Han Yiming ran into the backyard again, came to the house where he lived, found a robe in the closet and put it on, went to find some water, washed it, and came to the young man. The young man sat in the middle of the hall, and when he saw him come in, he looked him up and down, and nodded. Raising his hand, he sank down to the ground. The boy stretched and stood up.

He came out of the hall, looked around the courtyard, and walked toward the west. In the courtyard, a narrow road is paved with bluestone slabs, and everyone comes and goes on it on weekdays, and green grass grows on the ground on both sides of the road. The young man came to the land, took a look, and said to Han Yiming, "You come." Han Yiming followed him all the time, went over as he said, and stopped beside him. The young man said, "You can only dig down from here, you can only use your hands, you have to be faster, and you won't be able to do it when the sun goes down." ”

He stretched out his hand and pointed to the dirt floor beside the ditch under the western courtyard wall. Han Yiming squatted down, pointed at the place he designated, and dug with his hands. Han Yiming had never done rough work, at this time, he dug the soil with his hands, and after digging a few times, his fingertips were sharpened, but he didn't dare to stop, seeing that the shadow of the wall on the ground was getting longer and longer, and the light under the corner of the wall was getting darker and darker, but only a small piece was dug up. But in order to see his parents again, he gritted his teeth and dug down hard.

The boy stood aside, watched him dig for a while, and said, "Okay." Han Yiming raised his head, and the young man glanced at the small pit he had dug, but it was only an inch deep, and nodded and said, "What do you see down there?" Han Yiming looked down, only saw the dirt, but nothing else, and said, "There is nothing." The young man said, "The soil below is soft, you can gently brush it away." Han Yiming reached out and touched the soil below, and the soil below was really moist and soft, not as hard as the soil he dug before. Gently brushing the layer of floating soil with his hand, there were many earthworms gathered together.

The young man said, "You pick the thinnest one and pick it up, be careful, don't break it." Han Yiming couldn't help but feel a little disgusted at these many earthworms, endured it, reached out for a while, spread those earthworms, carefully picked among them, picked the thinnest and smallest one, gently pinched it with two fingers, and lifted it. The earthworm writhed between his fingers, and Han Yiming almost vomited out of his throat. Forcibly holding it back, he put it in the palm of his other hand and held it for the boy to see.

The young man looked at it and said, "You hold it first." Suddenly, the index finger of his right hand pointed in the air, and with a "quack", a black bird fell from the sky and landed at the young man's feet. But it was a crow, belly up, and it fell. The crow spread its wings and lay stiffly on the ground. The young man frowned and said, "You wait for me." As soon as the words fell, Han Yiming's eyes flashed, and he had disappeared.

Han Yiming carefully held the earthworm and stood in place. The crow on the ground froze for a while, its feet and paws trembled, and then its wings also trembled, and after a few shakes, it turned over, fluttered on the ground a few times, flapped its wings, and flew up, and in a blink of an eye it flew higher and higher, and flew out of the hospital and was never seen again.

After waiting for a while, the sun had set, and only a little red glow was still on the horizon. Han Yiming stood on his legs and feet, pacing in place a few times, but he didn't dare to walk away. Suddenly, a flower appeared in front of him, and the young man fell from the sky and landed in front of him. The boy grabbed a bird in his hand, covered with white feathers, and croaked, but it was still the crow's song. It's still a crow, but it's a white crow.

The young man was slightly sweaty on his forehead, looked at the sky and said, "It's okay, it's still in time." Holding the crow's legs with both hands, he tore the white crow into two pieces, and said to Han Yiming: "Reach out." Han Yiming saw that the crow's wings and claws were still twitching, and his heart was sick again. The boy said, "Hurry up." Han Yiming had no choice but to pour the earthworm into his right palm, stretched out his left hand, and the young man said, "Catch the crow blood." Lifting the white crow above his palm, Han Yiming's palm sank, allowing the crow's blood to flow in his palm. Although the belly is overturned, it is still endured.

He took a few drops of crow blood in the palm of his hand, and the boy threw the crow aside and asked him to crush the earthworm in the crow's blood. Han Yiming was disgusted in his heart, gritted his teeth, and did as he said. The boy said, "Bite your fingertips." Han Yiming's right hand was stained with crow blood and earthworm soil, dirty, but at this time he didn't care about the dirty, put his index finger in his mouth and bit hard, the boy taught him to mix the blood on his fingertips into the crow blood and earthworm, raised his right hand and pointed it in his hand, his mouth was full of words, dipped a little crow blood, pointed at his eyebrows, and said: "You close your eyes and smear the crow blood on your eyelids." ”

Han Yiming finished smearing as he said, and the young man said, "Okay, you just sit in that room and wait." ”

When he entered the room, he was about to sit down on a chair, when the young man said, "You must sit on the ground." And he said, "Remember, what you see tonight must not be mentioned to others." Han Yiming said: "I will never confide a word." The young man said, "Okay." "Keep your feet off the ground and float in the air. A moment later, Shen Shen Dusk misted away a glimmer of light from the sky. The young man lowered his voice and said, "Don't be afraid, with me here, there will be no taboos." With that, his right hand clenched into a fist, and a little blue halo slowly spread out from his fist, he opened his five fingers, stretched out his hand to the center of Han Yiming's eyebrows, and then withdrew his hand, and the whole person floated quietly in the air.

When Han Yiming returned to his home, he was no longer as scared as he was on the mountain, he raised his head to see him floating quietly in the air, suppressed his uneasy mood, took a deep breath, turned his head, and suddenly saw a light on the ground. I saw a footprint on the ground in front of me, and then next to him, one by one, the footprints lit up. There are big and small, wide and narrow, and slowly, the room is full of footprints, more and more, and even the outside of the house is lit up, and the footprints are shining with the green light of fireflies. The front yard, which was too dark to be seen, was lit up.

After a while, many of the footprints dimmed, but only two of them grew brighter and brighter. One footprint is full and circumferential, and the interval is wider, which is the footprint of a man, and the other is thin and narrow, and the step is smaller, which is the footprint of a woman. These two footprints are also quite numerous in this house, back and forth, and some of them overlap each other.

When Han Yiming looked at it, he knew that these were the footprints of his parents. He couldn't cry during the day, and because of the boy's endless strange behavior, he didn't shed tears. At this time, seeing these footprints, my heart was full of mixed feelings, and all kinds of forbearance came to my heart, and I couldn't help but shed tears, "woo" crying.