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The legend of Yang Asha originated from the local legend of the Miao nationality. In the Miao language, the three words Yang Asha together mean "a little girl who grew up by the water".

Gentiana Qin first heard this story from his mouth more than ten years ago. At that time, following his duty as the Dragon King, he went out alone to spread rain on a Miao mountain, and happened to stop by a remote Miao village for a rest. At that time, I heard this story from an old woman by chance.

At that time, the old woman who had lived in the depths of the Miao Village and had never been to the outside world was almost completely blind, but she could very keenly feel that there was someone sitting near the door of her house.

And after running out to drive away the children who had been crowding around Qin Gentiana and laughing rudely at beggars and beggars loudly, the obviously frightened old woman first asked her little granddaughter to be dressed in rags, without even a new pair of shoes, so she had to sit Qin Gentiana, who was on the side of the road, went to the house to get some white wine and food, and then he took the initiative to lift up his feet and bring the food to him in person step by step. Respectfully and in awe, he carefully looked at Gentiana Qin in front of him.

"...Please... Please forgive those unreasonable children just now... Their young and ignorant eyes can't see clearly, so they can't know your identity... Please accept these food, then pardon and forgive their crimes... dragons... please forgive them..."

These intermittent words of the old woman were all spoken by her in Chinese that sounded very unfamiliar and awkward. It is not clear how she realized that she was a dragon. Qin Gentiana did not respond positively, but at that time he did not choose to leave immediately or give up. To spread rain for this village that had offended him, he just lowered his eyes and stretched out his hands to slowly accept the rough and simple food on the ground, and then simply stayed in the house of this mysterious old woman for three nights.

During these three days, he still went out during the day as usual and continued to go out to spread rain in the mountains. At night, he returned to the old woman's house to eat a bowl of rice and drink a bowl of wine. He closed his eyes and fell asleep without thinking about anything. Sleep.

But every time after nightfall, the old woman would always patiently wait for him to come back, and then talk to Qin Gentian who was sitting at the door eating and drinking alone for a while.

During this process, Gentiana Qin rarely took the initiative to talk about her past, and the old woman didn't ask him anything, but her blind eyes seemed to see through Gentiana Qin's hidden knots in her heart.

So during these three days, the blind old Miao woman told Qin Gentian three strange stories in three nights.

On the first night, ①Fan Ding looked for his mother who abandoned him since he was a child.

On the second night, the blind man lost his most beloved bead.

As for the third night, it was about Yang Asha, the moon and the mirage.

What do these three stories mean, and Gentiana Qin didn't ask her directly at that time.

But the old woman just quietly told him by chance that this is the fate that she has seen through Qin Gentiana, which has happened and will happen to some people in the future.

The word 'fate' obviously has some elusive and mysterious taste, at least at this moment, Qin Gentian vaguely understood that the old woman whose expression was inexplicably full of sympathy and care for him had already told him everything she could tell, and the rest I am afraid there is no way to say more about the taboo that cannot be touched.

But when the three-day deadline finally came, and Qin Gentiana, who had finished spreading the rain on the Miao Mountain, was about to leave this mysterious village, the old woman suddenly chased him out anxiously and asked him for something.

It was precisely this thing that was forcibly demanded that made the old woman finally pluck up the courage to violate the taboo she had always observed in her heart, and made the fourth promise about his fate prophecy to Qin Gentiana in front of her.

"Dragon... Please, no matter what... twist your long hair and give it to me... as long as you... promise to never have long hair again in this life, give me your long hair... I can... Tell you about the fourth story... I beg you... promise me... promise me..."

After thinking about it later, such an impolite request is actually imposing or even unreasonable. After all, no matter whether the prophecy will be fulfilled in the future, the old woman as a mortal may no longer exist in the world by then. Gentiana, which lasts longer than many ordinary people, does not have any practical effect, and it is somewhat unfair.

What's more, for Gentiana Qin, hair itself is a precious thing that is not inferior to dragon scales and dragon horns, not to mention that there is no way to have long hair again in a lifetime, or even send your long hair to the old woman forever.

But looking at the old woman in front of him looking at him eagerly and persistently with a pair of empty eyes, and repeatedly expressing her palms together and sincerely saying that she would never lie, at that time Qin Gentian chose to agree to the exchange terms with the old woman for some reason.

——In this way, the Dragon God personally twisted his long hair with the scissors given by the old woman, in exchange for a promise about the fourth prophecy about his future destiny.

③And for more than ten years after that, he really kept his promise to the old woman and never grew long hair again. Once his hair grows a little longer, he will immediately find a place to cut it off, and then gradually raise it It has become such a habit that people around me don't seem to understand why they always have to cut their hair off quickly.

But recalling it now, the last time he saw himself with long hair was probably in the wooden basin covered with his long hair from the old woman's house.

In the following years, Gentiana Qin never went to the Miaoshan Mountain, which is very strange in location. Perhaps it was because he really didn’t need to go there to help with the rain. He still vaguely remembered the promise he made with the old woman in the fourth story.

