pillow mountain river

Chapter 17

Er Dong lived in Su Nu's small courtyard, and the courtyard was like spring all the year round. He didn't know that spring had already arrived.The branches sprout tender green shoots, and the leaves are green and lovely.

The remnant snow turned into a stream, moistening tiny grass buds.Mortal humans start farming for the new year.

Today, Er Dong will leave this small courtyard, but instead of going home, he will go to the distant desert with Master.

The Moyuan was written in the Sifang Zhi, saying that it was a land of the southern barbarians, with a deep miasma, full of snakes, insects, rats and ants.Moyuan people also read books and speak official Chinese, but they have always been ridiculed for being crowned monkeys.

Before leaving, Er Dong saw Chi Jin, who was sitting on a tree and refused to come down.

Er Dong stood under the tree, looked up at him, "I'm leaving tomorrow."

Chi Jin let out a nonchalant sigh, saying that she would be going home soon.

After Ye Dong bid farewell to him, he finished what he needed to say, and was about to turn around and go back to the house to pack his things.Chi Jin threw a date and lightly hit Er Dong on the shoulder, he said: "Don't forget to come and find me."

Er Dong did not answer.

Chi Jin wanted to say that if Er Dong came to him, he might be able to reluctantly agree to marry a rabbit.However, Er Dong was silent, and Chi Jin took back the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

"It doesn't matter if you don't come, Duguang is my territory, and I have a lot of acquaintances and friends. After I go back for a couple of days, I will forget about you completely," Chi Jin said proudly, raising her chin.

Er Dong rolled his eyes, "Well, you should go back earlier."

As soon as he said this, Chi Jin almost fell from the tree.Chi Jin grabbed the tree trunk, gritted her teeth and cursed, "Idiot."

Er Dong turned and left.

The expression on Chi Jin's face returned to calm, and he quietly watched Er Dong's back go away.

Until Er Dong's figure disappeared around the corner, Chi Jin took out the pendant on his neck, stared at the blood-red light beads, he thought for a long time, and finally tore it off decisively.

The pendant that accompanied him day and night finally left his body and fell into the palm of his hand.

Chi Jin retracted her palms, and tightly held the warm light beads in her palms.

He accidentally overheard the conversation between Su Nu and Master Er Dong last night.As he said before with his crow's mouth, Er Dong was indeed under a spell.

There is a blood curse circulating among the Mermaids in the South China Sea, which can be cast thousands of miles out of thin air.The person under the curse gradually loses their five senses, their soul dissipates, and finally their souls are scattered in the world without return.This kind of insidious spell has a rather elegant name - Nanzhushu.

Chi Jin didn't know much about it, let alone the antidote to this curse, but she heard Su Nu said that she needed the blood of the snake god, the nine-tailed, and the cold witch to restrain the blood curse in Erdong's body with the most yin thing in the world. for balance.

He didn't know the antidote to the spell, but Chi Jin had heard of the three things Su Nu said.To be precise, these three are not things, but demons who dominate one side.

Take the Cold Witch as an example. This big monster once occupied the territory south of Duguang and commanded all the vultures in the world.

There are too many demon cultivators in the world who have trained ferocious beasts to become demons. Before their spiritual wisdom sprouted, they may have had man-eating behaviors, but once they become demons, they all know that humans are the darlings of heaven, and they must not easily attack humans.

The cold witch knowingly committed the crime.His real body ate carrion for a living, became a demon queen, and intensified, slaughtering living people, waiting for the corpse to rot, and then inviting his subordinates to share it.Later, he even coveted the monsters of the same family, and committed many evil things to satisfy his appetite.

Although Han Wu is also a bird, he has never been tolerated by Duguang Baiqin.

In the end, he died at the hands of Chi Jin's father.Chi Jin's father killed Han Wu at the cost of losing one eye. He did this only for his only son.

