Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Ghost Valley Four Mandrills

Wei Zhuang left Guiling City that night, and along the way, his mind was full of the image of Duan Murong walking away, thinking about how elegant and elegant that back is, and then thinking of Gai Nie standing alone on the wall, with mixed feelings in his heart: " Unexpectedly, after so many years, my senior brother fell in love with the same woman again. But this woman has no intention of having sex with anyone, and she doesn't love anyone." I felt both futile and ridiculous in my heart, obviously walking against the bright moon and the breeze, But I feel that the road in front of me is endlessly bleak.

Between thinking over and over again, I gradually walked to the land of no one, and so far I have left Guiling City far behind.In this remote place in the poor country, Wei Zhuang saw a man and a horse standing beside the road, so he calmed down and walked over.The fat horse was strong and vigorous, with a black shiny leather saddle on its back, a small bag of dry food and a cowhide water bag hanging on the saddle. Underneath, the man leading the horse stood motionless as if made of clay, only staring at Wei Zhuang. Wei Zhuang approached the man, and noticed that there was a cyan pattern tattooed on the side of the man's neck, about half the size of a palm-sized ghost face with fangs.The man nodded slightly at Wei Zhuang, and handed over the reins to Wei Zhuang without saying a word.Wei Zhuang didn't even talk, he got on his horse and galloped with the reins.After running for an hour, just as he dismounted from his steed, he was panting a bit when he saw another person and horse waiting for each other by the side of the road.Seeing Wei Zhuang approaching, the man rolled up his right sleeve, exposing the ghost face blue pattern on his upper arm, and saluted Wei Zhuang.Wei Zhuang smiled slightly, without asking any further questions, he immediately changed his mount and continued on his way towards Puyang City.Avoiding villages and small towns along the way, and choosing trails through forests and fields, there are always people coming every other hour.Some of the people leading the horses looked ordinary, like ordinary people;These people, young and old, are different in elegance and vulgarity. They seem to have nothing to do with each other, but they all have the same pattern of fangs and ghost faces tattooed somewhere on their bodies.

Wei Zhuang changed his mount continuously along the way, galloped at full speed all night long, and finally arrived at the bank of the Yellow River in the twilight of the morning.As soon as he got off his horse, he saw a sailor wearing a bamboo hat pushing the raft down into the river.The sailor jumped onto the raft, took off his bamboo hat and bowed to Wei Zhuang to invite him to board the boat.Under the bamboo hat is a natural bald head, and on top of the bald head is a grimace tattoo with blue face and fangs. Wei Zhuang Shema boarded the boat, the raft carried two people, the draft was extremely deep, and the Yellow River was fast-flowing, but in the hands of the bald man, it was extremely stable, and the man rode a pole to get on the raft and boarded the raft. .Thinking about it, if that Shaogong was not born with supernatural power, he was endowed with superior internal strength.Wei Zhuang saw that he was breathing steadily while steering the boat, and he thought to himself: "Unexpectedly, a little-known disciple in Guigumen has such skills. I have to guard against it."

In this way, they abandoned the boat and changed horses again. When Wei Zhuang arrived at Puyang City, it was already noon the next day.The two Guigu disciples had been waiting outside the city for a long time. Seeing Wei Zhuang approaching, they each turned their left palms outwards to reveal the ghost face totem on their palms. The Qin army left where they were stationed. In the vast wilderness, thousands of tents were densely packed, and the forest of scarves and flags was flapping in the wind.There is a five-foot-high platform in the open space in front of the tent, and a large black flag is inserted at the left and right ends. The flame totem of the Qin army is embroidered on the left flag, and a huge blue ghost face is painted on the right flag.Under the high platform was a sea of ​​blackness, tens of thousands of soldiers, wearing black iron armor, stood facing the high platform under the leadership of two Qin generals.At this time, the sun was burning in the sky, and the bright sun was pouring down like a scorching sun, scorching the loess land until it was steaming. Looking around, you could only see some dazzling white lights from thousands of iron armors, but there was no sound at all.

