244 “Blessing from Heavenly Official” Chapter 243

Chapter 243 You pity the flowers and I pity you

Xie Lian collected the beads and looked down.Several priests also walked out of the simple shed hall and asked, “What’s wrong with General Nanyang?”

Just listen to Feng Xin say: “Look what I caught!”

He crashed out of the forest and ran up, catching a man in black in his hand. The priests were shocked: “Ling Wen!”

It was Lingwen who was held in Fengxin’s hand.Feng Xin said to Xie Lian: “As you expected, Lingwen went to get Jin Yi Xian!”

After taking off the cursed shackles, Xie Lian’s magic power surged to the point where he could compete with Jun Wu. Naturally, the Jin Yi Xian could no longer do anything to him.Lingwen was beaten as a tumbler by Huacheng and was lost in the war. As time passed, the spells on her body were automatically unlocked and she disappeared.But Xie Lian thought that she would probably come to get Jin Yi Xian, so he took off the clothes and asked the ghost market to spread the news. Sure enough, Ling Wen took the bait.

As a fugitive, Lingwen still showed no signs of panic even though he was captured and taken to the temporary meeting hall.Pei Ming pressed her shoulders as soon as he came up, pushed her to sit down at the table, and said in a deep voice: “Finally I found you! Lingwen, you have to pay the price!”

“…”

More than a dozen priests also gathered around, all of them looking like wolves and tigers, looking hungry and thirsty, almost ferocious.Lingwen felt a little bad at this moment: “…What do you want to do?”

With a loud “bang”, a stack of official documents and files nearly as tall as a person was thrown in front of her, causing the table and chairs to shake.Pei Ming slapped the file with his palm and said, “You can handle these.”

“…”

Lingwen seemed relieved, but felt speechless.Unexpectedly, before the breath could be released to the end, I heard “Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!”

After seventeen or eighteen loud noises, a massive pile of official documents that were as tall as a human being was thrown over, surrounding her heavily.

Seventeen or eighteen priests spoke to her from the cracks in the forest of files: “I’ve been waiting for you for a long time! Come and help settle the accounts!” “You should also deal with these.” “Remember to make up for the missing parts.” “It’s best to get our house sorted out within an hour!”…

Lingwen: “…”

After a day and a night, Lingwen was finally released from the temporary meeting hall.

After a day and night of hard work, all the files that were originally in a mess have been processed and neatly classified.The priests happily led the inspection of their own temples, but Lingwen’s face was ashen, and the dark circles under his eyes that had disappeared for a while appeared again.

Everyone over there was overjoyed after finishing the inspection. Pei Ming said: “Sure enough, Jie Qing is more efficient! Now we can match him!”

“It’s clear! Thank you so much, Lord Lingwen!”

As a prisoner, Lingwen chuckled among the many priests: “I don’t dare to take it, I don’t dare to take it.”

Seeing this, the priests who had not filled in the files yesterday and who were still in a mess today couldn’t sit still. They came around and said, “Well, actually, I have a few here that I forgot to bring to you yesterday, otherwise…”

Lingwen: “…”

Xie Lian crouched outside the temporary meeting hall and ate steamed buns. After eating, he clapped his hands and finally rescued Lingwen from his misery: “Everyone, let’s figure it out later. Let Lingwen take a breath first.”

In the past, no one would take his words seriously, but now it’s different.Several people said: “His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that.” They did not dare to say more.Lingwen sat on the chair, closed her eyes and held her forehead. After all the other priests had gone out and there were not many people in the deserted meeting hall, she said to Xie Lian: “Congratulations to Your Highness, the dharma body has been restored. Duandi has a good plan. I didn’t expect that now even the ghosts are your disciples and listen to your orders.”

Xie Lian said: “Those are not my followers, they are my friends in the ghost market. I just asked them for help.”

Lingwen nodded, with a clear expression.After a moment, he thanked him and said, “Lingwen, I have a question for you.”

Lingwen said: “Your Highness, please ask.”

Xie Lian said: “Sanlang, I am talking about the Lord of Flower City. He has worn your fairy dress, but the fairy dress is ineffective on him. Do you know why?”

