Chapter 104: The Past Is More Than a Thousand Years
The clouds outside the building shattered into pieces with the arrival of the woman, like a panicked crane, scattered in the cold air of early autumn.
"Why did you come so early this year?" Shi Zunshang's teardrop eyes narrowed, and his smile was misty.
"Who is she?"
The fairy in the white dress ignored her master's question, and her eyes looked at the girl sitting upright in front of her.
This little girl is about fourteen or fifteen years old, her snow-waterlike hair is soft and falling, her fair face is beautiful and exquisite, she wears white close-fitting clothes, and the lower body is a crimson over-the-knee pleated skirt and a pair of brown-gray deerskin boots, she is so slender and beautiful, like a willow flower that makes people climb up, and the most important thing is the very faint divinity on her body, which makes the girl more holy and elegant.
Xiao He felt her gaze, her hand twisting the placket tighter, her pale crimson thin lips closed slightly, hesitating whether to answer, but the fairy in the white dress was sharp and asked directly: "Are you your daughter?" Why haven't you seen it in previous years...... It's so big? ”
Shizun gently wiped the splash from the corners of his eyes with the tail of his fingers, and smiled undiminishedly, "How is it, is it good-looking?" ”
"Pretty is beautiful, it's just ......" The fairy in the white dress said sharply, opened her hand and held it weakly, a long whip was condensed in the palm of her hand, and she waved it into the air, and wrapped it towards Xiao He's place.
Xiao He reacted quickly, she got up and retreated, jumped up between the brown and gray boots, stepped on the chair surface, a little back of the chair, her body flipped dexterously in the air, and fell to the ground, like a smart little antelope, narrowly avoiding this whip.
"That's a good lesson." The fairy in the white dress laughed.
"Bullying my guests in front of me, you are getting bolder." Shizun put his hands on the fox fur and said lightly.
"Guests? It turned out that it wasn't a daughter...... "The fairy in the white dress frowned, very disappointed, "Where did you come from such a small guest?" Isn't it going to be another apprentice? ”
"The deity is famous all over the world, and the disciples come here, what's so strange? This Xiaohe girl has a bloodline and outstanding talent, and it is natural for her to worship under me, which is like you, for so many years, the door has been deserted, and even her own daughter is not good at taking care of her. Shizun sneered.
"You ......"
The fairy in the white dress was poked in the sore spot, her heart tightened, and most of the momentum when she came disappeared, and at this moment, the girl who looked like an iceberg beauty spoke:
"I'm not here to apprentice today, I'm here to say goodbye to you."
The air instantly cooled a little.
“……”
The smile in Shizun's eyes froze, and the fairy in the white dress on the side became happy, and her impression of this beautiful snow-haired girl became better and better.
"Why don't you listen to me tell such a long story?" The master asked.
"Didn't you pull me to listen......" Xiao He said innocently.
"After listening to the story told by the teacher, you are my disciple, are you worried that you will shout Bai Zhu that girl Senior Sister will not be able to save face? It's okay, I can help you raise the ranking and mention Chu Yingchan above. Shizun immediately made a promise. Shizun is not a pedantic person, and the ranking of the disciples of Xianlou does not have to stick to the order, it is all up to her will.
"You dare?" Before Xiao He could speak, the fairy in the white dress was angry again.
Xiao He's face did not change, she gave a cold salute and insisted on resigning.
In this year, Xiao He traveled in the territory of the sacred mountain, walked through many places, visited many sects, saw all kinds of things in the world, and finally returned to Yunkong Mountain, passed through the stele pavilion with the words "unrestrained", and came to the ethereal fairy tower in the sea of clouds, returned the silver medal given by the master, and said goodbye to her.
The fairy in the white dress was full of appreciation in her eyes, she looked at the woman in the fox fur, and sneered: "You also have today?" ”
Shizun snorted lightly, and then smiled again: "Even if you laugh at me, I can get it back from your daughter anyway." ”
"You still dare to mention this?!" The fairy in the white dress came to ask for the crime today, "I entrusted my daughter to you, and you bullied her like this?" If it weren't for Yingchan returning home in plain clothes the day before yesterday, I still wouldn't know about it! ”
Xiao He knew in his heart that this was Chu Yingchan's mother, no wonder she was so similar to her, but Chu Yingchan was cold and elegant, and the fairy in front of her had a unique charm. From the previous story, Xiao He also intelligently understood that this fairy in the white dress was likely to be Chu Miao.