Two Guigu disciples led Wei Zhuang between the army and the camp, one of them led Wei Zhuang's horse and retreated quietly, and the other bowed his hands to Wei Zhuang and said in a low voice: "Master Wei has worked hard all the way, my white girl is going to review it for the first time today. Order the troops, please Mr. Wei take a rest in the commander's tent first." Then he pointed to a tent with a purple gauze curtain hanging outside the door, and said: "After the work is over, Miss Bai will definitely come to pay her respects. Wei If your lord needs anything, just ask me."

Wei Zhuang nodded, looked at the soldiers standing still like stone pillars in the school grounds, and asked in a low voice: "How long have they been standing like this?" The Guigu disciple smiled slightly and replied: "Not long, It's only about two or three hours." Wei Zhuang thought to himself in amazement: "Although this Qin army is well-trained and brave and capable of fighting, after all, it is no match for a man who is capable of fighting. Put on this armor and stand under the sun for three hours. You can’t move, you can’t let go of your breath, if you don’t have a foundation of internal strength, you’re afraid you’ll be overwhelmed by summer heat.” Just as I was thinking about it, I heard the sound of a golden armor hitting the ground breaking the silence of the audience, apparently a soldier in the east had fainted land.The surrounding soldiers were slightly agitated, some couldn't help but glance and peek, and some seemed to want to speak, all of them had already been roasted so dizzy and almost nauseated, but they didn't hear the order, so none of them No one dared to move a little, let alone walk over to help the fallen soldier aside.

Not long after, another five or six people fell down one after another, and the few soldiers gradually became impetuous, and even the two generals standing at the front couldn't help frowning.You must know that since they are generals, they have been fighting again and again with the expansion of the territory of Qin State. Now that there is only a corner of Qi State left, it is the last battle to lead the army to annex the world. To make friends, not only to give millions of elite soldiers to Commander Guigu, but even the two of them have to obey orders.One of them was rude, and although he was standing still and unable to speak, he couldn't help cursing in his chest: "These people in the Jianghu only know how to fight, but they don't know how to fight, and I heard that the one who will lead the army this time is just a woman." Seniors, how can they have any ability? You have to check the troops but you are half a day late, what your majesty did is really bad!" The other one thought carefully: "The battle is not far away, at this moment, The way to lead the army should be to boost the morale first, or to build up energy, or to train the soldiers, so that the physical strength of the soldiers is wasted, and the morale of the army is exhausted. Heart, was it tempting to be deceived by slander?"

Seeing the angry faces of the two leading generals, Wei Zhuang felt suspicious in his heart, and was about to ask the disciple of Guigu beside him, but the man opened his mouth first, and said, "My Miss Bai said, what is the relationship with this time?" In the battle of Qi State, the opponent had Lu Zhenlang, a giant of the Mo family, leading the defense of the city, so the competition was not military force, but an endurance race. These Qin soldiers were both wise and brave, but unfortunately they lacked endurance, so they needed to be trained more. "He said with a faint smile, turned his head to look behind the army, and said happily: "Ah, Mr. Liu and Mr. Yu have arrived."

Wei Zhuang followed the prestige, and he saw hundreds of people from Guigu coming through thousands of troops, one after another, they separated the audience on both sides of the stage.Qiu Ke Liu Daimei, with a sad face, dangled alone among the thousands of troops, as if she had entered the land of no one.There was still a few feet away from the high platform, Liu Daimei suddenly pulled out the Nine Dragons Whip, and swept towards the right side of the high platform like a dragon rushing across the sea. Steadily stepping on the platform, frowning, he shook the whip back into his hand and hung it on his waist.Wei Zhuang nodded secretly, thinking: "Jiulong Ming whip is strong and soft, soft yet also strong and ruthless, it really lives up to its reputation."

After Qiu Ke, Chun Lao Yu Ran was different again.Surrounded by six Guigu disciples, Na Yuran came riding a horse in a dignified manner.In his sixties, he was wearing a blue satin robe with gold and python patterns, his beard reached his waist, and his hair was gray. Although his face was covered with deep creases like knife carvings, he was extremely tall and his shoulders were broad. He has a thick body and a healthy spirit without any signs of aging.Although he is the head of the Guigu Four Demons, he has no sense of the world, especially his amiable expression, his eyes are slightly squinted, and he looks very peaceful, just like an old neighbor, which is quite different from the mysterious and treacherous image of Guigu.After the arrival of the spring old Yuran, Wei Zhuang waited eagerly for the appearance of Shu Baiyu, the winter boy among the Four Mandrills. His whereabouts are erratic, and even people like Wei Zhuang don't know his true face in Lushan.

