Chapter 2: The Dying
The summer night is on fire, and the cicadas are singing.
In this moment of silence, my thoughts are like water.
Outside the lock demon tower, fireflies are flying, and the moon is in the sky.
But this beautiful scenery is tormented by the prisoners of Chu.
Countless such days and nights that don't know what day and night they are, like flying fire meteors, fly mercilessly in Yuan Sheng's silence, and yesterday's high-spirited young man seems to be beautiful in an instant, and it has passed in an instant.
It was only when he heard the sound of his own heartbeat that he realized that he was still alive.
It is better to live in pain than to die in pain.
But all sentient beings struggle hard in this unkind world in order to live.
Right now, there are people who are trying to gnaw on their fingers in order to live.
He was the child who was sent to the tower by the Nangong family.
But every time he plucked up the courage to be cruel to himself, he was wiped from tears in pain. After several times, he still failed to do so, filling his hungry stomachs, and finally he didn't know whether he was angry with his own uselessness, or tortured by hunger, and sat down on the ground, whining and crying.
"Hey, kid, it hurts to eat yourself!" Yuan Sheng shouted to the child with a bit of ridicule.
The child naturally couldn't hear his words, and replied honestly, "It hurts, woo, uncle, I may really be dying!"
As he spoke, the child leaned forward the finger that had been bitten by himself, and blood flowed from his finger. The child obviously wanted to show Yuan Sheng, but the tower was as dark as night, and he couldn't see his five fingers, and he could see it anywhere.
"It's too hard to eat yourself, but it might be easier to eat others. Yuan Sheng saw that this child was tortured like this, and he couldn't bear it.
The child blinked his teary eyes and was silent for a moment, as if his heart had moved. But he didn't take the step of sin churning in his heart, and although he was young, he still knew a little bit of ethics. Since he was five years old when he was lost with his mother, he followed an old beggar around, and the old beggar often said to him, "To be a beggar, you must also be an upright beggar, who is not evil in life, fearless in death, and walks calmly in the world." ”
Just like the four words on the old beggar's broken bowl, "Zhengda Guangming".
Although he doesn't understand everything, he has been contaminated with the righteousness of the old beggar, and secretly vowed in his heart that he will be a great hero when he grows up, just like the sword immortal Yuan Qiuchen and the overlord Nangong Tuo.
"Uncle, if I eat you, I will die sooner or later, they lied to me and lied to me that there are chickens to eat here every day, they are bad people, but you are good people. ”
"Oh, how did I become a good person?" Yuan Sheng asked jokingly.
"You'd rather be eaten by me than complain about me, you're a good person. ”
"Well, it's a pity that good people can't save you. ”
"It's okay, I don't blame you, I'm leaving!" the child's tone was sad, as if he was saying goodbye to his loved ones.
"Where are you going?"
"Go to a place far away from you, lest I die and scare you. ”
"Are you afraid that you won't be able to control yourself!" Yuan Sheng saw the child's thoughts.
"No, I didn't even think about it, uncle, you don't have to worry, really!" the child hurriedly argued.
"You want to go farther, and when you are so hungry that you don't have the strength, you won't be able to climb beside me, right?" Yuan Shengfei wanted to break the deep scheming that the kid thought he was hiding.
The child was stunned, this uncle is so angry, he knows everything about what I think.
After a moment, the child came back to his senses and argued urgently, "No, no, no, no......"
As he spoke, he began to weep bitterly, so that his whole thin body trembled.
Human nature is evil, but there are good thoughts in the heart, like flowers and trees, although they come out of the mud, they are towards the sun.
This child was a poor man, and he was deceived to this point, thinking that he had reached the blessed land, but he did not want to fall into the realm of death. These are all that, before he died, he wanted to disguise himself as a hero with no evil thoughts, but he was pierced by this incomprehensible uncle, he was really miserable for a while, sad from the heart, crying heartbroken, heartbreaking.
Listening to the child's sad cry, Yuan Sheng seemed to be moved, his face that was frozen in vicissitudes and gloomy twitched a few times, and he was also pulled by the good and evil in his heart.
One thought becomes a Buddha, and one thought becomes a demon.
When Yuan Sheng hesitated, the child had already fainted from crying and fell to the ground without a sound.
Time turns, and the years are long.
Summer is summer and summer, but teenagers are not teenagers.
