The night wind rolled up the curtains, and the bloody breath between the snorts became more and more intense. Xing Ruyi looked at the corpses all over the ground, his eyes gradually filled with water, and finally turned into a thick fog.

"Ruyi."

"Master, is this war? The strong fight for power, but let the innocent people bear the consequences of their struggle for power. These people are all known to me, each of them has their own family, has their own dreams, and their greatest wish is just to live peacefully in this small town and grow old smoothly. ”

Tears broke through the fog and fell to the ground, and the night wind blew her clothes, revealing a hint of coolness.

"Let's help them settle down." The fox stood in front of Xing Ruyi, quietly waiting for her.

After a long time, she stood up, her eyes were frighteningly red, and her hands were even colder.

"This is Uncle Niu, who often comes to my house to buy sauce. His favorite food is beef sauce, but unfortunately the aunt of the Niu family doesn't like it, so he always asks him to take the beef sauce he bought back and replace it with soybean sauce. ”

"This is Uncle Cai, my aunt passed away very early, and he has no children, so he treats me like a daughter. When I was a child, I was naughty and always liked to sneak into Uncle Cai's house and secretly release the fish he caught back into the river. Several times, he was so angry that he blew his beard and glared. Later, he sent me the fish he had caught directly for me to release, but I felt bored. By the way, the fish caught by Uncle Cai is grilled with my home sauce, which is particularly delicious. ”

"This is Grandma Wang, my mother said, when I was young, I wore everything I wore on my body. Although my mother can be a mother, she can't be a female celebrity, and she can't even sew a pair of simplest shoes. Over the years, my father and I have worn all the money that my mother used to make sauce. ”

Xing Ruyi was crying as she spoke, and when she finished identifying those people, her eyes were swollen from crying. She ran back to the fox, grabbed the hem of his coat, and rubbed it hard against her eyes, but the more she rubbed it, the more tears she had. The fox was distressed, but he couldn't think of any other way, so he could only squat down and hold her in his arms.

"Master, don't you know how to spell? Aren't you amazing? Why...... Why didn't you come out and save them? ”

Because life and death have a fate, and they cannot be reversed.

The fox replied in his heart, but the person squatted and didn't move, letting Xing Ruyi's little fist hit him.

"Ruyi, I'm sorry!"

"What's the use of being sorry, they're all dead, they're all dead." Xing Ruyi was out of breath crying.

The fox patted her lightly on the shoulder and whispered, "Master can't save them, but he can let you send them away personally." Ruyi, don't let them see you crying, okay? ”

As he spoke, he snapped his fingers lightly, and in the originally dark night, there were many more fireflies in an instant, and those fireflies first scattered in all directions, and then slowly converged into many human figures. Then, the human figures became clear one by one, and finally turned into Xing Ruyi's familiar face.

"Uncle Niu, Grandma Wang, and ...... And puppies. ”

"Wishful thinking, life and death have fate, wealth is in the sky. Don't cry, cry again, it's not good-looking. Grandma Wang walked over with a smile and reached out to touch her face: "There's nothing to be afraid of dying, it's just a different place to live." Besides, there are so many of us together, we can still talk and laugh on the road, even if Huangquan Road is far, we are not lonely. ”

"Grandma Wang."

"Girl, it's a good thing to survive, promise grandma, don't always think about us, live well, live happily. In this life, it is long and short, and in a few decades, we will meet again. ”

"yes, there's always a time when we'll meet again. When the time comes, the uncle will still go to fish for you, and let you put it well, okay? ”

"Uncle Cai."

"Ruyi, listen to the uncle's words, eat more delicious food in the future, female doll, you can't just look good, good health is really good. You, you have to learn from your mother. ”

"Ruyi." Uncle Niu also came over, he first lowered his head and looked at Xing Ruyi for a while, and then said: "In the future, if you see your aunt, remember to stay away from her." ”

"What's wrong with my aunt?"

She ...... She's not a good person! Uncle Niu said with difficulty.

"Ruyi, don't you know? She brought those villains in, I saw it with my own eyes. She was the one who let those villains kill us. My father, my mother, me, and my sister were all killed by her. She's the bad guy, the biggest and biggest bad guy. The little dog barked, but the dog's father covered his mouth.

"Ruyi, listen to your uncle, see her in the future, stay away." The dog's father and mother spoke: "We're leaving, take care of yourself." ”

Those familiar villagers waved goodbye to Xing Ruyi one by one, and then disappeared into the night on the invisible path one by one. Finally, even Grandma Wang, who was most reluctant to her, disappeared. Xing Ruyi stood in a daze, feeling nothing other than cold.

"Master, are they telling the truth?"

"Hmm!"

"Those people were really brought in by the Niu family's aunt?"

