Pour the glass

The night was getting darker and the road ahead was vast. For Ah Ling, the light at the end of the stone crevice seemed to never reach her. She only felt that her legs were sore and numb. She didn't know how long she could last?

"tick...tick...tick..."

The sound of water tinkling could be faintly heard, Ah Ling's face sank, and she quickly put down Ziyuan from her back, anxiously inspecting Ziyuan's shoulder injury——

His vision was dim, and Ah Ling had to get close to Zi Yuan to be able to see clearly.

Although the sweat towel was already flushed red and pressed tightly against the wound, Ah Ling touched it lightly with her fingertips, but there was no hot liquid on her fingertips. She finally breathed a sigh of relief knowing that those ding-dong The sound was not the sound of Zi Yuan dripping blood.

"Om-"

The Emperor Gu is still entangled between Ah Ling's temples, but it's not as close as it was just now.

It was only then that Ah Ling realized that those lingering bone Gu had disappeared without a trace, and now only the Emperor Gu was still lingering.

A-Ling looked down at her left hand, almost five fingers had been bitten by this Emperor Gu, and now it was bloodshot, swollen and frightening.

"Smelly girl, wake up, I never serve anyone, the rest of the way, you should go by yourself." A Ling sat down on the ground weakly, and pushed Zi Yuan who was still motionless, "Don't pretend Sleep, as you said, no matter how frightening this nightmare is, at least there is a pig like you..." His voice was slightly sour, and Ah Ling stretched out his hand, rubbing Zi Yuan's cold hands, and heheed from time to time Take a few breaths of hot air, trying to warm up Ziyuan's hands, "Qi Ziyuan, do you hear that, wake up, wake up!"

"Crack!"

Suddenly there was a sound of crushing stones, and Ah Ling followed the sound vigilantly.

At the end of the crack in the stone, an orange lantern stood there, and the faint halo vaguely set off an old face. That person was like Meng Po on the Sansheng Bridge in Huangquan, waiting for them to walk over and forget this life.

A Ling was startled, and subconsciously protected Zi Yuan, "Don't come here!"

"call out!"

The old woman suddenly released a golden needle from her sleeve, the place where the golden needle landed was not Ah Ling and Ziyuan, but the Emperor Gu near Ah Ling.

The flying Emperor Gu was pierced through the chest by a golden needle, and nailed to the stone wall.

The old lady walked over very slowly with the lamp, with a faint scent of medicine on her body, she squinted her eyes with the lamp, glanced at A Ling and then at Zi Yuan, her eyes were full of astonishment, "You guys managed to get here alive , Tsk tsk, it's really strange, strange."

For a moment, Ah Ling couldn't tell whether the old woman was an enemy or a friend, so she didn't answer any questions.

The old lady bent over and stretched out her hand, as if she wanted to touch Ziyuan.

A Ling quickly stretched out her hand, wanting to push away the old woman's hand, so as not to let her touch Ziyuan easily, for fear that she would attack Ziyuan, "Don't touch her!"

The old woman suddenly grabbed Ah Ling's left hand, saw clearly the swelling of Ah Ling's left hand, her face darkened, and asked anxiously: "Girl, do you want your hand anymore? If the poison enters the meridians too deeply, you can only There is a dead end!" Then he pulled Ah Ling up, "Go, come back with me, there is still time to save you."

"No! Let me go!" A Ling struggled to let go of the old woman's hand, and hugged Ziyuan in her arms with difficulty, "I won't let her stay here alone!"

"This kid has already lost half of his life..."

"She must live!" Ah Ling shook her head resolutely, tears glistened in her eyes, she held back the tears tightly in her eyes, not letting any tears flow, "If you can save me, you can definitely save her, right?"

The old lady sneered and said, "You girl is really insatiable! To save you, I don't want to see you die under the poison. If you don't appreciate it, I still don't want to save you!"

"Slow down!" Seeing the old woman turning around to leave, Ah Ling suddenly stopped the old woman.

The old woman was stunned for a moment, then she fixed her eyes on Ah Ling, "Why, do you want to ask me to save you now?"

A Ling suddenly knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "I have never begged anyone in my life, now I beg you, beg my mother-in-law, save her!"

"Save him?" The old woman was quite astonished, and smiled coldly, "I heard correctly, you want me to save him, not you?"

Ah Ling nodded heavily, although the corner of her mouth was smiling, but there was no trace of warmth in her eyes, "Save her!"

"Men in this world are mostly heartless and ruthless. You little girl has paid so much for him. If this boy betrays you in the future, wouldn't your sacrifice today be in vain?" The old woman shook her head and chuckled. Vicissitudes.

Ah Ling just smiled coolly, but said frankly, "I never cared about her treating me with care, I just don't want to see her die."

"It's a good sentence to see him die!" The old woman laughed mockingly, turned her back with the lamp, and said coldly, "I hate a foolish woman like you the most in my life. If you want me to save him, that's fine! If you can recite Let him kneel all the way to the end of the rock crevice, and I will save him!"

