Chapter 3: Mountain Spirit (II)

Jiang Chen was shocked in his heart, this woman in white was a thousand-year-old mountain spirit, and most of her husband was also a powerful monster, he didn't want to look for it. However, this may be a chance to get out of the way. He followed the mountain spirit's words and said, "Okay." I don't know if the girl can provide some detailed information, and it will be easier for this Taoist to find. ”

"This matter has to start from the beginning!" the woman in white sighed and said.

This story takes place many years ago, when the woman in white was the eldest lady of a family and the family was quite famous. The eldest lady met a young talent, and the two fell in love at first sight, and after several contacts, they fell in love and made a private decision for life.

The young talent asked the matchmaker to propose marriage, but was fiercely opposed by the elders of the eldest lady's family. The two were also persistent, and they knew that they couldn't get married, so they agreed on a time, and at the seventh midnight of the first day of July, they met and eloped in the green bamboo forest, and they didn't see each other.

The eldest lady was relieved that her sick mother could not be relieved, so she told a cousin about the elopement and asked the cousin to take care of her mother. On the night she was about to go to the appointment, the elders of the family suddenly arrived and confined her to the house, unable to attend the appointment.

For seven years, no matter what way she used, even if she threatened her with death, she couldn't leave that room. It wasn't until seven years later, when the family's care for her was a little lax, that she escaped with the help of a sister.

After escaping, the woman immediately went to the green bamboo forest that she had agreed with seven years ago. However, she searched all over the green bamboo forest, and she couldn't see the lover she was thinking about day and night.

She still does not give up and has been waiting in the bamboo forest, and she believes that her lover will definitely come here and meet her.

This is a thousand years!

However, her lover, the husband in her mouth, never appeared.

Jiang Chen felt sorry in his heart, it took seven years to go on a date, and the young man was afraid that he had already forgotten her, but he couldn't blame him for being unkind. How many people in the world can be willing to wait for seven years for a promise? In this way, this woman has already died, but I don't know if it is because the resentment is too heavy, and the demonic aura here is too strong, so that the resentment will not disperse, and gradually turned into a mountain spirit, and still retains part of the memory. Mountain spirits are generally very vicious, and this woman may be an exception.

Jiang Chen knew in his heart that after so many years, even if the young man hadn't forgotten her, he had already passed away, and it was impossible to find her. It's just that this woman is too persistent and never forgets, she doesn't know the changes of the years, she doesn't know the life and death, day after day, just waiting for her lover to appear.

"I'm afraid she doesn't even know that she has been dead for a thousand years, and now she is just a mountain spirit!" Jiang Chen said secretly in his heart.

After the woman in white finished telling this story, she pleaded with Jiang Chen and the others: "Are the two sons willing to help me find my father-in-law? If you find him, tell him that I will wait for him here." ”

Jiang Chen and the others didn't dare to agree easily, this mountain spirit was extremely resentful, if she didn't do it, she would be resentful and haunted by nightmares.

"The village boy must have agreed to the mountain spirit's request, but he forgot about it and forgot about it, so he kept having nightmares. Jiang Wu suspected in his heart, this is only a thousand-year-old mountain spirit, and the resentment has entered the body, and it is difficult to resolve, and I am afraid that it will last for two or three months before it gradually improves.

"Why don't you go to him yourself?" Jiang Chen asked suspiciously.

"I can't leave this valley. The woman in white said, "I don't know why, as soon as I left here, my body was fluttering, as if it was about to fall apart." So, I had to turn to people passing by. It's a pity that I asked a lot of people, but there was no follow-up. Maybe they didn't look for it at all. ”

Jiang Wu asked, "Does the girl remember his name?"

"His name is Zhu Qing. The woman in white said. It was the only name she remembered, and even her own name was vague and unclear.

"Zhu Qing?" Jiang Chen frowned, suddenly moved in his heart, and asked, "The girl just performed the Dao Method, she should be a Dao hero, right? Where is the girl cultivating?"

The woman in white shook her head: "I can't remember, I saw this son perform the Dao method before, and I suddenly felt very familiar, and I used it casually." ”

"Show it with your hands!" Jiang Chen sighed lightly in his heart, the Dao method that this woman performed just now was very clever, and she didn't know how much penance it would take to comprehend it. And a person like him, who was born with a poor physique, no matter how much effort he put in, he couldn't even get started with the path of cultivation.

"In addition to his name, does the girl know his place of birth?" Jiang Chen asked, Zhu Qing will definitely not be found, but if he is lucky enough, he may be able to find his hometown, so as to find his descendants, as long as he finds someone who is very related to Zhu Qing, maybe he can also resolve the grievances of the mountain spirit.

The woman in white shook her head, she didn't know anything else, she didn't know if she didn't know it before, or if she had forgotten it a long time ago.

"With just one name, I'm afraid it's hard to find!" Jiang Chen said: "Ben Daoxia do his best, don't have too much hope for the girl." ”

The woman in white nodded, she also knew that there was little hope, and she couldn't help but feel sad and sobbed in a low voice.

Jiang Chen and Jiang Wu didn't dare to be disturbed, so they had to watch silently from the side. At this time, there seemed to be a fresh breeze, and the branches and leaves of the huge green bamboo in the middle of the valley moved slightly with the wind, making a low rustling sound, as if echoing the cry of the woman in white.

