The food in his stomach seemed to be very helpful in resisting the cold, Zheng Pei moved his hands and feet, and the heat slowly flowed through his body. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info In the hazy moonlight, there was a slight glimmer of blue light in the dead corridor, and suddenly a gust of wind swept by, and Zheng Pei knew that she had come.

"You're lucky, but you can't rely on that to do things." Ba Niang's voice came from behind her, and Zheng Pei slowly turned around and looked at her calmly.

"You've got all your stuff here, what else do you need me for?" Zheng Pei asked.

Ba Niang didn't answer, she untied a bag and took out a piece of clothing and a yellow stone. She handed a yellow transparent stone to Zheng Pei, "You use the small stone you are carrying to grind some powder from this piece of jade, a little more." ”

This piece of jade-seeking is much lighter than it looks, about the same weight as wood. Zheng Pei took out the small stone that he almost ate as a corn kernel today from his trouser pocket, and grinded it vigorously on Xunyu, and after a few clicks, he grinded a groove on the surface of Xunyu, and piled some powder on both sides. And then the powder was not yellow, but black.

Ba Niang picked up the powder and rubbed it on her arm, then smeared it on the wooden door of the company she and Zheng Pei had entered before, turned around and left. Although Zheng Pei didn't know what she was going to do, he could only follow.

After leaving the Cheng Sheng Building, Ba Niang said to Zheng Pei: "You grind a little more powder out and scatter it in the air, and the wind will show us the way." ”

Sure enough, the powder that was scattered in the air emitted a little flash of light, and drifted far away with the wind. And Ba Niang and Zheng Pei followed those powders all the way. The wind walked into the woods and carried them along a path away from the road. The star-dotted night was torn to pieces by the canopy of trees, and Zheng Pei suddenly heard the sound of water, and the wind carried them out of the woods, and the black Nancheng River flowed in front of them.

The shiny powder fell into the water, some of it sank to the bottom, and some of it drifted away with the river. Ba Niang looked at the yellow dots faintly revealing from the bottom of the water and asked Zheng Pei: "Do you know water?" ”

Zheng Pei nodded.

Ba Niang then said, "What I want is in this water, you go down and get it up." ”

Zheng Pei's brows suddenly furrowed, such a cold world, doesn't this want my life? But helping Ba Niang is helping herself, and it seems that going into the water is inevitable.

Zheng Pei took off his clothes, but stubbornly refused to take off his autumn pants. Ba Niang didn't say anything, just smiled. The night breeze mixed with water vapor licked all over Zheng Pei's body, and although Zheng Pei's expression refused to admit it, the goosebumps on his body were layer after layer.

Zheng Pei sat at the edge of the water and soaked his calves in the water, the cold feeling was instantly transmitted from his toes to the top of his head, he grabbed some water and wiped his head and neck, gritted his teeth and jumped into the water reflexively. Although his hands were still on the shore, his body felt like he had fallen into another world.

He felt countless blades of ice slicing through him, slicing his flesh off piece by piece.

Zheng Pei used his hand to pull his body out of the water, fortunately the current was very slow, and he asked Ba Niang on the shore while treading the water: "Where are the things you want?" I can't see anything. ”

"It should be right below you, not far away." Ba Niang pointed to the yellow dots that appeared and disappeared under the water and said.

Zheng Pei took a deep breath, although it was now entering the dry period, he knew that his body would not last long at such a low temperature. Zheng Pei picked at the underwater stones with his hands and dived as hard as he could. In the darkness he groped desperately for the bottom of the river, full of stones, mud, sand, branches, and the like. Zheng Pei swam out of the water for a breath, and then dived down to explore. Suddenly, he seemed to touch a piece of cloth, and it seemed to be a round and soft thing that he had touched along the cloth. Zheng Pei was shocked and exhaled, he hurriedly swam out of the water and changed his breath.

"Ahem...... What do you want? Zheng Pei asked Ba Niang suspiciously.

Ba Niang smiled, it seemed that she had found it, and she said calmly to Zheng Pei: "That's my corpse." ”

Zheng Pei's face was distorted by disgust and fear, he scolded Ba Niang countless times in his heart, and when he just wanted to go ashore with the stones on the shore, he was depressed and retreated.

