When Luo Shuangyi dug out the ghost market lord in the mess of paper, calculations, cinnabar, and mercury, half of the mutton bone mask on his face fell off, revealing half of his pale face that did not look like a living person. The ghost city lord suddenly saw the day, his eyes were pierced and he couldn't open them, and it took a long time to see the silver ghost mask on Luo Shuangyi's face, and he hurriedly put on his mutton bone mask.

"Somebody can't pay for my head, right?" The ghost city lord asked vigilantly.

"Ghost City Master, our family master is invited." Luo Shuangyi clasped his veins with one hand, and made a "please" gesture with the other.

The ghost city lord didn't understand how he could have anything to do with the evil ghosts of the Nine Shadows, and as soon as he wanted to say no, he saw the puppet boys scattered on the ground. Luo Tong sat on the back of the puppet boy who pouted his buttocks, and kicked the puppet boy's head with a smile, revealing a pair of round eyes under the ghost mask, innocent.

Looking at Luo Shuangyi's posture of buttoning his veins, the ghost city lord naturally thought of the famous "pulse interception hand" of Jiuyousi, who did not hold an inch, broke people's tendons and veins, and cracked people's bones.

People are under the eaves and have to bow their heads.

"Lead the way." The ghost city lord swallowed his spit and said.

——

Akiba Mountain House.

The ghost city lord lifted the long hair on Chu Zhixia's neck, and the blue veins on the side of her neck were so clear that you could see the subtle branches, densely rooting deep into her body, and a large area of overlapping pale pink traces bloomed on her skin.

Yuzhu, who was guarding the corner of the room, couldn't help but look sideways and observe the ghost city master's every move.

"It's Peach Blossom Miasma," the Ghost City Lord said cleanly, "she's hopeless." ”

Peach blossom miasma is a chronic poison, and people who take peach blossom miasma will vomit blood and have a high fever one after another, and there will be traces of peach blossom-like burning on the body. Twelve hours later, the poisoned man died, and all traces were gone, like a sick man who had died of a violent illness.

The emperor was fully prepared.

He couldn't let Chu Zhixia die in the palace, let alone tell the truth. But the emperor has lived in the deep palace for a long time, and the royal family has taught the prince to be far away from ghosts and gods, and to neglect treachery and evil, so he can't be so familiar with the peach blossom miasma.

"Peach Blossom Miasma was born in a ghost market, if there is anyone in this world who can solve it, this person must be you." Shen Zhou looked at him with heavy eyes, "You mention your conditions, as long as you want it, as long as I have it." ”

The ghost city lord is dressed in a furry robe like a crow, and the strangely shaped ink crystal lens hangs on his nose, like a demon in the legend of Zhiwei. The ghost city lord hooked the lens on the bridge of his nose and carefully looked at the sinking boat.

Shen Zhou sat beside Chu Zhixia and gently held a string of Buddhist beads in Chu Zhixia's palm. He has a pair of affectionate and cold-blooded eyes, but he touches the heartstrings for no reason. The ghost city lord saw the unwiped blood on his Adam's apple and showed a teasing smile.

"It turns out that Chu Zhixia is the one who has to be saved by inheriting the seven cold pith nails." The ghost city lord glanced him up and down, nodded and said, "You do have crazy capital, and Loulan's bloodline is like a disaster." ”

Shen Zhou ignored his ridicule and asked bluntly: "How to solve the peach blossom miasma?" ”

"The peach blossom miasma is different from the world's most poisonous 'burning heart', its toxicity is not fierce, but soft and lingering. But it is precisely because of this that the peach blossom miasma is extremely difficult to remove, and all the antidote herbs that can be seen in the world are useless to it. If it were someone else, it would be a fool's dream to cure this poison, but if it was you, the head of the Nine Shadows, maybe you could really save her. ”

Shen Zhou and the ghost city lord looked at each other.

The ghost city lord was in a playful mood, and said with the malice of playing with his prey: "When the Nine Shadows cultivated assassins, they would feed infants and young children with poison to make them immune to most of the drugs and poisons. I have heard that some 'seeds' have tried all kinds of poisons in the world, and there are no strange poisons in the world except for burning hearts. Is this true? ”

"It's true." Shen Zhou replied.

