Chapter 25: The clouds open and the fog disperses
The water around her seemed to stop surging, and in the luster of the rippling water, Red Candle could see the huge roots clearly, and she could even see the tiny hairs on the roots, breathing gently with the soft touch of the ripples.
In the frozen time, the red candle sees more and more figures.
She saw a small, chubby cheek, his eyes were closed, but the red candle seemed to be able to see the radiant pupils behind those eyes, and she remembered that it was this face that had given her a bowl of hot noodle soup in the stormy weather.
It was a rare warmth in her life.
Something seemed to flow back into Red Candle's body, and she felt her frozen body gradually regain consciousness, and she tried to wave her arms to get closer to the face.
Suddenly she stopped, and that little face turned into a piece of paper, the font on it was familiar to her, it was the prescription she had been taking every day, those things that were hard to swallow, she had been eating for nearly two years.
The doctor said that she had a weak constitution and had been affected by cold air in her abdomen, and if she wanted to have children, she had to go through many years of conditioning before she could have hope.
Curled up slowly, Red Candle hugged her knees, she thought, it's so cold.
As if to understand her heart, a pair of huge eyes opened from the darkness at the bottom of the lake, and the red candle saw her figure in the dark pupils, she had never looked at herself so carefully, and every inch of her hair seemed so clear.
She saw her husband's torn body in the ruins, Dada's iron hooves from far and near, and her trembling body blooming bewitching blood under the horse's hooves.
She was dead, in the midst of a war story.
How can a person who is about to drown cry tears, but Red Candle clearly feels that something warm rushes out of her eyes, the flames at the bottom of the lake are getting closer and closer, and the warmth in the corners of her eyes seems to flow all over her body, she understands everything, she uses her last strength to swim downstream, and disappears in the firelight in her eyes.
Finally, she said, thank you.
Only the blazing flames were left in the indifferent pupils, burning frantically, burning the huge black roots, burning the cold water, burning until the heaven and the earth returned to nothingness, and the disappeared soul finally returned to peace.
The heavy eyes gradually closed, but suddenly opened, almost instantly, the sky reversed, and the stars changed suddenly.
In the depths of the overturned dense forest sat a quiet girl, her head lowered, her eyes covered by layers of dense leaves, and there was no trace of light shining on her slightly transparent skin, she sat quietly as if she had been waiting for thousands of years.
The scattered vines spread up to her knees, and the continuous droplets of water began to drip down, and the girl raised her head in a hurry as if she was awakened, and her slender neck was crawling with dense black runes, which penetrated the pupils of the staring girl.
The dream was shattered in an instant.
This is the first time that Spring and Autumn have seen the sunrise in Tianyu Town.
The sky was still dark, the cool morning breeze swept over the eaves of the roof, and the spring and autumn found a comfortable position to lie down on the roof, and the dry stones in the courtyard under their feet were like sleeping strange beasts.
Chunqiu had just finished disposing of Red Candle's corpse, and at the moment when he was expelled from the dream, Red Candle's plain but beautiful face quickly dried up. - She's been dead for a long time.
Yawning deeply, Chunqiu half-squinted his eyes, feeling the scene in front of him slowly change from clear to blurry.
The lockdown appeared behind him silently, and Chunqiu didn't bother to turn back, only snorted lazily twice from his nose, "Don't worry, it's all right, they will wake up in a while." ”
Lockdown took advantage of the situation to sit down next to Chunqiu, the birdsong at dawn was particularly thorough, and he asked, "What is that red candle?"
"It's just a nightmare. Chunqiu closed his eyes, his breathing was as smooth as the warm morning breeze, and he even thought he was about to fall asleep" The soul that died suddenly had no place to go, so he used the power of thousands of resentful spirits to give birth to a nightmare. ”
Lockdown thoughtfully, "So she's the same as me?"
"No, no, no" for fear of misunderstanding due to the lockdown, Chunqiu repeatedly explained, "The power of nightmares is caused by fear and resentment, and he can constantly remind people of the pain in their hearts, and then repeat it in their sleep, until they make people fall into the past and despair forever." ”
"And what if I have a grudge in my heart?"
Chunqiu felt that today's lockdown was a little strange, he didn't know if it was the red candle that made the lockdown think of something, opened his eyes and tilted his head, he looked at the lockdown solemnly, "It's different, I have entered the dream of the red candle, she died in the war, so there are thousands of resentful spirits in her body, and since the birth of the nightmare, she has no soul of her own." ”
The lockdown did not reply again, and Chunqiu did not know if he could understand such an explanation, and the silence made the atmosphere on the roof stiffen.
Chunqiu closed his eyes again, "Closed the city, my master once said a word to me, it said that if there is life and death in the world, there will be demons, and if people have seven emotions and six desires, they will have demons. He paused, "I don't want you to become a demon." ”
Chunqiu's words were said very lightly, but it seemed to explode in the heart of the lockdown.
The sky in the east was already shining brightly, and the rolling clouds showed a gradient of color, and there was a power waiting for an explosion at any time, restlessly hiding under the horizon.
"Let's go" Chunqiu stood up, moving his stiff body, "I'll invite you to breakfast." ”
Until sunset, Xie Yi still didn't wake up.