The morning sun was still dripping from the leaves outside the treehouse, and there had been a light rain late last night, too, moving little to moisten the leaves and the dirt.

Inside the treehouse, Jin Sorin is somehow pushed to the edge by Lila Sage, as if she were holding him against a wooden wall, their clothes slightly open, their long hair tangled together.

A bird flew to the branch and squeaked.

Lila Sage stomped her legs in a daze, the soles of her feet on the indigo hem of Jin Sorin's coat that hung down at her side, moved, and then put her feet up again, finding a comfortable position to continue sleeping.

Their lips were red in varying degrees, as if they had rubbed against something for too long to produce it, coated as if with a layer of rouge that was still there from last night and would take some time to fade.

Beneath the tree, the man called to them in a low voice, trying to lead them away from the Red Leaf Village.

The hour was still early, and it was not easy to meet others.

It was fine for the man to be caught by the villagers of the Red Leaf Village that he had brought outsiders into the Red Leaf Village, but he was afraid that the villagers of the Red Leaf Village would have a problem with them.

Lila Sage woke up as soon as she heard the man's voice calling, sat up, and fell back down.

Her hair wrapped around Jin Sorin.

I can't say that, to be precise, it should be Jin Sorin's silver jewelry tied at the end of her hair that hooked and knotted her hair, and Lila Sage realized it just as she sat up, and was forced to lie back down again.

When Lila Sage unintentionally pulled a handful of her long hair, Jin Sorin naturally woke up, and when she lifted her eyes, she saw her lying on her back, her slender fingers moving to untangle their intertwined hair.

But there were too many tangles.

The more Lila Sage untangled, the messier it got.

She was still sweating a little in her palms when she got to the back of the untangling and thought, “It's over, the tangles are getting tighter.

The man did not get a response, wanted to climb up to the tree house to call them, but in the path of the ladder was collected up, needed to be released from the top to go up. There is no other way but to stand at the bottom of the tree to call out again.

Lila Sage was busy answering the men, saying to wait a moment, they needed to take care of something.

“Good ......” The man didn't know what to think and silently walked a little farther away and stood under another large tree waiting for them, not rushing.

Lila Sage speeds up detangling her hair.

Jin Sorin slowly and methodically took the green silk they had entwined together from her hand and cut his section of hair directly with his dagger, separating it, cleanly and as decisively as he was as a person.

Lila Sage, who had parted her hair in this manner, wanted to speak, and the silver jewelry of bells that had been tied to the ends of Jin Sorin's hair fell into her hair.

Because the tangled knot had not been untied.

His hair and the silver jewelry were still in her hair.

Jin Sorin cut off a piece of his hair just to make them move freely.

It would take time to remove the silver jewelry, his hair, but Lila Sage didn't have time. She couldn't keep the man waiting for them under the tree for too long. They were the ones who had bothered him.

As soon as Lila Sage regained her mobility, she immediately pushed open the door of the treehouse, covered only by a piece of wood, lowered the hanging ladder, and climbed down.

Her hair tinkled.

Jin Sorin came down behind Lila Sage.

The man watched them descend the treehouse one after the other and paced over to them, rubbing his head less than kindly, telling them to get their things and follow him out of the village.

Lila Sage thanked him again; after all, he was the one who had taken them in last night, or she would surely have had to walk back to Qingzhouli to find an inn to rest her feet, or the sky as a blanket or the ground as a mat to rest for the night.

Jin Sorin glanced at the silver jewelry in her hair.

It had been in his hair not long ago.

And Jin Sorin's broken hair, which was about the same color as Lila Sage's, was tethered together by the silver ornaments, looking unobtrusive and blending into one.

“You're welcome.” The man had little contact with outsiders, and his neck and earlobes were red through and through.

“It is I who will thank you.”

He said plainly, “If it wasn't for you guys, I wouldn't have known what to do on the mountain last night, I probably would have died like everyone else, and you guys kind of saved my life by taking me down the mountain.”

The man turned around and headed out of the village.

Before he took a few steps, someone called out to him.

“Zhong Liang?” The two villagers from Red Leaf Village called out to Zhong Liang, but their eyes were looking at Lila Sage and Jin Sorin with a look that was not considered friendly.

When Zhong Liang heard the Red Leaf Village villagers call out to him, he fumbled for a while, blocking them behind him, and said to the villagers, “Uncle Zhong, Auntie Li, they, they don't mean any harm.”

They didn't come out that early on weekdays, but today they were unlucky enough to run into an accident.

He had a difficult face.

Lila Sage looked toward the villagers.

