Phaseless Demon

From spring to winter, the four seasons are endless. The winter of this year is extremely cold. Not long after winter, the temperature dropped to the extreme. Thin ice condensed on the lotus pond stream, and the eaves were covered with icicles. The goose feather snow began to whir , Frost is everywhere in the eyes, the world is covered with snow, and occasionally more corpses can be seen from the ice slag pile in the corner.

Maybe it's because of the war, maybe it's because of the disaster year, in short, all these unfavorable conditions gather together, making the colder the weather, the more miserable the people of Mohe City are living, and the poor people can't even eat enough. Let alone survive this severe winter.

"The wind and snow are a sign of a lucky year. This year's snow is heavy, and the coming year must be a lucky year." Uncle Zhang, who was sweeping the floor at the gate of the He Family Courtyard, was dressed in sackcloth and a bamboo hat, and stood in the snow with a big broom. The snow on the door was swept away, and He Qianjue squatted beside him to dig out a little snow to make snowballs for playing. The snowflakes were too cold, and his hands turned red from the cold.

Uncle Zhang looked distressed, and said to He Qianjue: "Master, it's cold outside, go back to the house."

He Qianjue saw Uncle Zhang drag out a beggar's corpse from the corner of the stairs at the gate of the compound. He Qianjue recognized this beggar, an old man who often begs nearby.

Because he felt pitiful, He Qianjue had repeatedly sent him a lot of food.This winter was too cold, so he specially brought an old quilt from the house to cover the old beggar from the wind and cold.But he didn't seem to make it through. When he was dragged out by Uncle Zhang, he was still wearing the old quilt that He Qianjue gave him. The quilt was even covered with frost, and the quilt was frozen into ice lumps, as hard as a board .

After Uncle Zhang dragged the body out, he swept the snow up to make a simple cover, then walked towards He Qianjue, hugged He Qianjue, and said, "Master, the dead...unlucky, don't look at it."

He Qianjue didn't listen to him, and stared intently at the beggar's corpse under the snow, but Uncle Zhang quickly carried He Qianjue into the house. There was a stove in the room, which exuded a strange warmth. Compared with the severe cold outside, it seemed like two worlds.

He Qianjue, who was carried into the room, was sitting on a soft and comfortable chair covered with blankets, and soon a maid brought him a thick brocade shawl, a winter hat and east shoes, and they also brought hot water for He Qianjue to soak in Feet, rubbed the frozen red hands and feet until they turned red. During this process, He Qianjue sneezed, and the maid said to He Qianjue: "Master, Mrs. Lin in the kitchen made ginger soup for you, and it was very sweet with brown sugar. It’s cold, you need to drive out the cold.”

He Qianjue had no room for objection. This year, the snow was so heavy that it could be said that the mountains were covered by heavy snow. It was so cold that people could hardly move. He Qianjue still wanted to go out. young deer.

Will Lvning be cold in such a cold day?

Thinking of this, He Qianjue was very worried, but looking at the crazily fluttering snow outside, he couldn't help but feel withdrawn. At this time, the maid had already brought ginger soup for He Qianjue from the kitchen.The ginger soup was not tasty, and He Qianjue didn't like it even with sugar, but the maid insisted on holding the ginger soup in front of He Qianjue. She was kneeling on the ground, as if she wouldn't get up unless He Qianjue drank it.

He Qianjue also felt sorry for the maid, so she reached out and reluctantly took the soup bowl, but was reminded by the maid: "Master, be careful of the heat."

The ginger soup is not hot at all. The maid made it cold when it was brought over. It is the kind of temperature between warm and hot. In such a cold winter, drinking it in one sip makes the whole body feel warmed up. It is really very comfortable. It's just that the taste displeased He Qianjue.

After He Qianjue finished drinking the ginger soup, the maid came to clean up the dishes. Seeing her walk out the door, He Qianjue jumped off his chair, left his room, and went straight to the woodshed.In the past few days, he found Uncle Zhang's old coir raincoat in the firewood room, a kind of non-perishable grass woven hat, which can protect him from wind, rain, and snow.

The clothes were bigger than He Qianjue's, so He Qianjue used scissors to cut the clothes to the extent that he could put the clothes on himself.

The reason why He Qianjue cut this dress was naturally because he wanted to go out to find the young deer in it. The snow outside was so heavy that it could cover half of He Qianjue's body, so it was quite inconvenient to move.He Qianjue saw that Uncle Zhang always wore coir raincoats when he went out to work, so he thought about finding a set of such clothes for himself.

The coir raincoat has been almost cut by He Qianjue. He Qianjue wants to sneak it into his room and hide it, so that one day when the doorkeeper is not paying attention, he will sneak out wearing it again. He hasn't seen Lvning for a long time. From the beginning of the snow, the family members strictly guarded it, and the snow lasted for dozens of days, sometimes big and sometimes small, but it just didn't stop.

