Chapter 63: Return to the Republic of China
I thought I was still in a dream and couldn't believe it was all real.
"Nantang ......"
"Chu Nantang! Why haven't you disappeared yet?!! Damn it!! Shen Qiushui rotated the Rubik's Cube in his hand, and his slender hand moved quickly and flexibly.
"Nantang!!" I wanted to rush forward and protect him, I didn't want him to stand in front of me every time, every time.
"Don't come here, take the plate of Fuxi!" Chu Nantang roared with all his strength, and the energy released by the Rubik's Cube made him weak and unable to cast spells.
He supported Bai Yiqing and sacrificed the Soul Bead to resist the attacks of Gu Xi and Shen Qiushui.
I held the child in my arms, reached out and took the Fuxi Disk suspended above the half-light ball, it seemed that there was still a powerful energy running, and it trembled violently in my hand.
Suddenly, Shen Qiushui retreated, and he didn't know when there was an extra black knife in his hand, which stabbed straight into Chu Nantang's heart.
"Don't!!"
When I rushed forward, the sword had already broken through the formation, the soul had been severed, and one hundred and eight blood-colored beads fell from the sky, bouncing and scattering.
Gu Xi I stepped back, looked back at the Fuxi Plate in my hand, I hugged the child who was crying a lot, and subconsciously took a few steps back.
"Gu Xi, do you still want to be wrong again and again?"
The black long sword ignited a red flame, burning Chu Nantang's spirit into a wisp of green smoke, I could only watch him, slowly disappearing in the air, and I could no longer find his figure.
"Hehehe...... Soul Slashing Knife, Slashing Soul, I don't believe you are still dead this time! ”
Just when he was in despair, there was a sound in his ears, and even he couldn't tell whether it was real or an auditory hallucination in despair.
"Madame, don't worry, the phoenix is bathed in fire, Nirvana is reborn, I will wait for you in the future."
……
"Nantang! Nantang ...... "A bead slowly rolled down to my eyes, I reached out to pick up the bead, held it in the palm of my hand, and tears unconsciously welled up in my eyes.
Shen Qiushui walked over to me step by step with a knife: "Fuxi's plate, hand it over." ”
The child cried even more, and I tightened the child's tightness, reluctantly put him on the ground, and put the Fuxi plate on his chest.
I held the beads in my heart, as if tearing my heart out, and choked: "Shen Qiushui, you give me back Nantang!" ”
Shen Qiushui looked at me and said in a deep voice: "From now on, there will be no Nantang in this world." It's just me, Shen Qiushui. Lingsheng, don't be sad, I will be good to you in the future, and I will make you happy. ”
I held the beads in my hand fiercely, got up slowly, and walked towards Shen Qiushui step by step.
"Lingsheng?" Gu Xi looked at me uneasily, and I didn't know what I was going to do.
Shen Qiushui curled the corners of his mouth and smiled lightly, and opened his arms towards me.
I reached out, hugged his left arm, met his smile, opened my mouth and bit him hard, I hate him! I can't wait to eat his flesh. Drink his blood!!
He snorted in pain, but he just let me bite like this, and cold sweat trickled down.
"You hate me?"
I hate you! You've killed the person I love the most, and I want to cut you to death!!
I tasted the salty taste in my mouth, so I was willing to let him go, I would never go with him, let alone like him!
They just want to use this evil array to activate the horoscope, and I won't let them succeed!
"Lingsheng, it's good that you hate me, one day you will know who loves you the most."
I sneered and took a few steps back. Suddenly, Shen Qiushui and Gu Xi were shocked.
I don't know what's going on, the Fuxi disk, which originally didn't have the slightest movement, floated desperately in the sky above the baby, and the sealed forehead fire wheel mark reappeared.
The Sanskrit words on it began to change, and the next second I felt a powerful force pouring into my body, and in the last impression, I only saw their panicked expressions, and the strong light emitted by the Fuxi Disk, so dazzling that I couldn't see anything clearly.
