Cinderella: The Legend of Yunhua

That year, the Heishui River flooded, and the people were devastated.

Both my parents died in the war. In order to live in peace, I went up the river alone, begging and performing arts along the way, and wandering all the way. In the early spring of the next year, I came to Hexu Mountain in the northeast.

It coincides with the Qingming Festival, and the cold spring is expected to be cold. In this eventful autumn, the world is secluded, and there is only a piece of smoky blue in the world, which changes from cold to warm, and there is no spring.I didn't eat a grain of rice for five days, I was cold and hungry, and I wanted to find wild fruits to satisfy my hunger. I was hungry and lost in the hinterland of Hexu Mountain, leaving only a few weak breaths.

In a daze of consciousness, I fell to the ground and curled up under a peach tree that hadn't yet budded out, letting the wind and rain fall on me, waiting desolately for the messenger to come and ask for my life.

"—If only...if only... there was one fruit left on this peach tree...

——If...even if it's just blooming, maybe it can satisfy my hunger for a while..."

The misty green rain made my eyes wet, and the shadows floated in the water. The simple but warm hut in the hometown of the village by the bank of the Heishui River, the sparks in the room have not been extinguished, and my two-year-old My parents were looking at me benevolently, and the old story was gradually approaching... Then I heard a cold voice in the void shout, "Boy! The time has come, follow me on the road!"

I barely opened my eyes, followed the voice and dragged my extremely sleepy body, swaying towards the white light in front of me. I couldn't help but wonder in my heart—is this impermanence coming to the world to seduce the soul?

——I didn't feel any pain. I looked back at the pale skin discarded under the peach tree behind my eyes. Although I was thinking about it, I had no choice but to walk forward, and said silently: Dad!mother!The baby is looking for you...

I was still reluctantly walking the last journey of my life in the mortal world, but at this moment, a dark fragrance wafted from the valley, and you appeared in the clouds, laughing loudly, "You two errands, please stay!"

As soon as the streamer appeared, you sent the clouds to come and stop in front of me, like flying into the sky.

It's the first time I've met an immortal, and I just stare at you infatuatedly.Your face is like a bright moon, your brows are green and your eyes are green, your hair is black and your lips are vermilion, your color is better than the spring dawn, your spirit is like the charm of ink and wash, and it is three points more beautiful than the peach blossoms that bloomed in early March.Every frown, every move, every move, just like in a painting, I grew up in this world, and I have never seen a man with such a beautiful demeanor as you, I was stunned, and couldn't help but stop in front of you.

He glanced at me with a smile, and cupped his hands at the group of white lights in front of me, "You two bad guys! I have something to ask."

With a flash of white light, one black and one white Wuchang appeared here shaking their heads, and nodded slightly, quite respectfully, "My lord, this kid is at the end of his lifespan, and the little one is just doing things according to the rules, so he shouldn't show up in the yang world , Your Excellency has repeatedly called me two brothers, why?"

You put your arms around my shoulders and said with a smile, "This young man is only thirteen or fourteen. If it hadn't been for the cold spring this year and the peach blossoms hadn't bloomed on time, he wouldn't have starved to death under this tree. Speaking of which, this tree has a long history with me. For my sake, you two, why don't you let him go today?"

"Master Xianjun, let me let you go like this, how can I go back to the Fujun to explain to the young one?" Bai Wuchang, who was dressed in white and held a soul-locking rod, was quite helpless, but he was very jealous of you in his words, and he didn't know what to do.

There was a flash of inspiration in your eyes, and you were quite sly, pointing to Bai Wuchang and said, "Bring it to the Secretary of the Yin, let me see how long he lived and why he died."

Bai Wuchang hesitantly handed over a white paper book, he took it with one hand, flipped through a few pages and glanced at it, a gleam of white light flashed in his hand, and said in a letter, "I will remove his name from this book of infernal affairs, When the two of you go back to do business, you can definitely hide it from the Fujun, so you can rest assured."

"Hey! This-this! Break the rules! Break the rules!" Hei Wuchang was furious but did not dare to attack, "Master Xianjun! You teach the little one what to say! You are so confident, this kid is in the underworld. All the records have been disrupted, there is no record of life and death, and no one seduces the soul to guide the way. I am afraid that these three lives will not be able to successfully pass through the reincarnation of Wangchuan..."

