Chapter 15: The Bard's Riddle (8)

"The bell didn't dare to touch the banana leaf easily, and continued, "This may be another myth and legend, saying that the two of you, can you be normal, it's all over, and it's all a non-existent thing!" ”

It's about Wangxiang and Wang Xu, Wangxiang, who has always been silent by the side of the kite, still hasn't recovered from Fang Cai's bloody fight, and the eyes of the two pairs of eyes are bloodshot and murderous, and they are still sitting on both sides of the table facing this side, and they are estimated to suddenly break their wrists, and everyone doesn't think it's strange.

Wu Zhen had just come back from outside and said to everyone: "Everyone, time has not changed, we may have only been away for an hour or so." ”

Zhu Wangdong said: "This is similar to spiritual power, which directly acts on our souls, and it can be said that we have all completed the soul out of the body. ”

"It's so interesting!" Bell said excitedly, "I'm not tired of solving this kind of riddle, hurry up, let's solve the next one." ”

"Is this some kind of myth?" Mu Ziyun asked Zhan Fanzi.

Zhan Fan Zi also thought about it for a long time, and replied: "I don't have any impression, I shouldn't have heard of this legend." And Wu Zhen doesn't remember what kind of special verse this is from the legend.

In desperation, everyone dispersed and went to the city to inquire, but there was no harvest in the afternoon, and later, Mu Ziyun went to inquire about the story of Changsheng, and then he found the clue. In the evening, everyone gathered at the table, and Mu Ziyun told a story he had learned from an orc merchant, which was also a story about humans.

Immortality is one of the hottest topics in every era, and the higher the status and the greater the power, the stronger the obsession with immortality. People are always eager to encounter something from religious detectives, or from the monuments of heaven and earth, or by what "grass" to eat, what "water" to drink, to suddenly let themselves get immortality, what is more strange is that no one can find the secret of immortality, but there will always be a variety of clues and mysteries of immortality, leading a group of people to sacrifice their lives to pursue.

In an era when everyone believed in reincarnation, there was a centuries-long craze for immortality, and because of this craze, the empire "Jiang Dynasty" at that time almost perished.

That era is completely different from the seven countries that everyone went to before, there is only one dynasty, and when the longevity craze prevails, the Jiang Dynasty is a faction and prosperous, in those hundreds of years, there are not many literati and young talents, the people live and work in peace and contentment, not only the land is prosperous, even the sea has been conquered by the Jiang Dynasty out of a large territory, after the full warmth is solved, to think about lust, after the lust is solved, will think about power, power in hand, began to think about how to sit in a high position, then after stability, I started thinking about how I could live longer. People believe in the religious concept of reincarnation and rebirth to the bone marrow, so even if a person has no worries about food and clothing, he will choose to commit suicide because of his dull life, die early and reincarnate early to choose to be a new person.

And the story is naturally related to the search for immortality, between the rivers and lakes, there are three sects, directly established to find the secret of immortality, and the protagonist of the story, is just a young man born in cloth, this young man is called Ling Xiaolang, died at the age of fourteen, in desperation, had to go to the cousin who was far away in Bayang City, and when he arrived in Bayang City, he accidentally entered a school to study medicine, and coincidentally this faction is one of the three sects in order to find immortality, just under the guise of practicing medicine on the surface, but this "vanilla door" 's medical skills are indeed famous, and they have saved many people.

Ling Xiaolang will be wrong, worship into the sect, become an apprentice, did not expect Ling Xiaolang to be talented, is a genius who knows medicine and medicine, and was immediately selected as an apprentice by the master, and Ling Xiaolang also became attached to the third daughter of the door owner, Liu Yingying, five years later, Ling Xiaolang has learned greatly, not only can be independent, but also surpass the master of the door in terms of medicine, and Ling Xiaolang is also like glue with Liu Yingying, and has already made a private life.

At this time, a shocking secret was revealed on the rivers and lakes, and the elixir appeared in the valley. As soon as the news came out, although the government protected it in time, there were still groups of people from the rivers and lakes who broke into the valley and pulled out a lot of medicinal herbs. Later, all the people who entered the valley were secretly killed, and some people concluded that this was the work of the three major sects that had been hidden all along, because the three major sects did not serve themselves, but some high-ranking people, and they were just pawns of the powerful, so some dirty actions could be supported by the government.

Ling Xiaolang found that the owner of the door went out almost every day, every time he came back, he didn't say anything, three months later, the gate of the valley opened, when people went to see it again, there was no trace of green in the valley, all the herbs were pulled out, and even the mud was missing a layer, and there were potholes everywhere, which was simply unsightly.

Ling Xiaolang and Liu Yingying went to see it once, and when they came back, Liu Yingying complained to the owner's father that there was nothing left, and the elixir was taken away. After hearing this, the door master accidentally slipped his mouth and said that there was no elixir at all, which aroused the suspicion of Xiaolang and Liu Yingying. Half a month later, there was news of the elixir coming out, and the location was changed to another place, almost the same way as the valley, but Ling Xiaolang secretly followed the master of the door and found that he could enter the forbidden land sealed by the government.

