II. Chapter 49
This wilderness tea stall, I don't know if it's because of thirst, or what's going on, I just feel that the tea is astringent and sweet in the mouth, and it is very delicious. After Jiang Ming drank a bowl, he couldn't help but ask the boss for another bowl.
After receiving the tea handed over by the boss, when he was about to taste it, the voices of the three men sitting at the east table talking softly suddenly became louder: "Rest for a while, why are you in a hurry!"
Jiang Ming was not far from them sitting, and after hearing it inadvertently, he subconsciously looked over, the three of them were fat and thin, but at this time their faces were very heavy and tired.
One of them frowned, "We've been chasing that demon for days, and it's .......," the man said, suddenly lowering his voice again.
When Jiang Ming heard the word "demon", his heart was slightly strange, and he seemed to be tasting tea at the moment, but in fact, he listened attentively.
Although this person deliberately whispered, he didn't have much defense, and Jiang Ming heard it clearly.
“....... is evil and beautiful, and it is estimated that he has done a lot of bad things to seduce people. If we catch it, we can eliminate harm for the people, prevent it from harming people again, and make some money, if we let it escape again, it will be really ........"
Jiang Ming also reacted when he heard this, these three people were the same "fairy characters" as himself in the old woman's mouth, and he chased and killed monsters all the way to this point, and couldn't help but look at them twice, if he really looked decent and benevolent, he also had a little admiration in his heart.
"Okay, that demon is injured, and he can't run far, so don't hurry. The eldest of the three spoke, and both of them nodded hesitantly.
After a while, people left the west table of the tea stall one after another, and Jiang Ming felt that he had rested enough, so he drank all the tea in one gulp, checked out and left.
He continued to walk eastward, and the more he went, the more desolate he became, and for most of the day he saw not a single village, and then there was not even a road, so he had to walk at will.
Since he was separated from his senior sister, he has been almost half a month, and he has experienced life and death several times, and he really misses it very much. It's just that at this moment, in addition to the simple thoughts, the secrets he heard in the woods that day also made him have a more complicated mood.
Looking east, the vast sky seemed to sink down for a moment, and the trees in front of me could only see a rough outline of shadows.
Jiang Ming stepped in, shuttling through the forest, and as the night quietly fell, the woods gradually became dark and deep in the moonlight.
The heavier he became, the more he went.
At some point, a faint mist also rose in the forest, like a light veil wrapped around the front.
After walking for a while, a small pond appeared in the place where the mist dispersed, and in the clear water, the green lotus stretched, the lotus flower was delicate, and there was a faint sound of flowing water.
Jiang Ming was surprised, and just walked forward, he suddenly found that on a piece of bluestone half-covered by a green lotus in the water, there was actually a woman half-lying on her stomach, her green clothes scattered to the side, and her half-white back was exposed.
At this moment, Jiang Ming clearly saw that there was a long scar on the woman's fair back, and the delicate skin and flesh were cracked, and she was also cleaning the wound with water.
The woman seemed to sense that someone was approaching, and suddenly turned her head, and when she saw Jiang Ming, she exclaimed in surprise: "Ah!"
At the same time, she quickly picked up her clothes and was about to stand up, but she wanted to escape from here, but she let out an inexplicable light "uh......., and then lay on the bluestone weakly.
The moonlight in the forest shone gently, and in the faint mist, her white and slender calves faintly emerged from the green clothes, and her petite body seemed to be panting slightly, looking back.
This is a beautiful and stunningly delicate woman, with a fair face and a shallow frown, as if a faint sadness is engraved between her eyebrows.
But those eyes were as clear as water, and they looked at it timidly, like a light mist all around, and the wisps slid through his heart.
Jiang Ming forgot to breathe for a moment, and then his heart jumped suddenly, and he immediately turned his back and hurriedly said, "Auntie...... Girl, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I'm sorry!"
"Woo ......"
In the light mist, there seemed to be a light suspicion, and then a faint but pleasant clear voice came:
"Didn't you come to kill me?"
"Girl, okay, why should I kill ......" Before Jiang Ming could say the last word, he was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to wake up, hurriedly turned around and faced the woman, and exclaimed: "Monster!"
The moonlight reflected on her face, and there seemed to flash a trace of sadness, her red lips were faint, and even her voice was weak and pitiful, "I'm not a monster." ”
This is a woman who seems to be deeply distressed at a glance, Jiang Ming's heart shook, and he was a little shaken by her identity, but the next moment, he seemed to suddenly notice something, snorted coldly, and pointed his sword at the woman.
Jiang Ming was secretly ashamed in his heart, just now he was actually shaken by the pitiful appearance of the monster. At this time, he stabilized his mind and looked again, this woman's eyebrows were as soft as water, and she was clear and moving, not like a normal woman in the world at all, she must be a monster!