After that, everything in front of me was swallowed up by a long darkness, and I could not feel sadness, joy. Miss...... It's like dead, no longer exists.
I thought I was dead, but when I opened my eyes and saw the endless blue sky, it took me a long time to come back to my senses, and I felt very tired and hungry.
Struggling to sit up, he looked at his surroundings and ...... The wilderness was endless, and the autumn wind was bleak, and I shuddered suddenly, and raised my hand in disbelief.
This...... It's not my body at all, these hands are at most a teenage girl's.
What's going on? I knocked on my head, trying to remember everything that had happened before.
I got the Fuxi Plate, and I was about to fight to the death with Shen Qiushui, but here the Fuxi Plate was in the child's arms, and it was activated......
Don't? My eyes widened for a long time. Whispers of disbelief: "I'm back in time? ”
At this time, I don't know whether I am more happy or more panicked. Happily, here I can see Xupei again! Frightened...... Even if I go back in time, what can I change?
Chu Nantang said that even if the plate of Fuxi is activated and goes back to the past, you can't change your life casually, otherwise the world will be in chaos, and even our future world will disappear and be reshuffled.
"Nantang ......" With this thought, I got up from the ground, the world is so big, but I don't know where to find him.
Suddenly, I saw a little girl lying not far away.
Puzzled, she stepped forward, she seemed to have passed out, her face was yellow and thin, was she hungry?
I pushed her and always felt familiar, and after watching it for a long time, I realized that it was about what she looked like when she was a child.
"Wake up, swagger, wake up."
'Boom'——!
The sky is not beautiful, suddenly lightning and thunder, it looks like it is about to rain.
I picked it up and staggered forward, not knowing where I was going, but intuitively, I walked along the path and kept walking......
I finally saw the crowd, all of them were displaced and evacuated, they were talking about the fact that the foreign devils had occupied Wuhan and the Qing Dynasty was dead! And the plague is not alone, and more than 2,000 people have died.
……
Is the Qing Dynasty dead? In 1911, the year of the Wuchang Uprising, the Qing Dynasty officially fell. In the first year of 1912, the Republic of China was founded.
I'm going back to this time, that...... Who am I? Jiang Rongwan? Or is it Zen? Or someone else?
I can't think too much about it, so I can only flee with the crowd. The muddy mountain roads are very difficult to walk, the people who are in turmoil are full of war, and they have long become insensitive, and no one will lend a helping hand to me.
I was so hungry that the person on my back seemed to be getting heavier and heavier. I want to leave her alone, because I can't die here, I'm going to find Zhenpei!
The rain became heavier and heavier, and I carried the last bit of strength on my back. As the displaced people came to the nearby Land Temple, which could shelter from the rain, the Land Temple was too small to accommodate too many people.
The person on my back was having a high fever, and I was about to go in when I was pushed out by the person inside, and one fell to the muddy ground.
"Go and go, where there is a land, you will die! There's no room for you here. ”
I lay helplessly in the heavy rain with my arms in my arms, choking up: "Wake up, wake up!" ”
She woke up in my arms leisurely, and said, "Sister, I'm so hungry." Mo Xiang is so hungry and uncomfortable...... Sister, is Mo Xiang going to die? ”
It turned out that she was not called Yanzhi, but Moxiang. It turns out that this is the origin of my relationship with my sister-in-law, and we are really sisters in this life.
"Mo Xiang, hold on, my sister will take you to the doctor!"
Mo Xiang shook her head and pulled my sleeve: "Don't ...... Don't go for ...... Daddy and mother are gone, Mo Xiang really misses her father and mother, sister, Mo Xiang is going to die, this is left to you. ”
She took out a osmanthus candy from a small sachet with difficulty. It has long been spoiled. It was solemnly handed to me.
"Mo Xiang has been hiding for a long, long time, but she is reluctant to eat it, sister, you can eat it, Mo Xiang is going to find her father."
Tears fell one by one with the rain, and I hugged him helplessly and cried: "Moxiang, don't die...... Please......"
