Golden Greenery

The Immortal Changchun Valley has its own world. Although it is mysterious and secluded, it is not completely isolated from the world. Some news from the outside world will always reach the valley, but the time lag varies.

On their eighth year in the valley, Yang Yi and Zhou Yingluo's simple and leisurely life rhythm was interrupted. News came - Li Yu, the former leader of the Southern Tang Dynasty, died of illness in Bianliang.

Li Yu died, and he didn't just die. He died on the Chinese Valentine's Day six years ago, less than two years after Yang Yi killed Zhao Kuangyin and took away Zhou Yingluo.

Because he was demoted from the imperial court and took the imperial title four years before the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he did not have a posthumous title after his death. People just called him "Launcher of the Southern Tang Dynasty".

It is said that Li Yu called Zhou Yingluo's name before he died.

It is said that before his death, he wrote lyrics for Xiao Zhouhou to express his love for him:

The flowers in the forest withered in spring, too hastily.

Helplessly, the cold rain comes in the morning and the wind comes in the evening.

Rouge tears leave people drunk, no matter how long they last.

Naturally, life grows and hates water.

Another one:

Silently, I went up to the west tower alone, the moon was like a hook.

The lonely Wutong deep courtyard locks Qingqiu.

Continuous cutting and confusion remain, which is the sorrow of separation.

Don't just have the ordinary taste in your heart.

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After hearing the news, Zhou Yingluo changed completely. She didn't cry, but she stayed there like a piece of wood for two days, saying nothing and not even eating or drinking.

Then she wrote down the two poems one stroke at a time and just stared at them.

Yang Yi was forcibly influenced by Zhou Yingluo's artistic attainments for eight years. Although he could not compose poems of this level, he could still understand the sad thoughts and expressions in them.

Therefore, Yang Yi was speechless.

My wife misses her husband! If it were any other Song Dynasty man, Zhou Yingluo would have been hung from the beam and beaten at this time, but Yang Yi was not from the Song Dynasty. Compared to the feminine Song Dynasty man, he was more like an open and bold Tang Dynasty man.

He is not a man who is good at opening women's hearts either.

Besides, there is no way to solve this kind of thing, so Yang Yi can only try not to disturb her.

Disciple Li Xiaoyao is a very smart young man. He will not get involved in his master's love and hatred, so he hides away from her like his master.

Zhou Yingluo spent four days alone in extreme grief.

If Li Yu was still alive and asked Zhou Yingluo to abandon the sheep and return to Li Yu, she would not be able to do it. Even if I go back, I'm afraid I will miss Yang Yi even more than I miss Li Yu now.

As a couple, Li Yu and Zhou Yingluo have been together for eight years, and their relationship has been deep during these eight years. Li Yu is indeed a weak man. He is not a good emperor, nor is he a very qualified husband, but there are always good and bad things between husband and wife.

Zhou Yingluo has a strong and sincere temperament and is very kind. Distance, time and space produce longing, and kind-hearted people always have the habit of constantly adding the good things about that person in their thoughts and memories, and gradually forget about their bad qualities.

What's more, the dead are the most important, and Li Yu's cowardice and ignoble survival disappeared with his death. What's left is the only favor in the prosperous times, and the mutual support in the humble times.

Neither Yang Yi nor Li Xiaoyao understood this. Only Zhou Yingluo was immersed in sorrow alone.

Four days later, she walked up the cliff in the valley. Originally, she only wanted to listen to the waterfall in the distance and the singing of birds nearby. However, she heard the duet of the local Miao men and women.

The Miao people cannot write lyrics, but they are better at singing than the Song people who are so talented in literature. Moreover, there is no elegance in the songs of the Miao people, and their words and expressions are always so direct.

Man: Girl, don’t leave

Sing a song to keep you here

The song contains my true love for you

There is your tenderness in the song

Female: Brother, brother, I won’t leave

My sister will accompany you until you grow old

I'll stay with you until the stars don't blink

Accompany you until the moon hides in the ravine

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The song of the Miao couple echoed in the valley, and Zhou Yingluo cried bitterly during the song. This was the first time she cried after leaving Bianliang. She didn't know whether it was for Li Yu or for herself.

Yang Yi and Li Xiaoyao were practicing martial arts under the waterfall. Zhou Yingluo returned to the bamboo house on stilts where she and Yang Yi had stayed together for eight years. After tidying up the place, she drank the juice of the heartbroken grass and gave it to Yang Yi. Next letter.

