The Legend of Manhua

200 years later——

There is a vast expanse of whiteness in the Heavenly Palace, lingering with fairy energy, without the wind blowing, you can also see them floating around, although they are slow but never stop.

Everything is still the same as usual, the heavenly officials are busy, seldom walk outside, most of them are quiet.If there is any big known change, it is that there is no longer the Shangxian in Tiangong who has different-colored eyes and can make the world lose all color when he raises his eyes.It is heard that he used his eyes to sacrifice millions of undead souls in Yin Liguo. After gouging out his eyes, the bleeding continued, so he could only cover his eyes with a white cloth, but soon the white cloth was dyed into red cloth, and the blood also stained his whole body. The white clothes were dyed red.At twelve o'clock when the blood flowed, the lotus pond in the Qinglian mansion also turned red because of his blood, the lotus leaves withered, the lotus flowers withered, and no longer bloomed in that pool of blood.

No one knows where he really went, and it is also rumored that he was originally a lotus plant beside the Emperor of Heaven, but now he just returned to sleep beside the Emperor of Heaven.But such stories will soon become those distant legends they have heard, and gradually they don't care about them, and gradually forget them, which is very natural.

But there is one person who will never forget that he walks through all walks of life, fulfills his duties, and travels all over the mountains and rivers; he will return to Tiangong from time to time, chat and laugh with those friends, or go to Qinglian Mansion Look, I went to Liuxian Pond from time to time, Lian Shang said that he was cultivated there, and every time he went there, he stayed silent for a long time and finally left.In short, being so unrestrained and muddled, sometimes I feel that time is slipping too fast, and sometimes I feel that the days have passed too long.

On this day, Manhua returned to the Heavenly Palace, just in time to meet the Red Hairpin Laojun.

"How about it, go to my place to drink tea." Red Hairpin Laojun proposed.

"Well -- Xiaoxian likes wine." Manhua replied.

"What kind of wine do you drink? Alcohol hurts your body. You should take good care of your body when you are young. Look at my silver hair. Anyone who doesn't say a good word is a real treasure that I have taken care of little by little."

"Take care of your body? Laojun has such a good attitude, no matter how long you live, you don't think it's enough." Man Hua laughed.

"This old gentleman sees that you have lived enough, don't you want to go?" Red hairpin old gentleman suddenly became serious, Man Hua dared not follow, and only responded: "Go, go now."

The red ribbon hanging on the tree in front of the Hongyi Guanmen was already full, like red willow branches fluttering in the wind, so on the opposite side, another tree exactly the same was planted, with the bustling people hanging on it Not a lot.

"If it takes a few thousand years, the Red Clothes Temple will be able to see the grand occasion of the Ten Mile Red Forest." Man Hua sat opposite Laojun, holding tea in his hand and said.

"All the love of a lifetime on a tree is taken down, and new ones are hung up, and this is repeated. At most three or five are enough. Now it is not like before, there are many more people, and it is busier." Hong Laojun Zan took a sip of tea, and then asked: "How is it? I'm still waiting for Immortal Lian Shang to come back."

"I don't know what to do, I feel uneasy." Man Hua smiled wryly and took a sip of tea, the bitter taste was just right.

Lian Shang couldn't let go of the matter of Yin Liguo. He gouged out his eyes and sacrificed his soul to make atonement, and then returned to the lotus body and disappeared in front of them. This was once difficult for Manhua to accept.The disaster caused by the rescue not only fell on the millions of lives, but also destroyed the lotus; he will never forget lying in his arms, dressed in bright red blood, with his eyes closed and covered by a blood band. Lian Shang, without saying a word, just disappeared like that.

This is a hurdle that can never be passed.Perhaps when all the millions of undead are released and walk on a new path, and Lian Shang returns, everything will be slightly smoothed out.

"Is it restless or hard to give up?" the red hairpin Laojun asked back.

"Is there any difference between this?" Manhua didn't quite understand.

