Um, yeah. This show has made me finally write something after almost 2 years of not writing anything creative. Only, its in Chinese, which maybe like, 1 of you here can read, LOL.
I might get around to writing an English version/translating it, but I started it a bit earlier and one line into it, I realised I'm not sure what some of the terms in the show are in English and I would need to go back and re-watch it all with sub-titles (oh, I'm sure that it will be such a chore), having to rewatch this. :P So yeah, basically, the English version might take a while. Which is I suppose the reason why I didn't (couldn't?) write this in English like I did for Guardian, I suppose. I grew up with the wuxia genre and pretty much inhale all the Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng wuxia novels since I was 12 (Gu Long was less my thing, his writing style just didn't gel with me). I taught myself to read traditional Chinese because of wuxia, and its just essentially a Chinese experience for me, that trying to write it in English is just so very foreign. But yeah, I'll give it a shot at translating it, eventually... I've already given in to the fact that I will be googling the English translations of the poetry references in this piece instead of attempting my own.
I'll possibly soon be embarrassed about posting this damn thing, since my Chinese writing skills are damn rusty and it has been over 20+ years since I did any creative writing in Chinese. I think there's still an abandoned handwritten manuscript to a wuxia/xianxia novel from when I was 15 in storage somewhere so its not quite my first foray into writing for this genre as such, just the first to see the light of day and a very short one.
Anyway, this is set between the end of ep36 and the extra easter egg ending.
Title: 无尽处 (Wu Jin Chu) - from the last line of a
Song Dynasty poem this is the only English translation google dug out for me.
Author: 瓶中精灵 in_the_bottle
Fandom: 山河令 Word of Honor
Word count: ~1200
Pairing: 温客行/周子舒 Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu
Rating: G
Summary: "你曾问我千山暮雪,只影向谁去,我现在就给你个痛快吧。”
Here on AO3 无尽处
作者:瓶中精灵
“千山鸟飞绝,万径人踪灭” 形容的因该就是眼前这般的情况吧?周子舒看着武库前的一片白茫茫,仿佛三个月前在此地和蝎王的生死一战根本没发生过。堵住武库大门大部分的雪已随着春天的来临融化了一大半,今日是周子舒从踏入武库以后第一次重见天日。老温若可亲眼看见这景色,他因该会左一句诗右一句词的掉书包,像只开屏的孔雀炫耀着自己的文采吧?一但想到温客行,周子舒心就一阵阵的疼。当初叫他傻子还真不冤枉。
周子舒抬头看了被乌云遮隐了一半的太阳,在这个连鬼影都看不见的冰天雪地里除了偶尔的风啸声什么都没有的地方,感觉就好像全世界就只剩自己一个人。周子舒脑海里一但闪过这念头就感到一阵莫名的不安和恐慌。转身,他仓促的清理了堆在武库门锁前的积雪,露出了还插在门里的琉璃甲与钥匙。周子舒小心翼翼的将钥匙取出。一旦离了门锁,钥匙就变回了发钗的模样。周子舒也不知道温客行的爹娘当年是怎么把武库的钥匙制成这般模样这玉也不知是什么玉竟然没在雪崩时被折断,这答案在世上也许只有温客行知道了。
周子舒把发钗收好后快步的返回武库内,内心的恐慌也只有再次见到温客行的身影才稍微的平静下来。温客行安静的躺在周子舒用木板凑合的床上,一头仿佛染上了门外雪花白的头发在身后散开。周子舒只有凝视他胸部的微微起伏及抓住了他温暖的手后,心里的不安才慢慢消失。
三个月了,温客行已经昏迷三个月了。周子舒在看到温客行一头白发昏死过去的那一刻,他从没经验过那么强的畏惧感和害怕,害怕温客行去了一个他周子舒不能跟着去的地方,害怕这疯子又瞒着他做了傻事。还好周子舒手中握着温客行的手能感觉到他微弱的脉搏还在缓缓跳动着。内力尽失,筋脉受损,周子舒耗尽毕生所学拼合了六合神功秘籍里的内容和温客行之前转述叶白衣的部分指示,才终于明白要如何踏出下一步。点点滴滴的将六合神功的内力输过去,慢慢的帮温客行重塑筋脉和凝聚他体内消耗尽的内力。
周子舒知道他家老温行事有时会有些草率但事关周子舒的性命,周子舒很肯定温客行已将叶白衣所传受的六合神功的功法全权告知周子舒,但有关这对温客行本身的影响温客行却一字未提。当时周子舒也没多想,但回想起来事必有蹊跷。要不是周子舒自己天赋高,及时领悟和运用六合神功帮温客行度过难关,温客行必已筋脉尽断死于非命。
周子舒和温客行都不会拿对方的性命开玩笑,这倒似叶白衣的手笔。虽然周子舒不知道叶白衣到底和温客行说了什么,但想起他们入关运功前温客行的所做所为周子舒已隐隐可猜到。这笔周子舒给叶白衣记下了,下一次再见到那老不死再和他算账。
三个月里,温客行的身体和内力在慢慢的恢复。除了每隔十二个时辰周子舒需运功引导温客行本身的内力以免他走火入魔,周子舒只能在他身边静静的等着。他不知道温客行什么时候会醒,但是不管多久他周子舒都会等。等到温客行再次张开他双眼,再次到处跟着他‘阿絮阿絮’的乱叫撒娇,再次将玉钗插回他发中。
“竟敢如此轻生,等你恢复以后,看我不把你揍死。” 周子舒发誓。“你曾问我千山暮雪,只影向谁去,我现在就给你个痛快吧。” 握着温客行的手,周子舒低声的说,也不知道温可行此刻能否听到,“执子之手,与子偕老。傻子。”
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