"Didn't you tell me to be harsh on her?" Shizun asked.
"I made you stern academically, what about you? You've only taught her for a few days over the years? I didn't learn anything, but I was bullied by you a lot. The fairy in the white dress was annoyed and aggrieved: "I worked hard to give birth to a beautiful daughter, and I was reluctant to beat or scold, but I became your angry bag." ”
Back then, Chu Yingchan rode a deer and got lost in the forest, and the encounter with the master's night snow seemed to be accidental, but it was actually a tacit understanding for a long time.
"Then you should discipline your daughter yourself and see if she listens to you." Shizun smiled and said: "Some mothers, even if they give a birthday gift, they need other people to take care of it on their behalf, right, Miao girl?" ”
She is really Chu Miao.
And Chu Yingchan's gifts over the years, including the Snow Crane Sword, were mostly given to her daughter by Chu Miao through the hands of her master.
The shadow of the disaster in the mouth of the master lingered in her mind, but now the little girl in history has come to her face, they are only seven years old, and now they are outstanding, and they are all fairies and goddesses who move the world...... Xiao He couldn't help but have a sense of amazement in time and space.
"Yingchan has fallen into the realm, do you know?"
Chu Miao was really angry, "If it wasn't for chasing you back then, how could she rashly attack the Immortal Realm when her foundation was so unstable?" Back then, the breakthrough almost cost her half her life, but now she has fallen to Yuan Chi, the Dao realm is damaged, and I am afraid that I will not forget the Great Dao in this life, do you really not care about the master at all? ”
Shizun's smile faded, she closed her eyes, and answered the question: "Do you know why Chu Chu doesn't like you?" You, after so many years, are still so controlling. ”
"If I don't care about her, who cares about her?" Chu Miao asked sternly.
"If I really don't like Chu Chu, how can I take her as an apprentice?" The master said softly: "She needs to calm down now, and see clearly the path she really wants to take, the life of a cultivator is long, what if it is delayed for a year or two?" Now that improper care will become a mental obstacle for her in the future, I don't need to tell you more about this truth, right? ”
Chu Miao was silent, and said, "Even if this is the case, can you just let it go completely?" ”
"Don't worry, I have my own arrangements."
"Arrangement? What is the arrangement? ”
"I won't tell you." Shizun seemed to be angry with her on purpose.
"......" Chu Miao's dress hunted and flew over, as if the killing intent was awe-inspiring.
"Okay, don't be in the wild with me, you can still fight with me in the early years, and now you are not my opponent if you make ten moves, it really annoys me, be careful that I arrest your mother and daughter to bully together." Shizun got up and smiled coldly, she looked at Chu Miao's beautiful face, and lightly stretched out her finger to hook her chin, but was opened by Chu Miao angrily.
"Why don't you have any teacher ethics at all? If your master knew what you were like now, he would have whipped your ass. Chu Miao said coldly.
"Master......"
Shizun's expression calmed down, she looked at the clouds gathered again outside the window, and lowered the curtain casually, her misty eyes changed instantly. Three hundred years is more than 100,000 days, and those short seven days seem so small on this scale, she once believed that time would really dilute everything, but that short experience was firmly nailed to her life along with the day of the broken wall, and became a fire that burned her body and mind for countless silent nights, getting brighter and brighter.
She never saw her father and mother again, and she never saw her master again, and what she thought was eternal peace was shattered by the bone dragon when she was seven years old, and what she thought was a brief separation turned into an eternal goodbye.
"If he lives, do whatever he wants."
She said softly, her sleeves lowered, and she was dressed in white to cut ice and snow.
Three hundred years had passed, and she had tried her best to find no news about him, as if he had never existed in the world, as if those seven days were just a dream she had woven for herself.
Chu Miao knew that she was speechless, she covered her lips, and just said: "In short, it will be better for my family Yingchan in the future, otherwise I will come to you every day to make trouble." ”
"I don't care if you come to make trouble, I'm afraid that your daughter will personally blow you out when the time comes." Shizun said.
