[Sword Three] Mountain Ghost Ballad

In the deepest part of Qin Huang Mausoleum, there is such a palace, with vast nebula, beautiful sounds, flowers and trees growing on the ground, autumn orchids blooming, and countless vitality, but it can't dispel the heavy death that pervades the place.

In the past, Mrs. Xihe definitely didn't want to stay in this kind of place, but now, she doesn't care about it, and she has no way to care about it.

She was dead, long dead.

"You already know that I am not the reincarnation of Jiang Yu..."

The girl in front of her had bright eyebrows and bright teeth, she had changed from her previously docile look, and her cold eyes were filled with stubbornness and questioning, which made the unsuspecting Mrs. Xi He lose her mind for a moment.

Who would have known that nearly 1000 years ago, she was also questioned like this. Back then, that girl looked at her with such eyes, leaving her nowhere to hide. At that moment, how much hatred will arise.

At that time, when she was watched by such a pair of eyes, Mrs. Xi He felt as if she had lost everything. She didn't want to make the child she had poured her heart and soul into pain again, so she simply did it herself to put an end to all grievances.

At the moment when her consciousness gradually blurred, she didn't regret it, she just felt sorry. She hated and made mistakes all her life, but she never thought that what should come will come eventually, and what she wants will never be obtained after all.

Looking at Miao's face that was exactly the same as in memory, Mrs. Xi and Mrs. Xi slowly closed their eyes, and their red lips parted slightly: "Miao, how much do you know about the matter of 妘'er?"

"not much……"

Even if Mrs. Xihe didn't mention it, she still wanted to ask about some things that happened recently, but the other party would take the initiative to bring it up, which surprised Miao, "I used to think that Jiang Yu was my previous life, but gradually, I realized that The two of us are fundamentally different people, but if it doesn't matter, I can't explain why I have a strong sense of familiarity with her..."

"That's because you are the same person."

Regardless of Gu Miao's surprised expression, Madam Xihe continued: "To be precise, you were once one person, but later, you became two people with the same soul and different bodies..."

"It's impossible!" Miao retorted subconsciously: "I can feel that Jiang Yu's soul is here. If the two of us have exactly the same soul, how can we exist in this world at the same time? This is against common sense!"

Mrs. Xi He didn't care and said: "Common sense can only be used to restrain ordinary people. For some powerful people who surpass the limits of heaven and man, the so-called rules in the world are just a decoration, and there is nothing impossible to do."

"But..." Miao still had some doubts, but Mrs. Xihe continued on her own, "Actually, at first, I was the same as you. I thought this kind of thing was too unbelievable and I couldn't believe it easily, but the result was right in front of me. It is also proved by Ge Xuan's words, if you don't explain it like this, the relationship between you and Yu'er is really incomprehensible."

"Ge Xuan?" Miao felt as if he had heard the name somewhere before, "Is it Ge Xuan who was called 'Ge Xianweng' in the Han Dynasty?"

"What kind of fairy is he..." Mrs. Xihe said disdainfully, "It's just a traitor to Taoism. By chance, he ate Dongming peach, so he can live forever, just like those virgins, but It's Xu Fu's monster!"

Miao frowned slightly, but didn't say much, just asked: "Then what is the matter between me and Jiang Yu related to Ge Xuan?"

Mrs. Xihe said: "It was Ge Xuan who found the trace of Yu'er in the Qin Mausoleum." Her expression gradually turned cold, but she seemed a little tired, her eyes were blurred, and her thoughts seemed to fly far away at once. "Thousands of years ago, the Yin-Yang family organized the 'Mirage' project. Under the order of Donghuang Taiyi, the head of the Yin-Yang family at that time, my wife and I boarded the 'Mirage' one after another. Unfortunately, something happened in the middle...I unfortunately died, but Because of practicing the forbidden technique in the early years, the soul did not lose consciousness, but was attached to a piece of jade and fell into a deep sleep for nearly a thousand years."

