"Hmm..." Qiu Yutong was still a little confused, he stared at the old yellowed curtain above his head, and moved his fingers very hard.
Still can't move.
Qiu Yutong couldn't help being a little discouraged, but comforted herself, it's okay, relax a little, and try again.
He clenched his teeth tightly and struggled for a while, the little finger of his right hand finally moved very slightly.
Moved! He couldn't help but feel a little joy in his heart, and at this moment, there was a loud sound of "哐啷啷!!", as if someone had knocked over something.
Qiu Yutong blinked her eyes, but before she understood what was going on, there was another scream in her ear, "Ahh—"
The extremely high-pitched scream almost pierced his eardrum, but he couldn't raise his hand at all, let alone cover his ears, so he could only lie on the bed and stare blankly.
“…” So, what the hell is going on here
Qiu Yutong thought for a while, and twisted her neck hard, and finally tilted her heavy head slightly to the side.
In front of me is a very dilapidated adobe house, the thatched roof has turned black, and there are two small salted fish hanging on the uneven yellow mud wall. Still standing firmly.
Qiu Yutong didn't have time to appreciate how dilapidated the house was, because at this moment, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl was staring at him, trembling with fright, and seemed ready to scream again at any time.
The little girl was dark, thin and short, with an overturned wooden laundry tub under her feet, and the water splashed all over the floor, she seemed to be the owner of this room.
"You, are you alive?!" She trembled.
"Cough..." Qiu Yutong reluctantly opened his mouth, but felt his throat was sore and sore, and his tongue was so stiff that he couldn't speak at all.
Seeing his lips moving, the little girl said tremblingly again: "You, are you really alive?"
Qiu Yutong tried it, but still couldn't speak, and could only think in a daze, what is "alive"? Isn't it "waking up"
The two of them stood in an awkward stalemate for a while, perhaps seeing that he couldn't move, the little girl seemed not so scared anymore, and she boldly stepped forward: "How did you survive?"
"..." Qiu Yutong was really speechless. He took a deep breath, resisted the sharp pain in his throat, tried his best to move his stiff tongue, and finally said the first sentence, "Zhe Lishi..."
He only spoke half a sentence, then stopped.
This voice is too ugly... And what's wrong with this tongue, the syllables it makes are not like that at all!
"...Are you thirsty?" The little girl realized what was going on, and quickly took down a gourd ladle hanging on the yellow mud wall, scooped up half a scoop of water from the water tank next to it, and carefully brought it to Qiu Yutong's mouth.
Qiu Yutong tried her best to lower her head, managed to drink two small sips of water, and even spilled half of it, then took a breath, and finally finished the sentence: "Ahem, what is this place? Why am I here?"
The little girl stared at him: "Tell me first, are you a ghost or a monster?"
Qiu Yutong couldn't laugh or cry: "I'm not a ghost, nor a monster, I'm a human."
The little girl said decisively: "Impossible! My grandfather said, you are a lotus root!"
"What, what lotus root becomes essence?" Qiu Yutong said weakly, "cough cough cough, how did I come here?"
The little girl stared at him for a moment, as if she was sure that he was harmless, she pursed her lips, and said, "You were dug out by me and grandpa."
"... dug out?"
"Yes, more than three months ago, when my grandfather and I were digging lotus roots by the lake, we dug you out of the mud. Are you a lotus root or not?"
Qiu Yutong just felt at a loss. The little girl said that when she was digging lotus roots, she dug herself out of the mud? What's the meaning
He vaguely remembered that he seemed to have melted... How could he be in the mud by the lake
Suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning tore apart the night, Qiu Yutong's heart suddenly lit up, and suddenly thought of something—could it be, could it be? !
He couldn't care about anything else, he raised his right hand with all his strength, and then slowly looked down. At this moment, he was completely stunned.
He really couldn't be more familiar with this right hand.
This hand was slender, white, stable, and powerful. The oval nails were carefully trimmed, and there was an extremely thin layer of sword calluses on the palm and fingertips... This hand was his own.
In other words, this is his original body, the body when he ascended.
But, didn't that body disappear when it ascended? Could it be that, in fact, the body did not disappear, but fell down? !
"Cough cough..." Qiu Yutong only felt that her thoughts were in a mess, and she couldn't help coughing twice, and then said, "Little girl, what is this place? Also, how did you find me? Please tell me carefully." .”
The little girl looked at him for a while, then hesitated and opened her mouth.
"This is Zhangjia Village, Crescent Moon Lake. Three months ago, my grandfather and I went to dig lotus roots by the lake. My grandfather dug a lot of lotus roots, and I helped dig them... Then, I went down with a hoe and found a soft thing."
Speaking of this, the little girl seemed to have some lingering fears: "I felt a little strange, so I reached out to touch it, and finally touched a cold hand! It almost scared me to death!"
Qiu Yutong murmured, "Is that hand my hand?"