Chijin was born with a pure yang body, this kind of physique can help him make great progress in cultivation, but it can also cause him great pain.That kind of pain seemed to put him on fire, and he had tasted enough of this kind of pain when he was a child. Although he was freed from it now, it had already become a lingering shadow.

If the father hadn't killed the Cold Witch and took all the troubles to seal up the Cold Witch's blood and make it into an accessory to hang on his chest, Chi Jin would still be in pain day and night.

It's not that Chi Jin forgot the pain caused by the pure yang body, but he still took off the pendant.

After the pendant left his body for only a moment, beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, and his body fell from the tree.

Chi Jin supported the tree trunk and barely stood up. His lips were dry and sweaty, as if he had been exposed to the scorching sun for half an hour.

By the time the pendant was handed over to Su Nu, Er Dong had already left the courtyard.

He and his master went to Moyuan.Moyuan is thousands of miles away from Duguang, which is an unreachable distance.

Moyuan Mountain is full of tall trees, rolling hills and surrounded by rivers.Because there is very little flat land, the villages are scattered and the population is quite small.The total number of people in hundreds of villages may not be as large as that of Mao Village.

Er Dong walked through the fog and saw lush mountains and forests, the trees blocked the sunlight, leaving only a little fragmented light for the low-lying vegetation.The vegetation is flourishing everywhere, walking in the forest for a while, the clothes seem to have absorbed enough water and cling to the skin.

The endless weeds are as high as half a person, blocking the way forward.

Zhen Hanshan held Er Dong's wrist, preventing him from separating the weeds with his hands.

"Come behind me," Zhen Hanshan said.He walked in front of Er Dong, wherever he went, the vegetation seemed to have life, and automatically branched out a path for only one person to walk through.

Er Dong followed Master closely, and the weeds behind him closed up again.The forest is humid and there are many snakes and insects. However, the snakes that dominate the mountain have already avoided before the two of them approached, and even mosquitoes are rare.

Through the mountains and forests, at the edge of the forest, the road is easy to walk.

The branches in this area have traces of being cut, and there should be people living nearby.

Sure enough, houses were built on the narrow flat land between the mountains.From a distance, this stockade seems to have been abandoned. It was not until I got closer that I found that there were still people living there.

The houses here stand on wooden piles and are suspended in the air.The villagers are as weird as the house, all of them are extremely thin, with thin faces and huge eyes.

Er Dong felt that they were only covered with a layer of skin on the outside of their bones, so he couldn't help but tighten Zhen Hanshan's sleeves, and entered the village with his master.

The people in the village looked strange, but they were all extremely enthusiastic, and their protruding eyes were fixed on the two of them.

After a while, the village owner came out to welcome the guests.Like the others, the village owner is thin and thin. He doesn't wear plain clothes that are convenient for farming like others, but has loose clothes and big sleeves like the people of Mao Village.

He wore this clothes, but he looked even weirder, like a clothes on a bamboo pole, swaying in the wind.

"I haven't seen outsiders pass by this village for a long time. May I ask who are the two of you?"

"Doctor, this is my apprentice," Zhen Hanshan put his hands on Erdong's shoulders, and said, "We came to Moyuan to search for medicine, and we lost our way. We saw a village here, so we came here to find a place to live."

"Is the doctor at home all over the world?" The village owner asked impatiently.

Zhen Hanshan nodded.

The village owner couldn't help clapping his hands and said: "Hello, doctor, hello doctor. I mean, doctor saves lives and heals the wounded. He is a first-class good person."

Zhen Hanshan looked at the village master with a slight smile on his mouth, but no smile in his eyes.

The village owner led the two into the village and stopped in front of a house.This house is in the center of the stockade, surrounded by houses.

"This is the best place to live in our village. The two guests went in first to rest, and someone brought food later," the village owner said with a smile.

He laughed so hard that his facial features crumpled together.This face moved in front of Er Dong, Er Dong's heart sank, he couldn't help taking a step back, and hid behind Zhen Hanshan.

