Chapter 3, The First Encounter in the Red Forest (2)
Yue Yue didn't stay in her room directly, but went back to her room to change into clothes that were easy to move, ate a few pieces of pastries that she hadn't finished yesterday, picked up the remaining pieces from the plate, and went to Xianhu Garden again.
At this time, it was already three poles in the sun.
The bright sun shone in the Xian Lake and then refracted and hit Yue Yue's face, which was very dazzling.
Yue Yue squinted and sat on the stone by the lake, looking at the closed door in front of her, thinking of seeing the woods in the door inside when she went in, and thinking that her father would know if she said to go in, her curiosity began to swell again.
She wanted to know what was in that forest that their Yue family had to protect when they abandoned their children, what would be the things that the family rules had not allowed to touch, and what Yue Ronglei saw back then before he lost his life.
"Since I'm going to go in sooner or later, it's not impossible to go in now, right?" Yue Yue muttered in a low voice, "It's definitely not okay to go in from here" She thought of that forest, it seemed that it should be a forest with the red leaf forest in Bishan, so if you enter from Bishan, you can directly lead to that door?
Yue Yue thought about it, and nodded as if she had persuaded herself.
The red leaf forest, in fact, is the maple forest, Bishan gives birth to the red forest, and I don't know what the predecessors thought about naming it.
Although it is summer, the maple trees in this forest seem to be different from other places, and the leaves turn very fast, and now there are many leaves that have turned red.
If after a while, the whole forest from Bishan has turned red, which is particularly spectacular, and the Yue family's mansion of more than 900 acres stands in it, and from the outside, it looks like the palace of some empire, and the surrounding mountains look a little thin.
But the maple forest in Bishan wrapped all around this palace, and it was impossible to see where this mansion would end.
But this already magnificent palace-like mansion is nothing compared to the entire red leaf forest that surrounds it, and if you stand on any of the surrounding mountains and look at it, you can't see where this red leaf forest extends.
But the strange thing is that when you look back, you can look at the gate of the Yue family's house, and the forest in front of you seems to have been cut off, a straight line, red on this side and green on that side.
Although Yue Yue is not too familiar with the road of Bishan, but every year during the Qingming Festival, the patriarch will take the lead to go to Bishan to worship the sky and the earth, although she is not willing to do these seemingly meaningless things, but according to the requirements, the children of the Yue family have to go, so she has to take it as an outing.
So, as for the road, she still knows a few of them, but if she goes deeper, she is not sure.
"I just need to look at the sun, now it's in the east, I go in and go east to the foot of Bishan Mountain, and then I should be able to walk to the backyard if I go west."
Yue Yue thought about it and nodded, it seemed that it had become her habit to convince herself like this.
After about an hour, Yue Yue could already see the stone staircase extending upwards from the foot of Bishan Mountain, and it was estimated that he should go around far, so he looked around for a way that could lead to the backyard in the opposite direction, but looking left and right, it was all a whole forest, and there was no road.
There is no road, if it is someone else, she should go back, but Yue Yue is strong, there is no road, right, she walked through the forest, anyway, it is still early, the sun is hanging high, and she is not afraid of not finding the direction.
Thinking about it, she turned and stepped over the grass pile on the left and burrowed into the autumn leaf forest.
From the outside, I don't feel that the trees here are so dense, some maple roots emerge from the soil and grow outside, and it is naturally not as comfortable to walk as usual, Yue Yue also feels that her feet hurt when she wears a pair of leather shoes.
And the widest between the trees is no more than a zhang, originally thought that he could discern the direction by the sun, but now Yue Yue looked up and found that the trees here were so dense that they were not like words, not to mention the intricacies and obscuring the sky, he couldn't find the direction at all, and the woods at noon were as dark as evening.
"No matter, I've come in, and now I can't necessarily find it when I go back, so I'll go straight ahead, and I will definitely go outside the wall of my house, and when the time comes, I can follow the wall, even if I can't find the backyard, I can feel it back."
After walking for another half an hour, Yue Yue was already a little numb, and she didn't bring water or food when she went out, although she couldn't bask in the sun in this forest, but after all, it was summer or noon, and the steaming water vapor in the air made people feel stuffy.
