Chapter 105: Silver Carp (First Order on Friday)
In the gray mist, the silver carp is cross-bowed. Except as a last resort, Yaksha doesn't often manifest his true nature.
For thousands of years, the battles that allowed him to appear as a tarpon could be counted on one hand, because the appearance would remind him of the most painful memories.
Who said that a monster like him should be born evil, every villain may have an unknown past, just as every effect has its cause.
Thousands of years ago, the Western Xia in the world was also known as the White High Great Xia Kingdom.
In the courtyard of the palace, a girl with fluffy sideburns sits by the pond with a clay pot in her hand. She wore a loose curved lapel lotus root skirt, a peach-shaped feather crown, two flower hairpins on each side, and delicate pearl pendant earrings in her ears, lined with her vermilion lips and pink face, and her eyebrows became more and more beautiful. The clay on his hands and face is not harmonious, but it adds a bit of playfulness.
A maid in Tsing Yi ran over in a panic, lowered her head and gasped slightly, "Princess, have you gone to the pottery kiln again?" If the queen knows about this dirty, she will ask for us! ”
This is the scene when the silver carp and the jade princess meet for the second time. Although he had only met him twice, he knew that this princess was different from other women, she did not love embroidery, but she loved pottery, and although she was born into wealth, she had a kind and generous bodhisattva heart, and treated her subordinates like a friend.
The silver carp is the Yaksha, and at that time he was still a silver carp essence that had been cultivated for hundreds of years.
One day, I was drunk and slept soundly in the lotus pond, and when I opened my eyes again, I found myself trapped in a large vat. He couldn't remember what happened before, and was about to cast a spell to leave, but he was caught in a big net.
The fat-headed, big-eared, greasy cook stared at him and sighed: "I didn't expect to catch such a good fish today, just to make a good pot of soup for the queen!" ”
"Ago!"
A bright girl sounded, and although her tone was gentle, the cook threw the tarpon back into the tank.
He hurriedly saluted and said, "Jade Princess, what are you doing in this filthy place?!" ”
"I heard the bell say that you caught a rare silver carp, I'll come over and take a look, is that it?"
The girl's face was projected into the water tank, and the bright watery eyes on the cardamom face shocked the silver carp who looked at her.
"Sure enough, it's a beautiful fish! It's grown to such a big size, it would be a shame if you really made it into soup, so it would be better to ...... Why don't you keep it for me! The girl pleaded with a smile in her eyes with the cook named Ah Guo.
In fact, there is no need for her to plead, as the emperor's most beloved daughter, the princess born to the queen, as long as she says a word, no rare treasures can be obtained, let alone this silver carp, but because of her easy personality, it is more and more likable.
Ah Guo hurriedly replied with a smile: "I'll send it to the lotus pond for you later!" ”
The silver carp settled in the princess's lotus pond, and was reluctant to leave because of the princess's kindness. After a long time, I found that although this jade princess loves to laugh in front of people, she always frowns when she is alone. He didn't understand where her sorrow came from, what could she be dissatisfied with in the life of the stars holding the moon?
But in order to smile at Bo Hongyan, he often swam in front of her, dancing in the water to perform for her.
"Xiaobai, you're tired of living like a caged bird, aren't you? I really want to put you back in the pond, but I'm afraid that you will be caught by other people if you are too stupid, and you may not be so lucky! The Jade Princess looked at him with a smile and said this.
Her beauty and compassion are like finger wrapping, but it is not the fingers of the silver carp that are caught by this tenderness, but his heart, and his soul has been hooked by her since then.
As a result, the Jade Princess went to visit her father and queen, but ran back with red and swollen eyes.
It turned out that the ministers offered advice to consolidate the good relationship with Tibet, so it was better to marry them to win the Great Song Dynasty. And the last time the king of Tubo entered the palace to congratulate her father on his birthday, he had a relationship with her, but because of this, he fell in love and even suffered from lovesickness. Although there was a huge difference in age, he couldn't help but personally offer a generous gift to ask her father to give him a marriage, and although her father and queen mother were reluctant to marry their daughter far away, they had to agree.
Seeing that in the pavilion, the girl with a flowery face and a moon-like face leaned on the railing and cried into tears, and the silver carp couldn't bear it anymore, and turned into a human form and walked to her side.
In the tearful eyes of the Jade Princess, the silver-robed young man was close at hand, and the young man looked at her without hesitation, shocking her to the point that she almost fell into the water, but he reached out and dragged her into his arms.
She was so frightened that she didn't know how to resist, and collapsed on the boy's chest. When he came back to his senses, he found that the young man not only had water vapor on his body, but also bursts of lotus incense. Seeing that he had no intention of hurting herself, she was no longer so frightened, and boldly raised her head to look at the young man.
The boy had ebony-like hair and eyes, a white face, red lips and teeth, and an evil charm between his eyebrows. The princess had never seen such a beautiful man, and even her brothers, who looked like a full moon, were less than half as good as him, and they were fascinated by it.
