1. Origin
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"I'm not for anyone. Do what you do, just for yourself, no reason, just be happy. If I am willing, I will protect the world and slaughter the whole world, it is all a thought. The ghost girl Sanniang sat condescendingly on the city tower, leaning on it, sniffing the soft sword. The blade of the sword was cold, and the slightest human blood was soaked like a flower.
"The ghost girl has been resentful for hundreds of years! Sure enough, she has a thirst for killing, and it is unreasonable...... It's so ......"
She lowered her eyebrows and looked at the indignant "famous and decent people" in the city, and smiled happily: "Unreasonable? People are surprised that they are helpless in life, or do I live carefree and make you amazed? ”
Xun sounded, leaving the soul. She jumped down lightly in her clothes, the smoke was gone, the soulless people froze in place, the eerie and treacherous ghost aura spread under the blue sky and white sun, and the forest was cold and closed. In the melodious sound of Xun, countless ghosts danced lightly, shuttling through the crowd, as if there was a whisper, check and cut.
When the sun fell again, it was already full of dead bodies and cold bones.
/ Volume 1: Past Lives
In the peaceful and quiet town of Guxiao, there is a place called Liangjiaqu. Ru Sanshui came here at the age of eight and was protected by the Liang family.
In the afternoon, the sun was shining, she was dressed in a red skirt, her hair was lightly pulled by a hairpin, strolling around the periphery of the Liangjia Canal, and following the canal to the school. It's still early, she is just idle and her limbs are not smooth, and she wants to go away.
The Liang family has a big business, although it is a family of horse breeders, the old man is also quite prestigious, and he is a local squire. From the opening of the ancestral hall to the trivialities, the old man Liang is the one who testifies to everything. The industry is naturally large, the outside of the Liang family is surrounded by artificially dug canals, the water is led from the mountain, and the inner courtyard of the Liang family is surrounded by the canals, and there is a huge formation protection underground, and the area is almost the size of an ordinary village of twenty households.
The first archway door, is in and out to check the good and evil of a forbidden technique, with the canal water to form a complete encirclement, ghosts and monsters do not invade. There is a vacant lot behind the torii, and then you enter the wall, and within the wall is the staggered streets and alleys. The east and west are horizontal streets, the north and south are vertical lanes, a total of five streets, three lanes and fifteen courtyards, and the courtyard is carefully divided into small courtyards, the size is different.
Three of the courtyards are the largest, namely the ancestral hall, the courtyard of the head of the family, and the courtyard of the eldest son. The streets and courtyards are neat, distributed in a well-shaped shape, and the bluestone and blue bricks are paved.
The ancestral hall is in the middle, and the school is on the same street as the ancestral hall, facing the westernmost canal.
Ru Sanshui's small courtyard was on the fourth street in the back, and it should have been a little south to the school. But she wanted to go north, to the east, to the south, to the west, and then to the north. Go around in a square circle.
Ru Sanshui hummed a tune softly, passing by the begonia trees and passing through the willow trees. When she walked by the old locust tree, two people fell from the tree.
She was startled, and looked at the people on the ground, one was in the shape of a turtle with four feet facing the sky, and the other was in the shape of a monkey curling up in the moon, it was the famous disciples of the Liang family, Liang Qian and Liang Yihe.
Almost at the same time, the two of them saw Ru Sanshui, who was standing on the side and frightened, quickly got up and patted his clothes, looked east and west, coughed and whistled, and pretended that nothing happened.
Liang Qian looked at Ru Sanshui and stopped talking, his good-looking sideburns raised his eyebrows, and he spoke first: "Sister Sanshui, let's go, it's not early, let's go to the school together." Leave this little rascal alone, he actually wants to jump from the branch into the wooden pavilion opposite the canal, it is too boring. ”
Liang Yihe was incredulous: "Isn't this your idea? If I hadn't stopped you, you would be in the ditch right now!"
Liang Qian is the grandson of the head of the family, Old Man Liang, and Liang Yihe is the bloodline of the other branch. In the twenty-third year of Shaoxing, Liang Qian was twelve years old, and he went up the mountain and down the water and wilderness too much, and his reputation spread to his family, so he was asked to send him to his family to go to a private school.
said that he was a good disciple, and people in Guxi called him a monkey. In the first year, I came to my aunt, and I was not used to changing the harsh environment, but now I have learned more restrained, but I still don't let go of the loopholes that can be exploited, and I and Brother Liang Yihe are making trouble all day long.