"you……"

"I just want you to understand that with such a foolish effort, the road ahead will be the same as the road you kneel down today, it will be painful but not easy!" After finishing speaking, the old woman sighed, "If you regret it, there is still time. "

"It's a deal!" A Ling stubbornly carried Zi Yuan back, and knelt down again.

The path between the stone crevices was full of broken stones, kneeling down was far more painful than just kneeling down to beg the old woman.

A Ling couldn't help but gasped, gritted her teeth and looked at the end of the stone crack, and moved her knees with difficulty.

"Stupid girl!" The old woman waved her sleeves angrily, turned around and walked slowly towards the end of the stone crack, "I want to see how long you can last!"

"I'm afraid I'll disappoint you, mother-in-law..." There was a forced smile on the corner of Ah Ling's mouth, she turned her face slightly, and glanced at Ziyuan, "Qi Ziyuan, I didn't give up on saving you, and you can't give up on yourself either. life, can you hear me?"

Ziyuan remained motionless, as if she would never wake up again.

A Ling wrapped Ziyuan's arms tightly around herself, almost dragging Ziyuan's heavy body, moving forward step by step, the pain from her knees made her take only three steps, and the pain was gone Face.

"Silly girl, don't be too strong." The old woman's voice was much softer than before, she stood at the end of the rock with a lamp, and couldn't help persuading, "Girl, don't be too strong, otherwise, no one will love you in this world." .”

"No one hurts, so I hurt myself. I never cared about others' pity!" A Ling tried to support her weight, and said with a smile, "Many women in this world always expect men to love them, but when they feel sorry for them, they don't care. How much sincerity can I get, or how many days can I be cherished?"

The old woman's eyes darkened, she didn't expect this girl to say such a thing.

"I did it……"

While speaking, A-Ling threw Zi Yuan on her back at the end of the stone crack, and saw her support herself vigorously, and said seriously: "If you play tricks, you will pay for it..."

"Speaking so hard at such a young age, I'm already old, how can talking be counted?" The old woman stepped forward, dragged Ziyuan from behind Ah Ling, stretched out her finger on her right wrist, He glanced at Ah Ling in disbelief, "She...she is clearly...a woman...why are you..."

"Can't a woman risk her life to save her?" A-Ling sneered and stood up with difficulty, "Save her, you won't save her in vain."

"You...you..." The old woman couldn't figure out what the relationship between the two girls' families was right now, and she couldn't even understand why a good girl's family insisted on dressing up like a man, but after thinking about it, since both of them are girls If you save your family, it is considered as a kind deed, and said immediately: "I don't care about your thanks, both of you should work hard, and don't die with me and become a ghost."

"Don't worry, absolutely not." Ah Ling responded, and together with the old woman put Zi Yuan's arm on her shoulders, looked up at the road ahead, only to find that there was such a paradise hidden at the end of this stone crevice .

Although it is no longer the season for peach blossoms to bloom, there are still many peach blossoms blooming on the branches here. From a distance, you can only vaguely see a corner of the cornice sticking out of the peach forest, which must be the residence of the old lady.

Ah Ling staggered all the way, walked for a while, and finally came to the old woman's residence - a simple wooden house standing in the peach forest, with only two orange lanterns simply hung under the eaves, gently fluttering with the night wind .

"Here, you put this girl carefully on the couch first, and I'll prepare life-saving things." The old woman led A Ling into the wooden house, glanced at the wooden couch, and motioned A Ling to do the same.

A Ling nodded, hugged Ziyuan, and limped Ziyuan flat on the wooden couch with difficulty. Suddenly, she thought of something, turned Ziyuan's body slightly to one side, and put the pillow on the bed. With the back of her head, she sat weakly on the edge of the wooden couch.

"Qi Ziyuan... Ziyuan..." A Ling raised her hand and gently brushed away the messy hair sticking to her cheek, and murmured, "Don't worry, as long as you come back to life, you and Zhexue will no longer be friends." My pawns, I want you all to be well..." As he said that, he smiled sadly, "I should walk my way alone, and it has nothing to do with you." After speaking, he raised his left hand and stared blankly. With the bloodshot above, a trace of fear rose from the bottom of my heart, "Fortunately, this Emperor Gu is not a female insect, otherwise I will really become the mother body for the reproduction of the Emperor Gu."

Ziyuan was silent, her face was bloodless, and she was still unconscious.

A-Ling frowned slightly, and suddenly felt that the vision in front of her eyes began to blur. With both hands resting on the ground, a bloody handprint was printed on the ground where her left hand landed. Only then did A-Ling realize that she was pressing tightly on the cloth covering the wound on her left arm. Article is nowhere to be found.

"I can't... can't... die here..." Ah Ling felt his eyes go dark, and suddenly fell to the ground and passed out.

Outside the cabin, the old woman walked slowly to a well, threw the bucket down the well, and filled half of the bucket with some effort—under the moonlight, two faint blue dragon shadows flashed away in the water. .

The old lady sighed, turned her head and took a deep look at the two unmonumented tombs behind the small wooden house, then sighed again, "You and I have drank so much water of longevity, but we still can't stay together until the end, how come you Can you be so cruel?" After finishing speaking, the old woman walked slowly towards the door of the cabin with a half bucket of water.