Chapter 9: The Flower of Rejuvenation

At midnight the next day, the three of them set off on their way, and in order to avoid being stopped when they entered the jurisdiction of the county seat, they avoided the official road and chose a sparsely populated but slightly distant mountain road.

"Why are you still following us?" Wen Yeting saw that Wei Yun didn't have the slightest intention of acting separately, so he asked a little puzzled.

Wei Yun was about to say something, but she replied first: "There are a lot of people, I think it's good, it's fate to meet." ”

Wen Yeting didn't say anything more, she breathed a sigh of relief, this Wei Yun will be His Majesty of Qin Capital in the future, even if he is from a hundred years later, he has to be treated respectfully.

At first, Wei Yun could still chatter, asking her about this for a while, and Wen Yeting for a while, but then when he walked until noon, he couldn't support it, and proposed to find a place to rest for a while and eat something.

So the three of them stayed on the spot, Wen Yeting took out the steamed buns in the bag and handed them to the flowers, Wei Yun made a fuss: "Brother Wen, this is not right, I came out in a hurry, and I didn't expect you to even go to a tea house to rest along the way, I didn't bring anything......"

Wen Yeting listened, pretended to throw a steamed bun to him unintentionally, and suddenly Wen Yeting paused and said, "Someone." ”

The three of them immediately hid behind the big tree next to them, but they saw two women not far away coming one after the other. From a distance, the two of them are graceful and curling, like the autumn moon.

Wei Yun said softly: "I didn't expect to meet young women in this kind of remote area, but they look similar, like twins ......"

"It's my own people." The voice of the flowers rang out.

She then asked, "Who is it?" Do I need to show up? ”

"Hmm. They are members of my clan who grew up with me, and you should remember not to say anything in front of them, lest they notice anything unusual. ”

So she ran over to meet them, her expression and movements were as natural as possible, and Wen Yeting and the others saw her like this, so they didn't hide anymore, and looked at them upright.

Chao Yan saw that the person who came seemed to be among the flowers, but he was wearing a man's clothes, and he didn't react for a while, feeling that the person in front of him looked strange and familiar.

"It's me." She said softly.

After speaking, Chao Yan smiled and nodded, Xi Yan saw the two men not far away, glanced at the flowers contemptuously, and said coldly: "It's good for you, along the way, you have been sightseeing in the mountains and rivers, making friends, and delaying all the business, I don't know where you come from." ”

She thought to herself: "This wild girl who is neither big nor small, she looks very well-behaved, but she speaks so ugly, it's a pity that she has this face." ”

Hua Jian consciously took care of the loss, and indeed delayed the process, and said guiltily: "Please ask Miss Shi to give her a soft service for me, she has always been straightforward and fast-talking, don't worry about her." ”

"Eh, you're really ......," she was about to retort to Hanama.

At this time, Chao Yan couldn't bear it, and comforted: "Huajian, you don't have to be harsh on yourself." Wang Miao attacked that day, and after we scattered around to escape, Granny Hua managed to find us and let the two of us also rush to Jinyun City, let's wait for the details. ”

She nodded, and then led the two sisters to meet the other two, and after greeting each other, Wei Yun exclaimed: "That little brother Wen Cai, oh no, then you are a woman?" ”

"Brother Wei, forgive me, I made this decision for the sake of convenience, my original name was Huajian."

Wei Yun looked at Wen Yeting, and his eyes signaled, "Good guy, you!" Wen Yeting avoided his gaze and lowered his head and picked his fingers in embarrassment.

