Qingyun Weiyang

After the white shark escaped, the sea returned to calm.The sunset clouds sprinkled on the sea surface, like golden sand covering the body, and the soft and melodious sea breeze became warmer and warmer.

I thought the sky would be dark when dusk came, but the farther the boat went west, the brighter it became, as if sailing into a dead sea, the air was filled with dead silence, and the seascape along the way no longer existed, let alone sea creatures.

To be precise, no vital signs could be seen here, and the blue sea water gradually became cloudy.It was originally early spring, but it was as hot as the summer solstice here.

The still water was deep, and the boat slowly stopped moving forward, as if it had left the sea.

"Qing'er, is it about to land?" Yun Jin looked at it with a glance, and it was barren, like a desert.

"Yes, don't move." Nalan Qing turned over and fell into the water. Before Yun Jin could pull her, he found that the water only submerged her knees.

It turned out that the ship was about to run aground, and the coast was in sight.

Na Lanqing supported the side of the boat with both arms and pushed forward. She didn't want Yunjin's feet to get wet, and pushed the boat all the way to the shore, and then carried Yunjin from the boat to the shore, but her legs were completely wet .

"Look at how wet you are?" Yun Jin felt distressed, but Na Lanqing took her hand and said with a smile: "Walk in the rivers and lakes, don't care about the details, look at the hot weather here, it will dry up soon. "

Yun Jin frowned, and said, "That's also very uncomfortable."

"You won't feel uncomfortable if you hold me." Nalan Qing intertwined her fingers, smiling like a flower.

Yun Jin took her arm lightly, full of sweetness.

Stepping on the fine sand, the burning sensation became more and more intense. It was almost dusk tomorrow, but it seemed like daytime here.Walking through the yellow sand land, this uninhabited desert, I finally saw an oasis.

"It can't be an illusion." Yun Jin wiped the sweat on his forehead lightly, feeling the unbearable heat, and the scorching sun above his head made his skin ache.

"Probably not." Nalanqing took out the water bottle at his waist, opened it and handed it to her, "Jin'er, drink some first."

"Well, this place is so strange." Yun Jin was holding the kettle, and there was no grass growing all around, and the cluster of greenery not far away was faintly visible.

Nalan covered his forehead with his hands and looked away, convinced that it was not an illusion, "It should be there soon, go and have a look."

The two of them walked for about two miles, and the village in front of them gradually appeared, but the population was sparse, and there seemed to be no vitality.There is no village in the front and no shops in the back. It is really strange. The environment of this place is not suitable for people to live at all. How can there be villages?

This place is not like an ordinary village. At the entrance of the village is a sculpture of a strange beast.The corridor of the house looks very old, but its shape is very strange.

"Why is there no one there?" Yun Jin looked around, but there was no one. The village looked quite small, and it looked like it could house at least dozens of families, but there was not even a single person.

Could it be an empty village?

Nalan Qing looked at the bleakness in front of him, his heart was heavy for some reason, just like the dark cloud pressing on his head at this moment, it came unexpectedly and suffocated.

The place in front of me seemed to have appeared in a dream, familiar yet unfamiliar.Could it be that this is where she was born?

The soil on the ground is cracked, and there are occasional green trees in twos and threes, but it is also a dead tree that is hard to come by in spring.The climate here seems to have been dry for many years, lacking water and rain, but today the weather has changed suddenly, and the air that was originally breathing warm has become cooler.

"The weather can change, no matter how you say it." Yun Jin found that since Nalan Qing came to the gate of the village, he was a little abnormal.

"Qing'er, do you have memories of this place?"

Nalanqing shook his head and said, "I was thrown into the Red Sea when I was a baby. How can I have any memory? It's just that I always feel like I've seen this place in a dream, but I can't remember anything."

"Let's go in and have a look, maybe we can find the answer."

Nalan Qing nodded.

