Chapter 32: The Story of the Flower Demon
Under the light, Manyi's eyes became brighter and brighter.
Qixia brewed a pot of jasmine slices, and in the warm room, the two of them sipped fragrant tea, and Manyi told her tortuous and long story.
"I was originally the Oiran of the Rakshasa Kingdom, and since I was a child, I was cut off and transplanted to Qianhua Temple to be raised. At that time, I had not yet cultivated my human form, and there was a little monk who was in charge of sprinkling and sweeping, and every day he went to the mountains to pick up water from the divine spring for me to irrigate. Because of the water of this sacred spring, I was able to rest and recuperate. ”
A hundred years later, the little monk died, and after several lifetimes, he went to a family at the gate of Qianhua Temple to be a showman. That Xiucai looks exactly like the little monk, and he comes to see me every day, and I know it's time for me to repay my kindness. At that time, I had just become a human being, and others only called me Black Rose, but when he saw my graceful figure, he named me Manyi. ”
"Isn't he afraid of you?" Qixia asked. People in the mortal world are afraid of these demons and spirits.
"He was not afraid, for my soul had just been gathered and could only come out at night, so he came to see me every night. After a long time, it will be known. ”
She sighed and said, "I can't stay in that temple." One night when it was dark and windy, he dug me up, wrapped me in a bag of earth, and fled with me. ”
"Where did you •••••?"
"He fled with me to Kyoto, where I lived in an abandoned courtyard on the outskirts of the city, and I was planted by him under a window wall in the courtyard. Since then, we have lived our lives wholeheartedly. ”
Qixia listened and thought that those days must have been very beautiful.
"Those days were the most unforgettable in my life, he tidied up the yard every day, planted vegetables, and read; I will use some small spells, and often change some valuable things to sell at the market to subsidize my family. Therefore, life is also very good and carefree. ”
If only it went on like this, Qixia thought.
"But later, he was bent on seeking fame, and I couldn't stop him, so I had to let him take the exam."
"It turned out that he brought me to Kyoto to make it easier for the exam. He took the exam for three years in a row, and finally passed the exam, and the emperor made him an official. I had no choice but to follow him to the post again. ”
Manyi said, her eyes suddenly gloomy and sad, she sighed, and continued: "Since then, my bad luck has come, and he has been constantly transferred, sometimes for three years, sometimes for five years, and the shortest time is only eight months. His official became bigger and bigger, and my body became weaker and weaker, and in the end, I couldn't gather a human form at all. ”
One day I said to him, "It's not the way to go on like this, you can move me to a place where there is aura, let's be separated for a while, and I want to recuperate." He pondered for a moment and agreed. ”
Qixia heard the twists and turns of this story, so she put her hand on her cheek and looked at Manyi intently.
Manyi continued, "He transplanted me to the Faguang Temple. It is the largest temple in the capital, and there is a relics pagoda on the back mountain, which is the most spiritual source gathering. He planted me in the col next to the tower, where it was half yin and half yang, which could not only get sunshine and rain, but also not be invaded by wind and rain, which was very suitable for me to recuperate. Before leaving, he was reluctant and repeatedly told me to protect myself and remember to avoid people, he would often come to see me. ”
Tears flowed down the cheeks as Man Yi spoke: "But he has been gone for decades, and there has been no news, as if the world has evaporated." I waited so long that I finally got his bones in my fiftieth year. ”
"Ah••••••h Qixia covered her mouth in shock when she heard this, she wanted to say something, and she thought it would be better not to interrupt, so she listened silently.
"That's what he entrusted to his friend before he died, and after he died, he would be buried next to me, and he couldn't be together in life, and he had to stay together when he died." Manyi wiped her teary eyes, looked at Qixia blankly and said, "Sister, do you know? At that time he was already an old man. ”
"After he left me, he was framed by traitors and sent to prison. After several years in prison, he was exiled to a barren land on the border, and he was not released until the death of the first emperor and the new emperor's accession to the throne and the amnesty of the world. But at that time, he was already sick and dying, and it was the belief that he wanted to see me that kept him alive. ”
Finally, on the way back, he had a heart attack and died on a stormy night. His soul has been drifting with the bones, the vast Gobi, the mountains and wilderness, floating thousands of miles before coming to me. I looked at his gray hair and choked up and couldn't say a word. He looked at me for a long time, and only said, 'I was wrong.' ’”
Qixia burst into tears when she heard this, and she couldn't say anything in her heart, just looked at Manyi quietly.
