Years of ignorance of wine and dipped lips

After sending Qin Simu to the carriage, the officers and soldiers did not leave immediately, but presented a bright yellow imperial decree to the elders.

The letter said that what the emperor of Chungdu was suffering from was not very ill and would not be cured for a long time, and it was useless to search for famous doctors from all over the world, so he asked the Wuyun Sect to send someone to Chongdu to check the condition.

When the elders saw this, all seven of them showed worry. They must have guessed that this so-called strange disease had something to do with the Five Plague Pagodas.

Except for the last one - Xue Jiajia.

Because of the new progress in the task of the Five Plague Pagoda, he was very excited. He took me back to his yard and said, "No wonder Qin Simu didn't find any disease on him. on the emperor."

As I was walking, I turned my head and saw Jing Nian looking at the two of us with a gloomy face, and I probably imagined the scene of "the vicious master forcing the disciple to do odd jobs for him".

Oh, how difficult it is.

I asked Xue Jiajia helplessly, "What did you think of?"

"Obviously, the character for Chung in Chongdu is so similar to the character for Spring in Four Seasons, so this time it must be Spring Plague." He wrote the character for Chung on the paper with one hand, and tried to recall while rubbing his chin with the other, "I remember, in Duye The Five Plague Pagoda that the conference has seen, what is the relief on it corresponding to the Spring Plague..."

I also called up the data and started replicating faithfully.

The pagoda is a tetrahedron, so it is not easy to distinguish its orientation, and I don't know which of the remaining two sides is Spring Plague, so I can only draw from the one with the deepest impression.

First, draw the same plague messenger on every side. He holds a short stick in his hand. Both ends are extremely smooth. One end is thick and the other end is thin. There are pieces of stumps, but there is no pain on the face of the person who was abused, but a happy smile on the face.

"This is too restricted. It stands to reason that each plague in the Five Plague Pagodas has a theme. What does this want to express? Violence?" Xue Jiajia frowned when he saw it, and stopped: "It's almost done, so I don't need to restore the details so much."

"Oh." I put down the brush and began to look at the picture. "I don't think it's necessarily violence."

"Isn't it violent even if the corpses are all torn apart?"

"The one being stepped on may not be a human being, because what the plague envoy is actually holding is not a lethal weapon, but a jade pestle."

Jade pestle, a common agricultural tool, is necessary for pounding grains. It can smash the hard shell on the surface of grains for food.

I continued: "So, it is probably a metaphor, using the stump to refer to the harvest of crops, otherwise, why are these smashed people laughing?"

"It's such a strange metaphor, I don't agree." Xue Jiajia waved his hands again and again, "It's still a bumper harvest. I dare you to make a mistake. This painting is about autumn plague, not the spring plague I wanted."

Unconvinced, I said, "Based on the word Chung, it can be concluded that it is Spring Plague? This is not some word trick!"

"What's wrong with the word trick? The plot is always designed by people. Maybe the game architect just likes to play with words. If you don't believe me, look at the Five Plague Pagoda and the Five Yunzong."

"Then I'll play with you too." I picked up the pen again and wrote the character Qin next to the word Chung.

"The surname Qin, the emperor's surname in Chongdu, must also be related to the old emperor's illness. When the character Qin was first created, it represented two people holding a pestle and pounding grains, and even the pronunciation was the same as Chung. Later, it evolved into today's If you take a closer look at the Qin characters, the upper and lower parts are composed of spring characters and autumn characters."

"The old emperor can hide two kinds of plagues on his own body? Are you raising Gu!?"

……

Xue Jiajia and I just argued like this, and we couldn't convince each other, so we simply bet that if we found the jade pestle in the palace by then, I would win.

But it still takes a few days to go to Chungdu, so I told Qin Shuyu about the bet in advance.

"Senior Brother Yu, have you ever seen a jade pestle beside the emperor?"

Although it is unlikely that a high-ranking and powerful person would collect this kind of common people's farm tools, he might not be sure, what eccentricity does he have?

Qin Yuyu just smiled, and changed the subject: "Junior Brother Qi, I will stay in the sect this time, so take care on the way."

"All right……"

It must have been arranged by Elder Yan Zhen, he did not allow his good apprentice to be entangled in the trivial matters of the past.

"Although I won't accompany you, I hope my junior brother can do me a favor by transporting some things to Chungdu."

"Okay, it's a small matter."

So I followed him into the yard.

Xue Jiajia happened to come over too, so I poked him with my elbow. "It turns out that you have been thinking about it with me, and you want to get information about the plague in advance."

"I don't have your inexplicable desire to win." He gave me a blank look. "I, ahem, I am here to help."

"Oh, are you moving something?"

"That's right." He casually patted the head of a virgin puppet. "It's them who move."

"Why are you moving these things?"

I remember Qin Shuyu said that these puppets would be completely dead without his breath.

"Shh, don't say anything, Shuyu will be unhappy." Xue Jiajia glanced at Qin Shuyu who was taking the puppet to the backyard to clean, and lowered his voice. "To be honest, these puppets are much older than you."

"Look at your tone of someone who has been here, as if you have been here for a long time."

"It's not a long time, just a few decades."

"Decades?! Why didn't you say it earlier? I thought you didn't come much earlier than me..."

"You never asked." He leaned back, as if recalling. "I still remember that the first time I saw Yu, he was not much taller than those virgin puppets, and he said his name was Sanchao. I thought about how inappropriate this name was for such a beautiful little girl, so I took it again. This is jade, do you think it sounds much better..."

I extracted the main points from a long passage of his ramblings. "Little girl?"

"Yes, little girl." Xue Jiajia's expression became solemn, and her voice was low, as if she was telling an ancient legend.

"As the saying goes, life is yang and death is yin. Men are yang and women are yin. But the Yanshi clan is a mixed existence of yin and yang. When they were born, they were puppets. After they were given life, they became virgins. As they grow up, The appearance is gradually approaching men. Gender is an ambiguous concept for them, and so is life and death. Unlike ordinary people who seek heterosexual spouses to reproduce offspring, Yanshi will transfer his life and memory to the virgins he made himself before death. The puppets, the new virgin puppets continue to grow, and the dead Yanshi become old puppets, generation after generation, over and over again. It’s not so much reproduction as it is self-replication.”

I was so shocked that I was almost speechless, which was completely beyond my common sense, and when I looked at the innocent virgin puppets in the yard, there was nothing but awe in my eyes.

Revere life, reverence the ethnic group.

They are the late Yanshi.

Who said that the end of life must be old and decayed, instead of returning to the purity at the beginning of life?

They should not be framed by any concept of life or death, male or female.

Xue Jiajia nodded and said, "That's right, in ordinary people's terms, these puppets are the ancestors of Qin Shuyu. Since he can't return home in good clothes, let the puppets go for him."

This makes sense. Qin Simu, like Qin Yuyu, also gradually changed his appearance as he grew older. He went through the virginity, the gender-unidentified juvenile/female period, and now the adult male form. Since I stayed in the ice lake for more than two years during the transition period, I felt that he became very abrupt.

As for his name Qin Yuyu's sister, it was because Qin Yuyu was indeed in the form of a virgin more than ten years ago, and the title could not be changed for a while.