Chapter 185: Returning to the Sun through the Mirror (Part I)
"Don't look both sides! Leave them alone! Come on! Liu Mou was running wildly in front of him holding Tang Zicheng.
Tang Zicheng, who was in his arms, looked curiously at the people standing in a row on both sides, there seemed to be people he knew in the crowd, and some people smiled and waved at him.
"Mama?" He Chenxue also found the grandmother who had trained herself and warned herself in the crowd, and she couldn't help but slow down and look at the grandmother standing there.
He Chenxue noticed that Mama's eyes were hollow, and the pair of eyes that originally existed in the eyes suddenly merged with the whites of the eyes, and then the whites of the eyes seemed to melt, flowing down the edge of the eye socket like tears.
He Chenxue was stunned and immediately stopped, and An Ran behind her was too fast, hitting her directly and knocking her to the ground.
Liu Mouzheng stopped, put down Tang Zicheng, and took out the cloth belt to directly blindfold He Chenxue: "Don't look!" ”
At this moment, Tang Zicheng slowly walked towards the crowd on the left, and shouted in his mouth: "Godmother!" Why are you here? ”
Godmother? Tang Qianlin was shocked, looked in the direction where Tang Zicheng ran, and found the woman standing there.
She was too familiar with that woman, it was a nanny he had found for Tang Zicheng in Tianjin, a woman he ransomed from the kiln, a person who regarded Tang Zicheng as his own son.
When he met that woman, he had thought that he would simply spend the rest of his life in Tianjin, in fact, it was fine, but when he got the news of He Chenxue from Chu Lekang, he did not hesitate, regardless of the woman's dissuasion and pleading, and took Tang Zicheng on the journey to Guanwai.
In other words, he abandoned the woman harshly, even though he had no feelings for that woman, and he didn't have any other relationship, just the relationship between the employer and the nanny, but he still felt guilty.
Xia Shuang, who stopped, also saw her parents in the crowd, and was so surprised that she couldn't say a word.
Similarly, An Ran also saw his mother Gu Yunrong and his father Utsunomiya Motohito.
Li Yunfan saw the traffic officer Shunzi, and also saw Secretary Zhu, whose life and death were unknown.
Except for Tang Yushi and Prajna Nissen, everyone saw the people who felt the most guilty in their hearts and were the most unwilling to face, and what they could see here meant that they were all dead, could it be said that this was really the underworld? Are they meeting people from another world?
Tang Qianlin looked at the woman, Liu Mouzheng also watched, and at the moment when Tang Zicheng was about to approach the woman, Liu Mouzheng stepped forward and picked up Tang Zicheng, and at that moment, Tang Qianlin turned his head and found that Liu Mouzheng's eyes also seemed to be filled with guilt.
Why did he feel guilty when he saw that woman?
"Let's go!" Liu Mouzheng shouted loudly, "If you look at it any longer, we won't be able to leave!" Hurry up! ”
Under Liu Mouzheng's repeated urging, everyone finally turned their heads to look ahead, and ran in the direction of the city gate step by step.
The fastest runner was the high priest, who, as he galloped, reached out and took off his mask, and was the first to rush to the gate, stretching out his hand and pulling the gate with all his might, but he could not pull it open.
When the others rushed forward, they helped pull together, but they couldn't pull away.
Standing at the end, Tang Yushi and Prajna Nissen watched the people in the mirror gather, staggering and walking slowly towards this side.
Tang Yushi raised his hand and pointed to it: "Those people are here." ”
"I can't pull this door! What's going on? Tang Qianlin gritted his teeth and dragged hard.
Liu Mou was taking a few steps back, looking at the door, thinking about what was going on.
Jingusi said: "We haven't encountered this situation before! ”
The high priest suddenly seemed to have noticed something, and he rushed forward and said, "The door is pushed!" Not pulled! Hurry up! ”
When the people heard this, they immediately pushed the door hard, and the door finally moved, but when the door was opened, the people were dumbfounded, and they saw another city.
Tang Qianlin looked over there dumbfounded, and then looked at Liu Mouzheng: "Is it an exit?" ”
Liu Mouzheng shook his head: "No, how can this be?" There should be a river outside the city. ”
At this time, the crowd in the rear was getting closer and closer to them, although there seemed to be no hostility, but the momentum of these people gathered together in the mirror actually made Tang Yushi and Praruo Nisen, who originally did not have the slightest fear in their hearts, also couldn't help but retreat towards the rear.
Before Liu Mouzheng could make a decision, the high priest ran towards the city gate.
"Let's go over and talk about it first!" Liu Mouzheng instructed everyone to hurry through the city gate, and then pulled the city gate back and closed it together with Tang Qianlin, Ye Da, and Jin Gusi.
After the city gate was closed, Liu Mouzheng turned around to look at the second city, Tang Qianlin felt very familiar when he looked at the buildings in the city, and then reacted: "Isn't this the city before?" It's just that the buildings in that city are all made of mirrors, and the buildings here are the same as they are seen on weekdays. ”
The architecture of the castle is varied, encompassing almost all architectural styles of all eras.
