Chapter 163: Leaves of Illusion
Dugu Xin lay motionless on the snow, face down, for a long time, without a trace of movement.
Bai Qianyu felt bad, hurriedly trekked in the snow, and walked towards him, she walked in front of him with a deep foot and a shallow foot, squatted down, and gently shook his arm with her hand: "Hey, wake up! General Dugu, wake up!"
However, Dugu Xin, who was buried in the snow, did not react at all, and his body was cold.
Bai Qianyu was shocked, pushed him around, reached under his nose with his hand, and probed his snort, only to feel that the tentacles were cold.
Dugu Xin turned out to be on the verge of death!
At that moment, she suddenly understood his intentions - he was determined to end his life in this way to apologize to his father who had been forced to death!
Bai Qianyu became anxious, and desperately pushed Dugu Xin's body with his hands, trying to make him wake up, how could he die like this?
"Fire ...... Fire!" She suddenly remembered that people who were about to freeze to death needed a fire to keep warm, so she hurriedly stood up, went around to pick up many branches, hugged them, piled them on the snow beside Dugu Xin, touched her body, and unexpectedly touched two black flints.
Bai Qianyu held the two flints that could be fired, and his heart was happy, but he was infinitely sad.
She vaguely remembered that next to the golden wire cage, the phantom boy named Xue Qian, when he handed her the two flints, told her how to light the fire: "Look, you have to do this, hold the flint with both hands like this, and then wipe it violently, be fast! Yes, that's it, and then, the fire will rise!"
It's just that the phantom boy who said these words is gone forever.
Bai Qianyu wiped the tears that flashed from her eyes, and quickly rubbed the two flints in her hand, and sure enough, the firelight jumped up, and she brought the firelight close to the branch on the ground, and after a while, a fire was built.
The fire was blazing, and Bai Qianyu's body gradually warmed up, however, Dugu Xin, who was frozen unconscious, still had no reaction at all.
Bai Qianyu became anxious, roasted her hands warm by the fire, and then rubbed Dugu Xin's face and chest vigorously, trying to speed up the blood circulation in his body, she took off the iron boots on his feet again, and helped him rub the spring points on the soles of his feet with warm palms.
Finally, she felt that Dugu Xin's cold body gradually had a trace of warmth, she was overjoyed, and hurriedly prostrate down, lying on his body, putting her head on his chest, and listening to his heartbeat in his chest.
The faint heartbeat came from Duguxin's chest, from nothing, to one, two, three, slowly becoming clearer and clearer, Bai Qianyu was happy, raised his head, and gestured with a "V" in his hand: "Yay!
Then she saw a pair of awakened eyes, as clear as water, and shining as stars, looking at her quietly.
Bai Qianyu's smile suddenly froze on his face.
She retracted her finger and said embarrassedly, "You...... Woke up?"
"Call me to believe. The young man Duguxin sat up and looked at her coldly: "Who asked you to save me?"
He lowered his head, his face was pale, and a few strands of messy hair fluttered on his cheeks: "I was going to die, do you think I'll thank you for this?"
Bai Qianyu frowned, feeling the loneliness and stubbornness in the young man's heart: "How did the old general Duguku teach you? Does he teach you on weekdays, the husband stands in the heaven and the earth, and there will be a death, or heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than a feather, as a general, you should die in the border field, and return the ear with a horse leather shroud,ββ you died like this as a governor and general, isn't it in response to what his old man said, 'lighter than a feather'?"
Dugu Xin glanced at Bai Qianyu in surprise, as if she was surprised how she could know her father's teachings, but still said coldly: "Who are you?
He stood up, took two steps barefoot, and faced the direction of the city gate: "My father is dead, but I can't avenge him, if I kill the lord, it is for disloyalty, if I abandon my subordinates, it is for injustice, if I do not avenge him, it is unfilialββ you tell me, like me, disloyal, unrighteous, unfilial people, what is the point of living in the world?"
"Why is it meaningless?" Bai Qianyu Huo stood up: "People live in this world, not only loyalty, righteousness, filial piety, you follow your father's wishes, all his life in the name of loyalty, you have fulfilled filial piety, you did not lead the troops to rebel, did not let them fall into injustice because of you, it is already righteousness! And the so-called loyalty," Bai Qianyu took a deep breath: "It is not only loyalty to the monarch that is called loyalty, loyalty to your own country, to love it, to protect it, it is also loyalty!"
Dugu Xin's body shook violently, and a pair of bare feet in the snow stopped, he paused, and finally slowly turned his head and looked at Bai Qianyu: "What the girl said just now is really a voice from outside the sky, like an initiation, deafening," he bowed deeply to her: "Believe and be taught!"
"It's good to be taught," Bai Qianyu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, for fear that this stubborn young general would not be able to think of seeking death for a while, and pointed to the open space next to the fire: "Come and bake the fire," she looked at him, and a warm smile appeared on her beautiful face: "In this bitter cold place of ice and snow, I don't want the life I just saved to freeze to death in vain!"
