"Yu Shangxian remembered his identity at this time. ”

Yu Lei lowered his eyes and smiled: "I hope it's not too late." ”

Childe straightened up and walked towards the attic: "Where do I live?"

Qiao Niang hurriedly followed behind: "Guest officer, I can only live in two rooms here, I live in one, you two grievances and squeeze it?"

"Do I seem to be on good terms with him?"

Gongzi asked rhetorically, the woman in front of him was frivolous and philistine, without any shadow of Xia Li, and he looked at it with a trace of disgust.

Yu Lei followed closely: "Qiao Niang, if you don't want this tavern to be demolished in the middle of the night, let me go to your room to live, I can lay the floor." ”

"No, I can't. Gongzi pardoned his eyes and glanced at Yu Lei from the corner of his eye: "You sleep outside." ”

"Why not?"

Yu Lei followed Qiao Niang and was about to go to the house...

Childe's sword rested on Yu Lei's neck again...

Qiao Niang put aside Gongzi's sword, and said with a smile: "The two distinguished guests have one room, and I can go to the corridor for the night." ”

"No way!"

This time, the two of them spoke in unison, and as soon as the words fell, the two glanced at each other, and withdrew their gaze slightly embarrassed...

"So what do you say?"

Qiao Niang sat on the railing on the side, business is really hard these days.

Gongzi had no choice but to point at Yu Lei and ordered, "You! Come and sleep with me." ”

Both of them had no sleep all night, and they didn't talk again, but they were afraid that as soon as they opened their mouths, they would not be able to live in peace.

Early the next morning, Qiao Niang was awakened by the aroma of food, and when she got up, she saw that soup had been set up on the table in the courtyard, and Yu Lei was busy making pickles in her hand.

Hearing the sound, Yu Lei raised his head and met the gaze of Qiao Niang, who was standing on the stairs.

"Morning, it's time to eat. ”

Qiao Niang looked at the busy teenager in the early morning sun, and a burst of warmth inexplicably surged in her heart.

The morning sun was not warm, it was just soft, shining on the dew on the weeds, crystal clear, and the food was also shrouded in a warm color in the sun, she looked at his white hair pulled up, and lowered serious eyebrows, only to feel quiet and beautiful.

"Thanks to the guest officer, we haven't had breakfast for a long time since we got up late from the late break of the tavern. ”

Yu Lei took off his robe and handed it to Qiao Niang, and said in a natural tone: "Put on some and be careful of getting cold." ”

Yu Lei still stared at the work at hand, and his tone and demeanor were as natural and gentle as telling an old friend, not like a stranger who had only met for one night.

Qiao Niang did not refuse this time, but obediently dressed, sat down at the table and drank a sip of hot soup with a bowl, and praised: "The guest officer is a good worker! ”

"If you really want me to stay, I don't need a penny's salary, I can make soup for you for a lifetime, if you want, I am willing to pay a lot of money to marry you. ”

Yu Lei turned around and looked at Qiao Niang solemnly, and smiled at the sun.

Qiao Niang sat on the wooden chair, looked up at Yu Lei, looked at his squinted eyes and bright smile, and showed his white teeth, and suddenly felt extremely familiar.

"Guest officer... It's too abrupt. ”

"Don't call me a guest officer, I have a name, you can call me Yu Lei, or husband. ”

Qiao Niang was speechless for a while, and she didn't know how to respond, so she could only lower her head and drink the soup.

Yu Lei smiled like a child's mischievous victory.

Childe also came out and sat down at the table, but fortunately he didn't hear the conversation just now, otherwise it would have been another battle.

After breakfast, Gongzi got up and went to the Eye of Reincarnation to find Nuwa's descendant Jinxuan, wanting to end Xia Li's tragedy as soon as possible.

In the huge courtyard, there were only two people left, Yu Lei and Qiao Niang, Qiao Niang opened a jar of good wine and put it on the table: "Count me on you." ”

"Glad to be there. ”

Yu Lei sat next to Qiao Niang and said, "Why are you called Qiao Niang?"