But behind Chunlao, there were no more eye-catching figures, and the disciples of Guigu who followed Sidiao all stood still in the audience.When Wei Zhuang was in awe, the Guigu disciple beside him suddenly cupped his hands and smiled, saying: "Master Wei, please stay with me." After speaking, he jumped up and performed lightness kung fu, and within three steps and one turn, he was at the side of Elder Chun , Leaping up to the high platform with Chunlao, standing shoulder to shoulder with Liu Daimei, looking around. Only now did Wei Zhuang realize that the young disciple of Guigu who was dressed in plain clothes like a servant boy just now was Dongtong Shu Baiyu.The shock in Wei Zhuang's heart at this moment is even more shocking than when he first saw Chunlao.The man who led his horse along the way was very respectful, and heard him respectfully address Chunlao as "Mr. Yu" and Qiuke as "Mr. Liu". Beware, unexpectedly he is one of the Four Demons of Ghost Valley?If Shu Baiyu had cast a hidden weapon behind him just now, his life would probably be gone at this moment. When Wei Zhuang was in doubt, he suddenly heard the sound of horseshoes clattering and wheels rolling.Among the thousands of troops, a one-horse carriage came suddenly. The four horses in front of the carriage were tall and fat, with shiny bodies, and they were completely black without any variegation.There is a phoenix with wings decorated with gold on each side of the car, and there is only one person between the two phoenixes, holding the rein and looking forward proudly. It is the long-awaited Xia Ji Bai Qianhong in the school field. I saw Bai Qianhong wearing a golden butterfly and emerald pearl hairpin on her head, wearing a purple gauze embroidered with five phoenixes in the sun, and wearing a black embroidered shoe with cloud pattern trim.He got out of the car in front of everyone, moved lightly with lotus steps, climbed the ladder and went straight to the general platform before millions of soldiers, as if a red lotus suddenly opened from the black mud to the clouds.On the high platform, Chun Lao, Qiu Ke and Dong Tong were slightly behind, allowing Xia Ji to occupy the front position.The two generals standing at the forefront of the Qin soldiers, when they first saw the three men on the stage, one was extremely ugly, one was a smiling rich old man, and the other was just an ordinary young man. Great dissatisfaction, at this time, I saw Bai Qian's red temples cut like a knife, her eyebrows like ink paintings, her cheeks like fresh litchi, like peach petals, her pink face full of spring brilliance without revealing, her almond eyes flickering and looking forward, full of brilliance. People, unknowingly, are stunned, completely forgetting what they were doing, what they were thinking, and what they should do. The millions of Qin soldiers in the audience first stared at Bai Qianhong blankly, then couldn't help but move their eyes away again, as if a red sun was ahead, too dazzling to look at for a long time, but as soon as they looked away, they couldn't bear it I couldn't help but want to look at it a few more times, and when I looked up, I felt that this must be a goddess descending to earth.How can there be a woman in the world who can have such a beautiful face, and at the same time be so proud? Bai Qianhong knew that she was born beautiful and beautiful in the world, and she had long been accustomed to men's admiration, so she reached into her sleeve and took out a black token, with the engraved "Qin" character inlaid with five-color colored glaze, and said loudly to the millions of heroes in the audience: " Now declare this general order—those who disobey the king's order will be executed! Those who retreat before the battle will be executed! Those who abandon aid to save the weak will be executed! Those who rape the housewives will be executed! All the soldiers saw that she was holding the king's command flag, and said five beheaded characters one after another from a small mouth. Although the tone was not harsh, everyone knew in their hearts that the woman in front of them was not joking.After Bai Qianhong finished speaking, a pair of apricot eyes swept across the audience, and everyone on the school field suddenly felt that Bai Qianhong was looking at them, and immediately their heads were no longer dizzy, their minds were no longer confused, and everyone cheered up, trembling, Don't dare to have the slightest intention to waver. "Very good." Bai Qianhong pointed to the soldiers who had fallen due to the heat, and asked the two leading officers, "According to what you two said, what should be done with those fallen soldiers?" "Well..." The rough-tempered general had scolded Bai Qianhong in his heart just now, but now seeing her majestic appearance, he actually changed his words and said, "In General Yimo's opinion, these people are insulting to the