The little boy raised his head, glanced at Xing Ruyi very seriously, and then took out a cloth bag from behind his back and handed it to her: "I want to help my sister buy rouge!" ”

Xing Ruyi has been open for so long, and it is the first time that he has met someone who has helped his sister to buy rouge. So, she gently pushed the cloth bag back with her hand, looked into the little boy's eyes and asked him softly, "What rouge do you want to buy for your sister?" ”

The little boy shook his head and said, "I don't know. ”

"Would you like to let your sister do it herself? Sister Ruyi can recommend the most suitable rouge for her. ”

"My sister" The little boy looked up at Xing Ruyi, and immediately cried: "My sister, she, she, she can't come." Woowoooooooo

"Don't cry! Don't cry! Tell Sister Ruyi, why can't you come when your sister comes? ”

"My sister, my sister, she was killed by me." The little boy was sobbing as he spoke, rubbing his eyes with his hands. Xing Ruyi has no experience in coaxing children, although there is a Yin Yuan by his side, but that little devil can grow on his own, except for asking her to cook a chicken leg every now and then, there is basically no time when she needs to be a mother. Therefore, in the face of the child's crying, Xing Ruyi was a little at a loss. He looked at the sun overhead, and then at the pedestrians who came and went on the street, and lowered his head to bring the little boy in through the side door.

When the little boy was sad enough, ate something, and drank water, Xing Ruyi figured out the cause and effect.

The little boy's home is in Lilou Village, 20 miles outside the city, his name is Li Tong, and he has an older sister named Li Mei, who just turned 16 last month. The in-laws promised the neighboring village, which can be regarded as a good match, and the two parties agreed that when the Mid-Autumn Festival passes, the other party will come to marry his sister.

"It's a good thing for my sister to get married, although she is a little younger, but after all, it is the order of her parents, the words of the matchmaker, is it possible that you, as a younger brother, are not willing to let your sister get married?" Xing Ruyi looked at Li Tong funny, but Li Tong shook his head silently.

"My sister wants to get married, I am naturally happy, but my sister is not happy."

"Why?" Xing Ruyi was puzzled: "Could it be that your sister looks down on that family?" Or is it your sister who has another sweetheart! ”

"Neither!" Li Tong raised his head and looked into Xing Ruyi's eyes: "That person, my sister has seen it, but it is because she has seen it that she will be unhappy and unhappy." My sister said that my future sister's wife is very good and powerful, he is a well-known capable person in ten miles and eight villages, but it is because this future brother-in-law is so good that my sister is worried, worried that my future brother-in-law will not like her. ”

"Why? If the other party doesn't like your sister, they won't call a matchmaker to go to your house to propose! ”

"My father and mother said the same thing, but my sister didn't seem to listen to it, and stared in the mirror all day long." When Li Tong said this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed to his right cheek and said, "I know why my sister is worried, and I also know why she is in a daze in the mirror all day long." Because my sister is different from other sisters, she has a boil on her face, although she has also seen a doctor, but it is always good and sometimes bad. Sister she was worried that when she got married, the boil was still there, and her brother-in-law would dislike her in the future. ”

"If you dislike each other because of a person's appearance, then your future brother-in-law is not good? However, I believe that even if he asked his parents to come to your house to propose marriage, he must have met your sister, and even secretly inquired about your sister, so these worries are completely unnecessary. ”

"But sister, she cares!" Li Tong lowered his head: "My sister heard that there is a Ruyi rouge shop in Luoyang City, and the shopkeeper is very powerful. So my sister got up every day before dawn to catch fish, and then brought it to the city to sell, and it took a long time to save up so much silver. Originally, she was here to buy something, but I suddenly wanted to eat the kind of sweet cake made by the uncle in the neighboring village, so I forced my sister to ask her to buy it for me. ”

Li Tong's head was getting lower and lower, faintly, and there was a sobbing sound again: "My sister loves me very much, since I was a child, as long as it is what I want to eat, what I want, no matter how hard it is, she will satisfy me."

I still remember when I was a child, my sister followed my father and mother to go fishing, and I would stand on the path at the entrance of the village and wait, and when my sister appeared, she would always bring me many novel gadgets, sometimes a few loaches, sometimes a big yellow eel. When I got home, my sister would make these things into delicious dishes, and she would let my father and mother eat them, and let me eat them, but she was never willing to eat them herself.

