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It was dark, the bonfire was burning in the forest, the carriage was parked aside, the horse was resting against the tree, the three of them were sitting around the fire, and Su Yu was roasting two pheasants skewered on the branches.

The three of them walked out of Qingtai Town for another two days, and then came to the territory of Qianzhou. The Yunzhai is located in the deep mountains, and it takes more than a day to reach the mountain, so the last day before entering the village In the evening, they slept in the mountains.

Since Su Yu woke up, except for being too weak and inconvenient to move on the first day, he has behaved as usual in the past few days, but his pale complexion and cold sweat from time to time on his forehead let people around him know that he is still enduring the pain torture.

The pheasant was hunted by Luo Xunfeng from the mountains, so it wasn't necessary to eat it. They had bought dried meat and steamed buns in advance, and bought some wild game, just to make dinner more substantial.

Although Luo Xunfeng ordered Su Yu not to use force in the near future, and he was not allowed to do things that consume energy such as hunting, but the young man obviously lacked the concept of "rest and recuperation", and he always had an uneasy expression that he wanted to take over all the work. Take the job of packing and grilling the chicken.

Forget it, Luo Xunfeng thought, anyway, Su Yu knows how to cook more than himself.

Speaking of taking care of the master's diet and daily life, it is a compulsory skill for shadow guards, but if you are in the villa, you generally don't need shadow guards to cook.

Looking back, I was wandering outside, and I had long lost my mind to pay too much attention to basic necessities of life.Luo Xunfeng was born in the south of the Yangtze River, and his taste is still sweet in his bones. The dishes in Xiangxi are mostly hot and sour. Although Ping'er asked him what he likes to eat, he didn't bother to ask for it. The dishes are ready.Since Su Yu took over his diet and daily life, he didn't specifically mention what to eat, but the young man often cooks his favorite dishes. The side dishes also changed from hot and sour to sweet and sour. It feels like...a bit of a coincidence.

Luo Xunfeng was thinking about how much the favorite dishes of himself and his younger brother Luo Xunqiu overlapped, when he suddenly heard a stomach rumbling.

"Brother Su Yu, how long will it take to finish baking? I'm already hungry." A Rui's voice sounded coquettish.

Luo Xunfeng frowned secretly.

"It's almost ready." The young man replied.

Luo Xunfeng glanced at A Rui, then at Su Yu, and met the young man's gaze.

The light of the fire made Su Yu's face red, and there was a slight smile in his eyes that he didn't have time to take back. It must have been teased by Ah Rui's belly groan. Luo Xunfeng looked at him, and couldn't help but slightly bent his eyebrows, responding to him smile.The young man blinked, his eyes fluttering slightly, and then hurriedly lowered his eyes, turned the roast chicken a few more times, confirmed that the meat was roasted, and began to distribute it to everyone.

"Brother Su Yu, the chicken you roast is so delicious, I wish I could eat it every day!" Ah Rui took a big bite of the chicken leg, and was slightly slurred by the heat, with a satisfied expression on his face.

Su Yu slightly hooked the corner of his mouth at him, but didn't speak.

Luo Xunfeng raised his eyebrows aside, opened his mouth to take a bite of the chicken, chewed and swallowed, "Didn't you just say that you want to tell us the story of Yunzhai and the Holy Maiden?"

"Yes, yes." The boy became interested and began to tell his story——

"My elder sister's name is Shangguanyue, and she is the saint of Izumo Village."

There is such a legend about the origin of Izuyunzhai.

According to legend, hundreds of years ago, in the turbulent Qianqian Dynasty, there was a small village at the foot of the mountain here. One day a girl rescued a wounded little white snake in the forest.

A few months later, the flames of war spread to the small village, and the rebel army set fire to the village. Just when the villagers thought they had nowhere to go, the little white snake appeared, and it kept hinting that the girl would follow her. They entered a secret underground passage, walked all the way into the deep mountains, and came to a paradise that was isolated from the rest of the world.

As a result, the surviving villagers rebuilt their homes in the mountains, recuperated and multiplied, and the population gradually prospered, forming the current Izumo Village, and the village and the mountain gradually resumed communication.

But the little white snake stayed in the village all the time, and finally grew into a giant white python. With it sitting in the town, the village has always been safe and sound. The people in the village regard it as a patron saint and name it "Chitong". Then she became the first saint in the village, guarding the village with Chitong, and usually doing some blessings and divinations.

