Chapter 6 The fifth chapter is short and long, and it is hard to send an inch of heart

After the Peach Banquet, all the guests left. Without the guests, there is no need for puppet maids. There are not many real maids in the palace. They come and go quietly, and often they don't hear a single voice all morning. There is no false noise, and the pavilions, terraces and pavilions that span hundreds of miles, are full of desolation and chilling amidst the magnificence, and even the gorgeous peach blossoms that are thousands of miles away cannot cover them. Perhaps, this is the true face of Yushan. Xiling Heng suddenly understood why the Queen Mother held a peach feast every thirty years, it was so lonely!Even if they are all irrelevant, you can use the excitement of others to pass your loneliness.

Thinking that there are still one hundred and twenty years left in Yushan, and tens of thousands of days and nights, she, who has always been optimistic, began to worry. Chi You seemed to guess that she would feel lonely, so he sent his attendants to send a thin and thin one. Its mother died in battle while guarding the territory. Opened his own stomach and took out the pre-term child, who happened to be rescued by Chi You, but how could such a child survive? Little Xiling was dying, Xiling Heng carried her to the Queen Mother, who said coldly: "The fox family is precious, it is very difficult to raise, and it cannot survive."

The little Xilingheng's eyes can't be opened very wide, but when Xilingheng teases it with his fingers, it will suck Xilingheng's fingers in its mouth and whine, as if expressing its desire for life. Xiling Heng fed the flat peaches and chalcedony that everyone in the world coveted for, she didn't think it was a waste, since she didn't live long, she had to eat and drink as much as possible. The Queen Mother didn't care about her, she just stared at her coldly. Pantao and Chalcedony River gathered the aura of heaven and earth, but because the aura was too abundant, if they could not absorb it, it would cause death instead.Sure enough, it didn't take long for Xiao Xie's fur to swell up, getting bigger and bigger, becoming like a ball, as if it was about to burst, because of the pain, Xiao Xie's eyes were red, and he was irritable.

Xilingheng looked at it anxiously to comfort it, but it scratched and bit, and Xilingheng's hand was bleeding profusely from being scratched.Little Xilingheng sucked her blood unintentionally, and felt that the pain was relieved, so it tightly bit Xilingheng's hand and sucked her blood forcefully.Xilingheng didn't care, he let it suck, and didn't restrict his spiritual power at all.Slowly, Xilingheng's body returned to its original state, and it rubbed against Xilingheng contentedly, before falling into a deep sleep. By accident, he found a glimmer of life, what a fool and a blessing!The Queen Mother shook her head, turned and left.

Xiling Heng fed Xie Yao with flat peaches and chalcedony every day, and if Xie Yao's body swelled up, he would feed it with his own blood.As the days passed, Xie Xie, who was about to die, started to run all over the ground, his hair was exceptionally black, and the wings on his ribs were also different, with very strong veins. When it was more than a year old, Xiling Heng was already as big as a cat, so Xiling Heng replaced it with Ah Xie. One day, when Xiling Heng was teasing it, he put it on the peach tree and ran away secretly. After a few wailings, Ah Shao unexpectedly flapped his wings and stumbled after Xiling Heng.

Although Xie Xie was born with two wings, but the wings were weak and could not fly, but Ah Huo, who was raised by flat peaches and chalcedony, could fly! Xilingheng laughed out of shock, and immediately ran around, leading Ah Shao to practice flying, causing Taolin to suffer. All the court ladies came to see Ah Huo who could fly. Although Ah Huo was young, he already had the natural beauty of the fox family. His appearance was very pleasing to everyone. The court ladies were surprised and joyfully called him "Little Flying Fox". Wen also stopped to take a look, with surprise in his eyes.

