Chapter 4: A Bone

"Peach Niang. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" The boss sighed, put the bones in the jar, and put them in the back room. When he came out, he saw Qiu Ling.

"Boss, I want to drink immortal drunk." Qiu Ling put down the notebook in his hand.

"The woman who made the immortal drunk has long since left, and the last altar was drunk by you three hundred years ago." The boss smiled gently, "But I learned to make some mulberry wine, and I can still drink it." ”

"Who are you fooling? Mulberry wine is to cook mulberries with wine, which is something that those women on the banks of the Qinhuai River must learn. Add some raspberries for a more refreshing taste. ”

"It's the custom of Wanli time, right?" The proprietor brought out some pastries to accompany the wine, lit the small stove, took out two wine saucers, and added some mulberries.

"Hey, no wonder you said that it was mulberry wine, this is the fruit of the mulberry tree that has grown for 70,000 years on the bank of the Huangquan River?" Qiu Ling took a mulberry in surprise and looked at it, "I heard the edelweiss tree on the snow-capped mountain say that the last time it turned out was because the woman named Luo Fu picked a branch that stretched out of the underworld when she was picking mulberries. ”

"That's right, this time the result is also a flower that bloomed during the Republic of China, Jinling's blood flowed too much, and it flowed into the Sansheng River along an undercurrent of the Yangtze River, and it absorbed the river water before it bloomed. This time, the fruit has a sake aroma, so I tried to make it with sake, but I didn't expect it to be surprisingly successful. ”

"Isn't it good-tempered? I have seldom heard of a demon or god receiving its fruit. ”

"Hahaha, that kid is simply short-tempered, but who made me the river master?" The boss suddenly became happy, and even the wrinkles on his face were hiding.

"Boss, how old are you?" Qiu Ling scalded the wine saucer by himself, poured the wine and drank, "Hey, drink this wine with the wine saucer, Gegao." ”

"In ancient times, there were great tsubakes, with 8,000 years old as spring and 8,000 years old as autumn."

"What Zhuangzi said, is there really a big chun?"

"This mulberry tree belongs to the Dachun clan, it's only 70,000 years old, isn't it a kid?" The boss picked up the wine that Qiu Ling gave him, took a shallow sip, took another mulberry, and put it in his mouth.

"You still haven't told me how old you are?" Qiu Ling also ate a mulberry and asked him, "Where's the teapot?" I'll make you a bowl of tea. One hundred and thirty years ago, I went to Tianmingteng and met an interesting person, who also said that he was the emperor of the Song Dynasty. However, the tea he brewed was very delicious, and the bite was beautiful, and I learned from him for decades. ”

"Old place." The boss ate a snack, watching Qiu Ling babbling in front of him, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously rose a little more, "Why are you going to find Tianming Teng?" ”

"Hey, speaking of which, I'm here today to ask you to do something for me." She had found the teapot, took a small gourd from her waist, and poured water into the teapot from it.

"Is that the water from the Tianshan Mountains?" The boss asked, "I originally wanted to tell you not to rush, to be courteous and courteous, and to be either a traitor or a thief." But for the sake of your good water, let's talk about something! ”

"It was a hundred and thirty years ago, there were no trams in Shanghai, and I picked up a little in the garbage heap." Qiu Ling waited for the water to boil, "That dog is also pitiful, it should still be lactating, but I didn't see its cubs, skinny, dirty and dead." ”

The water was boiling, she quickly brewed the tea, and with the appearance of the tea powder, a quiet and quiet aroma spread out, like the smell of spring wind, clean and clear. She pushed the brewed tea in front of the boss and continued:

"I'm also an unsympathetic person, you know, I'm a demon. But when I saw the petals, that is, the little, I suddenly felt a little lonely, and the petals were also lonely, so I picked her up and made me a companion.

However, she was a little seriously injured, her hind legs were broken, her ears were cut off, and she was blind in one eye, and there were stone slags on her eyes, which showed that she had been smashed.

"In order to save her, I went to find Tianming Teng. However, although I saved her, the ghost doctor who had suffered a thousand knives was unwilling to help her tie her legs. said that a Tianming vine can only help him connect his ears and heal his eyes.

"I'm a half-ass, I only helped her connect her right hind leg, and her left leg is forever lame.

"But she's my family, she's lame, she's lame, and I don't dislike her.

"I've been running around for more than a hundred years, she follows me, from south to north, she eats whatever I eat, sometimes I don't want to leave, she licks me, and pats me with her paws, sometimes, especially when I'm sad, she comforts me, I feel like I've picked up a dog. Hehehe.

"The petals are really well-behaved.

"But she left a few days ago, and I found her a lot of life-sustaining elixirs, but she still didn't live." Qiu Ling took a sip of tea, a little sad, she rubbed her face to make herself happy, "One hundred and thirty years, she has been with me for so long." I cremated her and scattered her ashes under the tree she liked to rub on. While holding her ashes, I found this. ”

Qiu Ling took out a bone in a crystal box from his arms, "When I touched this bone, I saw something, look at it!" ”

The boss smiled and took the box, "Do you want to take it out?" ”

"Yes!"

