Maybe no one will believe that there are ghosts and gods in this world, and it is better to live in the present and cherish the short life than to believe in those ethereal things to scare you all day long. Most people do nothing, follow in the footsteps of their ancestors, and everything they go through from birth to death seems to follow the path arranged by others. Once upon a time, they thought about rebelling or escaping the reality they faced. However, he is bound by the morality of life and falls into endless reincarnation without knowing it. It was as if his eyes were covered with a black cloth, pushing the mill around in circles. The end of a lifetime. Even if you live the life you want through hard work, you are still confused at the end of your life, why do you have to live like this in this life? In each parallel space, after making thousands of choices, the results are strikingly similar. Is it you who is in control of your destiny? Or is fate at its disposal? Thinking too much, not being a smart person. And those who spend their lives exploring the universe and discovering the mysteries of the origin of all things seem so stupid. Compared with the greatest pursuit of human beings, most people choose to spend their lives in chaos. Maybe I care more about food and clothing. However, forty years after people forgot about the turmoil and uncovered the mystery, Xia Yunnuo was finally relieved and closed his eyes.

In a holy and bright hall, a woman sleeping soundly under a veil suddenly opened her eyes. Powerful air currents fluctuated all around, and the air spread outward as if it were substance, causing ripples in circles. In the woman's clear and bright eyes, there seemed to be countless images that flew by, fleeting. After a long time, when the tears soaked the thin face towel like cicada wings, she came back to her senses from the thoughts of the past, and that familiar face was Xia Yunnuo when she was young. It's just that the dress is a little weird, a gold silk brocade robe looks extremely slim and charming, the colorful flowing clouds on the shoulders add a touch of nobility, and there are nine snake-shaped golden hairpins inserted in the high bun, revealing evil charm in grace. Two women who were also dressed strangely hurried over after sensing Xia Yunnuo's awakening. A woman holds a bronze mirror, while a woman holds a pen, ink and gold poster, and kneels respectfully on the ground. Xia Yunnuo got up and sketched a stroke on the gold post, although the woman who accompanied him stepped aside. Then she waved her hand at the bronze mirror, and the mirror showed an image. There are four girls in the picture, rickety, riding in a horse. Large groups of sheep and horses were driven slowly across the field, as if they were on a long journey.

"Make that girl the emperor's next reincarnation. Sacrifices from the last plane... It's time to start harvesting. ”

"Yes! I don't know if His Royal Highness has a decision on the reincarnation of His Majesty the Emperor? ”

"Hmmm! After waiting for so long, it is time for His Majesty's divine body to adapt. It's time to... Wake him up. Ji Xu... Don't let me down. ”

Xia Yunnuo stared at the beautiful scenery outside the hall and fell into a deep thought. The maid holding the mirror on the side pulled the afterimage of the reincarnated girl out of the bronze mirror, and then a star map appeared above the girl's head, and the dim light intertwined the stars. The maid raised her hand and tapped it a few times, and the arrangement of the stars changed instantly. Immediately, the light and shadow of some of the stars dimmed, and several connected rays of light disappeared with them. She frowned and muttered:

"Your Highness! Isn't the day a little short? ”

Soon after, the earth's 8 billion people disappeared out of thin air, and human civilization was submerged in the vast universe. New species and new intelligent life continue to thrive on this blue planet. Everything that seems to be erased is nothing more than the curtain call of a performance. However, the audience has not changed, the scene has not changed, and the performance will continue, but those actors will never know that they are on the stage.

It seems that in the entire galaxy, only one pure land remains. There's also a blue planet, orbited by an asteroid that reflects sunlight at night. However, the asteroid is called Taixing, not the Moon, and it is not bright. It revolves around the blue planet, where human civilization has only just entered the Iron Age. It was due to a terrifying meteorite falling 100,000 years ago, tearing open the atmosphere of the planet and destroying the originally powerful civilization. The human race here seems to be developing very slowly, but their souls are incomparably pure. It is like being loved by God and being carefully cared for.

Everything that happens here appears as if it were replicated on similar planets in the Milky Way. It's just that civilization in those places is developing more rapidly. It is like simulating the possibility of what kind of era this place is about to enter in advance, giving decision-makers more reference and information, and the final choice is in the hands of a sleepy woman. She closed her eyes again.

"Is the moon always so dark?"

"Of course! I heard that it was the moon god who closed the curtain at night. Fear that people would look up and see the stones hanging from the sky and be afraid of falling, so the moon was dim. ”

"It's beautiful..."

"Hmm..."

The brother and sister sat at the entrance of the cave and looked at the stars in the sky, fascinated. Even when the moon is bright, you can't see the potted surface, and perhaps because of the mountain, the moon looks very large and smooth. The night wind of late autumn carried the chill of winter, and Wang Xu shivered for a while. I don't know if the clothes of the Great Zhou Dynasty are leaking? Or maybe it's too green, or maybe you can't keep enough calories by eating only two meals a day. All in all it was cold, very cold.