The ghost city lord stroked his palm and said, "What is cultivated in this way is actually no different from a medicine man. If there is the blood of the Nine Shadows Seed, you can unravel the peach blossom miasma. ”

In the protracted war between the Mountain Ghost Clan and the Luo Clan, many rare seeds have been destroyed. After Shen Zhou took over Luo's, he no longer selected babies from the people as seeds for cultivation. In other words, the Nine Shadows Division now has very few seeds, and it is difficult to gather back to the imperial capital for a while.

"Yes." Ignoring Luo Shuangyi's hesitant eyes, Shen Zhou stood up and unfastened his bracers, saying, "I am the seed you are looking for." ”

The ghost market lord pressed his palm down and said, "Don't worry, I haven't finished yet." To solve the peach blossom miasma, it takes a lot of blood. Once the detoxification begins, it cannot be stopped, otherwise it will either be the death of the medicine or the death of the patient. Are you sure? ”

"Let's do it."

Shen Zhou withdrew his hand from Chu Zhixia's palm, and Chu Zhixia, who was unconscious, clenched the Buddha beads, but failed to catch Shen Zhou's retracted fingers.

The ghost city lord watched her movements and said to Shen Zhou with a smile, "She can still hear us." Do you think she'd give you two slaps if she's awake? You're the one she bought her life for, and now you're going to die yourself. ”

"She's not qualified to talk about me." Shen Zhou said expressionlessly.

——

Luo Tong stroked the soft fur of the white cat and looked at the busy adults in the room in puzzlement.

Yuzhu was entangled and nervous and ran around under the command of the ghost city lord, scalding the copper basin with boiling water for a while, and burning the silver knife with fire for a while. There are more than a dozen medicine stoves in the room, stewed with medicinal herbs of different colors and tastes.

Shen Zhou was lying on another couch opposite Chu Zhixia, and a cut was made in his slender and powerful wrist, gushing blood. The blood droplets dripped clearly into the copper basin, dripping like a spring rain. Shen Zhou looked at the vermilion beam calmly, and put his other hand on his lower abdomen, and his posture was as if he was lying in a coffin.

From beginning to end, Shen Zhou's eyes did not deviate for a moment, falling on Chu Zhixia.

The ghost market lord waved a silver knife between his fingers, his eyebrows fluttered, and he said: "Li Qingbai, an old brute who has no children and grandchildren, thinks about how many women secretly sent autumn waves to him back then, and he only has wine and swords in his eyes. finally accepted an apprentice, but he was actually a lover, willing to receive seven cold pith nails for a blood lotus, and owed me a favor. ”

Shen Zhou was silent.

"Loulan's bloodline, it's understandable, who can not be confused by such a face? What Lao Tzu never expected was that the head of the family of the dignified Nine Shadows was actually an infatuation. The ghost city lord sighed, "This world has really changed. ”

The tiredness of blood loss made Shen Zhou feel cold and tired, and he said weakly, "Can you shut up?" ”

Shen Zhou suddenly felt that his other hand was touched, and he turned his head to see Luo Tong holding the white cat, staring at him stupidly.

"The head of the house," Luo Tong buried half of his face in the white cat's body, timidly revealing a pair of round eyes, and said in confusion, "Aren't we killing people to live?" I finally survived, why did I have to die to save people? ”

Those eyes were clear and translucent, which reminded Shen Zhou of his young self for no reason.

"There is a person who, when you are out of sight, is your eyes; She is your ear when you can't hear; When you can't speak, she always knows what you're thinking. You once felt like you were in the world through her. She is alive so that you can feel that you are alive. ”

Shen Zhou raised his hand with difficulty and stroked Luo Tong's hair, patiently and gently explained: "But if she dies, you will feel that every day of your life is too long." In this world, the world is vast, and there are many living beings, but you have no branches to rely on, and you have nowhere to go. ”

"It's better to go back."

Shen Zhou felt that his eyes were gradually blurring and darkening.

"Master of the house, will you die?" Luo Tong held his hand worriedly.