"Jade Bi?"

"That's right..." Mrs. Xihe's eyes slowly shifted to Miao's body, "It's the bird-patterned jade disc that you carried on your body. It was originally something I got from my grandfather. After my death, It was passed down from generation to generation by the patriarch of the Lishanzi family. Due to the lack of opportunities, I have been sleeping for nearly a thousand years. It was not until more than ten years ago that your biological mother committed suicide and spilled blood on the jade. Awaken my consciousness."

Miao frowned and said, "That's when you took Jiang Huaixu's body?"

Mrs. Xi He smiled inexplicably: "That's right, but at that time I didn't know about Yu'er's existence. I just thought that you might be her reincarnation, so I wanted to see if I could restore your memories of your previous life. It wasn't until later After meeting Ge Xuan, after many times of threats, I realized that he had sneaked into the Qinling Mausoleum hundreds of years ago, and broke into here by chance, and saw the still-dead concubine!"

Miao suddenly said: "Can I ask a question? Why do you want Jiang Yu to wake up so persistently? I can feel it in her dream. She doesn't seem to like you very much."

Whether it was intentional or not, Miao's straightforward words seemed to have had a great impact on Mrs. Xi He, causing her face to become very ugly in an instant, and turned slightly pale.

She seemed to be strangled by an invisible hand, her breathing became unstable, and a little cold sweat broke out on her forehead.She glanced at Miao, her face became a little gloomy, "Miao, how much do you know about your memory?"

Miao thought for a while, and said, "It's not too many, I just know that the person who killed you on the 'Mirage' seems to be Jiang Yu." She said it calmly, but it hit Mrs. Xihe's heart again Son, if Mrs. Xihe's face was only pale just now, it has turned pale now.

And Miao continued as if she hadn't noticed Mrs. Xi's face, and continued: "Jiang Yu doesn't have many memories, but I know that although you don't seem to have a good relationship, you have always been in peace. I understand, why did she suddenly kill her?"

Because of Miao Miao's words, Mrs. Xihe couldn't control her thoughts back to thousands of years ago. There was a look of pain on her face, but she remembered something, and there was a hint of resentment in her eyes, "You are right, my sister and I There are indeed many gaps between them, but who caused them? If it wasn't for him, how could I have come to this point!"

Miao said: "The 'he' you are talking about is your father?"

"Father?" Mrs. Xihe suddenly laughed lowly as if she had heard some joke, and there was an unignorable malice in her voice, "If the father you mentioned refers to Jiang Qi, then All I can say is, this is really a big joke! What kind of father is he to you, his name is not justified, and he thinks that he can make up for his past regrets by snatching you as his daughter? It's so ridiculous!"

Mrs. Xihe's laughter echoed in Miao's ears, but unexpectedly, her expression was surprisingly calm, as if she wasn't surprised at all, "If he isn't my father, then who is he?"

Mrs. Xihe was stunned, and Miao looked straight at her with a calm expression: "I don't care if he is my biological father or not. I only know that from the beginning of self-consciousness, he was by my side, taking care of me growing up, and caring for me. He was so caring...to me, he was my father."

Miao said categorically without hesitation, but Mrs. Xihe couldn't help but said: "Then you know, it was he who killed your biological parents and made you an orphan at a young age! He also caused you to bear the burden." The huge risk caused the soul to leave the body and come to Datang, and all the disasters you are suffering now are all thanks to him!"

Mrs. Xi He thought that Miao would be somewhat touched after hearing these words, but unexpectedly Miao just showed a thoughtful expression and asked seriously: "Orphan, that means you are not my biological mother?"

Madam Xihe: "..."

Looking at Miao's innocent face, Mrs. Xihe seemed to have something stuck in her throat, and she felt uncomfortable, but couldn't say anything.

The hall fell into a strange silence for a while, looking extremely embarrassed, or Miao took the initiative to break the dead silence, and found the topic again: "Can you tell me about my biological parents? What is the relationship between them and my father? Was there any trouble?"