"He was a ghost, I was a demon, and the days have really calmed down since then." Manyi took a sip of tea.
"After two hundred years, he has no intention of being reincarnated." Manyi lowered his eyes and closed his long eyelashes, "But I'm not satisfied, he has changed from a heroic young man to an old man, and that's not what I want." ”
"So I went to look for a way to make him younger."
Qixia looked at her in surprise, she didn't know about ghosts, but she had heard some legends, and it was the first time she had heard of ghosts to become younger.
"At that time, I already had some mana and some cultivation methods, so I taught it to him. After that, I tried many things but didn't get him back to his youth, until one time I caught a live deer and asked him to suck the blood marrow. ”
When Qixia heard the blood sucking, she suddenly remembered the story of Tu Shan Liangdi, and her heart couldn't help but tighten.
"I didn't expect it to work, but a few times his face was as radiant as when he was young." A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth as he spoke, and he continued: "But the deer on this mountain soon let me kill all the deer, and I began to look for other beasts, roe deer, badgers, hares, monkeys, and ••••••, and gradually there were fewer and fewer animals for him to feed, and his skin would become dull if he did not suck blood, and wrinkles would grow in two or three days." So one day I went down to the farmer's house and caught a sheep and came back. ”
Qixia was stunned when she heard this, will she kill someone?
"In this way, I went to catch the farmer's livestock every day, and it was soon discovered."
"Someone came forward to ask the monks in the temple to exorcise demons, and the road leading to the mountain was full of charms, and those small spells couldn't do anything to me, but suddenly there was a supernatural thing that shocked me."
Manyi took a sip of hot tea and continued, "The true body of the relics stupa has appeared. ”
"The relics enshrined in the tower were originally the finger bones of the third abbot Zhenji monk, who was a high-ranking monk, and I would go to worship every morning and dusk. On that day I was kneeling down in prayer, when suddenly an old voice said to me, 'Why do you worship me every day when you kill every day?' I was stunned and hurriedly prostrated my head. ”
Then the voice said, "For my sake, I will show you a clear way." Next month, on the Xinmao day, you ask Qingyuan to report to the god Meng Pozun in the netherworld, he and you still have two lives, don't be an evil ghost here. ”
Only then did Qixia know that this man's name was Qingyuan. Qing--source, love--fate, it's really the love of several lifetimes!
Manyi looked at the light on the table, and his whole person was immersed in memories: "I have repeatedly thanked Master Zhenji, and I went back to prepare with him to go to the capital." ”
"You know, Yan Fu Tizhou is a long way away, and I must let him go today. He was an old ghost and couldn't walk, so I had to drive him to the South Second Tiecheng Mountain at night, and I couldn't go any further, so we said goodbye, hoping to see each other again in the next life. ”
"I waited for another fifteen years, and this time he was reincarnated as a monk of Faguang Temple, maybe to get close to me."
Qixia didn't expect Qingyuan to become a monk again in this life, it seems that it was really to be closer to Demanyi.
"He still looks like that, clear and handsome. One day he accidentally fell down the mountain pass, and I rescued him, and we finally met again. ”
"Of course he didn't remember the events of his previous life, but he was amazed by my beauty, and after a long time of ignorance, he finally ran away."
"After that, he never came back to the back mountain, so I had to follow him quietly in disguise. I help him flip through the book when he recites the scriptures, and I help him cool off when he is hot, just look at him, and I don't care about such days. ”
"In that life, the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha, we were silently accompanied like this. It wasn't until the first few days of his death that he went to the back mountain to see me, and it turned out that he always had me in his heart. ”
Qixia listened with fascination, what a poignant story this is!
Manyi continued: "I think we will have a lifetime of fate in the future, and I don't know what the heavens will do. God can really play tricks, guess how long I've been waiting this time? ”
"How long?" Qixia asked curiously.
"Three thousand years."
Three thousand years. Qixia looked at her in a daze, how could it be so long?