The boss opened the box and was a little excited for some reason.

He picked up the bones, and a messy image appeared before his eyes.

The traffic is full of horses, lively and noisy.

The little is a dirt dog that was already pregnant with a puppy when she was kicked out of the house by her owner.

It was homeless and had an extra litter of cubs, so it could only wander around the garbage heap and dig a garbage pit, which was considered a nest for it and the cubs for the time being.

Everything is gray, the distorted face is gray, the stinky slices of bread and the roast chicken are gray, and the little ones who beat their own cubs to death are also gray.

The little doesn't know what she did wrong and why her own child was beaten to death in the garbage heap.

"Oh~ This litter of puppies is still good-looking, gray and not slippery, it really looks like a dog!"

"Wang~" The puppy on the garbage heap barked happily at the group. They just want someone to play with them, and they never have malicious intent!

"Little brute, dare to bite us, kill you, kill you!" A timid looking boy grabbed a dog and threw it at the rocks.

"Woo woo woo~" The puppy first howled violently, then whined a few times, and then stopped writhing.

The sharp stone left a red spot of blood.

"Oh oh ~ come again!" The children coaxed and grabbed the remaining three puppies, threw them in different places, and grabbed them again, and threw them again.

"Wang~Wang!" The little rushed out and bit one of the children.

"Get out of the dead dog~ Get out of the way!" The kid kicked desperately. The little bitten him painfully, and the child who was with him pulled and tugged again, separating the child from the dog.

"Fuck off!" A rock hits the little on the back.

"Day, brute who doesn't know words!" Another stone.

Stones were thrown at it.

The little clamped her tail and whimpered to dodge.

"Let's go and see if the dog is dead! Eat dog meat tonight! ”

"Brother, my feet hurt!" The bitten boy looked pitifully at the half-grown youth led by him!

", it hurts." The young man spat at him.

The little had half-open eyes, and blood was dripping from its mouth. But it survived, and the children picked up the dead puppy and skinned it in front of it, disemboweling it!

"Woo~" the little moaned weakly, and then fell unconscious.

The little didn't die, but her hind legs were broken. They didn't eat it, but they blinded its eyes and cut off its ears.

It didn't dare to stop in the garbage pile, and crawled slowly along the streets full of monsters.

"Get out! Something that doesn't want to die! The old woman beat it with a stick.

"Ahh I don't care about you! The delicate lady kicked it with her high heels.

"Get out of here!"

Men, women, old people, children, all disgusted to expel it.

The little dragged her broken leg and survived.

But it's already dying, and it's still breathing.

When it was placed next to a garbage dump by a man, it thought it was dead.

The little is half-minded, and sometimes she wonders why the owner doesn't want it, is it because the arrogant people drag the owner out of the house and beat him violently, and then take away everything in the house? Or do you eat too much if you are disobedient?

The little is half-open, where does the little head want so much?

It only remembers that it was once loved by humans, and that it had a litter of puppies; All suffering is a gray distortion, and the hideous is always gray raindrops; or that fate does not give it the right to die in the best of times; Or maybe it owes some suffering to fate, so it makes up for it in this life.

Then close your eyes.

The picture starts to get messy.

The woman who was curling, the man who was drinking, the man who stood in the pavilion and stretched out his hand to this place of nothingness, the river glowing with red light.

In the end, the picture is frozen in a peach blossom forest in full swing.

The boss trembled and put the bones into the box, and the old face became young in an instant, the gray hair turned black, the facial features were delicate, and the eyebrows and eyes were picturesque.

"Wow, boss, you ......"

The boss looked up at Qiu Ling, realized that he had lost his temper, took a deep breath, and his appearance returned to his original appearance. "Sorry for making you laugh."

"Boss, you are so handsome......" Qiu Ling's eyes turned into starry eyes.

"Ahem, what do you want me to do?" The boss interrupted her.

"Oh, I want you to ask you to pay attention to my petals when I am extradited, I want to wait for her to be reincarnated and go to her."

"You've found the person you're looking for?" The owner was curious.

"Not yet, no hurry, I have a lot of time, and he just happens to have it. But my petals are different, it can't even be repaired by demons, I want to accompany her for a lifetime, when I thank her for licking me when I am sad. ”

"Okay, I'll try my best." The boss looked at the box and asked her, "Leave this to me." ”

"But ......"

"You can lend me for a while."

"What are you going to do?"

"I ...... I'm sorry, I'm useful, I'll be done when I'm done. ”

"I can't help it, but ...... You should take good care of it! Qiu Ling smiled and said, "I have also moved to this city, when you have time, come and sit with me." ”

"Okay."