Chapter 18: Soul Meeting
Qingmo didn't say how to solve it, but said something else, "Brother Jing, you may not know, my mother was poisoned when she was pregnant with me, so I was born with fetal poison, and the name of fetal poison is red face and dry bones. β
Without waiting for the flame of hope in Mu Yuanjing's heart to be extinguished, Su Qingmo continued: "Although the antidote does not exist, the poison of the red face and dry bones can still be cured. β
She looked at him with black and white eyes, paused for a moment, and gently spat out three words, "Use me to explain." β
Mu Yuanjing had a bad premonition in his heart, and sure enough, he heard Su Qingmo continue: "My heart blood is matched with Dr. Li's medicine, taking one bowl a day for fourteen consecutive days, it can relieve red faces and dry bones. β
Mu Yuanjing's heart trembled, and he refused without thinking about it, "I don't agree." β
Su Qingmo grabbed Mu Yuanjing's hand and sat next to him, with a relaxed smile, "Don't be in a hurry to refuse, in fact, this is not a big harm to me, it only takes fourteen drops of heart blood, and your poison can be cured." β
Mu Yuanjing's eyes had a complicated expression, "Do you know that taking your heart's blood alive will cost you your lifespan." β
Su Qingmo's eyelashes drooped, "I know, but I can't watch you die of poison." β
Mu Yuanjing was silent, Su Qingmo suddenly raised his head, and there was some pleading in his eyes, "You just promise me." β
It's obviously the poison on his body, and it's obviously his life, but it's her who pleads and struggles.
Mu Yuanjing gently hugged Su Qingmo, his chin was against the top of her head, he closed his eyes to cover his moist eye sockets, and responded in a dry voice, "Okay, I should answer you." β
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After the two of them decided on the matter of detoxifying Mu Yuanjing, the time flickered slowly into the evening, and Su Qingmo did not take out the bag containing the purple gold bell and other utensils, but only randomly stuffed a few pieces of rune paper around his waist.
Su Qingmo sat in front of Mu Yuanjing, and Wei Xu, who was also riding a horse on the side, held back his words halfway and finally spoke, "Princess, are you traveling lightly like this?" β
Su Qingmo looked at him, "What's wrong?" β
After more contact with Su Qingmo, Wei Xu didn't speak as restrained as before, "Aren't we going to find that male ghost named Ning Xi, what if it's as difficult to deal with as An Lan?" β
Su Qingmo patted his waist, "Take it, don't worry, I won't hurt you." β
Wei Xu pretended to be relieved, Su Qingmo felt funny, accidentally slipped under his buttocks, and almost dismounted, Mu Yuanjing's right hand was slightly retracted, and she tightened her waist slightly, "Don't move, sit down." β
After speaking, he glanced at Wei Xu lightly.
Wei Xu hurriedly straightened up and sat upright, looking like his subordinates were gentle and frugal.
The moat in the north of the city is some distance from the palace, but there is a curfew on the street in the evening, and there is no need to reduce the speed of the horses at all, so the three of them quickly arrived at the moat, and there is no wind at night, and the river surface of the moat is unusually calm.
Maybe it was a psychological effect, Wei Xu faintly felt as if there were a pair of eyes looking at him at the bottom of the river, he pulled out the sword in his hand, carefully moved to the river step by step, stretched out his head to look at the bottom of the river, his head was about to stretch over, and a miserable white face appeared in front of him at the bottom of the water, Wei Xu was so frightened that he screamed and jumped back.
"What's the name of the ghost?"
Wei Xu pointed to the place where he was standing just now, "Wang, Wangye, there is someone down here." β
Mu Yuanjing didn't bother to pay attention, Su Qingmo dismounted and took out the blood-red soul jade in his sleeve, "Anlan, come out." β
A wisp of green smoke floated out of the soul jade and landed into a beautiful woman, perhaps because the blood revenge has been avenged, or maybe because of the maintenance of the soul jade, in short, An Lan's appearance has been restored to the appearance before her death, there is no resentment, no obsession and unwillingness, she stood quietly in front of Su Qingmo, with a slight smile on her face, "Thank you." β
Su Qingmo smiled and reminded loudly: "After Ning Xi comes out later, because the time is too long, Ning Xi has been a water ghost for too long, and he may have lost his memory in life. β
An Lan had worry on his face, and Su Qingmo said with relief: "Don't worry, I will borrow your peach hairpin to remind him of the events of his life." β
After listening to Su Qingmo's words, An Lan nodded reassuringly.
