The Classic of Mountains and Seas Through Ancient and Modern Times

Chapter 52 Illusion
"Sister, hey! Sister, wake up, it's time to eat!" Someone seemed to push her in her sleep, Lu Jiaqi rubbed her eyes, but the scene in front of her stunned her for a moment: "This is...home?"

"Uh, sister, what are you talking about? You're sleepy!" The girl's immature voice interrupted Lu Jiaqi's thoughts, "Get up soon, mom is calling us to eat!" After saying that, the girl jumped out of bed with bare feet and walked away. Go to the door and open the door on tiptoe.

"Lu... Jiaxue?" Lu Jiaqi looked at her palm, and there seemed to be something wrong, but what was it?
"Xiaoqi Xiaoxue, come and eat!" A gentle voice came from outside the door, and at this moment Lu Jiaxue had already opened the door and ran out.Lu Jiaqi jumped out of bed and chased after hearing the sound: "Oh, yes, mom... Mom?"

After leaving the bedroom, Lu Jiaqi walked to the dining table in a familiar manner and sat down next to Lu Jiaxue.Then I saw my mother coming out with breakfast: "Lazy girls, hurry up and eat, or you will be late for school!"

go to school?Lu Jiaqi paused while holding the chopsticks, what's going on?What exactly was forgotten?
"Hey? Why is it tomato pimple soup again? People don't like tomatoes anymore!" Lu Jiaxue pouted and clumsily held her chopsticks, "Sister, you don't like tomatoes either, do you?"

"Well, yes!" Lu Jiaqi replied blankly, and then those chopsticks and Lu Jiaxue picked out the tomatoes inside.

"It can't be like this!" Mother Lu bent down to look at the two children, "If you don't eat vegetables, you won't grow up."

grow up? !Lu Jiaqi's eyes widened suddenly, as if she had grown up already?Lu Jiaqi looked at her hands.But Lu Jiaxue picked up the bowl and drank the soup with a wrinkled face: "Sister, let's drink together!"

"Yeah!" Lu Jiaqi nodded, picked up the bowl and drank it down.

After breakfast, Lu Jiaqi took Lu Jiaxue to the door to change shoes. Mother Lu took their schoolbags and told her next to her: "Xiaoqi, you are a sister, take good care of your sister, and you must lead her when crossing the road." Oh sister's hand!"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Lu Jiaxue jumped a few steps, "Sister, take Xiaoxue with you!" Then she opened the door and ran out, "Sister, hurry up."

"Oh, ok! This is the end." Lu Jiaqi shook her head while answering. She must have thought too much to have such a sense of disobedience?How could you be so stupid to think that you have grown up?
Wanting to land, Lu Jiaqi ran out and held Lu Jiaxue's hand tightly: "Stay by my side!"

"Yeah!" Lu Jiaxue responded and smiled at her, her beautiful facial features shining even more.

After leaving the community, there was a small stall that bought roasted sweet potatoes. Lu Jiaqi took Lu Jiaxue's hand and walked over to buy a sweet potato. She remembered that this was their daily habit, because mother always liked to do something they didn't like in the morning. Soup, so they often go for roasted sweet potatoes.

After walking for a while with sweet potatoes, there was a traffic light. When Lu Jiaqi and the two walked over, it was a red light. Lu Jiaqi took out the sweet potatoes and broke them in half.But because it was too hot, the cuts were uneven, Lu Jiaqi hesitated for a few seconds looking at the large and small sweet potatoes, and gave the big one to Lu Jiaxue.

But Lu Jiaxue shook her head: "I want to eat the small ones, she is the younger sister, and the younger sister wants to eat the smaller ones!"

"But in this case you will be hungry, you can eat the big one!" said Lu Jiaqi and handed the big one to Lu Jiaxue.

When Lu Jiaxue heard this, she suddenly sneered, and then raised her hand and slammed the sweet potato in Lu Jiaqi's hand: "Lu Jiaqi, do you think I'm still a child? Do you think half of a sweet potato can change anything? Lu Jiaqi, I hate you! "

At some point, Lu Jiaxue, who was the same age as her, suddenly became taller, and was looking at her with disgust in her eyes.

"Lu...Jiaxue~" Lu Jiaqi looked down at the dirty sweet potatoes on the ground, tears slowly pooled in her eyes...

"Miss Lu, Miss Lu," someone kept calling her in the dark, so familiar but can't remember who it is?Suddenly, there was a violent shaking from her body, and Lu Jiaqi opened her eyes.

But the reality in front of her was familiar yet unfamiliar, Lu Jiaqi looked at Hua Shuo and suddenly covered her eyes and sobbed, no matter how much she suppressed, she couldn't restrain the urge to cry.Gentle tears overflowed from the fingers, and Hua Shuo was taken aback: "Miss Lu, what's wrong with you..."

"It's nothing," Lu Jiaqi shook her head, "I'm just homesick..." Although everything just now was a dream, everything in the dream happened in reality.

It turned out that she and Lu Jiaxue used to be so close, sleeping together, eating together, and going to school together, but why did they become like that in the end?
Seeing Lu Jiaqi crying so sadly, Hua Shuo didn't know what to do, and finally added some firewood to the bonfire: "Miss Lu, it seems that this is the first time you talked about your family affairs, by the way, in your dream The one who called Lu Jiaxue was..."

"It's my sister," Lu Jiaqi lowered her eyes, "She and I are twin sisters, but our relationship is not good."

"Really?" Hua Shuo smiled awkwardly, and then said, "I don't have brothers and sisters in my family, and my aunt's brother and sister don't kiss me, but you are different from your sister, after all, you are twin sisters , how could the relationship be bad?"

Lu Jiaqi didn't speak, just shook her head, she didn't know why?Lu Jiaxue seemed to have become like that all of a sudden.Thinking of Lu Jiaqi hugging her body, she realized that she was actually wearing Huashuo's long gown: "Brother Hua, don't you feel cold wearing so little?"

"I'm a man, so I'm not afraid!" Hua Shuo shook his head, "Isn't there still fire here?"

"Fire?" Lu Jiaqi looked at the burning bonfire, then stretched out her hand to get warm by the bonfire, but no matter how close she was, she couldn't feel the warmth of the fire, "Brother Hua? Why is it so hot?" Are you not hot?"

"What?" Hua Shuo looked at Lu Jiaqi in surprise when he heard the words, and then leaned against the fire to feel it, "It's very warm!" After Hua Shuo said something consciously, he reached out to hold Lu Jiaqi's hand: "Sure enough in this way!"

Seeing Hua Shuo suddenly realized, Lu Jiaqi hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's not snow at all!" Hua Shuo raised his hand to catch a snowflake. The difference from before was that the snowflakes disappeared as soon as they landed on his hand. "This is an illusion!" Because Lu Jiaqi had resentment and despair in her heart, There is no trace of warmth, so they are trapped in the illusion.

Lu Jiaqi paused when she heard the words: "Then what should we do?"

"Throw away the despair in your heart, don't be afraid, maybe it's enough to face it calmly!" Hua Shuo made a gesture and tapped Lu Jiaqi's forehead, and Lu Jiaqi's fearful mood calmed down.

Then the snowflakes in the air gradually became smaller and disappeared.

(End of this chapter)