The night began to permeate, a fluffy moon hung in the sky, the heavy rain at dusk made the breath of the entire bamboo forest very cool and thorough, but the bamboo forest that should have been quiet was filled with inexplicable noise, and suddenly these small sounds stopped abruptly, the simple thatched hut was slowly opened, and an old man came out of it, she leaned over and carried a dim oil lamp, her sharp eyes quickly swept around, and her kind face was suddenly full of vigilance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Long Po, Long Po, Yue'er...... Yue'er, she and Ah Zhu have a fight! A seven or eight-year-old girl with a bun and a small red face ran out of breath from the depths of the bamboo forest.

Long Po recognized this female doll as a red lotus who often played with Jiuyue.

At the edge of a dry well, Long Po saw two black shadows scuffling together, and there seemed to be three other children trying to separate the two black shadows.

The old man used a pair of powerful hands to pick up the two children who were already covered in mud, and there was no need to identify too much, the thin one must be her naughty granddaughter Jiuyue.

Through the dim oil lamp reflected on the bodies of several children, Long Po saw clearly that there were two boys and a girl standing on the side, the black and strong is Kui Li, the son of the carpenter, the thin is Yin Zhu, the son of Wang Xiu's mother's family, and the petite girl is Ye Xuan, the daughter of the boss of the Peach Blossom Wine Shop in Peach Blossom Town, the three of them looked at Long Po blankly, as if expressing that they didn't quite know what was going on, as their eyes moved down, Long Po strangely found that they were carrying oily lanterns that had been extinguished in their hands.

"Ah Jiu, what are you messing around again?" Long Po frowned and looked at Jiu Yue, whose face was covered with mud.

"Grandma, it's not Ah Jiu messing around, it's Hongzhu who threw me with a stone for some reason!" Jiuyue indignantly raised her right hand and pointed at the dead fat man who smashed two big bags on her head with a stone, if she hadn't reacted quickly and dodged the attack of the next few stones, she wouldn't have been able to smash her skull through it!

Long Po turned her head to look at the chubby girl named Hongzhu suspiciously, but saw Hongzhu staring at Jiu Yue with a strange face, with obvious deep fear in her eyes, muttering something in her mouth, and suddenly broke free from Long Po's hand, turned around and ran in the direction of the village without looking back.

The remaining few people looked at each other, and for a while they couldn't react to Hongzhu's strange behavior, Jiuyue stood up straight and slapped the dirt on his body, but found that it didn't make a difference where he wiped it.

"Xiao Yezi, how did the two of them fight?"

Ye Xuan blinked at Long Po with her big eyes, and shook her head gently, "Yue'er and Ah Zhu walked at the end, and as they walked, our oil lamp suddenly went out, and then they didn't know how to fight." ”

Kui Li and Yin Zhu, as well as Red Lotus, also nodded in agreement.

Long Po's face became a little deep and incomprehensible, and she pondered.

"It's so late, what are you little dolls doing in the woods if you don't come home? This black light is blind, not afraid of being bitten by the green viper in the mountain? ”

"Grandma, with me, who would dare to come to the snakes, insects and beasts in this mountain?" Jiuyue smiled sweetly.

"You damn girl, I ask you what you are doing in this forest so late?"

“…… Well... It's late today, and they're afraid that it won't be safe for me to come back alone, so they sent me off!"

Long Po's eyes glanced at the innocent faces of several children, "That's it..... it's so late, you guys go back early and see what's going on with Azhu's girl, it's strange to be worried." As he spoke, he picked up the oily lantern in Ye Xuan's hand and lit the extinguished wicks one by one.

Long Po watched the figures of several children disappear into the night, and then took Jiu Yue's little hand full of mud and walked towards the thatched house, Jiu Yue looked at the dry well that was getting farther and farther away, and breathed a sigh of relief, but she was also full of doubts, Long Po She ...... Can't you see the cyan light coming from the dry well?

Jiuyue and Long Po live in the green bamboo forest of Shizhu Village, Long Po is old, but her body is very good, especially love wine, she likes to use the green bamboo in the mountains to make wine, its color is like amber, crystal clear, and the bamboo fragrance is strong, at the beginning she even felt a little drunk when she even smelled it, and then secretly tasted it and thought it was very delicious, so she began to drink it secretly, until Long Po felt that she was sober every day very strange, so she put the wine jar at the top of the cabinet.

Every time Jiu Yue asked why other children in the village had their own fathers and mothers but they didn't, Long Po just sighed softly, saying that her father and mother went to save the world, which caused Jiuyue to be a little hostile to the world since she was a child, because in her opinion, the reason why she didn't have a father was entirely because her father and mother loved this person more than her.

The only thing she had related to her father and mother was a moon-white head rope inlaid with small cyan jade beads, which Long Po said was her mother's favorite to wear before, so this head rope grew in Jiuyue's green silk and ink hair.

