I cross the cold pond

When Xu Ziru and Yan Qinghe walked to the Mianshui River in silence, it was nearly dusk.

Xu Ziru squatted beside the water to fill the water, his mind was muddled and he couldn't act like a child.

He was so thoughtful that he hung his face. After filling the water, he stared at his own reflection in the water.

He wondered, could this happen?It's not impossible, but he feels weird, it shouldn't be like this.

Xu Ziru squatted in front of the water and pulled his hair. He felt that he should have forgotten something.

How can rebirth forget so many things?How could things be different from what I have experienced in the past?And how could Yan Qinghe have such a temperament?

The more Xu Ziru thought about it, the more he devoted himself, his feet became unsteady, and he plunged into the Mianshui River.

It was the time of spring and summer, and the river was not icy cold, and the mood was smooth and smooth. After being frightened for a moment by accidentally falling into the water, he quickly moved his limbs and floated on the water.

Before emerging from the water, Yan Qinghe, who was watching from the side, also entered the water.

Xu Ziru was small and lacked strength, so he floated forward along the current for a while, and Yan Qinghe hugged him from behind.

Xu Ziru, but at that moment, his thoughts were chaotic, and many messy memories rushed up.

Among them, the clearest voice is what Uncle Liu said, "Hold the Nuwa stone, and you can enter the dream of the Three Treasures".

Xu Ziru's back was pressed against Yan Yan's warm chest, and his chest was beating like a drum.

Yan Qinghe went ashore with Xu Ziru in one hand. He was drenched all over, his long hair was disheveled and lowered in the water, his chest heaved slightly, and the plain blue robe was completely soaked and stuck to his body. Covering most of the face, the skin on the lower jaw is white to transparent.

Xu Ziru was not much better, his tattered clothes were stuck to his body, his slightly curly hair was wet and stuck to his cheeks, he raised his head and opened his eyes wide, full of disbelief.

——This may not be rebirth, but entering the dream of the Three Jewels.

He waited for others in He's mansion to recall the soul of He Zhen, who had been sleeping for nearly three months. As a result, a monster suddenly appeared that night, and he was accidentally entangled, and finally lost consciousness.

He remembered that he hadn't arrived before He Zhen collapsed at that time, and he didn't have a Nuwa stone in his hand. Although he didn't know how he entered the dream of the Three Treasures, the rebirth memory became so strange——He Zhen's wife, Dong Uncle's broken leg, and one resting as He Zhen's adopted son.

This is enough to prove that this is definitely not his so-called rebirth.

And this Yan Qinghe in front of me...

Xu Ziru thought of this and turned to look at Yan Qinghe beside him.

Yan Qinghe still had his head half down, his wet black hair was scattered in front of his chest, he was short of breath, and suddenly raised his head under Xu Ziru's scrutinizing eyes.

His eyes were bloodshot, and the way he looked at Xu Ziru was indescribably strange.

Xu Ziru's face wrinkled when he saw him, his eyes were alert and full of scrutiny.

Yan Qinghe asked with a voice Xu Ziru had never heard before, "Did you just want to jump into the river?"

Xu Ziru stared at him vigilantly, but didn't speak.

Yan Qinghe said again: "Don't you want to live?"

His voice was not heavy, and even seemed light and ethereal, but Xu Ziru somehow felt that there was a hint of evil in his words, and that there was a sickly heaviness in his suppressed breathing.

Xu Ziru hesitated for a moment, and made a decision very quickly in his mind.

He lowered his eyes, reached out and grabbed Yan Qinghe's wet sleeves, and the dense fog in Yan Qinghe's eyes instantly seemed to be blown away by the wind.

After a while, Yan Qinghe lifted his hand a little dullly and stroked Xu Ziru's wet hair, and said softly in a hoarse voice, "Don't be afraid."

Xu Ziru suspects that Yan Qinghe must have also fallen into a dream, and for some reason was entangled by a monster, so his temperament reversed, and he seemed to be schizophrenic from time to time.

