Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Life of the Crowd
On the day he was sold to Yunbeilou, it rained a lot, and it hit his face drop after drop, and he couldn't tell who was who with tears. The father and mother who were wearing patched clothes nodded at the woman, and the woman covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief in disgust, and looked up and down with critical eyes for a long time before reluctantly nodding in agreement.
"Two taels of silver, no more."
The father and mother were naturally ecstatic to accept it, after all, for them, it was a good thing for them to exchange a daughter for three months' food and clothing for the family.
Erya was dragged away by two people, and she cried and begged A-Niang not to sell her, she would work hard in the future.
A-Niang said that there are two sons at home, and there is no extra food to support you.
Erya was discouraged, and the door of the room slammed shut.
In the days that followed, how many times she was beaten and how long she was hungry, Erya can't remember clearly, but once when someone came to bring her food, the man asked her if she wanted to escape.
Erya raised her eyes and saw a face as immature as herself.
The girl broke the steamed bun into small pieces and stuffed it into her mouth, and Erya swallowed it, tears streaming down her face.
They fled the place together, but just as they were about to leave the town, they were discovered, and Erya told the girl to hide, only to be beaten up by the angry bustard.
The old bustard looked at her who was not in human form on the ground, spat coldly, and left in disgust.
Those people left no room for action, and Erya, who was still a child, was beaten to the point that she had almost one breath left, and she thought that she was going to die here, and she was very unwilling.
She is unwilling, she is unwilling to die like this, she also wants to be a person who can control the life and death of others, and the life and death of those people are all decided by her!
However, the heavier breathing told her that she was a dying person.
Just when Erya was desperate, someone appeared in front of her, and the man condescendingly cast a shadow and asked her.
"Do you want to live?"
Erya took a step back, she panicked, the appearance of the bustard awakened her memory of being beaten, the pain she could still feel when she was dying, and there was no intact skin on her body.
She pulled the pebble and wanted to run to the left, but she didn't notice a person walking on the right, a big hand grabbed her and the pebble steadily, the two struggled in a panic, the man laughed a few times, and dragged them like two little chicks.
The old bustard laughed a few times, and her cold gaze swept over the other four, and found that the situation was not so simple.
"Huanxi, where did I think you ran away, I worked hard to pull you to grow up, just to train you to be an Oiran in the future, but I didn't expect you to unite with this wild girl to escape." The old bustard stepped forward, and the thugs who followed behind him also stepped forward, and several children gathered together vigilantly, but they were still surrounded.
Only Ji Yuan, before realizing that he was going to be surrounded, pulled Ah Ruo next to him to turn his head and run, but as soon as the old bustard gave an order, the thugs surrounded him, and in a hurry, he took advantage of the cover of the trees and Yuan to stuff Ah Ruo in the grass.
"Ah Ruo, don't make a sound."
He said, picked up a stone on the ground, pretended to be angry and rushed back at the thug, shouting as he rushed to avenge his companions, but unfortunately he was also easily caught by the thug, who didn't notice Ah Ruo, and only thought that there were only five children.
The old bustard saw that they were all caught, and they were ready to take people away, and their group returned to Liucheng vigorously, and when they walked outside the city, they bumped into a group of people, who were familiar with the old bustard, and they knew the situation after some inquiry, but one of them recognized the little steamed bun.
The old bustard didn't know the identity of the little steamed bun, and only thought it was a wild child playing together, but the man knew something, and he was shocked.
He said that the little steamed bun looked very much like the little young master who died in the Chen family half a year ago.
Although it is said to be a young master, but it is also a concubine, the mother died early, the main room looks at the child and dislikes, usually at home to beat or scold, the child is not in good health, the main room is bad to take cheap medicine for people to eat, a piece of medicine fried seven or eight times, fried and tasteless and refused to change, not to say that you can still eat don't waste money.
As a result, the child was seriously ill and died, and instead of feeling guilty, the main room felt unlucky, so he found someone to move out and bury it in a hurry, and the person who buried it was this person.
According to him, he had seen the earth under this man with his own eyes, but now the boy stood before him, except that his face was a little better, and he was exactly the same as before.
As soon as he said this, everyone present was scared, and in addition to what the bustard said, they all felt that these children were demons, which was good, but if they provoked demons, they would inevitably end well.
The old bustard was a little scared, thinking that if he let these children go, he could make the demon angry. But someone said, if you let them go, they won't necessarily let you go, listen to the old people in the family, the little demon is not terrible, as long as it is burned with fire, it will be wiped out, and you can't do it if you want to be a demon!
When the old bustard heard this, he was heartbroken, and asked the thugs to find some firewood, tie several children together, pile some firewood, and prepare to burn them to death!