A year later, Ling Xiaolang was completely out of the school, but the door owner kept him, and the door master called him into a secret room that no one else knew about, and showed him a thing, which was just an ordinary pigtail grass, but there was an extra dent in the middle, so Xiaolang asked what it was, and the door owner directly confessed, it was the footprints of the elixir, and Xiaolang exclaimed that the thing really had feet, master, you really have a connection with the government.

The master of the sect bluntly stated his identity, the vanilla sect is one of the three major sects in the pursuit of immortality, and the person behind the scenes is a big man who can't be messed with, as for who it is, he didn't tell him. The owner of the door also confessed to his past assassination of many people, which made Xiaolang difficult to accept all of a sudden, the master saved people and killed people at the same time, but the owner of the door explained that all this was helpless, and the characters behind it could not be disobedient at all.

The master of the door wants Ling Xiaolang to inherit his position and continue to help the big man find the elixir instead of him, his nose is useless, and Ling Xiaolang will be the best doctor in the future as seen by the master of the door, and his observation and use of medicinal herbs is much stronger than that of the master of the door, so the master of the door will have these thoughts.

Ling Xiaolang refused directly without the slightest hesitation, and after turning around and going out, he packed up to take Liu Yingying out of home, who expected Liu Yingying to suddenly be sick in bed, so Xiaolang went to see it, but he didn't know the cause, and hurriedly called the door owner, and the door owner was also confused, and Ling Xiaolang tried everything he could, but he didn't cure Liu Yingying's illness.

Ling Xiaolang took Liu Yingying to seek medical advice, for five years, the relationship between the two has been as solid as a rock in five years, so that Xiaolang's heart is extremely afraid of the death of his lover, as long as he can save his beloved wife, he can try any method, but all methods in the world have really been tried, and Liu Yingying has reached the stage of death. In desperation, the door master found Ling Xiaolang and told him that the elixir appeared again, which might be the only way to save Liu Yingying, so Ling Xiaolang resolutely inherited the position of the door master's helper, and was determined to find the elixir, but never accepted the assassination mission, and always maintained a compassionate heart.

The elixir is a living thing, a living grass, this is the confession of all eyewitnesses, of course, only the government knows about it, so Xiaolang is worthy of being a medical genius, he relied on the footprints on various herbs, felt the smell of the elixir and its laws of action, and really estimated the next place where the elixir would appear, but it was always one step slower, and this medicine seemed to be extremely spiritual, as long as someone looked for it, so it often disappeared for a while, or hid somewhere.

Two years later, the owner of the door was critically ill, and the misfortune was that Liu Yingying finally couldn't survive, and she fainted and fell unconscious. Impatient, Ling Xiaolang desperately searched for the elixir, and one day, he saw with his own eyes a grass that could run, but it was too fast, where could he catch up, and just watched it disappear.

After Ling Xiaolang saw it, he had a better understanding of the elixir, and in the subsequent plan, he was many steps faster, but he still had no success.

The door owner is dying, Liu Yingying is dying at the same time, just about to take the last breath, after Xiaolang and Liu Yingying said goodbye, he met the door owner, and told the door owner that if he can come back this time, it is a success, if he fails, he will not come back, but he will be accompanied by the door owner and his beloved wife on Huangquan Road.

After saying that, he left, it was a coincidence that Xiaolang went, it was the first time that the elixir appeared in the valley, at this time the valley was already full of flowers and plants, because only Ling Xiaolang himself knew where the elixir would appear, so the valley only entered him alone, he did not have the determination to catch the medicine, came to the valley, knelt among the grass and trees, and waited for the dusk to fall, he would take out a knife from his arms and end his life.

Before committing suicide, he smiled at the grass and trees and cried about his infinite love for Liu Yingying, he longed for the next life, and his beloved wife can become two bouquets of flowers in the mountains, although life is short, but they can hug each other tightly, telling each other's hearts, his tears flowed in the valley, at dusk, there was a shadow appeared in front of him, he looked up, it turned out to be a "fairy", it was a humanoid but the body of grass and trees, the head was colorful petals, and the fairy energy shrouded the life in the valley, Ling Xiaolang was stunned, and the fairy disappeared in an instant, leaving Ling Xiaolang with a living creature the size of a baby but the size of a palm of grass and trees, which made Xiaolang cry out in tears: "Elixir!" ”

Then he ran home desperately, and as soon as he stepped into the house, the owner of the door learned that he could not leave the bed, so that the servant immediately stopped Ling Xiaolang and asked him to come to see him. But saving his wife eagerly made Xiaolang drink everyone away, rushed into the room, and put the elixir to Liu Yingying's mouth, but he didn't expect the elixir to get into Liu Yingying's mouth, a few breaths, Liu Yingying's face was restored to ruddy, and the breath had never been so comfortable, just like the appearance of teenagers many years ago, and after a few breaths, they immediately opened their eyes, and the two looked at each other, crying and hugging each other.

