Chapter 96: The Sage's Tomb
"Uncle!" I woke up from my dream, my eyes were blurred before I could adjust to the light around me, but the picture in my head was unusually clear, and the appearance of my uncle's whole body bleeding and turning to ashes made my breathing sound thicker and heavier, and my heart felt as if it had been torn apart. I curled up trying to relieve the pain, beads of sweat sliding from my forehead to my eyelids and into my eyes, burning pain.
"Rain!" Tsuiko came in from the outside with a box, and when she saw me feeling unwell, she hurriedly grabbed me and asked me where I was hurting.
"Heart...... Dirty. "Well, I'm going to run out of breath.
"Okay, don't move, it won't hurt right away." Tsuiko put her hand on my chest and kept sending me spiritual power, and I gradually felt the pain dissipate, and my whole body relaxed.
Seeing that I was quiet, Tsuiko put me down and wiped my sweat away. My mind went blank for a while, and I stared at the roof for a long time before I realized that I was back home.
I grabbed Tsuiko's hand and asked, "Where's Uncle?" How is he?! ”
Cuizi avoided answering: "Your heart is very seriously injured, you are very weak now and need to rest, be good, lie down first." ”
"You tell me where my uncle is, whether he is, whether he is ......" Actually, I had to have an answer in my heart, but when I thought it was true, I felt that my whole body began to hurt again, and I couldn't say a word. I urgently need Tsuiko to tell me that my uncle was also rescued, and that he was healing somewhere.
"Look at your lips are white again, don't be too hard, don't get excited." Tsuiko held me down, and I wanted me to lie down.
"Don't talk about anything else!" I waved away her hand holding me, and Tsuiko was stunned by me. I reacted to my bad attitude and wanted to apologize, so she got up. I remorsefully reached out to grab her, but the movement of my arm tugged at my heart, and I could only watch her walk to the cupboard.
She found a bloody outfit for me, "We only found this on the spot." ”
Do I recognize it as the last clothes my uncle wore, and he didn't even have a corpse left? Then my dream just now is true, my uncle is really dead, already dead...... I hugged my clothes and cried dumbly, like someone had choked my throat, and all the sadness and helplessness were blocked in and finally exploded, leaving only hoarseness.
It was dark when I woke up again, I may have been dizzy for a long time, but my eyelids were still very heavy, I turned my head and saw a food box on the table through the dim light, it should be that Asu came to see me, this guy, said that he would make me eat every day, and the result was all given to people halfway, and now he thinks of me. Next to me was Tsuiko with a needle and thread helping me to mend my clothes, and I remembered what I had said and said to her:
"Sorry......"
Tsuiko heard my voice and put down the work in her hand, and understood what I meant in seconds, "I understand." "Maybe she's been through something like that before, so she understands my feelings and tolerates my bad temper and tolerates me. Hearing her answer, I slept peacefully.
"Twitter......"
I was awakened by the cheerful chirping of birds outside the window, and I rolled my eyes a few times before I opened them, and the corners of my eyes and eyelashes were stuck with hardened eye droppings, and I cleaned them before getting up.
"Tsuiko?" I called several times but no one answered, it seems that I have gone out. Uncle's clothes were folded back and placed on the cupboard, and I felt suffocated just looking at it. I tightened my clothes and decided to go to my uncle's house.
"Are you awake?" Phantom climbed in from the window frame and jumped on top of me, "Better, isn't it?" ”
"Well, where have you been?"
"Deal with the monsters that endanger the village. Recently, the monsters don't know what's going on, and they come out one by one to be demons, and we can't keep busy. ”
"All gone?"
"There are a few more left to protect the village in case the monsters sneak up."
"Then why did you get back?"
"Tsuiko said you should almost wake up, let me come back and take care of you." Seeing the clothes in my arms, Phantom awkwardly continued, "Don't be too sad, people always have to die, anyway, he is so much older than you, he must die before you, maybe it's better to die now." ”
emmmm...... I know it's trying to comfort me, but the wording is a little surprising. After listening to it, I digested it, and it thought that I was still immersed in sadness, and I wanted to say something but I stopped it.
"I'm fine, you don't have to say any more." I'm afraid it talks too much, and I think it's here to find fault.
"Really?" Phantom apparently doesn't believe it.
"Really." I calmly let it observe. What can I do now, only to move forward and become stronger, to protect myself and others.
"Then you clean up first, your face is as white as a ghost."
I touched my face, and it didn't matter what it looked like. "I'll go out."
Hearing what I said, he became alert, "Where are you going?" ”
"I'll go to my uncle's house."
"No way!" Rejected me without even thinking about it.
"Why?"
"If you have this kind of thought, it means that you haven't thought about it yet, and I won't give you a chance to do stupid things."
"I just want to bury this with his daughter Fluttershy." I gestured for the clothes in my hand.
