Chapter 26 Breaking the Illusion
Tangning suddenly looked at the black horse beneath her. She had tied the horse at the door of her house.
Liu Ruhan pulled his hand. Tangning looked at her, shook her head, pulled her onto the horse, and headed towards the caravan. She always felt like she had left something behind along the way.
Tang Ning took Liu Ruhan to Cui Yilin's room in the backyard of the caravan. The two knelt down and bowed to Cui Yilin several times. Cui Yilin smiled and pulled the two of them up: "No need to be polite, I am happy to see you getting married and becoming a teacher."
After the master and apprentice exchanged pleasantries, Tang Ning took Liu Ruhan to visit several master uncles and senior brother Qi Yunfei in turn.
When I returned home, I saw Gu Chengqian at the door of my house. He was sitting there. When he saw Tang Ning, he ran over with a smile on his face: "Hey, Tang Ning, I ordered a table of wine at Cuixian Tower today. Remember to go and eat it tonight!"
"I won't go! You can eat it yourself!" Tang Ning looked at Liu Ruhan with a troubled expression on her face.
"How can that be done? Today's dinner is specially prepared for you. It's not just me, but all the brothers from the caravan, and some people like Mujinmian. You are getting married and we treat you to a meal, but why don't you give me face?"
"Okay! I'll come over later." Tangning had no choice but to agree.
In the evening, a group of people exchanged cups, and the lights of the cups were intertwined. Looking at Gu Chengqian and Mu Jinmian, some vague memory fragments came into their minds.
He vaguely saw a young man kneeling in front of a man covered in blood with a blade in his hand. He also saw this young man walking in the rain with an expressionless face and said something to him. There was another person lying next to him, but he
I can't see these people's faces clearly.
When she woke up the next day, she was in a familiar room again. Tang Ning looked at the swaying bamboo shadows outside the window. The more she looked at it, the more she felt that something was wrong. After a while, Liu Ruhan woke up, and he fell into the gentle countryside again.
The days passed by, and it was five years in a flash. Tangning rubbed her hands and walked anxiously outside the door. Gu Chengqian patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be nervous, it's okay. This midwife is the most experienced in the county.
Nothing will go wrong."
Tangning nodded and smiled reluctantly, but he was still worried inside. From time to time, he would lie down at the door to listen for noise, but he couldn't hear anything, which made him even more uneasy.
After a long time, a baby's cry pierced the quiet night sky. Tangning was so excited that she hurriedly ran to the room.
Just as he was about to open the door, the clear and sweet sound of wind chimes suddenly came to his ears, and he stopped instantly.
He turned around and looked at everything around him blankly. He vaguely remembered that someone once told him that when the bell rang, everything was empty.
"Tangning, what's wrong with you? What are you doing here? Didn't you hear? Your child was born." Gu Chengqian said.
Tangning looked at him blankly, her familiar face becoming a little blurry: "Did you hear the bell?"
"What are you talking about? What kind of bell sound are you talking about? Are you stupid?"
Tangning didn't answer, she just looked at him motionless, and some vague fragments appeared in her mind.
"The murderer behind the massacre of thirty-four members of my family was your master Cui Yilin."
"Tangning, I told you that you are my only friend. Leave quickly and go to Qian Yizong. Maybe you will still have a chance to meet her."
The blurry picture became clear bit by bit. The young man walked across the threshold, paused and whispered, "Tangning, take care."
"Congratulations, Mr. Tang, mother and child are safe." The door opened and the midwife came out with a baby in her arms. She handed the baby to Tang Ning and said with a smile on her face.
Tang Ning looked at the crying baby, and then at Liu Ruhan who was sweating profusely and extremely weak in the room, and felt dizzy for a moment.
The midwife handed the baby to Tang Ning. Liu Ruhan looked at Tang Ning and the baby in her arms, with a happy smile on her face. Tang Ning walked in like a puppet.
In the following months, he devoted himself to the mother and son, and Liu Ruhan slowly recovered. Gradually, he put down his position in the caravan and opened a restaurant with the money on hand. Because he was a disciple of Cui Yilin,
And after working in the caravan for so many years, he is familiar with the caravan brothers, and everyone admires his work, so the business is very good.
Just like that, several years passed. During this period, some vague pictures always came to his mind, and he couldn't see clearly or hear them clearly.
"Tang Ning." When he heard someone calling him, he turned around and saw Gu Chengqian standing there, looking at him with a strange expression.
"What's wrong with you? I called you four or five times and you ignored me?"
"Oh, I was a little distracted and didn't pay attention," Tang Ning said with a smile.
"You've been like this all this time, are you okay?"
"I don't know what's going on, but I always feel like I've forgotten something, something very important."
"Hey, let me tell you something, take your wife and Yi'er to play in the southern suburbs tomorrow. My Xin'er keeps pestering me to take her there, so I just wanted to take their mother and daughter to play. Let's go together.