After a while, they gave up their plans to enjoy the view at night with snot in their noses, after all, this time there was no campfire. The two gathered around the fire, Ah Ji was carefully reading the book on witch healing, while Wang Xu was tinkering with the treasures he had collected. With the attitude of not wasting firewood, a black clay pot was boiled on the fire, and the inside was full of milky white moist wood chips. After a while, white smoke came up, and Wang Xu looked excited, holding bamboo slices and stirring back and forth in the jar. The roasted sawdust oozes sap and makes a sizzling sound. The water is evaporating, and it won't be long before the suspicions about the oil and grease are confirmed. Suddenly, there was a boom, and the surface of the clay pot burst into flames.

"Whew! Call! ”

He gulped and blew, hoping to blow out the burning grease. The ecstasy and sense of accomplishment in his heart exploded instantly, and the thick black smoke wrapped the girl opposite, and Ah Ji was choked by this sudden attack, so he could only cover his mouth and nose and let out a low coughing sound. When the flame was extinguished, Wang Xu got his wish and got half a bamboo tube of resin. He regarded it as a treasure and put it within reach of the stone bed, and then he was relieved.

"Hahaha, hahaha, how are you... Do it like this? ”

The girl's face was dark from the tip of her nose upwards. As if it had been smeared with black ash at the bottom of the pot, the big eyes with aura kept blinking at him suspiciously. It looks like a masked assassin, but with the upper half of his face covered, which is extremely comical. Wang Xu handed the towel he hated to use the most on weekdays to the girl. It was a deerskin, and when you wiped your face with wet water, it always sheds its hair, and it feels like pigskin. After Aji respectfully took the towel, his face was panicked.

"Can my brother turn his back? Aji has an ugly face, afraid to frighten you. ”

In order not to embarrass the little girl, Wang Xu naturally turned around. It is guessed that Aji covered the left side of his face with a mask all day long, which must have been caused by a serious injury or illness. The girl's facial features look very upright, but the skin is a little rough. Fortunately, she is only a twelve-year-old girl, and she will take good care of her for a year or two, and she may be able to come out like a small jasper. The more mysterious he became, the more he wanted to find out, and he became interested in the left side of Aji's face. Thinking about how to create some accidents and see the girl's true face. The next day...

"Huh? How so...? It doesn't make sense..."

"Daddy! What's wrong? ”

"Hehe... It's okay, maybe an outsider has strayed into the mountain. ”

The young strong man named Li Cang, less than 30 years old, made a living by cultivating a few acres of thin fields at the foot of Yunmeng Mountain. His wife is Chu Nu Mi, and after marrying him, she took her husband's surname, which is Aunt Li in Aji's mouth. The husband and wife are affectionate and pregnant with two sons. The eldest son is nine years old this year, named Li Bo, and the younger son, named Li Zhong, is still young, only seven years old. He rarely goes into the mountains, except for one visit with Aji last year. The girl dug a dirt pit trap and accidentally trapped a wild boar, and she and the young master also finished eating, so they called Li Cang to come together to divide the meat. When passing by this forest, Li Cang found that there were several lacquer trees growing here. So I go into the mountain twice a year to pick some lacquer. Lacquer is an important coating for lacquerware. It is rare to see in the Central Plains, a small bucket of raw lacquer can be exchanged for five buckets of grain when it is taken to Qicheng, which is enough for their family of four to eat for half a month. Although summer is the best time to harvest lacquer, most of the beasts at that time are in the mating period, and they are more irritable, and it is very dangerous to go into the mountains alone, so they will choose to cut lacquer in autumn. At this time, he used a dagger to cut the bark of the tree, drew a "V", inserted a mussel shell underneath, and placed the bamboo tube underneath. The children on the side were very curious, and tested with their hands to see if there was any lacquer flowing into the mussel shell.

"Beware, if you touch this paint, you will get a rash."

Hearing his father's words, the child suddenly retracted his hand, pursed his mouth, and asked puzzledly:

"Daddy! Why do you want to pick this clay paint? ”

"This lacquer is golden. If you put it on wood, you won't be afraid of water. It won't be soaked in a hundred years. Wealthy adults in the euphoria used it to paint coffin boards. ”

The child listened carefully to his father's explanation of the use of lacquer. I wonder why a rich man would paint such a nice thing on a coffin? He carefully took out the mussel shells from his pocket and handed them to his father, who had exchanged them for five coins. He had never seen such a large mussel shell, and he had heard that it was transported from the most powerful Yuedi in the south. There was a big man who was very good at business, and he married the most beautiful woman in the world. Think of the mussel shells used to cut lacquer, that man wants to be used for trading, and he is indeed a great person.

