What could make people happier in this world—for Tian Xiao—except for a grassy, gentle hillside.

…… After Qingming, I longed for Gu Yu.

There are always some such beautiful words in this world: such as "Qingming", such as "Gu Yu".

The sky was a thin and cloudy day, a light grayish blue. The grass on the slope finally grew, connecting the thin greenery. The distant city has packed up all the garbage in the world, and the gray and black are as far as a contrast, making the suburbs more and more clear and quiet.

It's not raining, but the air in your nose is wet; At a glance, the grayish blue and the light green are moistened together, and the whole spring is soaked in ...... It's going to wet people's eyelashes.

There were two people outside the grassy slope. A person is fluttering, but his spirit is as clean as a stone; A person is poorly dressed, but his spirit is fluttering...... That was Tian Xiao and Tie Caoying.

It's a bit surprising that these two people get together. Not only will others be curious when they see it, but even Tian Xiao himself feels weird.

But now he was happy in his heart—because today, it was Tie Cao Ying who asked him to go out of the city with him.

They had been out of the city for several miles, and Tian Xiao's eyes were sharp, and he stared at this gentle hillside at a glance.

When he saw it, he was so happy that even if someone who was ten times more serious than Tie Caoying saw it, he couldn't help but laugh.

I saw Tian Xiao running to the slope with his arms outstretched, and in his happiness, he actually started a fight. His stumbling stride unfolded, his head held high, and the wind blowing, making him look like a wild horse that had scurried through the gap of time, and had slipped away to the spring grassy slope to have fun.

He was still sniffling in the dew.

I heard him suddenly shout: "I want to read poetry!" ”

Tie Cao Ying smiled in surprise.

Tian Xiao seemed to have expected her to laugh, "Don't think that I'm a rough person who can't read poetry." I really think about it, I'm afraid it's not even better than Gushan! Their old poems are only packed with threads, bitten by insects, and read by beetles, which are old-fashioned and disgusting at a glance. I would, but he would. Even if I can, I don't have a deep understanding. ”

As he spoke, he really thought about it:

Spring rain shocks the spring clear valley day,

Summer is full of mangs, summer and summer are connected;

Autumn dew and autumn frost fall,

Winter snow, snow, winter small and cold.

He laughed out loud: "What poem have you ever heard that is as beautiful as this one, every word is so beautiful?" ”

It was a song of the 24 solar terms. Tie Caoying had naturally heard of it, but she had never felt it so deeply.

…… After the beginning of spring, it is rain, and then it stings, and then the spring equinox ...... Qingming, Guyu, Lixia, Xiaoman, continuous...... All the way to the white dew and the great cold...... Really, every word is so beautiful, cold and hot, all of which make people happy and have no sorrow.

Tian Xiao looked at the Xianyang City in the distance, their world was desolate.

He held his head and lay down on the grassy slope - and I, this one, was so beautiful that it made people sigh.

Tie Caoying didn't speak, and went to look at the green wind and smoke.

For a while, Tian smiled and said, "Don't you lie down?" ”

Iron Calyx shook her head.

Tian Xiao stared at her for a while, "What fresh grass." If you smell it, you can smell the scent of grass, which smells much better than flowers. It's funny, why are you still tense in such a place? Standing in a fight, as if he was going to practice at any time, or someone was coming to fight for his life. Don't you want to be idle? ”

Tie Caoying shook her head: "I don't dare, I'm afraid that as soon as I calm down, I will be sad." ”

Tian Xiao was stunned.

- Anyway, Tie Caoying really has no taboo to talk to him now, she doesn't think this will happen to others, right?

He looked at her quietly, and a faint sorrow appeared in his heart.

He has been in exile since he was a child, and he has traveled a lot of ways, and he can understand what others can't understand - everyone doesn't understand that others are often just for selfishness.

After a pause, Tian smiled and said, "Is it for Gu Shan?" ”

Tie Caoying was stunned.

"Do you mean sorrow?"

She still doesn't seem to be used to having people in this world who care about her mind.

Then he shook his head: "Not before." ”

Tian Xiao waited for her to say.

- Tie Caoying herself felt strange, she had always said that she had always said so much to this horse thief? Even now, she seemed to feel that whatever he asked, she could confide in him.

I only listened to her slowly, carefully considering the words, as if she had never expressed much and was not very confident in her expression, lest it be difficult to say it to the fullest:

"Sadness...... A lot of the time, I don't know why. I don't know why. I'm just scared to calm down. As soon as people move, they do things, practice, irrigate the garden, teach younger sisters, and go out to do errands...... Because people are always moving, as if they can forget their own existence. But as soon as you calm down, what do you do? …… How to say, when the body is quiet, the heart can't help but think, and this thought will bring out troubles. It will often make people feel that they are all kinds of inappropriate, all kinds of unsatisfactory, all kinds of self-doubt, all kinds of self-contempt, they will find themselves all kinds of lack of effort, of course, when vanity is overflowing, they will find that they are not as good as others, all kinds of annoyance, at that time, they can't help but ...... If your heart is empty, you will have sorrow for some reason. ”

She said quietly.

“…… I'm not used to being still, I'm not used to not having a posture of self-preservation. I'm going to drive myself crazy. At that time, I had to practice like crazy. ”

Tian Xiao sighed softly.

He was trying to understand, to understand what Tie Cao Ying was talking about...... That feeling, like the dust of the whole world suddenly fell to the ground, all the curtains that can be covered fell at once, when life confessed all its frustrations and unsatisfactory, the original true thirst is like a child's teeth biting the mother's ** tormenting you...... Tie Caoying is talking about that quiet, right?

Tie Caoying's gaze was very desolate when she looked at Tian Xiao, but at the end of the desolation, she showed a little smile.

"But now, it's for, I'm afraid I'll think of him when I'm quiet."

I only heard her say softly: "I never expected to meet someone like him." He seemed perfect, at least for so long. It was like encountering a ...... A real. So that I can put aside all my self-blame, inferiority, self-pity, all my shortcomings and shortcomings, and indulge in thinking: as long as I can get close to him, dedicate my humility, and then have his light to shine, this life will be almost perfect. ”

Tian Xiao looked at Tie Caoying, and saw that he was also lonely in his heart.

