Sangsang took the green pear and lowered her head to eat it. She found that the pear was very sweet and juicy. The strangest thing was that it had a strange texture, as if it melted in her mouth. She could not help but be stunned.
She raised her head and handed the remaining half of the pear to Ning Que. She said, "Try it. It's very sweet."
Ever since they were young, the two of them were used to sharing any delicious food. Ning Que did not care about the saying of sharing pears. He took the green pear and swallowed it in a few bites.
Master Qishan did not expect that they would even have to share an ordinary green pear. He could not help but be stunned. Then he shook his head and said, "Let's begin."
Sangsang still chose the black chess piece.
Under the rattan corridor in front of the hut, the chessboard was made of some unknown material. It looked like iron and gave off a cold and hard feeling. But when the chess piece landed on it, there was no sound.
Just as Sangsang's fingertips left the black chess piece, something strange happened.
Her eyes suddenly became a little confused, and then she slowly closed her eyes.
Her eyelashes did not even blink. It was as if she had fallen asleep just like that!
…
…
Ning Que's pupils shrank slightly. Every hair on his body stood on end.
The cool autumn wind passed through his hair, stimulating his mind like ice.
He stared into Master Qishan's eyes. The fingers of his right hand gradually closed, forming a fist in the air. It was just enough to fit the hilt of a knife. His little finger trembled at a very high speed, ready to pull out the podao behind him at any time.
"Don't be nervous." Master Qishan said, "She is just tired, so she went to sleep for a while in her dream."
Ning Que sensed Sangsang's condition and found that her breathing was very calm, even calmer than usual. Other than that, there was nothing strange. It seemed that she was really just asleep.
"What's going on?" he asked coldly.
Master Qishan smiled and said, "This is good for her body."
Sangsang, who had mysteriously fallen asleep, seemed to be really comfortable. Her eyebrows, which were often frowned because of pain, were very relaxed and she did not cough. Ning Que put his hand on her wrist and found that the cold aura in her body had also become very calm. It was not as restless as usual, so he was slightly relieved.
But he could not completely relax.
He stared into Master Qishan's eyes and asked again, "What is going on?"
Master Qishan looked at the chessboard in front of him and said, "You should have heard of the legend of the Lanke Temple. The chessboard you are looking at now is the one used by the old monks in the legend."
Ning Que asked, "Who left this chessboard?"
Master Qishan said, "Buddha."
Thinking of the legend, Ning Que suddenly felt nervous.
"Why did Sangsang use this chessboard to play chess? I just found out that Master Dongming presided over the final game of the three games of chess on the Wa Mountain. He definitely didn't use this chessboard. "
Master Qishan said, "Just take it as a test from Buddha."
Ning Que said, "We are here to cure diseases, not to pray to Buddha. Why do we need to be tested by Buddha?"
Master Qishan said, "If only Buddha can cure her illness, will you beg or not?"
After a long silence, Ning Que asked, "Is she in danger?"
Master Qishan said, "There is no danger."
Ning Que suddenly thought of a possibility and said in a hoarse voice, "But she will suffer a lot."
Master Qishan said, "If she is in pain, you will feel it."
Ning Que asked, "Then what should we do next? Should we continue?"
Master Qishan looked at the lonely black chess piece on the chessboard. He took out a white chess piece from the urn beside him and gently placed it opposite the black chess piece. He said, "This game has begun."
…
…
As time passed, the autumn sun gradually moved to the west. The Wa mountain cave was shrouded in a tense and mysterious atmosphere. No one knew what happened on the chessboard and why Sangsang fell asleep as soon as she put down one piece.
Ning Que almost lost his patience several times. But thinking of the respect and trust Sangsang showed to Master Qishan before placing the chess piece, he suppressed his uneasiness and continued to wait in silence.
There were still only two chess pieces on the chessboard.
Ning Que did not look at the chessboard, but at Sangsang's face. He paid attention to whether she showed any expression of pain, whether there was any change in her breathing, and whether there was any abnormality in her body.
He looked very carefully and attentively without blinking. He did not miss the slight tremble of Sangsang's eyelashes, even though those trembles were caused by the autumn wind in the mountains.
Mo Shanshan stood outside the hut and quietly looked at Ning Que's expression. She also looked very carefully and attentively. On the stone bench beside the mountain path, the Crown Prince of the South Jin Kingdom stared at Mo Shanshan's beautiful side profile. His expression was focused, occasionally showing infatuation and sadness.
If the world was a big chessboard, and everyone was a chess piece on the chessboard, then no one would be able to escape. Everyone had to be the one they wanted to see, unless they no longer had any attachment to this world.
The Flower Addict, Lu Chenjia, looked at the people outside and outside the hut silently. A mocking smile suddenly flashed across her beautiful face. Then, she left the hut and returned to the foot of the Buddha statue at the top of the mountain.