"Did you know that Chitong is a hundred feet long and has a head as big as a tripod. It can swallow a cow with one mouth, and its eyes are as red as blood. It doesn't listen to anyone except my sister." Ah Rui said excitedly, His eyes were shining, his hands were wide open, and he made exaggerated gestures in front of the two of them.

"Hey, is this story different from what I heard?" Luo Xunfeng said suddenly.

"What's different?" Ari asked.

"What I heard is that the girl rescued the white snake. After 1000 years, the girl was reincarnated and became a doctor, and the white snake became a woman. The two met on the broken bridge by the West Lake, and the white snake repaid her favor."

"You mean "Legend of the White Snake", right?" Ah Rui was going to seriously correct the version that Luo Xunfeng had heard, but at the end of hearing it, he realized that he was just joking around, so he couldn't help throwing the broken grass he was playing with at him.

"Hehe," Luo Xunfeng blocked his lips with a clenched fist, covering his smile, turned to look at Su Yu, and found that he was looking at himself and A Rui seriously, but he didn't even laugh.

"Brother Su Yu, tell him quickly, "Legend of the White Snake" doesn't resemble the legend of Izumozhai at all, okay?" Ah Rui said at this time.

"..." Su Yu looked slightly embarrassed and did not speak.

"Su Yu, have you heard the story of "Legend of the White Snake"?" Luo Xunfeng asked.

Su Yu shook his head slightly, "Su Yu is ignorant, please forgive me, young master."

"What about "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai"?" Ah Rui asked.

Su Yu still shook his head.

"What about "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl"?"

"..."

"What about "Jingwei Filling the Sea"?"

"..."

"Ah, brother Su Yu, why haven't you heard any stories? When I was young, I could see them whenever I went to the shadow puppet show in the town, and my parents would also tell stories to me." Ah Rui said in surprise.

"..." Su Yu pursed her lips slightly, but still shook her head.

"Okay, if you haven't heard it, you haven't heard it, and not everyone likes to hear those messy stories." Luo Xunfeng interrupted, "I haven't heard of it...the "Jingwei Reclamation of the Sea". "He said and glanced at Su Yu, Su Yu happened to be looking at him too, his eyes moved slightly.

"By the way, is your family descended from the first generation of saintesses?" Luo Xunfeng blocked what Ah Rui was about to say with a question.

"No," Ah Rui said, "The saintesses in Izumozhai cannot marry for life. When each generation of saintesses is old, they select a successor from the unmarried girls in the village, impart relevant knowledge to her, and Let her be recognized by Chitong, and after her death, the next saint will officially take the throne, of course, the girl who is selected as the successor is the best in terms of appearance, spirituality and character!" Ah Rui showed pride, Suddenly there was a flash of melancholy, and he said, "Although it is a good thing for my sister to be chosen as a saint, it also sacrificed a lot."

"What did you sacrifice?" Luo Xunfeng asked.

"Not being able to marry is not considered a sacrifice?" Ah Rui said, "Life is incomplete without a woman who is not married and has children!"

"Pfft..." A piece of dried meat almost sprayed out from Luo Xun's mouth.

"Master?" Su Yu hurriedly handed over the water bag.

Luo Xunfeng waved his hand, raised his eyebrows at Su Yu and said, "I almost thought that my third aunt had come back to life. Have you seen her a few years ago? She loves to say that."

"........."

"Feng Luoxun! Is this funny?" Ah Rui said angrily from the side.

"Sorry," Luo Xunfeng raised his eyebrows, but the expression on his face didn't match the words he said, "I just didn't expect that you would say the same thing as my third aunt."

"I also heard from the grandmothers in the village. I had argued with them before, saying that they were jealous of my sister. Later, I felt that what they said was also reasonable. If you can't talk about love for the rest of your life, how lonely it would be With that said, Ah Rui secretly glanced at Su Yu.

"Uh...it's really hard to say, it depends on your sister's own feelings." Luo Xunfeng squeezed his chin and said, "Being a saint is troublesome, falling in love with a saint is even more troublesome. It's not that there are stories about the world where heroes fall in love with each other." Saintess, you have to leave in the end, choose one of the left and right doors, is it a life or death story?"

"What...a story?" Ah Rui asked in a daze.