military. He should be beheaded." After hearing what he said, Bai Qianhong's face was beaming with joy, and she said with a smile like a flower, "Oh? Should I be beheaded?" Although the other general was dissatisfied, he didn't dare to fight like a horse, so he swallowed his anger and did not speak. "Should be beheaded!" Seeing Bai Qianhong's smile, the general said even louder: "What's the use of keeping such weak soldiers? The general's review on the battlefield today can use these guys to set up an army!" "Well said! This general is about to set up an army!" After Bai Qianhong finished speaking, she turned her head and whispered to Liu Daimei: "Kill me." Liu Daimei laughed when she heard the words, and suddenly pulled out her long whip , The Nine Dragons Underworld Whip uttered a stern sound, and before the careless officer could react, he was already wearing the iron helmet on his head to pieces.Shu Baiyu kicked lightly, and the general's body immediately fell from the high platform to the ground.Bai Qianhong said: "The general announced the military order just now, not to rescue the wounded and weak of our army, and beheaded! Quickly take the brothers who fainted out of the barracks to rest and treat." The soldiers of Qin State had some grudges against the female general, but seeing Bai Qianhong's actions Just, and killed the general who had always been domineering, everyone had a good impression and trust in Bai Qianhong, and immediately someone helped the fainted soldier and sent him to the medical camp. Seeing this from the side, Wei Zhuang secretly praised the female servant for her general style, so he no longer waited and watched.Turn around and lift the purple gauze door curtain outside the handsome tent, go straight in, sit cross-legged, close your eyes and rest. After a while, he heard footsteps approaching, Wei Zhuang opened his eyes, and saw Bai Qianhong raising the curtain and stepping forward.As soon as Bai Qianhong arrived in the car, she had already paid attention to Wei Zhuang standing outside her tent, and couldn't help but look at Wei Zhuang carefully, and secretly wondered: "Ten thousand men have seen me, not a single one Can you not be tempted, why has this person looked at me like an ordinary person since just now?" Wei Zhuang didn't know what was going on in Bai Qianhong's mind, seeing that she was silent for a while, he just looked up and down at him with a pair of clever eyes, thinking that the other party doubted his identity, and didn't get up, so he said directly: "In Xia Wei Zhuang. I have heard for a long time that Miss Bai is quite talented in command, and I just met her, and she is really good at teaching soldiers, I admire her." "I still haven't disappointed Master Wei." Bai Qianhong smiled, sat not far from Wei Zhuang, and said: "Master Wei, this time the battle between Qin and Qi, you are obviously serving me, and you are dedicated to Gui The notification between the two cities of Ling and Puyang was secretly ordered by the King of Qin to monitor my abilities, Xia Ji?" Wei Zhuang didn't deny or admit it, and replied lightly: "Don't dare. But Miss Bai's arrangement in Guiling City is really a clever plan. One of the two spies is in the open and the other is in the dark. Since Brother Liu's identity is already in the If it is discovered at the hero meeting, the enemy army must relax, so the real spies must be even more difficult to be detected." Bai Qianhong raised her brows slightly, lowered her eyes and muttered to herself: "That may not be true. The Mo family is thoughtful, and I am afraid that his wit is not inferior to mine..." Then he looked at Wei Zhuang, and said seriously: "Master Wei, you are on your way all night As for the arrival, it must be quite exhausting, but the military situation cannot be delayed, and I will send someone to settle down for you as soon as the official business is over." Wei Zhuang nodded slightly, and then immediately reported the news he had previously received from the contact with the ghost valley spies in Guiling City. Talk to Bai Qianhong and listen. On a summer night, there is wind in the mountains and forests.In the depths of the grass that cannot be seen, the chirping of frogs and insects overwhelmed the sound of running water, making it seem that this empty valley is very lively.At this moment, Gao Yue just finished practicing the move "Dream Burning" in "Yao Ming Palm", knelt by the stream alone, washed her handkerchief and wiped her face, turned her head to look towards the entrance of the cave, and saw Wu Duan's expressionless face Putting away the utensils and pots, he sighed in his heart: "According to the fact that in this mountain, I have been with this Wuduan who looks three parts like a human and seven parts like a ghost every day. Is it going to be a month before I know it? Apart from eating and sleeping, it is practice. If this continues, I will