- So, how many are she...... Close to ...... "love"?

He was listening to the voice in her heart, and it was the first time he saw how a wave of love sounded in a girl's heart.

It was as if she heard that the whole world was stirring up in a man's heart, that the storm of the whole universe was passing through her heart, and that a ray of sunshine shone through the dark clouds of twilight, and then that light flew over all the ears of wheat in all the lands of this world...... It was a voice that no one had ever heard, mixed with all the ecstasy and fear, that made the life that carried it tremble...... It was also a glorious life, even if it wasn't yourself who caused all this.

Tian Xiao looked at Tie Caoying quietly, imagining her love, as if he encountered a perfection in this imperfect world, he still felt a kind of happiness like being in a famous mountain and waterfall.

That's enough.

- What do you want to be jealous of?

After a pause, Tian smiled and said, "So, you didn't ask me to come to ask me, but you just wanted to listen to me or tell me about Gushan, right?" ”

Tie Cao Ying looked at him and saw that there was no jealousy in his tone.

She nodded.

Tian Xiao sighed: "You can't be like other girls, even if you want something, don't say it directly." Isn't it okay to give me some comfort if it's a little more false? ”

Tie Caoying heard most of his pretended tone, and smiled to his lips.

"Because you don't need to."

- I don't bother to ask you if you need it.

Is this her subtext?

I only heard her smile slightly: "Who told you that you are the person I know who has seen Gu Shan the most times?" ”

Tian Xiao couldn't help but smile and said: "Then you have found the right person, I can tell you something about Gushan that I have seen with my own eyes and that no second person knows." ”

The clouds in the sky thickened, and the rain grew thicker. I only heard Tian Dao: "Do you remember the rain the night before yesterday?" You also participated in that 'Vaco' operation. ”

The smile on his face gradually faded, and his expression was rarely slightly solemn.

"There is no need to deny it, I have never seen a girl like you, I have a fancy for a man, and everyone has quietly asked someone to visit in secret, how can it be like you, I actually ran to test it myself......"

His gaze gradually turned into the distance...... That day, after discovering that you were there, somehow, I lost all of my heart to join in the fun, and I didn't want to mix with a kid like 'Vake' and make jokes about Gushan. So I walked away, and after a while, I actually ran into the evil emperor. ”

Tie Caoying's expression moved slightly.

Tian Xiao saw her expression, and continued: "Don't ask me about Chi Muqing, I don't know anything about her." I only found that the evil emperor's reputation for being so vicious is that it is very interesting. Later, he and Gu Shan also made a small move......"

He scratched his head, "...... But I didn't know exactly how to compete with these legendary masters, and I didn't see who won and who won in the end. That's not the point I'm going to get serious about—well, it's a long way off—I'm going to talk about the aftermath......"

He narrowed his eyes, "After separating from the old boy of the Evil Emperor, I am suddenly most curious about Gu Shan, I want to see if their gang of 'Vake' people have any new moves towards him?" I couldn't catch up with him, so I quietly followed his footsteps in the rain. His footprints are so shallow, there seems to be none, but fortunately I have a nose that is not as good as a hunting dog. ”

He rubbed his nose as he spoke.

"I quietly retraced the trail into the forest. It's still the same forest we fought against Gushan at the beginning. I found that along the way, there was no trace of the people in 'Vake', and I thought that they had all been sent away by him one by one. It was still raining heavily, but the clouds were already thin, and there was a faint light shining through. I found myself in the glade where I had first seen him. This time, I was able to vaguely see the size of the clearing. It's a lot of acres there, and it's surrounded by dense forests. The trees there have grown for hundreds of years. But there was not a single tree in that clearing, only some flat grass and mud. ”

"Gu Shan actually stood there again—when I started the 'Vake' operation, I actually saw him earlier than any of you, and at that time, I saw him through lightning, and I felt that he had actually come out to practice. At this time, seeing him here again, I couldn't help but secretly admire: this kid is really called an axis! After so many changes in the middle, he is 'Vake' and 'Evil Emperor', and anyone who is afraid of it will be confused, but he actually ran back to practice again! ”

But when I looked at it, I found him very uneasy. I've never seen that kind of uneasiness in anyone else. I only feel that he is like an ant on a hot pot; It's like a pot of boiling water that has been boiling for a long time, but it can't be boiled no matter how much it boils, which makes people's hearts not burn. He just stood there, anxious like wet wood in the stove, and he couldn't get it up, and he couldn't go out...... In short, I can't describe what he was like then; It's always weird, to put it in a sentence, it should be called 'ice and charcoal frying', right? ”

"I think he seems to have been hindered in some way in his practice, or he has to create a new set of swordsmanship that he can't create......" he sighed: "...... I don't know why, I just feel like he's trying to create some kind of swordsmanship, but it's stuck there. I only thought that people like him were so weird, do you say that there are still fewer swordsmanship in this world? It's just a lot of worry! There is so much competition among each other. How can there be people who have nothing to eat and are full, as if they have to create an original set to be happy? ”

"I clearly feel that he came out first to practice swords, but he was first disturbed by 'Vake', and then stopped by the evil emperor, and his original single-minded sword thinking was hindered by this, and he was forced to be congested in his arms, forcing him to have no way out, so he was so uneasy."

"I've never had the patience to stay that long and peep at people, but this time it's different. Because I've never seen anyone so serious about swordsmanship, and I don't know how such a person practices swords. I just felt that the uneasiness was urging him to become more and more intense, and the feeling that even people like him could not hide, and it was conveyed through the trembling of his body. ”

"I didn't necessarily like this kid, but at the time ...... he was stunned...... Somehow, I felt a little sorry for him. I just think it...... Even if I trade the whole world for it, I don't want to spend this short moment like him. ”

As he spoke, Tian Xiao's face suddenly became weird.

"The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and it is pouring so hard that it almost blinds my eyes."

"I raised my hand and wiped it on my face over and over again, scolding myself for being stupid - I had never seen such a stupid practice! I have never seen such a stupid practice, and such a stupid person next to him, so stupid to watch it in the rain! ”

"I stared at him for half an hour, and for half an hour, he was drenched like a chicken in soup......" He glanced at Tie Caoying: "Of course, if you see it, you may say that it is a phoenix with falling hair...... Anyway, he was weird, a little embarrassed and a little proud. And if you see him like that, you will only think that he has nothing but his bones, as if he has been rained away, and there is nothing left......"