Su Qingmo took out five pieces of rune paper with different spells drawn from his waist, pinched out one first and handed it to Wei Xu, "Take it, you hide behind the tree next to you first, and when Ning Xi comes out later, you have to quickly paste the rune paper on Ning Xi's back, and it depends on you whether we can succeed tonight." β
Wei Xu took the rune paper, felt Su Qingmo's dependence, and even felt the weight of the responsibility, so he cautiously walked behind the trunk next to him and hid it.
Su Qingmo took out another piece of rune paper and handed it to Mu Yuanjing, "Yuanjing, I bother you to paste this rune I gave you on Ning Xi's heart when Wei Xu pasted the rune paper behind Ning Xi's back." β
Mu Yuanjing stretched out his hand to take it, Su Qingmo took out an object similar to a fire fold from his sleeve, pulled off the lid, and blew it gently, the object made a fire like a fire fold, but the flame was a faint green, put the only three pieces of rune paper left in his hand on it and burned it to ashes, and carefully grabbed the talisman ash into his hand.
"Anlan, I need your help." Su Qingmo looked at An Lan and said.
An Lan looked at Su Qingmo quietly, waiting for the following.
"You go into the river now and lure Ning Xi out."
An Lan did not hesitate at the slightest step, she slowly walked in the direction of the moat, and soon walked to the water's edge, and continued walking, the river wet her shoes and socks, An Lan still did not stop, and gradually disappeared in the middle of the river.
Wei Xu waited behind the tree with bated breath, Su Qingmo's eyes stared at the middle of the river without blinking, and the next moment the middle of the river exploded, and a white shadow quickly rushed to the shore from the water.
Wei Xu saw that the water ghost Ning Xi was attracted by An Lan's full attention, and quickly dodged from behind the tree, and kept running towards the water ghost under his feet, with a flick of his wrist, and the rune paper was pasted behind Ning Xi's back.
The next moment the rune paper was pasted, Ning Xi suddenly stopped the movement in his hand, and Su Qingmo pinched the trick in his hand, "Stand up and open your mouth." β
Ning Xi acted indifferently according to Su Qingmo's instructions, and Su Qingmo called softly: "Yuan Jing." β
Mu Yuanjing stepped forward and pasted the rune paper to Ning Xi's heart, and the moment the rune paper was pasted, a faint soft light faintly dispersed from the rune paper.
Su Qingmo kept a pinching gesture in his hand, and took a few steps forward to stuff the talisman ash in his other hand into Ning Xi's mouth, only to see black smoke begin to come out around Ning Xi's body, and after a while, an expression appeared on Ning Xi's face.
Su Qingmo raised the peach hairpin at the moment when Ning Xi's eyes turned, and Ning Xi's pupils dilated slightly when he saw the peach hairpin, his lips trembled a few times, and finally spit out two words with difficulty, "Ah... Lan..."
It took too much effort for An Lan to lure Ning Xi out of the moat, she sat down on the ground, and couldn't help but cry when she heard Ning Xi pronounce her name.
As the black smoke became less and less, Ning Xi's consciousness slowly sobered up, no longer the appearance of a water ghost emitted by his cape, he turned back to the clear and elegant young man he once was, Su Qingmo took off the talisman behind Ning Xi, and still left the soul lock talisman in his heart.
Ning Xi, who had turned back into a teenager, slowly squatted down with a cry, he knelt in front of An Lan and held his sweetheart into his arms with trembling hands, "Ah Lan, I'm sorry, Brother Ning Xi is late." β
An Lan's head rested on Ning Xi's shoulder, she kept sobbing and crying, and she couldn't speak at all.
Ning Xi touched the head lying on his shoulder with one hand, patted it gently, and coaxed softly, "Don't cry, Ah Lan don't cry, it's Ning Xi's brother's fault." β
An Lan shook her head and swallowed her whimper hard, she left Ning Xi's shoulder and wiped her face hard, her eyes were obviously tearing, but the corners of her mouth pulled up the most beautiful smile, "I don't blame you." β
Ning Xi finally noticed An Lan's strange appearance, "Your appearance..."
An Lan told Ning Xi in detail what Wen Chu and Senior Brother Wu had done, and tears fell from Ning Xi's eyes, "They actually killed you, they blame me, if it weren't for me..."
