"You bump, you bump, cluck~"

I was well aware of my own consciousness, but my body was not under my control, and I looked at the wall outside my gate with a smirk on the corner of my mouth, and I didn't feel the slightest chill on my feet in the snow. The eye could see her, a woman dressed in tatters but with a scorched face. She danced and pointed to the target location, giggling and giggling: "Good daughter, bump, bump!! ”

'Knock knock'

My head slammed straight into the wall like a wooden fish, and the dull sound of my forehead sounded, and I knew very well that if I hit it like this, as soon as the third sister was discharged from the hospital tomorrow morning, what I saw was probably the tragic appearance of my scalp bleeding and freezing to death, but I didn't know the pain, and I couldn't control myself to stop, if someone passed by. I'm going to see my demented giggle on my face now, yes, I'm being toyed with by a ghost......

And this ghost, I am still an old acquaintance, I still clearly remember her on Anqi's outfit My father begged for money and was whipped by me with his trouser belt, but I didn't expect that thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, how long did it take for her to avenge this revenge.

It's just a matter of being a man, and now, even ghosts come to the door to report the revenge of being bullied by me before, which is really sad and laughable.

I hit my head again and again. I felt the warm blood slowly flowing down the bridge of my nose to my chin, and finally I was swept away by the cold wind, and the smile at the corner of my mouth was a little numb, maybe it was the spirituality in the water received by my body that allowed me to see her and still be sober in my heart to watch how she played me to death, but I have to say that this way of dying is not painful, except for the miserable appearance when I was seen in the morning, but in terms of the process, it is definitely comfortable.

'Knock~Knock~Knock~'

I had to hit my head and bleed. My mind was still jumping, and I was even thinking that maybe one day this place would be haunted, just watching me hit my head again and again......

"Giggle...... It's fun to bang! Enjoyable! Be ruthless! Be ruthless!! ”

She laughed more and more sharply and rampantly, contorting her face and bouncing behind me, my eyes gradually turned scarlet, the color of blood flowing into my eyes, smirking and closing my eyes, I don't know how long it will take to hit, but I think, should I be dying, it's good, it is not too much to be killed in the future.

"Roar!!

A low roar suddenly hit my ears with a cold wind, and I shuddered. My neck was instantly under my control, and the blood coming out of my forehead made me dizzy for a moment, and I was completely stunned when I held on to the bloodstained wall that I had hit, and turned my face.

The thing in front of me stood white, holding the ground with both hands, looking at the direction behind me staring at the copper bell-like eyes glowing with blood-red light, the woman behind me wanted to float away in a hurry, but the curtain ground, it jumped high, and pounced on the woman behind me, with a low roar in its mouth, I didn't see it bite with its upper teeth, but just watched its little hand go directly to the woman's heart, and the lonely soul disappeared in an instant

scattered, this female ghost was completely made by it and didn't even have the right to be a ghost......

Holding my breath from my chest, my feet were frozen and a little disobedient, I just let myself turn around stiffly, and tried to look at its face, for a long time, I couldn't believe that it was actually it, "Little ...... Little Gazi? ”

Its mouth was still grinning, and it viciously drew twice on the boundary of the woman's soul, and then raised its eyes to look at me, the red light in its eyes gradually faded, and with a leap of its feet, it actually ran into the courtyard of my house!

"Hey! Little Gazi! You don't go!! ”

I'm in a hurry to call it, I won't forget the facial features, although most people will look exactly the same when the mandrill grows up, but in fact, as long as you pay attention, you will feel that they are the same as the human face, and each one is different.

It's like the people in the village raising livestock, mules, horses, and people in the city look the same, but the people in the village know each other, and know that every horse and every mule looks different, I and Xiao Gazi should not have seen each other for more than a year, as a spiritual thing, it must be the life span of human beings, at that time it will not go, but now it looks like a four or five-year-old child, can run and cross, and is not inferior to those adult mandrills, I am absolutely sure that this is the little Gazi who has been with me, just, how could it be here?!