Xi Lingheng made faces at her, smiled triumphantly, and laughed at her for making mistakes, Xiao Xiexi was not only alive, but also very healthy. Xilingheng was imprisoned deep in the mountains, only accompanied by Ah Shao, and he looked forward to receiving the letter every day. Eldest brother Qingyang is busy with work, not to mention writing letters, he doesn't even have any words of condolence.The fourth elder brother Chang Yi cared about her very much, but mainly sent some food and play, and didn't write many letters.Only Chi You received frequent letters, often several a month, ranging from the scenery of various places to as small as a joke he heard or a dish he ate, all of which would be written in the letter, regardless of length, a hundred words for a long time, and just a sentence for a short time. The epiphyllum is in bloom, white and very fragrant."

Sometimes, it will surprise her.Chi You told her that there was a big man-eating monster in Hanshui. He took the initiative to ask for orders to subdue the water monster. He was slightly injured, but the water monster died. He made the water monster's teeth into wind chimes and brought them to her. Xilingheng hangs the wind chimes under the eaves. Whenever the wind blows, amidst the melodious jingle, vivid images will emerge in her mind: huge waves are raging, Chi You fights with water monsters, her arm is injured, blood stains the Han River, And the corner of his mouth still had a nonchalant and arrogant smile.

Xiling Heng gradually relied on Chi You's letters, even if it was just a few sentences, it still carried the vitality and splendor of the outside world, while her replies were all the same, what did she and Ah Shao do, and what did she and Ah Shao do again. Xiling Heng would occasionally think that if she read her letters together, she would definitely suffocate Chi You to death, but she wrote very happily, and Chi You was never so annoyed by her that she stopped replying to her letters. Probably the two of them exchanged letters too frequently, although the Queen Mother didn't mind her delivering letters for A-Heng every time she went up the mountain, but Chi You felt that it was inconvenient and told A-Heng that she had found a good bird as a messenger for her.

A few months later, a tied-up one was sent to Yushan. Xilingheng stood in front of the bird and read the letter. Chi You said that under the order of Emperor Yan, he was going to the dense rainforest in the southwest. No god officials had been there yet. I don't know how long it would take. He originally planned to tame the bird before giving it to him. She can't take the bird with her now, so she can only send it first. After reading the letter, Xiling Heng tilted his head to look at the bird, and couldn't imagine that with Chi You's ability, he couldn't tame a bird. The Langniao has a white body and green eyes. Because of its beautiful body and docile temperament, protoss girls are often kept in the boudoir, but this Langniao is very arrogant. It looks up at the sky without even looking at Xilingheng.