Lingwen said: “So that’s the problem. I thought you already knew about it, Your Highness?”

Xie Lian was stunned and said, “Would you like to hear the details?”

Lingwen shook up his clothes, sat upright and said, “Your Highness, have you heard of the legend of Jin Yi Xian?”

Xie Lian said: “I’ve heard of it. You made it yourself.”

Lingwen said: “You can say that. Although I never thought that the resentment condensed in this dress would turn it into such a monster, it is true that I killed Bai Jin in order to speed up the destruction of the Xuli Kingdom.”

Xie Lian listened intently.Lingwen continued: “This piece of clothing has passed through the hands of countless people in the human world. After getting it, countless people chose to use it to kill, harm, and deceive others. Although this can also eliminate its resentment, Bai Jin is not such a person.

“He doesn’t like being used by these people, he hates it.Therefore, when he meets a wearer who is similar to him and a specific person who gives the clothes, he will not be resentful, but will be very happy.”

Xie Lian said: “What is the difference between approximate and specific?”

Ling Wen said: “You put on the fairy in brocade for Xueyu Tanhua, but you don’t have the slightest suspicion or intention of harming Xueyu Tanhua, trusting him wholeheartedly; and Xueyu Tanhua treats you the same way, no, it should be said even more – what really resonates with Xueyu Tanhua is that even if he doesn’t put on the fairy in brocade, he will do whatever you ask him to do for you without hesitation.Including dying for you.”

“…”

Ling Wen said: “This is also the reason why I could guess that the boy next to you was the transformation of Xueyu Tanhua.Although I don’t know much about your situation, I can’t think of another person who would be like this.”

Thanks for the pity: “Why?”

Lingwen raised his finger and said, “Your Highness, what is that hanging around your neck?”

Xie Lian was startled, and his hand couldn’t help but touch it.

Ling Wen said: “I have seen similar things before, those desperate ghosts giving their own ashes to their lovers.”

There are countless files handled by Lingwen Palace, so it is not surprising to see them.But in fact, Xie Lian also guessed it.

But after hearing Lingwen say it, he still held the crystal clear ring tightly.

Lingwen said: “This is a rare and rare thing, but because it is so beautiful and usually very tragic, it leaves a deep impression.”

Xie Lian said: “What do you mean it’s usually tragic?”

Ling Wen said: “If you are blinded by love and leave things that matter to your life in the hands of others, many sad and terrible things will happen.

“Sincerity and other things are all abused by others. Some of these tokens made from ashes were taken away by others, and some were broken by the owner. Basically, there was no good ending. However, Your Highness, you are an exception. You have preserved them very well, almost watertight.”

After a long silence, he thanked Lian and said, “You said ‘similarity’ and ‘resonance’. So, is General Bai Jin also such a person?”

Lingwen smiled slightly and said: “Otherwise, how could you be deceived by me?”

Xie Lian said: “It’s not a lie. You wouldn’t have thought that I deliberately let the news out, but you still came to get it.”

Lingwen said: “It’s a sharp weapon for self-defense.”

Xie Lian said: “If it was just a self-defense weapon, you wouldn’t have taken such a big risk to steal it. After the failure, you took it to Tonglu Mountain.”

Lingwen said nonchalantly: “What else can I do if I don’t go to Tonglu Mountain? Because the secret has been exposed and you, the Crown Prince, have caught me.”

Xie Lian said: “Actually, if you want to find an excuse to cover up, it still makes sense. If you take care of it, even if you are demoted and deducted merit, you will not become a fugitive. The main thing is… you want to help General Bai Jin succeed and let him wake up.”

Lingwen smiled and said: “Your Highness, don’t tell me that I will do anything for it. After all, I am a person who doesn’t recognize my relatives. How could I do such a thing?”

“Is that so?”

“That’s right.”

•

Xie Lian cleaned up the ruins of Prince Peak in Huangji Temple and built a simple hut as a temporary residence.This place is relatively remote. When he has something to do, he goes to the temporary meeting hall to help. When he has nothing to do, he just waits quietly by himself.

