Penglai delusion

At dawn that day, Jiangtan heard Xueqiu whimpering.

He rubbed his eyes and walked over, only to find Jin Ning sitting motionless in the stone chair under the flower stand.

He called her, but she didn't answer.

Jin Ning's hearing has always been very good.As long as she was in Buxue Palace, no matter how far away she was, she could always hear him calling.

Now, he has called three times.She still had her eyes closed, unresponsive.

Jiang Tan stared blankly at that familiar face, feeling something in his heart.

But he still wanted to try again.

Maybe he just fell asleep, too deeply.Jiang Tan thought, held her hand and shook it.

Jin Ning's hand was always warm, and when it stroked her head, it looked like a legendary meteor that streaked across the sky.

Now, like the star that fell into the earth, it extinguished the fire and turned into a cold and hard stone.

Jiang Tan suddenly realized that when he died, he lost his light and heat, and he would never respond again.

Xueqiu was still arching the corner of Jin Ning's clothes, Jiang Tan shook his head for a moment, and it was arched off the chair.

He carried Xiao Xuehu over.Very helpless, but also a little at a loss.

After a while, he said, "Xueqiu, Jin Ning is dead, don't move."

Xuehu seemed to understand, drooped his ears listlessly, and turned to rub his neck.But quietly, no whining anymore.

Jiang Tan rubbed against the little fox for a while, and said softly, "It's okay. Jin Ning said that we will see each other again."

He put the snowball on his shoulders, bent his knees to support Jin Ning, and took a lot of effort to help him back into the chair.So she sat down on her stiff legs, panting slightly.

But Jiangtan waited for a long time, and the situation was not as Jin Ning said - no one came outside, and the formation showed no signs of loosening.

He hugged his knees and fell asleep for some time, but when he woke up, his head was a little dazed.Turning to look, Jin Ning was still sitting in the chair.The smile on his face was faint, as before, as if he was about to say in the next second: Zongzi, let's go outside for a walk.

So when the window saw light again, Jiang Tan said, "Jin Ning, let's go outside for a walk. The sun is very good today."

He tried his best to carry her on his back, moved her out of the palace door little by little, folded his knees, leaned her against the carved door, and sat side by side on the platform, basking in the sun together.

When the sun was shining, Jiangtan smelled an unusual smell of corruption.He looked to the side, and found that the dirty green spots were spreading along Jin Ning's neck like sprouting.He was startled, and hastily dragged him into the shade.With this movement, dark red blood froth flowed from Jin Ning's mouth and nose.

Jiang Tan wiped her overly soft face clean, and tried to use Qianmu Lingmai technique.

But it can't be cured.

He felt that Jin Ning had turned into a pool of soft and rotten soil, and some seeds were stirring in her body, waiting to be broken.

After thinking about it, I changed the method again.

He carefully moved the person back to where he came from.Then, taking a deep breath, Pingping stretched out his hand and placed it on Jin Ning's shoulder.

While the soul seemed to be moving, a massive snowfall quietly covered half of the nave, and within a short time, Jin Ning and the stone chair were frozen together.

After Xue lived, Jiang Tan's lips were bloodless.Just after he breathed a sigh of relief, he jumped straight at the ice and lost consciousness in an instant.

However, the real disaster came from here.

He is forgotten.

For more than a month, lack of food became a big problem.

Dream it, there is everything in the dream.This is Jiang Tan's true feelings.

For a moment he didn't even want to wake up.Because when I opened my eyes, I saw the cold and hungry darkness.

Snowball couldn't bear it at first, and one day he suddenly disappeared.

And Jiang Tan was trapped by the cage made by the blood technique, and he couldn't get out of the scope of the hail snow formation.

He had no choice but to start eating snow when he was starving.

But no matter how much Xue ate, Jiang Tan still felt hungry.

He swallowed a mouthful of snow water, stepped down from the window sill, and moved back to the flower stand step by step, leaning on the ice cubes of Jin Ning, thinking, I might die.

