The Pheasant Essence is going to be a big monster

Gu Tailai said while walking: "The direction of the search was wrong before. We have been looking for a man in his early twenties named Liansheng who died in Jinhe on the Qixi Festival of a certain year. Because we have never found a match, no matter the name Is it called Liansheng, so I think there may be some omissions in the records, but in fact it is not..."

Ji Xiaocai obviously didn't understand, and asked, "What's the reason?"

Gu Tailai: "When you ask people in the town, what do you ask?"

Ji Xiaocai thought for a while and said, "Just ask, 30 years ago, was there a young man who died in Jinhe on Qixi Festival, named Liansheng, who looked like the one in this painting?"

Gu Tai said, "What if the name is wrong?"

Ji Xiaocai thought for a while and said, "It's been a long time since the year and month. If the name is wrong, it won't affect too much. Liansheng may be a nickname or something."

Gu Tailai asked again: "What if the appearance is wrong?"

Ji Xiaocai said: "If the appearance is very different, it is definitely not the same person, but if it is not Liansheng's relatives, it is understandable that he cannot remember his appearance 30 years ago."

Gu Tai said: "By the way, if it were me, at this time, I would probably think about it and say that there seems to be such a person, but it doesn't seem to be called this name, or it looks like you in this painting. I don't know if it is similar, but What are the answers you hear now?"

"There is no such person."

Gu Tailai: "Think about it again, why is everyone now insisting that there is no such person, and there is no one who is vague?"

Ji Xiaocai thought for a long time, chewed her question upside down several times, and suddenly seemed to think of something, but she couldn't believe it at all——If her idea was solid, then her guess from the beginning was wrong, and This is also related to Liansheng's identity...

He wasn't convinced anymore.

Gu Tai came to see Ji Xiaocai hesitantly, knowing that he touched the side, and said: "That's it. 31 years ago, there was a young man in this town who looked similar to the man in the painting. He also fell into the brocade on Qixi Festival. In the middle of the river, the first half is the same as what we know, but the man is not dead, he is still in this town, his name is Gu Xianzhi."

"Gu Xianzhi?" Ji Xiaocai stopped suddenly and looked at Gu Tailai suspiciously, "The sage's sage?"

Gu Tailai asked, "What's wrong?"

Ji Xiaocai took out the red silk from her bosom, and said, "I accidentally brought it out from the concentric tree in the backyard of Yuelao Temple on Qixi Festival."

Only when Gu Tailai touched the red silk, Ji Xiaocai felt the umbrella on her back jump. When Gu Tailai took the red silk, the umbrella on her body jumped so much that it almost slipped off her shoulders. I had no choice but to untie the umbrella, held it in my hand and asked softly, "Liansheng, what's the matter?"

However, the umbrella did not accept his affection, struggled a bit, then jumped out of Ji Xiaocai's arms, and jumped into Gu Tailai's arms.Gu Tailai was also stunned for a moment, looked at the red silk, seemed to have realized something, and handed the red silk back to Ji Xiaocai, the umbrella turned around decisively and jumped back into Ji Xiaocai's arms.

Gu Tailai came to the conclusion: "So it's not because you look alike, but because of this red silk, the man who broke his appointment 31 years ago is probably this Zhang Jin."

Ji Xiaocai was puzzled, followed Gu Tailai through the town, and arrived in front of a courtyard. Before entering, she heard a mournful cry from the room, followed by a few women crying intermittently, chanting something.Guangyuan stood at the gate of the courtyard with a look of panic.

Ji Xiaocai looked into the door and saw a coffin parked in the courtyard, Zhou Zhaoji was talking to a middle-aged man.

Gu Tailai only glanced at it, frowned and said, "Is anyone gone?"

Guangyuan nodded: "Just what happened just now."

"Have you left yet?"

"not yet?"

Just as he was talking, he saw a man in white clothes walking towards him from a distance, holding a delicate five-claw silver-decorated judge's pen in his hand.He seemed to be a person who did not exist in this world. No one looked at him along the way. Even though he had a refined appearance and a leisurely demeanor, even his walking seemed to be different. It seemed to be very slow, and he was in front of him in the blink of an eye.

