Golden Greenery

The scorching sun has been blazing all summer, and although it is not too hot in the mountains, the vegetation that has lost moisture due to drought has dried up and turned yellow in large areas. It is as yellow as winter, but as lush as autumn.

The dry air seems to make it burn immediately if you shout.

Three days ago, the water diversion pipe stopped flowing, which means that the last water source on the other side has dried up. There is only a small amount of water in the shallow water storage pool in the col. If it doesn't rain, it will be gone.

Without water, humans cannot survive. In fact, if it weren't for the water diversion and storage projects built by Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qi, when the drought first started last winter, Yang Yi and A Ke would have moved directly to live outside the mountains, perhaps in Chang'an City.

Because Yang Yi no longer has the physical strength to go over the mountains and ridges to fetch water, he is very old.

Yangyi knew that it was the 648th year since he came into this world, but he didn't know what age he should be. But he knew that his wife Akademo was one hundred and ten years old.

Saint Akademo said that she was very happy because the previous seven generations of saints only lived to be fifty or sixty years old, but she was one hundred and ten years old and she had not even lost a tooth. Except that she could no longer draw the stubborn Holy Fire Bow, she felt that she was no different from when she was young.

In fact, Akko stopped looking in the mirror more than thirty years ago and refused to lower his head when passing by a puddle.

Yang Yi said to her: In my eyes, you will always look like you were sixteen when we first met.

Akko knew what he said was true, because after more than ninety years, he still had to hold her in his arms every night to fall asleep. More than ninety years later, his touches and kisses are still as gentle as they were ninety years ago.

Deep love cannot be faked at all.

One hundred and ten years old is the age of gods, but he and she agreed to live to be two hundred or three hundred years old, until the day they find their way back, until they find out who they are.

Yang Yi knows very well that people cannot live forever, but if they find who they are and the key to home, they will be able to fall in love with her again until eternity.

Akko still often has that dream. In her dream, she clearly sees Yang Yi's appearance, which is the same appearance when she took off the mask in the Holy Girl Temple more than ninety years ago.

The clothes he wore in the dream were strange, but very beautiful. He likes to play football and play the big box piano, and he is charming every moment he moves.

Yang Yi didn't dream of anything. He seemed to have never dreamed in the past six hundred years. Akko said, maybe because I am in your dream now, you and I, and this world, are just in your dream.

I love you,

It starts from the first meeting and doesn’t end until the end.

But the pace of time cannot be stopped after all, and he and she still grow old irresistibly. Now he can no longer walk through the steep mountain road to fetch water from the other side of the mountain, nor can he kill the mad antelope.

One afternoon four years ago, Yang Yi went hunting as usual and encountered a ferocious antelope in heat. Although he finally tried his best to cut it, he still let the antelope run away. The sheep dropped the knife and took a long breath.

The first time he killed a living creature in this world was an antelope. The last time I tried to kill an animal, it was also an antelope. Everything seemed to be reincarnated.

From then on, he put down the knife.

Akko can no longer draw the Holy Fire Bow, but she can still play the piano, and she plays it superbly. Huang Yaoshi, who was proficient in music in the past, said that the saint's piano skills have reached the state of perfection and are the sounds of nature.

Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qi left here twenty-five years ago. Dong Xie and Bei Bei lived in the mountain col for eleven years. When they left, they still hadn't figured out their own martial arts ways.

They are not Yang Yi and A Ke. After all, they still have concerns in the world and have ideals in their hearts.

Huang Yaoshi left because he heard that Huang Rong and Guo Jing were searching for him all over the world, and that his granddaughter Guo Fu was almost nine years old. He doesn't like his silly son-in-law Guo Jing, but he can still get close to his granddaughter.

Hong Qigong left because a female demon with high martial arts skills appeared in the world. She was ruthless and cruel in murdering people. She often killed people all over the house just for a word, and she spared no servants or maids.

Hong Qigong, who has hated evil all his life, can stay away from the world, but he cannot tolerate such evil people roaming freely in the world. He wants to get rid of the female devil.

