Chapter 111 (1/2)
Is death such a feeling?
It's dark. It's cold around. I can't breathe. It's like drowning
Wait, drowning?
”Cough...”
The girl suddenly got out of the water and coughed.
Then she looked in surprise at the scene around her - the river after she was taken by the parrot to the mythical age.
Then she didn't care to climb ashore first, but lifted the hem of her clothes.
There is his smooth and white belly, no internal organs and blood flowing out after being cut off, no white bones, and his body is still well connected.
”... is that a dream?” The girl put down her clothes and muttered in disbelief.
”Unfortunately not.”
Her answer was that she had become a parrot's eloquence, and her voice seemed helpless: ”you were really killed by that visitor from the different world just now.”
”What the hell is going on!”
Five leaf pansy was excited and shouted at the parrot with an expression about to collapse.
But I don't blame her. Anyone who was killed for no reason can't calm down.
”Well, before answering your question, are you sure you don't come up from the river first? You'll catch a cold. ”
”This kind of thing is not... Sneeze!”
As if to confirm the parrot's guess, the girl's words were interrupted by a sneeze just halfway through.
She blushed, bit her lips, reluctantly went ashore, then sat aside and began to wring her clothes.
”Let's start from the beginning... Didn't I say before that we can return to this era by relying on the power of five other gods? So in fact, there are five forces on this heavenly Qiong: the first force brings us to this era, and then in order to realize your wish, you need to reserve one, and you also need one to return to your original era. In addition, there are two more forces. These two forces are the existence of ”insurance” for you... Once you die, insurance will be triggered, Return you to a specific point in time. ”
The parrot sighed humanely: ”I didn't tell you at the beginning because I was afraid that you would take it lightly if you knew about this mechanism... Who knows that even if you don't know about the insurance, you will die all at once.”
”It's all that guy's violent relationship! In other words, this task can't be completed at all! Let the guy who kills people without blinking his eyes follow us... It's better to say that even if I can, I don't want to act with that murderer! ”
Wuye complained crazily.
”In a word, try to be cautious when talking to him this time...” the parrot didn't argue with her about whether Xu Shenxing was wrong or the world, but suggested.
”No!” But the girl firmly refused: ”I don't want to communicate with that guy!”
At the thought that the other party is a cold-blooded murderer who will kill with a sword once he finds something wrong, Wuye will feel the horror of his dying heart being gripped and his blood frozen.
She stood up and walked in the opposite direction of the original foreign visitors about to land: ”in short, there must be other ways to correct the deviation of history!”
”Hey, I said, now is not the time to lose your temper...”
The parrot hurried up and tried to persuade: ”if you don't find him now, you'll lose the other party's whereabouts later. It's much more troublesome to find it again.”
Unfortunately, its persuasion obviously failed to move the girl's heart. Finally, they walked all the way, left the forest where the river was located and came to a fairly broad foothill.
Viola quinquefolia found traces of human beings here - a large area of farmland full of grain and various paths scattered among them. From a distance, you can also see a village mainly composed of thatched houses. It may be that the time is approaching noon, and there is a faint curl of cooking smoke rising.
”Do you want to go and have a rest?”
Having given up persuading the girl to find the visitor from the different world, the parrot flew aside and asked Wu Ye.
Wu Ye hesitated.
Fusang's folk customs are relatively late, and there are many strange customs everywhere. Whether she will be welcome or not, it will be bad luck if she is killed as a monster.
Just as she hesitated, an old voice came from the rice field not far away.
”What's the matter with this young lady here?”
Pansy hurriedly looked over there and found that it was an old man in his seventies, wearing patched rags and holding a sickle in his hand, who seemed to be harvesting crops.
”Miss... Are you talking about me?” Wu Ye blinked and asked.
”Of course, the women in our farmhouse are not as delicate as you, young lady. Although the clothes are strange, they are also very good-looking. I haven't seen that kind of cloth. It must be valuable cloth in Ping'an Jing (Ping'an Jing seems to be a name that only appeared in Nara era, but let's take it as since ancient times).”
The old man bent over and said happily.
”In fact, we are on our way to amber river.”
Seeing each other seemed harmless. Viola also said her destination: ”Grandpa, have you heard of it?”
Amber river is the place name that the debater who became a parrot told her.