Mrs. Xi He's face was a little gloomy when she heard the words, and the disgust in her eyes seemed to indicate that she didn't like this topic very much, but after a short silence, she still spoke.

"Your parents are of the same family as mine, and both belong to the Yin Yang family. And your biological mother is the younger sister of my first mother, her name is Chang Yi..."

Mrs. Xihe's expression suddenly softened, and when she looked carefully, she could find a trace of tenderness on her face, "Chang Yi is much younger than me. When she was 14 years old, I happened to be able to practice Yin Yang to the fullest." At the most critical time, she could no longer be by her side, and it was that year that she met your biological father."

"Chang Yi and your biological father both belong to the 'Five Spirits and Xuantong' of the Yin Yang family, but Chang Yi belongs to water, and your father belongs to wood. Although the two of them do not meet each other on weekdays, they have been friends for a long time... that The man is also a bad man, he hooked up with my Chang Yi while I was not around, and even three years later, before Chang Yi's yin and yang skills had stabilized, they got married and gave birth to her in the second year you……"

Mrs. Xihe's face seemed calm, but her tightly clenched right hand revealed her true feelings, especially when she mentioned her younger sister's marriage, her eyes flashed with obvious anger and resentment, "That bastard , I don’t know what kind of rhetoric I used to trick Chang Yi, and when I came out of the retreat, the two of them had already walked together! I once persuaded Chang Yi not to indulge in love, but it’s a pity that for that man, she even I stopped listening to what I said, and tried to make me accept him..."

"Then what happened afterwards? What does this have to do with father?" Seeing that Mrs. Xihe was going off topic, Miao had to interrupt and bring the topic back. After all, she didn't want to hear Mrs. Xihe condemning her from the standpoint of a parent. The love history of the biological parents.

Sure enough, when Miao mentioned Qi, Mrs. Xi and Madam's expressions immediately turned cold, and they could no longer care about the bastard who snatched his sister away, and said coldly: "Actually, Qi was not from the Yin Yang family at first, he was A freak who was introduced by His Excellency Donghuang and joined the Yin-Yang family on the way..." She said this bluntly, which unsurprisingly aroused Miao's disapproval, but she didn't take it seriously, as if through such slander, she would You can step on that man fiercely and vent your anger on yourself.

She spoke slowly, from Qi's entry into the Yin-Yang family, to Qi's mysterious life experience, "It is undeniable that this man is very talented, and then by chance, he easily repelled the two Yin-Yang family members by himself." Protector, since then, although his origin is still unknown, but because of the protection of the head, he is very strong, so everyone in the Yinyang family at that time gradually acquiesced in his existence, and in the end, it was spread Dongjun's name..."

In the last sentence, Mrs. Xihe gritted her teeth, but before Miao felt strange, she explained the cause and effect, "The rankings in the Yinyang family are all named after the gods, from the head of Donghuang Taiyi down, there are The left and right protectors, the five elders, the elite disciples of the five departments under their jurisdiction, that is, the 'Five Spirits and Xuantong', and the bottom ones are the ordinary disciples."

"As for the title of Dongjun, there are only a handful of people who have used it in the hundreds of years since the establishment of the Yinyang family. The most recent one is my grandfather, Mr. Cangwu, who was the head of the Yinyang family in the last year of the Zhou Dynasty. How can Jiang Qi, He De, be able to enjoy the same name as his grandfather after decades of his death!"

Miao asked puzzled, "Is that why you hate your father?"

"Of course it's more than that..." Mrs. Xihe's eyes were cold, and her words were filled with murderous intent, "If he keeps his own way, then that's fine. Naturally, I won't trouble him for nothing, but he provoked the person who shouldn't be provoked." , I fell in love with my sister without knowing life or death! It's a pity that good luck tricks people, he likes Chang Yi, but Chang Yi has another person in mind, no matter how diligent he is, he is not moved at all, and finally watched the woman he loves marry with her. Others are also his retribution!"

