The crescent moon is like a hook, and a few old crows pick up the cold branches and refuse to perch, wailing in horror in the night.

In the mass grave, a pair of emaciated figures moved between the simple graves piled up with loess, a ragged young man carrying a girl of about the same age on his back, the girl lying on his back had a withered yellow face, and only those eyes were still a little aura under the pressure of hunger and cold. The young man carrying the girl had a sad face, and his hands tried not to touch the girl's thigh wound bitten by wild dogs, he and she were beggars dozens of miles away, begging along the road during the day, and relying on the sacrifice of the grave at night to satisfy the stomach, there was this custom in the land of Shu, and on the day of the burial, put some steamed buns and pastries on the grave, one said that it was to let the living soul eat on the Huangquan Road, and the other was to buy the nearby wandering ghosts not to be embarrassed by the soul of the burial.

"Xing, the people are bitter, and they have all turned into soil. and the people are miserable, and they are turned into soil. Because she was in the midst of the mounds, the girl could only use her voice to strengthen her courage, and although her face was pale, her voice was extremely light, which she occasionally heard from the mouth of the storyteller, and when she moved, she sang it in a unique glutinous tone. At a young age, in troubled times, I don't understand the grandiose truths of I'd rather be a peaceful dog than a troubled world, but I just mixed the hearsay "Lishan Nostalgia" and Zhang Yanghao's "Hillside Goat" together, and sang it from her immature mouth.

The young man who had been carrying the girl on his back for a long time had been hazy with sweat, and the solemn ghost aura that permeated the wild grave also made him creepy, but he didn't even dare to gasp for breath, hiding his fear and tiredness to the greatest extent. But this girl gets along with him day and night, and she is smart and beautiful, how can she not know his thoughts. After gently wiping his sweat, looking at the mass grave in front of her, the girl couldn't help but ask faintly: "Will we die too?"

"No, it won't. The boy squeezed out a smile and comforted the girl.

"In the play, it is said that people cannot escape death, and Grandpa Wu is also dead. The girl said gloomily, she is a very smart child, although there is no way to contact the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting like a rich child, but even if you only hear the poems once, you can be catchy, she said that Grandpa Wu is a fortune teller, and they have been with them for a while, as soon as the old man is free, he will say some fairy spirits, or teach the girl some lyrics and songs after Zhang Guan Li Dai, and finally freeze to death in a snowy night, which makes the girl have an unforgettable taboo about death.

"Immortals don't die. The young man opened his mouth, his lips were chapped, blood bloomed, and he quietly licked off the bloodstains, he had a mouthful of snow-white teeth, which was in stark contrast to the dark face, he hugged the girl tightly, and looked at the black mountain in the distance, "Grandpa Wu said that there are immortals in the mountains, and when you are cured, I will take you to the mountains over there, maybe we will not die when we meet the immortals." ”

Immortals seek immortality, these few words are simple to say, but it is thousands of times more difficult than Shu Dao. Maybe the old man just said casually, to satisfy the curiosity of the two children, for the poor people who seek immortals and cultivators, it is still unattainable, not to mention the ethereal immortals.

"Found it!" Suddenly, the boy's eyes lit up, and the boy, who had been searching for sacrifices for the most night, finally saw a bowl of pastries on a new grave, the bowl was broken, and the pastries were destined to be cold and stiff, but in his eyes they were more precious than anything else, for he was not sure if she would be able to continue to hold on to her back if he starved any longer.

Carefully put her down far away from the new grave, found a stone and spread a few handfuls of hay, let her sit on, and staggered away, because the old saying is a bad luck to grab the soul food, it will be a long life, although the young man has been lonely since childhood, and has been tempered by the difficult days to forge a tenacious personality, but he will definitely be afraid of ghosts and gods, so he kowtowed nine times on the grave, as if it was not enough, and kowtowed nine more, then took out the steamed buns from the bowl, turned his head to look at the girl, and secretly gnawed a small invisible bite on four or five steamed buns, muttering to himself: "I took this steamed bun, if the demons and monsters want to find me, they will find me alone, I have also bitten it, it is mine, and I will also fold my life. ”

Running back to the girl and squatting down, he handed over all the steamed buns to her.

"There are four. The girl said happily.

She handed the three back to the young man, leaving one for herself, with a smile as bright as a summer flower, and said: "I have a small appetite, I will be full if I eat one, you eat two, and we will keep the rest for the road to eat." ”

Watching the girl stuff the cold hard steamed bun into his hand, the boy was like holding the rarest delicacy in the world.

"Eat it. The girl took a small bite of the steamed bun, looked at the stupid and immobile teenager, and smiled.

