Yangdong City is mostly flat-roofed buildings with white walls and ink tiles, and every household is also built in a boxy way. In addition to restaurants and shops, most of the people's homes are flat-story courtyards, so that the sun and the moon fly by, and all the glory can be enjoyed.

The evening that moved with the wind finally stopped on the roof of a courtyard house, waiting for them. After Luo Luo took Lin Suqing to catch up, as soon as he landed, Luo Luo let go of Lin Suqing.

Her expression was solemn, there was almost no difference between before and after, but Lin Suqing was a little abnormal, and he could still clearly see the tips of his red ears in the dim night. Presumably, he had a lot of things on his mind along the way, and he didn't stop all the way.

Outside the main gate of this triad, a courtyard is fenced out with a courtyard as wide as the wall. On one side of the courtyard were three or two low trees, and on the other side were a mess of straw, a small wheelbarrow for transport, an old basket woven of bamboo strips, and a small wooden bench that was only nearly a palm higher than an ankle.

The small bench is placed in front of a small cart made of bamboo tubes, although the small cart has four wooden wheels, but the whole is a long cylinder except for the pusher behind it, and among them is a cloth pocket, which looks similar to a stroller, and can put children under the age of two or milk babies in it to push the cart away.

There is also a long bamboo pole standing against a shelf in the pile, which, if unfolded, should have been used for drying clothes.

Scattered and all piled together, it can be seen that he used to live very carefully, and it can also be seen that everything has now stopped. One can feel some sadness from this pile of clutter alone.

Xiye looked back at Lin Suqing, pointed to the bottom of the inner courtyard, and signaled-"Do you want to go down?"

Lin Suqing hesitantly estimated his skills, but before he could weigh the pros and cons, the night fell with a bang, and those who didn't know thought it was a gust of wind at once.

Immediately after, before he could react, Luo Luo grabbed his waist and fell down with a thud, she was afraid that she would lose the night.

As soon as his feet touched the ground, he heard a faint cry coming from his ears. Lin Suqing immediately tiptoed to the corner and hidden, and the evening night had long since disappeared. After Luo Luo let go of Lin Suqing, he immediately turned into a thin snake and walked forward along the root of the wall. Lin Suqing took a look, and immediately lowered his waist to avoid the window and followed closely.

The cry came and went, and when it was urgent, it was hidden, and when I turned a corner, I chased the source of the sound.

Standing in front of the window at night, standing up straight, Lin Suqing hurriedly walked over and dragged him down and squatted, seeing that his face was not very good, and he didn't have time to care about him, Lin Suqing popped out of his head, dipped his fingers in saliva and dug a small hole at the bottom of the window, and quietly peeked inside.

I saw a woman with a low updo sitting on the edge of the bed, clutching a little doll's clothes tightly in her hands and covering her face and crying, and on her legs, around her, there were little doll's clothes, shoes, hats, and some toys, rattles, small tigers, and embroidery stuffed with cotton......

It's as if there are thousands of griefs in my heart, but I have to suppress them with great pain. She suppressed her voice and emotions, as if as long as she restrained her crying and did not let her grief howl, she would not continue to feel heart-rending pain.

But where such emotions can be restrained if you want to. Needless to say, the woman's pain was heartbroken, but as a bystander, she was so affected by the grief that her heart was stirred.

Xiye didn't stand up again, and he didn't have the intention of coming up to see, he squatted with his back against the corner, as if waiting for Lin Suqing to hurry up and leave. Lolo crouched beside him, separated by two positions, as a sign of respect. None of them seemed interested.

There was almost nothing to be found, except for a woman who hid her face and wept, while the rest of the room had gone to bed, but most of them were lying on the bed tossing and turning, and had not yet slept.

I didn't find any news, so I returned to the Happy Inn.

The dog is still asleep, and no one comes back. He sat at the table with Nightshade, and Lolo was still standing behind Nightshade, as if he hadn't set off yet.

It's just that there seems to be some loneliness between the eyebrows of the night.

"What's wrong with you?" Lin Suqing poured him a cup of herbal tea, and he didn't drink it when he put it next to him. wanted to resolve his loneliness, and also wanted to determine if Xi Ye was really wrong, so he deliberately quipped, "What?

"I've seen it. Xiye suddenly raised her bright eyes and stared at Lin Suqing, and said a sentence without a beginning or an end, and then looked at her fingers in a daze.

"What have you seen?" Lin Suqing put down the teapot, thought for a while and asked, "That woman?"

"My mother used to cry like that. Nightfall put her hands on the table, clutching the edge of her thumb's nails.

Lin Suqing felt embarrassed, this topic was not easy to talk about, maybe it was a matter of the night, or maybe it was a knot. Nothing should be judged by an outsider like him. But there are disadvantages of not talking.

"Is it convenient to tell me the reason?" Lin Suqing's voice was as light as water, and it was the best concern to talk about the evening at this time.

Yuya pursed her lips, as if she didn't want to say. Lin Suqing could understand, he didn't ask if he didn't say it, he was about to say "rest early", but he suddenly said on the night: "My mother always blames my father for thinking about whom, and she often cried like that in the early years." Quietly no one could find out, but I saw it many times. ”

Parents are the most difficult to reconcile, and Lin Suqing is really not good at enlightening this concern.

"What's the truth?"

