Chapter 226 The Miserable Spirit Girl
Uncle Yan Ping glared at Wu Lan unhappily, and Yu Banxia also stood up: "It's okay, it's just that I feel a little hot and dizzy, I'll go out for a walk."
"I'll go with you, Liuli. You and Xuanfeng will stay in the palace. If His Majesty Beirong wants to find us later, come find us."
Liuli and the other two responded, and Uncle Yan Ping's steps were a little unsteady.
The Erdun brothers and sisters looked at each other, their hearts filled with excitement. They also felt that the hall was too hot, so they followed each other out.
Wulan also hurriedly put down her things and followed him out.
Walida was a little curious, why were they all running out?
Ayali ran to pour him some wine and whispered something in his ear. Walida's face turned a little ugly, but he still held back.
He glanced with displeasure at Prince Chagan who was toasting with others below.
Outside the palace, the wind and snow were getting stronger.
"Huh?" Yu Banxia asked in confusion the moment she reached out to catch the snowflake.
"What's wrong?" Uncle Yan Ping asked softly.
Yu Banxia whispered, "This snow actually contains resentment. I wonder if the current snowstorm is related to this."
"Snow... carries resentment?" Uncle Yan Ping was a little confused.
"Well, have you heard of the legend of the Snow Girl?" Yu Banxia tilted his head slightly and glanced at the tail behind him.
Uncle Yan Ping shook his head and answered truthfully: "I really haven't heard of it."
"The vengeful spirits that died in winter will turn into snow girls with endless resentment. It seems that someone in Beirong died tragically."
Yu Banxia sighed, then took him into a side hall.
The door was quickly closed, and Erdun's brother and sister followed in, but they didn't see anyone. Qi Baoyin suddenly rolled his eyes and collapsed.
Erdun wanted to help, but then he felt pain in his neck and fainted.
Yu Banxia clapped his hands, and Uncle Yan Ping threw Erdun onto the big bed in the side hall. Yu Banxia picked up Qi Baoyin and said, "Go out first, Wulan is coming in."
"Okay." Uncle Yan Ping nodded and followed her out of the palace.
Wu Lan then entered the hall. She was staggering and was beginning to lose consciousness.
Seeing a man lying on the bed, he mistook Erdun for Uncle Yan Ping and pounced on him.
Not long after, ambiguous sounds were heard in the hall.
Qi Baoyin was thrown by Yu Banxia on a bed in another side hall. As soon as they left, Qi Baoyin woke up.
Then he stumbled out of the door and met a lazy Beirong guard.
Qi Baoyin pounced on it and started to bite it. The guard thought, this is a good thing, so he thought it would be a waste if he didn't eat it, and carried her back to the side hall.
Yu Banxia and the other person slowly walked towards the Night Banquet Hall.
As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the hall, I met an old palace servant who was serving the retired emperor.
"Madam, I have something to ask you." Yu Banxia said to the old palace maid.
The old palace servant saluted quickly and then said, "Lord of the West Courtyard, if you have anything to say, just tell me directly."
"Has there ever been a woman in Beirong who died tragically on Xue Tian?" As soon as these words were spoken, the old palace maid's face suddenly changed.
Yu Banxia raised her eyebrows. It really is true.
The old palace servant did not hide anything and motioned for Yu Banxia to go to the side hall to talk.
After entering the side hall, the old palace servant spoke slowly.
There is a legend in Beirong about snowy days. Over the years, every winter has been the most tormenting for Beirong.
This year the situation is most serious, and even the border of Southern Shanxi has been affected.
This winter is much colder than in previous years, almost to the point where water can form pillars.
The Beirong people have an ancient tune. Whenever a snowstorm collapses the felt tent, people seem to be able to hear the sound of jade bells coming from under the ice. That is the sound of the wrist bones of the spirit girl Tana breaking as she freezes to death.
It is said that before the Beirong, there was a mysterious tribe, and on the top of the Altun Sacred Mountain, a pair of twin snow lotuses once bloomed.
