[Ancient 2] This body and my body

"...My lord priest, my lord Pojun priest..."

"Ok?"

Xie Yi came back to his senses, and turned to look at the priestess beside him.

This is a newly promoted young priest. He looks young, with a timid look on his face, but his eyes are filled with admiration and respect.

Xie Yi smiled, and brought back the Shensi that had drifted away before.

"What's the matter, Lizhu?"

"Reporting to Lord Pojun Priest, Lord Lianzhen is looking for you."

Li Zhu hurriedly lowered her eyes and bowed to Xie Yi.

"Oh, Huayue? Well, I'll go now."

"No need, I have come uninvited."

"See Master Lian Zhen."

Li Zhu's back bent even lower, almost buried her face in her chest, her gaze was firmly fixed on the ground in front of her feet.

Huayue walked over to Xie Yi, who bowed her head and bowed her head, holding the harp she never left her body in her arms, and did not give the slightest glance to the respectful little priest behind her.

Although Li Zhu's qualifications are still young, she is more or less a person with a clear mind. Seeing that Lord Lianzhen and Lord Pojun are going to have a heart-to-heart talk, he opened his mouth wisely.

"Subordinates retire."

She only took a few steps when Xie Yi stopped her.

His voice is peaceful and gentle, like the spring breeze in March.

"Lizhu, go to Dangqing and ask him to tattoo a cold-dispelling magic circle on your priestly clothes. Now that June is over, the weather in Liuyue City is cold, and you are a girl again, so you should pay more attention to your body." That's good."

It wasn't until Li Zhu walked out of the palace gate that Hua Yue's unattainable and glamorous look faded from her face, and her usual gentleness returned to her brows.Looking softly at Xie Yi, she smiled narrowly.

"Oh, it seems that our Lord Po Jun has also grown up."

"Stop teasing me."

Xie Yi looked at Hua Yue helplessly, and sighed softly.

"You are looking for me today, what's the matter?"

Huayue reached out and brushed the loose hair from her temples behind her ears, and smiled softly.

"It's nothing serious. These days, I've always seen that you are not in the right place, and you often lose your mind while talking. Didn't you almost misplace Tong's baby Gu worm last time? Although Aye wanted to ask, but this He has been busy for a few days and has no time to come to you, so I asked you to ask him for him, but—worried about the Yanjia furnace?”

"The Yanjia Furnace project is huge. I've thought about it, but I still haven't come up with a clue. I'm really ashamed of respecting my master."

Xie Yi shook his head, frowning deeply.

He turned around, swiped his finger on the parchment roll spread out on the table, and clicked on a place marked by a separate circle, making a clicking sound.

"June has passed, even priests with strong spiritual power like us are a bit chilly, let alone those clansmen with weak spiritual power in the lower city. This year... I don't know how many people will not be able to survive this bitter winter."

"Ah Ye has ordered people to send out winter clothes with a magic circle to drive away the cold, and a lot of charcoal has been removed. Wuqu and the others are still rushing to make new charcoal these days. There are as many plants and trees in Liuyue City. , rather than letting them wither in ten days or so, it is better to use them for other purposes."

Hua Yue also frowned, with a little unbearable expression in her eyes.

Shaking her head, such emotions dissipated from her face, she looked up at Xie Yi, her eyes full of expectation and encouragement.

"A Ye has already reported the matter of the Yanjia furnace to the Cangming city lord. With the order of the Cangming city lord, you can go to the Hall of Birth and Death to retrieve the relevant books tomorrow, and during the process of making the Yanjia furnace, you can refer to it at any time. The classics hidden in the Hall of Birth and Death."

"Really? Great!"

Xie Yi's expression suddenly brightened, the gloom and heaviness between his brows were suppressed, and he returned to the cheerfulness of the little sun in the past.

He thought of Yu Feng, who was still worried about his master's management of Liuyue City, and the castellan who, like Yu Feng, had prejudice against his master. .

He said long ago that Master is by no means the so-called villain who is ungrateful and plots to seize power.

Cangming City Lord's trusting attitude and laissez-faire attitude towards Master are the best evidence.

Although Hua Yue didn't know what Xie Yi was thinking, she was also infected by his bright and undisguised smile, she smiled and shook her head.

She grew up with Shen Ye since she was a child, and she and Cangming can be regarded as half childhood sweethearts. Now that the city lord of Cangming is awake, although it has brought many unrealistic fantasies to the city lord, it has also secretly added to A Yeming. It was a lot of trouble, but she knew that Ah Ye was still happy after all.

"Hua Yue, you said... We are trapped in Liuyue City, so we have been constantly looking for a way to break the enchantment. No matter what, we want to see the thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in the lower realm, where the flowers bloom and fade."

