Chapter Forty-Eight: Farewell to Penglai (1)
At the beginning of the morning, Ah Nian woke up, and when he opened his eyes, he immediately remembered that there was a person sleeping next to him who was easily awakened, so he didn't get up, and turned his head slightly to look into the bed. At this glance, I found that the man was lying upright, his eyes straight up and not skewed at all, motionless, but blinking his eyes from time to time......
"Are you awake?" Ah Nian relaxed, sat up, tilted his head and looked at Zixu.
Zixu still didn't squint, he didn't move for a long time and didn't speak, Ah Nian poked his arm with his finger, and he nodded slightly as if he had been touched by the mechanism.
"Dumb?" asked Ah Nian.
Zixu shook his head again.
"Then why don't you speak?"
Zixu hesitated for a while before finally speaking: "It's not Miss Ah Nian, don't you let me say it?"
Ah Nian snorted lightly, "Zixu Dao is confused on his face, but he is actually like a mirror in his heart, will he not know what I won't let you say?"
Zixu held back again, silent.
Ah Nian saw that his silence was a silent protest, she leaned closer to him slightly, stared at him and asked, "Zixu Daoist, do you actually want me to do something to you......?"
Zixu froze for a while, and after listening to Ah Nian's words, he shuddered with fright, and his body automatically moved a little inward - this was just because the bed was not wide enough, and there was a wall behind him, so he couldn't move more.
"No!" Zixu firmly denied.
Ah Nian saw that a layer of fine sweat was breaking out on his forehead, and he looked really frightened. She withdrew her fingers and used her sleeve to wipe his sweat instead......
Zixu raised his elbow to open Ah Nian's hand, "Ah ...... Ah Nian girl, no, I'll do it myself!"
"Just wipe your sweat, so scary?" Ah Nian said, but he still withdrew his hand, and sat up straight, away from him.
"Nope. It's just that you don't have to bother Miss Ah Nian!" Zixu finally sat up boldly, and his hands naturally hung down.
After a while, Ah Nian suddenly noticed that Zi Xuan was trembling, wiping his own sweat while glancing at her from time to time...... She stared at Zixu with a slight frown, and asked seriously, "Daoist Zixu, are you really afraid that I will ruin your reputation by getting close to you, or are you afraid that you will like me?"
Zixu was stunned for a moment, and then grinned, "Miss Ah Nian's idea is quite interesting. β
Ah Nian also smiled, opened his eyes and said, "It's not a big deal to like me, if you are afraid because of this, I will look down on you." β
"Whether you look down on me or not, Miss Ah Nian, I am like this!"
"What do you look like, Daoist?" asked Ah Nian rhetorically.
Zixu couldn't answer for a while.
Ah Nian didn't press back, and asked again, "Zixu Daoist, how did you get the Fruit of Eternal Life?Why did Penglai change her mind later?" This was what she was most curious about at the moment.
"It's not that the real person in charge has changed his mind, it's someone else who has shown me the way. Zixu briefly told the appearance of the green dragon that Ah Nian didn't know, until he suddenly fell into the water.
When he finished speaking, Ah Nian raised his wrist and shook it. He said that the green dragon was awakened by the breath of this piece of amber on her body, "This piece of amber?" she confirmed.
Zixu nodded.
"You gave it to me!"
Zixu nodded again.
Ah Nian's expression was slightly solemn, "Why don't you explain this?"
"How do I explain it?" Zixu said aggrievedly, "I don't know that this amber has a great origin, I just picked it up on the side of the road!"
"Why can't others pick it up and you pick it up?"
Zixu pondered for a while and sighed, "It's probably fate!"
"Your fate with Penglai is really amazing!" Ah Nian also has some sincerity, she thinks that this is true in many ways.
It's just that Ah is more sarcastic, but obviously Zixu didn't hear it, he actually echoed, "It's quite amazing!"
Ah Nian almost didn't give him a roll of his eyes - his heart is really unusually big, and it is estimated that there is no problem when hundreds of rivers flow by.
