Spring River Flower Moon Night: Set of 2 Volumes

Chapter 69 The Undead Medicine (5)
"Zi Jin, so you have thought of it too." Fei Xiao said slowly, "Behind every medicine of immortality, there must be an immortal person, that person who examines the medicine!"

"But, this idea is too dangerous." Wang Zijin stammered, "How can we prove it?"

"Tomorrow, go to that girl's grave. If she is really immortal, she will definitely crawl out of the grave."

Wang Zijin shuddered, thinking of June's dark eyes, his heart was filled with bitterness, and for a moment he didn't know whether to expect her death or her life.

The next day, there was a drizzle in the sky, which finally brought some coolness to the hot summer.Fei Xiao asked about the girl's burial place early in the morning. Holding a bamboo umbrella, she followed the prince into the depths of the bamboo forest.

"Old Madam Cheng said that the child was too young to build a grave, so she was buried in the back mountain." Fei Xiao said as she walked, "Actually, when Qing Ling failed to summon her soul, I should have doubted it. When she came in and out of the house, we mistakenly thought she was a ghost."

"Feixiao..." Wang Zijin suddenly felt a little frightened, looking at the verdant bamboo forest and said, "Is there really an immortal person in this world?"

"No," Feixiao's white clothes seemed to be dyed green by the bamboo forest, and she shook her head with a wry smile, "As long as there is life, it will wither and die. The so-called immortal people are just living zombies."

Wang Zijin stopped talking, and walked with him on the grass. After walking not far, he saw a small soil hole in the depths of the bamboo forest.

The surrounding vegetation is skewed and the loess is messy, as if someone has been buried.But now there is only a shallow pit left in the lonely loess, so where is the shadow of the corpse?
Holding a bamboo umbrella, Wang Zijin stared blankly at the dirt pit under his feet, momentarily absent-minded.

It turned out that they were all deceived, and all of this was actually a farce written and acted by a girl who was less than six years old and took advantage of her special physique.

Fei Xiao also had a sad face and said no more.After an unknown amount of time, there was a rustling sound of stepping grass behind him, as if someone was quietly approaching.

Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao looked back, and saw a little girl standing in the bamboo forest in the drizzle, showing a faint smile to them.

"June, June..." Wang Zijin looked into those wise eyes and suddenly felt extremely strange.

"Brother Wang." Like a child who has done something wrong, June pinched the corner of her clothes and said, "I'm sorry, I lied to you."

"You really won't die? Could it be that the medicine is real?" Thinking of her cold hands, Wang Zijin was even more convinced.

"No..." June shook her head and smiled wryly, "It's not that I won't die, but I've been living in the state of a dead person, separated from life forever, and will never grow up."

"Why?" Wang Zijin suddenly felt a pain in his heart, "Then the old man is so cruel to let such a young girl to test the medicine?"

"It's not the medicine that grandpa asked me to try..." June said every word, "Grandpa's medicine is not an immortal medicine at all, but a poison. I tried to hide the medicine in order not to disappoint him."

After she finished speaking, she reached into her bosom, took out a dripping pill, and handed it to Prince Jin.

"This is the lost elixir of immortality. Ordinary people will be refreshed after taking it, but after a month or so, they will die of exhaustion and have no power to recover."

"Then you can just say it clearly, why do you want to do that?"

"Because grandpa is kind to me..." June's big eyes suddenly mist up, and she cried silently, "I have lived for hundreds of thousands of years, only grandpa is the best to me. He was disappointed, so he tampered with the cat and dog who was testing the medicine, making him think that he had made the medicine! But grandpa said that in order to cure the girl's illness, he would sell the medicine at a high price. I was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so I came up with this method .”

"When the scholar came in, you had just dug the medicine out from under the green brick, and you were disturbed, so you simply fell to the ground and pretended to be dead?" Fei Xiao asked.

"Yes, I wanted to run away with the medicine, but he was so frightened that I simply followed the plan. After he left, I locked the door, found a sharp weapon and cut off my own neck, and threw the weapon through the window. After going out, no one saw through it, and was buried as a dead person just like that."

After Wang Zijin heard this, he shook his head and sighed. The Cheng family saw that the medicine was lost, and Mr. Cheng suddenly fell ill again. In the panic, no one really took a close look at the little girl's life and death.

"Brother Wang..." June took Wang Zijin's hand and said, "I beg you, because I have lived too long, and I can see a little secret. Grandpa may be leaving today, can you take me to see him?" His last look?"

Wang Zijin looked at Feihong, then at her expectant eyes, and nodded silently.

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So in the drizzle, Wang Zijin led June Yi into the gate of Cheng's house, which immediately caused a commotion. Everyone saw the dead come back to life, their faces turned pale and their legs trembled in fright.

But June had a calm face, and walked straight to the old man's bedroom without fear of everyone's gaze.