"But I'm still there stupidly looking......" he seemed to be completely absorbed in his statement, not feeling the scattered raindrops falling around him.

The raindrops were very sparse, but they were so big that they made people feel pain.

But this hurt Tian Xiaoquan ignored: "I finally couldn't hold it anymore and wanted to leave." At this moment, I saw that Gu Shan, who had been calm, seemed to be unable to hold on. He swung his sword weakly, let out a low 'no,' and then he went crazy. I saw him tear off the crown he was wearing, and just stand there with his hair disheveled, and suddenly there was a **...... Then I didn't see it, because a lightning bolt struck, and then the heavens and the earth suddenly darkened, and the rain fell like a waterfall all around, like a play singing to a high place, and all the gongs and drums sounded together without heaven, ground, rhythm, or beat......"

“…… Then another flash of lightning came, and I saw ...... The ancient cedar had fallen into the mud. He was convulsed and rolled in the mud...... All I saw was muddy water on his clothes, weeds, mud, broken stones, heavy rain...... He's just struggling to get in there......"

He suddenly retracted, not knowing whether he couldn't speak anymore or if his thoughts had drifted away from the beginning and the end, and he couldn't see the words.

After staying for a while, he turned his head sideways, and saw Tie Caoying's face, somehow, tears rolling down one by one.

Tian smiled back, as if he couldn't bear to say goodbye for a while.

He remembered the day he had been standing in a daze in the heavy rain for a long time, watching the ancient cedar roll in the mud.

In the end, I found that I was also ...... Tears.

After a long time, Tian Xiao barely managed to make a smile, and forced a smile: "Mom, I originally told you this story to demean and degrade the little white face in your mind, why did I move you." ”

Tie Caoying seemed to see through his heart under his laughter and ridicule, and did not answer.

For a while, Tian Xiao sighed: "Anyway, this kid let me see the other side of his scenery, and suddenly understood a lot of truths that I suddenly figured out......"

His face hesitated: "The way he looks outside, like you said, is really perfect, and it always makes you feel ...... It seems to be seeing a perfect in this imperfect world, that's why there is such a stupid crush, right? But behind the scenes, you don't know, your perfection turned out to be rolling in the mud......"

"He makes you seem to see an ideal in this indifferent ideal world, but in the end, you don't know that your ideal has already fallen into the quagmire by yourself**...... He disguised his light, but the last thing he saw was the ...... One day fly ashes. ”

“…… One day of fly ashes, a lifetime of mire...... All exaltation is sinking...... Mom, he actually makes me think of this...... So, such a kid, you'd better never touch it for the rest of your life. ”

He didn't expect this passage to be so unbearable. Tie Caoying's heart was like a needle poking, and she could hear that he was sincerely persuading herself. Thinking so, he couldn't help but feel a sore heart, so he didn't say anything, and quietly turned around and retreated.

Tian Xiao didn't notice that she was gone, but just said there alone:

"If you're a smart man, you should quickly admit my goodness, and I'll make you happy for the rest of your life, and there will be no fucking sorrows. Behold, the wheat in the distance has also stubble......"

He held his head in his hands and looked up to the sky.

"Don't just think that only people like him are poetic, in fact, I just didn't tell you, I'm also a painter."

Speaking of this, he turned his head, only to find that Tie Caoying was gone.

Tian Xiao smiled bitterly, and then said to himself: "I was busy telling you that I am a poet just now. Well...... Actually, I'm still a painter. ”

"But I'm not one of those vulgar painters, I only paint in my heart......"

He tilted his head up a little and looked up at the sky.

“…… Just like now, when I look at the wheat that has just come out of the stubble, I will think of the picture when it is ripe: the sky is so thick that it can't be thicker, and it is as blue as a sauce made of fruit; The sauce spread over the edge of the painting, and below it was a golden mess of wheat straw; The wheat grass was so bright that you could hear the sound of popping, and the golden yellow was too deep, and it was a little dull after that; A flock of crows was flying in the sky, black and dense, dotted between the yellow and blue of the day and the place...... Isn't this a good painting? In fact, this world doesn't need red, no other variegated colors, as long as yellow and blue, it is rich enough for you to look back on for the rest of your life......"

He was full of horses, and he didn't know how many thousands of miles away, and Tie Caoying had already gone far, but he didn't know if he would turn around one day.

Tian Xiao spent the whole day on the grassy slope.

There was nothing to eat at noon, and he didn't care, so he chewed on the grass roots and played. He knew that a young man like himself who had practiced kung fu was a little hungry, and his spirit was only more vigorous.

At dusk, he heard a blow in the distance, his ears moved, and after careful discernment, he heard that it was "Happy Events Are Near".

- Ahh Tian Xiao suddenly remembered that Gushan's battle in the ring was tomorrow. The happy event is near, the happy event is near, it seems that it is really close.

Tian Xiao followed the sound of blowing, and only saw the gate of Xianyang City open in the distance, and a lot of people poured out of the door. It was too far away, and Tian Xiao couldn't see it very clearly. Curious, he couldn't help but sprint up to the top of the hill to see what he wanted. But he saw that those people seemed to be carrying something in their own direction outside the city.

It was almost dusk, and Tian Xiao used his eyesight in vain, but he still couldn't tell the difference. He is such a person, and he can't stand a little doubt in his heart. He didn't stop for a moment, but when he saw that the direction of the group was to the northwest of the mountain where he was, he immediately went downhill and ran towards that side.

What stranged to him was that the people who were far away did not follow the way, but only chose the wilderness.

Tian Xiao saw that they were walking slowly, so he was not in a hurry, and slowly rushed forward. For a while, there was a small mound in front of him that obscured his vision, and he could not see the group of people again, but the sound of blowing was still faint.

He hurried forward without hurry, only to feel that the more he went, the more desolate it became—the land to the northwest was only wilderness, and there was no cultivated land. All I saw was the scorched earth, which was thirsty and bare. Occasionally, there was a single piece of grass with burnt marks on the roots.