It is said that Liang Qian can not live in his own house until he is eighteen years old, and he is greedy for fun and does not learn, and he is required by Liang Lao to stay until the weak crown year, so that Liang Qian can go back to Guxi to start a family.
But Ru Sanshui blushed and heartbeat when he saw him, and he didn't have time to care what they were making about, so he lowered his head and hurried away.
Liang Qian shouted from behind: "Hey, isn't the school going over there?"
Liang Yihe: "What do you know, walk more to strengthen your body, and when you turn around and are teased by you, you can slap a little louder." ”
The private school of the Liang clan is closed on one day every five days and three days off at the end of each month. The next day is the usual three-day bath of the month.
Before the end of class, the juniors were restless one by one, and no one listened to what Mr. said in class.
Ru Sanshui held his cheeks and looked out the window.
Liang Qian threw paper balls next to him and smashed people, and several of them were thrown to Ru Sanshui's side in the chaotic battle, she picked one up casually, opened it and saw that it was full of ghost drawings.
What can be distinguished is a portrait of their teacher. The painter grasped the characteristics of the gentleman's clothes and facial features very precisely, but he painted him hunched over, with a sour face, and a ring ruler in his hand. Next to it is the mantra of the gentleman: "No profit!
Liang Yihe was dancing, talking about his heroic deeds of saving cats and dogs, and even stood up when he was excited and stepped on his own desk.
"I saw that I was a black tiger digging out my heart, the white crane flashed its wings, and the dragon soared into the sky......"
"Don't make a fuss, be quiet!"
This voice frightened Ru Sanshui, it was Liang Yi'an, the eldest son of the Liang family.
Sure enough, a roar was too shocking, Liang Yihe's feet were unstable, and he fell a butt solidly, showing a hideous expression with crooked mouth and crooked eyes in pain.
Liang Qian couldn't hold back his laughter when he saw his expression, he covered his mouth and wanted to hold back, so he trembled vigorously. Except for Liang Yihe's wail, the hall fell silent.
Liang Yi'an is the one who likes to have a straight face the most in their generation, and his face is stiffer than the statue of "not looking, listening, and not talking about Arhats". At this time, he stood next to Mr. and was half a head taller than him, and he was not as serious as a young man. If it weren't for Mr. wearing a dark blue shirt and a white gauze hat, others would have thought that Liang Yi'an was Mr.
Mr. sighed: "Forget it, it's nothing more than to let you not be too crazy during the rest of the bath, you have to tell you every month, and you can listen to it and memorize it, so let's get out of class." A few people who littered the paper balls stayed to clean up. ”
The people who threw the paper group were talking about Liang Gan, Liang Yihe and others, but these people responded with a "oh-" voice, led by Liang Gan, and all the birds and beasts were scattered, and none of them honestly stayed to clean up. So Ru Sanshui naturally went to the back wall outside the house and got a dustpan and broom.
Even though Liang Yi'an has reached the age of completing his schoolwork and no longer has to go to school on time, he often comes to sit in the back and listen to lectures whenever he has time. This exemplary figure of integrity, of course, also stayed to help clean up before leaving.
Although the children in the entire school, regardless of their origins, are more or less related to the Liang family, there are not a few people with the same surname Liang, but in fact, there are very few people who have dealings with Liang Yi'an.
Ru Sanshui has always been humble and polite, and he doesn't make a fuss, which can make Liang Yi'an look at him differently, and he can already be regarded as a person who can talk to him more.
After cleaning, Ru Sanshui said, "First." The two of them nodded to each other and went their separate ways.
Just leaving the private school, passing through the ancestral hall, and entering the West Chamber, Ru Sanshui walked for a long time. Because she is taken care of by Mr. Liang, she acts as a family member, and her parents are not there, so she is a single person in a small courtyard. Students who are not from their own family are all living together, and they should be packing up their things and preparing to go home at this time, or take advantage of the three-day rest to go out and play.
Her yard is small, but elegant, and it is enough for her to live alone. There is a flower bed of red bricks in front of the window, a gardenia and a magnolia, which already occupy half of the area, and there is no side. However, there is an old oleander on the road behind the house, and the branches and leaves stretch from the green tile roof to the yard.
After practicing the words, she laid out a new piece of paper, she hesitated, put down the pen, and Liang ...... Dry.
Suddenly, the window snapped twice, and she got up to push the window, and the oleander petals fell on the windowsill.
"Ru Sanshui, have you done your homework, can you take a look at Liang Qian?" he grinned and lay on the edge of the windowsill, holding a dog's tail grass in his mouth.