Ah Nian stopped talking, and after a long while, Zi returned to the topic and continued, "I went down to the bottom, and then found a tree in the distance that glowed red and green, with no leaves and only branches, so I put Miss Ah Nian on a large white stone, and then walked towards the tree alone. β
Ah Nian has an impression of the big white stone, she woke up from a big white stone in her dream, and she happened to be able to meet what he said. Could it be that it wasn't a dream? But she was clearly in a trance about the things in the dream, and it didn't seem like a real feeling. Dreams have never had anything to do with her before, but recently she has started dreaming, it seems that after being hurt by Yanyan.
"As for how I got the Fruit of Eternal Life later, the real person in charge also asked me several times, but I still can't remember!" Zixu changed his face with a depressed face.
Ah Nian mocked, "You are so forgetful, are you really a seven-thousand-year-old man?"
Zixu sighed, did not refute, and continued, "The real person in charge said that when he came down, he saw the two of us lying on the big white stone with injuries, and I held the Fruit of Eternal Life in my hand, but my last memory is still a long way from the Divine Tree. β
Ah Nian didn't suspect that Zixu was lying, but she couldn't answer it for him, and after thinking about it for a while, she asked her own question, "Is there fire everywhere on the ground in that place?"
"It's not fire, it's just that the ground glows red, red, like a charcoal fire, but it's not hot at all, it's not hot. β
Ah Nian didn't have any grounding at all, so she didn't know if it was hot or not, but she didn't seem to feel hot in her dreams.
Ah Nian then asked, "Have you ever encountered an invisible blade?"
Zixu hesitated for a moment before returning, "Yes, you will encounter it if you get close to the Divine Tree." β
So was the dream really just her dream? If it was just a dream, how did her injury come about? And how did it fit what he said?
Zi asked again and suddenly, "Could it be that the fruit of eternal life was picked by you, Miss Ah Nian?"
"It's not me, if I pick it up, how can it be in your hand?" Ah Nian suddenly remembered the handsome and extraordinary man in white she saw in her dream, he came in the direction of the Divine Tree, but unfortunately she didn't pay attention to whether he was holding anything in his hand at the time, and the most amazing thing about that dream was that he became a child after that......
Ah Nian unconsciously stared at Zixu.
Sensing Ah Nian's attention, Zixu immediately tensed his back nervously, "Ah Nian girl, you ...... What do you want to do?"
"Have you ever broken your arms and legs?" asked Ah Nian.
"How do you know?"
Ah Nian twisted his eyebrows when he heard this, his son was slightly weak, and he soon smiled and said, "Aren't I all fine now?"
Yes, he's all right! Ah Nian restrained his emotions and lowered his eyes to thinkβeverything can be matched, so isn't it a dream? Who is the person in the dream? What is the relationship between him and Zixu? Why did he become Zixu?
Ah Nian thought hard for a long time and still couldn't find clues, Zixu didn't know what she was pondering, but seeing her meditating and thinking about it, she was apprehensive, and couldn't help but call her, "Ah Nian girl?"
Ah Nian glanced up at him, restrained his useless thoughts, and sighed, "Zixu Dao Chief, you look really ordinary......!
Zixu is as good as a stream, "Miss Ah Nian is right. β
Ah Nian turned his mouth and said, "You are an ordinary person, but you seem to be always linked to unusual things. β
"Is there one?" Zixu didn't agree with
"Maybe Daoist Chief, your ordinariness is fake, you are actually a big man with an extraordinary background?" Ah Nian thought that he had met Yu Hua Ji, Yu Wei and the demon world elder Huai Mu one after another, that little rabbit demon Jiaoyue was also related to the Lingyou Mountain God, and only Zixu, she thought that he was an ordinary Taoist priest with high birth but mediocre qualifications, but now, Penglai denied that he had a disciple, but he had an impression of Penglai, plus the monarch of Shanyou Kingdom specially told him about Penglai's past. Awakening the amber of the green dragon under Penglai and the now incomprehensible fruit of eternal life, there are really a lot of strange things in him. So, is he really ordinary?
