"Why?" She heard me say this with a look of disappointment on her face.

"Because...... I still have to do something......" As I said this, the pain in my chest seemed to be relieved at once, and the previous struggle in my mind gushed out like a flood that broke the floodgates, and I finally remembered! I remembered who I was, the people who were important to me, and my unfinished journey!

"Tao Yong! Don't go! Her expression became sad again, and her sad gaze pierced through me for a moment, so that I couldn't tell for a moment whether the pain in my chest was due to epiphany or obsession.

"I'm sorry!" I said.

With these words, she and the sea of flowers behind her began to gradually be shrouded in the night, and slowly fell into darkness, but her expression, the arms she stretched out to me, and the last words she repeated softly, "Gazing at a thousand hopes, the water flows for a long ......time", seemed to have left a deep imprint on my mind, and they were fixed there.

“…… Brother! Brother! In the silence, a familiar call suddenly sounded.

I slowly opened my eyes, and the first thing I saw was Rui's panicked face and the group of people surrounding her. My chest still hurt, and I reached out to cover it, and I felt a bag of hard ties stuck to my body, which was the blood furnace and quenching moon that I had been carrying close to me, and there was a paper scroll, which were the three portraits I had drawn.

The first one is Rui Wei, the second one is Wang Shaoting, and the third one, the familiar face that can be reproduced in the mind in an instant, began to slowly coincide with the image of the beautiful woman in the sea of flowers. Yes, the girl in the sea of flowers is the third "nobleman" I can't find in this world, Meng Yiling.

Rui Wei saw that I woke up but was just stunned and didn't speak, patted my face with the palm of his hand, and shouted, "Hey, hey, are you awake?" ”

These slaps hurt me, so I quickly covered my face and responded: "Wake up, wake up, and if you shoot again, you will become a pig's head!" ”

She frowned and said angrily: "It's talking when you wake up, don't be scary!" ”

"Didn't you wake up and see you so good-looking, stunned!" I joked.

She was stunned for a moment, then squeezed my arm in shame and anger, and I screamed in pain.

I heard Daddy Yan laughing and saying, "There is still a mental head joking, it seems that it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, everyone is gone!" ”

The onlookers saw this, but walked away while talking.

It seemed to be the same person who had been on the boat with us just now, and I sat up again and looked around, it looked like a port, but it was not the port we had just set out from. The boat on which he had just sat was tethered to the shore, and the two boatmen were sitting not far away, chatting and munching on dry food.

"It's ...... Arrived? I asked.

"Yes! It was so dangerous just now, we saw you fall, and we wanted to save you immediately, but the current was too fast, and the boat drifted a long way before it stabilized, and you were gone. We wanted to tie a rope around our waists and jump into the water to find you, but suddenly we saw a light from the river, and then you floated up, and thought you were dead......" Rui babbled worriedly, her expression was nervous, she had never seen her so helpless when she was fighting the snake alone.

"How are you? Is there anything uncomfortable? Wang Shaoting squatted down and asked.

Why is this question so ...... Familiar. I was stunned for a moment, afraid that he would also come to slap me in the face, and quickly replied, "It's okay, it's fine, it's fine, except for a little pain in my chest." ”

"Your breath was so weak when I first fished you up, I was afraid that you were in danger, so I pressed you on the chest a few times......" Rui Wei said.

No wonder, I put my hand on my heart and said with a grin: "Sister, please take out the things in my arms first when you rescue me in the future?" ”

"Cut, who saved you from this and that? Leave you alone in the future. She pouted and got angry.

"Okay, thank you, okay? Thank you, Almighty Miss Rui Wei, for saving your life! I arched my hand, lowered my head, and smiled flatteringly.

"Humph!" She twisted her head, but looking at the expression, she was relieved.

"What just happened? How did you fall into the river? Wang Shaoting immediately asked questions to ease the atmosphere.

I told them about the situation at that time, as well as the dreams that followed. Of course, I skipped the slightly glamorous plot at the end, and I really didn't want people to know that my beauty was hugging me and didn't react at all.

After hearing this, they all felt that it was amazing, and even the professional female Heavenly Master Rui Wei couldn't analyze anything. But of course, it was me who felt the strangest the most.

I fell into the water, and I didn't fall asleep, how could I dream?

Moreover, it is not strange to dream of spending money with a beautiful woman before the moon, why is there a little seven in the dream? That kid wasn't anyone I knew before, but it seemed so vivid in my dreams, what was going on?

And...... I took out the package from my bosom and touched it with my hand, I don't know if it was an illusion, it seemed to be still warm. The hot and sharp pain in my chest just now didn't seem to be just caused by Rui Wei's unprofessional life-saving methods, could it be that something in this package gave me some assistance in a critical moment?

