Let's say that the water lady and others prepared new clothes and shoes for Chen Zhixiang, and sent Chen Zhixiang to the other side of the river.

The water lady said: "Miss Zhixiang, you are so seriously injured, how can you go like this, why don't you come to me to rest for a few days, and I will take someone to drive a carriage to see you off." Chen Zhixiang shook his head and said, "No need, I'm fine, I can't delay this matter." The water lady said: "Since you have said so, sister, I am not good at forcing me to stay, but you must be careful along the way." Chen Zhixiang said: "Water lady, thank you for your kindness, Zhixiang has nothing to repay." ”

The water lady said: "Sister Zhixiang, where do you speak, as a friend of the rivers and lakes, I have no reason not to help." Your love for Ren Shaoxia really touched me, I hope God has eyes to help you remove Ren Shaoxia's love Gu as soon as possible, and you will be happy together. Chen Zhixiang nodded and said, "I won't give up." The water lady said: "It's just that there is still such a long way from here to Meishan in Xiangxi, how can you get along with a weak woman." Chen Zhixiang said: "Even if I climb, I will climb over." ”

The water lady said: "I'll find a few good guys to protect you all the way, if you lose a hair, I will take them to blame." After saying that, he was about to turn around, Chen Zhixiang said: "No need, thank you for the kindness of the water lady." The water lady patted Chen Zhixiang on the shoulder and said, "How can this work." ”

Chen Zhixiang said: "It's awkward for my brothers to follow me like this from a girl's family. The water lady nodded and said, "Yes." After that, the water lady waved her hand, and her subordinates brought a bag of money bags and a short knife.

The water lady said: "This journey is so far away, I am really worried about you, these coils are pestered by you, you must be able to use them on the road, and you keep this short knife for self-defense." Chen Zhixiang said: "Zhixiang has received the love of the water lady, but you should take it back." The water lady said, "If you still take me as a friend, take it." Chen Zhixiang said: "It's better to be so respectful than to obey your fate, Zhixiang is here to thank the water lady for her great kindness, and he will repay him if he has the opportunity in the future." After that, she was about to kneel down for the water lady, and the water lady hurriedly supported Chen Zhixiang and said, "Sister, what are you doing?" ”

After Chen Zhixiang got up, the water lady said: "Then sister, let's go, if you have difficulties, remember to come to me." Chen Zhixiang nodded and said, "There will be a period later." ”

Chen Zhixiang continued to walk south until he reached Funiu Mountain in Henan. In late autumn, the peaks of Funiu Mountain are stacked on top of each other, the atmosphere is majestic, thick and rough. The place where Chen Zhixiang was located was facing a cliff dozens of zhang high, Chen Zhixiang looked around, there was no shortcut around, and if he wanted to go around, he had to walk at least dozens of miles more.

Chen Zhixiang walked to the bottom of the cliff, grabbed the crack of the stone wall with his hands, stepped on the concave and convex stone wall, and climbed up little by little. Just a few steps after climbing, his feet suddenly slipped and he didn't step on it steadily, and fell down from above, Chen Zhixiang rubbed his sore back, stood up and continued to climb up. Chen Zhixiang climbed the cliff and grabbed a tree vine and climbed up along the vine. Chen Zhixiang kept climbing up like this, and the tree vines that were pulling shook as soon as the rocks and soil on the cliff fell down and fell on Chen Zhixiang's body. Chen Zhixiang didn't care about the dust on her body and continued to climb up.

When Chen Zhixiang climbed a few feet high, suddenly, he heard a "click", and the vine in his hand was broken, Chen Zhixiang couldn't help but scream "ah", and his body rubbed against the stone wall and went straight down. Chen Zhixiang hurriedly grabbed another tree vine, she looked at her arm, it had broken a layer of skin, red and swollen, Chen Zhixiang gritted her teeth and continued to climb up, her feet were no longer strong, she only relied on her hands to grasp the tree vine little by little. The vines were rough and prickly, grinding Chen Zhixiang's originally white and tender hands one after another, and the thorns on the vines made Chen Zhixiang's hands hurt.