Unfortunately, just when He Qianjue planned to use this coir raincoat to go out to see Lvning, the Patriarch of the He family, He Qianjue's father, He Jiuming, came back.

He Jiuming came back at noon that day, and there were a lot of people around him when he came back.He Qianjue's relatives, aunts, entourages and thugs from the workshop all came back with He Jiuming, and they also came back while arguing. As soon as they entered the door, they quarreled in the hall. class questions.

Although He Jiuming is the Patriarch of the He Family, He Jiuming has an older sister and two younger brothers. Since ancient times, women cannot inherit the family business, and He Jiuming, who is the number one among males, has become the Patriarch of the He Family as a matter of course. Together, the two brothers made the He family's business bigger and bigger, and they were about to become the richest family in Mohe City, but at this moment they had to be defeated by the flames of war.

The family business could not continue to develop. Seeing that the flames of war were about to reach Mohe City, the He family had long discussed disbanding the He family business and moving the whole family to the south, because there were too many people and there were a lot of things to relocate. So move them away in batches.At the same time, because he was worried about being attacked by refugees, bandits or even deserters on the road, He Jiuming, the patriarch of the He family, decided to disband the family business completely and distribute part of the property to his two younger brothers, but both brothers seemed dissatisfied with the distribution of property.

The young He Qianjue actually didn't understand what they were arguing about. As usual, he came in to greet his father when he came back, but He Jiuming didn't seem to have much interest in exchanging parent-child feelings with his son, so he drove He Qianjue out with a wave of his hand. .

He Qianjue was also relieved, and rolled out. After going out, he heard He Jiuming inside the door, in a tone full of grief and helplessness, and shouted: "The He family will be defeated by you! Want money? Do I want money here, but there are a lot of debts, do you want it!?"

Since then, even a child as ignorant as He Qianjue can clearly feel the earth-shaking changes that have taken place in the He family compound.

First of all, many valuable furniture, decorations, books, ceramics, etc. in the house were removed, and debt collectors came in wave after wave, almost trampling on the threshold of the He family compound. He Qianjue's father looked tired , sold all the valuables in the house, and even the servants and maids were disbanded and sent away one by one. In less than half a month, the entire family compound immediately became dilapidated and the house was completely empty. The maids who took care of He Qianjue in the past disappeared, making the kitchen Mrs. Lin is gone.

Only Uncle Zhang, who was guarding the gate, was still silently sweeping the snow at the gate.

Some things in He Qianjue's room were also taken away, which also made He Qianjue feel reluctant, but he didn't make any noise. He hid the coir raincoat that he had secretly cut, but was soon turned over by those who moved things. out.

However, those people didn't have much interest in such cheap trash, so they didn't take away He Qianjue's precious raincoat.

The He family's things were almost emptied in just a few days, there were no maids who could take care of him, no thick and warm blankets and a stove, the house was as cold as if it had snowed.

At night, He Jiuming came to look for his son. He squatted down in front of He Qianjue, wrapped He Qianjue in a fur cloak, and said to his son, "Qianjue, Daddy will take you to the south, where it is closer to the sea and the climate is more pleasant." It’s also warmer than here, you can meet more people and make new friends, and Daddy will send you to school.”

Although He Qianjue was young, he still realized something: "Daddy, are we leaving Mohe City?"

"Yes, we're getting out of here."

"Then when can we come back?"

He Jiuming paused, with a slightly tired and helpless expression on his face, his face looked very similar to He Qianjue, no...it should be said that He Qianjue was very similar to him, he was a slightly handsome and gentle man, no More like a businessman than a scholar.

He Jiuming did not choose to coax, he honestly said to Qian Jue: "We will not come back."

These words made the little He Qianjue's eyes turn red immediately, and he tugged on his father's sleeve: "Daddy, I don't want to leave Mohe."

"Good boy." He Jiuming whispered to him tenderly; "If you stay here, you will be killed, do you understand?"

"I want to protect you." He Jiuming said again, "Daddy will always protect you."

Protect someone forever... This sentence itself is a joke, no one can protect someone forever, because the only person in this world who can always protect you is yourself.

The young He Qianjue didn't understand this truth yet, it was only after a long, long time that he slowly began to understand.

At this moment, He Qianjue didn't think about the future and where he was going. The only thing he was thinking about at this moment was still Lu Ning on the Qingzhu Mountain outside the suburbs. Before He Qianjue left, he had to see Lu Ning once.

Time was running out, and He Jiuming said that he would take He Qianjue away in the next two days. He had already prepared the carriage and luggage, sold all the furniture in the house, and everything was ready.

