It has been said that something more terrible than death is waiting for death.

Xing Ruyi curled up in the bubble, she began to regret it, regretting that she shouldn't have taken Yu An to the city of vain death, she shouldn't have risked chasing Wu Sansi to this wall, and she shouldn't have overestimated herself and went to rescue the ghost bride.

Well, now, in less than three years, she will be like those ghost brides floating in the water, staying in this place forever, not seeing the fox, nor seeing her lovely children who have just been born.

"Xing Ruyi, after all, you have paid the price for your curiosity and meddling." She rolled over in the bubble, and the bubble fell sharply for dozens of meters.

Her hand touched something, and it was a little cold to the touch. Stretched out his hand, held it, and brought it to him, only to find that it was a jade pendant.

This jade pendant was given to her by the eunuch at the head of the palace. She rested on her, but she never had time to look closely. Now, he sank into the river with her.

picked up the jade pendant and held it in her hand, the coolness went straight to the bottom of her heart, making her chaotic brain sober up a little. The jade pendant is crystal clear and has a pale green luster. I don't know what carving process was used, but there was a strange beast carved in this jade pendant.

Although the little beast looked ugly, it was very cute, so that Xing Ruyi couldn't help but stretch out his finger and touch its little paws through the jade pendant.

Suddenly, a woman's laughter came from the jade pendant. Xing Ruyi hurriedly stopped and looked at the little beast in the jade pendant. The little beast's originally closed eyes seemed to slowly open.

"Open your eyes?"

Xing Ruyi moved her fingers, and just wanted to touch the little beast's eyes, but the little beast suddenly came to life, and stretched out its fangs at a speed that she couldn't defend against, and bit her fingertips fiercely.

With a low scream, Xing Ruyi loosened the jade pendant. The jade pendant fell into the bubble, and the little beast rolled out of a cloud of white smoke.

"What's that?"

"I'm not a thing, I'm Diting, you should have heard my name."

The little beast drank the blood of Xingruyi, shook its head, and in a short time turned into a woman with a soft voice but an ugly appearance.

"You're not listening!" Xing Ruyi looked at the little beast: "I've seen Di Ting." So, who are you? ”

"Have you seen him? How is he? ”

"Who?"

"It's the one you've seen, how is he?"

"Okay."

"That's good." The little beast tugged at the corners of his mouth and sat down next to the bubbles: "You don't have to look at me with such a vigilant look, I didn't lie to you, I also listened, I and the one you saw are brother and sister." He is the elder brother and I am the younger sister, and he serves the Bodhisattva, while I am sealed. I bite you, and you have no choice but to do it, because only by drinking your blood can I escape from the jade pendant and speak to you like this. ”

"Two truths, or brother and sister?"

Have you never read a book?

"I'll tell you a story." The little beast looked around, "At this time, you don't have anything else to do. ”

"Okay."

Xing Ruyi also sat down cross-legged, and the bubbles dropped a little more.

After descending deeper to the bottom of the river, the floating ghost bride in a big red dress was gone, replaced by some pale blue fish. The fish, swimming slowly through their bubbles.

"My brother and I were born during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui, my father was a petty official in Luoyang City, and my mother was from a humble background, just a maid next to a lady in an official residence. Mother, who is given to the father. Fortunately, their relationship has always been good. Soon after we got married, we had my brother and me. Don't look at me ugly, but my brother is very good-looking. ”

The little beast touched his face: "Because I was born ugly, my father and mother were afraid that I would be sad and sad, and since I was born, I have put away all the objects that can shine on my face in the house." They wouldn't let me go out, lest anyone else would see my face and make fun of me. The only person I could see was my father, who was my brother. When I was a child, I was very stupid, and I always thought that I looked like my brother and was good-looking. ”

"A person's appearance doesn't say anything."

Xing Ruyi comforted, but she also knew in her heart that no matter when, people look at their faces, especially those who are superficial.

"My father, my mother, and my brother also said the same. They always say that girls with beautiful hearts are not ugly in appearance. I believed them, so even after knowing that I wasn't so good-looking, I was optimistic until I met him when I was fourteen. ”

"Him?"

"It's a bodhisattva, to be precise, a Jizo bodhisattva who has lost his true form and has been trained in the world. The year I met him, he was still a scholar who knew how to heal and save people. In the heavy rain that year, he came back from collecting medicine, and when he passed by my house, he accidentally bumped into the door panel of my house. The door was hidden, and he poured in in a little embarrassment.

That was the first time I had ever seen a man other than my brother, and it was the first time I had seen him. Like my brother, he did not dislike my ugly appearance, but told me many stories about collecting medicine and curing diseases.

