dark battle

Chapter 74

Kneeling down on the cold ground, "Erlang God, you killed me! You killed me!"

A pair of trembling hands rested lightly on her shoulders, as if they were reaching out from the warm spring and wanting to pull her out of her sorrow and hatred.

"clove……"

Ding Xiang looked back slowly, "Chen Xiang?"

Ao Chun was startled slightly.

Ding Xiang got up and grabbed his arm, the thin plumpness on his face had been washed away by tears, and it was like a star in the moonlight, "Chen Xiang, I'm sorry for you, I hurt you."

"I..." Ao Chun stared at her, and finally couldn't bear to break her fantasy with a sound.

"I have the thoughts of Erlang God in my body, and he told me to tie up Xiaoyu and put him into the Thousand Fox Cave." Her eyes were scattered, as if looking through Ao Chun to some kind of nothingness that didn't exist, "Erlang God must have held Xiaoyu hostage, and he recovered his mana with the help of the Lotus Lantern. I hurt you, hit me, hit me!" Crying, she grabbed his wrist and slapped her face.

"Ding Xiang, don't do this, it's not your fault!" Ao Chun tried to wake her up, tried her best to stop her crazy movements, and finally had no choice but to hold her tightly in her arms, wishing to stuff her pain into her chest , "Erlang God did it, he hid in your body, don't blame you..."

Ding Xiang, who finally calmed down under successive comforts, gently pushed his embrace away, "No, I did it, I did it myself, Chen Xiang, I was wrong...you brought Xiaoyu back to Qianhu from Nantianmen After the hole, I was the one who secretly took Xiaoyu...I can't lose you...I'm afraid, I'm afraid I will lose you..."

Hot tears also filled Ao Chun's reddish eyes.The only thing he can do is to comfort Chen Xiang's wife who was left behind, or maybe he is not doing this for anyone at all. "It's not your fault, no."

"Don't you blame me?" Ding Xiang asked cautiously.

Ao Chun opened his mouth, and said in his heart: "No wonder."

"I will listen to you in the future and never do anything wrong again."

"it is good."

Ding Xiangfu frowned slightly again, and said worriedly: "Are you still mine alone?"

"Yes." Ao Chun almost forced himself to say this sentence, "Agarwood will always be yours alone, and no one can take it away."

A bright smile crept onto her pretty face, "I knew you wouldn't lie to me."

"Okay, it's okay, let's go back, shall we?"

Ding Xiang smiled and nodded.

The next day, Zhu Bajie took his two apprentices, Ao Chun and Ding Xiang, to the Holy Buddha Cave in Mount Emei.

"Brother Monkey! Senior brother! Sun Wukong! Bi Mawen! Monkey King! Fight against Buddha!" ​​Zhu Bajie knocked on the stone door for a long time, but no one answered, turned his head and glared at Ao Chun, the only one who was conscious, and said, "Hey! It's an evil door! , why isn't anyone there?"

Since none of them were there, Zhu Bajie didn't know which mountain to go to dig out that monkey grandson, so he had to lead two apprentices to Liujia Village to meet Liu Yanchang.

The moment the door of the lantern shop was opened from the inside, Zhu Bajie saw that Liu Yanchang's face was more wrinkled than the one he had seen before, he sighed for no reason, and laughed a few times: "Mr. Liu, are you at home? "

Liu Yanchang didn't expect the envoys from the altar to come to the door in person, he was a little surprised, he said hello one by one, and saw Ding Xiang's crazy and silly attitude again, "She..." Halfway through speaking, there was a bad premonition in his heart, She couldn't hold back her usual calmness, and hurriedly looked out the door a few times: "Why didn't Chen Xiang come back with you?"

Zhu Bajie swallowed, and looked at Ao Chun for help.Ao Chun only comforted Ding Xiang, and did not dare to mention the bad news in front of Liu Yanchang first.Zhu Bajie's heart softened and no one could help him, he laughed and said: "Agarwood is still accumulating mountains. We just came out to do some errands, so we can see if you are at home."

Hearing what Zhu Bajie said, Liu Yanchang still couldn't let go of his heart, but this time he was worried about Ding Xiang: "Did Chen Xiang hurt her again?"

Not waiting for Zhu Bajie to find a new excuse, Ding Xiang leaned in front of Liu Yanchang by himself, and his expression, which was quite at ease just now, suddenly turned sad: "Chen Xiang is dead..."

The never-fading look of surprise on Liu Yanchang's face completely froze.

Zhu Bajie was startled: "Nonsense!"

Ao Chun hurriedly followed his master and said, "Ding Xiang, don't talk nonsense."

"That..." Zhu Bajie swallowed dryly, and made up a lie, "It's okay, Chen Xiang was injured two days ago, and has been... unconscious. Ding Xiang thought... Chen Xiang is dead." At the end, I still did not forget to bite the bullet and emphasize: "I am a monk, so I don't lie!"

Ao Chun had no choice but to add along: "Chen Xiang is already healed, really, healed."

