Chapter 136 Chapter 136 "Youan, sweet dreams"...
Behind her followed a young man in red, neither too far nor too close, neither too fast nor too slow, always keeping a steady distance behind her.
Thanks to his tough attitude, Chen Qing had been exercising her body during these days of traveling with him. Now she could walk a hundred steps without taking a breath, and could even pick up a sword and fight with evil spirits for more than a dozen moves without feeling tired.
Seeing her jumping all the way and seeming to be in a good mood, Li Daoxuan's lips curled up.
Chen Qing suddenly stopped and asked, "How long will it take?"
Li Daoxuan remained the same, "It's almost there."
The corners of Chen Qing's lips drooped suddenly. Every time she asked him, he would answer like this, "almost there", "it's coming", "hold on a little longer".
Li Daoxuan suddenly stopped and pulled her to a nearby house to knock on the door.
The door opened, and Chen Qing heard him repeat the words he had said a thousand times before. She happily agreed, and he pulled her into the door.
Two seasons passed in a blink of an eye. Just before winter came, the two came to a place called "Hanguan Town" to rest.
Now Li Daoxuan was not in a hurry to travel. He sat in front of the table drawing talismans all day long. Chen Qing counted them and found that the talismans he drew had piled up into several piles.
She asked, "When are we leaving?" Chen Qing thought that it wouldn't be too late for her to kill him after he had saved the souls of the deceased.
Guisou Hill was very close to where Ye Niang was stationed. After she succeeded, she went to Ye Niang and said that Li Daoxuan was eaten by a monster and it risked its life to send her out.
If she makes herself look more embarrassed and cries more miserably, no one will doubt her.
Her eyes rolled and her eyebrows curved, making it obvious that she was up to something bad.
Li Daoxuan glanced at her, then turned back to continue drawing the talisman, "One month later."
A month later, it was November, and coincidentally, her birthday was in December.
After dealing with him, I can get together with my mother to celebrate her birthday. After the birthday, I can celebrate the New Year. My senior brother should also be by my mother's side, right?
As she thought about it, the smile in her eyes did not reach her.
When she thought about him dying, she should have been happy. Who told her that he wanted to kill her in her previous life? But when she thought about the fact that there would never be a Li Daoxuan in the world again, the corners of her lips couldn't help but straighten. A small, sour, indescribable feeling lingered in her heart.
Shen Qing shook his head, attributing this emotion to subconscious dependence.
After all, Li Daoxuan was so good to her that she had nothing to say. Along the way, she had suffered nothing. He was the one who blocked all the bad and painful things from her and swallowed them all.
Before I knew it, the night had deepened.
Li Daoxuan took out the cloth bag, which was already full of rice.
He glanced at Chen Qing's slender waist and frowned, "How come you haven't gained any weight in these days?"
After his unremitting efforts, Chen Qing was a little tired, but her appetite also increased, and the food she ate became more delicious. However, after a few days, she didn't see any growth on her face or body.
Chen Qing snorted softly and said proudly: "This is called God's gift."
Li Daoxuan turned and went out.
Chen Qing thought that she had angered him and he ran away, but not long after, he came in with a bowl of hot porridge, and the rice cloth bag around his waist was a little deflated.
Shen Qing blinked and asked knowingly, "What is this?"
Li Daoxuan: "Rice from a hundred families."
"I know, but... you just cooked it like that?"
He worked day and night, going to other people's homes every day, helping to shovel snow and do other things, in exchange for a grain of rice. He finally saved up a bag, and he just cooked it when he said so?
Li Daoxuan: "I'd love to. The temperature is just right, drink it while it's hot."
Chen Qing was stunned for a moment, then lowered his eyes, "I don't want to drink, I have no appetite, if you want to drink, drink it yourself."
Li Daoxuan suddenly raised his eyes and looked at her intently: "A hundred families' rice, a hundred families' blessings, such a great blessing is given to you, don't you want it?"
"Who said they wanted to live a hundred years without worries?"
Chen Qing's heart seemed to be hit by a heavy hammer, and her voice became deeper and deeper: "These rice are not saved by me, you saved them yourself, and I won't get these blessings even if I eat them."
Unexpectedly, Li Daoxuan raised his eyebrows, "Who said you didn't save it? Didn't you shovel the snow in the yard? Didn't you pick up the firewood on the ground when cooking? Didn't you pick the flowers that the old man wanted..."
Every word he said was true.
But it's just not right.
He did all the most tiring and heaviest work by himself. The snow she shoveled was only as big as her fist. The firewood on the ground was just a dead branch she casually threw into the fire. She picked the flowers just because it happened to be convenient...
But even so, this rice could be considered as her "saving" in a disguised way, or in other words, it was saved by the two of them together.
A hundred families of rice, a hundred families of blessings.
To ask for blessings from hundreds of families, the one who is asking for blessings must walk step by step, day and night, without taking shortcuts or being lazy. The person who gives rice must be a long-lived and healthy person with a fulfilling life. Giving rice is like giving blessings, which means giving one's own blessings to others.
Those who eat rice from a hundred families will be blessed with good fortune and live to be a hundred years without worries.
But Baijiami is just a legend, and there are very few people who actually practice it.
Chen Qing thought he was afraid of death, so he wanted to ask for rice from a hundred families to seek comfort, but now, he didn't care and gave up half a small amount of rice to make porridge and handed it to her.
Chen Qing blinked, her face calm, but her heart was in turmoil. She pretended to be calm and took the bowl of porridge, "Humph, it's a blessing that comes for free, it would be a waste if I don't eat it."
Li Daoxuan thought to himself: This is not a blessing that comes in vain.
