Chapter 137: Unable to Recover
In order to hide his whereabouts, he quickly used his superb disguise skills to change the appearance of the two people.
Mu Jin fell into endless despair when he thought that when she woke up, she would find that she had lost an eye. He cremated A Niang quickly and temporarily hid the ashes next to the seeds of the Kongsang tree. Now they could not return to Huiying Inn immediately. It was conceivable that the Phoenix Chick would definitely look for their traces in any place they had been.
He waited anxiously for her to wake up. This was a small town in the south of the Yangtze River. He thought Jiaoran would be happy to see the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River after waking up, so he bought a house and took care of her who was seriously injured while painting for the girl.
He didn't know how she would come to take it away, or how she would judge whether his painting was what she wanted.
But he could only paint. Since he had made a deal with the immortal, he had no chance to regret.
They live in seclusion and rarely leave the house unless it is necessary.
For a moment, Mu Jin felt like she was back in Chang'an. She also often fell asleep and felt extremely unfamiliar with him when she woke up.
She woke up not long after, but her body was still weak. Mu Jin had not forgotten that she almost bled to death that day.
Now she sits in front of the bronze mirror all day long.
Losing an eye is an unspeakable devastation for anyone.
But Mu Jin always felt that she seemed to be looking at other things through the mirror, but he didn't know what she was thinking.
She entered the Governor's Mansion at the age of sixteen. Her mind was shallow and simple, and she could be seen through at a glance. At that time, he was still complacent and found it boring.
But now she is feeling heavier and heavier, and her thoughts are becoming more and more complicated. He feels very sad. If they were still Mu Jin and Jiao Ran as they were back then, would everything be better than it is now?
He was still the Mu Jin who pretended to be confused and loved to tease her, and she was just the greedy little maid with only mediocre skills. He was only afraid of Chai Yu's punishment and the strange secret room. Jiaoran, on the other hand, was racking his brains to find out the whereabouts of the secret book.
Today, Chai Yu is dead, and he no longer needs to be afraid of him.
But compared to the fear of Chai Yu's tourmaline beads, the long whip, the Chai family's contempt, the silk thread for drawing blood, and the pain in his body, seeing her like this made him feel more heartbroken.
After she was silent for a day, she suddenly spoke as night fell.
"Hey, Mu Jin, am I funny?"
"Hmm?" He didn't know what Jiaoran meant. He stepped forward, cupped her face, and said, "It'll be fine."
Jiaoran said again, "Nonsense! How can an eye grow back after it's been lost?"
Mu Jin didn't dare look her in the eye. He was indeed trying to comfort her, but he thought perhaps those people outside the world had a way. "When you get better, I will find all the miracle doctors in the world to cure you." He remembered the exchange with the girl. If Jiaoran wanted to recover that eye, he didn't know what to exchange it for this time, but he planned to give her all the rest of his life. He didn't know if it would be enough. If not, he could give it to her in the next life.
"You're lying. There's no way I can recover. I'll only have one eye left. It's ugly and scary. I'll always have only one eye."
Mu Jin held her, and she became stiff in his arms. Mu Jin heard her say, "How about you give me your eyes?"
Without hearing Mu Jin's reply, she pushed him away fiercely. She was like every other woman in the world who was furious because she couldn't get the promise from the man she loved. "You don't love me that much at all. Get out of here."
He raised his head. Many lights were on in the room. Jiaoran saw his pale face with his only remaining eye.
He said, "Okay, I'll go find a doctor who can give you my eyes back, and you'll be like you were before."
Mu Jin's serious look frightened her a little. She laughed dryly, "Just kidding, Mu Jin, who wants your eyes?"
So what did she want? Mu Jin wanted to make her less sad.
He asked her, how about letting the doctor come tomorrow and continue to treat her eyes?
Jiao Ran was a little impatient. "What if the Phoenix Cub follows those doctors' advice and finds us?"
He said no, "We have just arrived in this small town. After they have finished treating you, whether there is any result or not, I will kill them all."
Jiao Ran looked a little angry, "No, that's a sin, God is watching what you do."
He said it was okay, "It was my fault, and I will be punished for it later."
Jiaoran shook his head, "No, no..."
She thought of something, "Did you kill all the doctors who treated me before?"
Mu Jin said no and told her not to be afraid. "We left those places very quickly. This small town is the only place we are staying now. I haven't called a doctor yet."
She breathed a sigh of relief, climbed onto the bed, and lazily took off her clothes. Mu Jin stroked her cheek, "Are you sleepy?"
