Dust and Ember Song

Chapter 148

"Do you know Luoshui?" She held a cup of warm herbal tea and said casually, "I heard it's beautiful there."

Qu Jiu was carefully looking at the good wine he brought from Beihai, "Langshan Mountain in Guozhou is a good place, with green haze and lingering rain, Luoshui at the foot of the mountain, and rouge begonias on both sides of the river...but..."

He picked out a pot of fine wine with glaze color and dark green, and murmured, "Impermanence, impermanence..."

The smell of wine relieved worries, and she almost flattered her, "Can I have a drink of this wine too, just one."

"Drink half a month's worth of herbal tea, and I'll drink a pot for you."

"In this ancient Luoshui, there were frequent floods, and it was not peaceful." He drank alone, ignoring Zhijin's shallow complaints, "Thousands of years ago, the Guozhou tiger invited two river town stone turtles in Beihai to seal them. A water beast lurking within.

The herbal tea was overturned on the back of her hand, spilling a black stain.That water beast is Changyou, a pain in her heart, an old friend she can't forget.She looked at Qu Jiu and blamed her for being stupid, and then put a cold white silk on her burnt area, "Qu Jiu, if you have a friend who is hated by the world, will you leave him?"

"Since we are friends, how can we abandon them?" Just like when the Emperor of Heaven ordered the Heaven Realm not to sacrifice to Emperor Mingyu, he was the only one who erected a monument and planted a tea forest for her in the beautiful place of Beihai.

"I once told him that the flowers on Moshang have already bloomed, and we have been happy ever since... But he didn't believe it. He didn't believe that the world would let him go, so he didn't let himself go either."

"The world is empty, how can there be any real people." On his hair bun, what is bound is a white lotus crown, and the white lotus is Beihai's belief, it is for purity and inaction, and the connection between heaven and earth.It's just that this ignorance of faith did not make him certain that the world has no desires or desires.Heaven is merciful, but also sinful, while the earth and the human world are empty and misty, faintly visible, and it is difficult to see people with sincerity.

"If you lose what you love and miss because of the so-called worldly people, why bother?"

"What if you have to take care of the world for what you love and what you think?"

Holding Zhijin's shoulder, Qu Jiu asked with concern, "Don't think about it, I will take care of you for a few days, and know that you are not an ordinary person."

She smiled lightly, as if the crabapple flower between her eyebrows was about to sway out. "Let me tell you a story."

Once there was a blue-faced fangs beast who rescued a fire demon in a barren land.He told the fire demon that he had done many bad things, and many people in the world chased and killed him.Those swords slashed and tortured him every day along with the Gu in his heart.But in order not to get his hands stained with blood and to be feared by the world, he was willing to withdraw his hands, so that the Gu worms could not smell the smell of blood, so they turned back.His magic power gradually weakened, and he was completely reduced to a monster that was trampled by others.Later, he, who had no mana and was unwilling to use it, was locked in a cage and brutally killed in front of the fire demon.

"Is he your friend..." Qu Jiu's mind was complicated. The monster in the story might be the one who controlled Luoshui, making Ji Kang, the minister of Beihai royal court, unable to perform any water-controlling spells.

I still remember Ji Kangyan's statement that the water beast named Changyou caused many water disasters in the world, which is really a sin.However, although it stings in Luoshui, it can live in it. When the Luoshui flooded during the heavy rain in Guozhou, it blocked the Luoshui and diverted it to dredge it with overwhelming water potential.Luoshui is the holy river in ancient times. It has obtained the immortal way and subdued Luoshui, so it can also be called a good man.

At that time, he was not very knowledgeable, and he didn't understand whether the old minister Ji Kang said that the monster that caused and controlled the floods was evil or good.

The old man untied the gourd under the eaves, drinking wine leisurely, the world is empty, there is no good or evil, and how can there be real people, impermanence.

