243|You Pity the Flowers and I Pity You

Xie Ren collected the beads and looked down. A few magi came out from the simple shed hall and asked, “What happened to General Nanyang?”

I only heard Windsong say, “Look what I caught!”

He crashed headlong out of the mountains and ran up, catching a man in black in his hand, and the magi were alarmed, “Spirit Man!”

The one being held in Feng Xin’s hand was none other than Spirit Man. Feng Xin said to Xie Ren, “As you expected, Ling Wen has indeed gone to fetch the Jin Yi Xian!”

After removing the shackles, Xie Ren’s magic power soared to the point where he could compete with Jun Wu, and the brocade-clothed immortal naturally could no longer help him. Ling Wen was beaten by Hua Cheng and lost in the battle, and the spells on her body would be automatically lifted after time, and she was nowhere to be found. But Xie Ren thought that she would probably come to fetch the fairy, so she took off her clothes and asked Ghost City to release the news, and as expected, Ling Wen took the bait.

As an absconder, although Ling Wen was caught and escorted to the temporary council hall, she still did not look flustered. As soon as Pei Ming came up, he pressed her by the shoulder, pressed her to sit down in front of the table, and said in a deep voice: “Finally, I’ve found you! Ling Wen, you have to pay the price!”

“……”

A dozen or so magistrates also surrounded, all eyes like wolves, like tigers, look like hunger, like thirst, almost hideous. Spirit Wen then feel a little bad: “…… What do you want.”

“Bang” a loud sound, a stack of nearly people high official documents were dropped in front of her, fell even the table with the chair are shaken. Pei Ming “snapped” a palm on the file, said: “These, you deal with it.”

“……”

Spirit Man seemed relieved, yet he felt that it was hard to explain. Unexpectedly, before this sigh of relief came to an end, he heard “Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang!”

After seventeen or eighteen loud bangs, seventeen or eighteen stacks of over-man-high sea of official documents were all dropped over, encircling her heavily.

Seventeen or eighteen magi spoke to her through the gaps in the forest of scrolls, “I’ve been waiting for you for some days! Come and help settle the score!” “You take care of all these as well.” “Remember to fill in the missing parts.” “Better organize our pile within an hour!” ……

Spirit Man: “……”

A day and a night later, Spirit Man was finally released from the temporary council hall.

The original messy volumes had all been processed and categorized neatly after a day and night’s struggle. All the magi rejoiced as they each led their own temple’s rummage, while Ling Wen was already grimacing, and the dark circles under his eyes that had disappeared for some time had surfaced again.

Over there, each person finished rummaging and rejoiced, and Pei Ming said, “It’s true that it’s still Jie Qing who’s more efficient! This will match up!”

“Clear! Thank you so much, Reimu-sama!”

As a prisoner, Reimuin, surrounded by the many magi, laughed, “I wouldn’t dare, I wouldn’t dare.”

Seeing the situation, yesterday did not plug the dossier over, today the temple is still a mess of the magistrates can not help it, gathered around and said: “that what in fact, I also have a few piles of this side yesterday forgot to bring you look at it or also ……”

Spirit Man: “……”

Xie Ren squatted outside the makeshift deliberation hall and ate steamed buns, patting his hands when he was done, finally rescuing Ling Wen from his ordeal: “Gentlemen, we’ll do the math later, let Ling Wen catch his breath first.”

Once upon a time, when he gave the word, not many people must have taken it seriously, but now it was different. Several people said, “His Highness the Crown Prince is right.” Not daring to say more. Ling Wen sat on a chair, closing her eyes and holding her forehead, waiting for the other Magi to go out, and when there were few people left in the council hall, she said to Xie Ren, “Congratulations to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the Dharma body has been restored. Good plan, I really didn’t expect that even the ghosts are now your followers, listening to your orders.”

Xie Ren said, “Those aren’t my followers, they’re my friends in the ghost city. I’m just asking them to help.”

Spirit Man nodded with a look of understanding. After a moment, Xie Ren said, “Ling Wen, I have a question I want to ask you.”

Ling Wen said, “Your Highness the Crown Prince, please just ask.”

Xie Ren said, “Sanlang, I mean the Lord of Flower City, he has worn this Brocade Immortal of yours, but the Brocade Immortal is ineffective against him, do you know why that is?”

