Chapter 9: A Xiao (1)
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Because as Ah Xiao spoke, the tears that fell were like a small flame, and the burning white heart hurt.
A Xiao ......
A few days later, Ah Xiao came again.
As usual, he laughed and played with water, and then babbled to himself for a while before leaving.
Bai listened silently, without saying a word.
Ah Xiao didn't know that Bai existed.
Until a month later, Ah Xiao sat silently by the lake with his legs in his arms.
Without waiting for the expected silver bell laughter, Bai couldn't help but speak.
"Do you miss your mother?"
"Who, who's talking?" Ah Xiao heard the voice, and a pair of dark eyes looked around in horror.
"Don't be afraid." Bai looked at Ah Xiao's frightened appearance, and couldn't help but appear and comfort: "You go to the water's edge, and you can see me when you look down." ”
Ah Xiao leaned on the surface of the water and watched a white-clothed boy about his age suddenly appear in front of him.
He floated underwater, white like snow, and his eyebrows were picturesque, which was even more beautiful than the paintings posted on the wall during the Chinese New Year.
Ah Xiao was stunned for a moment, and said stupidly: "You are so good-looking." ”
Hearing this, the roots of the white ears couldn't help but turn red.
"Come out quickly, you're going to suffocate if you stay in the water for a long time." Ah Xiao's face was a little red, and after he held his breath underwater for a long time, he hurriedly stretched out his thin arm to pull Bai up.
A small hand reaches into his hand and stirs a circle of ripples.
Bai pursed his lips, did not speak, grabbed the thin arm and got out of the water.
This was the first time he had come out of the lake since he became conscious.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew the white robe on Bai's body.
Ah Xiao stood beside him, looking at him with a pair of bright black eyes.
Their hands were clenched tightly.
Bai lowered his eyes, his eyes went up his wrist, and Ah Xiao's thin arms were full of purple and black bruises.
Xu felt the white gaze, Ah Xiao was startled, blushed, and hid his hands behind his back in a panic.
Bai didn't speak, took two steps forward, and took out the hand she was hiding behind her, and with a slight touch, the green light flashed on her fingertips.
All the marks on his arms were gone.
"Does it still hurt?"
Hearing this, Ah Xiao looked at his arm, not only the scar he had just made, but even the old scar disappeared. Ah Xiao moved slightly, and the feeling of swelling and pain was gone. She shook her head happily, looking at the white eyes full of gratitude.
"Are you a god?"
Looking at this magical scene in front of him, Ah Xiao asked in disbelief. This young man who came out of the water not only had no traces of water on his body, but also easily healed her injuries. Except for the immortals, Ah Xiao can't think of anyone who can have such great ability.
Bai smiled slightly, did not answer, and sat down by the lake by himself.
The mountain wind blew, bringing bursts of fragrance of grass and trees, Bai squinted, smelling the fresh breath, and couldn't help but bend the corners of his mouth.
"Ah Xiao, the outside world looks very different from the underwater."
Bai's voice came with the wind, as if sighing, and it made people feel a little sad for no reason.
"Have you always lived in the water?" Ah Xiao couldn't help but ask.
"Hmm."
"Then you won't be depressed?" Ah Xiao asked.
"Sometimes." Bai thought for a while and replied seriously.
"And what about your father?" Ah Xiao asked again.
"What daddy?" Bai turned his head in confusion and looked at Ah Xiao.
"The one who gave birth to you." Ah Xiao thought for a while and said.
"I don't have a father, and I've been here for as long as I can remember."
"Then you are such a poor fairy. There is no pain from my father and mother, and I live alone under the dark and cold water. Although my aunt is not very good to me, my father still loves me. He often stuffs me with delicious food behind his back......" Ah Xiao said with some surprise.
Bai knew that the mother in Ah Xiao's mouth was her stepmother. The fierce woman often treated her harshly. But in addition to crying when she first came and saying that she missed her mother, even if she was scarred by her stepmother, she always looked heartless.
What she chattered about the most was what was going on in the village. For example, the pigs of the widow Wang's family ran away when it rained, and the head rope of the spring flower was so red and beautiful.
Bai sometimes feels that Ah Xiao's life is really relieved, and the relief makes people feel distressed for no reason.
Heartache, that's a feeling that Bai has never felt before.
Since that day, Ah Xiao has often come to Bai with a large basket full of them. Sometimes the basket is filled with grass, and sometimes it is filled with mushrooms.
When the two of them are together, it is basically Ah Xiao who keeps talking and listening silently.
Occasionally, Bai will also talk about Xiao Qi, who likes to eat mushrooms, and the lily of the valley that has long since withered.
At that time, Ah Xiao, who loves to laugh and make trouble, will always be quiet, quietly listening to Bai talk about the past that seems to have become distant.
And so the days went by.
If it weren't for that unexpected thought, Bai might never know what kind of life Ah Xiao was living for the rest of his life.
That time, the appointed time passed, but Ah Xiao was nowhere to be seen. Bai was worried, so he secretly condensed into a water mirror to look. This look almost made him tear his eyes.
"You, I told you to be lazy! Call you lazy! See if I don't kill you! A middle-aged fat woman took a wooden stick the thickness of a fist and hit Ah Xiao's body.
Ah Xiao dodged left and right, but he didn't say a word.
The wooden stick fell on his body like raindrops, and his white eyes were spent, but Ah Xiao still didn't say a word, and let the wooden stick fall on his body dullly.
"Okay, the eldest sister was beaten again! Kill you white food eater! Beat! ”
At this moment, a chubby little boy ran in, watched Ah Xiao being beaten, and clapped his hands happily around Ah Xiao.
Bai remembered the half-brother that Ah Xiao talked about a long time ago, and there was a smile in his eyes.
"Ah Fu, he's skinny. When I was a child, I always pulled the tail of Grandpa Niu's big cat next door, and now the cat always hides when he sees him. ”
After talking about Ah Fu's naughty past, Ah Xiao would always giggle for a while.
Bai couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and with a touch of his palm, his mana was dispersed.
The transparent water mirror slid down and soon disappeared without a trace.
But the scene seen through the water mirror remained in Bai's mind for a long time.
White fingertips broke through the water and prepared to go out to find Ah Xiao, but no matter how he walked, he was surrounded by his native lake. The faint blue water, like an endless cage, trapped her steps.
He couldn't leave.
His essence is the cage that imprisons him for the rest of his life.
It was going to trap him for the rest of his life.
Bai suddenly remembered the thin, scarred arm of that day.
It was this arm that pulled him out of the dark and cold bottom of the lake, and from then on, the world was turned upside down.
The sun is warm, the sky is endless, and there are still people on Aye Mountain who can live for a long, long time.......