Volume 3 Heartless Xuanji
Chapter 21: This love must ask the sky (9)
After not even two steps that little girl turned back again, “Sixth Brother ……” she called.
Zhong Minyan’s was getting a headache but was embarrassed to be angry with her, only turned to face her, coldly said, “Why do you disobey! I thought I told you to go back to the inn?”
“I’ll go with you to help Sifeng and the others,” Xuanji said, shaking her head.
How can she go with them? With that kind of power, he won’t be able to control her! If the others know she is like that, then don’t know what they think!
“Uh …… no need! What can a little girl like you do to help? What can you do?”
Zhong Minyan simply turned his face away and walked away, not to listen to her nagging. After a few steps he saw a few people walking slowly in front of him, and it was Yu Sifeng and the others. Liu Yihuan seemed to be paralyzed, being carried by two people, not even having the strength to move her neck.
They hurriedly greeted him and said, “What’s wrong? Did the demon wound him?”
Yu Sifeng shook his head and said, “We’ll talk about it when we get back.”
The two of them saw that only the three of them came back, purple fox and Ting Nu are not beside them, their hearts can not help but sink, so they could only shut up and follow them into the inn.
Although Liu Yohuan couldn’t move his body, his mouth wouldn’t stop. As soon as he lay on the bed he started to squeak, “Oh, oh! I have no energy at all! It’s a shame to open the eyes of heaven just because of such a stupid demon!”
Zhong Minyan was doubtful and wondered, “You opened your eye? What will happen if you open your eye ……?”
He saw that the dark red threads on Liu Yihuan’s forehead were gone, and the small flesh crevice was drooping, so it didn’t look powerful at all. A small slit on the forehead can repel the old demon?
Liu Yihuan grunted, “You are the most ignorant kid, and explaining it to you is also a waste of time! Anyway, open the eyes for the snake demon is useless …… rest tonight, tomorrow morning to go to the Zhou Mansion to ask for people!”
Seeing Liu Yihuan speaking weakly, he nodded and when he left the room, he pulled Yu Sifeng over and asked, “How on earth did you subdue that snake monster?”
Yu Sifeng wiped his face and sighed, “The Heaven’s Eye is not a mundane thing, just opening it is amazing. Brother Liu only opened a small part of it this time, if he opened all of it, the whole Zhou Mansion would be shattered. In any case, the snake demon even if it does not die has lost all its power. Tomorrow morning we will go to the Zhou Mansion to ask for people, I doubt she would dare to stop us.”
I thought the House of Zhou was an official family? To just go there and say they want people, is there such simple thing! But Yu Sifeng looked very tired, he could not ask more questions, he just had to deal with a few words, so turned around to go back to his room. Suddenly he heard him ask from behind, “Where is Xuanji?”
Zhong Minyan’s heart fluttered and he muttered: “…… probably went back to her room. When they brought up Liu YIhuan just now he saw her but why did she disappear in the blink of an eye. Considering that a lot of things really happened tonight, she was also a little weird. Could it be that she really found something strange about herself?
He looked back at Yu Si Feng, saw that he did not have much expression, so he joked dryly, “It’s quite in the middle of the night, it is a good time to talk in the heart, why don’t you go find her soon?”
Yu Sifeng’s lips moved slightly, as if to say something, but finally nodded in silence and turned around to leave.
Zhong Minyan went back to his room and closed the door, leaned with his arms against the wall and took a long breath, feeling that his heart was in turmoil, like a bunch of hairy little hands scratching his heart.
Linglong … Linglong … these two jade-like words were recited countless times in his heart, and his heart felt a little sorrowful for some reason, and finally sat silently on the ground without saying anything for a long time.
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The moon was like water, and the silver that had condensed on the ground was like a silvery frost, Yu Sifeng found Xuanji, she was sitting alone with her arms folded on the roof of the inn watching the moon. The slender back figure, as if a fold of soft silk, with the night wind gently swaying. The sight made him squint his eyes slightly, remembering those memories that are far away but still vivid.
Naturally, she is not as soft as she looks, back in the Li’Ze Palace when they had returned that year, the palace master once laughed and said: This woman is dangerous. Ordinary people are stubborn, hit the south wall, head bleeding, they stopped. But she is the kind of person who crashes through the south wall and does not look back even though she is dying.[1]
Sifeng, you need to understand is that she is not the kind of soft little wildflower on the side of the road, waiting for you to care for and love the woman. You have to be careful, she will become your demon in the future, you will be enchanted.
