn." β
However, Nirvana does not come from their incense, Nirvana is an invading thing, so if it is allowed to burn, it is tantamount to suicide. Therefore, the only way is to merge one's incense with his incense, so that he can cross Nirvana, and then he can truly get out. It's just that the nirvana that has been crossed over will no longer be controlled, and will definitely come like a fire from heaven and directly burn everything. The one who inherits Nirvana cannot survive unless he can endure the burning of the heavenly fire.
The reason why Jing Yan agreed to give a part of Nirvana to Bai Guanghan back then was because Bai Guanghan assured him that he would be able to bear it, and he had almost lost his sense of autonomy at that time, so he obeyed Bai Guanghan's wishes, he thought that Bai Guanghan could bear it, but he didn't think about it......
He said all this slowly, without hiding a trace.
An Lan was stunned for a long time, lowered her eyes, a little overwhelmed, and only raised her eyes after a while, looking at him, her face was slightly pale, but she didn't say much, just waiting for his decision.
The immature face is calm and inappropriate for age, and the trust is distressing.
Jing Yan looked at her silently for a long time, then shook his head lightly and smiled, and the smile made the black hair and handsome face more and more noble.
He pinched her face: "Don't be nervous, I said that before this, there is an appointment for one day and one night." β
An Lan shook her head: "In the current situation, I'm afraid I can't trap Mr." β
If the fragrance realm is not fused, she can still cover the "door", but the fragrance realm is fused, and she is inexperienced, if she is serious, she really can't trap him.
"Well, things have changed, so there's no need for you to trap me for a day and a night." Jing Yan paused before saying, "But I'll give you a day and a night." β
"Why?" An Lan looked at him steadily, now that the incense realm had been fused and he had real control, he could completely cross Nirvana into her incense realm immediately, and then get out.
Jing Yan said softly: "Give you a chance." β
Your choice is my choice.
One day and one night, one life and one life, are you willing to immerse yourself in the happiness of incense, or are you willing to wake up and face the cruelty, pain, sadness, and eternal loneliness of the high places.
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"I heard that the bride is not only a great beauty, but also a famous talented woman, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting."
"The son of the Bai Mansion is also a dragon and phoenix, that is a person who is praised even by the saints, if it weren't for the fact that the two of them have been married since childhood, the threshold of the Bai family will not know how much it will be flattened."
"It's really a good match, a talented woman."
"Congratulations, congratulations!"
"Hurry up, it's time to worship the church!"
Since she got off the sedan chair, the surrounding firecrackers and the sound of congratulations are endless, and the figure is dangling, noisy, hijab blocking the view, she can't see anything clearly, after stepping into the white mansion, she began to get dizzy, fortunately, there is a happy lady all the way to go inside, but she is still a little panicked in her heart, and the maids around her don't know where to go. The White Mansion is very large, and after she entered through the main entrance, she didn't know how many thresholds she had crossed. An Lan felt that she was getting more and more nervous, and when Xi Niang asked her to stop, her hands were already sweating. It was snowing lightly today, but she was sweating.
The bride whispered in her ear: "It's time to visit the church, don't be nervous, the bride, the groom is already by your side." β
An Lan couldn't help but turn her head slightly, but she only saw a hem of her clothes, and the boots under the hem, which was equivalent to seeing nothing. But maybe he knows that this person is his husband. After that glance, her heart couldn't help beating a little faster, and her face was a little hotter.
I have always heard that the son of the Bai family can be civil and martial. is the dragon and phoenix among people, although the two have been married since childhood, but she has never had the opportunity to see each other, and she doesn't know what she was born like. Is it really as good as outsiders say?
I thought about it for a while, until I sat down in my new room. The bridegroom was about to lift his hood when she came back to her senses. Then, in the next moment, the skull was lifted, and she suddenly felt her eyes light up. Subconsciously squinted slightly, but immediately opened his eyes wide.
The man standing in front of her was long and tall. The black hair is handsome, and he holds a joy scale in his hand. He looked at her with a smile in his eyes.
And she actually had a feeling of dΓ©jΓ vu, a man she had never seen before.
"The groom is too handsome, and the bride is stunned." Someone laughed.
When she came back to her senses, her whole face suddenly turned red, all the way to her ears, and the rouge couldn't cover it.
There was a kind laugh in the room, and he drank wine with her, and her heart seemed to be filled with honey, and she couldn't help but look at him secretly, as if she couldn't get enough of it. Even at night, when she was in his arms, she didn't feel a trace of strangeness or fear, as if they had always been so close.