After a long time, the servant pulled Ling Xiaolang into the door master's house, and the door owner saw the joy on Ling Xiaolang's face, and immediately understood, and then saw his daughter walk into the room, and suddenly five thunders twitched, and after foaming at the mouth, he died with a whimper.

Ling Xiaolang regretted that he didn't leave some for the door owner.

It is said that the story is almost over, but this is a story that ends in tragedy, so the story is not over, the people from the government came to the door, it turned out that the owner of the door has always been in contact with the top, Ling Xiaolang didn't say anything, but the people from the government crossed him and grabbed Liu Yingying directly,

The two were brought into the palace together, and Ling Xiaolang had actually guessed that the big man hidden at the end was the emperor who was now over seventy years old.

Ling Xiaolang knelt down and begged the emperor to be gracious, let them go, he was willing to find the elixir again, and also made it clear that he had seen some secrets of the elixir, which should still be found in the valley, after the emperor was silent, he said a truth that the husband and wife could not accept, it turned out that Liu Yingying's illness was all the handiwork of the door master, and he used all the extremely secret forbidden drugs in the palace, the purpose was to lock Ling Xiaolang and let him find the elixir, as long as he found the medicine, the door owner would save Liu Yingying, because the door master was critically ill, So I had to let Liu Yingying also be critically ill to persecute Ling Xiaolang, but the emperor didn't expect that the medicine would go directly into Liu Yingying's mouth from the moment he got it.

On that day, Ling Xiaolang was pushed out of the palace, and Liu Yingying was left behind, and the emperor spoke, when will he find the medicine again, and then take Liu Yingying back.

The husband and wife are pitiful to the extreme, so that Xiaolang can't even see his wife's face, there is a mental problem, and the elixir has never been found, and the emperor has a body of more than seventy years in order to live forever, and he has to be lucky with Liu Yingying almost every night, this is not the end, his princes and even the emperor's grandson also want to live forever, and they have bought off the eunuchs in the palace, and they have also defiled Liu Yingying. After a year of hard work, Liu Yingying went from seventeen or eighteen years old to more than thirty years old. These big people who want to live forever have thought of countless ways to obtain the method of immortality from that woman, and Liu Yingying does not even deserve to have the qualifications to commit suicide.

Two years later, the old emperor was critically ill, and he wanted to live and go crazy, so he ruthlessly cut Ren Yingying's flesh and bones, boiled it into medicine and eaten, and even cut his heart, and even boiled soup, but the old emperor died after all, after his death, the imperial door was opened, and Liu Yingying's experience was also spread by rumors, and it reached Ling Xiaolang's ears, which made Xiaolang commit suicide with hatred in the valley, and cursed all the creatures of the Jiang Dynasty to be short-lived, unless the dynasty no longer has the surname Jiang, otherwise the curse is incomprehensible.

There are mountain people rumors, surprised to see a "wood god" took away the body of Ling Xiaolang, maybe it is really a curse to take effect, when the Jiang Dynasty broke out of the plague, almost spread to the whole country, the number of dead people reached as much as 30 million in an instant, after the heat, the plague was lifted, but the flood came, the rice harvest in the south was not harvested, the famine followed, tens of millions of people were displaced, tens of millions of people starved to death, after the snow disaster came again in winter, in one year, the Jiang Dynasty died sixty percent of the population, and the rest of the people were all struggling to survive.

People moved the curse, denouncing the royal family's disregard for life, fraud and humiliation of the Liu couple, only to incur the curse, have revolted to change the dynasty, the royal family and the people are physically and mentally exhausted, but the foundation of the royal family is still thicker, after the death of seven or eighty percent of the royal family, finally put down the rebellion mob, but in order to serve the public, they specially found a baby, it turned out that Liu Yingying was trapped in the palace during the humiliation, old and young beasts, had already given birth to two sons and a daughter, one of which was also tortured to death, this son survived until now, the royal family carried this son out, He was enshrined as the new emperor, and the altar was opened to worship the tablet of Ling Liu and his wife and the people of the world, and changed the name of the country to "Jiang".

Perhaps the heavens have mercy, and in the second year, the world's fortunes have taken a turn for the better, the rice fields have begun to flow clear water, the plants and trees can sprout, and agriculture has gradually recovered, and after five years, the world is stable, and the people's food and clothing have been completely solved.

Ten years later, the emperor died suddenly, the new emperor was not the little prince, but the old prince, who had insulted Liu Yingying, and changed the national name "Jiang", as a result, the epidemic fell again that year, the people were angry, the emperor had no choice but to abdicate, let his heirs, but the epidemic was still not removed, and then the emperor abdicated again. The grandson of Liu Yingying, the little prince officially ascended the throne, although the epidemic was not immediately removed, but the Son of Heaven lived with the people together, and finally lifted the epidemic in three years.

This is the end of the story.