Xie Yi thought of Xie Yi who was left in the house by him.These days, the words he once said to Xie Yi often surfaced in his ears part of the time, as clearly as if someone was repeating them in his ears over and over again, and he uncontrollably repeated those words one after another. I kneaded the words and chewed them into pieces, thinking to and fro in my heart.

"If there is such a person, he has been ordered to stay in an empty room since birth, not allowed to go out, and has no contact with other people. Would this be...too lonely?"

"If it is true as you said, there is such a person, since he was born, everything he sees and hears is one person, then it doesn't matter what loneliness is."

Hua Yue glanced at Xie Yi with complicated eyes, as if she had been touched by some secret hidden deep in her memory.

Xie Yi frowned, still immersed in his own thoughts, and didn't notice her overly veiled gaze.He thought about how he felt when he was still in that rough armored body during the time when he had forgotten Xie Yi a few months ago.

Huayue withdrew her gaze, her slender fingers fiddled with the strings of the harp a few times, and there were scattered sounds out of tune. The expression on her face could not tell whether it was tenderness or sadness, she just lowered her eyes, as if she was immersed in the sound she had dialed. in staccato notes.

"Since he has never seen the scenery outside, he will not know that there are flowers blooming and falling, and the vegetation is flourishing and withering outside. Since he has never been in contact with other people, he naturally does not know that there are such strange things in the world except himself. This may be ignorant, but to him, it is not necessarily a kind of sadness... But why do you suddenly think so?"

Huayue's voice trembled subtly, as if she was vacillating between a wonderful dream and a cold reality, with a faint melancholy that Xie Yi still couldn't understand.

Xie Yi raised his head, his eyes fell on the cloth hanging from the beam of the house, and he opened his mouth after a while, seemingly casually.

"Probably, I have been worrying about the Yanjia furnace recently, so I just thought about it."

"That's it."

Hua Yue shook her head, didn't ask any more questions, and only sighed lightly.

"If Liuyue City is still like the records in the classics, it is the only paradise among the turbid air all over the world, so it doesn't matter if the Lieshan tribe has lived here for thousands of years. But now Liuyue City lives in the bitter cold of the southern border. Everything in the land and the city has withered since June, and the ice is piercing to the bone. The people of the tribe have not escaped the erosion of the turbid air, and many people died of strange diseases. Xie Yi, we are struggling to find the way to break the boundary, not just to see the lower realm Spring goes and autumn comes, withered and prosperous, but to win a ray of life for the Lieshan clan..."

"……I see."

Xie Yi was silent for a while, then nodded slowly.

"Liuyue City is now getting colder every year. I have been paying attention to it for three years. Every year in February, the Jumu sprouts new branches, but none of them really grows. As soon as June comes, all of them wither.  … ...There has been no news of Shennong for thousands of years, and the people of the tribe can rely on only the city lord and the high priest, and maybe you and me."

Huayue didn't speak anymore.

There are not many people Shen Ye trusts, and she is one of them.Perhaps Shen Ye entrusted more trust to his only disciple, the next high priest Xie Yi, but he is still young after all, and he knows far less inside information than Hua Yue who has been following Shen Ye.

The power of the divine blood left by Shennong in the past is declining, and the jumbo trees that are the pillars of Liuyue City are gradually withering. If Liuyue City can't find a way to break the boundary, it can only sit and wait for death.

Perhaps, they can also gamble on which one will decline faster, Fuxi's barrier or Shennong's blood?

Thinking of this, Huayue's lips curled up very quickly, which was considered a joy in suffering.

Xie Yi had obtained an answer he didn't want from Hua Yue's silence.

He closed his eyes, wrinkled his brows slightly, turned his face away, his hands tucked under his long sleeves formed into fists, and his fingertips dug into his palms.

The Lie Shan family is the responsibility of the master, and it is also his responsibility.Even if he gave everything he had, he would not sit back and watch Liuyue City gradually decline like this.

But... what about Xie Yi?

He has a master, a friend, Liuyue City, and the entire Lieshan tribe, and Xie Yi only has him.

But even so, even if Xie Yi cared about Xie Yi, for him, Xie Yi would never be able to surpass the entire Lieshan tribe

This...is it unfair to Xie Yitai?

This question made Xie Yi toss and turn, unable to think about it, like a poisonous snake lingering in his heart, dark and obscure, every time he thinks about it, it only leaves a chilling feeling in his heart.

He wanted Xie Yi to be happier.

I want him to smile so warmly.

I want him to see a wider world.

The author has something to say: This chapter is titled, You Who Love Me and Me Who Loves You Not Enough.