Chapter 22 The Penglai People's Past
"So, sister, do you really know something?"
"Hmm."
Nodding with a gloomy face, the hatred on Mei Hong's face was a powerful degree that even Wu clearly felt.
"That, sister red."
Subconsciously swallowing saliva to calm the uneasiness in his heart, Takeya tried to ask:
"Could it be that the 'guy' you're talking about is the one you've always hated, that person?"
β...... It would be more appropriate to replace 'hate' with 'hate'. β
made a cold joke, even if Mei Hong wanted to be kinder, but all she could do at the moment was to mechanically raise the corners of her mouth and make a smile that was more ugly than crying.
"Really?"
Wu Ye sensibly didn't ask, there are some things that Mei Hong is willing to say, he listens to some, if he doesn't want to talk about it, he doesn't want to talk too much.
β...... That person also lives in the Lost Bamboo Forest. β
After walking forward wordlessly for a long time, Mei Hong spoke in a low voice.
"In the depths of the bamboo forest, there is a huge mansion, and there seem to be three or four guys living in it, probably not humans, and rabbit demons or something, oh yes, the rabbits here are their captive pets."
"Oh, that's it."
"I didn't know she lived here at first."
Looking up at the full moon that was liberated from the shade of bamboo leaves and gradually became brighter, Mei Hong said in an extremely contradictory tone, like hatred and hope:
"Suddenly one day in a daze in the bamboo forest, when I came back to my senses, I found the figure of that guy......"
"And then?"
"And then we opened it."
Frowning and squeezing out an ugly smile, Mei Hong said self-deprecatingly:
"In my memory, it's all the scenes of me and that guy fighting to the death, broken limbs and stuff everywhere, and I lived to this day unconsciously."
"Huh."
Mei Hong's appalling rhetoric made Wu Ye dumbfounded:
"Is there such a big gap in strength? Meihong, you are so miserable every time, why don't you ask Huiyin for help? β
"Haha, you can't let Huiyin go crazy with me every time, right? Besides, it's not all my part, and that guy has a lot of them."
β...... Wait, sister red. β
Sensing a certain word worth caring about in Mei Hong's words, Wu Ye asked with difficulty:
"The person you're talking about, isn't that also ...... Penglai people, right? β
"Hehe, it's worthy of Wu Ye."
Mei Hong grinned, but for some reason she didn't have her usual heroism at all, and her smile was full of bitterness.
β...... You guessed it. β
Why do you have to hate her?
The words that came to his mouth were swallowed by Wu Ye himself, obviously even he could accept it, and he could become such a good friend, why did he reject the real "same kind" for thousands of miles and hate him so much?
Despite the doubts in his heart, Wu Ye couldn't help but ask.
Because he knows that the story in the future must not be asked so easily, if he can, he still hopes that Meihong can take the initiative to tell it.
Otherwise, I'd have never heard what I just said.
"Huh."
Under this unnatural silence, Mei Hong's soft laughter was like a bubble rising in the deep sea, which disappeared without a trace in just a few moments.
"It was probably a long, long time ago, I can't remember the specific time, there is a daughter of a noble family, it seems that because of her mother's low status, she is not taken seriously."
Slowing down her pace with an almost imperceptible degree, Meihong began to tell the story of "someone".
"For such a child, being able to see her father is probably her greatest wish, it may be that the girl's sincerity touched the heavens, her wish came true, she met her father, but in a situation that she could never have imagined."
With the self-deprecation at the corners of her mouth, Mei Hong continued:
"As a great nobleman, her father actually stooped down to propose to a lowly woman, but the result was not only unsuccessful, but was also humiliated by the other party as a 'difficult problem', because of this incident, her father's failure became a topic of ridicule for many people, and since then, the girl has hated the woman who disgraced her father."
Stopping, Mei Hong turned to Wu Ye and asked:
"Well, isn't it ridiculous?"
β...... No, if you want me to say, the father I longed for was humiliated like this, and no one would accept it easily, right? β
"I'm glad you think so."
smiled heartily, it seems that Mei Hong's story is not finished yet.
"The young girl had a grudge against the woman, and when she learned that the other party was going home, she began to think about how to retaliate, but the girl couldn't cause any trouble to the other party, not even close."
As if she was in the middle of a story, she felt troubled, and Mei Hong smiled bitterly and frowned and said:
"In the end, it still failed to stop the woman's escape, but the girl did not achieve nothing, she at least left the other party with a 'medicine pot' that seemed to be very valuable."
Still blowing her bangs away by the evening breeze, Mei Hong seemed to deliberately want to hide her expression at this time.
"The 'medicine pot' that I got with all my hard work, if I was forced by the other party, it would be a failure, right? The girl thought so, so she came up with a plan that would never let the other party snatch it back, and she ate the medicine in the medicine pot. β
As if amused by the girl's innocence, she even snorted a few times when she said this, but her pleasant tone was immediately replaced by distress.
"Unexpectedly, no one actually came to snatch the 'medicine pot', and the girl who swallowed the 'medicine' indiscriminately didn't know that the 'medicine pot' was placed in the 'medicine pot'...... Since then, no one has seen the girl. β
β......β
Mei Hong can't understand what kind of feelings she has now, and he doesn't comfort him without permission, after all, he is not arrogant enough to that extent.
All he can do now is listen to the story.
"People who have taken Penglai's medicine can't live on the same land as ordinary people, and the girl can only keep moving and living a life of displacement, but humans can't live alone in a group, so she can only live in the mountains in the end."
Raising his head, the moonlight sprinkled on the red face of the sister, revealing the bitterness of reminiscence.
"After that, I don't know how long later, the girl saw the woman again, the woman who had humiliated her father, it turned out that she had never 'come home', and became a poor creature looking for shelter everywhere like herself, haha."
Mei Hong laughed out loud again, not knowing whether she was happy for the misery of the enemy or helpless for her own stupidity.
After that, the fight between the girl and the woman became her daily routine, and those days continue to this day."
β...... Who the hell is that person? β
In the end, Takeya finally asked the question, and although he may not know it, as the end of the "story", he felt that he still needed to know.
"Wu should also know him."
Unexpectedly, Mei Hong said something like this.
"That woman left her 'story' by humiliating the girl's father at the time, which has been passed down to this day, and that's what people in later generations call herβ"
The flame in her eyes, which was the color of hatred, Mei Hong gritted her teeth and said:
"Kaguya-hime!"