Dugu Xin looked at her, across the fire, the snow was flying, the wind was whistling, blowing past her ears, and there were some sparks on the fire, flying up from the firewood and flying with the snowflakes.
The young general's eyes were warm, as if there were sparks shining.
He sat next to Bai Qianyu, the two of them were roasting the fire together, and in the wind and snow, he asked: "When you woke me up just now, you compared it with two fingers, what is that?"
"It's 'V'!" Bai Qianyu stretched out two fingers and gestured again: "This, in our world, represents victory and success." β
"Oh," Dugu Xin nodded, looked down at his bare feet, and blushed inexplicably: "Just now, it was you who helped me take off the boots and saved me?"
"Well," Bai Qianyu nodded: "Yongquan acupoint is a big acupoint on the soles of people's feet, rubbing it can help people dissipate heat and anger, I saw that you have not come back to life at that time, so I had to use this method!"
Dugu Xin's handsome face turned red again, and he quickly changed the topic: "What about me, my nickname is Ruwish, this nickname was given by my mother, she hoped that everything would be as I wanted since I was a child, but ......" His voice was low, and he choked slightly: "My mother, when I was very young, died of illness...... Now, my father is ...... again"
He lowered his head, grabbed a handful of snow from the ground, and threw it towards the fire, the snowball smashed into the fire, and immediately scattered, Dugu Xin looked at the burning fire with both eyes, and fell silent again.
Bai Qianyu said: "That...... Which name do you prefer, Letter, or Wish?"
Dugu Xin stared at the fire, thinking, the firelight danced between his good-looking eyebrows, making the young man look extraordinarily heroic and moving: "Faith, is my father's request to me, he said that the five virtues, wisdom, faith, benevolence, bravery, strictness, the most important thing is faith, the husband must have faith in words, deeds and faith, in order to stand in heaven and earth, I think, if I really do what my father wishes, become a general who defends the family and the country, and protects my beloved, then I can do it truly as I wish!"
He turned his head, looked at Bai Qianyu, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "What about you, I still don't know what is the name of my savior?"
He grabbed her wrist: "You not only saved my life, but also untied the knot in my heart, in the future, I will definitely repay you well!"
"My name," Bai Qianyu looked at him and said slowly: "Bai Qianyu." β
My name is......
Bai Qianyu.
The last three words, like a key, suddenly opened a door in the void.
The young general in front of Bai Qianyu had an imperceptible change in his face, and he had a more mature and attractive male silhouette, which was the traces carved on his face by the tempering of the years.
The howling of the wind and snow disappeared, there was silence in their ears, and the faint candlelight flickered, and they returned to the cold and dark ancestral hall.
Dugu Xin's hand was still tightly gripping Bai Qianyu's wrist.
The eyes of the two men looked there, and then they let go of their hands in unison.
The person in front of him is no longer the sharp, lonely, impulsive, and easily destroyed young general he was ten years ago, he has grown up more magnificent, wise, mature and confident.
"Thank you, White Girl. After a moment of silence, Dugu Xin opened his mouth first, and his deep and magnetic voice echoed in the empty ancestral hall: "We were just brought into the illusion created by the illusion tree leaves, and I was almost killed by it in the illusion!"
He raised his head and looked at the vain, constantly rotating turquoise leaves above the ancestral hall, the leaves were like human palms, trembling strangely: "In our illusory country, the Tree of Illusion is a sacred tree that can capture people's hearts and attract people's hallucinations, it can bring wonderful dreams to worshippers, and it can also bring them nightmares like hell,ββ Everything depends on the mentality of the person who worships it. β
"Do you mean to say that it was the leaf of illusion just now, which absorbed the sorrow and grief of your tears, so it led us into the nightmare realm?" Bai Qianyu said.
Dugu Xin nodded: "Yes, Fang Caixin was too sad, so the white girl sank into the sad illusion of the past with the letter." β
"It turns out that it's not a time traveler to the past, but just an illusion," Bai Qianyu breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good." β
Dugu Xin shook his head: "The white girl still doesn't understand the illusion in my country, although the illusion is illusory, in the illusion, it can also kill, so the white girl really saved my life!" Two points of light flashed in his eyes with five-color illusion petal eyes: "And the highest level of illusion can turn illusion into an entity!"
"So," Dugu Xin said slowly, "everything that the White Girl and I experienced just now in the Leaf Illusion can also be said to be true! When I was fifteen years old, I met the White Girl, and this has turned into an indelible memory for me. β
He looked at Bai Qianyu, with complex emotions in his eyes, just like the young general who stood in the wind and snow, beside the bonfire, and had sparks floating by when he was fifteen years old.
Then, he quickly turned his head and looked at his father's spiritual seat, and his handsome face became as if covered with a layer of ice, which also concealed all his emotions.