Chapter 22 Autumn Leaves of the End of the South III
At this time, Xiao Yao must be gentle and soothing, and the mood of the 'ghost third aunt' will stabilize, it seems that Xiao Yao's voice can pass through her ears and directly reach her dreams, and in her dreams, she will overcome fear when she hears Xiao Yao's voice......
At this time, Xiao Yao heard the dream of the 'ghost third aunt' again, and was ready to put down the medicine bowl to coax him, but when he just put down the bowl and turned his head, he saw a pair of eyes like cutting water, and the 'ghost third aunt' in a coma woke up.
The 'ghost three aunts' only vaguely remembered that she jumped into the tumbling Dongjiang River after Xiao Yao that day, grabbed one of Xiao Yao's hands, and then hugged Xiao Yao tightly, floating and sinking with the flow of the Dongjiang River.
Later, when passing by a shoal, she dragged Xiao Yao out of the Dongjiang River with all her might, then took out the Shennong Pill and used her own blood to dissolve the effect of the medicine, and then she lost consciousness and fell into a coma.
In the coma, a lot of scenes appeared in her mind, but these scenes only brought her heartache again and again, as if a person covered in bruises opened his wounds again and again, maybe she was a sad person, even in a dream, she was not allowed to laugh.
Finally, she woke up from her coma, and at first glance she saw Xiao Yao, who was looking at her with concern, and he was still alive......
Xiao Yao suddenly felt that the 'ghost third aunt' was laughing, although the somewhat ugly face was still stiff, but the water-like eyes had already revealed the smile.
Xiao Yao wanted to pull down his face ruthlessly, but he found that he couldn't do it at all, and when those thrilling eyes opened, the corners of his curved mouth had already betrayed him fiercely.
"Division... Uncle Shi, are you feeling better?" Xiao Yao felt for the first time that these two simple words were so jerky when they came out of his mouth.
The 'ghost third aunt' said weakly: "Xiao Yao, don't worry, I am much better." "The crisp voice like the yellow warbler in the valley came out of the throat of the ghost three aunts, clear and beautiful like the drizzle in March, sweet as the clear spring of the Tianshan Mountains.
As soon as the words came out, 'Ghost Sangu' was stunned, and she only then remembered that in order to take out the Shennong Pill, the Bodhi core she held under her tongue to change her voice had already been broken, and she could no longer make the low and hoarse voice she had before.
I panicked all of a sudden, and was just about to raise my hand to touch my face, only to find that my hands that were dry and scorched like withered branches had obviously recovered their true appearance like jade and spring onions.
looked at Xiao Yao in front of him with some apprehension, but found that Xiao Yao didn't seem to notice her abnormality, but just picked up the medicine bowl again, gently scooped it up one by one, and then sent it to his lips.
'Ghost Sangu' panicked like a marionette stunned to drink the medicinal soup sent by the other party, the medicinal soup has a variety of flavors, if it is an ordinary time, without waiting for the soup to enter the 'Ghost Sangu' can identify the effect of this soup, taste a trace of medicinal soup is used in the how many herbs can be known, and even whether each herb is authentic or not can not escape her eyes.
It's just that at this time, all her senses seem to be numb in an instant, and the mixed medicinal soup flows into her mouth, and she only tastes the sweetness of a hundred turns and a thousand turns, as well as the helpless bitterness mixed with it......
Xiao Yao didn't ask anything, the 'Ghost Third Aunt' didn't say anything, the two of them just fed and drank one by one silently, when a few drops of medicinal soup slipped from the corners of the 'Ghost Third Aunt's mouth, Xiao Yao subconsciously picked up a silk handkerchief and wanted to wipe it for the other party, but his hand was only halfway out, and he froze there a little awkwardly.
Seeing this, the 'ghost third aunt' stretched out her hand to take the silk handkerchief from Xiao Yao's hand, and the moment the fingertips touched, the two of them seemed to have been struck by lightning.
Xiao Yao said quickly: "The clothes and everything are in the dark compartment on the left side of the carriage. After finishing speaking, he didn't dare to look at the 'ghost third aunt', so he retreated from the carriage as if he had fled, until he sat down in the seat of the car, Xiao Yao still felt that his heart was beating uncontrollably......