"One is guilty and the other is liking, of course they are different." The red hairpin Laojun shook his head, why are the younger generations so confused now.

Manhua put down the teacup, and said slowly: "If what Laojun said about liking is the kind of self-sacrificing just to make you smile, swearing to die with each other and only wishing to have no regrets for life, Lian and I have never felt this way before. Knowing that he is safe, my heart is at ease, it doesn't matter if we are together or not. Laojun, do you think this is love?"

"There are thousands of kinds of love in the world, and even I can't directly give the answer what love is. Then let me ask you, if he fell in love with someone else, would you accept it?"

Manhua was silent for a while, and couldn't help laughing when he saw the expression of the red hairpin Laojun looking forward to him seriously: "I really haven't thought about it."

"Now think about it, how about it?"

"Well - you should respect his choice, after all, I have no right to control his emotions."

"Now it's not about qualifications, it's about your own feelings. Right now, Immortal Lian Shang is emotional. It's not you. He's going to be with his lover forever. Hearing this, how do you feel?"

"strange."

"what?"

"Didn't you ask me about my mood? I never thought about it, so it's a bit awkward." Man Hua said with some embarrassment.

Red Hairpin Laojun thoughtfully, looked at Manhua for a long time, and he felt a little uncomfortable before asking: "How about changing someone for a while, such as Qinglan."

"What happened to Qinglan?"

"If he falls in love with someone else, it's a deep one and he can't extricate himself. Why..."

"Old Lord Red Hairpin!" Man Hua couldn't help interrupting Old Lord Red Hairpin, "You care about love affairs, what are you doing with Qinglan?"

The red hairpin Laojun was a little confused by such a reprimand.

"Qinglan won't, so don't talk nonsense." Man Hua said quite seriously.With such an expression, Laojun Hongzan couldn't help nodding: "Yes, I don't talk nonsense." Then I thought, no, why is this attitude, and immediately raised my voice and said: "Hey-you little fairies are more tempered than one Great, this old gentleman can’t say enough.”

Manhua knew that his attitude was not good, so he restrained himself a little, and responded, "You can say whatever you want, old gentleman." Yue said: "This old gentleman just doesn't want to talk about it."

Man Hua nodded, and said: "Okay, if Laojun doesn't want to say it, don't say it."

When he was about to leave, the last sentence that the Red Hairpin Laojun said was: "You and Fengting Lingjun, that little fairy, I don't want to see you for nearly a hundred years."

Nearly a hundred years—but if nothing happens, 100 years will pass in a blink of an eye.

But as for how Fengting provoked the red hairpin Laojun, he didn't know. To be honest, there hasn't been much intersection in life for so long. The most meeting is at the gate of Qinglian Mansion. Miaoning has been looking after there, full of expectations than anyone else. He is waiting for his fairy king, and Fengting is always there.

Man Hua went directly to the Jin Ming Building, and as soon as he entered, he saw Yun Ying, who had grown into a beautiful young man, carefully flipping through the book scroll in his hand, and found that Man Hua was coming, raised a smiling face and was about to say hello, Man Hua raised his hand to signal him to be quiet, With a comprehending expression, Yunying pointed her index finger upwards.Man Hua nodded and went upstairs.

Upstairs Qinglan is sitting in front of the desk at the moment, with her head bowed and a pen writing on a blank scroll. She is wearing a light yellow plain dress, her skin is as soft and creamy as cream, and it is white and glowing brightly.There is always a faint smile on the lips, like flowers with dew in the morning.

Manhua transformed into a black cat at the entrance of the corridor, not as fat and puffy as Yuebai, with a vigorous and beautiful body curve of a cat, fluffy and soft black hair, and light red eyes with wild light. Qinglan was taken aback when he went to the desk, and then looked at the cat squatting in front of him and looking at him with its head tilted, and smiled helplessly. Qinglan's reaction softened his eyes a little more.

"I'll finish writing this." Qing Lan reached out to let the black cat rub against his hand, and then continued to write with a pen.

