Lethe River ......

The surface of the river seems to be calm, but in fact it is bottomless, and the slight waves seem to be just a small wrinkle, and the speckled brilliance is like a galaxy.

Bo Qing watched the people on the other side getting smaller and smaller, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Nan Xiu, the god of war who has only been on the throne for tens of thousands of years, has never taken him seriously.

After all, tens of thousands of years ago, in the battle of gods and demons, there was also a short confrontation, and he knew that the other party was not his opponent.

However, fighting the Son of the Underworld alone was never in his plan.

The reason why the Ten Halls of Yama will not face the Heavenly Realm is that they are afraid of the Heavenly Monarch and several emperors, otherwise where would a mere god of war dare to ignore the laws of the underworld, it is just a demon.

The ferryman smiled and looked at the preoccupied Bo Qing, and said casually: "I haven't been back to the demon world for a long time, right?" ”

Bo Qing was stunned for a moment by his sudden greetings, and immediately remembered that the ferrying god shuttled between the two worlds of yin and yang, knew everything, only greeted but never intervened, and was the most special existence among the gods.

"One day, I'll go back." One day, he will regain everything he has lost, Bo Qing said lightly.

The ferryman smiled and nodded: "All things have spirits, and they all need to return to their places." The return in his eyes has another meaning.

Bo Qing didn't answer, but let the ferryman send him to the entrance of the human road, and when he arrived at the ferry, Bo Qing, who didn't talk much, just nodded to him to show his gratitude and left in a hurry.

The ferryman looked at the back of Bo Qing leaving, and remembered his sister Qingge who had crossed him many years ago.

He seemed to foretell what would happen in the future, and after shaking his head, he sighed helplessly.

Perhaps from the moment he sent Princess Qingge to Naihe Bridge, the ending had already been written in the dark......

Yingguo, Taishifu.

Since Shen Zhou did not leave the palace until the evening to return home, Xi Ci changed to copy the military book during the day, and practiced martial arts with him at night, thinking that everything would be as harmonious and smooth as a long stream, but this was not the case.

In the middle of the night, Shen Zhou held a bright lamp and walked casually on the street, while Xi Ci was dressed in men's clothes and tied sandbags to his legs, running back and forth around the crooked street on the deserted street.

They would meet every half an hour, and they would not return home until they met three times.

At this time, Shen Zhou would take out a bunch of sugar gourds that she had bought earlier and let her eat them all the way back.

It was also because of one time, seeing her happily sneaking back with a string of sugar gourds in her mouth, Shen Zhou felt that she liked sugar gourds, but she didn't know that there was a vendor who saw that she was born beautiful, and she couldn't sell it and wanted to give it to her.

While eating the sugar gourd, Xi Ci complained in a low voice: "I'm tired to death, it's harder than my cultivation in the Ten Thousand Souls Hall." ”

"With your physical strength, you still cultivate martial arts?" Shen Zhou couldn't help but tease.

"Majestic!" Xi Ci blurted out, paused and continued: "Moreover, I can't hide behind my father and stepfather for the rest of my life." ”

"You can teach, so I haven't changed my mind yet, and I'll study hard." Shen Zhou said approvingly.

Xi Ci looked up at him expectantly: "Then as your apprentice, will you cover me in the future?" ”

"No, it won't." He replied without thinking.

Xi Ci asked disdainfully, "Is it so ruthless?" ”

"Since you want someone else to cover it, what else do you learn to do?" Shen Zhou asked her unhappily.

On the way back, the light of Haoyue and the lamp softly hit half of Shen Zhou's face, making him more and more cold and alienated.

Sure enough, everything in the dream was fake, how could he be so gentle?

Thinking of those inexplicable dreams recently, Xi Ci raised his eyes and looked at him fixedly, and blurted out: "Have you ever had someone you like?" ”

Hearing Xi Ci ask, his steps suddenly stopped, and he stared at Xi Ci with complicated eyes.

"Did I ask something I shouldn't have asked?" Xi Ci asked timidly like a child who said the wrong thing.

Shen Zhou was silent for a moment, and then returned to his previous demeanor: "After I go back, practice my sword for a while before resting." ”

Seeing that he was not angry, Xi Ci breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly followed his steps.

Suddenly it occurred to him that eating alone was a bad habit, so Xi Ci stretched out the half-eaten sugar gourd to Shen Zhou.

