"There are many magical medicines in the dense forests of Nanyi, one of which is called rattan grass."
"Its name is grass, and its shape is a tree. The flower beads are seeds, which can revive the dead and turn bones into flesh. Only one flower blooms in decades."
"ââOnly people with destiny can see it in the world."
Under the huge peach tree, the children sitting around the old man listened quietly. Someone asked in a crisp voice: "What if it is not destined?"
The old man stroked his beard and laughed: "People without destiny may have died in the poisonous gas and swamps when entering the dense forests of Nanyi. Or they may sink into dreams under the canopy of rattan grass."
"Looking back on the past life, drunkenness and dreaming, never awake."
"No one can come out alive?"
"No one can come out alive."
The children let out a mixed "wowââ".
Just at this moment, a thin and straight figure in black holding a wooden sword walked by not far away.
In this paradise full of peach blossoms, this black spot is particularly conspicuous.
A child saw her and immediately jumped up, waving and shouting, "Sister Aning!"
The person paused, turned around, revealing a cool and elegant face, with long hair tied up and only a wooden hairpin on her head, but it was hard to hide the noble air that came with being in a high position for a long time.
She only paused, and groups of little kids came up one after another, chattering around her, calling her "Sister Aning": "Sister Qingqing, haven't you woken up today?"
Qiu Che shook his head, with a faint smile on his lips, and the worry in his eyes was almost invisible: "It's noon, why don't you go home for dinner?"
The children sighed, dispersed, and ran home.
Behind them, the old man hunched over, slowly walked up to Qiu Che with his cane and said, "Girl, did you go to the woods again today?"
Qiu Che looked around at the empty surroundings, his eyes swept across the peach tree, and whispered, "Well, I have to go."
The old man sighed and walked to the other side of the village. Qiu Che followed beside him, thinking about something calmly.
The old man didn't turn around, but seemed to be able to guess what she was thinking. He said leisurely: "This place is isolated from the world, just rest assured to raise your rattan grass - but no one can come in, and it's difficult for you to get news from the outside world."
"If you want to find out something, you might as well wait for that Qingqing girl to wake up, and then you two can make plans."
Qiu Che came back to his senses and smiled: "Jiang Bo is right."
"However, using the water from Taohua River to water the rattan grass every day, can it really make it bloom like it just bloomed?"
Jiang Bo glanced at her and snorted: "I have lived in this Peach Blossom Land for decades, can my words be wrong?"
Qiu Che laughed and agreed, and felt that he was worrying too much.
This place is called Peach Blossom Land. As its name suggests, Peach Blossom Land is a small village isolated from the world. It is located at the junction of Nanyi and Daxia, surrounded by dense forests of Nanyi, and uninhabited.
Although it is isolated from the world, there are many people living in the village, most of whom are children. There are only a few middle-aged people who are responsible for farming and the children's food, clothing, housing and transportation on weekdays.
These children, including the middle-aged people, were all people that the old man surnamed Jiang had saved over the past few decades.
Some of them came from the north, some from the south, and some from other countries.
But without exception, they were all poor people who had to leave their homes and beg on the streets for survival for various reasons.
Qiu Che and Li Qingwu were also rescued by each other.
But the difference was that they were "picked up" by Jiang Bo in the deep forest of Nanyi.
Not long after Qiu Che fainted that day, she woke up again. It was dusk again. As a result, there was no one around, only deep and shallow footprints pointing to the depths of the jungle.
Qiu Che realized where Li Qingwu had gone in an instant -
the rattan grass.
She grew up under the influence of her mother. Even if she didn't know how to make any medicine, she was very good at using the drugs of Nanyi.
Qiu Che was not on guard against her and was knocked unconscious by the medicine she put in the sachet.
She wanted to go in alone to find the rattan grass, but she was afraid that Qiu Che would worry about her, so she had to follow him in, so she chose this way.
Qiu Che reacted and was angry and anxious for a while.
In fact, she had this thought after realizing that this place was most likely the Nanyi Forest. She
had not had the opportunity to come here before, and the Nanyi Forest was full of dangers. It was impossible for her to drop a lot of things and come here to find a magical medicine that might not exist.
But now that she was here,
she naturally wanted to try it for Li Qingwu. Who knew that Li Qingwu was the one who said that she didn't care whether she could be cured or not, and she was the first one to go in alone to find medicine.