Why? In the face of my dearest people, I am always so helpless and hesitant, I can't do anything at all!
Suddenly the rain stopped, I subconsciously looked up, I don't know when there was an oil-paper umbrella, and a middle-aged man in a clean shirt smiled kindly: "Little girl, our young master invites you to go to the carriage to avoid the rain together." ”
Like driftwood floating in the sea, I finally saw a glimmer of hope, and the man picked up the silent incense in one hand for me, and walked towards the carriage not far away with an umbrella in the other.
Unexpectedly, halfway through, I suddenly heard someone shouting: "Come out and see!" There's a lot of luxurious wagons there! There must be food and silver in it!! ”
At such a call, the homeless people rushed out and rushed towards the carriage desperately.
I panicked and cried out, "They're all here!" What to do? ”
"Quick, get on the carriage!" The man urged, and he first put the incense into the carriage, and a pair of slender and white hands poked out of the curtain and took the incense.
He reached out and handed it to me, and after a moment of hesitation, I handed it out. It's so warm! Jade-like warmth.
The man inside pulled hard, and I broke into the carriage, stunned on the spot.
This man......
My eyes widened in disbelief! Although all this has happened in front of me, when I saw Chu Nantang as a teenager, I still couldn't believe that all this had really happened!
"Nantang ......"
The young man's eyes as clear as a lake looked at me with a slight doubt, and then lowered his eyes again, leaving two rows of gentle silhouettes under his eyelids with long eyelashes.
He didn't ask anything, and touched Mo Xiang's clothes: "It's all soaked, I have some dry clothes here, but they don't fit, let's wear them first." ”
How could he still be so calm? I hurriedly said, "Those displaced people ......"
Before he could finish speaking, he heard the sound of horses' hooves galloping towards him, and a gunshot rang out.
My heart tightened with fright, and I subconsciously lifted the window of the car and looked out, only to see several family members in short shirts holding guns in their hands and shouting angrily: "Whoever dares to take another step, we will shoot him!" ”
Chu Nantang handed me the dry clothes, lifted the curtain and jumped out of the carriage.
I vaguely heard him say, "Uncle Shen, just scare them, and then get some dry food for them." ”
"Young master, we don't have much dry food. Further, we will come to the concession, where we have to be cautious, and the silver dollar may not work. ”
"Deal with the important things in front of you first, and take one step at a time!"
"Okay, listen to you."
After we changed our clothes, Chu Nantang took some food and entered the carriage, followed by a reading glasses wearing round glasses and carrying a sandalwood medicine box.
For long journeys, they must have taken a doctor with them.
"Mr. Shi, please take a look at what kind of disease this girl is suffering from."
"Young Master Chu, please wait a moment, let me take a look first."
After Mr. Nashi heard this, his face was shocked, and he rolled his eyelids again, and staggered back to the door of the carriage.
"What?"
"It's a plague! Young Master Chu, this ...... Don't leave them behind, and get out of the carriage to prevent infection. ”
I suddenly looked up at Chu Nantang, he lowered his head in embarrassment and thought about it, "How many people have died from the plague?" ”
"The statistics above say that there are more than 2,000 people, but in fact, I am afraid that there are more than that."
He sighed to himself, didn't look at us again, and turned to get out of the carriage.
I don't know when the rain stopped, I hugged the silent incense, desperately looking at the gray sky in the evening, did it make me go back to the past, just to experience this despair again and again?
I thought I would soon be kicked out of the carriage, but it didn't, so I sat in the carriage with Moxiang in my arms and followed it for a while, stopping in a forest.
The doctor prescribed some antibiotics, but this did not help at all, and Mo Xiang woke up once halfway through and burned in a daze.
"Sister, where are we?"
"Don't be afraid, we have been taken in by well-wishers, we will be fine, my sister will protect you."
Mo Xiang's gray eyes flashed with a hint of glazed brilliance. The words carry endless hope: "Really? ”
"Really, really......" sour tears welled up in his eyes, and he could only hug the person in his arms tighter.