He was slightly stunned at first, then shook his head lightly, and Xi finished eating it himself.

Back in the house, Xi Ci replaced the sword with a bamboo pole, and practiced in the courtyard by the moonlight.

Shen Zhou sat on the steps, drinking tea slowly, Xi Ci's movements were smooth enough to complete one move and one style, and the more he looked at this figure, the more familiar he became.

A long time ago, he also taught Qingge to practice swords, holding her hand, and under the cold moon of the demon world, sword practice evolved into sparring.

"How?" Qingge put the sword behind him and asked happily.

Shen Zhou smiled softly, and just wanted to answer, but when he looked at it, it was Xi Ci who was talking to him in front of him.

His eyes darkened, and he drew a bitter, but imperceptible smile: "Very good." ”

Xi Ci was still aware of the change in his mood and looked at him suspiciously.

At this time, Chi Na came back, and seeing that both of them were there, he quickly walked to Shen Zhou and said: "Your Highness, my subordinates didn't find any information about the whereabouts of the Qiu Ye Demon Monarch in the world yesterday, and I also went to the Demon Realm today to inquire, and the Qiu Ye Demon Monarch has not been in and out of the Demon Realm for a long time. ”

Xi Ci was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't expect Shen Zhou to really want to help him find his father, and thought he had forgotten.

"There is no demon world, there is no human world, and I didn't see my father when I was in the ghost domain, so where will he go? Will he go to the Demon Realm? Xici's worries suddenly intensified.

"The entrance to the Demon Realm has been sealed for a long time, and it is impossible for him to enter it." Shen Zhou said categorically, because the entrance to the Demon Realm was sealed by him.

"Girl, don't worry too much, I will go to the wisteria building every day to help Fengyang add firewood, if your father comes back, I will definitely tell you immediately."

Seeing her lost appearance, China was very moved, and couldn't help but comfort.

Xi Ci lowered his head, and suddenly blamed himself: "It's all because I'm too weak to do anything." ”

Shen Zhou looked at her sad face, overlapping it with Qingge's sad appearance again, his heart throbbed, and the curse was about to attack again.

"No news is the best news." He dropped the words, picked up the teapot and strode away.

Looking at the back of Shen Zhou leaving, Xi Ci pouted and whispered: "China, does Your Royal Highness dislike me very much?" ”

"Thinking too much, you don't have that weight." Chi said sharply.

"By the way, how do you know my father's name is Akino?" Xi Ci asked suddenly.

"I don't know, His Highness told me, I think it should be Fengyang God who mentioned your father to His Highness." China explained.

"Also, I hope that I can really borrow His Royal Highness's auspicious words, and everything will be fine with my father." Xi Ci looked up in a wistful manner, staring at the crescent moon in the night sky.

Following.

Xici, who hasn't appeared in the downtown for a long time, is ready to dress up and leave the house on the pretext of buying items in the house.

After she tied her hair in a bun, she came to the servants and asked softly, "Wangcai, I look low-key, right?" ”

"It's your face that is high-profile, not your hair and body, how many hours have you dressed up, and that's what it looks like?" The domestic servant, who was known as Wangcai, said helplessly.

Isn't that?

The women all have long hair and hip-length, and there are not a few women who are similar to her, but this beautiful face is not for everyone.

Realizing the truth, Xi nodded clearly, went back to the room and groped for a handkerchief, folded in half in a triangle, tied it casually on his face, covering half of his face, and went out like a righteous thief.

She learned the habits of Shen Zhou's past, put her hands behind her back, raised her chin slightly, and her body was like a petite handsome son, lingering in the market and enjoying the excitement of the world.

Although the face was tied with a veil, it was also eye-catching, but people only glanced at each other a few more times, and did not cause trouble to each other, and they thought that they had achieved their goal.

The silver taels on hand, the needs of the house, have a lot of surpluses, and if you want to swallow some privately, you will not be discovered.

She stood in front of a blacksmith shop for a while, watching the blacksmith forge sharp weapons, thinking that it was very difficult to practice swords with bamboo poles every night, so she rushed into the blacksmith shop, and after a long time came out with a lot of things.

Just as she was about to return home, a swarm of officers and soldiers suddenly rushed to clear the crowd on the street to both sides, which was called the opening of the road.

