According to legend, there is a mountain in the north, called "Shaoxian", there is no grass on the mountain, but it produces a kind of green jade, therefore, this mountain is famous among the stonemasons of the world, and many quarrymen come for the green jasper stone. However, there are fierce beasts in the mountains, which are called "kilns". Legend has it that it was red all over its body, shaped like an ox, with a human face and horses' feet, and its cry was like that of a baby. The quarrymen of the mountains are deceived by it, and they will be reduced to a meal on the plate.

Now, the prosperous era of Zhou has passed, the world is the Warring States period of turmoil, although the world is constantly fighting, but the Shaoxian Mountain, the quarrying of the livelihood, has never been broken. There is an endless stream of quarrymen who come up the mountain every day, and many of them have a good stomach. The people who are eaten usually have no bones left, and it is difficult to come back to collect the corpse. And why is this mountain so dangerous, but still quarrymen flock to it? In fact, the times in the world are turbulent, today's king, tomorrow's marquis, Yugui Yubi and many other extravagant objects as status symbols have always been in short supply. Advantageous is beneficial, in troubled times, human life is as cheap as grass mustard, horizontal and vertical are death, why not fight a big one! There is a way, wealth and danger are sought. Therefore, the quarryman, who was not born as a masonry, but ventured into Shaoxian Mountain, thought more about this.

But Cai Sui is not one of them, Cai Sui, who has passed middle age, went into the mountains alone to pick jade, and he is already familiar with the road to and fro.

Cai Sui is a masonry of the workshop under the Yan State Sect, which is the authentic master. In addition, Yan is a big country in the production of jade ornaments, and its reputation among other countries is extremely high, and the jade ornaments carved by masonry like Cai Sui are directly supplied to the Yan clan. Even if it is sold, it will be sold to the princely generals, and it is not surprising that it will be sold for a thousand gold.

Masonry such as Cai Sui, even a rare lucky person in the troubled times, he has picked half a lifetime of jade, the childlike cry he has heard many times, but he heard it from afar, to avoid it, he has never taken it to heart, only this time......

After passing through a rocky cliff with rugged terrain, Cai Sui suddenly heard a child's cry behind him, his body was shaken, his heart was not good, he accelerated his pace and walked for a while, but he could still hear the heart-rending cry, the sound was from far and near, and his heart trembled when he heard it, and his body couldn't stop shivering.

The cry this time...... I always feel that it is not the same as before......

The so-called "crying" of the fierce beast is actually closer to that of a human baby, that kind of crying is not emotional, if you are used to hearing it, you will feel a little noisy, but what Cai Sui heard this time was different, it was a genuine cry, and when Cai Sui reacted, the cry had gradually faded.

"In the mountains...... Are there really children? ”

Cai Sui muttered to himself, and said in his heart if the cry just now was really from a human child...... That......

Although he is a masonry, he is not a cold-blooded person, if there is really a child crying on this grassless stone mountain, and he does not save himself when he sees death, it is really unkind and unjust, what is the difference between him and the beast...... Thinking of this, the guilt in Cai Sui's heart gushed out like a spring, he gritted his teeth, turned around and advanced in the direction where the cry came from before, bypassing the steep and rugged stone cliffs along the way, and sure enough, a young figure covered in blood was found in a mess of rocks - it was a boy about ten years old.

The boy was covered in heavy blood, and he did not know whether he had fainted or died, and he fell among the stones, still clutching a small bamboo tube in his hand.

Seeing this, Cai Sui walked over in three steps and two steps, carefully picked up the child from the ground, and probed his snort.

"Still alive ......"

He breathed a sigh of relief, placed the fainted child in an empty bamboo basket where he had gone up the mountain to quarry, and carried him down the mountain.

It seems that this child must have followed his relatives up the mountain. Seeing the coarse cloth clothes stained red with blood on his body, he was not wealthy when he wanted to come to his family, and he went up the mountain this time, I am afraid that he was also quarrying to make a living. And this child has so much blood on his body, but his body is unharmed, it should be the relatives who took him up the mountain to protect him from the mouth, right? And this child sees it in his eyes, which is why he cries so heartbreakingly......

After all, he watched his relatives being eaten by the squirrel......

Cai Sui thought silently in his heart, and when he went down the mountain, he took the child out of the bamboo basket and took it back to his residence, and invited a nearby doctor to treat him.

After the night, the boy did not wake up. Cai Sui got up early in the morning and looked at the appearance of his blood stained all over his body, and he really couldn't bear it. He boiled hot water and wiped the child's body, revealing a white and tender little face, and when he looked closely, he looked very delicate, and even a little feminine.

After a whole day, the child woke up slowly, Cai Sui prepared a meal for him, and found Guo Erniang next door to make a new set of clothes for people overnight, and coaxed people to speak softly, but who knew that after asking for a long time, the child was silent, and he didn't know if he was stupid or what's wrong, he only knew that he was stunned and looked at one place, and he didn't know what he was looking at......

Cai Sui sighed, so he had to change his clothes and feed him again.

"I said you......" Cai Sui raised his hand and shook it in front of him, seeing that he still didn't react, he sighed helplessly, "How can you be a fool...... But this watery mold was wasted. ”

Although he sighed, but complained, Cai Sui finally took the child back to his home in Jicheng, Yanshangdu, along the way, he tried his best to make the child react to his words, but to no avail. Just as he was disheartened, suddenly the boy screamed at the bamboo basket containing the jade for him, and then he cried out again heartbreakingly, just as he had done on the mountain. Cai Sui couldn't help but panic a little - this kid ...... Hit the devil?