Xilingheng fed the bird, it was very docile, obediently ate the two small five-color fish, Xilingheng was delighted, it is not difficult to tame!When feeding the third one, Langniao ruthlessly pecked at Xiling Heng's hand with lightning speed, tearing off a piece of meat. Xilingheng's hands were bleeding, and the Langniao sang triumphantly, the sound was strange and unpleasant, but the surrounding birds came to hear the sound, and stopped on the branches in fear. When the Queen Mother heard the call of the Lang bird, she walked out of the house in surprise, looked carefully for a while, and said, "This Lang bird seems to have some origins." Xiling Heng asked humbly for advice, and the Queen Mother said: "The singing of the singing bird itself is pleasant to the ear, but the reason for the ugly singing of this singing bird is that it does not regard itself as a singing bird, and wants to sing a phoenix beyond its ability. The phoenix sings every five An egg is born every hundred years. I don’t know why a bird’s egg fell into the phoenix’s nest. By chance, the Phoenix’s egg disappeared. Phoenix didn’t hatch the bird’s egg as its own son and daughter, and raised it to grow up. The bird tried to imitate the song of the phoenix, so that's how it is." The Queen Mother looked at the bird on the tree that wanted to leave but refused to drive away, and said with a smile: "If it is a real phoenix, it should sing like a zither, and all the birds will pay homage to it. , not like this." The maids all covered their mouths and laughed lightly, but Xiling Heng was a little sad and picked up the Langniao.With its appearance, a real bird dare not approach it, and a phoenix disdains to be its companion. In fact, why did it ever want to be a phoenix? Xiling Heng said to Langniao: "You can fight Chi You, so you are no longer an ordinary bird. I don't have the effort to tame you, but Chi You took the trouble to catch you and give it to me. I can't go against his will and let you go easily. You first Stay temporarily on Yushan Mountain and pass on news for me. When I go down the mountain, you can choose whether to go or stay. If you promise, I will let you go now. If you don't agree, I will tie you up for a hundred years. Langniao opened its mouth and answered Xilingheng's proposal with a ball of flames. The Queen Mother shook her head and sighed, feeling sorry for the parents of the world, the pair of phoenix probably didn't understand why their son was not like them until their death, but in order to help their son, they even sacrificed themselves and fed their century-old inner pill to Langniao. Xi Lingheng avoided the flames, and was not angry, he just said to Ah Yao: "Let's go." The Queen Mother looked around at the maids, who bowed their heads and left immediately. Langniao is used to being free, and even when Chi You caught him, he lived a tense and exciting life because of the daily struggle.Now she is confined to a square inch, and everyone ignores it. Xilingheng only comes once a day, throwing down the food and leaving. No matter how provocative it is, she remains expressionless. At the beginning, the Langniao still had the energy to scream and sing, but later it didn't even have the interest to sing, and was dazed at the unchanging scenery every day. Chao Yunsheng, sunset sunset. In the depths of the peach grove, there is often the sound of joyful singing. Occasionally, Xiehou would fly over Langniao's head, leaving a black shadow behind. Langniao dismissed Xiexie's clumsy flight, but when Xiehou disappeared, it looked up and looked at nothing. Sky. More than a hundred days later, when Xilingheng finished putting away the food and was about to leave, it grabbed Xilingheng's clothes with its mouth. Xi Lingheng looked back at it, "You agreed?" It raised its head and remained silent. Xiling Heng didn't mind its bad temper, and said with a smile, "Although you have a violent temper, you are arrogant. Naturally, you don't bother to keep promises." She waved her hand to untie the rope on its body, "I will come to you when I have something to do. , if you don’t want to see me on weekdays, I can fly with you within the Jade Mountain.” Just as it was about to fly away, Xiling Heng said again: "You are neither a bird nor a phoenix, you are you, unique in the world, I will call you Lie Yang for now, if you have the opportunity to cultivate a human form in the future, you can change it as you like Another name." Lie Yang stood there blankly, as if thinking about what Xilingheng said, Xilingheng held a peach branch in his hand and wrote the word "Lieyang" on the ground. Langniao stared at the "Fire Sun" on the ground for a while, then spread its wings and left. Xiling Heng sighed softly, shook his head and sighed at Ah Yao, "It's so stubborn that a bird with free sex can last for more than a hundred days! I almost couldn't hold on anymore, so I planned to write to Chi You, begging him to let me go." it." Ah Yao grinned, his eyes full of smiles. Ah Xie belongs to the fox family, and he was originally the most intelligent person among birds and animals, and