"You two don't need to worry about this, since I have taken over this matter, I will definitely be responsible to the end!" As you said, a red light appeared in your palm, and you gently pressed my forehead, "Boy, I will be a little girl in your soul!" Marked, for the third life, when your Yang life is exhausted, I will personally ferry you into reincarnation, okay?"

Your palm is soft and warm, like an April wind blowing into my heart, I nodded dumbly, and from now on, I will remember you.

Hei Wuchang heaved a long sigh, "Sir... this kid didn't go through my underworld interrogation, and reincarnated with the memory of his previous life, wouldn't he mess up the order of my six realms?"

"It's just a mere mortal, you can't mess it up, you two can rest assured, I will be responsible to the end, and I will not let him disturb the world." You looked at me with a hint of warning in your expression.

The matter has come to this point, there is no other way, black and white impermanence had no choice but to shake his head and leave, and I will look at you in blank dismay for the rest.

You smiled at me, stroked my forehead, and said softly, "What are you still doing? Go back."

I felt a gentle breeze, and when I opened my eyes again, my soul returned to my body.

You come to my side, tap a branch that is flying obliquely in front of you, and the branch will burst into flower buds and peach blossoms in an instant after you touch it. He picked it off and handed it to me, smiling sweetly, "Are you hungry? This cloud The peach tree is still too young to bear fruit, so you can make do with it."

Your smile is like the breeze in April, blooming in the misty rain in the mountains, like the peach blossom in your hand, burning to death.

I see that you have been watching for a long time, and you are stupefied, your heart is beating violently, you are showing timidity, so you have to lower your head and silently take the flower branch, although you are very hungry, you are not willing to eat it.

"You don't like it?" Seeing me stunned, you picked a piece of peach blossom and put it in your mouth, "If I starve to death again, wouldn't it be a waste of my heart?"

How can I live up to your good intentions?I busily sucked my mouth and gnawed the flower branch. The peach petals were juicy and tender, sweet and fragrant, so delicious that I couldn't forget it after many years.

He sat down beside me, looked up at the sky, and was a little surprised, "Hey——looking up from here, the sky is actually smoky blue. This rain, it turns out, can fall so beautifully."

I randomly stuffed a handful of peach blossoms into my mouth, and before I could chew them up, I asked vaguely with the refreshing fragrance in my mouth, "My lord, have you never seen rain?"

You turned your head and bent your beautiful eyes, "In the past, in the heavens, the sky was clear every day. This is the first time I go down to the heavens, but it's the first time I see rain."

Speaking of the rain, I couldn't help feeling a little sad, and said in a muffled voice, "My lord doesn't know that rain has different seasons and temperaments. In my hometown, after a heavy rainstorm broke down the river embankment, I have lost my love since then. Lost home and parents..."

"Oh?" Your eyes flickered, with a trace of melancholy, "It's my fault, it reminded you of something sad..."

I shook my head, wiped the lingering fragrance from the corners of my mouth, put it on the tip of my nose, and sniffed vigorously, "It's been a long time. In the past few years, I have been traveling alone, and I have long forgotten the pain of the past in the suffering. It's too short, God let me come to the world to be punished. If my lord didn't spare my life today, I would already be dead. My lord sees that I don't even have the strength to look at myself, how can I miss the dead ?”

You couldn't help but feel a little lonely, and asked, "If I make a move today, will you blame me?"

I looked at your beautiful face and felt warm. I just smiled and shook my head, thinking: How can I blame you?If you hadn't acted in time, how could I meet you in this blue sky and white curtain...

"My lord...can you tell me your name?" I mumbled, not even daring to look into your eyes.

"Yingji."

"Yingji...that name is really nice."

You smiled, with a soft glow on your cheeks, "My master took it for me, Ying, Qiong Zhihua, Ji, for beautiful jade."

"Master Yingji, you are so powerful, do you still have a master?" I didn't know that gods also have masters.

"Well, of course I did. I was originally a cloud peach tree in front of the Emperor Wa's Palace. Thanks to my master's watering for many years, I cultivated the roots of wisdom and transformed into a human form."

"Tree? Is your lord just like this peach tree?" I was secretly surprised, you were born so beautiful, how could you have transformed from a tree, but wait for me to look at the remaining petals in my hand, It's clear again.