He Qianjue looked at the heavy snow that was still flying outside, gritted his teeth and decided to go to Lvning tonight.

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Early the next morning, Zhan Haoyan brought back the Menghui Stone he had rearranged and forged, vowing to help the little red flower recover his lost memory, but the situation was exactly the same as yesterday, the flower pulled the stone After another two hours of sleep, even He Qianjue yawned halfway and continued to crawl back to bed to sleep.

In the dream, He Qianjue dreamed of his past as usual.

In fact, logically speaking, it is impossible for He Qianjue to recall the past in his dream, because he is very clear that his memory is completely lost, and this memory is like being swallowed up by the "Eternal Night" in Feng Tianjing.

He almost turned into a part of "Eternal Night". Although he later copied the original form of Yongye by relying on his characteristics of the formless demon, he had the ability to fight against Yongye, and finally escaped, but the memory of this Planting something does not mean that you can come back if you can come back.

Without outside help, He Qianjue would have absolutely no chance of recovering his memory on his own.

And the reason why he was able to remember it for the first time was indeed because of the effect of the dream return stone.But the second time he didn't take the dream back stone, why did he remember it?

He Qianjue thought about this point, but still couldn't figure it out.However, after his puzzled colleague heard the little red flower in front of him say "memory is forgotten the moment he wakes up", He Qianjue suddenly understood everything.

It wasn't He Qianjue who remembered this lost memory, but this flower who remembered it.

It's just that this flower has made a contract with He Qianjue. His name, memory, body, and soul are all given to He Qianjue, so the moment this flower recalls those memories, the memory is under the power of the contract. , was taken away by He Qianjue.

This flower is Luning, but it is not Luning, he is not even a complete Luning.

He Qianjue didn't know how to describe this flower, let alone how to describe his own mood, but he was a little happy recently, and he started to run to the greenhouse frequently, watering the little red flower with water and the light of the greenhouse to bask in the sun. The flower shook its petals and bloomed wantonly under the light. Occasionally, He Qianjue would poke him with his fingers, and he would shyly put away the petals and shrunk into a bud, but it would bloom again soon.

"Lv Ning." He Qianjue called the new name he gave him, and Huahua seemed to like this name quite a bit, every time He Qianjue called him, he would shake his petals and answer in a low voice.

Only Fox and Han Chan expressed their incomprehension, and Han Chan even scolded He Qianjue for his taste: "He is obviously a red flower, why did you choose the name Lv Ning? Why not Hong Ning?"

Unexpectedly, Lv Ning fit He Qianjue's name so well that her own flowers began to change color after shaking. The flowers in the underworld can indeed change color. They can choose to change themselves into red, yellow, pink, blue, etc. It's not a problem to become a green flower.

So looking at Huahua who had turned herself into a green flower, Han Chan was speechless.

It's just that Lv Ning's memory recovery is still helpless. Every time he holds the dream back to the stone for a long time, he still says to Zhan Hao: "I can't remember anything."

Zhan Haoyan was deeply shocked by this, and after pondering over and over again, he couldn't figure out what was wrong with the stone. He tossed and tossed his whole body down a lot, so He Qianjue, who was worried about him, came up with a clever plan, He Qianjue Said to Zhan Hao: "If it doesn't work for Lu Ning, how about trying it for others? Sometimes it's not necessarily your stone that has a problem, but the person who uses this stone has a problem."

When He Qianjue said this, Zhan Haoyan also felt that it was reasonable, so he held the stone and glanced at everyone in the mirror space, and asked, "Does any of you want to dream back to your previous life?"

Yan Snake had no interest, and neither did Ying Gan, but Fox and Han Chan raised their hands high.

However, He Qianjue said to Han Chan: "You are a monster born immediately after gathering the Yin Qi of the dead. You should have no previous life, so the dream return stone is useless to you."

When He Qianjue said this, Han Chan could only crawl into He Qianjue's arms with her rabbit's head drooping.

So only the fox was willing to be the test subject.

Zhan Haoyan gave the stone to the fox, and the fox excitedly held the Menghui stone and began to stimulate her aura. After a while, she fell directly on the ground and fell asleep. He Qianjue was very gentle. She picked it up and carried it to the sofa.

Sure enough, within 10 minutes, the sleepy fox woke up.

When she woke up, she shouted with a pale face: "Oh my god! I was a tree in my previous life!"

He became incoherent as he spoke, and slapped the table angrily: "A tree growing on the edge of a cliff! It probably lived for hundreds of years, and the trunk was so thick that five or six people couldn't hug it! Then an inexplicable monk came Crossing the robbery next to me! A nine-day profound thunder came down, missed him, and killed me!"

The fox's tone filled with righteous indignation actually made the people around him laugh. Seeing that they were all laughing, the fox became even more angry: "What are you laughing at! I died so badly! You have the nerve to laugh! Damn, I Remember the face of that dead monk, next time I meet him, I must kill him!"