The people of Shizhu Village are very industrious and simple, and they are very tolerant of Jiuyue's natural activity, of course, this tolerance does not include letting her own daughter follow her to fly the earth with a bow made of truncated green bamboo.

Ye Xuan's father and mother love Jiuyue very much, maybe it's because Ye Xuan's father likes to drink the wine brewed by Long Po? Red Lotus is a child who lost his parents in the war, and was brought back to Shizhu Village by Ye Xuan's father, this is a secret that the adults in Shizhu Village know, the three of them are about the same age, Ye Xuan is the youngest, but he is the oldest of the three, almost a full year older than Jiuyue and Honglian, Honglian and Jiuyue are almost the same age, almost in the same year and month, Jiuyue only saw the sun three days earlier than Honglian.

That day, Ye Xuan's father who had been out for many days was going home, Aunt Lou made pork dumplings, Ye Xuan and Honglian left Jiuyue at home to eat, Jiuyue originally planned to go home after eating at Ye Xuan's house, and the front foot just stepped out of the house, obviously it was still a sunny sky just now, and somehow it suddenly rained as if it had been pierced, and Kuili and Yin Zhu happened to be hit by the sudden rain, so they hid under the eaves of Ye Xuan's house.

Jiuyue often plays with Kuili and Yin Zhu, so they are very familiar, several people are giggling and waiting for the rain to stop, and Kui Li mysteriously said that they found a treasure in a dry well in the green bamboo forest, which will emit a strange cyan light at night.

Of course they didn't believe it, if there was really a treasure, they would definitely dig it out and show it to them.

Seeing that they didn't believe it, Kuili couldn't hold his breath, saying that they had gone to see it during the day, and that there was nothing after digging so deep, but if there was no treasure in the dry well, how could it shine? They estimated that this treasure was probably afraid of light, and it was probably a treasure that could only be dug up at night.

"Where's the baby? I'm going with you too!"

At this time, Hongzhu next door to Ye Xuan's house didn't know when he had been sticking his head out of the window of his room and eavesdropping.

Speaking of Hongzhu, that is the person Jiuyue dislikes the most in the entire village.

Most of the people in Shizhu Village like Jiuyue, but there are also people who don't want to see her, such as Hongzhu's family, although Hongzhu is as big as them, but because of overnutrition, she grows stronger than Kuili, and she looks down on Jiuyue the most on weekdays, thinking that how can a person like her be called a girl? is still shameless and tired of her strong brother, such a wild child without a father and mother's upbringing must not be a good thing when he grows up.

However, Hongzhu is very relieved that her strong brother will definitely like her when he grows up, because only a quiet and leisurely woman like her will quietly grow into a delicate and clear cocoon.

Hongzhu's father Hongfu used to be the son of a large family, and he was displaced here during the war, although he was poor but he was lucky to marry the daughter of the patriarch, and took over an errand to collect grain, and he liked to spend a leisurely life in the major gambling houses in Peach Blossom Town, greedy for money and loved to take advantage of small advantages, and was a famous snake in the town.

"Azhu, don't listen to their nonsense, what kind of treasure is there? Brother Dali loves to brag! Red Lotus looked at Kui Li's serious appearance and giggled.

"Azhu is right, do you dare to come with me to have a look?" Kuili was so red from the laughter of the red lotus that his face turned red, and he looked unconvinced by the stalk of his neck.

At this time, the rain gradually subsided, and the red lotus winked at Ye Xuan, "Doesn't Yue'er live in the green bamboo forest?" Just send her home. ”

So Ye Xuan took six oilskin lanterns from home, and explained to her mother that everyone was not worried about Jiuyue going back alone, so she sent Jiuyue, and Aunt Lou didn't go with them because she had to wait for Uncle Ye at home, thinking that it was safe to have Kuili and Yin Zhu.

The black clouds gradually dispersed, and they slowly walked towards the depths of the bamboo forest with the faint light of the oil lamp, at this time Jiuyue didn't know that this dry well was not a treasure, but it saved their lives.

Because of Hongzhu's strange behavior, Kuili finally didn't dig out the treasure that haunted him in the night, which made him feel very frustrated, but let everyone know that he was not bragging, and he was also very proud, so after the next day, he called Jiuyue and them together, and wanted everyone to go and see it again at night.

Ye Xuan and Honglian said that they couldn't go out anymore recently, "My father came back from the town yesterday and said that it has not been safe outside recently, the officers and soldiers are catching female dolls, and a notice has been posted at the entrance of the county ya, saying that they are looking for a demon girl who knows witchcraft, and this demon girl will appear with the Xinghuo vision." Ye Xuan's voice was small and nervous.

"I heard that a few days ago, Ah Ju in the town was arrested for playing with flints." Honglian also looked at everyone seriously.

