Chapter 46: Dead and Living
The immortal Changchun Valley, which has its own world, is mysterious and secretive, but it is not completely isolated from the world. Some outside news will always spread into the valley, but the time lags in different lengths.
In the eighth year of the valley, Yang Yi and Zhou Yingluo's simple and leisurely life rhythm was interrupted. The news came - Li Yu, the former Tang Dynasty king, died of illness in Bianliang.
Li Yu died, and it was not the only one who died. He died six years ago on the Chinese Valentine's Day. He died less than two years after Yang killed Zhao Kuangyin and took Zhou Yingluo away.
Because he surrendered to the title of the Emperor four years before the Southern Tang Dynasty was defeated, he had no posthumous title after his death, and people just called him "The Later Lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty".
It is said that Li Yu was calling Zhou Yingluo's name before his death.
It is said that before his death, he wrote lyrics for Xiao Zhouhou to express his lovesickness:
The flowers in the forest fade, spring is too fast.
Helplessly, the cold rain comes in the morning and the wind comes in the evening.
The tears of rouge will keep people drunk, and when will it be heavy?
It is true that life will bring long regrets to the east.
Another song:
I went up the west building alone speechlessly, and the moon was like a hook.
The lonely sycamore courtyard is locked in the clear autumn.
It is a sorrow of separation that cannot be cut and still can be chaotic.
The taste is different in my heart.
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Upon hearing this news, Zhou Yingluo changed completely. She didn't cry, but she stood there like wood for two days, without saying anything, or even eating or drinking.
Then she wrote down the two words one by one and just stared at them.
Yang Yi was forcibly influenced by Zhou Yingluo's artistic attainments for eight years. Although he could not make such a good poem, he could still understand the sad thoughts and remarks in it.
So, Yang Yi was speechless.
His wife is missing her husband! If it were other men from the Song Dynasty, Zhou Yingluo had been beaten on the beam of the house at this time, but Yang Yi was not a Song Dynasty person. Compared to the feminine and soft Song Dynasty, he was more like a broad-minded person.
The bold Tang Dynasty man.
He is not a man who is good at unraveling women's hearts, and there is no way to unravel such things, so Yang Yi can only try not to disturb her.
His apprentice Li Xiaoyao is a very smart young man. He will not get involved in the love, hate and affection of his master. He will hide away like his master.
Zhou Yingluo suppressed herself for four days in extreme sorrow.
If Li Yu was still alive, she would not be able to let Zhou Yingluo abandon Yangyi and return to Li Yu's side. Even if she went back, she would probably miss Yangyi even more than she would remember Li Yu now.
In a couple, Li Yu and Zhou Yingluo were together for eight years and had a deep relationship for eight years. Li Yu was indeed a weak man. He was not a good emperor or a very qualified husband, but there were always good and bad things between husband and wife.
Zhou Yingluo has a strong and sincere temperament, and is very kind. Distance and time and space produce longing. Kind people are always accustomed to constantly adding to the person's goodness to their longing and memories, and gradually forgetting his disbelief.
What's more, the dead are the most important, and Li Yu's cowardice and silence disappeared with his death. All that is left is the only favor in the prosperous times and the humble times.
Yang Yi and Li Xiaoyao don’t understand these things, only Zhou Yingluo is immersed in sorrow alone.
Four days later, she walked up the cliff in the valley. She originally wanted to listen to the waterfalls in the distance and the birds singing nearby. However, she heard the duet between local Miao men and women.
The Miao people can’t write lyrics, but they are better at singing than the Song people who are very literary. Moreover, the Miao people’s singing is not graceful, and the words and expressions are always so direct.
Male: Girl, don't leave
Sing a song to keep you
There is my true love for you in the song
There is your tenderness in the song
Female: Brother, I won't leave
My sister will accompany you until you are old
Stay with you until the stars do not blink
Stay with you until the moon hides from the trenches
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The singing of Miao couple echoed in the valley, and Zhou Yingluo burst into tears in the song. This was the first time she cried after leaving Bianliang. I don’t know if it was for Li Yu or for herself.
Yang Yi and Li Xiaoyao practice martial arts under the waterfall. Zhou Yingluo returned to the stilted bamboo house where she and Yang Yi had been together for eight years. After cleaning the place cleanly, she drank the juice of the heartbreaking grass and left it for Yang Yi.
Next letter.