He doesn't know what Yan Qinghe is now, and he doesn't know what Yan Qinghe thinks in his heart now, so he can only keep the fact that he has entered the Three Treasures Dreamland in his heart.

He pondered for a moment, and decided to appease Yan Qinghe's emotions first: "You take me back to Heshan Village first, and I will leave with you after I say goodbye to them, okay?" , "I just met a lot of new friends, and I left without telling them."

It was only at this moment that Yan Qinghe seemed to have completely regained his composure. He stretched out his hand and squeezed his fingers to dry off the water on the two of them.

After standing up, the calm Tianjimen senior brother said, "Okay."

After he finished speaking, he picked up Xu Ziru and walked towards Heshan Village.

Yanqinghe's footsteps are so fast that he doesn't even need a sword.

Xu Ziru had to walk overnight alone, but he arrived just as the sun was setting.

It hadn't completely darkened yet, and there were a few older children chasing each other and playing around in the courtyard of the Charity Hall.

In the corner of the courtyard, He Zhen's adopted son was chopping firewood with an ax while staring at the children running wildly and playing.

When Yan Qinghe walked into the Charity Hall with Xu Ziru in his arms, his ax for chopping wood paused, straightened up and looked straight over.

Xu Ziru was in a hurry to find He Zhen, and didn't pay much attention to the woodcutter, so he jumped down from Yan Qinghe's embrace, and reached out to grab a child running past him: "Where is Uncle He now?"

The child thought that Xu Ziru wanted to play with him, so he laughed and hid Xu Ziru's hand.

Xu Ziru was so angry that he wanted to raise his hand to slap the melon boy, but the kid ran away with a smile and shouted "I can't catch me, I can't catch me".

An Xi, who was still chopping firewood in the corner, responded aloud: "Godfather is in the house, why are you looking for him?" He said and pointed to the house.

Xu Ziru thanked him when he heard the words, and without answering, another gust of wind blew into the house.

Yan Qinghe followed for two steps but didn't catch up, thinking that there would be no problem in the Charity Hall, so he didn't chase. He stood in the courtyard and watched the children running around him. While controlling the emotions tumbling in his brain, the expression on his face became even colder.

Then he felt a gaze from behind him staring straight at him.

Yan Qinghe turned his head, Anxi was holding an ax handle, and smiled at him, Yan Qinghe looked at him for a moment, then looked away lightly.

On the other side, Xu Ziru hurried into the house, and when he reached He Zhen's house, he pushed the door open without saying hello.

In the room, He Zhen and his wife were whispering under the lamp, and they were startled when they heard the noise.

Turning around, I saw a small child rushing into the house.

The two of them didn't recognize who it was for a while, but Mrs. He said softly: "What's the matter, remember to knock on the closed door when you see it in the future, okay?"

Xu Ziru trotted over without saying a word, he hugged He Zhen who was sitting on the chair, while carefully looking for things on the other person, he said: "That person is going to take me away, Uncle He!"

He thought in his heart that the Nuwa stone should be on He Zhen's body, and it must be on He Zhen's body. Finding the Nuwa stone is the way to leave this dream of the three treasures.

He Zhen was amused by the child Xu Ziru's coquettish appearance, and he took Xu Ziru into his arms: "Yes, you are going to follow him to the mountain to become a fairy."

Xu Ziru muttered: "But I don't want to be a fairy."

He didn't know what this so-called Nuwa stone looked like, but He Zhen could carry it on his body before he fell asleep. It must not be a big thing, and it was easy to put it on his body. He grabbed it with his hands and didn't catch anything. Useful things, pretending to be wronged: "You are like my father.

I know my father doesn't want me anymore. "

He Zhen patted his head: "If you want, you can treat me as your father.

You can come back and see me anytime, okay? "

Xu Ziru looked up at him when he heard the words, with a very happy look: "Okay, Dad!"