be lucky enough not to starve to death on the grassland, not to be eaten by evil wolves, not to be poisoned to death by poisonous soup, rice and tea, and boredom alone will soon bore me I'm dead." The more I thought about it, the more irritable I became, and I took a wet handkerchief in my hand and slammed it towards the stream, and Nabupa bounced up after hitting the water surface, splashing a large splash of water, as if she had a little internal strength, Gao Yue herself But I don't know it.Instead, a pair of fireflies hiding in the grass were startled, and the two small dots of light wobbled up, and they both spun thin circles of light one after another in the air, gliding across the water, and faintly disappeared in the dark night. Among the streams. "I don't know if they can go down the mountain after flying like this?" Gao Yue stared blankly at the direction where the fireflies disappeared, thinking, "Where is under the mountain? Where is this place? I don't know if Jing Tianming and Xiang Yu saw Liu Bi and Mao Brother Qiu? It’s been a long time since we’ve seen each other, so it’s going to be a lot of fun when we get together, right?” Gao Yue suddenly felt very lonely, sitting around her knees by the stream, listening to the trickle of water, the chirping of frogs and the chirping of insects, she felt more and more that even frogs and bugs had friends and family, and she was the only one trapped here , You can't live, you can't die.Gao Yue was full of resentment, and happened to see a spider crawling slowly under the tree, so she picked up a small stone and smashed it down hard.Poor that unlucky spider, it was smashed to pieces after being hit by a stone, but Gao Yue's subordinates continued to hit him hard again and again, venting all the pain and fear of the past few days, hitting harder and harder, until he finally let go Holding the stone in his hand, he gasped for breath, but the tears had slipped down unconsciously. Yi Wujuan said that the poison she put down in the eating room was only used for practicing qigong and would not kill her, but who knew if what she said was true?Not to mention the misery when the poison occurs.Although Gao Yue also felt that her body was becoming more and more able to adapt to various poisons, it was indeed unbearable when they broke out, and the only way to relieve it was to practice "Yao Ming Zhang" immediately. "Stinky bun, stinky bun, if I'm as invincible as you, I don't have to be afraid of this wicked woman." Gao Yue thought sideways, then shook her head to herself: "That's not right, even if you beat me If you can't beat them, even if you are safe after eating those stinky noodles and twelve-lucky red stinky soup, you may not be able to leave alive. It seems that you should practice your kung fu so that you will never be afraid of being bullied again. La." She has known Jing Tianming since she was a child, and whenever she encounters bad people or bad things, Jing Tianming will always protect her.Having grown up so big, this is the first time she has not had Jing Tianming by her side to be her heavenly soldier and general, "It seems that I am lucky to survive a catastrophe, my stomach hurts occasionally, and my head and heart occasionally feel a little bit ache. It's not very comfortable, and it's not necessarily a bad thing to practice a set of 'Yao Ming Zhang'. The next time I see Jing Tianming, if he finds out that I can also kung fu, he will definitely be surprised." Gao Yue suddenly felt complacent when she thought of this. Gu Zi giggled at the stream, smiled, and tears fell involuntarily, "I saw Jing Tianming next time... I saw Jing Tianming next time... Next time, next time, next time How long will it be? What if we never see him again?" Wiping away tears, he took out a small rag from his bosom, held it up and looked at it with all sincerity. This cloth was given to Gao Yue by Jing Tianming himself in the small ruined temple in Huaiyin when she was a child.At that time Gao Yue raised two ducks and hatched a few duck eggs. She only waited until the ducklings hatched wholeheartedly, and then she wanted to kill both ducks, so that the ducklings could taste what it was like to be without parents.She is so young and cautious, and she often tells others on purpose, just to see the disgust on the other person's face, masturbates herself like this, and enjoys it. Who would have thought that Jing Tianming would not be frightened at all after hearing this, but only He said lightly: "Yes, in this way, the duckling will have no parents, just like you, so you won't feel lonely." Afterwards, he even divided his mother's relics into two with his own hands, and kept half of it for himself. Half of the money was given to Gao Yue. "Come on! This is for you. From now on, both of us will have mothers!" Jing Tianming's childish voice at that time is still vivid in Gao Yue's ears now, and she