Ling Wen said, “So that’s the problem. I thought you already knew about it, Your Highness the Crown Prince?”

Xie Ren was stunned and said, “May I hear about it?”

Spirit Man revived the hem of his coat and sat upright, “Your Highness, you’ve heard of the legend of the Brocade Immortal, haven’t you?”

Xie Ren said, “I’ve heard of it. You made it with your own hands.”

Spirit Man said, “You could say that. Although I never thought that the grievances condensed in this dress would turn it into such a demonic object, it is true that I killed Bai Jin correctly in order to hasten the overthrow of the Su Li Kingdom.”

Xie Ren listened intently. Spirit Man continued, ”This garment has passed through countless hands as it has been tossed around on earth, and countless people have chosen to use it to kill, harm, and deceive after getting it. Although this can also eliminate its grievances, however, Bai Jin is not a person like that.

“He does not like to be used by these people and is very disgusted. Therefore, when he meets a wearer and a particular grantor who is close to him, he does not excite resentment, but is pleased.”

Xie Ren said, “Approximate and specific respectively?”

Ling Wen said, ”You put on the Brocade Immortal for the Blood Rain Scout, but you don’t have the slightest suspicion or intention of harming the Blood Rain Scout, trusting him wholeheartedly; and the Blood Rain Scout, it is the same for you, no, I should say it’s even more so – the place where the Blood Rain Scout really resonates with him is that even if he didn’t put on the Brocade Immortal, he would still do anything for you without hesitation. Immortal, he wouldn’t hesitate to do anything for you if you asked him to. Including dying for you.”

“……”

Spirit Man said, “That’s why I was able to guess that the teenager beside you in the first place was transformed by the Blood Rain Tanager. Although I don’t know much about you guys, I can’t think of a second person who would.”

Xie Ren said, “Why?”

Ling Wen raised his finger and said, “Your Highness, what is that hanging around your neck?”

Xie Ren was stunned, and his hand involuntarily stroked up.

Spirit Man said, “I’ve seen something like that before, one of those lonely ghosts that give their lover their own ashes.”

The Spiritual Man Hall handled countless volumes, and it was indeed not surprising to have seen it. But in fact, Xie Ren also guessed it.

Still, hearing Spirit Man say it, he gripped the crystalline ring tightly.

Spirit Man said, “It’s something rare and uncommon, but it’s more impressive because it’s so beautiful and usually tragic.”

Xie Ren said, “What do you mean it’s usually miserable?”

Spirit Man said, “Many sad and terrible things can happen when one is overwhelmed by love and puts something that is a matter of one’s life into the hands of a bystander.

“True hearts and all that are for people to trash. Some of these ashes burned into tokens have been taken away by bystanders, some have been broken by their owners, and basically nothing good has happened to them. However, you, Your Highness the Crown Prince, are an exception. You’ve preserved it quite well, and it’s almost dripping with water.”

After a long silence, Xie Ren said, “You said ‘similar’ and ‘resonate’. So, is General Bai Jin also like that.”

Spirit Man smiled faintly and said, “How else could I be fooled?”

Xie Ren said, “It’s not exactly a lie. You wouldn’t have guessed that I deliberately put the message out, but you still came to get it.”

Ling Man said, “It’s a good weapon for defense.”

Xie Ren said, “If it was just a defense weapon’s, you wouldn’t have risked so much to steal it in the first place, and brought it to Copper Furnace Mountain after failing.”

Ling Wen said indifferently, “What else can I do if I don’t go to Copper Furnace Mountain, because it’s already been revealed ah, caught by you, Your Highness the Crown Prince.”

Xie Ren said, “Actually, if you want to find an excuse to cover it up, it still makes sense. Play a little bit, even if you are demoted and deducted from the merit, it’s not so bad that you will become a fugitive. The main thing is …… that you want to help General Bai Jin become absolute, so that he can come to his senses.”

Ling Wen laughed a little and said, “Your Highness, don’t talk as if I would do anything for it. After all, I’m a person who doesn’t recognize all six relatives, so how could I do such a thing?”

“Is that so?”

“That’s right.”