The man looked back and forth at Gu Tailai and his party, and bowed to Guang Yuanduan: "Xie Bi'an has seen the God of Jinhe River." He looked at Gu Tailai and Ji Xiaocai, as if he was a little unsure, but finally for Gu Tailai , "This Venerable Master is..."

Gu Tailai waved his hand: "It's just a Taoist priest."

Bai Wuchang and Xie Bi'an still seemed a little uncertain and said, "I'm here to pick up a person who just passed away."

Gu Tailai said, "I will not obstruct Shenjun's official business, but will you allow me to ask that person a few questions later?"

Xie Bi'an agreed, and the judge's pen stroked in the air, writing the word "Yin", and then he saw a person slowly walking out from the house in the courtyard.Ji Xiaocai saw that it was an elderly man with gray hair, stooped back, and an old man.He walked out of the courtyard, as if his mind was still a little unclear, but when he saw the coffin parked in the courtyard, he gradually understood. He turned around to look inside the house, and then walked towards the entrance of the courtyard.When passing by Zhou Zhaoji, Zhou Zhaoji stepped aside and smiled at him.

The old man also smiled faintly, his face was very calm, it seemed that because of this death, some things could finally be let go.

Xie Bi'an led him out, and to Gu Tai, "If you have any questions, please ask the Venerable Master as soon as possible, so that I can go back to work."

Gu Tailai asked him: "Are you Gu Xianzhi?"

The old man nodded: "I'm Gu Zhun, the name is Xianzhi."

Gu Tailai asked again: "31 years ago, did you throw yourself into the Jin River on Qixi Festival, but was saved by someone, because of a man named Zhang Jin?"

The old man seemed to be a little melancholy, but the emotion came and went quickly, and he said, "Yes, I fell into the Jin River when I was young, but Zhang Jin...don't remember."

Ji Xiaocai couldn't help asking: "Why don't you remember? Aren't you two like each other?"

The old man still said: "I don't remember meeting a man named Zhang Jin." It seemed that he really didn't remember anything.

Ji Xiaocai couldn't help but took out the red silk from her bosom and showed it to the old man: "Do you remember this concentric belt?"

The old man read the red silk carefully, and said: "Love is deep and meaningful, but unfortunately there is nothing constant in the world. Don't force me any more, the old man is dead, and the past is over. Let this matter be over."

Gu Tailai suddenly asked, but turned to Xie Bi'an: "Is Zhang Jin still alive?"

Xie Bi'an took out the booklet to read, flipped through it for a while and said, "Zhang Jin, a man from Changxing Town, died of illness 25 years ago.

A look of dementia appeared on the old man's face, and he murmured: "He's dead, so he died so early. Since he has been reincarnated, why do I remember these 30 years? Hehehe——" The smile is incomparable miserable.

Xie Bi'an said: "It's getting late, the little god has to take people back." He wrote the word "Ju" with the pen on the old man's forehead, and the old man calmed down and followed him.

Ji Xiaocai couldn't help but chased after her and asked, "Old man, do you remember the name Liansheng?"

The old man paused, turned his head, and said, "Liansheng? I don't know this person."

Gu Tailai asked, "Did you make a lotus water lantern with your own hands on Qixi Festival 31 years ago, and you wanted to express your affection to that person?"

The old man sighed: "Yes, I split the strips with my own hands, stretched the colored silk, and installed the lamp wick... It's a pity that the water was lost."

Ji Xiaocai suddenly understood that from the very beginning, Liansheng had remembered correctly, let alone lied. He was born from a lotus lantern, so he was called Liansheng. He carried Gu Xianzhi's deep and unspoken words The love is just to convey to Zhang Jin that Zhang Jin didn't come, and after Gu Xianzhi threw himself into the river to save others, he lost that heart day by day.

As time goes by, the parties no longer or do not want to remember, and even died, leaving him alone, wandering night and night, waiting year after year, obsessed with this love, and also in this love, gradually born In shape, it becomes fine.

