Chapter 40: Dreaming Back to the Sui Dynasty
It is said that cats can see dirty things. But when Han Xue saw this man in a green shirt and a long robe, she was still frightened and stood up.
I saw that this person had a wide forehead and a beard like a halberd. His eyebrows were handsome, but his face was bloodless.
In the moonlight, his figure was decadent. There was a red streak on his neck that was bottomless, as if it was still oozing blood.
He's not a person at all.
Han Xuelun's eyes widened and his ears pricked up in horror. I regret that I died, why did I run out of the airport in a good manner.
When the man in Tsing Yi heard the sound, he turned his head expressionlessly, and when he saw Han Xue, he seemed to be startled.
He looked in Han Xue's direction, his eyes widened, and he asked in a trembling voice, "Who?" ”
"I, I, I, I, I'm Han Xue!" Han Xue wanted to escape, but it was like being hit by a magic barrier. She found that she couldn't move at all.
She stammered her name. To her surprise, she found that she was actually speaking human words, not meowing meows.
She covered her mouth with her paw in surprise.
"Cher? Are you Cher? The man became excited. His angular face became clear in the moonlight. Han Xue felt a sense of déjà vu.
"Cher! I've finally waited for you, I'm Ah Yi, I'm Yang Ying! His eyes were filled with tears, and he stood up in surprise and threw himself at him, no! Floating, to be exact.
"Oh no, I must be alive and damn!" Han Xue was frightened, turned around and prepared to escape. But she couldn't take a step on her feet.
Ah Yu rushed over and grabbed his hand, and the moment he held Han Xue, a fluorescent flash appeared. Han Xue found that she had transfigured.
She's no longer a proud competition-grade silver grader, she's a human being. A woman dressed in the costume of an unknown dynasty.
She twisted the cloth on her body in amazement, touched the hair ornament on her head, and was confused.
The man looked at her in this dress, and he couldn't help himself.
"Cher, I've been waiting for you here for over a thousand years. More than a thousand years! I gave up the opportunity to be reborn until my flesh turned into powder. Catastrophe is not overcome. The man exchanged tears.
"Master Mingzhe said, if I want to see you, I have to wait on this night in the seventh half of every year, on this Fangtaihu Lake stone, one day, a passing creature said to me, her name is Han Xue. One day I will meet you. You're here! Here it comes! ”
He hugged Han Xue and cried, but Han Xue was confused.
"No, no, no! Handsome guy. I think you must have mistaken someone. I'm not Cher. I, I, I, I'm just a cat named Han Xue. Han Xue hurriedly pushed him away and explained.
But she herself felt that the explanation was weak. Because she's a person now.
The man said that he had been waiting for him for more than a thousand years on this broken stone. It's not a joke, is it?
Han Xue remembered that when she was young, she and Meng Gang went to the temple. There was once a tour guide who told them a poignant love story.
The story is about the Vedic Bodhisattva's short-lived relationship.
In that story, there is an epiphany fairy who loves Veda and has waited for three thousand years to see Vedore. Until there was a mortal Yu Ming, who violated the rules of heaven and sacrificed reincarnation to end that fruitless fate for them.
But that's a story, after all.
Now this person named Yang Ying is calling Xue'er to himself again and again. is still crying movingly, do you really have something to do with him? She didn't dare to think about it.
A person's memory is only one life, and if it weren't for the piece of paper from Grandma Meng, she wouldn't be able to remember anything about the previous life.
She thinks about her life, and she must have drunk Meng Po soup countless times from Meng Po.
In her last life, she met Yang Jin. What kind of debt is this Yang Ying? They are all surnamed Yang. She didn't remember anything.
If it is really as he said, he gave up reincarnation and chose to survive the catastrophe for the Xue'er in her mouth, then I believe that this emotion must be unforgettable. Han Xue was inexplicably curious.
Yang Ying couldn't understand what she was saying at all, for a thousand years, he had been waiting for his Xue'er here, he had sacrificed reincarnation, he had never drunk Meng Po's soup, in his memory, the woman in front of him who was a small jasper family was Xue'er who couldn't let go of his morning thoughts.
He grabbed Cher's hand and soared into the air. Flew into the black building.
Han Xue suddenly found that feeling of lightness, which was like this when she sacrificed. Could it be that as a cat, this life is also over?
She broke out in a cold sweat. Junjun hasn't seen it yet, but he died before he got out of school. She couldn't help but feel sad.
Yang Ying led her through the archway and landed in front of a palace-like building.
Han Xue looked up, and there was a line of golden characters written on the plaque: Mausoleum of Emperor Yang of Sui. It turned out that the black building was the Sui Yang Emperor Mausoleum Museum.
She gasped, could this outfit be the costume of the Sui Dynasty. Wasn't it the Sui Dynasty more than a thousand years ago? How many years have I been in the middle of this?