And in the end, Cai Sui found that the child was not crying at the jade in his bamboo basket, but at the broken bamboo tube that was pressed under the jade. That small bamboo tube was exactly what he had been holding in his hand when he was killed, so I think it should be a relic left to him by his relatives, right? Cai Sui thought about it, and quickly turned the small bamboo tube out from under the stone, wiped it clean with his sleeve, and handed it to the boy.

And it's strange to say, since the boy got the small bamboo tube, people have also been "smart" a lot, they know how to eat when they are hungry, and they know how to ask for water when they are thirsty, but Cai Sui found that the child couldn't speak. In desperation, he had no choice but to put a small bamboo tube that was almost broken on a thread and hang it around the boy's neck.

"Since you can't speak, and you're holding a bamboo tube all day long, you might as well call it 'bamboo', how about it?" Cai Sui touched the boy's head with a smile and asked for his opinion, but the child was speechless, just looked at Cai Sui in a daze.

Cai Sui sighed, picked up the child on his donkey cart, and drove the cart to Yandu. It's just that before he could introduce "bamboo" to his children, he died outside the city gate of Yanshangdu.

It was the third year of the king of Yan, when the king of Yan listened to the rumors, Chan let the king be located at that time Xiangguo Zizhi, the general city was dissatisfied, rebelled, and later for some reason, the son of the city was separated, so that the son of the king of Yan, the prince of Yan Ji Ping was killed. Yan Guo was just when the building was about to collapse - and this earth-shattering chaos happened in the months when Cai Sui rushed to Shaoxian Mountain to quarry. Cai Sui, who rushed back to the capital in a daze, was beheaded by the rebel soldiers at the gate of the city before he could figure out what was going on, just because he had a wooden sign approved by the Yan Sect on his waist. And Xiaozhu, who was stupid and stupid by Cai Sui's side, was also treated as a refugee by the officers and soldiers and driven to the outskirts of the city.

In the afternoon, it rained heavily, and the bamboo wandered aimlessly in the countryside. After a while, his clothes were wet with raindrops. It was Cai Sui looking for someone to sew new clothes for him, but now, the clothes are still there, but the person is gone, Zhu looked down at the wet clothes on his body, grabbed the small bamboo tube hanging around his neck with his hand, and raised his head to look at the gloomy sky overhead-

The world is probably a never-ending nightmare...... He thought. He wasn't as stupid as Cai Sui thought, but he was witnessing his parents being torn apart by fierce beasts in front of him until they turned into a mass of flesh and blood—his world collapsed.

Bamboo was born to be a child like no other. For as long as he can remember, he has been able to understand the voices of all things. He doesn't need to speak, he just needs to get closer, and he understands the other party's mind, which is the true heart that can't be deceived, whether it's good or bad, good or evil, he can tell it at once.

But this ability has brought him only endless troubles and obstacles. Because he can understand the other person's heart, he learned to speak very late, and even if he did, he rarely spoke. It was a very unusual thing for him to speak, because he had seen so much duplicity that he would not point it out on the spot, but he would still be confused. He couldn't understand why those people would say something so different from what he thought in his heart...... And if everything is false, is there any need to continue talking?

Zhu didn't understand this question until now, so he remained silent in the face of Cai Sui. The two people closest to him in this world have been completely shattered, and he won't talk to anyone anymore, nor does he want to react to anyone - this is Zhu's heart when he was just rescued by Cai Sui.

As for the death of Bamboo's parents. That day, he originally followed his parents to Shaoxian Mountain to quarry, but when the fierce beast "cried" and slowly approached, Zhu without exception noticed the vicious malice in the heart of the fierce beast, and he was stunned for a moment, followed by uncontrollable screams and trembling. His voice sent the beast leaping out of hiding, followed by a nightmarish run. The first to be eaten was Dad, then Mom......

The blood-red beast seemed to be running for a bull, but on the cow's head was a human face - a pale round face in the blood-red, with fierce eyes and a blood-stained red lips, and it was impossible to see its gender, nor its joy and anger. The moment he saw that face, Bamboo felt hysterical pain, and the countless quarrymen who had been devoured by the beast turned into resentful spirits and melted into the soul of the beast, which was engraved in that extremely ugly face. Bamboo couldn't help himself and felt a wave of gagging. He ran like crazy, his heart cleansing his heart of pain and wails when his parents were devoured by the beast.

"It hurts......"

"Run!"

"Ahhh......h Pain! intestines, intestines flowed out of the stomach...... It hurts ......."

"Ahhh

Bamboo screamed and fled from the two clumps of flesh called "Parents", running as he ran, his stomach still pouring acid out.

It's bitter......

But Bamboo still kept running until he was exhausted, until he could no longer hear the sounds.

After waking up at Cai Sui's residence, Zhu still can't forget the pain in his parents' heart before they died, so much so that he was immersed in that pain and couldn't extricate himself. He was only a ten-year-old child, but he felt the struggles of everyone without exception. Until Cai Sui was beheaded in front of him, he heard the indignation in his heart and those unspeakable sorrows-

Such a world is just a continuous superposition of nightmares and nightmares for him, and he wanders alone in the dark and uninhabited wilderness, with no direction and no direction.

Suddenly, Bamboo was attracted by a dark spot that stood out not far away, it was a dilapidated house that had half collapsed, and in the house, there was a heart full of malice.

Before he could get closer, Bamboo felt it, it was a familiar smell of death......

This time, is it finally my turn? He thought silently, and staggered towards the half-collapsed wooden house.

A world full of nightmares, he didn't want to stay any longer. If he wanted to die, he hoped it would be a moment, just a moment, without more pain and struggle...... And if the man in the room could pour out his malice on him, he felt that he would surely get a moment of detachment. After all, with such a strong malice, he didn't even feel it in the beast.