Between seas

They went back to the inn.

Shen Boru walked into his room on the second floor, and just as he was about to close the door, Jiang Yizhou suddenly appeared in front of him.

Jiang Yizhou held the door with one hand to prevent him from closing it, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Ah Chen, we haven't seen each other for many years, and it happens that I don't have a place to sleep, why don't we catch up with each other tonight?"

Shen Boru stared at Jiang Yizhou, with a refreshing smile on his face, and closed the door forcefully.

Jiang Yizhou let out an "Ouch", as if he was hit on the nose by the door.He patted the door and said, "It's just chatting under the quilt."

Shen Boru ignored him, lying on the bed, he closed his eyes to rest, and suddenly heard the conversation between Jiang Yizhou and Bao Chunyan from the next room.

The soundproofing of the inn was poor, and Shen Boru heard the little girl hesitantly ask: "Your surname is Jiang, are you really the old man of the gods? How could he take a fancy to you as a disciple?"

Jiang Yizhou smiled and said, "Do you like people?"

Bao Chunyan's voice dropped a lot: "No."

Jiang Yizhou "tsk tsk" twice: "When I was your age, I had already started thinking about the gods. He is the object of my arrogance since I was a child. When it comes to the qualifications of a good friend, who is older than me?"

Bao Chunyan: "..."

"As for why he fell in love with me? Just because I've been pestering him for so many years, did he say to drive me away?"

Shen Boru was quite complacent when he heard Jiang Yizhou's tone, and he hated his soft temper very much in his heart.

He was upset when he heard Bao Chunyan say "Hey" again: "Then how long have you been together?"

"It didn't take long, only 800 years, when a few farmlands turned into the sea."

Bao Chunyan exclaimed: "Isn't this long!"

Jiang Yizhou said: "Not long. I promised him at the beginning that from 1 years on, even if the sky falls, he will die."

"Then, then...then why do you still have to separate? I heard that in the past few years, Shenjun stayed in the South China Sea by himself."

Shen Bo felt as if he was suffocating, and the neighbor also suddenly became quiet.

After a long time, Jiang Yizhou said: "Hey——I wonder if you, a little girl, can chatter? Why don't you open which pot and carry which pot? There are still couples in the world who quarrel and go back to their mother's house."

"I came here this time to renew my relationship with my family, Chen. The so-called sincerity is as good as gold and stone. This time I want to change my mind and start a new life."

Bao Chunyan's tone was desperate: "Can you show some face when you say this? Do you have any misunderstanding about the word 'reform'?"

Jiang Yizhou asked with a smile: "What do you think of the god's temperament?"

Bao Chunyan said seriously: "Excellent."

"what about me?"

Bao Chunyan was merciless: "It sucks."

Jiang Yizhou said happily: "So I just match him like this, a natural match."

Just listening to the sound, Shen Boru could imagine that Jiang Yizhou must be beaming with pride at this time.

Bao Chunyan was even more desperate, and her tone was numb: "Can you have some face when you say this?"

Jiang Yizhou said: "I thought you were a shy girl before. Now I realize that I have misread it. Why do you have so many questions and like to listen to gossip so much? Go to sleep!"

Then, there was the sound of the door shaft turning.The neighbors were completely quiet.

Shen Boru was lying on the bed, his heart was in a mess.He rolled up his sleeves and looked at the curse mark on his right arm.The color of the curse mark was a little darker than that of the previous few days, and it had already turned a pale blue.

One step closer to death.

He felt that since he was transformed by the waves of the South China Sea, he would only turn into a basin of water when he died, and he would not even have a body.

Before, Shen Boru knew that his life was not long, so he thought about how to get rid of it, and he was full of optimism.And when another person is involved, no matter how you think about it, how sad you are, you wish you could live another 500 years.

What a contradiction.

Shen Boru's head was full of messy thoughts, and he didn't fall asleep until dawn.

He dreamed of things before he came to the world.

At that time, Shen Boru had realized that he was about to blow the lamp and pull out the wax, so he hurriedly left the South China Sea and went to the Tiangong to find the Emperor of Heaven.

He said to the Emperor of Heaven: "I won't live long. If possible, I want to go to the world."

