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Chapter 1

In the cold winter, the snowflakes are as big as goose feathers, and it has been falling continuously for half a month.

From a distance, the Sleepless Mountain looks like a huge white tomb, without any life.

In fact, the Sleepless Mountain is also called the Mountain of the Dead, because it was originally a place dedicated to burying the dead.It's just that since ten years ago, rumors of ghosts suddenly spread in this barren mountain that is neither high nor low, nor dangerous nor steep. Since then, no one has dared to approach this gloomy, ghostly mountain. The dense mountain of the dead.

And there is a small town twenty miles away from the mountain. There is a tavern in the town.

At this moment, there were a few regular customers sitting in the tavern, drinking some wine and chatting to pass the time.

"The most...easiest thing to hunt in this snowy day is wild rabbits. I was in the mountains in the west yesterday and caught...[-] of them. We don't have to worry about no meat this winter...meat to eat." The only hunter in the town Old Wang's head, after drinking a little wine, he will talk out his tongue.

"Hey, you are really bold. The dead man's mountain to the west has been haunted by ghosts for ten years. How dare you go there? Are you afraid of being caught by ghosts and go dig out your heart and liver?"

"That is to say, the year before last, there were two ignorant children who ran to play in the mountains to the west, and they were killed. I heard that the intestines were pulled out by ghosts. It was so scary..."

The old Wang shuddered, and suddenly lowered his voice, "I tell you...you guys, I really saw that legendary ghost...ghost."

"Really? Tell us, what does that ghost look like? Does it have horns on its head, blue face and fangs, as terrifying as it needs to be?"

The old Wangtou laughed mysteriously, "What blue-faced fangs, the ghost I saw looked so...so beautiful, like the fairy...fairy girl from that day, but she was dressed in black and numb. Wu is like a black impermanence, it won't... disappear in the blink of an eye."

"According to what you say, that ghost is still a woman? Don't you, old boy, be dazzled!"

"That's right, even ghosts can be regarded as fairy daughters. Isn't it vertigo? When you get drunk, you start talking nonsense."

The old Wang hiccupped his head and argued, "Who is... nonsense, I really see it."

"Come on, you can brag!"

"..."

At the table next to them, there was a young man sitting quietly all the time.

This young man with sword eyebrows and star eyes has a majestic appearance. Although he is dressed in coarse linen, he can't hide his innate extraordinary temperament.

He ate the last mouthful of noodles slowly, got up and went to the counter.

"Shopkeeper Liu, thank you for your visit."

Shopkeeper Liu is also the owner of this tavern. He stroked his goatee and smiled very enthusiastically, "Are you full? Do you want another bowl? It's a rare one. I'll ask Tweety to make it for you again..."

Cui'er is shopkeeper Liu's daughter-in-law. She is eighteen years old and has already reached the age of marriage. Unfortunately, her eyes are a bit picky. None of the young men in the town can catch her eyes, except for this mysterious young man in front of her.

"No need, are all the things I want ready?" the young man asked.

"Okay, okay, it will be ready soon." After the shopkeeper Liu prepared all the wine and cured goods he wanted, he gave an extra jar of good wine he brewed himself.

The young man is not from this town. Ten years ago, the young man was only a ten-year-old child, but one day he dragged a young deer weighing about [-] catties to the town in exchange for daily necessities.Since then, people in the town will see him every six months, and every time he comes with his prey.As the prey became bigger and rarer, the young man gradually grew into a heroic and handsome boy.It's just that he came less often in recent years, and only came to town once a year.

But in the past ten years, the people in the town knew nothing about him except that his name was Cang.

Shopkeeper Liu is more or less knowledgeable, knowing that he possesses martial arts skills, he is definitely not an ordinary person, but he can't stand up to the flirtatiousness of his daughter-in-law, so he can only open his face and play side-by-side with the young man.

"A Cang, you will be twenty this year, right?"

"En." The young man responded lightly, and neatly put the things prepared by the shopkeeper into a large bamboo basket beside him.

"Then have you always planned to live in the mountains? Have you planned for the future?"

After the young man covered the pannier full of daily necessities tightly with a piece of fur, he lifted it up with one hand, "Thank you shopkeeper Liu."

After he finished speaking, he left the tavern.

Shopkeeper Liu seemed to be used to his appearance, looked at his back and didn't say anything, just sighed helplessly.

The young man left the town with a rough oil-paper umbrella, and after walking another two or three miles, he suddenly put away the umbrella and showed his lightness skills all the way to the west.

