"Ask him?" I had already apologized to Maitreya and was listening to Grandma Seven's story with all my attention, but Grandma Seven's words suddenly changed, and I couldn't help but turn my head to look at Maitreya again.

Maitreya had been listening without saying a word, and when he heard Grandma Seven say this, he raised his head and stared at me, and he didn't know how to speak for a while. I was full of doubts in my heart, and I had to start guessing again, Maitreya, who is he?

"Let's be honest." The seventh grandmother said: "The one who gave the order to Song Baiyi must be the Changmen of the Seven Gates, Pang Du has already gone to Zhenhe, he doesn't know about it, Song Baiyi doesn't care, and the sixth doesn't care, they all took the order." Is it possible for someone like Lao Liu to listen to others casually? If the guess is correct, the person who ordered it must be huge. ”

"That's right." Maitreya smiled reluctantly and said to Grandma Qi: "You guessed accurately, grandma, you know a lot about the things of Qimen." ”

"Maitreya, what's going on!" I said, "It's time for you to say something." ”

"I won't say it, this old grandmother has already said it for me, and when it comes to this, it's not interesting to hide it." Maitreya's expression couldn't be said to be sour or bitter, he looked at me and said, "Water baby, when Uncle Nagato went west, he gave an order to several people from the Seven Gates, which was not so much an order as a bureau. ”

The Seven Gates of the River Cave have never relied on others, just like the old ghost and grandfather's temperament, no matter how many enemies there are, I am alone, the wind to block the wind, and the rain to block the rain. But the power of the Seven Gates is too thin, and there was a top figure in the Holy Domain back then, Zhong Hu, who was a huge threat to the Seven Gates, and he didn't want to go west, but if he didn't make a move, no one could compete with Zhong Hu. As soon as he left, the old ghost went to Zhenhe again, and the dragons of the seven gates were leaderless, and it was inevitable that they would be calculated.

"You can't beat one person, what should I do?" Maitreya said: "There is only one way, forbearance." ”

Forbearance, is the last way that the giant can come up with, only forbearance, endure it thoroughly, can make all those who are hostile to the Seven Gates relax their vigilance.

At this moment, I suddenly realized that the intention of the huge and grandfather were actually the same.

"Only forbearance! It makes people feel that all the important people in our seven doors are dead, and the opponent will be paralyzed! Maitreya said as she spoke, not knowing what touched the bottom of her heart, and her eyes turned red all of a sudden: "Water baby, do you blame me?" Blame me for hiding it from you? ”

"I don't blame you." After all, I am actually still a person who is easy to get emotional, looking at Maitreya's eyes red, and thinking of a bunch of scars on his body, his nose also felt sour, and he lowered his head and said: "I know you are a good brother, I just want to ask, who are you?" ”

"I'm the same person as you." Maitreya had red eyes, smiled self-deprecatingly, and her voice trembled: "My mother is an ordinary person, she passed away very early, my father is not a human or a ghost, he has grown so big, I have seen him three times in total, every time we meet, I only talk more than ten words, he will hold me and shed tears by himself." But I don't blame him, I know that he carries a lot of baggage. The ancestors of the Seven Gates passed down this burden, and we have to carry it! Sometimes, when I was injured, I hid alone to wrap up my wounds, my heart was bitter, and I was also wronged, there are so many villages on the river beach, and I am about the same age, all of them are fathers and dolls, wives and children are hot on the kang, and the family is harmonious and beautiful, why should I live such a life? Water baby, you know? Why do we live such days? ”

I made Maitreya say that my heart was sour, the people of the seven gates were so miserable, either they had a dead son or no father, but they still refused to stop, walking tirelessly on this road.

"Do nothing, just because our destiny is predestined, born in the Seven Gates, that is, the people of the Seven Gates! It's dead, it's the ghost of the Seven Gates! Maitreya slowly stretched out his hand, pressed my shoulder, shook it vigorously, and said, "Don't hide it from you, my surname is Pang." ”

"Are you really?"

"The Pang dog that this grandmother is talking about is my father, Nagato Pang Du, my grandfather, the big palm lamp in the past, is my grandfather."

My heart suddenly became clear, bright and indescribably comfortable, and moved, and the stone blocked in my heart suddenly shattered and disappeared without a trace. Looking at Maitreya with a round face, I couldn't be more happy. All doubts are gone, and he is indeed a good brother! Our good brother of the Seven Gates!

"Seniors, they have their own plans." Maitreya's eyes became redder and redder, and she said, "You, have you seen my grandfather?" Is his body still strong? It's still sturdy, isn't it? ”

"It's very strong, it's tough, and it's no problem to live for another hundred years!" As soon as I rejoiced, I felt uncomfortable, why is the old ghost's life so bitter, his son is not dead, and his grandson is already so old, but he still has countless sorrows, and walks alone on the road to the west.