She said, "Promise me you won't turn into a phoenix chick."
He didn't respond.
"Don't get blood on your hands. I'm worried that something bad will happen to you too."
Mu Jin hummed.
She turned around and said, "I'm sorry, Mu Jin."
"Why are you suddenly saying these things?"
"I killed my mother. I killed her with my own hands."
He froze, not knowing how to respond to this, maybe he should say that he forgave her.
The two of them were obviously very close just now, but when the deceased Zhou Zhi was mentioned, they became a little awkward.
He suddenly stopped talking. She looked at him and then gazed at the lights in the room.
Then he heard Jiaoran say, "Actually, this is pretty good."
Mu Jin didn't understand, "What?"
"The phoenix chick dug out one of my eyes, but I felt relieved. If there was pain, it didn't hurt that much in my heart."
He was stunned for a long moment, then went from being confused to forbearing, and quickly stood up and walked out of the room.
Jiaoran stayed alone in the room, neither crying nor speaking. She continued to look at the flickering lights, her face as pale as Mu Jin's.
When he came back, all the lights in the room were out and it was pitch black.
She was lying on the bed, seemingly asleep, and Mu Jin couldn't tell.
He lay beside her, slowly and lightly, afraid of waking her up. Then, afraid that her wound would bleed again, he reached out to touch her face, but before reaching her eyes, he felt a wetness on her face.
Blood is hot, tears are cold.
All tears.
Mu Jin kissed her silently, trying to make her feel less sad, but he himself was too sad to speak.
He always thought that he didn't need Zhou Zhi, but when she really died, he remembered her careful flattery and her attempt to restore the warmth between mother and son with him. He felt uneasy and disgusted. After really losing him, he always remembered her considerate and gentle care after they tricked him into Huiying Inn.
After she pushed him away, she asked him, "A Niang actually loves you more, right?"
Mu Jin didn't know what answer she wanted, but she still cared about it now.
But he was more confused than her. Which of the two of them did Zhou Zhi love more?
Jiaoran was her daughter whom she raised, and he was her own flesh and blood whom she abandoned more than ten years ago. Which is more important? Perhaps only the dead Zhou Zhi can give the answer. The living will always be suspicious, miss him forever, and cannot be relieved.
When he didn't answer, she kissed him harder, trying to force an answer out of him, "She cares more about you, right?"
Mu Jin understood what answer she wanted, so she said, "Yes, she said that she hates you, and in her heart, the one she cares about most is me."
Jiaoran breathed a sigh of relief, as if she felt a little relaxed. Her tears had dried up and were no longer flowing, as if getting this answer was salvation.
Mu Jin grieved in the darkness, for Zhou Zhi, for himself, and for Jiao Ran.
At this moment, she could only breathe a sigh of relief if she got this answer. Thinking that Zhou Zhi hated her would make her feel more relieved than thinking that Zhou Zhi loved her.
Only when a mother who did not love her died in her hands could she comfort herself that it was no big deal. Zhou Zhi's identity as an enemy could help her get rid of the guilt more easily than her identity as a mother.
He heard Jiaoran laugh strangely in the dark after getting his answer, and his heart suddenly felt like being stabbed by a needle.
"I killed Chai Yu and Zhou Zhi. Next, I will kill the Phoenix Cub."
Jiao Ran vowed, and he grabbed her hand, "But definitely not now."
"Of course I know. When I succeed in cultivation, I will tear him into pieces. Oh, and take out his heart. And his eyes, I will dig out his eyes too."
Mu Jin agreed to all of them, "I know, you can definitely do it, but you are too tired now, you should go to bed early, it's too late."
Jiaoran's face turned cold, "You don't believe I can kill him?"
Mu Jin wanted to touch her shoulder to calm her down, but she became angry. "He dug out one of my eyes, but you don't believe I can kill him? I just haven't practiced for a short time. Give me more time, and I will definitely be able to kill him."
Mu Jin said, "Okay, I believe you, I believe you. What's important for you now is to rest. You are very weak and need to rest for a long time."
She pushed him away, jumped out of bed, took her coat, put it on and ran out immediately.
Mu Jin was shocked. She absolutely could not leave the area of 100 miles where the Kongsang tree seeds germinated. He irrigated the seeds with blood every day and finally managed to make them survive.
Jiaoran kept running, and Mu Jin chased after her, but his martial arts skills were not as good as hers, and she quickly disappeared in the darkness like a ghost.
