Half a month passed.
The apricot flowers in the yard have almost fallen off, and the branches are beginning to sprout new buds. A Ji finally stopped eating frantically and grew taller, and finally he could control his transformation technique.
And A Ji didn't expect that when she used the magic of transformation to present the perfect man standing in front of Lin Haoqing, the first sentence Lin Haoqing said was: "Alright, it's time to leave."
So Si Yu turned around and packed up without saying a word, and even gave A Ji a burden and said, "A Ji, you should go south."
Aji took the package from Siyu's hand, feeling a little stunned. She looked at the package and looked up at Lin Haoqing and Siyu, then changed back to her own appearance. Before she could speak, she saw Lin Haoqing's brows wrinkle, she understood, Immediately turned back into a man, she scratched her head, puzzled:
"Master, won't you come with me?"
"I still have things to do. I won't be with you in the future." Lin Haoqing looked at A Ji's dumbfounded face and said, "Remember what I said to you, neither the capital nor the capital can go to the north. Show people with their true faces, and don't use the power of a demon master."
A Ji nodded: "I remember it all, but... Master... why don't you let me go with you?"
"Aji is good." Si Yu gently touched Aji's head, "We're not leaving you, it's just that you can't go where we're going."
A Ji puzzled: "I can't go? Are you going to the north? Or the capital?"
Before Si Yu could answer her again, Lin Haoqing said, "You don't need to know, grab your luggage and head south."
"I..." Aji became even more at a loss while holding the package, "but where should I go...what should I do..."
Lin Haoqing stared at her and was silent for a long time. Lin Haoqing stepped forward, grabbed Ji Yunhe's shoulder, and pushed her body over. At the gate in front of her, Lin Haoqing was behind her, pushing her forward until she walked to the door, and then, Involuntarily, the hand on her back made a soft sound, and she was pushed out, and at the moment when she was pushed out, A Ji heard Lin Haoqing whispering in her ear:
"You'll always find where to go and what to do."
The tone of voice did not fluctuate, it was still as serious as usual, but Aji suddenly felt a bit of tenderness.
When she turned her head anxiously and wanted to take another look at Lin Haoqing, with a "bang" behind her, the courtyard door was closed.
The tip of Aji's nose touched the dirty courtyard door, touching the dust of his nose.
A Ji stood at the door blankly for a long time with her burden in her arms. She was still a little uneasy in her heart.
She squatted at the door for half a day, but after half a day, she knocked on the door again, and there was no response from the room. She was cheeky, pushed the door and entered...
In the courtyard, it was clear and cold, the fallen apricot flowers on the ground were not swept away, and the courtyard was desolate.
But within half a day, the courtyard was already empty.
She stayed in the courtyard for a while, then she had to turn around and set off, walked out of the courtyard, and walked through the apricot forest. When she stepped out of the apricot forest, the apricot forest behind her suddenly turned into flying flowers, rustling, and was blown by the wind. After passing through her hair, she turned to the sky, and then turned invisible. She turned her head and saw that there was no apricot blossom forest behind her. Under the sun, this place was nothing but an ordinary wasteland.
Suddenly, A Ji's heart was empty, and her heart seemed to grow a few inches of grass. She suddenly felt that she had become a duckweed without roots, walking out of the void without knowing anything, without parents, no past, and a whole body. The secret of her, can not be answered, in this world, she came inexplicably, inexplicably long, and inexplicably returned to the loneliness of a person...
With no one to rely on anymore, she gritted her teeth and had to set foot on the road to the south alone.
I hope this way south, we can see more flowers.
…
The south has warmed up, but the north is still bitterly cold.
And in this demon control platform, the room of the Lord of the North is even colder than the ice and snow outside.
Frost condensed on him, spreading from him to the bed, to the interior of the hall and the walls, all covered with frosty aura.
There was a knock on the door outside.
The silver-haired merman lying on the bed moved his eyelids and opened his eyes abruptly. A pair of blue pupils stared at the smallpox for a while, until the knock on the door came again, and he eased his emotions and covered it. Head down, sit up.
"Come in." He opened his mouth, and the attendant outside opened the door. For a while, the cold air in the room gushed out. The moment the attendant stepped in, he was so frozen that he happened to step on the ice. On the ground, he fell in a state of embarrassment. He stumbled on the ground and struggled for a long time as if performing acrobatics before finally stabilizing his body and kneeling on the ground, not daring to move.
The attendant was embarrassed, quietly glanced at Chang Yi, and did not dare to say a word.
The Lord of the North, since he left the Huxin Courtyard, his body has become more and more cold, and his temper has become more and more elusive. Before the change, Kong Ming and Luo Jinsang were still there. When they saw the servants making a fool of themselves, most of them wanted to smile, so they were not so frightened, but now...
