"Do you think I'm a demon?"

The young woman removed her hand and looked at herself in the bronze mirror: "It's the first time I've encountered a little Heavenly Master of your age. It's a pity that the boundary between humans and demons is far more complicated than you can imagine. What is a person, what is a demon, and what is the face or the heart. ”

"You're not a demon?" Xing Ruyi recalled the picture he had just seen: "Then who are you?" ”

"White Hibiscus, my name is White Hibiscus."

"White Hibiscus?"

"I forgot, you're not from town, and you wouldn't know who White Fleur is." The young woman gently coaxed the child in her arms: "When you crossed the courtyard through the wall, didn't you see the plaque on the gate?" This is the Bai family, and it is also my own home. ”

"The doorway was so dark that I forgot to look at it." Xing Ruyi took back the bronze mirror: "Why is your home so quiet?" ”

"Because ......" Bai Furong glanced at Xing Ruyi deeply: "Because in this family, except for me, the rest are dead." ”

"Dead people?"

Xing Ruyi looked at the child in Bai Furong's arms, and after looking carefully, she found that what she was holding in her arms was actually a small skeleton.

The wind blew up, the door opened, and the dark room was filled with coffins. Black, red, wood-colored, neat, stimulating Xing Ruyi's eyeballs.

"This town is called Hibiscus Town, and the people in the town like to grow hibiscus flowers the most. Because I was born in the season when hibiscus flowers are in full bloom, my father and mother named me White Hibiscus. My Bai family, like you, is studying the Fa, once upon a time, I was like you, walking around, punishing adultery and evil, but unfortunately, I fell in love with someone I shouldn't love, and finally ruined myself, the Bai family, and the entire Furong Town. ”

"I don't understand!"

"Want to hear a story?" Bai Furong pointed to the room: "If you're not afraid, just come in with me and sit down." ”

"Don't be afraid, even if you're a monster, I'm not afraid." Xing Ruyi straightened his chest: "With my master here, I'm not afraid that you will eat me." ”

"Your master must be a very powerful person, right?"

"He, it should be." Xing Ruyi thought for a moment, "I've never seen my master's true methods, but those demons seem to be afraid of him. ”

"That must be amazing. Don't worry, I never provoke anyone more powerful than me. Bai Furong led Xing Ruyi to the house. The interior of the house is simply furnished, except for a bed and a screen, only a table and two benches remain. At the head of the bed, there is a painting hanging on it, on which is a hibiscus flower, a white hibiscus flower, but under the flower wall there is a black snake.

The snake looked like the one he had just seen through the window.

"It is said that the ancestor of our Bai family is a person who is dedicated to cultivating immortals, but it is a pity that the immortal fate is a little thinner, and the talent is also a little worse. In order to fulfill his wish, the ancestors had to marry and have children, hoping that their descendants would be able to cultivate immortals and fly away from the mortal world. It's a pity that the descendants of our Bai family are not as good as the generation, and when they come to me, they can only barely catch the little demon and catch the little ghost. ”

"Then you are stronger than me, and I can only rely on my master's fox and fake tiger might." Xing Ruyi was blunt, and he was not worried that Bai Furong would be unfavorable to him at all.

Although the paper crane that Master released was a little stunned, it would not take her to a dangerous place. Even if the paper crane is stupid, her master is not stupid, if the fox can't find her, he will definitely come to find her.

"So straightforward, aren't you afraid that I will eat you?"

"I'm so skinny, and I don't have a few taels of meat on my body, what are you going to do with me." Xing Ruyi leaned in front of Bai Furong: "Besides, if you really want to eat me, you should pounce when I collect the bronze mirror." ”

"I don't like to eat people, and I really have no interest in eating you." Bai Furong patted the child in her arms: "When I was fourteen years old, I went out to practice according to the ancestral training of the Bai family. My father and mother have a thin relationship, and they only have a daughter like me when they are nearly thirty years old, and they are reluctant to let me go out to endure hardships, nor are they willing to let me really go to subdue demons and eliminate demons, putting myself in danger. Of course, at that time, I didn't think so. ”

"My father and my aunt also think the same way, my aunt is most afraid of me going out to run around, always say let me grow up faster, just find me a mother-in-law in the town, watch me get married, watch me have children, and then she happily helps me take care of the baby. In fact, my aunt is the most impatient, she doesn't like to take care of children, even I was raised by Grandma Wang in the town. ”

"Then why is your aunt willing to let you come out?"

"She was reluctant, but she couldn't help it." Xing Ruyi lowered his head: "My father is outside, and I lost contact." My aunt is gone. All the people in the town, except me, were killed by the rebels. ”

"Rebels?" Bai Furong didn't seem to know about An Lushan's rebellion.

