Summer

It's August, the hottest and hardest time of the year, and the sun is scorching.

On the outskirts of Ninghai City, there is a barren mountain, which has always been inaccessible, but today it is a little different.

An ancient old man, holding a young girl, was walking to the top of the barren mountain.

The girl's hair was messy, as if she hadn't taken care of it for a long time, she was wearing a floral long shirt, and the lower body was a pair of blue denim shorts, a pair of long curvaceous legs, but at the moment she looked a little weak, and she was a little unsteady when she walked.

"Wanwan, hold on, just wait until you reach the top of the mountain." Every time the old man took three steps, he said to the girl beside him.

At this moment, the girl's lips were chapped and her face was extremely pale, she just nodded and did not speak, her forehead was covered with dense beads of sweat.

On the barren mountain, the footsteps of the two gradually drifted away.

From time to time, one or two wild bird calls can be heard in the mountains, echoing over and over again.

Occasionally, the wind blows, and the withered yellow artemisia grass is blown with a rattle.

All over the mountains and fields, in addition to the withered grass, what catches your eye is still withered grass.

"Grandpa, why did you bring me here, it's lifeless here." The girl frowned, obviously disliking the view.

The old man smiled, but did not answer, but continued to walk towards the top of the mountain, holding the girl.

I don't know how long I walked, but the old man led his granddaughter and stopped under a towering tree.

This tree is very tall, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it goes straight into the sky, at least the people below cannot see the top of it, but it has no green leaves, only the bare branches, which are very in contrast to the withered grass of this mountain.

The old man put his arm around the girl, asked her to sit down carefully in front of the tree, and looked at the girl's jade arm worriedly

I saw that the girl's arms were almost cracked, and there was a black line on them, which was spreading rapidly at the moment.

Seeing this, the old man hurriedly knelt down on his knees and said to the bare tree: "Mr. Jiang, the boy Su Jianye came to visit with his granddaughter, and I hope you will come out to see you." ”

The old man's voice echoed in the empty mountains, but there was no response.

The girl under the tree was a little drowsy at the moment, and when she heard the old man's words, she raised her eyelids with difficulty, and looked at her grandfather strangely, very puzzled by his actions, but did not ask, perhaps because she did not have the strength to ask.

The old man said again: "Mr. Jiang, my granddaughter Su Juan, has been suffering from illness for twenty-three years, and if it wasn't for Mr. Twenty-three years ago, I am afraid that she would have been dead long ago. ”

"Back then, Mr. used an elixir to suppress the disease, so that she lived in the world like an ordinary person, but you asserted that she would not live to be twenty-four years old, and now in more than a month, it will be her twenty-fourth birthday, the kid is seventy and six this year, which is already an ancient year, but the most painful thing in this world is that the white-haired person sends the black-haired person, sir, please save her."

Just as the old man was talking, a man appeared in the barren mountain where there were originally only two people, who looked no more than twenty-five or sixteen years old, dressed out of place, dressed in a black robe, with long hair hanging down his shoulders, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, but he had the demeanor of a hermit, and the most attractive thing was his eyes, full of vicissitudes.

The man raised his eyes and glanced at the two of them, and when his eyes fell on the black line on Su Juan's body, a trace of surprise flashed imperceptibly in his eyes, but it was fleeting, and he quickly returned to normal and said: "There have been no guests in my Jiangshan for 20 years, let's talk in another place." ”

When the black-robed man said this, he saw that the scene around him had changed drastically.

The original barren mountain, in a moment, turned into a huge peak, straight into the sky, like a pillar of heaven, the ancient trees in the mountain towering to the sky, flowers everywhere. Several magpies in the tree are also faintly visible.

And the old man and the girl only felt that they did not know when they had come to a plum forest.

The fragrance hit, and it was completely different from the previous lifelessness.

Occasionally, the breeze blows, and the petals fall with the wind, and they fall on Su Juan's pale face, which looks a little more energetic.

Su Xuan, who was originally drowsy, also opened his eyes at this moment, took a breath of air, picked up the soft voice that fell on his face and asked, "Brother, is this a plum blossom?" ”

Brother?

The man smiled slightly when he heard this, nodded and said, "It's the plum blossom." ”

Su Juan asked puzzledly: "Didn't plum blossoms grow in the cold winter wax moon, how can there be plum blossoms in August now?" ”

Su Jianye on the side squeezed his eyes and signaled her not to talk nonsense.

Su Juan had no choice but to stick out her tongue in embarrassment and stopped talking.

"Sit!

The man smiled and pointed to the two stone benches on the side.

Su Jianye nodded and sat down at the stone table.

The stone table was very simple, with only one flask and three glasses that were already full.

The wine glass was still exuding a faint residual warmth at the moment, as if this man had expected their arrival and specially prepared it.

"Please!

Su Jianye looked at the black-robed man, and also at the frail granddaughter on the side, and seemed to hesitate and said, "Mr. Jiang." ”

"This wine is made from the plum blossoms of this plum forest, and it is okay to drink some of it."

The man spoke.

Afterwards, the man drank all the wine in his cup.

Seeing him say this, Su Jianye nodded, and naturally followed the other party's example and drank the cup of plum blossom wine in the water cup.

Then he picked up another cup and gave it to his granddaughter to drink.

After drinking this glass of plum blossom wine, Su Juan only felt that the dark spots on her body were gradually receding, and the chapped and blackened skin gradually became brighter.

Old man's face. There was a look of surprise on the top, a mere glass of water and wine, it had such a miraculous effect, but when she noticed her granddaughter's condition, she couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"Wanwan, thank you sir for saving your life." After Su Juan noticed the change in herself, she hurriedly leaned down with difficulty and bowed down.

The man shook his head and smiled lightly and said, "There is no need for this, I have a lot of fate with your Su family, and now I am just doing a little bit of help, besides."

Speaking of this, the man's eyes froze, looking at the wisp of black qi that gradually disappeared and was hidden in Su Juan's forehead, and said, "Besides, I can't help your illness." ”

"How could this be like this, sir, this glass of water and wine ......."

The man shook his head, apparently saying that the wine, while effective, was not a cure for her ailments.

"Then can you give her another elixir from the year to renew her life for another 24 years." Su Jianye said anxiously.

The man filled himself with a glass of wine again and did not speak.

Seeing that his grandfather was worried, Su Juan laughed at himself and said: "Grandpa, life and death are fateful, since my brother said that he has no way, then naturally there will be no fake, we don't have to embarrass him." ”