We walked towards the wooden building together. The night was hazy, like walking in a strange and shadowy cemetery. The doorways and windows of all the wooden buildings were dark and open with a ghostly look.
"Will no one wake up tonight?" People in the world only know about three or four out of ten of the hundreds of evil spells of the Five Poison Sect. Many of the names have never been heard of, and even more so.
Not to mention understanding its purpose.
"Yes, they will sleep until the sun rises tomorrow." He Jishang silently climbed the stone steps and walked into her own wooden building. This method of deepening sleep actually reminded me of Jiangxi's "Zombie Gate"
"Corpse driving". If outsiders broke into the village at this moment and saw the sleeping dead living dead everywhere, it would definitely become explosive news that newspapers and magazines would rush to reprint.
Standing in front of the building door, I suddenly felt a chill on my face, and sparse snowflakes began to float in the air.
He Jishang entered the kitchen and was busy briskly in front of the stove, making constant clinking sounds of pots and pans. I sat down in front of the building door and looked down at the entire village. A few years ago, maybe my eldest brother
Have you ever sat here and meditated for a long time on a dark snowy night?
I miss him very much. On this huge earth, in a sea of more than 4 billion people, he is the only one who has a relationship with me that is thicker than water. No one can replace him. I remember that after the scalpel died, Su Lun stayed in Cairo all night
Sitting silently on the stone steps of Villa No. 13, she wanted to put all the sounds and smiles after the scalpel was put into her mind in silence, and treasure them for the rest of her life. This feeling of losing someone close to her was so traumatic and painful.
It cannot be expressed in any human vocabulary.
"Brother, where are you?" I pushed up my chest hard, feeling that the heavy burden on my shoulders was being pressed down all the time. My eldest brother and Su Lun, these two relatives who are closely related to me, may have been imprisoned in front.
In the deep mountains, I must find them and use my own strength to reverse the disaster that nature has imposed on me.
I let out a long breath and breathed in the fresh air, smelling the aroma of stewed meat and the spicy taste of strong liquor.
"I suddenly have the desire to talk. I wonder if you are willing to listen?" He Jishang came out holding a black tray, with a steaming casserole on it, a bottle of wine, and two glasses.
After putting on the apron, she gained the gentleness and virtuousness of a hostess and lost the surliness and solitaryness of a charlatan.
"Of course, good food, good wine, and good stories to accompany the wine are the happiest enjoyment on a snowy night." My stomach continued to growl, but the snow outside the eaves slowly became denser unknowingly.
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She smiled, put the tray on the ground, and sat down on the steps.
"You're a little like him, casual and free-spirited, and whatever you say sounds particularly pleasant to people's ears -" She poured the first glass of wine, a short black pottery cup with a capacity of about one tael.
The wine bottle is also made of black pottery and looks like a deformed, pot-bellied gourd.
"Please." She raised her glass, drank it down, and showed me the bottom of the glass.
This is the Chinese drinking rule. Drinking first is a sign of respect. In this mountain environment, drinking soju and eating game are the most beautiful things to do. I also drank a drink, and the hot wine went straight to my throat and burned to my chest.
Inside, my whole body was immediately filled with warmth. The casserole was stewed with round snake meat, and there was an indescribable aroma.
"These vanilla snakes have a gentle temperament and feed on small insects on grass roots. They are very helpful for martial arts practitioners to restore their internal energy. You can eat more." She took off her disguise as a charlatan for the time being. Although we had only known each other for a day,
Through the dark night, light snow, delicious food, and strong wine, we have become a confidant friend.
"Before I met him, I didn't believe that there was such a martial art as the 'Knife of Beyond Distance' in the world. That year, I had just turned sixteen, and the old leader had just ordered me to be a member of the Five Poison Sect.
It was also the depth of winter when the Holy Princess was here. If I wanted to officially ascend the throne of the Holy Princess, I had to do something earth-shattering for the church in order to convince the public, so I chose to go into the mountains of the southwest to look for the legendary rib.
"A snake with two wings," and it must be brought back to be cultivated in order to enhance the Five Poison Sect's position as one of the most outstanding in the world."
I listened patiently, and the snowflakes spread a thin layer in front of the steps, like a white carpet in the dark night. The snowfall area basically extended to the village and to the end, so I knew Liang Wei, who was going back to meet the expedition team,
, I won’t be troubled by the snow, and I will definitely be back in time tomorrow.
Tonight, I should relax as much as possible and listen to He Jishang finish telling the story between her and her eldest brother.
"At that time, there was no village here, only an empty thatched cottage. After I went five kilometers south, I found no special snakes, only ordinary snakes flying on the grass, cinnabar wind, dying at the sight of the moon, and these snakes
Human beings have long become domestic snakes raised by the Five Poison Cult, without any discovery value - "When I was taking a nap at dusk, I suddenly discovered a nest of mountain leopards. There were three of them. They should have just been full moon. At the age of sixteen,
I was still a child at heart, so I made a big basket with branches and rattan, and wanted to take them back as a windfall. Of course, I knew that the leopards in the lactation period would not stay away from their cubs, but
As early as when I was in Yunnan, I often took my followers to the mountains to hunt, and shot leopards and wild boars many times. I didn't care about such ferocious and terrifying animals to outsiders.