"Yes!"

"Is she a bad person too?" After Xing Ruyi asked, he shook his head first: "How come?" She's been in town for as long as I can remember, and she's hot-tempered, and like my mother, she hates bullying men and women the most. How can she be a bad person? ”

"Some bad guys are good at hiding themselves, and they can even hide for a long, long time for ulterior purposes."

"Is it for silver? If it was only for silver, why did they kill people, and kill so many people. It's good to grab something. ”

"Ruyi, when you grow up, you will understand that the human heart is more complex than you can imagine."

"The human heart?" Xing Ruyi's eyes dimmed, she looked down at the tips of her shoes, and blood spread from the soles of her feet: "Master, I want to eat brown sugar steamed buns!" ”

Brown sugar steamed buns, at the beginning of the mouth, are sweet, but the more you chew, the more you feel that the sweetness has a hint of bitterness. The bitterness is the original taste of sucrose.

Half a year later......

The crescent moon is like a hook, quietly hanging on the branches.

Xing Ruyi sat on the ridge of the roof, still nibbling on half a piece of brown sugar steamed bun in his mouth.

Half an hour ago, she received a paper crane from her master, and then she was led to this town by the dumb paper crane. The town was very quiet, there was no sound of snorkels, no barking of dogs, and it was pitch black everywhere.

Xing Ruyi followed the paper crane around the town three times, but each time, the paper crane would bring her to the house. She asked Paper Crane, is the master here? The paper crane stopped in mid-air until the spiritual power attached to it was exhausted, turned into a cloud of flying ash, and landed on the stone steps.

Knocking on the door in the middle of the night, it was obviously a little inappropriate, but if she didn't go in, and she didn't know if the master was inside, she could only roll up her sleeves and climb to the wall, and then follow the wall to the ridge where she was sitting now.

The courtyard, like the town, was silent. She counted carefully, and the entire courtyard plus the thatched latrines at the corners were a total of seven rooms, from large to small, arranged in an irregular circle. In other words, the master's hall and the thatched latrine are connected at the end, but there is a small door in the middle, and some flowers and plants are planted inside and outside the small door.

The brown sugar steamed buns in his hand were almost finished, but Xing Ruyi hadn't decided whether he wanted to climb down from the roof. Breaking into a private house at night, if you don't find the master, but the master's family finds it first, and sends it to the government, it is estimated that it will have to be closed for a few days.

Sighing slightly, I was about to uncover a tile and take a closer look, when my eyes lit up, and the light in the wing room directly opposite came on. Through the papier-mâché window, Xing Ruyi first saw a woman sit up, then ripped off her clothes, picked up a small doll, and carried it in her arms.

Xing Ruyi is no stranger to this picture, and in the past, in the town, he often saw his sister-in-law and aunts breastfeeding. At that time, she often relied on her young age to come to see her. Looking back now, I only feel red and a little panicked.

Because of this sudden appearance, Xing Ruyi stuffed the last mouthful of steamed buns into his mouth, supported his chin with his hand, and watched quietly. In my ears, I heard the sound of a woman singing to her child. The singing was soft, shallow to her ears. Listening to it, I suddenly felt that the song was a little strange, the first half seemed to be coaxing the child to sleep, and the second half seemed to be celebrating something. Just as she was about to listen carefully, the picture behind the window suddenly changed. The young woman who was holding the child turned into a big snake at some point, and the child, who was wrapped around her aunt, was crying.

The serpent opened its mouth, as if it was going to swallow the child in the next second.

"The basilisk?" Xing Ruyi shook his spirit, and jumped off the roof with the steamed buns that he hadn't finished eating.

The lights in the wing room went out, then came back on quickly, and the door opened, and a young woman with a baby in her arms stepped out. Seeing Xing Ruyi, she was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Whose child are you, why did you come to my yard in the middle of the night?" ”

"Who are you?"

"I'm the mistress of the house." The young woman patted the child in her arms gently: "For your sake, I won't take you." Let's go, at a young age, it's not good to learn something, but you want to learn from the gentleman on the beam and go to someone else's house to steal things. ”

"Mistress? How do I look at you like a thief than I am. Xing Ruyi said, quickly took out a mirror and pointed it at the young woman: "I want to see what you are." ”

The mirror shone on the young woman's body, and she subconsciously covered her face with her hands, and only the exposed half of her eyes showed a fierce color: "This mirror, where did you hit it?" ”

"The master gave it, do you want it?" Xing Ruyi shook the mirror in his hand: "It's a pity, I'm reluctant to give it to you." ”

The mirror Xing Ruyi was holding in her hand was the one that was given to her unwarrantedly, but unfortunately, she had been reincarnated several times and had long forgotten it.