The Buddha statue was very tall. Even one of its toes was much bigger than her.
Lu Chenjia stood on the pinky of the Buddha statue and gently tucked her flowing hair behind her ears. She looked up and was dazzled by the autumn sun in the west. She squinted her eyes.
The Buddha's face was faintly discernible in the clouds, looking down at the foot of the mountain in silence. He was not looking at a specific individual, but at all the people struggling in the mortal world, so he appeared to be extremely merciful.
Lu Chenjia looked for a long time before looking away. She saw a small white flower in a small crack at the foot of the Buddha statue. She bent down and plucked it.
…
…
Sangsang stood on a mountain in a daze.
There was a small town at the foot of the mountain. She could faintly hear the sound of children playing. She could see the waterwheel by the stream outside the town. She could even smell the aroma of food at noon.
She knew that this was not the real world. Because in this world, she did not have Ning Que by her side. However, she could not confirm whether this world was the world on a chessboard. Because she was looking at the world itself and not the chessboard.
When she found herself standing on the mountain, it was late at night. When the smoke rose in the morning, she went down the mountain once and walked around the town. Then, she walked back up the mountain and found a tree. She continued to stare blankly.
She was not prepared to leave. Because she did not know if she could find her way back if she went too far. And if Ning Que wanted to come to this world to find her, she should stand where she was and wait for him.
When she was very young, Ning Que would repeatedly remind her before he went out to hunt or do other things. No matter what happened, she should not leave where she was because he would not be able to find her if she did.
At that time, Sangsang would always confirm: Will you definitely come back to find me? Ning Que said of course, so Sangsang was relieved. She followed his instructions and stood where she was without moving.
…
…
Sangsang stood for a long time, so long that she finally forgot how long it had been. She only remembered that the sun had risen and set countless times, the rain, snow, frost, and wind had rotated countless times, and the firecrackers in the town had sounded many times.
These people seemed to have a lot of happy things to do. Sangsang thought that since Ning Que had not found her after such a long time, she would not be happy to hear firecrackers. Time continued to pass, and Sangsang was still waiting. Her feet were tired, so she sat down and rested for a while. When she was sleepy, she leaned against the tree for a while.
There were two nests of ants under the tree. Sangsang was a little bored while waiting for Ning Que, so she began to watch the ants move or fight. She did not know how many times she watched. The members of the two nests had probably changed for hundreds of generations. Finally, she found something very interesting when the ants moved.
The two nests crawled at the same speed, and the distance from the tree was exactly the same. But the place where the honey overflowed from the tree was different every time. Sometimes, one nest of ants could walk in a straight line, while the other nest of ants had to walk in a curve around the puddle. So the nest of ants that walked in a straight line could get the honey first.
The straight line between two points was the shortest.
Sangsang silently thought that this was the rule that the world wanted to tell her.
There were towns in this world, and there were people and mountains in the towns. There were beasts and trees in the mountains and birds in the trees. There was water, wind, clouds, day, and night. Naturally, there were rules.
Sangsang did not go down the mountain, but because she had too much time to see and think, she gradually grasped many rules in this world. For example, the light was warm, and the night was cold. This kind of rule was very boring.
Some of the rules were even more sad.
In the town, firecrackers were not only set off for happy events, but also for funerals. Sangsang stood on the mountain and watched the children in the town gradually grow old, become sick, and then die, disappearing with the firecrackers.
The ashes of the firecrackers were rolled up by the wind, floating from the graveyard outside the town, and kept moving forward around the mountain until they gradually faded away. Sangsang noticed that every time the wind came from the same place, the direction of the ashes was exactly the same, as if there was an arrow guiding it, always moving forward.
She understood that this was the rule of time.
Time kept moving forward, and no one could stop it.
…
…
Sangsang was still on the mountain.
A woodcutter went up to the mountain to cut firewood, and a child went up to the mountain to herd sheep. For countless years, many people walked by the tree, but no one could see her. There were even three generations of cattle tied under the tree, but nothing could touch her.
She really existed in this world. Apart from not being able to interact with this world, she was still bound by the rules of this world, so she would feel tired, cold, and hot.
Of course, there were some rules that could not bind her. She had never eaten, but she had never been hungry.
She remembered the legend of the Lanke Temple that Ning Que had once told her. The woodcutter named Wang Zhi had eaten a steamed bun, so he had spent a hundred years beside the chessboard under the tree, but he had never been hungry.
Sangsang did not eat the steamed bun, but she had just eaten a green pear.
Then she understood something, walked to the edge of the cliff, and jumped down.
…
…
(Chapter Three: Come out before two o 'clock.) (To be continued.) If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com to vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
