It was a long journey with only each other as companions, and it was impossible not to communicate, but Jiang Yujin was so angry that she didn't say a word. What she wanted to do was just say "yes" or push Sun Zikai.
But there are always difficulties. The problem of going out is often the problem that the two of them least want to face. There are barbarians everywhere along the Ying River. Sun Zikai is okay, but Jiang Yujin is in more trouble. Every time, he has to drive the carriage for more than ten miles away from the river. , after solving it, come back along the original road. When she solved it, Sun Zikai couldn't go too far, it was too inconvenient.
On the way back, Sun Zikai complained: "You've done it four times today, how about I find you some medicine to take? I can't bear to run out again and again."
Jiang Yujin blushed, snorted and ignored him.
"Is that okay? If not, I'll take a peek next time."
"How dare you! Just take a look and I'll gouge your eyes out!"
"Hey, I looked a long time ago and saw a big white butt from a distance."
"Ah ah ah -" Jiang Yujin tried her best to kick Sun Zikai under the car, but unfortunately she couldn't do it at all. After this, if Sun Zikai didn't run a mile away, Jiang Yujin wouldn't squat down.
This river is really long. Sun Zikai estimated the distance and walked for more than four hundred miles. More and more barbarians came, and villages actually appeared. They used wood to make shelves and covered them with straw mats as walls. When the season changed, Driving cattle and sheep to migrate at any time. And Sun Zikai discovered the fields. The barbarians turned out to be able to farm and grow all kinds of food, but they never planted a lot. A farming civilization could not grow within a nomadic civilization. Once you plant a lot of food, there will naturally be The barbarians came to snatch it.
After another hundred miles of hurried driving, the horse was too tired to run. In desperation, Sun Zikai had no choice but to untie the reins, let it go free, and then pulled Jiang Yujin on foot. However, this was the easiest way to reveal their secrets. They would never Unable to communicate or come into contact with the barbarians, and watching the river rush from a distance, only five miles away, the pampered Jiang Yujin's body could no longer bear it.
But Jiang Yujin was not squeamish. Although it was very painful, she always gritted her teeth and persisted without saying a word. She understood that she was no longer a princess of a great country. In this place, she was just an ordinary girl.
"Let's rest for a while."
"No need." Jiang Yujin rejected Sun Zikai's kindness and picked up a piece of wood to use as a crutch. But no matter how hard she persisted, her delicate body always had its limits. After a while, her waist hurt so much that she couldn't straighten her back. I stood up, almost out of breath.
"Okay, let's take a rest."
Jiang Yujin couldn't even say a complete sentence, she just waved her hands. In a place full of barbarians, she didn't want to be a burden, and she was still angry and didn't want to talk to him.
Sun Zikai was also helpless. Even though this was the case, this girl was still angry at herself. But he was full of ideas and said to Jiang Yujin: "Let's do this. I'll carry you, you pay and I'll help. There are barbarians everywhere here. If you keep inking, we won't be able to get out. If you feel guilty, then you Just give me more money.”
Jiang Yujin persisted for another two miles, but could no longer walk, so she stopped. After a moment of pause, she touched her bracelet. The light flashed and a piece of gold appeared.
Sun Zikai said depressedly: "Even if I chop off two legs for you, it won't be worth so much money."
Jiang Yujin replied: "But this is the least valuable thing I have."
"Well, then you owe me first, and then you can pay me back after I have earned enough money for what I have done."
"All right."
Sun Zikai squatted down, and Jiang Yujin moved over, put her hands on her shoulders, and fell forward. She really reached her limit, and collapsed on Sun Zikai's back. She didn't have the strength to hook her hands, and she was about to fall asleep with her eyes closed.
Sun Zikai stood up and lifted her butt up, causing Jiang Yujin to wake up immediately.
"What are you doing."
"Nothing to do, just pick you up."
"Be honest."
"Oh, you smell so good."
"Don't smell it."
"oh."
The next breath, Jiang Yujin fell asleep.
That night, Jiang Yujin woke up in a daze, and first saw a hanging cloud shirt, dancing in the bright stars, the moonlight melting into the snow, fish leaping in the long river, but the riverside was already yellow sand, and there was no green wood.
"Where...is this?"
"You're awake."
"Where is it?"
"After I drove a hundred miles, there was no grass beside the river, and there were no barbarians. Somehow the road after that became like this, with sand on both sides."
