Chapter 124: Transformed into a Void Mulberry Tree
Yi Yin's mother lived on the banks of the Yi River. When she was pregnant, she dreamed that a spirit told her, "Dig out some water and walk eastward without looking back." The next day, she saw the water had been scooped out, told her neighbors, walked ten miles east, and looked back at her town. It was completely covered in water, and her body had turned into a hollow mulberry tree.
Ji Feng whispered to Jiao Ran that these were the last words Zhu Su left for her, and he would never be able to enter her dream again.
Jiaoran pondered the story and understood its meaning. It told the story of Yi Yin's mother, who, after becoming pregnant, had a dream in which a god told her to scoop up water by the bucket and walk eastward, without looking back. The woman then told her neighbor, who also scooped up water and walked eastward. After ten miles, she couldn't help but look back at her hometown, only to find it had become a vast ocean. This turning back transformed her into a hollow mulberry tree.
She didn't know what Zhu Su wanted to tell her through this sentence. She wanted to discuss with Mu Jin what Zhu Su left her with this sentence. She felt like there was something in a brocade bag. She was holding the bag but couldn't take it out.
But Jifeng said that what Zhusu said to her could not be told to others.
She could only keep it in her heart.
What's even more strange is that her appetite has become better than ever.
Even they were surprised.
She finished three bowls of chicken noodle soup with pepper leaves by herself. The chicken noodle soup was indeed fragrant, with golden soup and chewy noodles, which tasted very delicious.
Zhuxing admitted that this noodle was fragrant, but not as fragrant as this one.
He squeezed Chache's arm and asked, "Has her appetite been so good in the mansion before?"
Chai Che had no recollection of such a thing, so it was Mu Jin who said, "It's true that your appetite has grown a lot."
As she spoke, she ate two more plates of boiled lamb, dipped in sesame oil and chive juice.
After finishing these, I ate another grilled fish. The other people at the table didn’t eat much. Being trapped here, everything they ate tasted like chewing wax.
She has a truly remarkable appetite.
He even ate a whole grilled fish.
She wanted to eat more, but Mu Jin snatched her chopsticks away, fearing that she would get too full.
Jiaoran was still not satisfied, "I'm not full yet."
Cha Che whispered in his wife's ear, "Could it be that you are pregnant?"
Zhuxing raised his eyebrows and looked at Mu Jin meaningfully.
Mu Jin reacted immediately, calculated the date, and then shook his head, thinking it shouldn't be.
No one knew how long they would be trapped here. Jiaoran was not in a hurry and just took it easy every day, living one day at a time. However, Zhuxing missed his child very much and wondered if the child was doing well in Xiutu.
The bell rang, and it was night again, but the light here was the same day and night, and there was no difference.
Qi Qingyun walked in, "The master is looking for you."
Jiaoran agreed and stood up to digest the food. She should have been very full after eating so much, but she actually felt okay and not very full.
Mu Jin and Chai Che wanted to go with them. Zhu Xing was also worried, wondering what Fenghuangchu was planning. However, Jiao Ran waved his hand and said, "Don't worry. If a fight breaks out, you won't be able to help much. Besides, he hasn't done what he wanted to do yet, so he won't touch us. He will be back soon. Just wait here."
She shook the gold bracelet on her wrist, "And her."
After saying that, he followed Qi Qingyun.
In the corridor, Qi Qingyun encountered a little girl with hands like crab claws. She was almost frightened and looked panicked, "What are you doing here!"
The little girl hung a lantern on each palm of her hand, "Because I found that my hands are quite steady when holding lanterns."
She showed it to Qi Qingyun, who was disgusted by her unusual crab claws. "Go away!"
After saying that, he looked around hurriedly.
The little girl comforted him and said, "It's okay, I didn't come out with the others."
Jiaoran leaned over to take a look, and sure enough, he saw her claws gripping the lantern even tighter. "That's amazing."
When Qi Qingyun saw that Jiaoran was not afraid of her deformed palm, her brows relaxed slightly and she was no longer so panicked.
"Go ahead, we have something else to do."
The girl handed Jiaoran a lantern and said, "It's dark on the road, so hold it and don't fall."
Jiaoran thanked him and said, "Okay."
Holding the lantern given by the little girl, several legs emerged from under the lantern, which looked like crab legs. Seeing this, Jiaoran laughed with the little girl.
"This lamp is very unique, and you have very skillful hands." Jiaoran said.