Chang Yi glanced at the kneeling attendant without saying a word: "What's the matter?"
"Returning to your lord, Master Kong Ming has heard from the south that there are many people affected by the poison of the frost, and he may have to delay the time to return to the north."
"Yeah." Chang Yi responded.
In order not to let himself fall again, the attendant knelt on the ground and retreated. Changyi said suddenly, "You won't be here tomorrow."
The attendant was stunned for a moment, then he replied with trembling, and hurriedly backed out.
He walked a long way and went out several doors, and then whispered to the familiar attendant: "Also said that the northern border is better than the capital, I think we have come to the wrong enemy, this lord is no better than the Princess of Shunde. Good to serve, and an unpredictable master."
"It shouldn't be... I heard that the Lord of the North was not like this before..."
"It became like this after leaving the small lake in the heart of the lake. I don't know what kind of sorcery spell I was in. You see that every day, the inside of the palace is icy and snowy. It's better for me to stand outside and blow the cold wind. Tomorrow Don't let me serve him, it's just right, this fate is saved."
"Hey… "
They thought that their complaints were spoken in a place no one knew about, but they did not know that these words were passed into Changyi's ears word by word.
Hearing these words, Chang Yi didn't feel anything in his heart, he felt that they were right.
His temper became more and more uncontrollable. He looked at this world as if he were looking at a piece of grass, dull and boring, and looking at those faces was like looking at livestock, without being touched in the slightest.
He knows that he is less and less interested in this world, just because all his obsessions and stubbornness have been used on one person, and she took them all away...
Chang Yi looked at his hands, his fingertips were pale, and every breath he took in, rolled out white mist in the cold air.
After Ji Yunhe was frozen, his body slowly began to change like this. Changyi knew that it was the mark he left on Ji Yunhe that made him suffer this. The bite he bit Ji Yunhe's ear was a promise made by the merman to his partner. This would establish an invisible connection between the two of them. When she was alive, this seal would allow him to perceive where she was.
And when she died...
The merman lives in the sea all his life, so when the merman dies, it becomes like the death of a monster on land. The monsters on the land died, turned into invisible, and dissipated in the air like powder.
And so are the mermen in the sea. Their power comes from the sea, so at the moment of death, the whole body's power is also returned to the sea, and they will turn into foam on the sea and dissipate invisibly.
Although Ji Yunhe was not a merman, she was marked as a merman by him. As long as Changyi puts Ji Yunhe's body into the sea, the sea will take away the merman mark on her body, and perhaps turn her into foam. And as long as the mark disappears, Changyi will no longer have to suffer from this frost.
But he didn't want to.
He sealed Ji Yunhe's body with layers of ice and sank her to the bottom of the lake, but he did not want to cut off the last connection between them.
Ji Yunhe can go, let go, and be free.
He can't.
He was paranoid about grasping this meaningless connection, irrational, ill-advised, and even a little disregarding it. only because…
The coldness around him made Changyi in the dead of night dream, as if she could lie in the same icy lake as her, as if she could still hear her whispering in his ear: "Changyi... Changyi..."
Just the familiar feeling he imagined was enough to support him to fall asleep in the biting cold that was cooler than the night.
Chang Yi got off the bed and stepped on the cold ground. He didn't have any expression on his face. He walked forward step by step and walked out of the house. The sun was pouring on him, but he never felt the slightest warmth.
This vague world, the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, in his eyes, are no longer interesting. Chang Yi suddenly remembered that he had heard a long time ago that the great national teacher of the National Teacher's Mansion was going to hold a funeral for the world...
Funeral for the world...
Maybe that's how he feels...
Because he can no longer feel the beauty and interest of this world, the overturning of the common people and the upside-down of heaven and earth are no longer related to him.
"Honored lord." Another attendant stepped forward, and Changyi turned to look at him. His face was not much different from that of the attendant before, in his eyes, the attendant said, "A while ago The demon master Lu Jinyan who descended to the north had a conflict with the snake monster in the north. The two started a fight, which caused a battle between the demon master and the monster. Now the battle has subsided, but the two sides are still dissatisfied. The demon masters and many monsters are now in my northern border. Before that, there were few people and everyone was united, but now the demon masters who came from the four places to control the demons are…”
"Kill it."
Long Yi faintly spit out three words.
The visitor was startled: "Respect... Revered Lord?"
"The troublemaker, be punished." Chang Yi said these words, turned around and left, leaving the attendant blankly looking at Chang Yi's back, stunned.
…
With his own package, Aji turned into a man with the technique of transformation, and went all the way south. At first, she thought that she would be at a loss or not adapt to it for a while, but she did not expect that her adaptability was always beyond her imagination.
Walking through the mountains and rivers, she found that she liked this kind of life unexpectedly.