Yue Yue's feet were very uncomfortable in the leather shoes, she simply took off the shoes, and stepped on the grass barefoot, although the grass was pampered, but Yue Yue was not a pampered eldest lady, she was mixed with a group of boys since she was a child, and she was not afraid of this, she threw her shoes into the grass next to her, it was hard to walk in this forest, she didn't want to lift a pair of shoes again.
Suddenly, he saw a place in front of him where the sunlight was shining, and it seemed that the trees above did not block out all the sunlight like this one.
She ran over and looked at it, and couldn't help but be startled, there was a wooden shelf in the middle of this open field, and on the shelf lay an old man with gray hair!
"Daddy!" Yue Yue sighed quietly, and when she looked closely, the old man was lying there, one hand hanging down, and his head tilted to the side.
Yue Yue swallowed her saliva and walked over slowly, "Old man! She shouted, "Old grandfather? Grandpa? Old gentleman? After changing a few titles, the old man still didn't react.
Yue Yue walked up to the old man, "Are you dead?" She reached out and touched the old man's neck and rolled his eyelids.
"Alas! Did you just die? I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the little woman is passing by, passing by" After saying that, she actually gave the old man a smile.
At the moment when he turned his head, Yue Yue suddenly noticed the old man's expression, although wrinkles crawled all over his face, he could still see that he was exceptionally peaceful and calm when he was dying, as if he had finally waited for this day.
Yue Yue is not afraid of the dead, the Yue family's training for their children includes overcoming these psychological fears, Yue Yue didn't need to learn, but when she was a child, her friends were the children of the Yue family's uncles and uncles, these boys usually went to training, Yue Yue felt bored and begged to be trained with them, and over time, Yue Yue, a rare girl in the Yue family, became the "boss" of a group of boys.
But there was no road around this open field, and the shelf under the old man was about a zhang long and wide, and she thought it was strange that the trees here were so dense, how did this shelf come in? Did it fall from the sky?
Thinking of this, she thought it amused herself, and went back to the side of the corpse, and observed, only to see that the old man was dressed in a full suit, with shiny leather shoes, and a pocket on the left and right of his shirt.
Yue Yue whispered, "Uncle, offended, the little woman is lost, I want to find some clues in you", and as she spoke, she reached out and touched the old man's pocket.
As soon as she touched it, she came across a cool and hard thing, and she took it out: it was a pocket watch, which looked like it was still some years old, but the needle in it was still walking, and it didn't look useful, so Yue Yue stuffed the pocket watch back again.
Going to the other pocket again, suddenly Yue Yue felt a sharp pain in her fingertips, and as soon as she took it out, she saw that her middle finger was sent from the tip of her finger to the tip of her finger, and there was a long opening, "What is it?" ”
She shook her hand and threw the blood on her hand to the ground, and she didn't care about the injury, she used two hands, one carrying a pocket and the other went in to take it, and what came out was a small dagger, "Old man, why are you stuffing a knife in your pocket, you see my ......"
Before she finished speaking, she looked up and was stupid, and in front of her, where the tree had just been closed, there was a road!
Yue Yue was stunned for a moment, and immediately came back to her senses, she had learned before that some places may hallucinate people because of smells, sounds, and even the arrangement of various objects, or even directly change the layout of this place to generate a maze, which can trap people in it.
This forest may be a maze laid by the Yue family in order to prevent outsiders from approaching.
Thinking of this, Yue Yue had some confidence, since this was the case, then she was not afraid that she would not be able to go out, after all, it was in her own territory, even if she really couldn't find the way, I believe that the uncle and uncle who patrolled the mountain every night would also find her.
"Well, the road is out, why don't you go here, right? Old man, goodbye! He waved his hand at the old man, and strode down the road.
I thought that it would take a long time to walk from this road, or there would be a fork in the road, but there was only one road that was obviously taken care of, and soon, an unfamiliar wall appeared in front of Yue Yue's eyes.
Different from the white wall outside the Yue family's house, the cyan tiles, this wall is actually black and translucent, like a huge goose warm stone being polished, and from a distance, it looks like a black crystal, and the light reflected in the sun makes people unable to open their eyes.
