Grandpa didn't say the last word, I already knew what he seemed to say, and said with a wry smile: "Even you can see it?" ”

Grandpa shook his head as if he was apprehensive, "I just heard that Bai Nanyuan died at the hands of a great demon who mastered the Soul Devourer, but I didn't expect it to be you!" ”

When I heard this, I felt that something was not right, and I wondered: "You can know that Bai Nanyuan died in the Soul Eater, but you don't know who killed him?" ”

Looking at my grandfather's noncommittal expression, I couldn't help but look at Ruan Qing beside me, and even Ruan Qing's face was full of consternation, but then the two of them said the same name in unison: "Deaf!" ”

I can see that I used Soul Devouring to devour Bai Nanyuan's remnant soul, and there was only one person present at the time, so the news that Bai Nanyuan was killed by the Great Demon must have been released by him, but he was unwilling to reveal my name, what did he want to do, afraid that someone would catch me before him? In that case, there is no need to reveal the matter.

And Ruan Qing also obviously thought about it, and said after a moment of silence: "I guess he told the truth about the soul devouring when he explained to the above that Bai Nanyuan couldn't even see the remnant soul after his death and felt that he couldn't make a difference, but how to hide you from him is unknown." ”

"You guys go out, Xiao Yi and I have something to talk about alone."

There was silence in the room for a long time, and Grandpa said in a deep voice.

Yao Banxian nodded, "The yard next door has also been cleared out by me, and the fire will be lit again, and the soft girl can continue to warm up." ”

But when he was about to leave and close the door, Yao Banxian muttered uneasily, "Don't touch my stew." ”

When only I and my grandfather were left in the room, but suddenly fell into a long silence, only the crisp sound of firewood exploding in the flames in my ears, and after a while, grandpa sighed softly and said, "Second baby, do you hate grandpa?" ”

I smiled and shook my head, "No hate." ”

"Why?" Grandpa muttered.

"Because you can still sit here with me and talk, as long as there is this day, I will not hate you no matter what you do, but if you really died in the water at that time, I will really hate you."

Grandpa raised his head in a daze, looked at me in a daze for a long time, and then sighed: "Second baby, you have really grown up." ”

"I never thought that you would be today, I always wanted you to grow up peacefully, live an ordinary life, study and go to school, marry a wife and have children, and spend an ordinary life, after all, that person said the same thing when he handed you over to me."

I turned my head and looked at my grandfather incredulously, "Who, who?" ”

Grandpa smiled wryly and shook his head, "I don't know, he didn't tell me his name, and it's been so long that I can't even forget what he looks like, but now I found out that you look very similar to him." ”

I sat there as if I had been struck hard, and muttered, "You, you mean, that man is my father?" ”

Grandpa's face began to have some color under the reflection of the flames, but the ravines on his face were shadowed, and his eyes were scattered and his gaze was blurred.

"The snow that day was heavier than today, and it was at night, your mother was pregnant, and she wanted to eat fish when she was about to sleep, and no one could persuade her, she was poor at that time, and there was nothing left at home for the winter, so I had no way to let your father stay at home, lick an old face and go out by yourself, to see who is rich, can you borrow some, and wait for the spring of the next year to pay it ......back."

That year, a rare snowstorm fell in the vicinity of Kaifeng, the Yellow River was cut off early, the life of the people in the village was already difficult, coupled with natural disasters, the Yellow River did not give food to eat, no one had much surplus food to lend to grandpa, grandpa knocked on all the doors of the village with the same wind and snow as a knife, and finally only the old village chief's family chopped off half of the fishtail that was ready to be kept for the New Year to grandpa, so that grandpa took it back to make up for his mother, and grandpa has been thinking about this love, will fight hard to help the old village chief, helped him solve Yingzi's matter, and finally lost this life.

The old village chief's house is next to the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, and when the grandfather wrapped the fishtail in his jacket and went out, he heard the cry of a baby in the wind and snow, and there was a person standing under the old locust tree.

