Chapter 11 Chapter Ten The Dwarf's Last Words

He was considering the possibility of climbing these cliffs, and of course, and more importantly, how to cross the desert after climbing the cliffs. When he was passing through the corridor just now, he noticed that there were many doors on both sides, and the doors were tightly closed. Could it be that behind the doors are all the secrets of the kingdom of heaven? Full of suspicion, he pushed open the door of the small stone house, and saw the dwarf lying on a jade couch. This passage was completely written on a piece of sheepskin, and there was no such weird writing on that piece of sheepskin.Obviously, in the long and boring life, Pei Siqing learned the habit of writing down everything in detail—just imagine, in the dark days, if you don’t find something to do, you will be bored to death. It is a good way to pass the time to write down everything that has happened.

He also remembered that passage in great detail, and because the dwarf's words were somewhat unexpected, it shocked him a lot, and he also made a lot of comments, which were naturally ridiculous, like the world He was the only one in the world, it was reasonable for him to kill and set fire, and it would be damned if others stared at him. It was beyond imagination that there was such a person as Pei Siqing in the world. Although I have always been quite aware of the despicable side of human nature, I also think that people who behave despicably will feel guilty when they look at their hearts at night. Only after reading Pei Siqing's unreserved confession did I know the moral standards of this type of people , It's completely the law of the jungle, treating the despicable behavior as a matter of justice, it is very different from the norm, and I will never feel guilty at all. As for repentance, I'm afraid it is just a figment of the imagination of a gentleman.

All of a sudden, even I couldn't avoid making a lot of comments, naturally because I read Pei Siqing's account and it was so annoying. Let's say that Pei Siqing looked at the surrounding environment attentively, while admiring the night sky greedily, he came to the front of the small stone house, opened the door and entered, there was no light in the house, but there was a skylight, so the faint light of the stars and moon shone in, so he could see clearly , the dwarf was lying on a jade couch, and when he saw him, he struggled to sit up, panting——while he was struggling, his hands and feet were scrambling, which looked very funny.

Pei Siqing came to the couch, pulled a chair, sat down, and stared at the dwarf.The dwarf was panting heavily: "Uncle Pei... thank you... for coming to see me, I'm dying." Pei Siqing snorted: "It's nothing, anyway, I'm fine, and here, only you and I are from Chang'an, the rest, I don't know what it is, no one can enter, ghosts or ghosts." The dwarf's body shook, and he lowered his voice: "Uncle Pei, did you see it?" The dwarf's words made Pei Siqing baffled.He said that those women in white clothes were "human beings, ghosts or ghosts", it was just a flare-up of resentment accumulated over the years, but the dwarf asked him that.

Could it be that those women in white clothes are really "human beings, ghosts, ghosts"?If it is "humans are not humans and ghosts are not ghosts", then what is between humans and ghosts? Pei Siqing couldn't react for a while, but just looked at the dwarf, whose expression was also strangely excited, and his facial features twitched together: "I... I have been here for a long time, and I taught them Chinese, plus my look, so they don't look out for me—" Pei Siqing is so shrewd, when he heard this, he immediately asked: "What secret do you know about them?"

The dwarf took a deep breath and said, "Unknowingly, I learned their language, but I pretended not to understand it. In fact, I could understand what they were saying." Pei Siqing asked again: "What secret do they have?" The dying dwarf gasped for a while, but he didn't answer this question. Instead, his eyes showed a very cunning look, and he said something that Pei Siqing could never have imagined in his dreams. Hearing it, Pei Siqing was stunned like a thunderbolt for a long time. The sentence that came out of the dwarf's mouth was: "Uncle Pei, I know that Xun Nineteen was killed by you."

Xun Nineteen!Pei Siqing hadn't heard this name for a long time. Xun Jiu was Rou Niang's fiancé, his sworn brother, the young man who was stabbed to death by him with a dagger. "Nineteen" is of course not an official name, but his ranking. At that time, the ranking was counted together with his cousins, so some of them were in the thirties. When Pei Siqing regained his composure from the stupefaction, he stared at the dwarf viciously, and raised his hands, trying to pinch the dwarf to death.However, as his strong fingers approached the dwarf's neck, he sneered and withdrew his hand again.

These days, his martial arts did not stop at all, on the contrary, he improved even more. With his hands, if he wanted to crush a dwarf to death, it would be like crushing an ant. He sneered: "What are you doing." The dwarf's eyelids were drooping, and the eyeballs were obviously dancing: "I used to be a child of Xun Zhai." Pei Siqing narrowed his eyes, and he remembered that when the dwarf first heard who he was, he had a very strange reaction.The Xun family is a well-known big family in Chang'an, so it is not surprising that there are dwarfs among the family children.