The young man was also very hungry, looking at the girl's smiling face, he deliberately took a big bite on the steamed bun. I took a bite of my head in my mouth, and although I hadn't swallowed my stomach yet, my hungry and panicked stomach seemed to be a lot more comfortable. When he raised his head and was about to smile at the girl, the boy's eyes widened.

He suddenly saw a colorful light flying from the distant sky, which looked like a meteor from a distance, but in a moment, it was much closer to where the boy and the girl were. And the closer you go, the brighter the colorful light becomes. Even the girl with her back to the light found out. "What's that?" the girl stretched out her fingers in shock, and what immediately made her cover her mouth in disbelief was that she and the boy both saw that the colorful brilliance was actually a colorful dragon boat flying in the air!

The whole body of the dragon boat seems to be carved from purple jade, and the whole body exudes a soft purple luster. It was several feet long, and at the front of the bow of the ship was a fist-sized red orb in its mouth, and the hull was also inlaid with various colored gems, and those colorful gems emitted by these precious stones.

The gorgeous colorful dragon boat breaks through the sky!

The boy and the girl had never seen such a scene, and for a while they couldn't help but freeze their breath.

But what shocked the two people even more was that on the colorful dragon boat, there were still women, the first one on the left was wearing a purple palace dress, with a green hairpin on his head, and his skin was better than snow, while the one on the right was wearing a goose-yellow palace dress, with a little yellow on his eyebrows.

The boy and the girl looked at the dragon boat that appeared in front of them, and they were stunned for a while, "It turned out to be two children from the mountains." The palace beauties on the left didn't seem to see their existence, and no one frowned, "Senior sister, let's go, he shouldn't hide in this kind of place." ”

The woman in the goose yellow shirt on the right nodded, "I also don't think he will come to the vicinity of Shushan, the master wants us to check here." ”

"Senior sister, do you say that thing is really so heavy?" asked the woman in palace clothes on the left.

"When have you ever seen the master so solemn. The woman in palace clothes on the right said: "Let's go, save yourself from being seen by the people of Shushanmen and entangled." ”

"Ah" exclaimed, it turned out that at this time the girl doubted whether she was dreaming and dreamed of the dragon boat fairy. She unconsciously wanted to rub her eyes, but accidentally pulled the wound on her leg and couldn't help but scream.

"Huh?" The two women in palace clothes on the two colorful dragon boats who were about to leave suddenly sighed at the same time, although the girl had yellow faces and thin muscles, her bones were extremely exquisite, like the body of the nine concubines with high qualifications in the physiognomy map. After glancing at each other, the colorful dragon boats of the two palace women suddenly fell, "Little sister, are you willing to go with us?"

"Follow you?" the little girl was born with a strange temperament, and after calling out in great surprise, she looked at the two palace women and asked, "Two sisters, you are so beautiful, and your clothes are also beautiful, are you fairies?"

The two palace women both smiled slightly, "We will take you to a good place, and in the future you will become as beautiful as us and wear the same beautiful clothes." ”

"Really?!" the girl almost jumped up, but as if she suddenly remembered something, she nodded to the boy next to her, "Then will he come with us?" ”

"He?" The two palace women glanced at the young man, but they both shook their heads at the same time, "His qualifications are too poor to take him away." ”

"Then I'm not going either. The girl was stunned for a moment, and when she turned her head to look at the young man next to her, tears were already rolling in her eyes. "Stupid. Promise them. When the boy heard the two palace women say that he couldn't bring him along, he only felt a buzz in his mind, but when he heard the girl say no, the boy was even more anxious than her, and he was angry with the girl for the first time in his life.

The girl wanted to say no more, but the woman in the palace dress on the left was impatient, and her long sleeves were rolled, "Let's go!" The girl only felt that she was flying like a cloud, and when she reacted, she found that she was already on the dragon boat in the sky, and the young man below was only the size of an ant, and she couldn't see it clearly. "Let me go. The girl was in a hurry, and suddenly burst into tears. The purple-clothed woman on the left didn't pay attention to the girl, but the goose-yellow palace woman was a little unbearable, and comforted: "Little sister, don't be sad, when you are older, you will pick him up yourself." ”

......。

In the sight of the young man, the brilliance of the colorful dragon boat flew farther and farther, and finally disappeared.

"He's too poor to take him away....he's too poor to take him away.... The voice of the palace woman echoed in the young man's mind over and over again, although his usual character has been sharpened to be extremely tough, but after all, he is only a twelve or thirteen-year-old mountain child, the dragon boat and the palace woman are more real than the fairy he imagined, but he was disdainfully abandoned, and he didn't even give him a chance to say a few more words, and thought of all the things he had relied on with the girl in the past, and thought that he might never see her again. Seeing a few cold and hard steamed buns in his hand again, the young man was sad and couldn't help crying.

