"Are you sure?" Able sat on the couch in his office, his face gloomy and his wine glass shaking.

"It's true!" The lewd man hunched over and stood aside, "I heard it with my own ears, that girl said she was going to take Eren away." ”

"He agreed?"

"That's not true," the lewd man shook his head, but immediately said eagerly, "If you don't agree now, it doesn't mean that you will never agree, I don't think that girl will give up like this when she leaves, and she will definitely come to Alan again, and it will be really impossible to say when she comes back next time, because Alan obviously has special feelings for that girl, and his eyes will not lie." ”

Able didn't speak, his eyes fixed thoughtfully on the swirling red wine in his glass.

Seeing that Abel seemed to be a little hesitant, the lewd man hurriedly continued: "Boss, this matter can't be delayed, we have offended a lot of people in the past two years because of Allen's existence, in case Allen's kid really wants to leave with that girl, we will definitely not be able to stop it, and when Allen leaves, those enemies will definitely come to the door, and we will ...... then."

"Enough!" Able slammed his glass on the table, his eyes grim, "Where is the girl now?" ”

"I've sent someone to keep an eye on it, as long as you give the order, there will be no problems."

"Don't worry, arrest her first." Able dipped his fingers in the wine spilled on the table, and then looked at the blood-red wine droplets left along his fingers, "Alan is my wealth, dare to cut off my wealth, can't you just die so comfortably!" ”

"Hey, hey, understood."

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Alan lay on the bed tossing and turning, feeling like he was dying of firitter with hundreds of people chattering together.

"I said a long time ago, this kid will bring bad luck, no, kill my grandfather."

"Why is he still here and not leaving? Do you want to kill us all? ”

"Alas, we live well, but here comes such a monster."

"The village chief shouldn't have agreed to keep them in the first place."

“......”

Alan suddenly sat up from the bed and shook his head violently to get all the annoying sounds out of his head, but it obviously didn't work, so he rarely wanted to go out into the street.

Coming to the street, Alan walked aimlessly in one direction, perhaps unaware that the direction he was walking was the same direction that Xuan Yun had left.

The sky had already darkened, and the eastern sky had slowly covered itself with a thin silver veil, slowly enveloping it towards the west. Only then did Alan remember that it was already too early when Bao Yun left, and he had to walk through a forest to return to Coco Village, so they wouldn't be in any danger, right?

What do you want to do with this? Alan tapped his forehead with his fist, as if that would stop him from thinking nonsense. He continued to walk on to the famous Bar Street in Rhodes, of course, the bars in the Bar Street were completely different from the speakeasy in Ebel, most of the customers here were ordinary people who had a busy day - especially winter - and were looking forward to using alcohol in the evening to relieve their fatigue and drive away the cold, the men drank and talked about how the business was going today and which city they were going to buy tomorrow, while the women rarely drank alcohol, and most of them just ate fruit bowls and talked about where the silk clothes were the best and most comfortable......

Alan remembered that it was here that he had met Abel two years ago in the winter.

It was the sixth day he had left Coco Village, and that year's winter was much colder than this year, and the clothes he wore from the village were no longer enough to withstand the cold, but the money in his pocket, not to mention buying a new coat, even eating was a problem, but fortunately, his body was much stronger than ordinary people, even if he didn't eat or drink for a few days, he would be weaker at most and not die, plus he had awakened his inspiration, as long as he wanted, he could live well.

It's just that during that time, Alan wanted to die like this......

He used to sit in the crumbling alleys, with his back to the cracked walls, and he would not move even if the snow had reached his legs. Occasionally, passers-by would pity Alan for giving him some money, food, or clothing, but he ignored them.

Until one day, a few drunken thugs were trying to make fun of Allen, but they were scared away by a fire, and this scene happened to be seen by Abel who was passing by.

"Would you like to eat Horn Beef?" Able tossed his finished cigar in the snow and said the first words between the two to Alan.

Alan still sat in the snow with a blank face, as if he hadn't heard Abel's words.

"I see, I want to die." Able leaned against the opposite wall and took out a new cigar and lit it, "But if you really want to die, there should be a quicker way, right?" Freezing or starving to death is not a good option, especially if you are going to die. ”

Alan didn't speak, but his eyes were like melted ice, and they came to life - he really didn't want to die.

Able smiled and threw the cigar he had just smoked a third of in the snow again. "Since you don't want to die yet, come with me to eat Blaze Horn Beef."

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When Alan came back to his senses, he realized that he had crossed the bar street and came to a remote place that was rarely inhabited, and if he walked any further, he would see a forest, and through that forest was Coco Village.