"Sister Aji lives nearby, can Dad take me to see her?"

"Dad doesn't know where Aji girl lives, how can he take Bo'er to see it?"

Li Cang touched his son's head. The child looked a little lost, he and his brother liked Sister Aji the most. Because every time the girl went to their house, she would bring something for the brothers, and then tell them about the things in the mountains. Li Zhong's father and mother are also very good to Ah Ji, and often help her go to Qicheng to exchange some daily things. The two of them are relatively close, but the head of Aji's family, Gongzi Cicada, is a little annoying. Always bullying him and his younger brother.,It seems that it's because of the injury some time ago.,So it's been more subdued recently.,Don't come out to cause trouble.。

"Bo'er! Let's go! ”

"Hmmm! After a few days, will my father still be able to take my uncle with him when he comes to pick paint? ”

The father pinched his son's face dotingly, then took the child's little hand, and the two walked leisurely down the mountain. When the wound of the lacquer tree heals itself, he will come again, collect and seal the raw lacquer, and take it to Qicheng to sell it before winter.

"Hey!"

Li Cang sighed, the current life of the family is indeed a little harder. There was no comparison to when his father was alive. I wonder if there will be heavy snow this winter? He hoped it wasn't too hard. In order to avoid accidents and ensure that the whole family survives the winter, he decided to repair the three huts. Buy a few more pieces of cloth and let my wife sew a few beds of bedding. And all this expenditure seems to be counting on that small barrel of lacquer in a few days. Li Cang was very worried.

At the same moment, Aji's face was crimson, as if he was drunk. At first, neither of them paid much attention to it, thinking that it was just that the weather was getting colder and their faces were red from the cold wind. However, small red spots begin to grow in the reddened area, and then become larger and spread, and there seems to be a tendency to spread and be irrepressible. Aji was originally a witch doctor, and after taking the decoction by himself, he thought that his condition could be controlled, and he didn't want it to get worse. The rash turned into an abscess and joined together, spreading downward to the erection of the neck. In just two days, the lively and strange girl became sick and looked extremely weak.

"You are not allowed to go anywhere today. It's strange to lie on the bed and rest. ”

"Young master... Slaves are useless..."

"Silly girl! What to say? Aji! Aji..."

After a few words slowly burst out of his mouth, Ah Ji fainted. Wang Xu panicked. No matter how much he called the girl's name, the other party fell into a deep sleep as if he had lost consciousness, but his expression was painful. Beads of sweat soaked his collar, and his forehead was full of sparkles.

At this time, Ah Ji's face was no longer human, and Wang Xu could feel the heat wave emanating from the girl's body when he sat on the edge of the bed. It should be a fever, and the only thing she can do is to use a wet towel like pigskin to help her cool down and make Ah Ji feel better. Looking at the little girl's painful appearance, Wang Xu was full of anxiety.

"It can't be chickenpox or smallpox, right? What to do? What to do..."

I remember that when I was a child, I was unintentionally infected with chickenpox, and even if I had chickenpox, I had antibodies and would grow one or two small pustules after coming into contact with the patient. He remembered that the doctor had said that the sooner chickenpox appeared, the better for the child. If you get sick when you grow up, it will not only leave a scar, but also threaten your life. Aji's age is clearly at risk.

He paced anxiously back and forth in the hole. If the matter is worse, and the girl has smallpox, then this body that has not been inoculated against cowpox will inevitably suffer. What to do? Did you leave her and run away alone? Or take a chance?

"Hey! There's nothing left to lose. Hehe... Girl... You owe me my life. ”

Aji's illness came so quickly that he ate and lived in the same cave. If it was an infectious disease, Wang Xu didn't believe that he would be completely fine. I remember that when he was sick when he was a child, he always had to hang water and unintentionally asked the doctor, apparently because he was afraid that the patient would become dehydrated. Therefore, feeding the girl more water became the key to healing.

On this day, he stayed by Aji's side, feeding him water every hour. Thinking of the weakness of the patient, he took the eggs he had collected before, peeled them and stirred them with water, mixed them with water, and steamed them to make stewed eggs. Unfortunately, there are no condiments such as soy sauce or sesame oil, and just smelling it makes me feel a little too fishy.

Until the evening, the rash on Aji's body was still spreading, and the red spots were faintly visible on the girl's neckline. Wang Xu was anxious. It's hard to imagine how he would survive if the other party died like this? The little girl's face was full of abscesses, sweat and tears were intertwined... The pain is unbearable. Wang Xu, who watched it, was distressed. Especially the mask, the girl still refused to take it off. I don't know if it's curiosity, or I don't want Aji to be too painful, Wang Xu secretly took off the animal skin attached to the girl's face.

"Yunnuo!"