"My grandfather doesn't know about these things, and the sixth master may not bother to talk about it." Maitreya breathed a sigh of relief and said, "When the grandfather left back then, someone asked him if he would convey these words to him when my grandfather came out of the river." The grandfather thought about it at the time, and said lightly, Zhenhe is a hard job, and the people in the Seven Gates are not divided into your family and my family, who is not a town? ”

Huge should be the most powerful person in Qimen over the years, and he also thinks the farthest. He was like a mirror in his heart, if he went west, there was no big palm lamp in Qimen, there was no long gate, and the people under him, who would voluntarily go over to replace Zhenhe? Ten years is not long, but it is not short, but it is enough to make people boil their hair white. When he left, he had already expected that no one would replace the old ghost, and he knew that his hard-working son might have to stay in the river for the rest of his life!

As soon as I thought of the old ghost, I immediately lowered my head and couldn't hold back my tears. He is a fool, let him control the river, he will town, a town for fifty years, if it is not for the sense that the sky is about to collapse, he may have to continue the town. However, it was this stupid old man who made me cry again and again, feel nostalgic again and again, and worry again and again.

Old ghost, are you okay?

"Don't be sad, what the master thought of back then has really come true." Maitreya rubbed his eyes, patted me on the shoulder, and said, "Our Qimen, it looks like we are dying, and we are scattered, but it won't be long before you can see that Qimen will stand tall and stand!" ”

Following Maitreya's words, I suddenly felt that there was strength all over my body. The sky has eyes, Dad is not dead, Pang Gouzi is not dead, they are still there! It's not that it doesn't appear, it's just that the time hasn't come yet!

"Granny." Maitreya turned to the seventh grandmother and said, "You are so clear about the affairs of the Seven Gates, you are considered a member of the Tang family, right?" ”

"This is my daughter." The seventh grandmother pointed to the aunt of the Tang family next to her and said, "Tang Baichuan is my son-in-law, and this matchmaker is still made by the sixth child." Shui Wa, how do you say the sixth child's heart and eyes are long? ”

"How?"

"Let's tell you the truth, since ancient times, the Seven Gates and the Thirty-Six Gates have been enemies, and those who come from the west are mortal enemies. Tang Baichuan is the seventh gate, my daughter, to put it bluntly, she is half of the people from the west, and in this relationship, the sixth child can still live together for decades. The seventh grandmother smiled and said, "Do you think he has many eyes?" ”

I was slightly shocked, but I wasn't surprised. The girl who was riding the big dog before had already revealed her tail behind her.

"Seventh Grandma, are you from the west?"

"I'm halfway west, too." The seventh grandmother pointed to the hall and said, "On the recliner in the big house, it's my mother, and that's the person who really came from the west." ”

My mind is in turmoil again, the people from the west have always given me a feeling of being so cruel that they have lost their humanity, such as camellias, such as the big-headed Buddha, but the seven grandmothers, including the old woman who only has half a child left on the chaise longue in the big house, seem to be two completely different people from the camellia.

"I know what else you want to ask, my daughter coaxed you in the river eye at that time, and the tunnel in the river eye is connected to my house, isn't it?" The seventh grandmother crossed her legs, and the aunt of the Tang family gave her a bag of dry tobacco, she took two puffs slowly, and said, "Since you want to talk about it, let's talk about it." I grew up on the river beach, and those things were all said by my mother. When you talk about people like us, you always say that they are from the west, but in fact, if you want them to say it themselves, there, it's the holy land, water baby, do you know what the holy place looks like? ”

"I don't know." I shook my head, I heard the Big-Headed Buddha talk about the Holy Domain before, he was always full of pride, and he felt that the Sacred Domain was the most sacred place in the world, but about the details of the Holy Domain, the Big-headed Buddha never talked about it.

"I'll tell you, it's one of the worst places in the world!"

The Sanctuary is far away in the far west, where it is covered with ice and snow that cannot be melted all year round, not a single grass grows, nothing grows, and the people of the Sanctuary have never known what food is since they were young. They eat grass roots, and there is a kind of powder ground from stones, which cannot make people live for long.

"The people of the Sanctuary eat blood. The demon tail is in the face, the seven-fingered divine power, if you don't eat blood food, you can't stay in the face, and you don't have divine power, do you know what blood food is? As the seventh grandmother said herself, she shuddered and said, "A living person." ”

The people of the Sanctuary often go out hunting, but their prey is the living. Every year, when the snow melts a little, the people of the Sanctuary will travel far away, and hunt for a lot in populated places, and the "prey" will not be eaten for a while and a half, so they will all rush back, and raise them like livestock, and when the heavy snow covers the mountains and cannot get out, they will use the living people as blood food every day to survive.

That scene was extremely miserable, in the ice and snow, one by one living people were directly cut into large pieces on the snow, blood, flesh, and internal organs, so that the people of the Holy Land could eat cleanly. In the snow and ice, there were white miserable human bones everywhere, like a white and vast Shura hell.

"There are some people in the Sanctuary who don't want to live like that, even though they grew up there." The seventh grandmother said: "So, they escaped. ”