he grew up in Yushan, which is full of aura. He ate flat peaches, drank chalcedony, and was educated by Xiling Heng. No difference. Xiling Heng ran happily into the house, "I'm going to write a letter to Chi You. If he sees that Lie Yang is the one delivering the letter, he will be surprised and wonder how I tamed Lie Yang so quickly. Do you think we should tell him about me? The promise with Lie Yang? Don't tell him yet, let him be curious!" Lie Yang kept his promise, and flew over when he heard Xiling Heng's cry. After Xilingheng entrusted it, he hung a prepared bamboo bucket of chalcedony around its neck. Lie Yang thought it was a gift from him, but he didn't want Xilingheng to say: "This is for you to drink, you are fast, It will arrive in one day, and the recipient Chi You will open it for you, so that you don't have to eat those foods that are not good for you." Lie Yang spread his wings and flew out of the window silently.Its speed was as fast as lightning, a gust of wind passed by, and it had disappeared, and the wind chimes under the eaves were still tinkling. Xilingheng sat in front of the desk, resting his chin on one hand, staring at the wind chime, his cheeks gradually turned red. In Yushan, the flowers are similar year after year, and the gods are the same year after year, but at the foot of Yushan, spring has passed and autumn has come, and autumn has passed and spring returns. After 30 years, it has come to the peach feast again. In order to prepare the peach banquet, the Queen Mother sat many puppet maids to work, and the palace suddenly became lively. Xilingheng found it very interesting, and also learned how to write a puppet. The queen mother taught her that first she had to give the puppet blood to make the puppet angry, and then use spiritual power to control it to do things.It is not difficult to make a puppet, but it is difficult to control it. Let alone the heart and blood that are closely related to one's own lifeline, it is just that the huge spiritual power required is not something ordinary gods can bear.Even with the power of the Queen Mother, if it weren't for the aura-filled Jade Mountain, and if these puppets were not for personal service, she would not be able to control so many puppets. The Queen Mother teased Xilingheng, "I won't have to write letters soon, and I can talk face to face, aren't I happy?" Xiling Heng was stunned for a moment, with joy and sorrow, he lowered his head. The Queen Mother shook her head and smiled. Xilingheng suddenly raised his head and asked: "The former queen mother did not hold a peach feast. The peach feast is a rule that started with you. The peach feast is held every thirty years. It takes a lot of effort. Has the god or demon you really want to see ever come? ?” The queen mother's face suddenly changed, the wooden puppet she was sitting in her hand fell to the ground, and the maid who came from the hall holding tea was shattered into powder. "Don't think that if I speak nicely to you, you will forget what this place is. Be careful that I will lock you up for another hundred and twenty years!" The Queen Mother was furious, and walked away, the maids were silent, but Xilingheng snickered at Ah Yao, "Why do I feel like I like this old demon girl a little bit?" When the peach banquet was held, heroes from all walks of life came as they wanted. Xilingheng was very happy, because the envoy from the Xuanyuan clan was the fourth brother Changyi. Li Changyi had just been here last time, so he should not have come this time. The fourth brother must have deliberately asked his father to come to Yushan for her sake. However, the Shennong clan had only Gonggong to attend the banquet. Gonggong made an apology to the queen mother, "The second princess died of illness, and Emperor Yan was so hurt that he became ill. The officials of all ethnic groups in the clan performed their duties and dared not leave lightly, so only the younger generation came." The Queen Mother handed over a basket of flat peaches to Gonggong, and asked him to bring it to Emperor Yan, "Convey my condolences to Emperor Yan for me, and persuade him to mourn." After Gonggong saluted and took his leave respectfully, the Queen Mother stood on the edge of the cliff, looking at the surging sea of ​​clouds, with an unspeakable loneliness and sadness in her figure. She stood there for a whole day, and no court lady dared to disturb her. Xilingheng walked over and stood behind the queen mother. The Queen Mother handed her a wooden box, "The blue bird just brought it up from the foot of the mountain. It seems that although Chi You is in the future, the gift has arrived." Xiling Heng opened the box, and there were two carved wood phoenixes inside. Xiling Heng was puzzled at first, but then suddenly understood, and put them on the ground. When the two phoenixes came into contact with the earth's air, they immediately grew up against the wind, and they became two phoenixes exactly like the real ones, dressed in colorful robes, chirping, flying up and down, and circling left and right. The phoenix is ​​the king