"How long is the Qin Dynasty?" he asked himself and Chi Chengzi.
What about the Han Dynasty? What about the Three Kingdoms? What about the Northern and Southern Dynasties? Sui Dynasty? Tang Dynasty? Five generations?
Adding everything up, how many years did Sister Jian spend here?
Sister Jian doesn’t remember the actual year she came, or what year it was.
In short, one thousand is definitely indispensable.
The more Yun Kong calculated, the more panicked he became, and the more he calculated, the more frightened he became.
He and Chi Chengzi went out every day and walked everywhere they could. They walked like this three or four times a day, but they couldn't find their way back.
Moreover, he found that Chi Chengzi was not panicked.
"Chichengzi," he finally said one day, "you seem to be different."
"Oh?" Chi Chengzi touched his eyebrows.
In the past, he always shaved the hair on his head cleanly. Recently, his hair has grown and his eyebrows have grown sparsely, but his beard is still shaved.
"No, I'm not saying you've grown hair, your personality has changed."
"Oh?" Chi Chengzi raised his eyebrows and smiled happily, as if he was hiding something.
"You used to have a cold face and a hard voice, and you didn't use a few words when you spoke. But after you came here, you are no longer like this."
"I haven't changed."
"Are you really Chi Chengzi?"
"Replacement guaranteed."
"There's nothing to change here, only one thing to change."
"What are you talking about?"
Yun Kong pointed at Chi Chengzi's chest.
"Yunkong, I, Chi Chengzi, have known you for a long time, but we haven't met a few times, right?"
"makes sense."
"Other than Master, you are probably the one who knows me best."
"Having said that, you have to help me find a way out first."
"Don't worry!" Chi Chengzi slapped his chest vigorously.
When the two of them were tired from walking, they found a place to rest.
Yun Kong remembered that he was walking just now, and he had an idea in his heart. He might as well ask Chi Chengzi for his opinion: "Maybe this is the paradise of cave heaven."
"Cave Heaven Blessed Land?" Chi Chengzi thought about it and realized that it was not impossible. The ancient Liu Chen went to Tiantai Mountain to collect herbs and met a fairy. He enjoyed all the blessings within ten days and had passed through seven generations of descendants when he came down from the mountain. During the Tang and Five Dynasties, some people suggested that it was actually the blessed land of cave heaven where gods lived. There were ten big cave heavens, thirty-six small cave heavens and seventy-two blessed lands. The locations and names of the immortals were also listed.
In the stories that have been passed down since ancient times, people who accidentally enter the blessed land of the cave heaven either have sex with fairies or watch the immortals playing chess, and then the time in the cave heaven flows many times faster than the outside world.
"However, we didn't meet any immortals here." Chi Chengzi said.
"Maybe Sister Jian is an immortal." Yun Kong teased.
"You have read so many books, but do you remember that there is a cave near Jiangning Mansion?"
"I've thought about it. If I insist on saying it, there is a big cave called Juqu Cave."
"That's Maoshan, the origin of my school." Chi Chengzi said thoughtfully, "I walked east that day, and it was indeed the right direction to Maoshan. Did I go that far?"
"The master of Longbi has opened up your Rendu and Du's two channels. It's not surprising that you can go so far."
Speaking of his master, Chi Chengzi couldn't help but said sadly: "That's the case."
The days slipped by quietly again, like a thief, digging away the youth bit by bit.
One day, I suddenly realize that most of my life has been spent. It is better to get something in a panic and in time than to die of old age and disappear in eternity.
But Yunkong is different.
He was alert to the fact that the days were passing by quickly, but he could do nothing.
In addition to being anxious, he can only be anxious.
Wandering around in the mountain stream every day, he could already tell the location of every plant and tree in the mountain stream with his eyes closed.
Sometimes he would encounter Sheng and Fengnian getting together in the wild. They didn't care at all, and Yunkong could only get out of the way quickly.
Many days passed, and the exit was still missing.
It was dinner time again. Yun Kong ate with five people every day, and it gradually became a habit. He began to worry about whether eating alone would be lonely once he left them.
The afterglow of the sun rested on the ridge for a while, and then slowly disappeared behind the mountain.
Yun Kong and Chi Chengzi had already prepared meals for Jian Mei, waiting for Sheng He Fengnian to return.
Hearing the sound of the two people walking on the grass, he knew they had arrived.
The person who walked into the door was Sheng with a worried look on his face, holding Feng Nian who had a blue face.
