Chapter 2: The Dead

Sending off the last student, Ruoxin came out of the school empty-handed, and the door that looked like it had been for a long time was just casually hidden and not locked.

Baijia Village, the folk customs are simple, and there has never been a theft, so she is too lazy to add a process of locking the door. Besides, there were only a few old books and a few notations she had written to teach the children who were just starting to enter school. Such a shabby thing, I'm afraid that if it is given to thieves, they will also be in the way.

Walking out of the alley of the school and stepping into the avenue, she did not go home directly, but turned her head and walked slowly in the opposite direction of the entrance of the village.

There were few people on the road, and now it was dinner time, and the women were waiting at home after cooking the meal. It was getting late, and the men finished their work from the mountains and fields early, and the children who got out of the school rushed home early to eat. Along the way, I only occasionally met a few villagers who were walking home.

The autumn winds have devastated the trees in the mountains, and many of them are now only showing bare branches. The weeds on the hillside have not dried up, but they are now yellow.

October 15 is almost here again.

It's so fast, I feel that the sacrifice on the fifteenth day of July has just passed, and now in the blink of an eye, it has already arrived in the next yuan.

The people of Baijia Village worship gods and ghosts, so on the fifteenth day of the first month, the fifteenth day of July, and the fifteenth day of October every year, they all have to carry out a large sacrificial activity, and set up an altar to pray for blessings to show their piety. I think it should be a lively scene again that day.

A fallen leaf floated to her shoulder, and she took it off.

The fallen leaves have just left the branches, they are still half green and half yellow, and the leaf stalks are still a little tough, but after all, they can't withstand the invasion of autumn. She suddenly thought of herself.

It's just that the leaves are falling today, and the branches and buds will reappear in the spring next year, and the trees will still have a time when the leaves will flourish again.

What about her?

How many more times could she keep her eyes open and see a view like this again?

In the past few years, she has felt more and more that her body is not as good as before, and she often feels a little out of breath after walking a few more steps, and her legs are weak and weak. In the past few months, she has felt dizzy more unconsciously, and there is a burst of darkness in front of her eyes. In addition, the symptoms of typhoid fever and nasal congestion and dizziness are also more serious than before, and such a minor illness often takes a month to get better. In order not to make Bai Rong suspicious, she had to lie to them and say that she was lazy again, Ru Xue also joked that she was really lazy, she shouldn't stay in the village all the time, she should go to the city to see, and walk around more.

A few days ago, she took a self-portrait in the mirror and found that there were a few more silver threads in her hair.

Hell, the white hair was pulled and thrown into the flames and burned.

Listening to the "hissing" sound of her hair burning in the fire, she really felt a little resentful and self-pitying, thinking that she was not as good as twenty-three years old, and now, she had already given birth to gorgeous hair.

I lowered my head and raised my left hand, only to see that the tips of my left thumb and index finger faintly appeared a little black, the kind of black that seeped out from the skin, flesh, bones and blood, like the evil spirit that devoured souls in the underworld, corroded black, black and terrifying.

Alas!

Is destiny coming?

Her mother died at forty, and it seemed that she would not be able to survive even twenty-five.

What is Destiny? The acceptance is also. What is acceptance? Cultivate this virtue and complete this life.

In fact, she is happy to know her fate, and she has no intention of forcing it, and she has long been out of mind about the length of her life. In her heart, she is still thinking about dying early and being reborn early, maybe the next reincarnation, she will be able to cast a less tired fetus.

It's just that......

It's just that for the sake of those people she can't let go of, she has to hold on harder.

Needless to say, Ru Xue has raised her little by little since she was ten years old to the current sixteen years old, and Ru Xue is naturally like a child in her heart. And Bai Rong Rouge, although she is still two years older, their dead eyes, like childlike stubbornness, in her opinion, make her feel more headaches than Ru Xue's too simple. If there is really misfortune, after her chic death, Ru Xue has her own heartfelt infatuation with her maple forest care, and the villagers who love her will not wronged her. I'm afraid that those two uncivilized heads, the dead eyes that make her distressed will make some drastic moves.

The idea of co-existence and death is already deeply rooted in their souls.

Alas...... Ruoxin sighed again.

It really doesn't make her feel at ease no matter what, she doesn't care about herself, she just can't ignore them, and now she can only hold on slowly and think of a perfect solution.

His gaze shifted to the silver ring on his left wrist, and the six diamond-shaped letter stones strung between the silver rings slowly faded in turn to their bright red color.

Year after year, the color of this letter stone fades faster, and the red letter stone that Bai Rong only picked last year was already a little dull on July 15 this year.

Ruoxin took out a piece of jade from her neck, rotated it and separated it, took out the letter stone that had changed from pink to pale color from inside, and threw it away, and the letter stone that had lost its luster fell into the grass.

The silver rings on her wrists, even though some of them were useless, she didn't want to throw them away.

Those can almost be said to be exchanged for Bai Rong's life.

Bai Rong was brought to her by her mother's attendants when she returned from bidding farewell to her master at the age of seventeen.

You remember that at that time, the young man with a young face still had a little naïve face holding a bowl of white porcelain bowl filled with clear water, his knees bent, knelt straight in front of her, and said in a voice with almost no emotion: "Subordinate Bai Rong, from today onwards, I will serve you as the lord, swear not to die, and follow you to the death." Then, before she could come to her senses, the boy drew a sharp dagger from his black boot and slashed deeply into the ring finger of his left hand. As if the blood was worthless, let it drip in the white porcelain bowl in front of him.

She knew that Bai Rong had formed a blood alliance, the most loyal oath, and after it was formed, he would become her dead soldier. According to the rules, if the loyal master received the porcelain bowl with the drop of blood, it was a sign of allegiance to the dead man.

She was a little shocked at first, after all, it was the first time she had seen such a scene. But it didn't take long for her to come to her senses, and she hurriedly took the hemostatic powder, pulled him up, sprinkled the wound medicine, and bandaged it. In this way, she also unknowingly responded to Bai Rong's oath of allegiance.

The nineteen-year-old boy Mu Ran's eyes were not bright, and he must have died of heart. She thought, at the beginning, he was a little reluctant in his heart, that knife cut, his life would be sold to her from now on, if he died, he couldn't live, if he didn't die, he would have to follow her instructions even if he was about to die.

Regardless of the sentence added by his master later, in the future, if Bai Rong can get into her eyes, he will also have the right to be a bed warmer.

She had heard that most of the people of her status had never been married in their lives, and they were more or less accompanied by a few bedside people.

It's just that what I heard with my own ears had a big impact on her when she returned from the mountain, and her mind was still simple. When she heard it, she almost didn't come back in one breath, and the expression on her face was strange for a long time.

It's just that this time is different from the past, if Bai Rong is still the fourteen-year-old child with wooden eyes, she ordered that even if she dies, he will not cut himself, for fear that he will obey her.

Today's white face......

Under her teaching, her thinking has improved a lot, and she has become "disobedient" a lot.

Come to think of it, it's hard.

I really don't know if it's good or bad.