Chapter 34: Lay down your life
With a "bang", the people who were choked by Leng Yu's neck were planted on the ground at the same time, and they gasped for breath, but they didn't understand why she left her life. It wasn't until they saw that the villagers had stopped all the fighting and were crowding around the river one by one that they barely got up and squeezed into the crowd to find out.
"Bang", Er Niuzi surfaced, he carried Xi Cheng on his back, paddling his hands and feet towards the shore, behind him, followed by several other children, a few people briskly cruising forward in the Jade River, just like they usually play in the water.
"Fool," Xi Cheng's tears were about to come out, he wanted to suck his nose, but he was afraid of being laughed at by Erniuzi, so he had to swallow the choked throat back fiercely, "I thought you would never play with me again." ”
"Why?" Er Niuzi gasped and replied to him briefly.
"Didn't you hear, they said that those people were killed by my mother, and they also said that I am not human, and I will bring disaster to the village."
"It doesn't matter what you are, you are in me This is Xi Cheng, Xi Cheng, you know?" Er Niuzi paddled a few more times, "When you get to the shore in a while, you will hide behind me, don't worry, with us, we will never let them hurt you again." ”
Xi Cheng believed that although it came from the mouth of a child, it was firmer than a rock, and he knew, and that person also believed that he saw her standing on the bridge, her white clothes fluttering in the wind, and she was smiling, and this smile was exactly the same as his own.
The children finally swam to the shore, and Er Niuzi ignored his mother's pull, helped Xi Cheng untie the rope, and sent him to Xi Bo's side before kneeling down. Wen Bin, Xiao Liu'er, and Chunhui also knelt down together, and none of them spoke, but the meaning couldn't be clearer: since they risked their lives to save him, they would never let him die like this again.
These small bodies could not stop people, but the villagers stopped in front of these children, stopped, they were silent, but their minds did not stop for a moment, they thought that the grievances of the past ten years were a dead knot that could not be untied, but now it seems that maybe they are the ones who can untie the rope.
Seeing this, Kong Zhou strode forward, "Leng Yu spared your life, I think, she was also moved by these children, if you let Xi Cheng go, this grievance may be over, wouldn't it be good for everyone?" ”
"Leng Yu, can she really stop blaming us from now on? Also," they looked at Liu Xujiao, "You are an official, will you ...... what happened ten years ago?"
"Don't worry, what happened here will be regarded as a dream, and I won't say a word." Liu Xujiao said this sentence conclusively and sincerely.
The villagers, look at me, I look at you, and finally put down the knives and sticks in their hands one by one, pulled up the children on the ground, and retreated like a river at a low tide.
"Wait, don't go," Bai Yong suddenly rushed to the crowd like crazy, stopping the villagers who were walking back, "Have you forgotten?" He is a fishman, and if a fishman offends the dragon king, it will bring disaster, there has been no rain for several years, and the crops have drought, have you forgotten that taste? ”
The villagers ignored his crazy screams, they shook off Bai Yong's hand and continued to walk towards the house, it should have been done a long time ago, wasn't it? If ten years ago, everyone could hold on to the goodness in their hearts, perhaps, everything that followed would not have happened again.
Seeing that no one cared about him, Bai Yong's face twitched even more, he looked around, and suddenly grabbed a sickle and ran towards Xi Cheng, he was already close to Xi Cheng, plus it was too sudden, so everyone didn't come back for a while. The tip of the knife that flashed with cold light was about to pierce Xi Cheng's body, but it was forcibly blocked by a person, who held Bai Yong and rolled down to the side of the Jade River with him, and the sickle was shocked into the water and quickly sank.
"Uncle Yu." Xi Cheng shouted, but realized that what he shouted was not his name at all, this fishman who didn't say his name until he died, used his body to block the fatal knife for him.
"Wow." A row of huge waves suddenly set off in the depths of the Jade River, and the white waves rushed forward like wolves with foam, as if they wanted to break everything that stood in its way.
Liu Xuzhu and Kong Zhou ran quickly to the river, trying to catch the fish man, but the big wave was fierce and urgent, and the fish man and Bai Yong were swept into the bottom of the river at once.
The villagers heard the sound of the waves, and they also gathered around, they have lived by the Jade River for generations, but they have never seen such stormy waves, the big ones seem to swallow up the starlight in the sky, by the way, it is not nothing, thirty years ago, the day Leng Yu arrived, the Jade River seemed to have shown its majesty in this way.
Liu Xujiao and Kong Zhou rushed towards the river desperately, trying to pull the fishman back, but at this moment, a person bounced high on the river, it was Bai Yong, he was thrown higher than Bai Lang, his body seemed to draw an arc next to the moon, and then slowly fell, just when he was about to be planted in the river, a thick black shadow flew out from below, and his blood-red mouth almost split into a straight line, swallowing Bai Yong, who was still struggling desperately, into his stomach.
"Dragon King, Dragon King...... It's really the dragon king's apparition......" I don't know who shouted, and the villagers knelt down one by one, kowtowing desperately to the river.
The river calmed down again, and a waterway branched out in the middle, and Dansheng pushed the fishman with his head, slowly pushing him to the shore. It stared at the blood-stained body for a moment with its huge yellow eyes, then turned around and swam towards the river again, its tail making a sinuous ripple on the surface of the river, and the ripples gradually flattened, and the jade river returned to its former tranquility.
"Xi Cheng, don't cry," the fishman struggled to pull Xi Cheng's hand, "Remember, you made a promise to me, and now it's time for you to keep it." ”
"You say, I promise you whatever you say." Xi Cheng sobbed.
The fish-man's eyes passed through Xi Cheng, looking at the white-robed figure behind him, and a weak smile appeared on his face, "I want you to let go of all your resentment, I want you to return to the South China Sea and live freely." ”
Xi Cheng nodded desperately, tears streaming down her face, behind her, his mother was smiling at the fishman, she slowly turned her head, and her more and more transparent body passed through the villagers who surrounded the city, and people turned sideways to make way for her, she just kept walking forward, kept walking forward, and her body slowly turned into a little starlight, and disappeared at the end of the Laiyuan Bridge.