For a long time he climbed the hill, and when he looked around, he saw that the men had come as far as a mile or two away. There were hundreds of them, all carrying long, square things on their shoulders, and they appeared and disappeared in the path between the mounds. The sky was grayer, and I couldn't see what it was carrying.

After a while, the group stopped at a hill two or three miles away. Tian Xiao saw that they disappeared at once, covered by the mound. For a while, when they came out again, they had already returned the same way, but everyone's shoulders were empty.

Tian Xiao couldn't hold back his curiosity any longer, and hurried to the place where they left their things.

The boundary of two or three miles was reached with the strength of his feet. It's just turning over two or three mounds. He was impatient to take a detour again, and when he encountered obstacles, he urged his body to climb up directly.

Suddenly, he came to a high ground, and his vision suddenly widened - he saw that this area was full of ravines washed out by water, crisscrossed by loess ravines, and some high hills stood on the middle bank.

The old loess plain unfolded the wrinkles on its skin, the sky on the top was gray, and the surrounding fields were full of dry yellow under a dozen eyes. Most of the blowers who had gone far had stopped, and occasionally the young and good ones blew the lock na alone, but the rhyme was louder, out of the noisy accompaniment, but was able to be lonely and hoarse, out of the yellow earth, and excitedly ran straight to the sky.

Tian Xiaoyi lowered his head, but saw that there was a loess ditch dozens of zhang wide under his feet.

In the loess ditch, there were no less than 100 coffins scattered.

He was almost stunned, he had never seen so many coffins in his life!

The coffins were scattered in a variety of textures, ranging from poplar with white stubble, to hardwoods of heavy color that were evidently valuable at first glance, and strange ash with patterns that showed its true color......

They're all unpainted, and they're just thrown here in a mess.

The coffins were clearly empty. Between the coffins, an old man and a young man were counting them one by one.

The old man counted it, sat down on a coffin, took out a cigarette, took a puff, and sighed to the young man, "Oh, coffin, coffin." This thing that wraps people to the end of the day is also called so beautifully, and it is both official and wealthy. ”

The young man replied with a smile: "I'm afraid that all the timber in Xianyang City has been searched now, and it is easy to get rid of such a number." This person who orders is going to make all the officials and wealth in the world, right? It's just that in the past few days, no one will die, and if they die, I'm afraid that they won't be able to find a coffin for a while, so they have to wrap it in a straw mat and bury it. ”

With that, he raised his eyes suspiciously.

"Grandpa Chen, you say, how can someone be so idle and order so many coffins at once?"

The old man raised his eyes and looked around, as if he was wary of something, and then lowered his voice and clenched his throat and said, "Who knows? How can you use so many materials at once! I've been thinking about it for a few days, and I've always felt that this is not right. Also guess that this may, with ...... Our ancient cedar is related. ”

The young man's eyes lit up: "Gu Shan? The surname Gu has been passed down to his generation and the whole family is only a single branch, how can he use so many mouths? ”

The old man rolled his eyes: "Don't say that you don't have respect and no respect in your mouth - who said that the surname Gu should be used?" He doesn't need it! I also thought about it in vain, guessing that it might have something to do with him. That Gu Young Master, others don't know, but I know that he has a great favor to our Xianyang City. ”

Seeing that there was a story in his belly, the young man couldn't help but come over, sat down by the coffin where the old man was sitting, and asked eagerly, "What great favor?" You talk about it, you talk about it......"

The old man also seemed to be talkative, and knocked on the dry pipe.

"That was 10 years ago. I wasn't as old as I am now, and I still had the strength to walk on my legs. I used to collect some timber on the sweet road, and what I heard most in my ears at that time was the things in the rivers and lakes - people are running outside, how can their ears not be good? That's why I heard about it......"

He looked up at the sky, gauging whether there was room for such gossip.

"Have you ever heard of the Qilian Iron Cavalry?"

The young man blurted out, "Those horse bandits?" ”

As soon as the old man stretched out his hand, he shook the young man's mouth, and said, "Children, don't have anything light or heavy in your mouth!" In short, it's their uncles. ”

"I heard on Ganliang Road that year that they were tired of robbing houses and houses, and they didn't know how to hit us. They have a peek at Xianyang from afar, and they are ready to do a good job with us. You are young, I don't know, the court was a little chaotic in those years, and you can't take care of us here. Therefore, if you really want to give them a hand, we little people are only afraid that it will be difficult. At that time, I heard the news, and I didn't have the heart to collect wood anymore, so I made up my mind and ran home. That was the first time I had heard the name of Furusugi mentioned. ”

At that time, he was not too famous, and he only heard the legends of those people in the rivers and lakes: they said that they knew the plans of the Qilian Iron Riders, but there was one person in Xianyang City who couldn't sit still. The darts were scattered, but the man came after them. This man seemed to be a child of a family, only sixteen or seventeen years old, with a rusty sword, riding a thin horse, and rushing west to the root village of Qilian Iron Cavalry. ”

Tian Xiao heard the two of them talking from a distance.

Seeing that the old man was cautious and guarding, he lowered his body, slipped to the backlight of the earthen hill, and stretched out his ears to eavesdrop.

At this time, I heard the old man talk about the situation when the young man Gushan entered the rivers and lakes at the beginning: a rusty sword and a thin horse...... Somehow, the image of the thin and sleek young man in his imagination seemed to be in front of his eyes, and he was quietly happy in his heart: it turned out that that guy had also had such a young time.

The young man by the coffin had already listened, and when he saw the old man stop spitting, he couldn't help but interject and asked, "What's the matter, he won this battle?" This has kept our Xianyang City safe? And because of this name? ”

His face was full of the yearning of an idle boy for the rivers and lakes.

The old man said lightly: "Lost." ”

This sudden moment not only made the young man, but even Tian Xiao in the distance couldn't help but be stunned.

The young man couldn't help but show a look of disappointment: "Ah......"