It was very cold outside, and Mu Jin felt even colder. Thinking that Jiaoran might be found by the Phoenix Chick, he searched even more anxiously in the night.
A golden light flashed in the darkness, and a woman appeared in front of him.
"Come with me, I know where she is."
Mu Jin hurriedly followed Ji Feng.
He was too slow, and Ji Feng couldn't wait any longer. "Step on it!"
"ah?"
"Sword control, no?"
Mu Jin shook her head. "Imperial sword? What is that?"
Ji Feng was helpless. He looked around and saw that no one was breathing. He turned into a dragon and said, "Come up."
Mu Jin grabbed her horn and asked, "How do you know where she will go?"
"She ran so fast that she accidentally left me on the street. I was able to catch up with her by following her scent."
Mu Jin said, "That's good, thank you very much. If it weren't for you, I really don't know how I would have caught up with her."
After flying for a while, Jifeng said, "She's right down there, go find her."
Mu Jin suddenly said, "Put me aside first, I'll take a break."
Ji Feng asked anxiously, "Why?"
As soon as Mu Jin landed on the ground, he spat out a mouthful of blood.
Ji Feng finally paid attention to him, his expression very bad, "Give me your hand."
She traced his wrist, checking his pulse, "You only have ten years."
"Ten years?" Mu Jin didn't expect that after deducting the ten years he gave to the girl, he only had ten years left.
Ji Feng felt very strange. "I could have lived to almost fifty years old before, but how come I only have ten years left?"
Mu Jin did not hide it from her, "I exchanged something with the girl on a sacred tree, in exchange for my life span. Don't tell Jiaoran that I only have ten years to accompany her."
Ji Feng looked at him cautiously and sighed, "Why are you doing this? Her fate is her fate. You are you. What you have done for her is not worth it to you. Her mission is too heavy. If you want to do even a little bit for her, you may exhaust your own fate."
"But I don't regret it."
Ji Feng hesitated for a moment. It turned out that mortals were like this. There seemed to be no one like him in the wonderful world.
They are smart and clear-headed. They will not make efforts that are unrewarding and fruitless. They follow nature, do not force or be stubborn, and cultivate freedom.
But mortals are completely different from them. They are terribly stubborn and ridiculously stupid. They are willing to exchange more precious things for a little bit of self-righteous happiness.
They found her in a mountain.
He tried his best to suppress his heartbeat, fearing that his pounding heart would scare the already panicked Jiaoran. "What are you doing here?"
Jiaoran sat in a patch of grass and said, "I can't breathe. I can only run to where I can breathe."
"Is it me who suffocates you?"
Jiaoran didn't say yes, nor did he say no.
"Where did you bury my mother?"
He pointed in the direction of his home and said, "You wanted to see her, why didn't you tell me?"
"This mountain looks a lot like Huiyingmen, don't you think?"
Mu Jin had never been to Huiyingmen and had always stayed in the inn, let alone a mountain like this.
"When I was little, I often went to the mountains. There were mosquitoes there, so my mother would light a lot of mugwort to fumigate the mosquitoes and apply ointment to the mosquito bites."
Mu Jin listened quietly to the memories that did not belong to his childhood.
"I just suddenly want to go home, Mu Jin. I want to go back to Huiying Gate and Huiying Inn. I want to be with them."
He took her hand and stood up, feeling her trembling. "We will go back. I promise you, I will definitely take you back and take her back with me."
Jiao Ran said, "In fact, I know very well in my heart that I am her most beloved child."
"But I can't admit it. If I admit it, I won't be able to live..."
She began to cry and blood came out of one eye.
Mu Jin hurriedly checked her wound and coaxed her not to cry, "You think too much. She just wanted to make you feel bad, so she deliberately conspired with Fenghuang Chu to make you kill her. Because she knew you cared about her, she wanted to make you feel bad."
"Look, she's not as nice as you think. She was nice to you in the past, but she still had to use you to get me back one day. You don't have to feel guilty. Don't overthink it when dealing with someone who has tried to kill you time and time again."
Jiao Ran looked up at him, "Are you telling the truth?"
Mu Jin nodded. "She told me that she hates you. If you weren't there, she wouldn't have abandoned me. So in this world, she hates you the most. You have to get better as soon as possible so that she won't laugh at you anymore. Believe it or not, she's secretly laughing at you right now because you're so devastated."
"How do you know?"
"I'm her child. Sometimes, I understand her better than you do. Let's go back. It's too cold outside."
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