Chapter 225
Chapter 225
After completing a small world mission, Tao Shuobai and Jun Si separated and returned to the underworld.
This time back to the Underworld came from Zhong Kui's phone call, Zhong Kui didn't say anything, only to meet and talk again.Zhong Kui has a bold temperament, which is rare, and Tao Shuobai finds it strange.
When they arrived at the appointed restaurant, Zhong Kui had already arrived.
"What a special peony." Tao Shuobai noticed a pot of peony flowers on the table as soon as he entered.Tao Shuobai raised his eyebrows, and said in surprise: "This peony flower..."
Zhong Kui didn't go around in circles, and said bluntly: "Brother Tao, sit down. To be honest, I came to you this time because of this pot of peony flowers. You are right, this is not a simple peony, nor is it a flower that produces wisdom, but transformed after death."
"Oh?" Tao Shuobai became interested.
Although there are such people who turn into grass and trees, they are rare, because the conditions for achieving it are very strict, but one of them is the same, that is, this person must have extremely strong obsession.The so-called obsession to become a demon, often such people are often ghosts after death, or linger in the world of the world, but rarely turn into vegetation.In order to transform vegetation, besides obsession, one must also make a wish from the bottom of the heart, willing to give up the human body and exist as vegetation.
Such people often ask for time.
Incarnation of grass and trees, rooted on the spot, can escape the registration in the register of the underworld, and stay in the underworld for a long time.Either in the next life, or waiting for someone, look at this peony plant, the fragrance is sometimes lingering, sometimes miserable and desperate, sometimes distorted and resentful, I'm afraid it falls on the word "love".
Zhong Kui said: "This peony was sent by A Hua, you also know her temperament, she likes to take care of this kind of thing the most."
Ah Hua's full name is Zhong Hua, and she is Zhong Kui's younger sister.
There are various legends about the story of Zhong Kui marrying his sister. At the beginning, Zhong Kui did return to the world to marry his sister. After all, after his death, only his sister was left in the family. How can he rest assured?Back then, his fellow villager Du Ping Renyi restrained Zhong Kui after he hit the post and sent him back to his hometown. Zhong Kui felt that Du Ping was good and married his sister to Du Ping.
Although the two married without saying that they were on the same page, they went smoothly, but it's a pity that Du Ping died early.When Zhong Hua passed away and went to the underworld, Du Ping had already been reincarnated. Zhong Hua had no love for Du Ping, and knowing that Du Ping had a good pregnancy in the next life, she didn't intend to continue the relationship between husband and wife, so she simply stayed in the underworld.
Zhong Kui also contributes here. Zhong Hua has been working in Mengpozhuang, and it is her duty to take care of the medicine fields.
Zhong Kui said: "It is said that this peony flower was originally an old beggar woman with hideous scars on her face. It was not time for her to reincarnate, but she has been lingering in Mengpo Village, obviously waiting for someone. After a long time, Ah Hua chatted with her , and learned that she was waiting for a man named Xia Xueyi."
"Ah Hua was enthusiastic, and told Shaoyaohua that there was a website in the underworld, where she could find people. The post was posted, and there were quite a few people named Xia Xueyi, but none of them was the person she was looking for. Ah Hua even came to beg me, asking me to Go talk to Judge Cui and check the books of life and death. You also know that although this matter is small, it cannot be ruled out. Our underworld has always had strict rules, so how can we make light offences? I don’t know how many debts those Fengyue ghosts have, so how can we check them all? ?”
"Finally came the day when the peony flower should be reincarnated, but she refused to leave, obsessed with madness, and finally turned into a peony plant, unable to move or speak, and only looked at everyone who stepped on the bridge of Naihe."
"Ah Hua's heart is soft, so she came to torture me. What can I do? Judge Cui bumped into it by accident. He thought this peony flower was weird. He opened the book of life and death and checked. It turned out that she shouldn't have come to the underworld."
"Shouldn't you come?" Tao Shuobai wondered.
"The world she was born in is not directly under the jurisdiction of the underworld, but is handled by divisions. The world she lives in is a small world, and the lord of the world is the Immortal Jisha." Zhong Kui finally explained the reason for inviting him to meet: "Judge Cui sees She is not in the book of life and death, so it is guessed that she may have stepped on the wrong passage unintentionally, after checking, I found her biography in the branch office, her name is He Hongyao."
Tao Shuobai understands that those small worlds of Junsi have been traumatized, presumably because the boundary between Yin and Yang is unstable, and the ghost of He Hongyao went astray after He Hongyao died.
I can't blame her for not being able to wait for anyone.
