"Your tofu buns are so delicious!"

Xing Ruyi said, glanced at Yingniang, and saw that she picked up the string of copper coins with her little hands like shallots, and placed them in the bamboo basket next to the steamer at will.

If it is an ordinary proprietress who sees such a string of copper coins, even if she reluctantly accepts it, she will inevitably say a few crooked sentences. Yingniang's indifference made Xing Ruyi very interested. She took two steps back, looked at Yingniang with a smile, pointed to the old woman who had just left, and asked, "Are you a regular customer?" ”

"It's a regular and comes at this time every night." Yingniang said as she quickly packed up the things used for steaming buns: "Convenient with others is convenient with yourself." Besides, she's a poor person, too. ”

"Poor indeed." Xing Ruyi repeated and dozed off: "It's not early, good night Yingniang!" ”

"Good night, ma'am!"

Yingniang said, lowering the window. The candle flame in the shop, lit for a while, went out.

Xing Ruyi stretched his arm, feeling that he was becoming less and less sleepy, and remembered that the woman was heading to the east, so he touched his nose and followed.

Following the peculiar aura left by the woman, she passed through a dark alley, bypassing a few dilapidated houses, and came to a grove. Through the beam of lightning, you can vaguely see the whole of the woods. At this glance, it is a forgotten forest, with all kinds of trees growing in one place, and if it weren't for ghosts, there really wouldn't be a way to come and go freely.

Xing Ruyi looked at it for a while, and squatted down in front of the forest a little dejected. If the fox is there, it will be easy to enter this forest. But right now, she is just a mortal with ghost arts, and it is not a problem to catch ghosts and monsters, but she can drill into the woods, which is really a little embarrassing for these beautiful clothes on her body.

Of course, she could have summoned the woman out of the woods, but that rough behavior seemed to be a bit contrary to her intentions. When I was struggling with some reason, a gust of wind suddenly arose in the woods, followed by the cry of a baby.

"Sure enough, there's a child."

Xing Ruyi sighed, stood up, and stared at the forest motionlessly. In the middle of the forest, a shadow moved rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, it reached her.

The woman, still the same woman, looked more and more sallow in the light of the lightning. The cotton clothes, which were originally tightly wrapped, were opened at this time. That's where the baby's cry came from.

"The child is sick?"

Xing Ruyi looked at the woman's face and asked.

The woman looked at her warily and stretched out her free hand. Her nails were long and dark, and the tips of her nails were stained with yellow mud.

"The child's illness can't be seen by ordinary doctors. Besides, it's all this time, and no pharmacy is open. If you can trust me, let me see? Xing Ruyi said, pointing to himself: "Although I am not a doctor, I have studied medicine for a while, and I am not bad at it." ”

The woman looked at the torture Ruyi, and then at the crying child in her arms, and said in a broken voice, "If you don't see it well, I will kill you!" ”

"It's all mothers, why are you still so angry?"

Xing Ruyi shook his head and stretched out his hand to the woman. The woman hesitated and took the child out. The child was already a little hoarse from crying, and his whole body was shaking slightly.

"The tofu bun was bought for the children, right?" Xing Ruyi rolled the child's eyelids and put his hand on his bulging belly: "This child must be a year old."

"How do you know?"

"Not only do I know that this child is a year old, but I also know that the reason why he doesn't grow up is because you have given him a ghostly spirit. You're hurting him, you know? ”

The woman bowed her head: "I can't help it!" ”

"I know you can't help it. When the child is older, he can no longer stay with you, but he is still so young that there is no way to survive in this world. You are his mother, and you love him very much, but people and ghosts have different paths, which makes your love extremely tangled. ”

"I don't want to, I don't want anything at all." The woman shook her head, and suddenly her eyes froze together, looking at Xing Ruyi and asking, "Can you save him?" Is there any salvation for my child? ”

The woman looked at the punishment pitifully.

"It's a shame that I'm here, otherwise, I'm afraid you, this kid, will have to stay in this mountain and forest like you, and be a lonely ghost."

Xing Ruyi said, gently pressing the child's abdomen. I could only hear the child let out a painful moan, and a black gas burst out of his mouth.