Miao's eyes widened slightly due to being too surprised, meeting Mrs. Xihe's cold eyes, she suddenly felt that things might not be so simple.

Sure enough, Mrs. Xihe sneered and dropped a bombshell, "After Chang Yi got married, I thought he would give up, but I didn't expect this despicable man to use some heresy methods to kill Chang Yi's husband first. Later, she even killed Chang Yi, leaving only you as a baby..."

When Mrs. Xihe meant something, Ling Miao's heart skipped a beat, and she suddenly had a bad premonition. Sure enough, at the next moment, she heard Mrs. Xihe say: "When you were four years old, why did you think that man would take you from I snatched it away because you look more and more like your mother! Don't you realize that the way he looks at you seems to be looking at another person through you?"

Madam Xihe's words made Ling Miao feel as if she had fallen into an ice cave for an instant, and the coolness came from the soles of her feet and went straight to her brain, but it made her feel even more confused.

In all fairness, she didn't believe what Mrs. Xihe said, because whether it was Jiang Yu's memory when she grew up, or her own memory when she was a child, Qi had always been gentle and loving, and she didn't even feel the slightest bit of love from the other party. He always treats her very well and takes care of her like his own daughter.

However, while believing in Qi's character, Madam Xihe's words made her unable to refute—whether it was Miao or Jiang Yu, the way Qi looked at them seemed to be looking at other people through them. one person.

Could it be that what Mrs. Xi He said was actually true...

Seeing Miao's dazed look, Mrs. Xi and Madam sighed softly, and said, "Miao, I know you won't believe me, because you didn't believe me back then, but look, where is she now?" She was locked in a cold jade coffin and spent thousands of years with this pile of decayed bones in Qin Lingzhong, and she was never free. This is what happened to her when she believed in Jiang Qi! Do you want to be like her? ?”

"You haven't made it clear what's going on between me and Jiang Yu..." Unexpectedly, after a brief moment of stupefaction, Miao brought the topic back to the old question, as if she didn't care about her beloved father at all. Did he really have other plans for her?

Mrs. Xihe was also quite surprised, but seeing Miao's pursuit of the bottom line, she didn't mean to hide it, "I said before, you and Yu'er are the same person, but you are not her reincarnation, but hers. past."

"Her past?" Miao frowned slightly, with some doubts on her face, but a guess in her heart was gradually taking shape.

"That's right. In terms of form alone, 'Miao' is Jiang Yu's past, and 'Tang Miaomiao' is Jiang Yu's other future..."

Mrs. Xihe ignored Gu Miao's astonished gaze, and explained in detail: "The vast world we live in does not have only one side, it actually presents a vertical and horizontal shape. The vertical is time, which has been passed down from generation to generation. If we connect the past and the present, It becomes history; while the horizontal is space, parallel to the world we live in, not connected to each other, evolving along their own trajectories, but the essence is always exactly the same..."

Miao couldn't accept it and interrupted: "You mean, Jiang Yu and I are not from the same world?" She had made countless guesses, but after she got an answer, she only felt it was ridiculous .

"If you are not from the same world, then it would be easy, and I wouldn't be so embarrassing, I have to choose one of you!" Mrs. Xi He frowned, her face was gloomy, "It's bad The bad thing is that you and Yuer are different "vertical" points in the same "horizontal" direction. Even if they don't intersect at the beginning, but they will move forward along the same time axis for a long time, and one day they will collide. Under punishment, how can we tolerate the existence of two identical 'dots'!"

Miao was puzzled and said, "For more than ten years before that, Jiang Yu and I lived in the same place, why did we live in peace?"

Mrs. Xi He sighed imperceptibly, and instead of answering directly, she asked, "How old are you this year?"

Miao thought for a while, and said, "Twenty to twenty."

Mrs. Xihe said: "That's right, my son died at the same age as you."

Mrs. Xihe's words seemed endless, but Miao understood.