of all birds, with a proud personality, but these two phoenixes are infinitely close to Xiling Heng, sometimes they fly far away to dance for her, and sometimes they fly close to circle her body.The song of the phoenix is ​​like a harp, which is pleasant and pleasant. They dance while singing, not to mention Xiling Heng, even the Queen Mother is smiling. After half a stick of incense, the phoenix stopped singing and dancing because the spiritual power attached to it was exhausted, folded its wings and fell down, turning back into a wood carving. The Queen Mother was fascinated by the woodcarving, and Xilingheng asked, "What's wrong?" The Queen Mother said coldly: "Your friend is really not simple. He can control the puppet thousands of miles away, especially since he still has voice." Actually, it was not this that made the Queen Mother sigh. Thousands of miles away, people kill people and take things, but it is for power and profit, and Chi You is not hesitating to waste all his efforts, just to make Xilingheng smile. Xi Lingheng smiled and put away the wood carvings, although they were no longer useful. Soon, the three-day peach feast was over. For Xilingheng, after thirty years of eating flat peaches, she was already tired of eating them. The flat peach feast was very boring, but when the flat peach feast ended, she felt uncomfortable again. She couldn't explain why, maybe it was just because Brother Changyi was leaving. After Xiling Heng Yiyi bid farewell to her elder brother, she hid in the depths of the peach forest alone, without even bringing Ah Yao with her.But the Queen Mother found her somehow and asked, "Do you miss home?" Xi Lingheng was wondering about what the Queen Mother said a long time ago.When the queen mother punished her that day, she said, "Looking at your mother, I will preserve your reputation and not declare the crime of theft to the public. I will only punish you for guarding the Taolin for 120 years."Since childhood, Xiling Heng has only heard of it for the sake of her famous father and king. This is the first time I heard that "for the sake of your mother", and it was from the mouth of the Queen Mother of Yushan. , so she has been curious. She boldly asked the Queen Mother: "Do you know my mother?" "Many, many years ago, we were close friends." "Really?" Xi Lingheng didn't believe it, but was surprised. "When you mention your father now, everyone in the world knows it, but at that time, few people had heard his name, and your mother has become famous all over the world. Everyone knows that there is a strange daughter in Xiling. Emperor Yan and Emperor Jun sent envoys to pray for her son. Excuse me, if your mother agrees, you may be the concubine of Shennong and Gaoxin now." Xi Lingheng was taken aback and couldn't believe it, "What was my mother like back then? What was my father like?" The Queen Mother squinted her eyes, as if she was recalling, "Your mother is the smartest and bravest woman I have ever seen, and your father is the most handsome and suave boy I have ever seen. The sound. The sunlight falls through the crimson peach blossoms, and the golden dots are scattered and scattered. The wind blows and the shadows move, and the Queen Mother's face has a long time flow, and there is a sadness that Ah Heng can't understand. "Why did my mother never mention you?" The Queen Mother's smile slipped away from her lips, shattering the rush of time, "Because we are no longer friends." "How long has it been since you saw them?" "It has been more than two thousand years. Since I took charge of Yushan, I have never been down the mountain, and they have never been here." Xilingheng looked around, but couldn't tell. For thousands of years, she has been guarding this incomparably gorgeous peach blossom day and year by herself? The Queen Mother pondered for a moment, then asked, "How is your mother?" Xiling Heng tilted his head and thought for a while, "It's pretty good, she likes to be quiet, she never goes down the mountain, and rarely sees guests." The face of the Queen Mother is still like that of a 28-year-old girl. Even if they are gods, flat peaches cannot make them live forever, but regular food can make their faces stay forever.Xiling Heng looked at the Queen Mother, and suddenly said: "My mother's hair has already turned white." "Your father, your father..." The Queen Mother didn't finish her sentence, so she stopped talking. Xi Lingheng already understood what she wanted to ask, "Mother likes to be quiet, and Daddy rarely bothers her." The Queen Mother and Xilingheng were relatively silent.The queen mother can't go down the mountain because of the Yushan precepts, what about the mother?And why was she made to paint the ground as a prison? The Queen Mother suddenly wanted to get drunk, and shouted to the maids, ordering them to fetch wine. The Queen Mother was drunk, for the first time in thousands of years. Xi Lingheng watched her dancing gracefully in the peach blossom forest with her long sleeves flying. The Queen Mother called her with a smile, "Ah Lai, come quickly, A Lai, come quickly..." For