Xu Yourong didn't understand, she thought to herself that you are only in your twenties at most, not much older than yourself, why do you think about life so clearly? And... to be able to use such a simple language to explain such a complicated truth clearly, how did the Snow Mountain Sect teach you? How do you usually live
She said, "I have never seen a man as eloquent as you."
Chen Changsheng was slightly taken aback, he never thought that he would get such an evaluation. Living with Senior Brother Yu Ren since childhood, he seldom speaks, and most of the time he gestures with his hands. After coming to Kyoto, many people think he is a bit taciturn, so when did he start to be able to speak so much? Because Luo Luo and Xuan Yuan Po are going to teach in the Orthodox Education Academy? Or was it because Tang Thirty-Six, that troublesome rich man, was whispering in his ears every day during this year? Or... something to do with who it's talking to
Looking at the beautiful face of the young girl illuminated by the flames, he felt flustered for no reason, and then became confused: "Just talking nonsense."
Xu Yourong looked at him and asked earnestly, "Why do you understand these principles?"
Chen Changsheng thought to himself, that's because you lived in the grassland since childhood, isolated from the world, and no one communicated with you.
Xu Yourong said: "You see responsibility, pressure, and life so clearly, you can't do it without introspection day and night. You are really amazing."
Chen Changsheng said honestly: "I really didn't think about it that much, it's just that things like stress can easily bring about negative emotions and are bad for health, so I don't like it."
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After the wind and snow stopped, the two left the temple and continued on their way.
Suddenly, they walked into a rainstorm.
Before they could think of a way to shelter from the rain, the rain stopped again.
The sun shone on the grassland again, and the rain evaporated in an instant, and it was sultry, as if it had come to summer.
Going forward, the grass branches are slightly yellow, with hoarfrost, and the white grass path gradually melts into the grassland, looking bleak, as if it has entered autumn.
The grassland in the Zhou Garden is indeed extremely mysterious. I don’t know whether it is because of space distortion or the problem of time flow. The alternation of the four seasons is extremely rapid, and it often gives people a feeling of being caught off guard. At the most exaggerated time, in just over ten In the distance, they went from spring to summer, and from autumn to winter.
Although the environment was harsh, it could be resolved after all. What comforted them most and made them more nervous was that they never encountered a monster again.
Running out of the summer covered by rain clouds, Chen Changsheng put Xu Yourong in a field of brilliant spring flowers, then took out a large piece of pure white snow prepared in winter and the utensils he took from the first two temples, and started to melt the snow and boil water , and at the same time began to pluck and disembowel the autumn goose caught in the early morning, preparing to make a pot of stewed goose meat with water chestnut.
The aroma of food gradually diffused, but the grassland beside the road was quiet without any sound.
This strange dead silence used to make them very vigilant, but now they have learned to ignore it.
What he was more worried about was the issue of time. According to the scale on the water bottle, it has been more than 20 days since they entered the Zhou Garden. Each time the Zhou Garden is opened, it only takes a hundred days. Once the garden is closed, the rules of the small world inside will be reversed once. , there is no problem with the monsters living in it, but the practitioners who have the knowledge of the sea will be directly bombarded to death by the sky thunder.
He doesn't know what's going on in the world outside Zhou's garden. Logically speaking, since the gate of the garden is closed, it will definitely attract the attention of people outside the garden. The bishop, Mei Lisha and Yuexia Dujiu should respond, but I don't know if there will be any. There is a way to open the gate of the garden, and the hundreds of human practitioners in the Zhou Garden have gathered in one place. Will they leave the garden to find their companions who are alone in the mountains
Of course, he doesn't have much confidence in the latter.
"As we get deeper into the grassland, time gets slower and slower. Where we are now, a day is only equivalent to a moment outside, so don't worry about Zhou Garden being closed for the time being." Xu Yourong has been using the astrolabe when she is awake these days After deduction and calculation, a relatively accurate result was obtained through the slight difference between the two running water bottles and the speed of the sun on the edge of the grassland that was about to set but never set.
When she said these words, she was on Chen Changsheng's back, holding a running water bottle and watching, with only one hand able to support his shoulder, she naturally completely lay on his back.
Up to now, the two of them have become a lot more familiar, and they get along a lot more casually. The movement of her hugging him has become very natural, unlike at the beginning, even if she was too weak to support him, she still held his shoulders with both hands. It was very hard to keep a slight distance between my body and his back.
