Chapter 23: Wu Cao builds a monument
I was shocked by the sudden collapse, and I felt as if the sky was falling, and I completely subconsciously pounced on Lilac and protected her under me.
Pain and pain......
When the rumbling sound stopped for a while, the word pain was the only reaction I could have in my head. The beams and tiles of the house that had been shattered fell on me.
Now I'm kind of glad I've been carrying that big backpack all along, and the bulging backpack has withstood a lot of the impact, otherwise my spine might have cracked.
Still, I felt like my whole back was numb, as if it wasn't my own. My head was stunned for a while, and I tasted some fishy sweetness in my mouth.
But I'm lucky to be alive.
"Senior brother! Bro! At this moment, my dazed ears heard the panicked voice of Lilac from under my body, and a soft, cold palm, trembling and touching my face.
It was a little wet, and in the pitch black, I seemed to see a little bit of crystalline.
"Senior brother, you speak, junior brother!" I heard Lilac's voice panicked and desperate, her fingers seemed to move to my nose, but she hesitated for fear of confirming something unacceptable.
I tried to speak, but I felt like my mouth was full of fishy, sweet blood, and I swallowed several mouthfuls of blood in my stomach before I could barely make a sound.
"Senior sister... Are you crying? "I myself was amazed at the weakness of my voice, I couldn't see Lilac's face, but I could feel that her breath on my face was obviously getting a lot heavier.
"Senior brother! Great, great..."I never thought that my voice would make a girl ecstatic, and today I experienced this feeling, and it seems to really make the pain less.
I felt Lilac's arm around my neck all of a sudden, and as I whimpered, she quickly let go of her hand again and asked nervously, "Senior brother, did I hurt you?" β
"No, it's just... There's still something on my back, it's heavy..."I tried to squeeze out my voice, and as the sensations in my body regained little by little, I could feel myself clinging to Lilac's body, and my arms were on either side of her shoulders, trying to hold up a small space.
There was a faint fragrance on her body, a smell of flowers and plants, which came to my nose and made me blush a little, but fortunately it was dark now, and the lilacs could not see my face.
"Why are you so stupid..."
Lilac knew what I was talking about, she was now completely shrunk under me, and the collapse of the ancestral hall had barely hurt her. But it made her more annoyed and uncomfortable, and I'm sure I heard her sniffle slightly.
"Senior sister, what's wrong with you, have you been pressed somewhere?" I deliberately asked knowingly, trying to adjust the atmosphere. But I don't dare to move here at all, otherwise the collapsed beams may collapse again at any time.
"No... No, I'm fine. I heard Lilac's breath almost blowing on the tip of my nose, and then she said, "Don't worry, senior sister, I'll find a way to get us out." β
"Senior sister, we are pressed here, what can you do?" I was also trying to figure out what I could do to get out, but the pain and lack of oxygen made my mind groggy, and only talking to Lilac kept me awake a little.
At that moment, I suddenly heard the sound of something moving around me, and then I felt the pressure on my back lighten.
"Senior sister, did you remove the things?" I asked in surprise.
However, Lilac's confused voice quickly dispelled my thoughts: "No, I haven't chanted a spell yet." β
"It's me, Brother Lin." At this time, a somewhat frivolous and unsteady voice sounded, and at this time I felt that a piece of beam wood that had been pressing on my back was pushed away, and suddenly even my breathing was much easier.
And what relieved me the most was that I saw Lilac's face close at hand, and there were crystal teardrops on her beautiful face, which can be described as pear blossoms with rain, which made ζοΈ my heart flutter.
"It's good you're okay." I smirked, Lilac wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and deliberately pouted and flicked my forehead: "Fool, what if you really get stoned to death?" β
"It's better to stone me than to crush you." I said, and then the voice that had saved me and Lilac, but was very out of place, sounded again: "Should I leave first and leave you a space for two?" Why don't I put this dead beam back again? β
"Farewell, farewell." I quickly stood up, but I had a sharp pain in my back, and white sweat broke out on my body, and I couldn't stand at all.
Fortunately, Shan Yufei, who went and returned, pulled me in time, and the gray robe showed that he had really wasted a lot of effort in digging out the two of us.
"Are you standing firm?" Shan Yufei asked, I tried it, and shook my head: "It's difficult... Weak legs. β
"This didn't kill you, it's your fate." Shan Yufei gestured to the beams of the house next to him that he had moved, the broken beams were as thick as two people hugging, if it hadn't been stuck on the mud wall at one end when it fell, I'm afraid I would have been stoned to death even if I had a backpack pad.
"Shan Dao Chief, thank you for saving us out, why did you go and come back?" I asked, Shan Yufei scratched his head, glanced at Lilac who stood up, and said, "I don't want to be told that our black-clothed door won't save you or anything, but you are really chattering, and being buried alive by rubble can't let you shut up." β
I was a little speechless and a little depressed, but I didn't get too entangled. Lilac on the side got up and hurriedly checked the injury on my back, although it was not directly pressed, but it was still a lot red after lifting the clothes.
