575, a chess game under the banyan tree

I remembered the scene of the massacre, there was blood everywhere, corpses everywhere, cries and cries and pleadings, and those crazy black bone men were desperately slashing with machetes, and their hands were up and down, and a good person was split in half. Someone ran away with me, and I cried and called for my brother. My brother was being held by someone else, and I reached out to grab him, but I couldn't, and I cried even more......

There was blood everywhere.

I seemed to smell the strong smell of blood, and even the palms of my hands had the temperature and texture of blood, hot and sticky. I saw many people dying before their eyes, their eyes not closed, and they passed away with a stunned expression.

The princess bell rings, the princess bell rings, the bell rings, the bell jingles the bell, if you don't open the door, the ghost hand will come to order troops......

I remembered my life before the massacre, I saw the old lazy, the young man who lived in the valley of the Shadows, with dark skin, calm eyes, watching us approach from afar, and seeing us leave from afar, after walking away, I would always turn my face and wave at him, his face became clearer and clearer in the bell, I saw his love hidden deep in my heart, I was a little girl at that time, but he was already in love with me, he was like a shepherd, he loved me, the princess who came out of the back of the Black Forest, carefully, Don't dare to make a noise, all the beauty and hardship are borne alone.

Princess Bell Ringing Jingle Bell Jingle Bell Jingle ...... The branches of the banyan tree seem to be able to hear the voice in my head, shaking with the rhythm of these nursery rhymes, the more shaking, the louder the bell rings, and the louder the nursery rhyme in my head, jingling jingle jingling......

The headache was so bad that it almost burst, and my eyes suddenly darkened, and I fell to the ground with a stagger, and I missed Chen Jinziyu very much.

I curled up on the damp grass for a while, and when I looked up, I saw two people playing chess next to the stone table under the banyan tree, and the white-bearded and white-haired fairy on the left, I knew who he was, so the tears that I had finally stopped flowed down again, and I struggled to crawl forward with all my might. He was our great-grandfather, and when we were in the Hall of Eternal Life, Uncle Xiu's father had secretly taken me and my brother to the stone prison where he was imprisoned to see him several times, and he was always very calm, and every time he would gently touch our heads and ask us if we were doing well, if we were eating, if anyone was bullying us or something.

He was the old man I had seen in my dreams, with a white beard and white hair, a sad expression, a great pity and distress in his eyes, and he was sorry that he had failed to protect us, and that he had let us suffer so much pain and suffering in the world.

The jingling nursery rhyme in my head was what he taught us. The princess bell is ringing, the princess bell is ringing, the bell is ringing, the bell is ringing, we are home, the bell is jingling......

I muttered while crawling, at first I read very slowly, and I was a little hesitant, but slowly, I began to have confidence, and I read faster and faster: ghost hands to order soldiers, nineteen, eight, seven, six, five, four, four, five, five, two, two, one, good, everyone is very well-behaved, eight rows, six rows, ten rows, nine rows stand up, all the points are ordered, follow me home, and the rest don't move.

This is the first paragraph, and there is another paragraph that follows, also starting with the princess bell. The princess bell rings, the princess ...... This time, with little brain-to-brain, they gushed out of their throats one by one, like a mountain spring that had been dry for many years and suddenly came back to life. Ghost hands come to order soldiers, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, nine rows, nine rows, what are you laughing at, the birds in the trees have flown away; Seven rows and seven rows, you jump twice, and the fox is far gone; Children in three rows......

The head hurts more and more.

I was paralyzed on the ground and couldn't move, feeling like I was about to die, I was desperate, suddenly someone grabbed my arm and helped me up from the ground, and someone called my name not far away, I heard the voice of the old lazy, and was taken aback, thinking about what the Yin family should do, how could he be let go of such a dangerous place, in case something happened, he really couldn't live in the future.

My consciousness wanders between illusion and reality, and my mind is on the line.

I followed the sound and turned my head to look for it, and saw the old lazy standing next to a clump of camellia beside the gravel path, with a dagger stuck in his neck, blood gurgling out of the wound, his face was pale and painful, and he opened his mouth to shout, and the blood gushed out with my name.

I was frightened crazy, I didn't care about the headache and weakness, I desperately threw myself at him, panicked and helpless, tried to save him but didn't know where to start, I would only clumsily cover his wounds, my hands were full of blood, and I couldn't cover them. His mouth was open and closed, and he was talking, but his voice was muddled because of the blood, and I leaned my ear over for a while to hear what he meant.

