Chapter 1146: Keep Your Vest Safe (Part 2) [Seeking Monthly Votes]
"My fellow men, I, Shen Laowu, am back!"
Shen Tang flipped over from the bed.
Just as she was about to be proud of herself, a strong dizziness hit her brain and her eyes went black. She lost her balance and fell heavily on the mattress. Fortunately, the ground underneath was soft, otherwise her butt would be in pain: "Huh - how long have I been lying here?"
Didn't she let San Sui Shan Nian take over her body temporarily?
Could it be that this girl agreed with her mouth but failed in her actions?
It's easy to get caught if you talk behind someone's back. Shen Tang just complained in his heart, and the voice of San Sui Shan Nian came from the depths of his mind: [Youli always keeps her promises to others, unlike you! I have eaten well and played well these days. ]
Shen Tang asked: [Are you sleeping? ]
San Sui Shan Nian said: [No. ]
Youli, who is full of energy, doesn't need to sleep.
Shen Tang: [……]
She took a breath, got up and searched in the tent, and finally touched a bronze mirror. After just one glance, she almost threw the mirror away! The self in the mirror had a dark and sallow complexion, dry and dazed eyes, and dry and flaky lips, looking like a demon who had drained her energy. Shen Tang touched her cheek with heartache, and the skin on her palm was no longer as smooth and tender as she remembered.
Her appearance has dropped by at least 15 points!
Shen Tang said sadly: "How could you ruin my appearance like this!"
Don't you know that she, the social animal, relies on this face to replenish her energy every day? She can't lose this face, just as the West can't lose Jerusalem: "His heart is worthy of death, his heart is worthy of death!"
The three-year-old good thoughts whistled in her mind.
Shen Tang clenched her fists in anger!
She could even imagine the three-year-old Douding with his hands behind his back, his eyes wandering, pouting and whistling, looking at the sky and the earth but not at the victim, without any remorse! The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and the angrier she became, the more she thought about it, and she wished she could kill the three-year-old right now!
Staying up late, not eating on time, and emotional ups and downs almost made Shen Tang die.
She covered her swollen forehead and tried to calm down.
"What is this?"
As soon as she focused her attention, she found that her body was a little strange.
It was a subtle premonition that was hard to explain, a bit like the effect of casting [Three Hearts and Two Minds], but it didn't feel like it after careful perception. Shen Tang was worried about fraud, so she carefully tested it.
She concentrated her mind to grasp the subtlety of that moment.
What was even more subtle was that there were footsteps and conversations in the empty tent. These sounds were very light at first, but as she focused her attention, the conversation became clearer and clearer.
She heard a voice that shouldn't be here!
[The river fish here look really fat, how about forking two tails? ]
This person spoke with a soft and gentle accent. It is rare to hear such soft and gentle elegant words in the north.
As soon as you hear it, you know it is unique to the southern land.
Shen Tang subconsciously said: [Xiahou Zikuan? ]
[Hmm? Why did my parents call me for no reason? ]
The voice seemed to come from behind.
Shen Tang turned her head suddenly. Behind her was only a messy bed that was kicked by her. Where was Xiahou Yu? Just when she thought that the auditory hallucination was the side effect of Kangshi's literati's way and had not ended, Shen Tang heard Gu De speak again: [Take back your seasonings. Don't think about eating fish sashimi. We don't have money to buy you deworming soup now. If you can't cure it, you'll die. ]
Xiahou Yu suggested again: [Catch some river crabs for raw pickling? ]
[River crabs can't be pickled raw. ]
[Alas, I didn't have so many concerns before. ]
[You used to have a literary mind and literary spirit to protect your body, but what do you have now? Once you get a worm disease, be careful that your internal organs and brain will be eaten up. I don't want a bunch of worms and eggs to crawl out of your seven orifices and disgust me when I collect your body...]
It's delicious, but the worm disease is also serious.
Some children of noble families were killed by insects at a young age.
Shen Tang covered her forehead, trying to suppress this auditory hallucination.
Unexpectedly, she not only had auditory hallucinations, but also visual hallucinations.
She was clearly standing in the tent, but her skin could feel the heat of the sun shining on it. The river was gurgling, Xiahou Yu was wearing a bamboo hat and sitting on the riverside with pebbles. Gu De rolled up his trouser legs and tied them around his thighs, holding a sharpened piece of wood in his hand.
The sun was scorching and made a few beads of sweat overflow from his forehead.
Gu De obviously didn't have much experience in spearing fish.
He didn't stab it several times.
The two fish were still swimming around his thighs leisurely.
Shen Tang's pupils trembled, and she took a breath of cold air in her heart.
Kang Jishou's bad luck hasn't passed yet?
Xiahou Yu lowered his bamboo hat: [Alas, it's inconvenient to be uncultured. Without raw pickling, what fun is there in life? ]
Gu De said: [Bear with it for a while! ]
Puff, another stab, missed the fish but almost stabbed her foot.