Chongyang, on the night of the full moon, the tower gate was reopened, and another child walked slowly from outside the tower with wine and chicken.
Hundred Flowers Valley, located in Xixiang Lonely Crane Peak, butterflies and bees chase in the splendid flowers, two clear streams pass around the Flower Valley, the stream is murmuring, the mandarin ducks fly double, a group of quiet and good scenery.
The spring is not over, and all things are growing hard here, reflecting the morning and sunset, connecting thousands of fragrant flowers, and achieving the purple and red of the Valley of Hundred Flowers.
The land of the Eight Desolations and Liuhe, the most fertile in Xixiang, all year round, the sun is abundant, and the air is moist and the wind is harmonious.
There are six gates in the world, the Valley of Hundred Flowers has always been indisputable with the world, and the valley owner Liu Yubing is a Bodhisattva who hangs the pot to help the world, known as the real person of ice and snow, so no matter how bloody the rivers and lakes are, the blade has never stained the Valley of Hundred Flowers with blood.
Xixiang does not fight, and Huagu does not fight, which seems to have become the consensus of people in the rivers and lakes.
Surrounded by Sungai, there is a green grass riverside, which is the bank of Ming River. On the side, a woman dressed in green clothes, led a cute little girl to pick a kind of flowers and plants called Liyang on the side of the stream, this flower is as bright and moving as the sun, and the petals and buds exude a slight bright light, crystal clear, very beautiful.
The little girl jumped, screamed, laughed, and was so lively and cute, innocent.
The word "smart" seems to have been born to be used on her.
"Master, come on, there are more flowers here, so beautiful, so beautiful!" the little girl let go of the woman's hand and ran forward happily.
"Silly girl, slow down, don't fall!" a doting smile appeared on the woman's delicate face.
The little girl was picking flowers, this one was very beautiful, and that one was even more beautiful, and the girl's watery eyes were busy flashing up and down.
Inadvertently, she saw a black object floating in the stream, which at first glance looked a little scary, and the little girl screamed in fright, straightened up and hid in front of the woman.
"Yunge, don't be afraid!" the woman hugged the girl and comforted her softly.
Yun Ge, it turns out that the child's name is Yun Ge, taken from "Who in the clouds sent the brocade book".
When Yue Wei, the king of Nanyue, read this sentence, he came up with this name for his baby daughter, and for this reason, he still boasted fiercely in front of his princess, Meng Ruxu. He was originally a rough and straight man, and it was not easy to come up with such a slightly literate name, and it was understandable that he was overjoyed, but he was beaten down by his wife.
"How decent you think you are, you can think of a name for a month, thank goodness, fortunately you came up with it!"
When the king of Nanyue heard this, he could only smile and smile, this majestic king of Nanyue in front of him, a war soul knife, had also resisted thousands of troops, but in front of his wife Mengruxu, he was a little stupid and cute.
Because of the annoyance that his daughter had been pestering his wife, King Nanyue inexplicably knocked over the vinegar jar, and with a high-sounding excuse, he sent Yun Ge to the Valley of Hundred Flowers and worshiped the valley master Liu Yubing as a teacher, so that he could revolve around his beautiful and fragrant wife all day long.
The child is separated from his mother, it is said that he should make a lot of noise, fortunately Yun Ge is like morning dew, sex is like a bright cloud, and within a few days he will be immersed in the bee and butterfly dance of the Hundred Flowers Valley of this lonely peak, and he is as happy as ever.
"Yun Ge, what did you see, scaring your stupid girl who was bold like this?"
Yun Ge still buried his head in Yu Bing's arms, and kept shaking his head, as if he was scared.
"Don't be afraid, there is a master, say, what did you see? Isn't it the ugly toad you saw a few days ago?" Yu Bing asked with a laugh.
"No," Yun Ge muttered in a low voice, "It's a youkai hiding in the water!"
Yu Bing smiled, her face as clear as snow finally had some earthly fireworks.
"Youkai, do you know what a youkai looks like?"
Yun Ge opened her eyes and poked her head out of Yu Bing's arms, she glanced cautiously at the side of the stream, and saw that there was no movement, so her heart calmed down a little. She pointed to the water by the stream, and said to Yu Bing seriously, "There was a monster there just now, I saw it, he looked at me with a pair of eyes, Master, do you think monsters will eat people?"