This means that the reason why she and Jiang Yu lived in peace before was simply because their souls were of different ages. Jiang Yu was 22 years old when she died, and Miao was only [-] years old when she first arrived in Datang. The existence of individuals at the same time is naturally not a violation of common sense, but once Miao grows up slowly, this balance will be broken, and the souls of the two people will become more and more similar, and when they become exactly the same, one of them should disappear when.

Mrs. Xihe looked at Miao who was in deep thought, with a look of pity in her eyes, and said slowly: "Actually, the problem between you and your sister is not without other solutions..."

Miao's eyes moved, and she asked, "What method?"

Mrs. Xi He didn't explain anything, but just asked, "Do you still remember that jade bi with bird patterns? Did you bring it with you?"

Although she didn't know Xihe Madam's intentions, Miao still nodded, and took out the jade bi that never left her body from her skirt, "Is it this?"

Mrs. Xihe looked at the things in Qing Miao's hands, and a gleam flashed in her dark eyes, but her face became more gentle, "This is it, Miao, can you bring it here for me to have a look at?"

"But...uh...!"

While Miao was hesitating, a white drill suddenly flew out from Mrs. Xihe's cuff, and hit Miao's wrist holding Yubi impartially. Before he could react, the end that was caught by Bai Lian was quickly rolled up, and it fell into Mrs. Xi He's hands in an instant.

Miao was startled by this turn of events, and before she could ask aloud, she felt dizzy, and the air around her seemed to be evacuated, making people breathless, and wanted to leave the place, but found that her body was limp. Accidentally, he fell heavily to the ground.

Mrs. Xihe looked at Miao who was lying on the ground, and seeing that she was obviously weak but still struggling to get up, she laughed softly, "Miao, your thoughts are so simple and stupid! The insignificant nostalgia in my memory made me mistakenly lose my guard against me, but just a few words to coax you, you will obediently send all the 'talismans' to my hand!" She said, holding Yubi's hand fiercely When they were put together, there was a sound of cracking, and the originally smooth and bright jade was crushed into pieces in an instant, and finally turned into powder and dissipated in the air.

"you……"

As the jade bi was broken, Miao's eyelids became heavier and her consciousness became blurred.She tried hard to keep her eyes wide open, trying to stay awake, but in the next second a burst of suffocating pressure finally lost consciousness.

At the moment when Miao passed out, the light below her body suddenly became brighter, and a magic circle flowing with purple mantras instantly enveloped her, and two yin and yang fish jumped out with their strength, swimming around her, floating Kong drew two lines, one black and one white, as if imprisoning her soul in them.

Mrs. Xihe not far away carefully controlled the magic circle until the light in the circle became stronger and stronger, and Miao, who was in a coma, suddenly let out a scream, and a ray of white light was gradually stripped from her body, floating into the air, and then Under the effect of the magic circle, it slowly dissipated.

At this moment, Mrs. Xi He finally stopped casting spells.

With the end of the ceremony, the magic circle that originally enveloped Miao gradually dissipated, but she lay there motionless, her body was covered with dense mantras, especially on her face, the purple marks had covered her original beautiful face, It made her look weird and ugly.

Most importantly, she was out of breath.

Mrs. Xi He wiped the cold sweat off her forehead, she looked very tired, too tired to move a step.

Completing the magic circle seemed to have exhausted all her energy, but she looked very satisfied, and even had a satisfied smile on her face.

"Crack..."

At this time, there was a sudden noise in the jade coffin, which caused Mrs. Xihe's expression to change slightly. She didn't feel relieved until she glanced at Miao, whose body was getting cold not far away, and turned around to look at the jade coffin. A loving smile appeared on his lifeless face.

The jade coffin shrouded in a green light soon stopped shaking, but the coffin lid that covered it began to make a high-pitched flapping sound, as if something was about to crawl out of it.

And Mrs. Xi He just watched all this with a smile, not only did not stop, but even looked expectant on her face.