The old man smiled and said, "At that time, he was still in the rivers and lakes, how powerful do you think he was born?" You really don't know the reputation of Qilian Iron Cavalry for many years. It is said that among their gang of horse bandits, there are more than 20 of them that can be remembered by people in the rivers and lakes. Gu Shan's rusty sword and thin horse, rushing to it boldly, how can you not lose? ”

"But although he lost, he burned the extremely secret grain stored by Qilian Tieqi, cut half of the hair of Chu Qiniang, the most beloved concubine of the iron cavalry boss, and I heard that he also abolished the second vein of the hard-fought brother Geng Lao'er in the iron cavalry...... I don't understand what it is; In short, it made everyone in the Qilian Iron Cavalry angry. ”

For a while, the goshawk hounds of the Qilian Iron Riders began to search for Gushan all over the world, and this indignation replaced their covetous heart of Xianyang with a purely personal grudge against the rivers and lakes. I heard that in the past few years, they dispatched an unknown number of men and horses, and chased Gushan to the heavens and the earth for a while, everywhere. It was at that time that Furusugi began to travel to the Western Regions. Looking at Gu Shan's current scenery, you can't imagine how embarrassed he was at that time. I later heard that he was forced to lose weight, and I don't know how he survived, let alone how the matter subsided...... But I always think, are the people in the Qilian Iron Cavalry so easy to mess with? Someday they will come to Furusugi to settle scores. So I estimate that this time, someone ordered so many coffins and sent them to the direction of the Monument Shop, most of them were the characters in Qilian Iron Cavalry. Think about it, as long as they heard that Gu Shan was now ordered to summon relatives, and it was so beautiful, would they still come to make trouble? ”

Tian Xiao listened to the words that the old man said next to him, and he didn't care about anything else for a while, but he only laughed so much that he was about to fall - Gu Shan, Gu Shan, good boy, you are in the limelight now, it turns out that you were ...... Somehow, as soon as he remembered the appearance of Gu Shan being chased to the end of the world that day, compared to his current Gu Mu Qinghua's bearing, he couldn't help but feel greatly relieved and happy, and felt that the shadow that always felt a little distant when he thought about it was suddenly pulled closer to the front.

The young man opened his mouth and was about to ask, but the old man raised his eyes and looked at the sky, and asked first: "Have you counted clearly, is the number right?" ”

The young man nodded hurriedly.

As soon as he nodded, the old man hurriedly said, "Then what are you waiting for?" Young people just don't know what to do! Do you want to wait here, for the person who ordered the coffin to stuff you in as a coffin? ”

The young man was scolded by the old man and was a little frightened, muttering that he could only follow him and leave in a hurry, leaving Tian Xiao alone looking at the pile of coffins and couldn't help but be happy.

He imagined something interesting, and he couldn't wait to catch up with time and go back to that day, but fortunately, he met the ancient cedar who was being chased in a panic outside the Western Regions Pass, poked his finger at his nose and shouted: "It turns out that your kid also has today!" ”

His body shrunk in a crack in the soil, and he had nothing to do to steal the fun, and he was happy for a long time.

When I woke up, I realized: someone is coming!

Tian Xiao had already been alerted by the old man's words, and at this time instinctively shrank his body, used his exclusive "Five Escapes" technique, hid his body in the cracks of the soil, turned into earth, and only secretly sent out a pair of eyeballs to peep.

But I saw that around the mound, in the deep ditch, there was no sound, and dozens of people came out at once.

The dozens of people moved silently, did not speak, all dressed in dark clothes, and seemed to have a very tacit understanding with each other, first going around and around the neighborhood, and then one of them went to count the coffin. After counting, the man nodded, and the remaining dozens of people did not speak, but each took out a brush made of white bone from his body, and then each found a coffin, and began to brush on the coffin.

The twilight has been deepened, the gray is as heavy as cloth, and only human figures can be seen from a distance of more than ten zhang.

Tian Xiao only felt that the twilight was so deep that it was like a shadow puppet show, and the dozens of people who suddenly appeared were all stiff, like colorless shadow puppets on the dark gray cloth.

Seeing that day was upside down like a pot, and the space was full of dark light like pot ash, and those figures were as thin as a ghost, Tian Xiao only felt that his hairs stood up for a while.

- Hell-spirited!

His most immediate feeling is these four words.

They were painting those coffins.

- Lacquer is black lacquer.

- The lacquer came from their backs.

At this time, I saw them brushing seriously one by one. Tian Xiaoyan watched as the dark texture of the coffin made of sandalwood became darker; The white poplar coffin was slowly painted black, and the white stubble was intertwined with the black lacquer, and there was an indescribable horror; And Qu Liu's texture became even more strange when the black paint was not covered for a while......

Tian Xiao only felt indescribably weird: who are these people, and what are they doing?

And those spirits didn't talk to each other at all, just brushed the paint seriously as if they were dead.

Tian Xiao saw that they quickly finished brushing the first time, and then stretched out their hands one by one, facing the wall of the coffin, rubbing a few minutes from the surface of the coffin. Stir the heat in your palm and quickly dry it.

The smell of baking paint wafted in the air, and the sweat of those people after their hard work, the two smells were sour and prickly, and the smell was sad.

After they are dry, they start brushing the second course. The stiff hands and never-ending movements were so monotonous that Tian Xiao felt as if he had gotten into a coffin.

But that simple action has a peculiar attraction, and Tian Xiao doesn't know how many times they brushed it in the end, and how many times they dried it. I saw that the leader of them suddenly looked up at the sky, and with a wave of his hand, those people smashed out of their backpacks and stuffed them into the coffin. Then he quickly carried the coffins on his shoulders, and in a blink of an eye he began to march in procession.

Tian Xiaoyun used the technique of five escapes and quietly embellished it. I saw that none of the people along the way spoke. Their posture is strange, there are two people carrying a coffin; There was a man holding a coffin; There were two people with their shoulders on the left and right, carrying two coffins together; There is even a person who carries a few coffins...... And those people's legs seemed to be straight, floating out of the air, and their knees were not bent.

It was almost midnight, and Tian Xiao realized that they were indeed walking towards the boundary of the monument shop. Could it be- they're really looking for Gushan?

That's right, after walking a few miles, they actually ran into the same group of people again. But the two people were not mixed, and each carried his own coffin on his back.

They walked silently through the wilderness, the ancient plateau and the farmland. After a while, I finally came to a valley, that is, behind the dense forest of the ancient family that Tian Xiao had visited.

When they arrived, there was already a third coffin team waiting there. They would join together, and the black crows covered the entire empty field.

Tian Xiao only felt dizzy in his head: Mom! The whole world is like a coffin.