"If the water is too cold, you can come up and relax." Ba Niang said.

Zheng Pei also wanted to go ashore, but he knew that out of fear of the icy river water, he would not be able to come down if he went up. So he had to grit his teeth "more" and dive into the water again. Zheng Pei grabbed the corpse's feet and neck and dragged it, but found that he couldn't pull it at all. He had no choice but to swim out of the water again, treading water and panting for breath while trying to figure out a way.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and there was a shoal not far downstream, and now the water level was only one man deep, and he should be able to drag it over and out of the water. Zheng Pei took a deep breath, grabbed the corpse's feet and neck, and dragged it vigorously with his foot on the stones at the bottom of the river. After several air changes, Zheng Pei finally dragged one of the corpse's legs to the shallows, at this time he was too tired to care about dragging the corpse out of the water completely, just wading on the ground and gasping for breath.

Ba Niang walked over and saw Zheng Pei's body whirring with steam, under the illumination of the moonlight, he looked like a chicken that had just been cooked out of the pot. Zheng Pei fought hard, grabbed the corpse's feet and neck and dragged it to the shore, almost after exhausting the energy of the porridge and steamed buns, he finally dragged the female corpse to the shore completely.

Seeing the white and muddy face of the female corpse, Ba Niang seemed to be greatly stimulated, and quickly turned around and walked away.

Zheng Pei took off his soaked autumn pants and quickly put on his clothes. But he had few clothes, and when the wind blew, he squatted on the ground and shivered. Hearing Ba Niang call him, he could only rub his arms and thighs vigorously in desperation, and walked over tremblingly.

Ba Niang turned her back and didn't look at Zheng Pei, and asked Zheng Pei to open a burden. Zheng Pei looked at the clothes in the baggage, and for a moment thought that Ba Niang was worried about him being cold, so he asked him to put on to keep warm. But this idea was soon shattered, because the clothes in the baggage were a set of colorful women's clothes and trousers, with a lot of embroidery and patterns.

In the cold wind, Zheng Pei shivered and was extremely disappointed.

Ba Niang still didn't turn around, and seemed indifferent to her corpse. But Zheng Pei still keenly heard a trace of sadness in her voice: "You go and help her change her clothes." ”

She?! Zheng Pei turned his head to look, and he understood that this "she" referred to the Ba Niang lying on the ground.

He stammered, "I...... I'll change it for you...... Change of clothes? ”

Ba Niang saw Zheng Pei's scruples, and said calmly: "Go ahead, it's okay." ”

In the past, when I was in the village, people drowned almost every year, and compared to the swollen and terrible appearance, Ba Niang's body had hardly changed. She looked to be in her thirties, with a beautiful appearance and a bumpy figure, and although her hair and mud obscured part of her face, she could still be seen as a very beautiful woman. But these have turned into clouds, and now she is just a corpse with pale skin. After some dragging, the female corpse's blue dress has been rubbed to the waist, revealing two smooth thighs, Zheng Pei looked at the female corpse, not knowing how to start, although he repeatedly told himself that this was just a lifeless corpse, but when he unbuttoned his shirt and saw his plump breasts pop out all of a sudden, his face suddenly turned red to the base of his neck. So he hurriedly buttoned his shirt again, because Zheng Pei really didn't have the courage to take off the corpse's clothes, so he put on the cloth clothes and pants.

Looking at the rolled and wrinkled clothes on the corpse, Ba Niang didn't say anything. Remorse and sorrow repeatedly entangled on her face, gradually merging, and finally turning into relief.

Zheng Pei felt his heart beating hard, and blushed and pretended to look elsewhere. When his mother hugged him, he would only feel warm and safe, and now this strange woman's body, maybe Zheng Pei didn't care about being afraid from the perspective of the corpse, but from the perspective of the sexes, he felt embarrassed and panicked.

Ba Niang sighed lightly and said to Zheng Pei, "Put that little stone of yours in her dantian position." ”

"Dantian?" Zheng Pei asked puzzled.

"It's about the position of the three fingers below the navel. Just put it on and you're good to go. Ba Niang explained very calmly.