But on the way to buy sweet cakes in a neighboring village, my sister stumbled and slipped into the river. The river is not deep on weekdays, and the river is a small bridge built by the two villages themselves, made of wood. Because if you take the main road, you have to go around a long, long way, so usually, the two villages walk around on the bridge. But I didn't expect that the day before, the river rose, and there were a lot of moss on the wooden bridge, and Sister She must have accidentally slipped into it when she crossed the bridge. People in the village said that her sister was afraid that she had sunk to the bottom of the river. My father and mother also looked for someone, but they couldn't find it all night. I know, it's all because of me, if I hadn't been holding my sister and asking her to buy me sweet cakes, she wouldn't have died."

Li Tong sobbed and repeated it many times before he said the word "death", and it was obvious that he himself was very reluctant to mention that word, as if only in this way would there be less remorse in his heart. For such a little child, what can Xing Ruyi say? She sighed lightly and touched Li Tong's head. This time, Li Tong didn't dodge, or he was still immersed in his own sadness, and he didn't notice that Xing Ruyi touched his head at all.

"So, you secretly hid from your father and mother, and took the money saved by your sister to help her buy rouge gouache, right?"

"That's right! I want to help my sister fulfill her wish. Li Tong took out the cloth bag again and held it up to Xing Ruyi: "Sister Ruyi, can you sell my sister rouge?" The kind of rouge that can make her beautiful and won't have boils anymore. ”

"No, you can't!" Xing Ruyi shook his head and looked at Li Tong's disappointed eyes: "Not only do you know the Ruyi Rouge Shop, but you should also know the rules of Sister Ruyi's here, and Sister's Rouge is only sold to people who are suitable for it." ”

"I see." Li Tong wiped the corners of his eyes vigorously: "Because my sister is dead, even if I take more money, you won't sell it to me." ”

"No, it's not! Hey, Li Tong" Xing Ruyi looked at the back of Li Tong who left resolutely, and shook his head a little helplessly: "Why doesn't this kid listen to anyone after he finishes speaking." ”

Li Tong called his sister while holding the cloth bag containing silver tightly to his chest, then spread his legs and ran desperately out of the city. It wasn't until he ran to the river that his pace slowed down.

Li Tong thought that her sister must be very lonely when she stays alone under the water.

Li Tong thought that the grandmother in the village told her father and mother that people who were drowned in the water would become water ghosts after death, and if they became water ghosts, they would have to stay in the water forever and endure the cold and biting water, unless there was a person who was willing to be the substitute ghost for the water ghost, they could be reincarnated.

Li Tong didn't know if what Grandma said was true, but he saw his father and mother crying secretly.

Li Tong thought that if he volunteered to become his sister's stand-in, if he volunteered to stay in the water instead of his sister, would her sister be able to come back to life, at least she could go to reincarnation, and she wouldn't have to stay in the water forever.

When Li Tong thought so, his feet had already stepped into the river, and Xing Ruyi quietly walked to his side, looked at the calm river and asked, "Li Tong, do you want to find your sister?" ”

"Do you know where my sister is? The uncles and aunts in the village, as well as the grandmother, all said that when my sister died, she sank in this river, but my father and mother said that this river is very big, and even if we look for it, we may not find it. ”

"What those uncles, aunts and grandmothers said may not be true. As for your parents, they are overly sad and will naturally say something discouraged. But Li Tong, how do you know that you can't find someone who you haven't worked hard to find? ”

"But how am I going to find it? In the water, or on the shore? Li Tong looked at Xing Ruyi's eyes, and those eyes were actually glowing with a faint blue light, just like the color of the night sky when the sky was clear.

"I have a piece of jade here, called the Seeking Jade, as long as you take it and jump into the water, you will be able to find your sister."

"Sister Ruyi, are you telling the truth?"

"If you believe me, it's true, and if you don't, it's false. Looking for the jade, I have already given it to you, as for whether you want to find your own sister, that is not something I can control. Xing Ruyi covered it with his hand, looked at the sun above his head, and said to himself: "With such a big sun, I don't know why I ran so far!" I'm really getting more and more nosy, is it possible, am I really old? ”

Ignoring Li Tong's gaze, Xing Ruyi took out the mirror that was given to her from her pocket, pinched her collagen-full face in front of the mirror, and said weakly: "Sure enough, no matter how good the appearance of a teenager is, it can't stand the old heart of a twenty-year-old." With that, Xing Ruyi left on his own.

