Chapter 38: The Fruit of Eternal Life (6)
In the middle of the night, Ah Nian's dream Gu attacked, and he woke up from his sleep painfully, and Ah Nian knew that he had underestimated this pain. She didn't want to wake up Zixu, so she gritted her teeth and closed her mouth, but still leaked some whining sounds......
"Ah Nian girl?" Zixu still woke up. He was already very alert when he slept, and he had been wary of something going on with Ah Nian.
"I ...... I'm fine!" Ah Nian struggled to piece together the sentence, and immediately gritted his teeth. She curled herself up, using this better than nothing to resist the pain that was constantly consuming her in her body.
"Why do you call it okay?" Zixu guessed that it was a Gu poison attack. He didn't care about the difference between men and women, and picked up Ah Nian, who was curled up in a ball, and hugged him into his arms...... The person in her arms has no temperature, to be exact, this is just a cold corpse, so cold that it makes people feel painful, and the trembling and spasmodic appearance of Ah Nian in her arms makes Zixu hate it even more, hating her cruelty to herself, and hating her inability to share it for her......
"Ah Nian, if the pain is unbearable, you can scratch me and scratch me...... Just bite me!"
Ah Nian didn't dare to make a sound, for fear that he would cry out in pain, so he only shook his head.
"Ah Nian girl, you are really ......" The words finally broke off in her mouth and turned into a long sigh.
Zixu helplessly hugged Ah Nian more and more, and said no more. Ah Nian struggled and forbeared, and finally survived this hour and fainted.
This time, Ah Nian was in pain, cramping and bruising his bones, and Zi was in pain in his heart, scraping his heart and cutting his lungs...... He felt that he was too indulgent to her, but seeing her being tortured by Gu poison like that, how could he be cruel to her again?
Ah Nian was tormented by pain for an hour, the pain in Zixu's heart tormented him all night, he couldn't sleep after this night, hugged Ah Nian all night, until nearly noon, Ah Nian woke up......
Ah Nian opened his eyes and saw Zixu, thinking that he had gotten up early, and greeted "Dao Chang Morning!"
"Morning!"
Zixu put Ah Nian down, and at this moment Ah Nian realized that something was wrong, and before she could say anything, Zixu leaned back and fell down......
"I'm ......," Zixu said, closing his eyes, "it's time to rest!" and he fell asleep almost immediately......
Zixu thought that there should be no one in this world who could make him feel so distressed, because there should be no one who tortured himself as ruthlessly as this girl.
Ah Nian was stunned, and finally came back to his senses - he hadn't slept until just now, and he had been holding and guarding her like that......
Ah Nian finally realized the seriousness of the problem, she looked at Zixu's sleeping face and reflected for a long time, and deeply realized that she was really wrong, she only hoped that nothing in the world would hurt him in the slightest, but she hurt him, hurt herself with her persistence and hurt him......
Ah Nian was afraid of waking up Zixu's sleep, so he almost didn't move, Zixu slept very peacefully, and when he woke up, it was already dusk......
"Dao Elder is awake?" Ah Nian said with a smile. The past cannot be changed, and the future is unpredictable, but the present is something she can grasp.
"Hmm. Zixu rubbed his eyes, then looked at Ah Nian and said, "Miss Ah Nian's makeup is a little ugly." ”
Ah Nian touched her face, couldn't touch anything, took out the small mirror of the dresser and looked at it, and found that it was indeed spent, it turned out that she didn't know when she cried - obviously she was already a living corpse, why were there tears?
Ah Nian pushed the dresser in front of Zixu and looked at him blankly......
Zixu understood what she meant, but she didn't speak, so he deliberately asked, "Do what?"
"Help me with my makeup. Ah Nian was a little coquettish.
Zixu sighed, sat up slowly, and then took the rouge gouache out with emotion, "I'm like an adopted daughter!"
"You don't want to raise me as a daughter, you can be a wife!"
Zixu glanced at her, "Miss Ah Nian, you...... There will come a time when we will suffer!"
"If it's your loss, I won't lose!"
Zixu reached out and grabbed Ah Nian's jaw, "Don't move, be careful that I give you a big face." ”
"You're transformed!" Ah Nian said fearlessly, "Anyway, I can't see what my face looks like when I don't look in the mirror, and hurting my eyes hurts you." ”
"Okay, then I'll paint you a big face!"
Zixu did what he said, and really painted a big face for Ah Nian. Compared with serious makeup, Zixu took a little more effort, and when he finished taking a mirror for Ah Nian, Ah Nian snatched the mirror and smashed it at him......
Zixu caught the mirror and laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten up.
Ah Nian couldn't help but laugh when he saw him laughing. can make him laugh happily, no matter how ugly she looks, it's worth it!
After laughing, Zixu said that he would help Ah Nian wipe his makeup and put it on again, but Ah Nian was unwilling.
Zixu was puzzled, "Miss Ah Nian, why are you?"
"The Taoist took the trouble to draw it for me, of course I have to cherish it!"
Zixu had a bitter face, "Ah Nian girl, you don't have to cherish it so much!"
"Of course you have to cherish it!" Ah Nian snorted, "I want the Taoist to remember my masterpiece well!"
Zixu glanced at the injury, and he now began to admit that Ah Nian was right, he was hurting his own eyes.
"Am I wrong?" Zixu said in a low voice.
"No way!"