The Emperor of Heaven calmly said, "The Divine Lord is going to find that monster?"

Shen Boru didn't speak.

The Emperor of Heaven said: "The gods can go wherever they want. But the gods and gods need a reason. The heavens will appoint the gods and gods to solve the troubles caused by demons and ghosts. If there is no suitable candidate in Yandi and Jindi, let's hand it over to the gods first."

Shen Boru agreed.

Before he left, he said again: "Although I am the god of Guixu, if something happens in that terrible place in the future, I hope the heavens will not come to me again... After all, I put my life in it this time, and I have no life." I can give it any more."

In the end he dreamed that Jiang Yizhou was holding a basin of water and crying like a fool.

In a daze, I heard the sound of Bao Chunyan knocking on the door.He didn't sleep well, and he was still in a daze. He hurriedly put on his clothes, tied up his hair, and went to open the door for her.

The little girl jumped into the door, she saw that there was no figure of Jiang Yizhou in the room, she breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Shenjun, I chatted with that Jiang for a while last night, I think he is , too unreliable."

After hearing this sentence, Shen Boru suddenly regained his energy and smiled: "Why?"

Bao Chunyan curled her lips, she was thin-skinned, she couldn't say what Jiang Yizhou said, she sat at the table and poured herself a cup of tea to moisten her throat.

In the eyes of the little girl, the relationship between Jiang Yizhou and Shen Boru is like a pig's cabbage.She looked at Shen Boru's indifferent appearance again, and couldn't help but chatter like an old mother: "If the god really wants to find a partner, he should find someone who is stable and reliable, or even a pure and lovely little white lotus." .This man surnamed Jiang talks nonsense all day long, he can open up the world with his mouth, I'm afraid he will deceive the gods."

At this time, Jiang Yizhou pushed the door open and entered, and said with a smile on his face, "Isn't that pure and lovely little Bailian? My real body is that."

Just as Bao Chunyan drank the hot tea in her mouth and spit it out all at once, she looked at Jiang Yizhou, her eyes widened, and she said in disbelief, "What are you talking about???"

It's no wonder that Baochun Yan reacted in this way, because the little white lotus raised by other people is not stained by mud, clean and rippling but not demonic, simple and weak, which makes people feel pitiful.

But Jiang Yizhou is different from his fellows, not only is he not pure and weak, but also dirty and filthy.

Shen Boru couldn't help remembering Jiang Yizhou's first words to himself: "Shenjun, do my flowers look good? But for our plants, flowers are the big treasures that are passed on from generation to generation. I will be embarrassed if you like them so much." .”

From then on, Shen Boru knew that Jiang Yizhou was different.

Bao Chunyan at the side was very stimulated, staring ahead dully, drinking hot tea, feeling like the sky was about to collapse.

Jiang Yizhou said: "Let's not talk about this. I just went out and walked around and heard a news. It said that there is a big theater troupe in Yecheng today, and they are going to sing the love scene between Rouge Dao and Miss Yan. Shall we go see it?" Take a look, it’s a clue anyway.”

Shen Boru was surprised: "A love scene?"

Jiang Yizhou smiled and said: "That's right, love drama. There is another theory about Yanzhidao and Yan's girl, that Yan's affair with the sword demon was discovered by her husband's family, and she was forced to commit suicide .Compared with the first version, this second version is much more legendary. All major theater troupes love to change it into a love scene of beating mandarin ducks with clubs, which has earned enough tears."

Shen Boru thought for a moment, and said, "Let's go and have a look." He greeted Bao Chunyan, but the little girl hadn't woken up from the stimulation of "Jiang Yizhou is a white lotus flower", when she suddenly heard Shen Boru's voice, she was caught Shocked: "Why, what's the matter?"

Jiang Yizhou smiled openly: "Please watch the love scene between men and women."

Bao Chunyan blushed, and let out a "bah", "I don't know how to be ashamed!"

The one who came to sing this play today is a well-known troupe in Yecheng.Because the play of Rouge Knife has been sung so many times, the people in Yecheng will inevitably get tired of listening to it. In order to sell the show, the troupe leader hired a gentleman with a lot of money to revise the play, and set up the stage near the old house of the Yan family in the east of the city.