The little girl nodded: "That's right. At that time, I screamed in fright, thinking that there was a dead person at the bottom of the lake, and my grandpa was also startled, and hurried over. Then, we got you out of the mud, and grandpa returned I washed the mud off your face with lake water."
"..." Qiu Yutong couldn't help being silent.
When digging lotus roots, a person was dug out of the mud, no wonder the two thought they were lotus roots...
The little girl said again: "It's strange to say that you looked like that at that time. Although you were cold and not even breathing, you didn't look like a dead person."
"I'm not a dead person." Qiu Yutong smiled bitterly in his heart. His original body had been cultivated for two hundred years, so it was naturally immortal.
"After my grandpa and I washed you, we didn't know what to do, and we couldn't bury you back in the mud, so we had to move you back and lay you on the bed. Grandpa said, you look so good-looking It’s so white, it was dug out from the mud by the lake, it must not be a mortal, maybe it’s the lotus root that has turned into essence and will bless us with a good harvest.”
Qiu Yutong couldn't laugh or cry, he suddenly remembered something: "By the way, when you found me, was there a sword beside me?"
When he ascended, the "Tian Shui Bi" was still in his hand, maybe it also fell down together
"Yes." The little girl said softly.
"What about the sword?"
The little girl remained silent for a long while, her eyes gradually turning red.
"What's the matter? It's okay, even if you lose it, it doesn't matter." Qiu Yutong's heart softened, and she quickly coaxed softly.
"Brother Zhang Shuigen at the head of the village wanted to grab that sword, but grandpa didn't give it to them. That Zhang Shuigen, he beat grandpa to death... woo woo woo... I'm the only one left in the family... woo woo..." The little girl His voice choked, and he burst into tears.
Qiu Yutong was taken aback for a moment, and then felt uncomfortable and extremely guilty. Although Chen Chao was stable and prosperous, there were also many poor families and bullies in the village, and there were many injustices, and the death of the little girl's grandfather had something to do with her.
The little girl was crying out of breath, Qiu Yutong managed to hold herself up, reached out and stroked her hair, and coaxed softly: "Hey, don't cry, don't cry, I will avenge your grandfather .”
This little girl is already thirteen or fourteen years old. It is actually very inappropriate for Qiu Yutong to touch her hair like this, but Qiu Yutong is a little ignorant of the world. I didn't think there was anything wrong with that.
The little girl cried even louder when he stroked her hair: "Wow... wow..."
Qiu Yutong was at a loss. All his experience in coaxing children came from little Lu Xiao, but little Lu Xiao was very precocious and never cried. At this moment, he didn't know what to do when he encountered such a situation, so he could only keep talking nonsense: "Don't cry, don't cry."
The little girl cried for a while, and then slowly stopped. She also seemed to feel a little embarrassed, and wiped away her tears indiscriminately: "Well, you just woke up, you must be hungry... I, I just steamed sweet potato rice."
"Uh, I don't need..." Before Qiu Yutong finished speaking, the little girl turned and went out, and came back quickly with a small pot of sweet potato rice.
"You lotus root essence, do you want to eat this?" the little girl asked nervously.
"I'm really not a lotus root essence," Qiu Yutong said helplessly, "I'm a cultivator. The reason why I'm in the mud at the bottom of the lake is because... I'm practicing the turtle's breathing exercise."
"You, you are a fairy?!" The little girl opened her eyes wide.
"I'm not a fairy, I'm just a cultivator. You can call me... Mr. Qiu. By the way, little girl, what's your name?"
The little girl hesitated for a while before saying, "My name is Zhang Heiniu. Everyone in the village calls me Aniu, so you can call me Aniu too."
Qiu Yutong nodded: "Okay."
This sweet potato rice was cooked with sweet potatoes and various coarse grains. There was no oil, no salt, and no side dishes. It was really difficult to eat, but Qiu Yutong couldn't bear to ignore the little girl's kindness, so she reluctantly ate with her. In fact, his body has been inediated, but it is not a serious problem if he eats a little ordinary food.
During the meal, A Niu talked about many things, and Qiu Yutong finally understood her current situation and the ins and outs of the matter.
This small Zhangjia Village is located next to Crescent Lake, a large lake in the east of Chen Dynasty. People in the village make a living by planting lotus root and fishing, and their life is very poor.
And this Crescent Lake is located in the lower reaches of the Cangbai River. The upper reaches of the Cangbai River flowed through the capital of the Chen Dynasty. It is estimated that after my failure to ascend, my body fell into the Cangbai River, and then rushed all the way to the Crescent Lake with the surging river water, and finally sank. Into the mud of the lake.
Based on this calculation, my body must have been buried in the mud for at least twenty years. If the grandpa and grandson hadn't dug me out, I would have woken up from the mud at the bottom of the water, with mud in my mouth and nose. .