Gu Zhun is dead, and Zhang Jin has already entered reincarnation. Even if this relationship did not end 31 years ago, Gu Zhun swallowed his last breath today, let go of everything, and went to the underworld. , all clean.

In the next reincarnation, who will meet who behind the Naihe Bridge?

If everything is doomed, is it also involuntary to cry, laugh and curse?

If it is really involuntary, crying, laughing and cursing, what is there to cherish?

In life, what is love, why does it come into being, why does it start, and why does it end?

Gu Tailai waved to Ji Xiaocai, Ji Xiaocai recovered from the trance, and walked aside with him.But Gu Tailai stopped, stretched his hand into his arms, and when Ji Xiaocai was stunned, he took out the faded red silk, and handed the umbrella hiding Liansheng to Guangyuan, and then He took Ji Xiaocai around the courtyard of the Gu family and found a remote place to talk.

Gu Tailai thought for a while before opening his mouth. He never said anything he was not sure of. Such a pause was enough to prove that things were difficult, and Ji Xiaocai also had an ominous premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, Gu Tai said: "Things have become troublesome. I originally thought that Liansheng was Gu Zhun. Once his obsession is realized, he will be reincarnated. I'm afraid it won't work now."

Ji Xiaocai couldn't help swallowing, and stammered, "What will happen now...?"

Gu Tai said: "Liansheng is not a human being, but a spirit formed from his obsession and deep love in the shape of the lotus water lamp that Gu Zhun made infatuatedly, but he is not one of those spirits with their own spirituality. , with the obsession of immortality or immortality, the meaning of his existence is to convey the infatuation for Zhang Jin that Gu Zhun had in those years, only because he could not find Zhang Jin, so he sticks to the Jinhe River every year, if Zhang comes in Liansheng has fulfilled Gu Zhun's wish, and will no longer exist in this world."

Ji Xiaocai guessed in her heart that Gu Tailai was the truth, but she still couldn't accept it all of a sudden, and even felt dizzy, she asked with trembling voice: "If... If you just leave it like this..."

Gu Tai said: "The old way, gradually weakened to the point of no existence. Although Gu Zhun didn't know about him when he was alive, his attachment to Zhang Jin was also the strength to support Liansheng to stick to it. Now that Gu Zhun is dead, Liansheng It will disappear sooner or later, probably in these two days.”

Everywhere is dead!

Gu Tailai added: "The difference is whether to realize Liansheng's wish, whether to let him go with satisfaction or to go with regrets."

Gu Tailai asked again, "Are you telling him or should I tell him?"

Ji Xiaocai turned around the corner of the room, and saw Guangyuan sitting on a stone bench beside him with the umbrella in his arms, swinging his legs and talking with a smile, his two big eyes were crooked, his heart was blocked, and he felt unable to say anything. exit.

When Guangyuan saw him, he jumped down and said, "Little monster, you little fool, he recognizes me!"

Ji Xiaocai let out an "ah" in a daze.

Guangyuan said, "Come and see", took him by the hand, and involuntarily went into a small forest beside him, cast a spell, and immediately covered the surroundings extremely dark, looked at it with satisfaction, and then opened the umbrella. .

Liansheng slowly took shape, as if a little dazed, looked at Ji Xiaocai, then at Guangyuan, then at Ji Xiaocai.

Ji Xiaocai didn't wear Zhang Jin's red silk now, so she looked strange to Liansheng, so he didn't move, but Liansheng didn't move when the red silk was on Guangyuan's body, but just looked at him hesitantly.

Guang Yuan tied the red silk around his wrist, raised his hand and said, "Little fool, look who I am?"

Liansheng's face was surprised again for a moment, and he floated a few steps, but suddenly stopped, looked up and down suspiciously Guangyuan, and said in a hoarse voice: "You are not him...not..."

Guangyuan was even more proud, and asked: "Little fool, do you see clearly? I am not who, and who am I?"