After lulling her to sleep, I got out of the carriage, and it was quiet, and a fire was lit not far away.
After walking a few steps, I heard someone whispering something about something.
"The young master just said, let these two girls continue to follow us, send them on their last journey, and then find a better place to bury them."
"I really can't understand this little young master, knowing that it is a plague and still taking them. Aren't you afraid of infection? ”
"So Shen Huyuan said that they would be dealt with quietly tonight, and when the young master asked Ming'er, he said that the two of them left by themselves."
……
I covered my lips and staggered back two steps, the faint sound of the dead branches on the ground, but enough to catch their attention.
Looking over to me, the family shouted, "Catch her!" ”
I got up and ran to the carriage, but before I could get any far, I was very tired, and soon caught up with me and pressed me to the ground: "Don't make a sound, or I'll kill you now!" ”
"Let go of me!"
"I'm sorry little girl, who told you to get the plague, we are just trying to survive. The little master is kind to you, do you want to hurt him? ”
I was suffocated: "If you let go of me, I will leave by myself with Mo Xiang, and I won't alarm your young master." ”
"Oh, we don't believe you!"
"Don't talk nonsense with her, just tie it up and throw it in the valley."
"Yes!"
The men actually took out the rope that had been prepared long ago, gagged my mouth, and dragged Mo Xiang out of the carriage.
Walked to the edge of a nearby valley and pushed us down.
When I fell, I felt that my body was soft, and I didn't feel much pain, and I pushed the strip of cloth out of my mouth with my tongue, and my tongue was numb.
"Silent incense...... Silent incense!! ”
In the cold moonlight, I saw that the wilderness was full of dead people! A foul smell poured into the tip of his nose, and all he vomited out was bile.
The corpses were highly decomposed, and when they accidentally stepped on the hands and feet of the dead man, the flesh was half-rotting and sticky to the soles of their shoes, and then it seemed as if even the socks were soaked.
It's like a nightmare that I can't wake up, and I don't even have the strength to scream.
I looked at all this in a daze, and began to rummage through the pile of dead people.
"Silent incense! Mo Xiang, Mo Xiang ......" I choked up and looked for a long time before I turned her out.
At this time, Mo Xiang was already breathing, and I picked up Mo Xiang, but my strength had already dried up, so I only half-dragged her, walking step by step in the pile of dead people.
But I don't know how, but there is no end at all.
"God, save me!!"
I don't have anything to do anymore but scream helplessly, no one will come, no one will care if we live or die!
"Nantang, Nantang!! Why ......"
Suddenly I saw a fire approaching in the distance, was it a person? Who is it? Come to our rescue?
I didn't think much about it, only the last sense of survival remained, just let me carry the silent incense and move forward with my heart.
"Help! Help me!!! ”
The ants are still stealing life, I want to live, I don't believe it, fate has made me go back to the past, just so that I can try this single pain.
"They're there! Fast! Go and bring them back. ”
It sounded like the Shen Nursing Home, and we were taken back again, all dirty and smelling of rancidity, and no one wanted to get close.
It wasn't until Chu Nantang appeared that he stepped forward to probe Moxiang's snort, and said to me helplessly: "Maybe...... She can't be saved, are you going to give up? ”
I shook my head firmly: "No, no! ”
I hugged Mo Xiang tightly: "She is my only relative, and I will never give up until the end." ”
He stared at me for a long time and smiled: "There is a small stream in front of me, the water there is quite clear, but it is a little cold, you go there and wash it first." ”
"Okay." Seeing his warm smile again, like the warm sun in winter, a trace of warmth gradually rose in my heart.
"Can you still go?"
"I can."
"You're strong." He glanced at Mo Xiang and hugged her horizontally, not disgusted with the dirty smell on her body at all.
"Young Master Chu, no! You will ......"
Chu Nantang ignored them and took me to the creek.
"Need my help?" He thought about it and asked, his eyes clear without a trace of distraction.