So there was the previous scene.
He Yuan, who listened to the conversation of these people clearly, was very angry at this time, in the eyes of these people who had lost their conscience, the children who had been abused and tried to survive were demons and had to be killed, so what about those who did evil?
The little steamed bun next to him suddenly whispered, "I saw my father." โ
He Yuan followed his gaze, and there was a middle-aged man in satin clothes standing in the crowd, and the man, like the people around him, shouted the slogan "Burn the demon", as if he didn't notice that there was a son among them.
Ji Yuan heard him say, "Actually, before my mother died, my father was very good to us, but when my mother died, my mother felt bad luck and didn't let him bury my mother. โ
Ji Yuan suddenly felt a little sad.
Xiao Mantou was still saying something, "I wasn't actually dead at that time, Sister Shu said I just fainted, but my mother thought I was dead for a long time, and I fainted when she saw me, probably thinking I was dead if she didn't even want to see it, I woke up in the straw mat and found that I was buried, I cried in despair, but I thought that I could see my mother again, and I was not so sad." โ
"But Sister Shu came, and she said that she heard my voice, and I thought it was good to die at first, but when Sister Shu was digging up the soil, I saw the stars in the sky, and I still cried. Sister Shu comforted me beside me, saying that I still want to live. โ
"Sister Shu, are you coming back?" The little steamed bun muttered.
Won't come.
They pretended to be smart and ran out secretly, Sister Shu would definitely be angry, Sister Shu took each of them to the broken temple, and it was they who built that simple little home with their own hands. The lost things have been slowly recovered in the past few months, and they also know for the first time that this is what it feels like to be at home.
It's because they're too self-righteous, every time Sister Shu comes to the city, she only brings one person, so as not to reveal their identities, but they keep saying that they want to get back their memories for He Yuan, but what is it actually for.
It's good that they've been served in a pot now, and no one has come back to save them this time.
He was silent.
Is it really going to die here?
Thinking of this possibility, a sense of powerlessness suddenly arose in his heart.
Again, a fate that he could never control, it was then, and it is now.
And Yuan was stunned suddenly.
It was at that time...
Pictures suddenly flashed in his mind, and the pictures were fleeting, so fast that he couldn't grasp them, and Yuan wanted to recall them carefully, but they could only cause a headache.
He closed his eyes in pain, a moan came out of his mouth, and he shook his head vigorously in an attempt to banish the pain. But at this moment, a figure suddenly came to mind.
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"Come back."
"Come back."
"Come back to me."
He opened his eyes suddenly, surrounded by Erya's low crying, and not far away the carnival cheers of the people, he left those voices behind him, trying to chase the voice in his head.
"Come back to me."
"Come back to me."
"Come back."
He Yuan did hear a voice, as if it came from the depths of his mind, constantly calling him, and Ji Yuan only felt extremely strange, and he actually felt a wave of disgust for that voice.
Who?
Who is calling me?
Who are you?!
He questioned in his heart, and the voice really responded to him as if it were really a living thing.
"Destruction..."
"Destroy everything."
"Do you want to live?"
Ji Yuan was stunned, and the ethereal voice took on a substance at that moment, like a demon whispering in his ear, repeating it constantly.
"Do you want to live?"
"Destroy everything."
"Kill everyone."
"Come back to me."
Ji Yuan's heart tightened violently, he felt that the demon stretched out his hand to him, as long as he responded to the other party, the demon could help him sweep away the harm, and he could easily get out of the current situation. But the price, there is a price to pay for making a deal with the demon.
And Yuan thought, the price is probably the people around him, if he destroys everything, then they will also die.
The little steamed bun closed his eyes and didn't look at his father in the crowd, as if he had accepted his fate. Xiaoshizi's face was flushed, and he kept scolding the crowd, only attracting everyone's spit, Xiaoxi sighed and looked at the sky.
Erya's eyes were red, and she murmured, "Sister Shu." โ
Zhu Shu.
Ji Yuan remembered the name, he remembered the pair of eyes he faced when he woke up, clear as the sky after the rain, without a trace of haze, when she was watching, it seemed to be in a clear spring, just want to sink quietly.
In fact, the abyss did sink.
He was like other children, affectionately called her "Sister Shu", watching her smile gently, the palm of her hand gently brushed over the top of her head to bring a strange feeling, he greedily felt the touch, and even wanted to hold those hands.
Ji Yuan didn't know what love was, but he thought that his love for Zhu Shu probably meant that he wanted to see her smile all the time.
At that moment, he was redeemed by that smile.
He exhaled a heavy breath, closed his eyes, and rejected the voice.
He knew that he might die, but he didn't want to be looked at with hatred by that person, maybe he died here, but he could stay in her memory forever.