The peach blossoms were fluttering and sprinkled, but they were blown off by the cold wind of early spring, and they rolled on the ground violently. The sun had not yet shone into the courtyard, and Rui Gong only felt a chill. She stood up straight against the courtyard wall, her grandmother compared, drew a horizontal line on the courtyard wall above Rui Gong's head, and smiled, "My little Rui Gong has grown taller again!" ”

Looking at the three horizontal lines on the wall, Rui Geng's heart became melancholy: he was six years old in a blink of an eye, and time passed so fast, and he spent the most beautiful six years in this way......

A bitter taste rolled through her stomach and stirred her emotions. The closed courtyard door was pushed open with a "bang". Rui Gong was startled, turned to look, and saw a middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses, a crisp suit, meticulously combed hair, and an expressionless face stepped in. He looked around, his eyes fixed on Rui Gong, and after carefully examining her face, the corners of his mouth raised as if he was smiling, and then regained his indifferent affection, and said in a low voice in his throat, "You, go back with me." ”

Looking at the face that was somewhat similar to herself, disgust erupted from Rui Geng's heart, and she looked at the man with a hostile face and shouted, "I won't go with you!" I'm going to be with my grandmother! ”

The man strode forward, lifted her up, took her in his arm, and walked out of the courtyard without saying a word, no matter how much Rui Gong bit or punch or kick, he could not stop him.

"Grandma! Grandmother! Save me! I don't want to go with him! Rui Gong struggled desperately, crying and turned his head to look at the old house. Behind the half-open carved ancient window, the old tears on my grandmother's wrinkled face were cramped, "Go! Go ahead! He's your father! ”

"I don't want a father!" Hearing this, Rui Gong cried even more fiercely.

"Little Rui is obedient, it's time for you to go home!"

"I want to be with my grandmother! Taowu Village is my home! ”

In the end, Rui Gong only saw the hazy figure of her grandmother on the other side of the window, and listened to her whispered reassuring voice, "Go! Go ahead! What should come, will come! ”

At some point, the round moon had climbed up, half-hidden behind the sparse thin clouds, and hung in the dark blue night sky, and the cold moonlight filled the whole valley, and the sharp peaks and the whole village were outlined by the moonlight with a silver edge.

The houses in the village were lit up one by one, and by the dim light, you could faintly see bursts of laughter from the swaying figures in the house.

In the distance, a light was slowly leaving the boundary of Taowu Village, looking like a goshawk from a distance, and the indicator lights on the hull of the ship merged with the stars.

Rui Geng's heart was empty, and although he was extremely reluctant, he still flew into the air with the levitation ship.

Looking through the window pane into the first-class room of the Thunderbolt, young Rui Gong squeaked and clumsily, trying to untie the seat belt that had tied her to the seat, but the seat belt tightened tighter and tighter, and soon she felt out of breath and had to stop. The man in the seat next to him didn't seem to notice anything, staring intently at the computer on his lap typing.

Rui Geng collapsed on the seat in frustration, although she hated it very much, but her eyes couldn't help but burst into tears, trembling and sobbing, "Without my mother, I don't want to be with you!" ”

The man snorted coldly from his nose and said disdainfully, "You have your own place, you don't need to come with me." ”

Rui Gong didn't hold back, and burst into tears. Outside the window, Taowu Village has long become a small dot in the distance, and it can no longer be seen.

Boarding school, it's disgusting.

Since entering this place, I have rarely visited my father's big villa. But what's the difference between that big villa and this place? The same boredom, the same depression, the same hypocrisy, the same indifference. Also, the whole Thunder City is like this, every day is running mechanically and regularly, the city is not like a city, and the people are not like people.

Rui Gong sat in the empty piano room of the school, watching the bleak autumn wind outside roll the leaves on the branches into the air and fall them freely, which reminded her of the peach blossoms in Taowu Village—and she didn't know what happened to her grandmother. Thinking of her grandmother, Rui Gong suddenly seemed to have a knife in her chest that was constantly stirring her nerves, and her internal organs hurt.

