Chapter 10 Chapter nine

It was dark already before sunset.Since noon, the western sky has been covered by thick clouds, and it has piled up into a huge cloud mountain at this moment, one end of which overflows the highest peak at the west end of Jishan Mountain, and along the long ridge, presses towards Yamura step by step . The wind on the mountain is much stronger than that in the village, and the hunting ground blows from west to east, and the knee-high grass is blown up and down in waves, and the white Jizi flowers are blown all over the sky by the wind, and they trot along with Shi Yin He went up the slope.

This slope is called "Dragon's Blood" slope. It stretches for more than ten miles from north to south, and the widest point is more than twenty miles. Behind the slope is a cliff more than a hundred feet high, like a gray barrier.Huge rocks are densely covered on the slope, and the stones are blue-black in color, with sharp edges and corners as sharp as knives and axes.There is no grass around the stone, and even the soil is black.The old people in the village said that this place used to be a mountain peak named "Longqi".There are dragons stationed there, but no one dares to enter.More than three hundred years ago, someone ventured down a cave to slaughter a dragon, and the dragon fought with him.At that time, the sky was dark, the wind was violent and rainy, until the landslide and the ground cracked, and Longqi Peak collapsed, sealing the entrance of the cave and becoming the current south slope.These stones fell from Longding Peak, and they became like this because they were stained with dragon blood, hence the name Po.

Of course Yain would not believe these claims, because there is not even a mouse hole to be found here.She only knew that Shu Jie liked it very much, every year he would live quietly among these chaotic rocks for a while, but he never said the reason. "Jie, Jie!" Shiyin climbed up a rock and shouted, "Where are you?" She looked around and soon saw Shu Jie's figure.He stands on the highest rock, dressed in white.Hearing her cry, Shu Jie waved his hand lazily. But Shi Yin didn't go over immediately, she squatted down, resting her head in her arms to watch Shu Jie.I don't know since when, she has become more willing to look at him from a distance and calmly than to stay by his side.This thought made her very depressed, because after all, he only came for ten days a year, and she didn't know if he would come again next year...

But...but... this man will never stay by her side, she knew very well in her heart.The mountain wind blew his wide and long sleeves flying, and he stood upright against the wind, as if he would ride the wind away at any moment.He never told himself the purpose of coming here, but Yayin felt that he had an unusual attachment to this pile of rocks.However, he didn't dare to ask him.He is an eagle traveling alone, the closer he gets, the faster and farther he flies, and one day he will never come back... She was just staring blankly, when suddenly she saw Shu Jie turning her head to look at her, then leaping over rocks and running towards herself.Yain rubbed her eyes hurriedly and stood up.

"Little girl, why are you so quiet today?" Shu Jie said with a smile, and when he got closer, he said in surprise, "Yo, you are still dressed so carefully. What are you going to do?" Yayin said angrily: "My mother insists on telling me to wear this, I can't run at all." Shu Jie laughed and said, "Who said you can run around in a gorgeous dress? If you run up the mountain like this, if it gets dirty or torn, do you think your mother will beat you?" Yayin struggled to lift the hem of the skirt up to her calf, and said, "I ran up like this!"

Shu Jie stroked Guangguang's chin: "Hmm...let me guess...is the marriage team of the historian of the Song Dynasty coming soon? Haha, I'm blushing, so it's true." Shi Yin's expression changed, and she raised her hand high, as if she was about to strike, Shu Jie quickly took a step back.Yayin raised her hand for a long time, then put it down dejectedly, turned around and sat on the stone, bowed her head and said nothing.Shu Jie was stunned for a moment, then said: "Hey, little girl, are you okay?" Yain shook her head. Shu Jie said: "Are you really angry? Who offended you, tell me!"

Yain didn't answer.Shu Jie came to her side, she immediately turned to the other side.Shu Jie said: "Hey, something really happened." Sitting beside her, he said: "You came so far to find me, you didn't just show me your face, did you?" Ya Yin was silent for a while, and finally said: "Are you really...willing to help me?" Shu Jie said: "Of course, if you tell me, no matter how rare and rare it is in the world, I will bring it to you if you want it." Shi Yin sighed, looked up at the approaching dark clouds in the distance, and said: "If someone else said this, I would only find it funny. But when you say it, I... Unfortunately, I don't know anything. need."

"Why is that? Tell me!" Seeing her sad face, Shujie said, "No one can bully you. I heard that the king of the Song Dynasty wants to accept your village. Is it because of this incident that you Are you in trouble? Tell me, if you don’t want to, even if Zhou Tianzi opens his mouth, he won’t do it.” Shi Yin glanced at him in surprise, and said, "What?" Shi Yin shook her head and said, "No... nothing... I just think that when you talk about the king of the Song Dynasty, or even the Emperor Zhou, you seem to be really not afraid. They. Who are you?" Shu Jie was startled, his face became serious.Shi Yin had never seen him so serious before, but she was a little scared, and hurriedly said: "It's fine if you don't say it. Anyway... I... I..."

Shu Jie smiled, and returned to his nonchalant attitude, and said: "We have known each other for more than ten years, and this is the second time you ask me." Shi Yin said angrily: "Who told you to lie to me the first time, What did you say that the dragon changed, hmph, I don’t bother to care who you are.” Shu Jie said: "Okay, no matter who I am or what you are worried about, just tell me." Shi Yin said: "The day before yesterday, the king of the Song Dynasty sent people to the village, saying that he wanted to recruit fifty men to fight in Beiming. My mother was so anxious that her hair turned white. You know that there are only three hundred people in our village. I summoned all the middle-aged men at once, what about the rest? My mother heard that Duke Zhou didn’t know how to use soldiers. None of the people who went to the whole village could come back. If... if...my brother is also on the list..." At this point, his eyes were red.She blinked desperately to keep the tears from falling.

