Chapter 414: The Past (1)
Men in Black:
I have lived on this Penglai Island since I was a child, and like the ancestors here, I have lived a life without fighting with the world.
We live as beautiful and joyful as the prosperity here.
Until one day, the kind-hearted purple clothes saved a young man who was washed to the shore by the waves.
When he was rescued, he couldn't breathe, and it was Ziyi who used his elixir to renew his breath.
The young man said that he was sailing on the sea, but he did not meet the enemy who was chasing him, and he could not defeat him, and while fleeing for his life, he accidentally encountered a storm and saw with his own eyes that the great ship was swept into the water by the waves, and then he came to our island without knowing it.
The waves he said must be the sea gateway to our Penglai Island, and this secret is on our island, and only the patriarch and the patriarch's protector know.
His name is Sima Changfeng, according to him, after the famous Sima League leader in the martial arts, this trip was his first trip out of the rivers and lakes to experience, who knew that he encountered an accident.
He is different from the people on our island, he knows a lot of things that we don't know, and he tells Ziyi about their outside world all day long.
He was the first foreign guest on our island in hundreds of years, and the people of our island treated him very kindly, treating him with the highest etiquette, and the simple people did not have the slightest defense against him, especially the purple clothes.
In those days, Ziyi stayed with him every day.
Ziyi is the daughter of the patriarch and the next patriarch. And I am the next Dharma Protector. The protector of the Dharma always has to be by the patriarch's side. So, in those days, I always followed the two of them.
They found a stranded ship near the reef beach, cleaned it up, and often went to play on it.
Ziyi is very lively, she always thinks I am too quiet, too cold, like a shadow, and will only follow her silently. And that Sima Changfeng is different, he is humorous and eloquent, and he can always make Ziyi laugh constantly.
One day, he suddenly asked Ziyi what her birthday was, and Ziyi said that he didn't remember, and the people on our island didn't care much about it.
He thought it was strange and asked, "Is that the case for everyone?" β
Ziyi innocently told him, "Yes. β
He asked, "Don't you all have birthdays?" I see that there are a lot of old people on the island, and they don't celebrate their birthdays? β
At that time, we didn't even understand what birthday celebrations were. Ziyi just shook his head vigorously, and then asked rhetorically, "Why do you want to live, how do you want to live?" β
He laughed, as if he didn't know how to explain it, and then joked, "No, you people don't even remember their age, do they?" β
Ziyi thought about it very seriously, flashed her big innocent eyes, and said, "Why do you want to remember?" I heard the elders of the clan say that we have to live for more than 200 years in our lives, and if we are in good health, we will even live to 300 years. β
Sima Changfeng was shocked, he thought that Ziyi had also learned to joke, and he also made fun of Ziyi's jokes for being naΓ―ve, how could a person live to be three hundred years old.
Ziyi heard his teasing, but she was in a hurry, and she had to call me over and let me testify, and what she said was true.
In this way, Ziyi was in front of him and told everything about the island. At that time, we didn't know that the life span of people outside was only 100 years, which was very different from us, so we didn't have any precautions.
One day, as usual, I went to the patriarch's house early in the morning to look for Ziyi, only to find that Ziyi was not in the room at all. The patriarch also said that he had not seen her in the morning.
I felt a little uneasy in my heart, as if I was afraid of something, and I was very anxious.
I rushed to Sima Changfeng's place. Usually when you can't find purple clothes, you can always find them when you go there.
But that day, when I ran there, I didn't hear the cheerful laughter of the purple clothes, nor did I see Sima Changfeng's figure. And the boat moored at the reef beach is gone.
Sima Changfeng deceived Ziyi into going to the outside world.
Our ancestors have never been to the outside world in generations.
The patriarch was so angry that he fell seriously ill, and then his thoughts became ill, and there were no more stars in his eyes.
I'm not happy anymore. The happy girl who accompanied me here every day to watch the sunrise and sunset, and the full moon was gone, and my heart was empty.
I think about her every day and every night. I am her protector, how can I not be optimistic about her, not by her side, I don't know how she is doing in the outside world.
I begged the patriarch to let me go to the outside world to find the purple clothes, and knelt in front of his house for a day and a night, and the patriarch finally agreed. The tribesmen knew that I was going out, so they joined forces to make me a boat.
The night before I left, the patriarch secretly told me the routes and tips for leaving and entering the island, and told me that I must bring the purple clothes back.
I took the boat made for me by my clan and crossed the ocean, only to find that the outside world was really big, and the sea of people was vast, and I couldn't find purple clothes at all.
I kept walking, kept looking, and asked many people, where is the master of the martial arts alliance, where is Sima Changfeng, and they all said they don't know. Later, I found out that I was asking ordinary people in the fishing village, and they naturally didn't know anything about martial arts.
I searched hard to no avail, but I met a group of people in the rivers and lakes in a wine shop, and overheard them talk about some things on the rivers and lakes, when there was a big event in the martial arts, they were going to hold a competition on the top of Huashan Mountain, and choose a new martial arts alliance leader. I followed those Jianghu people all the way to the top of Huashan.
There, I didn't see Ziyi as scheduled, but I found that the previous martial arts alliance leader, Sima Changfeng's father, Sima Kong, used the internal force of our Penglai Island.
How can he have the internal strength of our Penglai Island?
He became the leader of the martial arts alliance again and returned home in style.
I secretly followed him and saw Sima Changfeng at his house. Sima Changfeng was respectful to his father and obeyed his orders.
After he returned to the room, I followed him in and grabbed him and asked him, where is Ziyi?
At this time, a woman's voice sounded and asked him, "Changfeng, who is he?" β
This voice is not purple. It was a young and beautiful woman, his wife.
He already has a wife, but what about the purple clothes?
I asked him again, but he lied and said, "Purple clothes? I don't know, isn't she on your island? Don't the people of your island never go out? β
"You tricked her out, otherwise how did you get back?" I fought back my anger and confronted him.
"No, I'm afraid you won't let me leave, so I walked at night, and before leaving, I hadn't seen Ziyi at all." He's still lying.