Alan decided to go back, but then he heard a girl's cry, which seemed to be behind the dilapidated low house.

Behind the low room, two gangster-looking men surrounded a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, and next to him lay an old man with gray hair, the old man's abdomen was bleeding, and his chest was faintly undulating.

"Wouldn't it be a shame to just kill like that?" A thug stroked his chin and looked at the girl and said.

"You're here again," the other thug laughed, "don't look for trouble, hurry up and finish our brothers drinking, you can go there if you want to, this one hasn't even developed yet." ”

"Why do you need to spend money on this ready-made?"

"It's not that I'm afraid of being seen by Alan for too long."

"He must be lying in bed like a dead man again, how could he come to such a place."

"In case ......"

"Hey, what are you afraid I'll see?" Alan suddenly appeared behind the low house, and couldn't help but be a little puzzled after hearing the conversation between the two, but when he saw the crying girl and the old man lying on the side, he understood what was going on, because the girl was a friend of Bao Yun, and he used to see it often in the village, and the old man was naturally the head of Coco Village, but he didn't see Bao Yun...... Eren suddenly felt as if his brain was about to explode.

"Ai, Alan?!" At this time, the two gangsters seemed to have half of their blood evaporated in an instant, and their faces turned pale, and the gangster who had tried to plot against the girl before was even scared and fell directly to the ground and couldn't stop shaking.

"Allen...... Allan! After a short pause, the girl also remembered that the boy who used to be alone when he was still in the village finally found a life-saving straw, she quickly picked up the two thugs and ran to Allen's side, held his forearm with both hands, choked up and said, "Xuanyun...... Xuanyun was captured by them, you must save her, save her!"

Blue flames ignited from his eyes, and a dodge Alan came to the two thugs, and with a wave of his hand, the two of them were surrounded by a ring of fire that emitted a terrifying heat.

"Tell me quickly, where is the cloud!"

......

In the woods, Able and a few gangsters surrounded a freshly dug dirt pit, and in the pit lay Xuan Yun, whose hands and feet were bound with hemp rope and his mouth wrapped in duct tape.

"Boss, do you want to bury it now?" The lewd man asked, standing aside from the side.

Abel didn't reply, but walked over to the edge of the pit to look at the clouds of fear in his eyes, and then threw down the unburned cigar in his hand and landed it in her hand. Burned by cigarette butts, Xuanyun's body trembled obviously, but with a bandage wrapped around his mouth, he could only let out a low muffled snort.

"You should hate Eren because you're here because of him." "But I should also thank him, and if it weren't for the fear that he would find out, I would have thrown you to my brothers first, and then sold you." ”

Able looked at Xuanyun's beautiful face again, and sighed: "What a beautiful girl, what a good age, but it's a pity why do you have to do superfluous things?" With that, Abel waved his hand slightly.

"Do it." The lewd man understood and shouted at a few thugs who had beaten him. After hearing the order, the thugs picked up shovels and shoveled the soil they had dug up back into the pit. The dirt soon reached Yuyun's ears, and she struggled to raise her head, tears uncontrollably streaming down the corners of her eyes.

Xuan Yun really didn't want to die, but the growing pressure in her chest had made it very difficult for her to breathe, but when she saw the bright stars in the night sky, her heart suddenly calmed down, because she remembered that her father had said that her mother was a star in the sky, and she had been guarding their father and daughter in the sky, she suddenly noticed a very bright star, she thought that maybe that one was her mother, is her mother crying now?

A blue beam of light suddenly streaked across the starry sky. Is that a shooting star? Bao Yun thought, it's really beautiful.

The beautiful blue "shooting star" brought a wail of pain.

The blue flames melted the snow around the pit in an instant, and along with the snow, the people who were filling the pit with dirt. "Boss, save me, boss!" The lewd man cried out with flames wrapped around him, and he approached Abel with his hand outstretched, but Abel retreated in panic for fear that the flames would contaminate him. Seeing that the lewd man was still slowly approaching him, Able frowned and took out his gun and fired several shots at him, until he lay on the ground and was completely engulfed in flames, but the boy who had already jumped into the pit still made his nerves tense.

Eren peeled the dirt off her body, then peeled off the tape that was wrapped around her mouth, and also burned the hemp rope that bound her hands and feet. "I'm coming, I'm coming."

"I'm so scared, I'm really scared." Seeing Alan in front of her, Xuanyun couldn't calm down anymore, she hugged Alan tightly, tears came out of her eyes again, but she seemed to think of something, and hurriedly said, "Linlin and the village chief, they are also in danger, you hurry up and ......"