We discussed and discussed, and when we were wondering, a deep voice suddenly said next to me: "You must have met Huanniang!" ”

We were startled, and when we all looked back, it was one of the two boatmen, with a pair of big cloudy eyes full of fear on his face, which had been dry and dark from the long hours of wind and sun.

"Who is Huanniang?" I asked.

It turns out that there has always been a popular legend in the villages along the river here that there is a husband and wife who live in poverty but are very loving. One day, the wife went to the river to wash her husband's clothes, and while washing, bright red blood suddenly oozed from the clothes, and she thought that her husband had been injured in his work before, and she didn't care, so she continued to wash hard, but she didn't expect the blood to seep more and more, and the river water was dyed red.

That's when someone came running to tell her that there was a fire in her house. She thought that her husband was sleeping at home, and when she ran home, she saw that the house had burned to rubble. Later, the villagers dug up a body from the rubble, and sure enough, her husband had been burned to death.

The wife realized that the blood seeping from her clothes was a reminder that her husband was in danger, and if she had read this prompt earlier, she might have had time to save her husband's life. From then on, she washed her clothes by the river almost every day, until all the skin on her hands fell off and blood stained the river red......

Since then, people often say that they saw her again by the river, sometimes washing clothes by the river, sometimes standing in the water and crying, and saying that she had already committed suicide by throwing herself into the river, hiding under the dark water, and bringing the person who fell into the water back as a companion, her name has long been unknown, because the matter originated from washing clothes, so it is called "Huanniang".

When he said this, I also remembered that when I first fell into the water, there was something like hair wrapped around my hands and feet, could there really be a female ghost? I raised my wrist and looked, but there was no sign of strangulation, could it be that hallucination?

Looking at the boatman's words, it seems that he has seen it with his own eyes, but I think that the girl in my dream should not be Huanniang, as for the reason, it can probably only be said to be an intuition. I didn't feel a trace of resentment in the girl in my dream, just peace, kindness, and boundless tenderness.

It would be a shame if it was all an illusion!

was groaning, Rui Wei suddenly asked, "Huh", "What is this?" A finger to my neck.

I touched it, but I didn't feel anything unusual, and asked strangely, "What's what?" ”

"On the left!" She shouted.

Wang Shaoting came over and pulled my head, looked at it carefully, and said, "It's a red mark." How? ”

Red Seal? Before I could react, the boatman next to me cried out as if he had seen a ghost: "It's a blood brand!" Curse of the Water Ghost! Damn......"

Then he got up, ran to his companion, and muttered something, and the two of them got up and ran away! The four of us were left there looking at each other.

What is this? I was stunned for a few seconds, and suddenly "Ah! A cry of rage frightened all three of them.

"Shout what? Remembered something? Wang Shaoting asked.

"Uh...... No, I just feel so uncomfortable that my clothes are so wet, why don't we hurry up and find a place for me to change! I immediately stood up and said, "Let's go!" He strode forward.

In fact, I've already guessed that any blood brand and curse are all! That's just a ...... It's just a kiss mark.

As I walked, I touched my neck and remembered the scene where the girl was grinding with my ears...... It doesn't seem to be exactly a dream, it's really real and illusory, mysterious and incomprehensible! I remembered the girl's whisper in my ear, "What is real?" It's not someone else's decision, it's your own decision...... "Oh no, this time it's a heart ape, the lower abdomen is hot, and the yang energy seems to be back...... Hurry up and suppress your cranky thoughts, speed up your pace and continue on the road!

After only half a day's walk, we arrived at a very lively town, and we successfully bought a horse-drawn carriage again, and also bought a lot of daily necessities. In addition to this, the three of them also went to buy some things on their own. After all, after arriving in Luoyang, the situation is unpredictable, they have their own unique skills, and consumables are also indispensable. On the other hand, I just wandered around and tasted local snacks, and my stomach was round. If you want to say why you should go into danger, I'm afraid that there is only this point of not being afraid of heaven and earth, fooling God when you meet God, and fooling Buddha when you meet Buddha.

During dinner, I suddenly asked Wang Shaoting, half-jokingly and half-seriously: "What are we going to do first when we get to Luoyang?" ”

Calculating, it has indeed been almost a month since I traveled all the way from Youzhou to here. Although it was Wang Shaoting's idea to come to Luoyang at the earliest, I didn't ask him what his next plan was along the way. Now that the destination is about to arrive in two or three days, plus Rui Wei and Daddy Yan, who have nothing to do with this matter, are walking with us, I think it is better to make it clear and have a preparation in my heart.

When Wang Shaoting heard this, his face suddenly became very serious, he turned his head to look at me, and said seriously: "When you arrive in Luoyang, can you hand over the Blood Rock Furnace to me?" ”