But although it was late at night, the snowflakes in the sky also illuminated the sky red, and the grandfather stood in place with the fishtail in his hand, and saw that the person under the tree was a middle-aged man wearing a black cloak, holding swaddling clothes in his arms, and the baby's cry also came from the swaddling clothes.

"There is some money here, I will give it to you with the child, I hope you will take good care of the child, raise it to adulthood, and one day if you are in trouble, this child can protect you from dying."

This man's first words when he saw his grandfather.

It was also from that time that Grandpa stepped into the ranks of corpse diggers with one foot, because he saw that the baby in swaddling clothes was a dead baby who had long been pale and had no breath.

"Every time you salvage a corpse in the river, the child can live one more day, which can be regarded as accumulating virtue and doing good, and perhaps one day, merit will be preached, and mortals can be sanctified in the flesh."

Grandpa's concept of saints at that time only stayed in the ancient sage Confucius and others, watching the middle-aged man want to hand over a dead baby to himself, only thinking that he was a madman, and when he turned around and wanted to take the fishtail home to make soup for his daughter-in-law, the middle-aged man said lightly: "That woman's soul is still wandering in the Yellow River, just waiting for your grandson to be born and drown him in the river, and then he will be reincarnated." ”

Grandpa's feet just opened resisted, his body froze in place, and the coldness in his heart was better than his body being destroyed under the blizzard at this moment, and he said tremblingly: "What are you talking about, I don't understand." ”

The middle-aged man smiled, "You haven't forgotten the widowed woman who begged you to ferry five years ago, have you?" ”

Grandpa's body trembled even more, and he muttered, "I don't know, what are you talking about, I won't want this child!" ”

"That woman just lost her husband, but you have to admit that the widow can't pull her, so she left her alone on the river, so that she jumped into the river in desperation and committed suicide, this debt is not repaid, do you still want to leave it to future generations!"

The middle-aged man's words were like a thunderbolt from the sky, and the grandfather who blew up stood on the spot, but after a moment of distraction, the grandfather still shook his head desperately, "It's not that I let her go in the river, it's the king of the Yellow River who pulled the boat and didn't let her cross the river, I persuaded her not to move, so I thought about abandoning the boat and leaving first, and then looking for someone to pull her back after the anger of the king of the Yellow River, but after half a day's effort, she committed suicide by throwing herself into the river, I didn't even find her body, it was the king of the Yellow River who accepted her, it has nothing to do with me, and it has nothing to do with my grandson!" ”

"She's standing by the river waiting for you right now, would you like to ask her in person if she's willing to spare your grandson?"

A "how" fell, the sound of the wind and snow in the sky began to fill the woman's miserable cry, the grandfather trembled into a sieve, knelt on the ground with a flutter, and kowtowed desperately in the direction of the Yellow River, and at the same time there was a man's sneer behind him, "I will come to you again when your grandson is born, and whether you agree or not, your grandson cannot stay in your Bai family, otherwise one corpse and two lives, and the Bai family will be completely wiped out." ”

Grandpa said this has already burst into tears, choking and crying, I woke up from the shock, wanted to persuade him but did not know where to speak, and after a while, grandpa wiped his tears with his sleeve and said: "On the morning of your eldest brother's birth, he found me again, handed you into my hands, and told me to put your eldest brother in a basket and send it to the river, since there will be his life, and passed on my ability to fish for corpses and ask for trouble, from that day on, I completely changed my career to collect corpses and became a Yellow River corpse digger." ”

"But are you so relieved to put your newborn eldest brother in the river, not to mention anything else, how dangerous it is in the river, and that woman, are you afraid that something will happen to your eldest brother?" I'm still a little puzzled.

Grandpa shook his head bitterly, "When your eldest brother was born, that woman was standing outside the window, if it wasn't for the appearance of that person, I'm afraid your eldest brother would have died a long time ago." ”

"And when I sent your eldest brother down the river, the woman kept following behind and sent your eldest brother away until she disappeared."