The 'ghost third aunt' wiped the decoction on the side of her mouth with a silk handkerchief, then folded the silk handkerchief, opened the dark compartment in the carriage on the side, and saw several sets of clothes neatly stacked there.
Among them, there are not only the gray robes worn by the 'ghost three aunts' on weekdays, but also the Luo shirts that are often passed down by some women.
The 'Ghost Third Aunt' pair of moving eyes swayed between the two stacks of clothes, and her left hand subconsciously touched the layer of film that had been somewhat flipped between her neck and collarbone, which was the seam of the mask on her face, the seams of the mortal * leather mask were often in the bun or face, and the opening of her mask was under the neck, and there was a thick robe to cover it, so that no one could see the flaws, but now......
'Ghost Sangu' slowly untied her outer robe, but when she saw her new lining, she couldn't help but be stunned, and then fainted cheeks and changed into a new robe, in fact, in the days when she was unconscious, every time she went to Zhendian Xiao Yao would hire the next woman to clean the ghost third aunt, her inner and outer clothes were soaked in river water and naturally could not be worn again.
So it was also washed, and Xiao Yao later put on the outer clothes for her, and the underwear that had been washed before was placed in the dark compartment of the carriage together.
The 'ghost third aunt' changed her clothes and freshened up again, remembering that she was likely to be in a coma for many days, and during this period, Xiao Yao had been taking care of her again, and her face was like a fire, and she finally mustered up her courage.
Knocked on the carriage a few times with his hand to signal to Xiao Yao, and then picked up the medicine bowl on the side, but he walked to the curtain but was timid, just handed the bowl and spoon out through the curtain, but he didn't go out.
Xiao Yao took the medicine bowl, drove on, and waited until he reached a small river before stopping again, the ghost third aunt heard the sound of running water outside the car, rolled up the curtains, but did not see Xiao Yao.
hurriedly got out of the car, only to see Xiao Yao leaning behind a big tree not far away, and saw the other party with his hands on the back of his head and pillowed on the tree, holding a straw stick in his mouth and looking up at the sky, not knowing what he was thinking, and he didn't seem to notice her side of the situation.
Secretly relieved, ready to quietly go to the river to wash up, who knew that his body was still a little weak after all, only a few steps before he stepped on a loose pebble by the river and almost fell, and subconsciously let out an exclamation.
Xiao Yao, who seemed to be absent-mindedly looking up at the sky, when he heard the exclamation of the 'Ghost Third Aunt', he bounced up like a spring and looked over, and saw that there was nothing wrong with the 'Ghost Third Aunt', so he hurriedly sat down again.
It's just that Xiao Yao didn't know the scene where he jumped up, or if he was accidentally looked at by the 'Ghost Third Aunt', and the 'Ghost Third Aunt' was even more flustered when she saw Xiao Yao's inadvertent tight appearance.
After a few hasty freshening ups, he sat back in the carriage.
In the next few days, Xiao Yao drove the carriage and continued to hurry, but since the 'ghost third aunt' had already sobered up, there was no need to rush to various towns in order to prevent leaking his whereabouts.
On the way, Xiao Yao always boiled medicine for the 'ghost three aunts' in the car according to the hour, but he did not feed it into the carriage as before, when the soup was boiled, he put the medicine bowl into the carriage through the curtain, and the 'ghost three aunts' in the carriage drank the medicine, and he would send the medicine bowl out through the car curtain.
A thin car curtain separated the two into two different worlds, and the 'ghost third aunt' could naturally see that Xiao Yao was deliberately avoiding her, and she herself didn't know how to face Xiao Yao.
Once upon a time, he was the best disciple of the Lingyin Pavilion and her nephew, and she was a strange doctor and ghost third aunt with a perverse temperament and was known as a dilemma between life and death, but at that time, she was not lonely when she was in a hurry, and the two of them either talked about medicine, or Xiao Yao told her about what she had seen and heard on the rivers and lakes.
Now that the two have experienced life and death tribulations, Xiao Yao desperately protected the 'Ghost Third Aunt' with his own life and left safely, while the 'Ghost Third Aunt' jumped into the Dongjiang River in order to save Xiao Yao and even cut the veins to save each other, but the relationship between the two did not go further, but seemed to be more and more estranged.