In the evening, Yang Yi and Li Xiaoyao came back with fish and fiery red mountain fruits. She was dead and as peaceful as she was asleep.
The letter said that she was originally a damn person, and she deserved to die eight years ago. It was the sheep who made her live eight more years.
Mr. Lang, you are a good person, you are my hero, a great hero who has fallen from the sky. Mr. Lang, Yingluo will repay your kindness in the next life.
The letter said that Xiao Zhou Hou had a damn day, but asked Yang Yi to bury her in the Valley of Undying Changchun, in the name of Zhou Yingluo.
Yang Yi buried her on the hillside next to the bamboo building, and the grave was facing Bianliang.
It was already the third woman in this world who said she wanted to repay him in the next life, but Yang Yi didn't want to hear it. He didn't know where his next life was. No matter Luo Ji, Wu Huiqing, or Zhou Yingluo, they were not Yang Yi's home, they even more
Like a passerby in this world over the long years.
He took out the pan flute that had just been made of green bamboo and wanted to play a song for Yingluo, but he didn't know how to play until she died.
He secretly made the panflute and asked the Miao people for advice. He originally wanted to give it to Yingluo to make her happy, but now it doesn't work anymore, and it's useless.
The day when Zhou Yingluo died was August 15th. The moon was very round and bright, and there was no rain in the valley.
Li Xiaoyao cried like a child in front of Zhou Yingluo's grave. He had lost his parents since he was a child, and lost his beloved wife when he was a teenager. His fate was really turbulent. He had been worshipping Yangyi and Zhou Yingluo for seven years. He had already been in the way of civil and military affairs.
Dacheng, but what made him even more obsessed was that his master and his wife really loved him like their parents.
Li Xiaoyao used the pan flute made by his master to blew the song taught by his master in front of the grave, and cried while playing.
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As soon as the sheep left the immortal Changchun Valley, there was nothing here that he could nostalgia for. The road to search was long, and he wanted to go home, to his sustenance and where his soul rested.
He wanted to find who he was and who had been waiting for him.
Two years ago, he learned a legend when he was talking to a monk at Tianlong Temple in Dali. It is said that on the other side of the ocean in the extreme west, there is an extremely vast continent where fishermen have been there.
The 369-year-old Yang Yi had already traveled to every corner of the world, but had nothing to do. He wanted to go and see if he might have existed in that continent.
Li Xiaoyao followed his master out of the Valley of Forgetting. After all, he wanted to create a legendary swordsman. His talent should not be buried in this isolated valley.
Dali is not far from Shushan. Half a month after leaving Bulao Valley, Li Xiaoyao bid farewell to his master at the foot of Shushan.
There is a legend of immortal swords in Shushan. Li Xiaoyao told his master that he wanted to go up the mountain to realize the truth and the sword.
Li Xiaoyao's martial arts, especially his sword, surpassed his master Yang Yi a few years ago, and his artistic attainments such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting were no longer inferior to Zhou Yingluo. He once told his master's wife that he could do it.
The swordsmanship, calligraphy, painting and music, and even chess can not be integrated.
Neither Yang Yi nor Zhou Yingluo have such skills, so they are really happy and contented with Li Xiaoyao as their apprentice.
Li Xiaoyao actually wanted to accompany his master to travel west and wanted to stay with Yang Yi, who was like his father, forever, but he didn't dare.
Li Xiaoyao thought he was an ominous person. His parents died shortly after he was born. Later, his beloved wife Zhao Ling'er suffered a disaster again. The chivalrous and righteous confidante Lin Yueru also died in a foreign land.
He was sad to find that his closest relatives would never die well. So that year the Baimiao girl Anu showed love, but he hid in the Valley of Forgetting.
After becoming a disciple in the valley for seven years, Li Xiaoyao was afraid that his ominous body would harm his master's wife. He originally wanted to leave, but he couldn't help but indulge in the care of his parents like home, and he really couldn't bear to let it go.
However, the master and his wife who loved each other could not avoid his own obstacles after all, and the master's wife died. Li Xiaoyao regretted it very much, and he did not dare to follow his master again.
All of this is Li Xiaoyao's self-awareness and is very paranoid. Yang Yi didn't know it, he only knew that Li Xiaoyao was smart and very mellow.
Li Xiaoyao bid farewell to his mentor with tears in his eyes. This was the last time this great sword immortal cried.
Chapter completed!