Luo Xunfeng looked at him and Su Yu, and saw the same curiosity in their eyes. The corner of his mouth twitched, and said, "So you haven't heard of it, so do you want to hear it?"

The two in front of them nodded in unison.

Luo Xunfeng cleared his throat and began to tell his story——

Legend has it that there is a hero in the rivers and lakes, who is unrestrained, unrestrained, chivalrous, light-hearted, and surrounded by flowers, but he finally fell in love with a mysterious saint/saint, and after going through hardships, he stayed in the saint/religion, and the saint The female cultivator was successful, and the saint was pregnant with his child, but the saint/religion was isolated from the world, and the hero was born free, and gradually felt pain in such a life. The saint found out his pain and offered to let him leave.To leave the holy/religion, you need to choose a path from the left and right doors, one is the path of life, and the other is the path of death. Just when the hero was about to choose, the saint winked at him secretly...

"And then?" Ah Rui asked eagerly, holding his face.

"Then the story is over, leaving everyone with a space for imagination."

"Ah? How is it possible? Has the hero left? Will he go back? I think the saint is so stupid!"

"How stupid?"

"If the saint loves the hero, she should try her best to keep him. The two will be together forever. How can she take the initiative to let the hero go?"

"I think I can understand the saint," Luo Xunfeng said. "Because of her status, she has to accept the fate. If she insists on keeping the hero by her side, she may be happy now. Does the hero bring misfortune? Instead of doing this, it is better to let the hero go and let the hero find a life that is more suitable for him." As he said, he crossed his arms and looked at the fire.

"It's not good that lovers can't be together, two people should live and die together!" Ah Rui said.

Luo Xunfeng glanced at A Rui's slightly childish expression, curled his lips into a slight smile, and there was a trace of sourness and helplessness in his smile.

"Brother Su Yu, what do you think?" Ah Rui turned his head to Su Yu, and saw that Su Yu was staring at Luo Xunfeng's side face with deep eyes.

"What?" Su Yu seemed to have just recovered.

"Should lovers live and die together?"

"..."

Hearing Ah Rui's question, Luo Xunfeng also looked at Su Yu.

The young man sat beside the fire, with a tall and straight figure, tall black hair, and handsome features. The flames danced beside him. He raised his eyes and looked at Luo Xunfeng, and Luo Xunfeng was clearly reflected in his deep eyes. reflection.

Then he lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, "I think it's enough to stay by someone's side, to stand in front of him when there is danger, to die for him when you need to die, to be able to protect him well, and to be yourself." Die without regret."

Luo Xunfeng's pupils dilated suddenly, his nose trembled slightly, and he turned his gaze to one side.

"Uh, I don't think this is as good as living and dying together." Ah Rui scratched his forehead and said.

Luo Xunfeng took a deep breath, and said to Ah Rui, "You have read too many stories, they are all half-truths. I guess, apart from the huge size of the giant python in Izuyunzhai, if there is no There is nothing magical about legends."

"That's not it!" Ah Rui said to him, "There is a treasure on Chitong's body, it is his forehead scale, it is said that it can shape meridians and detoxify all kinds of poisons. Our village once gave a piece of tribute to the current saint!"

After finishing speaking, he suddenly covered his mouth, looked at Luo Xunfeng and Su Yu cautiously, and asked, "You won't tell others, will you?"

"Heh, the legend, I don't want to talk nonsense to make people laugh." Luo Xunfeng laughed, "If it's true, wouldn't your village have made a fortune with that treasure?"

"It's true!" Ah Rui said, "I heard that Sheng/shang later gave the scale to General Zhenyuan. The general fought at the border and was poisoned by the strange poison of the Western Regions. Taking the scales from the lower skin has no effect, it must be taken from its normal scales. No one can forcibly take the scales. The piece of tribute was the former saint who prayed for the saint/shang for 49 days. Chitong took the initiative Shedding, so it's very rare."

"So amazing?" Luo Xunfeng touched his chin.

"Well," Ah Rui nodded, "Although we are not afraid of someone snatching the scales, Chitong will deal with them, but we don't want to cause trouble, so don't spread the things I told you."

"Definitely!" Luo Xunfeng nodded.

"Don't worry." Su Yu also said aside, he looked at Luo Xunfeng, and happened to see him lower his head slightly, with an imperceptible arc raised at the corner of his mouth, Su Yu couldn't help but secretly frowned.

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