(25) Death together
Zhao Yan was shocked, and was eager to spit out the five lotus petals that she regarded as the "elixir", but she couldn't spit it out anyway, the five breaths escaped in Zhao Yan's body, and for a while her left arm bulged out of an egg-sized bag, and for a while it seemed to be surging towards the atrium, as if she was going to break the meridians of her body, and she felt that it was difficult to breathe.
"Eat it!" Suddenly a voice sounded, Zhao Yan was shocked, at this time the body was extremely uncomfortable, but she couldn't care about being afraid, I don't know how this voice came from, and what she wanted to eat, she looked around in a panic, but saw that after the five lotus petals on the stone platform were removed, a light golden lotus pod was left.
This lotus canopy is very small, there is only one lotus seed in the heart of the lotus, and then look at the left and right where there are other things, thinking that there is only it, I really can't stand the pain in the body, and I didn't think that this lotus seed lotus petal is homologous, and then taking the lotus seed is very likely to aggravate her pain, and hurriedly reached out to take the lotus seed, who knew that Zhao Yan just touched the lotus canopy, the lotus room shrank, and the lotus popped out, which was falling into Zhao Yan's hands, Zhao Yan didn't think much about it, and swallowed the lotus seed in his mouth.
Fortunately! This lotus seed was in the stomach, and the breath really converged after a few swims in the body, and then disappeared without a trace, Zhao Yan only felt that the breath in the body gradually calmed down, and just wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but he was dizzy, fainted, and fell on the loose soil.
"It's been tens of thousands of years, and someone who is destined to find this lotus has finally been found!" A voice said tremblingly, unable to hide the excitement, this voice seemed to come from Zhao Yan's body, if Zhao Yan was awake at this time, she would definitely be frightened by this voice, but at this time, she and Liu Zhi had already fainted, where could they hear it, but they heard the voice again.
"This little girl is really bold, she dares to devour this immortal immortal lotus with a mortal body, if it weren't for this immortal to suppress these breaths with this lotus seed......" At this time, the voice has returned to normal, but it sounds extremely ethereal and wonderful, like the sound of heaven, like a woman's voice.
"It's the same as what I counted, it's a daughter's body, but this girl doesn't even have a little spiritual root, it's a pity that it's ......a pity" The voice started again, but there seemed to be a faint sadness in the tone, but just after saying "It's a pity, it's a pity" There was no sound anymore, and the silence in the cave returned to the previous one, only the sound of Zhao Yan and Liu Zhi's alternating breathing......
"Childe! Son! But the two of them were not far from the top of the cave, several people shouted in the mountain, these people were wearing black armor, all covered their faces with black iron masks, only the person who was the leader was covered with a black cloth in front of him, it was the master entourage that Liu Zhi brought to guide him before, they didn't dare to call "Your Majesty", for fear that others would hear a lot of things, so they only called "Childe" like this.
Earlier, Liu Zhi and the two sat by the fire, and their entourage did not dare to get too close to the emperor, so they only rested at a distance away from Liu Zhi and the others, and looked at the fire at Emperor Huan, but they didn't know that the two had left. It's just that the leader has the responsibility of protecting the emperor, and he doesn't dare to be careless, leaning on his own pair of spiritual ears, he can hear the sound of Emperor Huan and the two talking in the distance, and he can't let go of his heart, so he goes to greet him alone, but he doesn't see the two of them.
The leader was frightened and searched around, and heard the sound of footsteps in the forest in the distance, and under the detailed discernment, it was two people, and his heart was at ease, knowing that it was the emperor and the two, and wanted to follow forward to protect, but he thought about it, "Your Majesty didn't call us to go alone, I don't want us to follow, don't anger Long Yan!" He followed closely behind the footsteps of the two of them.
Just followed the time of a stick of incense, suddenly the footsteps of the two of them were silent, the leader of the black armor was surprised, he followed all the way, and the footsteps were only getting clearer and clearer, but at this moment it seemed to disappear out of thin air, he stabilized his mind and used the kung fu of distinguishing objects in his ears within a few miles of practice, but he only heard the sound of the nearby wind blowing the leaves and the sound of spring insects chirping, but where there was the sound of footsteps, he couldn't help but be horrified, and he couldn't care about the emperor's anger, and shouted "Your Majesty!" But no one answered, and when he shouted again, he heard a group of footsteps coming, and it turned out to be one of his subordinates.
"What's wrong, Commander Cui? Is something wrong with Your Majesty! In the blink of an eye, one of the black-armored people asked, these people were all wearing the same black armor, but the person was unusually tall.
"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty...... It's gone! Alas! Commander Cui sighed and said, "What? How do you ......" just listened to these dozen or so people talking to each other, and everyone knew that if the emperor was lost, they would all have to move their heads, so they kept talking.
"That's it! Needless to say! We have to atone for our sins and find Your Majesty, Sun Bing, you take four people to look for it in the forest, Zhang Cheng, you take four people to the gravel in the distance to look for it, and the rest of the people follow me to look for it at the foot of this mountain! By the way, you can only call the word 'Childe' when you are looking for it, remember! The commander surnamed Cui stopped the noise of his subordinates, and everyone got the order and said "promise" and divided into three teams to find Liu Zhi in different directions......
