Chapter 2: Turning on the Spell
An old, simple thatched house sits in front of you, with smoke billowing from the cooking. In the courtyard, there is a simple wooden table, on which is placed a pot of shochu and a small plate of peanuts. The roast duck on the stove, the soju by the stove, and an old man with a childish face were sleeping on the table, and from time to time he was talking a few words in his sleep. An ancient well not far away is still churning with water, as if it has been boiled.
The two women standing at the gate of the courtyard were stunned by this scene, and the wooden door behind them closed automatically with a piercing creak, the dust was scattered, and a poem carved by Juanxiu Xiaozhen on the wooden door gradually appeared.
"But the grass doesn't change,
Only one or two hundred years of longevity.
Life is not death,
Life and death are also blue and yellow springs. ”
As if it had been a ritual of some spell, the earth shook and trembled as the noisy closing of the door ended, and both of them fell to the ground in fright. The door gradually became transparent, and finally disappeared completely, as if it had never appeared at all.
"Hell!" Qu Linglong's back gradually sweated. "What the hell is going on?"
Luo Xue looked at the old man who was sleeping heavily, and her tone was slightly nervous, "Don't panic first, let's go over and ask the old man." ”
Before they had taken a few steps, several sharp bows and arrows "swished" and shot at the courtyard wall in front of the two. There was a chaotic sound of horses' hooves in the distance, the smell of blood mixed in the wind, and uneasy emotions surged into Luo Xue's heart.
Before she could react to what the situation was, Luo Xue felt that someone had pulled her, and a woman's cold voice sounded in her ears. "Don't make a sound, come with me. ”
In their hurry, they didn't have time to see the woman's appearance, so they followed her into the dense forest.
The wind whistled past their ears, and they ran for a long time, until Luo Xue and Qu Linglong couldn't run at all, and sat on the ground with an unsightly appearance, unable to even breathe, and the woman stopped running. She looked around vigilantly, and saw that no one was following, so she turned over, jumped on the trunk of the tree, picked up the kettle at her waist, and took a sip.
Only then did Luo Xue see the woman's appearance clearly. She was dressed in a plain Luo skirt, a cyan gauze coat, gray cloth boots, and a long sword pinned to her waist, which was woven with white ribbons like inky green silk, and wrapped in a beautiful bun on her head. The beautiful facial features are slightly powdered, but they are already unforgettable! There is a black package on his back, and the corners of his clothes are exposed in the package, which seems to be a night clothes.
"Are you?" Luo Xue saw that the woman was dressed as a chivalrous woman, and was a little puzzled. After running for so long, she couldn't even breathe!
The woman handed the kettle in her hand to Luo Xue, "My name is Yuyao." Seeing Luo Xue and Qu Linglong at a loss, she continued. "This is the Glass Realm, why are you here?" the woman looked at the two of them with a puzzled eyebrow.
Luo Xue was a little confused, and a slightly strange memory appeared in her mind. "We went out to explore and play, accidentally fell into the whirlpool of the river, I don't know how long we were unconscious, I don't know where we were washed by the river, we woke up to find an ancient house courtyard, we couldn't eat for many days, thinking about going in to beg for water, so we pushed open the half-hidden courtyard door, I don't know why we got here......" Luo Xue recalled that when she opened the courtyard door, the blinding white light made her lose consciousness instantly. When the white light dissipated, the scene in front of them suddenly changed, and the two had already arrived at the door of the old man's house just now, and they also witnessed the strange phenomenon of the wooden door disappearing from front of their eyes.
"Where is the glass world?" Qu Linglong asked puzzled, and Luo Xue also shook her head blankly.
"There are two worlds here and you there. Yu Yao seemed to want to say something, "In short, I won't hurt you, but you have to listen to me." Otherwise, life and death have nothing to do with it. ”
"I'm not dreaming, am I?" Qu Linglong cried and laughed and pinched herself, it hurt very much!
"If you come, you will be safe, and I will find a way to send you back. Yu Yao's tone revealed a faint sadness. She looked into the distance, but no one noticed the unwillingness in her eyes.
Seeing this, Luo Xue seemed to have guessed something. "Is it difficult?"
"It's useless to talk too much, you just need to be obedient and don't let others find out that you are from another world!" Yu Yao said: "The glass world can't tolerate outsiders, once you find out, you will definitely be killed." I don't know how much effort she put into getting that pair of yin and yang magnets. Now, it's all in vain.
"That ......", hungry for many days, Qu Linglong's eyes were already hungry, "Do you have anything to eat?"
Yu Yao jumped down from the tree trunk, "Follow me." ”
Luo Xue watched the woman walk away, she always felt that this woman was not ordinary. Why wasn't she surprised to see her modern outfits? Why did she say that there were two worlds? She seemed to know that they were coming, and she rescued them in time. So who are the archers and horseback riders? Is there really another world in this world? Or, Luo Xue thought, maybe she and Qu Linglong didn't escape the life-killing whirlpool at all, and everything in front of them was just the destination of the soul!
After walking about seven or eight miles of mountain roads, I saw a small town. It is like an ancient Chinese city that has been thousands of years behind. Wooden house tables and chairs, coarse cloth clothes, men's hair is tied, and women are wrapped in buns. Yu Yao took the two of them around the bustling downtown in front of them, and along a hidden alley, the three of them walked into the backyard of a brick mansion.
"Yu Yao, you're back!" An old woman with gray hair sat in the courtyard, but there was not a single wrinkle on her face. When she saw Yu Yao coming back, she immediately greeted her with a smile: "Who are these two people?" Seeing the two women dressed in strange services, she felt a little uneasy, and the gentle smile on her face gradually disappeared.
Yu Yao didn't speak, and walked straight into the house.
The old woman hurriedly followed, "Yu Yao, do you know that opening another world is a capital crime?"
Yu Yao glanced at the old woman and then at Luo Xue and the two of them, "Qin Feng, go and prepare two sets of clothes for them to change into." ”
Qin Feng didn't say anything more, turned around and walked into the back room as if obeying the order, occasionally sighing and shaking his head.
A servant-like person brought fresh fruit cakes, which were very delicious and tempting! Luo Xue and Qu Linglong were excited and immediately picked up the chopsticks, but they were stopped by Yu Yao.
"I told you in advance that the water of the glass world will wash away your past memories, and if one day, you can no longer remember the things of the other world, you will not be able to go back. Yu Yao smiled faintly, "I'll do my best to send you back before you forget the past." ”
Qu Linglong's eyes were full of those delicious pastries, and before she could hear it, she nodded again and again, and then devoured it. Luo Xue hesitated, but in the end, she was still hungry and ate with a big mouthful.