"I don't know, I don't have a name, it's just a random name. ”

"What have you experienced in this life?"

Yu Lei's eyes flowed with distress.

Qiao Niang drank a glass of wine and said with a smile: "What is this life?"

Yu Lei also laughed: "Do you believe that people have a past life and this life?"

"Then I must have been the daughter of the king in my previous life, enjoying all the glory and wealth, and I tasted all the sweetness, and this life was so miserable. ”

"Where does the suffering come from?"

"All living beings are suffering. Qiao Niang narrowed her eyes, unwilling to mention the past: "Come, drink." ”

"Can you read and read?"

Qiao Niang looked at Yu Lei and shook her head in dismay.

Yu Lei got up and broke a branch, held Qiao Niang's hand and wrote Qiao Niang's name on the ground, one stroke at a time.

"How do you write the word Yu Lei?"

"You want to write my name?"

Qiao Niang turned to look at him and nodded.

Yu Lei lowered her eyebrows and eyes, and taught Qiao Niang to write seriously, Qiao Niang felt a slight itch in her ears, and finally she said, "Why are you good to me?"

"Because you're worth it. ”

Yu Lei's eyes always fell on the ground, and he didn't raise his eyes to look at her, but his tone was extremely sincere.

"I have sinned a great sin in this life, and if I hadn't met you, I would have lived by these wines, day after day, month after month, month after year, year after year. ”

A tear fell on the back of Yu Lei's hand, Yu Lei paused, and his writing hand still did not stop.

"On the night I was born, it rained heavily in the village, my mother had a difficult birth, and my father took my brother out of the village to find a midwife, but at the foot of the mountain... He was killed by a boulder tumbling from the top of the mountain. When the rain passed, the villagers wanted to come to collect the bodies of my mother and daughter, but when I arrived, my mother was already angry and stiff, but I didn't expect the child in the pool of blood on the bed to come back to life... No one knows how my mother gave birth to me, or how I survived that stormy night. ”

Yu Lei muttered: "It turns out that you came so early in this life. ”

"What?"

Yu Lei smiled reluctantly, shook his head, looked at the ground and diverted the topic: "Look, this is my name, Yu Lei." ”

"Your handwriting is so beautiful, can you put our names together?"

Yu Lei wrote carefully, but he couldn't help but say, "I guess it's hard to live." ”

"The people of the village say that I am a scourge, a man of the worst sinners who came with a curse from the gods. As soon as I was born, I killed all my relatives, and if I continue to stay, I will only kill the whole village. ”

"They drove you away?"

Qiao Niang shook her head: "No, if that's the case, I might have starved to death in the wilderness a long time ago, but I'm still happy." Instead of letting me go, they erased my name as a human being and let me live as an animal so that I would not be discovered by the gods. ”

Qiao Niang's body trembled uncontrollably, and tears gradually flowed: "They locked me in the horse pen and in the pig pen, lived with these animals, ate the same things, drank the same water full of dirt, stripped naked and went to the toilet there, slept there, and grew there with mud and stench. ”

Qiao Niang recalled that she only felt that she was too dirty, and wanted to stay away from Yu Lei, for fear of tarnishing this young man with a clean and handsome face.

But Yu Lei hugged her tightly behind him and didn't allow her to break free.