Zixu was stunned, and then laughed, "If I am a big man with an extraordinary background, then why don't I know about it?"
"Probably if you knew, you wouldn't be able to pretend to be so natural. β
"If I'm a big guy, then why do I have to dress up like an ordinary person?"
"Then only you know!"
Zi sighed, "Ah Nian, girl, you...... I'm starting to think cranky again!"
"Am I cranky?" Ah Nian snorted coldly, "It's because you yourself never want to think about it! Maybe your untraceable personality is just to keep your current disguise." β
Zixu furrowed his eyebrows, "Miss Ah Nian are you sure I'm lying to you?"
"You're not lying to me, it's just that you don't know that you may not be your real self. β
Zixu lowered his head and was silent for a moment, then looked up at Ah Nian and asked, "Then Ah Nian girl, do you think you are your true self?"
"What do you mean?"
After thinking for a while, Zixu spoke, "Miss Ah Nian, you have eaten the fruit of eternal life and obtained the immortal body, and then your appearance has changed. β
"What's wrong with that?"
"The head of the house told me that the Holy Medicine will make you turn into an immortal, repair the lack of your body, and erase the scars on your body, but it will not change your appearance. β
Ah Nian couldn't help but feel strange when he heard him say this. "Sister Li said I just had flesh on my face. β
"They are not as familiar with you as I am, I have looked at you carefully, I think you only have eyes that have not changed, and everything else has changedβthe forehead is fuller, the bridge of the nose is a little higher, the nose is smaller, the mouth is smaller, the corners of the mouth used to droop slightly, but now it is raised. β
"You look so closely!" Being able to notice these subtleties shows that he remembers her original appearance very clearly, so it can be inferred that he has looked at her very carefully and carefully, which makes Ah Nian feel quite happy, but in addition to being happy, Ah Nian is slightly annoyed - she has no idea when he sees her so nuancedly.
"You can argue that I'm mistaken, but I think you're still taller!"
Ah Nian couldn't help but be stunned.
Zixu flew over Ah Nian very neatly and got out of bed, and then turned around and beckoned Ah Nian to come down as well. Ah Nian obediently got off the bed and stood on the floor facing him.
Zixu took a step forward and almost touched Ah Nian, Ah Nian was rarely timid, his face was hot, and Zixu unconsciously stretched out a palm and put it flat and compared-
"You used to be no taller than my shoulders, but now you're under my lips. β
Ah Nian looked up at Zixu, and thought about it for a while, she was not sure that she was not tall enough to Zixu's shoulders before, but she had the impression that she used to stand in front of him and look at him at a really different angle of sight than she is now.
Zixu lowered his gaze and happened to look at Ah Nian, "The real person in charge told me, Miss Ah Nian, you are probably not an extraordinary person." β
"I'm not mortal, so what am I?"
The real person in charge said...... You may be an immortal who has gone down to earth. β
Ah Nian was stunned.
Zixu didn't speak for a long time, until Ah Nian came back to his senses and asked him, "You alienated me because you knew this?"
"Yes!"
"Why? I'm an immortal, I'm a human being, aren't I all me?"
Even if I'm really an extraordinary person, I'm still me. β
Ah Nian nodded, "In my eyes, you have always been you, and I am me, whether you are an ordinary little Taoist priest, or you are the supreme of the Six Realms, and whether I am an ordinary little witch or an immortal, you are the person I like!"
Zixu wrinkled his eyebrows fiercely, "Miss Ah Nian, a girl's family...... Don't just talk about liking a man. β
"I'm not casual! I like you, only you. Even if I'm an immortal, it doesn't matter if I'm an immortal, what I like you is what I like you. β
Zi Xuan was slightly shocked, pursed his lips, and did not speak for a long time.