Before the two of them set out, people appeared in twos and threes from the village. They were dressed in foreign costumes, but they all had a tattoo on their foreheads, which looked like the flower tinsel on a woman's makeup, but the purple-brown pattern was clearly the Carved into the skin, like a unique mark of an ethnic group.

The two children who ran out first were about six or seven years old. They were very surprised to see a stranger appearing, and their originally happy smiles froze on their faces.He just tilted his head and looked at Nalan Qing, chanting words, but he couldn't understand what they were saying.

After a while, another three or two men walked out. They first looked up at the sky, as if expecting rain, and soon found Nalan Qing and Yun Jin.

"Take the liberty to come here to bother me. If you dare to ask if there is a village head in this village, the little girl has something to ask." Nalan Qing bowed, quite politely, but those people didn't know whether they were deaf or dumb or couldn't understand what she said, so they didn't answer.

One of the dark men approached Nalanqing with strange eyes, as if looking at a rare treasure, but also full of curiosity.Suddenly his eyes lit up and he became excited. He spoke a strange pronunciation to Nalan Qing, so that Nalan Qing really didn't understand why.

"You? What are you talking about?" Nalan Qing roughly guessed that this might be a foreign language, but he himself did not know any other language, and was still an unknown ethnic group.

This kind of ancient ethnic group is rare, and this place is no longer in the Central Plains. I am afraid that even the land and survival are self-sufficient. There is no government, no ruler, and they just grew up alone in this land for a hundred years.

Seeing Nalan Qing smiling at him, the man was so excited that he didn't know why, so he ran back and whispered to the other two for a while.No matter how clever Nalan Qing was, it was difficult to guess what was going on.

The drizzle was like silk, and it came with the cloud.The two children stretched out their hands and jumped up happily. At this time, seven or eight people came out of the village, as if they were looking at some rare and exotic beasts, and they all flocked to Nalanqing.

Seeing a group of people rushing towards him, Nalan hurriedly shielded Yun Jin behind him, but became on guard instead.She faced the crowd calmly, and the chattering discussion was still going on. At this moment, there was an old cough, and the crowd dispersed, bowing their heads respectfully to the person who came. It was an old man who looked like He was nearly seventy years old, his hair was all white, but he looked very dignified.

Compared with the elders of the Nalan family, this old man is more like a mysterious and profound foreigner. He squinted his eyes and looked at Nalan Qing with kindness and kindness.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, pouring on everyone, all of them were happy, but Na Lanqing was worried that Yun Jin would get wet, so he dragged her to a roof to shelter from the rain.

It doesn't matter what she does, but she is reluctant to let Yun Jin suffer any grievances.

"What's your name?" The old man and several men followed, still staring at Nalan Qing.

This sentence is half Central Plains language and half foreign language. Before Nalan Qing could figure out what he said, Yun Jin understood the meaning, "He asked what your name is."

"You understand?" Nalan Qing was surprised, Yun Jin nodded, "He's talking about Li Huo Wen, and I can only understand a little bit."

"As expected of Liu Zhu's daughter, both mother and daughter know the same thing about arts and sciences." Nalan Qing couldn't help admiring.

"This girl actually understands the language of the Lihuo Clan?" The old man actually spoke the voice of the Central Plains, Nalan Qing looked at him in surprise, "So the old man can speak our language, how come?"

"I just want to see if you understand?" The old man's eyes were full of meaning, and the rain was streaming down his wrinkled face. He opened his loving eyes slightly and smiled, "You haven't answered me yet. what name?"

"Nalan Qing."

The old man staggered a few steps in place, unbelievable.

"Na... Lan?" His surprised and shocked expression was thought-provoking, and he quickly regained his composure, as if accepting it calmly.

The people here seem to be isolated from the world, do they also know the Nalan family?Nalanqing hesitated for a moment, and decided to explain why he came here, "Dare to ask the old man, what village is this? My little girl wants to ask something."

"Are you here to find out your own background?" The old man guessed it right.

Na Lanqing and Yun Jin looked at each other, convinced in their hearts that the answer to the mystery of their life experience would be found in this village, Yun Jin stepped forward and asked softly, "Does the old man know?"