"No way, she's my daughter anyway." Although Chu Miao said this, she was very unconfident, because she knew that this scene was very likely to come true......
Thinking of this, she felt even more aggrieved, and she suddenly became unhappy, she picked up a chair at random and sat down, and said: "It's really difficult to see you all these years, and I don't know what you're doing all day long." ”
"Do what my father and mother didn't finish back then." Shizun said.
"Are you still thinking about that?" Chu Miao asked.
"Of course." Master Zun said: "During the trip to the far north back then, my father's and mother's discoveries should be far more than those hidden in the Divine Shou Mountain, they should also know deeper secrets, but for some reason they didn't tell anyone, even ...... Even if the father and mother get married, it is possible that it has something to do with these secrets. ”
In the past, she would never speculate about these things, but as she learned more and more secrets in recent years, her confusion and conjecture about that trip to the polar regions have deepened.
Shizun didn't want to talk about this today, she rubbed the corners of her forehead, collected her thoughts, and asked, "Do you drink?" ”
"Whatever you want." Chu Miao said.
"Xiao He, come with you." Shizun looked at the slender girl in the red dress and said.
Xiao He smiled lightly, but shook his head, "I'm not strong enough to drink, but I'm still ......."
Halfway through the words, I heard Xiao He's 'hey', her wrists were grabbed by Shizun and Chu Miao left and right, and she was forced to accompany them to drink.
Xiao Bai Zhu happened to poke her head out from behind the back door, and looked here cautiously, she hadn't seen anything clearly, just as Chu Miao and Shizun went out, and they were bumping into her, Bai Zhu was unsteady under his feet, and fell down the stairs with a miserable hum, and hit the little unicorn passing by, knocking it to the ground, and screaming aggrievedly with his feet to the sky.
Bai Zhu rubbed his head and helped up the little qilin, but he didn't dare to be angry with Chu Miao, this big sister in white was very fierce, I heard that she had always wanted to stew her, and she had been thinking about it for three hundred years...... If it weren't for his own struggle, he finally cultivated into a human form ten years ago, otherwise he might really turn into radish soup.
"Sister Wu, are you leaving?" Bai Zhu went to pull Xiao He's sleeve.
Xiao He nodded lightly, "If there is a chance in the future, my sister will come to see Bai Zhu." ”
"Well, I also hope that my sister will find your little husband as soon as possible and marry herself." Bai Zhu smiled sincerely: "Although I have never met that brother, I don't know why, Bai Zhu always feels that he is very kind." ”
Xiao He Qingtian's eyes seemed to have white clouds crushed, she pinched Bai Zhu's face, and said softly: "I will definitely find him, and I will come with him to see Xiao Bai Zhu when the time comes, okay?" ”
Xiao He had a smile on her face, but her eyes were becoming more and more empty, she had been waiting for a year, but she didn't wait for anything, today I listened to the story of the owner of the fairy building when she was a child, Xiao He suddenly understood that parting is the normal state of life. But Xiao Baizhu didn't know this, she only felt that Sister Wu Youhe was very powerful, so she also believed her words and nodded vigorously.
There was snow outside the fairy tower.
The snow is full of footprints chased by Bai Zhu and the unicorn, and those rare and exotic flowers are always present in all seasons, completely not afraid of wind and snow, colorful and delicate.
The fairy building is the territory of the master, and the wind, rain and snow in these are all related to her mind, and the master always has a soft smile when he speaks, but the snow on this building is so eager to cover up.
Xiao He knows that one day, she will also get out of the ice and snow in her heart and go to the snow-capped mountain in her fate.
This is also the reason why she is reluctant to worship under the door of the fairy tower and is determined to leave.
Xiao He went to the small pavilion with them and drank the last parting wine together.
The pavilion is on the edge of the cliff, and it is a wonderful place to see the flowers and snow, and if you have good eyesight, you can see the neatly laid out buildings on the majestic mountain if you look far away. Chu Miao and Shizun sat together, they who were still quarreling before suddenly became harmonious, and turned back into sisters who were like siblings, while Xiao He sat on the side with some restraint, brushing his wind-blown snow hair.