Shen Tang couldn't bear to watch it anymore.
Regardless of whether it was an illusion or not, she rolled up her sleeves and waded into the river to help him catch two fish, but an even weirder scene happened. She clearly felt that her legs in the tent were not moving, and the soles of her feet felt like she was walking on hot pebbles, and Gu De in her sight was getting closer and closer to her.
After entering the water, the coldness rushed from the soles of her feet to her head.
Gu De looked up at her: [Why did the parents come down? ]
Shen Tang: [... Let me do it. ]
Gu De was about to hand the wood to her, but Shen Tang raised his hand and turned it into a long spear, and shot the bold big fat fish accurately!
Shen Tang: [...]
Gu De was close to her and was keenly aware of her abnormality: [The summer heat is severe, parents should stay in the shade. ]
Shen Tang raised her hand and turned it over to take a closer look.
Two completely different hands appeared in her field of vision.
One was familiar to her for many years.
The other was unfamiliar to her.
Shen Tang's mind moved, and she raised her hand to touch her head.
Large patches of baldness, sparse hair.
Shen Tang: [……]
What on earth is going on?
Just as she was thinking, a small piece of memory merged into her mind. This fusion is no different from when the incarnation's memory flows back to the original body when the Wen Qi is released! Shen Tang did not resist, but absorbed it familiarly.
This memory is not long, only three days, but it answered most of Shen Tang's doubts - Zixu, as a special incarnation that can move independently at a long distance, has a remote communication function with the original body. In plain words, Shen Tang can currently switch accounts freely.
Since the distance between the two is too far, the mental consumption will be very large.
If it is just a simple sharing and updating of memory, it will be simple.
Shen Tang: [……]
Oh, she blamed Kang Jishou wrongly.
Xiahou Yu, Gu De and [Zixu version of Shen Tang] have left the territory of Qu State and inquired about Qi State along the way. If they were short of money on the road, they would look for trouble with bandits. The three of them, as rangers, destroyed a bandit's nest in these three days and rescued dozens of victims.
They left enough money for the journey and distributed the rest. Among the victims, there was a pair of helpless brothers who wanted to follow the three of them to seek development in another place. At this moment, they were leading a few mules bought by Lingyuangou to find food. Shen Tang shook her head: [It's not hot. ]
She forked a few more river fish.
She told Gu De: [Roast it before eating. ]
Shen Tang tried to control her mind and slowly get out of the [Zixu] state. She opened her eyes again and saw only a simple tent in front of her: "Since I can contact Zixu, can I also contact Wuyou?"
She tried to find the subtle feeling just now.
Sure enough, she sensed another similar breath.
Once is new, twice is familiar.
This time she entered the state much faster than before.
It's just that --
Why are they fishing too?
Oh, no, they're not fishing.
Shen Tang shifted his gaze and found that this was still the temporary residence of the Cui family. Maids and servants were coming and going nearby. It was obvious that the host was hosting a banquet in the back garden to entertain someone. It was called a flower-viewing banquet, but in fact it was a blind date banquet for young children from the aristocracy.
The air was also filled with the strong smell of powder.
Wu You's version of himself was obviously running to the carp pond to get some fresh air.
[A talented man and a beautiful woman, a beautiful man and a talented woman, they are really a perfect match. Sister Shen, what do you think of that lady and brother? ]
The person who spoke was Cui Mi.
There was no haze on the face of the young boy.
He was chatting and laughing with himself familiarly, and there was no sign of loss yesterday.
Shen Tang followed his gaze and looked over.
Haha, they are all acquaintances.
The woman was a girl from the aristocracy disguised as Miao Ne, and the man was Cui Xiong, the eldest son of Cui Zhi. Cui Xiong had a cold face at first, and only occasionally responded to the scholar beside him, and had no interest in Miao Ne's approach. I don’t know what Miao Ne said to him, so the young man was willing to pay attention.
Shen Tang said: [It depends on fate. ]
Cui Mi said: [There is no such thing as fate for the marriage of the children of the nobles. It’s the parents’ orders and the matchmaker’s words. I heard a piece of news today that the king intends to appoint this person. ]
Marriage is of course a private matter within the family, but the king is interested in matchmaking, and Cui has to give some face, especially when the grandparents want to curry favor with the other party and don’t like my brother, this matter is almost certain. If nothing unexpected happens, it’s basically settled.
Shen Tang couldn’t interrupt this.
Cui Mi said again: [Brother, stupid people have stupid luck. ]
Shen Tang: [……? ? ? ]
Cui Mi was a little abnormal today.
The young boy looked across the carp pond at his brother, squinting slightly, and said: [Being played by a woman and being played by a woman... the difference between these two is as big as the sky and the earth...]
Just when Shen Tang frowned and wondered what Cui Mi was saying, Cui Mi finally retracted his gaze. Shen Tang noticed that many girls from the noble families were also looking at Cui Mi, and then he remembered that this was not only Cui Xiong's blind date party, but also Cui Mi's.
