Day after day, year after year, this is the fifty-third autumn that Bai Pao'er has come here. She has experienced fifty-three years of repetition here. However, her memory still remains.
After going down the mountain that day, the woman in blue went back to the house to make food for them.
She didn't expect that when she saw her today, the stunningly beautiful woman from back then would turn out like this. Her hair was gray, and the traces of time left on Xie Yiyi's body were too heavy, and her skin was easily broken by blows.
, full of wrinkles.
"Time... began to flow normally..." Bai Pao'er murmured to himself, looking at the little black dog.
Lu Lingsha had been here and accompanied Xie Yiyi for thousands of years, but she had not left any trace of time on Xie Yiyi. This made Lu Lingsha speculate that her time here was just a one-day reincarnation, and this time did not exist at all.
There is no trace of passage.
"I feel a strong sense of death in Chixian's body... Is she going to die..." The little black dog's eyes were shiny, and he felt sad in his heart.
When people reach old age, they cannot escape death. Even a crazy person can't escape it? Here, there is only one mortal world, and if you die here, it will be death in the true sense.
Lu Lingsha felt very guilty. Her grandfather would not hesitate to waste his own life to fish Chixian out of perdition. She asked her grandfather to help Chixian and save this life-and-death situation. However, was all this in vain?
I am ashamed of my grandfather, and I am also disappointed by Chu Cheng's kindness to his grandfather and grandson.
"Yes... Xie Yiyi is about to die. The only thing that supports her now is the obsession in her heart." Bai Pao'er sighed. Even she can't solve this worldly situation. The only one who can
What comforts myself is that Chixian did not sink into madness and become a great disaster in the world.
In Bai Pao'er's eyes, one can see countless rules collapsing on Xie Yiyi's body. These are the supreme rules belonging to Tai Ling's body. At this moment, she can clearly feel that, in addition to the strong aura of decay, the
The Tao, which was originally approaching, also began to recede.
"Perhaps, she has accepted Chu Cheng's death, let go of her thoughts, and is completely at ease. Even if she dies, she is at ease. But...when I touched the magical way during that battle, I clearly felt Chu Cheng's
He is not dead. His breath is just disordered, as if he is in a life-and-death crisis."
"The person you care about most is not dead yet. The waiting is not hopeless. How can you die peacefully and comfortably!!!!!"
Bai Pao'er shouted, but no matter how loud he was, it was in vain. In the old woman's ears, it was just the cry of a fox.
When the old woman heard the fox's cry, she couldn't help laughing even though she was coughing.
"You fox is really smart, you know that I want to make delicious mooncakes." The old woman smiled, walked slowly to the fox, bent down with difficulty, and picked it up.
"After so many years, you and Xiao Hei have not changed at all. They both say that foxes become spirits and can cultivate into human form. Tonight, you turned into human form to accompany me." The old woman spoke hoarsely, and then laughed at herself.
"Foxes become spirits only in those rural monster records. As soon as this person gets old, he starts to have random thoughts, always thinking about monsters and monsters. But it would be great if there really are ghosts and monsters in this world. In this way, old lady, I will
Don’t worry that you won’t be able to see him again after you die. And this black dog has lived for half a hundred years, which is really strange.”
The old woman picked up the basket and ran towards the bridge with the white fox. She did not look back and forgot to call after her.
"Xiao Hei, come."
One person, one fox, and a dog are walking on the bridge. Perhaps, this is the last time for this pair of "fox friends and dog friends" to walk in this world.
The plum grove has not yet opened in winter, and the bare trunks are only dotted with a few unfilled buds.
Along the way, Bai Pao'er never saw the lotus flowers covering the river again. It was no longer green, but withered. It no longer had the vitality it had seen at the beginning.
This world is no longer the same as it was before. Even the water and sky that were once blue are now a bit gray, but the blazing sun is still emitting a faint light.
The ground was withered and yellow, whether it was leaves or grass. In this chilling autumn, they were all defeated.
The old woman wanted to go up the mountain to find dried fruits, but how could she find them in this season? She didn't stop until she came to a big tree that required two people to hug each other.
Yellow leaves were flying and falling continuously. The old woman's footsteps startled the life on the tree, and a shadow jumped to another tree like lightning.
"The squirrel has started to stock up on food before winter comes. Old lady, I don't want to take too much." The old woman turned her head and looked at another tree, saw the shadow clearly, and watched the shadow keep moving back and forth anxiously on the branches.
, said with apology.
This big tree has been in the woods for at least fifty or sixty years. There was a gap in the middle, and there was a large tree hole. The old woman stepped forward, reached inside, and slowly put dried fruits into the bamboo basket.