Seven or eight days later, Mu Qing finally repaired Ruoxie and sent it over.As soon as Xie Lian opened the door, he saw a white thing rushing towards him. His eyes were covered with white. He stretched out his hand to pull the thing off. Ruoxie started twisting the silk again, as if to show him his beautiful body after rebirth.Thanks for the pity: “Don’t twist it as soon as it’s repaired, or it may break again.”

Mu Qing had an opinion as soon as she heard this: “How is this possible? Which of the clothes I mended for you is torn again?”

Thanks for the pity: “That’s true.”

He grabbed Ruoxie, who was twisted into a waterweed, and examined it carefully. Sure enough, the sewing was very good, with almost no traces visible. He praised: “Your craftsmanship is still so good.”

Mu Qing said: “I won’t be happy if you praise me for something like this. Just this once, I won’t do anything like this again.” Xie Lian said heartily: “You are obviously quite proud…”

Mu Qing muttered a few words and said: “Okay, I’m done, let’s go. I’m busy ordering things and people in Xuanzhen Palace.”

Xie Lian said: “Are you leaving too? Okay, I’ll go over to help you later. Just tell me when you leave and I’ll see you off.”

After capturing the spiritual texts, checking for leaks and filling in the gaps, and clearing up several large and confusing accounts, the priests decided to rebuild Xianjing.Then, the temporary meeting hall on Taicang Mountain can be left idle.Mu Qing waved her hand, neither refusing nor agreeing. After walking a few steps, she paused and turned around and said, “You… still want to stay at Tai Cang Mountain?”

Xie Lian nodded and said: “Yes.”

After hesitating for a moment, he said with admiration: “Otherwise, you should come with us.”

Xie Lian smiled and said: “No, I have to wait for someone.”

Mu Qing said: “You can wait at Shangtianting in Xinxianjing.”

Xie Lian shook his head and said: “I think he might come here first when he comes back, so he can see him as soon as possible. If he doesn’t go back here, he might also go back to Qiandeng Temple in the ghost market. It’s not far from the ghost market and it’s more convenient than in Xinxianjing.”

“…”

Mu Qing’s words seemed to have been held back for a long time, and she said with a complicated expression: “Do you really believe that he will come back?”

Xie Lian said matter-of-factly: “I believe it.”

•

People come in like a tide and leave like a tide.Taicang Mountain has returned to desolation and loneliness.

On Taicang Mountain, there used to be large tracts of maple forest, which were burned to death by fire, but were reborn thousands of years later.It’s no longer the same thing Xie Lian practiced by leaping on the trees thousands of years ago, but the scenery is the same.

Xie Lian often walks alone in the maple forest.The fiery red maples all over the mountains and plains made him feel as if he were in a huge and warm embrace.

He has lived alone for more than 800 years and is very used to it.If you have something to do, you should go down the mountain to pray and collect rags. If you have nothing to do, you should plant vegetables and cook.

However, the strange thing is that such a person’s life, which he used to take for granted, has become a bit difficult now. It took Xie Lian a long time to adapt to it again.

Maybe if a person eats bitter food all the time, he will become accustomed to the bitter taste.But suddenly one day, someone gave him a bite of something sweet, and he remembered what sweet tasted like. If he tried to eat something bitter again, he would wrinkle his face.

In the past, when Xie Lian lived a lonely life, he always secretly hoped that someone would come to find him.Whether you talk to him or ask him for help, at least he is somewhat popular.But now, he doesn’t like it so much.

Because when he heard the knock on the door, he would always feel suddenly ecstatic and full of anticipation.But when he ran to the door and opened it, it was not the person he was waiting for inside or outside the gate.

Sometimes it’s Feng Xin, sometimes it’s Mu Qing, sometimes it’s Shi Qingxuan, sometimes it’s the ghosts in the ghost market who come to “honor his old man”.

Everyone is fine.But, it wasn’t the person he was waiting for.

•

In the first month, Xie Lian carried a few flowers and trees back and planted them at the door, in an attempt to beautify the environment and cover up the shabbyness of the dilapidated house.He was thinking that maybe they would bloom when Huacheng came back.