At this time, Pei Siqing sneered: "Why, you plan to avenge your master and be named in the biography of a righteous servant?" When he said this, he naturally tried his best to tease, like a cat playing with a mouse after it has caught it. From the dwarf's tightly closed eyes, two turbid tears flowed out: "Master Nineteen treats me very well." Pei Siqing raised his head and laughed loudly. Here, under such circumstances, he suddenly brought up the old incident in Chang'an, and he couldn't help but want to laugh. Under Pei Siqing's laughter, the dwarf's faint and long sigh sounded so weak, but his words made Pei Siqing stop laughing suddenly.

The dwarf said: "The nineteenth son is also very good to Rou Niang, and he even sincerely wants to marry her." Pei Siqing's face twitched, and under the rage, it seemed that his description was very terrifying. He shouted: "You deserve to mention Rou Niang's name?" The dwarf opened his eyes and looked at Pei Siqing. Pei Siqing realized that his rage would have no effect on a dying person.But the dwarf's reaction was very strange. He actually laughed very sweetly, and his voice sounded full of joy: "I don't deserve to mention it? I named Rouniang. Rouniang is my younger sister. dear sister."

Pei Siqing opened his mouth suddenly, and it was difficult to close it again for a moment.He quickly wondered if what the dwarf said was true, but he knew it was true. Although Rou Niang never mentioned having an older brother, maybe it was because she didn't want her husband to know that there was a brother with a humble status.Pei Siqing was not very clear about her family background, people in Tang Dynasty had an open-minded style and were not limited by family status. Hong Fu Nu was Yang Su's housewife, and she went to Li Jing, and Li Jing didn't dislike her family background at all. Then, naturally Rou Niang may also be the maidservant of the Xun family, and it is very natural for Xun Nineteen to fall in love with her. Pei Siqing just thought it was all so funny that he didn't know what to say.The dwarf sighed at this moment: "Because of this important relationship, I am dying and want to see you." Pei Siqing snorted: "Do you want me to tell Rou Niang that you died in a foreign land in the desert?" The dwarf shook his head slowly: "No, in order not to let Rou Niang lose her husband, I want to show you a way to escape." When Pei Siqing heard this, his heart beat wildly and he was extremely happy. The dwarf accused him of killing Xun Shijiu as soon as he opened his mouth, and he almost crushed the dwarf to death without making a move.But now, the dwarf turned out to be his brother-in-law, and wanted to show him the way out. Such a turning point was naturally unexpected. (The whole story is patchwork and extremely messy. At the beginning, it was just a bunch of random rings. But slowly, these rings were connected one by one, and the story gradually became complete.) (All the rings will eventually be connected into a whole chain. During this process, it would not be enough to miss a single ring—if the dwarf hadn't had such a heavy relationship with Pei Siqing, the development of the story in the future would be completely different.) (Many, many things in the world, and the fate of many, many people, are actually such a formation process.) Pei Siqing couldn't hide his excitement: "How to get out, tell me quickly." He was afraid that the dwarf wouldn't be able to turn around in one breath, and he would just cry and mourn, and it would become a joy in vain. But at this time, he was anxious, but the dwarf was not anxious: "You first admit that you killed Xun Nineteen." Pei Siqing gritted his teeth: "That's right, I killed it." The dwarf sighed: "When you were sworn brothers, you made a heavy oath, and you will surely die in fulfillment of the oath." Pei Siqing laughed loudly: "That's right, last time in the desert, I thought my oath had been fulfilled, but I should not die." The dwarf sighed again: "It's hard to say - I have seen the corpse of the nineteenth son, the knife mark was so thin that it was almost invisible, and I knew it was an extremely sharp dagger, until I saw yours, Mr. Pei. Only the dagger is clear-eyed, and there is no doubt about it." Pei Siqing snorted, thinking to himself that you dwarf, although you are not like a human being, your mind is so dexterous. He remembered that the dagger no longer belonged to him, and he couldn't even ask, so he couldn't help being very annoyed: "You still say it's my dagger." The dwarf said: "This dagger is extremely important to the people in the kingdom of heaven. They have been looking for this dagger for generations. This dagger is related to their fate." Pei Siqing listened very attentively, but the dwarf's speech was not very coherent, just now he said that he would teach him how to escape, but suddenly he talked about daggers, and suddenly asked: "Do you think they look like people?" Pei Siqing waved his hands: "Of course they are human beings. Although the heroine...but she is indeed a woman, what do you think they are?" The dwarf took a deep breath: "Why are there only women in the clan and no men? Why have there been only sixty-two women in the clan for many years, one not many, one not many? Why are their whereabouts so secretive? Are they so eager to learn the secret of