"Oh." Zheng Pei answered, took out a small stone from his pocket, and walked to the side of the female corpse. But when he actually went to look for it, he suddenly found that the so-called "three fingers under the navel" was a very embarrassing part for him. He hastily measured it, placed the small stone on the corpse, and turned away.

The small stone gradually glowed blue in Ba Niang's whisper, like a small colored light bulb. Many yellow points of light were drilled out of the corpse, gathered and circled over the small stones, and with the ups and downs of Ba Niang's gestures, they merged into the small stones in batches, and the corpses gradually turned black, and when the yellow points of light no longer drilled out, the corpses had become like black charcoal.

Ba Niang stopped whispering, she took out a small bottle from her pocket, poured the liquid inside on the small stone, all the light seemed to be imprisoned in an instant, only the small stone emitted a dark red light in the dark. Ba Niang handed Zheng Pei a handkerchief and motioned for him to put away the small stone. Zheng Pei walked over and carefully wrapped the small stone in a handkerchief and handed it to Ba Niang.

"What about this?" Zheng Pei asked, looking at the charcoal-like corpse.

"Put it in the river." After Ba Niang finished speaking, she turned around and walked away.

Zheng Pei wanted to push the corpse into the river, but when his fingers touched the corpse, the corpse immediately turned into a pile of black sand. Zheng Pei's stomach churned, so he had to pinch the clothes he put on, and gently put the corpse into the river, but what puzzled him was that the weight of the sand was much lighter than the weight of the previous corpse, what did that small stone take away?

The sand soon sank into the river, as if it had melted into the black night, silently, except for the bright clothes still floating on the water. Zheng Pei glanced back at Ba Niang, she had already walked away, as if this body had nothing to do with her, but after an instant, they went their separate ways.

Speechless all the way. After returning to the Cheng Sheng Building, Zheng Pei first went to the guard room to take a look, and found that Uncle Zhang had already slept, so his heart was relieved. He took the remaining baggage and followed Ba Niang to the sixth floor. Ba Niang sat on the windowsill of the corridor, staring at the stars stupidly, while Zheng Pei sat on the floor a few meters away from him, silent.

"Ah Zai, do you say that people are like this when they die?" Ba Niang asked softly.

Zheng Pei didn't answer, he hadn't died, how could he know if it was all the same.

Ba Niang turned her head to look at him, and at this time she no longer had the original resentment. She leaned against the window with her hands and knees, her eyebrows regaining the softness she had before she had lived. The faint starlight was woven into a cloak and draped over her body, reflecting the outline of her body, looking at her, Zheng Pei's mind involuntarily appeared in her life. When he was by the river just now, he still wondered why Ba Niang's body was so different from her ghost, if they were all alive, they would hardly be considered a person. Now Zheng Pei somewhat understands that maybe people feel the same way after they die, but what can make others distinguish when they are still alive may be human nature.

Ba Niang opened the handkerchief and stared blankly at the small red stone. After a long time, he asked faintly: "Ah Zai, what do you say people live for?" ”

Zheng Pei looked at Ba Niang blankly, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

Ba Niang actually smiled softly and said, "You don't have to be afraid, I won't withdraw your words, let's just talk." You tell me, what are you living for? ”

Ba Niang's smile made Zheng Pei instantly let go of most of his vigilance and uneasiness, he thought for a while, and replied: "I just want to go to school now, find a good job in the future, and earn money to make my mother's life better." ”

Ba Niang smiled, a little helpless in her smile, but also a little affirmative. "You're still a child, but you're sensible and know how to share the burden for your family," she said. A glimmer of light flashed in Ba Niang's eyes, and she asked with a smile, "Your father must love you very much, right?" ”

Zheng Pei pursed his lips and replied: "My father died when I was very young, I was raised by my mother, she has suffered a lot over the years, and she has fallen ill. But no matter how difficult the family was, she always encouraged me to study and let me fulfill my father's last wish. So I'm not going to college now for myself, but for my mother to have a better life in the future. ”

After Zheng Pei finished speaking, Ba Niang closed her eyes, leaned her head against the wall, and seemed to fall into a bitter thought: "You are a good boy, you will definitely have good rewards in the future." If I had been as sensible as you back then, listening to the master's words, I wouldn't have ended up where I am today. Ba Niang paused and said, "You go, remember to come back to me tomorrow night." ”