Her palms were blistered with blood, and the vines she had grabbed left blood stains after stains. Chen Zhixiang felt that she really couldn't climb, she grabbed the vines, stepped on a protruding stone, leaned on the cliff, she didn't dare to relax in the slightest, because if she slackened a little, she might fall off the cliff and fall into meat sauce. She kept saying to herself: "If the love Gu can never be solved, what is the point of my life." As long as you climb up and continue to move forward, there will be hope for everything, and your efforts will definitely be rewarded one day. Thinking so, she gritted her teeth and continued to climb up.

Every time the vines shook, Chen Zhixiang's body would hit the stone wall, and the uneven stones on the stone wall were on Chen Zhixiang's body, and some sharp stones cut through Chen Zhixiang's arms and body.

When she climbed the cliff, Chen Zhixiang was already scarred, she couldn't care about the injuries on her body, and she collapsed to the ground with exhaustion.

After a while, I heard a few thunderclaps in the sky, followed by a raindrop the size of a bean. Chen Zhixiang looked at it, it was empty on all sides, and there was no place to hide from the rain. She got up and walked on, letting the rain fall on her.

Then the rain began to fall heavily, pouring rain "whoosh" underground, and there were often a few days of rain in autumn and winter, but it was generally rainy, but there was never such a heavy rain.

Chen Zhixiang's clothes were instantly wet by the rain, Chen Zhixiang was shivering with cold, her lips were purple from the cold, she hugged her arms tightly, and walked forward step by step, her mind was already a little dizzy, her consciousness was also a little unclear, and she only had to go forward and keep moving forward.

The road down the mountain was steep and slippery, and suddenly Chen Zhixiang slipped under his feet and fell to the ground. She tried to get up, but her body was too weak, and she lay on the ground and slowly crawled forward. At this moment, Chen Zhixiang's whole body was so tired that she didn't have any strength, her chin was almost buried in the stagnant water on the ground, and her shivering body was rubbing forward little by little, as if every step forward was so difficult.

Chen Zhixiang crawled forward like this, and her body soaked in the rain flowed forward little by little. She saw a stick on the ground, and she smiled, crawled over and picked it up, and struggled to her feet, staggering forward with the stick, the rain dripping down her hair. In the vast rain, Chen Zhixiang's lonely shadow seemed so small.

Chen Zhixiang kept walking forward, and walked past Funiu Mountain to a village. At this time, it was already raining and clear, but Chen Zhixiang's clothes were dirty, her hair was messy, and her eyes were a little dull.

At this time, several children ran over to look at Chen Zhixiang and said, "Where did this come from, ugly and dirty?" At this time, a child stepped forward and tripped Chen Zhixiang, and several children clapped their hands and laughed: "Ugly, dirty, ugly, dirty." In the eyes of several children, the filthy man in front of him seemed to be a monster. They picked up clods of soil on the ground and threw them at Chen Zhixiang. The clods of soil "crackled" and smashed on Chen Zhixiang's body, but Chen Zhixiang did not react. She had no choice but no strength to argue with a few children, so she could only endure it silently, moving her body forward little by little.

At this time, Chen Zhixiang fell to the ground and had no strength to get up, and one of the children said, "Get out of our Zhuangzi." At this time, Chen Zhixiang was a little delirious, she staggered, her body shook, and she fell to the ground, just knocking down a child. The boy stood up and said, "You dare to hit me." ”

Chen Zhixiang looked ahead in a trance, and crawled forward with both hands. Several children who don't understand personnel kicked Chen Zhixiang one after another, Chen Zhixiang endured this kick after kick, she was drowsy as if she didn't know where she was, who was kicking herself, she was numb to her surroundings, but the physical pain was not numb at all, she endured the pain and moved forward little by little.