Jiang Chen glanced at this giant bamboo a few times and asked, "Has this green bamboo been here all along?"

The woman in white slowly stopped crying, and she nodded, "Yes." I've been waiting here, this green bamboo has dense foliage and can shelter from the wind and rain. ”

Jiang Chen's heart moved, he seemed to think of something, and a rather mysterious smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

After a moment, Jiang Chen straightened out his thoughts. He said to the woman in white: "The girl told her own story, can you also listen to Ben Daoxia tell a story?"

"Story?" The woman in white nodded slightly suspiciously: "If Childe wants to say it, please say it." ”

Jiang Chen coughed lightly and said, "This story is quite similar to the girl's experience. The protagonist of the story is a young man. The young man met the woman he liked and made a private marriage contract. However, because of the opposition of the woman's family, they could not get married. ”

The two did not want to give up their relationship because of this, but discussed elopement, and the agreed place happened to be in a bamboo forest. On the appointed day, the young man came to the bamboo forest as promised, and waited for several days and nights, but did not see the woman. ”

The young man was not discouraged, he believed that the other party would not forget the affection of the two and would not miss the appointment, so he waited in the bamboo forest. ”

He may have left the bamboo forest to inquire about the woman's whereabouts, but for various reasons, he never saw her again. Within a few years, perhaps because of a serious illness or a serious injury, he knew that he would die soon, so he returned to the bamboo forest. ”

"He's fallen here. However, he is not an ordinary person, he is a demon. Before he died, he used up the last demonic energy, turned into a green bamboo, stayed in the mountains and forests, and continued to wait!"

After another period of time, he finally waited for the arrival of his beloved woman, but unfortunately he had turned into a green bamboo. He couldn't speak, so he could only accompany him quietly. He grows dense branches and leaves to shelter women from the wind and rain, and he uses his vitality to continue the life of women. The woman should have died long ago and her soul was scattered, but under his protection, the wisps of lovesickness gathered but did not disperse, allowing the woman to transcend the shackles of the flesh and become another creature, and always maintain the appearance of the woman when she was young. ”

When Jiang Chen said this, the woman in white couldn't cry anymore: "Childe is saying that this green bamboo is my father-in-law?"

Jiang Chen sighed and said, "A thousand years have passed, and everything is impossible to verify. This is just a guess on my part. The girl can believe it or not. However, you can easily perform the Clever Dao Method, most of which are from the Daoist background. And if he can incarnate into Qingzhu, he must be a demon, and the Tao and the demon are not at odds, which probably explains why your family elders don't agree to you and his family affairs anyway. ”

The woman in white gently stroked the green bamboo, excited and annoyed: "Could it be that you have been by my side for so long, taking care of me, but I didn't know that you were by my side?"

Qingzhu trembled slightly, and I don't know if it was because of the excitement of reuniting and recognizing each other or because of the breeze blowing through the valley.

After a long time, the woman in white wiped away her tears, saluted Jiang Chen and the others, and said, "Thank you for helping me find Xianggong." I knew he wouldn't leave me. I'll be here too, with him all the time. ”

"Then we'll take our leave!" Jiang Chen said goodbye.

Jiang Wu picked up two bamboo leaves—these two bamboo leaves were stained with the tears of the woman in white, but they were not the tears of mourning before, but the tears of joy and excitement later. As long as these two bamboo leaves are used to make tea and let the village boy drink it, the resentment in his body will be dissolved, and he will no longer have frequent nightmares.

As the two brothers left the valley, they couldn't help but look back. I saw that the woman in white was snuggling up to the green bamboo, whispering softly. And the rustling sound of the bamboo leaves fluttering seemed to talk to her in a low voice. The surrounding green bamboo forest tightly surrounds the valley, making the valley like a paradise and isolated from the outside. Mountain spirits and green bamboos dwell here, undisturbed by the world.

It's been frozen for thousands of years, and maybe it will last even longer. The world outside the bamboo forest is changing dramatically every day, and in the valley of the bamboo forest, time seems to be frozen. Whether it is life or emotion, these things that are originally particularly easy to change have remained unchanged here for thousands of years. Everything is changing, and there are very few things that don't change. Perhaps it is precisely because of the lack that it is particularly worth cherishing.

When leaving, Jiang Wu didn't need to retain his mana, he used the wooden path trick to separate the bamboo forest on both sides, and the two brothers quickly walked out of this bamboo forest.

"Brother, what you said about the speculation just now, is it right or wrong, is it true or false?" Jiang Wu asked.

Jiang Chen smiled slightly: "Right and wrong, true and false, good and evil, all in one thought, who will judge? As long as you are willing to believe, it is right and true." ”

"In fact, as long as you carefully examine the green bamboo, you will know whether it is a demon bamboo transformed by demons or an ordinary green bamboo. However, the mountain spirit did not ask for this, since she was willing to believe it, why should you and I do it again! For her, who had waited for a thousand years, she might just need an answer that she could accept. ”

(Say a few words: The story of "Mountain Spirit", Buyu wrote it once in "Looking for Immortals", and I wrote it again this time, firstly, because I like this story very much and is willing to write it again; secondly, it is also to inherit the past and the future, and use this story to say goodbye to the Seeking Immortals trilogy, "Daoxia" will be a new book with a completely different style, I hope that old book friends can support it, and I hope that there are many new book friends who like it.) ）