Seeing that it was getting dark, Li Qingwu still didn't come back, so Qiu Che didn't wait any longer, covered her mouth and nose with clothes, and followed the footprints in.
Soon, under a huge canopy of green leaves, Li Qingwu was found unconscious.
She was holding a shimmering flower bud in her hand.
Qiu Che had never seen this flower before. The petals were like peonies, and the core was like azaleas.
She didn't have time to think too much. She carefully helped the man up. She just checked his breath and confirmed that Li Qingwu was still alive. Then she looked at the flower she was holding tightly in her hand again.
The moment she reached out to hold it, her eyes flashed.
Then, as if in a big dream, she saw all the things in her past life from Li Qingwu's perspective.
But when she woke up again, she found that she and Li Qingwu were lying safely in a wooden house.
The owner of the house was Jiang Bo.
In Taoyuan Village, there are many ownerless wooden houses like this, all left behind by the predecessors.
Jiang Bo claimed that he had lived here for decades and had been living in the Peach Blossom Land.
And this so-called Peach Blossom Land is in the deep of the Nanyi dense forest, which is rumored to be in and out.
Jiang Bo can live in such a place, which is enough to show that he is not simple, but he has adopted a group of innocent children, plus the life-saving grace in the dense forest, which makes Qiu Che really not wary of him.
If it weren't for the other party, even if they didn't die, they would have been corroded by the poison gas and would have been unable to recover.
Even the fact that the flower was the so-called rattan grass was told to her by Jiang Bo.
When asked why, Jiang Bo replied: "If you are asking why I want to save you? Then I can only say that the secret cannot be revealed."
"If you ask why I tell you that this is rattan grass and how to use it, it is only because you are the destined person."
"Ordinary people can't see rattan grass." Jiang Bo said meaningfully, "You not only saw it, but also picked it."
Qiu Che felt that he was a little mysterious, and this statement was even more mysterious.
She never believed in the saying of destined people, but she didn't refute it in person. She just fiddled with the petals in her pocket that were still as fresh as before after several days, thinking about it.
Now the situation is a little complicated. Logically, they should return to the capital as soon as possible after being rescued, so as to avoid any trouble if they disappear for a long time.
But now Li Qingwu has been in a coma for dozens of days for some unknown reason and has not woken up yet.
Qiu Che originally wanted to ask for a doctor, but Jiang Bo held her down and said with a shaking beard: "Why do you think there is no doctor in the village? That's because I am the doctor."
Qiu Che sat back suspiciously.
Jiang Bo felt Li Qingwu's pulse for a while and said that Li Qingwu was in good health, but his heart disease was difficult to cure. He was in a deep dream and didn't want to wake up.
Qiu Che was even more worried.
She had reviewed Li Qingwu's experience in her previous life in her dream. Although she didn't feel the same way, she was in the same situation and could see that Li Qingwu actually had some feelings for her.
... No, it can't be said that there must be some, and a lot.
But Li Qingwu didn't wake up for a long time, and Qiu Che's joy was in vain.
She couldn't help but wonder if Li Qingwu also saw the memories of her previous life?
Was she unwilling to wake up because she was too miserable in her previous life?
Or did Jiang Bo not know any medical skills at all and was just teasing her?
Or, could it be that this fairyland-like Peach Blossom Spring was actually a dream?
She never woke up at all?
This idea was terrifying.
But Qiu Che quickly rejected it.
She didn't think she didn't even have the ability to judge the difference between reality and dreams.
The rattan grass only works when it is boiled into a medicinal juice or applied externally when it is fresh. While waiting for Li Qingwu to wake up, Qiu Che has been quietly looking for ways to get in touch with the outside world, but to no avail.
At the same time, she also followed Jiang Bo's instructions and went to the village head to get water from the Taohua River in Taohuayuan every day when she practiced martial arts, and used it to water the rattan grass every day to make it as fresh as before.
The days passed one by one, and it was almost half a month. Qiu Che became more and more anxious.
The most worried thing was Li Qingwu who was still not awake.
But today, she actually received a reply to the letter she sent a few days ago with a mechanical pigeon made of wood. The reply
was written by Yang Qiu, who first expressed his surprise and congratulations that she was not dead, and then told her everything that happened in the capital during this period.
