Chapter 104: Vulnerable

"Now, Zhang Zhou, if you want, I can buy you a pair of sneakers. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" whispered weakly with a little trembling words in the crackle of the fire. Although there was a little trembling, there was no discontinuity in this sentence.

"......" After this sentence came into his ears, something seemed to fluctuate violently in Zhang Zhou's eyes. Unfortunately, the fluctuation only lasted for a short period of time before it subsided and returned to its original appearance.

"No need." He heard himself say no, and then his gaze drifted to the brand-new bicycle outside the shed, "In the past few days, you have provided my food and lodging, and even this bicycle used to track that guy was bought at your expense, how can I be embarrassed to let you break the bank and buy me sneakers?" And it's not like I don't even have the money to buy sneakers......"

His gaze was averted, so he didn't see the slight tremor in Li Ai's body when he heard him refuse, nor did he notice the sudden fluctuating breathing sound of her flames bursting, let alone her suddenly constricted pupils.

He wouldn't feel the alienation slightly revealed in this sentence, and naturally he wouldn't know how her heart was impacted after receiving such a reply.

“…… That's just, because I can't walk, I bought it...... That's all......" She was silent, pulled the corners of her mouth a little far-fetched, and whispered in a voice with a little smile, but her eyes were drooping, covered by the shadow of the bangs, so that people couldn't see the emotions in it, but after the words, the lips that were unconsciously tightly pursed were silently telling something.

There was a sudden silence between them. The silence spread, becoming more and more oppressive. Just as the unspeakable silence crept in, a shadow suddenly enveloped the two of them. "Two guests, let me go, the dumplings are coming out of the pot, be careful that the soup splashes on you."

This kind shout broke the somewhat rigid air between the two of them, and made them both look away at the same time, and quickly got up as if they had been pricked by a needle, and sat down at the table not far away.

The boss glanced at the two of them, shook his head slightly, took the colander hanging next to the pot, skillfully probed into the boiling soup, and fished out one steaming and crystal clear dumpling after another. Poured into the enamel bowl that had prepared the seasoning long ago, sprinkled some chopped green onions on it, and then wiped his hands with a wet towel before serving the two bowls of dumplings.

The two people sitting facing each other across the narrow table lowered their heads silently, took the chopsticks, picked up the dumplings stained with bright red hot sauce, and ate them silently.

When the two of them sat down to eat dumplings, not far from them, a girl as beautiful as an elf stood on the top of the tallest building in the entire city, and her snow-white slender feet stepped on the pitch-black roof, which made it even more black and white.

As she walked, her skirt turned into green flowers in the wind, and the snow-white slender feet under the flowers looked so crystal clear.

She walked silently, at the top of the tallest building, in the place where the whole city could be best seen, looking around with those deep eyes. She walked from one corner of the square roof to the opposite corner, and finally reached the top of the fence at the very edge, and looked in a certain direction.

She stood on a palm-sized foothold, letting the cold wind of the night sweep through her body. Standing on the edge of a tall building under the wind, she looked so slender and weak, as if she would be swept away by the wind to an unknown place at any time. It's so endearing.

She stared at a corner of the city. There are countless streamers flying in the eyes, and in these countless streamers, there are many broken pictures flickering. Eventually, there was a picture in her eyes. It was a hall where half of its body was hidden in the fairy mist......

She blinked, and the image disappeared into the deepest part of her eyes again. She lowered her eyes slightly, finally opened her lips lightly, and whispered, "Is that so?" Originally...... It's you. She picked it lightly with her fingertips, "The reason why the hidden Bodhi died after he was born with consciousness was because he was contaminated with your cause and effect...... And I, under the influence of such cause and effect, woke up in advance before the end of the Dharma......"

As she spoke, she turned her eyes and glanced behind her, and as far as the eye could see, there was a small shed, and in that shed, there were two people who were immersed in eating dumplings, and on the bodies of those two people, each had half a piece of bodhichitta. As if sensing her gaze, the two Bodhi hearts emitted a faint fluorescence at the same time at that moment, "Midorihime? Is this your name? ”

She whispered, but withdrew her gaze and looked up at the sky above her. There were stars twinkling in the sky, but the thin haze that filled the sky over the whole city blocked most of the stars from view.

