Shaojun riding the sea

On the top of Qixia Mountain, the setting sun fills the sky, and the cold wind passes through the surrounding fields. A strange floral fragrance permeates the evening wind. The fragrance seems to be mixed with the strongest wine in the world, making people feel dizzy. As if he was drunk, his limbs were so weak that he could no longer move.

"Third sister, aren't you very capable? You know hundreds of medicinal herbs. Do you know what kind of flowers you are planting in the sea of ​​flowers you are now in?"

Shi Xuanqin raised her chin slightly and looked proudly at the wedding dress standing in the sea of ​​flowers. Everything was as she expected. Shi Xuanling couldn't let go of the clues about her mother's remains and was willing to gamble with her in the new house.

She successfully took the bride away and left quietly through an abandoned back door of the mansion, where she had prepared a carriage. Holding the token given by Prince An, she left the city unimpeded and went straight to This one comes from Qixia Mountain.

This small sea of ​​flowers on the top of the mountain took her a lot of effort. Not to mention the hardships in the transplantation, just asking for these ancient road mandalas from Prince An took a lot of effort on her part. The fat pig of Prince Hao'an is still interested in her. The more she neglects him and rejects him thousands of miles away, the more he desperately wants to get her and spends a lot of money to please her.

The last time she went to Anjun Prince's Mansion, she just curled her fingers a little, smiled at the dead fat pig, and whispered some soft words in his ear, and he was fascinated and allowed her to take whatever she wanted.

Everything went so smoothly. Before coming to Qixia Mountain, she had already taken the flower seeds of the ancient Datura. Its petals, branches and leaves were all filled with strange poisons, but the flower seeds were the antidote. She was well prepared. When you come here, you naturally want to make sure that you will not be invaded by flower toxins.

The sunset was as bright as a dream, and the wind on the top of the mountain swept over the beautiful dreamy wedding dress. The bride stood in the sea of ​​flowers, a floating light leaping among the gold, but her clear brown eyes just watched quietly. Shi Xuanqin never said a word.

Then Shi Xuanqin smiled more happily, and she was even a little unusually excited: "Why, Third Sister, do you really not know this kind of flower? Let me tell you, it is called the ancient mandala, and it comes from the very far west desert. You Now do you feel that your limbs are stiff and you can’t move?”

Shi Xuanling still didn't say a word, still standing motionless in the sea of ​​flowers, with only one pair of eyes becoming calmer and deeper.

The strong wind blew up Shi Xuanqin's long skirt. She took out a delicate short knife from her arms and smiled very charmingly:
"It's true that my painstaking planning finally trapped you in this sea of ​​​​mandala flowers on this ancient road. Shi Xuanling, I know that you have been a doctor since you were a child, and you have the ability to be invulnerable to all poisons. Ordinary poisons can't hurt you at all, so I just went through a lot of trouble to transplant this sea of ​​flowers specifically for you. How about it, aren't you very powerful? I want to see if you can still get away this time?"

The sharp and sarcastic laughter echoed on the top of the mountain. Shi Xuanling stared at the ecstatic peacock for a long time before asking coldly:

"My mother-in-law's remains were not buried on Qixia Mountain. It was all a trap set by you, just to lure me here. You don't even know where her bones are, right?"

"Of course I don't know. Do you really think that my mother would go to the cemetery to do anything? She thinks it's unlucky. Who knows where your mother's bones have flown to! How can I lure you out without using your mother as a cover? It's such a pity to ruin your wedding with Ah Yue today, third sister, you lost this bet!"

Facing Shi Xuanqin's sarcastic ridicule, the bride in the sea of ​​flowers showed no sign of anger. She just continued to ask calmly: "Then how did you get my grandma's green sandalwood comb? Have you ever touched her coffin? ?”

Now this comb is in her arms, and she can never admit it. It is indeed the one she put into her mother's coffin with her own hands. Today, it is precisely because of this "genuine" relic that she can admit it. Only then would she agree to a bet with Shi Xuanqin, even if there was only a one in [-] chance, but it was related to her mother, and she would never let go of any clues.

Hearing Shi Xuanling mention the green sandalwood comb that played a key role, Shi Xuanqin laughed even more happily. It was like God was helping her. The coincidence of many years ago actually allowed her to borrow an east wind today and get what she got in vain. A great help!

"I saw you put this wooden comb into your mother's coffin with my own eyes. Later, you were stopped outside the Shi family cemetery, but I entered the cemetery with my mother and witnessed the entire burial ceremony. It's a coincidence. The coffin was made of a kind of precious ebony and was much heavier than ordinary coffins. During the burial, the servants who carried the coffin were exhausted and their hands slipped. One of them couldn't lift it safely. Guess what happened? ?”

The coffin lid was knocked crooked, exposing a gap, and the green sandalwood comb fell down, and by chance was kicked to Shi Xuanqin's feet.