She was both happy and shy, and secretly asked him: "Does the husband believe in God-given good fate?" β
He stroked her hair and kissed her lightly between her eyebrows, "Why do you ask this?" β
She was full of joy, hugged him tentatively, and then slowly tightened her arms, buried her face in his chest, and her voice contained honey: "I think my husband and I are a godsend." β
He paused the hand on her shoulder, then continued to caress her gently, hugging her tightly.
The days after getting married were extremely sweet, her descendants respected her, her in-laws loved her, and her husband regarded her as a treasure. A year later, she gave birth to her eldest son, and the whole house was full of joy, but all the women who came to congratulate her were both envious and jealous of her.
This kind of happiness is like a dream.
She often sighed in front of him, and he looked at her with a smile and said nothing.
After the child turned two years old, she gave birth to another daughter, and the relatives and friends who came to congratulate her said that she was a blessing from the previous life, and that she had such good luck in this life. The husband's family is prominent, the in-laws are reasonable, the husband is handsome and motivated, the two have never blushed, and now they have both children, God simply puts all the things that women in the world envy on her.
An Lan smiled and said a few words modestly, but for some reason, she always felt that the truth was not as good as they said, but she wanted to say a few unsatisfactory words, but she found that she really had nothing to complain about. However, what is the feeling of such a decline that is inexplicably born in my heart? She couldn't find the reason, and she didn't dare to tell her husband, so she could only leave this inexplicable emotion behind.
However, since this consciousness was born, it has been popping out from time to time, making her flustered.
The son and daughter grew up slowly, and the two children almost never let her worry about it, and sometimes they were so well-behaved that she couldn't believe it, she wondered if she was ...... However, thinking of this, she suddenly paused. It was only at this time that she vaguely noticed that she seemed to have vague memories of her childhood, and even her memories of her mother's family. Although she tried her best to think about it, some pictures would appear in her mind, but she felt that those pictures had nothing to do with her, and those beautiful and pampered times seemed to be fake.
She suddenly panicked, and didn't know how she could have such a rebellious idea, so when her husband came back, she couldn't help but talk to him.
After listening to this, the smile on his face faded a little, and after a moment of silence, he pulled her into his arms and gently comforted: "It's all too tired to take care of the child, and if you think about it, if your father-in-law and mother-in-law know, you won't be sad." β
"I, I don't know how to ......," she raised her face in his arms, "Husband, do you think it's bad for me to do this?" β
"How so." He pinched her cheek slightly, but his tone was a little self-reproachful, "It's not your fault, it's that I didn't take care of you." β
She looked at him for a while, and suddenly asked, "Why is my husband so good to me?" β
He smiled: "You are my wife, who should be good if you are not good to you?" β
She laughed along. However, the feeling in her heart still lingered, and she didn't know what was wrong with her. Tomorrow has been living such a happy life, but she always feels a little panicked in her heart, feels that it shouldn't be like this, feels that everything in front of her is not real, and feels that she seems to have ignored something. Forgot something.
He also seemed to notice that something was wrong with her. But he didn't say anything, just watched her silently from the side when she wasn't paying attention.
A day and a night are coming to an end. Nirvana is also about to be out of control, and he needs someone to take over the power of destruction.
He looked at her, staring deeply.
An Lan, if you are really satisfied with such a life. I'll keep you here forever.
But if you don't care. You have to wake up, then......
By the time he reached his eightieth birthday, his health was no longer good, and she had to go to the temple to pray for him. So I went out early in the morning.
It's just that when she knelt down in front of the Buddha and held incense to make a vow, she looked at it high above. The bodhisattva of great compassion watched the curls float up. The cigarettes were scattered, and tears suddenly welled up in her eyes.
He lay on the bed waiting for her, he knew that she was coming back soon, and he knew that he was about to lose his hand.
After coughing a few times, he heard footsteps, so he turned his head, and finally saw her pushing open the door, holding an incense burner in her hand, and walking in with tears in her eyes. She was already gray-haired, but as her footsteps got closer and closer, she became younger and younger, her silver hair changed her black hair, the wrinkles on her face slowly disappeared, her eyes became bright again, and she finally returned to her twenty-eighth year.
And he, too, sat up from the bed, like her, time went against the flow of time.
Those past days are really like a dream, the servants have disappeared, the mansion of Baifu has disappeared, the well-behaved and obedient children have disappeared, and it has snowed heavily in Chang'an City, and it has covered the entire capital in the blink of an eye.
"Sir!" An Lan looked at him with tears in her eyes, she didn't need him to explain, she already vaguely understood something.
What she was holding in her hand was the fox incense burner he had given her.
He glanced at it, his eyes were soft, and he sighed a little: "I have cleared the obstacles ahead for you, I ......"
The sky suddenly turned scarlet, the clouds rolled, and a raging fire broke out in an instant.
Jing Yan sighed secretly, finally, he couldn't hold on any longer.
