Chapter 166 Snowman's Appearance
The distance from Shangqing Immortal Palace to Peidu is extremely long.
If you use the technique of shrinking the earth, it will take about two to three days.
If one does not use the technique of shrinking the earth, and drives a carriage like an ordinary mortal, it will take more than a month.
As usual, Li Xun wanted to go with her because he was more familiar with Peidu.
Helan Wei and Xie Chengjin also found excuses and followed.
Xie Yanyu didn't refuse.
This time, she didn't use the shrinking technique.
She was just like Li Xun in the past, riding in a carriage, stopping and going, and stopping in every town she passed by, staying there for a few days, strolling around casually, seeing what the streets looked like, what kind of clothes the pedestrians on the street liked to wear, and what kind of cuisine was popular in the teahouses and restaurants.
In her past life, she had never paid attention to these things.
When I was young, I wandered around. Every time I arrived at a place, I would look around to see if there was any food I could pick up.
Later, when he entered the Xie Mansion, every time he went to a place, he went straight to his destination and did not waste extra time on irrelevant things.
Only now did she realize it.
It turns out that Shangqing Immortal Palace is located in the north, and the people around here are different from those around Tiandu and Peidu.
The weather here is dry and still very cold in early spring. Her cultivation level has increased year by year, so she is not so sensitive to the temperature. She wears clothes of similar thickness all year round, but people living down the mountain like to wear thicker clothes and eat more substantial food, such as pancakes and meat.
And further south,
The weather became damp and cold, and there was more rain.
Such differences in water and soil, coupled with the fatigue of traveling, make it easy for ordinary people to get sick.
Helan Wei fell ill on this night.
I originally thought it was just due to the unfamiliar climate and a slight fever.
However, late at night, the fever symptoms seemed to become more severe, as if every blood vessel in the body was burning.
Helan Wei covered his chest and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
He felt clearly that his life was burning like a candle, and he seemed to be aging at an accelerated rate.
At this moment, he suddenly remembered something -
When he went to get the Heart Demon Mirror, he entered the mirror and saw his past life.
besides,
He also saw the mirror spirit with whom he had made a covenant in his previous life.
Because time had turned back, the mirror spirit also disappeared with the turning back of time, but its consciousness still existed, lingering in the mirror. After sensing his breath, it wrapped around him, wanting to keep him in the mirror with it.
That consciousness was haunting him, trying to kill him.
It didn't know what kind of spell it used, but it cast a curse on him.
This will accelerate his body's aging and death.
At that time, his cultivation was very high.
Therefore, when such a curse was placed on him, it was suppressed by his cultivation and had no effect.
However, the Mirror Spirit's consciousness was limited, and just casting this curse on him had already exhausted all of its energy.
Then the last bit of its consciousness faded. Before disappearing, it said to him sarcastically, "I know the past, so I can predict your future. This curse will take effect on you one day."
Helan Wei once thought this was ridiculous.
Even though he was seriously injured in the mirror, almost to the point of dying honesty, and even his eyes could not see,
But his cultivation is still there, how could this curse take effect on him?
This seemed like a very boring joke, not even worthy of his attention.
After coming out of the mirror, he gave the mirror to Xie Yanyu. After that, what he experienced in the mirror was gradually forgotten by him.
Including what the mirror spirit said.
Until this moment.
He suddenly remembered this.
Without the suppression of cultivation, the curse took effect. It had been in effect from the moment his root bones were removed.
His life was slipping away faster.
And his face is aging, even faster than that of ordinary people—
He suddenly stretched out his hand and pressed his fingertips on the corner of his eye.
Then he touched it carefully and found another tiny fine line there.
It's very late at night.
The servant heard the noise in his room and knocked on the door and came in.
I saw him holding a mirror, but probably because he was blind, he couldn't see anything even with the mirror in his hand. Therefore, he went to extremes and smashed all the mirrors into pieces. The ground was covered with sharp mirror fragments, but he didn't seem to feel any pain and stepped on them, with blood all over his feet.
It seemed that I heard the sound of the servant entering the room.
He turned his head.
Then the attendant heard him ask, "Am I old?"
He had asked this question several times.
But the servant's answer was always that he would never grow old.
This time, when the attendant heard the question, he was still prepared to answer it seriously.