In the evening, Yang Yi and Li Xiaoyao came back carrying fish and red berries. She was dead, as peaceful as sleeping.

The letter said that she was originally a person who deserved to die. She died eight years ago, and it was Yang Yi who allowed her to live for eight more years.

Lang Jun, you are a good man, you are my hero, a peerless hero who fell from the sky. Langjun, Yingluo will repay your kindness in the next life.

The letter said that when Xiao Zhou was about to die, she asked Yang Yi to bury her in the Valley of Eternal Spring in the name of Zhou Yingluo.

Yang Yi buried her on the hillside next to the bamboo house, with the grave facing Bianliang.

She was already the third woman in this world who said she would repay him in the next life, but Yang Yi didn't want to hear it. He didn't know where his afterlife would be. No matter Luo Ji, Wu Huiqing, or Zhou Yingluo, they are not the destination of Yang Yi. They are more like passers-by in this world for a long time.

He took out the panpipe he had just made out of green bamboo and wanted to play a song for Yingluo, but he couldn't. Until her death, he had not learned the music or playing.

He made the panpipe secretly and asked the Miao people for advice. Originally I wanted to give it to Yingluo to make her happy, but now I don’t need it and it’s useless.

The day Zhou Yingluo died was August 15th. The moon was very round and bright, and it didn't rain in the valley.

Li Xiaoyao cried like a child in front of Zhou Yingluo's grave. He lost his parents when he was a child, and lost his beloved wife when he was young. His fate was really messy. After seven years of worshiping Yang Yi and Zhou Yingluo, he has already achieved great success in civil and military arts, but what fascinates him even more is that his master and his wife really love him like parents.

Li Xiaoyao used the panpipe made by his master to play the music taught by his master's wife in front of the grave, crying while playing.

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As soon as Yang Yi left the Evergreen Valley, there was nothing left for him to miss. The road of search is long, and he wants to go home, to the place where his sustenance and soul rest.

He wants to find who he is and the person who has been waiting for him.

Two years ago, he learned a legend while talking with monks from Tianlong Temple in Dali. It is said that there is a vast continent on the other side of the ocean in the far west, and fishermen once went there.

Three hundred and sixty-nine-year-old Yang Yi has traveled to every known corner of the world, but found nothing. He wanted to see that continent that might exist and see if he was from there.

Li Xiaoyao followed his master out of the Valley of Youth. After all, he wanted to create a legendary swordsman. His talent should not be buried in this isolated valley.

Dali is not far from Shushan. Half a month after leaving the Valley of Youth, Li Xiaoyao bid farewell to his master at the foot of Shushan Mountain.

There is a legend about the Immortal Sword in Shu Mountain. Li Xiaoyao told his master that he wanted to go up the mountain to enlighten himself and the sword.

Li Xiaoyao had surpassed his master Yang Yi in martial arts, especially swordsmanship, a few years ago, and his artistic attainments such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting were no longer inferior to Zhou Yingluo's. He once told his master and his wife that he wanted to see if he could integrate the way of swordsmanship with calligraphy, painting, music, and even chess.

Neither Yang Yi nor Zhou Yingluo had such ability, so with Li Xiaoyao as their apprentice, they were really happy and contented.

Li Xiaoyao actually wanted to accompany his master on his journey to the west, and wanted to stay with Yang Yi forever, who was like a father, but he didn't dare.

Li Xiaoyao believed that he was an unlucky person. His parents died shortly after he was born. Later, his beloved wife Zhao Ling'er suffered another disaster, and his chivalrous and righteous confidante Lin Yueru also died in a foreign country.

He sadly discovered that his closest relatives always died miserably. So that year, the white Miao girl Anu showed her love, but he hid in the Valley of Youth.

After seven years of apprenticeship in Guzhong, Li Xiaoyao was afraid that his unknown body would harm his master and his wife. He had wanted to leave for a long time, but he couldn't help but indulge in the care of his parents at home, and he really couldn't bear it.

However, the master and his wife, who were in love with each other, could not escape their own interference after all, and the master's wife died. Li Xiaoyao regretted it very much, and he did not dare to follow his master anymore.

All of this is Li Xiaoyao's self-perception, which is very paranoid. Yang Yi didn't know, he only knew that Li Xiaoyao was smart and very mellow.

Li Xiaoyao bid farewell to his mentor in tears. This was the last time the great swordsman shed tears.

Yang Yi once again embarked on the long westward journey alone, embarking on the road of search and the road home.