- "A thousand coffins! ”

Tian Xiao suddenly remembered that when he was lured to join the "Vake" operation that day, Geng Xiguang suddenly blurted out three words when he saw a piece of paper money pasted on his sleeve; Then I couldn't help but think of the scraps of paper scattered everywhere in the entire Xianyang City that I saw on the day of the Qingming Festival.

…… The entire street was almost filled with scraps of paper...... The white confetti that has no name all over the world are leftovers for making spiritualist flags, paper houses, and paper horses...... There are also thick yellow paper money that has been beaten with an iron hammer......

The confetti seemed to bury the entire Xianyang City.

Two words finally flashed in Tian Xiao's mind: Jizo!

- This should be the most mysterious gang in the rivers and lakes, Jizo.

That's a legend that Tian Xiao heard when he was a child, but has forgotten it for a long time.

Legend has it that only when they encounter a life-and-death crisis, when they encounter an opponent who is not the same in the world, will the "Jizo" sect launch their laborious "Thousand Coffins".

The strange people suddenly dispersed, and their crows spread out and flooded the valley. Then, the people on the periphery wandered farther and farther away, into the villages that were separated from each other in the area of Waffi Restaurant.

In the valley, I saw that many coffin lids were suddenly turned up, and some coffin bearers drilled into it; Many people sat on the ground, and they put the coffins on the ground and laid them on the ground; And some people put the coffin upright on the ground, and they jumped on top of the coffin and stood high. There were also people who tirelessly carried the coffin and carried it...... These two or three hundred people were like an army that had escaped from a dark prison, and they covered the boundary of the Wrestling Monument Shop with the ancient family as the center densely or loosely.

Then, suddenly, in unison, they began to pound on the coffin board.

The sound was still sparse at first, and someone knocked on the lid inside the coffin under the cover of floating earth, and then, there was a sound of harmony all around. Those who sit on the ground beat like a drum, those who carry it on the top like a bell, those who hold it in their arms like a harp, and those who carry it around their waists like a waist drum...... The sound came together, it had a rhythm, it became a rhyme, it was like a whole band, and it rang out one after another, and the sound spread throughout the valley, and then spread to the entire realm of the Monument Shop. The morning bells and dusk drums, the thunder and the sound of the mountains, are not as shocking as their aggregate percussions. It was not loud or penetrating, but it was solid and hollow, evoking a bigger and more empty reverberation in your heart, as if it had slammed a large clearing out of thin air in your chest, and then made your heart "thump, thump" in it, and you were terrified of the echo you made.

- What is this?

This is simply a well-rehearsed "coffin drum"!

The sound seems to come from the lungs of the earth, as if it comes from the eternal darkness and thickness, it is the most secret and instinctive call that is closely related to your life.

Who can resist such a push?

Tian Xiao hid on a small hill.

He began to fear. He is trying to use the "Five Escapes" technique to try to turn himself into a tree. His "Five Escapes" technique has always been well practiced, and it is a magic weapon that he uses to save his life when he wanders the rivers and lakes. But today, for the first time, he began to lose confidence in his magic weapon. If he was hit by the sound of the "coffin drum", was pushed out of shape, and was discovered, how would he escape again?

His "Five Escapes" technique is only afraid that it is far from turning him into an inconspicuous coffin.

He has a good view on the top of the mountain. Through the faint starlight, I saw that the small villages within a few miles were visible. Then he began to see the small villages that had been silent and had fallen asleep and began to show uneasiness. Such a mountain village was originally peaceful and stable, but under the sound of the drum, the small villages seemed to wake up from their slumber and silence, and the inanimate trees and stone walls began to show fear and uneasiness.

A lamp was lit, lit by a frightened farmer.

Then, in all directions, only the startled moo of the ploughing ox was heard. The chickens and dogs were also alert, and after one or two sporadic howls, they were so frightened that they didn't dare to make a sound anymore. The whole realm has fallen into panic, some chickens have begun to die of plague in nests, and the wild beasts in the mountains and forests are rushing in panic, but the most frightened are people.

I saw that in the villages of Siye, the oil lamps were lit one after another. These poor peasants are usually reluctant to light the lamps at night before the New Year's Day, but at this time, they can't help but light them, and they think that some people are leaning on the window to look around. Tian Xiao could feel their panic, because he could feel the panic he had never felt before. I just feel that an atrium is forced to beat slowly and uncontrollably, and if it jumps like this, it will always burst or burst out of the throat before it is the end, right?

But the voice became tighter and tighter, and only a bunch of hoarse voices could be heard singing in the middle, and I couldn't hear it clearly unless I discerned it carefully. That's it:

Xianyang through the ages,

Steamed buns outside the city;

One eats one,

Finally fall into it.

Tian Xiao only felt that his brain was "buzzing", and suddenly understood what they were singing.

- "Steamed buns"?

It was really the thickest, most funny, and darkest humor Tian Xiao had ever heard.

The sound rang out like on a windless and moonless night, and all the grass was still, and not even the thinnest treetop would tremble even a little; Suddenly, all the graves on the mass grave began to grin and hum together; Suddenly, thousands of poplar trees slapped and laughed together without wind; Suddenly, the ** from the depths of the earth knocked on all the new coffin decay plates......

The sound attack is very low, suddenly orderly, suddenly chaotic, and finally chaotic together, like a lung waking up in the middle of the night, in the deep bottom of the earth, one by one, open and close until the end you find that the lungs deep under your feet are related to your heart veins, you absolutely can't resist it so vigorously opened!

This is what they demonstrated, warned?

Tian Xiao only felt that his breath was becoming more and more floating, and even the technique of "Five Escapes" was not smooth, and he was about to expose his body. But he felt that once he was exposed, without waiting for others to do it, he seemed to be about to be catalyzed into a rotten coffin, a person like those who carried the coffin, integrated into their queue, no different from them.

It seems to be a more clever "escape" than his own "five escapes" technique.

For it will escape with your soul into the Dharma.

- The most terrible thing in this world turns out to be the same!

Suddenly, a baby's cry sounded in the mountains.