"This thing can really recall past lives..." Yinggan seemed to be interested, and raised his hand at Zhanhaoyan, "Can I try it?"

Zhan Haoyan was very generous, and he stretched out his hand to give the dream back stone to Yinggan, and then Yinggan also tried to recall his previous life.

When he woke up after a few minutes of coma, everyone asked, "How is it? Did you remember anything?"

After waking up, Yinggan's face was a little gloomy, and he sighed slightly, but he said calmly after the sigh: "I probably have a bad fate. I lived in a poor family in my previous life. I was still a girl, and I was born with a disease. Doted on by the family, um...seems like he left when he was a few years old."

The memory of his previous life didn't seem to affect how much he did, and he quickly became as calm and silent as ever.After all, it was a long, long time ago, and all I can remember are sporadic fragments, which can give people a general understanding of this fragment of life.

Later, Yan Snake also tried it. Interestingly, Yan Snake did not recall his previous life, but only remembered some trivial things that he had forgotten thousands of years ago. When I climbed out, I almost got caught by a bird, was bitten to death by a mouse, was almost killed by something, and other inexplicable memories.

He Qianjue asked Zhan Haoyan, "Why can some people recall past lives, but Yan Snake can only recall things from this life?"

"That may be because he has no previous life, he is a newly born soul in the underworld, the kind of reincarnation for the first time." Zhan Haoyan said: "Or the soul was scattered once, and then gathered again, such a soul cannot Remember the past."

"There is a third situation." Zhan Haoyan looked at He Qianjue and continued: "For example, if you have almost forgotten the memories of your life, the Dream Return Stone will first remind you of the memories of your life .”

He Qianjue nodded in understanding: "I see."

Zhan Haoyan asked him: "Do you want to try Menghui Stone again? Didn't you say you have something you want to recall?"

He Qianjue thought about it, and said to Zhan Haoyan, "Alright, let me try again."

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That night, He Qianjue was wearing a coir raincoat and secretly opened the back door of the He family compound. After running for more than ten minutes on the snowy streets, he finally found the snow-covered dog hole on the edge of the Mohe city wall. He planed it with his hands. Snow digged for another half an hour, his hands were red from the cold, he finally managed to get the dog hole out of the snow, then climbed the dog hole, continued to dig snow, and finally let himself out of Mohe City.

The coir raincoat has the effect of preventing wind and rain, but it doesn't keep warm. He Qianjue shivered from the cold, and the cold invaded his body, making him so cold that he began to feel a little confused. It is a pity that he is only an eight-year-old child, his weak will and weak body are not enough to support him to move forward, and soon he fell on the soft and fluffy snow, and the cold slowly eroded his body body.

It's too cold, it's the cold that He Qianjue has never felt before when he grew up with rich clothes and good food, although he will not regret coming to Lv Ning at the risk of freezing to death in such a cruel weather , he hoped to see the fawn, his best best friend.

But this time, he didn't see the young deer, but the gray-skinned red-eyed lone wolf whom he had met once.

This lone wolf appeared on the snowy ground where the snow was falling heavily. It sniffed the vague smell in the air and found He Qianjue. It seemed that He Qianjue had been frozen. The wolf lay directly on He Qianjue's body. The body temperature is slowly transmitted through the clothes.

When he got closer, He Qianjue realized that this wolf had thick fur and a huge body, powerful claws and sharp teeth. This wolf was so strong that He Qianjue believed that it could fight a bear.

There seemed to be a red light in the wolf's eyes, and he looked at He Qianjue without blinking.

He Qianjue felt that he would be eaten. In this icy and snowy environment, the flowers, plants and trees were all withered, and some animals hibernated. The hungry wolf, which was short of food, was cold and hungry, so it would definitely choose to eat He Qianjue.

Surprisingly, He Qianjue was not afraid that he would be eaten, he felt that he was not afraid of this seemingly terrifying hungry wolf at all.He forced himself to raise his head, and looked at the eyes of the lone wolf in front of him in a daze. Those eyes were exactly the same as those of his most cherished friend, blood-red...but strangely charming eyes.

"You shouldn't have come looking for me." Unexpectedly, He Qianjue heard the wolf speak.

It actually spoke, spit out human language, it said: "It's too cold, you will freeze to death."

After He Qianjue was briefly surprised that the wolf could talk, he suddenly became excited again. Excitedly, he struggled to get up from the snow, rushed forward and put his arms around the neck of the lone wolf, because he found this wolf Around Lone Wolf's neck was a red silk ribbon that he had once tied around that fawn's neck!

"Lv Ning!" He Qianjue shouted happily with a hoarse throat, "You are Lv Ning!"