Holding an oil-paper umbrella and stepping on the soft snow, she leaned against the edge of the high fence, and then bent down to look at the wooden fence on the low fence, and the green clothes broke into her eyes in an instant.

Wen Jinnian was standing under the eaves, holding a somewhat old book, half looking up at the sky, and there were words in his mouth.

Ritsuko could hear it clearly, and he was reciting the third chapter of Wei Feng's "Shuoren", which she had read not long ago.

"Clever smile, beautiful eyes."

……

"Aren't you going in?"

A slightly childish voice sounded above Ritsuko's head, causing the soles of her unsuspecting feet to slip.

The wall was a little slippery, and she couldn't find a place to grab it, so she kept falling backwards, and the oil-paper umbrella in her hand fell to the ground and rolled down the stone steps.

As he closed his eyes, a gust of wind sounded in his ears, and his back was blocked by a strong force.

After retreating a few steps in a row, Ritsuko steadied herself, "Thank you." ”

"Aren't you afraid?" Standing at the foot of the steps was a thin young man, his skin was very fair, almost transparent, and if you looked closely at his eyes, they were a rare blood-red, six-pointed star-shaped pupils, which looked a little weird.

"Afraid of what?" Ritsuko walked down a few more stone steps, picking up the oil-paper umbrella that was stuck between the cracks in the stone and no longer falling.

"Aren't ordinary women screaming in fear when they are frightened and about to fall down the stone steps?"

"Of course I'm scared, it's just that people have their own lives, and there's no need to disturb others because I'm afraid."

"Is the other person you're talking about the new scholar who moved in?"

"Not only him, but also my mother, can't let her worry about me."

"You're really filial, but you're not afraid that you'll be stabbed in the end by thinking about others everywhere?" The boy sat down on the wall again with a little bit, and shook his feet, the bell tied to his ankle making a crisp sound with his movements. Ritsuko only realized at this moment that he was barefoot, but there was no trace of frostbite.

Isn't he afraid of the cold?

"They're not that kind of people."

“…… Aren't you going in? The boy repeated his doubts again, "You've been peeking at that scholar since the beginning, and since you want to see it, why don't you just go in and take a look?" ”

"Nope." Ritsuko shook her head slightly, "All I need to do is look at him from afar." ”

"Don't you like him? Why not chase him? ”

"I don't like him."

"If you don't like him, why are you sneaking around here?"

"It's just ...... I'm just curious. ”

The snow slid from the crack in the wall on the small green seedling that had been bent and bent on the stone steps.

Ritsuko's ears were a little red, a little green that she didn't find in winter.

"Humans are really hard to understand." The boy looked up at the clear sky at some point, his face full of melancholy, "I don't know what kind of person I used to be. ”

"You...... Amnesia? ”

"Sort of, but I think it's more accurate to say that I'm reborn."

"Reborn?"

"yes, yes...... What do you say, you know? Ever since I became that creature, I've lost the memory of when I was human. At that time, I couldn't even remember my name, but I really wanted to know what kind of human I used to be, and the so-called elders didn't want to tell me. ”

"Cloud Ghost...... Won't you kill me? ”

"Why should I kill you?"

"The ghost hunter said, the cloud ghost lives by killing people and sucking human flesh and blood, you say that you are a cloud ghost, if you want to kill, just kill me, don't hurt Wen Gongzi and Niang."

"You're really not surprised at all, I don't kill people, I'm different from those low-level cloud ghosts, I can still live well without human flesh and blood. Okay, I'll go back today and I'll come back to you later. ”

In the blink of an eye, the boy disappeared from the high wall, as if he had disappeared out of thin air, and disappeared in an instant.

"Cloud ghost...... Ritsuko felt the sound of her heartbeat like a drum in her chest, when she knew that the boy was a cloud ghost, although she was not very surprised when she first heard it, and even had some feelings that it should have been, that the boy did not look so human.

And that's what made her feel that she was only a little short of it, and she would face death.

The fear of the cloud ghost ten years ago began to spread inexplicably in her mind, and she clearly remembered that she had already lost any feelings about that incident, but this unreasonable feeling was surprisingly real.