Chapter 12 Chapter 10: The Millennium Ancient Screen Dust Lost

Jayanti's blood cloud was hanging heavily on the Dawei Tianchao, but Zhuo Wangsun took Bu Xiaoluan to enjoy the sea view early in the morning.As soon as the boat docked, the two of them landed on land. The sand in this area is milky white, and there are many short coconut trees growing along the coast. Scattered coconuts are scattered on the ground, half buried by the white sand, and they look brighter when the sea waves wash them off. The white waves chased each other towards the horizon, and the seagulls lazily paddled past. Bu Xiaoluan hugged her knees and sat on the sand dune, her white skirt was slightly blown by the wind, like a cloud floating from the sunlight in the sea.

The tide was getting higher and higher, and it was about to soak her shoes. Zhuo Wangsun motioned her to get up, but she shook her head and began to sing in the wind.No one has ever taught her to sing, and there is no complete tune or a line of lyrics in that song, just some simple notes intermittently. Zhuo Wangsun recalled a story in Huayinge: During the Tang Dynasty, a girl with the color of northern lights in her eyes traveled to the Central Plains thousands of miles away on an ice boat.She is as beautiful as ice and snow, but she lived on a deserted island since she was a child. She can only speak the language of birds, animals and insects, but not human language, and she has no intention of dealing with people.Later she met the then master of the Huayin Pavilion.When he first met her, he promised to give her a palace of ice and snow, so that she would never be stained by any worldly things.Later, he abandoned twenty years of unimaginable wealth for her, accompanied her back to the deserted island, and spent the rest of his life fulfilling the original promise.

The current Xiaoluan is almost the same as her. Anything in the world, even if it is music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poems and songs, will impregnate her heart. Bu Xiaoluan sang, suddenly became very excited, took off her shoes, and was about to walk into the sea. Zhuo Wangsun grabbed her and said, "Be careful of getting your clothes wet." Bu Xiaoluan tilted her head and smiled: "Just dry it in the sun." Zhuo Wangsun patted her on the head lightly, smiled pitifully and said, "Just a little bit, I'm really afraid that you will be washed away by the sea."

A joke, but Xiaoluan was a little scared, stretched out his hand to grab his sleeve, thought about it seriously, and said: "You are holding me on the beach, can't you?" Zhuo Wangsun could only let her go, pulled himself with one hand, picked up the corner of the skirt with the other, and walked carefully in the water, the sea water gently brushed her bare knees, and also lifted the sash that was scattered in the water.Her little hands are warm and soft, holding Zhuo Wangsun tightly, in the rippling waves, it seems that it is just a phantom created by the encounter of sunlight and water vapor, and only at the moment when Zhuo Wangsun holds it in his hand, does it take on a shape and life.

She secretly glanced at Zhuo Wangsun, and suddenly called softly: "Ah!" Immediately, she squatted down, held her ankle in the water, and wrinkled her nose in pain: "It bit me..." Zhuo Wangsun came over immediately, stretched out his hand to explore the water, and Xiao Luan grabbed his hand in a flash, and smiled crisply in the water: "Brother Zhuo, aren't your clothes all wet too?" Zhuo Wangsun carried her to the shore, gently plucked a young starfish from her slender calf, and asked, "Does it hurt?" Bu Xiaoluan stretched out a fist, waved it, his eyes smiled like two crescent moons, and said: "It doesn't hurt at all."

Zhuo Wangsun looked at her quietly, this action was so familiar. For more than ten years, Bu Xiaoluan had to drink several kinds of highly poisonous liquid medicine every month, and hundreds of silver needles were pierced all over her body.Especially once a month, it was extremely painful to bear the internal force that Zhuo Wangsun instilled into her body, but she just lay quietly and looked at him, and when he got up and wiped the cold sweat off her head, she felt unbearable. She would shake her fist at him and say with a smile, "It doesn't hurt at all." Zhuo Wangsun was still thinking about something, but Bu Xiaoluan suddenly discovered that the starfish would curl up into a ball whenever it was subjected to external force, and she poked it back and forth on the sand with her hands excitedly.

Zhuo Wangsun picked two coconut branches, and the two walked on the beach, chasing the starfish like a spinning top.Bu Xiaoluan watched the starfish getting rounder and rounder on the ground, and suddenly said, "Brother Zhuo, it's like a blind medicine I took!" Zhuo Wangsun said: "It's the seven poisonous ice clams." Bu Xiaoluan blinked, and said: "I beat it so pitifully, and the bugs I eat every month...Brother Zhuo, I don't want to eat them anymore, can you let them go?" Zhuo Wangsun turned his gaze to a bright red cloud between the sea and the sky, and sighed softly: "Xiao Luan, I will not force you to take medicine anymore, and there is no need to take it in the future."