Tao Shuobai immediately inquired about the plot of the small world, and found that He Hongyao was one of the characters, but the Xia Xueyi she was looking for died earlier than her.Xia Xueyi is called the "Golden Snake Lord" by people in the Jianghu. She is both good and evil. If she goes to the underworld, she will definitely not be reincarnated so soon.If He Hongyao had gone to the underworld right after her death, she would definitely be able to meet her, but she had taken the wrong path, and the flow of time here is completely different from that in the small world.
"Brother Zhong wants me to help her?"
Zhong Kui smiled and said, "If it's something else, I won't bother you, but this matter is not troublesome to you, aren't you dealing with it? Besides, as far as He Hongyao is concerned, the former Things have changed, and the person he wanted to see is long gone, but for Immortal Jisha, every small world he sees is the past, the present, and the future."
As a creator, the time in the small world is meaningless to him, he can enter at any point in time, the past is the present, and the present is also the future.
Of course, Tao Shuobai's level of cultivation can break into any point in time, but the past is the past, the present is the present, and the future is the future. Once a certain point is changed, it will trigger a butterfly effect. For the still fragile small world, Most likely mortal danger.
Since this is one of the tasks, Tao Shuobai naturally did not refuse.
He took peony flowers and returned to the upper realm, Jishatian.
Once here, the flowers and leaves of the peony swayed slightly, and seemed to like the atmosphere here very much, especially when entering the main hall, under the effect of the formation, the evil spirit was extremely strong, and ordinary spirit flowers and spirit grass would be very uncomfortable, but this plant was born The branches and leaves of peony are stretched, which is very refreshing.
"Where did the peony come from? It's suitable for planting here." Jun Si took a closer look and raised his eyebrows slightly, obviously seeing the root of the peony.
Tao Shuobai explained the matter.
"It's not a big deal." Jun Si stretched out his palm, and a blue light enveloped the whole peony plant. The blue light shrank, and finally there was only a ball-sized light cluster left, and the peony plant was caged in it.
When he came to the apse, Jun Si raised his hand and threw it, and a blue light shot into a ball of light.
"Go." Jun Si directly took Tao Shuobai into his arms, and also entered the ball of light.
He Hongyao opened her eyes and found that she was still sitting in the alley, with a ragged body and a dirty face. When she raised her hand to touch her, her face was uneven, and those ugly scars had not disappeared.There was noise from the street market in the distance, and the dim lights made the alley seem dark and quiet.
She was a little dazed, as if she shouldn't be here, but...
The door of someone's house opened, and an old servant walked out, put two steaming white flour steamed buns and ten copper coins into the broken porcelain bowl in front of her, and said pitifully, "This is a gift from my wife. Alas, sir Under the festival, let you, an old beggar, have a full meal."
Old beggar, old beggar...
These three words kept echoing in her mind. She stared blankly at the steamed buns and copper coins in front of her, and reached out to touch her face. What her fingers touched was not the smooth skin, but the uneven, hideous scars like earthworms. .Not only on the face, but even on the hands, arms, and back...the whole body is covered with such scars, and the body is really bruised.
These scars are not burns or knife wounds, but are left by being bitten by thousands of snakes.
Thinking back to this point, He Hongyao couldn't help trembling all over as if he had fallen into that snake cave again.
Xia Xueyi, this is all thanks to you!
Others call her an old beggar, but in fact, she is only 20 years old this year!
Just two years ago, she was still a young and beautiful woman, who had never had contact with the outside world, and had no idea that people's hearts were sinister.She is a Hmong, lost her parents with her elder brother when she was young, and grew up in the Five Immortals Sect.The elder brother is the leader, and she is the saint. Although the days at that time were a little boring, they were peaceful and peaceful.
That year, my brother sent her to sit in Wanmiao Villa to take care of the Snake Cave, but she met her doom.
At that time, Xia Xueyi was a handsome man who came to Wanmiao Villa to steal snake venom and was bitten by a poisonous snake.She couldn't bear it, so she saved him, and fell in love with him involuntarily.In just three days, Xia Xueyi healed her wounds, she was reluctant to say goodbye, so she gave him the venom and asked when he would come back.
Xia Xueyi said that she wanted to take revenge, but the enemy was very strong, and he was not capable enough, so he didn't know when he would finish his revenge, so it was impossible to come to see her in a short time.He also said that to prepare for revenge, he had to first steal a sword, which was the treasure of the Emei Sect.While speaking, he sighed again, because he was afraid that he would not be able to steal the sword, nor would he be able to avenge himself.
At that time, she was in a daze. She liked Xia Xueyi and was willing to do anything for him. When she heard that he needed a sword, she blurted out that one of the Three Treasures of the Five Immortals Sect was a sharp blade: the Golden Snake Sword!
Thinking about it now, she was really stupid then.The Three Treasures of the Township Sect of the Five Immortals Sect are not very hidden. If you inquire carefully, you will know that Xia Xueyi has worked so hard to get revenge. Is it true that she came to Wanmiao Villa just to steal a little snake venom?I'm afraid they came here for the Golden Snake Sword early in the morning!