"Maybe it's a real rebel, maybe it's a fake rebel, I don't see it and I don't know. I only know that everyone in the town is dead, even Uncle Niu, Uncle Cai, and Grandma Wang, who love me the most, are also dead. Xing Ruyi's eyes turned red, and he hurriedly turned his face elsewhere.

"It's not easy to live, and you should be good for those who love you." Bai Furong reached over and touched Xing Ruyi's face. Her hands were cold, oozing cold.

"Let's tell a story." Xing Ruyi wiped her eyes: "My aunt also likes to tell me stories, but she tells stories related to making sauce, such as how soybeans become tofu and how they become soybean paste." ”

Bai Furong smiled slightly and said, "That must be a very interesting story." ”

"Is your story interesting?"

"You'll know when you hear it."

"My father has been the head of the Bai family all his life, and he has never met a single demon or monster, and the most he has done is to help the frightened children in the town call souls, which is what we often call spirits. Therefore, when I turned 14 years old and went out to practice, my father and mother were very relieved. Don't say that this Furong Town is a hundred miles away, even if it is a few hundred miles away, it may not be possible to meet an evil thing. I don't know if I was too lucky, or if I was unlucky, I ran into it the day after I went out to practice. ”

"What happened?"

"A little ghost." Bai Furong smiled: "Like me, they are all little ghosts who have just graduated from the school and have not yet become a little clime." I was walking in the woods when the little imp scurried past me and staggered onto the roof of a carriage. The carriage was dark blue all around, and there were still blood stains on the curtain and body, fresh blood. ”

"Bloodstains? Someone was hurt? ”

"Hmm!" Bai Furong nodded: "The forest is far away from the official road, and the roads in the forest are all paths that Orion stepped on with his feet, so it's hard for me to imagine how the carriage ran into the forest." I checked and found that the wheels of the carriage were broken, and the horses used to pull the carriage did not know where it had gone. Curious, I leaned over and lifted the curtain, only to see a wounded young man in the carriage. The young man, who should have been older than me, wore a moon-white shirt, and looked polite, like a scholar. ”

"Like a reader, meaning, he's not a reader?"

"Don't worry, I'll get to that." Bai Hibiscus got up and put the child in her arms on the bed: "When I lifted the curtain, that little ghost also got into the carriage. Without even looking at me, he climbed straight onto the man, opened his mouth, showed his fangs, and bit down on the man's wounds. I didn't think much about it at all, I took out a ghost exorcism charm from my pocket and pasted it towards the little ghost. The exorcist charm, when he met the little ghost, he directly turned into a flame, and the little ghost was burned and sneered. I was worried about the man's injury, so I didn't chase him any further. ”

"That person is Sister Furong, your fate, right?"

"Hmm." Bai Furong nodded: "But I didn't know it at the time." All I know is that he was seriously injured and bitten by a ghost, and if he didn't deal with it in time, he would definitely die. Fortunately, I have also learned a little bit about what to do in this situation. I first fed him the pill, then took out the glutinous rice and put it on the place where he had been bitten by the imp, and when the wisps of black smoke came out of his wounds, he woke up in a cold sweat. ”

"He must be grateful to you, right?"

"No, he was fierce and asked me what I had done to him. I said, I didn't do anything, I just helped him with the wound with glutinous rice. I pulled out the glutinous rice from the cloth bag and showed it to him, but he took a knife and pointed it directly at my throat. He thought I was on the same path as the bad guys who attacked him. ”

"And then?"

"He touched the wound and fainted in pain. I was afraid that the imp would come back and eat him, so I kept watch by the carriage. Bai Hibiscus raised her head slightly, looking outside, her eyes seemed to have penetrated those courtyard walls and saw farther away: "You know what? While guarding him, I fell asleep, and when I woke up again, I found that my neck was cold, and when I looked up, it was him. He took off his crescent-white clothes and changed into a black night suit. His face was so pale that his eyebrows could be clearly seen in the dark night. He asked me to lead the way, and I asked me to take him out of the woods. I nodded and agreed. ”

"If it's me, if you dare to put a knife to my neck, I will definitely seize the opportunity to put the knife back on his neck." Xing Ruyi made a gesture, and Bai Furong smiled faintly.

"Right? That's probably why I'm unlucky, I always think things out of my mind. Bai Furong lowered her head: "From childhood to adulthood, my father and mother taught me only how to deal with those demons, but never taught me how to treat a scheming man." I knew it wasn't my parents' fault, because they never thought that my heart would be lost in that wild forest. They thought that I would be like most of the girls in the town, and when I was sixteen or eighteen years old, a matchmaker would come to my door, and I would be asked to choose the one I liked the most from among the boys who proposed marriage, and then give birth to a son and a daughter, and the son would inherit the husband's family, and the daughter would inherit the Bai family. It's a pity that the relationship between men and women is not as good as heaven. ”