Zixu pondered for a moment, picked up the hat, and put it on Ah Nian's head......
Ah Nian stretched out her hand and was about to take it off, but after thinking about it and forgetting it, she felt that it was enough, so she would follow his wishes.
After Ah Nian woke up in the middle of the night, Zixu didn't speak anymore, just held Ah Nian in his arms, and spent the night, and when Ah Nian woke up, Zixu slept peacefully again, and the two of them were awake and played as usual, Zixu didn't mention the dream of Gu, and Ah Nian didn't ask him what he was thinking if he didn't sleep with her......
On the second day of leaving the small courtyard of Yuhua Ji, the big bird flew into the sea, and for a while before, I could still look at the scattered ships on the sea and the seabirds flying between the sea and the sky, and then one day, it was just the vast clouds and the sea, as if there were only two birds in the world......
The third day is a good weather with a clear sky and a beautiful day, the sea and the sky are the same color, in the afternoon, in the distance where the sea and the sky meet, suddenly show a dreamlike beauty - between the clouds and mist, the jade tree and the Qiong branch cover the pavilion and fall, sometimes there are immortals with the wind to pass, and there are strange beasts to step on the clouds............
Ah Nian couldn't help but stand up, "That's Penglai?" The Penglai she had seen in the book should be like this.
Zixu also looked ahead, but said calmly, "That's really what Penglai looks like, but that's not really Penglai." ”
"Is there anything real or fake in Penglai?" Ah Nian looked back at her.
"It should be an illusion formed by the breath exhaled by a mirage. The real Penglai is impossible to see casually. Zixu retracted his gaze, jumped up, and said with slight joy, "But in this way, we are close to Penglai." ”
"Oh. Ah Nian was happy and worried for a while, but she didn't show it.
She sat down again and pulled Zixu's sleeve, "Zixu Daoist, you almost never mentioned your affairs in Penglai. ”
"There's nothing to talk about. Zi smiled and said, "I remember the old man's nagging." I don't like to listen to it, so I naturally don't tell anyone else!"
"You don't have any friends in Penglai?"
Zi Xuwu said embarrassedly, "No." My master is only one of my apprentices, and I don't usually associate with other people. ”
Ah Nian was quite surprised, "Dao Chang doesn't look lonely!" "She thought that people like him who were easy to get along with should have a lot of friends, and the lonely ones should be like her, she had no friends before, but now she has them."
The giant bird flew by, Ah Nian vaguely felt something, looked down, and saw a huge whirlpool, the sea water seemed to be constantly swallowed in, and there seemed to be a huge black shadow under the whirlpool, but because the sea water was deep, Ah Nian couldn't see what it was......
"It should be a mirage below!" Zixu said to Ah Nian, "Penglai is a lot of strange beasts, if you see them, then Penglai will not be far away." ”
The giant bird flew over the whirlpool, and the sky suddenly changed dramatically - the clear sky was suddenly hidden, the blue sky was covered with dark clouds in a blink of an eye, the sky and the earth were black and oppressive, the wind was fierce, and the originally calm sea surface rose into the waves, and the sound of the waves went straight up to the sky......
"What's wrong?" Ah Nian asked, grabbing Zixu's sleeve. It's not like this is how the sky changes, have they touched something?
The thunder moved, the thunder appeared and disappeared in the clouds, and the black clouds surged, like countless black dragons churning......
"Hold on to me!" Zixu said.
Ah Nian obediently grabbed Zixu's arm, and almost at the same time, a bolt of lightning struck, hitting the giant bird at their feet. The giant bird screamed sadly, and at the same time its body shook, Ah Nian and Zixu almost couldn't stand on their feet and fell, but fortunately, in the end, the two of them stood firm, but before the two of them could breathe a sigh of relief, with the sound of thunder, the heavy rain poured down, and the people and birds were drenched in an instant-
"It's a shame!" Ah Nian was shocked. She remembered what Yu Huaji had said, and the meaning of her words was that the bird could not get wet.
Zixu also remembered what Yuhuaji said, so he understood why Ah Nian was surprised.
"It's okay! It's close to Penglai, I'll take you with me!"
As if for an instant, Ah Nian felt that there was no trampling under her feet, and the giant bird had turned into a thin piece of paper, unable to bear the weight, and she and Zixu immediately fell down-
Zixu summoned his sword at the right time, and a silver light flew to the feet of the two of them, and the trend of the two of them falling stopped. At the same time, the bird-shaped paper instantly shrunk into a very small piece and fell down......
"Baggage!" Ah Nian suddenly remembered, but the surroundings were as dark as night, and she could barely see anything except the person in front of her. Ah Nian thought that those things should have fallen, and she was dizzy for a while, she actually let go of Zixu and wanted to pounce on it to salvage-
Zixu hurriedly hugged Ah Nian's waist and stopped her, her heart beating like thunder in fright, "Don't do it! ”
"But...... That's what you gave me!"
"So what's the matter, things are just things!" Zixu shouted, "You said you wanted to listen to me!"
Ah Nian was slightly stunned, and then came back to his senses and found that he had almost done something stupid, but when he thought of the beautiful Luodian dresser, he was still a little sad.
"I'll buy it for you later!" Zixu said softly.
Ah Nian wiped the rain from his face and said with some complaints, "The Taoist chief is very rich, isn't he very poor?"
"Money can be saved!"
Ah Nian didn't speak again, and Zixu concentrated on flying towards the sword forward......