"This girl has an extraordinary appearance, a noble temperament, a faint golden light on her forehead, and a shadow of a phoenix. It seems that she has the position of supreme."

Yun Jin's expression changed slightly, she didn't know how to respond.

The rain on the porch, ding-dong, made a tick-tock sound.The old man looked at the two of them for a long time, ignoring the rain to wet his body, he said with a smile: "Nalan Qing, do you know the name of the people here?"

"I don't know."

The old man did not continue to speak, but looked up at the rain above, his originally empty eyes became complicated, and he suddenly laughed, "I didn't expect it, God's will tricks people."

Yun Jin said in a low voice: "Qing'er, this old man is nagging, and he doesn't know what he really knows?"

"Let's take a look, I also think these people are really weird."

A burst of thunder passed by, and all the men, women and girls flocked behind the old man. He suddenly knelt down, opened his palms and looked up to the sky, then turned his palms to Nalanqing, bowed down and kowtowed to the ground, and the group of people behind him followed him. Same action.

More than a dozen people knelt on the muddy ground without looking up for a long time.

"Are they kneeling you or kneeling me?" Nalan Qing was puzzled.

Yun Jin shook her head, "How many people in the world do you think can recognize me, but you, they have been looking at you all the time."

"Perhaps..they are praying to heaven..."

Just as the two were confused, the old man said: "The goddess returns to the village, the heavens will send nectar, save my people, and my ancestors will bless them!"

"My ancestors bless you!" The crowd followed him and kowtowed again.

Goddess... Nalan Qing looked at them speechlessly. She really didn't like this kind of superstition and absurd remarks.She pulled Yun Jin to leave, and went to find it by herself, not wanting to listen to these people's nagging.

"Let's go." Nalan Qing took off his outer shirt, put it on his head, and protected Yun Jin from the rain.Seeing this, the old man quickly stood up and stopped her, "Miss Qing, don't you want to know your life experience?"

Nalanqing stopped and said indifferently: "The old man just listened to my name and guessed my roots. You don't even know where I come from, how old I am, and why I came here, so you just talk nonsense, and even call Goddess, forgive my little girl." Disrespectful."

Seeing that Nalan Qing was about to leave, the old man hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, and said, "You will find out when you go somewhere with me."

Na Lanqing hesitated for a moment, the old man could only cast his eyes on Yun Jin, he knew the relationship between the two was not simple at the first sight.As for Nalan Qing's resoluteness, I am afraid that only the gentle woman beside him can change it.

Yun Jin could naturally understand the pleading in the old man's eyes, she lightly wiped off Nalan's sleeves, and said, "Qing'er, since you're here, let's go and have a look."

Nalan Qing looked at Yun Jin, there was no persistence at all, only a softness in his heart, he couldn't say even a word of rejection, Yun Jin said what he said.

"Listen to you."

The old man nodded in relief, his judgment was correct, the relationship between these two women is unusual.

The old man took the two of them to the village. The further they went, the more strange the house looked like a temple. On each wall, there were strange and weird portraits, like demons and immortals.

Na Lanqing found that there is always a symbol in these lines, which is the special mark on their foreheads. Every time she sees this mark, she feels kind and even familiar.

The rain seemed to save this dry land. After the whole village was cleaned, it felt like a new look. The two were taken to a small tower in the center of the village, and a stone statue of a figure stood in the front yard.

After years of severe drought, the body of the stone sculpture has some cracks, but the face is still perfectly preserved.It was this face that made Yunjin so astonished, and made Nalan Qing stunned in place, unable to calm down for a long time.

"Is this your statue?" Yun Jin couldn't help feeling emotional, but quickly denied his statement, "It's not you, it's just like you."

The face of this statue is almost exactly the same as that of Nalan Qing, but there are obviously two people in the first place.Nalan Qing looked at this face that resembled his own, with complicated emotions, only to see a name engraved next to the stone tablet under the statue: Nalan Qianyu