Chapter 31: Traces of the Heart
Pedestrians on the road came and went, as in a hurry, as always.
Ah Li and Yuan Yizhi got out of the car when they were passing by the river, and tacitly chose to go outside and go back. Strings of small colorful lanterns hang on the trees on the roadside, which are small and cute. There are a few wooden boats floating on the river, a scene of harmony and tranquility.
"Fifteen, ah......" Ah Li looked at the various lanterns placed in the surrounding shops, her eyes were a little wandering.
It turned out that it had already reached the fifteenth day of the first lunar month before she knew it, and Ah Li felt familiar and unfamiliar with this festival. Familiarity is every year, and strangeness is because she has never been.
It's not just fifteen, other festivals she hasn't had since she can remember.
She took Yuan Yanzhi to wander around outside for a long time, and when she encountered a place she knew, she told him about it, of course, she was talking about what she caught in that place, like an incompetent tour guide. Fortunately, Yuan Yanzhi was not annoyed, and kept smiling and listening to Ah Lidong speak sentence by sentence, without the slightest impatience.
The warm light on the river gradually brightened, and the two of them walked aimlessly outside for so long. She doesn't worry about Fu Baiman and Nu Zhou's eating problem, Nu Zhou looks honest and dull, in fact, he is a careful and skilled person, and he is also smart, and the kitchen utensils at home can be taught as soon as he is taught.
Ah Li suddenly stopped talking, Yuan Yanzhi turned his head to look at her for a long time, and said, "Let's go back."
"Okay."
As soon as he inserted the key in, there was a sudden clattering sound in the door, Ah Li opened the door expressionlessly and went in, and saw Yaya sitting on the back of Fu Baiman, who had turned into a kitten, and Fu Baiman was closing his eyes, seemingly sleeping soundly.
Ignoring the new cup she bought in the trash can, it was a heartwarming and harmonious picture.
Fu Baiman saw that he couldn't hold back, so he quickly turned over and twisted towards Ah Li with a smile, and she wanted to laugh when she saw the bewitching little broken steps. Fu Baiman was about to throw away her white tiger dignity to be coquettish and beg to let go, but she was grabbed by the back of her neck and picked up at once.
Who grabbed the back of my fate? Just as he was about to sprinkle, he turned his head and saw that the person who was carrying him suddenly wilted.
It's a big guy who can't be messed with.
The hot slave boat, who was cooking in the kitchen, heard the movement and hurriedly ran out, and saw Fu Bai being lifted in the air with his head drooping, his face instantly became nervous, and he wanted to reach out and hug her over, but because of Yuan Yan's stunning momentum, he had to look at Ah Li pitifully, and jumped out word by word: "Barbarian, next, time, no, will, ......"
Yuan Yanzhi glanced at him, shook his hand and threw Fu Baiman over. Nu Zhou hurriedly caught it and held it gently in his arms, with a deep tenderness and pity on his face.
is obviously a strong man, but he loves this little thing very much, holding Fu Baiman and smirking as if he had won a treasure, which made Fu Baiman roll his eyes and reprimand: "Fool!"
Yuan Yanzhi was not very interested in the two of them, and he didn't know what he thought, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise, and he changed his previous cold appearance, his face was soft and beautiful, and Ah Li lost his mind when he saw it.
This man...... It is really a disaster for the country and the people.
Raised his hand to lift Ya Ya off Ah Li's shoulder and threw it to the slave boat behind him, moved over Ah Li's body, covered his eyes and walked towards the room.
"Eh, why are you blindfolding me?"
Ah Li was puzzled, but still followed him into the room, and when he let go of the warm palm, the thing in front of him made Ah Li forget to speak.
The room was lit up by a warm yellow light through the thin sheet of paper, and small but delicately crafted lanterns hung from the ceiling, all kinds of shapes, flowers, birds, fish, insects, and all kinds of small animals. And the most attractive thing is the beauty lamp in the center of the ceiling.
The woman on the lamp looks like she is fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a light purple Hunan concubine skirt, holding a rabbit lamp, her eyes are kind, her smile is full, and the delicate brushwork shows the tenderness of the person who made this painting to this woman.
Take a closer look, this woman's face is very similar to Ah Li!
Yuan Yanzhi gently took down the lamp, hugged Ah Li from behind, pecked her small earlobe and said, "Do you like it?"
"Hmm...... Loved it. Is this person me? Ali touched the woman with her fingertips and raised her eyes and asked.
"Yes. I don't remember the past, but I always have a different you in my dreams. "
Ah Li's heart moved.
"And you want to go back to the past?" She is also a person who has no past, and has traveled all over the world over the years, hunting ghosts and demons, while trying to find the past that she has forgotten.
However, Yuan Yanzhi looked at her and shook his head: "It doesn't matter what it was like in the past."
As long as you're still with me, he doesn't care if the past was good or bad.