"Hmph, I can't imagine that the so-called famous faction that rules the righteous path of the world is also such a bandit. Suddenly, a gloomy voice rang in the boy's ears. "But don't worry, the little girl is favored by them, this kind of blessing, others can't ask for it. ”

This voice actually came from a deserted grave next to him, and the crying young man suddenly shuddered.

The tomb had fallen into ruin, revealing a small half of the coffin, and with a "click", a gray-white hand suddenly stretched out in the dilapidated coffin.

With a snap, the lid of the coffin was lifted, and a person sat up, with an eagle nose, thin eyes, and a face so white that there was no trace of blood, even the pupils did not seem to have black eyes, all of them were gray and white, and a blood-like scarlet robe enveloped the whole body.

"Huh?" Seeing that the young man who stopped crying still had tears on his face, he did not run away as he imagined, and the gray eyes of the person in the coffin wearing a scarlet red robe rolled, and he looked at the young man and said, "What, you are not afraid of me?"

"Don't be afraid. The boy shook his head.

"Why aren't you afraid, aren't you afraid of ghosts?" the man in the coffin looked at the ragged boy strangely.

"You have a shadow, but a ghost has no shadow. ”

"Huh?" He glanced down at his faint shadow in the night, and then carefully glanced at the ragged little beggar, and the person in the coffin snorted, "I didn't expect your innate qualifications to be so poor, but your courage is not small." ”

Hearing the person in the coffin say that his qualifications were poor, the young man was shocked again, and couldn't help but look in the direction where the colorful dragon boat disappeared.

"Little baby. Looking at the young man's painful and sad appearance, the person in the coffin suddenly smiled, "Looking at your appearance, you shouldn't have eaten enough for many days, right?"

The young man nodded, if it weren't for the fact that he had been hungry for many days, and he didn't even have the strength to run, and the girl disappeared by his side, he was sad, even if he found that it was a person sitting up in the coffin and not a ghost, just the person in the coffin, who was covered in red clothes and had a pale face, would probably have already turned around and ran, and would not stay here.

"Then do you want to never suffer from this hunger in the future, and you don't have to eat this kind of thing in this deserted mountain again, or can you come and go as freely as they do?" The gray-white pupils of the person in the coffin turned, and when he spoke, a spider-like red light suddenly shot into the cold and stiff steamed bun in the young man's hand. The young man only felt that his palms were hot, and when he was stunned, the steamed buns had turned into charred black and fine, and they fell from his hands one after another.

For a little beggar who may not be able to eat a full meal for several days, there is nothing more tempting than a full meal. What's more, there is a shocking thing in this world called power, and the woman in palace clothes who can carry a colorful dragon boat to resist the wind shows the power of the immortal in his mind, and the abandoned young man sees the person in the coffin showing such power. Now the man in the coffin said he could help him come and go as freely as they did, and see the girl again. The young man was scared and surprised, and looked at this strange red-robed man for a while, his thin body trembled slightly, but he couldn't speak.

The person in the coffin, who easily created the effect of a bright and bright village, saw the young man's reaction without the slightest surprise, and the corners of his mouth pulled up a slight arc, "The Buddha said that he did not cultivate good karma in his previous life, and he only suffered from hunger and cold karma in this life, but do you believe that I can help you get rid of this sea of suffering?"

The young man looked at the person in the coffin, from the appearance of the colorful dragon boat to the present thing is indescribably weird and bizarre for him, he was not particularly smart and couldn't help but ask after being stunned for a while: "You....who are you, how did you end up in the coffin?"

"Most people in the world are blinded by vain things, who am I, why am I in the coffin, and what does it matter?" The man in the coffin glanced at the young man, still sitting upright in the dilapidated coffin, but stretched out his right hand and spread it out. The young man unconsciously looked along his hand, a few feet away in front of him, but it had suddenly lit up, only to see a thumbnail-sized bead surging with brilliance, in the coffin's hand emitted bursts of azure brilliance, under a closer look, the round bead seemed to have a circle of ripples in the panning, and the smooth surface of jade from time to time flashed a layer of faint red brilliance.

Looking at the young man who was stretched out by the brilliance of the bead in his hand, the man in the coffin said indifferently: "As long as you eat this bead, you will never be hungry and cold, everything in the world is not free from the word karma, I am here, you are here, this is fate, as long as you promise me one thing, I will give you this bead." ”