At least today, when Jieshi Xingxing accidentally talked to him about Yang Hua's life experience and the Rakshahai City incident, Qin Gentian immediately recalled this specific past that had passed for a long time.

"Hey, so you actually first learned about the existence of Rakshasa from that strange old woman?"

"Well, it was said to be the third prophecy about my fate, but it sounded very unlucky, so I didn't take it seriously."

"Um...Actually, according to my subordinates, the old woman might have seen something from you at the beginning, so I told you the third story in advance... Now about the life experience of the young lady Yang Hua, there is also Haishi. The existence of human beings has been fulfilled one by one, so we might as well investigate what is going on with this matter..."

"It's been so long, how to check?"

"Isn't there still a teacher with the surname Jin? Just ask him deliberately, don't talk too much, just tell him the story, maybe he will have a solution for this... And just in case , Teacher Jin can also help with the matter of Miss Yang Hua..."

It seems that Hengxing Jieshi is right to say so, but it is obvious that Qin Gentian, who is still involved in the troubles of Gong Jilang with Jin Suoyang at the moment, cannot reveal too much about Yang Hua's life experience, otherwise about his own identity. Sooner or later, it will be exposed in front of someone.

So after thinking about it for a while, Qin Gentian simply told the third story about Yang Asha and Haishi people as some kind of clue, as Hengxing Jieshi said. Jin Suoyang, who is currently investigating the matter of Gong Jilang.

After all, no matter how you look at it, the third prophecy story that Gentiana Qin didn't take seriously at the beginning really became true because of the reappearance of Jin Suoyang many years later.

Haishi people who lived far away in the country of clouds appeared in Dongshan inexplicably, and the rooster man seemed to have some inextricable connections with them, and even involved the special story about the red moon in Dongshan one after another. secret.

And at this moment, when he deliberately concealed some details from Jin Suoyang, such as his hair and prophecy, and then talked about it, the white-haired young man who was never eager to express his opinion seemed to have some doubts of his own. He only frowned and was silent for a while before speaking in a strange tone,

"This story sounds a little strange."

"Oh? Where does it sound strange?"

"... I don't know, but it sounds like there's something... I can't tell what's wrong. I need to think about it again."

The young man who was born with a strange intuition different from ordinary people talked to himself in such a low tone and did not take the initiative to speak again.

Qin Gentiana, who squinted his eyes, vaguely sensed that something was wrong, but he didn't make any noise to disturb his current train of thought casually.

But this night until the end of the conversation with each other, Qin Gentian hung up on the voice transmission ghost and went home. Jin Suoyang, who was inexplicably lost in some kind of thoughts because of the previous conversation between the two, did not figure out the strangeness of this story. Where exactly is the office.

After all, although this legend sounds a bit messy at first glance, and it seems to have no structure at all on the surface, it provides Jin Suoyang with a lot of ideas beyond the incident.

One of them is the possible connection between the moon and the Haishi people. After all, this may directly affect how he finds the shadows that escaped from the rooster man.

And it is very clear that in terms of catching the rooster man with his own hands and finding out the truth about those things back then, what I lack the most is a most direct person who can disrupt the positions of him and the mastermind behind the scenes, and even take a step ahead of them. effective way.

Only then would he be able to follow this most important clue and successfully find the location of the legendary Raksha Haishi and Yang Ji, and even return to his original normal timeline world.

For a moment, the countless thoughts in Jin Suoyang's mind were like the messy white snow flying outside the window. He sat at the table with his back in his chair for a long time, recalling the questions he had had in his heart for a long time, raised his eyes and frowned. Frowning, he glanced out of the snow-white window.

Shadow, it is actually a story about shadow and moon.

But apart from those mirages who temporarily hid behind Ji Lang, if he really wants to catch Ji Lang with his own hands before New Year's Eve, he must first find those shadows who have been trapped for many years.

However, apart from the rope that the woman who is one of the couple's shadow puppets has been manipulating them, is there any other way in this world that can successfully control and determine the whereabouts of the shadows of things?

Regarding this question, Jin Suoyang didn't have a particularly clear or even foolproof answer in his mind for the time being.

But if you think about it carefully, there have been legends about the moon in China's long history throughout the ages. In the traditional culture of the Han nationality, there are more classic stories about Chang'e in the Moon Palace, Wu Gang cutting down trees, and toads stealing medicine.

As for the Miao people or the more remote ethnic minorities, of course, the legend about the relationship between a female god named Yang Asha and the moon, as Qin Gentian just said, cannot be ruled out.

Although Jin Suoyang just tried to flip through the surname book at hand for this story, he found that it didn't seem to be recorded in detail.

And it is also undeniable that this may be due to certain deviations in the process of dissemination of the characters and languages ​​of various ethnic groups, which led to the story of Yang Asha and the moon being only spread in the Miao area and not known to outsiders.

Frowning, Jin Suoyang thought for a while and simply changed his way of thinking, choosing only to search for the word "month" as a key word in the surname book.

Obviously, it is not easy to find clues about the shadow and the moon in the stories of thousands of surnames in the past dynasties.