And at the end of the road, there is a white gate!
She walked over and came to the door, and found that this door was also made of white marble, and there was a pattern carved on the door: the "Chiyou" composed of precious stones in the secret room of the ancestral hall!
But in the ancestral hall, Yue Yue couldn't see the monster's facial expression clearly, and here, carved on this white marble door, she could see it clearly, his face was hideous, although he was standing, but one of the three heads hung on his neck in a strange posture, as if the bones at the back of his neck had been pulled out.
Yue Yue stretched out her hand and touched the gap in the middle of the door, her hand was injured just now, but she didn't care about it all the way, causing her hand to bleed all the way and not stopping, she saw that her hand was full of blood, smeared on this white door, like a demon asking for her life, thinking about it, she stepped back, shook off the blood on her hand, and tore off a cloth belt from her trouser leg, and wrapped the injured middle finger fiercely.
Suddenly, she heard the sound of leaves shaking from the woods next to her, Yue Yue was startled, this was very similar to the sound of people walking over and touching the branches, but after thinking about it, the space under the branches of the maple tree she saw when she came in from the outside was completely suitable for a very tall person to pass through, and it was completely impossible to rub the leaves like this.
Or, Yue Yue couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when he thought of this: Could it be that he floated over in mid-air?
She returned to the stone door, leaned her back against it, and turned to look around warily, afraid that something might suddenly happen.
But after waiting for a while, nothing happened, and the voice stopped sounding, and she did not dare to let her guard down, but she still reached out and pushed the door.
Originally, she thought that this seemingly extremely heavy door would not be able to be pushed open, but it only took a little force, and the door was actually pushed open a crack, but as soon as she let go, the door closed again, it seems that it will take some force, she thought, and turned around and pressed both hands on the door to push.
The door is open!
Looking at it from the door, it was still the same maple tree outside, but the difference was that there was a lot of blue grass under the maple tree here, which was exactly the same as the plant planted in the hollow of the rockery she saw in the door of Xianhu Garden!
But the grass here doesn't seem to be in season, some of them only have two small blue buds, some have small red flowers, some have fingertip fruits, and some have withered.
Yue Yue walked forward, and as soon as she took a few steps, she saw that not far ahead, in a clearing, there was a pure white grass, which was similar to the blue grass around it except for the color, but this one, although it was big, it did not bear fruit, not even flowers, and other such big grasses around it all grew a fruit as big as a fingertip.
"Oh, it's a deformed grass." Yue Yue muttered to herself.
Yue Yue continued to walk forward, and in less than a cup of tea, Yue Yue was only stunned: another wall appeared in front of her, and this wall looked at her and made her feel a lot more at ease, this is the kind of white wall of their Yue family!
"So fast? I'm coming back? She thought that this should be the wall of the backyard of the Yue family, and even thought that this should be the woods in the open door she saw when she came in from Xianhu Garden, "So what the Yue family patriarch has been hiding for so long is this piece of grass planted?" ”
Yue Yue couldn't help laughing.
But after thinking about it, no, if the reason is so simple, then after her father made her the patriarch, how could the truth she saw when she came in be just this piece of grass?
How could these be the complicated things his father was talking about?
There's definitely something else here, but she hasn't found it yet.
Yue Yue looked at the sun, it was still early, instead of going back now and not seeing anything, it was better to go around again, maybe you would find something, since you came, you can't go back without figuring out anything, right?
Yue Yue thought and walked towards the woods next to her, because there was that kind of grass on the ground, she could only jump over and jump forward.
After a while, her toes hurt a little, and now she regrets how she lost her shoes.
Suddenly, she saw a bright and dangling canal in front of her, and she didn't know where it started or where it ended, but she could see the smooth stone side of the canal, and it was obvious that it had been built by man.
She thought that the wound on her hand had not yet been cleaned, and there happened to be water here to wash, she tore off the strap on her hand as she walked, and when she came to the water's edge, she directly put her hand in, and as soon as she reached in, she felt a chill that had a huge contrast with the hot weather spread from her hand to her body, she couldn't help but shiver, and put her other hand in and rubbed the blood on her hand, and in an instant this clear water channel was dyed with a piece of red that was extremely difficult to blend into.