According to the parrot, there is only one way to get to gaotianyuan from the world, that is, from the place where the rainbow starts, walk the rainbow bridge to the kingdom of God.
However, the starting place of the rainbow is not fixed. It changes every hundreds of years and is managed by the local Dragon God. The Dragon God Yiji of amber river is the one who manages the starting place of the rainbow this time.
”Amber River... Sorry, little old man, I don't know, but there are businessmen who have been to Ping'an Beijing in the village. Maybe he knows.”
The old man thought for a moment, then slowly replied, ”well, if you don't mind, I'll go to the village with you and ask.”
”Ah, how nice...” the girl waved her hand and refused: ”and will it hinder grandpa's work?”
”It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter,” the old man laughed brightly. ”These things are the same when they come to harvest, but the job of asking for directions for you is not available every day.”
He seemed a little depressed: ”and looking at you, I will think of my dead daughter... Sorry, impolite, little old man, I don't mean anything bad. I hope you won't mind.”
”It doesn't matter.” When the other party said so, Viola continued to refuse, which seemed a little inhumane, so she could only say with a bitter smile: ”please.”
——Split line——
After arriving at the village, the girl found that the villagers were unexpectedly kind and hospitable. She heard that she was here for the first time and greeted her one after another.
Several children were still around her asking questions. Even the parrot, who had become a debater, was plagued and several long tail feathers were pulled out.
Moreover, she also asked about the general location of amber River from the professional businessman who claimed to have been to Ping'an Beijing, but she couldn't bear the harsh promotion of the other party. Fortunately, before she ran out of patience, the grandfather waved a crutch to help her out.
So, although it was the first time to see such a village, Viola felt that she didn't hate this lively place full of vitality.
”Sorry, I haven't seen outsiders in the village for a long time, so those guys have gone too far.”
The old man took Viola to his house and said he wanted to invite her to dinner.
”It doesn't matter. I'm glad to be welcomed by you.” The girl answered with a smile.
Incidentally, at this time, the parrot is putting one wing on the wall and facing the five leaf Viola wall with its bare tail. It seems that it is quite depressed without tail feathers
Grandpa doesn't live alone. There is an old woman and a young girl in the house.
Knowing that the little girl was also the daughter of an aging grandfather, pansy had to sigh that there was really no entertainment in ancient nights.
At first, the little girl was a little afraid of strangers. She hid behind her grandfather and only showed half her small face. She carefully looked at Wuye, and any action of Wuye would frighten her to drill behind her grandfather.
Finally, the helpless Viola can only catch the eloquence day, ignore the other party's struggle, put it into the girl's hand as a toy and let her play, which is a good relationship with the girl.
When she held the little girl in her arms, even the five leaf pansy, whose whole heart was tied to the elder sister of the imperial concubine palace, wanted to shout, ”primary school students are really great!” The impulse of.
Calm down, lace and Laurie are not one attribute.
The girl's reason warned her in her mind.
... wait, there seems to be no conflict between the two.
What interrupted Viola's thought and kept her from going astray was the stew brought by grandma.
There seems to be no good seasoning in this era, but a little crude salt, the taste of the ingredients and grandma's superb mastery of the heat are enough to make the whole dish delicious.
The only pity is that although the staple food is rice, it tastes strange. It seems different from modern white rice, and it is also mixed with small stones
After dinner, the Viola was taken by the little girl to play together in the field, catching butterflies and frogs, which made the girl feel as if she had returned to her childhood.
Originally, the parrot should have jumped out to stop the girl from wasting time like this, but before the meal, it was played by the little girl, and lay on the corner and wall all afternoon.
After dark, unlike in the city, in this era without light pollution, you can clearly see the stars all over the sky, lying on the soft grass and looking up at the sky. The magnificent Milky way and an afternoon's crazy play also eased the depression in the girl's heart.
After playing for an afternoon, the little girl was so tired that she fell asleep on the grass. Wuye could only carry the girl back to the village with a bitter smile.
The old couple haven't fallen asleep yet. They are waiting for them to come back while enjoying the cool at the door.
Seeing the five leaf pansy with the little girl on their back, their wrinkled faces showed a happy and kind smile.
At night, although the only place to sleep is the hard floor, Wuye thinks he will fall asleep soon.