giggled, thinking Said: "Stinky bun, thanks to you, the duckling's parents have lived for a long time." Looking up, facing the mountain night wind, he couldn't help murmuring softly: "Those who think about it, we must Those who are few, why are these tears? They never stop. The mountains and rivers are as they were before, and they will never wake up. Where will they return? Wait for the dawn." This poem is the desperate poem left by Jing Tianming's mother on the cloth.Gao Yue didn't know everything, she only got the second half, the first half was at Jing Tianming's place, so Gao Yue couldn't remember it. "Where do I go...wait for the dawn...where do I go...wait for the dawn..." I muttered these two sentences over and over again, and my heart was pounding, but I felt hot, and I didn't know Why, suddenly I feel embarrassed to say it again.With one hand, Gao Yue tightly held the belongings that Jing Tianming gave to her mother, and with the other hand, she unconsciously patted a bag hidden deep under her belt. Deep in Gao Yue's heart, she always believed that , One day, the items in this kit will lead her to find her biological parents.Gao Yue was stunned for a while, then suddenly recalled how stupid Jing Tianming was when she was a child, and burst out laughing, "Stinky Baozi, you were so young, so ignorant and stupid that you came home, and the things left by your mother are so casual. I'm not that stupid if I just share half with others. Haha, haha..." Wu Duan saw that Gao Yue was alone in a daze not far from the entrance of the cave, at first he didn't take it seriously, but when he saw her crying and laughing now and then, he felt something was wrong, he thought to himself: "Could it be that I pushed too fast, this girl actually practiced kung fu?" Have you gotten a little out of practice?" Now he shouted in a deep voice: "Girl! It's getting late, if you don't sleep anymore, you'll wake up late tomorrow and miss the time for practicing, let me see how I can fix you!" Gao Yue sighed and stood up, brushed off the mud and grass on her clothes, turned around boredly and went back to the cave, lay down on the stone bed with her clothes on, opened her eyes and stared at the cave wall for a long while, listening to the rustling of Wuduan being paved. Straw mat, simply looked sideways, and saw that she was taking out a gilt red lacquer box, and took out a molasses-colored hairpin from the box, loosened her hair and parted it on both sides, and combed it carefully.Wu Duan saw that Gao Yue stared at her sipping hair in her hand without moving for a moment, and ignored it. After brushing one side of her long hair, she switched to the other. Gao Yue had long felt strange in her heart, thinking that the moon god Wu Duan was walking alone, and the places where she settled were mostly uninhabited places, but she carried some exquisitely crafted items with her. But Duan made the arrangement of the cave full of "human" taste. "Hey," Gao Yue said suddenly, "You live in the mountains by yourself, where did you get all these delicate plates, bowls and chopsticks, golden boxes and jade cups?" "Different things come from different places, so why is it so strange?" Wu Duan responded in a lukewarm manner as usual, Gao Yue blinked, and continued to ask: "Where is the difference? How did you get born?" After waiting for a while, seeing that Wu Duan seemed to have no intention of answering, he couldn't help urging: "Tell me, we have lived together for so long, we can be regarded as friends." "Friend?" Wu Duan said coldly: "Smelly girl, what kind of friend are you and I?" Seeing that Wu Duan's words were provoked, Gao Yue secretly rejoiced, sat up with a yelp, and deliberately asked: "Isn't it a friend? What is that? Could it be that you saved my life, and you are my benefactor?" ?” Wu Duanmian didn’t change his face, and replied calmly: “I saved you for nothing else. It’s just for myself. You don’t need to accept kindness, and I don’t accept your kindness.” Gao Yue clapped her hands together and said, “That’s right. , you saved me to teach me how to palm, since you taught me martial arts, I am your apprentice?" Wu Duan shook his head, and replied: "I taught you palm for no other reason than for myself. I'm not your master, and you're not my apprentice." Gao Yue smiled, lay back on the stone on her side, and supported her shoulders with her hands and continued: "Well, since you poisoned me all day long, we should be enemies. But I But I have never seen any brothers and sisters who are enemies but cook for each other every day. You and I are not masters and apprentices, two are not enemies, and three are no kindness. Tell me, besides friends, you can still be regarded as friends. what?" Wu Duan was startled, but he didn't know how to answer. After thinking for a while, he finally said: "That's just to use you as an experiment to see the effect of Yaoming Palm. To