"Why?" Xiaoluan's dark eyes suddenly lit up: "Oh, is my illness cured? Isn't it?" Zhuo Wangsun said softly: "Yes, it's done." Under Bu Xiaoluan's pale skin, two blushes of happiness rose immediately, and he murmured: "Really?" Zhuo Wangsun looked at her silently, and brushed away a strand of messy hair on her forehead: "Didn't you always want to grow up? Now you can." Bu Xiaoluan groaned and threw himself into his arms: "Brother Zhuo, can I grow taller?" "Yes, don't you always envy your sister Qiuxuan who is tall? You will be like her."

"Not only..." She lifted her teary eyes and said with a smile, "I want to be like Brother Zhuo." Zhuo Wangsun looked at her with a bitter smile in his eyes. Bu Xiaoluan stood on tiptoe and made a gesture, and happily turned around, then stopped suddenly, as if thinking of something, lowered her head and pulled at her belt, and stopped talking. Zhuo Wangsun gently lifted her chin: "What's wrong with the little girl, are you afraid that she will grow too tall and damage Big Brother Zhuo's house?" "I saw that sister Qiuxuan had raised many kittens and puppies. When she was young, she liked them very much. But when they grow up, they kill them and throw them away... She said that things are always cute when they are small. , When you grow up, it will be useless and no one will hurt you." She looked at Zhuo Wangsun eagerly, her two faint eyebrows tightly knit together.

Zhuo Wangsun's heart tightened, he hugged her in his arms, looked into the distance and said: "Even when Xiao Luan is a hundred years old, Big Brother Zhuo will still love her as much as now." Bu Xiaoluan nestled quietly in his arms, like a sleeping cat, snoring softly. Zhuo Wangsun raised his head, and the sea was full of clouds and clouds, which was magnificent. "Little Luan, Mirage." Bu Xiaoluan stood up straight, but saw the vast sea, colorful clouds floating gently, setting off the faint palace garden, and together with the waves, slightly turbulent. "Where is that?" Bu Xiaoluan rubbed his eyes and muttered.