In order to recuperate from her injuries along the way, Xiao Yao didn't walk fast, but after many days, the silent carriage was about to arrive in Guangzhou from Chaozhou, and the body of the 'ghost third aunt' was getting better day by day, but she couldn't be happy, because she knew what was between her and Xiao Yao, and she also knew what the other party was waiting for.
It's not that Xiao Yao treats her badly, on the contrary, Xiao Yao's care for her is more attentive than when 'she' was Xiao Yao's uncle, but she has to be more attentive in many places, but she knows that in this kind of intention, Xiao Yao has always maintained a polite and somewhat solidified distance from her.
On this day, the 'ghost third aunt' finally couldn't help but open the curtain of the car all of a sudden, she is a woman after all, and women are far more courageous and impulsive than men at times.
The moment the curtain was lifted, Xiao Yao seemed to have an arrow in his heart, this arrow does not hurt people but may be sad, this arrow is invisible but more alarming than a tangible arrow and difficult to dodge.
'Ghost Third Aunt' looked at Xiao Yao fixedly, and said as calmly as possible: "Xiao Yao, do you have something you want to ask me?" Her face was still the ugly and turmeric appearance of Ghost Third Aunt, but her voice was as crisp as the sound of a piano, since the other party had heard the voice, she was not ready to cover it up anymore, not to mention that the Bodhi Core had been broken by her own hands, and the original voice of the Ghost Third Aunt could no longer appear.
Xiao Yao was a little dodgy, he found that he was a little afraid to see those moving eyes, because every time he looked at it, his heart would soften a little, and he couldn't help but ask instead of answering: "What about you, do you have something you want to tell me?"
The 'ghost third aunt' said: "I don't know if what I want to tell you is what you want to ask, so you ask me, what you ask me, as long as I know, I will tell you, but if you don't ask, I won't say." ”
"Okay, then I'll ask you......" Xiao Yao closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and tried to make his tone colder, "What happened to my ghost uncle?" He didn't ask why the woman on the other side was disguised as a ghost third aunt, nor did he ask why the other party wanted to blend into the Star River Valley, let alone why she went south with him, he only asked one question, a question that he was most afraid of hearing the answer to, a question that he couldn't get rid of......
The woman originally thought that Xiao Yao would ask her origin first, so that she would tell the other party everything as it was, but she didn't expect that Xiao Yao's first question was about the ghost third aunt, and when she heard Xiao Yao's cold tone and the words she asked, she knew that Xiao Yao had a misunderstanding of her in her heart, and even doubted whether the ghost third aunt was killed by her.
But she didn't like Xiao Yao's attitude, Xiao Yao could naturally feel whether she had love for her or not, there was only one knot between them now, that is, the real ghost third aunt, Xiao Yao's loss of control and anger now showed that he cared about his uncle, ghost third aunt, if Xiao Yao didn't care about this matter, it would disappoint her, because that person was also the most important person in her life.
After all, the ghost third aunt she disguised as was too similar to the real ghost third aunt in terms of body shape and appearance, and even her every move, if it weren't for the premeditated observation of the ghost third aunt, it would be difficult for someone to do it, and the ghost third aunt lived in seclusion in the galaxy valley all year round.
Anyone who thinks about it, there is only one way to imitate the ghost third aunt like this, that is, to capture the ghost third aunt and then squeeze the required details from her, if a person tries his best to become another person, then the other person must have what she wants, Xiao Yao did not ask her what the picture is, but only cares about the life and death of the ghost third aunt, which is the death knot in his heart.
The 'Ghost Third Aunt' whispered, "Don't you ask me why I'm disguised as her?"
Her words are tantamount to admitting that she is not the real ghost third aunt, not Xiao Yao's original uncle.
Xiao Yao's fists clenched tightly, and he blurted out: "I don't care, I just ask you what happened to my ghost master." "He doesn't care, yes, as long as it's not the dead knot, he can tolerate whatever it is.
The 'ghost third aunt' said sadly: "Okay, then I'll tell you that she is actually dead......
Xiao Yao's eyes suddenly turned red, his body was trembling, the ghost master was already dead, how did she die, why did he not know until today, did the woman in front of him kill the uncle, if it was himself, what should he do, kill the other party to avenge the uncle? Can he do it?
His spirit had converged to the extreme, and his emotions had reached the brink of spiraling out of control.