When the three rushed to the east of the city, the play had already started.The stage is set up in the open-air courtyard, and the four corner posts are surrounded by red silk and satin embroidered with peonies.The orchestral sound on the stage was slow, and two young men and women came out from the backstage, and they sang along with the music.

Shen Boru sat under the stage and listened for a long time before he understood the ins and outs of the story.The Yan family girl in the play is the rouge knife she picked up at the bottom of Qingxi when she went out to wash clothes.She didn't know what the Rouge Knife was, but she thought the color of this knife was rare, so she put it away for a while.

Yan Zhidao recognized the Yan family girl as the master, and asked her what wish she had.Different from the previous versions, this version of the Yan family girl is born dumb and can't speak.Whenever she heard Yan Zhidao asking herself, she smiled and shook her head.

As time went by, Rouge Knife stopped asking, but began to tell the story of his hometown to Miss Yan.Yanzhidao said that his hometown is in the remote Western Regions, where there are lush water and grass, and flocks of cattle and sheep.Every festival, many beautiful girls will wear suet jade, which is abundant in the local area, and surround the green fairy pond, singing and dancing, and praying to the goddess for a safe and smooth new year.

Miss Yan listened quietly.After Yan Zhidao finished speaking, she expressed herself clumsily with her hands: "Are you homesick? If there is a chance in the future, I will take you back."

Yan Zhidao didn't believe Miss Yan's words, but Miss Yan was serious.She has never read a book, and she doesn't know the exact location of the Western Regions, but only knows that it is probably in the desert far away.Sometimes when she passed the music hall, she would stop at the door deliberately, listen to the melody played by the huqin inside, memorize it carefully, and hum it to Rouge Dao when she went home.

One day, Miss Yan's strange behavior finally caught the attention of her husband's family.The husband's family found out about the Rouge Knife and wanted Miss Yan to hand over the knife to make their family rich.But Miss Yan is a very stubborn person, she felt that she promised Yan Zhidao to take him home, so she couldn't hand him over to others.

So she secretly hid the rouge knife in a dry well in the city.

Later, her husband's family pressed Miss Yan for the whereabouts of Rouge Knife, but she didn't tell them, and she was locked up in a small woodshed without water or food.After staying like this for a few days, her husband's family sent someone to ask again, but Miss Yan was out of her mind and didn't know what was good, so she still didn't explain the whereabouts of Rouge Knife.

This hit the mold of those people.

Ms. Yan's husband's family is not a wealthy family. They do a small business on weekdays and have some spare money. However, the only son in the family is a fool, so they bought Ms. Yan, a dumb girl.Now there is a great opportunity to make it to the top, but it is disturbed by this dumb girl.They were so angry that they were broken, so they moved the "family law" and wanted to teach Miss Yan some lessons.

Miss Yan couldn't speak, and she couldn't yell even after being beaten so painfully. She could only utter some vague syllables from her throat.She hadn't eaten or watered for a long time, her body was weak, and she was beaten severely, so she couldn't survive.

The drama on the stage also sang to the point of mourning. The woman who played Miss Yan was full of tears, and she lay on the ground and wept hoarsely: "You always ask me what I wish? I wish, I wish I will turn into wind after I die. , in exchange for freedom. Follow you west out of Chang'an, through Yumen..."

Someone in the audience dissatisfied: "Wrong, wrong singing! Didn't the girl of the Yan family make a wish for revenge? She made such a wish, then how will the drama of Yan's family continue?"

The class leader was about to explain, but Dan Jiao, who was pretending to be Miss Yan, stood up. She wiped away her tears, looked at the spectator, and said, "That's right, that's how it is. The previous wish was the one Incorrect."

The spectator was a local dandy, and his temper was not too good. When he saw her contradicting her words, he became angry and took the tea on the table and splashed the girl all over.Before the dude could start scolding, the girl who was splashed by the tea fell straight off the stage.

The skin on her body instantly turned into white paper, and because it was too light, the pearls and emeralds on her head and the clothes were all over the ground.

A good living person suddenly turned into a paper doll displayed in a funeral shop.

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White lotus (funny)