It was only after she left that Xinglin that Aji discovered her true self. It turned out that she liked the blue sky so much, the sun, the warm breeze, catching fish in the stream, and after she was full, she liked to lie on the grass and sleep for a while. all day.
The disappointment and unhappiness left by Lin Haoqing a few days ago have also been relieved. She feels that what Lin Haoqing said to her at the end was right, she will find where she wants to go, and she will know what to do...
It was that day, the sun was shining brightly, A Ji was walking by the creek, thinking about what fish to catch and grilled, when he suddenly heard a woman's cry in front of him.
Aji was stunned, and hurried forward.
In front of the stream, a mother was crying heart-to-heart with her child covered in black and blue.
"What's wrong?" Aji asked quickly. The child's mother didn't answer her. A Ji looked down and saw that the child's body was cold, and the skin was an extremely unnatural dark blue. A Ji frowned and held the child's wrist.
It turned out to be a child with the power of dual veins...
"He's poisoned... he's poisoned..." the mother cried. "This water is full of poison!"
A Ji turned her head and glanced at the stream. She also drank from the stream every day, and she had never done this before. She held the child's pulse, and saw the breath getting weaker and weaker, she frowned and said, she should help him protect the heart, but the power of the child's dual pulse, she must not use the magic power to pour into his body, Lin Haoqing and She said that ordinary people have only one power, and there is no other person like her in this world, so she has to hide herself and cannot use her power as a demon master...
but…
Do you want to watch the child die
Suddenly, the child twitched slightly all over, and the small body looked even more pitiful in the arms of the helpless mother. A Ji didn't hesitate any longer, holding his palm, he poured his own power into the child's body.
After a while, the child's convulsions stopped slightly, and his breath gradually calmed down. Although the dark blue body did not subside, he slowly opened his eyes.
"Open your eyes? Open your eyes!" The mother burst into laughter, looked at the child, and kept touching, "It's alright, the child is alright, A-Niang is here, A-Niang is here."
A Ji took two steps back, looking at the happy mother who was also like a child, the corners of her lips slightly raised a smile.
At night, Aji followed his mother and son to the small ruined temple where they temporarily lived.
The mother calls herself Liang Li, and the child is Liang Xiaoan. They escaped from their hometown: "Xiao An's father is... gone." Liang Li looked at the sleeping child and said, wiping away tears, "Xiao An was born, the doctor said that he has double veins, My father and I took Xiao An and fled our hometown overnight, in order to prevent him from being caught in the Sifang Demon Control Land..."
The light of the fire flickered, and according to Liang Li's slightly tired and vicissitudes face, A Ji looked at her, maybe the light of the bonfire was beating too fast, in a trance, a picture flashed in A Ji'er's mind, it was also a couple. Pictures of parents running away with their children in a hurry...
"Xiao An was caught and killed by officers and soldiers in the early years. Then I took Xiao An to hide in the mountains, hiding in the east, hoping that the great national teacher died and the imperial court fell, so we didn't have to hide. The army has started in the north, but I never thought that the princess in the capital would throw poison into the river. I told my children not to drink the water in the river. I received dew every day, and it rained a little bit of rain. Give him a drink, but that's not enough, the child is thirsty and can't stand it, so I lay down in the stream and drank water when I wasn't paying attention..."
Liang Li Shi wiped away tears: "I would rather he drink my blood than he would become like this just for a sip of water..."
A Ji was shocked when he heard this, and even more intuitively disgusted the princess in this matter: "Then why is the princess so mad?"
Liang Li shook his head: "No matter what the princess does, we have to admit that we are unlucky. I want to take the child to the north, not for any reason, but there is ice and snow, at least the drink is clean."
Hearing this, A Ji was silent for a moment, then nodded: "Sister, don't be sad, I will accompany you to pick up dew tomorrow morning."
Liang Li looked at her: "Many thanks to the young master, and today is also thanks to you..."
"No, sister, you promise me that you will leave here tomorrow, and then you will forget me. Don't remember this."
Liang Li nodded: "I know, everyone has their own difficulties, the son saved my child, I will never cause trouble for the son. I just don't know if the son wants to avoid something, it's better to be with our mother. Take a partner and go to the north together?"
Aji waved his hand: "No, I have to do other things."
The next day, A Ji and Liang's mother and son parted ways and went up the stream. She promised Lin Haoqing that if she didn't go to the capital if she didn't go to the north, then she wouldn't go, and... A Ji thought, the great masters and princesses in the capital, and the lord of the north, were all too high, and she touched them too. No, she might as well do something within her power.
For example, to find the source of this stream, at least, think of a way to make the Shuangmai child who drank this stream no longer poisoned.