"He's really healed!" Ding Xiang suddenly said happily, and happily went to see Ao Chun, "Chen Xiang, are you already healed?"

"I..." Ao Chun was embarrassed to mess with his daughter-in-law in front of Liu Yanchang, and whispered, "I'm fine."

Zhu Bajie looked at Liu Yanchang's uncertain face, and didn't know what he believed. Anyway, he couldn't cope with this embarrassing situation, so while Liu Yanchang was in a daze and didn't ask any more questions, he quickly rubbed his big hands and squeezed out some words of farewell: " So let's do this, since you are here, Mr. Liu, we can rest assured, and we can talk to Chen Xiang when we go back. This mountain of accumulating...has not been captured yet, so let's go back first! Take care of yourself!"

Liu Yanchang cupped his hands in a dazed manner, saw Ding Xiang go and come back again, and with that sorrowful look on his face, he told him extremely seriously: "Chen Xiang is dead..."

Ao Chun heard that his brain was about to explode, so he quickly pulled the person away, "Ding Xiang, don't talk nonsense." He said goodbye to Liu Yanchang who was stunned and stunned: "Let's go, Mr. Liu."

Liu Yanchang didn't know how many days passed in a daze. On this day, he was checking the income and expenditure at the lantern shop, when he looked up and saw a beggar standing in front of the window, he grabbed a few copper coins and handed them to him.The beggar didn't pick it up.

Liu Yanchang was stunned, his eyes fixed on the beggar's face, and he muttered, the most important name in his life stuck in his throat.

It was the beggar who spoke first: "Father..."

"Chen Xiang!" Liu Yanchang brushed his disheveled hair tightly, his hands trembling.

When Chen Xiang's close friends in Liu's Village heard that Chen Xiang had returned safely, they all put down their work and gathered at the lantern shop to visit.

Chen Xiang had cleaned up and sat around the table with his friends, calmly recalling the scene at that time: "At that time, all my thoughts were lost and my mind was in a mess. I didn't remember what Taishang Laojun said. I just knew that there was something under the gossip furnace. There was a cave, and the boy told him Erlang God was coming, so he hid me in that cave. I also heard him talking to Erlang God outside, but I can’t remember what he was talking about.”

Goudan said: "Why did Taishang Laojun let you go?"

"I seem to have heard that I'm already a useless person, even if I'm thrown into the Bagua furnace, I can't make elixir. What can he do with a useless person? Because, after all, he is the Supreme Lord." Chen Xiang When talking about these things, there was even a natural smile on his lips, as if everything was a thing of the past, together with the obsession and hatred that he couldn't let go, all disappeared along with the mana in his body.

Liu Yanchang sat on the chair under the window, quietly listening to the young people talking, looking at Chen Xiang with long eyes.

Another teenager asked: "Then are you going to give up?"

"I used to have a belief that no matter how much effort I had to put in, I wanted to reunite our family. Unexpectedly, this event that others can easily achieve is so unattainable for our family. The only thing I want What I do is to stay with my father at home." Chen Xiang's gaze met Liu Yanchang, his eyes were clear and clear, "Fortunately, you are really waiting for me at home, father, I will not go anywhere in the future."

The days went on step by step, Chen Xiang really did what he said, he never mentioned the lost mana, and he never mentioned Huashan and Tianting again, he worked hard in the lantern shop every day, and sat by the river alone Sit down, looking at the willows sprouting new buds on the opposite bank for a long time.His whole body became quiet, and the mischievous temperament of the ghosts and spirits in the past was so far away that it seemed a thing of the past life.

Waves of winter jasmine flowers bloomed on the hillside outside the Jingtan Temple, dyeing the mountains into a vibrant golden yellow.Ding Xiang squatted on the ground, digging the pit with her fingers bit by bit, and whispered softly: "Chen Xiang, you are dead, I dug a pit to bury you, ah, dig a pit for you..."

Ao Chun didn't know how long he had stood behind her, he made up nonsense and coaxed: "Chen Xiang is not dead."

"Chen Xiang is dead." Lilac pouted and corrected.

Not even a lie could comfort her.Ao Chun squatted down, stretched out his hand to help her straighten her hair that was blown by the wind, and retracted again.The deep sense of powerlessness almost overwhelmed him, just like the powerlessness of watching his sister dying in front of him. He obviously tried his best to change something, but he couldn't change anything.

"How can I make you forget the past? How can I make you go back to the past, to that weird lilac?" Naturally, Ao Chun couldn't get a response from Lilac who was focused on digging a hole, but he suddenly opened his eyes. He widened his eyes, raised his voice extremely seriously, and told her the deeper words hidden in his heart: "Dingxiang, do you know Dingxiang? If possible, I would rather die for him and let him accompany you and accompany you for the rest of my life. But I...I am your eldest brother, I can't do anything..." As he spoke, his eyes were full of sparkling stars again.

As if infected by the pain in his voice, Ding Xiang stopped, looked at Ao Chun slowly, and saw tears running across his bronzed cheeks, and couldn't help wiping them away with his hands in distress, "Chen Xiang, are you crying?" you cry