Shen Zhou felt a trace of long-lost warmth in a trance, which made him mistakenly think that he was holding Chu Shixia's hand. He remembered that dream, and Chu Zhixia was lightly shattered in his arms; remembered the tender and cruel and cruel letter that pushed him out of her life and death.

"Chu Zhixia, you big liar, a liar." Shen Zhou's eyelids kept falling, and he said in a weak voice, "You said you wouldn't leave me alone." Thou hast deceived me again, and thou hast abandoned me, and thou hast made me thy surviving man? ”

Luo Tong clenched Shen Zhou's hand in confusion and uneasiness, thinking that Shen Zhou was confused.

"I hate you, I hate you to death."

"Actually, I'm willing to ......"

A tear rolled down from under Shen Zhou's thick black eyelashes and sank into his sideburns.

"I'm willing to die with you in the snow pass."

The darkness swept in, and the sinking boat fell into a silent fainting.

The last sound in his ears was that the Buddha beads fell to the ground like broken jade.

——

When Shenzhou woke up, it was raining outside the window.

Luo Tong hugged the white cat and nested beside him, with tears hanging on his eyelashes, as if he was tired of crying and fell asleep. Luo Shuangyi pushed the door in, raised his wrist, which was also wrapped in white gauze, and smiled at Shen Zhou tiredly. She was very unskilled in this expression, and she had the feeling of hiding a knife in her smile.

"My lord, don't look down on people too much. I'm a seed too. Luo Shuangyi said.

Shen Zhou whispered, "Thank you." ”

"Luo Tong kept asking me if you were going to die, and she said in a hurry that she didn't understand what you taught her." Luo Shuangyi leaned against the door and said, "Miss Chu is fine, but she hasn't woken up yet." ”

Shen Zhou gave up the movement of getting up and lay down on the bed without strength.

"What did you teach her, master?" Luo Shuangyi asked.

"She'll understand when she grows up." Shen Zhou said a very vulgar sentence, but it didn't seem perfunctory.

"There won't be any Nine Shadows in the future, will you?" Luo Shuangyi said for no reason, "The Mountain Ghost Clan has been destroyed, and we are the last 'ghosts' of the Nine Shadows." ”

Luo Shuangyi had already noticed that the Nine Shadows had not cultivated new assassins for a long time, and had not collected babies from the people. The family's treasured book of assassination was burned, and the seeds that were originally cultivated were abandoned halfway, and Luo Shi acquiesced to this.

"Yes."

Shen Zhou did not shy away from saying: "There will never be any more 'ghosts', no more children will be fed poison when they are born, and no one will ever have to kill people to survive." The legends of the Nine Shadows, the Burning Poison, the Silver Ghost Mask, and the Gold Buying Lives will all disappear with our deaths. ”

"No one will ever ...... again I don't understand what it means to be alive. ”

After a long silence, Luo Shuangyi slowly knelt on the ground and said, "Follow the order of the head of the family." ”

——

The sound of rain is like a waterfall.

Shen Zhou lay groggily on the bed, and by the time he realized the sound of breathing around him, the man had been sitting on the edge of his bed for no longer known how long. She reached out and brushed away Shen Zhou's sweaty forehead, her fingertips gently tracing his eyebrows.

A tear fell on his eyelash.

Shen Zhou slowly opened his eyes and looked at Chu Zhixia's lowered eyes.

"Shen Zhou," Chu Zhixia's voice was hoarse, "What do you mean by being willing to accompany me to die in the Snow Pass?" ”

Shen Zhou's Adam's apple rolled, and his eyes flashed slightly.

"What do you mean to be my surviving person again?"

Chu Zhixia asked softly and slowly, peeling back the truth that she had so much in her chest, and her voice couldn't stop trembling. There were tears in her eyes, like dewdrops on the branches of spring, which smashed the empty heart of the sinking boat.

"Do you know what the surviving means?"

Chu Zhixia's tears fell on Shen Zhou's eyes, like rain falling into the quiet center of the lake, rippling layer by layer.

"Widower." Shen Zhou raised his hand to wipe away her tears and said calmly.

Chu Zhixia took a deep breath and tried to suppress his tears, but the tears fell cracklingly. Shen Zhou stretched out his two hands to hold her face, rubbing his thumb against her lips, rubbing his pale lips red and hot.