There was a sound of giggling in the hallway, and then the door of the piano room was opened with a bang, and four or five young men and girls were pouring in. These teenagers were stunned at first when they saw Rui Gong, but they didn't expect that there was someone here, and after seeing who it was, they smiled and said, "Hey, Rui Gong, where did you go?" Nailed it! With that, a few people pulled out a fat boy from behind.

In the afternoon, the bird's nest at the entrance of the teaching building was blown down by the strong wind last night and fell upside down on the ground, and several bird eggs fell to pieces, flowing on the ground in a sticky patch. Standing under the tree, the male and the female flew around the inverted nest and screamed, and then spread their wings and disappeared into the sky.

The class bell had been ringing for a long time, until the eyes staring at the sky had become dim, and the two birds had not returned, and Rui Gong felt a pang in his chest. She took a deep breath and stepped forward, turning the upside-down nest over, only to see a young red bird lying on the ground covered in broken eggshells and slime. The little red bird who survived the catastrophe saw Rui Gong struggling to get up from the ground, chirping and spreading her wings, and walked crookedly towards her. Rui Gong's heart moved, took off his school uniform jacket and carefully picked up the little red bird, turned around and walked to the classroom.

After a while, the little bird wrapped in the school uniform seemed to be rejuvenated, squeaked excitedly, and the biology class suddenly exploded. In the teacher's loud scolding, the little red bird was snatched away by the representative of the biology class and thrown out of the window, with the good name "survival of the fittest, only flying birds deserve to survive". When Rui Gong rushed downstairs like crazy, he saw only a blood-colored rut mark and two red fluffs.

"Survival of the fittest, isn't it?" Rui Gong looked at the cringe-eyed appearance of the biology class representative at the moment, jumped off the windowsill, walked to the piano and sat down to open the lid, and sneered, "Then let's see if you are suitable to survive in this school!" ”

Seeing this scene, several teenagers and girls smiled as if they had received some permission, "Okay! It's worthy of Rui Gong! After that, the representative of the biology class was surrounded in the middle, and after a song of joy, looking at the fat boy lying on the ground and constantly wailing and begging for mercy, Rui Geng's mood was a little more relaxed, and he said to several young boys and girls next to him, "Let him be strict-mouthed and don't do superfluous things." With that, he pushed open the door and walked away.

"Rui Geng, you're embarrassing me again."

As soon as the door was closed, the calm and deep voice made Rui Gong tremble, and his father appeared at the door of the piano room at some point.

"I didn't, I was just practicing." Rui Gong said with a well-behaved face, "Father, why are you here?" ”

"You're still trying to lie to me?" The man said with a blank face, "Open the door." ”

"He was the one who killed my little red bird." Rui Gong gritted his teeth.

"Your ...... Little Red Bird? The man's brows furrowed, and there was a hint of anger in his usual calm tone, "I don't remember giving you the right to have a pet." ”

"It's not a pet, it's a little red bird, and it has no home."

"It's just a bird," the door of the piano room behind him slowly opened, and the fat boy limped out with his left face covered, and said word by word, "Isn't it just a dead bird?" He lowered his hand covering his face, and his left eye socket was black and hollow, and blood ran down his cheek to the ground. Moans came from the piano room behind him, and when he looked closely, he saw the boys and girls lying on the ground, motionless.

"You ......" Rui Gong felt a chill sweep through his body. The fat boy smirked, and suddenly turned into a cloud of black mist, and pounced on Rui Gong head-on. Rui Gong was shocked and looked at his father as if asking for help, but he didn't expect that the man had already walked away without looking back, leaving only a back. Rui Gong shouted at her back, "Help me! Hey!" A chill struck, and when she turned her head, the black mist was almost like a monstrous wave that fell in front of her eyes, suffocating her.

She struggled to escape, and when she opened her eyes, she was greeted by the dark roof. "It turned out to be a dream." Rui Gong breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed her eyes vigorously, and sat up. After my grandmother died, the old house had been cleaned by the neighbors, the tables, chairs and benches were clean and spotless, and other miscellaneous things were also cleaned up.