Chen Qing finished the porridge in one breath. Li Daoxuan collected the bowl for him and the room was silent again.
Chen Qing felt that Li Daoxuan was becoming more and more taciturn now, talking less and being less active.
Apart from drawing talismans and making porridge every day, he would hold her in his arms and fall asleep at night.
Another day passed, the moonlight fell, he stopped drawing talismans and got into bed.
Chen Qing was not asleep. She felt one side of the bed collapse, and then a warm body covered her and wrapped her tightly.
The weather outside is cold, but he is always warm.
He said nothing, and Chen Qing closed his eyes, ready to fall asleep.
This time she was not stimulated or seriously injured, but she had a dream about her past life.
Flames shot up into the sky, black air lingered, the red clothes were like fire, the young man's eyes were red, he knelt in the Bagua diagram, and what surged in his eyes was deep madness and hatred.
Behind him, the blurry figure of the man in black almost blended into the night. He seemed to say something, and the taut string in the boy's head broke with a "buzz".
He suddenly raised his sword, and Qiu Ren, who was full of mysterious energy, pointed it directly at him. The young man's eyes were filled with tears and blood, and he said word by word: "I will give it back to you——"
Qiu Ren's sword suddenly flashed with a cold light, but the sword tip suddenly turned and aimed at his dantian, stabbing fiercely -
Chen Qing frowned, her body seemed to want to move, but it felt like a thousand pounds of weight was pressing on her. She tried hard for a long time but couldn't move at all. After a long while, she could only curl her fingers slightly.
But this small movement drew the attention of the man in black to the person lying on the ground. He said, "It's almost time. I'll give you a little surprise. Don't bother me anymore."
The tone of the person who said this was quite distressed, and then Shen Qing saw that the man in black stretched out his index finger and pointed it at the forehead of the person on the ground.
The boy stopped moving.
The man in black walked up to her again and leaned down.
His knuckles were very white, not like the hands of an old man, so he must be a young man.
Chen Qing looked at his index finger on her forehead, and she subconsciously closed her eyes——
Later, Shen Qing woke up from his deep emotion.
In front of her was Li Daoxuan's delicate jaw and exceptionally rosy thin lips. Further up, there was a pair of breathtaking eyes. When his eyes opened, his pupils were pitch black, bottomless, yet separated by a layer of fog, so she couldn't see clearly what was in the fog.
It’s as if the owner of these eyes has a lot of worries on his mind.
Chen Qing was so shocked that she didn't even know when he opened his eyes.
Li Daoxuan came over and pecked the corner of her eye, then stood up and dressed. After dressing, he picked up the shrunk rice bag and prepared to go out.
For some reason, thinking of the dream just now, Chen Qing felt a panic in her heart. She always felt that she seemed to have forgotten something. She also felt that the person who was so close to her was suddenly separated by a layer of clouds, getting farther and farther away from her.
Chen Qing felt choked up and subconsciously grabbed his rice bag, "Forget it, forget it, I won't eat anymore. You keep this rice for yourself. I'm about to vomit."
Li Daoxuan attributed her reaction to "being tired of eating."
After thinking for a while, she realized that she had eaten most of the bag of rice and now there was only a bowl of rice left, so she didn't care about it at the moment.
He took the rice bag, changed his mind, and handed the bag to her, "Tell me when you want to eat, and I'll make porridge for you."
Shen Qing squeezed the bag, suppressed the inexplicable panic in her heart, and hummed.
Li Daoxuan started to draw talismans again, without stopping for a moment.
Chen Qing felt strange about his extremely unusual behavior. He drew many, many talismans, as if he wanted to draw out all the talisman paper he would need in his lifetime.
It's like, I won't have the chance to draw anymore...
Chen Qing shook his head and felt a little dizzy, so he simply lay down again, ready to take a nap.
Strangely, she had another dream.
In the dream, she was still lying there, with snow falling outside the window.
There were two people sitting around the bed, chattering and arguing about something.
"You are going against the will of heaven by doing this, and you will be punished!" It was the voice of the senior brother.
"I'd love to." His voice was very low, as if he was afraid of waking up the girl in the bed.
"You - why don't you let me do it? Youan is my sister, and you are the most important person to her. No matter what, she can't live without you." The man sighed.
"You? You are just a coffin, nothing, and you are worthy of dying for her?" His voice was particularly harsh.
However, Liu Jiuyue knew his intention and was not angry at all. He was a coffin boy, and he didn't know how many people had treated this matter as a casual talk after tea, so he didn't care about it anymore.
"You'an can't live without you." He said weakly.
"At the moment, I am the only one who can use this method. Besides, the time is almost here." He said stubbornly.
Snowflakes fluttered and drifted in through the window, and the cold air poured in through the window lattice. The girl in the bed curtain coughed lightly. Liu Jiuyue paused and walked quickly to close the window.
The young man walked to the bedside, put his forehead against hers, and their noses touched. "You'an, sweet dream." He whispered softly.
The girl closed her eyelids tightly, her body softened completely, and she fell into a deep sleep.
When Chen Qing woke up, snow had begun to fall outside the window again. Hanguan Town was close to the border, bordering the Barbarian Lands. It was also the closest town to Guisou Slope. Similarly, Hanguan Town was in an extremely cold place year-round, with snow falling for nine months of the year and almost no summer at all.
After passing Hanguan Town and heading south for dozens of miles, you will reach the famous Guisoupo.
Li Daoxuan was not in a hurry at all and continued to draw talismans. No one knew where he got so many blank talisman papers from, but the talismans he drew were almost piled up to her knees.
Chen Qing thought of several strange dreams he had previously.
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