Only then did he remember to ask, "Who are you?" How could it be in my yard? ”
The tarpon did not speak, but took out a paper fan from his sleeve and danced in the moonlight. As he dances, his long sleeves and paper fans resemble fish's fins, and the hem of his silver robe resembles a beautiful fish's tail as it rotates. The Jade Princess looked at the reflection of the young man in the pond, and suddenly understood something.
"Are you...... Xiaobai! She blurted out.
"Yu'er!" The young man gently put away the paper fan and said to the corner of his mouth, his voice full of domineering.
I never thought that the tarpon in the pond would transform into a handsome young man in front of her, and he didn't hesitate to call out his name without hesitation, which made her even more ashamed and annoyed, but he didn't think so at all, and his face was full of sly smiles. It was as if he had firmly captured her heart, so full of confidence that her anger had vanished.
Since then, the moon is on the willow tops, and people are about after dusk.
In the dead of night, the silver carp will always secretly meet the jade princess. She is good at playing the gonghou, and he dances to the delicate and soft sound of the piano, forming a beautiful picture under the night sky.
But seeing that the deadline for her to marry Tubo was getting closer and closer, she became more and more sentimental. Not to mention that the orders of parents cannot be disobeyed, as a princess of a country, how can the national society ignore it? What's more, she is such a smart, well-behaved, and empathetic character. But the thought of separating from the silver carp made her heart like a knife.
The same is true for silver carp, in hundreds of years, for the first time, I fell in love with a human being, but fate wanted them to separate.
He is not allowed, that is, as a demon, as long as he is happy, no matter what the etiquette of the world, the person he loves must stay by his side.
He wanted to take her out of the palace and be a fairy couple in a paradise, but she was always hesitating, after all, as a daughter, she couldn't make up her mind when she thought that her parents would be disappointed and heartbroken by her departure, and always wanted to wait a while.
During this period, there were rumors among the slaves and maids in the palace, saying that every night, the Jade Princess would have a private meeting with a young man who did not know the origin, and people always used false rumors to add their own subjective guesses to what they heard, and when it reached her father and mother, it became unbearable.
Some people fanned the flames, saying that the Jade Princess was bewitched by demons, and sooner or later she would make a big mistake. Her father ordered a demon hunter to be secretly invited into the palace to subdue the fish demon in order to save his daughter's lost soul. Unexpectedly, even the demon hunters invited were some charlatans, and they couldn't contain the silver carp at all.
Even so, the silver carp was still reluctant to leave the lotus pond in the palace, because without him by his side, the jade princess would definitely fall into sadness and could not extricate herself. He was determined to stay by her side, but he also caused himself to be killed.
The ministers also invited a so-called enlightened monk, who was full of compassion but extremely vicious and cold-blooded, and did not hesitate to resort to indiscriminate methods in order to obtain a reward.
He poisoned the water source connected to the lotus pond, which was colorless and tasteless, but could penetrate deep into the internal organs and even the bone marrow. By the time the silver carp reacted, it was already highly poisonous, and he only felt a fierce fire burning from his body to the outside, blood spilling from his body, and fish scales falling off piece by piece.
The Jade Princess watched her lover die after suffering and struggle, and her heart died with him, she smashed a clay pot that she had fired herself, and slit the artery in her wrist with shards, leaving her blood red with a blank face in the lotus pond that left many memories. In her gradually blurred eyes, she saw the elegant fan dance of the silver carp, and she also smiled.
It was the last image of the tarpon alive, his body being fished out of the pond and thrown into a filthy canal, no different from garbage.
Strangely, although he was dead, he was still conscious. It's just that the awake soul is no longer a silver carp, and the silver carp has died with his jade, what is he now?
"Want revenge?" A cold voice came.
"Yes!" Although he couldn't make a sound, every bone and nerve in his body that had rotted was responding.
"Do you want the murderers of your loved ones to be punished?" The voice asked again.
"Yes!" This time, a hoarse scream came from his throat, which should have been speechless.
"Then come with me!" As soon as the owner of the cold voice finished speaking, he threw a cloth on him, wrapped him in it, and threw him into a bag.
When he woke up again, he had an ugly body he didn't recognize. The first time he saw his reflection in the pond, he almost threw up. Why did he become like this? The sparse hair was messily scattered, the gray pupils of the gloomy pale face bulged outward, and the yellowed fangs of the huge mouth could not stop the long, curly tongue.
The most unbearable thing for him to look at is the four arms on his upper body, and the only thing that makes him think that he was once a silver carp may be the giant tail behind him, but the tail has long been completely beautiful on such a body, and even adds a terrifying touch to this devil's body.
"The appearance of yours and the death of your beloved are due to the selfishness of human beings, who can even become more ruthless than the devil for their own selfish desires! And now, the gods have made humans the blood alliance of the lord of the demon realm, and from now on, the demons will not only not be able to harm humans, but will protect them, and go with me to destroy this chaotic and ugly world! Abandon the name silver carp, from this day on, you are a yaksha! "A masked man suddenly appeared, and the cold voice of the day sounded under the mask.
"Yes, my master!" Yaksha replied respectfully.
This is not his new life, this is just another destruction, and he will die with the world that is cold and cruel to him!