Thinking that there should be some noble person arriving, Xi Ci walked staggering on the road with a large bag and a small bag, and the officers and soldiers rushed to make her small body stumble and sit on the ground.

She was not angry, but the officers and soldiers were extremely irritable: "What are you doing? Hurry up, hurry up! ”

"Won't it be faster if you help me?" Xi Ci was a little displeased, and muttered a sentence without thinking for a while, which was listened to by the officers and soldiers.

The officers and soldiers glared angrily: "Who do you think you are?" Still masked, unsightly, isn't it an assassin?! ”

As he spoke, he took off the handkerchief on Xi Ci's face, and was stunned for a moment.

Xi Ci finally carried the thing, her two hands were full, and after the veil was removed, she was stunned, and raised her eyebrows: "Hey, I said that the gentleman doesn't move his mouth, what are you doing when you take off my veil?" Could it be that it is a beautiful country, and there are rules that cannot hide beauty? ”

The officers and soldiers listened to her reprimand in distraction, completely immersed in her unpowdered, but still bright and moving beauty, and stood in place dumbly, unmoved.

Seeing that the mighty procession was about to pass here, Xi Ci had no choice but to retreat to the side, not wanting to get in the way.

However, it was too late, and although she had stepped aside, she was already in the spotlight, and the people who had been gazing at the luxurious procession of horses and chariots were now standing out with their feet and heads stretched out to admire her beauty.

The people around her also looked at it and whispered, never thinking that there was such a wonderful woman in the country of Yin, and the gap between what she heard and what she saw with her own eyes was convinced.

Sensing the abnormality, she decided to put down what she was holding and take back her veil from the hands of the officers and soldiers.

A chariot drove by gently, hearing the lively sound, the Qu State Mission thought it was welcoming its arrival, so it opened the curtain and peeked out, but just happened to see a beautiful woman with a graceful demeanor, snatching back a handkerchief from the hands of an officer and soldier, and tying the handkerchief on his face with a little displeasure, with an indescribable style in his comics.

Although it was only for a moment, the visiting envoy saw it very clearly, and couldn't help but be stunned, this seemed familiar, the chariot had gradually drifted away, and he couldn't help but stick his head out of the window, looking back eagerly, trying to look a few more times, to confirm whether he was wrong.

Then he sat back in the car, his expression was complicated and stagnant for a moment, and then he slapped his head, with a sudden look, and hurriedly opened the "Wisteria Fairy Picture" that Qu Guo wanted to dedicate to the State of Yin, eagerly with unavoidable restraint.

This "Wisteria Fairy Picture", it is said that it has been circulated for thousands of years, at first because a woodcutter went up the mountain to chop wood, did not return for a long time and life and death is unknown, the family thought that it was taken by wild beasts, and when preparing for the funeral, the woodcutter returned home with rare jade, and also ate oily and slippery.

When the woodcutter returned home, he began to tell what he had seen and heard in the mountains in those days, and frequently mentioned a young girl, who was said to have jade fingers like onions, skin like clotted fat, eyebrows like crescent moons, and smiling starry eyes, no different from a fairy.

The dignitaries and nobles in the mortal world were eager to see each other, and wanted to go up the mountain to see the fairy's face, but to no avail.

The woodcutter personally led the way, but he could no longer find the sea of wisteria flowers, and he couldn't help but return disappointed.

Since it is a fairy, it should be back to heaven, but as soon as this legend comes out, people can't stop fantasizing about the fairy's appearance.

Therefore, some nobles were willing to spend a lot of money to ask the woodcutter to describe the appearance of the fairy, and asked the painter to paint according to the description, so as to judge whether there was really a woman as amazing as the woodcutter said, and not that he was lying to people.

If you haven't seen it with your own eyes, it will be impossible to describe such a beauty, so many painters found the woodcutter and expressed their willingness to pay for the painting, just to leave a stunning work.

This painting is the result of the early years of the Qu king's conquest, never thought that the painter at that time was already extraordinary, and the painting was lifelike, as if the fairy in the painting could break the paper at any time.

Taking advantage of the covenant of the Hundred Flowers Festival, King Qu endured the pain of love, and among the many paintings, he chose a painting that he was not so satisfied with, but it was a pity to abandon it, and dedicated it to the monarch of the Yin State to show his sincerity.

I never thought that there was such a wonderful woman in the world......