•

In the second month, Xie Lian demolished the house and rebuilt it, and also pulled out the weeds on the entire mountain.Otherwise, when Huacheng comes back and sees this messy scene, he will definitely send someone to help him clean it up again.

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In the third month, the flowers and trees bloomed.The tree was covered with red tassels. Xie Lian stood under the tree and looked up. While admiring the flowers alone, he thought to himself that it was almost time to come back after they bloomed.

•

In the fourth month, all the mountain roads were rebuilt.In this way, when Huacheng comes back to find him, he can go up the mountain faster.

•

In the fifth month, Feng Xin and Mu Qing came to see him again and asked him if he wanted to leave here for a walk. Thanks to Lian for entertaining them for a meal, they ran away.

•

In the sixth month, the flowering period is over.

…

Wait and wait, wait and wait.Xie Lian did not become anxious, collapsed, or burst into tears. Instead, he felt that he was becoming calmer and more patient.

Think about it, who hasn’t experienced a long period of being alone?

Huacheng has been waiting for him for more than 800 years, so what if he just waits for another 800 years?

Even if it is a thousand or ten thousand years, he will keep waiting and waiting.

What’s more, it’s only been a year?

•

On this day, Xie Lian collected a lot of junk as usual, piled it with the oxen and carts he had saved up to buy, and pulled it up the mountain.

Walking through the maple forest at night and walking on the mountain road, Xie Lian turned around inadvertently and saw a few light spots floating in the quiet night sky.

He looked at it carefully and found that it was a long-lit lantern. He suddenly realized it and said to himself: “It turns out that today is the Lantern Festival.”

At this moment, the priests in heaven are probably fighting lanterns at the Shangyuan Banquet again.Xie Lian couldn’t help but pull the rope and stayed where he was, staring blankly at the bright lights.

He suddenly remembered that he and Huacheng met on the Lantern Festival.

That year, children with dirty and scarred faces crowded on the crowded city wall and looked down. Seventeen-year-old Prince Xianle, Xie Lian, was glowing all over. When he looked up, he saw a figure falling from the sky. Without thinking, he jumped forward.

Shangyuan Festival, Shenwu Street.A startling glance, and a hundred generations have fallen.

Xie Lian smiled and thought to himself, it was not the only person who fell in the end.

•

Turning around, lowering his head, Xie Lian was ready to continue walking up the mountain.The cart was pulled and creaked for a while. Suddenly, something seemed to be illuminated from a distance in front of it.

Xie Lian raised his head again and opened his eyes wide.

That light is a lamp.

Like millions of fish swimming across the river and sea, countless bright lights slowly rise from the top of the mountain.

They shine brightly in the dark night.Like a floating soul, the most magnificent dream, extremely majestic, illuminates his way forward.

Xie Lian had seen this scene before, and when he saw it again, his breathing and heartbeat stopped.As the road turned and the wheel turned, Xie Lian saw the small shabby house he had built.

Someone!

Standing in front of the crooked hut was a man in red. He was tall and tall, with a silver scimitar hanging from his waist. His back was to this side, and he was holding up the last ever-burning lantern in his hand and sending it flying into the sky.

Xie Lian sat stiffly, suspecting that he was still in a dream, or that this was an illusion.But as the wheel turned and got closer, the man turned around and his view became clearer and clearer.

In front of the three thousand lanterns that rose with the night, the man looked back at him. His clothes were as red as maple, his skin was as white as snow, and between his impossibly handsome eyebrows, there was still a period of wild passion and undying arrogance.

Although he was wearing a black eyepatch, his bright star-like eyes were staring at Xie Lian intently.

Thanks for rolling down.

Not a word.Both men walked towards each other.

One step after another, he walked faster and faster, and then he started running.

People run forward, tears falling behind them and staying in place.Xie Lian thought, he believed it.

•

Believe that this person will die for him again and again, and live for him again and again.Even if he falls into hell, he will break through for his “belief”.

The last time they ran towards each other took eight hundred years.

This time, it’s about embracing the next moment.