"This is a desert." Jiang Yujin said.
"Desert? What is a desert?"
"That's what you see now, you idiot."
"Oh, it turns out this is called a desert. No grass can grow in the sand. We shouldn't see barbarians anymore."
"How far did you just say you traveled?"
"After a hundred miles we entered the desert, and now we have walked more than sixty miles."
"you're lying."
"Huh? You think I'm bragging."
"Blow...what?" Jiang Yujin didn't understand.
"Bragging means talking big."
"Yeah, you're bragging."
"Hey, then hold me tight and I'll show you if I'm bragging." Sun Zikai tapped the ground lightly and suddenly jumped up in the wind. I don't know if he brought the wind or the wind blew up the dreams of these two people.
The fish jumped out of the water. Sun Zikai stepped on a water droplet next to it. He floated a little and suddenly rushed forward, swinging hundreds of feet. Then he turned over into the air, with the wind as his wings and the water as his bottom, sliding among the stars. Take a night tour under the moonlight for a long time.
Jiang Yujin was wandering among the stars and the moon, as if she were dreaming about a vision, and she was fascinated by the sight, and suddenly bit Sun Zikai's ear.
"Why did you bite me!"
"I thought I was dreaming."
"Hey, I'm not bragging to you."
"Who taught you this?"
"No one taught me, I realized it myself."
"Bragging! You are from the sect and you have been lying to me."
"That's not true!" Sun Zikai said: "I became an orphan when I was five years old. I wandered for a long time, and then I was taken to Ansheng Pass by Lao Yang and became a gatekeeper. No sect would want a person like me. , my dad said, even for the job of being a doorman, you have to rely on layers of connections to get in."
"But...but" how could Jiang Yujin accept such a thing, "You are lying. There are many practitioners in our palace. All of them come from the sect. No one teaches you. You can't even find the spiritual energy." Not even."
"So what I cultivate is not the Tao of Reiki. I have learned many Tao, and they are all very good."
"You must at least have a basic mental method." Jiang Yujin said, "You must have a mental method."
"There are some, but I figured it out on my own. I call it 'Wuji'. Oh, I'm not lying to you. I don't have access to the way of spiritual energy, so I can only speculate on some heresy. There is no other way."
"Are you really..." Jiang Yujin lay on his shoulder and looked at Sun Zikai's profile seriously.
"What's really wrong with me?"
"It's... really amazing."
"Hey, I think so too. It's just a coincidence. Enlightenment is not that easy." Sun Zikai stepped on the wind and flew higher. There was no cloud in the sky anymore. It was as if the stars were floating in front of them, within reach. .
The wind became stronger and colder, Jiang Yujin sneezed, and Sun Zikai said with concern: "You are cold." Then he twisted his fingers, and flames bloomed at the fingertips, forming a trickling river in the air, and the "river water" sprinkled in the north of the sky. The human world is scattered into stars on the real river below.
"So beautiful, so warm...what else can you do?"
"There are so many, what do you want to see?"
"Don't look at anything, just like this, I want to sleep quietly."
"Ah? I have to keep holding you flat like this." The two of them are now flying in the air, Jiang Yujin is lying on Sun Zikai's back, and Sun Zikai has to step on the wind from time to time to gain strength.
"Um."
"I don't want it, I don't feel comfortable."
"I paid."
"Where? Oh, okay."
The night was quiet, with the moonlight behind her and the stars forming music. The girl had not slept so peacefully for a long time. Tears flowed down her cheeks, just like her mother's gentle kiss yesterday.
What a long night, what a happy dream.
On the second day, Sun Zikai didn't care about rushing because Jiang Yujin's legs were numb and painful, and she couldn't squat anymore.
Sun Zikai squatted down and pressed her feet, and said angrily: "I can heal you in half a stick of incense by pressing the acupuncture points on your legs, but you don't."
"Don't even think about it. Even if it's my foot, even the Chinese doctors would never touch it before."
"You are such a high maintenance person."
"Luanluo, I paid the money, hum."
When he thought of that shiny piece of gold, Sun Zikai's eyes shone, and he suddenly became very motivated and said, "My young master, please take a look."
More than ten breaths later, Sun Zikai suddenly froze. He clearly sensed that there was life and energy appearing twenty miles away, but how could there be other people in the desert?
"What's wrong?" Jiang Yujin asked.
"You wait here for a while, I'll go over there and take a look."
"What are you looking at?"
