Ten Years in Daocheng

Ban: "But why does it have to be like this?" It took a few steps towards the two of them, and Bai Xincha hurriedly backed up to protect Xu Liujun.

"Xu Liujun, don't you want to enter the dream I wove for you? You won't feel cold anymore, you don't have to worry anymore..."

Xu Liujun didn't make a sound.Seeing that he seemed to be shaken, Bai Xincha said hastily: "Junior Brother Liu Jun, don't listen to his nonsense! People in a dream will soon be drained of energy. No matter how good the dream is, it is not real!"

The Nightmare laughed loudly: "Childish! They can't tell the difference between dreams and reality! In my dream, they can get whatever they want. If that's the case, why should they live in pain for decades? It's better to be in pain Happy to live only a few months! You have also seen Xiao Ba's dream—"

It waved its hand, and a phantom appeared in mid-air.

"This is the dream of the couple on the bed. They used to quarrel all day for a little money, but in the dream they have money and don't have to worry about it anymore. Now they are very much in love."

In the phantom, the husband and wife are touching their heads, sweetly counting a thick stack of bank notes.

Nightmare waved his hand again: "There is also this family. Their child has an incurable disease and will die in less than a year. In the dream, he was healthy and healthy, and the three of them shared the happiness of family life."

"So I'm doing good deeds, understand?" Nightmare put away the phantom.

Part52

Bai Xincha couldn't refute for a while, so he looked at Xu Liujun for help.The latter was still looking directly into Nightmare's eyes, wondering if he had been persuaded.Bai Xincha was suddenly afraid of losing him.

"You can read people's minds, so you naturally know that there is only one destination for me." After a while, Xu Liujun finally spoke.

The Nightmare seemed to know what he was talking about.It snorted through its nostrils: "Meet another fool. No one cares about you, why should you care about them? Don't you think about yourself once?"

"It doesn't matter if it's good fortune to trick people, this is my destiny."

"Fate!" Nightmare laughed, "Since you said it was fate, why did you run out? Why didn't you just accept your master's arrangement? Admit it, you are not as great as you say you are, and you are nothing more than a greedy man who fears death That’s all for the older generation!”

Xu Liujun bit his lips until they turned white: "I admit, I am greedy for life and afraid of death."

"That's it!" Nightmare said triumphantly, "Come on, come to my dream, I'll give you the happiest..." He was interrupted before finishing speaking.

"But I will not live in an illusory dream. Some people will choose to escape the pain in front of them. But some people will not. Pain and happiness accompany each other. Without pain, happiness is meaningless." Xu Liujun said slowly, " You said you were doing good deeds, but have you asked the people in the town, would they be willing to die in extreme happiness?"

"This..." Nightmare choked.

"You have to think clearly. Although I was injured, there is still Brother Xincha. If you fight with you, you can't gain the upper hand."

Nightmare looked at Xu Liujun in disbelief, and sighed, "Forget it, for the sake of letting me go, I kindly remind you that there is not much time left."

Bai Xincha suddenly felt uneasy.Xu Liujun didn't say anything, they watched Wanwan's figure blur and drift away like smoke.The surrounding silence was suddenly filled with various sounds such as wind and insects, and the air flow resumed.The darkness disappeared with the Nightmare gone, and the sunlight shone through the windows into the house.

Bai Xincha asked: "What if the Nightmare harms other people after he's gone?"

"It has absorbed enough essence here, and it won't harm anyone again for a while." Xu Liujun lowered his eyes wearily, "Besides, the two of us together may not have a chance of winning."

"What do Nightmare's words mean?" Bai Xincha finally couldn't help asking, "What is fate? What do you mean you don't have much time?"

Xu Liujun shook his head and said, "Let's go to Wanwan first."

They found Wanwan in an abandoned house without a roof.She was thin and huddled in a pile of wet straw, her body was already stiff, and she still held half a rotten steamed bun in her hand.

Wanwan was buried on the edge of a field outside the town.A small soil bag, not even a tombstone.Bai Xincha picked a bouquet of unknown wild flowers, squatted down, and placed it on her grave.

Xu Liujun also squatted down, and the two of them were silent.The sun was shining coldly on the field, Xu Liujun suddenly opened his mouth and sang a song softly[Note 1], Bai Xincha listened quietly.

crybaby to sleep

There are no more crops than grass

Those who wait don't know

The people from afar are back

sleep, sleep

The night is long and the road is long

There are many people in the dream

young man in dream

The young man's voice was very clear, and Bai Xincha felt that he had fallen into the cold and bottomless lake again in his dream.

Note[1]: This is a song from a movie I watched many years ago. The name of the movie is "Wen Liangzhu".I've always liked this song, so I'll apply it here.