At this time, an old woman came over and asked, "What are you doing?" The children saw the old woman and hurriedly scared away, and the old woman said, "You have done something wrong, go back today to your father and mother to receive the punishment." ”

The old woman turned around and called two big men to help Chen Zhixiang up, and helped Chen Zhixiang into the old woman's house, and the old woman said, "You guys go out first." The two big men went out respectfully.

The old woman looked at Chen Zhixiang, who was groggy at this time, and her body was full of injuries. The old woman was stunned, shook her head and sighed, "What has happened to this poor girl, why is she full of wounds?" With that, the old woman took out a bottle of wound medicine from the house, applied the medicine to Chen Zhixiang's wound, and turned around to cook porridge in the kitchen.

After a while, Chen Zhixiang slowly opened her eyes and woke up, Chen Zhixiang looked at the old woman and asked, "Who are you?" and her body consciously shrank back. The old woman said: "Girl, don't be afraid, I am the elder of this Zhuangzi, and there is still some weight in speaking in this Zhuangzi, and I will not hurt you." ”

Chen Zhixiang looked at the old woman, and the old woman brought a bowl of hot porridge to Chen Zhixiang and said, "Come girl, let's drink some porridge first." After that, the old woman helped Chen Zhixiang up, and the old woman said, "I prepared some hot water, and you can take a bath after eating." You see that your clothes are also dirty and torn, and I still have a few girls' clothes here, which are not so glamorous, so you can take care of them first. Chen Zhixiang said weakly: "Thank you, thank you old woman." ”

Let's say that Chen Zhixiang came out after eating, bathing and changing. The old woman looked up at Chen Zhixiang, Chen Zhixiang's skin was clear and white, her eyes were black and white, although she was dressed plainly, she couldn't hide her beauty at all.

The old woman couldn't help but be stunned, she didn't expect this dirty woman to be such a beautiful girl. The old woman said, "I really didn't expect you to be such a beautiful girl, come and let me have a good look." ”

Chen Zhixiang walked over, and the old woman pulled Chen Zhixiang to sit down and asked: "Girl, you should look and behave like a young lady from a big family, how did you end up like this, where are you from, what are the difficulties, you might as well tell me, maybe I can help you." Chen Zhixiang wanted to say something, but two lines of tears fell first, shook his head and said, "No one can help me." The old woman said, "Let's talk about it, it may feel better if you say it." ”

Chen Zhixiang said: "Old woman, I was originally a child of the official family, and four years ago, a few people from the rivers and lakes visited my house, and I met a young man by mistake. Later, out of curiosity about the outside world and life in the rivers and lakes, my sister and I followed him out of the house and walked with him. From Zhejiang to Yunnan, from Emei in Sichuan to Xiangxi, we gradually became familiar with each other, fell in love with each other over time, loved each other, we were really happy together, he had several times in danger regardless of his own safety to save me. After hearing this, the old woman said: "Your backgrounds are so different, but you can be so loving, you are really the fate of several generations of cultivation." ”

Chen Zhixiang continued: "But at the beginning of last year, when he was in Meishan, Xiangxi, he was given a love Gu, and that love Gu was extracted from my sister's body. ”

The old woman was shocked when she heard this: "Love Gu, could it be the most powerful Gu poison rumored in Xiangxi, which can make the Gu person infatuated with the Gu person like the evil one." Chen Zhixiang nodded and said: "Because of the love Gu, my relationship with him broke down, and he also suffered from the pain of the love Gu every day and night. The old woman asked, "Then how did you survive these two years?"

Chen Zhixiang continued to tell the old woman about what happened between herself, Ren Bujian and her sister Chen Zhiqing, and told the old woman how she made Ren Bujian misunderstand herself, and how she came all the way and experienced things along the way. After listening to the story of Chen Zhixiang and Ren Buru, the old woman couldn't help but be moved, and sighed: "It turns out that you came all the way from Taihang Mountain, this is not something that ordinary people can do, let alone a young and weak woman." ”