Chapter 41: A Sad Tale
"Impossible!"
Listening to Granny Yan's words, I was like five thunderbolts, and the whole person was stupid, and then I remembered something, and said with hope: "Mother-in-law, Xiaoying, she said before, you also have that kind of ghost oil, and since you have ghost oil, is there no antidote?" ”
Old Lady Yan glared at me coldly, and said with a blank face: "No is nothing, is nothing, is the old woman still lying to you?" Hmph, that girl can't hide anything from you. ”
"I didn't mean to get into your old secrets."
I hurriedly said: "Xiao Ying, she said that a person who is in a coma with ghost oil can only be awakened by the fruit of the ghost lantern. Even if you don't have that kind of thing, you should know where it is, right? ”
Even if Old Lady Yan didn't have the fruit of the ghost lantern, I don't believe she didn't know where the ghost lantern plant grows. Ghost oil can only be developed with ghost lanterns, and since she has ghost oil, she must know where to find this plant.
"Yes, the old woman does know where the ghost lantern grows, but why should I tell you?" Old Lady Yan asked me with a sneer.
"I ......"
I didn't know how to answer for a while when she asked me, and cursed the old man in my heart, and he didn't know how to provoke Old Lady Yan when he was young, which made me in a dilemma now.
"Mother-in-law, be merciful to your old man."
In the end, I really had no choice, so I begged the old lady Yan and said, "Old fat, he is also a living life, can you bear to watch him fall asleep like this until he dies?" Even if you have any grievances in the previous generation, shouldn't it implicate our generation? ”
I really can't understand why Old Lady Yan is so disgusted with me, she just needs to tell me where the ghost lantern is, it's just a matter of talking to her, so why be so stingy?
"What does the life and death of this fat man have to do with me?"
Old Lady Yan sneered: "Hehe, but ...... That place is very dangerous, you have to go to death, the old woman will not stop you, I just don't know if you are afraid of death? ”
"I'm afraid!"
I nodded and said sincerely: "There may be no one in this world who is not afraid of death, but if I can really find an antidote to save the old fat, I am willing to take a risk, and I ask my mother-in-law to give me advice." ”
"Humph! It's really hypocritical and has to fight with the old dog at the beginning. Old Lady Yan said and suddenly glared and scolded: "I won't stop you if your kid wants to send him to death, but if you want to pay for my precious granddaughter's life, I won't agree to anything, you get out!" ”
I didn't understand what Old Lady Yan meant when she said this, so I was puzzled and asked, "I went to find an antidote, how could I harm Xiaoying?" ”
"As I said, that place is dangerous."
Old Lady Yan's eyes widened, and she snorted coldly: "You go to that place to find an antidote, there is death and no life." And my granddaughter knows that you are going to that place to find an antidote, and she will definitely not listen to my dissuasion to go with you, what are you not harming her by doing this? ”
I was stunned when I heard this, and said, "I'll go alone, and I won't take Xiaoying with me." She is injured now, and what she needs most is rest, so how can she go with me? ”
"Her feet are on her, and she doesn't even listen to me, an old woman, can you stop her? Joke! ”
"If you really want to go, I can fulfill you, but you have to promise me two conditions first."
As soon as I heard that there was hope, I hurriedly asked, "What conditions?" As long as I can do it, I can say yes. ”
"Of course you can do it."
Old Lady Yan said sadly: "The first condition, you must break the mountain whip and give up inheriting the mountain guard, can you do this?" ”
I didn't expect Old Lady Yan to make such a request, and I hesitated for a while.
Actually, I don't really care about the profession of Mountain Keeper, on the contrary, I am a little afraid of it. But this is the old man's meaning, and the mountain whip was refined by the old man himself, and now I want to break it, and I am somewhat reluctant in my heart.
Old Lady Yan was not in a hurry, and stood aside and looked at me.
I was silent for a while, and finally nodded, "Yes!" ”
As he spoke, he took off the mountain whip and broke it in front of her to prove his determination.
However, Old Lady Yan came over to stop me instead, and sneered: "Don't worry, I still have a second condition that I haven't said, if you break it now, you will regret it when the time comes." ”
"What is the second condition?" I asked.
"Divorce the mountain god Niangniang, marry my granddaughter!"
"What?"
I looked at Old Lady Yan, the whole person was stupid, shook my head and said coldly: "This is impossible, I have married the mountain god Niangniang, she has a deep affection for me, how can I divorce her for no reason?" ”
"The ancients divorced their wives without any reason."
Old Lady Yan snorted coldly and continued, "Besides, you are alone and a ghost, so you shouldn't be together. The mountain god Niangniang's identity is sensitive, and people from both good and evil factions are paying close attention to everything about her, and it will not end well if you insist on being with her. It's better to stay away from right and wrong and live a good life with my granddaughter. ”
"Impossible!"
I gritted my teeth and said, "I can't do this condition, so please ask my mother-in-law to change it!" ”
"I knew you'd say that, you go. I'm in the middle of a whirlpool, and I don't want to come to my granddaughter again, and the old woman is counting on her to give me my end. ”
Old Lady Yan waved her hand at me and ordered the eviction.
"But mother-in-law ......"
I was unwilling in my heart, and I wanted to say something, when Yan Xiaoying's weak voice suddenly came from outside: "Tianyan...... Come on, I've got something for you! ”
I looked at Old Lady Yan hesitantly, and the other party snorted coldly and pinned his head to the side.
When I walked out of the hall and came to the courtyard, I happened to see Yan Xiaoying's door ajar, and she leaned against the door, looking at me with a pale face.
