At dusk, we left the incense market in Fulousha and returned with a full load.

Twenty loads of Ahmad Xiang and Humble Belo Xiang bought almost the entire inventory of the royal city.

On the way out of the city, Miss Tian Lu made a special trip to the flower garden of the Babylon Sanssouci Incense Society.

When she returned, she already had a colorful wreath woven from the Forget Worry flower on her head, which was beautiful!

It is simply a worry-free fairy who fell into the world from the nine-day Brahma realm, obviously lonely and helpless, but can live like a flower.

After returning to the camp, Tian Lu changed his usual routine and hid in the tent to burn incense.

Carrying her stoneware incense burner in her arms and a rattan basket full of flowers and fruits, she led me to the stone hill next to the camp.

This cylindrical pottery is also the only gift she took away from her hometown of Dali Luochuan.

The stone platform on the top of the mountain is facing the water of the long river, and the wine is in fashion, and all the incense clouds will go with the wind.

The incense used by Tianlu today is the humble bello incense that we just bought.

The Kushan woman reverently lit incense with fire velvet, and then poured all the flowers and fruits into the incense burner.

Fortunately, the river breeze was strong, and without the swaying of the fan, these magic fruits quickly spontaneously combusted.

The blue-gray fragrant clouds drifted away, and all our bodies and minds were bathed in boundless illusions.

Tian Lu and I sat facing each other, and in a trance, we could see that she had changed into a plain silk summer skirt and stepped on a pair of grass shoes that had just returned from the royal city.

Cardamom smeared faces, sandalwood lips, and the colorful crown of forgetful flowers have wilted a little in the dusk sunset.

"Big brother, do you believe in the afterlife?"

When my soul was about to travel through the mountains and seas of Kyushu under the guidance of the incense of the god of forgetfulness, a woman's voice seemed to come from the ground.

It's very similar to Duo'er's timbre, and when I look at it, it's clear that Tian Lu is talking to me again.

"Believe, believe in the Buddha for my brother, believe in cause and effect, and of course believe in the afterlife."

I hurriedly clasped my palms together and smiled, I was very surprised when the Tianlu girl learned such a pure Chinese language.

"Big brother, I just saw my afterlife." Tian Lu smiled ghostly.

"What will your afterlife look like?"

Until this time, I didn't realize that Tian Lu was about to run to her next life, and the magic fragrance of the Forget Worry Flower had completely lost my mind.

"Me! It became an unconcerned spirit snake and swam and swam to the south along the water of the long river! ”

Tian Lu sighed softly, his eyes were already misty.

"And then? Where did you go? ”

Thinking that Tian Lu was describing the scene in the fantasy world of forgetting worries to me, I asked as if I was fascinated.

The aroma around me is getting stronger and stronger, blending with the mist rising before dusk, making people wonder where to go.

"Later, I came to the sea in the south, and it took me a thousand years to reach the afterlife on the other side."

The voice was as ethereal as a dream, and it hadn't yet awakened me, the dreamer.

"The other side of the afterlife? Where is it? ”

I had fallen asleep slowly, but I saw that the water and the sky were all over the world, and my rootless soul was fluttering

I don't know where to go.

"At the foot of Qingcheng Mountain, by the Huanhua River. The brocade flowers of Shu bloom in the twilight of the east wind, and whose women are beginning to grow. Childe, we will meet again after the tenth generation. ”

In a trance, a woman from the Han family in her prime stepped on the clouds and was coming to me.

"Do'er!"

It took all my strength to gather the thoughts that were drifting, and I let out a loud cry to the sky, fully awakened from the slowly sinking sea of joy.

Miss Tian Lu was sitting cross-legged across from me, her face full of spring, her eyes flowing, and the fragrance of forgetting her worries made her beautiful and moving.

"Tian Lu, I just had a dream, the dream is very grotesque! I dreamed that you became a spirit snake, and your next life is the Huansha girl of our Han family, who lives at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain in Shudi! ”

I smiled apologetically at Tian Lu, forgetting worries and Qixiang is amazing!

It was still painful just now, and the blood was about to be drained.

After a burst of fragrant clouds, both of us have come to life, and our hearts are smooth and happy like fairies.

"Young master! Hahaha! ”

Tian Lu didn't understand my elegant language as he did in the illusion, but just smirked innocently and brightly.

Then he raised his legs and got up, holding the skirt of the plain yarn with both hands, dancing the crane dance of Beitianzhu, and happily ran towards the river under the mountain.