the first time, Xilingheng knew that his mother had been called "Alai" coquettishly by her female companion.She stood up and danced with the Queen Mother, but she couldn't answer the Queen Mother's call.Many, many years ago, the Queen Mother should also have a gentle name, but no one has called it for too long, and no one knows it.Xi Lingheng didn't want to call her Queen Mother, at least not now, so she didn't talk, just danced with her. After the peach feast, Yushan returned to its original state, so cold that it was chilling, and it was so quiet that it was dead silent. Every day is exactly the same as the day before.The food is exactly the same, the scenery is exactly the same, because the four seasons are like spring, even the hot and cold are exactly the same, there is no change at all. In the previous thirty years, because Xilingheng was young and experienced few things, he didn't really understand the pain of losing freedom, so he was fearless, and the pain naturally eased. But these thirty years have just begun, and she thinks there are three more three Ten years ago, she felt that the days ahead made her fearful, and because of fear, her pain became heavy. Yushan isolates the world, and also isolates Xiling Heng from the world.She often thought that maybe when she went down the mountain, she would find that she had nothing to say to all her friends.What they knew, she didn't know at all. Even for the Protoss, how many hundred and twenty years of youth can there be in a lifetime? Xiling Heng's letters to Chi You became shorter and fewer, until later he simply stopped writing them. Chi You still persisted in the letters he wrote every now and then, he didn't even ask Xi Lingheng why he didn't reply anymore, he just described his life calmly and occasionally gave her a small gift. Although Xiling Heng didn't reply to the letter, every time he received a letter from Chi You, his mood would get better. For more than three years and more than a thousand days, Xiling Heng didn't say a word to Chi You, but Chi You still wrote her letters. Four years later, the scenery on Yushan Mountain is still the same for thousands of years, but at the bottom of Yushan Mountain, a warm spring has just been ushered in after an unusually cold winter. When Xilingheng squinted his eyes to look at the sun in Taolin, Qingniao brought Chiyou's letter. The letter was very long, describing the local conditions and customs in a flat manner, and narrating some stories in a gentle and gentle manner, but a seemingly ordinary sentence in it burned her eyes. "Walking through Qiushang, peach blossoms are shining, on both sides of the river, there is a stream of women's clothing, and I think of you again." A word "you" accidentally dropped made Xiling Heng toss and turn all night. In the early morning of the second day, Lie Yang flew out of Yushan again with her letter. After decades of getting along, Ah Yao and Lie Yang have become acquainted, Lie Yang has a weird personality and is not easy to get along with, but Ah Xiao likes Lie Yang, no matter how Lie Yang treats him, he can always stick to Lie Yang Being stuck so much that he lost his temper, he slowly accepted Ah Shao. When Ah Yao and Lie Yang were playing, Xilingheng would guard the peach forest and raise eggs at the same time. Over the past decades, she has received many gifts from Chi You, but she has not given a single one in return.There are beautiful jades, exotic herbs, and rare treasures on the Jade Mountain, but they all belong to the Queen Mother, not to her. Her mother was proficient at raising eggs and spinning, and had learned to identify egg species before she could speak.She thought that maybe she could use the aura of Yushan to raise a unique egg in the world, and make a unique robe for Chi You. There is no feeling of the passing of the sun and the moon on Yushan, and the peach blossoms can last for a thousand years. The way Xiling Heng counts time is by exchanging letters between her and Chi You. He wrote to me, I wrote to him, he wrote to me again, I wrote to him again... A long time passed in letters. After 16 years of cultivating peach blossom eggs, 5 years of spinning, 3 years of weaving, and 1 year of tailoring, Xiling Heng spent a total of 25 years preparing the robes for Chi You. When the robe was finished, the whole room was filled with red light, which shocked the whole Yushan Mountain.The maids thought it was on fire, and ran around calling. The Queen Mother came in a hurry, and saw a simple red robe, but the red seemed to be alive, blooming wildly, roaring and galloping, staring at it. After a long time, I felt that I was going to be swallowed by red. Even the Queen Mother saw such a red color for the first time, she stared blankly for a long time, and said to Xi Lingheng: "You are indeed Ah Lei's daughter." Xiling Heng ordered Lie Yang to bring the robe to Chi You, but he didn't say where the robe came from, only said it was a gift for him in return, and hoped he would like it. -------------------------------------------------- - Notes: The bird in the middle is white.