Uncle Zhong's cheeks were sunken inward, skin over bone, like a dying tree, but his ears were unusually fat, as if they were about to fall to his shoulders, and his rotting black and yellow teeth were faintly revealed between words.

And Dame Li's hair was all white, frizzy like rough weeds, her nose was low and her eyes were few, she had no more eyebrows, her waist and back were severely hunched, and the hand holding the walking stick was as slender as an animal's paw.

Their eyes scrutinized Lila Sage sharply, with Jin Sorin at her side.

Lila Sage looked at them as well.

After years of being detached from the outside world, Uncle Zhong and Dame Li actually felt uncomfortable being looked at by a little girl today, and, annoyed, they preemptively asked, “Who are you people?”

They walked over, aggressively, “Why did you come to Red Leaf Village.”

The tone was bad.

It was laced with the nastiness of outsiders.

Zhong Liang hurriedly said, “Uncle Zhong, Dame Li, it wasn't them who wanted to enter the Red Leaf Village, it was me who brought them in, don't misunderstand, they really don't have any ill intentions, they're leaving now.”

Uncle Zhong glared fiercely at him, as if he was about to stare his cloudy eyes out.

“It was you who brought them into the village? Zhong Liang! Do you remember how they, the outsiders, treated us all these years? One mouthful of ugly villages, one mouthful of monsters!”

Zhong Bo staggered a few steps in anger, his chest heaving violently, “They were also afraid that we were suffering from some disease that would spread like the plague, and didn't want us to take half a step into Qing Zhou again.”

Li Daniang hurriedly supported him.

Zhong Liang also ran to his side, “Uncle Zhong, don't be angry.”

Later on, the Three Good Realities confirmed that their growing ugliness and physical deformity defects would not spread like the plague, but Qingzhou's attitude towards them remained the same as before, repulsive and disgusting.

The people of Qingzhou didn't want them to take half a step into Qingzhou. Well, they would stay in Red Leaf Village forever, and they didn't welcome the people of Qingzhou into their village.

Even though the people of Qingzhou didn't care about entering Red Leaf Village either, for fear of getting into something bad.

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The Qingzhou people were afraid, they understood.

Everyone was afraid of death.

But what was wrong with them? Why should they have to bear the many malicious gazes and words? The Qingzhou people knew that the abnormalities in their bodies were not contagious, yet they still treated them like this.

Red Leaf Village was originally part of Qingzhou, but later, the people of Qingzhou gradually separated Red Leaf Village and did not recognize them as Qingzhou people.

They also stopped calling themselves Qingzhou people and instead called each other by that group of Qingzhou people.

And because Xuanmiao Guan was known far and wide.

Some outsiders to Qingzhou would also come to Xuanmiao Guan to pay their respects, and occasionally bump into them at the bottom of the mountain, not knowing if they had heard the Qingzhou people talk about them or not, and avoided them.

How can Zhong Bo have a good face for outsiders?

In the long run, non-Red Leaf Village people, they do not like, xenophobic.

Zhong Liang was from Red Leaf Village, how could he not understand Zhong Bo's feelings, “Zhong Bo, don't blame them, it's my fault, it's me who took people back to Red Leaf Village without authorization, it has nothing to do with them.”

“They treated me with the grace of saving their lives, that's why I moved to take them back to the village and let them stay here for the night.”

Zhong Bo was stunned, “Saving their lives?”

He was a bit disbelieving.

The people outside were lucky if they didn't kill them as monsters, would they still save them?

Zhong Liang had no choice but to inform Zhong Bo about what happened yesterday.

Li Daniang covered her mouth and scolded him for not wanting to die, daring to stay on Deng Yun Mountain at night. If something happened, his mother is old, what to do with the white hair to send the black hair.

Zhong Bo did not let Zhong Liang say anything more.

The less people know about such things as going up the mountain at night, the better. The villagers of Red Leaf Village believe in Xuanmiao Guan, and when they see them, they have set up a stone monument at the bottom of the mountain, and they will not go up the mountain at night to show their respect for Xuanmiao Guan.

If Zhong Liang learns about the mountain climbing at night by Xuan Miao Guan, Zhong Bo is worried that they will misunderstand that the Red Leaf Village villagers don't take Xuan Miao Guan's words seriously, so it's better for not too many people to know about it.

Lila Sage tries to interject a word in, “Uncle Zhong? Auntie Li?”

That was needed what Zhong Liang called them.

They looked at her in turn.

“I'm sorry to have made you all uncomfortable, but we really mean no harm and will be leaving Red Leaf Village now.” Lila Sage said, “Big Brother Zhong was also kind enough to take us in for just one night.”

