(6) Butterfly Valley

Beneath the cliffs is a soft meadow covered with unknown wildflowers. Although it was a hot summer, the light brought by the morning sun to the meadow dispelled the fog from the early morning.

A gray-haired old man, carrying a basket on her back, although she was more than 100 years old, she was in good shape, walking on the cliff and walking on the ground.

Suddenly, she found a person lying halfway up the mountain, and when she got closer, she saw that it was a woman in black, with a beautiful face and a graceful body, and she looked no more than fourteen or fifteen years old. The corners of her mouth were stained with blood, and her face was pale.

The old man put his finger close to her nose, "Well, there's still a hint of breath." She shook her head and walked away.

But after walking a few steps, he turned back and muttered, "If I don't save myself when I die, won't I live a life in vain?" You deserve to be unlucky, Hanshan is sad! The old man who called himself Hanshan Sadness put down the back basket, helped Yang Shuixin up, put it on his back, and lifted the back basket.

She performed light feats like a flying swallow, and in a short time she arrived at a hidden cave.

When she arrived at the cave, she immediately put down Yang Shuixin and helped her heal her injuries, and waited until white smoke came out of Yang Shuixin's head, and Hanshan Bei's forehead was already oozing with beads of sweat, so she slowly put down Yang Shuixin, carried her to the stone bench, flattened her body, and covered her with a robe.

Yang Shuixin woke up, and she suddenly felt like a dream, "Where am I?" ”

She tried to get up, but found that her whole body was sore, and she could not move. Slowly, she remembered that night, and she rolled up her sleeves and looked at her white arms.

"Girl, you're awake." An old man walked into the entrance of the cave, holding a bowl of hot soup in her hand and came to Yang Shuixin.

Suddenly, she saw the plum blossom birthmark on the palm of Yang Shuixin's hand, her hand shook, the bowl fell to pieces, and the soup splashed. "Are you Yang Shuixin?"

"How does my mother-in-law know my name?" Yang Shuixin was taken aback.

"It's been ten years, ten years, and I didn't expect to meet you here." The old man muttered to himself.

"Mother-in-law." Yang Shuixin struggled to get up.

"Don't move, you can't go down just yet." The old man put his arm on her shoulders and continued, "I'm your aunt! ”

"Auntie?" Yang Shuixin was confused, "Why haven't I ever heard my father mention it?" ”

"You were still young at the time, besides, I was acting in anger at that time, because I wanted to marry Murong Kuan, but your grandfather didn't allow it, so I ran away from home in a fit of anger and went to Hanshan Nunnery to cut my hair and become a nun, and my name was Hanshan Sadness."

Hanshan continued to reminisce, and a girlish shyness suddenly appeared on her wrinkled face. "At that time, your grandfather and Han Shankuan often played the piano in the living room, and I often heard Murong Kuan playing the flute in the back room, and over time, I fell in love. One day forty years ago, I confessed to your grandfather that I wanted to follow Murong Kuan to the Western Regions, but your grandfather refused, saying that he was a man with a wife, and we couldn't be concubines. So they locked me in my room and refused to let me out of the house. But when the Lantern Festival was approaching, he heard the sad news of Murong Kuan's tragic death. I was so grief-stricken that on a dark night in the middle of a month, I sneaked out and went to Hanshan Nunnery to cut my hair and become a nun. ”

"And now?"

"Amitabha, Buddha bless. Later, Tang Xiyan, the daughter of the traitor Tang Jie, also came to Hanshan Nunnery and begged me to take her in, and she also cut her hair as a nun, and her law name was Hanshan Ni. At first, she took refuge in Buddhism, followed the rules, chanted and worshiped the Buddha every day, and practiced hard. Unexpectedly, one day she inadvertently discovered that my common name was Yang Guichou, and her temperament changed greatly, but I didn't realize it.

One day, I drank a cup of tea, and after a while I felt unbearable stomach pain.

Hanshanni stood in front of him coldly, I begged her to save me, she said coldly: "'I can't imagine that you are the Yang Guichou who Murong Kuan's mouth has been talking about', no wonder Murong Kuan would rather die than marry me, it turns out that you are the one he reads in his mouth' The door is separated by flowers and sleepwalking, and the sunset is speechless Yan Guichou." 'This is my family's ancestral Seven Souls Forgetfulness Powder, I have developed a tea that is not fatal to people, but it will accelerate the aging of women, you just wait for him to see you, the old and ugly Yang Guichou! ”

After Hanshanni said this, she left Hanshan Nunnery and disappeared from there. Auntie, I also left Hanshan Nunnery and came to this butterfly valley, I wanted to be lonely and old, but I didn't want the Bodhisattva to see pity, so that the poor nun could save the lives of his family. ”

"Auntie, what kind of poison did you say you have?"

"Seven Souls Forget Love."

"Seven Souls Forgetful Fans? It turns out that the poison in me is the Seven Souls Forgetfulness Powder......" Yang Shuixin muttered to himself.

"Oh, you're poisoned too?" Han Shanbei looked at her white arm and understood, "Later, I heard Han Shanni say that after she drank half a cup of poison, Tang Jie asked his guards to also drink half a cup of poison, and then eliminated the poison in the cave room. God loves to play tricks! No wonder Tang Xiyan's temperament has changed drastically, and the Bodhisattva can't save her! Han Shan sadly turned the Buddha beads in his hand, "You can recuperate here with peace of mind, no one will find out about us, I'll go and boil the medicine again." ”

"This is called Butterfly Valley?"

"When you're healed, I'll take you somewhere to watch the butterflies." After Han Shan said it, he turned around and went outside the cave.

A month later, Yang Shuixin's injuries improved, and she was gradually able to get out of bed and move. "It seems that the medicine I boiled has a miraculous effect." Han Shan looked at Yang Shuixin's face with satisfaction.