"It's the mirage's phantom." Zhuo Wangsun looked into the distance and smiled leisurely: "However, it seems that I have been there before." "Brother Zhuo will take me in too, okay?" Zhuo Wangsun said with a smile: "After the mirage exhales, these palaces disappear, but they can't be found." "Disappeared? Why did such a beautiful palace disappear?" Zhuo Wangsun sighed: "The most beautiful things will not last long, and the colorful clouds are easy to disperse and the glass is brittle. This is also God's will." When Zhuo Wangsun heard the words "God's will" from his own mouth, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment. . Since a long time ago, none of the people he wanted to kill could live in this world; and none of the people he wanted to keep could be taken away.Of course Bu Xiaoluan did the same. Until now, it can be said that there may be methods in the world that he has never thought of, but there is absolutely no method that he has not tried.However, Bu Xiaoluan's condition has finally reached the point where the genius doctor is helpless and there is no medicine available. He still believes that all so-called providence is just an excuse for the powerless.He is the kind of man who enacts the will of God. As for why he said these four words in front of Bu Xiaoluan today, even he himself didn't know. But Bu Xiaoluan didn't care about this, she smiled and said, "Brother Zhuo, when I grow up, I have to do one thing." Zhuo Wangsun said: "What?" Bu Xiaoluan looked at him and thought for a while: "Can I not tell you?" "Okay, the little girl will always have something on her mind when she grows up." At this moment, the whistle of the Dawei Tianchao was faintly heard from a distance, and it seemed that it was about to set sail.Zhuo Wangsun pulled her up: "It's time to go back." At that time, the golden crow had fallen to the west, and the setting sun behind the two of them also melted into the water. When I came to the bottom of the boat, I saw that the surroundings were slanting, but it was just above the Tianchao, a pile of black clouds, hanging down like a mountain, pressing down, a circle of cloud barriers, surrounded by an iron wall around the hull.This kind of weather is really rare in a lifetime. This oddity, however, was nothing compared with what happened to them when they got on board. It was already evening when we returned to the ship, the ship was pitch black, the doors on both sides of the corridor were closed tightly, and an oppressive atmosphere weighed heavily on every corner of the Dawei Tianchao. —It was a breath of dying. Zhuo Wangsun led Bu Xiaoluan, and unintentionally walked to the screen at the stern. There are lights at the stern.From time to time, there were a few rhythmic "hissing" sounds on the ground. Under the dim red light, the little girl with double buns I saw a few days ago was cleaning the stern of the boat, but she seemed very afraid, she swept it twice before leaving. "Stop." Zhuo Wangsun said. The little girl trembled all over in fright, looked up at him, touched her chest and hopped her feet: "I was scared to death, it turned out to be the son of the Heavenly Dynasty... What orders do you have for your servant?" His eyes swept over her: "Is this how you clean the cabin?" The little girl murmured: "Well, my lord means..." Zhuo Wangsun smiled slightly and said: "That screen is already covered with dust, why don't you scrub it, but instead panic, lest you can't dodge it in time, could it be that you stole something?" "No, no..." The little girl waved her hands in fear: "I, I dare not clean." She looked around anxiously: "My lord, Miss Lanpa is ill, please let me go, I don't want to clean it." stay here!" Zhuo Wangsun said: "What happened?" The little girl covered her face and sobbed, intermittently telling the story of Zhuang Yi shooting and killing Jayanti in the morning. Zhuo Wangsun pondered for a moment, and said: "Well, I will go to visit Lan Pa, first you tell me why you are so afraid of this screen." The little girl lowered her head and said: "When Ms. Lan Pa bought the boat, I heard from a young eunuch of the Rites that actually this screen was bought from Tianzhu Kingdom with a lot of money when Grandpa San Bao went to the West. I bought it, but what happened in the middle was very strange, and many sailors died because of it. There were seven ancient paintings of Tianzhu on the screen, and those paintings..." The little girl's voice trembled, as if she didn't dare to continue. Zhuo Wangsun said: "What's on the painting?" The little girl shook her head vigorously, and said, "I don't know, because" her voice lowered, "Because, everyone who has seen this painting is crazy." Zhuo Wangsun said: "Crazy?" The little girl said: "Yes, they are crazy, they are all crazy." Zhuo Wangsun pondered for a moment and said, "Who are the people who have seen the painting?" The little girl said: "Sailors, eunuchs, boat passengers... No matter who it is, it is said that as long as they look at this screen, they will feel like they have been nailed down with nails. crazy." Zhuo Wangsun took a look at the screen: "Then what's going on with the picture of the Seven Sages in the Bamboo Grove?" The little girl said: "It was painted by another painter. According to the little eunuch, when Grandpa Sanbao was around, the screen was covered with yellow satin from Long Live. When he was leaving, Yuci's satin returned to the west with his grandfather. This time, no one could restrain the evil spirit. Many people went crazy like this for no reason, and many sailors were so frightened that they threw themselves into the sea... This The boat became a ghost boat, and no one dared to board it anymore. Later, someone wanted to carry the screen away, but..." She paused, and said: "But... on the day of lifting, the screen had already grown on the boat. root!" Bu Xiaoluan let out an "ah" in fright, and said: "Nonsense, the screen is not a tree, how can it take root on the boat?" The little girl waved her hand in horror: "I didn't lie to you, it really grew on the plank of the boat! A screen, a dozen burly men couldn't lift it up. After returning, I found that everyone Their waists were injured by the concussion, and they all died soon! Since then, no one dared to mention the screen. Until a year ago, when the imperial court wanted to rebuild the Dawei Tianchao, the host blocked the news to prevent the matter of the screen from leaking out, while