Chapter 4: The Old Man

Every year after the cold winter, the daughters of poor families turn into black snow like the thin snow trodden by horses' hooves. www.biquge.info Their parents personally led the horse and let it step on it, and they did it skillfully and deservedly.

Kue is afraid that he will be sold to an unsightly place again. In the past few days, she was afraid that Sanniang would lead her out again, and she held a newly weaned cat all day long, shrinking under the tree in the garden. There are many trees and they are tall, and they can probably hide her.

However, Sanniang did not lead her out, and locked the door. Sanniang sat by the window of the tall building, looked down at the small shadow under the tree, and then looked up to see the clouds in the sky that were about to rain.

Sanniang is hiding from a dragon that she wants to kill but can't.

The dragon was now a good-looking man, walking the road in the city. He knocked on the door of Kuju's parents' house and saw a woman in the yard doing laundry.

Hearing the news that this person was asking about her daughter, the woman said without raising her head: "I am sick and dead." ”

The man looked at the boy playing with the birds in the yard, raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "Maybe it's sold." ”

When the woman heard this, she finally raised her head, and her words were fast, accompanied by menacing movements. The water-soaked red hand bent slightly, pointing at the other party, like a warrior's bent but undiminished blade:

"Our family is an honest man, who did this thing! You have a red mouth and white teeth, and you are plain to frame people! ”

The man felt a headache. He quickly said that he had just recognized the wrong person, and hurriedly withdrew again. As he walked along the road, he pressed down a newly blooming plum blossom and put it under his nose to sniff. The smell is no different from the plum blossoms under the water.

The man understands one thing. What he did was no different from what his parents all over the world did.

People don't want others to come and accuse them of not being right. Therefore, if those people really came to investigate the fact that he killed his compatriot sister, the man would probably only get bored.

It's just killing a woman, a woman can be sheltered because of her daughter's or sister's identity, but if her parents and brother are unwilling to shelter, what's not to do?

Whoever wants to question this kind of thing should simply cut off their heads first.

The man made up his mind and complacently went for a drink. Before he could walk out of the alley, a young man approached him. There were blue veins under his skin, and for some reason, it looked a little weird, as if it was not blood flowing inside, but venom.

Snake Demon? The man paused and glanced back with interest.

The person he was looking for happened to be a snake demon.

Chen Lan got not only red fingers pointing at him, but also a basin of dirty water and wet clothes. He didn't care about the cold feeling on his body, he stood there straight, his lips trembling, and he could only ask one sentence: "Where did you sell her?" ”

When the housekeeper saw Chen Lan come back so dejected, he was so frightened that he forgot the big bag on his head.

However, Chen Lan looked at his messy hair and still saw the clue: "What's wrong with your head?" Could it be that the traffickers ran to our house to rob the maids, and then you started fighting? ”

Zhou Huai said angrily: "There are no traffickers, but there is one crazy old man." You see, he sat at home and refused to leave. ”

Before he finished speaking, a white crane flew out and took a bite at Zhou Huan's head.

Chen Lan looked into the house in surprise, and then walked in quickly. In the hall, an old man with white hair was drinking tea slowly.

All the memories of being in the mountains came flooding back to me at this time. He looked at the old man in front of him, and in addition to thinking of the thatched house halfway up the mountain, he thought more of Jiuju. He thought that they could stay together like this, and if they were to take human form, he also thought about it, and it would be good to become two men and live happily. When Kue had come out of this, he knew he had to start having enough power.

He began to think about Kuju very much, and after thinking about all the things that could happen to her, these thoughts turned into unwillingness in his chest, and he was about to burst into his chest.

Seeing him coming, the old man said, "You're really comfortable, what about Jiuzhong?" ”

It's okay not to mention the ninefold, but when the ninefold is mentioned, Chen Lan's eyes dimmed: "I was sold." ”

"Sold it, send it to make spiced snake meat to eat?"

"You old man, what kind of snake meat is not snake meat, we don't have anything to entertain you at home. Master, I'll report to the official and ask someone to get him out. ”

At this time, the housekeeper followed him from outside, he covered his head with a handkerchief, and angrily asked Chen Lan to drive him away.

Chen Lan looked at the housekeeper and then at the rather calm old man, thought for a while and said, "Butler, actually, he is actually my father." ”

Before the butler's face changed, the old man's face became ugly. He said, "I really don't want to be a father. ”

At night, Chen Lan sat in front of the old man and told him what happened, about Jiuchong's drowning, about how he finally found Jiuchong alive, but Jiuchong was sold again. The old man stroked the crane's head and said, "Have you ever thought that even if she can come to you, she probably won't be able to escape the pursuit of another person." ”

"Who?"

"Dragons."

Night.

The city hasn't changed. The old man sat alone, looking through the old appearance of the city in his heart, and did not see the difference. There was also the smell of firecrackers in the air, which was the next door family marrying.

He remembered that because his father was seriously ill, he did all kinds of things devoutly in front of the Buddha statue, and then remembered that at a funeral, he was beaten by his father and dragged home.

If he really agreed with what his father said at that time, maybe he wouldn't have quarreled with others and then been driven down.

Late at night, the old man looked at the crane and said with a smile: "If the sin is increased, it will be struck by lightning." ”

The crane paced and walked slowly in the courtyard.

The old man picked up the whisk and pushed the door open.