This is a hundred years of wine buried under the plum tree, its aroma is so mellow, but the entrance is clear.
Xiao He took a sip, tasted it carefully, and drank it all.
When she was a child, she was cold, and her aunt often forced her to drink, and at that time the wine she drank would be mixed with the fierce demon Neidan, and the wine was like a knife cutting her throat, so she never felt that drinking was a beautiful thing, but felt that it was a punishment, and until today she did not know that there was such a good wine in the world, but it was just ...... She drank too much of this fine wine, but it made her feel that it was not as long as the spirits she drank when she was a child.
Some things are like this, it may not be so good in itself, but it is buried in the depths of memory, fermenting silently as it grows, and it is only when I occasionally recall it that I am surprised to find that it is so irreplaceable.
Xiao He, who was 'overwhelmed by alcohol', drank wine as if no one was around, and drank an unknown number of glasses before finally getting a little drunk. She looked confused, looked to her side, opened her mouth as if to say something, but there were only plum branches poking out of the court.
The wine woke up in an instant.
She put down the cup in her hand and looked at the landlord and Chu Miao.
Before drinking, the two women boasted about how good they were drinking, but when Xiao He drank for a while and came to his senses, he found that Shizun had fallen drunk on the jade table, and Chu Miao was not much better, her cheeks were red, she was full of alcohol, and she looked at Xiao He with silky eyes, "You see, your master has such a poor drinking power and dares to say big things, so virtuous, I don't know how to pick up so many good apprentices." ”
"I didn't have an apprenticeship." Xiao He defended.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Xiaobai Zhu, pour me wine quickly, or my sister will drink you. Chu Miaoqiang calmed down.
Xiao He sighed, she suddenly felt that they were the real little girls in this small pavilion.
Chu Miaofu didn't have time to wait for Xiao He to pour the wine, so he also fell down drunk and lay on Shizun's body.
The wine was strong, and the light veil that the master had covered his face finally faded, and the originally slightly vague fairy face finally appeared clearly.
The snow blows, the sea of clouds is like a lake, and the sunlight is obscured by clusters of clouds, and when it shines into the pavilion, it is as thin as the clear light of the moon.
Shizun's face is so young, she still looks like an eighteen or nineteen-year-old sister, her fairy spirit is extremely beautiful, clear and flawless, pure and cold, as if it is the first snow in the world after Hongmeng's first judgment, even the soul is crystalline, and the long black hair is like a low-hanging void for eternity, with a faint and mysterious fragrance, her body is long, and her body is also shaped like nephrite, especially the pair of jade legs, slender and straight, and even if she wears a thick coat, it is difficult to hide the pride of her figure.
Xiao He stretched out his hand and touched her long hair, feeling even more lonely in his heart.
She looked at the snow outside the pavilion, took the small wine jug on the stove in front of her, poured out the last of the wine, she drank half of it, her heart suddenly moved, unconsciously put down the wine glass, looked outside the pavilion, there were flocks of cranes passing by among the clouds outside the pavilion, she looked at it for a long time, and then put down the wine glass when the warm wine in the glass had condensed into ice.
In the ice and snow, Xiao He stepped into the Yuan Chi Realm.
She slowly got up, wrapped in red and walked through the snow, and when she was leaving, Shizun's words suddenly sounded behind her, "You don't have the blood of the white phoenix in your body." ”
"What?" Xiao He was surprised.
"The blood in your body is dragon's blood." After the master said this, he was drunk and turned his head away.
Xiao He's slender figure stood in the snow, not sure if the owner of the fairy building was talking drunk, she stood for a while, and didn't see her continue to speak, so she walked down the mountain alone.
At the foot of the mountain, Xiao He met Chu Yingchan in the autumn forest.
Chu Yingchan sat on the deer sideways, the white clothes were better than the snow, the green silk was falling, and her beautiful body was a little thinner, but her expression had not changed, and she was as quiet as the autumn moon.
Chu Yingchan could see that Xiao He had just broken through.
