"What did he see?" At the fruit house, Xing Ruyi squatted on the ground with his hands on his cheeks, staring at the bowl of rice in the corner without blinking.

"Guozi, was he really killed?" Guozi Niang stood behind Xing Ruyi with the child in her arms, and her eyes also fell on the bowl of rice.

"I guess so." Xing Ruyi stood up, turned around, looked up, and looked at Guozi Niang: "Guozi is gone, that villain is also gone, what should my aunt do in the future?" ”

"The fruit hopes that I am well, and I hope that my brother and I are well." Fruit Niang lowered her head and touched the baby's small forehead, and the baby giggled.

A group of people crowded in from outside, and a beggar, taking advantage of the fact that everyone was not paying attention, ran to the base of the wall, picked up the bowl of rice and pulled it clean. Guo Ziniang wanted to stop it, but the beggar had too much strength, and when she pulled, she almost fell to the ground along with the child in her arms.

"It smells so good! This rice is so fragrant! The beggar pulled the rice grains left at the bottom of the bowl and smiled at the fruit lady over and over again. There was a bit of an eerie smile in it, and it was very scary.

Xing Ruyi took two steps back, but bumped into someone else, and when he looked back, it was a fox.

"Let's go, it's over."

Xing Ruyi nodded as if he didn't understand, and followed the fox out of the crowd.

"Who is that beggar? How could he suddenly run to the bottom of the wall and grab that bowl of soul-rejuvenating rice to eat. ”

"Because he is also the one who owes Chen Guozi."

"Beggars?"

"Do you still remember the fox fairy that Grandma Guozi met when she went up the mountain to worship God?"

"Hmm."

"There is indeed a fox fairy temple in that mountain, but there is no real fox fairy in the temple." The fox squinted at the rolling mountains in the distance: "Thirty years ago, something terrible happened in this town. ”

"Why haven't I heard of it?"

"Because at that time, you weren't the little Ruyi you are now." The fox lowered his head and looked at Xing Ruyi's sparkling eyes.

"It was late at night, and everyone in the town was already asleep. A dark shadow slipped into a house in the night. After dawn, the family found out that their daughter was missing. The room where the girl lived was opened from the inside, and no traces of outsiders were found to enter the room, and all the belongings in the house were there. The family searched for three days in a row, but the girl was not alive or dead. On the night after they went to the government to report the crime, they suddenly heard a fox cry, and the family was distraught, and inevitably a little angry, and took a long pole to beat the fox out, but heard the fox speak. ”

"Is that the fox you?" Xing Ruyi asked, his eyes narrowing to one place.

"It's not!" The fox smoothed Xing Ruyi's windswept hair: "That's not a real fox, but a villain pretending, but the girl's family didn't know, thinking it was a fox fairy apparition." Through the hints of the fox fairy, they find the missing girl on the mountain. In order to repay the kindness, the girl's family paid for the construction of a small fox fairy temple on the mountain to worship the fox fairy. The girl had promised someone, but in the second month after the incident, she married according to the previous marriage contract.

The marriage of a man and a woman was a happy event, but things still changed. After only two months, the girl was driven back by her husband's family, and a letter of resignation was left behind. The content of the letter of resignation is extremely embarrassing, but it boils down to one sentence, that is, the girl is not chaste, and she is already pregnant with someone else's child in her womb. The girl was ashamed and indignant, and several times tried to find a short, and the family took close care of her until the child was born. Do you know who that kid is? ”

"Who is it?"

"Chen Guo's stepfather, that is, the man in the courtyard who is about to mourn."

"If it were him, I'd heard something about their family. His mother, who seemed to be a madman, when he was very young, fell into the pond west of the town and drowned in a panic because of the man who had accidentally injured him. The pond seems to have been filled in at that time. Because of this incident, his maternal grandparents sold a lot of family property to settle the matter, but because of his mother's departure, the two also passed away one after another. Speaking of which, he is also quite pitiful, he has endured so much at a young age, and when he grows up, he becomes a bastard, and it doesn't seem to be all his own reasons. ”

"After the girl was taken home, the girl's family already knew something, but they didn't want to think about it. The girl washed her face with tears all day long, and naturally she didn't want to mention it. It seems that no one knows about it, and it seems that everyone knows about it. Since the girl returned home, the fox fairy temple on the mountain has been abandoned, and the person who pretended to be a fox fairy seems to have disappeared. ”

"But what does it have to do with the fruit?"

Thirty years later, the man who pretended to be a fox fairy was old and depressed. When he saw that Fruit's grandmother often went up to the mountain to worship God, he used his brain. He deliberately set up obstacles on the mountain road, and used those obstacles to make Grandma Guozi stumble and roll down the mountain pass, so that she happened to see the stone engraved with the Fox Immortal Temple, and the next thing was logical. Originally, he just wanted to cheat some money or make offerings from Grandma Guozi, but he didn't expect to kill Chen Guo's biological father by mistake, and let Chen Guoniang take Chen Guo to marry her son. These things seem to be unrelated, but they are invisibly pulled together by a thread. Now, Ruyi knows who the beggar is, right? ”

"That villain pretending to be a fox fairy!"

