I am pretending to be a villain in the world of cultivating immortals

That night, Father was seriously injured and had a high fever, and kept talking nonsense, as if clamoring for something.

Shi Shushu stood aside worriedly, he couldn't understand Dad's sleep talk, he only saw the dull and honest man whispering comfortingly in Dad's ear: "It's just two clay figurines, they will definitely sell, If they won't, I'll go and beg them..."

clay figurine?Shi Shushu noticed the key point in the words.

He suddenly remembered that a few days ago, before his eldest father came back, his father would often go to the town's open-air stage to listen to operas.

The stage is set up in the fence of the town, and the place is bustling at dusk, especially those small vendors who sell clay figurines. When they see men and women passing by, they will say a few auspicious words about the nature of their marriage, and coax them into buying a pair. For clay figurines, it will promote a good marriage for a lifetime.

Every time Dad went there, he would stare at the clay figurines on the stall for a long time, until the performances on the stage started, but people still didn't respond at all.

After coming down several times, Shi Shushu couldn't even figure out whether his father wanted to watch the play, or came to see those clay dolls specially.

Later in the early spring, Dad received a letter, and he seemed to be in a particularly good mood after reading the contents of the letter.

So they went to Goulan again that night, and Dad also went to the clay figurine stall for the first time. Under the watchful eyes of the hawker, Shi Shushu heard Dad hesitate and say: "Brother, please, I want two clay figurines... They're all male."

The peddler was originally very enthusiastic, but when he heard that the scholar in front of him wanted two male portraits, his expression changed suddenly, and he replied: "Not for sale."

After hearing this, Dad showed an expression of "he had already guessed it was like this", and then he smiled and led him towards the stage without forcing him.

At that time, Shi Shushu could not help but look back at the clay figurine stand while walking forward with his father.

He was a little angry, and he still scolded the peddler as an idiot in his heart, why didn't he make money?

At the same time, there was also an indescribable emotion stuck in his chest, because he finally understood, no wonder Dad wanted to buy clay figurines a few times ago, but finally gave up.

It turned out that Father knew the ending, and it turned out that clay figurines are not allowed to sell two male statues.

"I'll go buy it!" Shi Shushu said suddenly.

Afterwards, he took a few bloody copper coins from the hand of the big daddy, and heard the man say, "Come back after you buy it..."

Shi Shushu nodded solemnly. He held those light copper coins, but felt extra heavy, as if he was holding someone's hope in his palm.

"You must buy clay figurines with two male figures!" He kept repeating this sentence in his heart as he ran all the way.

When he was a teenager, Shi Shushu was very stubborn, otherwise, when he grows up, he will definitely understand the real intention of "buy it and come back." The real intention of this sentence is actually that his big dad is deliberately dismissing him.

But at that time, he would be wrong, thinking that he must do what he promised.It was as if he felt that it was the letter from the big daddy that gave Dad the inexplicable strength, so that Dad had the courage to speak to the peddler who bought the clay figurines. It seemed that from that moment on, he announced some earth-shattering secret to the world.

So when he held only a clay figurine in his hand and stood in the bustling fence in frustration, watching the sky start to rain again, and when tourists hurriedly gathered and separated before his eyes, he was at a loss as to where he should go .

And at the moment when he was almost burnt out by despair, a paper umbrella burst open above his head with a bang.

A boy about his age appeared in his line of sight, the visitor was a little shorter than him, so the hand holding the umbrella was raised quite high, and the other hand was holding a clay figurine to him, "This is for you, thank you for coming to listen to my play yesterday."

Shi Shushu was startled by the beautiful voice, and when he reached out to take the clay figurine, he looked into the clear eyes of the young man, remembering that he had indeed seen this person yesterday.

The night before, Father knew that people in the town wanted to ask for family rules, so he dismissed Shi Shushu half an hour earlier and asked him to go to the stage to see what was sung today, and then came back to talk to him after listening.

Shi Shushu responded casually, but it was urgent, and he was young and slow. When he reached Goulan, the play had already begun, and he sang "Qi Rulan".

It is said that a few years ago, Wan Che, the great general of the Tanlang Kingdom, was extremely brave. After he led the army to defeat a barbarian tribe who repeatedly violated the border, the Liang King was overjoyed and Wang Te decreed that Princess Yifang should be married to the general. .

After the defeat in the same month, the small barbarian country voluntarily offered the most beautiful Princess Yiqing in the tribe to make peace as a show of submission.

It's just that after Princess Yiqing entered the palace, she was not favored as a concubine because of her young age, and she only lived in the deep palace in the name of a beauty.But because of her beautiful color and good singing and dancing skills, she was very popular with the women in the harem. Even the eldest princess Yifang, who came into the palace occasionally, couldn't help but praise her.

Three years later, the Tanlang Kingdom fought against the Yi Kingdom again.

Today is different from the past, without the help of King Chun, Tan Lang defeats General Wan Che and dies.

King Liang was furious and ordered Princess Yiqing to be executed. Princess Yifang, who learned of Wan Che's death on the same day, also died of love.