It stands to reason that the blood should have dispersed in this water, but the blood washed off Yue Yue's hand was suspended in the water as if it had coagulated, and the ripples generated by her hand swayed back and forth, Yue Yue felt strange, and her hand fluctuated the blood clot hard, but after the blood clot was stirred up, it gathered together again and hung there. "It's strange" Yue Yue muttered, and while scooping up the water with her hands and then falling down, she heard the sound of "ding dong" a few droplets of water falling.
Yue Yue suddenly realized a problem that had been ignored by herself all the way, since she turned into the woods at the foot of Bishan, she didn't hear any other sounds, it was the height of summer, even if there were no birds, there should be cicadas, and just before entering the door, she heard the sound of leaves rubbing against the leaves, although it was far away, but she heard it so clearly, there must be something strange in this forest!
Yue Yue realized that she was careless, because she was not often in the woods, she didn't have a clear concept of what should and shouldn't be in the woods, but she actually didn't care at all about walking for so long and not hearing other sounds!
She still has this basic common sense, but since she was a child, she felt that she was talented, and indeed she also showed a strict thinking logic that did not match her age since she was a child, and the more appreciation she received from the outside world, the more she took ordinary people seriously, and it became easier and easier to ignore some ordinary things.
This thought made her realize that she seemed to be a little blindly proud, the outside world was not as peaceful as the Yue family's house, and the people outside naturally did not care about her like the Yue family.
She swallowed, thinking that she would have to change this bad thing in the future.
Just as she was about to stand up and continue to observe, she suddenly saw the reflection of a person in the water in front of her, and she fixed her eyes to see that this person was on the other side of the canal, four or five feet away!
"Ahh Yue Yue exclaimed, fell backwards, and sat on the ground, in the process, Yue Yue glanced at the person opposite, although the time to land was extremely short, but she was not so panicked before she landed, because the person in front of her was a big living person after all.
I saw a slender man, standing there, as if he was looking at Yue Yue.
Yue Yue looked at his face again, the man's facial features seemed to have been carved out by the most skillful craftsman in the world, and his face was as white as jade, like the skin of a nineteen-year-old girl who was better than her.
But the fly in the ointment is that he has long hair, Yue Yue doesn't like men who still have long hair at this time, in her words, "like a cancer in the old society".
But the person in front of him, just looking at his figure and appearance, is simply impeccable, wearing a white gown with a layer of beige light gauze looks extraordinary.
But when she thought about this in the blink of an eye, she saw his eyes again, those deep eyes that were seriously inconsistent with his appearance, looking at Yue Yue indifferently, Yue Yue couldn't see any emotion in his eyes, even if it was indifferent, it would always reveal a trace of coolness that could be perceived, but now there was no human emotion at all, just like dead.
But this is a living man!
While thinking about it, I saw that the man suddenly bent down, squatted down and put his hand into Yue Yue's blood suspended in the water, and when he stirred it, the blood that had just melted into the water actually dispersed, and then melted into the water and faded.
Yue Yue had a lot of questions in her heart, but she didn't know what to say, so she said, "Sir, why are you here?" ”。
After saying that, I waited for a while, and found that the man did not speak, but continued to squat and look at the place where the blood had just melted in the canal, "Sir? Yue Yue shouted again.
As soon as the words fell, the person on the other side suddenly raised his head and looked at Yue Yue's left hand, then frowned, looked at Yue Yue's right hand again, and then quickly changed back to his original expression.
Yue Yue was really anxious and curious, who was this person, if it was someone from the Yue family, he would definitely recognize him, if not, then why did he appear here?
Why was he able to cut a blood clot and not himself?
She subconsciously raised her right hand, and was shocked when she saw it: the scratched cut was gone, and her hand was as if it had never been scratched, except for the water she had just brought from the water, there was nothing on her hand!
"This is ......" Before she finished speaking, she suddenly caught a glimpse of the person opposite who had arrived beside her at some point, and suddenly she felt her head swell, and her eyes went dark, and she lost consciousness......