He was saying to me, "Hallucinations. All you see now is an illusion. Don't take it seriously, don't dwell on the unreal. Hurry up, those magic hand fungi poison the nerves of the brain, they will die! ”

The bells on the banyan tree are still ringing, ringing in pieces, jingling bells, jingling bells, jingling bells. I looked seriously at the old lazy man who was about to die in front of me, let go of the hand holding his shoulder, slowly stepped back, and told myself that it was right, it was an illusion, it was all an illusion, the old lazy was in the Yin family, now this is definitely an illusion, the Yin family has a good work, and they will not let him come to such a dangerous place.

After taking a few steps back and looking back, I realized that the person who helped me up from the ground just now was Chen Jin Ziyu, she changed her clothes again, a white plain skirt, like a mourning dress, and the beautiful gentleness and smile before were gone, and she became resentful and indifferent, as if a terrible ghost who had died unjustly returned to the yang world to prepare to ask for the life of her enemy.

I tried hard to convince myself not to be afraid, to tell myself that she had raised me, that she loved me very, very much, and that she had suffered so much for me. She doesn't have any ill will towards me, it's just the magic mushrooms that work, they make her evil, they twist everything good in the world into something as ugly as they are, but it's all an illusion.

I know that I miss Chen Jinziyu very much, I want to hug her, I want to thank her for all the love she has given me, and I want to cry hard in her arms.

But I know that she is also hallucinating.

The bells that hung on the branches of the banyan tree rang again, one after the other, and the whole world was ringing, and I thought of my own mother, the woman named Green Calyx, who chased after the crowd and cried heartbreakingly on the day of the massacre and evacuation; I think of the raging river at the bottom of the lake and the falling waterfall that almost drowned me, and for a long time after that I had nightmares every night of killing and drowning, and I woke up crying when I was frightened; I remembered that Uncle Chen was always preoccupied, muttering to himself that things shouldn't have been like this, that he would say something to me to apologize, and silently endure Su Mosen's brutal oppression; I remembered that Chen Jinziyu gave birth to a child herself, but was taken up and raised by her husband's wife, which was in line at that time, and she couldn't help it, so she poured all her love into me; I remembered that she was really seriously ill and had lost a lot of her hair, and her face was covered with horrible bumps, and Su Mosen would not allow her to come near me again, and we would cry through the door, and for a long time after that I didn't know where she went......

I finally walked to the stone table under the banyan tree, and saw the white-haired great-grandfather and the man sitting across from him.

The man sitting across from his great-grandfather was Uncle Xiu's father, Xiu Yi.

In the past, when he was in the Hall of Eternal Life, he had great dissatisfaction with the rebellion of Su Mosen and the Qi Shangwu Alliance, but he swallowed his anger for many years, he was the big boss of the Xiu clan before the massacre, according to the ancestral regulations, the opening methods and passwords of all the mechanisms in the tomb of King Jin Jue were in his hands, but unfortunately he could not escape from the massacre, so now we have to go through a lot of hardships.

The two of them sat there hallucinatingly, just bowing their heads and playing chess, and neither of them looked at me, as if this game was more important than anything else.

I also looked down at the chessboard, black and white, the distribution is very strange.

I know this game.

It was one of the two chess games that I saw in the research center not long ago and memorized it in my heart.

The white-haired and white-bearded great-grandfather suddenly looked up at me, and there was no smile on his face, but a kind of resoluteness and calmness worn by a drop of water.

He dropped the last sunspot in his hand, and said three words to me, and I suddenly remembered that I had dreamed of him before, and he also opened his mouth to say a simple word to me, but I only saw my lips move, and I didn't hear the sound, and I couldn't be sure what he said.

Now I hear it clearly.

As the sunspot landed, he said three words.

He said: Ruined it.

Suddenly the wind blew, the bell above my head was loud, chasing after each other, chaotic for a while, louder and louder and more crazy and fierce, they messed up the lyrics of the nursery rhyme that I finally remembered, for a while I seemed to forget again, closed my eyes and held my head desperately to think about it before I finally wanted to come back a little more, the princess bell ringed jingle bell, the princess bell rang jingle bell, the ghost hand came to point soldiers, four, five, six, seven, eighty, nine, nine rows, nine rows, nine rows......

The wind grew stronger, and in addition to the bells, there were dry laughter, sighs, and whimpering cries.

I opened my eyes and saw that the branches of the banyan tree were swaying wildly in the wind, and the two people playing chess at the stone table at the bottom of the tree were gone, only Chen Jinziyu stood there quietly, she looked at me at first, but soon, her gaze suddenly looked over my shoulder behind me, and then her face changed, she turned around, and disappeared into the darkness. A bad feeling rose in my heart, and I turned my body to look at the place where Chen Jinziyu had just looked, and I saw a ghost shadow pressed by black.

It was really a ghost, translucent, without feet, suspended a dozen centimeters above the ground, hundreds of thousands, huddled there in layers and looking down on me.

I know who they are.