Chapter 35: Fate
The villagers watched Gu Yuyin's back disappear into the darkness, and the discussion came again.
"Don't think about it, what does he mean?"
"Could it be that he is going to report to the official?"
"He knows best if he kills a few of them, if he is allowed to leave like this, then no one wants to have good fruit to eat, it is better to arrest him back, and he will be gone."
I don't know who first said the four words "one hundred", but these four words are like a poison that has taken root in everyone's hearts.
"Chase, catch up with him."
With a shout, a hundred calls, the footsteps shook like spring thunder, and chased in the direction where Gu Yuyin disappeared.
"It's not good, son, they seem to be heading for the plank road." Baotian glanced in the direction of the torch and looked back anxiously, "A few of them are still waiting for us by the plank road, don't have an accident." ”
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Gu Yuyin ran forward in the wind, the shoes on his feet had already been thrown off, the soles of his feet were worn out of the skin, and the flesh was blurred, but he didn't feel any pain at all, he didn't seem to feel anything now.
The whistling wind seemed to have turned into Xu's soft breath, he saw her holding the swaddling clothes with white flowers on a blue background, smiling at him, she said, "Official, we have been looking forward to it for so long, and finally have a child, look at him, how cute his little face, it seems to come out of a mold with you." ”
"Kid." Gu Yuyin stretched out his hand at her, and the cry of a child seemed to really come from his ears, delicate, like he had heard countless times. He held the swaddling baby in his arms and touched the child's delicate skin with his fingers, "Child, my child, our child ......"
While whispering, the footsteps behind him were getting closer and closer, and there was a woman's exclamation in his ears, like a sharp knife, slashing into his head.
Gu Yuyin felt that they were very annoying, he finally had his own child, so he hugged him, and those people had to cry and shout to disturb their father and son's relationship. So, after glancing behind him in disgust, he hugged the swaddling clothes in his arms and ran forward again.
He didn't know where he was going, he just wanted to get away from here, and subconsciously, he knew it wasn't safe, either for him or for his children. The baby in his arms seemed to understand his thoughts, and cried louder, his heart tugged, and while soothing the child, he ran faster along the plank road to the front.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the pebbles under his feet became cold and slippery, but Gu Yuyin didn't fall once, and there was an icy air flow floating around him, which supported him and hugged him towards that place. If he had listened closely, he should have heard the shallow singing in the air, but now he was so preoccupied with his journey that he didn't notice anything.
"Don't be a baby idiot, resentment doesn't know retribution, the child's life is not pity, and the security is merciful. The life expectancy of the heir is reduced, and when it comes to asking for life, the umbilical cord cannot be eaten. Hu Buquan is born, and his flesh and blood are celebrated......"
The song melted into every snowflake, and the snowflakes fell to the ground and turned into gray-black footprints, which followed closely behind Gu Yuyin and headed towards the small tower full of sins.
"Little sister, little sister," Yu ran a few steps, then slid and staggered, and after being helped up by Mu Xiaowu, she limped forward again, shouting at Gu Yuyin's back as she was getting away.
Just now, when Gu Yuyin passed by her, she suddenly snatched the child for some reason. Yu Shi pulled Shen'er with one hand, but he didn't react for a while, so he let him take the child. She was so anxious that she couldn't know what to do, so she could only chase after Gu Yuyin, but fortunately, Mu Xiaowu and they arrived in time, Zhao Zimai ordered Baotian to chase back the child, and a few of them followed closely behind.
"Childe, something is wrong, why did Gu Yuyin go in the direction of the baby tower?" Mu Xiaowu watched Baotian leave, and suddenly felt uneasy in her heart, and this uneasy feeling became more and more intense, when she saw the footprints printed on the plank road, "They also followed him and went to the baby tower......
Her words were suppressed by the footsteps of the villagers who followed, and they rushed in the direction that Gu Yuyin left like a pack of hungry wolves, but the expressions on their faces were imprinted on Mu Xiaowu's heart, and they couldn't be wiped out for a long time: it was a fanatical and almost crazy expression, they seemed to have fallen into a Gu, turning a deaf ear to everything around them, and only ran forward along the plank road, running towards the secret corner that they had been buried in their hearts.
"Little sister, little sister ......"
Yu Shi grabbed Mu Xiaowu's hand and pulled her tightly, Mu Xiaowu looked at her haggard face, and suddenly a stir in her heart: she knew that what should come would eventually come, and they, everyone in Sanping Village, could not escape this fate that had been doomed from the beginning, and the small tower that had been standing in front was now quietly waiting for their arrival.
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"Brother, do you remember? When I was a child, my mother often said that the end of the plank road was where the gods lived. ”
"Then let's build the tower there, and find a good place for them to return."
The tower was built in a field of barren grass, which was mostly covered by the grass, and only a little of the spire was exposed. The spire is lotus-shaped and crude, but it takes a lot of effort to carve it out. Gu Yuyin didn't know what psychology he wanted to carve a lotus flower out of that time, guilty? Expiation? Perhaps, but now it didn't matter, because he saw that the lotus flower carved in stone was now all red, like a real red lotus.
"Could it be that the gods have appeared," he slowed down, dragging his two heavy legs towards the small tower, and babbled to himself, "The gods are coming, the gods are ...... The gods are coming......"
But when he rampaged through a bunch of barren grass to the side of the tower, Gu Yuyin laughed, laughing desperately, because the baby tower in front of him was burning with a raging fire, and he rushed straight from the pedestal to the top of the tower with his teeth and claws, burning the lotus flowers on the spire of the tower red.
"Where are there any immortals, there is no ...... Without immortals, no one can save them, they can't save them. Gu Yuyin babbled like a child, walking towards the baby tower step by step, standing a few feet away from the tower, and laughing loudly at the steaming small tower.
The child in his arms cried, and a loud cry pierced the sky, Gu Yuyin shook his head, suddenly hugged the swaddling clothes in his arms, and took a step closer to the small tower. His eyes were misty, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and his head was tilted to one side, as if he was fascinated by something in the tower.
After a while, he stretched out his hand and pointed at the tower door, and said to the baby in his arms, "Shhh ”