Spring River Flower Moon Night: Set of 2 Volumes

Chapter 31 Asking for Proverbs (4)
"Her wish has finally come true. This woman is also pitiful..." Fei Xiao sighed a long time, looked back at Yuan Yue, and heard the sound of pines.

It seems that someone is whispering in the wind, who is it?

Long sigh.

After a few days, Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao chose a good day to bury the bones of Mrs. Huang's wife.

There was not even a name on the stele. A woman who had died a long time ago, and a body that hadn't been buried in the ground for five years, finally got another stone stele without a name.

Wang Zijin only felt that this life was too short, and he was full of emotions. He saw a tall monk in gray clothes coming from a distance. The monk had an ugly face and a burly figure, and he walked over slowly.

I saw him bowing to the stone tablet for a few times, with a desolate expression on his face, then waved his sleeves, strode away with big strides, and sang as he went: "From love comes sorrow, from love comes fear."If there is no love, there is no worry and no fear...

"Who is that man?" Wang Zijin asked Fei Xiao, looking at the monk's back in the setting sun.

"I don't know." Scarlet smiled.

"If you don't know it, then I don't know it either!"

The two of them just felt that they had done a good thing, and they felt at ease. They went back to the inn side by side. Peach blossom face.

And a few miles away, there is a caterpillar with broken wings, struggling to fly in the direction of Jiang Ning.

eleven
The two were walking on the dirt road, and from a distance, they saw a person standing at the end of the road that was dyed red by the setting sun.

The man's clothes fluttered with the wind, a little redder than the setting sun.

When Wang Zijin and Feixiao saw this person, they looked at each other, their hearts sank.

How are they going to tell Lan Xiang that the bride who died five years ago is not her?The true meaning contained in that one-word proverb seems to be getting more and more confusing.

"My lord," Lan Xiang said slowly, seeing the two of them come back, with a bitter smile on her lips, "I already know."

Looking at her miserable face, Wang Zijin felt sad, and really didn't know what to say, so he managed to utter a few words after a while: "Don't worry, let's look for it again..."

"Prince, don't worry about it..." Lan Xiang shook her head and smiled wryly, "If it was really that simple, I wouldn't think about it for five years and still be unhappy."

"I don't know if there is a turning point for this matter." Fei Xiao said on the side.

"Is there any turning point?" Wang Zijin regained his energy when he heard this. Could it be that other brides died?

"My lord, don't worry too much. I really don't want you two to be in distress like me. My lord's kindness has been received by Lan Xiang." Lan Xiang said, tears filled her eyelashes, "I really don't want to drag you down anymore..."

Before he finished speaking, Wang Zijin called out: "What are you talking about? Helping people must help to the end, and you must not give up halfway." He turned his head and said to Fei Xiao, "Fei Xiao, the turning point you just mentioned What's going on again?"

I saw Feixiao's face was stern, as if she was thinking about an extremely important matter. Hearing his question, she looked back at Lan Xiang's attire and said slowly: "I've been thinking just now, there is a kind of bride, Once you get married, you are doomed to die."

"What?" Wang Zijin was taken aback when he heard that, "Since ancient times, the wedding night in the bridal chamber has been hailed as a happy event in life. How can there be such a bride?"

Lan Xiang also had a puzzled look on her face, she just looked straight at Fei Xiao, hoping for an answer.

But Fei Xiao didn't say anything at this point, she waved her hand and said with a smile: "I'm not sure, let's go back to the inn, it's getting late now."

Looking at his white back, Wang Zijin knew that he was playing tricks again, so he shook his head and followed him back.

"What's the matter with the bride you're talking about?" Wang Zijin asked all the way with perseverance.

"Oh my, are you annoying?" Fei Xiao asked while leaning on the wooden bed of the simple inn, "There have been such brides since ancient times, but now it is not sure where she died."

"Since ancient times?" Wang Zijin scratched his head and said, "Is it a 'yin relative'?"

"Zi Jin," Fei Xiao smiled on Jun's face, seeming to approve of him, "It's not far away."

"What the hell is it..." Before she finished speaking, she saw that Fei Xiao's eyes suddenly brightened, and then she stood up from the bed as soon as she turned over, and stretched out her hand to open the wooden window.

"What are you doing?" Wang Zijin hadn't landed on the ground when he saw a little fluorescent light flying towards him in an arc in the dark night outside the window.

Fei Xiao stretched out her hand out of the window, and the fluorescent light landed in his palm, and stopped moving.

It was a dying caterpillar with damaged wings.

"Why?" Wang Zijin wondered when he saw the caterpillar, "This one seems to have gone to a bad place, why is it in such a mess?"

Fei Xiao ignored him, her brows were furrowed, as if she had encountered something very difficult.

After a while, Fang Fang said slowly, "Zi Jin, let's set off tomorrow."

"Where are you going?" Wang Zijin was very surprised when he saw him say this suddenly.

"Go one," Fei Xiao slowly turned her head to look at him, Wang Zijin saw that there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were full of worry, his thin lips parted slightly, and said softly, "Hell on earth."

Wang Zijin couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard this, he felt that the candle light suddenly became dim, and said tremblingly, "Are you kidding?"

Fei Xiao ignored him no more, just smiled and didn't answer.

Wang Zijin saw him like this, and he had already found the root of the matter, and looked at the green bug in Feihong's palm. After completing the task, its wings trembled slightly, and its tentacles drooped, obviously it couldn't survive.

Looking at the dying insect, Wang Zijin felt extremely heavy.

twelve
The next day, several people set off.

Both Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao looked worried, not knowing what was waiting for them in this future.

Only Lan Xiang was extremely happy to see that things had turned around, and she just teased Rong'er along the way, but the girl didn't appreciate it at all, she didn't smile, she just gnawed her finger with a gloomy face.