Ah Li sneered: "Are you trying to make me happy?" Looking at him, Ah Li sighed again, lowered her head slightly, and said, "Before I met you, I traveled a lot. I have no memories of the past, I don't know who I am, and the world I woke up in a very special and strange way to me...... I've seen so many joys and sorrows, I thought I had already looked down on them...... I didn't expect to meet you, but I ...... Loved the accident. You...... Will you leave? "
The warm soft light melted the thorn armor she had been wearing on her body, and finally expressed her fear and uneasiness to this man at this moment.
Yuan Yanzhi looked at the person in front of him, his heart tightened, and he felt pain for a while. He never dared to imagine how she had spent so many years alone, and hated that he hadn't been by her side earlier.
His eyes suddenly turned red and full of anger, but he was afraid of scaring the person in front of him and suppressed it strongly, hugged Ah Li fiercely in his arms, and buried his face in her neck, with such great force, as if he wanted to rub people into his bones and blood.
Ah Li was startled, probably knowing his inner thoughts, sighed in his heart, stretched out his hand with difficulty to hug the man, and patted his hand lightly: "It's okay...... Aren't we okay now? "
After a long time, I heard him reply sullenly: "Hmm."
The smell of the food was permeating, and he rolled in from under the crack in the door with a handful of spoons, and saw that the two people who were hugging each other tilted their heads, and were about to make a sound, but Yuan Yanzhi suddenly looked up at it, and the terrible anger successfully scared it so much that it fled out instantly, and he didn't even want the spoon.
Ah Li was amused by its little cowardice: "You scare it again!" Bent down to pick up the small spoon of Yaya, and stretched out his hand towards Yuan Yanzhi with a smile: "Let's go, eat."
On the fifteenth festival, the dark sky is also lined with a full moon. Families are reunited in a house, and laughter continues. However, somewhere in the darkness of H City, a figure was sitting on the ground, his fingers digging at the carrion of the man in front of him, or rather, the ghost.
Her clothes were already tattered, her flesh was bulging, and her face was hideous and terrifying, and there were dense black scales growing faintly under those skins, cold and seeping. However, she seemed to be very afraid of the person in front of her, even if the pain of the wound was unbearable, she did not dare to move.
I heard the man whisper softly, "Die so soon...... It's useless!" She tore off a piece of carrion, and the ghost shuddered from the pain and fled into the water, leaving only reverberating streaks of water.
"Useless things...... What are you keeping for......"
"So that traitor refined the Yin Corpse Worm, and then asked Shi Yu to kill people?!" Fu Baiman was shocked after listening to Ah Li's words, and asked with his eyes wide open.
Ah Li pondered for a moment and said, "It seems like this at the moment. That forbidden technique either requires a lot of soul, or resentment. "
Fu Baiman lowered his head, and his voice was low: "The patriarch didn't tell me the general idea of the forbidden technique. But if it's like you said, what exactly does he want to cultivate......"
Ali didn't speak.
If the traitor wants a soul or resentment, he doesn't have to bother with it, he can just take action himself, why lure Shi Yu to kill? Is it to hide your whereabouts?
So what is the purpose of the water ghost that began to transform into scales before?
Ah Li was held in his arms by Yuan Lizhi, and Yuan Yizhi leaned his head lightly on Ah Li's shoulder from behind.
He seemed to enjoy the pose.
Ah Li is now used to him hugging and hugging from time to time, so it is commonplace, and when she thinks of last night, Ah Li's face suddenly turns red!
Yuan Yanzhi looked at her and pinched her earlobe funny: "Ah Li, what are you thinking?" Well? "
"Ahem! I...... I'm thinking about Wu Cun River!"
Yuan Yanzhi's face sank darkly! Ah Li glanced at him and continued: "Look, that traitor raised water ghosts and lured Shi Yu to kill people, which is a great crime! And you saw it that night, the masked men. "
I thought that Qi Yao's matter had nothing to do with Shi Yu's matter, but the masked man who appeared that night firmly tied the two things together, and I didn't think that in the resentful place under the Wucun River, Ah Li lived in vain.
So what does this traitor have to do with that land of grudges......
Rivers always communicate with each other.
Recently, it has rained a few times, and the water level has risen quite a bit. But for people who often live near the water, they have long been used to it. In a small village by the river, a few children frolicked to the river, holding small bamboo pockets and homemade fishing rods.
Suddenly, a half-sunken red caught their eye, and several children squeezed towards it, and the daring child dragged it with a fishing rod......
"Ah!!h
A woman in bridal clothes died in the water, with a trail of red blood slowly spreading beneath her...... The tragic death frightened several people, and they ran back to the village screaming.
The peaceful village was completely shattered by the corpse of a woman soaked in water......
When Si An received the news and rushed over, there were already many people around the river, and there were messy footprints everywhere on the soft river sand, and the green tendons on Si An's forehead jumped twice: "Didn't you say that you want to protect the scene?!" Forgot all this common sense?!"
Xiao Lu felt very aggrieved: "This village is the most remote in H City, and we rushed over immediately after receiving the report......
Glaring helplessly, Si An put on his gloves and went over to check the body.
However, when the white cloth is lifted, it is useless to protect the scene!