"Grandma, did you see the young man living in the house next to you when you came here?" Ritsuko rolled over and lay on the bed, letting the old woman pull away her hair and apply the crumbling herbs to the wound that was still swollen after being smashed by the inkstone.

"The house on the side is inhabited? It's a pity that the old man hasn't seen anyone enter or leave the house in the past few days on the mountain. ”

"Have you been there to see it?"

"No, although the door of the courtyard has always been open, the old man has not been allowed to enter rashly."

"There used to be my sweetheart there, but ...... He seems to have been killed by the cloud ghost along with my mother. I thought about waiting for the next two days to get almost better, and go to help Wen Gongzi clean up the place, if he wants to come back one day...... It's not good to have a mess at home. ”

"Miss, do you hate cloud ghosts?"

"Hate, how can I not hate, but what can I do if I just hate, my father, my mother and Wen Gongzi can't come back, thinking about it like this, I don't feel that I hate the cloud ghost so much. Grandma, do you think I'm a person with no feelings? Ritsuko smiled bitterly, she always felt that she seemed to be a little different from others, and the waves she put in her heart were always faint, not as strong as others.

"How can Miss be a person without feelings, in the eyes of the old body, Miss is a very kind person, only because she is too kind, so she will unconsciously forgive those who should be hated."

"I don't understand, this is not the same as what is written in the books I have read, if there is no emotion, how can you be a kind person?"

"At least Miss is still thinking about cleaning up the house for that Wen Gongzi, isn't she? Doesn't that prove that Mademoiselle isn't an emotionless person, doesn't it? ”

"Yes...... Is that so......"

"The old body is the same as you, Miss, when you were very young, everyone in the family was taken by the cloud ghosts, and the old body at that time also hated it, and I couldn't wait to kill all those cloud ghosts, because of this, the old body went to the ghost hunting team with the ghost hunters at that time, and after learning kung fu for a few days, I was told that with the strength of the old body alone, even the lowest-level cloud ghost could not be killed, let alone the kind of cloud ghost that killed the old body's whole family."

"Was the cloud ghost killed later......

"The old man heard the leader of the ghost hunters at the time say that he was escaped by it, because it was too strong. But for some reason, from that time on, the old body slowly began to let go, just like what the sentence says, natural selection......"

"Survival of the fittest." Ritsuko was a little surprised, she really didn't expect such words to come from the mouth of an ordinary human old woman.

"In a way, maybe the cloud ghost is the one who is really suitable for this world."

Once upon a time, she also had a similar idea, cloud ghosts eat people, not just like people want to eat chickens, ducks and pork, the same is killing, why are people condemned to be innocent, and cloud ghosts are guilty?

It's just that she has never mentioned these to Mrs. Nangong, nor has she shown them to anyone, not even Gongzi Wen.

Maybe if you say it, you'll be treated as a terrible monster, right?

Excluded from their world by all.

Heterogeneous.

This makes Ritsuko choose to silently hide this idea in the deepest part of her heart, wanting to force herself to forget, although it will occasionally flash out, but fortunately, after a long time, she has become accustomed to this feeling of forcing herself to forget.

And only at this moment she was surprised that the old woman would say this kind of thing in front of a young woman who had only known her for about half an hour, and if she was listened to by the people in power, she would be cut off her head, but it was unexpectedly in line with her previous thoughts.

Is it because of the phrase "treat her as family"?

Before Ritsuko could think of how to speak, the old woman opened her mouth again, "I'm sorry, Miss, I let you listen to so many useless words, the medicine has been applied for you, don't touch the wound first, just now you said that you want to clean the house, as long as you agree, let the old man help you clean it." ”

"Or I'll ......"

"Miss, you can take care of your body first, and leave this kind of chores to the old body to do."

"Eh......" Ritsuko had just reached out to get out of bed when the door was closed from the outside.

Isn't that a room for me to refuse...... What is the same as disagreeing.