"By the way, aren't you worried about Azhu? Xuan'er and I saw her father take her to the town for treatment this morning, and she hasn't come back yet. Red Lotus continued to say worriedly.

"She's sick?" Jiuyue thinks it's very strange, it should be her who should go to see the doctor with two big bags smashed on her head, right?

"Aunt Shi said that Ah Zhu has been talking nonsense since she went home that night, as if she was scared by something."

As soon as Red Lotus finished speaking, smoke suddenly rose from the east side of the village.

"Murder! The mountain bandits have killed people! Then a woman let out a piercing scream.

"What's going on? Azhu, it seems to be the direction of your house," Kuili said uneasily, looking at the smoke not far away.

Yin Zhu's face was pale and he hurriedly ran in the direction of home, but Kuili couldn't hold him.

At this time, not far in front of them, a group of men on horseback and bloody long knives walked slowly, unable to see what their expressions were, but they were as terrifying as evil spirits.

Several children were so frightened that they froze in place, and the timid Ye Xuan fell directly to the ground.

In an instant, the once peaceful and beautiful village fell into a sea of fire, the firelight accompanied by the remnant sun connected the entire sky into a blood-red, the blade mercilessly trampled on the weak and defenseless life, and the sky was only the dust of dead leaves and scorched earth, with a bloody breath swept the entire Shizhu Village.

"You go to Grandma, I'll go and get Yin Zhu back." Jiuyue's words pulled everyone back to reality from their sluggishness like cold water, and Kuili and Honglian hurriedly picked up Ye Xuan on the ground and ran towards the green bamboo forest.

Jiu Yue carefully avoided those with knives, her heart was about to jump to her throat, but she saw that the people who were still talking and laughing with her during the day had now turned into a cold corpse, she actually didn't quite understand the concept of death, but instinctively feared this sudden disaster.

She couldn't do anything, the only thing she could do was to get Yin Zhu back, and then go to find Long Po, it seemed that as long as Long Po was there, they would be fine.

She ran to the door of Yin Zhu's house, only to see Yin Zhu kneeling motionlessly holding the charred corpse on the ground, holding the amber that his mother was wearing from the chest of the corpse, glowing with a faint green light in the blood.

Jiuyue and Yin Zhu's mother Prince Xiuniang did not have a lot of contact, mainly Wang Xiuniang is a woman who doesn't like to talk, always covering half of her face with a veil, except for going to the town to exchange the embroidered cloth for some money, it can almost be said that she stays at home, and the only thing that impresses Jiuyue is this beautiful stone.

Yin Zhu didn't see it, a mountain bandit was already close at hand, and the burly man jumped off the horse and grabbed him in his hand.

"Boy, take me to the green bamboo forest, is there a little demon girl named Jiuyue hidden there?" The man pressed a knife against Yin Zhu's neck.

Yin Zhu didn't seem to hear anything, and looked ahead with empty eyes.

Jiu Yue's forehead was dripping with cold sweat, and he suddenly remembered the bow and arrow he was carrying, so he picked up a stone on the ground and hit it towards the man's head.

The stone hit the man's left eye, the man covered his left eye in pain and retreated, Yin Zhu fell to the ground, Jiuyue saw the opportunity to pull Yin Zhu and ran towards the green bamboo forest.

She didn't dare to look back, feeling that if she turned around, she would be devoured by evil spirits, and her bones would be gone.

Jiuyue pulled Yin Zhu and ran all the way to the depths of the bamboo forest, and not far away, the cyan light I saw last time appeared, it was a dry well!

When they came to the dry well, Long Po was coming down from the mountain, Jiu Yue threw herself into Long Po's arms, and the fear was finally released with tears at this moment.

It's a pity that it's too late to be sad, those mountain bandits are already close in front of him, and the leading man is the burly man who was injured in his left eye by Jiuyue, his head is full of green muscles, and he looks coldly at the old man and child in front of him, like a prey that finally has no way to escape.

"Ah Jiu, no matter what you see for a while, you just take them to the place where there is a strange light."

Long Po gently stroked Jiuyue's hair in her arms, her voice calm and calm.

Jiuyue nodded ignorantly.

"Don't trust anyone, you must go to the Heavenly Snow Mountain to find Mu Chen, he will protect you." After Long Po finished speaking, she said mockingly to the burly man who only had one left eye, "There are old people, you can't wait to hurt them." ”

After speaking, she pushed Jiu Yue behind her, and smiled at her kindly the moment she turned around, and Long Po's body suddenly stiffened a little bit into a huge tree blocking them.

Separation always comes without warning, and this is Jiuyue's last memory of Long Po, her only dearest relative in the world, leaving her forever in a form that she cannot understand at all.

Jiu Yue held back her tears and turned her head, only seeing Honglian, Ye Xuan and Yin Zhu, but didn't see Kui Li, and didn't care about asking anything, so she pulled them and jumped directly into the dry well.