Chapter 25: The Dream of Dreams (1)

Where is this?

The cave is gone, the waterfall is gone, and all that comes into view is a thick fog that stretches as far as the eye can see. In the thick fog, I felt like I was in a fantasy world, and there was no longer a cold rock beneath me, but a soft gray-blue meadow. The grass underneath him is a nine-leaf plant, and each leaf is covered with fine silvery-white fluff. At this time, there was obviously no wind, but the nine-leaf clover was gently swaying under my gaze, and its posture was enchanting.

I reached out and plucked one and put it between my nose, and a refreshing fragrance immediately entered my nose. The previous discomfort disappeared without a trace in this moment.

What the hell is this place?

I got up on my hands and took a few steps forward, only to find that it was a forest shrouded in thick fog. The trees in the woods towered into the sky, their silvery trunks covered with a huge azure canopy, and the dense foliage glowed faintly in the thick mist.

I touched a large tree beside me with my hand, trying to peel off a piece of bark to take a closer look. But at this moment, a woman's laughter suddenly came to my ears: "Come on, come on, haha...... Ha ...... "The laughter is sometimes high and sometimes low, sometimes far and sometimes near, like smoke between the mountains and forests.

"Is anyone there? Who's there? I tentatively screamed a few times, but all I heard was my own echo.

I groped my way into the mist, and the woman's laughter drew closer and closer to me.

When the servants in the palace chatted, they once said that more than 30 years ago, a hunter who had lost his foot and was injured met a god in the cliff mountain, and he had a chaotic dream, and he had woken up from the dream and had gone down the mountain safely, and his leg was healed. However, his youngest son disappeared that night. Later, everyone said that this cliff mountain was the residence of the gods, and mortals were not allowed to enter it at will, otherwise they would have to pay the price. Could it be that this is the place of the legendary gods?

"Anyone? I'm a lost person in the mountains, can someone take me down the mountain? "As I walked, I shouted, and in less than a quarter of an hour I had come out of the woods.

The fog, which was so thick that it could not be dispersed, suddenly disappeared at this moment, and what appeared in front of me was a small river that trickled in front of me. The river shone golden in the sunlight, and a woman stood on the bank with her back to me, her long black hair spread behind her like brocade. A clump of leafy hibiscus flowers danced in the wind beside her, reflecting her whole body fluttering.

"Girl, may I ask ......" As soon as I spoke, the woman turned back.

The head is bright, the eyes are plain, the lips are plain, and the little face is as white as the moon, but I can't spit out a word when I look at this beautiful face. The hope that had just sprung up in my heart was instantly extinguished by a bowl of ice water.

How do I explain this strange scene in front of me, am I already dead?

"You're here, I've been waiting for you for a long time!" She looked at me with a smile on her face, but my heart was extremely bitter.

That's fine, that's fine. Over the years, I've missed her so much......

I reached out to hug the person in front of me, only to find her body passing through me like a shadow and throwing herself into the arms of a young man behind me.

The man was dressed in brocade and jade belt, evil and handsome, and a pair of affectionate phoenix eyes were even more unforgettable at first sight. He smiled and took the woman's little hand, half-wrapped his arms around her and walked towards the river, and as he passed me, he actually smiled sideways at me.

I was stunned for a moment, and my heart was mixed with bitterness and bitterness for a while, and I couldn't tell what I tasted.

I walked behind them and listened to them confess their hearts and love. In the man's arms, the girl's eyes were rippling with autumn water, her cheeks were as red as the most beautiful peach in March, I was used to seeing her pale and emaciated, gloomy face, I never knew that she could be so beautiful, so happy.

Like her, the man's eyes were full of love. He stroked her long hair as if he were caressing the most precious thing in the world. Looking at him like this, I can't seem to hate him anymore. Perhaps, I should thank him for giving me life, and thank him for making Ah Niang so happy.

When the moon rose from the sky, the two lovers were still lying in the hibiscus bushes on the shore and whispering sweetly. If this is really the afterlife, then I at least know that A-Niang is very happy and satisfied here.

And I, where shall I go?

I turned to leave, but I was suddenly caught by a jade pendant on my mother's waist.

It was two strangely shaped, nested jasper rings, verdant and transparent, without variegation, and under the jade rings hung nine bundles of silver-white fox hair.

Fox?!

The fox clan is a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, and like Zhou Tianzi, he has the most noble surname Ji in the world. Today, although the fox clan is not a public family, it was once famous. The Jin State, the Chu State, the Qi State, the Lu State, and even the Qin State also have descendants of the Fox Clan. Among the fox clans scattered all over the world, there is a side branch that is extremely mysterious. It is recorded in the chronicles of gods and ghosts handed down from ancient times:

"There are beasts in the mountains of Qingqiu, its shape is like a fox and nine tails, its sound is like a baby, it can eat people, and the eater is not Gu."

This side branch of the fox clan takes the nine-tailed beast as a totem, and it is said that they are the descendants of the fox of the prince of Zhou, and the blue eyes under the moon and the nine-tailed jade pendant are the most noble symbols of the clan.

Seeing this jade pendant, I had no surprise in my heart, only irony, if A-Niang is really the descendant of the prince fox, maybe my identity is not as humble as I imagined. But so what? It's all over.

Those who follow the gods are called the soul, and those who enter and exit are called the spirit.

When a person dies, his soul flies back to the sky, and his spirit sinks to the ground. Since I have seen A-Niang who has long passed away in this fantasy world, it proves that I am also a dead person. Everyone comes into this world alone, and when they leave, they are still alone. The people and things in the world have all become dust and smoke that disappear with the wind, and they can't grasp the slightest.

I turned away, no longer looking at the couple among the flowers, and continued to walk into the endless darkness.

"Don't go there, that's not where you're going!" Ah Niang suddenly blocked in front of me, her pale face was the same as the morning of the day she died, "Ah Niang, go back quickly, your road is not here." ”

"Where is my path? A-Niang, I miss you so much......" I looked at the face I had missed for many years, tears filled my eyes in an instant, "A-Niang, why did you lie to me?" You're not a concubine of a rich family at all, and you don't have a sixty-year-old husband at all, do you? You are a Jin person, not a Qin person, you are literate, and you can also read poetry. I can understand the songs you sang to me, the words you said. You tell me, who are you, who am I, who is quinoa? Why can't I go to the Jin Kingdom, and why do you want me to go to the Jin Kingdom? What does Jin Guozhi have to do with me? "I looked at A-Niang, my throat ached.

A-Niang stared at me and silently shed two lines of tears. She pursed her dry, cracked lips as if to open her mouth to say something to me. But then a gust of wind passed, and she was suddenly blown away by the wind like smoke and dust, and in front of me there were only scattered sparks and ashes in the sky.

It's me, it's me who burned her body to ashes, how can she talk to me? She's long gone......

I threw my head up and let out a hoarse cry, tears pouring down like a waterfall.