Liansheng said, "I'm not called a little fool, I'm Liansheng. Guangyuan...don't call me a little fool..."

"Did you see it?" Guang Yuan said triumphantly, "He recognizes me!"

"I see." Gu Tailai, who suddenly appeared, said to Ji Xiaocai, "I just thought that we didn't realize that if Liansheng's obsession was to convey the obsession for Gu Zhun, why did we mistake you for After Zhang Jin, is he still there?"

"Things are still turning around!"

This is the night of Qixi Festival, the Milky Way is far away, and finally the magpie bridge crosses love.

The surroundings are quiet, the lanterns are brightly lit in the distance, and the voices of people can be heard leisurely, but there are only insects chirping nearby and the flowing water swaying slowly.

He came with a lantern, and when he reached the river, he put down the things in his hands. It was an exquisitely made lotus water lantern with delicate and beautiful pink petals, stretching leisurely.He looked towards the lake, seeming to be thinking, and waited for a while, but there was still only the sound of the waves as the wind passed through the forest.

"Even if I don't go, Zining won't come..." He sighed, took out the flint from his pocket, and the spark jumped to the wick of the lotus water lamp, bursting into a bright flame, which was originally black. The lacquered Shino suddenly became brighter.The lotus water lamp emits a warm light, illuminating his expectant face.

"I hope the king's heart is like mine, and I will never disappoint lovesickness." He said in a low voice, put the water lamp into the Jin River, gently pushed it away, and the water rippled, holding the lotus water lamp, toward The opposite bank slowly drifted past, carrying his hope and ardent affection, but no one appeared on the other side.

He looked at the other side of the river in disappointment, why didn't the person he was waiting for come?

Liansheng looked at the shore from the small stamen, and his vision was the large sky and tall treetops.Sparks burned his body, he still waited patiently, he waited so long, just to convey his deep friendship to him, and then go back and tell him that he also has feelings for him...

Will that person come?

Liansheng was also slightly anxious, would that person really come?What should I do if I don't come?

Mixed with the sound of the wind blowing over the grass and trees, from far to near, gradually there seemed to be different sounds coming, like footsteps.

Liansheng couldn't help raising his head to look up, his voice gradually became louder, and a man came by the moonlight.

"Is it him?" Liansheng was a little uncertain for a moment, as if his appearance was somewhat different from what he remembered.

When the man approached him, he felt at ease again.It was him, the familiar aura, exactly the person he was looking for!

So he tried his best to use the current to float in the direction of that person.Just like flowing water also has feelings, as if the water had sensed his thoughts, it gently supported him and drifted past slowly.

One foot, three inches, one inch... The man squatted down, reached out to him, and picked him up from the water.

"It's sure to live up to Acacia!" the man said, waving his hand to the other side.

For a moment, he only felt infinitely satisfied, and felt comfortable and comfortable from the toes to the top of his head, but he vaguely felt something was wrong.It seems that I forgot something!Yes, forgot what?

He tried his best to think, and the flashing images flashed back in his mind, the dark surrounding fields, the quietly flowing Jinhe River, he confided in a low voice, and then with a desperate "plop", he fell into the water...

Guangyuan lay on his stomach in the water, secretly revealed his head and said to Ji Xiaocai, "There seems to be something wrong with the little fool!"

Ji Xiaocai couldn't help becoming nervous. Lian Sheng, who had returned to her body, floated out again at this time, as if she was trying to think about something.

Gu Tailai also noticed what was wrong with Liansheng, and he seemed to understand, and gestured to Ji Xiaocai.

"Throwing into the river!?" Ji Xiaocai was frightened, "You want me...to throw...into the river?"

Before he finished speaking, he was hit on the back, someone pushed him from the back, and Ji Xiaocai couldn't hold back and rolled into the Jin River.

Pheasant chickens are afraid of water, but Ji Xiaocai is a demon, she could use spells to avoid water, but for some reason, she can't use any strength at this time.I just feel lazy all over, and there is a feeling of giving up.

Guangyuan followed behind and called, "Don't be afraid, I'll help you!" But his voice gradually became blurred.

