Chapter 262: Ordinary Couples
After the old woman ate some porridge, she told Ling Luo a story about the village.
"Our village is a small village closest to the sea, isolated from the outside world, living a self-sufficient life. Fifty years ago, the village was hit by a catastrophe. Some officers and soldiers came, and all the men in the village were arrested, it is said that they were strong men, and the adult men went to the front, and the minor ones stayed behind the barracks to work as coolies. They didn't come back, and they probably all died on the battlefield. Thirty years ago, there was a plague in the village, and everyone died, leaving me alone. The old woman said that here she took out a hairpin carved from wood from her arms, and her eyes were a little ethereal, as if she had returned to before.
Ling Luo didn't interrupt her, just sat on the edge of the bed and looked at her like this. The emotions that flashed in her eyes were filled with joy, disappointment, and loneliness. Maybe it's what she experienced before, and this memory has supported her to live to this day.
"You must be wondering why I escaped a plague, right? He gave me this hairpin, and he said that he would marry me when he returned, but I waited for fifty years, and he never came back. The old woman fell into deep thought again when she said this, and then continued: "He is a doctor, and he likes to let me soak in medicinal baths on weekdays, and let me taste herbs with him, so my whole body has antibodies, and ordinary plague and disease can't do anything to me at all." ”
"No wonder, I can vaguely smell a faint smell of medicine from you." Ling Luo nodded and said, this is the same as the body she had before. The reason why the old woman was sick in bed was because this long-standing knot in her heart had dragged her down.
"Even now, I hate having such a body. If not, I would have gone with the people of this village thirty years ago. I won't wait for so many years to be alone and have no hope. The old woman sighed and said, she also thought about cutting herself off, but she was always afraid, what if he came back and she was no longer there?
"No news is the best news, maybe he is alive somewhere, maybe he is trying to find a way to come back, as long as he is alive, there is hope." Ling Luo's eyes flashed slightly, and she said, reminding her of herself and Yu Zhan in the past. She has been a human being for two lifetimes, and she knows what death represents. It's just that even life is gone, so what hope is there? Therefore, she wants to live in every possible way.
"Yes, I've lived a long life, and I'm not as clear and thorough as you think. Thank you, girl. It's just that it's almost dusk, and I don't have much hope. You can take this and live well for me. The old woman handed her the wooden hairpin in her hand, and her eyes were extremely firm.
Ling Luo didn't want to brush off her kindness and expectations, she knew that the old woman's potential meant to let her take this wooden hairpin to help her find someone. Ling Luo looked carefully at the wooden hairpin in his hand, this is an extremely rough carved wooden hairpin, plum blossom shape, the top of the hairpin is engraved with two words, looking at those two words, Ling Luo's eyes shrunk.
"This is his name, his name is Hua Chun." The old woman looked at her gaze and fell on those two words, and was silent for a long time before she spoke.
Hua Chun? Is it the Hua Chun they are looking for? Or is it just a coincidence.
"Don't worry, if I have a chance to find him, I will definitely put this in his hands." The corners of Ling Luo's mouth hooked slightly, and he said.
"It doesn't matter, after all, I will never find him again in this life, and the vicissitudes of life today are better than leaving the beauty of the past." It was at this moment that the old woman suddenly looked away, sighed and said, letting go of all her obsessions.
Because of her obsession, she wasted her best youth. For the promise he once made, she kept it all her life, and regarded her feelings as the whole of her life. Now she suddenly understands that feelings are actually just a mark in life, a part of life, not the whole of life, and she is too persistent.
Ling Luo and Yu Zhan stayed in this uninhabited village for half a month, and after curing the old woman's illness, the two continued to set off and headed for the place where Hua Chun had last appeared.
"I didn't expect that we would accidentally stumble into the Fangyuan Continent. Now we are going to Yincheng to see if there is any trace of Huachun. Ling Luo patted the dust on his hands and said, The mountains behind this uninhabited village are rich in medicinal materials. Especially those medicinal herbs that are hard to buy, there are really too many to count. How could she let go of such a good opportunity, naturally she picked two big bags full of them. After all, now that they are penniless, if they want to live, they naturally have to make money.
Ling Luo looked up at the rising sun in the sky and sighed, now, it is really prosperous. They are no longer war kings or medicine girls, just an ordinary couple.
"Silver City is thousands of miles away from here, and if you want to get there, you have to cross the entire Fangyuan Continent." Yu Zhan has a super strong memory, and the map has already been imprinted in his mind, so he thought about it and said.
"Don't worry, let's go on a tour, anyway, you're sick, with me by your side, you won't be able to do it for a while." Ling Luo raised his eyebrows and smiled.
They are now in the northernmost part of the Fangyuan Continent, the terrain conditions are extremely harsh, and the northernmost part of the Fangyuan Continent is almost inhabited, and they are also the poorest. The North is also one of the poorest countries, they are in a closed state, they have no economic exchanges with other countries, they are locked up, and they are self-sufficient.
And the silver city they were going to was in the southern country, which was an extremely rich and developed place, two places in the opposite direction, making Ling Luo feel that Hua Chun on the wooden hairpin and the person they were looking for were definitely not the same person.
The legend of the Hua family is hidden in an extremely secret place, and now no one knows where they are, but the Hua family has some legends on the rivers and lakes from time to time, and there will be some traces from time to time.
Stopping and stopping along the way, they soon arrived at the imperial city of the northern kingdom. Ling Luo's original two large bags of medicinal materials had been condensed into one bag, and the fresh medicinal materials had been dried into dried medicinal materials along the way, some of which were made into pills by her, and some of which were sold cheaply by her.
"Yuzhan, there is not much silver left of the money we get, and I plan to exchange this bag of medicinal materials for silver." Ling Luo padded the medicine bag in his hand and said.