She suddenly remembered the book "Chronicle of the Sui Palace" that she had read before her death.
Her mind was crazy about the plot of the book, and Han Xue'er was the heroine of the book. She is the daughter of a flower farmer, and she met Ah Zong because she sold flowers. That Ah Zong is Emperor Yang Guang of Sui.
It stands to reason that the daughter of a poor family can't climb the high hall, but she can't stand the waves of feelings. This pair of young people became lovers because of flowers, and they became unforgettable enemies because of flowers.
At first, it was purely out of curiosity, curious that the heroine of this book was the same as his own name, so he went to read this novel. Usually there is not enough time, but Mimi helps her print it out so that she can go home and lie on the bed to read.
And now, I seem to have really become the protagonist of that novel, but the ins and outs of my past and present lives need to be found in the book, and I don't know if it's true. She read that book intermittently, and she didn't finish it, and she didn't know what the ending was.
She only knew how much the man in front of her doted on herself, and his eyes were full of love and reluctance for herself.
Yang Ying took her hand and floated into the hall.
He carefully took out a golden phoenix hairpin from the display case of the museum and placed it on Han Xue's sideburns.
Han Xue was a little uncomfortable, is it really good to pin the things in this mausoleum on her head. But she dared not to do so.
He looked at himself unpassionately. Han Xue felt weird and embarrassed.
After a thousand years of waiting, there is finally a destination. Seeing Han Xue, today will be Yang Ying's last Halloween, and before midnight, he must go back to the underworld to report for duty. Because after going through all the calamities, he has finally waited for the person he has been holding on to for more than a thousand years.
He cherishes the last few hours with Cher, no matter whether Cher still has memories of the past, as long as she can still have it at this moment. He knew she was Cher. It's just that she is no longer the person she was back then.
He took her around the city that once belonged to him, and he pointed to the image hanging on the wall and asked Han Xue eagerly.
"Cher, can you tell me why my portrait is hanging here?" For many years, he did not understand the significance of this museum. He also couldn't read the simplified Chinese characters on the wall.
Han Xue looked at him, and then at the paintings on the wall. Sure enough, it looks like a god. The display board reads the life of Emperor Yang of Sui.
"This is the life of Emperor Yang of Sui, and here is his museum." She replied.
"Who is Emperor Yang of Sui? What is Biography? What is a museum?"
"Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty is the nickname of Yang Guang, the second emperor of the Sui Dynasty. Life is what he did when he was alive, and the museum is a place to commemorate him. ”
The Sui Dynasty man named Yang Ying in front of him was shocked.
It seems that he has been floating here for an unknown number of years. I haven't figured out the meaning of these exhibits in the museum. Han Xue thought to herself.
He pulled Han Xue to the map of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal again and asked her what it was? There is also a pre-introduction of the imperial examination examiner, let her explain.
"Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty dug the Grand Canal, which connected the five major water systems of the Haihe River, the Yellow River, the Huai River, the Yangtze River and the Qiantang River, and became the main water transportation artery running through the north and south in history."
"The imperial examination is a reform of the system of electing officials. Officials are selected through examinations. This is the contribution of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty to the selection of talents for thousands of years. ”
Han Xue explained to him for a long time, but he was silent.
The two of them walked along the exhibition hall, and Han Xue read him all the way to that period of history, all the way to the peasant uprising and the rebellion. Yang Ying was thoughtful.
"Why do you care?" Han Xue asked him. But he was staring coldly at a self-portrait in the mirror.
"Good head and neck, who should cut it!" Han Xue read, and suddenly thought of Yang Ying's red neck.
She turned her head to look at Yang Ying in front of her, "Yang Guang? "Emperor Yang of Sui?" Han Xue shouted.
Yang Ying turned her head to stare at Han Xue's eyes.
"Yang Ying is Yang Guang. Yang Guang is Ah Yi. It was I who got the world. Xue'er, I made you pay for life wrongly, I am ashamed of your soul, I waited for you to say it to you in person, in fact, Ah Yi has never forgotten you in her heart. Don't you remember anything!? ”
Han Xue was shocked. Yes, why didn't she think of it, this is the Mausoleum of Emperor Yang of Sui! Jiangdu was once his place of honor. But she doesn't remember anything about the relationship between Ah Yi and herself.
It is said that the ghosts will return to the Yama Hall before twelve o'clock in the night.
The wind was whirring outside the wall. The man who had been waiting for him for more than a thousand years gradually faded into clarity.
His hand was still reluctantly holding Han Xue's hand, and he whispered in her ear that the last voice was becoming more and more empty: "Xue'er! ”
The wind took away the love that belonged to him and brought everything to peace.
Han Xue stood there dumbfounded. There was silence everywhere, only a bright moon left a faint glow in the hall.