Bai Ling didn't answer immediately, but leaned back and got up and walked to the edge of the tower.

Looking down from the Tower, you can see an unobstructed panoramic view of the Imperial Palace.

Under the clear light of the moon, all the palaces are lit up, like the fantasy of the ancients about the heavenly palace.

"Before I entered the palace this time, Bai Yi once took me to an open field behind Chaotian Street to look for someone." Bai Ling suddenly said, "There are a lot of wanderers in that area, most of them women and children, does Fourteen know?" ”

"Hmm."

"I have been in Beijing for more than four years...... It's been almost five years, right? Bai Ling sighed, "But this is the first time I know that there is such a thing as a food in the world." ”

Wei Shixi put down the wine bowl and looked at Bai Ling, "Haven't you seen it before?" ”

"Maybe it's happened too." Bai Ling said softly, "It's just that I don't care. ”

Wei Fourteen smiled faintly.

Bai Ling's words occasionally revealed that she should not have restraint and honesty at that age, which is probably the fundamental reason why the two have been able to get along well for four years.

Wei Shixi lowered his eyes slightly and did not speak.

"Actually, if you really want to thoroughly understand the basic logic of acting in a certain environment, the most effective way is always to participate directly in that environment. By reading the script, you will never be able to realize it. ”

Wei Shixi lowered his head and drank, and asked again, "Then are you going?" ”

"No, I'd better read the script first." Bai Ling shook his head and said, "Let me face so many people, I am still scared in my heart. ”

"Afraid of what?"

"Afraid of crowds."

"What's so scary about the crowd?"

Bai Ling laughed, she looked at Wei Shixi, and asked rhetorically, "Lord Wei, isn't the crowd scary?" ”

Wei Shishi's hand lightly swiped the knife and sword at his waist, "It's not terrible. ”

Bai Ling looked at Wei Fourteen's gaze with a slight smile. "Well, Fourteen's case is a different story."

Her gaze gradually fell, and she looked at the small stove where Fourteen was cooking.

The firelight reflected in her eyes, and Bai Ling murmured again, "But I'm still afraid." When a crowd gathers, there is no bottom line for evil. ”

These words were very light, but they still made Wei Shishi's hand holding the wine bowl stop, "Did you remember what happened to Qingyang in the past?" ”

Bai Ling shook his head, "It's not just Qingyang. ”

Wei Shishi sighed in his heart, he was not good at comforting people, but after thinking for a long time, he still said, "I hope this kind of thing will not happen again in the future." ”

Bai Ling didn't answer, and the only sound in the air was the sound of flames licking wood.

"I have a friend." Bai Ling suddenly said, "She's about the same age as me...... Well, no, she's a few years older than me. ”

"Hmm." Wei Shishi hugged his hands and looked at Bai Ling seriously.

"She has lived with her aunt since she was a child, and her aunt is the teacher of the school and takes good care of her." "When she was thirteen years old, her parents returned from business, made a lot of money, and took her back. ”

"Hmm." Wei XIV responded again.

Bai Ling suddenly felt a little grateful in his heart, Wei Shixi's silence seemed rare at this time-he would not ask why the woman could become the teacher of the school, nor would he evaluate how this parent, a farmer, and a businessman, chose the last class.

He just listened.

Bai Ling walked back to Wei Fourteen's side in a few steps and sat down again.

"She was very good at school, but very shy, and at the end of the school year, she was elected as the student representative to give a speech in front of more than 800 people in the school.

At that time, she had actually moved back home to live with her parents, but she could only go to discuss with her aunt, and she would go to her aunt every day after school to stay for a period of time, write, revise, recite the draft, and give speeches off the script...... Anyway, I have been preparing for almost a month, and I am very well prepared.

"But I didn't expect that on the day of the speech, there was an accident."

Bai Ling stared at the flames, clasped his hands around his knees, and suddenly stopped his narration, as if he was caught in a memory of the distant past.

"Did you forget the words?" Wei Fourteen asked.

Bai Ling shook his head, "The ceremony was interrupted that day, and a group of people rushed in from outside, each of them tall and strong, wearing the kind of white coat that is characteristic of hospitals, and ...... me in front of everyone That friend's aunt was arrested. ”

A hint of reluctance flashed in Bai Ling's eyes.

"Why did you arrest her?"

"Because in the eyes of ordinary people, she is an abnormal person."

Wei Shishi's expression moved slightly, but he didn't interrupt Bai Ling's words.

Bai Ling's tone was very light, many years had passed since this incident, and when he recalled it, it was far less shocking than it was at that time.

First of all, my friend's mother noticed that she found out that her sister was very old, but she was not married. It turned out that she was always hanging out with another woman. The two live together like husband and wife.

"This incident was very immoral in my friend's environment, and it happened that my friend's mother learned that my aunt would also be present on the day of my friend's speech, so she contacted the local correctional hospital in advance and forcibly arrested people."

Bai Ling took a deep breath, "The reason why I want to do it at that time is because during that time, my aunt was about to go abroad, she resigned from school and moved, and my friend's mother didn't know where she lived at all...... She was going to leave with her lover soon. ”

"Hmm."

"It happened so fast, and this friend of mine was standing on the stage and watching the people in the audience take people away. And then...... He fainted on the spot. Bai Ling said softly.

Wei Shixi gently flicked the charcoal fire in the stove.

Bai Ling continued, "My friend has been looking for the whereabouts of my aunt for the rest of her life...... But to no avail. After that accident, she could no longer speak in public, and once she entered a crowded space, she would breathe too fast and even faint directly. Her parents secretly tried many ways to get her to speak, but they didn't take her to the doctor. ”

"Why?" Wei Fourteen asked again.

"Because seeing a doctor means that the child is 'sick', and they can't accept that their child is 'sick'." Bai Ling smiled, "That's why I keep saying to the outside world, 'This kid is very afraid of life'."

"Later, this friend of mine went to study in another place, and the department - no, there happened to be a gentleman in the school who was good at treating this kind of disease, and it took about a year for her to recover through counseling and exposure shocks."

"Who the hell is she...... Why can't you speak? ”

"That's complicated." Bai Ling said softly, "On the one hand, there is guilt and fear, after all, she could have called for help in public and asked the teachers and classmates at the school to help, but she was so frightened that she froze at that time, so she didn't do anything." Not to mention the key information of 'aunt will be on the scene', which was also taken out by her mother from her. ”

"On the other hand......" Bai Ling smiled, "that even she didn't realize that this was her most direct and complete revenge on her parents—that they should immediately have a daughter who was unspeakable and abnormal." ”