Even though that face seems to be unrecognizable, but I have known my wife since childhood, and this girl's face is exactly the same as when my wife was 12 years old. In a trance, there was a mixture of joy and sorrow, and tears couldn't stop pouring out. After a long time, when my eyes stayed on the scar on the left side of the girl's forehead, I felt like a knife. A Noda's "slave" character is imprinted on it. The delicate willow eyebrows were also erased at one end. The scar was wounded by a soldering iron, and it should have been a long time, otherwise the wound would not have turned white and was obviously raised, like two sinuous white snakes.

At this point, he was incredibly convinced. I believe that there really is reincarnation in this world. Now that you're here, there's no reason to end up for no reason. Wang Xu smeared the pus on the woman's face on his arm. If you do have a rash, you can only use your body to try to solve it. However, with the current half-baked medical skills, the chances of success are slim.

Until the next morning, his body was still unresponsive. And Aji's condition does not seem to be improving. The red spots were still spreading and had extended to the girl's arms. Wang Xu didn't understand why he still hadn't reacted at all, at least the skin that had been exposed to pus should have chickenpox.

"Young master... Slaves... Isn't it... Dying? ”

"No, it won't! Definitely not. ”

"The slave is ashamed of the young monarch... I'm ashamed... Old lady. ”

Aji fell into a coma again. The girl's lips were chapped and her face was pale. No matter how Wang Xu replenished her water, the little girl seemed to be unable to absorb it, and she felt a lot less in just a few days. The pustule on the body becomes larger and larger, and after the pus bursts, chickenpox continues to grow on the surrounding skin. It seems that the body is festering endlessly.

Wang Xu clenched the girl's hand, and the rough palm was full of shriveled folds. He stood up and shook his robe. Coming to the place where the girl hid the fabric, the patch of cloth that had been sewn now looked more like a towel covered with threads. It was wrapped with a bronze thimble that Wang Xu gave her, as well as two bone needles.

A small cut was made in his arm, and blood flowed out immediately. The needles of the bone needles were stained with some pus, which was then applied to the wound. Wang Xu guessed that maybe there were really antibodies in his body, otherwise why not be infected? Even if he could really get sick by doing this, he was not sure that he could be cured, but he just died with the other party.

For a few days when the girl was unconscious, he never left. The water and food at home are basically gone, if it drags on like this. Even if Aji can survive, they won't be able to survive the cold winter. I have been depressed before, thinking that I will never go back, so I will retire leisurely here, and be a monk for a day. However, at this time, he didn't want to die, and he didn't want the girl in front of him to leave so simply. Aji is still very young, he has been suffering since he was a child, and he has not even lived a good life.

Thinking of this, Wang Xu carried two wooden barrels and ran towards the stream outside the cave. The creek was two miles away from the cave, where Aj used to fetch water or do laundry. He had also been there, but it was the first time he had gone alone, so he was a little worried. Once he was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of the well rope, the psychological shadow left by the hungry wolf on him could not be dissipated in a short time. Filled two buckets of water and left in a hurry, not daring to stop for a moment. When passing through the bamboo forest, I accidentally found a few bamboo shoots that broke through the ground. It's a heaven-shattering road. Thinking about digging winter bamboo shoots in late autumn is a normal thing. So I opened the thick bamboo leaves, and the surprises continued for a while. Maybe the girl didn't know that bamboo shoots were edible, and that there was enough food here for him to eat for a long time. After the joy, I laboriously dug out a few, and returned home anxiously to prepare the meal.

Bamboo shoot and bird egg soup, a fresh fragrance greets the nose. There is yellow and green in the bowl, and it looks like it tastes like nature. After feeding the patient, Wang Xu drank several bowls in a row, and his stomach felt warm. After wiping the abscesses on Ah Ji's body, Wang Xu began to rummage through medical books about the appearance of acne, but there didn't seem to be much record of this kind of illness at all. There is only one mention of it, saying that it is a sore, from a barbarian land, ten deaths, no life, no solution.

At first glance, Wang Xu was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he calmed down after understanding the symptoms. The abscesses on Aji's body spread from the head downward, not irregularly. After carefully examining the girl's wrists and lower limbs, I was even more convinced that it was not an infectious disease like sore. She was surprised to find that the girl had scratches on her neck and arms, apparently caused by scratching with her fingernails because she couldn't bear the pain and itching. And there's a red spot. Obviously, as long as the bacteria on the pus are controlled and do not contaminate other skin, the disease will not continue to spread.

In order to keep Ati from moving, he tied the girl's hands. After finishing the housework, lie on the side of the stone bed and take care of it. Wipe the pus from the acne scar with warm water every once in a while to prevent good skin from getting contaminated as well. It seems that this approach is very effective. Unconsciously, Wang Xu fell asleep in a daze.