"There's someone over there."
"Ah? How is that possible? This is a desert."
Sun Zikai was about to leave, and Jiang Yujin said anxiously: "I'll go too." She stood up too hastily, her legs were so numb that she lost consciousness, and fell down again.
"No, I'll be back in a moment,"
"I also need to go!"
Sun Zikai was startled, lowered his head, and saw Jiang Yujin's eyes. He suddenly understood, reached out and touched Jiang Yujin's head, as if to comfort Xiao Youshi, and said: "Don't worry, the gatekeeper will do what he says, no. Earn your piece of gold, and I won't leave you, a big benefactor, alone."
"Then I'm going too, carry me."
She raised her arms, and Sun Zikai leaned down helplessly, hugging her instead, then stepped out of the ground and walked against the wind.
Not long after, they finally saw the person. It was a carriage. The horse collapsed on the ground, the carriage was tilted, and the wind gently blew the curtains of the carriage.
When I landed next to the car, I heard a cat meowing. When I opened the curtain, the car was filled with yellow sand. A girl, eleven or twelve years old, was lying on the yellow sand, in a dying state. Next to her was a black cat who was also dying. .
Just as Sun Zikai was about to speak, Jiang Yujin yelled, grabbed the girl's body, and shouted with surprise and joy: "Mao Yatou? It's really you, my God, why are you here!" Then she hurriedly pulled Sun Zikai's hand. Arm, let him save people quickly.
In fact, she was not seriously injured, but she was too dehydrated. I took out the water bag and put a few drops on the girl's lips, and the girl responded immediately. After handing the water bag to Jiang Yujin, Sun Zikai grabbed the cat again, walked to the fallen horse, and poured some water into them both, which was effective immediately.
Not long after, I heard calls from inside the carriage, and then two girls howled inconsolably.
When they stopped crying, Sun Zikai walked over with the cat in his arms, and Jiang Yujin introduced both sides.
It turned out that there were two prime ministers under the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. One of them was surnamed Wen. He had been with the emperor, Jiang Yujin's father, since he was a child. He was unique in the world in literary and military skills, and was highly valued by the emperor. He was given the title of "Prime Minister Wen". No., this girl is none other than Wen Xiang's fourth daughter, Wen Yiru. She has been with Jiang Yujin since she was a child, and the two have a very deep relationship.
After the fall of the Song Dynasty, Wen Xiang lived and died with the emperor, and his family members were all scattered. His descendants took the opportunity to escape among them, but before they left the city, their traces were betrayed. All of Wen Xiang's sons were slaughtered, leaving only two daughters to escape. When he came out, the enemy vowed to eradicate her and chased her for thousands of miles, killing another woman. Only Wen Yiru managed to escape.
Unlike Jiang Yujin, Wen Yiru was escorted by a group of loyal servants and servants, and did not suffer much. Wen Yiru was eager for revenge, and inquired about the sect's sect, and then traveled hundreds of miles into the land of the barbarians.
Little did they know how barbaric the barbarians were. During the bloody journey, more than twenty servants tried their best to protect Wen Yiru from surviving. In the end, they were chased by the barbarians for five days and fled into the desert. Only two servants and servants were left.
They originally walked along the river and walked for many days without seeing their head. Unexpectedly, there was a storm in the desert the day before yesterday and the three of them were washed away. Wen Yiru was actually only twenty miles away from the river, but she couldn't find the direction. In this desert land, a person can die in one day. I was really lucky to meet Sun Zikai and Jiang Yujin this time.
Wen Yiru begged the two of them to help find the two servants. Now they were all dead family members. Sun Zikai didn't want to hide it and said: "There is no need to look for it. You just said that there is only one carriage. This carriage covers the "Light, I saved your life. If they are by the river, they will be fine, but if they are not, they will definitely die."
The two girls hugged each other. After a while, they thought of their parents and their hometown again, and couldn't help crying again.
Sun Zikai walked out of the car and straightened the fallen car with a slight lift. The cat lay on his shoulder. He led the horse and walked towards the river step by step.
After a long time, the tired horse finally saw the long sky-blue Yingxi River. With four trembling hooves, he finally rushed to the river and directly put his head into the water.
The black cat was also thirsty, so Sun Zikai jumped into the river and threw a lot of fish and shrimps up.