"Trouble...... You've got it. ”
He helped me and Moxiang clean our bodies and brought new clothes to change into.
"South...... Young Master Chu. I pursed my lips, and my breath was undecided: "Great kindness and great virtue are not grateful, you can just send me and Moxiang here, the plague will be infected, are you really not afraid?" ”
"If the sky kills me, the Da Luo Immortal can't save me. If life is not extinct, what is the plague? Along the way, I have seen a lot of falling apart, life and death, and human affection...... How precious. ”
yes, how desperate should that situation be? If he hadn't led someone to find us again.
It's just that every day should not be. The earth is not spiritual.
"Wouldn't it be difficult for you to do this?"
He thought for a moment and said, "Although it is difficult, it is worth trying, I will settle you down first, and wait until my master meets to see if he can cure your plague." ”
So he led us some distance, and further north, there were Northern Expeditionary troops everywhere. The situation was turbulent, and in order not to attract attention, Chu Nantang and them scattered two teams.
In fact, in order to make it easier to settle me and Mo Xiang, we followed him to an old alley courtyard and knocked on the door. After a while, an old man in a shabby shirt came and opened the door.
Seeing that it was Chu Nantang, he was about to salute, but Chu Nantang hurriedly stopped: "Second Master Zheng, don't be busy, I need to trouble you here for a while." ”
"Oops! What did Young Master Chu say that it is not troublesome? What's the matter, I, Zheng Lao Er, have no shirk, please come in. ”
I entered the dilapidated courtyard and there was a lot of firewood piled up outside, which seemed to be prepared for heating in winter.
Chu Nantang said: "As long as it is partial, it will be good to isolate us for the time being." ”
"It's ...... What does it mean? ”
"These two girls are infected with the plague, I will bring the wormwood of Xun, so that Mr. Shi can protect ......"
In fact, I can feel that when Chu Nantang said this, his tone also carried some worry and apology.
However, Second Master Zheng didn't dislike it, and waved his hand, so that Chu Nantang didn't want to go on, but said: "My Second Master Zheng's life was saved by Young Master Chu, this little thing, you can just look at it, I know, you are measured." ”
Chu Nantang secretly breathed a sigh of relief and smiled lightly: "Thank you here." ”
After settling us down, Mr. Shi pricked a needle decoction for Mo Xiang and me, although it didn't have much effect, but it also temporarily saved Mo Xiang's life.
She still has a breath left, and I am accompanied by Moxiang day and night, although the foundation is thicker, in the end I will not be spared.
Not long after, he also had a high fever and cough, sometimes awake, sometimes fell into a coma.
"Take the medicine first, and then insist on persevering, and the master will come soon." He hugged me and gave me medicine carefully.
I struggled to lift my eyes. I looked at him for a moment, and I forgot to withdraw my gaze.
When he was a teenager, he was really young, and his delicate and impeccable facial features would make people feel like they were drunk, and they didn't know the depths of intoxication.
He met my gaze and asked suspiciously, "Why do you look at me like this?" ”
I swallowed the bitter juice that remained in my throat: "I...... Because, as if I have seen you somewhere. ”
At the mention of this, he couldn't help but be curious: "Then we may have met before, otherwise when you first saw me, you called out my name, you must have known each other?" ”
"Well, I ...... I've seen you before, and I accidentally heard the name and wrote it down. ”
"You have a good memory."
At that moment, tears welled up in his eyes: "It's you, people can't forget." ”
A trace of shyness appeared on the young man's face, and he gently put me down: "You have a good rest, at least now the fever is gradually decreasing, as long as you don't give up, there will definitely be a way." ”
"Young Master Chu, it's better for you to come in less, if it infects you, what should I do?"
"I have a strange physique, I won't be infected, don't worry."
I don't know if it's comforting or true. Then he packed up the medicine bowl and turned around and left the room, I glanced at the sleeping Moxiang beside me, stroked her hair, and whispered, "Yanzhi, we won't die." ”