Chapter 538 Three People in the Story

After autumn, the humidity of the Hujiang River is the strongest at night, which can corrode people's bones.

Chen Shu, who had not dreamed for a long time, had a beautiful dream on the fifth night of Cai Yatou's arrival.

On the sixth day, he had another dream.

Chen Shu walked along the bank of the Hujiang River, as if he was looking for something. He could feel the joy in his heart.

Walking down along the river bank, he looked at the water, looking forward to the arrival of something.

The quiet river bank, with only the sound of the flowing river, calmed his nervous mood.

A white dot slowly appeared on the distant water surface, from a very small one, gradually expanding and becoming complete.

The person Chen Shu was waiting for finally arrived. The white light was a woman.

She lay calmly on the river and slowly floated towards him.

It was exactly the same scene as when they first met, except that the water lanterns representing hope were missing.

Chen Shu in the dream did not realize this change. Before the woman floated close, he jumped into the river anxiously.

The freezing cold river water almost woke him up from his dream, but his attachment to the woman far outweighed the pain.

With his arms splashing in the water, Chen Shu quickly approached the light spot and reached out to grab her shoulders.

"Huh..."

With rapid breathing, Chen Shu got what he wanted and caught the woman in the river again.

Only the woman's face floated on the water, which was soaked pale, like a dead person.

Chen Shu looked at her with joy in his heart and was about to swim back to the shore with her.

But then he found that the woman's face had changed strangely.

The originally peaceful and gentle face became indifferent and mysterious, revealing an inhuman coldness.

Her long hair floating on the water was constantly extending, like a black flower cluster blooming on the water.

This black hair tightly wrapped Chen Shu and the woman.

Chen Shu looked at the woman's face in horror, but found that in just two seconds, this face had turned into another look.

She was no longer the Cai girl in the dream, but turned into another strange man.

Like a man who had been dead for a long time, he opened his eyes and released the breath of death.

Those eyes were filled with divine superiority, but also with the terrible indifference of the devil.

"So, you are here..."

The strangeness in the dream forced Chen Shu back to reality from the nightmare.

Chen Shu's bones were sore and painful, and he felt a stinging pain when he lifted the quilt, as if he was eroded by the coldness of the night by the river.

Sitting upright at the head of the bed, he was sweating profusely, and his breath was messy, as if he had just escaped from death.

There was no light in the outside world at dawn, and Chen Shu had no time to recall the nightmare.

He just put on his shoes and rushed into the inner room.

Cai Yatou, still fell into a deep sleep at this dawn, and her breath was very stable.

Chen Shu was disturbed by the strange nightmare, but he felt a little better when he saw her sleeping peacefully.

He stood up with a sense of relief, patted his face gently, and walked out.

But after taking two steps, he suddenly froze in place as if he was hit by something.

He turned around slowly and looked at the table in the inner room in surprise.

There was a candlestick on the table, and at the bottom of the candlestick, there was a drop of wax that had long dried up.

Last night, he clearly went to bed early and did not light the candle at all.

Where did this wax mark come from?

...

"These days, I have been to all the nearby villages and counties.

But I didn't hear that there were refugees fleeing from far away recently.

It's not a good idea for you to go on like this. You have to remember everything and go find your relatives."

While Chen Shu was talking to Cai Yatou, he took out a cloth bag from the cabinet.

He turned his head and looked at Cai Yatou who was sitting on the bed, and said softly:

"I have also saved a lot of money. I will go to the city in the afternoon to see if I can get a doctor for you.

I will be back soon, don't move around at home."

Chen Shu smiled dumbly when he said this, and he realized that he had spoken out of turn.

If she could move, then there would be no need for him to ask for a doctor.

Chen Shu looked at Cai Yatou deeply again, touched the cloth bag on his body, and walked out the door.

Just after taking two steps, his heart suddenly twitched for a moment, and the brief stabbing pain made him unable to take a step.

It was as if something was clutching his heart, making him unable to breathe.

Chen Shu stretched out his hand painfully and pressed it on the door panel, but he could no longer use his strength.

A slender figure suddenly appeared in his mind.

It was a strange man, but he had just seen him last night, but in a dream.

The man became clearer and clearer in Chen Shu's brain, as if he was about to get out of his mind.

This level of pain was something he had never experienced before, his head was about to be squeezed and burst, and blood flowed out of his seven orifices.

Only half of the shadow on the ground was becoming thinner and was about to disappear completely.

At the same time, a hand reached out from Chen Shu's head out of thin air.

The man in his mind was about to become real, entering reality from his mind.

But then, Chen Shu lost all consciousness, fell to the ground, and never woke up again.

…

The sunlight from the window shone on the head of the bed, calling the sleeping soul with warmth.

Chen Shu opened his eyes with difficulty and found himself lying flat on the bed in the inner room, his limbs somewhat stiff.

He climbed up from the bed painfully, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness.

In a half-conscious state, he suddenly realized that there was one person missing in the room.

He struggled to stand up from the bed, but his limbs were out of control and he fell to the ground.

The room, which he could see to the end, was as clean as before, but there was no figure he wanted to see the most.

In his confusion and pain, Chen Shu saw a letter and put it on his bedside.

"I don't like the name Cai Yatou. If you like, call me Miaojiang.

Chen Shu, I will remember you.

I will come to you again."

...

Ji Li frowned more tightly when he heard this story.

He looked up at Chen Shu, who was standing in the sun, and realized that the other party's emotions were experiencing huge ups and downs.

That Cai Yatou, or Miaojiang, was obviously the butterfly woman now.

Chen Shu said so much, no matter how vividly he described it, and how much subjective feelings he placed on it.

This is nothing more than a strange past event that happened to an unlucky man who met a mysterious woman he shouldn't have touched.

What Ji Li really cares about is why Miao Jiang wanted Chen Shu to tell him about this past event.

"She said she was coming to see me, but the second time we met was twenty years later.

At that time, I had become a Taoist priest. In my dream, I felt someone enter my room, but I couldn't wake up.

When the daylight came, she was gone.

As for the third time, it happened yesterday, but I still didn't see her.

She just left a letter and asked me to tell you this story."

Chen Shu's words were more sad. He refused to face Ji Li directly, and seemed to be trying to cover up this emotion.

The story has been told.

Chen Shu described the first half of the encounter in great detail, perhaps because he wanted to keep that time the most.

As for the second half of the incident, the subsequent two "meetings", were just passed by him.

After pondering for a moment, Ji Li looked carefully at Chen Shu's back and silently got up from the chair.

Instead of moving forward, he deliberately took a few steps back, keeping a distance from Chen Shu, and asked softly:

"Why did you become a Taoist priest?"

"Once you have seen the sea, all other waters are but puddles; except for the Wushan Mountains, all other clouds are but clouds.

I am too lazy to look back at the flowers this time, half because of my cultivation and half because of you."

Chen Shu had a bitter smile on his face, slowly turned around, and blocked all the sunlight with his body.

This time, Ji Li finally found that there was no shadow behind him.

Ji Li did not move, he did not care about Chen Shu, but only cared about what important information was hidden behind this story.

"Miaojiang, Chen Shu...

What does this story have to do with me?"

Chen Shu looked at Ji Li calmly, with a strange streak of blood at the corner of his mouth, and said meaningfully:

"I said before, this is our story."

Two people appeared in the story.

The orphan in the countryside was Chen Shu, and the injured woman was Miaojiang, but there was another character.

Ji Li's face suddenly changed. The "ghost" chasing Miaojiang was actually himself?