"He turned into a crabapple flower and entered between my eyebrows. Do you think he has something to say to me, or does he think I'm lonely and wants to be with me for the rest of his life?" Her eyes were like dry rivers of stars.

He caressed the center of his eyebrows with his warm fingertips, like an old friend, "In Beihai, every ten thousand years, an old woman who understands the heart of the world will be selected, and she will be regarded as a birthday aunt."

"People in the world only know that medicine can cure diseases, but they don't know that this medicine is actually taking the life of all living beings to grind, pound, and cook. It is a life for a life."

When he came to this illusion, he saw a flower branch abandoned by passers-by on the road, so Qu Jiu picked it up and put it here, even though the flower branch was quite broken.He handed it to Zhijin, and said softly, "This is Yangchun willow. When it is in full bloom, it is golden and dazzling. The world praises it as a golden belt. They fold it one after another, and throw it away after enjoying it."

"Before Shougu didn't know that this substance has the medicinal effect of clearing away heat, detoxifying and treating bruises, the world valued its color like gold and stone, but after the medicinal effect became popular, the world still didn't take it seriously, thinking that it was everywhere, so why should they care?"

"Zhizhi." He called her softly, "Even if it is something that can save lives for the world, they still don't know how to cherish it. How can they understand that Shougu Beihai tried the medicine herself for the sickness and pain of the world, and the poison spread all over her body?" whole body."

"Why do you respect her as Shougu?"

"Because she understands the heart of heaven and earth, she cares about all living beings, and can live the same life as heaven and earth. Naturally, heaven and earth also have their own way of life cycle."

Qu Jiu said movedly, "Shougu doesn't care about her life, but she also wants to learn medicine, in order to understand and save the world, but the world is so let down, it's not worth it."

Yangchun willow, like the green willows in the world, has free and easy branches, but it has more golden and jade stamens.Both are born in the warm spring, the former, the world comes to enjoy it, and abandons it when it is decadent;

"Shougu can have the heart to understand the world. Heaven and earth hope that she can recognize the intention of the creation of heaven and earth, and hope that she can restore those sincerity in the world." Zhijin put down the gradually withered flower branch, got up and walked towards the window, "no matter what Whether it's Shou Gu, or you and me, living in this world, we have to do so."

"Maybe, for Changyou, he wants to die in exchange for the forgiveness of the world. Even if the world doesn't forgive, they will forget. But heaven and earth made him a wish, let him turn into a crabapple flower, let you go and see you The flowers on the Moshang are said to be full of joy in life."

"Thank you, Qu Jiu."

"The world is so impermanent, don't live for others, but live for yourself." The flower tree in front of the window swayed lightly, regardless of the date of return or where it came from.

"Even if you have to, I hope you have no regrets in your choice, let alone regret." He put on a thin coat for her, "There is also a cold wind in this illusion, so don't catch the cold."

"Are you missing Mingyu?" When he pretended to be indifferent and told about his past with Emperor Ji Mingyu, she was already filled with emotion.She understood that Qu Jiu's regret was because although he was the heir apparent of Beihai, he had no way of knowing why Emperor Ji Mingyu had committed suicide before marrying Donghai; Neglect, slowly prepare those red tapes in Beihai.So much so that he didn't lose Bei Hai's face, but underestimated the plight Mingyu was in, and he needed to be rescued quickly.

He cupped his palms, trapped some Luoying, and indulged in words, "When the day I don't love you, you don't have to think about it."

"What about you, someone who has something to think about?"

"There are many..."

Qu Jiu turned to see her slightly closed eyes, as if feeling the fragrance of grass and trees in the wind.

"Then... do you have someone you love?"

"Yes, I have been in love for a long time."

"Why do you love him?"

When she recalled the love in the past, she seemed to have a lot to say and a lot of tears... But suddenly, because of the relief of her heart, the pain and lingering entanglement that had been ups and downs and twists and turns in the years, like a flower falling in the wind, Floating in the sky and the earth, there is finally a direction and safety.

"Because he loves me so much."

(End of this chapter)