It turned out that after the two of them fell off the cliff with Yuan Fu that day, Wu Yiqi still remembered her instructions and did not make a big fuss at the first time. Instead, he took people and contacted the queen mother with the help of Yu Ming.
They took the people of Ye Ming City and took a detour to the foot of the mountain to search for their traces, but they went down three kilometers along the road by the river. After searching for a day and a night, they only found Yuan Fu's cold body. As for them, they didn't even find a hair.
Even Yu Ming and Yu Yan were depressed. Although they hadn't seen the body yet, they almost assumed that they were in danger. After all, the truth could not be hidden.
On the third day after they fell off the cliff, the emperor discovered something unusual.
After the news spread, the ministers were shocked. Perhaps the emperor was afraid of another accident, so he only carried out half of the autumn hunt and ordered to return to the imperial city in advance.
During the half month they were away from the capital, it was said that the emperor was like a bereaved father every day when he went to court, and the momentum of the new forces was greatly suppressed.
The old ministers of the aristocratic families who were suppressed by Qiu Che for reforming the law some time ago began to raise their heads and start a new life.
The most proud person was none other than Prime Minister Wu.
Without a potential hidden danger, he became the one who had the final say in the court, and he was very proud of himself both in and out of the court.
The emperor didn't know why, but he used to be most averse to the Queen Mother and Prime Minister Wu getting involved again. But ten days after Qiu Che disappeared, he suddenly tried desperately, and
asked the Queen Mother to return to the court to take over the government on the grounds of being unwell. And judging from the letter Qiu Che had seen, it was the Queen Mother who took this opportunity to sow discord between the monarch and his ministers, who didn't have deep trust in the first place. Taking advantage of the gap when the emperor was short of people to use, and the image of not caring about worldly affairs and worshipping Buddha that she had established during this period, she retreated to advance and regained some power.
The court was in a balance of power, and the various forces were fighting fiercely. From time to time, the prince would make a show of his actions.
It was much more lively than when Qiu Che was there.
After reading this part of the letter, Qiu Che was no longer anxious. She could see that Yang Qiu was probably trying to comfort her and told her not to rush back, but most of the situation should be true.
In this way, she really doesn't have to rush back to the capital.
In fact... since Li Qingwu hasn't woken up yet, she can take this opportunity to hide behind him, look at the overall situation, and look for the figure who has been hiding behind the scenes and manipulating everything.
Jiang Bo didn't guess Qiu Che's thoughts this time.
Seeing Qiu Che remained silent for a long time, thinking that she didn't believe him, Jiang Bo snorted arrogantly again: "I used to be a Nanyi person, and I used to follow the Nanyi Saint... I have long trained myself to be immune to all poisons. If I wanted your rattan grass, I would have found it eight hundred years ago. You don't have to worry about me lying because I covet it."
Qiu Che was stunned, but his focus was: "... Nanyi Saint?" Is
n't this also a legend?
"Yes." Jiang Bo paused and sighed, "Not to mention the previous saints, speaking of which, when I was in Nanyi, the last saint I served was really a woman with an extremely strong personality."
"What a pity... She was too stubborn and too obsessed with being loved, and her relationship with her brother who was the king was very strained. Later, she was sent to the palace of Daxia by her brother to be a spy, and she fell into a false love and fell in love with someone she shouldn't have loved. As a result, her identity was discovered, and she was sent to the cold palace and no longer had any news."
Qiu Che's heart skipped a beat. For some reason, he felt that this description was very familiar: "What happened later?"
"Later?"
Jiang Bo stopped and looked at her, "Later, I came here and no longer paid attention to news and rumors from the outside world."
"...I don't know, what was the saint's surname?"
"Surname? Of course it's Nanyi's national surname, Shen." Jiang Bo said meaningfully, "I only remember that she had a single character'Xiao'. But now, in Nanyi, I'm afraid not many people remember this name."
How sad.
In her own country, no one loves her. When she becomes a spy and goes to another country, she is just an insignificant pawn in the eyes of others.
She has been seeking love from others all her life, but she is unwilling to love herself once.
How pitiful.
But this is also the trajectory of too many people.
It seems that if you are too obsessed with love, you will always be hurt by it.
On the contrary, cold-blooded and ruthless people can always make a lot of money.