The shaman of the mysterious tribe said that they were the reincarnations of the last two ice keepers of the sacred mountain who died.
One of the two ice keepers is Tana, who was born in a mysterious tribe.
When Tana was born, there was an ice crystal pattern on her forehead and a snow lotus that would not melt was held in her palm.
The tribesmen said that Tana was a spirit girl transformed from the heart of the sacred mountain, and sent her to the forbidden area of the sacred mountain, a place that one could only enter but not leave.
The forbidden area is very large. Tana has lived in it for eighteen years and has never seen another person. She always thought that she was the only one in the forbidden area.
When Tana was eighteen years old, she fell in love with Chaolu, a swordsmith who accidentally entered the forbidden area.
On the day when the young boy fell into an ice cave carrying the black sword and iron box on his back, Tana used the blood from the tip of her tongue to melt the thousand-year-old ice.
In return, he said tremblingly: "I'll take you to see the Gesang flowers in spring."
They found half a volume of the incomplete "Mountain Nerve" in the ice crack, and Chao Lu used the hardest ice to forge a string of jade bells for Tana.
He said that once they collected all the twelve spiritual jades from the snow-capped mountains, they would be able to break the ban and walk out of the sacred mountain.
But he didn't know that Tana was coughing up blood every night, and when the Ice Keeper became emotional, deadly ice spikes would form on his heart.
The day the high priest discovered the affair was also the day they broke the ban, and a blizzard blocked all the ways out of the mountain.
Chaolu was chained to the altar, and Tana knelt down to lick the ice off the soles of the elder's shoes.
"Master Elder, please let him go. Tana is willing to guard the Ice Abyss forever."
The high priest sneered and threw the torch in his hand at the remaining fragments of "The God of the Mountain".
"Either he dies, or I dig out your soul and blood to nourish the mountain soul."
When the morning star came out, Tana walked into the ice palace holding the dagger that Chao Lu had given her.
The moment the blade pierced his heart, she saw her own shattered smile reflected in the boy's eyes.
It turned out that Chao Lu had a poisoned dagger hidden in his sleeve. She gave him the dagger herself, just so that he could kill her with one blow.
The high priest promised him that if he killed the spirit girl with his own hands, he would give him a pass and ten carts of salt.
Blood splattered out and landed on the ice coffin, and the twelve snow peaks collapsed at the same time.
Tana's spiritual blood did not flow to the mountain soul, but instead dyed the entire glacier red.
The reason why she had never seen the other Ice Keeper was because that Ice Keeper had also died long ago.
Chao Lu's accidental intrusion was actually planned by the high priest.
Unfortunately, he miscalculated, and Tana's spiritual blood failed to nourish the mountain soul and complete the last step of the plan.
When Chao Lu was about to reach the mountain pass holding the blood-stained pass, a huge icicle fell from the sky.
His legs were nailed to the boundary marker.
The remaining "Mountain God" has bloody words on it: "Those who sacrifice love will be trapped in the wind and snow forever."
Seven days later, Chao Lu died in front of the ice monument.
In her arms she still held the wedding dress made of mermaid silk that she had not given away yet.
Tana's body was pinned to the bottom of the ice abyss by an iron talisman, but her long hair penetrated the seal and grew wildly.
Entangling all living creatures passing through the snow-capped mountains, she sang miserably with her broken larynx. The frozen merchant said that the tune sounded very much like the tune Chao Lu taught her.
I heard from the old palace servants that red snow falls on the sacred Altun Mountain every new moon. The herdsmen said that it is because Tana wants to get her jade bell back.
Once, a daring tomb robber dug out half a finger bone from an ice coffin, with faded red silk thread wrapped around it.
Soaked in tears and blood that can seep out of ice, the Northern Rong priests have passed down from generation to generation: when the twin lotuses bloom again, the icy heart pierced by the lovers themselves will seal the Northern Frontier forever in the land of tears and snow.
Her cries are still heard in the cracks of the ice.
"You said you would come back when the Gesang flowers bloomed... but you used the dagger I gave you to carve out the spring..."
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