I walked over quickly, held her up, and reproached, "It's not good to lie down and rest when you're injured, and run around." ”
As he spoke, he helped her into the house.
Yan Xiaoying was only wearing a wrap at this time, her abdomen was wrapped in several loops, and the sword wound on her shoulder had already been scarred.
Putting her back on the bed, I pulled the quilt over her.
"Grandma...... What did she say? Yan Xiaoying looked at me and asked softly.
"Ahh
I shook my head and smiled helplessly: "Mother-in-law, she doesn't want to tell me where the ghost lantern is, although Lao Fei is not in danger for the time being, but if you don't eat or drink like this, I'm afraid I won't be able to survive it for a few days." ”
When Yan Xiaoying heard this, a smile suddenly appeared on her face, and she reached out and took out a sheet from under the pillow and handed it to me: "Grandma, she is like this, the knife mouth is tofu heart, you can look at this." ”
I took the paper in Yan Xiaoying's hand and found that there were sketches of mountains drawn on it, with a circle in the center of the drawing, and the word "forest house" was marked next to it.
"Is the ghost lantern plant growing in this place in the forest house?" I asked Yan Xiaoying.
"It's not!"
Yan Xiaoying shook her head lightly and told me: "This place is in the hinterland of the 100,000 Great Mountains, and there is a village called Tianlong Village, where there are all seedlings that do not interact with outsiders. The forest house is adjacent to Tianlong Village, and the owner of the house is not Miao or Han. Grandma said that they were the remnants of the Gaoshan tribe who had been wiped out, but they had assimilated into the Han Chinese, and as long as they were given enough payment, they would tell us where the ghost lanterns were. ”
"The remnants of the Gaoshan Clan? Is it possible to communicate normally? I asked with a frown.
"Yes, my grandma and your grandfather and a few other people went to look for the ghost lantern before, and they were asked to be guides."
Yan Xiaoying told me the shocking news that when the old man was young, he and Granny Yan and his party of seven had gone to look for the ghost lantern plant. Later, I don't know what happened, only my grandfather and Granny Yan came back alive.
It was precisely because of that time that the old man and Granny Yan had a conflict, and soon after, my grandfather was assigned to the forest farm to guard the mountain, while Granny Yan opened a coffin shop, and the two have not been in contact with each other since then.
Yan Xiaoying told me all this from Old Lady Yan.
She said to me, "Grandma's corpse poison nail was actually brought out from that place. ”
I couldn't have imagined that the old man had such a past, but unfortunately Yan Xiaoying didn't know much, otherwise I could have asked more about the old man's old things.
Yan Xiaoying said to me in a deep groan, "The forest house in the depths of the 100,000 Great Mountain is not too far away from us, because we are now on the edge of the 100,000 Great Mountain. However, the road is not passable, so if you want to walk, you need to walk for two days. During the time when she was looking for the ghost lantern fruit, she would ask Old Lady Yan to help take care of Lao Fei.
"Thank you!"
I folded the map and put it away, thanking Yan Xiaoying.
"It's me who wants to thank you, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to take revenge, do you want to hear my story now?" Yan Xiaoying looked at the ceiling, looking a little lonely.
"I'm curious, what exactly did you go through when you were a child, and how you were adopted by Old Lady Yan later." I nodded.
Then Yan Xiaoying told me her story, a sad story.
Yan Xiaoying was born into a family that was not good, and her father drank and gambled excessively and even secretly took drugs. She was only five years old when her father was bedridden and her brother was a year older.
Men are the pillars of the family, and after Yan Xiaoying's father fell ill, all the burdens of life fell on her mother, in order to earn money to buy medicine for her and her brother to go to school. Yan Xiaoying's mother had no choice but to go to the Fengyue place of Shili Skin Hospital to work and make money.
But paper can never contain the fire, and after the incident was known to the people in the village, Yan Xiaoying's mother was first severely beaten, and finally kicked out of the village, leaving her husband and children.
Soon after, her father died, and she and her brother were adopted by her uncle, but not only did her uncle not pay for their education, but the two siblings were beaten every day, and their lives were like hell.
Later, Yan Xiaoying's mother secretly took them away and let the two siblings live with the old director in the skin hospital.
Yan Xiaoying can't remember what happened, but she only remembers that one day, the old director of the skin hospital suddenly got angry and hung her mother on a wooden beam with a rope and whipped her, scolding while beating, and the bloody scene, Yan Xiaoying remembers it very well.
The next day, several big men who were in charge of Fengyue Field came to find someone and had a violent argument with the old dean, and finally they killed the old dean by mistake and buried the body in the back mountain.
A few days later, a Taoist priest suddenly appeared and brutally killed all the people in Fengyue Field, only a woman and a little girl escaped.
That Taoist priest is the Evergreen Taoist, he is the only son of the old dean, and he has been practicing in the Taoist sect since he was a child. The woman and the little girl who escaped were none other than Yan Xiaoying, and the crazy woman I saw with Lao Fei yesterday.
Yan Xiaoying didn't elaborate on how the Changqing Dao people killed those people, but thinking about it, the scene must have been very cruel and bloody, especially her brother, who was suffocated alive in a wooden box.
Later, Old Lady Yan picked up Yan Xiaoying by a river, adopted her, provided her with school, and taught her a unique cultivation method.
For more than 20 years, Yan Xiaoying has always wanted to seek revenge from the Evergreen Daoist, so when she reached junior high school, she dropped out of school and stayed at home......