"None of us have ever been married, and we have visited the church, why do you say in the last letter that I am your surviving person?" Shen Zhou's heart ached unbearably, and he gasped with difficulty and said, "Chu Shixia, you like to lie so much, you always lie to me." ”

Shen Zhou hooked the back of Chu Zhixia's neck and forced her to touch his forehead. Shen Zhou felt her powerful heartbeat, normal body temperature, and her wrinkled heart was kneaded and flattened in pain. Chu Zhixia's wet eyelashes swept across his skin, leaving a burning pain.

Shen Zhou thought it was really strange.

The man deceived him and abandoned him three and twice, but he still felt pain for her tears. Shen Zhou couldn't even say "I don't want to like you anymore" ruthlessly, those tears seemed to fall on his heart, burning out small holes like worms.

Perhaps it was because this man had taught him to weep and to suffer that she would always have the privilege of making him weep and suffer.

Even if you don't want to live, you are still willing to eat.

"I've been to Yongxue Pass, but I haven't found you. The snow pass is too big, the grassland is too big, and the eyes of the dead are everywhere, like gray glass beads. For the first time, I was so afraid of the dead. ”

"I killed Bai Yu, killed Bai Huan, and killed the regent. But no matter how many people I kill, you won't come, and I think I'm going to hell when I die, and I shouldn't see you again. ”

"I don't know where I'm going. I thought, if you're still here, you're going to protect the cloud. So I went to assassinate Erdan. But I showed my face in the imperial capital, and someone spotted me. The assassination failed, and I returned to the temple with my wounds. ”

Chu Zhixia was like a knife in the center of Shen Zhou's calm narration, and his body trembled uncontrollably. Shen Zhou hugged Chu Zhixia, and the body temperatures of the two people blended with each other, like two little beasts nesting against each other in a lonely lair in the ice and snow.

"I begged the gods to go to hell and suffer the fire of ten lifetimes to atone for the lives of the people in my hands. I don't know if it's a god or a dream machine master who responds to me. ”

In the third year of Xiangfu, on the night when Chu Zhixia woke up, Shen Zhou's sudden recurrence of the burning poison made him turn back into an unspeakable little mute - the god fulfilled his promise, and naturally he wanted to charge Shen Zhou the corresponding reward.

It's just that Chu Zhixia stepped in and snatched people back.

Is it really a coincidence that the Dream Machine Master passed away at the moment when Chu Zhixia left the clouds? A happy old monk, an old man who never shook his head and shook his head during the recitation of the Sutra, did he really reverse life and death like a god?

Or did he see himself as a sacrifice to the gods?

Chu Shixia couldn't bear to think about it anymore.

In the previous life, the bell of the Buddhist temple passed through the misty time and hit Chu Zhixia's eardrum hard, like a thunderous wabi-sabi.

Shen Zhou babbled about how much he suffered when Chu Zhixia was away: no one wiped his tears, no thick clothes to wear when he was cold, no one bought candy to coax when he was sad, and he was injured and a person was lying in the snow bleeding and waiting to die.

"Chu Zhixia, I don't want to be your surviving person, I don't want to sweep your tomb and guard the cemetery. If you die, I'll dig a pit next to you and lie down and bury myself alive. Shen Zhou whispered in her ear, "If it's too shallow, will a wild dog take me away?" ”

Chu Zhixia couldn't bear to cover his mouth, with a moist red in the corners of his eyes, and said, "Shut up." ”

"Liar, I'll never be fooled by you again." Shen Zhou stretched out the tip of his tongue and licked her palm, and said slimily, "If you can't live, I'll die with you." ”

The world is big, and our bones are buried in one place, which is better than the ends of the earth and the vast world, and it is difficult for me to find your figure.

"Mo Xue will always dream that Shen Zhou is in danger or even dead, and Shen Zhou is really experiencing those things, not that the little couple has a heart, but that God is giving her psychological hints, so that she can't hold on. Mo Xue is dead, and Shen Zhou can't hold on, so God can take back Shen Zhou's life. Shen Zhou will dream of Mo Xue's accident, or feel the pain of Mo Xue, which is also a trick of God (who let you pigeon me). - Some heart-to-heart connection settings in the underworld."