On the pond stone, after the woman saw the change in Jiang Ming's whole person, a little helplessness appeared on her face, the sadness between her eyebrows became heavier, and she said softly: "I'm really not a monster." ”
Jiang Ming looked at Xiao Chi and said coldly: "It's late autumn, and the pond is full of lotus flowers, isn't there a demon doing evil? Hmph! In the barren mountains and wild forests, most of them pretend to be weak girls, confuse passers-by, and do things that hurt the heavens and reason!"
In the mist of mist, the woman suddenly shook her head, "I don't know. Her eyes quietly drooped, and the blood on the bluestone surface under her body flowed into the pool water bit by bit, sinking and dispersing.
In the moonlight in the forest, Jiang Ming stared at the woman on the bluestone, and didn't notice that at the corner of the small pool, there was a green lotus slowly stretching out.
"I really didn't hurt anyone. The woman slowly raised her eyes, looked at Jiang Ming, and suddenly said faintly.
"Nonsense!" Jiang Ming blurted out, "You have done a lot of evil, disturbed people's livelihoods, and harmed ......." He said but couldn't continue, because he found that the woman in front of him suddenly had a strange pain on her face, and her face turned pale.
Jiang Ming looked at her delicate and innocent appearance, and couldn't help but recall her strange words all along, and faintly realized that something was wrong. The woman frowned slightly, as if she was enduring the pain, and her voice became sad, "Why do you all want to kill me, just because I'm different from you?"
"Hmph, shemales have different paths, of course people and demons are different!" Jiang Ming said as a matter of course, but even he didn't notice it, and his tone was inexplicably much calmer.
"Why ......." The woman's clear eyes slowly changed, she lowered her head, staring at the rippling water, and didn't pay any attention to Jiang Ming's appearance, but said softly: "He, too......."
Jiang Ming was slightly stunned, looking at her infatuated and innocent look, where there was a little bit of monster ferocity, it was obviously more like an infatuated woman trapped in love.
Jiang Ming's heart churned for a while, he didn't know what to do, but he really couldn't hate her at all, and after hesitating for a while, he took a deep breath and said, "No matter what, then you don't do bad things in the future, as long as you ......"
Before he finished speaking, in the pool in front of him, the mist suddenly filled, and a faint light smoke was rising.
Jiang Ming's heart tightened, but the woman did not suddenly attack, but stretched out her hand and lifted it slightly, and a water vapor bubble condensed from the smoke, bypassed her fingertips, and slowly floated in.
A ray of moonlight passed through the forest and gently leaned on the foam, allowing Jiang Ming to clearly see that the transparent foam surface had a blue sea, reefs and sand gulls.
The sound of the sea echoed in my ears.
It's like a dream.
On that day, the wind and the sun were beautiful.
"Ling Yue!"
Far away on the sea, a sound as crisp as a silver bell sounded.
A beautiful girl who looked at her prime was floating above the sea, only her upper body was exposed, facing a group of rocks in front of her, holding her hands to her mouth and shouting, obviously looking for something.
"Ling Yue, it's time for us to go back!"
Still no one answered, just when the girl had no choice but to step on the reef herself, behind a half-human-high reef in the distance, suddenly drilled out half of a clear and innocent face, her eyes were bent, and she said happily: "Hehe, I'm here!"
The girl in the water said angrily: "I don't know, you hide behind that stone every time." ”
The girl who was called Ling Yue smiled, walked out from behind the reef, dressed in green clothes, barefoot, swinging her arms, and sat on the side casually, the sea gently brushing her ankles.
She looked up at the east, still far away from the sea, and said quietly: "Awan, you say...... What's it like over there?"
Ah Wan also glanced to the east, tilted her head and thought for a moment, "Hmm....... I don't know, I heard the tribesmen say that it is a place where humans live. ”
"Do you want to go over there and have a look?" Ling Yue suddenly turned his head and looked at Ah Wan.
When Ah Wan heard this, her brows jumped, and she said, "That's not good, the patriarch has a rule that the scope .......of our activities cannot exceed this reef!
"Oh, I know!" Ling Yue still looked to the east.
Ah Wan glanced at her, puffed out her mouth, and said, "You come here every day, what's there to see, let's go, we should go back!"
Ling Yue got up abruptly and jumped into the endless seawater, but at the end of her entry into the water, her clothes were not soaked in water, and her slender legs also turned into colorful fish tails.
She is a merman.
Legend has it that the mermaid can live for thousands of years, the water dwells like a fish, and tears become beads; the anointment burns the lamp, which will not be extinguished for ten thousand years; the silk silk woven by the shark is as light as a feather; its scales can cure all kinds of diseases and prolong life. After his death, he turned into clouds and rain, rising in the sky and falling in the sea.
And it is precisely because of this gift of mercy from God that the mermaid clan also caused them to suffer from unjustified disasters, so the ancestors strictly forbade contact with humans.
After that, he lived in seclusion in the deep sea for generations, without passing through the world, and his temperament was mostly simple and docile, but Ling Yue had an indescribable wildness in it.