Xiye's lips pursed into a line, and then complained for his mother: "My mother is the only wife of my father, but there is only a king in the demon world, and there has never been a queen yet." ”

He paused and hesitated slightly: "My mother thought that I would be able to become a queen when I was born, but I am nearly five hundred years old, and she has not been able to do so. It seems that it is because my father has been thinking about the one who died. ”

"Why don't you just ask your father?"

"Asked. ”

"What did he say?"

"My father said that when I grow up, I will understand. ”

This phrase is very familiar, and it seems that every adult has said it to a child. Lin Suqing's mother also told him, and the teacher who taught him to learn Chinese also talked about it.

When I heard it when I was a child, I always looked forward to growing up quickly and understanding the confusion at that time, but when I grew up, what I understood was actually different from what adults thought about many times.

And this understanding as you grow is gradual. The earlier "understanding" was very shallow, but stubborn, self-righteous, stubbornly thought that he understood everything, and after a few years, he realized that his earlier self was all wrong.

"And what do you understand now?"

Xiye thought about it for a long time, his face was depressed and lost, and he said, "Maybe it's because of grandpa, the source is him." When my grandfather was in power, my mother's father, who was also my grandfather, was the head of Cave 72 at that time, and he was also a good friend of my grandfather. Before my grandfather died, he entrusted his daughter, my mother, to my grandfather's care. Later, the grandfather chose a husband for his mother in the clan, but the mother insisted on marrying his father, who was the least favored at that time. ”

Lin Suqing said: "Because of love." ”

"It's not. Xiye directly denied it, "Although my father was not favored at that time, and it seemed that he was the weakest among the princes, my mother thought that my father was the most likely to inherit the throne." The so-called potential. ”

"Your mother said that?"

Grandma said. Holding the teacup in both hands, Xiye looked at the tiny broken tea leaves floating on the brown tea water in the teacup, and said, "My father used to be the most powerful and favored prince by my grandfather, but then because I didn't listen to my grandfather, he was deposed once, and he was deprived of all military power, and it is because of this that he became the weakest prince." However, the mother thinks that the demotion of his father will not affect his comeback, and when he starts again, he will only be more powerful than before. ”

Xiye stretched out his thumb and dipped the floating broken tea leaves on the table, wrapped by the only little water stains left, and the broken tea leaves lying on the huge table obviously came out of the narrow cup, and when they arrived in a wider place, they were not as comfortable as when they were in the cup, but they looked extremely lonely.

Later, everyone knew that the reason why the grandfather degraded his father was actually a way to protect the future prince. ”

"Don't think about it, your father has feelings for your mother, otherwise how could he get married, and how could there be you. ”

"I don't know. He covered the unbroken tea leaves on the table at night, and when he moved them, the broken tea leaves were gone, leaving only a few black spots like fine sand in the water stains.

"I heard from the fifth uncle that my father was going to marry someone else, but the whole world was against them. ”

Lin Suqing was surprised and asked, "Why do you oppose it?"

"It will break the balance of the world, and if it loses its balance, it may cause the destruction of all things and reincarnation. ”

"Why is the balance upset?"

"I don't know, the fifth uncle didn't tell me, he said that it was not yet the time to speak. Xi Ye looked at his palm expressionlessly, the helplessness and helplessness, Lin Suqing seemed to be familiar and deeply understood.

"And then?"

"She's dead. "Night Night clenched his fists lightly.

It's embarrassing, Lin Suqing doesn't know how to answer, should he continue to talk and ask, or should he stop here, but ...... And how can we comfort him?

At this time, the sleeping dog suddenly raised his head and muttered, "If it weren't for your mother, she wouldn't have died." ”

The night did not speak.

The night was so quiet that it was terrifying. I wanted to sigh for a long time, but I couldn't, and I held it under my throat raw, causing my chest to feel extremely stuffy. I want to take a deep breath and change it, but I can't change it, like the stillness of water, it shouldn't make any ripples.

Even the candle flame was silent, and it didn't beat for a long time.

......

Until a complete candle, a flame half a finger long, burned to the point that only a thin layer of candle tears remained, and the flame was as small as a bean, Lin Suqing opened his mouth and said: "In the past, neither of you nor I is a authority, it is just hearsay, why bother to delve into it, and you don't have to care." ”

Xiye thought for a while, looked at the dog and said, "There is an authority." ”

"I won't say a word more. The dog glanced at him, "Just like your fifth uncle." ”

As soon as the dog said a word, he saw that Xiye's expression was even more depressed, Lin Suqing couldn't help but reach out and pat Xiye's head, and said, "Okay, the matter between your father and your mother, one day you will all understand." ”

"I don't know why I'm saying that to you, but I don't usually say a word. Nightfall muttered.

This feels that Lin Suqing may be able to understand, sometimes the closest people are often the strangest, and sometimes we are often more willing to talk to strangers.

"It's okay, I'm not in any realm anyway, and I can't make any waves if I listen or not. Lin Suqing poured the tea in the night cup into the tea tray and poured him a full cup again.

Then he smiled and said: "If you want to be an adult, you must first be proficient in the distinction between public and private." Public is public, private is private. For example, even if the dog you raised as a child dies, you still have to smile and talk to people about things. ”

"......" made the dog very unhappy to hear this, and his eyes almost rolled to the sky.

"Come, drink a cup of tea and moisten your throat, and then we have to talk about the loss of the baby in Yangdongcheng." He put the teacup in front of his fingers, "Tell me, what did you find?"