The middle-aged man in the dark golden emperor's robe, next to the tea tree named Rouge, sat down cross-legged, frowned slightly, and chattered for a whole day.

After another twenty years, no one has stepped into the tea garden since the man in the imperial robe left, because the world is unpredictable, and the originally inconspicuous bitter tea tree and the sanctification tree in the center of Liangyi have undergone dramatic changes.

The red ones are redder, and the golden ones are lighter.

The breath of rouge is becoming more and more agile, but the pale golden tea tree, the breath is gradually dim and weak, like a rapidly aging old man in twilight, who can drive the crane west at any time.

The bitter tea tree rouge was unwilling to watch the obedient tree that had been with her for nearly eight thousand years die, so in the past twenty years, she has been passing through bursts of red life essence, shrouding the golden tea tree, to renew her life, but every time, she will be rejected by a will.

Once the whole tea garden was born for it, but now it has to rely on the most inconspicuous bitter tea to save its life, it is proud, it does not want to, it would rather wither there, even if it is only a trace of perfection.

But the rouge bitter tea tree was not discouraged, and insisted on delivering the breath of life every day, until one day, the peace of the tea garden was broken by a third person again.

This person is the opposite of the man in the imperial robe, accompanied by a mellow and charming voice, coming from the door from north to south.

"There is a garden is unknown, the garden road is up, only the wind accompanies it, and the wild singing is listened to. ”

Those who can enter this garden must be powerful, so the rouge bitter tea tree quietly bloomed the bright tea tree flower, and secretly looked north.

Walking slowly was a man, of medium stature, with an ordinary middle-aged face, dressed in a wide Taoist robe without wind and automatic, and a Taoist priest's hair bun was randomly coiled on his head, and the branches that were randomly folded on the side of the road were used to fix the hair bun, looking around casually, looking free and casual.

There were only two tea trees left in the originally huge tea garden at this time, so naturally, there were only these two trees that could attract middle-aged Taoists, but unlike before, the Taoist priests first stood in front of the bitter tea trees.

Eight thousand years of clouds and moons, the most dazzling owner of the entire tea plantation, has become rouge bitter tea.

Since the beginning of the spirit, it is very rare to see the bitter tea of outsiders, and it is extremely shy, and before the arrival of the Taoist priest, the bright red flower bones are tightly closed.

"What should I call you, Kuding Cha?"

The middle-aged Taoist priest's inquiry sounded, and then he responded to himself:

"You no longer belong to bitter tea, but a new existence, I can't imagine that I actually see detachment in a tea tree, it's wonderful, wonderful!"

The flower bones of the rouge bitter tea tree opened gently, and all the bright red leaves on the tree swayed from side to side, sending out an invisible fluctuation, as if speaking.

The middle-aged Taoist understood the emotions expressed by the bitter tea tree, and opened his mouth to respond:

"Your name is Rouge, what a good name. ”

The flower bones on the rouge bitter tea tree flickered one by one, and he looked extremely happy, but he was a little timid when he saw a white jade palm covering it.

The middle-aged Taoist priest who stretched out his right hand did not touch the red flower, but hovered above it, closed his eyes to feel it, and was silent.

"Time, cause and effect, fate, calamity. ”

One word after another came out of the mouth of the middle-aged Taoist priest, and each word was full of mysteries, as if a picture was forcibly intercepted from the long river of time.

After a while, the middle-aged Taoist priest withdrew his right hand, opened his eyes, and said lightly:

"In less than ten years, this place will be destroyed, but I like you very much, Rouge, so I would like to provide you with two choices, first, I will find a place for you to grow in peace for another two thousand years, so that you can be completely complete and become a tea tree that has never appeared under the Great Dao, even I can't imagine what your situation was like at that time, but for sure, it will shock all the beings of the entire Endless Mountain. ”

After the middle-aged Taoist priest finished speaking, he quietly looked at the bitter tea tree in front of him, expecting it to shake and agree, but the rouge bitter tea tree was still standing in place, wanting to listen to the second choice of the Taoist priest.