"Little Gazi!!" I shouted again, "Don't ...... you"

Little Gazi came back, and he came out of the wall like a child and stood in front of me, carrying a pair of cotton shoes that seemed a little big to him

"Ga~"

As before, it made a soft cry of grandma, and the little hand carrying the big shoes also sent it to me, I pursed my lips vigorously, squatted down and did not take the shoes but stretched out my arm to hug the fluffy it, tears gushed out with the cold wind: "Xiao Gazi, it's really you, why are you here, I'm sorry, I originally said I was going to see you, my sister misses you very much, I really miss you......"

"Ga~"

It is still very sensible and very popular, wiping my tears with its little hands, and holding the shoes in my hands is still very stubborn, signaling me to put them on quickly, sniffing, I looked at it with tears and laughter, and the unconscious feet put into the shoes, and the whole person held it at the door, its body was very warm, holding it was like holding a stove, I remembered, when I was in the cave of Changbai Mountain, I didn't feel a trace of coldness when holding it.

The surroundings are very quiet, except for the sound of the wind, I can't hear a trace of sound, Xiao Gazi just sat quietly beside me, with a steam of water rising in his big eyes, watching me cry, it kept wiping my tears with my little hands, and the whole face was full of silent comfort, until my mood gradually stabilized, looking at it and then gently opened his mouth, "Xiao Gazi, how do you know that I am here, don't you live in Changbai Mountain......

"Ga"

It seemed to respond to me, stretched out its hand and pointed to the mountain where Uncle Ugly was buried, I raised my eyes and looked over, slightly puzzled: "But this mountain ......" suddenly remembered Uncle Ugly's words, "Yes, this is a branch of Changbai Mountain......"

A bitter smile overflowed at the corner of his mouth, "It seems that it is all destined." ”

Xiao Gazi blinked at me, as if he didn't understand the way I was talking to myself, I looked at the big nose that was still developing, remembered the way it had put my hand on its chest, but remembered a word, Ling......

"Xiao Gazi, is the water in my water tank your hands and feet? Are you helping me, right? ”

It looked at me with big eyes and stretched out its little hand to show me: "Quack ......"

By the moonlight, I saw a wound at a glance: "Your blood...... Did you put your blood in the tank? ”

After a while, it nodded and pointed at me with that finger, "Ga~"

I hugged it tightly, and suddenly I understood everything: "Although I don't have the innate yin and yang and have lost these perception abilities, but you want to help me, so you are giving me the spirit, hoping that my mind will have understanding in the future, right?" ”

It still nodded, and its mouth made a baby-like chirp.

"But, why don't you want me to know, little Gazi, you should have let me know sooner."

It looked up at me, pointed to the inside of the wall, then covered its eyes, and finally looked at me and shook its head, I smiled softly: "I understand, you are afraid that the third sister will see you and be scared, right?" ”

"Ga~"

It nodded again, pointed to my chest, and then leaned its head up, I hugged it and sighed softly: "It's me who is stupid, Xiao Gazi, I should have come out to find you earlier, are you afraid of being seen by others, I can see you sooner if I come out earlier......"

Holding it, I babbled about what happened to me for more than a year, I think there are many things it shouldn't understand, but it's very inexplicable to take it as the role of Zongbao, the third sister as Danfeng is a girl who bears these with me, I don't dare to say too many negative words, because this is pressure for her, both of us are very protective of each other, but the more protective, neither of them has an outlet to vent, she relies on me, but I'm afraid that this dependence will burden me, She showed me all the time that she could be self-reliant, and I was really distressed to see her like that, but my heart was powerless.

"Little Gazi, you know, I want to do a lot of things, but now, I can only be like an ostrich, hiding my head, I know that hiding a head is useless, because the body is still outside, it's not that I don't want to face it, but I don't know how to face it, I even think, if I don't die, these three years will be infinitely long, otherwise, what should I do, and how should I live to face my relatives, my friends, tell them that I can't actually stand up at all, All my words are nice to say and comfort them......"

Xiao Gazi dutifully played the role of a listener, he looked at me quietly, did not speak, but told me four words with his eyes, 'There is hope'.

Yes, it didn't say a word, but I saw the four words, hope.

When the rooster crowed, it got up, stood opposite me and drew a big circle with two small arms, then pointed to his fingers, and then gestured to me, looked up to make a drinking shape, I smiled and nodded: "Yes, I will drink......"