–

Xie Ren cleared the wreckage of the Prince’s Peak of Huangji Guan and simply built a hut as a temporary place to stay. This place was more remote and far away, so he went to the temporary council hall to help out when he had something to do, and stayed alone quietly when he had nothing to do.

Seven or eight days later, Mu love finally made up Ruoxi, sent over. Xie Ren opened the door to see a white thing to face, was pounced on a white before his eyes, reached out to pull down that thing, Ruoxi began to a damask twisted around, as if to him to show their newborn after the beautiful body. Xie Ren said: “only just mended don’t twist around, be careful to twist off again.”

Mu Qi had a problem with that as soon as she heard it, “How is that possible? Have any of the clothes I’ve mended for you torn again?”

Xie Ren said, “That’s true.”

He grabbed Ruoxi, who was twisted into a watercress, and carefully examined it, and sure enough, he sewed it extremely well, almost unable to see the traces, and praised, “Your craftsmanship is still as good as ever.”

Muoi said, “I wouldn’t be happy if you complimented me on such a thing. Just this once and next time, I won’t do such a thing again.”

Xie Ren Xin said, “You are obviously still quite proud of it ……”

Mu Ai muttered a few words and said, “Alright I’m done, let’s go. Was busy ordering things and people from the Xuanzhen Hall.”

Xie Ren said, ”You’re leaving too? Good, I’ll go over to help later. Tell me when you leave, I’ll go see you off.”

After grabbing the Spirit Man, checking for leaks and filling in the gaps, and clearing up a few big muddled accounts, the magi decided to proceed with the rebuilding of the Immortal Capital. Then, this temporary deliberation hall on Tai Cang Mountain can also be left unused. Mu love waved his hand, did not refuse or agree, walked a few steps, and then stopped his feet, turned back and said, “Do you …… still have to guard Tai Cang Mountain?”

Xie Ren nodded and said, “Uh-huh.”

After a moment’s hesitation, Muyi said, “Otherwise, you’d better come with us.”

Xie Ren laughed, “No, I have to wait for someone.”

Muoi said, “You can also wait at the Upper Heavenly Court in New Immortal Capital.”

Xie Ren shook her head and said, “I think when he comes back he might come here first, then he can be the first to see it. If he doesn’t return here, he might also return to the Thousand Lantern Temple in the Ghost City, which isn’t too far from the Ghost City and is more convenient than being in the New Immortal Capital.”

“……”

Mu Ai’s words seemed to have been held in for a long time, and she said with a complicated expression, “You really believe he’ll come back, huh?”

Xie Ren rightfully said, “I believe it.”

–

People come like a tide and leave like a tide. Taicang Mountain is back to being desolate and lonely.

On Tai Cang Mountain, there was once a vast expanse of maple forests that were burned to the ground by fire and then reborn thousands of years later. It was no longer the same ones that the Xie Ren of a thousand years ago had cultivated by leaping through the trees, but the scenery was the same.

Xie Ren often strolled alone in the maple forest. The red maples that roamed the mountains as warm as fire made him feel as if he was in a huge and warm embrace.

He has been living alone for more than 800 years and is very used to it. When there is something to do, he goes down the mountain to answer prayers and collect rags, and when there is nothing to do, he grows vegetables and cooks.

It was just that, strangely enough, such a day of being alone, which had clearly been taken for granted in the past, had now become somewhat difficult, and it had taken Xie Ren a long time to readjust to it.

It may be that a person who has always eaten bitter will get used to the bitter taste. But suddenly, one day, someone gives him a mouthful of sweet, and he remembers what sweetness tastes like, and when he goes back to eating bitter, he has to scrunch up his face.

Once upon a time, when Xie Ren was living in the cold and quiet, he always secretly hoped that someone would come to find himself. It was fine to find him to talk to, to find him to help, at least a little bit of popularity. But now, he wasn’t so fond of it.

Because, when he hears the knocking sound, his heart will always be suddenly ecstatic, expecting a lot. But when he runs to the door and opens it, it is always not the one he is waiting for, inside or outside the door.

Sometimes it was Feng Xin, sometimes it was Mu Qing, sometimes it was Shi Qing Xuan, and sometimes it was the ghosts from the ghost market who came to “honor his old man”.

Everyone’s fine. Just, not the one he was waiting for.