The middle-aged Taoist priest then sighed softly and spoke again:

"The second option, turn a year into a day, use your soul, turn into the spirit of all things, there will be no rouge bitter tea tree in the world, only rouge. ”

The middle-aged Taoist priest stopped talking, the bitter tea tree in front of her had a spirit, and she was making her own choice.

In fact, the people in the world who can make your own choices are extremely lucky, and most of them have not even been given the opportunity to choose, just like the golden tea tree in the center of Liangyi.

After thinking for a while, the black camellia on it shrank twice, and she chose the second one, because the second person who came gave her a breath, the breath that belonged to the bloodline of the Zhao family, and told her a whole day, and that breath was also a red dust, a brand new, the door of the world that belonged to the spirit of all things.

She wanted to see, she wanted to find, the call in the dark.

"Fate comes and goes, there is always a time when flowers bloom and fall, maybe you can't see all the wind and snow, have you decided?

"Maybe 10,000 years is as short as a day, maybe everything backfires, maybe the floating life is like a dream that is short and sleepless, have you really decided?"

The middle-aged Taoist priest said three maybes in one breath and asked twice if he had decided so, indicating that he really cared.

The rouge bitter tea tree no longer hesitated, and the red leaves on the whole body began to tremble, and then one by one they broke away from their bodies and floated into the distance, flying all over the sky, dyeing the entire sky of the tea plantation red.

The middle-aged Taoist priest stretched out his flawless right hand, bent his fingers, and gently approached the only remaining black camellia on the bitter tea tree.

"Since you choose to transform into a person, and everyone has parents to give birth to you, so in the future, you will be my daughter, my surname is Lu, welcome to the world of Hongchen people, Lu Rouge. ”

After finishing speaking, with a flick of his fingers, the black camellia flew out and flew into the air, and all the red leaves converged downward, wrapped, and gradually turned into a baby girl suspended in the air.

The baby girl's eyes are extremely watery, and her pupils are dark green after tea leaves.

The middle-aged Taoist priest gently beckoned, thousands of red leaves as the bed, gently lifted the baby, and gently floated in, and then the Taoist priest took off his coat and wrapped the baby girl in his arms.

The red leaves dispersed, the Taoist priest was about to leave with the baby girl in his arms, and when he caught a glimpse of the golden tea tree in the center, he hesitated for a moment before speaking:

"Well, it's a pity that you will be destroyed, and I will fulfill you. ”

The right hand raised and swung out a drop of golden-red saint blood, and then the middle-aged Taoist flicked his fingers again, and the golden tea tree turned into a baby boy and fell to the ground.

After that, a middle-aged Taoist priest stepped into the endless mountain, wearing only an underwear, with a Taoist priest's hair tied in a bun on his head at will, still free and casual, but there was a big-eyed baby girl in his arms, and his left hand, Hang Erlang was carrying a baby boy, and the color was extremely strange.

A year later, the figure of the middle-aged Taoist priest appeared in the crowded crowd of the Central Plains Great Xia City in the vast land of Shenzhou.

The hot water under her feet had already become cold, but Zhao Yu didn't notice it, the girl surrounded by countless green life elves in front of her, her cheeks were still red, and her eyes were still watery, but the story she told was so shocking.

This is the story of the world's first annatto tree.

And when Rouge Girl told this story to the young emperor, she concealed two things.

One day a year, the bitter tea tree blooms for 8,000 years, so the girl who becomes a human has a lifespan of only 22 years.

When Zhao Yu traveled with his master all day, the rouge girl followed the breath and followed the search for more than ten years, Zhao Yu settled in the suburbs of Jiangling City, and there was an additional tea shop in the suburbs.

There are so many coincidences in the world, and some are just planned for a long time.

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