"Auntie, what is the potion you boiled made? How come there are all kinds of flowers in the soup every day? Yang Shui asked puzzled.

"This is the prescription that I have painstakingly developed for ten years, specifically to deal with the Seven Souls Forgetfulness Powder, I call it 'Hundred Flowers Bee Butterfly Powder'."

"Flowers and bees scattered?"

"When I first arrived in this butterfly valley, the residual poison of the seven souls in my body has not disappeared, every time the moon is full, the abdominal pain is unbearable, in despair, I caught many butterflies and bees, and mashed and swallowed the wild flowers here into my stomach, I thought that I was dead, but I never thought that the abdominal pain would disappear the next day. So I did the same, made a lot of pills, and after taking it for a month, not only did I no longer have abdominal pain, but I also found that I had increased my internal strength, and I became as light as a swallow, and I climbed the cliff like walking on the ground. ”

Yang Shuixin listened in a daze.

"Xin'er, you try your luck, has your internal strength increased?"

Yang Shui's heart was lucky, and he felt that his whole body was soft and weak, and he couldn't exert his strength. Han Shan was taken aback and muttered, "Can't it be boiled into a decoction?" She motioned to Yang Shuixin to stop being lucky, sat down and stretched out her wrist to let her pulse. She closed her eyes, her expression becoming more and more serious, her wrinkled face full of melancholy.

"What's wrong? Auntie, could it be that the poison in my body has not been eliminated? Yang Shuixin asked.

"O iniquity, Xin'er, you, you are happy!"

"What? No, aunt, I, I don't want it, I don't want it! Yang Shuixin lay on Hanshan's sad knees and cried bitterly. Hanshan stroked her hair and said lovingly: "My poor heart, you think clearly, if you really don't want this child, I will help you get rid of it." ”

Yang Shuixin's arrogant and unruly face appeared in his mind, and his head kept shaking: "No, I don't want it, I don't want it." ”

"Okay, today I'll make a fetal pill, and tomorrow you drink it." Han Shan said sadly and instructed Yang Shuixin, "You come with me." ”

Yang Shuixin came out of the cave with Hanshan sorrow, outside the cave was a swamp, Hanshan sorrow held Yang Shuixin's hand and performed light skills, Yang Shuixin thought to himself: Auntie's light skills are really rare, take me alone, or relaxed.

Over the swamp, through the jungle, and over a hill, I saw a large canyon in front of me, densely covered with butterflies and bees. As soon as the butterflies fly, the bees buzz along.

Yang Shuixin looked a little scared, she looked at her aunt, Han Shanbei squeezed her palm tightly, and whispered: "Don't be afraid, they don't hurt people!" She took Yang Shuixin over the canyon, and a cave suddenly appeared in front of them, and when they came to the cave, they saw that the cave was full of butterflies and bees.

"Why is it so scary?" Yang Shui trembled.

"Don't be afraid, I was also scared when I first came, but I was relieved when I entered the inner cave." Hanshan sadly led Yang Shuixin to the inner cave, only to see that the inner cave was nothing, only the high rock wall, the cave was very spacious, and the sound of water droplets was vaguely heard, "I forgot to bring torches, you have to learn to see everything clearly in the dark in the cave." ”

Yang Shuixin touched a round thing, she looked at it, and with an "ah" sound, she fell to the ground in fright. "Don't be afraid, that's the owner of this cave." Hanshan Bei bowed respectfully, and read in his mouth: "Amitabha, my Buddha is compassionate." ”

Yang Shuixin's eyes had adapted to the dimness in the cave at this time, and she saw that the round thing was a skull embedded in the cave wall, and it looked very hideous and terrifying.

On the top of the skull, four large characters are engraved "Bee Butterfly Canyon". Originally, this place was called Bee Butterfly Canyon. Yang Shui thought to himself.

She saw dense words engraved under the skull, and the first few words were "All thoughts are disasters, and letting go is the root." Yang Shuixin read in her mouth, she suddenly thought of the child in her belly, she couldn't help but give birth to a tenderness, "Let it go, after all, he is also a little life, my Buddha is compassionate, since he wants to reincarnate with me, how can I, as a mother, bear to kill him!" Hanshan Bei didn't expect that Yang Shuixin had changed her mind, and she continued to walk forward, "I want to pick the seven wisps of flowers in the cave so that I can prepare fetal medicine." ”

"Seven strands of flowers?" Yang Shuixin asked in a lost voice.

"Yes, this is a dose of medicine for me to deal with the Seven Souls Forgetfulness Powder, it is extremely toxic, fighting poison with poison, and at the same time it can be made into a fetal medicine." As she was talking, Han Shan Bei already had an extra net pocket in her hand, she walked to the sound of water droplets in the cave, and after a while came to Yang Shuixin's face, only to see a small silk flower in the net pocket, white, seven silk petals, but the leaves were very red, "What a unique flower." Yang Shuixin was amazed.

Hanshan said sadly: "This flower can't be touched, although it is small, it is extremely toxic, its leaves are also poisonous, and if the flowers and leaves are mashed, it can be made into an antidote to the Seven Souls Forgetfulness Powder, and it can also make the practitioner enhance his internal strength." At first, I didn't believe the text on the cave wall, but the poor nun thought that it would be death anyway, so I had to try it in order to detoxify it. ”

Yang Shuixin listened, and couldn't help touching the skull and said, "Then thank you so much for this senior." As soon as the words fell, they only heard a sound, boom, bang, the wall of the carved cave shrank inward, and a door opened, and they were dumbfounded, only to see that there were holes in the cave, "Auntie, can't you get in?" Yang Shuixin asked.

"Maybe it's providence, go in and have a look." Hanshan said sadly.