Chapter 28: Flowers and Leaves
Qiao Zhi shook the bone flute in front of him again, Jiuyou was puzzled, and Qiao Zhi reluctantly said the word "far". Nine Thoughts, is this to give me the bone flute? This material looks good. Not good. It won't be good for his parents to find him, but you can take a look at it first and then give it back to him. Jiuyou reached out and grabbed the bone flute. Hey, why doesn't he let go.
Suddenly, the environment changed, and this was ...... Teleportation ??? Are all the kids so good now? Qiao Zhi looked at the surprise in Jiuyou's eyes in embarrassment, and he also knew that it was indeed not normal for a child to perform the big move of teleportation. But then he thought, he's a kid now. He grinned at him and smiled innocently.
Jiuyou also let go in embarrassment, it turned out that just now, his bone flute was not to give it to me, but to bring me over. Can you just hold me up? What a tsundere child.
Wait, it can't be cleanliness, right? Jiuyou suddenly remembered that he had seen his children and grandchildren play before, well, I'm an old man now, it's not an exaggeration to tease him, right? Even if you enjoy the feeling of your children and grandchildren around your knees before you die.
As he spoke, Jiuyou suddenly stretched out his hand and quickly touched his hair a few times, making his hair messy, like a chicken nest. He withdrew his hand, bowed his head, and smiled at it. Now I finally look like a child.
Qiao Zhi was completely messy in the wind. He didn't think she would do that, he never let people touch it, especially the hair. Why is he defenseless against her? It seems that I am going to reflect. Still deceived by those hurt eyes.
Jiuyou turned his head and looked at the floating, oval-shaped stone tablet. Is this what they call the stone tablet of marriage?
Jiuyou circled around the stone tablet, carefully looking at the dense names. Relying on such a broken stone tablet, this upper realm will be arbitrarily married? This upper realm is just as superstitious and pedantic as the market.
Qiao Zhi stood still, looking at her quietly, what did she want to do. He still hasn't figured it out.
Jiuyou saw the top name "Qiao Zhi - Jiuyou" turned her head four times to see if there were any broken stones, and then she was disappointed, this upper realm is really clean.
Walk up to the child and ask, "Yes... Knife... ?".
What did she want to do. Qiao Zhi still conjured a knife from the storage ring and handed it to her.
Jiuyou took it, walked back to the stele, stood on tiptoe, held the stele with one hand, and held the knife in the other, and slashed towards the words Jiuyou. Hey, why is this stone so hard, and then scratched. I tried several times, but it didn't work.
Later, Qiao Zhi was dumbfounded. This is the first time I have seen someone take a knife and slash at the marriage tablet to cross out their name. And it's a name related to him. It's weird in my heart.
Jiuyou thought to himself that this stone must be a treasure. So hard. Jiuyou walked up to the little boy again, "Yes... More... Li... Harm... Target... Knife... ?".
Qiao Zhi is messy, this marriage stele has existed for endless years, and no one knows when it will exist. How could it be crossed out. Qiao Zhi looked at her with a strange expression. What a strange person.
"No", you can't use it if you don't have spiritual power now. Qiao Zhi thought to himself.
Jiuyou returned the knife to Qiao Zhi. Turning to the marriage stele and starting to study, he patted it with his hand. I secretly said in my heart. It's a treasure for sure. Forget it, if you can't cross it out, you can't cross it out. When I die, maybe the name will be gone.
What to do next, where to go? Jiuyou looked up at the night, it was almost dawn.
It's time to get this body back. This old woman's body is not good, and as soon as my shadow disappears, she will fall wherever she wants.
Jiuyou put the flower under the stone tablet, turned to the child and said, "Go back."
Qiao Zhi was depressed, and his feelings came to cross her name. This old woman... Women are weird.
Don't you just want to hang it with my name? Although he didn't agree with this marriage, he felt that he was disliked for the first time.
Qiao Zhi took out the bone flute again, this time Jiuyou knew, held the other end of the bone flute, the scenery changed again, and returned to the original place.
Jiuyou looked at the dance arena in front of him and thought, is my sister still there? Hey, forget it, it's all goodbye, so don't worry her anymore.
Jiuyou turned his head to walk in the direction of the peach blossom forest, and saw that the little boy was still there. Asked, "You... Family... Person... This? Seeing that the little boy seemed to be pondering, he did not answer her. It doesn't look like a child. Jiuyou thought to himself.
Forget it, if you want to follow yourself. Before leaving, someone sent him, which was also good.
Qiao Zhi watched Jiuyou limp towards the Peach Blossom Forest again, wondering, what is she...... What are you going to do? But thinking of the mistake at the banquet before, I decided to follow and see what she was going to do.
Walking into the peach blossom forest again, I saw a stone table in front of me, and decided not to leave, so I sat down and waited here for the shadow to dissipate.
Looking at the little boy behind him, he thought that he had accompanied him all the way, at the end of his life, it was fate to have someone with him, and he had met once, and there was nothing to thank him, and suddenly thought of the white bone flute, so he reached out to him to ask for it, Qiao Zhi looked at a hand in front of him, his face was full of surprise, so justifiably asked him for something? With a strange look, he still gave her the bone flute.
Jiu You thought about it, the wedding vow blessing song just now, she blew it too sadly. This song, the original tune is very good, just give it to him, even if it is a parting gift.