The 'ghost third aunt' seemed to have noticed Xiao Yao's situation, she was proficient in medical Taoism, she naturally knew how dangerous Xiao Yao's current situation was, she knew what Xiao Yao was entangled in and what was out of control, and hurriedly said: "Xiao Yao, you should be quiet first, my mother died of heart disease, not what you imagined." ”
As soon as these words came out, Xiao Yao's pupils returned to clarity, and his almost violent mood stabilized, for some reason he had an extraordinary trust in the woman in front of him, and seemed to recognize in his heart that the other party would never deceive him, not to mention that Uncle Shi had a heartache for a long time, and it has indeed become more and more serious in recent years, and sometimes he even coughs up blood.
Sobered up a little, he suddenly realized an unusual place in Fang Cai's sentence 'Niang', the woman in front of him actually called Uncle Shi 'Niang', she turned out to be Uncle Shi's daughter.
Xiao Yao hurriedly stood up and apologized: "Ghost girl, I was offended below." ”
The girl smiled lightly and said, "I don't have a ghost, and my mother doesn't have a ghost." ”
Xiao Yao only knew that Uncle Shi's ghost third aunt was called a dilemma of life and death, but he didn't know that the ghost third aunt was not Shibo's real name and surname.
Since it was a mistake again, I had to apologize again.
The daughter of the ghost third aunt said disapprovingly: "My surname is pity and is called Lian Yingxue, and my mother's original surname was Emperor Ruxia, and later because of some reasons, she was called the ghost third aunt of the dilemma of life and death incognito." ”
"Surname Emperor?" This surname is extremely rare nowadays, Xiao Yao suddenly remembered the Emperor Shi Tianlai in the Poison Dragon Cave of the 100,000 Great Mountain, and blurted out: "The surname is the emperor, could it be that the master and the girl are both descendants of the Shennong clan and the descendants of the emperor's Miao clan." ”
Lian Yingxue smiled lightly: "I didn't expect Brother Xiao that you still know some stories about my Shennong clan." ”
Xiao Yao asked, "Poor girl, how did your mother die, and why did you disguise yourself as your mother." ”
Lian Yingxue was a little sad and said: "My mother suffered from an extremely serious heart disease when she was young, although she has studied medicine and countless people over the years, but she can't cure her own disease, every time my mother comes to see me over the years, I will find that her illness is getting more and more serious, but this disease comes from her heart, not a medicine stone can be cured." ”
"At the beginning of this year, my mother came to see me again to teach medical skills, but the oil was exhausted, and finally she was seriously ill and died, I took my mother's bones to the Star River Valley for burial according to her instructions, Chu Shibo and Han Shishu saw me, and handed me my mother's last suicide note, which wrote that I should follow the arrangement of the two uncles and uncles, dress up as her and stay in the Star River Valley to become the new ghost third aunt. ”
Xiao Yao lost his voice and said: "Poor girl, the Chu Shibo and Han Shishu in your mouth, but my Tianyuan Zi Chu Rang Sanchu Uncle and Hundred Changing Star Monarch Han Guangjie Han Senior Uncle." ”
Lian Yingxue said lightly: "It's the two of them, and my disguise technique is still taught by Master Han." ”
Xiao Yao said bitterly: "That is to say, Senior Uncle Han and Senior Uncle Chu have long known about the fact that Uncle Ghost died of illness and you disguised yourself as Uncle Ghost." ”
Lian Yingxue nodded and said: "That's right, except for Uncle Chu Shibo and Uncle Han Shi, Uncle Xuan Zhen also knows about it, Brother Xiao, don't be distressed, they didn't mean to hide it from you, these are all explained by my mother." ”
Only then did Xiao Yao understand why when he found out that something was wrong, he went to ask Master Chu for verification, but was persuaded by Master Chu to dispel his thoughts.
Moreover, Senior Brother Qi Guming once said that the ghost master had to leave the Galaxy Valley alone for a period of time every year, it turned out that he went out of the valley to find his daughter to teach medical skills.
But he was still puzzled: "Poor girl, since you are the daughter of my ghost uncle, why don't you live with my ghost uncle." ”
Pity Yingxue said: "My mother's temperament changed dramatically because of some things, and she had a grudge with many heroes in her anger, and then she was forced to live in seclusion in the Star River Valley. ”