It was the first time the little girl heard someone different from them praise her, "Thank you, I'll give you the crab lantern."
Jiaoran said, "Thank you very much."
After passing through numerous corridors and climbing up and down several levels of stone chambers, they finally came to an open space with a place in the middle that looked like a small mountain village.
Stepping into this stone chamber is like walking into a village, except that the village is empty, with no one in sight, only low and cramped mud and straw houses.
"Please." Qi Qingyun said, and then retreated the same way.
Jiaoran called out, "Phoenix chick, are you there?"
No one responded to her in the empty mountain village.
She didn't know what tricks the Phoenix Chick was playing, so she turned around and wanted to go back, but when she turned around, the stone door behind her had already closed.
There was no choice but to keep going.
There was a house with smoke rising from it, and Jiaoran followed his intuition and walked in that direction.
As soon as I entered, I saw a pot of soup stewing on the earthen stove.
I just didn't know what kind of soup it was, but when I opened it, I saw the rich aroma and the soup was snow-white.
Phoenix Chick came over from the other side of the stove at some point and said, "It's almost done. Do you want some soup?"
Did he want to poison her? Probably not. If he really wanted to poison her, the meals delivered every day would have killed her, and she was the one who ate the most.
"I came here after eating a lot. I don't want to eat anymore," Jiaoran said.
He smiled, and the smile on his face was like a hazy fog, which made Jiaoran confused.
Phoenix Chick asked, "Do you still like the food here?"
Why ask such a question? It's strange. "It's... it's okay. It's delicious. It's all delicious."
The phoenix chick's eyes lit up.
He filled a bowl of soup and squatted on the ground to drink it. There was a small stool next to him, but he didn't sit on it, so Jiaoran sat on it.
He was stunned and said nothing.
Jiaoran waited for him to open the warehouse, but he didn't say a word after waiting for a long time.
She wanted to leave. Staying with him always made her feel an indescribable panic. "What do you want me to do? Are you going to start saving your mother?"
He laughed again, "You're not as smart as you used to be."
Jiaoran was stunned, not knowing how long ago he was referring to. "What do you mean? You don't want to save your mother anymore?"
Phoenix Chick said, "How could you believe everything I said? If your enemy wasn't me, you would have died countless times. It's hard for them to find you and choose you."
"Tell me clearly, what exactly do you mean?" Jiaoran was confused.
She knew that she couldn't trust Zhu Su completely, because not everyone in the Fish and Dragon Wonderland would tell her everything, and everyone would hide anything that was unfavorable to them.
So she also wanted to get some truth from Fenghuangchu, a man who was full of lies.
"The woman lying in the stone chamber is just a clay figurine. I made it to commemorate my mother. It looks exactly like she did when she was alive. I miss her, so I go there to visit her."
Jiaoran was horrified. It turned out that it was not even a corpse. "Then why did you lie to me?" She was even more confused.
"Even though you can't defeat me in a fight, your current abilities are enough to severely injure me. If I want to make a comeback, you can't allow me to be severely injured. I also don't have the time to use the 'High Mountain Longevity' and 'Eternal Life Secrets' to maintain my body."
"I see. I get it. You're playing tricks on me, trying to trick me into thinking I'm actually helping you revive a dead person. My heart softens because you saved my mother, and I try my best to do as you say. This will also drain my inner energy, making it easy for you to kill me later."
Her heart sank, but doubts prevented her from stopping. "Then why are you telling me now? If you continue to follow this plan, I will definitely fall into your trap. You know very well that I don't have as many tricks as you, and I can't see through so many of your schemes."
"I didn't mean to drain your Qi in order to kill you."
"Why is that?"
"Bait."
Jiao Ran understood immediately, "Who do you want to use me to catch?"
The Phoenix Chick didn't answer immediately.
Chai Yu is dead, Chai Rou is crazy, Mu Jin and Chai Che are here, and even Chai Lie has become his minion. He has nothing to worry about, so they must be the ones who can make him so afraid and still need bait.
Wonderful world of fish and dragons.
"You want to continue your revenge?"
Phoenix Young said, "If I don't kill them all, I won't be able to rest in peace."
"They killed your mother, and you killed mine. Do you understand? If I don't kill you, I won't be able to rest in peace. It's either you or me."
Phoenix Chick was calm, "This is not our fate."
He said, "I want to use you to enter the Wonderland. Haven't you ever considered that they are also using you to strangle me?"
