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Fish swimming
Scars are permanent fish swimming. Jia Xu thought. When Biyong, Guo Jia always loved to go to the mountains and rivers, grabbing his hand and falling into the stream, soaking his shoes and socks, the hastily rolled-up sleeves would always come loose due to the fishing action. He lifted the captured fish, the wet sleeve sticking to the sickly pale arm, revealing a section of blue veins. When they sat by the stream, a bold fish brushed against Jia Xu's calf, the water flowing slightly cool, and the touch of the fish was itchy. Guo Jia placed a fish scale on Jia Xu's knee and said, "Fish scales will grow into..." A small round mark was indeed left on his knee, like a failed scale, and also like a scar. Later, this scar was covered by a new scar, which was long, like a complete fish, swimming back and forth in his blood, churning on rainy days, trying to break out in the next second. The fish watered by blood always made him restless and unable to die peacefully.
The fish swims in the mist... swimming, swaying, falling to the ground and turning into a pool of blood...
Sky Split
Guangling fiefEmbroidered Attire Tower On the site of the old Embroidered Attire Tower, there is a huge, old camphor tree. After Prince Guangling returned to Guangling, he rebuilt the old site, and all the secret agents' residences were built around the camphor tree, flourishing like its branches and leaves. The camphor tree has experienced a fire, leaving a charred mark on one side. As it grows older, it becomes taller, and its sturdy roots rise from the ground like towering mountains. Guo Jia's residence is at the highest point, overlooking the mountains on the edge of Guangling, but he always stays under the camphor tree, lying on a rocking chair, with dry leaves falling on him as the wind blows. Guo Jia rocks a folding fan, creaking as he says, "Your Highness, let's hang a swing on this old tree."
Prince Guangling put down the documents in his hand, raised his head, and turned to say, "Good, there's Jia Xu with Wu Dan and a group of people passing by not far from the courtyard entrance." Guo Jia seemed to have seen them, yet also seemed not to have seen them. He leaned the green jade cigarette holder against the old tree root and continued to lie on the reclining chair, swaying back and forth. Just as Prince Guangling thought Guo Jia had fallen asleep, Guo Jia suddenly spoke up. He asked, "Have you heard the story of Nüwa mending the heavens?" Prince Guangling said he had, and then asked if Guo Jia had any new insights. Guo Jia said, "Nüwa kneaded the earth to create humans, ascended to become a saint. Gong Gong, in anger, struck Mount Buzhou, causing the sky to collapse and the earth to split. The waters of the Milky Way poured down, bringing suffering to the mortal realm. Nüwa, with a kind heart, smelted the five-colored stones to mend the heavenly breach and erected the four pillars at the four corners of the world." Prince Guangling seemed to have guessed something and hesitated on whether to speak words of comfort. Guo Jia opened his eyes at some point, and through the cracks in the leaves of the camphor tree, like fissures and holes, he let out a long sigh and closed his eyes again.
① The leisurely white clouds were a heavenly rift that not even Nüwa's stone-smelting could mend.
Blood is hot, tears scalding, piercing through the spine, bubbling blood foam melting the solid ice. The young man from Xi Liang, buried in dust, was watered by blood. Love is the most twisted curse; the best whetstone will break on the day it becomes a blade.
1. From "As Such the Trees" by Mr. Bai Xianyong
26. Kikkou-musubi
The roots and leaves of Kikkou-musubi can treat joint and leg pain. After Jia Xu joined the Embroidered Attire Tower, Prince Guangling specially transplanted two of them from outside for the convenience of Jia Xu's medicine. When he directed people to plant them, it caused a commotion and startled Jia Xu.
Jia Xu stood on the corridor, watching Prince Guangling busy with various tasks. After finishing everything, Prince Guangling hopped over to Jia Xu and said, "Sir, I've been thinking of you a lot. Please stay in the building for a long time, pretty please."
Jia Xu glanced lightly at Prince Guangling, then looked at the soft osmanthus tree in the courtyard and said, "Your Highness, do you know that if you tie two knots in the same direction on the osmanthus branches, your wish will come true."
Prince Guangling asked, "Is that true, sir?" Jia Xu chuckled lightly and looked at Prince Guangling, saying, "No, it's not."
Because his wish did not come true. Because someone is a fraud, so the wish did not come true. Because a tied incense stick will not grow again, so the wish will stay in place forever.
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