After the village owner left, Er Dong closed the door and sat beside Zhen Han Shan.He looked around, and looked at the backyard through the window, "Master, how long are we going to stay here?"

People here are very enthusiastic, no matter who Er Dong set his eyes on, that person would look back at him with a smile on his face.

"Stay with peace of mind first," Zhen Hanshan said.

Er Dong couldn't live in this kind of place with peace of mind, he always felt that this place was weird, but he couldn't tell what was so strange.Er Dong didn't believe that Master didn't notice the abnormality in the village.

"Aren't we here to find the snake god?" Er Dong asked.The master refused to talk to him about anything, and he could only understand the purpose of the trip from Su Nu.

Zhen Hanshan held up an index finger in front of Erdong's lips.

Er Dong was startled, choking on what he wanted to say.As soon as Zhenhan Mountain approached him, he could smell the familiar fragrance of grass and trees, which was bitter, light but far away.

It was obviously a refreshing grassy smell, but Er Dong felt dizzy like smelling a strong fruit wine.

The sudden knock on the door brought Er Dong back to his senses.It was a child who knocked on the door, with a very thin body, less than half the height of Er Dong.Er Dong only saw the fruit plate and food box on his head, but couldn't see the child's face.

Only after the child put down the things did Er Dong see his face clearly.About ** years old, dark and thin, like a young monkey, with surprisingly big eyes, staring straight at Er Dong.However, the child only glanced at him, and then got out like a loach.

Er Dong withdrew his gaze and opened the food box, which contained steaming chicken and a small pot of rice wine, paired with fresh fruits, which made the index finger very exciting.

"It smells so good," he said after walking the mountain road in the woods for a long time, and he was already hungry.

Before reaching out, Zhen Hanshan grabbed Er Dong's wrist and shook his head.

Zhen Hanshan opened the lid of the jug, smelled it, and poured all the wine in the jug into the backyard outside the window.

Er Dong was puzzled, Zhen Hanshan still replied in a neutral manner, "No need to ask, go and eat." He sat aside, didn't even move his chopsticks, just watched Er Dong eat half a plate of chicken.

Although the chicken smelled delicious, it tasted woody and tasteless. Er Dong wondered if it was his tongue.When he was full, he pushed the food box aside.

When the child entered the room to clean up the dishes, he took another look at Er Dong.

Unlike the others in the village, the child stared at him coldly, until Er Dong also looked at him, then he turned his head and left with the food box in his arms.

After a while, it was dark.

It was very quiet in the village, only the clear sound of the wind.

The wind blows over the leaves, and the leaves rustle, like the small sound of a snake spitting out a letter.

Er Dong slept on the small bed, and the curtain separated the inner room, which was where the master rested.

He pulled the quilt, his thoughts were muddled, but he didn't feel sleepy.Perhaps it was cold at night, or the wind was a little scary, and a pimple appeared on his arm.

Er Dong tossed and turned sleeplessly, sat up and lay down again.The window was closed tightly by him, but there was still a gap, and the wind pierced through the gap, making a shrill sound.

Finally, Er Dong simply opened the window, the wind died down, but the rustling outside the window did not stop.

Er Dong hugged the pillow, got out of the bed barefoot, and walked into the inner room nervously.Wearing a thin undershirt, he walked gently to the window of Zhenhan Mountain, "Master, I can't sleep."

The dim candlelight shone on the side of the man's face, softening the snow-like face.Those sharp and quiet black eyes lost a bit of inaccessible alienation at this moment.

Er Dong hugged the pillow tightly, looking nervously at the pillow cold mountain.

Zhen Hanshan stretched out a hand towards him, "Come up."

Er Dong's pursed lips could not help but move upwards, he climbed onto the bed, only occupying a small space beside the bed, curled up on the bed like a kitten.

The rustling sound did not stop, but Er Dong closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep after a while.

The author says: