floating snow

When you grow old in the mountains and forests, you dream, and the bells and drums are more fresh after the rain.

When you are not old, you have reached the mountains and forests, so you can live up to your youth.

The bells and drums sounded after the rain, and the empty mountains and quiet forests played freshly.

"Shi Junzi, Emperor Wen has fulfilled your request."

"...Mr. Wen Huang, you are too serious."

"Hey, God Gu Wen Huang, always treats people with sincerity."

It was just a game of chess, Shi Yanwen forced a smile and said, "...Thank you."

Xie Bi, Shi Yanwen couldn't help being distracted again, the long crack that spread from the ground to the wall, the momentum of splitting the house in two with one stroke cannot be explained by just sparring, Shi Yanwen couldn't help but took a step towards Su Zhenzhen , asked: "I wonder if Yanwen is lucky enough to know how things developed to this point?"

Su Zhenzhen smiled wryly, looking helpless at the ground that was divided into two: "It's just an accident."

Shi Yanwen raised her eyebrows, a little in disbelief: "You lost?"

"Not lost."

Shi Yanwen was silent, then looked at the god Gu Wen Huang: "Mr. Wen Huang..."

The god Gu Wenhuang smiled, and said: "It sounds like Shi Junzi thinks that Wenhuang will definitely lose?"

This statement is dangerous.

Shi Yanwen cleverly bypassed this topic: "If Yanwen thinks so, why would I ask my husband to fight for me?"

"Ha," Shen Gu Wen Huang said with a smile without saying anything, "It's just a bit of entertainment."

Shi Yanwen was a little confused, the two people's rhetoric obviously did not match, one had no intentions and the other had intentions, but it seemed to be peaceful... maybe.

Seeing his vacillating appearance, God Gu Wen Huang picked up the fan from the only intact table and said, "Since Mr. Shi is safe, Wen Huang will return to the Pearl Tower."

"Wait a minute," Shi Yanwen hurriedly asked to stay, "Mr. Wen Huang, maybe it will be a big wedding in a few days. Why don't Mr. Wen Huang stay to be a witness? At that time, maybe Mr. Akabane will also come."

"Oh?"

Shi Yanwen nodded, her blue eyes filled with sincerity, and said: "Mr. Wen Huang, it's rare to be free, why not enjoy the pleasures of the world?"

Well...

It is not impossible.

"Since the host is doing all they can to invite you, how can Emperor Wen have any reason to refuse?" He glanced at Su Zhenzhen, "It must be very impressive when everyone gathers on that day."

The next step is to clean up the mess.

After inviting the person out of the backyard, Shi Yanwen felt helpless and sighed, "What's going on?"

"It was an accident," Su Huanzhen still didn't change his words, took him to see the chessboard, put the person in his position, and stood behind him, "and it was a very dangerous accident."

Shi Yanwen had expected it a long time ago, but seeing the completely chaotic chessboard, he still couldn't help being surprised. Enduring curiosity to figure it out, he suddenly pointed to a piece and said, "Although this piece survived the dragon, it is not beneficial to the future situation." At the place, it was very reluctant to save the situation, and it was a tie... Is it really your fault?"

Su really nodded.

Shi Yanwen narrowed her eyes slightly, and commented truthfully: "It's a stinky move."

"This is the accident." Su Zhenzhen smiled lowly, and picked out the one.

"What's going on?" Shi Yanwen said meaningfully, "It's impossible for Suxian to make way for his son."

Su Zhenzhen couldn't help laughing, and put that piece in Shi Yanwen's hands: "If this child is allowed, Sumou will regret it. It's really an accident. The god Gu Wenhuang, the chess game is unpredictable, and Sumou's scheming is also unstoppable." If you are not cautious, you must deal with it carefully, who knows..."

Shi Yanwen turned sideways and looked up at him: "How do you know?"

"I don't know..." Su Zhenzhen paused on purpose, slowly lowered his head, and approached his face, "He suddenly asked me..."

Shi Yanwen suddenly froze.

……

"You are asked to test, not to compete with swords!" The man in the mirror glared at him, "What's the result?"

God Gu Wen Huang said unhurriedly: "Wen Huang has to say, when meeting Su Zhenzhen, Shi Junzi has a pure heart, and I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to defend himself."

The man in the mirror sneered, "What else?"

"What else?" God Gu Wenhuang smiled.

"Don't play tricks on me! God Gu Wenhuang!"

"Oh, my friend, why bother to be impatient?" God Gu Wenhuang looked at the clay figurine on the ground, "Didn't I already ask?"

"asked?"

"asked."

"...how did you ask?"

"Emperor Wen treats people with sincerity, so he is naturally outspoken."

Cang Jingren's face turned dark immediately, he gritted his teeth and said angrily: "God, Gu, Wen, Huang!"

The god Gu Wenhuang was not afraid, and said: "Friend, this kind of thing, the effect of asking directly, isn't it better to see a person's sincerity than insinuating?"

The man in the mirror looked at him gloomyly for a long time, then suddenly turned around and asked coldly, "What did he say?"

"He says……"

Cangjingren waited patiently for the answer.

Shen Gu Wenhuang slowly shook the feather fan.

The corner of the mirror man's eyebrows twitched, approaching the precursor of anger.

God Gu Wenhuang opened his mouth: "'This sentence, of course, has to be the first to say it to Yanwen, so it makes sense.'"

"...God Gu Wenhuang!!"

Cang Jingren finally couldn't hold back his anger, he raised his shield and was about to smash it down, but was forced back by God Gu Wenhuang's words again.

"Speaking of which," God Gu Wenhuang blinked, "The clay figurine at my friend's feet seems to be very similar to Mo Quan."

The mirror man's hands are already shaking,

The god Gu Wenhuang seemed to be proud of his indifferent smile, he was "invited" from the Huanzhu Tower by the Cangjing people forcibly, and he always had to accept some gifts in return.

boom!

The shield fell.

The Tibetan mirror man looked up to the sky and shouted: "Bright moonlight! Come out for me!"

Shi Zhongyi, who had just recovered, heard the words, gloated and said: "Hey, there is a good show to watch." After saying that, he turned around and raised his eyebrows at a kind of brothers and sisters, "Look at one?"

Everyone: "..."

On the other side, Shi Yanwen broke free from Su Huanzhen's hands, and said awkwardly: "Yanwen, go and see them."

Su Zhenzhen stretched out his hand and pulled him back, saying: "I'll go later..."

The middle-aged man who sells batter prepared a lot of clay figurines today, including a general with a golden knife straddling a horse, a gentle and pleasant daughter, a bird on a Huaiyang tree, an eagle soaring in the desert, and a man buried deep in his heart. Childish, there is the ghost who indulges in the world, and those two cute and cute dolls.

He specially took out two tiger-headed hats and two bamboo dragonflies from the deep house compound. He also prepared good sauce, cut the seasoning, ground the noodles, and boiled a pot of bone soup overnight. I think the two dolls are too thin, they look better if they are fatter.

After preparing so much, he still felt that it was not enough, so he took another Fuze jade from the vault, and cut it in two with a knife.

This jade originally belonged to his son, so he thought it was a bit too hasty to give it to two dolls he didn't know, and he didn't know where he got the impulse, but when he thought of the faces of the two dolls, he felt that it didn't matter.

His son's chances of being alive are too slim.

After finally getting everything ready, he sat upright at the end of the grass market, waiting for Hao Yueguang to bring them over to play.

What he waited for was not Haoyueguang, but Qiao Tathagata.

Fuzeyu fell to the ground, he hurriedly picked it up from the ground, wiped it clean with his sleeve, held it in his palm, and his back was soaked in cold sweat.

He held a sliver of hope and wanted to see his son, so he was afraid of death. If he was not afraid of death, he would not have abandoned his meridians and hid in the underworld, and escaped with all kinds of hardships, hiding his name incognito around the Zhengqi Villa .

Qiao Ru saw his nervousness, and was moved by his self-possessed but somewhat desperate expression, saw him staggering from the ground and pulled out two pieces of broken jade to protect them tightly, and asked him in a deep voice: "Are you here to kill me?" ?"

"You're scared," Qiao Rulai said calmly, "Since you're scared, why are you here? What do you want to do? Mo Quan."

"I didn't want to do anything." Mo Quan's eyes were red, and he poked his neck to maintain his slight arrogance, "I just thought... Shi Junzi has great powers, maybe he can survive... If he survives, I can know ...Jiu'er's news, Jiu'er...is only 15 years old, I have no other meaning..."

"15 years old," Qiao Rulai lowered her eyes, "Qiao Rulai remembers that among the people you tricked into the Forbidden Mountain that day, there was a pre-term baby."

Mo Quan lowered his head deeply: "I was stunned at the time... I don't know why...power, it can swallow people's hearts..."

The funny thing is, his name is Mo Quan.

Don't be obsessed with power, the meaning of this name, he didn't understand until the second half of his life, when he suddenly realized, he had already lost his most important relative.

Worldly evils are always numerous.

Qiao Tathagata sighed: "Follow me, Daddy, I want to see you."

He paused, and then said: "Those two pieces of jade are for Ah Da and Ah Xiao? Do you... like them very much?"

Mo Quan's body shook violently, and he said, "Sorry, I won't be near them again."

"It doesn't matter," Qiao Rulai couldn't bear to look at him like this, she turned her head and said, "They are your direct blood relatives."

……

The definition of Cangjingren is that there are ghosts in this bureaucrat.

Xueshan Yinyan agreed, and glared disapprovingly at the slightly hesitant Haoyueguang.

Shi Zhongyi, like God Gu Wenhuang, regarded himself as an outsider.

Shi Yanwen looked at the two dolls with clear eyes, and said to Su Zhenzhen, "To be honest, Yanwen regrets it a bit."

"You're not regretful, you're just angry." Su Zhenzhen held his hand, "It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense for the children to bear the mistakes made by the father. With so many lives, even the chance of reincarnation is lost." No, the most unreasonable thing is that 'Shi Yanwen' should do all of this."

Shi Yanwen closed her eyes: "All this is coming to an end."

Su really softened his expression: "This time, Su will accompany you."

When Qiao Rulai brought people up, most of the people in Zhengqi Villa avoided, only Yi Wuxin waited at the door with two children. Are you here?"

Mo Quan embraced them happily, and fearing that he would delay Qiao Rulai's time, he subconsciously glanced at them, but Qiao Rulai was not in a hurry.Mo Quanyou felt relieved, took out the Fuze jade, put it on the necks of the two dolls, and said, "Uncle didn't bring clay figurines here today, but he brought this."

"Huh? There is a word '福'."

"I also have a 'Ze' here!"

"This is Uncle's collection, it's very precious, it's only for good children," Mo Quan said with soreness and bitterness in his heart, "Take it well."

Ah Da and Ah Xiao glanced at each other, and said: "But, father said that you can't take other people's things casually... and we didn't return the gift."

Mo Quan was stung by the phrase "Father", almost tears filled his eyes, his voice was messed up: "It's okay, I know your father... I know him, he is also a good boy... a good boy."

Ah Xiao was surprised: "Uncle, do you know him? Then where is he now? Why didn't he come to pick us up? If he doesn't come again, we will be angry!"

Ah Da stretched out his hand and wiped Mo Quan's face: "Uncle, there is water on your face, here!"

It's not water, it's tears, it's blood.

"Hahaha……"

Mo Quan laughed out loud.

At that moment, it seemed that something collapsed and crushed his spine. He closed his eyes tightly, bent his body in grief, wiped away his tears, raised his head and hoarsely said to Qiao Tathagata, "Let's go."

Qiao Tathagata signaled to Yi Wuxin: "Take Ah Da Ah Xiao to eat something, today, maybe it will be very late to eat."

Yi Wuxin nodded, looked inside, and said: "Brother Qiao Tathagata, uncle said, after you send him in, listen outside the door first, don't leave in a hurry, he may need you to do something."

"Okay, you go."

Shi Yanwen didn't deliberately avoid the crowd, but Su Zhenzhen was the only one staying in the room.

Su Zhenzhen poured him a cup of hot tea, the tea was very bitter, and the bitterness became sweet in his heart, only Su Zhenzhen knew that Shi Yanwen didn't really care too much, ten years of entanglement, two years of thinking, the death of Dao Jiu, Shi Yanwen was really too tired to have another fight with Mo Quan.

There is only one thing I want to ask him.

"Please." Qiao Rulai said outside the door.

Shi Yanwen heard the heavy footsteps. He walked extremely slowly, and there were inconsistent pauses when his left and right feet landed. Hearing this sound, he seemed to be an ordinary old man in his 60s, and Shi Yanwen received him like a guest. .

Mo Quan watched him at the door for a long time before walking in. I don't know if it was because he stood for too long that Fang nearly staggered and fell to his knees when he entered the door, or Su Zhenzhen helped him.

Mo Quan stared blankly at Su Huanzhen. He was very impressed with Su Huanzhen. If it wasn't for this person, his original plan would have been seamless.He also thought that Su was really the one who was instigated by others to sabotage his plan, but he was greedy for convenience, so he gave up letting his own people accompany Shi Yanwen into the underworld.

Even if Qiao Rulai exposed his plan later, and even when his comrades turned against each other and ran away, the person he hated the most was Su Huanhuan, and he never thought that all the mistakes he made in the struggle for power were the biggest driving force.

Up to now, Mo Quan has seen through the poison of power and the harm of unfair power struggle, but he has never figured out which side Su Zhenzhen belongs to.

It turned out that he was Shi Yanwen's protector?

Shi Yanwen was also thinking.

He was thinking about the ban on killing each other in the mountains that day, thinking about his helpless grief and anger, thinking about chasing and crying on the deserted island, thinking about Daojiu's last request...

Then I found myself still not completely calm.

Not a moment later, Shi Yanwen drank the ice-cold tea, and said: "At the beginning, Yanwen thought about how hard-hearted the person who set up all this must be. Later, when he wiped out Juhunzhuang, he recovered his memory and remembered that Shi Yanwen was originally Someone more hard-hearted than you."

Mo Quan opened his mouth and said in a daze, "Are they all dead?"

"They're all dead," Shi Yanwen got up and took out an urn from the bookshelf, "including Dao Jiu."

"Daojiu..."

"He said that he doesn't remember his original name, but Yanwen does. He still remembers. If he doesn't remember, he won't die... Can you tell Yanwen what his real name is?"

The dark urn contained the most precious things in the world, as well as the most insignificant things in the world. Mo Quan hugged the urn tightly in his arms with trembling arms, and let out a cry, as if he was instantly old and ashamed. The air spreads all over the body.

"That child...his name is Mo Jiu, and I taught him to write down the name myself. Mo Jiu, it's been a long time, haha... Jiu'er..."

Dao Jiu, Mo Jiu.

The sobs of the elderly kept ringing out. This cry full of pain and regret came from the soul with difficulty. Those embarrassing calculations and the unrest they had brought seemed to fade away in the blink of an eye.

That's it, that's it.

He has already received the heaviest punishment in his life, so there is no need to say anything more.

Su Zhenzhen gently shook his hand, Shi Yanwen pursed her lips and said nothing.

Mo Quan is actually not old, he is only in his 40s, he is in the prime of life, if he hadn't been incapacitated, if he hadn't been notorious, he could still make a name for himself outside.But he is dying now, holding the cold urn, weeping loudly, feeling that his life is so pale, that there is no hope in the future, life is better than death...

After a long time, when Mo Quan's voice became inaudible, Shi Yanwen spoke again, and said, "Dao Jiu still has two children, and he has worked so hard to send them to you. Do you want to give up on them?"

Mo Quan raised his head in panic.

Shi Yanwen continued: "Ada and Axiao are just nicknames, he said the child's name, and it's up to you to choose it."

"..."

"The last sentence he said to Yanwen was for me to ask you 'The best is like water, have you forgotten'?"

"Those two children..."

"He has been homeless for hundreds of years because of you. You are his father. You should protect the two children for him out of reason." Shi Yanwen stood up and lowered her eyes indifferently. There is no chance to go back again, there are rumors in Dao Domain, which is not good for their youth, if you want, you can bring them back to the place where you live now, Zhengqi Villa will give you shelter for a day."

The corner of Mo Quan's mouth trembled slightly, not daring to say anything: "You want...to protect us? Don't you...don't hate me?"

Su Zhenzhen shook his head, and took Shi Yanwen's hand. Shi Yanwen looked at him, and suddenly felt relieved. He looked at Mo Quan, and said in a deep voice, "You will spend the rest of your life in regret, and Yanwen can return safely. , there is no loss, and even a blessing in disguise, I met... a very important person. The people in Juhun Village are the victims, I will not hate you, but...Yanwen will not protect you unconditionally."

Mo Quan was stunned for a long time before standing up. He took a step back, bent deeply, and fell straight to the ground.

"Mr. Shi, please tell me, Mo Quan is omnipotent!"

Shi Yanwen was silent, stepped forward to help him up, and said: "Get up, this matter... is over. What Yanwen wanted to ask was about the formation of the Forbidden Mountain. Since you can give Daojiu convenience, you must be able to deal with it. The law should be well understood."

"Yes," Mo Quan said melancholy, "In exchange for Jiu'er's safety, I have studied all the formations there."

"The prohibition mountain formation that day was originally intended to purify evil spirits. It was activated by the spontaneous combustion of Jianmu. Yanwen speculated wildly. Is it because...the formation covers too much area, so a sacrifice with more spiritual power is needed?"

"Indeed."

"Then if the scope is reduced to one or two people, how about the sacrifices required?"

Mo Quan pondered for a moment, and said, "One percent of Jianmu's spiritual power is enough, but this one percent is also very rare."

Useful is good.

Shi Yanwen looked at Su Zhenzhen, and Su Zhenzhen took out his formation map from his bosom, and Shi Yanwen handed it to Mo Quan directly: "Your Excellency used to be a high-ranking member of the Dao Realm, almost commanding the Dao Realm, and also studied the Forbidden Mountain Formation In terms of attainments in the formation of the Nine Realms, no one can surpass you, I would like to ask you if you can integrate this formation into the center of the formation? Get rid of the rough and extract the essence?"

Mo Quan was stunned after opening the formation map, and suddenly realized: "This is the key to your disappearance?"

"Of course."

Mo Quan looked at it for a long time, his brows were tightly furrowed, and Shi Yanwen became more and more nervous. Su Zhenzhen patted him on the shoulder, and finally comforted him: "Don't worry, it's a big deal, I can still take out the Jinglian."

"It's not the same," Shi Yanwen said, "it's not difficult to take Haoyueguang away, but if there is no traffic between the two sides from now on, Yanwen can't rest assured, I'm thinking..."

Su Zhenzhen instantly understood: "You want to kill two birds with one stone?"

Not only solved the difficulty of communication between the two worlds, but also gave them a way to save their lives, so as to slow down the emergency rescue.

"Yes," Shi Yanwen sighed, "Although I know it's difficult, if it really succeeds, it will not only benefit the loyalists, but maybe the other side of the plight will also benefit."

Just imagine, if either of the two parties encounters a siege and has nowhere to escape, if they activate this formation, nine out of ten they will be able to escape, wouldn't it be great?

"It's not bad to be weak, but..."

Can it be done?

"This formation," Mo Quan rubbed his brows, "is very difficult."

Shi Yanwen's heart sank.

Mo Quan went on to say: "It will take at least half a year to research it."

Shi Yanwen: "..."

Su Zhenzhen: "..."

Mo Quan swallowed his saliva: "This is the only way, and you need a person from the world you mentioned to test it before you know the effect, and in the end, you need the help of two people who have been in contact with the formation of that world. Although the method is relatively Rigid, but—"

"Yes." Shi Yanwen finally discovered the similarities between Mo Quan and Dao Jiu.

Su Huan sincerely confessed that when he walked out of the house with Shi Yanwen, he said to Qiao Tathagata who was waiting by the side: "Jingzhong, do you understand?"

A smile appeared on Qiao Rulai's face, she looked at Shi Yanwen's avoiding profile, paused, and said, "Senior, Qiao Rulai understood."

"That's good." Su Zhenzhen pressed his shoulder, pulled Shi Yanwen, and left in the opposite direction.

After waiting for a while, Mo Quan also nodded to Qiao Rulai, holding the urn, and went to look for the two children.

As pretty as ever, Su really walked in the direction she left.

Park in front of the backyard.

A dull long sigh was vaguely heard, as well as a barely suppressed cry of mourning, to a certain extent, it was also very presumptuous.

At least, Qiao Rulai had never seen Shi Yanwen cry.

"Finally, it's over." Shi Yanwen said.

"Well," Su Huanhuan hugged him quietly, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, "it's finally over."

The 12 years of grievances and resentments have finally come to an end.

very nice.

Just hearing this sentence, Qiao Rulai couldn't help but her eyes turned red. Although Shi Yanwen said "12 years" lightly, 12 years...is a long time.

Dad must have had a hard time. Fortunately, someone is with him...

He turned around.

Seeing the snow-capped silver swallow wiping tears, and Shi Zhiyi's face full of indifference, he laughed again.

Yes, those grievances and resentments are finally over.

very nice.

And in the front yard, God Gu Wenhuang shook his feather fan, and began to swing in front of the Tibetan mirror man again.

"... If there is any bad news, you can finish it all at once!"

"Hey," God Gu Wen Huang said innocently, "Wen Huang has good news this time."

"Humph."

"The person Shi Yanwen was looking for has been found."