Not seeing the many stars she wanted to see, she pulled the corners of her mouth slightly and quietly smiled. However, although she was smiling, her eyes were full of mockery. "When Bodhi had his own name, the time of the old immortals was gone...... The broken soul wants to be reunited, to reappear in Heaven...... It's no longer possible...... And the initiator of such cause and effect is a certain temple in the heavenly court...... In other words, destroy all the plans of the immortals...... In fact, it is still the gods of the immortals...... That's what fate ......"

"Even if the end of the law ends, even if the immortal god returns, the immortal god is no longer the original immortal god...... she laughed lowly, but she suddenly raised her hand, pressed her eyes, and said in a very vicissitudes of life, "Everything cannot be eternal, everything will decay, and it will be annihilated in the torrent of time......"

"From Kunlun Mountain, go back to the starry sky......" A voice sounded in her body, it was a song, so desolate, but compared to the beginning, it was a little more sad, just like the funeral song of why the funeral.

"O immortal god of the end of the law, the glory is beyond ......"

"All the immortals are gone, the gods die together, and only the sigh of fate remains......"

"Broken souls, silent under the stars......"

"Conceived in silence, born as Bodhi, born as an insect ......"

"The light of the fireflies, the reflection of the stars, led by Bodhi, falls on the Kunlun ......"

"When Bodhi died, the insect queen awakened ......"

"Bodhi forgets, only the insect Ji will remember forever......"

She raised her head, stretched out her hand to the sky obscured by the haze, and wiped it gently, and the next moment, the originally vague starry sky quickly became brighter. She stood under the bright starry sky, on the highest point of the brightly lit city, as if she were standing in the center of the world. The wind swept around her ayara, making her flutter like a fairy. And this fairy, in this impetuous world, looks so lonely. Lonely to the point of bordering on luxury.

She tilted her head and stared at the bright starry sky, her deep eyes reflecting the almost eternal starry sky. She stood there, silent, looking at the starry sky that had never changed from the time of the immortals to the present, silently remembering something.

And when she looked up at the bright starry sky, Zhang Zhou and Li Ai, who were sitting in the shed, were still eating dumplings in silence. Leaning outside the shed, some idle stall owners murmured in a low voice with some confusion, "Why is it suddenly so much brighter on this day?" He clasped his hands and looked at the sky with some confusion, puzzled.

And just when he was thinking about what was going on, Zhang Zhou had already finished eating the dumplings. "I'm done." As he spoke, he put the dishes and chopsticks on the table, then stood up, took his wallet out of his trouser pocket, and whispered to the boss, "Pay the bill." ”

"Huh? Oooh. The boss came to his senses, took the money from his hand in a hurry, and then took out the bits and pieces of change from the big pocket of his apron, counted them carefully, and gave him change.

But counting and counting, he stopped, raised his eyes and glanced at the back of Li Ai, who was sitting alone in front of the table, eating dumplings, he was silent, withdrew his gaze, and then counted the money. After a while, he handed the change that he had finally ordered in his hand to Zhang Zhou, who was waiting on the side. But when Zhang Zhou reached out to take it, she suddenly raised her eyes, looked at him with those vicissitudes of life, and then whispered, "Little brother, girls need to be coaxed more...... Don't snub her, it's hard to find a girl who is good to you......"

Zhang Zhou's hand that took the money shook, and there seemed to be a violent fluctuation in his eyes, but this fluctuation only lasted for a moment. The next moment, there was only confusion left in his eyes. At the same time, Li Ai, who was sitting with her back to them, stiffened, her hand shook, and the dumplings that were originally sandwiched in the chopsticks fell back into the soup with a thud.

"You...... Did you just say something? Zhang Zhou, who was confused for a moment, looked at the boss in front of him and asked with some doubts. The boss was stunned, then shook his head with a wry smile, "Forget it, since you didn't hear it, forget it...... He turned around tremblingly and muttered, "Alas, young man now...... Someday you'll regret it......"

The boss shook his head to himself, a little dissatisfied with Zhang Zhou, he thought that Zhang Zhou was perfunctory, because his voice was not very loud, but it was also not small, even Li Ai, who was sitting not far away, could hear it clearly, how could Zhang Zhou, who was in front of him, not hear it?

Li Ai, who was sitting in front of the narrow table and holding the chopsticks in a daze, seemed to remember something, hurriedly dropped the chopsticks in his hand, stood up, and walked towards Zhang Zhou quickly. As she passed the boss, she paused and whispered thank you to the boss, and then she sat on the back seat of the bicycle and stretched out her hand to wrap her arms around Zhang Zhou's waist, "Let's go......" she said. At the same time, she hugged his waist hard. As if this was the case, he could be left behind.