The black cat moved a little to the side with small lazy steps, resting one paw on a corner of the scroll, lying on its side, resting its head on the soft paw, closing its eyes and falling asleep.

Feeling his paws being kneaded, the black cat slowly opened his eyes, saw Lian lying on the desk and stretched out his hands to pinch his front paws, saw him wake up, touched his head again, and said: " Wake up."

The black cat got up and stretched its limbs, and yawned a lot at the same time, then transformed into a human body and stood in front of Qinglan.

"Are you done?" Manhua asked casually.

"Hmm...how is your hand?" Qing Lan looked at Man Hua's right hand and asked.

"This is the first two sentences every time we meet." Manhua raised his right hand wearing the ring, and said with a fluttering movement, "Very good."

When he went to Yin Liguo to suppress the grievances of the undead, he let them eat his body, because his right hand was originally made of Lingzhi at the back, so it started to break within a few days after he came back. It took a lot of energy to reshape the right hand, and I was still worried that it would not be done well, so I had to ask him how his right hand was every time we met.

"That's good." Qinglan nodded, and asked again: "Will I stay in Tiangong next..."

"I plan to go to the devil world again."

"Go to the devil world? What's the matter?"

"You remember the strange voice I told you earlier."

Speaking of this strange sound, it began to appear 100 years ago. In fact, it is not a real sound, but some words that suddenly sprouted, such as:

"It turned out to be like this"

"Everyone is very happy"

"What does it mean"

"Oh I got it"

“It was unexpected”

……

These are not what I thought, it seems that the thoughts burst out suddenly.But it doesn't happen often, it may only happen once a year, several years, or decades.Manhua didn't care about these, sometimes he thought it was quite interesting, and would answer the conversation in his head, but most of them didn't respond, Manhua felt that it was a strange idea that flashed by him, and he didn't pay much attention to it, but just before Not long after, I actually had a conversation with him.

At that time, he saw a big-tailed red fox in the Yaozu, leading two red cubs like fire to cross the river, but the cubs were afraid of the water and did not dare to go over. Looking at the mother fox who had already walked to the opposite side, they uttered a sigh of relief. Wronged and anxious, the mother fox came over and crossed the river one by one, and the family continued on the road.

At that time, Manhua only felt very warm, but at this moment, he thought of a sentence, "If we stand on the opposite side, the little fox should be able to learn to cross the river immediately."

This is not Manhua's heartfelt voice, he can tell it clearly, but he couldn't help saying in his heart, "A mother's love is always slow and tolerant."

In the ensuing silence, nothing happened. He didn't care about it at first, but when he was about to continue on the road, he got a question.

"Mother's love? What is that?"

Man Hua was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help asking in her heart: Who are you?

There was no response, but Manhua was very sure that it was not his question, because it was impossible for him not to know what maternal love was, and the feeling of being asked about this idea was very blank.

"The first time I had this feeling was when I was in the Demon Realm more than 100 years ago. Recently, I have thought about many things with Yuebai and found that there are too many problems, so I want to solve the mystery in my heart." Man Hua said.

Qinglan thought for a while, and said: "Then go, I will accompany you."

"Are you going too? No, I have to solve this matter alone." Man Hua quickly refused.

"So, do you want to put me to sleep like last time?" Qing Lan asked leisurely.

"How could it be?" Because of that incident last time, Qinglan alienated him a lot, no matter how she explained that she just didn't want him to accompany her to do stupid things, because the suppression must first reduce the resentment, he can devote himself to it and still be swallowed The torture of gnawing will not let Qinglan suffer.If he knew that Lian Shang would do such a thing, he would definitely prevent it in advance. After all, he still didn't know Lian Shang. "After all, you have too many things to do, right?"

"It's not a conflict. I'll go to the Emperor of Heaven after I arrange it later, and wait for me." When Qinglan said the word "wait for me", Manhua was touched instantly. This is not an optional question, but The irrefutable determination, as if he used to protect him every time he encountered an incident, without hesitation, it has been a long time.