When Liu Mouzheng looked up again, he noticed that the huge lantern in the sky was slowly moving towards this direction, and finally stopped after moving to the sky above the city where they were, and the light in it gradually dimmed.
"Gather around!" Liu Mou was beckoning to the others.
While everyone was surrounding Liu Mouzheng, Tang Yushi, who had been staring at the city gate, found that the city gate seemed to be gradually disappearing.
"Dad, come and see!" Tang Yushi called Tang Qianlin and pointed, "The city gate has disappeared, you see, it has become a wall." ”
Everyone turned their heads and watched as the darkness fell, and at the same time, the entire city gate also disappeared, not only the city gate, but also the city tower that was originally behind them was swallowed by the darkness and turned into a wall.
Everyone walked to the wall, and when they reached out to touch it, they found a light behind them, and they slowly turned around and looked at the city, which was originally empty and pitch black, and suddenly became very lively.
All the buildings are lit up, all kinds of lanterns are hung under the eaves, people walk on the streets, stand under the lanterns and look at it, and the hawkers and the shouts of the shopkeepers come and go, and everyone can clearly hear the sound of frying and cooking in the restaurant, and even smell the fragrance.
The combination of sound and brilliance brought life to the originally dark dead city in front of everyone.
However, soon this anger became strange after Tang Qianlin discovered a problem - the person here only had a snow-white face, and his face had no facial features at all.
And the people here wear a variety of costumes, including traditional Hanfu, Ming Dynasty armor, and Qing Dynasty court clothes, as if all of a sudden all of a sudden, buildings and people from all eras have converged in this city.
Tang Qianlin asked, "Liu Mouzheng, what's going on?" ”
Liu Mouzheng said: "I don't know, I haven't encountered this situation before. ”
Ye Da looked around and said, "The high priest is gone." ”
The people searched around, and sure enough, they found that the high priest had disappeared at some point.
Tang Qianlin looked at the lively street: "What should I do?" ”
Liu Mouzheng said: "According to the previous method, let's go through it again, maybe we can get out, I mean maybe, if we can't find the city gate, we'll talk about it." ”
An Ran pointed to a dark silhouette in the distance and said, "Look, is there a city tower in the direction you are facing?" ”
When everyone looked over, they found that it was the outline of a city tower, but it was very vague and looming.
"Let's go, it's still the same as before, person to person." Liu Mouzheng picked up Tang Zicheng, Tang Zicheng looked at those who had no facial features, covered his eyes in fright, and buried his head in Liu Mouzheng's chest.
The people walked through the streets, but they found that it seemed as if they could not be seen by the people here.
Tang Qianlin said: "I think of You Sifang's experience. ”
Before Tang Qianlin could elaborate, Liu Mouzheng said, "Are you talking about the old man you met in the desert?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "How do you know? Ni Xiaowan told you that, right? ”
Liu Mouzheng didn't respond, but said: "You want to tell me, maybe we are in another world, and in the eyes of people in this world, we are all so-called ghosts, right?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "Maybe that's the case? That's a reasonable explanation. ”
Liu Mouzheng said: "But this is the Shaman Spirit Palace. ”
Ye Da asked, "Liu Mouzheng, haven't you been here before?" It stands to reason that through this city, what is outside the city? ”
Liu Mouzheng said: "It's a river, and there is a bridge built by boats on the river, and after crossing the bridge, you can see the door." ”
Li Yunfan said: "So, we are not far from that door?" ”
Liu Mouzheng said: "Listening to it, it's not far, the first time I walked there, according to the normal time, it took me half a month." ”
"Half a month?" An Ran was surprised, "How can you go for half a month?" ”
Liu Mou was holding Tang Zicheng to avoid an oncoming faceless man: "It took me five days just to pass through that mirror city, that is the most difficult place to pass, you have to overcome your inner demons and strengthen your faith, otherwise, most of the people will be trapped there." ”
Jinguth looked around: "This city feels like the other side of the Mirror City to me. ”
Li Yunfan didn't understand Jinguss's words: "The other side? What do you mean? ”
When Jinguth walked in front of a merchant's load, he found a faceless woman looking at something in a mirror, but when he looked closely, the so-called mirror only had a frame, not a mirror.
Jin Gusi said: "Do you know what it means to return to the sun after the mirror? ”
Tang Qianlin looked at Jin Gusi in surprise: "I didn't expect you to know this." ”
Liu Mouzheng glanced at Tang Qianlin: "Lao Jin knows no less things than me. ”
In traditional Chinese wedding customs, a large mirror must be placed in the cave room of the newlyweds, and in the funeral customs, in the past, especially in the Ming Dynasty, the mirror would be placed at the top of the main tomb or the four corners of the coffin.
Jin Gusi said: "In our North Korea, there is a mirror hanging in the royal tomb built after the Ming Dynasty, but this is just a legend, and it has not been verified, and the main reason for the legend is that 'the mirror returns to the sun'." ”
What is "Returning to the Sun"?
In short, it means that after death, as long as the mirror is facing the corpse, the soul can be temporarily sealed in the world in the mirror, and then wait for the time to return to the sun.