Surprisingly, according to the servants who went to deliver poisoned wine to Princess Yiqing, they once found on the princess what was suspected to be in General Wan Che's mansion, it was a blood-soaked jade bracelet, and the same object was suitable for Princess Fangchang also has one, and she wears it every day and never leaves it.

It is rumored that this bracelet was originally a pair, which was given to the eldest princess as a dowry by her late mother and concubine to the general's mansion.

Now it is divided into two, and one is in the hands of Princess Yiqing. Presumably, the lover of the little princess in the tribe in the past should be General Wan.

"Outside the Spring and Autumn Pavilion, the wind and rain are blowing, where the sound of sorrow breaks the silence. There is only a sedan chair across the curtain, and it must be a newlywed crossing the magpie bridge. On auspicious days and good days, let's laugh, why are shark pearls turning into tears?"

The tone on the stage was mellow, but he had already heard about this piece of drama literature and history reading a long time ago, not to mention that he had read another version of this drama in Father's collection.

Although people in the world don't like the original appearance of this story, and they have been deleted and modified in the process of spreading, trying to conceal everything that belongs to them, but the endings of the two in the play still haven't been changed.

It's just a tragedy, why bother to cover it up so much, after all, it's just...

"It's just that the princess loves the princess." Just as Shi Shushu was about to turn around, the people on the stage sang.

There was a moment of silence, and when the spectators came back to their senses, the cheers and applause of a young man rang out along with the doubts.

Look, Dad, you said the truth of this story would never be known, and someone is singing it today in a town that can't speak love.

At this time, the figure of Chuoyue on the stage was sitting in the sedan chair, and the actor looked sad, as if he was really the woman who had passed away for many years and came from a long distance in a wedding dress, holding the blood bracelet in her hand. Princess Yiqing has a moment of soul fusion, and is crying for her beloved woman to marry someone else.

"Thank you!" At the end of the song, Shi Shushu, who woke up from his memory, thanked the moment he caught the clay figurine, and then hurried back home.

Perhaps it was the mercy of the heavens, or the pair of clay figurines really played some role in the dark.

After only one night, Dad's fever subsided, and the elders in the town did not come back to make trouble as they thought.

The three of them lived like this for several years, which they had stolen from Hades.

After his father passed away due to an old illness, that honest man spent the rest of his life on Shi Shushu. He named him Shushu, hoping that one day he could go to the outside world to have a look.

And Shi Shushu did not disappoint that person. In the second year after Daddy left, he completely escaped from Shijia Town and entered Taiyuan Academy.

When leaving home, Shi Shushu went to Goulan for the last time to inquire about the strange boy who gave him the clay figurine, but the result was still the same as before.

As he knew, the theatrical troupe where the young man belonged to had no fixed location. Usually, wherever a group of people went, the stage would be set up. There were no famous actors and actresses, and they just walked around the streets for a living.

Back then, the theater troupe was invited by the townspeople to sing a seven-day play in Shijia Town, but they didn't want something to happen on the way, a musician who played the piano died, and someone reported to the government, so naturally the play couldn't continue up.

No one was found.

After Shi Shushu entered Taiyuan Academy, he was famous for his hard work in his studies.Because at that time, like many students in this world, he still had a passion and a pure heart.It may be possible to be an official if a secular prejudice that cannot be changed by ordinary people.

But when he followed his classmates who were already in high positions, he saw the ups and downs of the officialdom.

At the Qionglin banquet, what did he see in front of the jade steps?

It's just another way of exacerbating, hypocrisy and obedience.

Therefore, he gave up scientific research and followed his mentor to revise the old history and text books of the six countries. He knew the poems, lyrics and music of the world, all of which were orthodox models in the Tai Academy, so he rewrote the libretto of "Qi Rulan" to spread to the world.

In fact, he doesn't want much, just to meet again in the future, he wants his young man to stand upright on the stage and sing the line "It's just that the princess loves the princess!"

The crackling sound of the flames exploded in his ears, Shi Shushu broke free from the shackles of the vines with the help of Xiao Yinzi, and he stretched out his arms to hug the boy in white with a hint of confusion in his eyes.

"I have no regrets since I found you." Shi Shushu wept with joy, he was sure that he did not admit the wrong person, it was really him.

He found his shadow in Su Xuanzhi's memory.It turns out that he is not the only one who remembers the short-term intersection when they were young.

It needs to be known that the sea of ​​people is vast, and before today, Shi Shushu was not sure at all, and he had no hope of meeting the person in his arms again. In the future, he would spend his whole life looking for Su Xuanzhi.

So yesterday, he has just turned 23, and he already feels old.

Someone once asked him why he gave up the stable and prosperous life of ordinary people, and instead pursued the illusory immortality of immortality.

He replied, if you can't find him as a mortal, then go to seek immortality, and as an immortal, he will have enough time to find him.

If he finds it by luck, he is not afraid of the difference between immortals and mortals, and life and death will be different.

He knows very well that the immortal has the important task of protecting the common people, but he is not that great, he only wants to protect this one person.

and so……

"Xuanzhi, what is your regret? How can I help you?" Shi Shushu asked softly.