Chapter 13: Entering the Twenty-Third Floor of the Thatched House (1)
There was no dream all night, and the crossbowman slept soundly.
Early the next morning, he didn't care about the faintly painful wound on his body, so he walked out of the back door of the Taoist temple with the broom given by the old Taoist last night. He didn't stop too much on the ladder and headed straight for the top of the oak roof, where a shadow was shining as he cleared the cloud that covered the intersection of the last floor.
When Senior Sister saw him coming, she had a faint smile on her face, and a pair of beautiful eyes stared at him and said softly, "Little Senior Brother, have you thought about looking for the last thatched house?" ”
The crossbow man nodded firmly, "Well, senior sister has kept you waiting for a long time." ”
Looking at the resolute look on the little junior brother's face, she was a little happy and a little worried, and she just hoped that this last layer would not disappoint him.
The crossbow man saw her senior sister's worries and said, "Senior sister, don't worry, no matter what the result is, I will accept it calmly, you don't have to worry about me." ”
Senior sister knows his character, and it is impossible to make him give up, so I will accompany you, what if you die.
The crossbow man didn't expect such a beautiful woman who did not enter the world and did not eat the fireworks of the world to make such a big decision for him at this moment, it was a resolute decision that she had never had, and it was also the first resolute decision in her life, and it was also the beginning of every resolute decision she made for this young man in the future, and these little junior brothers now knew nothing.
Looking at the path of the branches that stretched away, the corners of the crossbowman's mouth flashed a wry smile, even if he failed. He looked for the back of his senior sister who had walked a few meters in front of him and followed.
The figure gradually entered the sea of clouds, and a faint fragrance floated in front of it, which was emanating from the senior sister, which smelled particularly good, and today's senior sister looked a little more beautiful than usual.
After a few teas, the two came to a stone gate, the stone door was simply inserted in the branches, as if the branches were cut into two sections from the middle, and the stone gate was surrounded by layers of clouds and mist, there were several big characters covered by clouds and mist at the top of the stone gate, the senior sister waved her sleeves, the cloud and mist retreated, the clouds and mist dispersed, and several big characters clearly appeared in the field of vision of the two: "Reincarnation Gate"
Senior Sister looked at the word "Reincarnation Gate" with a little solemn face, and the crossbow man standing on the side asked, "Senior sister, where is this place, why is there a stone gate blocking the way?" ”
Senior Sister was still staring at the three words on the door, and he said, "If you enter the reincarnation gate, you will definitely suffer from reincarnation, and the reincarnation gate is the beginning of the test." ”
The crossbow man listened to the somewhat heavy words, and his heart became nervous, but after thinking about it for a moment, this kind of suffering is nothing compared to everything he has experienced before, the big deal is still in vain, it's a big deal to stay in the sky for a lifetime, it's a big deal... He didn't dare to think about it anymore, and in that case, I was going to break in.
His eyes were fierce, his fists were clenched, his teeth were clenched, and he held his breath and said to his senior sister in a deep voice, "No matter how dangerous the road ahead is, I will try, you don't want to follow me, you stay here..."
But when he finished speaking, the senior sister put two slender fingers against his lips, and said to him with tenderness in her eyes, "Little junior brother, don't be stupid, the senior sister said that the last time the senior sister will accompany you, even if it is difficult, even if..."
Looking at the very weak back, the crossbowman seemed to see his mother's appearance, his heart was very warm, and he warmed the first ray of sunshine in the morning.
The senior sister then drew a few runes with her hands on the stone gate, only to hear a loud noise, the stone gate slowly shrank towards the branches, revealing a space as black as ink, and a mournful shout came out of the darkness, but the figure at the stone gate did not flinch at all, she turned around and showed a beautiful smile to him, and the figure gradually fell into the darkness.
The crossbow man did not hesitate, and rushed in, when he was in the dark, there was no back of the senior sister in front of him, he ran quickly in the dark, trying to find the senior sister quickly, but the darkness was like an abyss, and he was trapped in a chaos. He struggled to break through the restraints, but it didn't make any sense, and his body became tighter and tighter until he lost consciousness.
The crossbow man woke up and found that he was a sturdy farmer in front of him, and next to the Chinese character was a peasant woman with a little pale face, and the man was holding a newborn baby in his arms, and the two of them were staring intently at the little baby in the man's arms.
The baby grew up day by day under the careful care of the couple, and the man was an authentic farmer, and every time he finished his farm work, he would go to the market to buy something fun or delicious for his children. The child grew up day by day, he was already a teenager and sent to a private school by the couple, let the husband teach him to read, he knew that his parents were very hard, in order to support him and provide for him to go to school, his father's back was obviously bent a lot, and his mother's hair was also covered with frost, so he worked hard to get fame to repay them.
Looking at the young figure in front of him, who looked very much like himself, the crossbowman thought of his parents, and his heart was a little sour.
The young man studied hard for decades, and his hard work paid off, he finally passed the Jinshi and became an official in the capital, because he was appreciated by the emperor, he was like a fish in water in the officialdom, but he had long forgotten his old father and mother who were far away in his hometown.
One year, there was a great drought in the world, he was demoted by the emperor for improper planning and went to a desolate town, he got there, looked at a few words on the city gate, his heart was like a knife, this is his hometown that he had forgotten for more than ten years, remembering the blurred figure of the old father and mother at home, he ran to the small village like crazy, and when he entered the small courtyard with broken cards, he didn't have time to sigh, and opened the door of the hut with trembling hands, the hut was full of thick dust, covered with cobwebs, looking at the two tattered spirit cards placed in the corner, He fell to his knees, crying hoarsely. Until he passed out...