It was the closest farmhouse on the mountainside. The child was so frightened that he finally couldn't hold back and began to cry loudly. But as soon as its cry came out, I don't know whether it was covered by the frightened adults, or it was annihilated by the hundreds of "coffin sounds" at once, but I could only hear the next breath of condensation, as if the little creature couldn't bear it and wanted to die in this call.

Tian Xiaozheng didn't know what to do, and a voice suddenly floated from the courtyard of the Gu family in front of him.

I could only hear it say clearly: "Do you have to force me to show up?" ”

A low woman's chuckle suddenly floated in the air: "Yes, I took over Qianting's business, but I can't find you these days, so I have no choice but to use this trick." ”

The previous voice was only fierce and angry: "Find me, but what do you have to do with innocent villagers? ”

The anger seemed to gather tangibly, gathered into a touch of coldness, and the blade broke through the sky in this dark night.

The woman chuckled, "Who told you to just be on the run?" I want you to know that there are always things in this world that you can't escape, such as my Jizo Gate, such as a thousand coffins. ”

Originally...... It's her!

Tian Xiao suddenly guessed who the woman was.

He was also present when she traded with Qianting.

But I heard the woman say, "If I delay it any longer, it will be overdue." Today is the last night that the court promised me. Tonight, you're going to come out no matter what. surnamed Gu, I know, if you want to escape, I'm afraid that few people in this world can track you down, and those boys of Qilian Iron Cavalry can't find you back then. But if you don't come out again, I can't afford to compensate him for the ten loads of pearls promised to me by Qianting, a hundred coffins in Nan, a thousand brocades, and a year's jade in Yunnan. Listen to this price, you should also come out proudly, right? Don't grow old like those soft bones. ”

The previous voice was suddenly silent, and after a long time, I heard it suddenly chant, "Okay...... Hide...... Use...... ......"

This sentence dragged the tail note, and it was clearly the unique voice of Gu Shan, who would be somewhat nasal when he was tired. Tian Xiaohu felt that his pressure was light, and he only felt that the long chant was like his hometown in the exotic flute sound, and it was also like the suspense in the moonlight of his hometown......

Tian Xiao's heart also cheered up for a while: Gu Shan, Gu Shan, come out quickly! I want to see your sword.

- Even if the whole world has been sung in a thousand coffins, you will not be allowed to keep silent; Now that the sword is suddenly like scrap iron, rotten and unforgiving, let me see your sword...... Let me see your sword!

For the first time since he grew up, he was so moved, so excited, and so eager to see a sword again after a long journey.

A sword that can cut through the dreary night sky with the sound of a thousand coffins!

There were fireworks in the air, and I heard a woman's voice crisp and crisp, "You are still hiding, you are still hi......ding" The voice was like a clapping laugh, like a thousand iron beads breaking a thousand jade plates, like a thousand maids tearing a thousand brocades for Bao Xi at the same time, they jumped endlessly, one time here, one time there, and at the same time in many places in the valley and the empty field.

Like a naughty girl clapping her hands, jumping here and there in that empty field and laughing.

And in the dark and dreary valley, there was a sudden strangeness. I saw that in the night as thick as black velvet, like fireworks, suddenly revealing one hand, one foot, half of the face, one ear, a piece of black hair and the beads on it, or the dizziness of a firefly painted on the corner of an eye. And the hand, the foot, half of the face, one ear, a piece of black hair and the beads on it, or the halo of a firefly drawn on the corner of an eye, all emerge separately. They are beautiful, blooming like fireworks, but they suddenly explode. But the situation was also weirdly beautiful, Tian Xiao only felt that he had never seen such broken and bewitching eyebrows in his life.

The woman, Fleur, did not know what kind of secret art she possessed, and she could suddenly reveal one of her hands, one eye, or a piece of hair in the valley below. They all seem to glow and shine, but then they disappear out of thin air the other limbs that they should be united, and they are presented in one another, like a painter who comes casually, in the night of this valley, using the night as a canvas, painting one hand here and one eye there, not daring to waste more than one stroke, and resolutely making them all appear in pieces.

Tian Xiao knew that Ah Furong was searching for and urging Gu Shan, but she still couldn't help but feel that no part of her body was indescribably beautiful, but this beauty was so desolate and grotesque that it made people feel a little disgusting and vomiting.

As soon as Fleur appeared, the drum of the thousand coffins under her hand sounded even tighter, as if to shackle her dance of stump pieces.

Tian Xiao didn't know why, he only felt that the night sky around him shook for a moment. Just now, the sound of the ancient cedar appeared, and the small mountain villages near and far that had been a little stable all showed a sense of collapse.

But a howl was heard, and a man wrapped in moonlit clothes had rushed up in the dark night courtyard.

The man wore a crown on his head.

This kind of high crown should still be a men's outfit that can be traced back to the Qin and Han dynasties, and it is no longer popular nowadays, so it makes people jump out of the eye as soon as it appears. Tian Xiao can also look at it, and he can tell that it is Gu Shan!

At this time, he only felt that the crown was simply on the top of Gu Shan's head.

Growing directly from the skull, some people will grow such a lonely bone in the back of their brain?

Tian Xiao looked up at his rushing figure, only to feel that he was getting higher and higher, like a lark rushing straight into the sky.

His long howl has fallen, but the tail note is clear, in a "song of a thousand coffins", like a bird fluttering the wings of the soul.

The situation in the field was extremely chaotic for a while, and in the chaos, I only heard A Furong praise: "Good! ”

"Okay, you Gushan! When the real crown can be called cut cloud, it should be called Lu Li".

Gu Shan said in a long voice: "Why don't you crown Lu Li, but there is a sword that cuts through the clouds?" ”

Tian Xiao didn't understand what they were talking about, but he felt as if the legendary Doctor Qu came from the ancient monument at this time, and walked out of the style of Guanyu holding a sword. He only felt that Gu Shan's voice was like a real body, and the words "ice and snow" were spread out on the unspeakable and dirty cloth in the air. If Siye Village was rescued for a while, it could be quiet in the sound of "coffin drums".

Gu Shan's voice crushed the "Drum of a Thousand Coffins", but Ah Furong's female voice was low and hoarse, and it was not suppressed by him. Her voice has a kind of charm and softness, like a miasma, like a rotten fruit wine in this world, like a ruined ayara whose wealth has become extinct and decayed, like a softened algae painted beam, and like the corpse of a woman who is inexplicably soft at the moment before she is stiffened under a calamity......