He walked in a hurry, because Weishi was coming soon, because he couldn't refuse shopkeeper Liu's kindness, so he was delayed in the tavern for some time.At this moment, a trace of regret welled up in his heart, because during the day, that person in the family would only eat a little food when he was about to reach the end of the day, and after that hour, he would never drink a drop of water again. , so on weekdays he will prepare food on time in Weishi.

Hurrying back to Sleepless Mountain, the young man rolled up his sleeves after taking the things into the kitchen and started preparing lunch. Although he knew it might be too late, he still carefully prepared a bowl of hot noodle soup.He put the noodle soup on a tray and carried it carefully, came to that person's door, knocked lightly twice, and pushed the door open.

The room is very simple, a bed, a cabinet, a table and a chair, nothing else.

There is a person beside the bed who is meditating. He looks to be in his twenties. Although his eyes are closed, he can still see that his facial features are exquisite and his appearance is not ordinary. The clothes seemed to blend into one body, but it made his complexion white as snow and crystal clear as jade, but he was a bit thinner in description.

The young man put the noodle soup on the table, and called softly to the person on the bed, "Master."

But the man didn't move.

The young man said again, "It took a while to go down the mountain today, but I changed it to some fresh vegetables, you should try it."

The man was like a statue, still not responding at all.

After all, it was still too late, the young man looked slightly gloomy, and stood there staring blankly at the person on the bed until the soup became cold and froze into ice.

It was getting dark and the chill in the room was getting heavier. The young man regained his senses in shock, quickly cleaned up the table, and quietly retreated out.Not long after, he came back again, holding a steaming copper stove in his hand. He put the copper stove with charcoal fire near the bed, lit the lamp in the room again, and then go out.

After a busy day, he only ate a bowl of noodles in the tavern. The young man felt empty in his stomach, but unfortunately he didn't have much appetite.He picked up the bowl of noodle soup that had been frozen into an ice ball, sighed, and then activated his internal force, the ice cubes gradually melted, and after a while the noodle soup in the bowl boiled again, so he withdrew his internal force and took mouthfuls without taste. I ate noodles.

After eating the noodles, he boiled several buckets of hot water, and after adjusting the water temperature, he came to the man's room again.

"Master, the hot water is ready, you can take a bath."

The person who had been standing still finally opened his eyes slowly, but those beautiful phoenix eyes that were raised slightly were calm, ruthless and without desire, and he could not see any emotion at all, he was really supercilious.

The man in black got up and left the house, and went outside the house with his beautiful feet bare.

The young man was no longer surprised, but hurried forward and picked him up horizontally, carried him all the way into the simple bathroom specially built for men, gently put him down on the step in front of the bathtub, and helped him undress himself, and waited on him personally He bathes.

In fact, the main purpose of bathing is not to cleanse the body, but because a man's body is cold. In winter, his body is like ice, so the young man will prepare hot water every night for the man to soak for a while, so as to promote blood circulation and drive away the cold, which lasts for half a month. Shi Fang got up.

After bathing, the young man took him back to his room, and took a bath with the remaining water. After everything was tidied up, he added some charcoal to the copper stove, and then undressed and went to bed.

The cold air invaded the quilt, and the man's body, which had not been bathed for a long time, was frighteningly cold, but he seemed unaware, lying there motionless, and the young man quickly pulled the ice-like man into his arms.

In the silent space, only the sound of each other's even breathing can be heard.

"Master, shopkeeper Liu invited me to eat noodles today." The young man said softly.

The person in his arms didn't give him the slightest response.

The young man didn't care, because he was used to it, so he just said it.

"His daughter cooked that noodle. His daughter's name is Cui Er. I don't remember what she looks like, but her noodle is better than mine. I will eat more."

"By the way, shopkeeper Liu is very strange today. He asked me a lot of questions, asking me if I am 20 years old this year, but I don't know how old I am. I only know that we have been in this mountain for ten years. It's been a year, and I still can't remember anything about what happened ten years ago."

"The shopkeeper Liu also asked me if I wanted to live in the mountains all my life, and asked me what my future plans were, but I didn't answer him. I just knew that I would be where the master was, and I would do whatever the master asked me to do. I must also be with you, Master."

"Also, they said that Master, you are a ghost. The two children from the previous year were clearly killed by wolves in the mountains, but they pushed all these things to Master, but I didn't tell them the truth. Because I know Master, you don't care about these at all."

"..."

The young man talked to himself for a long time, until sleepiness hit him, he gradually stopped talking, and then slowly fell asleep.

The oil lamp on the table suddenly burst into flames, and the room suddenly lit up, and then went dark in an instant.

The man's eyes suddenly opened, he remained motionless, quietly staring at the bed curtain above his head in a trance, this staring lasted all night, even if the lights were turned off during the period, he remained the same.

until dawn.