"Nobody knows what it is?"

The fox raised his finger, and the horse neighed lowly, and began to walk slowly.

"You don't even know?"

Xing Ruyi opened her eyes, and she knew that the fox had cast a spell on the carriage. Mo said that it was the sound of their words, even the people who traveled at night on the Yun family might not be able to see this carriage. Therefore, the voice is unconsciously a little louder.

"Yes!" The fox nodded, pulled the quilt that was resting aside, and wrapped Xing Ruyi in another layer: "I heard about this human skin brocade when I first came to the world, but no one knew where this first human skin brocade came from and how it was made. However, I think after tonight's trip, maybe we'll know the answer. ”

"When you first came to earth, did you mean that?" Xing Ruyi moved: "I mean, when you first met me. I remember when you were so badly injured that you could only turn into a tiny fox. I went downstairs to buy food, and I saw you lying in the grass under the street lamp, with a cold face, which made me mistake you for a pet from a rich family. When I went to hug you, you were so reluctant that I almost wanted to leave you alone. ”

"Fortunately, you are in charge, otherwise where would you go to find such a good husband as me today!"

"That's right." Xing Ruyi hugged the fox's arm: "So, this person, you should still be kind and enthusiastic, maybe when you can pick up a husband for yourself." Many idol dramas also act like this, and even write this routine. I consider myself very lucky, and I am lucky to be caught by this routine. By the way, you haven't told me what happened to you when you first came to the world, could it be that at that time, there were already people with such a terrifying thing as a skin brocade clothes? Isn't it right in the neighborhood where I live? ”

The fox gave Xing Ruyi a deep look and did not speak.

"Oh my God! I wouldn't have guessed it! Xing Ruyi subconsciously covered his mouth, his face full of surprise: "You, tell me quickly, who is that person?" No, you still live in the same building as me, right? You appeared downstairs in my house, could it be that it was not random, but ...... Attracted to that thing? Just like the centipede you talked about earlier, all of you cultivators go for some kind of aura? ”

The fox nodded.

Xing Ruyi bit his lip and asked in a low voice: "Who is that person?" ”

"He is a man who has lived for thousands of years and an immortal man. He can live in this world forever like a normal person. He is old, but he will not die of old age, because all his time stops at the moment when he puts on the human skin brocade robe. That person, you should have seen, he lives on the 22nd floor, and he is a lonely old man in the eyes of others. I don't have a family, I don't talk much, but I always like to sit downstairs alone and watch you come and go. When their eyes collided, he smiled gently. When he meets small children, he always wants to say a few words to those children in good faith. ”

"I know who you're talking about, the old man from household 03 on the 22nd floor, and I also sent him a cardboard box. I thought his family wasn't around, I thought he sat downstairs every day, just waiting to pick up those cardboard boxes and bottles that other people had discarded. Because I asked if I saw him go and pick them up in the trash. I thought he was a poor old man. Human skin brocade? How could such an ordinary-looking old man have such a thing?

Besides, aren't all the people who wore the human skin brocade clothes missing? Mrs. Yun is gone, the red willow is gone, why is the old man always there? ”

"Because the human skin brocade is ripe, it doesn't need to absorb human flesh and blood."

"There are also raw and cooked human skin brocade clothes?"

A strange picture appeared in Xing Ruyi's mind with this sentence, she seemed to see a stove, there was a cage drawer on the stove, and a piece of clothing was resting in the cage drawer, which was turning over comfortably in the water vapor, and even stretched her body triumphantly, as if to show Xing Ruyi: Look, I'm already three ripe!

Xing Ruyi couldn't help but shudder, and quickly shook his head to shake these weird pictures out.

"What's the weird picture you're thinking about?" The fox frowned and looked at Xing Ruyi.

"Oh, nothing. Just thinking about the old man. What happened to him in the end? I don't seem to have seen him since you came. ”

"I helped him take off the garment." The fox said, glancing at Xing Ruyi: "He's dead!" ”

"Dead! Why? Isn't he not going to die? ”

"If he had been wearing that human fur brocade robe, of course he would not have died. But he lived so long that he was tired of it, and he didn't want to live anymore. So, he begged me, begged me to help him take off that human skin brocade robe, begged me to help him enter samsara. I relented, so I agreed. ”

"This world is really strange. From ancient times to the present, those who have been emperors have all wanted not to die, but one died earlier and faster than the other. The old man on the 22nd floor doesn't have to die, and he won't die, but he begs you to help him die. ”

"Maybe that's the difference between an emperor and an ordinary person, right? Those emperors who are high above have long been accustomed to loneliness and loneliness. For them, the most important thing is to have power and hold it in their own hands forever. As for family, friendship, and love, these are just an embellishment in his life. He never cared that there were people around him who came and went. Because for them, all people and things are just passers-by, and all they care about is themselves. Therefore, they want to live forever, but they also want to be immortal.