It patted my head like a little adult, and then pointed to the direction of the mountains and forests, raised his feet like a white shadow and crossed out of my sight a few times, I held on to the wall and slowly got up, until it ran away, the body felt the coldness again, and exhaled a long breath, I raised my feet and walked back to the yard slowly, the snail girl who helped me was Xiao Gazi, it gave me spiritual understanding, and it also knew that I couldn't digest it if I gave me too much, adhering to the principle of moisturizing things silently, once, only dropping a drop of blood into the water tank, It's just that......

I lowered my eyes and looked at my right hand, which was still numb, the root of yin and yang was broken, and no one came to teach me the Tao anymore, in the future, I may be able to help people pinch the hour, but I definitely can't draw the talisman, I can't do the Fa, think about it, how I used to be an onmyoji is something that comes easily, but now it seems so difficult and out of reach.

But within the scope of Xiao Gazi's ability, it has helped me enough, if it weren't for its blood, I think, I wouldn't be able to kill Aunt Zhu's family, maybe Xiao Gazi is the same as all the elders I once respected, like grandma, or like the three old fairies, Mr. Nan, and Uncle Ugly...... Without exception, they all hope that I am good, I am their hope, but maybe it is so much hope that makes me feel more and more disappointed in myself under the heavy trust.

"Jiaolong, where have you been......"

After entering the house, the third sister rubbed her eyes and got up from the kang, but when she saw my face clearly, she was so frightened: "What's wrong with your face!" Jiaolong! Did you fall! ”

"It's fine."

I chuckled in response, and looked at the broken mirror on the big closet, in which there were still a few blood channels on my face that had slipped down my forehead, and it looked like a victim who had escaped under the hands of the murderer, moistened the towel and wiped it, I looked back at the third sister's panicked face and still pulled the corners of my mouth: "Third sister, there must be hope, life, will give us hope......

"Jiaolong, is there something wrong with your head?"

The third sister looked at me in shock: "By the way, isn't that water, you drank too much of that astringent well water, so it's not normal now?!! ”

I looked at her with a smile and took her hand: "No, that's what I want to say to you, be hopeful, huh?!" ”

The third sister swallowed her saliva, looked at me with some understanding, and nodded: "Oh." ”

I didn't speak, in her inquiring eyes I read that she thought I was short-circuited, this is normal, I've been here for so long, I've always been bored, I don't talk much, and suddenly I came back with a head and a smile and told her to hope that she wouldn't be afraid!

The third sister stared at me nervously for two days, until she was sure that I was normal, and then she seemed to be secretly relieved and continued to work with Aunt Zhu on the two of them, of course I knew that she was staring at me, I was dull for a long time, and suddenly there was a smile that must be a mental problem, but I had no way to tell her that my temporary good mood was all because of what Xiao Gazi brought me.

The days seem to have hope and nothing seems to have changed, the first New Year is only me and the third sister, the two of us cooked dumplings and pulled our hands to watch the village other people's whips, the third sister couldn't help crying beside me, I looked at the fireworks in the sky but couldn't cry, many times, I think I'm too emotional, but crying a lot, the tear ducts are not as developed as before, for the New Year, I only went to the village commissary to make a phone call, it was to my mother, asked about my grandfather's situation and told her that I was still busy, Mom blamed me for saying that I was busy during the New Year, and she hadn't seen me for a long time, so I replied with a smile and went back when I was done.

My mother asked me mysteriously, is it for some big official to see things, why my news is not at all, otherwise if I do something big, I will definitely report it, I just wanted to reply, I heard my grandfather on the other end of the phone shouting Jiaolong, hurry up and eat! Xiaobai is here!

I was stunned, "Cheng Baize went?" ”

"It's not." My mother replied in a low voice: "Zongbao, your grandfather treats Zongbao as Xiaobai, because he is still angry with that little Nicole, and he throws his face at Xiaoni, saying that Xiaoni's name is Xiaoshu, and I am completely blinded." ”

I sighed: "But they just got married, why did they come to our house for the New Year." ”

"I don't know, Zongbao, this kid said that you are not coming to celebrate the New Year, otherwise I am afraid that I will not be lively with your grandfather, and he also said that he will spend the next year and the next year here, I total, why is he still saying this when you come back next year, I don't understand, Jiaolong, you don't want to stay outside for several years, right?"