But accompanied by the buzzing of mosquitoes and flies next to the incandescent lamp and the rustling of the pages of the book at hand, before the white belly of the sky is completely lit up.

Jin Suoyang, who sat at the table almost without moving all night, actually found a trace of clues in the countless legends and records of the past that he would almost ignore subconsciously, so that he saw with his own eyes the special When recording, some uncertain doubts flashed across the face.

[In the legends of the Miao people...is there any mention of what felony they committed in the first place before they were punished? 】

【mentioned. 】

[... What is it? 】

[I heard that they were punished by Yang Asha because they ate Yang Asha's brother, and there is another saying that Yang Asha is the real incarnation of the legendary moon, and Yang Asha who was eaten Sha's brother... refers to the shadow of the moon. 】

Gentiana Qin's last slow words in his ears last night seemed to be still in his ears, but the eyes of the white-haired young man whose face was faintly pale because he hadn't slept all night, no longer had the slightest hesitation in his eyes.

In the end, he slowly raised his eyes and looked out the window with his light-colored eyes. A clear and penetrating Jin Suoyang had already appeared on his face, but he only suppressed all the doubts in his heart. slowly opened his mouth and said,

"……I see."

……

Xinyou year, Xinchou month, Wuwu day, the last two days before Lunar New Year's Eve.

In the following two days, Jin Suoyang and Qin Gentiana have been separately traveling to various health centers, canteens and even the New Year's Bazaar in Dongshan County, looking for the shadows who suspected to have escaped from the Sichuan Opera Troupe.

But what is not optimistic is that those shadow puppets who disappeared collectively seemed to have disappeared from the world suddenly, and they hid in Dongshan County together with Gong Jilang himself.

The streets were gradually stained with the usual festive atmosphere of the local New Year. When the bright red New Year pictures and couplets were posted one after another, the situation they were facing became more troublesome and tricky.

But what makes people feel a little strange is that since Jin Suoyang talked with Qin Geng that night about Haishiren and Yang Asha, he didn't seem to be particularly anxious, and he could even say that he was too calm Not too much.

At least from the perspective of Qin Gentian, a bystander from the beginning to the end, he always felt that a certain dead rabbit who had been silent all day seemed to have vaguely grasped some key clues, but he didn't choose to tell anyone immediately.

That's why these days he temporarily gave up on continuing to pursue that matter, instead he has been dragging him around in circles around the city, as if deliberately teasing some people who have been staring at them in the dark .

"Is Yang Hua's cough better?"

"...Huh? It's much better, but coughing may be contagious, so you can't go out immediately to see the wind."

"Didn't you say you went down the mountain to see a doctor before?"

"After the new year, I will take it for a review, and now I just prescribed some medicine to relieve the situation."

"Then let's go to the No. [-] Food Factory to buy some rice crackers and fried rice candy and go back. She should be bored at home all day recuperating from illness and unable to go out. Didn't you say that she always likes to eat these?"

"..."

Probably because of the face paralyzed teacher surnamed Jin, the solemn and lying appearance is too hard for people to see flaws. He narrowed his eyes and looked at his Gentiana strangely from the side. After thinking about it, he still matched his previous words, and Some nodded in a strange tone and replied.

"……Um."

And it is probably because the heart is also aware of the many doubts that Qin Gentian beside him has accumulated in his heart because of his strange behavior for many days, and he dragged him aimlessly to accompany him in this Dongshan County for almost two full days. Jin Suoyang thought for a while and was silent for a while, then slowly lowered his voice and opened his mouth to him,

"Don't worry, I have a measure."

The white-haired young man obviously expressed some of his intentions clearly in his low words, and there are some things that haven't come at the right time, so he can't make Qin Gentian understand exactly what he wants to do next.

Regarding this, since he himself had chosen to play dumb, he simply followed Gentiana Qin who pretended not to know anything, and of course he had no objection.

Anyway, for the past two days, Yanghua has Hengxing Jieshi at home to help take care of him, and he also happens to have this spare time to wander around Dongshan County with Jin Suoyang like a cat.

But obviously, they continued to wander around Dongshan County unhurriedly, and a shadow with vicious eyes who had been hiding in the dark and quietly following them these days became a little irritable for no reason.

And after sneezing lightly in the wall, it turned into a snow-white feline with only a long long tail and brown back feathers, lying on the top of the wall not far away and clicked impatiently, Probably because I really started to feel a little impatient in my heart, the Raksha leopard girl who had just informed the rooster man just looked at the door in the wall without saying a word, and the old shadow with a rooster mask vaguely snorted coldly , and then said with a sneer,

"I can't wait, you go tonight and kill those two useless mortals just now, Haizhu has missed his sight this time, these two people not only don't know the secret about Dongshan Moon at all, but also They are two downright stupid people, follow them, and then go and skin them for me, I will make a pair of beautiful shoes from the skin of the younger and more handsome white-haired mortal, and then wear him to go Seeing that arrogant Dragon King who still refuses to show his face to us...do you hear me, Rooster?"