Wei Yun saw that the atmosphere was not quite right, so he laughed and said: "Wen Cai, oh no, girl among the flowers, you must be the place where Zhong Lingyu is beautiful, it looks like everyone is full of blue heart and beauty." ”

After speaking, the three women didn't know how to answer, Wen Yeting sighed, covered her face helplessly, and answered embarrassedly: "Brother Wei, you are well-informed, it is better to tell me what strange things you have seen in Shuzhou, and you can also let the three girls identify it for you." ”

Wei Yun secretly thanked Wen Yeting in his heart, and thought, "Brother Wen, you are really a good person, although I am good at making friends with people, but in the past, I met either brave soldiers or scholars who were full of wealth, and I really didn't know how to talk to women." Then he continued: "Eh, speaking of this, I really have something that I still don't know, I wonder if I can ask a few girls for advice?" ”

Chao Yan smiled: "Brother Wei, it's okay for you to say it directly, we know everything." ”

Wei Yun then spoke: "Have you ever heard the legend of the resurrection of the dead? When I first came to Shuzhou, I was sharpened in an inn, and I happened to meet a blind old man who was enjoying the shade at the bottom of the tree outside the door. The shopkeeper thought he was dirty and looked unlucky, and wanted to send him away. I couldn't bear to see this, so I bought a few dishes and invited him to eat with him, but he tried his best to refuse, but he couldn't resist the enthusiasm, and said that he wanted to use a story to pay for the meal, and I didn't ask for anything in return, so I agreed, so he began to talk to me......"

Speaking of this, Wei Yun paused, she was a little anxious, and said, "Don't fish our appetite." ”

Wei Yun cleared his throat, took out the kettle and took a sip, and said, "Don't worry, I'll moisten my throat first, the story is like this......"

This old man was originally the son of a gardener's family, he was stubborn by nature, did not learn and did not know, often provoked right and wrong, made the family fly and jump, and even the little savings left were lost by him.

His mother was so angry that he couldn't afford to be sick, and his father felt that if he continued like this, he might cause trouble, so one day he took him into the mountains, saying that he was going to find a strange flower, which could only be watered with tears, and the flowers that bloomed were also teardrop-shaped; If you don't have tears, you won't be able to bloom in your life. But if you get this blooming flower, put it into the mouth of the person whose liver and intestines are broken, and you will revive it. His father wanted to find the flower and take it back for his wife to take.

When the old man heard this, he became interested, and thought that if he could get a few more plants, he would be able to sell them for a good price, and he could gamble again, so he followed his father into the mountain.

Father and son trekked through the mountains for a whole day, and night was about to fall, but there was no sign of the flower. Feeling deceived, he spoke ill of his father, who was disheartened, parted ways with him, and continued his search in the mountains alone, and he returned home.

But when he saw that his mother was already dying, although he was stubborn, but the crow had the intention of feeding, and the sheep had the grace of kneeling to suckle, why should he not?

So he hurried back to the mountain, wanting to continue his search for the strange flower, but before he reached the mountainside, he saw a man lying faintly under the slope. He looked down and saw his unfortunate father.

It turned out that the flower was growing on the edge of a cliff in the mountains, and his father wanted to reach out to pick it after discovering it, but because of poor vision at night, he accidentally fell, and his face was blurred, but he was still holding the bud of the flower in his hand.

He suddenly cried out for the heavens and the earth, and was overwhelmed with grief, but he did not dare to delay his mother's illness at home, so he moved his father to the flat ground, covered it with the leaves on the side, and thought that he would come back later to deal with the aftermath, so he hurried home with the bud.

When he came home, his mother was already grief-stricken, he reached out to his nose, but he couldn't feel his breath at all, and his mother's hand had lost its temperature, so anxious that he wept bitterly and fell into his liver and spleen.

Unexpectedly, tears of grief continued to drip on the buds, and after a while the flowers bloomed, and he thought that a dead horse should be a live horse doctor, so he put the flower in his mother's mouth and held it in his mouth, and held his mother's chin with his hand, and tried his best to make her chew it a few times.

But seeing that his mother did not respond for a long time, he rushed back to the mountains in frustration and dragged his father home.

When he returned to the village the next day, he dragged his father, who had already lost his breath, all the way, exhausted and his eyes blackened.