...Jin Ning, wait for me.I'll come to you right away.Jiang Tan felt as if he wanted to merge with the ice on which he was leaning. He just thought, I don’t know what the ghost country is like, if only I could be like Penglai.

In a trance, he seemed to hear Snowball's cry.

He wasn't sure if it was, but he still managed to get up and look for Xuehu.As a result, as soon as he left the nave, he was directly blown into the flower garden in the vestibule by a gust of wind.

A cut was made on the head, the blood flowed for a while, and the wound froze again.

At this moment, Jiang Tan couldn't even practice spells, so he was paralyzed in a daze.

Xueqiu, I'll be the same immobile as Jin Ning soon.Jiang Tan thought, if you come back and see me, don't be sad.

He opened his eyes wide, feeling a numb and unbearable pain in his heart.

Then, the itching solidified, the numbness intensified, and the heart felt heavy, sour and swollen.After a while, the pain became unbearable.His heart seemed to be shattered, and every time he breathed in, there were frozen blood stubbles that couldn't hold back.

Jiang Tan was lying in the snow, his eyes fixed on the clear sky where the sleet was flying.

Tears in the eyes ebb and flow like the tide.When a drop of ice finally flowed out, the heart seemed to be able to bear it slowly.

It's just that the heart is very cold, as if there will no longer be warmth.

Yet he felt safe.I seem to have survived, and will not die because of this pain.

At this time, the wind finally calmed down a little, and a piece of emerald green floated faintly outside the eyes, swaying freely in the snow like an illusion.

Jiang Tan remembered that it was the lettuce planted by Jin Ning.

Jin Ning likes to eat lettuce.I set up an area in the vestibule by myself, and I mixed two dishes from time to time to satisfy my gluttony.

In the past, she said it was not suitable for him to eat, but he didn't force it.

Now that is the color of life.

He rolled over and tried to crawl over.But when it got closer, the last bit of strength had been exhausted.The lettuce was frozen in the ground and could not be pulled out.

With so much consumption of the same lettuce, Jiang Tan didn't realize that he had passed away.After an unknown amount of time, he felt something wet and soft licking himself.Another drop of water kept dripping on his face.

Jiang Tan struggled to open his eyes.

Snowball is back.He was biting a rabbit full of scars, trying to bring the crushed throat to his mouth, collecting blood all over his face.

Jiang Tan went with trembling hands, held the twitching rabbit, bit the blood-oozing throat, and swallowed.

Warm and fishy.It is the taste of life.

Snowball stared at him, his fierce eyes gradually softened.

Jiang Tan drank the blood of living creatures and was able to sit up for the time being.He touched the gap in the snow fox's left ear, and then looked at the marks on its body, and knew that it was rations snatched from under the claws of some raptor.

"Snowball, I'm still alive."

Xuehu whined and looked at him with tearful eyes.At this moment, it was in so much pain that it snuggled up against the corner of his clothes.

Jiang Tan then used the blood movement technique to breathe on Xueqiu's blood-stained fur and healed several fatal wounds on his body.

He knew that the snow fox hadn't eaten anything, drank up the blood, and handed the rabbit back to its mouth.He went into the house by himself, took out the Xingying knife kept in the alcove, dug out a piece of lettuce, peeled off the skin and gnawed it bit by bit.The freshly unearthed green vegetables are as cold and hard as Jin Ning's hand, but he thinks they are the most delicious things.

Jin Ning.Jiang Tan thought, thank you.

It doesn't matter if my father, queen and concubine don't like me.I will still try my best to survive.

Zu Jun, if I can live.Just go to Penglai and write down the writings of Wenxu for you.

This year, Jiangtan survived on snowballs and lettuce.

After that time, Snowball learned to go hunting and never came back for a long time.

Jiang Tan stayed alone, reading to Jin Ning in the ice cube, and didn't think there was anything wrong.

And Snowball didn't go hunting anymore, so she nestled beside him and dozed off.