Sure enough, when she revealed the existence of the Golden Snake Sword, Xia Xueyi kept begging her for help, and said that she would return it after revenge.After being persuaded, she couldn't bear to reject him, so she stole her brother's token and took him to the Poison Dragon Cave.
The Poisonous Dragon Cave is the place where the Three Treasures are placed, so it cannot help but be closely guarded, and there are tens of thousands of crane-topped poisonous snakes in the cave, whoever is bitten, will be poisoned and die in three steps.If you want to go in, you can only take off your clothes and smear the medicine powder all over your body.At that time, she had already fallen in love with Xia Xueyi, and they were two naked young men and women. You applied medicine to me, and I applied medicine to you, but the result was uncontrollable.
For her at that time, committing herself to Xia Xueyi didn't feel wronged, on the contrary, she was full of sweetness.
At that time, she didn't understand that she was a Miao girl, and her rules and customs were different from those of the Han people. In her opinion, the loss of virginity was a matter of mutual love, but she never thought that in Xia Xueyi's eyes, such a woman was too frivolous.Originally, it was exploited from the beginning, and it was charged with "frivolousness". What good will come of it?
After entering the inner cave, Xia Xueyi took the Golden Snake Sword and was not satisfied, so she took away the other two treasures.
She already felt that something was wrong, but her deep-rooted affection suppressed the ominous premonition, and only repeatedly asked Xia Xueyi to put the other two treasures back.Xia Xueyi was cunning, knowing that she liked him, so she came over and hugged her.Once a woman is filled with love, her mind will only be muddled. After being coaxed by Xia Xueyi, she didn't insist anymore.
Xia Xueyi got the three treasures and promised to return them after revenge.
Since then, she has been looking forward to it every day, but there has been no news for two years.Until a strange man appeared in the rivers and lakes, using a strange sword, suspected to be the Golden Snake Sword.When the teacher became suspicious, he went to Dulong Cave to check and found that the three treasures were missing.Dong Chuang incident, even if she is the sister of the leader, if she made such a big mistake, she must be dealt with according to the canon.She was fed antidote, then pushed into the snake den, bitten by ten thousand snakes, and punished to beg for 20 years to atone for her sin.
Even after suffering such pain, she did not hate Xia Xueyi.
Stealing the Three Treasures and betraying the Five Immortals Sect, she felt guilty and panicked, and she knew that there would be such a result. For Xia Xueyi, she was willing.She has been begging for half a year, and even before today, she didn't hate it. She begged all the way to Jiangnan, which was Xia Xueyi's hometown, where his enemy was, and where he appeared. She wanted to find Xia Xueyi.
But at this moment, the word "Xia Xueyi" was like a sharp red knife, piercing her heart fiercely.
She hates it!She hates Xia Xueyi, she hates Xia Xueyi's heartlessness!
Although she didn't see it with her own eyes, nor heard about it, she firmly believed that Xia Xueyi had married a new lover.She thought hard, and fragments emerged. Although the picture was blurred, the more she thought about it, the more she hated it, and her hostility became heavier.
As soon as the sky was bright, He Hongyao left the city, heading south all the way.
Halfway through the trip, I got news that Xia Xueyi had been arrested in Jinhua.
He Hongyao felt that she had been bewitched by an evil spirit. Even though the rumors in the world were not true, she was sure that Xia Xueyi was arrested by Wenzhou Five Elders, and his enemy was the Wen family of the Chess Fairy School.She didn't go to Jinhua, but turned around and went to Shiliang.Shiliang is where the Chess Fairy School is, and where the Wen family is. Inexplicably, she feels that there is something about the Wen family that attracts her.
It is June and the weather is very hot.
He Hongyao was on the road almost day and night, she was already exhausted, and she was bitten by thousands of snakes back then, she got sick and had not fully recovered, so she fell ill as soon as she arrived at Shiliang.
When an old beggar falls ill on the street, kind-hearted people will sigh, but who cares?The world is not so peaceful now, it is good luck for the common people to have food and clothing, and not suffer from war disasters.
It rained again at night, and after a while He Hongyao felt hot all over and lost consciousness.
"I can't die, I want revenge, Xia Xueyi..." A murmur, if you don't stick it to her body, you can hardly hear what she is saying, but when the word "Xia Xueyi" comes out, it becomes more cruel and bloody for no reason the taste of.
At this time, a smear of white floated in front of her. She thought it was a kind-hearted person passing by, and she thought that she couldn't just die like this, so she desperately opened her mouth to ask for help: "Help me, save me..."
The man didn't move, and the cold voice came into her ears clearly, but it was a young man: "He Hongyao, how do you plan to take revenge?"
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