How many times rose flowers

Chapter 8

It was night, the moon was still bright in the sky, and the moonlight poured into the window, like spring water pouring down the desk.

Jixue holds the pen and draws on the rice paper those bizarre things in yesterday's dream.

Who is Yuzhen?Who is Anian?Who is Li Bai?Why do I have the memory of Ah Nian?Does Hua Ci know something?She knows Li Bai?Is this matter related to Mr. Yuxu again?

As the questions came down one after another, Jixue felt dizzy, as if several bees were buzzing in her ears.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom—" There was a regular knock on the window.Jixue raised her head, there was a boy in white leaning against the window, it was Gan Tang.

Gan Tang chewed the dogtail grass, but did not speak.

"What's wrong with you?" Sensing Gantang's abnormal mood, Jixue asked with concern.

"If someone you respect a lot asked you to do something that might not be right, would you agree to him?" Gan Tang said.

"Since you think it's incorrect, then don't do it." Ji Xue turned out the window and leaned against the wall next to him.

"But I promised him. That's wrong, isn't it?" Gan Tang stared at the bright moon in the sky in a daze.He seems to have seen the high heavenly emperor and his gracious entrustment.False, all false.Thinking of this, Gan Tang felt an inexplicable pain in his heart.

"As long as you haven't fulfilled your promise, it's not too late. Gantang, do you trust me?" Jixue said.

Gan Tang nodded without hesitation.

"Then follow your heart and do it. I believe in you too." Jixue continued.

In memory, that person also said the same thing.

"Gantang, I believe in you. No one else can do this except you. You have to believe in yourself." That person's voice seemed to be right next to his ears.

"Then what if I can't trust myself?" Gan Tang asked.

"Then trust me. And I trust your own heart." The man smiled, giving him strength invisibly.

"You came to see me today, what's the matter?" Ji Xue said, bringing Gan Tang back to reality.

"Bring on your saber, call Chi Mu and Nian Gui, and come with me." Gan Tang just remembered his purpose for coming to Chaomu Pavilion.

After a while, the four disguised themselves and slipped into a dilapidated house that looked like a woodshed.Gan Tang twisted the mechanism on the wall a few times, and a dark passage appeared beside the wall.Jixue did not expect that there would be such a place in Yanguimen.

The passage snaked downwards, and after about a stick of incense, a door appeared on the stone wall in front.

"Why can't this door be opened?" Chi Mu asked in a low voice.As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he realized that he had asked nonsense.If it was so easy, why would Gantang ask them for it?

"This lock looks like it was thousands of years ago. I asked many craftsmen, and they all..." Gan Tang was halfway through speaking, when he saw Jixue easily take off a hairpin from her head, insert it into the lock, and the door burst open open.

Jixue raised her eyebrows and walked in, leaving only the three stunned.

Inside the door is a secret room.No, it is more appropriate to say that it is a cage.There was a bloody smell in the cage, the blood stains everywhere, and the chains hanging from it all made people have bad associations.

The unkempt man was tied up in a corner, and the scars on his body had not yet healed, which looked shocking.Blood gushed out from the wound, and the man fucked for a while, as if knowing that no one would appear, he gritted his teeth and closed his eyes again.

This was what the three of them saw when they entered the door.

"You are..." Looking at the figure of that person, Gan Tang felt somewhat familiar, but couldn't remember who it was.

Hearing his voice, the man raised his head slowly.His face was pale and ugly, and his lips were also purple. It looked like he had been poisoned.

"Master?" Gan Tang walked forward hesitantly, scrutinized that person carefully, and found that that person was Sect Leader Yu who had disappeared from the sights of all factions not long ago due to illness.

"You... why are you here, hurry... go!" Headmaster Yu's voice was broken.

"Master, who harmed you, you tell the disciple, the disciple must..."

"No, no need...you can't help it."

no way?Gantang is the god of Penglai, how could the god have no way to do it.However, just a second ago, Gan Tang deeply felt what it means to be powerless.

He is God, but God is not omnipotent.As a god, he couldn't even save a dying mortal, how ridiculous and ironic.

Nian Gui is a disciple of Medicine Sect, he stepped forward to check the injury of Sect Leader Yu, but shook his head after a while.

"Forgive my incompetence, I have never seen this kind of poison, and I don't know how to detoxify it."

"No...it's okay. I don't live long, I know. You...don't worry about me anymore, cough, it's useless." Headmaster Yu waved his hand.

After approaching, Jixue clearly noticed a familiar aroma of herbs.Is it... forget you grass?

……

In front of the main hall of the Yangui Sect, a girl in a black robe stood holding a fan, with no joy or anger on her face.The maid helped her into the main hall, the girl showed no humility, and sat on the head of the sect.

"My daughter, Yu Jiu, possesses both talents and virtues, and she has a good personality. Today, I will pass on the throne to you. I hope you will live up to everyone's expectations..."