But soon, she stopped laughing.

Because as the coffin lid was gradually opened, what was revealed inside was different from what she expected.

I saw a slender jade hand wrapped in red sleeves supporting the edge of the coffin, the lid made of jade was casually swung to one side, making a loud noise, and the person inside the jade coffin had already revealed her full appearance ——But it was not Jiang Yu, but a beautiful woman in red.

The woman's skin was creamy, her long black hair was spread over her shoulders like satin, and she was wrapped in a blood-red long dress, which added a bit of charm to her. Unfortunately, because the woman's face was too pale, Appearing in the coffin, from a distance, the fairy turned into a female ghost.

Mrs. Xihe's face changed drastically, but before she could react, she was trapped in place by two streaks of red silk that flew out of the jade coffin. The woman in red flicked her sleeves and turned her wrists, wrapping around Mrs. Xihe's body The silk satin became tighter and tighter, and at the same time, a light red light gushed out from Mrs. Xi He's body, and flowed into the woman in red along the red silk.

Mrs. Xi He felt the internal energy gradually draining from her body, and then glanced at the woman in red who had absorbed her internal energy and looked more beautiful, her complexion became even uglier.

Although she was unfamiliar with the appearance of the woman in red, it did not prevent her from recognizing that this was not a living person at all, but a puppet controlled by yin and yang.

She instinctively felt that something was wrong, although she thought it was impossible, but she still turned her head and looked in the direction of Miao, and her face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.

I saw that the place where Miao had fallen was empty at the moment, and the faint moonlight filled the surroundings, which told Mrs. Xihe a fact - this was just an illusion.

——She was tricked by someone!

When this idea just flashed into Mrs. Xi He's mind, there was a sound of gentle footsteps behind her, and a figure slowly appeared from the deepest part of the hall, it was Miao who was supposed to have died before!

She seemed to be in good condition, although she looked a little embarrassed, and there were a lot of blood stains on the skirt, but her face was very clean, without scars or spells, she looked soft and very cute.

She smiled at Mrs. Xihe, seeming a little shy, a clear light flashed in her watery eyes, and her voice was soft but meaningful: "Xiaoyu always says I'm short-hearted, I really want him to see, actually I can lie to people, but I never lie to him..."

The author has something to say:

Well, why would a fire mother give birth to a water daughter?The answer is of course: not your own!

Σ(°△°|||) Are you a little surprised that the secret of Miao's life experience is such a dog (god) blood (scripture) story, but in fact, Mrs. Xi and Madam did not tell the truth, and there are so many flaws , the next chapter reveals the truth...

But there is one thing that Mrs. Xi and Madam did not lie to Miao, that is, the connection between her and Jiang Yu, they are indeed the same person, with the same soul, this phenomenon seems to be a bit like the so-called: the past meets the future?

And, about Miao's origin, I don't know if I have expressed it clearly enough. This is actually a rather sick brain hole of the author, which is mixed with the theory of parallel worlds, time reversal, and co-existence of planes... In short (serious face), That's it, and then that, and then...um.

Come back during the day to catch bugs.

Put a small theater about the girl in red——

Miao: Yu, do you think my new doll looks good?

Mo Yu: Looks good.

Miao: Then let's dress her~

Mo Yu: Good.

Miao: I like the red one.

Mo Yu: As long as you are happy.

……

Mo Yu: ...What's the matter with this doll, why does it look so much like me?Even the styles of the clothes are very similar, even wearing a skirt!

Miao: Yes, then I will add furry to her outside~

Mo Yu: ...more similar.

Miao: Actually...

Mo Yu: What?

Miao: I wanted to sew a dress for you last time, but I’m not good at being a girl, so I didn’t succeed. I think there’s still some fabric left, so I’ll use it to make doll clothes~

Mo Yu: ...

Miao: It should be fine, you see, although she wears a skirt, she doesn't show her breasts~

Mo Yu: ...