But when he saw the smoke curling from a distance, he thought that he was dazzled, so he rubbed his eyes carefully, and the smoke was indeed floating out of his house.

He rushed to the front of the house, but his mother was already sitting in front of the stove and making a fire, and she looked no different from ordinary people.

He was overjoyed, hugged his mother and looked at it carefully, and was speechless for a long time. My mother, on the contrary, was surprised, and thought that I was just a dream, so she asked, "What about your father?" ”

Only then did he come back to his senses in a trance and talk about his father's misfortune, and suddenly the mother and son cried. In the past, they all relied on their father to grow flowers for a living, and he once disliked this craft, so he never asked his father for advice, and he couldn't pick a hand on his shoulders, and he didn't know how to live in the future.

Then he remembered the strange flower, so he said goodbye to his mother and went into the mountains to look for it.

He found the place where his father had fallen, deduced where the flower had grown, and ran to the top of the hill to see that there were two unopened buds besides that one.

He was overjoyed, so he took them home and sold them at the market, but no one had ever heard of them and never seen them, so he could not sell them. He ran to the infirmary again, thinking that if he could get medicine, the doctor should know, but he went to several infirmaries and repeatedly ran into a wall, and everyone thought he was a charlatan and blasted him out.

He returned in a huff, but he had a plan, if he watered it with tears and showed the blooming flowers to everyone, he would probably believe him. So he sat in the middle of the house, holding a bud in his hand, and wept aloud, but he did not see the bud bloom for a long time, and he thought it was the cause of the flower, so he changed another one, but no matter how much he wept, none of the buds bloomed.

but his eyes were blinded with weeping.

Speaking of this, Wei Yun stopped, and the other four looked at each other, all of them feeling incredible.

She couldn't help but ask, "Do you believe him?" ”

Wei Yun replied: "Isn't it just that I am suspicious, so I will tell you to listen, I want to ask you if there is really this flower in Shuzhou?" ”

Everyone shook their heads, and said to Yan: "I'm afraid I'm just a shallow learner, and I've never heard of this flower, so didn't you ask the old man later?" How does he explain it? ”

Wei Yun listened to this, held his forehead a little embarrassed, and said softly: "Later, I asked him if this flower is blooming now, and I want to see it, and he said that he only has buds left in his hands, and he has never seen it in full bloom again." I begged him to open my eyes to the buds, and he told me to go with him to his house outside the city. I went with him, and saw him take one out of a rough and worn wooden box and give it to me, and I saw that the buds were green and indecent, which was not very common, and I wanted to collect one. So I gave him ten taels of silver......"

When they heard this, they all furrowed their brows and laughed heartily.

Wen Yeting was about to laugh out of tears, and said vaguely: "Brother Wei, you are really generous, Bodhisattva heart!" ”

She was worried about Wei Yun in her heart, "This history book doesn't say that the Supreme Emperor is so innocent, thanks to the fact that he was born in the Qin capital, if he is in other places, I am afraid it will be difficult for him to ascend to the throne with his mind." ”

Wei Yun also suspected that he had been deceived, but he was unwilling, so he took out the bud that he had carefully wrapped from his bag and handed it to them.

Chao Yan put the flower bud in his hand and measured it carefully, but he felt that it was unusual. If it is an ordinary flower bud, it will wither soon after being picked, but this flower bud still looks delicate, I don't know how outstanding the flower art can reach such a point. She didn't want to embarrass Wei Yun, so she said: "Brother Wei, you can keep this bud, not to mention whether it can come back to life for the time being, but this bud has not withered so far, and it is also a strange thing." ”

Wei Yun was relieved and said lightly: "Thank you, if this flower blooms one day, I will definitely invite everyone to come and watch." ”

After saying that, Wen Yeting quipped: "Okay, but if you start crying, call us, we have to watch the whole process from beginning to end." ”

The crowd burst into laughter and continued on their way.