"Well, it's just a tree. My master is the son of Nuwa. Ziweixing is the reincarnation and the third head of Kunlun. If it weren't for him, I might still be a tree now." Speaking of which, you laugh again The waves flowing from the corners of his eyes are as bright as the stars in the night sky, "I follow Master just to repay Master's kindness of watering."

——So, you are also a person who values ​​love and righteousness?

Kunlun, the Lord of Ten Thousand Mountains, I have also heard it said in legends, it turns out that there is your home.I looked at my feet, Kunlun, it must be far, far away from the land under my feet...

"My lord, since you are staying in the sky, why did you come down?" I asked you.

"Recently, there are monsters making trouble in the mortal world. The Jade Emperor ordered me to build a Taoist pagoda in Kunlun to imprison the monsters. I came to the world to find the earth's veins for Master so that I could choose a site to build the prison."

"Your Excellency has chosen a place?"

You shook your head, "I have traveled all over the world, and I have seen the intertwined spiritual veins in Hexu underground, which can be used for my Kunlun tower. However, this place is full of auspiciousness, so it would be a waste to build a tower?" You look at me , pointed to the bare branches in my hand that I had already eaten, and said with a smile, "Cloud peach——is the flower of my destiny, and it is my love in this life. Shaoyun Peach Tree, if we build a pagoda here in the future and absorb the spiritual energy, wouldn't these peach trees be damaged?"

"What do you think, my lord?" I tightly grasped the flower branch in my hand - cloud peach, cloud peach, is it your favorite flower?

"Go to Juling Mountain and have a look before we talk." You stood up, "I've been chatting with you here for a long time, and it's time for me to leave."

"My lord..." I couldn't help asking timidly, "Will we... meet again?"

You bowed and brushed over my head with a smile, and a soft light melted in your hand to cleanse the dirt around me, "Of course I will see you again. I promise you the promise of three generations, and I want to ferry you into reincarnation. How can I break my promise?" For you? Just, when we meet again..."

"The underworld? I'm not afraid!" I looked at you firmly, just wanting to show my determination with my eyes, "As long as I can meet you again, I'm not afraid of mountains of swords and seas of fire!"

"You are so young, how do you understand the meaning of life and death reincarnation?" You raised the corners of your lips, that look is so beautiful, "By the way, what's your name? Next time we meet, I can call you."

"Life after life, coming and going, changing surnames and changing names, how can I say it better, it's better to have a code name, what do you think, my lord?" I looked up at you.

"That's up to you." You put your hands behind your back, looking a little interested.

I looked at the sky, and it was just after the rain, the sky was blue, and the clouds were rolling and the clouds were relaxing, "I met my lord in this misty wave. My lord likes the sky blue in the world, which is the most beautiful color in the clouds, so I take it." Let me be named Yunhua, in this life, in the next life, in the next life, no matter if I am a man or a woman, or what my surname is, adults can call me Yunhua."

"Yunhua...then it's settled." You said loudly.

The breeze is lingering, your clothes are flying, and you are leaving me alone, waiting for the flowers to bloom...

The author has something to say: Fanwai is because of the wrong reason for my own application

Had to complete the list of [-] words

So, with this little episode

Wrote a entanglement between Yunhua and Lian Que in their previous lives

Here is my next plan

I originally planned to write directly about Xingran

But considering the karma of IV

If you use the way of narration, it will be a bit dull

Instead of using flashbacks and interludes, I tried to write almost [-] words, which is not ideal

It feels easy to cause time and space confusion, and it is easy to misread

So, maybe split him into two parts and write

This is a setting and story background that I like very much

The content of the prequel will involve more ancient myths of the Central Plains

Because I am very fascinated by Journey to the West, and I also admire Wu Chengen's language and imagination

So, I want to write down this series completely

It is roughly planned to be divided into two parts, one is Yingji Biography, and the other is Xingran Biography.

The biography of Yingji is placed in the first edition, about 20 words, maybe less, if it is less, talk to the editor, maybe it won’t be a V

purely for my own amusement

Xingranzhuan will be longer, put it in the romance section, I will say it here, the readers who have accompanied me here are all friends in my heart

I am willing to share my original intention with you

By the way, there is a little side story at the end of this chapter

If you see this, you don't need to buy it

I'll be in the column next week for free

Thank you