the dagger?" Naturally, Pei Siqing couldn't answer these questions. The dwarf panted, and said the answer himself: "They are not human at all! They are a group of monsters, monsters that came out of nowhere. Just like what you said: people can't enter, ghosts can't be ghosts." What Pei Siqing said just now, "People can't enter, ghosts can't be ghosts" means that those women who only wear white clothes are very mysterious, and he doesn't think they are any kind of goblins, so he seems impatient with the dwarf's words.What's more, he is eager to know what secrets are in the "heavenly kingdom" formed by those women, and how to leave. So, he reprimanded unceremoniously: "Stop talking nonsense, how can I get out of here?" Pei Siqing's reprimand was of course extremely threatening, but the dwarf showed a funny expression and was not affected at all.He is a dying man who has no need to fear any authority.For a dying person, he no longer has any desires, so naturally he doesn't have to worry about anything. So the dwarf's tone is affirmative, even more authoritative than Chang'an Dahao, and more likely, he has never spoken in such a confident tone in his life.He said: "Listen to me! I can say whatever I like." After saying this, he even closed his eyes, not caring whether Pei Siqing was angry or helpless. Naturally, Pei Siqing was helpless, he held back his breath, his voice sounded stiff: "Okay, say it, say whatever you want." The dwarf opened his eyes again: "That dagger is extremely important to them, so they have been looking for this dagger for many years, hundreds of years." Pei Siqing originally wanted to scold the dwarf again, but when the word "nonsense" came to his mouth, he swallowed it back. The dwarf's voice was even more mysterious: "They've been looking for it. These banshees...they won't age at all, and they'll still look like this after hundreds of years." Pei Siqing couldn't help but snorted: "Although that dagger is rare, it doesn't deserve so much attention." The dwarf's eyes narrowed into a line: "For them, the dagger is bestowed by the true god, with incredible power, which makes each of them ascend to heaven - this is what I have been hearing them say after I learned their words. That dagger has tremendous power." Pei Siqing snorted again: "The things have been in their hands for two years, why haven't they ascended to heaven yet?" The dwarf immediately answered: "They couldn't understand the secret on the dagger, just like the king of Persia couldn't understand it. They found out that the dagger fell into the hands of a Hun robber's woman, so they captured her—" Pei Siqing said "ah" in a low voice: "Golden Moon." The dwarf's facial features suddenly crowded together, showing a frightened expression, if a dying person could have such an expression, then what he thought must be terribly terrifying.The dwarf's voice was trembling: "The woman said that she had given away the dagger, but she refused to say who she gave it to. In a fit of anger, they—" Speaking of this, the dwarf's body trembled, thinking of the golden moon, Pei Siqing couldn't help sighing again. The dwarf continued: "I saw it with my own eyes. I saw it with my own eyes. They didn't know that I was peeping. They forced that woman... to be called Jin Yue? They told about the whereabouts of the dagger, put her in the jade coffin, and used... ...a very thick water to soak her in... that water came out of a very long pipe, a pipe... like I've never seen before..." When talking about how those white-clothed women dealt with Jin Yue, the dwarf's words were very messy, and Pei Siqing had to listen very carefully to understand. Although the dwarf was panting, he didn't stop talking: "When that kind of water flows out, it turns into ice...I found out later that it turned into a crystal and sealed her whole body inside. That beauty is really kind. I would rather die than surrender, the woman in white never asked anything. Later, I followed the pipe to find a big cave, and the cave was full of strange-looking things, I don’t know what it is, the woman died..." Pei Siqing took a breath: "You pick the important ones, okay?" The dwarf paused for a moment: "Later, the hostess saved you in the desert, and got that dagger by accident. You can imagine how happy they were. For several days and nights, I could hear each of them They kept saying: You can ascend to heaven! You can ascend to heaven.” It was really difficult for Pei Siqing to make any connection between "Ascension to Heaven" and "Dagger". He waved his hand impatiently, and asked again: "Is there any way I can leave?" The dwarf sighed: "Since they can't solve the mystery of the dagger, you can make up some random words to convince them, and threaten them to send you out. This is the only feasible way." Pei Siqing never imagined that a dwarf would do such tricks. Naturally, this trick of blackmailing people would not bother him. He put his hand on his thigh and patted it heavily: "Good trick." The dwarf breathed a sigh of relief, his whole body was exhausted, and he said the last sentence: "But I hope that after you return to Chang'an, you will treat the girl well, alas! When you leave without a trace, she will be sad for some reason." Desperate." After saying this, he closed his eyes, Pei Siqing stretched out his hand to check, the dwarf