"That's it?" Phantom is skeptical.
"Am I looking for death?" Seeing that I still didn't believe me, I stretched out my arms, "You can test me, but I must go there." ”
Phantom finally relented, "I'll go with you." "I don't have a problem, it can give me a ride.
"Tsuiko specially told you to eat first when you wake up." Phantom gestured to the warm pot on the fire, and I ate them all. To be honest, my body was really hungry, but I didn't have any desire to eat.
"When Tsuiko comes back and sees that you are gone, she will be in a hurry, she is illiterate and can't leave a letter for her, or let's wait until she comes back and go together?" When did Phantom learn to talk around the bend?
"It's easy to do." I took out a blank piece of paper, cut out a small figure with scissors, threw it on the ground, and it became a little girl. I said to her, "You wait here for Tsuiko to come back, tell her that I will be back soon when I go to my uncle's house, and let her not worry." ”
The little girl nodded expressionlessly and quietly retreated into the corner. Phantom stared at her dumbfounded, "She, she'......"
"Oh, she's Shikigami."
"I know she's Shikigami! I mean, how can you do this kind of witchcraft? ”
"......," I tightened my fingers, "Uncle taught me." After saying that, I went out first, and Phantom didn't ask any more. When my uncle told me about yin-yang techniques, I pestered him to let him teach me, and I envied him for having one with the gods, but he didn't allow me to use my strength, and I had been practicing secretly, intending to surprise him.
When I got to my uncle's house, I stood at the door for a long time before entering, and it was as dilapidated as I had imagined, and it had rained, and the whole area was wet, and moss had grown in the broken wood. I walk through the rubble to Fluttershy's yard. It was not spared, the bridge broke, the pavilion collapsed, the redbud was crushed into the mud and lost its fragrance, and the roof was broken with a large hole. I crouched down and picked one up, but unfortunately I couldn't summon the Liuhe, otherwise I would have brought them back to life. Putting my uncle's clothes next to me, I waded to the other side of the house and stopped in front of the door, which was the last place I saw him.
I pushed the door and wanted to go in, but as soon as I came into contact with the scene of Uncle Door and the monster dying together, I rushed into my brain and hit my heart. I stepped back like an electric shock and covered my uncontrollable face, hating, I had convinced myself that I couldn't shed tears before I came, it was so useless.
A glowing white butterfly rested on my arm, and when I lifted my eyes it flew away, I followed it as if I was attracted. The butterfly flew onto the uncle's clothes, flicked its wings a few times to show the appearance of the uncle, and he showed kindness on his face for the first time.
"You've lost weight."
"Big ...... Uncle? "I was stunned and didn't know what to do.
"I've been waiting for you to come, and I know you're coming."
The distress in my uncle's eyes made me unable to stop my tears, "If I fight harder, my uncle won't die." I choked as I wiped my tears.
"It's none of your business, I knew I had this disaster many years ago, so you don't have to blame yourself. On the contrary, you are the sunshine I didn't expect, bringing a ray of light to my gloomy life. "I know Uncle is talking about Fluttershy." So I have no regrets and no regrets, I just hope that you will grow up healthy and live happily. ”
I sobbed and nodded, I will definitely live well.
"There are two things you must remember, first, get rid of the power in your body as soon as possible." Uncle didn't say that he had given me a divination when he first saw me, showing that I would be a ruined existence in the future, and the root of all this was the power in my body, which would lead me astray. I didn't understand why, but I said yes. "Second, never take off the bracelet, it contains the spiritual power of the monk, the shrine maiden and me, it can help you at a critical moment, and I have put the soul in your body to sleep, as long as you don't leave her, you won't wake up."
They have done so much for me without my knowledge, and even a person like my uncle has made an exception to favor me, and I solemnly agreed. Uncle laughs and fades away, and finally says "I'm going to see Fluttershy, you have to be happy for me." "I also smiled and said goodbye to him, and I didn't remove the corners of my mouth until I was the only one, liar, the price of the last formation is to disappear forever.
I dug a pit and put my clothes in it, and then I took a piece of wood and wanted to make a tombstone, but forget it, my uncle has so many enemies, and I wrote and told others where to dig his grave, as long as I knew. After filling it in, Phantom came in from the outside and brought a basket of redbuds.
"You're on your way to the top of the mountain?" I didn't pay attention to it just now.
"Well, plant it for him."
Finally, I kowtowed before leaving, looking at the smaller and smaller house and whispered, "Uncle, I will come to see you often in the future." ”
I didn't know that a black phantom appeared after I was gone with a rose, and she put the flowers in the place where she buried her uncle's clothes. "You have gone on the so-called right path but you can't get what you want, and I, the demon in your eyes, is about to finish my great cause. The three years of planning and forbearance are finally coming to fruition, good results. ”
After talking for a while, no one around responded, and she felt bored and turned away.
It's a pity you can't see it.