"My little Ruyi is really smart."

"What will happen to him? Will it be like the fruit's stepfather, whimpering for a lifetime? ”

"Want to know?"

"Hmm."

"Then I'll take you to take a look." The fox waved his hand, and Xing Ruyi was wrapped in a thick fog with him.

When I opened my eyes, I found myself in a dilapidated house. The old beggar who had snatched the resurrected rice just now was sleeping soundly in the corner.

"He doesn't seem to be doing anything." Xing Ruyi said with some disappointment.

The fox shhh The place was empty, there was nothing, and it was as if there was everything.

"What is this place?" Xing Ruyi stood obediently, not daring to move around.

"In the old beggar's dream."

"Dreams?"

"I think about it day and dream at night, but it doesn't have to be at night to dream." The fox snapped his fingers, and before their eyes there was an identical rotten house, and in the room lay an old beggar who was sleeping soundly. The difference is that the walls of this rotten house seem to be transparent, so you can see the contents clearly without having to walk in.

The old beggar fell asleep as if no one was around, and after a moment his eyes suddenly opened, and he stared motionlessly at a certain place. Just when Xing Ruyi was curious about what he was looking at, a paper man appeared. The paper man carried small steps, little by little, approaching him, judging from the appearance, it should be a girl.

The beggar shrank down, subconsciously grasped a wooden stick resting beside him, and shouted in an extremely frightened voice: "Don't come, if you come again, I will kill you." ”

Unmoved, the paper figure continued to walk forward step by step, until it came to the old beggar and bent down stiffly.

The old beggar suddenly threw away his stick, put his head in his hands, and hissed, "I beg you, let me go." It was me who was wrong, I know, it was all me who was wrong. ”

The paper piercing man sneered, and the laughter was piercing, which made people listen to it, and only felt a chill coming out of their hearts.

"I didn't want to hurt you, I like you, I really just like you." The old beggar knelt on the ground: "Originally...... You should have been my lady. You and I have been married since childhood, but unfortunately my family is in the middle of the road, and when I grow up, I am even more surrounded by four walls, and I can't even take out a decent dowry. Your father and aunt disliked my poor family, and even broke the marriage contract between you and me without permission, and promised you to someone else. I know, you don't know me, because your father and aunt never mention me in front of you, but I know you, I always hide in the dark and watch you quietly, I have long recognized in my heart that you are my wife, and I have sworn that I must let you live a good life. However, the marriage contract is broken, and you are going to marry someone else, I am angry in my heart, and I am really angry. ”

The old beggar squatted on the ground in embarrassment: "That day, I drank some wine, and my brain was dizzy. Passing by your door, I somehow jumped over the wall. I just wanted to see you, but after seeing you, I couldn't bear you. I can only take you away. I thought that as long as we were together, sooner or later your father and aunt would approve of me, and sooner or later she would marry you to me according to your original marriage contract. I didn't expect that your father and aunt would report to the official, I was panicked and scared, and I could only make mistakes. On the day you got married, I hid outside your house, and when I saw you sitting on the sedan chair, my heart died.

Later, when you came back and had my child, I went to your father and mother and said that I was willing to marry you, but your father and mother were unwilling. The child was born and looked very much like you, but you went crazy because the child was very much like you. I was afraid that something would happen to you, so I always followed you quietly, but I still let you see me when I hid in Tibet, and you pounced on me, your eyes were red and wanted to kill me. I knew I was damned, so I didn't hide, and I didn't plan to hide. ”

The old beggar clutched his heart, where there was a long scar, and every rainy day, he would ache faintly.

"I'm not dead, but you're scared and run away. Later, your father and aunt came to me, hoping that I would not pursue this matter again. But at that time, I resented your father and mother in my heart. I hate that they ruined your marriage contract with me, I hate that they found you such an unreliable husband, who makes you sad and embarrassed, I hate that they drove you crazy and made you die. They hated me for being poor, so I asked them for money, and they wanted a lot of money. But, you know what? I didn't spend all that money for myself, I gave it to your son. ”

"Didn't he know it was his own son too?" Xing Ruyi asked the fox suspiciously.

The fox nodded: "People like this usually forget the wrong things they have done. ”

"There's a reason why that bastard became a bastard because he gave money for no reason, right?" Xing Ruyi looked at the old beggar who was still chattering: "My aunt said that Guozi's stepfather was infected with bad gambling very early, but the strange thing is that every time he loses a gamble, someone will quietly send him money, as if he is instigating him to continue gambling." Now, I know that he was the one who secretly sent money to Guozi's stepfather. Alas! ”