Jiao Ran said, "It was just a coincidence. They discovered that I had a different bloodline than ordinary people, so they were able to practice Gao Shan Shou. They also gave me some guidance, which gave me good fortune."
"Coincidence? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha..." He laughed for a long time.
"For those rats, there are no coincidences in this world. Everything is carefully planned."
Jiao Ran said, "It's like you orchestrated this, so that sixteen years later I can return to the Governor's Mansion as a maid and replace Mu Jin?"
"If Chai Ying and Zhou Zhi hadn't been so clever back then, the witch wouldn't have performed the blood exchange technique, and everything wouldn't have become so complicated. Retrieving Mu Jin was just a deal between Zhou Zhi and me. She tricked you into going to the Governor's Mansion. The blood exchange technique would lose its effect in a few years, and by then, Mu Jin would be useless too. She was worried that Chai Yu would kill Mu Jin, whose blood was no longer useful, so she sent you as a replacement. At that time, I really thought Mu Jin knew the location of the Gao Shan Shou. I didn't expect him to be as difficult to deal with as her mother. He was also using me. There was no secret manual in the box at all."
If she was still a teenager and had just returned to Huiying Inn, she would definitely be in great pain because of her mother's betrayal, but now she has gradually come to understand her. In order to keep her safe, Mu Jin has suffered for her for more than ten years. As his mother, she can't just stand by and watch.
Even though he was useful, he still had a difficult and cautious life in the mansion. If he was no longer useful, his situation would be even worse. Zhou Zhi's trick of transplanting flowers and trees was actually very clever.
"If you hate her, I can help you kill her." Phoenix Chick suddenly said to her.
Jiao Ran listened to his deceptive words, "You used this method of sowing discord to make Zhou Zhi kill my mother, let Chai Lie take ruthless action against Chai Che, and let Xu Mengchou kill Sheng Wu, right? It's a pity that your trick can't work against me. I tell you, I don't hate anyone, I hate you the most. You are the one who caused all these tragic situations. I know very well that in order to achieve your goal, you set up a chess game, and put Chai Yu, the Governor's Office, Mu Jin, Zhou Zhi, all of them in the same chess game, and you are the chess player."
Now that he has won the game, he has obtained the secret book he wanted, which can be said to be a great victory.
"The game requires at least two people. I'm on one side, and who do you think is on the other side?" Phoenix Chick asked her.
Jiao Ran didn't care about that. "Don't worry about who the other party is. I don't want to listen at all. I'm ready to fight me anytime, but if you still want to use tricks, it's a waste of time."
He looked at her for a long time until he was speechless.
Mu Jin was sometimes really able to predict the future. If the Holy Witch had not died, he should have learned divination from her. Maybe he could have become her favorite student.
He asked again the questions about reincarnation, and this time he brought Mu Jin with him.
Jiaoran really wanted to answer him according to what Mu Jin told her, saying that people should look forward and keep moving forward, that after reincarnation they will no longer be the same person as before, and that they must learn to let go, and so on.
But deep down she couldn't do it.
So she told Fenghuang Chu honestly, "If it's Mu Jin, then I won't give up. No matter if it's hundreds or thousands of years, as long as I'm alive, in the endless years, I will find him and tell him our past story. I want to rekindle our relationship. It's absolutely impossible for me to let him go."
However, just as she finished speaking, her mind was struck by lightning, and she thought of the words left by Zhu Su.
Yi Yin's mother lived on the banks of the Yi River. When she was pregnant, she dreamed that a spirit told her, "Dig out some water and walk eastward without looking back." The next day, she saw the water had been scooped out, told her neighbors, walked ten miles east, and looked back at her town. It was completely covered in water, and her body had turned into a hollow mulberry tree.
She suddenly realized that Zhu Su also wanted to tell her the same thing, telling her not to think about the past, but to keep going east and never look back.
But she actually did the same thing as that woman, insisting on looking back and unable to let go, and the woman turned into a tree.
What about her? Will she also turn into a tree and lose her human breath?
"Are you really going to do this?" Phoenix Chick suddenly smiled, as if he had expected her to make such a decision.
Those mysteries dissipated in his smile. Jiaoran added, "But if I am someone's reincarnation, and I had some entanglement with someone in my past life, I don't want that person to come looking for me again. Death is like the extinction of a light. Even if they appeared before me and told me their past story a hundred or a thousand times, I wouldn't be moved."
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