Inn

Part53

"When I was young, my mother often sang this song to lull me to sleep." Xu Liujun said to Wanwan's grave, "Wanwan, you should sleep well too. There will be no more pain."

"Then your mother..."

"She died. People in the village were infected with the plague, and my parents died. It was Master who brought me back to Shaoyang Mountain."

"Sorry……"

Xu Liujun stood up, and Bai Xincha also stood up.

"Brother Xincha, I should say I'm sorry. I took you here as a hostage, causing you to break your sword and be in danger."

If he hadn't said anything, Bai Xincha would have put her identity as a hostage behind her.

"Where is there, cough, actually, you see, we have nothing to do here, and..."

"You go."

"……what?"

"Let's go." Xu Liujun turned around, leaving only Bai Xincha's back. "One hundred miles west of Xilin Town is Yinmahe Village, which is very close to Daocheng. I did my homework before. When you get there and go south, you can go back to Daocheng."

Bai Xincha asked confusedly: "Then where are you going?"

"Go through this town first."

"and then?"

"Brother Xincha, I can't tell you this anymore." Xu Liujun paused, and then said, "Thank you very much."

He seemed to want to look back, but in the end he didn't look back and walked straight towards the center of the town.Bai Xincha stood there dumbfounded, hesitating whether to catch up or not.He knew that Xu Liujun had many secrets, but he didn't want to tell them, and he wouldn't force them.But they also had troubles together, and they also chatted in Xu Liujun's dream, but in the end he still didn't gain any trust, and he didn't even have the qualifications to walk with him.It turned out that he was just a hostage. After Xu Liujun confirmed that no one would catch up, did he lose his use value?

Bai Xincha was thinking wildly, and for a moment he really wanted to leave in a fit of anger, go back to Daocheng, and continue his ordinary and boring life.Xu Liujun said that you can go back to Daocheng by facing west, and the sun is about to set, so that direction is the west.He stepped forward, and the nightmare's words suddenly flashed in his mind.

"You won't feel cold anymore, you won't have to worry anymore..."

"...I kindly remind you that there is not much time left."

He shook his head vigorously, forcing himself to continue westward.But Xu Liujun's cold side face under the moonlight unexpectedly appeared in front of his eyes, and he remembered his lonely expression when he talked about living alone on the side peak of Shaoyang Mountain.What kind of loneliness makes him imagine that the house full of books and the peach tree in the backyard, these originally emotionless things, are his good friends?

Baixincha stopped. "But he will still tell you to go." A voice said in his heart.

But he can always find a reasonable explanation for his behavior.

Junior brother Liu Jun is still injured, how can he leave him alone?

So he also strode towards Xilin Town.

Part54

Xu Liujun didn't walk fast.When Bai Xincha caught up with him, he was still watching the candied haws shelf with great interest.

"Is this candied haws?" Bai Xincha was behind him, listening to him ask the vendor.

The hawker selling candied haws just woke up from a sweet dream, rubbing his eyes in a daze: "What is it if it's not candied haws?"

"Ah!" Xu Liujun jumped for joy, "Is it cold or hot?"

"What?" The peddler was even more confused. "Where did the country bumpkin come from? I said it was hot, do you want it?"

"I don't want it if it's hot." Xu Liujun said disappointedly.

Bai Xincha thought it was a little funny, but also felt sorry for him, and said to the peddler, "Hey, you don't do business, why are you teasing him?"

Xu Liujun turned his head abruptly: "Brother Xincha? Why do you..."

Bai Xincha deliberately didn't look at him, took out a copper coin from his pocket and handed it to the peddler: "Here's a bunch, I'll choose by myself."

The peddler muttered and took the money, then lay back and tried to continue his unfinished dream.Baixincha walked around the candied haws shelf, picked out a bunch of the most popular and biggest ones, and gave them to Xu Liujun.

Xu Liujun took it subconsciously, but looked straight at him.

"You need to use boiling water to make candied haws, but it will be cold when you take it out for sale." Bai Xincha said, "You are so afraid of the cold, you shouldn't eat these things. But try it once in a while, it doesn't matter."

"Brother Xincha, I want to say, haven't you left?"

"You haven't recovered from your injury, how can I leave you? Besides, two people won't be lonely if they travel together, right?" Bai Xincha put his arms around his thin shoulders: "You are not afraid that I will send a letter to you. Your master, right? Then I am too wronged."

"No!" Xu Liujun quickly denied, and then sighed: "Following me, it may really be dangerous."

"Hey, you are so powerful that even Nightmare dare not fight with you, what danger is there? I promise, I will go back to Daocheng when you recover from your injuries, okay?"