At that time, everyone was busy stabilizing the coffin and re-arranging the heavy coffin lid. No one noticed that a small wooden comb fell out of the coffin, and Shi Xuanqin did not say anything, just in the chaos. , gently raised his foot and stepped on the wooden comb quietly.

She remembered her mother's sneer at the side when she saw Shi Xuanling putting the wooden comb into the coffin: "I was an ugly woman when I was alive. Do I think that by being buried with a broken comb, I can become a beauty underground?" God still It was as if she heard her mother's voice. An ugly woman did not deserve to be buried with any toiletries. The wild girl's thoughts were completely ruined. She stepped on the green sandalwood comb under her feet and felt a breath of anger for her mother. .

Later, when no one was paying attention, she knelt down and quietly hid the wooden comb in her sleeve, and secretly brought it back to Shi's house.

Naturally, such an unlucky thing was not worthy of being placed in her boudoir. She had an idea and an extremely sinister idea came to her mind. She put the comb in a small box and buried it in Shi Xuanling's house. Live under an old Chinese chrysanthemum tree next to the attic.

There is a saying among the people of Dongmu that Chun wood suppresses hundreds of ghosts, and evil spirits will never be reincarnated. She deliberately buried this "relic" under the old Chun tree, not only with the idea of ​​suppressing the souls of the deceased, but also because the old Chun tree was next to the attic. ——

The wild girl lives in the attic every day and misses her deceased mother, but she has no idea that the relics she sent to be buried with her are buried under the chun tree. People in the house pass by here from time to time, right under her nose, day after day. Trampling on that relic, what an ironic joke!

At this point, Shi Xuanqin couldn't help but hold her hands and laugh, and she was finally satisfied to see a crack in Shi Xuanling's calm face in the sea of ​​flowers.

The girl's brown eyes stared closely at the peacock with a distorted smile. She didn't know whether it was anger or sadness. Her chest was rising and falling, and it took a long time before she said:
"You are really hopeless. It turns out that people's hearts can be so bad. Thank you for telling me this, and thank you that your nature has not changed over the years. Then, I don't have to think about that year anymore... Yes The 'Second Sister' I saved once, I don't need to be merciful to you anymore."

"Who wants you to be merciful? I am the one who should say this today. It is you who have fallen into my trap. Whether you live or die depends on my thoughts. Do you understand, you damn girl!"

Shi Xuanqin screamed in the wind. She pointed angrily at the scar on her face that no longer existed, gritted her teeth and said: "Do you know? The arrow you shot at me in the Shi family cemetery that day, even if the wound recovered as before , but I can still dream about that scene every night. I have never suffered such shame and humiliation, especially in front of Ah Yue!"

In every night's nightmare, that sharp long arrow seemed to hit her with strong wind. No matter how hard she tried to hide, she could not escape. But compared to the bloody wound on her face, the more painful wound was that of A Yue in the cemetery. That cold look he looked at her!
"He changed his mind because of you. As long as you disappear from this world, Ayue will come back to me again. He will definitely come back to me..."

In the midst of those words filled with hatred, Shi Xuanqin pulled out his short knife, his face twisted, and walked step by step into the sea of ​​flowers, towards the dazzling and beautiful wedding dress in the sunset.

The peacock on her shoulder also went completely crazy at this moment. The extremely strong jealousy and unwillingness actually overlapped with the figure who went to the bamboo forest courtyard to stimulate Mu Nanzhi decades ago.

Killing intent permeated the sea of ​​flowers. In the vast glow of the mountain top, the bride remained motionless, coldly watching the woman approaching with the knife raised, her eyes as clear as snow.

There wasn't even a trace of fear on her face, but her brown eyes became clearer and clearer, looking straight at Shi Xuanqin, which made her breathe trembling, and inexplicably appeared in front of her eyes, where she almost fell from the attic many years ago. That scene when——

Why did she save this girl that day?If she had been allowed to fall from the attic and lose her life, would everything be different today?If it had to happen again, would she still save her?Will she let go of the hand that... holds her tightly?
In a daze, Shi Xuanqin's breathing became more rapid, and the words Shi Xuanling said to her in the new house suddenly echoed in her ears:
"I just want to tell you, second sister, there was once, once, a moment in the Shi family when I... truly regarded you as my sister."

My heart felt hot, and for some reason, the hand holding the knife trembled violently, and it was still unable to move towards the wedding dress, and towards the white and soft neck.

The sound of rustling wind passed by his ears, Shi Xuanqin stared hard at those brown eyes, gritted his teeth, and after struggling for a long time, he suddenly tilted the tip of the knife upward——

"I won't kill you, Shi Xuanling. I just want you to taste what I felt like back then, and I want you to repay me tenfold. Since you shot me in the face with a bow and arrow and left a bloody scar on my face, then I I'm going to make ten cuts on your face today. Your face shouldn't look like mine in the first place. If not, if you destroy it today, you will lose your beauty from now on, just like that ugly and weird mother of yours!"