Just when this retinue was looking for the emperor, after a few hours in the cave, Zhao Yan finally woke up, only feeling comfortable and energetic, and he didn't realize the tiredness of running around all day.
"Am I asleep? After a good night's sleep, I was in better spirits. No, is it because of the lotus flower and lotus seed? Sure enough, this is the so-called "fairy medicine spirit grass" that he thought, but he remembered that he was looking for this lotus flower to put on Liu Zhi, but now it is all in his belly, how can this be good?
"Brother Zhi!" Zhao Yan thought that Liu Zhi was still fainting on the side, and turned her head to see that Liu Zhi was still unconscious, but his mouth was still intermittently shouting cold and sometimes hot, Zhao Yan came to Liu Zhi's side and stroked Liu Zhi's forehead with her hand, and the feeling on her hand was also cold and hot, and tears couldn't help but flow.
"Brother Zhi, if you keep doing this, how will Yan'er get through it in the future, if you are...... There is a long and short, Yan'er will go down to the yellow spring with you! Although the girl was weak, she was determined to go with her beloved.
"Yan'er is not afraid of death, Yan'er wants to be by Brother Zhi's side, no matter in heaven or earth! ......" Suddenly Zhao Yan's heart trembled, and a thought came to her heart, yes, she was not afraid of death, but ...... She is a little greedy, but what is she nostalgic for, her parents died, leaving only her brother to accompany her, but at this time what flashed in her heart was a young face, they played together, read books together, enjoyed delicious food, traveled to the capital, and the sachet she gave him, "Song'er ......" Zhao Yan murmured in her mouth, she didn't know how to think of this young man who was with her day and night and regarded her as a younger brother......
"Brother, Yan'er can't be by your side anymore, you said that you will be rich in the future, and you want Yan'er to live in a big house, Yan'er is afraid that she won't be able to wait...... Brother, you better marry a sister-in-law for Yan'er, what will a sister-in-law be like......" Zhao Yan didn't care how she thought of Cao Song first just now, she just thought that people were going to die, and her thoughts flowed, and she thought of her brother again.
"Mother, Yan'er is going to look for you...... Did you see Daddy over there? What does Dad look like, Yan'er has never seen him......" The water in his eyes fell to the ground.
"If people keep crying, will they really shed tears and bleed?" Zhao Yan began to see Liu Zhi crying in a coma, and now she feels that both of them will return here, and when she thinks of her father, her tears have not stopped, crying and crying, but she remembered the story of "cuckoo crying blood" when she read with Cao Song a month ago.
Legend has it that during the Shang Dynasty, Du Yu, the king of Shu, controlled the water for Shu, and he loved the people of Shu very much, so he tried all kinds of ways to get rid of the flood, but to no avail. Until one time the Shu people fished up a male corpse floating against the current from the river, the flood was serious, and everyone was not surprised by the floating corpse in the water, but it floated against the current, and the good deeds scooped it up, but the corpse came back to life as soon as it was fished up, saying that his name was Turtle Ling, and he was from Chu.
Everyone felt strange, told the emperor Du Yu, Du Yu was also surprised, and talked to this person, a talk is very speculative, the turtle spirit said that he will control the water, Du Yu wanted to let it try, this turtle spirit actually chiseled Wushan, the Shu water into the river, the flood was removed, and the people were happy. Du Yu thanked the turtle spirit for the merits, and actually passed his throne to the turtle spirit, and went to the mountains to live in seclusion, just because he was concerned about the people of Shu, and after death, the soul turned into a cuckoo, chirping day and night, reminding people to farm, and seeing the people suffering, they wept and wailed until they cried blood......
Zhao Yan also saw a myth recorded on the side in the book, which was also about Du Yu, but the content was very different. In mythology, Du Yu is a hero of water control, he was enlightened and taught by the immortals, punished the evil dragon who caused people by precipitation, and saved a woman, who knew that this woman was also a dragon, and was the sister of the same mother as the evil dragon, but the sister was kind by nature, and could not bear to harm Li Min, so she was imprisoned by the evil dragon, and the dragon girl helped Du Yu to rule the flood, and the two became husband and wife, and Du Yu was also supported as the monarch.
But the good times didn't last long, one of Du Yu's courtiers was Du Yu's original companion, jealous of Du Yu, so he wanted to usurp the throne and occupy the dragon girl, so he and the evil dragon jointly set a plan to lure Du Yu forward. Du Yu heard that the evil dragon was the brother of the dragon girl, and he wanted the evil dragon to help the people of Shu to survive the drought, so he went to make peace with the evil dragon, and was locked in a cage by the evil dragon as soon as he went. Du Yu regretted not at the beginning, because he missed his wife, died of depression, turned into a cuckoo after his death, flew back to his homeland, saw the dragon girl who was also imprisoned in the palace, and surrounded the dragon girl and cried, "Return to Wenyang, return to Wenyang", it is the sun of Wenshui, the dragon girl knew that she was her husband, and died of grief when she heard it, and she also turned into a cuckoo and her husband both stayed and flew together.
"Brother Zhi, may you and Yan'er also turn into a pair of cuckoos after death...... No more separation...... "Compared with Emperor Wang, who is worried about the country and the people, Zhao Yan prefers this affectionate and righteous Du Yu.