Li Tong looked at Xing Ruyi's back, and then looked at the dark green search-seeking jade in his hand, and without hesitation, he jumped into the water with a "plop".

The water was cold, cooler than he could have imagined, and it was dark, darker than any night he had ever seen. Li Tong felt his body sink again, and then his head hurt and he was very tired, and gradually he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

When he woke up again, the cold feeling was gone, the darkness was gone, he was lying in his sister's arms, and his sister looked at him gently: "Why did you sneak out again?" Does Daddy know? Be careful of being seen and beaten by your parents! ”

"Sister, I'm sorry!" Li Tong looked at his sister's familiar face and began to sobble again: "It's me who is bad, it's me who is willful, and I always ask my sister to help me go shopping." Whether it was just dawn or it was too late to see the road, I never paid attention to my sister's mood and worried about whether it would be dangerous for my sister to go out at that time. ”

"It doesn't matter, because you're a younger brother and I'm a sister. When you are an older sister, don't you have to try to fulfill your younger brother's wishes? My sister gently helped him up, smiled and said to him, "It's a pity that my sister can't help you do those things in the future." Xiaotong, you are a boy, you must be strong and grow up quickly. ”

"Sister, I miss you, I miss you so much!" Seeing that her sister was about to turn around and leave, Li Tong hurriedly grabbed her with her hand: "No matter where you go, let Xiaotong accompany you, okay?" Or, you go home with Xiaotong! Xiaotong has grown up, from now on, my sister's affairs, Xiaotong will help you do it! ”

"Kiri-chan!"

"Kiri-chan!"

"Sister!"

"Sister, come home with me!"

"Sister!?" Li Tong opened his eyes and found that he and his sister were lying in the grass on the shore, and his sister and his hand were clasped together, and the missing jade was still held in his hand.

"Look! Look! The two sisters and brothers of the Li family actually came back to life! ”

"God bless, it's been a whole night of drowning, and I can still come back to life, it's really a bodhisattva blessing! Bodhisattva bless! The villagers who salvaged on the shore also talked about it one by one.

"Xiaotong, my sister is fine! My sister is really fine! Li Mei hugged his brother tightly.

She vaguely remembered that she had stumbled and fallen into the water and became a lonely soul under the water, and it was Xiaotong who found her and forcibly dragged her up from the bottom. Before she fell unconscious, she had seen a green light in a daze. Thinking of this, she looked down at the hands of the two, Li Tong was holding a piece of dark green jade in his hand, but the jade flashed and shattered. In her hand, she was holding a small round box with Sun Xian Maiden Paste written on it.

"It's rouge cream, the rouge cream in the Ruyi rouge shop, it's for my sister." Li Tong pointed to the ruyi pattern on the small round box: "But how did this thing come about?" Sister Ruyi, she clearly didn't ask for my money. ”

Li Tong took out the wet cloth bag, the silver was still there, there was no less, and there was also a letter written on the brocade, which stated the use of Sun Xian's maiden ointment, and said that this ointment has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, invigorating blood and removing blood stasis, moisturizing the skin and white face, as long as Li Mei insists on using it according to the prescription, he can remove the boils on his face and be a beautiful bride. The letter also said that this Sun Xian Maiden paste was begged by Li Tong for her, and she didn't take a penny, so it was a congratulatory gift for her.

After Li Mei finished reading, his eyes moistened, and he said to Li Tong: "Xiaotong, sister, thank you!" ”

Far away, Xing Ruyi bit the sweet cake, snuggled in the fox's arms, looked at the group of people with resentment and said: "It's a big loss, this time it's really a big loss." didn't make a penny, and posted a sign given by the Hades King and a box of Sun Xian Maiden ointment. But this sweet cake is quite delicious, Yin Chensi, can you help me buy it every day in the future? ”

"Good!" The fox responded, opened his mouth and took a bite on the sweet cake, and the tip of his warm tongue just licked the lips of Xing Ruyi. Well, it's sweet.

"Yin Chensi, this is the last bite! One last bite! Xing Ruyi savagely grabbed the skirt of the fox's clothes, and ordered viciously: "You spit it out for me!" ”

The fox smiled evilly, pointed to his mouth, and said in ventriloquism: "If you want to eat, kiss me!" ”

(Education 123 Literature Network)