Chapter 10: The Past (II)
"Brother, can you talk about those things with Gongzi slowly later, I have to explain my affairs to him clearly now." The girl begged.
"Childe, I don't care what good adventures and fate you have, but I must tell you clearly about my past with you, you have to know how important you are to me." The girl's voice became unusually gentle, as if it were someone else. "But if you don't have the worries of your previous life in this life, I won't force you, you have your freedom."
I didn't know what would make her angry, and I didn't know what would soothe her, her mood was as fickle as the sea, well, I took a sip of tea, just like I had just been by the West Lake, and be a listener.
"Three hundred years ago, I was a little water snake playing in the Yellow River, and I was also surveying the sediment of the Yellow River for my father. One day, the embankment of the Yellow River collapsed, and the water was majestic, and I was still young at that time, and my mana was still shallow, so I was washed up on the bank of the river and stranded there. The girl's storytelling demeanor was not at all as pretentious as when she was by the West Lake, and it could be seen that she was sincere this time.
"I couldn't change into human form, so I had to bury myself in the dirt and wait there, thinking that I must be dead." At this point, the girl became a little sad.
"I was stuck in the dirt, trampled back and forth by passers-by, I cried in the dirt, but I was thirsty and I didn't even have tears. I couldn't do anything about it, I just blamed myself for being too weak at that time. ”
"Then at last some children came, and they were digging stones on the bank of the river, and I prayed in my heart that I would find me, and at last one of the children found me sunk in the dirt, and I was already dying. When I saw that glimmer of light, I thought I was saved, but who knew that this was the beginning of the nightmare. When the girl said this, tears welled up in her eyes.
"They grabbed me by the tail and threw me around, and one of the children said they were going to stone me to death, calling me a monster. The boy who found me disagreed, saying that he had found me and that it was up to him to live or die, so he took me home, saying that he was going to skin me and sell it, and that the meat would be made into soup. I was desperately shouting that I wasn't a water snake, but he couldn't hear me. ”
The girl wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, she didn't use the handkerchief anymore, but just rubbed her fingers gently, rubbing her eyes red.
"That kid met you on the way home, that is, you were still a poor scholar, and you were preparing to enter Beijing to take the exam, and when I saw poor me, I felt pity, and actually bought me from the child's hands, and used all your coils. I think you must have heard my cries, you understood my cries, didn't you? ”
When I heard this, I was a little moved, although I was just listening to it as a story, but what happened to her made me feel sorry for her.
"When you saw that I was bruised all over the place, you took ointment and anointed my wounds, and put me in a basin of clean water, and changed the water for me every day. At that time, you worked very hard, studying hard all night every day, but you still didn't forget to take care of me, I don't know why you were so good to a water snake at that time. The girl's tears welled up, and she couldn't hold back any longer, and she fell on Ao Long's shoulder and twitched. Do you know? Since I was a child, my father has never looked at me because of his busy official duties, except for my brother, you are the best person for me, although I know that you may just be an unintentional act of kindness, but I still fall in love with you, I look at you outside in the basin every day, it is all my life, every day I see you turn off the lights and fall asleep, I can sleep with peace of mind, knowing that you will read early, I will wake up earlier than you every day, just to see you for the first time in the morning. ”
"Later, my injuries healed, you took me to the river to prepare to release me, I was very reluctant at that time, but I knew that if I was just a small water snake, I would not be able to communicate with you normally, I thought in my heart, I must live, I must swim back to the Dragon Palace, and I must find you in the future, I will give you everything you want, including myself."
"The moment you gently put me into the water, and the moment I returned to the river, I felt that my whole person had changed, I don't want to be that arrogant little princess anymore, I want to be strong myself. I looked at you reluctantly, but you didn't notice it, but turned around and left. The girl's emotions were a little out of control, she couldn't cry, Ao Long gently stroked the girl's hair, comforting her.
"Later, I really swam along the Yellow River to the Huai River, followed the Huai River into the Yangtze River, and finally swam to the Qiantang River, and then attached it to the tea basket of the tea farmers in Longjing Village, and they took it back to the West Lake. The first thing I did when I came back was to ask my father to send all the people in the Dragon Palace to look for you, but unfortunately, after ten years of searching, I couldn't find you. ”
"During that period, my father introduced me to a lot of sons and brothers of the Heavenly Court, hoping to promote my marriage, but I knew that it was just my father's attempt to comfort me, I would not give up, unless you died, otherwise I would keep looking for it. In the end, I thought of a good way, I incarnated as a lady, the daughter of the prince, and then held a poetry and essay in Hangzhou to recruit relatives, I believe this will definitely attract you. The girl wiped away her tears, turned her sorrow into joy, and began to smile on her face for the first time in a long time.
"If the hard work really pays off, one day you came over with a Taoist to participate in the poetry and literature recruitment, I recognized you at a glance, can you imagine how excited I was at that time? Although ten years is just a drop in the ocean in our dragon's life, it has become incomparably long because I have been thinking about you. The girl slowly walked beside me and sat down beside me.
"At that time, you hadn't yet passed the merit test, and many people who came to participate in the competition made fun of you, but they didn't know at all, they were just your green leaves, and the person I was looking for had already been found, and there was no need for any poetry competition." The girl gently held my hand, looking so skillful and natural, she was used to this action.
"Then you became a concubine of the Dragon Palace, I took you and the Taoist priest to the Dragon Palace, and took you to meet your father and brother, which frightened you at the time, you were stupid and stupid in the Dragon Palace, and I gave you everything I could give, and gave you a lot of treasures, although I know you don't care about this, but I just want you to see you happy, with money you can write books, you can do what you like." The girl suddenly laughed stupidly, I didn't expect her to be innocent sometimes, she didn't look like her, "Later, I also gave you my token, which is a treasure that allows you to enter and leave the Dragon Palace freely without suffocating and drowning, this is the one you wear around your neck." The girl suddenly said to me shyly.
"My friend said it was a dragon's tooth, which seems to be a fantasy." I remembered the story I had heard earlier in the outer building.
"He's right, this is one of my teeth, which I lost when I changed my teeth, and I keep it, and it will only be given to my loved ones." I now understand why the girl was just shy, it turned out to be because of this. And how will the terrible dragon head in Tuesday's mouth be explained?
"It's because of this that I knew you came to Hangzhou, but when you saw me, you didn't know me, I thought you did it on purpose, so I was so angry." The girl hugged me so tightly that I couldn't even breathe. I didn't think that I had such a story with this strong girl, as if it were a myth, and instinctively, I gently put my hand on her shoulder.
This story really touched me, but I didn't have that heartbreaking feeling. The girl is still in my arms, but I am a little nervous, what should I do? Was it ruthless to push her away? That's a little too cruel. But being a half-hearted person is not what I want.
What did I do in my past life? Not only did he make a private agreement with the leader of the birdman for life, but he also married this dragon palace maid. He's been dead for a hundred years, but all this love and hate has poured out on me. I hesitated like this, I didn't have the strength to let go of her, her soft body was reluctant to touch, for fear that I would accidentally shatter such beauty, so I could only watch her cry in my arms quietly.
Vote for me with papaya, and repay it with Qiongju.
Bandit retribution, always think it is good!
Vote for me with a peach, and repay it with Qiong Yao.
Bandit retribution, always think it is good!