At noon, when the sun is at its most poisonous, Sun Zikai's fingers lightly glided over the sand surface, and the lines of soil in his skin reacted with the sand, pulling the fine sand together to form a large shading layer under the moisturization of water. Horses can also hide in it to enjoy the cool air.
Sun Zikai grilled some more fish, and no one was left behind, even the cat got two.
The two girls seemed to have endless things to talk about, crying and laughing for a while. Sun Zikai reminded: "We will be on our way soon, and the horses are almost rested."
Jiang Yujin said: "Is the gold I give you enough for you to give to another person?"
"Twenty people are enough." Sun Zikai replied.
Wen Yiru said: "Do you want money? I have some." She touched her wrist, and there was a ring on her wrist, which was the same as Jiang Yujin's. The light flashed, and a money bag appeared. When she opened it, she saw the whole ring. It's broken silver.
Jiang Yujin said: "You actually have these. I used gold all the way, the ones I tiptoed when we were playing."
Wen Yiru didn't know whether to laugh or cry and said: "Princess, those are all donations from various counties over the years. How can you possibly spend them?"
"Is gold worth a lot of money?" Jiang Yujin asked seriously.
Wen Yiru replied: "Yes, especially the gold, it is so valuable."
"Hmph, damn it, those bastards lied to me all the way. Fortunately, I lied to them and said I didn't have much gold. In fact, I still have a lot more that I can't use up."
Sun Zikai spat, walked out of the shade, buried his face in the river, and cursed, "Fuck! It's really heaven and earth, and hell on earth."
But he turned around and looked again. Jiang Yujin's appearance at this moment made him even more happy. As long as the girls still hugged each other, they were still the same selves they once were, princesses, daughters of the prime minister, and the carefree yesterday.
When the sun was no longer fierce, Sun Zikai decided to hit the road. Wen Yiru went to the river to wash her face. Sun Zikai took the opportunity to ask Jiang Yujin the question he had always wondered.
"Hey, why did you call her Mao Yatou? Her surname is not Mao. Is it because she has a lot of hair on her body?"
"Go to hell!"
"oh."
After the carriage drove for another five days, Sun Zikai finally sensed life, and vegetation began to appear on both sides of the river.
On the way, Wen Yiru said doubtfully: "It's really strange that there is a river in the desert, but it doesn't make sense that there are aquatic plants, fish and shrimps in the river."
Sun Zikai explained that it was because there was a steady stream of energy pouring down from the river, and it was that energy that nourished countless living beings. This river was anything but ordinary, but it was a pity that the girls didn't understand it at all.
When the vegetation becomes forest, human traces begin to appear. Every once in a while, there is a stone embankment on the river. A person full of aura will guard the embankment. Sun Zikai can feel that these people are pulling out the energy in the river layer by layer. , the energy in the form of wind and clouds should be the legendary spiritual energy, and these people are practitioners.
People rarely come from the desert. Those practitioners have become interested in these three children. When they learn that they are looking for the Dongchen Sect, they will point forward generously and say: "Go forward, you will see them." The biggest dam is the wall of Dongchen Sect."
Along the way, the three of them saw more and more people. Those people were not like barbarians. They did not rush up with machetes. But a few miles later, they really saw a magnificent embankment, fifty feet high, which was as high as The dangerous peaks on both sides of "Ansheng Pass" are built on the small river. The high walls on both sides stretch out thousands of feet. The back door is also the easternmost side of the prosperous place - Qunying City.
There was a practitioner guarding the door on the stone steps. Judging from the energy level, Sun Zikai judged that the person had a good status. He explained the situation to Jiang Yujin, and Jiang Yujin made a move to take out all the treasures. Sun Zikai stopped her, took only three pieces of gold, put it in his arms, and asked the two girls to wait where they were. Then he quickly walked up the stone steps and came to the man.
The man spoke first and asked, "Come from the desert?"
"yes."
"What are you doing here?"
"Learn from a master."
"There is no art here." The man said, "Doll, go back, or walk from the wall to the City of Heroes."
Sun Zikai took out three gold bricks and had already made up a story. Unexpectedly, as soon as the gold came out, the man's eyes widened. Sun Zikai cursed in his heart, hating that he had taken too much. Sure enough, the people here were not as rich as Jiang Yujin's country.
"You...what's your background?" The man said, but his eyes kept staring at the gold.
Sun Zikai sighed and said: "The person who destroyed his family and lost his clan is now using the family heirloom - the Three Phase Bricks in exchange for the path to immortality. I hope you will give me a chance."