Ji Xiaocai has given up struggling, she just thinks this is good.If he couldn't wait for that person, it would be a good thing to die quietly in this river like this.

I really don't want revenge, but just my deep affection for you. If you can't bear it, I can't kill that relationship, so I can only kill myself...

He was thinking in a daze like this, choked on the water, and his consciousness gradually drifted away, but suddenly he felt someone swimming over from a distance quickly, blinking to his side.Through the water, he could also see the man's face, it was still a calm face, only the eyes were full of anxiety and self-blame.

"Zhang Jin..." He wanted to speak, but when he opened his mouth, water poured straight into his mouth.

The man stretched out his hand to grab his waist without hesitation, then blocked his mouth, the breath passed from the man through the warm lips, the feeling of suffocation gradually eased, and the consciousness gradually recovered.

"Dao..." He wanted to speak, but the other party shook his head, held his waist, swam up for a while, rushed out, broke through the water, and brought him to the shore.

When they stopped, both of them were out of breath.

Ji Xiaocai gasped on the ground, vomited the water she choked in, and gradually recovered, but her face turned red involuntarily.

Just now it was...

Guangyuan's voice came over: "Little fool! Little fool, what's wrong with you!"

Under the moonlight, Liansheng's figure became faintly transparent. With a smile on his lips, he looked at Ji Xiaocai and said, "You finally saw that the person who saved you back then was none other than him. I have always wanted to tell you, He likes you too."

Like the mist evaporated under the sun, Liansheng's figure turned into a cloud of smoke and disappeared.

"Little fool!" Guangyuan let out a scream, and was knocked on the head.

Zhou Zhaoji smiled and raised the lotus water lantern in his hand and said, "What are you crying about, keep it here properly!"

In the early morning, the Yuelao Temple is peaceful and peaceful.A few larks were jumping up and down on the roof, chirping.

Ji Xiaocai bowed in front of Zhang Jin's grave and carried the package on her back.

The middle-aged man selling sympathetic knots said: "This man is also very poor. He just married a wife, and then fell seriously ill. When he lived in this temple, he was already dying. For some reason, he refuses to see a doctor. He always stays here. Read some love poems under the tree, or go to the back door to see the Jin River, it will be gone within half a year."

Obviously in the same town, obviously have love, but still missed it.

What a pity!

Ji Xiaocai only took two steps out of the temple gate when someone shouted from above: "Little monster, you are leaving."

Ji Xiaocai looked up, and saw Guangyuan, who had changed into plain clothes, sitting on the wall of Yuelao Temple, looking at him with a smile, with a lotus lantern beside him.Although Liansheng didn't completely disappear, he survived by relying on the little obsession with Guangyuan that he didn't know when he sprouted, but it would take dozens or even a hundred years to recover his body.

"Well, I'm leaving! From now on, you have to take good care of Liansheng!"

Guangyuan sneered and said: "Of course, how can the person under my god's cover be bad, next time when you and the Taoist come back, I will show you Liansheng!"

Ji Xiaocai couldn't help but smiled and waved her hands: "It's done!"

"Well, it's a deal!" Master Guangyuan patted his chest like a man, with firm eyes written on his brows and eyes.

Zhou Zhaoji smiled and said: "Brother, your skill has deteriorated so much that you can't even tell whether it's a ghost or a spirit. No wonder you have to go to retreat every seventh day of the lunar new year. I was almost deceived by you. That day you deliberately arranged moves to wait for me yes."

Gu Tailai was not annoyed when someone found out his secret, he just asked coldly: "Now what do you do when you know?" As he spoke, his hand touched the whisk on his back.

Zhou Zhaoji hurriedly waved his hands, took a big step and said, "No, I'm just curious." Scratching the back of his head, he said rascally, "I'm your junior brother, how could I harm you? Our master is so poor, and we don't have much property to fight for." Isn’t that right? Junior brother, I’m just curious.”

Gu Tailai took his hand away, but did not relax his guard, and asked: "You came this time to find out my truth?"