The voice permeated the hearts of the people.

Gu Shan drank in a deep voice, as if commenting and summarizing the voice:

"Fleur!"

The woman smiled deliciously: "That's right, I'm Furong." ”

"Fleur is me, and I am also Fleur."

Tian Xiaozao was shocked to realize that her voice was her weapon! It resounded in the murmur of a thousand coffins, the lure of decay in a hollow, the confusion in despair, the soft embrace of the dirty lungs of the earth.

Gu Shan said in a loud voice: "Hongwen Pavilion invited you this time, it can be said that it spared no expense. ”

The woman laughed and replied, "They actually said that I can only hurt you up to seven points at most, and they want exactly seven points." ”

"I'm not convinced, hehe, I took this business, but it may not all be done according to their wishes......"

- In the chaos of thousands of coffins, a hand suddenly appeared in the air.

- The hand of the faint white element, there is only one hand.

- The hand stopped at the wrist, and the body disappeared out of thin air.

“…… You see, I have prepared so many coffins for you. Gulang, you can choose your favorite bite, I believe in your choice, hehe, after you lie down, I would like to move the ground and lie in the same mouth as you......"

Suddenly, her words were broken, and she said in a low voice: "I don't believe it, if I want to accept it all, will you still accept you?" What kind of thing is a thousand courts, he dares to underestimate my Jizo Mansion! ”

Then she suddenly sang:

Corner pillow ...... Yikes...... Rice ......

Brocade ...... Yikes...... Rotten......

100 Years Later...... Ay......

…… Ascribe...... Its home!

Then, a fierce battle began.

A Furong wrapped around Gu Shan, but Gu Shan wanted to suppress the sound of a thousand coffins first.

But Ah Furong's fractional body fragmentation Dafa is really only seen in the rivers and lakes. They flashed here and there, and together with the drum of the thousand coffins, they launched a desperate blow against the ancient cedar.

Fleur has a thousand coffins.

And what Gu Shan is holding is nothing more than a sword!

Then, Tian Xiao's memory of this night was completely confused: he only remembered that the Battle of the Thousand Coffins was launched; In the hollow of despair, the new coffin struck together; Tian Xiao wanted to help, but he couldn't help; The thousand coffins were simply a large array, and they swirled and shelved, and they were discharged in a disorderly manner, just to summon the power of the earth; The darkness hidden in the lungs of the earth has a hint of intimacy, as if to tell you that all kinds of life will eventually become empty, and all things will grow and eventually become the same......

…… What's even more terrifying is that there is also a beautiful fascination of Fleur in the middle...... In the darkness of the thousand coffins, Fleur suddenly appeared from time to time with a kick, a wrist, a glance, and an arm...... They are white, quiet, and smart...... The presentation of the body alone has its own thrilling magnificence, like an eternal empty lotus that suddenly blooms in the water of a corpse......

…… But it suddenly dissolves into decay, and the process of decay seems to be clearly visible in the air; This is a long-planned burial and subsidence, which has been planned for tens of thousands of years......

Tian Xiao only looked at the dangerous crown and wide sleeves in the figure of Gu Shan, the crown seemed to grow out of his brain, and the meaning of the banyan escaped his rusty sword Chen Xuan.

But he was only one person after all.

Tian Xiao was so self-conscious, and his sharp eyes couldn't see the battle situation clearly. I don't know how long I fought like this, but suddenly I saw a rusty spot on Gu Shan's sword. But I heard Ah Furong also whisper, she still had such a heartless laughing voice, but there was already a sense of shock in her voice: "You actually cultivated the Sword, no wonder the old man definitely can't tolerate you!" ”

She suddenly began to chant, and the Dafa of "Broken Limbs" was sent to the extreme, only to see that the coffins below cooperated with her chanting, and saw pieces of coffin lids suddenly fly into the air, and the fragments of Ah Furong's limbs appeared frequently in the air. Suddenly, I heard her laugh and scream: "Accept your fate, the sword can't save you!" ”

Tian Xiao couldn't help but be shocked, but he saw Gu Shan flying, and the person was flying over the empty valley and over the thousand coffins, but he seemed to be unable to control his body, and a rain of blood was sprinkled in the air, but it was his mouth down, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Tian Xiao couldn't help but be anxious, Gu Shan was injured. He only has himself, but Ah Furong has the help of a thousand coffins, how to help him, how can he save him?

The coffins on the ground suddenly opened the lid of the coffin one by one, as if they were waiting for the ancient sugi who could no longer control it to finally fall into one of them, and then the coffin lid was closed, and the silence of the night was resealed, sealing the ancient cedar who finally succeeded in sealing the Jizo door.

Tian Xiao couldn't care about the "five escapes" anymore, he appeared in a hurry, and rushed to the place where Gushan fell. Although he didn't have more than one funeral to accompany him, at this moment, he was willing to be buried for the sake of that night's wine and the acquaintance of the past few days.

Faintly, he saw a pause in the sky of the ancient cedar.

Before he could understand it, he understood that the figure suddenly slammed into the tree branch and then counterattacked, and he had already heard Ah Furong change color: "Pour the golden lotus ...... together"

——"Pouring gold into the ...... of the He family"

- "Thousands of miles of Jinhe's family? ”

- "Pour down the Golden Lotus family for thousands of miles!" ”

Fleur's sentence actually contained these three completely different tones.

Then, only to hear a series of soft sounds in the air, like fireworks, Ah Furong's eyebrows, eyes, hands, feet, hair, and body...... The limbs and broken bodies were no longer so complete in the air, they flew together, and they wanted to gather together to resist the dangerous sword of the ancient cedar.

Tian Xiao didn't see anything clearly, he didn't see the arc of lonely and brave determination, he didn't see the trace of light and peerless, and its brilliance of retrograde setbacks.

He didn't see clearly how Ah Furong had to gather for a while after the sword, and how the moment her whole body was finally presented, she flew away in pieces...... I didn't understand that after she flew away, the anger was also faintly commanded:

"Hurry back!"

Because there was a bang in his head:

A total of thousands of miles of gold and lotus ......

Oh my God-

It turned out to be a total of thousands of miles of the Golden Lotus family!