Qiao Zhi looked at her in surprise and looked at the peach blossoms, and blew the song just now.
She's blowing it specifically for me, in return? It's really a person with clear grievances.
This is the original tune, and it's pretty good.
Jiuyou was blowing and blowing, looking at the peach blossom forest in the night, as if he saw it again, on the edge of the peach blossoms, the figure of my sister Fuqin, she was dancing happily under the peach blossom tree.
Qiao Zhi watched her thoughts fly, is this missing your sister again? Why didn't you admit it just now? If you miss each other so much, why don't you recognize each other. Maybe she didn't know it yet, her sister had forgotten about her, she had no memory. Maybe that's fine now.
Qiao Zhi looked at her and remembered her attachment and reluctance at the banquet, with a hint of helplessness. I thought of my grandfather. Grandpa, before you left, were you as reluctant and helpless as her?
Qiao Zhi felt that she was very strange, especially her tearful eyes, saying goodbye with a smile, more like a dying goodbye. Including all the weird practices that follow.
Qiao Zhi felt that she was like a butterfly that was about to fly away, just like her grandfather, and she would never see her again.
Qiao Zhi looked at the figure of Jiuyou, and thought to himself, what happened that made you unable to support it anymore? is no longer the desperate gaze before, but so helpless.
How can I help you.
Qiao Zhi suddenly thought of what the old man of the elf clan said last time: "The companion flower on the other side, it is very magical, it is not limited by time and space, not limited by body, even if the two of them are separated by an entire primeval time and space, even if it is just a trace of soul and a shadow, it is still effective."
The accompanying flowers on the other side, borrowing life and substitution, is it flowers and leaves? Even a shadow will do.
Qiao Zhi hesitated.
His reason was telling him that he didn't want to touch things that were too causal, that would be troublesome, and he was most afraid of trouble. And she's not anything important to him. Do you really want to do it for her? Then he's really crazy, it's not normal. Sensual and didn't want her to die like this. Because he felt that if he didn't make a move this time, she might really disappear.
In the end, reason triumphed over sensibility.
Hey, forget it, there are too many miserable people in this world, how can I help them all. Qiao Zhi thought, since you gave me a song, I will also send you a song. Anyway, it's an acquaintance.
Qiao Zhi took out a guqin and played it.
The familiar sound of the piano pulled the consciousness of the Nine Shadows back from the past.
Nine Shades Shocked! This piano sounds, this song...... She had heard it in the deep pool, exactly like the sound of the piano coming from the distant sky.
Why would it be the same, could he ...... It's him...... The sound of the piano in the deep pool is what he plays!! But a little boy, how can there be such complex emotions as sadness and longing, Jiuyou remembered the song he heard once, so sad. Looking at the little boy in white in front of him, looking at him, suddenly in the eyes of Jiuyou, he overlapped with the white figure who was caressing the qin in the forest today. Don't...... It's him, Shaotianzi, the person named Qiao Zhi on the stele.
Is that him?
It's all incredible.
Illusion? Jiuyou suddenly thought of a possibility. It's really you.
Why, why help me. Did I know you before? Jiuyou suddenly shook his head and smiled secretly, whether he is a little boy or Qiao Zhi, the young son of heaven, she is a dying person, and she is ready to die, who is it, what does it matter who plays it.
It's going to be dawn, and in the last days of the rest, let her listen to the piano well, looking at the little boy in front of her, I thought I didn't expect that in the end, it was you who came to send me. A nice stranger.
Nine listened quietly.
Qiao Zhi played a requiem, thinking that I hope it can help you.
At this moment, Qiao Zhi felt that the Jiuyou in front of him felt like an indifferent old man waiting for death and seeing through life and death at this moment.
For some reason, she made him feel distressed. Clogged in the heart. A weird feeling.
Suddenly, Jiuyou felt that the time had come, because her shadow was about to begin to dissipate, and a wave of weakness came. She put down the bone flute in her hand and said calmly to the little boy in front of her, "Thank you... "No matter who you are, what your purpose is, why you will help me, and I want to thank you for your company today." Bye. Jiuyou suddenly smiled at him. She thought it would be better to leave with a smile. It's better that way.
Qiao Zhi watched her shadow slowly dissipate in front of him, and she said thank you, goodbye eyes. He felt a fluster. Her smile was so calm, but he was suddenly afraid. Just as the shadow was about to dissipate, he suddenly reached out his left hand and took her left hand.
Flowers on the other side, flowers and leaves meet. A mysterious aura suddenly permeated it.
Before the consciousness of the Nine Shadows disappeared, the totem of her left hand burned, and she looked back to see the small hands holding her hand, and there was a leaf figure in his hand. She also has a flower-shaped totem on her left hand. In the flash.
She suddenly understood that the burning of her left hand made her in the cold, and the warmth she gave her was also because of you?
Qiao Zhi watched the old woman suddenly lie on the stone table, and opened her eyes, she ...... Let's go. He didn't understand why he was scared at the last moment. Suddenly, he stepped forward and grabbed her hand.
Qiao Zhi raised his left hand and saw a faint and almost invisible trace that was different from before, this time the leaf, he saw the lines, very clear lines.
"Is this the meeting of flowers and leaves?" Qiao Zhi whispered.