"June...good boy..." Master Cheng was lying on the bed like a skeleton. After seeing her, his lifeless eyes suddenly filled with hope, "They all said you were dead, grandpa knew...they were lying I……"

"Grandpa..." June held the old man's withered hand and said, "I lied to you, I'm sorry."

"How come? Silly boy, when did grandpa blame you? It's good that you are alive..." The old man reached out and stroked her jet-black hair, his eyes full of love.

"The medicine is fake. There has never been a medicine for immortality." As soon as June said this, not only the old man on the bed, but also everyone in the room gasped.

"Then, the drug tester, the cats and dogs who test the drug... aren't all alive? And they are a hundred times more energetic than before?"

"All the cats and dogs who tested the medicine died. I secretly caught them back to hide it from you."

"I see, that's how it is..." The old man suddenly laughed dryly twice, looking at the hazy sky outside the window, but his voice was worse than crying, "There really is nothing in this world that is immortal, why is this old man still obsessed with it after all his age?" , want to go against the sky?"

"Old man, you are wrong. There is indeed an elixir in this world. The girl in front of you is a person who can live forever after taking the elixir." Fei Xiao looked at June and said, "Am I right?"

"That's right..." June buried her face in tears, "I don't know how long I've lived, I just remember that in June a long time ago, someone gave me a pill in the gorgeous palace to eat, and then I died But when I woke up again, I was in the dark underground. I crawled out of the soil and found that I would not grow up or die. No matter how I tried to die, I could recover after a period of suspended animation. After that I will start to visit people all over the world who are looking for the elixir of immortality, and try all the elixir they have refined, just to die!"

"Why, why? Isn't it good not to grow old and die?" The old man asked her tremblingly.

"It's not good at all..." June cried, "No matter how mature my soul is, it will always be imprisoned in a little girl's body, and no matter how much I like someone, I have to watch him Slowly grow old, and finally leave me."

"I understand..." the old man said with cloudy eyes, looking at the autumn water outside the window, "the lush yellow flowers are all prajna. The green and green bamboos are all dharmakaya. Life can last forever, why should I?" What about clinging to the formal immortality?"

After he finished speaking, he looked at the sky with a smile on his lips, and he didn't breathe anymore.

June stretched out her tender little hand, gently closed his eyes for him, and left quietly.

Yuyu yellow flowers are all Prajna.The green bamboos are all Dharmakaya.

Outside the window, the clear water washes the clear sky, and the kingfishers are competing to sing, which is a lively and noisy world.In this vibrant scene, no one noticed the passing of a life, but saw a group of egrets soaring in the blue sky.

"Oh, it's a big loss this time." Wang Zijin kept lamenting when he returned to Hangzhou, "It turns out that the Cheng family has no money at all, and they wanted to find the elixir and sell it for money, so they promised Qing Ling a lot of money. "

"That's right, I don't know that the elixir is a fake." Fei Xiao shook her head and sighed, "But it's a good thing that the girl from Cheng's family married her sweetheart."

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"Actually, it's nothing." Fei Xiao looked at him and said with a smile, "The key is that you have been the matchmaker many times. This is the real pity!"

The two were talking, Qing Ling came to say goodbye, but this time there was a five or six year old girl walking with him.

"You want to take her away?" Fei Xiao pointed at June in surprise and said, "Don't you think it's cumbersome?"

"How could it be?" Qingling looked at June and said with a smile, "My lifelong pursuit is to build a Taoyuan Wonderland, where there is no difference between humans and monsters, and there is no worldly struggle, no matter whether it is a human or a monster, everyone can live in harmony , happy and harmonious, but always unable to ask for it.”

After finishing speaking, he pointed to June and smiled: "She only wants to die, and she can't ask for the same thing. How are we similar? It's a long road, and it's good to have someone as a companion."

"Really? Then hurry up and get on your way, don't come looking for us again!" Fei Xiao felt a headache when she saw them, and hurriedly issued an order to evict them.

"Big brother, I'm leaving, think of me when you are free!" June happily waved at Prince Jin as if she had just met her.

Looking at her bright smiling face, Wang Zijin recalled how she patiently taught him to identify medicinal materials in that sunny afternoon, and his heart felt warm.

Qingling took June to say goodbye, and the figures of the two, one big and one small, gradually disappeared in the endless sunset.

Wang Zijin looked at the sky full of red clouds, and said, "Fei Xiao, actually, I don't think it's scary to be immortal, but the most terrible thing is the unbearable loneliness and loneliness. When it's cold in the middle of the night, when you want to talk, but It was a sad feeling to find that there was no one around me."

He talked for a long time, but found that no one answered him.Turning around again, I saw that Fei Xiao was already lying on the bed, falling into a deep sleep.

Wang Zijin shook his head and sighed, discussing life with him was like talking to Xia Chong.

I only hope that God can give him a beautiful interpreter as soon as possible to save him from the dire straits.

(End of this chapter)