Hearing her say the words Red Leaf Village, Uncle Zhong and Dame Li looked at each other and had 80% believed Zhong Liang's words, wanting to scold them and retract the words to get the hell out of Red Leaf Village.

Uncle Zhong was an old man in the village.

He had watched Zhong Liang grow up, and after hearing Zhong Liang say that they had saved Zhong Liang's life, his attitude eased a bit, but was still a bit stiff.

Except for the Taoist masters of Xuanmiao Guan, those who stayed on Deng Yun Mountain at night never came down alive, they were able to come down the mountain alive, and also brought Zhong Liang down the mountain as well. Rounding up is also considered a favor.

Zhong Bo sighed.

He wanted to say thank you to Zhong Liang, but how could he not say it to these outsiders?

So Zhong Bo kept silent.

Today he could pretend he didn't see these two people. Zhong Bo raised his steps to leave this place, only to see Zhong Liang's mother running over in a panic, shouting for Zhong Liang to quickly go see Zhong Liang's father.

Li Daniang's face changed: “Zhong Liang's mother, what happened to Zhong Liang's father?”

Song wiped her tears and said that the man was dying.

Zhong Liang, who could not stand up, left the others and quickly ran to look for his father.

Zhong Bo and the others learned that Zhong Liang's father was dying and chased after Zhong Liang to see his father. The villagers of Red Leaf Village were very united.

Lila Sage also went.

Red Leaf Village is a complex terrain. The path is all winding, like a natural labyrinth, without the villagers to bring, relying on their own to figure out. Perhaps have to walk for a few hours to get out of this village.

This is one of the reasons.

Another reason was that Lila Sage couldn't take advantage of the fact that someone's father wasn't feeling well, stayed overnight and then left without saying a word.

Zhong Liang's dad was physically inconvenient and didn't live above the tree house, living in a simple hut that Zhong Liang had erected with wooden planks, and just as Lila Sage went there, she smelled a strong odor of medicine.

All the villagers are gathered around in front of the hut.

Lila Sage and Jin Sorin's looks and clothes are out of place in Red Leaf Village, and they seem to be outsiders, which naturally leads to a discussion.

Jin Sorin leans against a tree and looks at the dying old man in the hut.

He had no fear of life and death.

Life and death.

In Jin Sorin's eyes, these are just two words he recognizes. Since he was a child, Jin Sorin has not been touched in the slightest by anyone's life or death.

The old man's physical deformities were worse than those of the Red Leaf villagers who could walk normally.

Lila Sage stood in front of the door, which was open for air, and looked in to see that Zhong Liang's father was so thin that he was reduced to bones, like a skeleton wrapped in a layer of wrinkled, shapeless skin.

This layer of skin in turn was developing sores and rotting.

Blood and pus spread all over his body.

Zhong Liang brought over the medicine that had been placed on the table to cool, picked up the old man and tried to feed him.

The villagers of Red Leaf Village had no time to ask Lila Sage where they had come from and what they had come to Red Leaf Village for, and after a few words, they returned their attention to the hut, caring more about Zhong Liang's father's well-being.

Someone told Zhong Liang to go to the mountains and find San Shan Zhen Zhen to come down to the mountain to treat his father.

They used to look for San Shan Zhen Zhen as well.

Qingzhou doctors are also Qingzhou people. They also do not treat the red leaf village villagers. They are heard to come to the red leaf village to see the doctor will politely refuse. They can only find out before the family is also a doctor of the three good real.

In the past ten years, the red leaf village villagers have discomfort, looking for are XuanMiaoGuan, three good real will personally come over every time for them to diagnose and treat.

The medicine was also prescribed by San Shan Zhen Zhen.

It was a pity that their bodies did not compete, this disease was cured, and that disease got up again.

Zhong Liang lightly fed the old man a few mouthfuls of medicine.

The old man drank it down sickly.

Jin Sorin cocked his head and softly asked, “What kind of disease does he have.”

As soon as he made a sound, he hooked everyone's attention again. The Red Leaf Village villagers with their ugly and tainted looks couldn't help but feel ashamed of themselves when they saw the young man's beautiful appearance and didn't like outsiders interfering with the Red Leaf Village.

Zhong Bo knew that Jin Sorin had favored Zhong Liang, unlike the villagers who didn't want to talk to outsiders, he took the initiative to answer, “We don't know either.”

Jin Sorin twirled the butterfly silver chain on his wrist, “The Three Good Realities did not speak with you?”

Lila Sage wanted to ask as well.