The advice of the master is still ringing in his ears, but in fact what he said, he knows it all. Xuanji is not a confused and innocent person like her appearance, she has an understanding of things and is very smart, and has her own judgement of many things in her heart. Sometimes he felt that he was finally getting closer to he but when he looked back she obviously flew farther, and he could never completely hold her in his palm.
He was so absorbed in his thoughts that he heard Xuanji call out softly in front of him: “Sifeng …… is that you?”
He walked over slowly, stood beside her and accompanied her to look up at the moon and asked, “How do you know it’s me?”
Xuanji smiled and whispered, “You … you smell of the sea, I can smell it when you get close.”
The smell of the sea …… he raised his sleeve to his nose and smelled it for a long time, but there was nothing but the smell of sweat and earth. This girl will always have many weird truths which make people confused. He smiled and sat beside her and asked, “What are you thinking?”
“I’m not thinking about anything, I’m just a little confused ……”, Xuanji shook her head.
What is the confusion? There was such a dream a long, long time ago, when she seemed to have another memory, another life, but she never took it to heart. This time there is something different, it is no longer something in the dream, it is real, it happened in front of her eyes, those shocking things, that woman with eyes like cold ice, is she? Is it really her?
“What you saw in the Mirror of Eight Desolations and Myriad Tribulation, right?”
Xuanji shuddered slightly for a long time and finally nodded, “I …… I saw a lot …… but can not say what is that feeling …… as if I am not me, very strange …… but there is no way to ignore ……”.
Yu Sifeng let out an ‘hmm’, lay down on the beams of the roof, and said in a low voice, “That is probably your past life. Everyone has a past life …… happy or unhappy, it is indeed impossible to ignore.”
Xuanji couldn’t help but turn around to look at him and wonder: “So …… does the past life have any effect on the present? I …… always think about it and feel unable to let go.”
Yu Sifeng closed his eyes and said with a smile, “Of course there is no impact. The past life is the past life, this life is this life. If you are always entangled by the past, how can you live this life?”
Xuanji didn’t make a sound for a long time, he couldn’t help but open her eyes and saw her staring at him with rounded eyes, her black and white eyes shining brightly in the moonlight. With a flip of his heart, he raised his hand to brush her forehead and said softly, “Xuanji, now is the most important thing.”
She blinked and finally showed a smile, bright and sweet and said softly, “I understand. I don’t want to think about it anymore, the life right now is the most important.”
She turned over and lay side by side with him on the roof to look at the moon, her heart suddenly felt very happy, as if something that had been blocked for a long time had suddenly emptied away, just like going back to childhood, care and with no worries in mind.
“Sifeng, after we go to Buzhou Mountain to save Linglong and Second Brother …… you, you do not go back to the Li’Ze Palace, okay?”
There was another movement in his heart. He turned to look at her beautiful face close at hand and whispered, “If I don’t go back … what else can I do?”
Xuanji frowned and said anxiously, “Come with us! We …… anyway we have done something wrong, and we don’t dare to go back to Shaoyang Sect …… when we send Ling Long back …… we… …we’ll ……”
She also does not know what to do in the future, the brain has not thought so far. But if you want to separate from Yu Sifeng, it is absolutely impossible.
“So what?” His voice was as low as a whisper. Xuanji turned her face, only to feel his breath on her face, the clear and lingering smell of the sea, the two of them were almost nose-to-nose. She looked at his eyes in a daze and could not say a word.
“Xuanji, you haven’t given me an answer … from the apricot grove.” He moved her thick hair off her forehead, and gently ran his fingers across her beautiful outline.
She couldn’t move, her breath was full of the taste of the sea, and it seemed like her toes were going to curl up.
“I ……
It seems that she doesn’t know what to say, she has forgotten her words.
His fingers rubbed her lips lightly, and he whispered, “Don’t tell me, I don’t want to listen yet.”
Why don’t you want to hear?
Her eyelashes trembled slightly, only to feel that his lips were hot, she gently covered it, touched it, and immediately moved away.
She was shocked and dumbfounded. Yu Sifeng stared at her in a daze, raised his hand to touch his lips with yearning, showing an odd smile.
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[1]: 不撞南墙不回头 (bùzhuàng nánqiáng bù huítóu) – is an idiom that roughly translates as ‘(they) wouldn’t turn around until they hit the southern wall‘, meaning ‘to stubbornly insist on one’s own ideas’.
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