"I was not five hundred meters away from the leopard's den when the old leopard chased me. To my surprise, in addition to two old leopards, a male and a female, there was also an extremely strong adult male leopard following me.
I shot it with a poisonous arrow, but it didn't kill it immediately. It kept rushing towards me. At this moment, a bright sword flashed out quickly, and the male leopard's head was cut off with one blow - that person
, is the 'King of Tomb Robbers' Yang Tian."
This is an old-fashioned story of "a hero saves a beauty", but I really want to hear her talk, because in her eloquent talk, the image of the elder brother becomes more and more full and powerful in my mind, until it becomes a living person.
, not just a flat model that people in the martial arts community keep praising.
When a beauty is in trouble, a hero takes action, and then pledges his or her life to become a couple, this should be the most enviable development process.
"I fell in love with him the first time I saw him, but at the same time I understood that the faint sadness in his eyes represented the deepest loneliness buried in my heart. When I was young, I didn't understand men at all.
Loneliness is because of another woman that he can never get, and no matter how much he is devoted to him, he can never replace that woman's position in his heart.
"He struck out again, or in other words, he struck out a second strike with all his body and mind. He was holding my arm beside me, but with the flash of the sword, his man came between the two leopards, and the leopard's head immediately
They both fell down, and the blood stained the grass roots all over the ground. 'You are the first and the last one who sees me sending out the knife that exceeds the distance.' - This is the first sentence he said to me, with an understatement at the corner of his mouth.
He smiled as if he had just taken a violent action and just casually picked a small flower on the fence after strolling in the garden.
"The encounter between two people may only be due to the smallest meaningless decision. If I didn't leave the nest of leopards and headed directly towards Langu, we wouldn't have met. Or maybe he showed up a moment later and I died from the mountain leopard.
Under the claws, there will be no pain of missing lovesickness for half a lifetime."
I poured wine for her. Cao Mengde said, "How can we relieve our worries? Only Du Kang can." Alcohol can indeed make people forget their pain.
"He built this wooden building because I pretended that I was scared out of my mind by a mountain leopard. I exercised every day and forced myself to have a fever. I also took some harmless herbs, which made my arms covered with horrible red spots. I wanted to stay
She held him in her arms, and then used her warmth to seduce him, using all the childish tricks a sixteen-year-old girl could think of.
"I sang in front of the window of the thatched house and watched him cutting wood to build the house bit by bit, and my heart was filled with warm sunshine. That night when the wooden building was completed, there was also such a light snow in the sky, and he stewed a pot full of snakes
Meat, and a jar of strong liquor bought from the people in the mountains, we were on the steps of our new home, just like tonight, without any barriers, even though we had only known each other for a week.
"He saw through my disguise, but he never pointed it out. That night, we drank a lot. He drank a lot. No matter how much he drank, his cheeks would only have a little blush. In the world of the Miao people, there is almost no relationship between men and women.
Without the constraints of barriers, and without the restraint of Han women, when they see a man they like, they will speak out without any scruples. On a night like that, many charming stories should have happened, but he just drank, and in the end,
Showed me a photo—"
She was still fascinated by the past many years ago, and it was obvious that she had a deep affection for her elder brother that could not be erased by the passage of time.
She drank another drink, took out a two-inch crystal frame from her arms, and smiled sadly: "That's her, Shui Lan."
I took the frame and looked at the girl in the photo with extreme curiosity. She had blond hair like an American, hanging down to her waist like a waterfall, and her eyes were big and bright, but they were pure Asian black.
The eyes, nose, lip shape, and skin are all in line with Asian characteristics.
"An Asian girl with blond hair? Or maybe her hair has been dyed -" She was wearing a silver space suit, her helmet tucked under her left armpit, and she was holding a silver briefcase in her right hand. The background of the photo was a huge
The gray spacecraft, and further back, you can see the grassland, the river and the mountain peaks with a little bit of snow in the distance.
"This is the girl that Yang Tian Daxia likes. Is she an astronaut?" Regarding this sudden appearance, I can only tentatively guess her identity. Of course, I can't be sure that she is an astronaut. Many girls like to visit
When at the space base, take photos wearing the clothes provided by the staff.
"Maybe. He never mentioned her identity or nationality. He just told me that in his heart, there was only Shui Lan. I almost went crazy after receiving such a blow. The purpose of his coming here is to pass Lan
Valley, go to the ladder to find something, but the flying snakes on the way are too poisonous, making it difficult to walk, so I went back to think of a way, and met me who was attacked by a mountain leopard."