I lowered my eyes: "Almost, Mom, you don't have to worry too much about my affairs, I'll go back when I'm done, what about Zong Bao, I want to talk to Zong Bao......"

"Hey, wait, that, Zong...... Xiaobai! You take a call!! ”

When Zongbao's voice came out of the microphone, I felt a little uncomfortable: "Thank you, for the Chinese New Year, and went to my house." ”

Zong Bao didn't respond to the microphone for a long time, I thought it was a bad signal, I fed it twice, and then I suppressed the voice and said: "Are you okay over there." ”

I looked back at the walls of the village and the big red blessing characters pasted everywhere, and pulled the corners of my mouth: "It's good......"

"Can I see TV?"

"Can ......"

"What to eat for Chinese New Year's Eve."

"Dumplings."

He didn't squeak again, and I cleared my throat: "Just after Chinese New Year's Eve at my house, hurry up and take Xiaoni back to your house, where to take the new daughter-in-law to someone else's house for the New Year, your parents will be unhappy if they know." ”

"Don't worry about my business, if you have the ability, you can come back and take care of it."

I rolled my eyes, suppressed my red eyes, and laughed: "Don't go back, it's good here, the villagers like me." ”

"Who believes it, everyone who likes you is here, where the hell are you, can you give me the address."

"No address, you don't have to sum it up, don't come to me, okay, I'm hanging, long-distance is expensive."

"Hey, wait, do you know anything about Zhuojing."

"I don't want to know."

"Wait! Let me tell you, he asked Xiao Tian to come to the store to find me, let me go to see him, Xiao Tian said that Zhuo Jing has some impressions of these people around you, but he doesn't know why he has these impressions, so he has been looking for these people who he doesn't know why he is related to him, you know! ”

"So, what do you want to tell me?"

"That's it, he may have forgotten it temporarily, but according to his character, he will definitely want to unlock the black hole in his memory, after all, it's very unpleasant to forget something, and it's very instinctive to find the truth, right?"

I let out a sigh of relief: "You're going to see him?" ”

"I didn't, I saw what was the use of him, didn't you explain it to me and didn't let me say it, I will give Xiao Tian the shares you asked me to transfer, that hot spring is very hot now, I don't understand what Xiao Tian said about listing, but it means that if you sign, these shares in your hand are equivalent to tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of assets!"

Hundreds of millions, how do I sound like I am talking about the book of heaven has nothing to do with me.

"What are you talking about, the money is not mine, okay, I'm hanging, the third sister is still waiting for me to go back to eat."

"By the way, there is one more thing I want to tell you, that Xiaobei, she came to you shortly after you left, saying that she wanted to find a job, I remember that you explained that you could use her, so I asked her to help in the store."

I hummed, chatted a few more words and hung up the phone, Xu Linlin is dead, Xiaobei will naturally come to me, what I said can't be counted.

During the vigil, the third sister asked me if I liked the New Year, and she said that every time she used to celebrate the New Year, her father would buy her a lot of gifts and take her to travel abroad.

I said that I don't like the New Year very much, except that when I was a child in the countryside, I knew that I had to kowtow to my grandfather in the Chinese New Year's Eve to suppress the New Year's money, and I didn't like the rest of the year, every year was accompanied by loneliness and depression, especially the year of the birth, my father also died, I can't get up for the year.

The third sister sighed and replied too, at the end, repeat the mantra she has become accustomed to, it will be fine, everything will be fine.

I don't know if it's good or not, but people's hearts have a little hope that life is also some motivation, I will fill the water tank at night before going to bed and wait for Xiao Gazi to come, and then hold it in the corner of the courtyard gate to chat for a few hours, I didn't tell anyone this secret, including the understanding that I have come back, Xiao Gazi's spirituality needless to say, maybe it used to give me blood, so I will feel sweet when I drink the water in the tank, of course, others drink it is astringent, the third sister has been wondering why I like to drink astringent well water, But she saw that there was nothing wrong with me, so she stopped chasing me and asked.