It is not afraid of him at all now, it always hugs him when there is nothing to do, it is a warm ball.

"Snowball, why are you like a fireball?"

Jiang Tan asked it.

Maybe it's because the intelligence is still not open, and it can't answer his words.

Later, Jiang Tan didn't sleep on the bed at all, and moved all his clothes into the nave, and slept in front of the ice with Snowball in his arms.

Anyway, he is not afraid of the cold.With Jin Ning beside him, he slept more peacefully.

Sometimes I can't sleep at night, so I count the feathers of the birds on the roof of the temple.After going over and over again, I will remember clearly which piece of bird feathers has peeled off.

And Xueqiu was still pillowing on the corner of his clothes, grunting from time to time.

Jiang Tan listened to the fox's sleep talk, folded his hands on his chest, and counted one piece after another, one after another, according to the long and slow heartbeat.

When he was too sleepy to keep his eyes open, he turned his head to look at Jin Ning in the ice.

"Thirty-six thousand, 820 pieces." He whispered, "After the blue birds are counted, I will count the Shrike."

Across a thick layer of ice, Jin Ning's brows and eyes were blurred.She sat there as always, her faint smile was invisible, but still in sight.

So Jiang Tan was a little relieved, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

There is snow all year round in Beiling, and the severe cold never ends.When the night gradually grew longer, Jiangtan knew that winter was coming.

Jiang Tan saw that the seventh pod leaf had already sprouted on the viburnum that had been raised in the pot for counting, so he said to Xueqiu, "Tomorrow will be the sub-year."

When Jin Ning was still there, Ya Sui would take him to Luoxiao Palace to attend the night banquet every year.This Xuanhuang sect meeting was also the only reason why he was able to leave the palace.

Luoxiao Palace is bright and warm, just like its name, it looks like a palace in the sky standing against thousands of nebulae.In the Xuanji Terrace, which is the place for banquets, there are always many blurred figures intertwined.When Jiang Tan first came here, he didn't recognize anyone, so Jin Ning introduced him patiently.

Jiang Tan then knew that the snowy fur and white crown on the top of the long steps was his father, and he was often surrounded by beauties like clouds.The seats in the middle class are the other five brothers and sisters, as well as the left and right protectors, Da Sizhu, three witches, and countless Kunlun slaves who are waiting at the table to serve.

The seats at the bottom of the steps are even more arranged like a city wall, with rows of battles like stars, although it looks like a dark place at first glance, it is also as neat as a chessboard.

However, wherever Jiangtan looked at, that piece would lower his head, not daring to look directly at it.

He didn't understand it before, but now he understands it after thinking about it.Why did the Beidou Tianjie, from top to bottom, once linger on his face, were all indescribable gazes.

That's the look in the eyes of a monster.

Thinking about it again, maybe only Jin Ning was invited to the banquet each time, and she insisted on bringing herself along.Otherwise, what reason would a person who has been under house arrest since birth leave the army to go to a banquet at the age of sub-years alone?

Jiang Tan figured it out, and he didn't have any expectations for outsiders.

That night, when the seventh pod was about to end, the snowball disappeared.

It wasn't until the sky became dark again that the snow fox came back.There is a huge golden pheasant biting in its mouth, its tail feathers dragging the ground like a rainbow.

Jiang Tan put down the lettuce, took the gorgeous pheasant, and stroked the fox's head.

He tied the golden pheasant to a rope, hung it on the carved door, and lit a fire in front of the platform. He just rolled up his sleeves and prepared to pluck the hair, then he raised his head as if feeling something, and was facing the pheasant. A pair of surprised eyes.

The father, who had always been so high above the clouds, was now standing fixedly at the back door of the outer hall, across the entire vestibule, frowning and looking at himself.

Jiang Shan watched his son's skillful movements like seeing a ghost.

So weird.