"Tian Lu! Tian Lu! Where are you going? ”

Forget the sorrow incense has lost my mind, and I didn't get up to chase her, but just sat where I was and called out to her.

"It's time to go to my next life!"

It was clearly the Yayan of a Han woman again, and the hair on my whole body instantly stood upside down.

"What do you say?"

I put my hand on the scabbard and rose to the ground, but it was too late, and the Tianlu girl had already run to the bank of the long river.

"Childe! Let me see what I look like when I turn into a spirit snake! Hahaha! ”

It's still the Oriental Yayan, I hear it clearly.

After saying that, the woman smiled back at me, and jumped into the river with a thud.

"Come on! Tian Lu jumped into the river! ”

I howled heartbreakingly, and rushed like an arrow to the river.

Night had fallen, and the river was pitch black, with the churning waves rolling south like the scales of a long serpent.

Faintly, a gray object could be seen floating on the water.

I hurried down the river and swam in the direction of the floating debris, as if I had grasped a life-saving straw.

However, the beauty has gone, and all she caught in her hand was the worry-forgetting wreath on Tian Lu's head.

After Uncle Su, Qin Chong, and all the young and old men heard my call, they all rushed out of their nests and ran to the river.

Without any command, they chased downstream along the riverbank.

Men were constantly jumping down the river, chasing any foreign objects floating on the river.

As a result, just like me, they all went home empty-handed.

We pursued all the way for more than thirty miles, and we didn't see the shadow of Tianlu girl.

The merciful water god in the long river of Tianzhu has taken this poor Kushan woman back to heaven

Finish.

"Tian Lu! Tian Lu! We have not treated you badly, so why kill ourselves! ”

"It's all my sin! I shouldn't take you to smoke the incense of forgetting worries, and forget worries in the middle and bottom of the poison cup! Compassionate Buddha, if you want to blame, accept me! With this poor Kushan woman, Hogana! ”

After midnight, there is no point in chasing down the river.

One by one, the exhausted people stood on the bank of the long river, sighing at the flowing water.

For the first time in my life, like a grieving mother-in-law, I knelt by the water's edge and howled with all my might.

At this time, Uncle Su, who was left behind in the camp, had already led his men and horses to come for reinforcements.

The clatter of horses' hooves and the faint sound of torches also broke the eternal silence of the long night by the river.

"Don't be sad, young master, let's go back. Miss Tianlu is an immortal among people, and we can't keep her after all. Ay! ”

Uncle Su picked me up, personally helped me onto the horse, and sighed sadly.

Qin Chong and Guo Helmet followed me closely and left respectively, for fear that I would not be able to think about it for a while and would go with Miss Tianlu.

"Uncle Su, Miss Tianlu died because of me, it's painful! I heard that Humble Belo Xiang can summon spirits, so burn them all to her. ”

After returning to the camp, I stepped off the horse and commanded Uncle Su.

"Okay, just do as the young master instructs. Qin Chong, you hurry up and take someone to the river to set up an altar! Liu Zhen'er, you are responsible for leading a few guys to burn incense for Miss Tianlu day and night! After the dawn, I went to the city to invite the monks of the Kaser Sega Monastery to do a transcendent ritual for Tianlu. Let the rest. ”

Uncle Su waved his hand tiredly, then turned around and went to his own tent.

When he came out again, he had two more skins in his hands.

"The young master will definitely not be able to sleep peacefully tonight, hehe. Let's go, let's go to the river, this old wine of Guishuang can relieve a thousand sorrows! ”

An old man like Uncle Su had already looked down on life and death, so he couldn't help but pull me to sit down on the bank of the long river.

Each person had a bag of old barley wine, listening to the sound of flowing water, and they were silent to each other until dawn.

"Young master, look, Miss Tianlu is back."

The early sun in the morning light slowly rose, and the mist in the four fields was filled, and Uncle Su suddenly pointed to my feet and smiled.

I looked down, but I saw a snake with the thickness of a bowl wrapped around the boulder on the bank on my right, hissing and spitting out a long letter to me.

"Mom!"

I instantly broke out in a cold sweat and jumped more than a foot away.

Seeing that I was frightened, the spirit snake also twisted its silver-gray body away from the bluestone and slowly swam away towards the depths of the long river.

I suddenly remembered yesterday's illusion, and I couldn't help but put my palms together and sang the Buddha verse reverently in the direction where the spirit snake disappeared.

In the fantasy world, the song of the Huansha Han girl like a clear spring still echoes in the ears.

At the foot of Qingcheng Mountain,

Huanhua Creek.

Shu brocade blooms in the east wind twilight,

Whose girl is just growing up.