had already lost his breath. Pei Siqing didn't leave immediately, he lingered for a while, thinking about many things, the main thing was that the world was so coincidental that the dwarf would be Rou Niang's elder brother. When he left the stone house, the two white-clothed women who brought him greeted him, and he gestured to them, but the white-clothed woman was completely indifferent, and still took him back to the stone room where he had never seen the light of day these days . If it wasn't for the concern that he would not be able to cross the thousands of miles of desert, Pei Siqing would have already made trouble. Even if he had to kill all the women in white before leaving, he would not be so soft-hearted. That night, when Pei Siqing met the heroine, he cut straight to the point and said with a sneer, "You guys have never been able to understand the secret on the dagger, why don't you come and ask me?" The hostess was taken aback and stayed for a long time before saying, "You...know...the secret of the dagger?" Pei Siqing didn't answer directly, but just put on an unfathomable expression, the heroine stayed for a while, and then said: "If you know, please tell me, the whole family is grateful for your kindness." As soon as Pei Siqing saw this situation, he knew he had the upper hand. He was very curious: "Are you so eager to ascend to heaven?" The hostess frowned - she had a very flat face, and the coquettishness of the golden moon, every day.She said: "Yes, we are eager to ascend to heaven." Pei Siqing asked, "Didn't you call this the Kingdom of Heaven?" The heroine sighed: "It's called heaven, which is different from the real kingdom of heaven. I... am really the heroine of the kingdom of heaven, and everyone else is also true... citizens of the kingdom of heaven." Pei Siqing didn't pay much attention to what the heroine said... If he did, he wouldn't understand what it meant, he had already figured out a way.At this time, he raised it: "I don't want to ascend to heaven—" He just said one sentence, and the hostess was very happy: "I'm worried about this, you're afraid you won't be able to ascend to heaven, you don't want to ascend to heaven, what do you want?" Pei Siqing said: "I just want to go back to Chang'an, how far is it from Chang'an?" The hostess pondered for a while: "About a month's journey." Pei Siqing took a deep breath, one month is not too far away, thinking that he could return to Chang'an, he couldn't help but his heart beat faster. He knows how to use his advantage: "Prepare everything for me. I think I can reach Chang'an safely. When I leave, I will naturally tell you the secret of the dagger bestowed by the gods." The hostess immediately agreed, but Pei Siqing didn't know how they prepared it. Early the next morning, Pei Siqing was taken out of the cave, passing the extremely weird "road" that he walked on when he came here, that "road" On both sides of the river, the sand grains sprayed upwards like a fountain, forming a ditch, but the sand grains did not flow down to fill the ditch. Out of this ditch, there was an endless desert. Pei Siqing saw twenty tall camels, and the camel racks were full of clear water, dried meat, grain and fine wine. With such equipment, let alone a month in the desert, three to five months will not be a problem. The hostess and eight white-clothed women sent Pei Siqing out, but Pei Siqing suddenly had another problem: "I want to take Jin Yue's body away." The hostess agreed immediately, and the four women in white went back along the ditch, and the hostess gave a few more loud instructions. When the four women in white clothes came back, they not only brought the jade coffin with the golden moon inside, but also brought a large bundle of sheepskins.The hostess pointed at the sheepskin: "In these days, you have written a lot of words on the sheepskin. Is it useful? Do you want to take it back to Chang'an?" Pei Siqing waved his hand: "No need, I'll let you guys watch it slowly! By the way, I'll write down what happened last." This "last thing that happened" can't actually be regarded as "the last", because there is no record of what happened later. Pei Siqing's so-called "last thing" is that he told the hostess that that dagger contained infinite power. If they wanted to ascend to heaven, they had to use this dagger to stab their hearts in order to become immortals—because this method is beyond Imagine how no one has ever understood it. After the hostess and the eight white-clothed women listened, according to Pei Siqing's final description: "Everyone has a look of enlightenment, and the rest of them are talking nonsense, which can make them all die in the belly of the mountain. They are as stupid as they are." Hogs are also to blame." He didn't want to think about what would have happened to him if the female lead hadn't saved him. To use such a method to make all the mysterious women of this family die under this dagger, his mind was extremely vicious. From now on, it is not known whether those white-clothed women, who were eager to ascend to heaven, fell into Pei Siqing's poisonous scheme.It is also unknown whether Pei Siqing returned to Chang'an safely. What happened more than a thousand years ago, even if there are reliable historical records, there is not much to investigate, let alone such a thing?