"Okay, I'll give you a chance." The man agreed too happily, took the gold over, and couldn't help but sigh: "What a good thing! You can join the sect."
"Well no, it wasn't me who went in, it was the two girls."
The man glanced at it, nodded and said, "Okay, I will give her two of my places. At this price, they can enter the second class."
"Why second class?"
The man was probably happy to see Jin Jin and explained patiently. It turned out that he was an elder of the Dongchen Sect, and each elder had a quota for recruiting people into the sect every year. They were divided into five levels, and newcomers were admitted from the lowest to the highest. The miscellaneous place of the outer door, the repair place of the outer door, the offset place of the inner door, the straight place of the inner door, and the core place of the inner door.
The higher the level, the faster the disciple can enter the Tao, the better.
"That's it." After thanking Sun Zikai, he asked the gatekeeper how he behaved like a clan due to his military exploits. As he expected, although Dongchen Sect knew about Yan Mingzong and did have contacts with him, Dongchen Sect had never heard of the matter of joining the sect through military exploits.
Sun Zikai didn't feel sad. He just glanced at Dongchen Sect lustfully, and then confirmed with the elders whether the two women could really be included in the second class. At the same time, he took a breath, and a large amount of air flow that only he could see appeared.
The elder did not lie. He returned to the two women with peace of mind.
"It's done, you two can go in."
Wen Yiru said happily: "That's great."
Jiang Yujin immediately asked: "What about you?"
"Me? Hi! How can something like military exploits work here?"
"It's not like I don't have gold. I'll give you three more."
"That's your gold. Also, don't take out any more gold, fool. I told that guy, those three pieces of gold are our last treasure. If you show off again, they will eat you."
Wen Yiru picked up the cat from the carriage, and Sun Zikai went to lead the horse. Jiang Yujin suddenly grabbed Sun Zikai and asked, "Then where are you going?"
"I'm going back!"
"You still owe me money, um, no, I still owe you."
"Bring this carriage here and I'll take it back for you to play with."
"Have you got food?"
"The girl I picked up when I was wandering was three years younger than me. Her name was Yang Youshi."
"I have plenty of gold. Don't you want to join the sect? How about I lend it to you?"
"Princess, I can't afford it. You can't imagine how valuable that thing is to me."
"Then I'll hire you for three years."
"It doesn't work."
"Then ten years, don't say you can't use it again, idiot!"
"I don't want it. I don't want to join the Dongchen Sect. I want to go to the Yanming Sect. That's the sect where my parents stayed. You should practice well and don't take out the gold anymore, you fool."
After bidding farewell to the two girls, Sun Zikai led the horse and walked towards the desert. The girls stood on the stone steps and watched.
Jiang Yujin clasped her hands tightly together. The figure was getting farther and farther away, and her heart was tightened. She felt that the sun was dazzling, but she remembered the moon turning into stars that night, and the flaming Milky Way that night.
Suddenly, she pulled Wen Yiru and said something, then quickly ran to the elder and said something. In the end, she ran away without even looking at the sect she was thinking about, and without having time to look at her sisters. Go down.
Sun Zikai, who was about to get on the carriage and run away, suddenly heard someone calling him an idiot. He turned around and saw Jiang Yujin running towards him awkwardly, with a confused look on his face.
And the girl seemed to have been running all her life just for this thought. She ran, ran as hard as she could, and finally jumped into the boy's arms.
"What are you doing?" Sun Zikai looked confused.
After Jiang Yujin calmed down for a long time, she suddenly stuck out her tongue and said, "Turn around and carry me on your back."
"ah?"
"Hurry up!" Jiang Yujin pulled him around, forced him to squat down, and jumped on his back.
Sun Zikai said helplessly: "What are you doing? Why do you want me to carry you?"
"I paid."
"Didn't we arrive in a carriage? I'm going back."
"Carry me back."
"What?"
"I'm going to Yan Mingzong."
"You special girl, you asked me to carry you thousands of miles, and now you ask me to carry you back!"
"Humph, I paid!"
"You're going too far!"
Just when he was about to have an attack, there was a flash of light. Jiang Yujin waved a gold brick in front of Sun Zikai, almost blinding him. The girl said proudly: "You can go or not."
"Go, go, young master, take a look!"
The boy carried the girl on his back, and the horse followed him in the cart. The girl turned back and waved her hand, not knowing what she was saying goodbye to...