He walked up and took a closer look at the child's indifferent white pupils, and found that there was no shadow of himself in them, which meant ignoring them completely.For a moment, a little displeasure was added to the guilt that was already shattered by the turmoil in my heart.

The door of the hall was wide open, Jiang Shan looked behind the child through the fireworks, and the moment he saw Jin Ning, he was almost terrified, thinking that Jiang Tan had killed him.

Then I saw clearly the things that were spread on the ground in front of the ice, and suddenly realized.He said that the child should be used to living next to the dead, but he didn't know how long he had been wasting like this.

I felt even more uncomfortable.

Jiang Shan thought, should it be said that it is your blood?This is not crazy?

After a pause, he said to himself, "Xiao Liu, let's go, let's go to Luoxiao Palace as my father."

Jiang Tan picked up a handful of pheasant feathers and ignored him at all.

Jiang Shan: ...

But I regret that I didn't bring the guards with me.This kid is like this, he doesn't want to touch him at all.

No, no matter what, he didn't want to touch him.

Jiang Shan walked away immediately.

After leaving Buxue Palace, I realized later that I was the one who lost the game just now.

Although it is true that there is such a trouble, it is because of my own negligence.But no matter what, he, a suzerain, shouldn't be put on face by a little kid.

Jiang Shan was defeated, and suddenly returned to Luoxiao Palace.Just stepped onto the Xuanji Terrace, a sect member came to report, "My lord, one of the three tributes for the New Year's Ceremony was kidnapped by Buxue Palace."

Jiang Shan felt weird.

It seems that today is not going around.

After thinking about it, he waved to the imperial guards in front of the steps, "Go to Buxue Palace and invite the Sixth Sect."

He also said, "If he is disobedient, he will be cleaned up and brought here in a dignified manner."

Then a group of people were forced back by coercion.The head of the imperial guard held the pheasant that was tidied up so neatly that it could even be put directly on the altar, and said helplessly, "Return to the Lord, the Sixth Sect, please prepare the coffin and go there again."

Jiang Shan suddenly said in embarrassment: "Presumptuous!"

His holiday mood was gone.

All gone.

Jiang Shan didn't know what she was thinking, but she was really angry.Next, he just ignored the Xuanji banquet where the New Year's Ceremony was about to be called, and ordered to carry out the sleeping coffin that had been prepared.

The majestic suzerain, walking with the coffin, is like a spirit supporter.

But thinking, Jin Ning is qualified to let her help the spirit, so she simply drove to Buxue Palace frankly.

Seeing the coffin coming, Jiang Tan led Jiang Shan to the flower stand, without saying a word, just looked at him calmly.

Jiang Shan ordered people to break open the ice, buried Jin Ning, and then asked the child, "Can I go now?"

Before he was surprised by his own patience and tolerance, he was actually shocked by the child's neither humble nor overbearing attitude.

You should be a king to have such a natural strength of character.

And Jiang Tan said, "Father, wait a moment, my outfit is not suitable, I need to change it."

The first thought that popped up in Jiang Shan's heart was: Will you finally call me?

He seemed to lose his temper suddenly, as if he wanted to see what the child could do, so he sat in the stone chair that had just been moved away from Jin Ning's body, and calmly waited for someone to come out from the inner hall.

Jiang Tan quickly changed into a set of plain white old clothes, and his hair was tied neatly with a silver ribbon.

"Father Lao has been waiting for a long time. Let's go."

"where do you want to go?"

"Moon Valley."

Jiang Shan had a strange expression on his face, "Get up and go to Moon Valley."

That was Jiang Tan's first time traveling out of the Snow Palace alone.At the age of eight at that time, he knew very well that from now on, he would be the only one in this cold palace.

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Jiangtan: (:[▓▓]

Xi Mo: Huh? (*′▽’*)Master finally woke up~

Jiangtan: (x[▓▓]

Xi Mo: Don't pretend I saw it (*°▽°*) and then pretend to bite you.

Jiangtan: (:[▓▓]

#Congratulations on waking up from the dream#

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