[As the host, you can't be lazy here.]
Shen Tang wanted to send Cui Mi away.
But Cui Mi said: [Being lazy for a while, at most you will be criticized for not knowing etiquette and be taught a lesson by your father. If you don't know the severity and really get into debt, then you are immoral. Yesterday, when I went out with my brother, I met a wandering Taoist priest who said that I would not live to be 25.]
Shen Tang said casually: [It's fake.]
[It's better to believe it than not to believe it. If it's just a wandering Taoist priest who said so, of course I can not believe it...]
[Anyone else? 】
【The monks in the family temple also said so. 】
Shen Tang had no way to verify the truth of what Cui Mi said: [I think Hou Chi is in good health, how could he die at the age of 25...]
This age is not considered premature death, but it is also considered short-lived.
Even if he is going to die, there must be a way to die, right?
[Did the fortune teller reveal why Hou Chi died? 】
Shen Tang did not shy away from death, and Cui Mi himself did not object to this matter. He looked up at the bright and sunny day and sighed: [Each has his own way of death. The monk said that the sky fell and hit me. The wandering Taoist said that the sea boiled and the river turned over, and I would be buried in the belly of the fish. 】
The young boy sighed half-truthfully.
Shen Tang's mouth twitched when he heard it.
She didn't think Cui Mi was lying, but she didn't think he was telling the truth either. Cui Mi's voice came to his ears: "I believed it before yesterday. The destiny of heaven has been established, and human power cannot be disobeyed. Once disobeyed, there will be divine punishment." How can the power of ants shake a giant tree? It's just a matter of muddling along, living one day at a time. However, now I have some doubts... Fate has really changed. 】
Shen Tang was confused.
【changed? 】
[Just like my brother is destined to be played as a fool by women and be played as a fool by women. 】When Cui Mi was talking to Cui Xiong yesterday, the picture he saw was different from the picture he saw today.
This situation has never happened in so many years.
He thought about it and guessed that it was the effect of his words.
Thinking of this, Cui Mi raised his hand and looked at his palm, lost in thought.
He told his mother that day that although he didn't lie, he didn't tell the whole story - he could indeed see some fragmentary scenes through his breath. Passive and completely uncontrollable. These pictures are not limited to the past that has already happened, but also the vague future.
As a young man at that time, he was almost frightened.
Not only could he see his short-lived self, he could also see his brother and him meeting the King of Hell. Except for their brothers, everyone he met could not survive the sudden natural disaster - except his father. He became a tomb before the natural disaster.
In these pictures, my mother is never seen.
She divorced and never came back.
However, he also knew where the other party was buried.
He also paid the price and tried to change.
The destiny is established and cannot be violated!
The way he and his brother died changed from being crushed to death by meteorites to being swept away by the waves and buried in the belly of fish. He tried to interfere with the fate of the maids and servants around him, but the results were similar. The servant avoided death from illness, but died of homicide on the same day when he returned home to visit relatives; the maid avoided being betrayed by her grandmother, and was released from her bond of betrayal by him and returned home, but was sold to Yazi by her brother-in-law on the same day. .
He felt miserable about it for a while.
I don’t want to be in contact with others, I don’t want to see other people.
He even went to the temple built by his grandmother to hide and relax.
His grandmother worshiped Buddha and cultivated her mind all day long. He was curious and wanted to ask her several times who was the scribe who looked similar to his mother and brought sacrifices to her tomb. How could he, who was still a young man in cultivation, be able to hide what was in his heart? He asked, and grandma was silent as she looked at the Buddha statue.
She easily accepted his specialness.
Grandma said: [Follow your destiny. 】
[But if this is the case, father, brother and the others...]
【Everyone has his own cause and effect in this world. What you sow is what you get, so why force it? Instead of clinging to an illusory future and turning it into an obsession, it is better to cherish the present. 】Grandma twisted the beads and said softly, "Whether it is blood ties, family ties, lovers, or close friends, all causes and effects are only in this life." Maybe a few years, maybe half a lifetime... there will always be an end. Don't be greedy. 】
Greed will be counterattacked.
[The more I want to hold on, the more I lose. 】
[How can Mi'er be sure that the future you see is the worst and not the best? Don’t make yourself self-defeating...]
Cui Mi had to calm down.
only--
Yesterday, he saw his brother being fooled by a woman. He couldn't help but remind the other party, but his mind was completely distorted. Goodbye today, good fellow, your destiny has changed!
But he who interfered in all this did not suffer the backlash.
Cui Mi fell into deep thought.
This is not the only strange thing.
He also saw his future jumping around like a convulsion.
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PS: _(:з ∠)_I found that everyone is quite innocent. Is there a possibility that what Cui Mi said in the last chapter "seeing being played by a woman makes a fool" is a fool in the literal sense. ? However, Cui Xiong understood the issue of family tradition in a different way.
Cui Mi: "...I can't carry him at all."
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