He Zhen responded with a smile.

Xu Ziru's mind turned quickly: "After I went up the mountain with that person, it should be a long time before I came down. I'm afraid Dad won't recognize me then."

He Zhen smiled: "How come?"

Xu Ziru rolled his eyes, and said calmly: "Daddy, please give me something as a token. I'm afraid that Daddy will be like my dear daddy, and don't want me anymore."

He Zhen groaned and looked around as he said, as if he wanted to find something from the room to give to Xu Ziru.

Xu Ziru stretched out his hand to pull him back, staring at He Zhen with a pair of black eyes for a moment: "Father, you have to find something close to your body that you can recognize at a glance, and give it to me."

He Zhen had a troubled expression on his face, and after looking at his wife, he seemed to be amused by Xu Ziru's coquettish appearance, so he responded cheerfully: "Okay, Father, I will give you a gift from the old man in my family when I left home. Are my things okay?"

Xu Ziru yelled in his heart, "Of course not, I want Nuwa stones", and he climbed up the pole with a coquettish expression on his face: "Daddy, can you choose some close-fitting ones for me?" Then she turned her head and looked eagerly at Mrs. He who was sitting beside her with a gentle expression, "Aniang, how are you?"

Mrs. He has a gentle personality and is extremely considerate to the people around her. She softens her heart when she sees a child, and her heart softens even more when she is stared at by Xu Ziru's dark eyes. She looks at He Zhen: "Just let the child choose."

He Zhen and his wife were childhood sweethearts, they got married when they were young, and after they got married, they felt sorry for his wife and he went to this barren land to suffer, so he took care of her emotions very much, and was willing to pamper and coax her.

Hearing this, he got up with a sigh and began to rummage through the boxes in his room.

While flipping through his memories of the scene when he got those things, Xu followed him step by step, trying to judge whether there might be Nuwa stones in these things from his description and emotions.

Nai Hezhen turned from head to tail, and even the things he caught on the table when he was one year old were placed in front of Xu Ziru.

Hezhen can clearly explain the origin of every thing, unlike Nuwa Stone.

Xu Ziru followed him back and forth several times, frowning.

He Zhen also asked: "Did you see anything?"

Xu Ziru raised his eyes and looked at He Zhen for a while, he pondered for a moment, then shook his head.

He Zhen was curious: "Don't you like any of them? Then what do you like?"

Xu Ziru pursed his lips, casually grabbed a jade pendant in front of him and put it in his hand, raised his head and smiled at He Zhen: "Then I'll take this, father.

In a few years, I will come down the mountain to find you with this. Don't forget me. "

He Zhen stretched out his hand to stroke his hair, and smiled gently: "No, this will always be your home."

When Xu Ziru walked out of the room holding the jade pendant, he looked sad.

He thought this was really calling him dad for nothing.

Before he reached the entrance of the courtyard, he raised his hand by the faint candlelight and looked at the jade pendant he had cheated for a while.

This jasper was duck-egg blue in color, and the material was good. He thought that if he wanted to wander around the world again in the future, this thing could be exchanged for a lot of money.

He put the jasper into his arms, paused for a moment after he finished, and smiled wryly—he was still in a dream, even if he had ten thousand wealth, it was all fake.

When Xu Ziru walked out of the house, he looked sleepy, while Yan Qinghe stood under the old locust tree in the courtyard and looked at him inexplicably.

Xu Ziru walked over and shouted "Senior Brother" without opening his mouth.

Under the dark shadow of the tree, Yan Qinghe looked at him silently after hearing the words.

Xu Ziru realized later that he called "senior brother" too easily, and now he has not entered Tianjimen, and Yan Qinghe is not his senior brother.

He paused for a moment, then murmured intentionally and added: "I'm going to go up the mountain with you today, will I call you senior brother from now on?"

Yan Qinghe came over and hugged him, he said calmly, "Yes.

We will go to Hopeless Mountain first tonight. "