After the Xuanli officer finished reading the long Zen edict, all His Highness knelt in front of the hall, "See the head."

"Everyone, please stand up." Hua Ci straightened her sleeves with an indifferent look.

Everyone in the audience was discussing.

"Why would the head pass the seat to her? With a good looks, she should stay in the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion."

"That's right. Didn't the head of the sect accept her as a righteous daughter because he coveted her beauty? It sounds nice."

"Let's not talk about the head of the sect, which elder in the Yangui sect doesn't think so? It's just to be a teacher, so it shouldn't be too obvious."

"Just say what you say, don't involve me."

"What do you mean?"

Several elders quarreled endlessly, and one of them was the elder who played chess with Huaci that day.He was the only one present who knew Huaci's identity.

Huaci listened to their conversation in a flurry, with a slight smile on the corner of her mouth.She was also afraid that the elders would unite to the outside world, but now it saves her the trouble of sowing discord.

"Cough, everyone, please be quiet, let me say a few words." Huaci coughed a few times.The hall fell silent instantly, and even the sound of a needle being dropped could be heard.

"The world of martial arts has always been based on martial arts, today I am the successor, if there is anyone who refuses to accept, you can compete with me, life or death, how about it?" Hua Ci said.

Everyone in the hall was taken aback.Everyone knew that Ms. Yu was a sick child who didn't know martial arts. This was said by the head of the house himself, and they believed it.Could it be that Miss Yu's martial arts has improved by leaps and bounds in just a few months?

No one believed it.

Outside the hall, everyone boarded the martial arts platform.There were quite a few people around the table, most of them were waiting to see Miss Yu's jokes.Huaci's eyes were pale, and there was no sign of panic.

"Let's go up together." Hua Cixin held a folding fan in his hand, covering half of his face, making him even more coquettish.However, what was exposed behind the folding fan was not a beautiful woman's smile, but a pair of murderous eyes.

"Rampant!" Everyone felt insulted.

"Oh?" Hua Ci's tone was a little playful, "I wasted my time, maybe you can afford it?"

Without saying a word, everyone made a move together.Huaci turned sideways slightly, avoiding the attack of a long sword, and joked calmly: "Compared with hers, your swordsmanship is really far behind."

With just a slight twist of the wrist, the folding fan was forcefully inserted into the man's chest.The man vomited a mouthful of blood and fell down under the martial arts platform.

But in the blink of an eye, Huaci glanced at the audience, looked at the blood-stained white paper fan with disgust, and threw the fan aside with some pity.Coincidentally, it hit the elder who just got up from the ground.

The elder who was hit only felt a pain in his head and passed out.

Everyone was beaten so weakly that they lay down on the steps below the martial arts arena with blood in their mouths.They didn't dare to look directly at the girl who looked only twenty-eight years old. This was the first time that many of them felt so shocking and fearful.

"Is it still better?" Huaci's tone was laziness, as if it was just a warm-up.

Everyone quickly shook their heads.

The succession ceremony has come to an end.This time, Hua Cizhuo really stood up in front of everyone, even if it was less than one-tenth of her strength.

At this moment, Chaomu Pavilion.

Jixue couldn't remember how she walked back to Chaomu Pavilion that day, but only remembered the scene where Gantang buried her head in her arms and was trembling.Because just when she sensed the smell of Nessence Grass, a hidden arrow shot through Sect Master Yu's throat.

She closed her eyes in pain.

She had another nightmare.

In the dream, I was still a five-year-old child.The day my mother died, catkins were flying all over the city, and it was snowing thousands of miles away.She carried her mother's body alone, walked for three days and three nights, and buried her on a small hillside on the outskirts of the city.

It was very cold at night, and she was walking alone on the street, feeling unspeakable pain in her heart.

After tonight, she will have no mother.

When Xiao Jixue cried and called her mother's name, no one would come to wipe her tears away.

Jixue woke up crying.Since the death of her mother, she has never shown a crying expression in front of people. The last time she cried was when the master passed away.

Wait, Jixue suddenly realized something.My mother died when I was a few months old, it was just a nightmare.

That being the case, why, am I so sad?Jixue couldn't speak, tossing and turning on the bed.

Outside the window, Hua Ci's hand knocking on the door hangs in the air.

Jixue, are you crying?

Huaci made a silent gesture to the maid outside the house, and left Chaomu Pavilion.Jixue definitely doesn't want others to see her vulnerable side, so why should she bother?

In the early morning of the second day, Jixue was woken up by the voices of Chi Mu and Nian Gui talking outside the door.

She put on a dark green robe casually, washed up, and opened the door.

The garden is full of spring outside the door.

"What happened?" Jixue said.

"Today, Chi Mu and I heard that you are not in good condition, so we came to take a look. We just walked into the yard and found a wounded eagle with this note." Nian Gui handed a note to her. .