Shu Jie put his hand on Shi Yin's shoulder, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, nothing will happen. The war in Beiming will be over until next year at most. You ask your mother to tell the messenger of Song State that you need to collect Timber and beef tendon, etc. need to be prepared for three months. The journey to Beiming is long and extremely difficult, and it will take at least three months. By the time we get there, the Duke of Zhou has probably already withdrawn his troops." Shi Yin said: "Why do you say that the war will end next year? What if my mother agrees and goes to the battlefield in six months?" Seeing Shu Jie's relaxed face, she was both anxious and angry, and the tears finally came back. flowed down.

Shu Jie said: "Fool, do you think I lied to you? The aura of Zhou Tian has changed." He pointed to the northern sky with one hand: "Northern Mingkun City is about to rise into the sky again, and the advantage of the Yunzhong Clan will disappear. Duke Zhou His strategy was correct. Although the nine-year war was difficult, his army did not lose the most important cities, but instead severely damaged Beirong. Once the Yunzhong tribe withdrew, Beirong could hardly hold on to a moon." "..." Shiyin was stunned for a while, before she said: "What is Zhoutian Qi? Is it cloud? Is it wind?" Shu Jie wiped his face and sighed: "Forget it. I will tell your mother. If necessary, I will personally tell the King of Song about it. Don't worry. Don't you believe me?" "I... I believe it, really!" Ya Yin turned around and hugged Shu Jie's arm, buried her head under his shoulder, and said, "I believe you..." Shu Jie stroked her hair and said with a smile: "You also trust me sometimes? Be good, you're still acting like a baby at this age?" Shi Yin said softly: "I still want to act like a baby, can't I?" Shu Jie said: "Of course... But, you are already grown up, it's time to act like a baby with others." Yayin took two steps back abruptly, her face was terribly pale.The wind blew her hair, and it was entwined in front of her eyes. She bit her lower lip and said in a low voice, "Do you really... want me to marry you that much?" Shu Jie hesitated for a while, nodded and said, "I think you are happy." "Do you know why I wear such clothes today? Because today is the anniversary of my sister's death, and I will be her 'corpse'." Yayin's chest heaved violently, her hair was wet with tears, and it stuck to her cheeks indiscriminately.She said word by word: "You know how she died. If you continue to pretend to be stupid and don't understand my intentions, you just wait to see me die." After saying this, Yayin turned around and jumped off the rock, because her dress was too long, she fell heavily when she landed.Shu Jie shouted: "Yin!" Without looking back, she turned over and got up, lifted her skirt, exposed her bare feet, and walked forward with difficulty among the jagged rocks.After another fall and getting up again, she quickly turned around a huge rock and disappeared. Shujie looked at the place where she disappeared, stood quietly for a while, and reached out to touch his chest, where there was still the body temperature left by Yayin when he lay on it just now.There was still a slight bulge in that place. He reached into his arms and took out a jade cicada hanging from his neck.Shu Jie touched the exquisite lines of Yu Chan, and sighed a long time.He put Yuchan back into his arms, sat down, and then lay down on the flat rock.He stretched out a hand and drew a talisman out of thin air. "Rumble... boom... boom..." With a dull and procrastinating sound, the ground shook slightly, and two rock giants slowly stood up not far away, and walked towards the place where Shu Jie was lying.On the top of the cliff and down the slope in the distance, four rock giants stretched out their bodies and entered a defensive position. Shu Jie saw that they were standing on the left and right, and An Ran closed his eyes. His spirit sank quickly, through the rock, down through the earth, through the same blue-black rock.I don't know how deep these rocks are piled up, layer upon layer, endlessly, but without hesitation, he continues to go down tirelessly, down... I don't know how long it took, his eyes suddenly widened, and it turned out that he had penetrated the rock formation , in an empty and boundless underground cave. It was pitch black in the cave, but he could see everything inside.The cave was filled with dark swamps, and beneath his feet was the largest and deepest lake in the middle.The lake is semicircular in shape and most of it is shrouded in mist.He continued to descend, through the dark green poisonous mist, and came close to the lake. The water of the lake is also dark black, but because of the scales that have fallen off from the fireflies, it glows orange-red everywhere.These lights attract countless schools of fish to feed, as well as marsh ducks and black geese that eat fish, and thistle scales that eat them.These dark guys are lurking, escaping, sneak attacking, and kidnapping in the water, performing scenes of the jungle preying on the weak. He also heard howling sounds from the distant sky, it was the sound of monsters fighting.This time of year is always the most active time for monsters, because in a few months, the swamp will rise and flood most of the land in the cave. They must decide the winner now and compete for the highest place... because it is only the soul , he couldn't smell the air, but he knew that it would always be filled with the stench of corpses.His favorite taste. He didn't linger over the lake for long before he plunged into the water.Although there was no splash, the creatures in the swamp still felt the presence of the dragon's blood and ran around in panic, causing the lake to boil for a while. He spread his arms wide and dived into the deepest part of the lake, calling his mother's name in a low voice.