She was startled and wanted to close the window, but he was stubbornly resisted: "Oops, oops, it hurts!"
She had no choice but to let go and take a step closer, trying to block his view, for fear that he would see the words on the table. But when she closed the window, she didn't want to see him in his eyes.
"Sister Sanshui, you can borrow me to copy it, I really don't know what to say about the question given by Mr. ”
As soon as she thought that there was still the word Liang Qian written by her on the table, she felt that her face was gradually getting hot, and she lowered her head: "If you copy me, Mr. will definitely be able to see it, so why bother...... And...... And ......"
"What?"
"I'm a year older than you, not your sister......" Her head lowered and lowered, too low to see. It's not like he didn't say this to him, but he just thinks she's younger and likes to call her sister.
Liang Qian's legs were bent, his head was tilted, and a curious face suddenly came to her. He has thick eyebrows and a high nose, a healthy and pale complexion, and a pair of smiling and sultry eyes that are close at hand.
"Yikes!" She exclaimed quietly, and closed the window again. This time he didn't have time to resist and was locked up by her.
Ru Sanshui leaned against the window, blushing to the extreme, as if cooked. Liang Qian looked stunned outside the window, and he didn't figure out what was messing with her for a long time, so he had to shake his head and borrow it from someone else.
Ru Sanshui heard that the people outside the window were gone, and hurriedly cleaned up all the things on the table.
"Boa. A gentle call from outside the courtyard gate. Ru Sanshui heard that it was Liang Yunshu.
She grew up here, and the closest person since she was a child is Sister Yunshu, Liang Yunshu called her Ah Bao in the past, and later had a younger brother Liang Yunnan who was born very late, so she called her younger brother Ah Bao, and changed her name to Sanshui as Bao'er. As long as he hears his sister's voice, Sanshui will be calm, no matter how he calls it, Sanshui likes it.
She walked to the door of the room, took a look at Liang Yunshu, and saw that she was also red today, and the two of them were more like sisters, so she happily called: "Sister." ”
A small figure rushed in, hugged Sanshui's legs, raised his head and shouted happily: "Sister!"
Sanshui bowed his head and pretended to be surprised: "Ah, who is this, so flattering." Leaning over and picking up the little Po, Po kissed him, and Po giggled and covered his face with his little hand.
"You see you have to come, if you come, you will make trouble with Sister Sanshui, and even I don't want it. Liang Yunshu hated him, and Ah Bao hurriedly replied: "Yun Nan also wants a sister!"
He called his two sisters sisters, there was no distinction, and Sanshui and Yun Shu could also understand it.
Sanshui teased Yun Nan and asked, "Why is my sister here?" "What kind of memory, didn't you ask me for a sachet last time? ”
Ru Sanshui thought about it: "I teased Ah Bao, what will he do if I like his sachet, how can my sister take it seriously?"
"You don't have to take it seriously, you don't want sachets, but I see that you really like that pattern, so I embroidered a veil for you. ”
When Ru Sanshui heard this, she took it, and a branch of red plum bloomed on this snow-white veil, which seemed to be dripping with blood, and she liked to look at it again and again.
"Bao'er, tomorrow your study hall will be closed, and Qian'er and I will go to Xiangcheng River to play for two days, do you want to go together?"
"Xiangcheng River?" "I just saw Qian'er go out of your small courtyard from a distance, didn't I tell you about this?"
Ru Sanshui's face unconsciously became hot, and he hugged Ah Bao in his arms again, as a face cover: "You didn't tell me." ”
"Then do you want to go? If you don't go, let Po play with you for two days. If you go, we'll go together and let Po go back and be with his mother. ”
"Yun Nan wants a sister!" Ah Bao hugged Ru Sanshui's neck, and the whole person covered Sanshui's face.
Ru Sanshui finally raised his head, only then did he reveal his face, his hair was a little messy: "Then I won't go, I'm not very keen on swimming in the landscape, Ah Bao wants to play with me, just let him stay with me for two days." ”
Liang Yunshu looked at Ah Bao, covered his mouth and smiled: "Look at it, you Sanshui Sister can't do anything about you." Alright, come down, let's go back and pack your little baggage. Let Sister Sanshui sort out a place for you to come out and live tomorrow. ”
Ah Bao reluctantly let go of Ru Sanshui, and waved to Sanshui in Liang Yunshu's arms, Sanshui smiled and also pinched his little hand and waved.