"Do you think I'm a liability?"

On the bank of the river, the girl with pigtails stretched out her hand in distress and wiped the dust off the boy's face with a handkerchief.

The gray-headed, bruised boy sat on a stone, baring his teeth like a monkey.

"What's that?"

The boy rubbed his shoulders and pretended to be polio and asked, "What are you talking about?" ”

"I said..."

The girl lowered her head, unwillingness appeared on her immature face, she bit her lip, and said softly: "In order to protect me, they caught up and beat me, I'm sorry." ”

"You can change the wording next time."

Zhou Li, who was beaten as miserable as a breeding pig, pulled out a reluctant smile and said: "For example, in order to protect the disobedient little boys, I fell down the bridge pier and caused minor injuries, which sounds better." ”

"I'm sorry, I'm dragging you down."

The girl's head was lowered even deeper, she regretted it a little, if she hadn't pestered Zhou Li to come to chat with her under the bridge pier every day, Zhou Li would not have been beaten by someone squatting on a sack today.

"I often walk by the river, how can I not gurgle."

Zhou Lile stretched out his hand, rubbed the girl's head vigorously, and said with a smile: "Give me a candied egg tomorrow, and I will forgive your sins." ”

"Are you going to come again?"

After the girl heard Zhou Li's words, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she raised her head, her immature cheeks were full of surprise.

"You don't understand, it's called the presumptive principle."

Zhou Li shook his finger and said inscrutablely: "They thought that after the ambush was successfully set up today, I would definitely not dare to repeat the same mistake the next day." But they didn't expect that I had already calculated, and tomorrow I would directly rush down the bridge pier to steal your lunch, and these mentally handicapped people who only thought of the first layer would never have thought that I had reached the atmosphere. ”

The girl nodded ignorantly, she didn't understand what Zhou Li's harassy words meant, but she only knew that tomorrow, her only good friend would come here to chat and play with her.

But...

Looking at the bruises on the other party's face, the girl still couldn't help it, and said softly: "Forget it, they will still come." ”

"I don't want to... Drag you down. ”

With her head down, the girl looked at her feet, hugging her knees, curled up in a small ball, letting the cold wind blow by the river.

"Idiot."

Looking at the girl who no longer spoke, Zhou Li sighed, he walked to the girl's side, held her soft cheeks and lifted her head. Under the girl's surprised gaze, Zhou Li hammered her forehead with his forehead.

"Painful !!"

The girl covered her forehead and squatted under the bridge pier, and Zhou Li directly lay on the side with a resting appearance, like a dead man.

"The kid's head is so hard."

After muttering a sentence, Zhou Li turned his head, looked at the tearful girl, and said happily: "Are you still angry?" ”

"I didn't lose my temper!"

The girl suddenly panicked, and hurriedly said: "I'm afraid that you will be caught by them again, in case they catch me and threaten you to come forward, you..."

"What kind of burden, burden, isn't it?"

Rubbing the girl's short hair vigorously, Zhou Li shook his head with a smile, sat up, and said, "Come, listen, I'll tell you a truth that you won't understand until you grow up." ”

Zhou Li looked at the girl's clear and translucent eyes, and rarely stopped joking, but said very solemnly:

"Sometimes, the burden is a reason."

"The burden... Reason...

The girl was a little dazed.

"It's like you always say that you are a burden to your father, and you feel bad."

Looking at the girl who didn't understand, Zhou Li's expression was calm, he looked at the sparkling water, and said softly: "But it is precisely because of your "burden" that your father will work hard to do business, take care of your mood, and pay attention to your studies. ”

"Because, you are also the reason why he works hard to live. He sees you eating every day without being a picky eater, seeing you thrive, and seeing the smile you put on him when you get home, and he has a reason to continue to work hard in the new day. ”

Stretching out his fingers, Zhou Li looked at the girl who seemed to understand something, and the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, "In the same way, you stupid child is also my reason." This city is so boring, without you, I don't have much incentive to stay here, I would have run back to Beiliang a long time ago. ”

Stretching out his hand and pinching the girl's nose, Zhou Li said with a smile:

"Children don't have a sad face all day long, and they are not allowed to say whose burden they are in the future, make an agreement and pull a hook."

The girl looked at the fingers in front of her in a daze, as well as the young man with a pure smile, and for a while, the originally tangled mind was unraveled as if it were alive.

"Then you... You're going to come back to me later. ”

Looking at the grass by the river that was suppressed by the wind, the girl seemed to think of something, and said sullenly: "Let's pull the hook, I won't say that I am a burden to others, and you will come back to me in the future." ”

"Don't worry, buddy has always kept his word. Even if I can't come to Nanjing to find you, you can go to Beiliang to find me, I can't run. ”

Zhou Li replied decisively.

"Okay."

The girl nodded, and the gloom was swept away, replaced by a bright smile. She stretched out her little thumb and gently hooked Zhou Li's fingers, and the immature child's voice and the boy's voice sounded by the bridge.

"Pull the hook, hang yourself, you can't change for a hundred years!"

Yun Baibai smiled softly, the young man's words were as warm as the sunshine in the south, but they were buried in her heart like an old picture scroll. Only when it is rainy, when her heart is depressed, this time will appear again.

Just like now.

The fingers that were about to touch the barrier suddenly hooked, as if they were hooking up with someone. The gray mist that was about to come out of the girl's fingertips suddenly shattered.

Yun Baibai slowly raised his head, and the white snake's stunned expression was reflected in his clear and translucent eyes. She opened her mouth, unable to hear her own words, but she could hear her own heart.

I'm going to be the "reason".

"Michijo..."

Yun Baibai looked at the faint moonlight in the sky and said, "My body is indeed more fragile than the ghosts and gods. ”

"But that doesn't mean that..."

Stretching out her hand, her fingertips swept across her face, as if she was wearing a mask, and the girl's body was like butterfly wings, swirling lightly and elegantly. She lifted her cheek slowly, the indescribable inscription whispering, shocking the gray mist.

"Demons and gods can go against my will."

In order to seek good weather and eliminate disasters and ghosts, the ancient tribes specially sought a woman with a pure mind and a very beautiful appearance to soothe the heavens with a beautiful dance posture, and attracted ghosts, nature, and spiritual methods to attach to the mask of ghosts and gods, so that the women who performed the opera could gain the power to communicate with heaven and earth.

But if the demons and gods demand sacrifices, deceive the world, delusional souls, and eat people's minds, what they do is not done by the righteous gods. Then the gods and witches ordered the ghosts and gods to enter the mortal world, accept the blame of the human race, and reform themselves.

Yes.

Witch and witch.

"Respect the Supreme Lord of the Yellow Sea."

Yun Bai opened her mouth, and the eyes of the girl who was no longer weak were only as calm as a lake. She stared at the white snake, stared at the ineffable existence behind the gray mist, and called out in a melodious and solemn voice:

"Witch ordered."

"Attach yourself to me!"

(End of chapter)