"Monsters naturally want to eat people, but our little Yunge is so cute, monsters are reluctant to eat it!"
"Really?"
"Of course it's true!"
Liu Yubing comforted Yun Ge while holding Yun Ge towards a wooden house in the hinterland of the Hundred Flowers Valley.
Behind them, waves of bubbles rolled out of the deep dark stream, and a pair of black eyes emerged from the depths of the stream.
The next day, Liu Yubing was drying herbs in the front yard, and Yun Ge was bouncing out with a basket of flowers, as if he had long forgotten what happened yesterday.
"Don't run far, I cooked honey tea for the teacher, and you will come back to eat it after playing for a while. ”
"Got it, Master, I'll come back when I've filled this basket of flowers. Yun Ge responded as he ran.
Liyang flowers, only blooming on the bank of Mingxi in the east of the flower valley, Yun Ge came here again, picking one after another Liyang flowers, the sun gently shone on her, the light condensed but not dispersed, so that she exuded a bright clear light around her.
This monster hidden in the stream also seems to have a preference for Yun Ge, but only when she comes is willing to float out of the water, those eyes as black as the night, slowly poking out from the depths, quietly, from a distance, looking at this girl who jumps like the sun, her eyes reveal endless admiration.
Yun Ge suddenly felt that someone was staring at her, she couldn't help but look in the direction of the monster looking at her, and saw those black eyes again, but this time, it was not as terrible as yesterday, looking carefully, she felt a little cute, even a little pitiful.
Yun Ge has always been bold, she looked at the eyes floating on the stream, revealing a bright smile like a bright flower. The eyes seemed to be inferior, and he didn't dare to look at Yun Ge anymore, so he was about to sink down and flee in a hurry. Yun Ge hurriedly shouted at him, "Don't go, stay and play with me, okay?"
The eyes hesitated, but he didn't sink, and after a while, he slowly rose from the water, and it turned out that he was not a monster, but a man with big, dark eyes, not much older than Yun Ge to be exact, he was naked, covered with moss, and his hair was long and dirty.
Xiao Yunge saw it but was not afraid, she walked in front of the boy and removed the aquatic plants from his hair for him, at that moment, she was as bright as the sun in his heart.
"My name is Yue Yunge, what's your name?"
"My name is ......" he was a little embarrassed to say, because he couldn't remember his name, or even who he was or where he came from.
"I... I don't have a name!" he slurred for a long time, and finally said something like this.
"Everyone has a name, how can you not have a name?"
It was difficult for Yun Ge to understand that there would be someone in this world who did not have a name.
Somewhat ashamed, he lowered his head and stopped talking.
Yun Ge took his hand and comforted, "It's okay, I'll help you choose a name!"
When the boy heard this, he couldn't help but be happy, he nodded excitedly, so that the water droplets in his hair were thrown onto the clothes that were as beautiful as Yun Gehua, and he immediately wanted to wipe the water droplets off her clothes for her, but he was afraid that his hand would stain her clothes, and his hand just stretched out halfway and then retracted.
Yun Ge didn't care about these at all, he held his head and muttered for a long time, and suddenly thought of the sentence that the master had recited, "Last night, the wind and rain blew the light boat, and the flower moon floated and sunk and no one left", so he happily said to the boy, "Why don't you call it Qingzhou, what do you think?"
The boy nodded, a rare smile on his thin face, and his smile was not good-looking, but sincere.
"We will be friends in the future, let's go see my master together!" said Yun Ge, pulling the light boat to meet Liu Yubing.
Qingzhou froze, he didn't seem to want to see anyone other than Yunge, he seemed to be very afraid of seeing people, so he always hid under the water during the day, and he didn't know why he wasn't drowned, and he didn't come out to find some small animals to eat until night, so his temperament was like a wild beast, and he was always afraid of seeing people.
Yun Ge saw his thoughts, so he comforted, "My master is not only beautiful, but also the kindest, she is the best person I have ever met except for my father and mother, she will not hurt you." ”
Qingzhou trusted Yun Ge the most at the moment, and after listening to Yun Ge's words, he let go of his steps and followed Yun Ge towards the wooden house in the Valley of Flowers.
The sun was shining on these two very different children, but the temperature was the same.
All things are born and never favor one over the other.