–

For the first month, Xie Ren carried a few flowering trees back to plant at the entrance, in an attempt to beautify the environment and hide the shabby house’s shabbiness. He calculated that perhaps they would be in bloom by the time Flower City returned.

–

In the second month, Xie Ren tore down the house and rebuilt it, and pulled up all the weeds on the whole mountain. Otherwise, when Hua Cheng came back and saw the mess, he would definitely have to send people to help him clean up again.

–

The third month, the flower tree blossomed. The tree is full of tassels, Xie Ren stood under the tree and looked up, while enjoying the flowers alone, while thinking, blooming, it is almost time to come back.

–

In the fourth month, all the mountain paths were also all rebuilt. This way, when Hua Cheng came back to him, he could go up the mountain faster.

–

In the fifth month, Fengxin and Muyi came to see him again and asked him if he wanted to leave here and go out for a walk first, Xie Ren entertained them with a meal and they ran away.

–

In the sixth month, the blossoms passed.

……

Wait and wait and wait. Xie Ren didn’t get agitated, didn’t break down, and didn’t cry out in pain; instead, she felt herself getting calmer and more patient.

Come to think of it, who hasn’t gone through long years of being alone?

Flower City had waited for him for more than 800 years, so what if he waited for Flower City for another 800 years?

Even if it was a thousand years, ten thousand years, he would wait and wait and wait.

And it’s only been a year?

–

On this day, Xie Ren collected a large pile of rags as usual, piled up with the new oxen and crates he had saved up to buy, and pulled them up the hill.

Walking through the maple forest at night, halfway up the mountain path, Xie Ren inadvertently turned around and saw a few points of light floating in the quiet night sky.

He gazed at it and realized that it was a long-lighting lamp, came to a sudden realization, and said to himself, “So it’s the Shangyuan Festival today.”

At this moment, probably on the court of the gods and goddesses, and in the feast on the yuan fight lights it. Xie Ren can not help but pull the rope, stay in place, staring blankly at the lamps.

He suddenly remembered that it was at the Shang Yuan Festival that he and Hua Cheng, met.

That year, the little children with dirty and scarred faces crowded on the crowded city wall looking down, seventeen-year-old Xianle Prince Xie Ren glowing, looked up, saw a figure falling from the air, and without thinking, took a flying leap.

Shangyuan Festival, Shenwu Street. A glimpse of the hundred worlds fell.

Xie Ren smiled and thought, “It’s not a person who has finally fallen ah.

–

Turning around and lowering her head, Xie Ren was ready to continue walking up the hill. The crate was pulled and rattled around for a while, when suddenly, the front seemed to be illuminated by something far ahead.

Xie Ren raised his head again, his eyes widening.

That light is a lamp.

Like millions of swimming fish crossing the river and the sea, countless bright lights slowly rose from the top of the mountain.

They shone and glowed in the darkness of the night. Like floating souls, the most magnificent dreams, magnificent to the core, illuminating his path ahead.

Xie Ren had seen this scene before, and when he saw it again, his breath and heart stopped. The peaks turned, the wheels curved, and Xie Ren saw the small ramshackle house that he had built.

Someone!

In front of the crooked hut stood a red-robed man, long and lanky, with a silver scimitar hanging from his waist, his back turned to this side, and he was holding up the last of the long lamps in his hand, and sending it on a leisurely flight into the sky.

Xie Ren sat rigidly, doubting that he was still dreaming, or that this was an illusion. But as the wheels turned, getting closer and closer, the man turned around, and he could see more and more clearly.

With the night long rise before the three thousand bright lights, the man looked back at him, clothes red than maple, skin white as snow, handsome imperceptible between the eyebrows, is still a section of the wild love wild gas, not extinguished against pride.

Although wearing a black eye patch, that one bright star-like eye was gazing at Xie Ren without looking away.

Sheeran rolled down.

Not a word. Both men walked toward each other.

One step, one step, faster and faster, and then, running.

The man ran forward, and the tears fell behind him and stayed in place. Xie Ren thought to himself, he believed it.

–

Believing in this person, I will die for him again and again, and live for him again and again. Even if I fall into hell, I will break through the inferno for his “belief”.

The last time they ran to each other, it took 800 years.

This time, about to embrace in the next instant.