"They're all right." "Linlin was just a little frightened, the village chief was injured but not worried about his life, and Linlin had already taken him to the doctor." ”

Hearing Allen say this, Xuan Yun was relieved.

"Let's go, I'll take you home first."

Yun looked at Allen's turquoise eyes, then nodded.

Alan picked up Gloom from the pit and jumped out of it with an easy leap, he put her down and took her hand and walked in the direction of Coco Village.

"Are you going to leave like this?" Able yelled at Allen, "Don't forget, two years ago, on a winter night, if it weren't for me, you would have died a long time ago!" ”

"I didn't forget, so I didn't kill you." Alan didn't look back, "I've done a lot for you in the past two years, and I've paid off what I owe you." ”

Able watched Alan's back fade away, his face contorted with anger, and finally he raised his gun to Alan, and then pulled the trigger, but there was only the sound of a thimble striking - there were no more bullets in the gun.

"Bastard! Bastard! Bastard!! Able frantically pulled the trigger, but could only watch as Alan and the clouds faded into the white snow.

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"I don't want to go back yet." The clouds stopped suddenly.

Alan looked at Xuanyun: "Why?" ”

"I want to see the stars." He said, then looked around for a moment, and finally pointed to a tree that was growing well, and said, "I want to sit on the tree and watch, is that okay?" ”

Although Alan didn't know why Xuanyun suddenly wanted to look at the stars, he nodded, and then wrapped one hand around her waist, and the other spewed out a beam of fire. After sitting down on the tree, Eren waved his hand and the fire that ignited on the ground was withdrawn.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" The clouds looked up at the stars in the night sky, and they became even more dreamy under the dotted with falling snow.

Alan didn't speak, just nodded.

"Whether I'm happy or sad, I like to look up at the stars at night and say what is in my heart to the stars. You know why? ”

"Why?"

"Because my father told me that my mother was a star in the sky." As soon as he finished speaking, he laughed himself, "It's ridiculous, isn't it?" I knew that my father lied to me, because I always cried when I was a child, and every time I cried, I had to find my mother, and my father had no choice but to make up a lie so that my 'little trouble' would not cry. ”

"Uncle is very good, I don't want old Merlin, just tell me that my father is dead, but my mother is probably also dead."

"That's because Grandpa Merlin knows you very well, and if you tell you that your uncle is a star in the sky, you won't believe it." "But I believed it at the time, so I said everything to the stars, because I wanted my mother to know that I was doing well." ”

Alan looked at the clouds beside him, and for some reason his heart seemed to be touched by something, but at this time, the clouds suddenly turned his head and met Allen's eyes. "Now, you'll go back with me, won't you?"

Eren hurriedly moved his gaze to the night sky. "I have no reason to go back."

"Can I be your reason to go back?" Xuan Yun almost blurted out, and when she saw Allen's surprised gaze, her pretty face instantly turned red, but she didn't look away, but stared into Allen's eyes, "Go back with me, okay?" ”

The heart is no longer just touched, as if pierced. Alan suddenly remembered what old Merlin had said to him before he died.

"Sometimes you feel like you can't live, right? But people don't just live for themselves, when you think you can't live, go to someone you want to protect for your whole life, and live hard for him (her) in the future. Go find it, although the world is big, that person may be nearby. ”

Alan suddenly felt as if he had found the man.

"Do you have any wishes?" Alan suddenly asked, "Or where you want to go, what you want to get." ”

"Well...... "Bang Yun thought for a moment, "Ah, I want to see the Ice Crystal Snow Lotus once!" ”

"What is this?"

"It's a very beautiful snow lotus, but it only grows in the far north, and my father said it was my mother's favorite flower, so I really wanted to see it once."

"Okay, I'll help you find it."

"Really?" Yun looked at Alan with delight, the stars twinkling in her eyes.

"Of course it's true."

"Then let's pull the hook!" Xuan Yun stretched out the little finger of his right hand, "If you pull the hook, you can't go back." ”

"I'm sure I won't regret it." Although Alan said this, he still stretched out his little finger and hooked it with the little finger of Xuanyun.

"Hang yourself on the hook, you can't change it for a hundred years! Stamp! ”

Under the night sky, the boys and girls pressed their thumbs to each other's hearts.

......

Alan was already there when he came here. Bao Hai turned gray overnight, and during this time he almost sat in this flower, guarding the tombstone among the flowers.

"Are you leaving?" Bao Hai saw Alan with his luggage on his back and asked.

"Well, I'm leaving." Alan looked at the tombstone, his gaze resting on the crystal snow lotus placed in front of the tombstone, "You can't regret the hook." ”