"What's wrong?" Sister Jian immediately stepped forward and helped Fengnian sit down.
"While walking home, she suddenly felt uncomfortable and vomited for a while," Sheng said.
"Gangqing has a bad stomach?" Chi Chengzi interrupted, "Yunkong, didn't you write something about 'odd and complicated diseases' on your face?"
Hearing this, Yun Kong took Fengnian's wrist, tapped three fingers on Cun, Guan, and Chi, and felt his pulse: "It's not a bad stomach, it's a happy pulse."
"Are you happy?" Chi Chengzi turned to Jian Mei and said, "Feng Nian has a child."
Sister Jian almost jumped up: "Having a child?!"
Yun Kong wanted to figure out what Jian Mei was thinking, but now he knew.
Sister Jian showed rare excitement: "Great! I've been looking forward to it for a long time! I thought I wouldn't have children in good years!"
Sheng was dumbfounded and could only caress Fengnian's back, hoping that her face would be rosy again.
His favorite rosy color.
He had never imagined what it would be like to be a father soon. He had never experienced this.
Because there are no other homes in this mountain stream.
"Sheng!" Sister Jian stopped her son, "It's time to recuperate during the harvest season. You can't work too hard anymore. You have to go to the fields by yourself starting tomorrow."
"Mom, but..."
Fengnian also rushed to say: "A person will be exhausted."
"You have to stay calm and don't have any fetal contamination."
Fengnian couldn't understand it at all.
"There is a person in your belly now," Chi Chengzi explained helpfully. "He will grow up, and in nine months, you will give birth to him."
Sheng couldn't believe it: "There is someone living in Fengnian's belly?"
"When that person is born, he will call you 'Dad'." Then Chi Chengzi said to Fengnian: "He will call you 'Mother'."
They seemed to understand, but seeing how happy their mother was, they didn't say anything more.
The clouds were left to their own devices, and they walked out of the cabin to watch the stars that were lighting up one by one.
The night wind blew into my eyes, drying them. I couldn't help but blink, and tears filled the air.
"Do I really want to die here all my life?"
He raised his sleeves, as if trying to drive away the lingering wind.
For some reason, the family's happiness aroused his sentimentality.
He still has a lot to accomplish!
Chi Chengzi came quietly behind him, waiting for him to find him.
Yunkong had fallen into a selfless daze, and his usually sharp intuition had become blunted. Chi Chengzi actually stood there for a long time without noticing his presence.
Chi Chengzi became impatient: "Yunkong, are you hungry?"
"It doesn't matter if you're hungry or not."
"You don't often say frustrating things."
"Now is not an ordinary time." Yun Kong sighed quietly.
"Mei Jian counts the days every day." Chi Chengzi said for no reason.
"Um."
"She just told me that tomorrow we will be here for thirty days."
Thirty days? How many years have we been alive? Yun Kong's heart was screaming.
"She said that the entrance to the mountain stream will be opened every thirty days, and it will be open for a long time each time, and it will only close before the sun goes down."
After Chi Chengzi finished speaking, he went back to the house.
Yun Kong suddenly felt that his feet were numb and numb. He fell to his knees on the ground, bent down to hug the soil, and burst into tears.
It turns out that Sister Jian knew, she knew the exit from the beginning.
Did a good harvest make her change her mind?
He laughed like crazy.
I laughed until I couldn't catch my breath, then went back inside to eat.
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Early morning came, and Sheng left home alone, carrying farm equipment.
Yun Kong hung up his shoulder bag and put on a straw hat, not forgetting the white cloth sign with the words "Divination and fortune-telling, strange and complicated diseases" written on it.
He waited for Chi Chengzi.
Chi Chengzi, who had grown hair and eyebrows, lost his former gloominess and also lost his courage.
It seemed like it would be a long time before he said goodbye to Sister Jian.
"Chichengzi, let me go there and wait for you first." He urged and walked towards the exit.
When Chi Chengzi saw Yun Kong walking away, he boldly took Jian Mei's hand.
"Sister Jian, wait for me to come back."
Sister Jian said nothing, lowering her head and holding back tears.
"I still have some unfinished business, so I'll definitely come back when I'm done!"
"Nie Liang went out and never came back."
"I'm not Nie Liang, I won't not come back."
"But Nie Liang..."
"No matter what happened to Nie Liang, he has already turned into ashes and can no longer be alive!"