"Do you know how cold it is in winter? You don't know, you can't know the cold of the night and the cold of the day, the feeling that there is no end, no hope, no place to hide. I hid under the straw and snuggled up with the animals to keep warm, and at that moment, I really felt like I was one of them. ”

"In the summer, the smell of rancid food is worse than the smell of the animal's body, and the flies that can never be chased away, the insects that can never be picked up, are so sticky that they are glued together, and they still have to fight desperately with several animals in an iron trough to eat a few bites. ”

"They whipped me, spat on me, terrorized me, and took the darkest side of humanity out on me. I have seen too much, usually amiable aunts, secretly wearing puppets and cursing the children in the village to death, and every time the candy handed to the children is stained with her saliva. ”

"The young man had adulteration with his lover in front of me, and together he killed his lover's husband, chopped it up for me to eat, and said only that the man was missing. ”

"The mute who was bullied in the usual days would always huddle in the corner, but at night, he would torture me with a red-hot iron. If I could keep him alive, the last hope in this world is that there are people in the world who are more unfortunate than him. ”

This is the last reason for people to keep living. ”

Qiao Niang turned around and looked at Yu Lei, her eyes were despair that he couldn't look at, and every word was like a sharp blade piercing Yu Lei's heart.

Yu Lei hugged the woman in front of him into his arms, sobbed and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I'm late, I'm late in this life." ”

"Then why don't I die, because I don't want it to be my fate. But I didn't know how to change that. Until the eleventh year, I have lived a full eleven years like this. I grew up and didn't die in some dirty corner. The first man who thought of me, in the middle of a cold winter night, tore the rags off my body with drunkenness, and he seemed to suddenly realize that I was still a woman, and a woman to be slaughtered. ”

Yu Lei buried his head in Qiao Niang's neck, the joints of his fingers gradually turned white because of the force, and his voice trembled into a tone: "Don't... Stop it... Please... Don't go on. ”

"Don't you want to hear it?" Qiao Niang's tone was cold, changing her usual frivolous appearance.

"There are many cruel things than this, and I only have a few words, and when you hear them all, you will know that I am in purgatory, not in the world. ”

"I know, I know, please don't say any more. Yu Lei raised his head and looked at Qiao Niang.

Qiao Niang found that Yu Lei had already burst into tears, and his eyes were scarlet.

"Why are you crying? Have mercy on me?"

Qiao Niang stretched out her hand and wiped away Yu Lei's tears very gently.

"My heart hurts so much, it hurts..."Yu Lei clutched his chest and leaned over: "It hurts so much that I can't stand you saying a word." ”

"You were the first person to do this to me, and the first person to make me feel warm. ”

"No, I'm the one who is most ashamed of you, and if I had come earlier, if I had found you earlier, none of this would have happened. ”

"It's fate, just as their death is fate. ”

Yu Lei was stunned and looked at Qiao Niang suspiciously.

Qiao Niang smiled faintly at the corner of her lips: "Later, everyone was deceived by my submissive appearance, and they relaxed their vigilance against me, thinking that I was just a beast without ideas. So, I jumped at the chance and set a fire overnight. The fire was shining brightly. ”

Qiao Niang laughed, laughing out of breath, a little hideous.

"I walked out of the village with the knife for mowing the grass scattered in the barn, and met a little boy who had escaped at the entrance of the village, and when he saw me, he seemed to see hope, and called for help from me, but I was too familiar with his appearance, and I remembered the hideous face when he stoned me and fed me spiders and centipedes, and I smiled at him, and his young face was really like a devil. ”

His eyes were full of despair and fear, and I looked at his fear, and I was so satisfied. I laughed when blood splattered on my face. ”

Qiao Niang made a knife drop movement with both hands, slowly sat down at the table, raised her hand and grabbed the wine jar and drank it all.

"I am indeed a nemesis, what they say is extremely true! More than 100 lives of the whole village, young and old, were all buried in my hands. ”

"It's not your fault. Yu Lei's hand rested on her shoulder.

"No, it's my fault, what I thought was liberation turned out to be stepping into a deeper, more tormenting purgatory. ”

"With me, no purgatory dares to accept you. ”

Qiao Niang looked at Yu Lei's earnest gaze, full of doubts:

"Why treat me well? I have nothing to offer you. ”

Yu Lei raised his hand and tightened the robe she was wearing, and his voice was soft:

"I don't want anything, I just wish you the rest of your life well, well-being, that's enough. ”