The moonlight shone on her face through the window, making her feel a little dazzling. The night in the mountains was cold, and smelling the familiar smell left in the house, she couldn't help but miss the warm embrace of her grandmother in her dreams. Hey, tomorrow is my grandmother's funeral, which makes Rui Gong feel that this old mansion is so empty for the first time.

She climbed to the window, and the courtyard was already covered with peach blossoms, even the wooden table and chair in the middle of the courtyard that were always clean and used for eating. After eight years, I returned to Taowu Village again, and everything has not changed, the familiar white-walled and blue-tiled houses, the familiar Queqiao, but the high courtyard wall in my childhood eyes has become a low wall that only reaches to the chest. The clumps of roses in front of the courtyard wall are blooming, and under the light of the moonlight, they have changed their usual charm, and they have become a little pure; The fog in the village made the white walls damp, and the mottled moss was like patches of black ink on the green and white walls.

Except for the faint sound of water coming from Qifeng Mountain in the distance, the small village in this valley is quiet. Rui Gong closed her eyes slightly, her thoughts flying.

I don't know how long it took, an inexplicable cold air surged from all directions, and in an instant, it spread from the fingertips to the whole body, becoming more and more biting, and the wind whistled in my ears.

"How can there be rumors? It's so cold...... "Rui Gong couldn't help but open his eyes, but at this time, there was no cold as water and moonlight in front of him, but a blue and purple sky. She quickly stood up and looked around, only to see the surrounding glaciers towering and snow-capped, seemingly the top of the mountain. Looking down, under the thin clouds is a verdant mountain forest, and further down is a pink peach forest, and the blue-gray roof in front of the peach forest can be faintly seen.

"It's ...... Perched on the top of Fengshan Mountain? ”

In the snowstorm, Rui Gong looked around blankly, and for some reason, he secretly said in his heart, "It's just that I am the only one in this vast and desolate world?" This extremely cold mountaintop, I'm afraid I'll freeze to death here if I stay a few more minutes. ”

As she thought so, she suddenly felt a stream of heat rush from her abdomen to her limbs, and a bird's cry rang out in the distance. Looking up, on a huge ice peak not far away, a flaming red bird flew into the air with its wings outstretched, and the light and energy were even greater than the sun and the moon. Rui Gong was completely attracted by this scene, at this time, she did not feel frightened, nor surprised, only a strong shock and inexplicable resonance wrapped her.

The flames on the big flaming red bird burned even brighter, and some of the hot bird feathers fell down in a flutter. Rui Gong subconsciously stretched out his hand to catch it, and the moment the bird feather touched the palm of his hand, the whole arm suddenly burned, and then the flame turned into the shape of a bird's wing. Rui Gong looked at his burning arm and realized that he didn't feel a trace of pain. When he was amazed, there was a faint noise in the distance. This voice felt a little familiar, but when she looked for the voice, she couldn't see anyone. The cold wind gradually stopped howling, and the noise gradually grew louder and clearer, and the voices of the two boys could be distinguished.

"Then let me stay so happy, okay?"

"Oh my god! I'm amazing! ”

Rui Gong smiled and said to herself, "Isn't this the voice of those two guys just now?" Why are they here? Turned startled, and said secretly in his heart, "No, I was sleeping in my grandmother's old house just now, why did I come to this Qifeng Mountain?" Hey...... No, no, the time is wrong, I should be chasing the white fox with those two guys in Qifeng Mountain...... That's right, my grandmother is gone, and I skipped school from Thunder City and returned to Taowu Village...... The two boys at the foot of the mountain, and then a white fox appeared...... We chased and chased, went up Qifeng Mountain, and then I stepped on the air and fell off the cliff...... Then I'm ...... now He's dead!? ”

The faint pain returned to her body, the smell of damp earth reached her nose, Rui Gong lay on the ground, and the scene in front of her surprised her: this seemed to be a cave, with a little green light attached to the wall, and not far away, the kid named Ke Zhenshi was lying on the side with his eyes closed, waving his arms with his teeth and claws, and saying something in his mouth......

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