…
A Ji walked along this stream for two days, twisting and turning, all the way west, into a big mountain. When she found the mountain, it was dark and dark. Aji originally planned to find a place to sleep for a while, and then look for the source of the stream when it was dawn tomorrow.
But this night, not long after she fell asleep, she heard the sound of searching and yelling from the back of the mountain. She fell asleep on the tree, sat up, looked up and looked into the distance, and saw many people raising With a torch, he searched in the mountains and forests.
Aji felt strange, turned over and jumped down from the tree. As soon as she landed on the ground, she suddenly heard an exclamation from the grass next to her. She looked to the side, and under the moonlight, a young man dressed in white fell down in the grass with a face full of embarrassment.
She blinked and glanced at the boy, before saying a word, the boy suddenly jumped up and covered her mouth: "Shh!" The boy panicked, "Don't talk!"
A Ji was not frightened, and still blinked at him, his hand tightly covering her mouth, and during the contact, she noticed the double veins in his body... A demon master in white... This white robe The fabric is so good...
A Ji thought about some of the books that Lin Haoqing had let him read, and he was muttering in his heart.
On this side, the teenager confirmed that she didn't mean to scream, so he let go of his hand tremblingly: "Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you."
"Are you a disciple of the National Teacher's Mansion?" A Ji asked. With just one sentence, he made the boy alert again. He took two steps back, leaned his back against the tree, and stared at A Ji in alarm and horror.
"You... who are you? Are you here to catch me?"
A Ji didn't answer him, moved the tip of her nose, she smelled a trace of blood. She turned her eyes and saw that the sleeve of the boy's left arm was torn open, and a long wound on the arm was still bleeding.
"I'm not, but why are those people arresting you?" A Ji looked at him, "Did you throw poison at the source of this stream?"
The young man shook his head again and again: "It's not me! I... No... It's also..." The young man leaned against the tree, as if he no longer had the strength to support his body, he sat down weakly, his eyes were lost, "I... and my senior brother, I was ordered to come. On the way I came, I saw a child who had been poisoned... He was black and blue all over... I... I didn't want to carry out the mission, but brother... The brother still threw the frost into the stream, and then the people from the north came. ... Senior brother was killed by them, I escaped here... "
He spoke incoherently, as if he had been frightened enough for the day.
He grabbed his hair: "I don't know what to do, why...why is this..." The boy's mood was a little broken, "I don't want to hurt anyone, and I don't want to die..."
This young man was only fifteen or sixty-seven years old, Aji looked at him, scrutinized him, and then believed him. She made up her mind, squatted down, and said to the boy, "I won't catch you, you can go, the people behind are here, I'll help you fool the past."
The young man looked up at her, bloodshot eyes and a pale and tired face full of disbelief: "I... I am a disciple of the National Teacher's Mansion... Now everyone outside wants to kill us... You, do you want to help me? "
"Let's go, don't gossip with me, they're chasing after me."
Hearing the words, the young man seemed to come back to his senses. He looked at A Ji, rubbed against the tree, and stood up with his body propped up, "I... My name is Ji Ning, and my master is Ji Chengyu from the National Teacher's Office..."
Ji Chengyu…
A Ji frowned, and suddenly felt that the name was inexplicably familiar.
The teenager didn't notice her emotions and continued, "You... What's your name, if in the future... "
"Do you still want a future?"
A sneer came after him, and the young man looked behind A Ji, his face pale immediately.
Hearing this, A Ji turned his head slightly, and saw the strong man standing behind him. The man was holding a giant axe in both hands, staring at A Ji and Ji Ning: "The lackeys of the National Teacher's Office, don't even think about escaping!"
The boy's feet softened and he fell to the ground again. At this moment, A Ji stood up and stood in front of Ji Ning.
Under the moonlight, there was a bit of lacquer light in her eyes: "He was just forced to come here, so why not kill him?"
"Hmph, where's the stinky boy? Don't disturb the uncle's business!" He said, kicking with his feet, holding a giant axe, and rushing straight to A Ji, every step the strong man took, the ground seemed to tremble, and he screamed. He shouted, rushed to A Ji, raised the big axe in his hand, and slashed down fiercely.
A Ji's eyes moved with brilliance, her brows condensed, and she raised her hand. With a "bang", she held up the strong man's wrist with one hand, and her palm was connected to the strong man's wrist.
Aji grabbed his wrist, and the look on the strong man's face gradually changed from surprise, wrestling, and finally to pain.
A Ji's hand seemed to be pushed lightly, and the menacing burly man took three steps back, his right hand could no longer hold the giant axe in his hand, his hand dropped, and the giant axe fell to the ground.
The strong man looked up at A Ji unwillingly, and Ji Ning behind A Ji was also shocked.
Only A Ji had a calm face and said, "I told you that he was forced. Before killing people, can you reason