An Lan shook his head vigorously with tears on his face, "I don't blame you, Brother Ning Xi, I can't marry you, and it's good to die on the same day, the same month, and the same year." β
Ning Xi gently rubbed An Lan's sideburns, and then turned his head to look at Su Qingmo and the others, "Thank you." β
"I have something I hope you can help me out." Su Qingmo looked at Ning Xi and said.
"Please."
"Someone sealed you in a vat not long ago, do you know who that person is?"
Mu Yuanjing looked at Su Qingmo, remembering that Su Qingmo almost drowned in the water tank that night in the south of the city, it turned out that the water ghost at that time was Ning Xi in front of him.
Ning Xi shook his head, "I had a messy time when I lost my mind, and I only vaguely remember that it was a man. β
Unable to get an answer from Ning Xi, Su Qingmo simply stopped asking, but asked another thing, "What do you and An Lan plan to do in the future." β
Without waiting for Ning Xi to speak, An Lan hurriedly said, "I want to be with Brother Ning Xi." β
"You're not going to go into reincarnation?"
An Lan glanced at Ning Xi, "I don't want to enter reincarnation, if I do, I'm afraid I won't find him in the next life." β
Su Qingmo frowned slightly, thought for a long time, and finally made up his mind: "Ning Xi's bones have sunk into the moat, it is impossible to find them anyway, if your bones can't be buried at the same time, then it won't be long before your souls are scattered, if you enter the soul jade, you will stay together in the soul jade forever." β
An Lan's eyes lit up, she stood up with Ning Xi's support, and thanked Su Qingmo from the bottom of her heart.
Su Qingmo said with a smile: "If there is anything that needs your help in the future, please don't shirk it." β
The two of them nodded in response, and then they all turned into green smoke and drifted into the soul jade.
The moat under the night returned to its original calm, but Su Qingmo knew that there must be an undercurrent under this calm, Mu Yuanjing first helped her to get on the horse, and then followed closely on the horse, protected the person in his arms and whispered: "Go back." β
"Hmm."
On the way back to Linchuan Palace, Wei Xu remembered one thing, and reported while beating his horse forward: "Lord, those people behind the theater took the initiative before they were taken home, and invited the monks of Cihe Temple to overdue. β
"You're doing the right thing."
Hearing Mu Yuanjing's affirmation, Wei Xu's heart fell back to its original place, and he began to think about some side things when he relaxed, "Princess, what is the function of those runes you just now?" β
"Want to know?"
Wei Xu nodded, and Su Qingmo said slowly: "What you have in your hand is the Soul Talisman, as the name suggests, the one given to the prince is the Soul Lock Talisman, and the one that was burned to ashes is the Soul Purifying Talisman, Ning Xi has been a water ghost for a long time, if he directly uses the Soul Talisman, he is afraid that his soul will not be able to bear it and will be dispersed directly, so first use the Soul Lock Talisman to lock the soul foundation, and then let the resentment and ghost qi in the body slowly disperse, and finally use the peach hairpin to remind him of the things before his death." β
Knowing the curiosity in his heart, Wei Xu nodded with satisfaction.
The night breeze was a little cool, Mu Yuanjing tightened his arms to prevent Su Qingmo from being blown by the wind, "Ning Xi is really the water ghost in the south of the city?" β
Su Qingmo was very sure, "It's indeed him, but the person behind it, Ning Xi, said that he was a man." β
Mu Yuanjing thought for a while, thinking that the whole incident was caused by the princess's mansion, and his heart sank.
The forbidden incense of the previous dynasty, the strange patterns on the water tank in the south of the city, and the woman who didn't know his face and the man in black who broke into the prison, all kinds of connections had to make him think about one place.
Thinking of what had happened recently, Mu Yuanjing sneered in his heart.
Mu Yuanrou and Mu Yuanyi are really sisters and brothers, both have disgusting ambitions, if Mu Yuanyi thinks that everything will be fine if he is not in Beijing, it will be too naΓ―ve, whether the matter can be easily revealed depends on whether the hidden world under his hand agrees.
It seems that it's time, he should find a way to force Mu Yuanyi's idiot back to the capital, and people should be more reassuring to him.
Mu Yuanjing shook the reins of the horse lightly, drove the horse under his crotch to the palace quickly, and made a decision in his heart at the same time.