What He Jishang said was a bit beyond my expectation. Since there is Shui Lan in my elder brother's life, why is the scalpel never mentioned, not even in those Jianghu legends?
I can probably guess what happened next: "So, in order to help him, or please him, you went back to the Yunnan General Forum of the Five Poison Sect to steal the 'Blue Blood Luminous Toad', and wanted to help him drive away the flying snakes?"
"Yes, but when I told him, he flatly refused and refused to accept my kindness. I didn't listen to him. I sneaked away a few days later, rushed back to Yunnan overnight, and entered the Yunnan Xingyue location alone.
Mountain's 'Seventy-two Chain Cave'. Unfortunately, the matter was exposed and I was tortured and kicked out of the door. It was he who rescued me and returned to this wooden building. His ability to find and rob tombs is unparalleled.
For example, within a few days, he brought back hundreds of excellent jade articles from the nearby ancient tombs of the Tang Dynasty. After smashing them into powder, he helped me grind the scars on my face. Only then did I realize that there were many more pieces of jade around him.
A swaddled baby—"
I almost screamed and tried to hold it back.
The baby next to my eldest brother could only be me. No wonder this place always gives me the feeling of being "at home". It turns out that I have been here many years ago.
"Haha, a very small baby, do you know what I thought at the time?" The cup was empty, so she poured herself a cup.
Neither of us touched the snake meat in the casserole. Her narration attracted me from the beginning. Anyone in that situation would probably suspect the baby to be the child of Big Brother and Shui Lan, and would not think about anything else.
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"My heart was broken. I thought he had a family, and the girl named Shui Lan was nearby. The baby was chubby and very cute. Although he couldn't speak yet, his eyes were very flexible and stared.
When he looked at me, he seemed to be able to see through my hatred for him."
I suddenly shuddered, and it wasn't because of the cold air in the winter night - if the disciples of the Five Poison Sect hate someone, they will usually poison the person to muteness, stab the deafness, chop off the hands, chop off the feet, then cut open the skin and flesh, and put them in a pot that can last for hundreds of years.
The immortal poisonous insect will make this person suffer all his life.
"What did you do to that baby?" At least I am healthy now and not sick at all.
He Jishang held the empty cup tremblingly and turned to stare at me. The air suddenly solidified coldly, and we all jumped back to reality from that distant story.
"What would I do to him? What do you think?"
We looked at each other for half a minute. She let out a breath, poured another glass, and drank it down.
"Under the Five Poisons teaching, if you hold your canthus in your eyes, you will be punished; if all the five poisons come out, hell will come early. The way you look at me is very much like him, and very much like that baby back then -" she murmured to herself.
I smiled calmly: "You are too worried. I am just a passerby. Tiger poison cannot eat its seeds. If you love someone so much, how can you hurt his relatives?"
She suddenly raised her right hand, and there was a rustling sound of wind. There was a strange "rustling" sound on the roof of the wooden building, as if a huge and heavy thing was slowly dragging it. There was a strong feeling in the air.
The smell of blood, that thing is on the top of the eaves, and seems to be about to fall down.
"God of the Protector, go ahead, it's none of your business." She wiped her face tiredly and waved her right palm upward vigorously.
I slowly grabbed the wine bottle and filled my glass easily without any fear. The God who protects the village is just a giant python. In the underground palace under the Pyramid of Tucrack Khan, I faced thousands of pythons.
I have never been afraid of the fierce and passionate Bengal Viper, let alone here?
The "rustling" sound receded to the south, accompanied by a thick and dull "ho ho" breathing sound.
"Don't be afraid, the God of Protection will not hurt you." She stared at me intently again.
I shook my head: "I'm not afraid. People who walk in the world have long been indifferent to life and death."
The atmosphere was a bit depressing, so she took back the frame and wiped it gently with her sleeve.
Shuilan is a very beautiful name. I have a strange feeling that the impression of the girl in the photo seems to change. At first glance, she looks like a cheerful and generous American. But when I look again, she looks different.
The characteristics of a standard Asian yellow race. Now, when viewed from the side, reflected in the snow light, her skin shows a light brown color, which is the body surface mark of Americans.
I took a deep breath, waved my hands to disperse the smell of snakes in the air, and asked, "What did you do to that baby?"
She took a few breaths on the frame, wiped it carefully again, took it back into her arms, and then said slowly: "Actually, you can see what I want to do, and you also have his sharp eyes -
However, I didn't accomplish anything, and Brother Tian stopped me. He took great care of the baby, which aroused my anger."
Women's jealousy is like thousands of active volcanoes that can erupt again at any time, possibly destroying the entire world.
I looked towards the dark night sky to the south, feeling a little confused about my elder brother's destination: "He is going to the ladder to heaven? Enter the 'second Afang Palace' Su Lun mentioned? What are he going to do? Are there really people from the mysterious world there?
Something?"
"One day, Brother Tian said he wanted to leave and take the child to the crisis-ridden Langu.