In addition to burning paper for Uncle Ugly during the New Year's Festival, I will also send some to my grandma at the intersection of the village, I hope my grandma can give me a dream, let me see her, but, I haven't dreamed once, probably grandma also knows, she let me see her at this time, I will be emotionally out of control.

Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to draft, we are backed by the mountains, naturally we have to rely on the original ecological mountains to feed, all year round, in addition to planting their own acres of land, more, is to go to the mountains to collect mountain goods to create additional income.

Rong Danfeng in the bones of the third sister is naturally a businessman's descendant with excellent genes, in winter, she felt that it was inconvenient for our family to go to the town without a carriage, so she could only endure the mountain goods that she had worked hard to step on to the village chief's eldest son receiving station to send them, but as soon as the spring flowers bloomed, she couldn't hold back, I basically took over the responsibility of going to the grave of the old ugly uncle every day, and she threw herself on the family, of course, she also felt that it was inconvenient for me to have wild vegetables and matsutake mushrooms, plus she was afraid that I was in trouble with falling. So my daily task is to climb the mountain, go to the grave of Uncle Ugly to sit and talk, she goes every two or three days, and more time is to search for treasures in the mountains, yes, she calls these mountain treasures treasures.

Once she actually walked a few hours on the mountain road to the town to negotiate a consignee, which was equivalent to indirectly cutting down the village chief's son's house, which was a profitable receiving station in the middle, that day she said to me happily, Jiaolong, we are going to be rich, do you know how dark the village chief's son is, God, he is simply profitable, how can these villagers tolerate being fooled by him. Servitude is ironic.

I looked at her with a smile: "People didn't say that you are a good little girl." ”

The third sister also smiled and pointed to her face: "I haven't taken up the light of this face when I am praised for my magical powers, who knows that I am going to run for thirty!" ”

I pouted: "Thirty is still early, but you are indeed occupied, I will send you to study, maybe you can enter that Mensa." ”

"If I don't go, I'll just make the villagers who help me earn more money, and I won't live here again."

I patted her on the shoulder, which was still developing, and said, "Yes, the villagers here will be grateful to you in the future." ”

The third sister is a person who dares to think and dare to do, maybe it should be said that the real Rong Danfeng is full of positive energy, she pleaded with Aunt Zhu to use her carriage to pull these mountain goods to the town, at first Aunt Zhu was still hesitant, and said no, but when she came back, her face was full of joy, I heard that if these things were sent to the receiving station opened by the village chief's son, they could only give five hundred yuan, but they went to the town and earned an extra thousand yuan at once. Therefore, the third sister pulled her partner, Aunt Zhu, to work in full swing, and said bluntly that if she expanded the scale, she would definitely open a receiving station by herself.

Aunt Zhu said that the third sister is a human spirit after she opens her mind, and the ideas she puts forward are all responsive, but only the receiving station is this, Aunt Zhu disagrees, she said that the village chief will not approve it, just make some money secretly.

The third sister has an idea in her heart, smirks on her lips, and then discuss, discuss, and secretly tell me behind her back, before we leave, we must solve the matter of the receiving station, otherwise the people in this village will have to be so poor, although they are quite poor, but she is not comfortable in her heart, the third sister famously said, people have the right to pursue a higher material life, why should the village chief squeeze?

I didn't express my opinion, this is what I am willing to fight and suffer, conservative thinking will make people have a kind of inert thinking, and even get by, a little rich is safe, not even rich, but you are poor and I am poor, everyone is like this, so, this is not a person can struggle, the people's aspirations, people are not oppressed, maybe there are still people who think that the village chief's son opened the receiving station is really convenient for everyone, earn more and earn less, and some earn it.

Rong Danfeng in the body of the third sister has lived in the fast-paced city for a long time, and naturally understands how to excavate and create, but the traffic is not done by one person, and the high-rise buildings are not built by one person, but driven by the environment. One person cannot change the thinking of a village.

At the beginning, I didn't change the motivation of this village at all, because I came from a mixed bag, and the optimism in my bones had long been worn out by my own things, but it wasn't until I met a child that I gradually felt that this village might really not be able to be so 'unenterprising'. machine