Well, it’s time for you to relax and don’t be nervous all day long.”
Tangning thought for a while: "Okay then!"
The next day, six people from the two families and two carriages headed towards the southern suburbs.
Tang Ning was sitting in the carriage, holding Liu Ruhan's hand and holding her son Tang Yi. The child looked very similar to him, and his features and eyes were very similar to his.
"Dad, when are you going to teach me how to practice swordsmanship? I want to learn swordsmanship." The child looked at him and asked with a sweet voice.
"Not yet! How old are you? Dad will teach you in a few years."
"Dad, I don't want to sleep alone. Can I sleep with you guys?"
"No, a man must sleep alone."
"Then why do you sleep with your mother in your arms every day? I want to sleep with my mother in my arms too."
The carriage stumbled all the way to the southern suburbs. Tangning took Liu Ruhan's little hand and held her son out of the carriage, then put her son down: "Go and play with Xin'er!"
Tang Yi happily jumped all the way to Gu Chengqian's family, took the little girl's hand and left.
Gu Chengqian and his wife came over and said with a smile: "Xin'er was very happy when she heard that Yi'er was coming yesterday and made a lot of noise all night."
The four of them followed the two children, chatting and laughing all the way. At noon, Tang Ning saw the two children still playing by the pond, so she went over and asked them to come for dinner.
Two children were playing around by the pond, splashing in the water.
"What are you doing?" Tangning walked to them and knelt down and asked with a smile.
"Dad, look at that flower, I can't pick it no matter what." Xiao Tang Yi pointed at the reflection in the water and said in a sweet voice.
"Silly boy, that's a reflection, it's fake. Look, that flower is on top!" Tangning pointed at the flowers on the tree and said with a smile.
Looking at the flowers on the tree and the reflection in the water, he was stunned, and suddenly he remembered something.
There was a crisp sound of bells in his ears. He put his hand through the water curtain, ripples appeared on the water, and intermittent memory fragments appeared in his mind.
He looked at the flower in the water and murmured in a low voice: "Mirror flower, water moon."
"Why aren't you leaving?" Gu Chengqian came over and asked, holding a child in one hand: "Let's go, let's go eat!"
"Hey, Tangning, what do you think, let's make an appointment to get married?" Gu Chengqian turned around and said.
Tangning looked at him and smiled: "If that's true, that would be great."
Gu Chengqian walked forward with the two children in his arms. Seeing Tangning still in a daze, he asked, "What are you doing there! Why don't you come over?"
"I can't go," Tangning said, looking at the gentle figure looking at her not far away.
"I'll find you."
Everything in front of me gradually blurred until everything in my field of vision disappeared.
Tangning opened his eyes again and saw a gray world in front of him. He was a little surprised as to how he ended up here. He remembered that he had not been in this dreamland for many years.
You have clearly seen through the illusion just now, and you should return to the Mortal Transformation Pond!
Or is this still an illusion?
Before Tang Ning could figure out what was going on, the gray mist surrounding him surged up and swarmed into his body.
"Ah!" The gray mist penetrated into his body. Tangning felt that her body was so swollen that it was about to explode. She yelled and then lost consciousness.
Outside the Mortal Transformation Pool, a man in green clothes watched the rolling crimson water in the pool calm down. He then heard Tang Ning shouting and fainted, so he removed the restrictions on the pool. Looking at the unconscious Tang Ning, he frowned and pointed two fingers.
Tangning nodded and found that there was no serious problem on his forehead, so he took him out.
Mo Ruting watched the man in green help Tang Ning come out and asked quickly, "Senior Brother Xu, what's going on?"
"I succeeded in transforming into a mortal. It's nothing serious. It may be because I was exhausted from fighting the illusion and was exhausted." The man in Tsing Yi didn't know why this happened, so he said casually: "It's very dangerous to transform into a mortal. It's very dangerous to calm the soul.
It took three times for him to break away from the illusion. He should be fine after taking him back for a few days to recuperate."
"Oh, then I'll take him away." Mo Ruting nodded and took Tangning back to the room.
Tangning woke up in a daze and found that he was lying in his room. He stood up and opened the door and looked at the disciples in dark clothes in the distance. He also saw the people struggling on the stone steps and the familiar figures gritting their teeth and persisting under the waterfall.
This should not be an illusion! But shouldn’t I be in the Mortal Transformation Pond? How did I end up here?
Just as Tangning was thinking about it, she suddenly realized that she was different from usual. He could actually see clearly the people on the stone steps a hundred feet away and the figures washed by the water under the waterfall. Not only could he see their faces clearly, but he could also see clearly
You can clearly see the subtle expressions on their faces.
Tangning closed his eyes and calmed down. He could even hear the chirping of insects hidden in the ground and the things buried in the darkness that were about to emerge, the smell of green grass.
This world seems to be different from before...
He could still feel something like substance everywhere around him. He tried to make contact with these things, and they rushed towards his body.
Chapter completed!