Chapter 28: The Outlaw
"I don't understand what you're talking about."
This was the first time Shen Yuexi had heard this old man speak in these days, but what he said made her unable to understand for a while.
"It's just that I can't bear to watch you look for a short time as a little girl, so that you can carefully distinguish the words of the people around you."
The old man was seventy or eighty years old, with a rickety figure, his face was full of folds left by the years, and a pair of cloudy old eyes fell on Shen Yuexi, and he did not approve of Shen Yuexi's death.
"I ...... Just a superfluous person, sometimes I feel like I shouldn't have been born into this world in the first place. ”
Thinking of her father's mother and brother's disgust for herself, as well as everything her sister Yuerong had done, Shen Yuexi's eyebrows were stained with depression and loneliness.
"There are so many do's or shouldn'ts in this world, it just depends on what you think."
The old man shook his head, and the vicissitudes of life revealed a bit of precipitation that saw through everything.
Shen Yuexi's eyes were still a little dazed, pinching the corners of her clothes uneasily, and her heart was a mess.
The old man was always silent in the past, but this time he didn't say too much nonsense, just looked at Shen Yuexi with a calm and calm gaze.
"Child, there is only one life, are you sure that you have to choose suicide and give up yourself for a little thing?"
"If you can't give an answer at the first time, I think, you might as well think about it again, what do you think?"
Xiao Yuexi lowered her eyebrows, and the confusion in her eyes gradually dissipated, with a touch of firmness.
Under the persuasion of this old man, Shen Yuexi finally gave up the idea of suicide.
She smiled, "Thank you, old man!" ”
"I figured it out, life is so precious, I wouldn't let myself die so easily."
It's like saying it to the elderly, and it's like saying it to yourself.
Shen Yuexi secretly clenched her fists.
Seeing that she had given up the idea of suicide, the old man regained his silence again, leaned against the corner of the cell and closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.
Shen Yuexi discarded the poison and hugged a few steamed buns into her arms.
She looked sideways at the old man's thin face, got up and walked to his side, and handed two of them over, "Old man, here you go." ”
The old man didn't open his eyes, but just rejected Shen Yuexi's kindness in a hoarse voice: "People like me who are half-buried in the soil are different from you young people, so keep them for yourself." ”
The other party's words of refusal were understated, but the attitude was very resolute.
Shen Yuexi was a little depressed, she didn't know how to thank this old man.
She got up, walked over to the child who was sick before, and stuffed the steamed bun into his hand, "You are still so young, it's time to grow your body, don't be hungry." ”
This kind of minor illness in the prison usually does not arouse the attention of the jailers, and the child can only resist it.
But even eating enough is a problem on weekdays, so how can you expect him to recover from his illness on his own, let's eat enough first.
The boy grabbed the steamed bun and stuffed it into his mouth, devouring it as if he hadn't eaten anything good for hundreds of years.
Shen Yuexi was still sad about this scene, and a rough voice suddenly came from her ears: "Hey, little girl, if you give them a share, why don't you give me something to eat?" ”
Shen Yuexi subconsciously turned his head to see that it was a bald man in the cell, with several criss-crossing scars on his head and face, which gave people a very difficult feeling to mess with, and his cold and cruel eyes were even more chilling.
No matter how mature Shen Yuexi is, she is only a half-grown child, and when she first meets such a vicious bald man, she can't help but shudder, and suddenly takes a step back, distancing herself from this person.
Shen Yuexi has an impression of this bald man.
This man was a well-known gangster in town, and during a quarrel and provocation, he had several lives on his hands and was sent to prison.
He was not at ease in prison, and from time to time he bullied the old, weak, sick and disabled in prison.
As long as no one is killed, the jailer basically turns a blind eye.
When Shen Yuexi first came, she had seen this person bully the elderly and steal their food.
There are thousands of thoughts, but the reality is only a blink of an eye.
Shen Yuexi came back to her senses and distributed the remaining steamed buns to the rest of the people, ignoring the bald man and a few of his dog-legged followers.
"Are you deaf?"
The bald head had never been so ignored, and he suddenly became furious, looking at Shen Yuexi with pity.
Even if Shen Yuexi personally pushed Master Li off the cliff and fell to his death, compared to the bald man in front of him, he was the real outlaw.
The cruelty in the bald man's eyes is like substance, which will swallow and drown people, and it seems that breathing becomes difficult.
The atmosphere in the entire cell became heavy, like a sticky sea water spreading in, and the person was almost breathless.
Some peacemakers were afraid of causing trouble, so they came up to ease the atmosphere.
"Big brother, let's not worry about a child, isn't it just a few steamed buns? It's not that we can't eat, you call a little brother outside, and you can bring in big fish and meat, right? ”
The muscles on the bald man's face twitched a few times, and the eyes staring at Shen Yuexi were still terrifying.
After a long time, Shen Yuexi felt that his body was about to stiffen, and the bald man finally turned around and returned to his place to sit cross-legged, and his eyes turned to Shen Yuexi's direction from time to time.
The people outside the light curtain are all human spirits, and they know how to read words and colors better than Shen Yuexi, who was not deeply involved in the world at that time.
"Suffered, I look at this bald man's eyes, I'm afraid he has a grudge against Shen Yuexi."
"I've seen a lot of this kind of people, all of them are the ones who will repay them, Shen Yuexi shouldn't offend the bald man for that old man."
"If it weren't for this old man's persuasion, Shen Yuexi would probably have committed suicide now, why couldn't she avenge him?"
"This is picking sesame seeds and losing watermelons, and enduring the calm for a while, and it will pass."
The monks had their own opinions on this, and they blushed and their necks were thick.
But in the end, they were all just worried that the bald man would cause trouble for Shen Yuexi because of Shen Yuexi's refusal to give him steamed buns.
Within two days, Shen Yuerong learned that Shen Yuexi did not commit suicide by taking poison.
"This Shen Yuexi is still alive, it's really an eyesore, if you confess me one day, won't I be finished?"
Shen Yuerong pouted unhappily, "Even if other people don't believe her nonsense at all, it's not good if it ruins my reputation!" ”
Her eyes rolled a few times, and Shen Yuerong clapped her hands to make a decision.
"Since she can't do this by herself, then I'll be merciful and help her~"
Soon, everyone knew how Shen Yuerong was "compassionate".
Shen Yuerong stole the family's money to buy steamed buns again, but this time, Shen Yuerong put the rat poison directly into the steamed buns, as long as Shen Yuexi ate the steamed buns, she would definitely die.
The monk who witnessed all this was shocked: "She can even do such a cruel thing!" ”