Chen Changsheng is no longer as cautious as he was at the beginning, he is most likely to hold her leg in the most comfortable position, and no longer worry about whether it will be too hot.
At the same time, her casualness made him more comforted, being able to feel the soft girl's body, which added a lot of strength to him during the long, seemingly endless journey.
The sense of touch coming from behind was really soft, he was ashamed to imagine her body, but he came to a conclusion naturally, as expected, the girl from the Xiuling tribe was indeed very charming.
Thinking of the girl who was seriously injured, but he was thinking about these things, he felt a little ashamed, maybe in order to resolve this kind of emotion, he said: "In the future...can I ask you to be soft?"
This is still nothing to say, and it is the most stupid and worst kind of typical example. As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he regretted a little.
Along the way, he knew very well that she was a cold woman with a dignified air, and it was absolutely impossible for him to like this kind of teasing.
Of course Xu Yourong didn't like it. If it was normal, she would definitely be very angry and beat Chen Changsheng until Luoluo couldn't recognize him.
But for some reason, her face was full of embarrassment at this time, but she didn't say anything or do anything.
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In the spring flowers, summer rain, autumn fruits, winter snow, they walked through the four seasons, continued to move forward, rested occasionally, killed monsters and cooked, adjusted breath and calmed the gods, and then they always found an old temple. They became more and more familiar, and even when they were not talking, they looked at each other quietly, and they no longer felt embarrassed. Even sometimes, he would make a funny face to make her weak smile.
Of course, when they were resting and waiting for the meat to be cooked, they would still often talk, and it was often Xu Yourong who asked him to say something on his own initiative. Since she was very young, she has become the most famous person in this continent, attracting everyone's attention, and there are countless powerful people accompanying her when she goes in and out, but she is lonely. In Xining Town, he was accompanied only by his senior brother. After coming to Kyoto, he was used to the quietness of the Orthodox Academy, but he was never alone. He could feel her loneliness, so whenever she wanted to hear something, he would start talking, rambling on about small things, such as which fish is delicious and non-toxic, when the stream is the clearest, you can watch Go to the bottom of the pond more than ten zhang deep, there is a kind of dolphin fish, as long as the poisonous internal organs are removed, it is the most delicious, and those pine trees on the mountain really look like monsters.
Occasionally, she would also talk about it, such as which aunt in the small town likes to scold the street the most, and which restaurant has the best food. He didn't understand it very well, so he guessed it should be the place where she grew up. It's just because she is getting weaker and weaker, and she feels that her fifteen years of life are extremely dazzling in the eyes of others, but compared with Chen Changsheng's life, it is so boring, so she feels inferior and doesn't want to talk about it.
She was very grateful to Chen Changsheng for talking with such a boring person like herself.
One day when the wind and snow came again, they rested in the seventh old temple by the side of Baicao Road.
By the bonfire, Chen Changsheng ended his childhood memories.
She looked at him and said sincerely, "You are such a good person."
Chen Changsheng thought to himself that this evaluation was not bad.
She blessed softly: "May the Holy Light be with you."
It has been dozens of days since Yeyu Old Temple started the first real conversation.
May the Holy Light be with you.
She said this prayer every day.
As they got closer and closer to Zhou Dufu's mausoleum, she became weaker and weaker.
Relying on the black dragon's profound frost chill, Chen Changsheng's injuries were slowly recovering, but her condition did not improve at all. Peacock Ling's poison kept spreading in her body, and gradually began to wreak havoc. Her Tianfeng true blood had been lost too much, and there was no way to do it. Chen Changsheng once ventured deep into the grassland and hunted down many monsters, but now, the blood of those monsters, no matter whether it was fire or cold, could no longer help her in the slightest.
Wrapped in his coat, she quietly leaned against the haystack, watching the flames jumping in the woodpile, and stopped talking.
The Snow Temple was quiet, even the wind stopped.
Looking at her pale face and those eyes that were drying up, Chen Changsheng felt very sad.
That was the sad beginning.
He wanted to say something to break the oppressive silence in the temple at this moment, but he didn't know what to say.
Seeing him lower his head, Xu Yourong knew his mood, and calmly said, "It has nothing to do with you."
Chen Changsheng raised his head, looked at her and said, "Although you have refused to talk about what happened on the first night until now, I know that you must have saved me, and you have never abandoned me."