secretly offering a huge reward to find a solution to the screen.But the bounty has been increased to 10,000 taels, but still no one has applied.In the end, the presiding officials were about to give up, and finally a gray-haired old painter volunteered to come forward.He said that his father was frightened to death by this screen back then, and now that his descendants have grown up, they would rather not receive a reward, but subdue the demon on the screen to avenge their father. " The little girl paused, took a deep breath, and said in a low voice, "So he blinded himself with a needle on the night he boarded the boat." Bu Xiaoluan screamed "Ah", Zhuo Wangsun gently hugged her in his arms and asked, "And then?" The little girl said: "Then he just relied on his memory and used thick lacquer to cover the seven sages in the bamboo forest on top of the seven ancient paintings. Maybe it's because the evil does not suppress the right, maybe it's the artist's courage that moved the heavens, and since then , The screen really fell silent, but everyone was afraid of it, fearing that one day the monsters inside would break out of the wall and see the light of day again." Zhuo Wangsun frowned slightly, and was about to ask another question, when someone said: "Sir, Xiao Luan, I have been looking for you for a long time." Looking back, she saw that it was Acacia, and she went up to hold Bu Xiaoluan's hand, but the remaining panic still couldn't be suppressed from her face. Zhuo Wangsun looked at her and said, "I already know about Jayanti." Xiangsi closed her eyes suddenly, shook her head, and said, "It's much more than that." Zhuo Wangsun's face darkened slightly, and said: "Don't talk about it yet, wait until I send Xiaoluan back." When he took Xiaoluan's hand and looked back, he found that the little girl had disappeared! Since then, no one has seen the little girl again. I don't know if she disappeared into the vast sea, or was she really pulled back into the painting by the monster on the screen? Back in the room, Xiangsi sorted out her thoughts, and said slowly: "I felt dizzy when I got off the deck, and I fell asleep when I went to bed. In a trance, I felt that there were some waves on the sea, the air was very damp, and the sea breeze There was no sound, but the moonlight outside the window was extremely bright, and there was a layer of ice in front of the bed. After a while, I seemed to hear a dull sound coming from a distance, one after another.At first I thought it was someone walking around, but then I realized it was someone knocking on something.It seems to be very strenuous, but the movement is very slow, as if something is deliberately raised up and down in a rhythmic manner.When I glanced at it, it was already the third quarter of the unitary hour, who would knock on things leisurely at this time? So I took the candle and walked towards the source of the sound.The sound stopped suddenly, but I remembered that the sound came from Huang Er's room, but it was obviously an empty room. There was a little light at Huang Er's door, and a white figure was standing with his back to me, holding the door rail. I was taken aback and mustered up the courage to ask: 'Who? ' When he turned around, it was Leader Yang.With no expression on his face, he asked me: 'What are you doing here so late, madam? ' I made up my mind, and said, "I don't know just now... did President Yang hear a strange voice?" ' He said lightly: "Of course I heard it." 'He raised his hand and pointed to the door:' That's right there. ’ He asked me again: ‘Madam, do you want to go in and have a look? ' I didn't know for a moment whether to nod or not. He turned around and looked at the door lock, the sleeves of his robe were lightly stretched, and the door creaked open. A gust of cold wind swirled in front of me, blowing out my hand, and the room was pitch black. I just wanted to quit, but he had already lit the portable fire. In the dim light, it was gloomy everywhere, and there were no guests, not even any furnishings.However, in the middle of the room, a rectangular cabinet with a height of half a person was placed horizontally, covered with a thick layer of black cloth. He didn't say anything, just walked over and lifted the cover off.The light moved closer, inside, inside..." Xiangsi gasped as she spoke, and said, "Inside is a coffin. " Zhuo Wangsun murmured: "I checked Huang Er's room when he just set sail, and there was nothing inside, but now a coffin has been brought up, which is quite interesting." Xiangsi panicked and said: "Yes, it's really a coffin... President Yang took a torch and carefully took a picture of this coffin. He said: "What we heard just now should be the sound of nailing the coffin. However, these The nails are already covered with rust, and the wood also has signs of being soaked in water, obviously it was not just nailed on.' Not the sound of nailing a coffin! I suddenly thought of something, and I lost my voice in surprise: "Could it be... Could it be the sound of opening a coffin?" ’ At that time, the flames dimmed and turned on and off, but the surroundings were so dark that I couldn’t see my fingers. I seemed to be able to see something squatting on the coffin just now, holding a strange-shaped long pry in my hand, digging unhurriedly, Maybe something in the coffin is coming out of the coffin little by little..." She didn't say any more, her rosy lips were already pale and trembling slightly. Zhuo Wangsun said: "Where is Yang Yizhi, what did he do?" Xiangsi took a deep breath and said, "He wants to open the coffin!" Zhuo Wangsun said: "Did he expose it in the end?" Xiangsi shook his head and said: "No, I was so scared that I stopped him. I said opening the coffin for no reason is disrespectful to the dead. Death is the most important thing. Let's not make mistakes. Besides, if the corpse owner knows, I'm afraid he won't." Will rest." Zhuo Wangsun said: "Then what happened later?" Xiangsi said: "Later he asked me to go back to my room to rest, and he said one last thing to me - he told me to stay with you more, and said that there are some things on this ship, so be more careful." Zhuo Wangsun said: "He also went back to his room?" Xiangsi said: "Yes, but just as I was walking towards the gangway, I heard extremely light footsteps behind me. I thought it was him, but when I looked back, it was a woman in black holding a lantern, slowly Walk slowly to the deck."