He walked over and stopped in front of Helan Wei——
I have to admit it.
Helan Wei's face is truly impeccable.
However, this time, the servant finally saw some tiny wrinkles from the corner of his eyes.
To say it is old is not quite accurate.
What does aging look like? Wrinkles appear on the cheeks, and the skin begins to sag. If we estimate it by the age of an ordinary person, perhaps it takes until 35 or even 40 before someone starts to look a bit old.
Before this age, in fact, throughout the twenties and thirties, the changes in the face will not be too big.
It's a little bit of fine lines, a little bit of blemishes on the skin.
But if you look with the naked eye, you can't see much difference.
So the attendant looked at it carefully and thought for a moment.
He replied, "Young Master is not old. He looks like he is about 28 or 29 years old now."
So he is indeed aging at an accelerated rate.
Even so, it is still difficult to see with the naked eye.
Helan Wei held the shattered mirror, the sharp fragments embedded in his palm, blood dripping down, but he seemed completely unaware -
How could he age so quickly?
He didn't want her to see him getting old. He was afraid and terrified. He wanted to hide the old self in the future and never let him appear in her eyes.
In this way, she would always remember him as he is now, a better-looking one; she had promised to remember him, so she would just remember his best appearance.
He would leave her the day he began to grow old.
He once thought that there was still a lot of time, maybe five years, or six years, seven years, or even ten years, and he could stay with her for a little longer, a little longer.
But what is the reality?
How much time does he have left?
There was a heavy silence in the room.
After a moment, the attendant heard Helan Wei whisper, "Use your magic to help me take a look... Just see what the curse on me is like."
*
The curse of the mirror spirit is nothing to the monks.
But for mortals, it seems a bit cruel.
The rate of aging is slow at first.
But over time, it will get faster and faster.
At first, half a year seemed like a year, then a quarter seemed like a year, then a month seemed like a year...
This was Helan Wei's first year as a mortal. He was twenty-seven years old, but looked like he was twenty-eight or twenty-nine, which sounded okay.
But now he can clearly feel that he is aging at an accelerated rate, so from this moment on, the speed of aging becomes one season as one year, then one month as one year, and even a few days as one year.
It is early spring now, and by early summer he will look about thirty years old.
By the time autumn comes, it might be around thirty-two or thirty-three, and by winter, it might be around thirty-five.
Perhaps the naked eye cannot see the difference between twenty-six or twenty-seven and thirty-four or thirty-five.
But what about January?
He calculated the days and figured that at the end of this winter, on the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, after midnight, he would suddenly age again. Perhaps by then, he would change from looking thirty-four or thirty-five to looking like he was in his forties.
He didn't want her to see him getting old.
So how much time does he have left with her?
Less than a year.
Helan Wei began to ask his servants frequently. Every morning when he woke up, he would ask his servants how he looked that day.
He would only appear in front of Xie Yanyu after the servant gave his reply.
Then he became even more clingy, as if he wanted to be with her all the time.
Xie Yanyu sensed his change: "Are you still not feeling well?"
Helan Wei shook his head: "No, I just had trouble acclimatizing myself to the local climate these past few days."
Xie Yanyu: "So what happened to you recently?"
Helan Wei kissed her forehead and stopped talking.
Xie Yanyu discovered that he had developed some strange habits, such as always touching her face, as if he wanted to engrave her appearance in his mind; for example, sometimes when he was aroused at night, he would become more clingy, and after that he would hold her tightly in his arms, with his beautifully shaped arms embracing her like a snake entwining her.
Every one of his habits gave her a vague sense of strangeness.
It was as if he felt that his time with her was running out, so he lived every day as if it were his last.
But if you ask him what's wrong, he will say it's nothing.
After so many times, Xie Yanyu became too lazy to ask.
From Shangqing Palace to Peidu, from north to south, you will pass through mountains, plains, and some coastal areas.
Xie Yanyu stopped to take a look at every place.
She wanted to see more.
After all, who knows whether she will be dead or alive after this year?
Just walk and stop like this.
When we arrived in Peidu, it was already early winter.
Peidu has a lot of rain but not much snow. In the summer, it often rains for days on end, and the air is filled with a damp atmosphere. But in the winter, it is only damp and cold, with some tiny snow seeds floating occasionally. After a night, there will be no snow on the ground.