In that incense realm just now, if An Lan is satisfied with this, her incense realm world will be burned by the nirvana he crossed, and his incense realm will always leave her figure.
But she chose to wake up, and he also felt gratified, the girl he chose had both clear eyes and a strong and persistent heart.
An Lan ran towards him, but for some reason, he couldn't get close to him, so he could only stop a foot away from him. She watched in shock as he bathed in fire, she knelt down in disbelief and burst into tears: "I woke up, not for this ......"
"Silly girl, there is no way to have the best of both worlds in this matter." Jing Yan looked at her, the tongue of fire spread on his body, but he didn't seem to feel pain, and there was no scorch on his body, it was just disappearing little by little, but his voice was still gentle and clear, with a bit of nostalgia, "Although Baili Ling is dead and Xie Yun is also useless, the road left to you is not easy to walk." Even if Liu Xuanji will not embarrass you, in the face of interests, the palace behind her will not give up easily. There are also the Fang family and the Xie family, after all, they are big clans rooted in the capital, you have to deal with it carefully, Jingchen will help you. β
An Lan's tears had already blurred her eyes, and she couldn't cry: "It shouldn't be like this......"
"This incense has taken a lot of toll on you, you should have slept for a few days, and when you wake up, I'm gone. You don't need to look for me, just say to the outside world that I went out to travel, when Bai Guanghan took over the position of the Great Incense Master, Bai Ye was arranged like this, only in this way, those with bad intentions did not dare to act rashly. β
An Lan shook her head desperately, trying to stand up, but her knees were stiff from the snow, and she couldn't use her strength for a while.
As she struggled in the snow, he suddenly approached, and before she could lift her face, he leaned down and kissed her lightly on the forehead, leaving a final low sigh: "I'm sorry, I love you." β
Sorry to leave you behind.
I'm sorry, I'm leaving.
I'm sorry......
There are so many things that are too late to say, and so many things that are not at ease.
The love is too short, the longing is too long, and when you turn around, you will be in heaven and on earth.
An Lan was stunned. Watching him disappear little by little, his heart was broken little by little.
The life in the incense realm is fake, but it is not true!
The whole world was burning, and this snowy region seemed to have completely turned into purgatory, but the ubiquitous tongue of fire didn't hurt her in the slightest, just left her alone and watched them burn. Keep destroying everything.
She didn't know about the raging fire that seemed to come out of hell. How long had it burned, and when her tears had dried up, those tongues of fire gradually extinguished. The snowy region disappeared, and the prosperous Chang'an City showed its true face again, but the person was no longer there, leaving only the aftermath. It's real, it's real.
Use my body in exchange for your long-cherished wish to come true.
Favorite people. The road is long, and the treasure is important.
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By the time she woke up, it was already seven days later.
The moment she opened her eyes, she saw the morning light streaming in through the window lattice. Shine on the lotus incense burner with light smoke, shine the warm incense all over the room, and shine on the cold all over the room.
She slowly sat up from the bed. Waiting for that Tsinghua peerless figure, but she knew. Can't wait any longer.
It's only been a few days, but it's like a world away.
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γEpilogueγ
An Lan became the new Great Incense Master of the Tianshu Palace, and Bai Guanghan stepped down to travel to the sea.
This is the sound released by the Tianshu Palace, and it is also arranged by Jing Yan a long time ago.
Xie Yun has been abolished, Fang Wenjian, Baili Ling, and Cui Wenjun have fallen one after another, on the surface, this is to give An Lan a chance to breathe and grow, but in fact, the pattern of Changxiang Hall will also change unpredictably.
Jingchen brought back the people left by Jing Yan as promised, and the seven great incense halls suddenly lost four great incense masters, and one of them was just a breath, and it was impossible for him to come forward to take charge, so there were so many things that people had no clue.
And even if An Lan has Jingchen's help, as the new Great Incense Master, for the sake of the Tianshu Palace, she still has to make her own ideas and decisions.
However, she seems to have a hard time adjusting to this identity, she can't accept that the person is really no longer there, really dead. Since she woke up, she had never seen him again, not even his body, and no matter how much she tried to ask anyone about him, it was as if he had really disappeared, just like the white night of the year.
An Qiu stayed, sorted out the Tianshu Hall one thing after another, and put it in front of An Lan, forcing her to face it, forcing her to be busy, and not letting her have time to be emotionally sad.
Maybe time is really the best healing medicine, and a year later, she really didn't talk about that person anymore.
Two years later, all the thirteen incense courtyards under His Highness Tianshu returned to normal, and the personnel gradually stabilized.
Three years later, the Tianshu Hall set up an incense banquet, and the invitations with her great incense master's seal were all things that the nobles of Chang'an competed for.