Manyi said: "Three thousand years, how hot the feelings are, have cooled down, right?!" ”
"I crouched in the temple and watched the people who came into the incense every day, for fear of missing him, but for three thousand years, I really had not seen him, not even anyone who looked like him. I think I must have missed it. ”
"Until one day I saw the emperor who came to the temple to make incense, I was stunned, and the emperor turned out to be Qingyuan."
Qixia was also surprised when she heard that the emperor turned out to be Qingyuan.
"I was reluctant to leave him, so I followed him back to the palace."
"There are three thousand beauties in his harem, all of them beautiful and enchanting, and one of them is named Hanxing, who is very favored by him. I've been lurking in the palace to get his attention, but I haven't had a chance to show up to meet him. I'm also afraid of scaring him. ”
"Finally one day I saw that he was asleep, and I went to meet him in his dream."
"I told him everything about my previous life, and he cried in his dreams when he heard it, and when he woke up, he hugged me and cried bitterly."
"Since then, I have lived in the palace openly, and he built a place for me to practice in the palace, which is called: Lonely Cloud Temple. I was named a national teacher by him, and we were able to see each other day and night. ”
"I didn't expect my secret to be known by Hanxing, and she eavesdropped on our conversation. Then this vicious woman sent the demon Dao to the Faguang Temple to pull my original body out of the ground and set it on fire. ”
Hearing this, Qixia nervously opened her mouth like petals, and she pinched the placket of her clothes with her hands, sweating in her palms.
"But I am also a flower demon who has practiced for seven or eight thousand years, and I have lived in Faguang Temple for thousands of years, and I have also gained some righteous paths, so I rushed over in time to kill that demon path."
"Qingyuan was extremely distressed when he found out, so he moved my flower body to the Lonely Cloud Temple. Hanxing's woman was also beaten into the cold palace by him. In this way, although the matter of me and him is spreading in the Rakshasa Kingdom, no one dares to do anything because of my mana and his majesty. In this way, we lived a peaceful life, and I finally enjoyed the most beautiful love and life. ”
"He is a mortal, after all, he is going to die, he can't rest assured of me, and tells the prince to take care of me for a good life, and he is not allowed to drive me out of the palace. Prince Nuo agreed repeatedly. ”
"Who knew that as soon as Qingyuan left on the front foot, the prince on the back foot invited the demon hunter to surround me, and they caught me and prepared to be executed. At this time, a minister put a copy on the book and told him that he could offer me to the demon king, and he would have peace for 10,000 years. ”
Oh, I see! Qixia sighed, poor woman!
"Sister, that's how I picked up my life. They beat me back to my original form, my mana was sealed by many spells, and my flower body was offered to the capital flower void temple, which was specially built for me. ”
"Every day they water me with elixir, and every day people worship me and worship me with incense, just so that my flowers can bloom brilliantly and please the Demon King, otherwise how can the Demon Lord see it? After a hundred years of worship in this way, Qingyuan's grandson sent me to this demon realm, and our sisters were destined to meet each other. ”
After the story is finished, Qixia has never heard such a tossing and turning love story, and even those mortal chapter novels do not have such tactful and poignant. Hearing it made her feel angry and heartbroken.
The two men sat in silence for a moment.
Qixia slowly walked in front of Manyi, gently wiped her tearful eyes, raised her head and hugged her quietly in her arms: "Sister, you have suffered too much, my sister will protect you in the future, you can recuperate here in peace." ”
The night is dark, and a cool rose fragrance surrounds the elegant room in the quiet night, and the soaking fragrance makes people intoxicated, slowly winding in the dark night, meandering •••••••.
Qixia was lying on the bed still thinking about Manyi's story, compared to her, her story was too thin, and her love was so simple, could Mo Yin be as infatuated as Qingyuan?
Will he follow me for the rest of my life and be my husband for the rest of my life? But until now, he hasn't mentioned the matter of getting married, what does he think? What is it to live in this demon palace?
She sighed, fell asleep with a lot of worries, and had a dream at night, dreaming that Mo Yin and someone else had married Qin Jin.
When I woke up, the pillow was stained with tears, and I actually cried and wet the pillow in my sleep.