me, you are like a centipede, It's just a poisonous clam." As he spoke, he glanced at Gao Yue, and lightly reprimanded him: "Stinky girl, don't just talk nonsense, go to sleep." Just now when they answered, Gao Yue saw that Wuduan's face was cold, but his tone was not as strict as usual, so he got excited and said again: "Hey, I see that your pair of chopsticks are very good, they are black and shiny, and they are made of wood. Right? I don’t know where the wood came from, but it’s as light as nothing in my hand, I noticed it when I washed it last time, the pair of wooden chopsticks can’t sink in the water no matter what, it’s so strange.” Wu Duan was finally annoyed by Gao Yue, and he only hoped that she would go to sleep quickly and rest up, and then sighed: "I told you, you fell asleep?" Gao Yuexi said: "I love listening to stories, you Come on, I'll go to bed when I'm done." Wu Duan put down his hands and took them back into the box. After thinking for a moment, he said slowly: "The pair of chopsticks are called ebony chopsticks. It must have happened seven or eight years ago. In a small village in the south of Chu State, there was a family There is a family surnamed Chen with four generations living under the same roof, and there is a towering ebony tree growing in their courtyard, I saw that tree grows very well, so when I passed by, I paid special attention to it." "In the evening, I often see that family surnamed Chen. Father, son, grandson and grandchildren gathered under the tree to eat and enjoy the shade. It was very lively. They chatted and laughed so loudly. It was so loud that I couldn't help it. Catch the centipede that just came out from under the pile of stones." Gao Yue lay on the stone bed, listening to Wu Duan telling the story in a very boring tone, she gradually became a little sleepy, but couldn't bear to close her eyelids. His eyes stared at Wuduan, but he seemed to see in his mind the great ancestor Chen, grandma Chen, old man Chen, grandma Chen, elder brother Chen, sister-in-law Chen, daughter-in-law Chen, young master Chen, Xiaowa Chen and Xiaoxiao Chen. Baby, the whole family is surrounded by the big tree happily and joyously, and there is a tender longing in my heart, and a little bitterness, thinking to myself: "What is the moon god, it seems that she is actually a very lonely person like me. ah." Yueshen Wuduan tied her hair back, stared straight at the still burning flames outside the cave, as if recalling something, and said after a while: "Just as I was about to leave that village, a strange The plague suddenly became prevalent. I thought this kind of opportunity was once in a thousand years, so I was reluctant to leave like this. But the plague was really strange. Generally speaking, the sick should be young and weak children, but that time the plague came from the field The young man who worked inside started first. The family with the towering ebony tree was naturally not spared, and sons, grandparents, daughter-in-law, and children fell down one after another." "The ones who died first were still buried. Those who died later, we had to let them lie there. Later, the family surnamed Chen almost died, and only one old man was left alive. One evening, I I was already tired of the plague, and was about to leave. I saw that old man Chen threw the bamboo stick aside, sitting alone under the towering ebony tree, talking desperately to the tree." "Looking at the way he talks, it seems that his children, grandchildren and daughters-in-law are sitting by the tree, so happy and loud. The old man sat under the tree for more than two days and two nights. He didn't eat, drink or sleep, just saying one sentence after another. Chatting with my family. After more than two days, the old man ran out of energy, so he followed. After the old man died, the Chen family courtyard became an empty city, so I walked in. I didn't expect the towering ebony tree behind the old man But it fell down with a bang. There was no wind that day. Who would have thought that such a big tree would break in the middle? I went up to look and found that most of the water veins in the tree had already been cut off. struggling with a thin vein of water." "I took a closer look at the tree trunk that the person couldn't hold in his arms. There is only such a little bit of wood in it that is still alive, and that is the reason for the pair of chopsticks." After finishing speaking, Wu Duan fell silent again, blinking his eyes occasionally , but there was no extra expression on his face, he was silent for a while and suddenly felt the silence around him, and turned his head to look.With this look, he unconsciously stared at Gao Yue for a long time.I saw that Gao Yue didn't know when, she had already tilted her head and bent her arms as a pillow, and fell into a deep sleep, with a smile on her lips, but tears still in the corners of her eyes.