When it was almost the end of winter,
Then it really started snowing heavily, and snowflakes fell down, covering the ground with a thick layer of white.
However, it doesn’t seem to be like this every year.
It seems that people in Peidu don't often see such heavy snow.
Therefore, many people ran out, children gathered in groups of three or five, and there were adults too, some making snowmen and some having snowball fights.
Xie Yanyu leaned against the gate of the yard and looked out.
She didn't have many friends, and had never played in the snow with anyone. Her eyes fell on the people on the street, and she was a little curious about what it felt like.
Next second.
There was a sound of breaking wind behind me.
Before she could react, an icy snowball hit her directly.
When she looked back, she saw that it was Li Xun who picked up the snowball and threw it at her, and asked her to throw it back in a sarcastic tone.
I don't know who started it first.
Later, Xie Chengjin also joined in. As if he was annoyed by the flying snowballs, he simply threw them at Li Xun's head.
So Xie Yanyu played in the snow with others for the first time in his life.
Helan Wei's eyesight is blind and his mortal body is weaker.
He did not participate in the snowball fight, but sat in the courtyard wearing a cloak.
Xie Yanyu's hands were unsteady.
It wasn't until she accidentally threw a big snowball at him that she realized that she had ignored Helan Wei.
But he was not unhappy. He picked up the snowball that fell on him. By the time she came over, the snowball in his hand had melted a little.
Xie Yanyu now feels a little indebted to him.
Even though Zhao Zhen had told her that he had willingly given her his root bones, and that everything in the world was nothing more than fate, and that she didn't need to feel burdened, she still cherished the feelings of those who had helped her, and she couldn't be completely free of them.
So she asked him, "You might not be good at playing snowball fights, so I didn't ask you. Do you want me to do something else with you?"
Helan Wei thought for a while and said, "Then help me build a snowman."
He handed her the half-melted snowball in his hand, a smile on his pretty face: "Build it according to my model. I can't see it, but you can't lie to me."
Xie Yanyu had never built a snowman before, this was her first time.
She wouldn't be reluctant to try such a thing.
The first snowman she built was in the image of Helan Wei. She squatted in the snow and built a snowman that looked nothing like him. The snowman was not good-looking, but he was very handsome. She might not remember the snowman's crooked mouth and slanted eyes, but she would probably remember his appearance at this moment on this day.
For him, that was enough.
A snowman was built from afternoon to evening. When it was finished, Helan Wei walked up to it.
Because he couldn't see, he reached out his hand.
I touched the snowman carefully with my fingertips, trying to feel what it looked like.
After several days, the sun came out.
Helan Wei went to the yard as usual, wanting to touch the snowman she had built for him.
But the snowman was almost melted. He stretched out his hand, but could only grab a little snow, which gradually melted into cold water in his palm that he could not hold.
*
After the snow melted, the sun came out for a few days and heavy snow fell again, making the snow on the ground thicker and higher.
night.
Helan Wei insisted on staying in Xie Yanyu's room.
He has been becoming more and more clingy recently. Xie Yanyu has been pestered by him and is a little too lazy to pay attention to him. She sits down next to him and looks through the calendar, and finds that today is the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month.
The day she died in her previous life was the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month.
There are six days left.
After tonight, it will be five days.
at night.
Helan Wei turned off the lights early.
Then he covered her eyes with a ribbon to prevent her from looking at him. Xie Yanyu thought he was going to do something again by covering her eyes, but he did nothing, not even kissing her.
He just held her in his arms and touched her face without saying a word. His slightly cool fingertips touched her eyebrows to the corners of her eyes, then to her nose, lips, and jaw. His posture actually made her feel a little pious.
Touching repeatedly.
Xie Yanyu slapped his hand away: "Stop touching me, it's annoying. If you keep doing this, you'll be able to draw me out."
Helan Wei hummed and said with a smile, "I just don't know if the painting is realistic."
Xie Yanyu was too lazy to pay attention to him.
After knocking his hand away, he calmed down a lot.
But at night, when she was half asleep, she felt as if someone was touching her face over and over again.
The next morning,
Xie Yanyu woke up.
Removing the ribbon covering her eyes, she found the room empty.
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