Seeing this, the crossbowman wiped his already moist eyes with his hands, and there was hatred in his heart, but more sadness and pain.
The scene in front of him gradually ethereal, he was already on a peak, behind him was the abyss, he was holding a woman covered in wounds in his arms, the woman's face was pale, but she couldn't hide her beautiful face, the woman struggled in his arms, he hugged the woman tighter, and a faint voice spit out from the woman's black and purple mouth, "Ah Lang, let me go, they are coming, you have a chance to escape without me." He shook his head, wiped the bloody tears from the woman's eyes with a bloodshot arm, and said to her gently, "I have owed you a lot in this life, how can I meet you again in the next life, I only want this life, then you want to go, I will accompany you." ”
The woman put away the sadness and despair on her face, looked at his handsome face, showed a smile that was extremely beautiful, and hugged him a little tighter.
"Boy, look where you're going, hahaha..." A few hideous laughter came from behind, and a group of black-clothed masked men with various killing weapons suddenly poured out from all directions, he took a few steps back with the woman in his arms, and faced the killer who came to seek his life, the corners of his mouth hooked up with a sneer, "You lackeys who work for others, unscrupulous means to achieve the goal, so what, the master is here, come and kill me, hahaha..."
The black-clothed masked killer heard the taunt and was about to step forward to kill, when he suddenly saw a mouthful of blood spit out of his face, and at this moment, there was a white hosta inserted in a blood hole in his chest, and his face was full of disbelief and loss. Scenes came to his mind, they met in the rivers and lakes, knew each other in tribulation, experienced so many lives and deaths, and finally betrayed him.
He pushed the woman in his arms away, and then looked at the face that was originally overwhelming, it was so strange and cold at this time, he yelled at her miserably, roaring hoarsely, and finally squeezed out a sentence, "Ahya, have you ever really loved me?" The woman said a little impatiently, "The husband and wife are originally birds of the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster comes, what an infatuated little Langjun." The tone was full of sarcasm.
Hearing the woman's words, he felt sad, and the blood in his chest had flowed all over his hair, from hot to cold, he coughed heavily, step by step backwards, the woman saw it, and screamed, "Stop him." A few dark shadows flew by, but it was too late.
The moment he fell into the cliff, he clearly saw the familiar figure of the woman in his memory.
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"Hey, wake up, wake up." A voice came into the ears of the crossbowman, he slowly opened his eyes, looked around, and found that he was in a dilapidated small temple, next to a sloppy little beggar was looking at him with a worried face, the little beggar saw him wake up and breathed a sigh of relief, and said to him, "Little cabbage, why are you fainting from hunger, there is someone at the gate of the city to give porridge, let's hurry up." The little beggar took him by the hand and ran out of the temple.
At this time, he found that he was wearing a few pieces of rotten cloth on his fleshy and fleshy little body, barefoot, and a little face full of thick sores, so he was dragged by the little beggar and ran wildly. When he arrived at the city gate, the little beggar was a little disappointed, because the shadow of the porridge had long since disappeared from the soup kitchen. The frustrated two sat under the city gate like this, and the little beggar suddenly carefully took out a dirty white-faced steamed bun from his rag pocket, tore most of it and handed it to him, with a simple smile on his face.
The two of them chewed white flour steamed buns in small bites, and would smile and laugh at each other from time to time.
A few years later, the little beggar joined the army, and on the night of his departure, the two of them stole a small pot of wine from the inn, and drank it until dawn with the moonlight in the small temple. It rained lightly in the morning, and the sky was a little dark, and the little beggar turned to leave and said, "Little cabbage, I will come back to pick you up when I am famous in the army." He nodded, and watched the little beggar disappear into the rain before coming to his senses.
Later, he became a young man in the inn in the city, and after a few years, the innkeeper saw that he was shrewd and capable, so he married his daughter to him, and handed the inn to him by the way. After a few years, the invasion of foreign enemies burned and plundered everywhere, and he was about to go to the small city where he was, one night, a bloodstained figure entered the door of the inn, and the inn that had already closed was only left alone at the counter at the moment, and he noticed it as soon as the figure entered the inn, and when he looked at it, he realized that the person was the little beggar of the year, he hurriedly helped him up, and he also recognized that the person who came was the little cabbage of the year, and the two did not speak, so they stood in place and suffered from it.
After recovering his emotions a little, the two of them talked, and several times he asked if his injury mattered, but he didn't care about bragging about his experience in the past few years, and by the way, he begged for a pot of wine to drink, and after thirty years of wine, he gently put it in his ear and said, "Little cabbage, I entered the city this time to find out if there are any convenient paths in the city to enter the city, and I have been reinforced by the imperial court, can you take me to see it." He nodded, and without saying much so, led him out of the inn.
Found the path into the city, the little beggar said that he had to go out of the city to tell first, so he went out of the city overnight, and before leaving, he did not forget to say to him, "Little cabbage, the way of the world has changed, you have to be careful." ”
Before dawn in the morning, a horn sounded throughout the city, the foreign enemy burned and looted on the streets, he was awakened by the noise, looking at the city that was already full of messes, his heart ached, accompanied by a broken door, several military barbarians broke into the inn, he looked at the figure of the man at the head, wanted to say something, only to see the man order, the man in the inn, his wife and children fell in a pool of blood, and the figure was looking at him with a sneer, "Little cabbage, this world has really changed." ”
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