After eating in the evening, Momoko fell asleep with her sisters, and in the second half of the night, she quietly got up and went out of the house and got out of the hole in the fence.

Xiaobei's house is in the northwest of her house, with a vegetable patch in the middle, and two families.

Tonight, the night was bright and the stars were sparse, and the two families had already turned off the lights and went to sleep, and they couldn't hear any movement quietly.

From afar, you can see white paper lanterns hanging at the door of Xiaobei's house. A cold wind blew, the lantern shook in the wind, and the peach was scared, and he wanted to go home, but he thought that he had promised the lotus to go to see Xiaobei, so he had to grit his teeth, give himself courage, and go to Xiaobei's house.

Xiaobei's house is not consistent with her house, although they are all sitting in the north and facing south, but Xiaobei's house only has a row of three-room houses on the north side, the middle Mingtang, the west wing is his and his brother's bedroom, and the east wing is Xiaobei's father Zhang Haiqing's bedroom, Xiaobei's mother died as early as Xiaobei when he was one year old. The kitchen is arranged in the southwest corner of the courtyard, not next to the main house, the gate of Xiaobei's house is open on the east side of the fence wall, and outside the door is the path out of the village into the mountain.

Approaching Xiaobei's house, avoiding the paper lantern at the door, Peaches detoured to the south side of the house, and through the one-person-high fence wall, you could clearly see all the movements inside.

There is a custom in the village that after a person dies to three days before entering the earth, the guardian needs to be taken care of around the clock, and the incense and candles must not be extinguished, and the guardian cannot sleep at night, the specific reason is unknown, but the custom has been so, and it has been persistent.

Tonight's turn to keep vigil is Zhang Haiyan, the second master of the Zhang clan, and Zhang Haixin, the eldest son of the third master's family, Zhang Haixin is the eldest brother of the dead Zhang Haiqing, he is an apprentice in the county blacksmith shop, and he just rushed back after learning the news.

Although it was nearly the second half of the night, both of them had slept in advance during the day, and they were not sleepy at this time. The two sat in a corner of the Ming Hall, making a pot of hot tea, and talking without a match.

There are two coffins parked in the middle of the hall, one is Xiaobei's father Zhang Haiqing, and the other is a clothed mound. Because the body of Zhang Haiqing's eldest son Zhang Xiangnan has not been found, Zhang Haifeng had to collect the clothes he usually wears and put them in the coffin to replace his body.

In front of each of the two coffins was an incense burner, in which four incense sticks were inserted, and below was a brazier, in which the burning paper had long been burned out, and only some ashes remained.

Peaches went around the west fence wall and near the main house, and began to pull at the fence wall, and perhaps practice makes perfect, and soon opened a hole for her to enter and exit, and she stole into it, tiptoeing close to the window of the west wing.

The season has entered autumn, and the temperature has changed from warm to cold at night, but Xiaobei's window is open, and Peaches is dissatisfied in his eyes.

Didn't anyone think about whether Xiaobei would be cold when the temperature was low on this autumn night?

She tiptoed close to the window, and when she got closer, she heard Xiaobei's sad snort, she hurriedly looked in through the window, and at a glance, tears came down.

There was a lamp lit on the table in the room, and the soybean-sized flame lit up the room, and I saw Xiaobei lying on the cold kang, covered with a broken quilt at random, and his hands and feet were exposed.

The original strong body has been obviously emaciated, the face is sallow and there is no blood, the lips are dry and cracked, and the whole body is wrapped in strips of cloth oozing blood, especially the head and eyes are also wrapped in strips of cloth, and the blood stains on the face have not been cleaned.

He looked very bad, the pain made his body struggle and shake constantly, and his mouth made a whimpering and painful whimper, and the excessive blood loss made him unable to struggle, he could only shake, and his breathing was very weak.

Peaches covered her mouth tightly, but tears fell down, it turned out that Xiaobei not only injured his legs, but also injured his eyes, a blind and paralyzed person, how could he live?

Xiaobei moved suddenly, as if he wanted to sit up, but he got up and lay back on the bed, muttering in his mouth, not knowing what he was saying, as if he was talking to himself, and seemed to be asking for something.

Peaches wiped away her tears with her sleeves and clumsily tried to climb in, but because of her height, she was always a little far behind.

At that moment, a gust of wind blew, and she felt that something had pushed her, and she fell in, and when she landed, she did not stand well, and her feet were crooked, and she rolled on the ground.

I felt strange in my heart, but I really didn't care about thinking about it, rubbed my sore knees, got up and rushed to the bedside, and heard Xiaobei's hoarse voice, "Water...... Water ......"

Xiaobei wants to drink water!

Momoko hurriedly went to the table next to her to get the kettle, fortunately there was still half a pot of water, she poured a glass of water, and held it close to Xiaobei.

Thinking back to how my mother took care of herself when she was sick. She held the cup in one hand, held Xiaobei's head in the other, and the hot temperature came from the place where her arm touched, Xiaobei was obviously burning badly, she put the cup close to Xiaobei, poured it for him to drink little by little, and whispered, "The water is coming, you drink slowly, drink slowly......"

Xiaobei seemed to be burned in a daze, as soon as he touched the water, he swallowed it violently regardless of it, but choked himself, coughed a few times weakly, Peaches put down the cup, and his little hand gently smoothed his chest, and when he breathed smoothly, he picked up the cup and continued to feed the water, until a glass of water bottomed out, Xiaobei no longer wanted water.

Seeing that Xiaobei was finally more comfortable and fell asleep, Peaches breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and just put the cup on the table. Suddenly, I felt my eyelids jump for no reason, and a strange feeling appeared in my heart.

Was it an illusion? She felt that in the lamp on the table, the bean-sized flame, which had just been yellow, seemed to have turned bright green now, and the Ming Hall across the door was silent, and the sound of chatting and drinking tea could no longer be heard.

She comforted herself psychologically, the two uncles outside were afraid that they were sleepy and asleep, but she knew in her heart that the night watchman should not sleep.

She walked to the door of the inner room, pressed her hand on the door, hesitated whether to push the door to see, thought about it, and finally pushed the door hard, but after pushing, the door did not open, and it seemed that the outside was locked.

She was furious in an instant! Why do you want to lock up Xiaobei, do you really want him to die of illness?

No matter what happened outside, she turned around and returned to the bed, took Xiaobei's hand, and whispered to him in a serious tone that she had never had before, "Xiaobei, you wait, I'll go to Qinghu Mountain, I'll find you fairy grass, I will definitely find you fairy grass!"

She put down Xiaobei's hand, covered him with a quilt, with a cold little face, climbed out of the window, and got out of the original road through the fence hole, and walked home without looking back.

In the sky, the outer periphery of the moon was dyed with a circle of crimson mist, and the temperature in the air dropped a few points, and the air turned into white smoke, and the temperature plummeted too strangely.

If she looked back, she might find that in the bright hall of Xiaobei's house, suddenly all the lights went out, there was no sound, everything was hidden in the dark, death-like silence.

But she didn't look back, and she didn't realize these changes, her mind was full of anger, and worries about Xiaobei, and from the depths of her soul, the desire for fairy grass.

She ran home, gathered what she thought she needed, put it in a basket, hid it by the fence wall, and then went back to the house and lay down on the bed, closed her eyes, and waited for the daybreak.

After dawn, she wants to go into the mountain and go to Qinghu Mountain to find fairy grass!