Fei Xiao went to hire a boat, and several people went down the Yangtze River. The prince asked him several times, but he didn't say where the destination was.

After traveling on the boat for a few days, they changed carriages again. They felt that the journey seemed endless, and the places they traveled were becoming more and more desolate and desolate as far as the eye could see. I believe it is late spring and early summer.

After walking for more than ten days, Wang Zijin finally saw a stone boundary marker on the rough road ahead, with three big red characters written on it: Yuanzhou boundary.

The big red characters stand out against the loess all over the ground.

Wang Zijin knew that he had arrived in Yuanzhou.

"Fei, Fei." Wang Zijin hurriedly galloped over when he saw him, caught up with Fei who was leading the way, pointed to the loess all over the ground and said, "This is Yuanzhou? Isn't Yuanzhou close to Yuanshui? as bleak?"

"That's right," Fei Xiao said, "This is Yuanzhou. The western part of Yuanzhou has experienced severe drought. It's not a year or two, so the people here are in dire straits, and people with a little physical strength stay away from here."

"Then where are we going?" Wang Zijin couldn't help but be speechless.

Fei Xiao looked at the yellow sand everywhere, as if there was no one in the field, and said helplessly: "We are going to the place where the drought is the worst."

After listening to the prince, he only felt that the road ahead was difficult, but he couldn't retreat, so he had to bite the bullet and follow up.

After walking for another day, when they arrived at the market, Fei Xiao sold the horse, exchanged water and a little dry food, and continued on the journey with a group of people.

Along the way, Lan Xiang frowns, and seems to have something very unhappy.

"Lan Xiang, let me help you hold Rong'er." Wang Zijin seemed powerless when he saw her, so he hurried to help her.

"Prince Wang." Lan Xiang said with a smile, "Don't forget that I'm dead, and now I'm just a spirit body without a physical body, how can I be tired?"

"Oh." Wang Zijin felt very bored, looking at the raging sun above his head, he felt that his steps were becoming more and more difficult.

The three of them walked under the scorching sun for a whole day. Seeing that the sun was sinking and the scarlet hair hadn't stopped, Wang Zijin couldn't help crying inwardly.One of these two people is a ghost without a body, and the other is a thousand-year-old fox demon. Only I am an ordinary person. How can I compare with them?

"Hi Hau, let's take a break." Wang Zijin wailed from behind, feeling that his legs were as heavy as if they had been filled with lead, and his mouth was dry. After being exposed to the sun for a day, his whole body could burst into flames. .

"It's almost here." Fei Xiao said, pointing to a village in the distance, "That's it!"

Wang Zijin looked from a distance in the setting sun, and saw that the land of the village was too dry, with ravines and ravines, and a few shriveled and withered trees standing around it like wood carvings.

There are also a few families, all of which are mud brick houses, which seem to be unpopular.

Wang Zijin never expected that his destination would be such a place, he was frustrated for a moment, and sat down on the ground.

And Lan Xiang, who was behind him, pulled Rong'er, looked at this barren village, and she was fascinated. It seemed that she lived here a long time ago, and the plants and trees here were so kind.

At that time, she seemed to have sat on the threshold of some house, with lush green grass and gurgling streams in front of her, but it seemed that in an instant, heaven had turned into hell.

"Lan Xiang? Lan Xiang?" Seeing her in a daze, Wang Zijin hurriedly gave her a hand, "What are you thinking? Fei Xiao said that it's best to arrive when it's dark."

"Nothing." Lan Xiang looked at Wang Zijin's haggard appearance, and couldn't help but feel guilty, "Young Master Wang, thank you so much this time."

"Lan Xiang, don't worry, I've already thought about it." Wang Zijin smiled and said, "If you really can't find the meaning of that word of motto, I will give Rong'er to my mother to take care of her and treat her like ordinary people. Children are no different."

"Prince Wang..." Lan Xiang was grateful when she heard this, but she didn't know what to say.

"You can still come and see her when you're happy." Wang Zijin continued, "Maybe there is no real meaning hidden in that word, and I don't know. The meaning of words is given by people. For anything, being too persistent It's not good."

"I understand." Lan Xiang said and lowered her head, "Young Master Wang wants me not to pursue too much, and to live a chic life."

Wang Zijin scratched his head and smiled: "I just mean that I can help you look after the children. If you don't want to find out the meaning of this word, you can play with confidence."

Hearing what he said, Lan Xiang couldn't laugh or cry for a moment, took Rong'er's hand and continued on her way.

thirteen
When it was dark, the three of them walked into the village.

I saw a huge village with dozens of families, but it was as quiet as death, without a single sound of people.

"Is anyone there?" Seeing this scene, the prince couldn't help being frightened, and knocked on the door of a house casually.

"Is anyone there?" Seeing that no one answered, he knocked harder, but the door panel was not very strong, and it fell to the ground with a thud when he knocked on it, kicking up dust all over the place.

"What the hell kind of place is this?" Wang Zijin asked Fei Xiao.

Fei Xiao loves cleanliness very much, and hastily threw off the ashes that fell on her body, "This place has been suffering from severe drought for several years, and it has long since become a place that people and animals don't want to live in. It's not an exaggeration to say that it is a dead place on earth."

"The hell on earth you said is here?" Wang Zijin looked at the empty houses and withered willows around him, and suddenly felt that if there really was a hell, it would be nothing more than this.

"No, no, it's not a dead place..." Lan Xiang said with a strange brilliance in his eyes, "I remember, I know, there used to be green water flowing here, and because it is close to the tributary of the Yuan River, the harvest is abundant every year. , is a rare and rich place.”

(End of this chapter)