It's so easy for a woman to fall in love with a man, just by telling a few stories, I fell in love with him and fell in love with him. I wanted to marry him wholeheartedly. ”

"He didn't marry you?"

"He married, but ran away on the day he got married. Everyone said that I was disgusted by him because I was born ugly, and even I thought so. I became a joke in the whole city of Luoyang, I took off my red clothes and started looking for him everywhere. One year, two years, and in the third year, I finally met him in a temple. He is still so good-looking, just shaved his head, but there is no longer a smile on his face, but cold and indifferent. I didn't understand at the time, in addition to resentment towards him, there was also expectation, I begged him to go home with me to marry, I coerced him to go home with me to marry, but he refused. He said that he was not the same kind of person as me, he came from hell and served the Buddha, and he wanted me to go home and find a good man to marry. ”

"He's telling the truth."

"Yes, he was telling the truth, but how would I have known at that time. In my opinion, he turned his back on me because of my face, and he preferred to shave his head and become a monk because he didn't want to marry me. My heart was full of anticipation, and my love for him turned into hatred. Didn't he say that he was from hell? Then I will turn myself into a demon, a demon with blood-stained hands.

At that time, there were wars everywhere, and the people were struggling to make a living, but there were still some men who turned their backs on their families and abandoned their wives. I hated him, and I hated the same ruthless men, and I was dressed in black, day and night, and cut off the heads of those ruthless people like watermelons. Then, they were all thrown at the temple gate. ”

The little beast looked up and smiled, but its eyes were full of water.

"He knew that I did it, and he wanted to persuade me to be good, and he wanted to cross me, but my heart was already demonic, how could he get through."

"And then?"

"What I did was known to a lot of people, some of them were the families of the men, some of them were the families of the women who had been bullied, and they were all coming at me indiscriminately. He was there, too, with his hands folded in front of me. He told those people that it was because of him that I became a demon and did evil.

The men rushed at him like hungry wolves, and I couldn't bear to see him being killed, so I drew my knife and shoved it into his hand, and I told him to cross me. ”

"He must be sad."

"Yes! As the knife passed through my body, I saw his eyes change and become as warm as when we first met. I died, and my body was hard at his feet. But those people still refused to let me go, they refused to let him go, they rushed over, and desperately slashed at him with the things in their hands to protect my back. I got angry, I went berserk, and eventually my dark soul turned into a beast with teeth and claws, slaughtering and slaughtering in front of the temple gates.

Eventually, he died, was restored to his true form, and took me to hell with him. Because the killing was too heavy, even hell refused to tolerate me, and he had no choice but to seal me in that jade pendant, and suppressed me with the imperial spirit and domineering spirit of the Son of Heaven in the world. Therefore, the one who gave you this jade pendant must be the current emperor.

Does he like you very much? ”

"Originally, I thought he gave me a jade pendant because he liked me, but now ......" Xing Ruyi looked at the little beast: "I think he wanted to kill me." ”

The little beast smiled, very relaxed, and she said, "You are wrong, although I was sealed in the jade pendant, but at the time of the sealing, I may have made a heavy promise, I will protect the person who has the jade pendant." ”

"But you bit me."

"I already told you just now, I was forced to bite you out of desperation. Without your blood, I would not have been able to restore myself to my original form, to break through the seal of the jade pendant, and to take you out of this river. ”

"Can you take me out?"

"Otherwise, what do you think I worked so hard to get out of that jade perry for?" The little beast stood up: "You are the last person I want to save." After saving you, I will be able to see him, and then I will stay by his side for the rest of my life, and my brother can also turn away from the identity of Diting, re-enter the cycle of reincarnation, and live again. ”

"Your brother ......"

"He is to help me atone for my sins, so he will become Diting and stay with the Bodhisattva." The little beast lowered its head, and its face was very sad: "You know what? The reason why he can listen to the sounds of the eight directions and distinguish the words of gods and ghosts is because among the five senses, he only leaves hearing. My brother is the only person in the world who is good to me, and I am the most sorry for him. ”

After the little beast finished speaking, it transformed back into the appearance of the little beast, it walked up to Xing Ruyi, motioned for her to lie on her back, and then burst through the bubble and led her to swim hard.

The river hit her so hard that she couldn't open her eyes, so she could only grasp the little beast's horns, try to get her body as close as possible to it, and when she opened her eyes again, she found that she had returned to the shore.

The little beast was gone, and only a piece of jade pendant remained on the riverbank.

Xing Ruyi picked up the jade pendant and found that the pattern carved in the jade pendant was also missing.

"Little beast, you should go to her bodhisattva!"