But why would Jin Sorin care? Because she knew he was a man of purpose and would have a reason for what he did.

“The real Sanshin only said it was a rare disease.” Zhong Bo shook his head, “It's not recorded in the books either, it's a strange disease.”

Jin Sorin murmured, “A strange disease.”

He changed his words and asked, “Is that all there is in your village?”

Uncle Zhong: “No. Ever since that plague that broke out ten years ago, the villagers of our Red Leaf Village have always been sick. The year before last, San Shan Zhen Zhen picked up a portion of the villagers who were seriously ill.”

“Where are those villagers now?”

Zhong Bo was speechless, “We don't know, the Three Good Masters will place them properly by themselves.”

Lila Sage couldn't understand, “You all don't know? But you haven't thought of visiting that part of the villagers?”

It wasn't that they hadn't thought about it.

It was just that when the Three Good Masters said that those villagers were in an unstable condition and should not be seen. Of course they believed him and took what he said as a guiding principle.

Zhong Liang finished feeding the medicine.

He put down the bowl of medicine and looked at them outside: “Could it be that the young gentleman also knows medicine?”

Zhong Liang was listening to them even as he fed the medicine.

Jin Sorin slowly smiled, “I don't really know medicine, but I can tell that he won't live past today, I can help you renew his life for one month, only I have a condition.”

Before, when others came to him for a deal, the price they needed to pay was the most important thing, and at the same time, it had to be something he wanted.

Nowadays, that could be changed.

It did not need to be the most important thing, it could just help him get what he wanted.

Since Jin Sorin wanted to kill him, he would have to suffer the consequences of not succeeding. There were a few people who were not afraid of death, but they also had something they were afraid of losing... What was Jin Sorin afraid of losing?

Jin Sorin thought he could probably guess.

He wanted to see San Shan Zhen Zhen lose what he cherished the most, causing the other party to suffer more than death. That should be a great scene to watch.

Lila Sage's eyelids fluttered as she listened.

It was clear to her that he was going to make a deal with the Red Leaf Village villagers. Could it be that Jin Sorin was trying to use Gu to help Zhong Liang's father renew his life? But what could he want from the Red Leaf Village villagers?

The Red Leaf Village villagers looked at each other.

Five days ago, San Shan Zhen Zhen also came down the mountain to look at Zhong Liang's father's illness, saying that he would pass away within the next few days and asked them to get ready.

Zhong Liang's eyes lit up, it was good to renew his life for a month, he wanted to spend more time with his dad, even if it was one more day, he immediately walked out of the hut, “I promise you.”

Jin Sorin guffawed.

“Without asking me what the conditions are?”

Zhong Liang: “As long as it's not something that harms heaven and earth, I, Zhong Liang, will definitely do it.”

He hesitated for a long time, wondering if Jin Sorin could renew his life for a longer period of time, being greedy. When he heard that he could renew his life for a month, he would wonder if he could renew his life for a year.

Jin Sorin smiled lightly, but mercilessly said, “No, I can only renew it for one month.”

Zhong Liang could only give up.

In this way, Lila Sage temporarily stayed in Red Leaf Village, and the unity of the Red Leaf Village villagers was also shown here, in order for Zhong Liang's father to be able to renew his life for one month. They also acquiesced that they could stay.

When Jin Sorin uses Gu on Zhong Liang's father to renew his life for one month, he needs to dismiss the crowd.

Lila Sage was able to stay in the cabin.

The tabletop is lit with a candle flame.

Half of Jin Sorin's face falls into shadow, and he takes out a dagger and puts it on the candle flame to heat it up before slitting the wrist of the old man on the bed.

The old man was so sick and confused that he couldn't even open his eyes. Even if Jin Sorin used Gu in front of him, he was still unaware of it.

Lila Sage watches a little nervously from the side, worried that something might go wrong.

A fly-sized Gu worm crawls out from Jin Sorin's palm and burrows into the old man's cut wound. When the Gu worms go in, he cuts his own wrist with Heavenly silkworm silk again. Lila Sage subconsciously grabs him.

“I need to use blood as a guide.”

Jin Sorin said calmly.

Lila Sage let go of his hand and watched as the Heavenly silkworm silk, which could be sharp or soft, cut through his already old scarred wrist, and bright red blood flowed out along his wrist and dripped into the old man's body.

To feed blood to the old man for three consecutive days to make this Life Renewal Gu effective, each person can use the Life Renewal Gu once in a lifetime, and the efficacy of the Life Renewal Gu is only for a month, and can not be used more than once.

The silver butterfly chain was lifted above Jin Sorin's wrist, and the blood was still dripping down.