"It seems that it is an internal injury, take care of it, and you can see it for about ten days and half a month." Shan Yufei made a rough estimate, and I looked at him with some surprise: "You still know Chinese medicine?" β
"Isn't that right? When you are a Taoist, you don't have to know everything, otherwise this bowl of rice will be unpalatable. Shan Yufei sighed with emotion, and then he looked at Lilac again, "However, when it comes to healing injuries and diseases, this is their Baiyimen's specialty. β
At this juncture, Lilac didn't care about the gains and losses of his words, she took out a handful of red wormwood from her small satchel, lit it, and smoked it around my back.
Then he opened a small jade box, picked out some transparent white lotion from his fingertips and smeared it on my back.
"Shhhh
The back that still felt hot pain just now was immediately cold through the skin and through the bones after being smeared with white lotion by cloves, as if a bucket of ice water had been splashed on the back.
"It hurts?" Lilac asked me nervously.
I shook my head and replied with some trepidation, "Cold..."
"It's... Is it the Jiaomu of the East China Sea? Shan Yufei stared at the small jade box, his voice extremely surprised.
Lilac put away the little jade box like a thief, glared at him and said, "What do you see?" β
"Damn, what's wrong? Don't forget, I dug you up! Shan Yufei was a little unconvinced.
This time it was Shan Yufei who said it reasonably, although Lilac was a little rude, but it was not unreasonable, but the gap between black and white made her have some prejudices against Shan Yufei.
I don't know if the so-called Jiao oil played a role, the hot pain on my back is quickly subsiding, and soon I will be able to stand firm on my own.
"It's amazing!" I was excited, Shan Yufei sat on the ruins on the side, pouted and said: "Your luck is really good, Jiaomu's Jiao Mu Jiao oil is a priceless thing, my uncle has been looking for half a lifetime and has not found a Jiao Mu." β
"That's you stupid people in black, if you ask us in white for advice, Jiao Mu is just a piece of cake!" Lilac repeatedly confirmed the injury on my back, and then replied.
Shan Yufei's eyebrows were raised, and he asked with a sneer: "Since you are so powerful in white clothes, do you already have a way to deal with the water Jiao under this ground?" β
As soon as Shan Yufei said this, Lilac's face suddenly changed, becoming very pale, and he looked at me, as if he had something to say.
But I was stunned when I heard this, and asked, "What water Jiao?" β
"There is a widely circulated legend in our sorcerer world, junior brother, you are just getting started, and you don't know this yet." Lilac made me sit on a big rock, and her delicate fingers kneaded the acupuncture points behind my back, moving my blood and qi, and explaining as I spoke.
"I'll tell you, I'm going to do it for two things, when will I go?" Shan Yufei snorted and took over the conversation, and without waiting for Lilac to object, he spoke to himself, "Legend has it in the sorcerer world that when this broken village was established, there were floods. Later, there were evil ghosts and monsters, and many masters in the sorcerer world came to Zhangjiacun to try to find out, but what is strange is that those famous sorcerers disappeared in Zhangjiacun silently, as if the world had evaporated. β
"Dead?" I asked.
Shan Yufei shrugged: "Who knows?" There is no one in life, no corpse in death, not only the Taoist priest of Maoshan, the Taoist priest of Zhengyi, and the great monk of Tantric Buddhism are gone, but the sages of our corpse chasing faction have also folded several in this Zhangjia Village. β
"This ...... Where does this small Zhangjia Village get so much energy? "I felt unbelievable.
The characters that Shan Yufei said must be more powerful sorcerers than him and Lilac, and those people disappeared silently in a small place like Zhangjia Village, and it was hard to imagine what they were facing.
Shan Yufei scratched his head and said in a heavy tone: "I don't know how the sages planted it, but after a master searched all the possible information, he came to an astonishing conclusion - the location of this village may be a seal." β
"Through the Yangtze River Water Chronicle, the predecessor found out that during the Tang Dynasty, the Yangtze River had flooded farmland and villages. At that time, the Si Tian supervisor was the famous Yuan Tiangang, he looked at the sky at night and found that it was a water Jiao that had become a climate and was making waves, and if he entered the sea and turned into a demon dragon, it would become a disaster. β
Yuan Tiangang played to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty at that time, Wu Zetian. Wu Zetian then ordered Yuan Tiangang's nephew, Yuan Shunchen, to preside over the arrest of Shui Jiao. Yuan Sunchen's Taoist technique is amazing, and the ancient technique traps Shui Jiao at the mouth of the Yangtze River. β
"But after all, the water Jiao is about to turn into a dragon, and it only needs one last leap. Although Yuan Sunchen trapped it, he could not suppress it. Legend has it that after he played the Son of Heaven, Wu Zetian ordered to build a stone tablet, wrote the word 'town' in his own hand, and ordered the stonemason to carve it. β
Shan Yufei paused when he said this, I was listening with relish, and suddenly I stopped and couldn't help but be a little confused, and asked, "Then what?" β
"Andβ" Shan Yufei looked behind me and Lilac with a strange expression, and slowly touched his peachwood sword with his hand.