Xu Yourong looked at him quietly, and said, "You too."
Chen Changsheng said: "Now I suddenly understand what you said that night, if I am strong enough, as strong as you were before you were injured, I can still take you away when I face those strong demons that day, instead of I had no choice but to flee into this grassland and embark on this path of desperation."
Xu Yourong said: "On the contrary, I think what you said that night made sense. If I hadn't been so brave, I might not have been hurt at all."
This is what she really thinks now. If after discovering the traces of the demons in the Zhou Garden, she did not walk up that mountain path alone because of pride, but chose to join forces with other human practitioners, such as the teenagers who knew Lishan Sword Sect, or Speaking of that guy named Chen Changsheng, all of this might not happen.
The Snow Temple became quiet again, the silence was disturbing.
Chen Changsheng didn't like this kind of quietness. Thinking of her previous prayer, he asked, "Is this the habit of your people?"
Xu Yourong thought to himself that the Snow Mountain Sect was too remote after all, he was very proficient in Daozang, but he didn't even know about it.
"Yes, I wish you a safe life."
"Thank you."
"Thank you too."
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Xu Yourong became weaker day by day, but he never forgot to say that sentence.
That is her sincere blessing and hope.
She knew that it would be difficult for her to leave this grassland again, so if there was any chance of survival, she wanted to hand it over to this kind-hearted Snow Mountain Sect disciple.
Just when her fifteen years of life seemed to be coming to an end, Bai Caodao came to an end ahead of schedule.
Just when her eyes were about to close, she finally saw the mausoleum.
She was on Chen Changsheng's back, taller than him, so she had to look at it for a moment before him.
The mausoleum looked more like a mountain from a distance, with no cliffs and few green trees, so the straight lines from the top of the mausoleum to the foot of the mausoleum could be clearly seen.
Chen Changsheng looked familiar, walked closer to the mausoleum, and then remembered that it looked a lot like the Mausoleum of Heavenly Books.
After walking in the grassland for dozens of days, he finally found the legendary Zhou Ling. How can he not be excited, but he and Xu Yourong are already very tired now, it is difficult to express joy or nervousness.
Continuing forward along the White Grass Road, with a distance of more than ten miles, it still took a long time for the two of them to finally reach the green mausoleum.
From this, it can also be deduced how high and how big this mausoleum is.
When you get closer, the details of the mausoleum can be seen more clearly, and the height becomes more realistic, such as the thousands of feet long sacred path leading directly to the center of the mausoleum wall, such as the huge square stones that make up the mausoleum, and Compared with the first time I saw it in the distance, the momentum suddenly became countless times magnificent, and a sense of coercion and solemnity came to me.
Chen Changsheng noticed that there were ten stone pillars around the mausoleum. Those stone pillars are about several feet high, and the carved patterns on the surface have been eroded by hundreds of years of wind and rain into blurred traces, which look very dilapidated. Compared with the majestic mausoleum itself, these stone pillars look a little weird, not because of anything else, but because they are too short and look a little out of place.
"You may not know that there are many stone pillars outside Li Palace. When I saw it for the first time, I thought it was weird. I didn't expect there to be here too."
He said: "I don't know why, but I also find this mausoleum very strange when I look at it. It is said that it looks like the Mausoleum of the Book of Heaven, but it feels a little different."
Xu Yourong smiled weakly, thinking that when he was three years old, he used to climb those stone pillars outside Li Palace every day to play.
She leaned on his shoulder, looked up at the mausoleum with difficulty, and said with a perplexed expression: "The regulations of the mausoleum are a bit like the golden palace of the Changsheng sect."
"That's right, that's the problem." Chen Changsheng said, "This mausoleum resembles many famous buildings outside the Zhou Garden, but after putting them all together, it feels a bit..."
Xu Yourong said at the same time as him: "... neither fish nor fowl."
After saying these four words, the two looked at each other and smiled.
Anyone would be in awe of Zhou Dufu, the most legendary superpower. When he came to his mausoleum, he must not even dare to speak loudly, let alone such a comment.
If other practitioners came to Zhou Dufu's mausoleum, not to mention being overwhelmed with excitement and bursting into tears, they would be shocked and speechless, and would even yell to vent their excitement.
But Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong didn't, they seemed very calm, even a little indifferent.
At the moment when they said these four words with disrespect, the exhaustion and hardship of fleeing all the way seemed to disappear without a trace.
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