Ordinary people don't have so much power, so they don't have so many desires, they live a life of firewood, rice, oil and salt. Take the old man on the 22nd floor as an example, although he will not die, he will be hungry, so he also needs to eat, drink, and sleep like ordinary people, and he also needs to earn money to support himself like ordinary people. Supporting oneself and supporting oneself is almost no different for ordinary people, and it is very hard.

Because of his ordinariness, the world he sees will be much smaller than those emperors. All he wanted was food and clothing, and all he wanted was the company of family and friends. He never thought of and would never think of standing at the top of this world. So the longer he lived, the more lonely he became, and the more bored he felt. For thousands of years, in order to prevent others from discovering that he was a monster, he had to keep moving, constantly meeting new people, and accepting new things. He was tired and tired, so he wanted to be relieved. ”

"I seem to understand what you're saying." Xing Ruyi sighed: "If one day the person who is immortal is me, I guess I won't think of creating any miracles." I'm so lazy, I definitely won't read more books, read more newspapers, learn more knowledge, and no matter how much time is given to me, it's just a waste. My brain, while not stupid, is definitely not a genius. Immortality only changes the length of life, it can't change my IQ, let alone my vision. On the contrary, the longer you live, the more troubles you have, especially when you watch the people around you leave you one by one, the kind of torment is even more unbearable. But then again, if it were me now, I would have liked to be immortal. ”

"Is it because you're not lazy now?"

"Of course not!" Xing Ruyi glanced at the fox: "Because I have ghost art now?" To paraphrase some YY sayings, I am reborn with a plug-in, and I can easily stand taller than others and see farther. In fact, I know in my heart that if I didn't have you by my side, if I didn't have this magical ghost technique, I wouldn't have been able to open this wishful rouge shop at all, let alone be like today, in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Besides, it's because of you, because I know that the person I like can accompany me for thousands of years, and the existing friends around me, except for Brother Chang, Xiao Shengzi and Siniang, can accompany me for a long, long time. I'm not lonely, I'm not bored, and I can even do a lot of wonderful things, of course I can't bear it, and I'm not willing to die.

It's a pity that the lucky one God chose in the end was not me. Therefore, sometimes, God is also very fair, those who are reluctant to die often have to die, and those who have never thought that they will live a long life will live longer. ”

"Ruyi—"

"Don't worry, I'm fine, it's just emotional. Thanks to you, and thanks to this ghostly art, even if I am no longer there one day, I can be by your side in another form. Xing Ruyi winked at the fox: "Just now, I suddenly connected with one thing, and I don't mind so much about the length of life." ”

"What did you figure out?"

"Relationship! You have forgotten that I have a friendship with the Immortal King, and I also have a lot of friends in the underworld. If at that time, I have the cheekiness to stay in the underworld and not to be reincarnated, they will not be embarrassed for me for the sake of the past and your face, right? In this way, I can be with you forever. It's a big deal, I'll let you sacrifice it and come to the underworld to accompany me. ”

The fox's eyes lit up first, and then dimmed: "No! I can't bear to let you stay in that dark place all the time. ”

"Tell me casually, are you serious?" Xing Ruyi shook the fox's hand, but was held by the fox's backhand.

"Ruyi, do you know why I agreed to help him take off that human skin brocade coat?"

Xing Ruyi raised his head, looked at the fox's eyes, and looked at it for a long time before he nodded slowly: "Is it because of me?" ”

"That's right! It's because of you, because of that time, I want to be with you forever. ”

"But you didn't give me that human skin brocade robe." Xing Ruyi carefully recalled the various things between her and the fox. She swore that she had never heard the fox mention the human skin brocade before today. If that garment really worked, it was impossible for the fox not to tell her, and it was impossible not to give it to her. "The reason why you didn't tell me was because you found out that there were other side effects of that human skin brocade robe, right?"

The fox was silent for a long time before he said, "Here we are!" ”

(Education 123 Literature Network)