Zhou Zhaoji quickly shook his head: "No, that's by the way, by the way." He took out an envelope from his pocket and said, "This is the reason why I came here, here, Master asked me to forward it to you, take your time to read it, I'll be leaving first, and we'll meet later!" After saying that, he jumped up and down a few times before running away without a trace of anyone.

Gu Tailai's complexion turned ugly all of a sudden, and he opened the letter tremblingly, and there was a lot of writing on the letter in big characters: "Tailai's beloved disciple, who made alchemy for his teacher the day before yesterday, accidentally walked into the water and burned it again. Taoist temple, poor clothing and food, it is extremely miserable, knowing Tailai, you have always been filial to the master, so I asked Ji Dai to take 450 taels of silver and give you the remaining ten taels of silver for daily expenses, and another , You can get seven or eight taels of silver for pawning your outfit, and keep it for yourself. When you go out, guard against theft and fire, be careful! Teacher Kong Kongzizi"

Gu Tailai reached out his hand to touch his bosom, his heart sank, the bank note sewn in the skirt had been taken away, and a hole was cut in the lining of the skirt...but he didn't know when it happened!

Ji Xiaocai came up from behind, just seeing Gu Tailai's cloudy complexion, she was too frightened to approach, timidly asked: "Dao... Daoist..."

Gu Tailai glanced over with cold eyes: "What's the matter?"

Ji Xiaocai was almost scared back, but she finally made up her mind to speak out no matter what.So, tremblingly, he said, "Do you remember that time when I was in Prince Jing's mansion... speaking ill of you..."

Gu Tailai asked, "I don't remember, what did you say?"

Ji Xiaocai said embarrassingly, "It means you have a bad temper and bad temper..."

Gu Tailai waved his hand: "I forgot about that." He went to touch the sole of his shoe. Fortunately, there was a 100 tael silver note hidden in the sole, which Zhou Zhaoji didn't find. The silver ticket was received in his eight-treasure silk bag.

Ji Xiaocai said, "Although the Taoist priest forgot, I still have to say it."

Gu Tailai was really surprised this time: "What do you want to say?"

Ji Xiaocai took a deep breath, tried to suppress her emotions and said, "Master Daoist, I want to take back what I said before! I also want to apologize to you!"

Gu Tailai was stunned for a moment, then laughed dumbly, and said: "I never take this kind of thing to heart."

Ji Xiaocai shook her head, seriously: "No, although you are easily misunderstood, Daoist Master, you are actually a good person!"

Gu Tailai counted the money for the meal and said, "Well, so what if he is a good person? Can a good person be eaten?"

Ji Xiaocai said, "Master Daoist, I like you!"

Gu Tailai responded subconsciously, and when he realized it, he silently opened his mouth wide, and his jaw almost fell off.

Ji Xiaocai said: "At that time I said that no one likes you, I was wrong, I like Taoist priest!"

Gu Tailai looked at Ji Xiaocai inexplicably, and after a while he seemed to be talking to himself: "Sure enough, I became even more stupid after drowning."

Ji Xiaocai blushed and said, "I'm not stupid! I'm serious! I like the Taoist priest and want to be with the Taoist priest forever!"

Gu Tailai beckoned to Ji Xiaocai, and Ji Xiaocai stupidly leaned over, and sure enough, she was hit hard on the head, holding her head and screaming with tears streaming down her face.

Gu Tai said: "Ji Xiaocai, what do you think! Like it or not, what do you know, a child!" Throwing the burden to Ji Xiaocai and said, "It's good to take it, all the belongings are inside." As he said, he broke Thinking about the cost of the meal, "Looks like I have to sell it once..."

Ji Xiaocai picked up the burden, wiped her tears and said to herself: "It's okay, I'm a little weaker now, but I will definitely become a big monster in the future, and the Taoist priest will like me by then, and I want to marry the Taoist priest back home." Be Mrs. Yazhai! Yes!"

After going out for two months, Ji Xiaocai finally found her motivation to become a big monster, and she has a new grand goal—to marry Gu Tailai!