The female devil's name is Li Mochou, Granny Sun's apprentice in Tomb of the Living Dead many years ago.

But Hong Qigong did not kill Li Mochou. Six years after they left, Huang Yaoshi came back and said that Hong Qi was dead. He and Ouyang Feng fought at the top of Huashan Mountain for seven days and nights without deciding the outcome. In the end, people are exhausted and die together. Before death, they smile and forget their grudges.

Xi Du and Bei Bei are dead, leaving only two of the five martial arts worlds.

After that, Huang Yaoshi never came again. Yang Yi and A Ke still don't know whether he is dead or alive, and they don't want to ask because it is not important. Even at this time, Yang Yi is indifferent to everything in the world outside the mountain.

The Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom, who were once so powerful and terrifying, have perished. Their glorious time was far inferior to that of the Khitans and Xixia people. Now they are replaced by the more brutal Mongols.

The hero Guo Jing and the heroine Huang Rong led the martial arts community of the Song Dynasty to defend Xiangyang. They did not have Yue Fei's military talent, but they did the same commendable things as Yue Fei.

Luda's black iron epee of the past has reappeared in the world. The man holding it is a young man named Yang Guo, and his wife is Xiao Longnu.

And because since the Jingkang period, several generations of people have lived in enemy-occupied areas, the people of the northern Central Plains have now become estranged from the Song Dynasty. They were heartbroken that Master Wang could not recover the rivers and mountains for a long time, and they no longer wanted to call themselves "Song people".

The people in the northern Central Plains don't know how to deal with themselves. They are not Mongols, nor are they Turks, Uighurs and other Semu people, nor are they Song people. As a result, the northern Central Plains people invented the term "Han people" to call themselves, and called the Song people "Southern people" with ridicule and contempt.

These sheep don't know anything about them, and they won't care if they know it, because after living for six hundred years and experiencing the rise and fall of the Tang and Song dynasties, the two most beautiful dynasties in the history of the Central Plains, nothing can make waves in his heart.

These are no longer important.

But the water conservancy project built by Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qi is very important, otherwise Yang Yi and A Ke would have left Zhongnan Mountain early due to drought.

Moreover, Huang Yaoshi is proficient in the theory of the five elements. He analyzed that if a sheep dies due to water, and water overcomes fire, then it will be reborn when it encounters fire.

Yang Yi thought what he said was all nonsense, because Saint Ake was the Holy Fire and he had met her for more than ninety years.

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There is actually not much water in the water reservoir. It will be dried out in a few days due to the scorching sun. Moreover, due to the accumulation of sediment and dirt in the pond, there is less and less drinkable water.

Yang Yi dragged some dry branches to cover the pool, then picked up a small pile of cracked branches and slowly walked back to the small wooden building. These were firewood for cooking.

There were not many meals left in the stored food. After dinner, Yang Yi and A Ke discussed: Why don't we go to the mountains first tomorrow?

Akko sighed: "Well, at our age, once we go out, it's not easy to come back."

"There is nothing we can do about it. We have no food and almost no water. We can't survive in the mountains."

"What can we do if we go outside the mountains? If we encounter a bad guy, you and I may not be able to fight against them. Ayang, I'm afraid of the outside."

"Don't be afraid. I can still deal with one or two of the average bad guys. Don't worry. A'ke, come closer and let me hold you tight, so you won't be afraid anymore."

"Ayang, you must find me again in your next life."

"Definitely, even if I look for you for another five hundred years, I will find you."

"And the next life."

"Well, I promise, every life. I will be with you in every life. We will never be alone, and we will never be separated."

He and she fell asleep hugging each other. There was no wind in the dark mountain forest, and only the dry trees and dead grass made a silent cry.

There is no light in the endless darkness.

‘Rumble~~~’ A muffled thunder sounded across the air.

Perhaps because they were too sleepy, or more likely because they were too old, neither he nor she was awakened, but just muttered a few words in their sleep.

"It's thundering and it might rain."

"Let it rain. If it rains, you don't have to move out anymore."