As soon as Qiu Yutong thought of this, A Niu opened her mouth: "Mr. Qiu, you don't know that when we dragged you out of the mud, your hair, ears and nose were all covered with mud. Jiner, I just washed you clean..."
Speaking of grandpa, A Niu's voice became a little choked up again, and she didn't say any more.
Qiu Yutong was silent for a while, and suddenly remembered an extremely important question: "By the way, what time is it?"
"Well, it's just past noon?"
"I don't mean that, I mean, what year and month is it?"
A Niu blinked: "Oh, you said the year and month? It is now November of the sixth year of Changhe."
"November of the sixth year of Changhe?" Qiu Yutong couldn't help being stunned.
The Immortal Alliance Conference was held after the Ching Ming Festival in the fourth year of Changhe. Afterwards, he was kidnapped by Lu Xiao and sent to the Demon Realm, and then fell into the Black Dragon Valley during the Western Expedition to the Bat Monster Clan, and finally melted away... At that time, it was about six month.
So, two years and five months have passed
How is Xiaoer
Thinking of this, Qiu Yutong suddenly felt a sharp pain in his mind, as if a red-hot knife was ruthlessly twisting his brain. At the same time, a large number of scattered memory fragments flooded like a flood. Come here... Cuiwei Cold Pool... Magic Pill... Valley Bottom... Return to Wuya... It hurts...
Even if it's just some scattered memories, even though many years have passed, the pain and fear of flesh and blood are still as vivid as ever, and he can hardly control himself, trembling slightly.
Gui Wuya and the others used ice silkworm Gu to force him to question him, and tortured himself with various tortures. They trampled his hands, brushed off a layer of his flesh, and crushed every joint of him... all over the floor. The blood... it hurts, it hurts... But, the magic pill is not in my hands, and I didn't take away Xiao'er's magic pill at all, but just distracted the monks who were chasing after me...
Qiu Yutong gritted her teeth tightly, her mind was at a loss.
How did that happen? When I was in Yaowangzhuang, I had clearly expelled the ice silkworm green blood Gu, so how could it be, how could it be... this shouldn't be...
He vaguely recalled those things back then, those little things in Yaowangzhuang... I don't know how long it took, but he only felt that his heart was slowly sinking, and his whole body seemed to have fallen into a mouthful of cold. In the dark deep well, the blood in his body was almost frozen, and even the depths of his bone marrow were chilling.
That's right, the last cup of blood that year was not brought by Miracle Doctor Xu, but by Xiao'er. At that time, he was a little surprised because he didn't have the tingling sensation of medicinal bath, but Xiao'er said, this is It was normal, and he believed it.
However, now it seems that the blood of that heart...
Qiu Yutong only felt that his whole body seemed to be enveloped by a cloud of icy mist, and he was cold, afraid, and confused.
why…
Why do you do this to him...
Later, those things in the devil world...
Qiu Yutong only felt a splitting headache, he didn't want to think about it at all, but his brain was completely uncontrollable, he kept thinking about the way he pleaded to his little apprentice to admit his mistakes, the way he was submissive, and the way he made a mistake. Those extremely shameful gestures... In the end, in that Black Dragon Valley, he even took the initiative, took the initiative...
And it all started because Lu Xiao said that he had gouged out his magic pill.
However, I didn't do that at all, I just transformed into a fake magic pill to lure away the pursuers.
Since the remaining Gu worms are because Lu Xiao secretly poured out that cup of blood, the magic pill...
Qiu Yutong didn't have the courage to think about it any further.
Perhaps, the magic pill was not lost at all.
However, Lu Xiao knew that he had lost that memory, so he lied to himself.
Why would he lie to himself? To make myself feel guilty, to make myself obedient, to satisfy some unspeakable desires, to... try something new
Qiu Yutong could hardly restrain herself, thinking of the things the little apprentice had done to him.
He thought of his humble and pitiful sense of guilt, those shameful and submissive gestures, he thought of Lu Xiao's satisfied and happy expression after the incident, that extremely subtle expression of satisfaction... He only felt a chill , quietly climbed up from the back.
What was Lu Xiao thinking at those times
Does he feel that his master is simply a fool? Does he think that there are such stupid people in the world, because they have never done something before, they are so willing to endure him, obey him without any rejection, and they are tossed into such a state by him, and they don't resist... In the end, he even took the initiative to help him transform into a dragon...
In this way, even those last words, those confessions, and those sweet words are all... fake? In fact, it's just that he wants to help him transform into a dragon
Yes, his little apprentice has always been so smart.
Qiu Yutong only felt a severe headache, her mind seemed to be on fire, but her chest was bone-chillingly cold.
How can you do this…
How can you do this…
"Mr. Qiu, what's the matter? Your complexion is so bad." Aniu asked doubtfully.
Qiu Yutong suddenly came back to his senses, he wanted to force a smile at the little girl, but he couldn't squeeze out a smile at all, so he could only say in a hoarse voice: "It's nothing."
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