When she was the second in the immortal realm, Xiao He was only in the Xuanzi realm, and now she is in the Yuan Chi realm, Xiao He is already in the Yuan Chi realm, and the master is a sixteen-year-old immortal, so it is not good that this snow-haired girl can be earlier, if it is false to say that there is no loss in her heart, but this year's Qing cultivation made Chu Yingchan even more indifferent, she looked at Xiao He, and there was no jealousy in her eyes, she just said: "I'll send you." ”
"Okay." Xiao He did not refuse.
Chu Yingchan came down from the deer, leading the deer and Xiao He in parallel.
Neither of them spoke, except that they folded some wild chrysanthemums as they passed by a field of wild grass, made them into two bunches, and held them in their hands.
Today is the day of the broken wall 300 years ago, and the roots of the city are full of flowers, and the walls are full of people, according to the custom of people to come here on this day to pray for peace.
Xiao He and Chu Yingchan also put the wild chrysanthemums they picked here, and prayed together against the wall for their deaths.
And they parted by the gates.
"You still owe me a competition." Xiao He said.
"Well, you can come to me at any time." Chu Yingchan said.
"You're so lifeless, it's boring to beat you, the next time we meet, remember to be angry." Xiao He said coldly.
Chu Yingchan nodded in agreement, and then asked, "Where are you going to go?" ”
"Northside." Xiao He said: "Legend has it that there is a snow-capped mountain there, and I want to find it." ”
This was their last conversation, and the two girls said goodbye.
Xiao He was also a little worried when she left, afraid that as soon as she left with her front foot, Lin Shouxi would find her back foot, but she shook her head with a smile...... How could such a thing happen? I'm delusional again.
On the sacred mountain, Shizun and Chu Miao had already woken up.
"Do you want to go to the god wall together?" Chu Miao asked.
It's what they do every year.
"Let the juniors do it for you today, I'...... There are other things. Shizun said.
"Something else?" Chu Miao asked in surprise, "What else can happen?" ”
"I'm going to retrieve my sword."
"Cham Palace?"
"Hmm."
After returning to this world, she has divined the whereabouts of Zhan Gong several times, but she has never gotten the result, and Zhan Gong seems to have been ...... It was covered, but just last night, she finally figured out where it was.
It's time to go.
His own good boy should be there too.
"I still remember the way you pulled out that sword, it's really ...... It's cute. Chu Miao recalled with a smile.
"Of course, it's my sword, and I can pull it out except my appointed disciple." Shizun said proudly.
Thousands of years ago, the mysterious lady in the black dress borrowed a sword outside the wall, a sword cut off the past of the time and space demon god, a sword cut off the future of the time and space demon god, and the demon god who was cut into three by two swords was firmly trapped in the present and became a trapped beast under the sword, since then for thousands of years, this sword stuck to its pride, and never wanted to be pulled out again, until later the people of the mountain found this sword from the collapsed family, and when it was sent to Yunkong Mountain as a relic, she held the hilt of the sword in both hands and pulled it suddenly, so that people could see its mirror-like blade again after a thousand years.
But she never contacted Master again through this sword.
It seems that with the drawing of the sword, the time and space connected to the sword are also broken, so the story is forever stuck in the dusk of the sixth day.
"I'm not alone...... Master said softly, his expression dazed.
"What did you say?" Chu Miao didn't hear clearly.
"Nothing." Shizun smiled self-deprecatingly, and she said to Chu Miao: "Your daughter is coming back, accompany her well, talk to her patiently in the future, don't be too anxious, so as not to anger her again." And ......"
"By the way, help me take care of Bai Zhu."
Bai Zhu, who was eavesdropping behind the wall, hurriedly poked his head out and shouted, "Bai Zhu can take care of himself, and he doesn't need to bother Sister Chu." ”
After finishing speaking, he turned around and ran, hiding in a place where Chu Miao couldn't find it.
Shizun looked at the little white radish and smiled dumbly.
"Goodbye." She said to Chu Miao.
The next moment, her figure disappeared into the snow, and along with her, there was a white snow, and the sky soon cleared, and the mountains were silver.
Chu Miao looked at the ice and snow world outside the pavilion with drunken eyes, and was in a trance for a long time before he spoke softly:
"Goodbye, Gongyu."