Lila Sage's heart tightened as she watched.

It's done.

Jin Sorin withdrew his hand, and she immediately took out a handkerchief and wrapped it around his wrist.

Lila Sage could feel the pain as the blood seeped out of his wrist, but Jin Sorin looked as normal as ever, his only complaint being that after each cut, his hand would initially lose its strength.

Lila Sage gently bandaged Jin Sorin's wound with another clean handkerchief.

She looked down at his wound, and Jin Sorin lowered his eyes to look at the side of Lila Sage's face. Her skin was delicate, so delicate that you could see a light fuzz, and the silk sash draped over her shoulders, framing the smallness of her face.

“Keep the wound out of the water.” Lila Sage tied a knot to secure the paddle.

Jin Sorin never dressed wounds.

No one else would bandage his wounds either.

He looked at the bow tied around his wrist and tugged with his other hand.Lila Sage's eyes widened, “What are you doing.”

“Nothing.” The teenager lowered his hand.

They walked out of the cabin.

As soon as they pushed open the door, Zhong Liang and the Red Leaf Village villagers waiting outside came over, Zhong Liang anxiously looked inside, “How's my dad doing? What else needs to be done?”

Lila Sage repeats back to them what Jin Sorin said to her in the cabin.

She omitted the use of Gu and only said that besides today, it would take two more days before she could successfully renew the life of Zhongliang's dad for another month.

Although the villagers of Red Leaf Village were curious about the method they used to renew the life of Zhong Liang's father, they also knew that there were some things that could not be known just because they wanted to know, and curiosity could easily kill a cat.

The teenager also had no reason to lie to them.

Even if he wanted to lie to them, he couldn't.

After all, whether or not Zhong Liang's Ah Dad could live past today was the best proof. The Red Leaf Village villagers gradually dispersed. Zhong Liang expressed his gratitude to them again and again, and went into the house to serve his own Ah Dad.

Lila Sage also leaves the hut and goes to the hot spring river for the reason that Jin Sorin wants to bathe.

He did not like the smell of medicine.

Jin Sorin could tolerate a little medicine for his body's wounds, but he could not tolerate the smell of medicine all over his body, and the cabin was full of the smell of medicine that had built up over the years and smoked his hair into it.

She went along.

The Hot Springs River was sparkling with clear running water and weeping willows fluttering in the wind.

Jin Sorin sat by the river untangling the silver jewelry from the ends of his hair. He had to bathe as well as shampoo. Lila Sage walked over to help. She laid a pad on the ground and placed the removed silver jewelry inside.

When she got close enough, she could smell his warm scent.

The warm scent was mixed with a hint of the medicinal scent brought from the cabin, and it still smelled very good.

Clink, clink, clink.

The silver jewelry made an irregular rattling sound as it was unwrapped, which was very nice to hear.

When all the silver jewelry was removed, Jin Sorin's long hair hung down to her waist, the ends of her hair slightly curled naturally and flicked in the wind, ignoring the obvious knot in the front of her throat, so beautifully androgynous that she couldn't tell the difference between males and females.

Lila Sage put away the silver jewelry full of pa. It is silver, can not be lost.

She said, “Let me shampoo your hair.”

Jin Sorin had just slit his wrists and it was better to use his hands sparingly, and she definitely wasn't going to help him bathe, but shampooing his hair was within the realm of acceptability.

There was a back and forth, Jin Sorin had even tied her hair before, and Lila Sage could help him too.

“No, I can do it myself.” It wasn't like Jin Sorin hadn't been in a situation before where he'd hurt his wrist and still needed to clean up his body.

With that said, Jin Sorin stepped inside the hot spring river and lifted his hand to undo the mincing belt.

He bathed and shampooed together.

Lila Sage was stunned at how Jin Sorin didn't wait until she left the river before undressing!

Jin Sorin is not that concerned about the human body, he has seen Lila Sage's, by Lila Sage to see his own does not feel anything, he bathed also did not avoid the Gu worms he raised.

The mincing belt is undone, the indigo colored shirt is open, the muscular tight and smooth waist and abdomen appear.

Lila Sage turned around in a hurry and tried to walk away.

Walking too quickly, her foot slipped.

She fell straight backward, splashing, Lila Sage's hands flailing involuntarily.

When she touched something in the water, Lila Sage's first reaction was to hold on to it, and then ...... she embraced Jin Sorin's lean, naked waist and stomach, and they were now “honest” with each other.

Lila Sage tilted her head back so hard that drops of water dripped down her jaw and hit his waist and stomach.

Jin Sorin shuddered with sensitivity.

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