Four years later, Jing Gong passed away, and Jing Yangongzi could not return because he went to sea to do business, so she kept vigil for seven nights.
When Jing Gong was dying, he found a nephew to come over to her and ask her to take care of her, implying that this young man was the new successor of Jing Fu. She looked at the boy, was silent for a moment, and nodded in response.
A year after Jing Gong's death, An Qiu came to say goodbye to her, because it was a little sudden, An Lan couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and only asked after a while: "Is there something to go out to do?" β
Anqiu shook his head: "You have already sat in this position, I should also leave." β
An Lan was silent for a while, and then said, "Tianshu Hall still needs you ......"
"I will stay at the beginning, but I promised Ah Jun to take care of you." Anqiu shook his head slightly, over the years, a few more laugh lines have been added to the corners of his eyes, making his whole person look more elegant, "Now that you can take care of yourself, I should also go out for a walk." β
Will it be back?
She wanted to ask, but in the end she didn't ask the question.
It was only as he was leaving that she knelt behind him and kowtowed slightly.
After hearing the news from Jingchen, the golden finch hurriedly ran over to find An Lan, and happened to see the scene where An Lan knelt down and kowtowed. The sparrow's tears suddenly burst out of her eyes, and after An Lan stood up, she walked over, stood silently beside her, and after a while, she opened her hands and hugged her, and said in a nasal voice: "You still have me!" β
An Lan smiled lightly, but the smile only stayed on her lips for a moment before disappearing.
"Why are you here?" An Lan patted the golden finch on the shoulder, "I can't talk to you more today, I'll have to go out later." β
After so many years, it seems that the goldfinch can always treat her.
"Ah, where are you going?" The goldfinch let go of her as she spoke, and the tears were contained, "Is there a feast?" β
An Lan shook her head and said lightly: "The day after tomorrow is Jinggong's death day, but I have something to do tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, so I will go to worship today." β
"Go now?"
"Hmm."
When the golden finch returned to Jingchen, her eyes were still a little red, and Jingchen asked her what was wrong, she couldn't help but shed a few more tears, and cried: "An Lan is becoming more and more like that person!" β
Jingchen was a little confused: "Like whom?" β
The goldfinch wiped his tears and gritted his teeth and said, "Bai Guanghan!" β
Over the years, An Lan no longer mentions him, but whenever she sees An Lan alone, Jinque always feels that she sees Bai Guanghan's shadow from An Lan, so cold, lonely, and lonely to the bone.
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After burning the paper, putting on the incense, and standing in front of the Jing Cemetery for a while, she turned to leave, and her carriage stopped on the side of the road.
The road was very deserted, but when she was about to get into the carriage, she saw a green canopy carriage coming from the front, and she only thought that a relative of Jingfu had also come to worship in advance, and she didn't pay attention. It was only when her carriage came to the intersection and was about to turn that she suddenly lifted the curtain and glanced at the place where she had left. Just when she saw the carriage stop and someone got out of the carriage, it was only because there were trees blocking it, and she only saw the lower half of the person's body, which was a blue and white robe. Soon, the carriage turned a corner, and she slowly lowered the curtain and closed her eyes, but for some reason, the scene just now lingered in her mind. So when the carriage was about to return to Dayan Mountain, she suddenly stopped the carriage and ordered the palace attendant who came out with her to go back and see who the people in the carriage were.
After waiting for more than an hour, the attendant finally returned.
"The subordinate used to be, and the man has left."
"Did you see the incense, candles, paper money, and who are you going to worship?"
"It's to worship Jinggong."
An Lan's heart jumped inexplicably, and the palace attendant continued: "My subordinates asked a lot of people along the way, and I heard that the owner of the car seemed to be a merchant and opened an incense shop in Chang'an City. β
"Do you know the address?"
The attendant nodded.
An Lan immediately ordered the carriage to turn around, and when it arrived in Chang'an City, it was already afternoon, and there were many fewer pedestrians on the street, and when the carriage came to the incense shop, there was not even a figure in the incense shop.
An Lan got out of the carriage and walked into the shop, she didn't know what she was doing here.
After looking around the shop, I saw that there was a small door in the shop, as if there was a courtyard inside. The door was open, and a half-bean-green bamboo leaf curtain hung on the door.
She walked towards it, but as soon as she reached the door, she saw a man coming from behind the door, and she paused, and her eyelids drooped slightly, and she saw the hem of his blue and white robe on the other side of the threshold, under the curtain.
It was really the person in the carriage, she raised her eyes, he also lifted the curtain, the afternoon sun shone from the other side of the yard, he bathed in the warm sunshine, looked at her, and smiled: "Is the girl here to find someone, or to buy incense?" β
A lot of stories, as if this is how they began.
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