Jixue unfolded the note, which probably wrote about the recent situation of Xiuyuanmen, but what was slightly more important was that Elder Zhaohe had ascended to the position of head of the sect.

"Senior Sister, are you alright?" Chi Mu asked worriedly with the dark green robe against which Jixue was a bit shabby.

"I'm fine. Did you go to visit Gan Tang? Headmaster Yu passed away, and he is the saddest person." Jixue said.She has a deep understanding of the pain of watching the master die in front of her but being helpless.

"No. Sister, do you know who sent this note?" Nian Gui said.

"The handwriting is very familiar, but I just can't remember it." Jixue was also very surprised.She almost never forgot it, but she didn't expect this note to make her feel worried.

The two didn't say anything more.

……

At this time, the territory of the ghost clan, Jiuyou City.

Inside the Hall of Bones, a man in red stood with his hands behind his back.

"魑." It was a cold voice.

"My lord." Seeing the visitor, Chi turned around and saluted.

"Yes." Huaci waved his hand, indicating that there is no need to be formal.

"I heard that the lord has met the person you want to see during this trip?" Chi asked.

"Hmm." Hua Ci responded in a low voice.

Chi no longer said more, quietly waiting for the next article.

Sure enough, Huaci said again: "This trip was originally to find out the news, but I happened to see the descendants of the Yu family. Heh, the Yu family really hasn't changed at all in the past thousand years."

"The master wants his subordinates to deal with the Yu family?" Chi said.

"No need. I've already taken care of the one surnamed Yu." Hua Ci lazily leaned on the couch of the Lord of the Hall of Bones, and ate a grape in a leisurely manner.

Seeing Princess Nine lazily leaning on the couch, ordinary people might only think that she is a rare beauty, but Chi couldn't help shivering.It seemed that what she ate was not grapes, but her own flesh and blood.Chi can't imagine anymore.

"Qi, why don't you talk? These grapes are quite sweet, do you want to try them?" Huaci still smiled as always, and handed the plate of grapes to Qi.

"Thank you, Lord, for the reward." Chi took the plate of grapes tremblingly, but dared not say anything.

"魑." Huaci called him again, like a reminder.

Chi had no choice but to peel a grape according to the Lord's will, and ate it.Hua Ci nodded in satisfaction.

The moment the grapes were swallowed, Chi vomited blood and died.

"魑." The voice echoed in the Hall of Bones, but no one responded.

"Qi, are you going to betray me too?" Hua Ci slowly took out the jade pendant given to him by the priest from the Xuanyi of Chi.

"Then I have no choice but to let you be loyal before betrayal." Hua Ci smiled harmlessly, and the kid outside the temple couldn't help trembling with fright when seeing this scene.

On the other side, the priest received a black box.

Inside the box is Chi's head and a sentence.

"Then I have no choice but to let you be loyal before you betray."

A pun.That was the final warning to the priest.

The geese return to the mountain behind the gate, and the aroma of pear blossoms fills the mountains and plains.The flowers bloom like snow, and the flowers fall like butterflies.Jixue was lying on a tree, singing an unknown tune.

A blue figure flashed before his eyes.

? ? ?There were countless question marks in Jixue's head.

The next second, she was blindfolded.

There was a faint scent of roses coming from the tip of the nose, mixed with the smell of pear blossoms, but it didn't seem to conflict.

"Ah Jiu." Jixue forcibly tore off those hands.

Before Jixue could speak again, Hua Ci sniffed the scent of roses on her body, and she knew it in her heart.

"Next time, we should cover the nose of the fairy sister."

Jixue was still a little unaccustomed to this name, and coughed a few times.Huaci's eyes are bright, when she looks at her, it seems like there are stars in her eyes, making the setting sun eclipsed.

"Here." Hua Ci handed her a small box.The box is made of mahogany, very beautiful.

Jixue said thanks and opened the box.Inside the box was a rose flower carved from pearls and jade.The jade carvings are small and lifelike, giving people the illusion of seeing roses in full bloom.

"What a beautiful rose." Jixue couldn't help but marvel.

"Bang——" Suddenly, fireworks sounded from the sky.

"Ah Jiu, look!" Jixue turned her head, the sky was full of fireworks, and a grand firework was reflected in her eyes.

It was nightfall, and the fireworks bloomed in the night sky, like a flash in the pan, but enough to make Jixue feel happy.

Jixue closed her eyes, clasped her hands together, and made a good wish.When I opened my eyes, the fireworks had fallen into the dust and disappeared.

"What wish did Sister Immortal make?" Hua Ci said.

"Well," Jixue thought about it seriously, and finally said only one sentence, "I won't tell you."

"The fairy sister, do you want to know what I wished?" Hua Ci had rare longing in his eyes.

Jixue nodded naturally.When I close my ears, I only hear one sentence:

"I'm not telling you either."