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She didn't take much, but only stuffed about a third of the basket, then leaned out, then turned to look at the squirrel again, clasped her hands together, and bowed in thanks.
"Thanks."
When Zhengren got the moon cake, the old woman started to go back and forth, but when she reached the center of the mountain, she walked out in the other direction. Just for a moment, she was greeted by a gust of fragrant wind.
"This is the scent of osmanthus!" The little black dog took a deep breath, very intoxicated.
In this autumn, everything begins to wither, except for the sweet-scented osmanthus. Although it is far away, the fragrance brought by the breeze makes people feel relaxed and happy.
In the distance, there is an osmanthus tree. The flowers are in full bloom. Just one tree adds a bit of painting to the cool autumn scenery. After a long time, the old woman put the white fox in her arms on the ground and came to the osmanthus tree.
In front of the tree, I carefully lifted the flower branch and shook it gently into the bamboo basket.
There is a layer in the middle of the bamboo basket. The left side only contains one-third of the dried fruits, while the other side is folded and filled with light yellow osmanthus flowers.
"These are enough. There is also a can of sugar in the house. Today, I will make a mooncake with sweet-scented osmanthus and dried fruit filling." The old woman looked at the basket and smiled happily.
She glanced at the sky and saw that it was almost noon.
"Time flies really fast."
The old woman had collected the ingredients for making mooncakes and returned home without stopping.
"You two little guys, wait outside. I'll go into the house first, old lady."
"...."
Bai Pao'er frowned. If the old woman walked into the house, she might be completely disappointed tonight on the full moon night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. But she was helpless and had no way to stop the old woman.
But the next moment, Bai Pao'er was stunned.
She saw the old woman walking into the house. However, the day did not get dark. It was still sunny and not dark.
"Something has changed again...in this house..."
At this moment, Bai Pao'er saw that when the old woman walked into the house, the original incompatibility and the original darkness dissipated at that moment.
There were not many objects in the room, a slightly decayed wooden bed, neatly folded with quilts, and a copper frame placed on an old dressing table next to the wooden bed. Apart from that, there was only one item.
And that item caught Bai Pao'er's attention.
It was a clothes hanger, and on that clothes hanger hung a blood-stained iron armor. The blood stains had dried and turned dark black.
This is a broken piece of iron armor. There is a gap in the chest, as if it was pierced by a sharp blade, and there are also two gaps in the waist.
"The owner of this iron armor was pierced through the abdomen by two arrows, and then was shot through the chest with a gun?"
Bai Pao'er was not too surprised that the sky had not darkened when the old woman walked into the wooden house. After all, this day was the end of Xie Yiyi's life, so it was not surprising that this had changed.
"The iron armor on this wooden frame...is not Chu Cheng's thing...then...what does this iron armor mean to Xie Yiyi?"
The fact that this piece of iron armor can be kept by Xie Yiyi in the house, and even beside the bed, proves that it is of great significance to Xie Yiyi.
Bai Pao'er watched Xie Yiyi stay in front of Tie Jia for a while, with a different emotion in her eyes. Finally, she sighed and laughed again. She stretched out a hand, put it against Tie Jia's body, and slowly rubbed it.
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Her smile is so bright that even withered flowers can still attract people's eyes at that last moment. Her smile is just like that.
The old woman's eyes glowed brightly at this moment, and Bai Pao'er could see from it that she was full of expectations for something.
"Brother." The old woman smiled again, as if she had a flashback at this moment, making people feel that the original glory and beauty were standing before her again.
"Brother..." Bai Pao'er was startled when he heard this.
She remembered that when she first came to this place, she vaguely heard someone shouting in the mountains, and the childish voice carried to her ears with the wind. However, that voice did not belong to Xie Yiyi. She did not see it either.
That girl.
At this moment, Bai Pao'er heard the word again. This time, it was no longer full of vigor, but an old and hoarse voice.
"Brother...could this be brother Xie Yiyi's armor?" Bai Pao'er murmured in her heart when she saw the old woman retracted her hand and walked toward the back room with the basket in hand.
Not many people in the world know about Xie Yiyi's past. They only know that he once worshiped under the Qiyue Sect, and then his master was killed by a flying sword from outside the sky. Then the idiot Li Subai was killed because he was also a Tailing.
He came to his body and accepted him as his successor.
"Xie Yiyi's downfall... was caused by the death of Chu Cheng. But here, there is no trace of him. Could it be that... there is another reason for her downfall?" Bai Pao'er continued to read with doubts.
Holding the broken armor.
"Brother...brother...could he be Xie Yiyi's brother when he was not a monk..."
Bai Pao'er muttered to himself, then heard the sound of pots and pans in the back room, shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"If it weren't for Chu Cheng, then the truth about Xie Yiyi's sinking might be known tonight."