On the way home, Zuo Tian was in a surprisingly good mood.

Even when Aunt Li opened the door and saw him walking by and closing the door with a "bang", he didn't care.

Although he knew that there were magical things in this world before, he still made his heart surging when he really got the answer to Old Man Li.

It's just that he couldn't understand why Old Man Li said that there were no immortals and no immortals in this world.

What made him even more strange was why the demon beast called Old Man Li, boy? Could it be that the demon beast lived for a long time? Is it five hundred years that long?

He doesn't bother with the things he doesn't understand.

He just needs to know that that kind of magical power exists.

As for why he didn't ask Old Man Li to teach him to learn immortal arts, Zuo Tian could only helplessly say that he was too excited just now to forget about this important matter.

He would never admit to running away because he was too afraid of the monsters in that room.

It looks like we'll have to look for another chance tomorrow.

Thinking that in the future, he could also rely on a light mask as thin as paper to resist the monster that was the size of a house with only his claws, like Old Man Li, Zuo Tian's heart was on fire.

I will also become a strong person like Grandpa Li in the future.

Zuo Tian fantasized in his heart and secretly swore at the same time in the future.

When the time comes, they will definitely be impressed with me!

Thinking of this, he stood in front of Aunt Li's door and shouted, "Aunt Li, good evening!

"Phew!"

Aunt Li's disgusted voice came from inside the house, as if she wanted to drive something dirty out of the house.

Zuo Tianwan smiled.

Aunt Li's house was not far from the thatched house where Old Man Li lived, as for why she didn't notice that such a big thing happened, Zuo Tian guessed that this must be Old Man Li's immortal method again.

Mortals can't figure out those immortals, just like him, his eyes were stabbed in the momentum that Old Man Li unconsciously exuded just now, and his eyes are still uncomfortable.

Turning a corner, a thin figure suddenly jumped out from the other side and collided with Zuo Tian.

"Ouch!"

He screamed.

Who is so short-sighted?

Zuo Tian secretly cursed and was about to push the figure away.

But the figure suddenly grabbed his clothes.

"My child!

Slightly crazy words came from the disorganized hood of the figure.

Zuo Tian recognized it, this was the woman whose child was considered a monster.

And this woman, he also knows.

The woman is good-looking and kind-hearted, Zuo Tian still remembers that at that time, she would stand at the door of the house every evening and wait for the husband of the hunting team to return, sometimes she would see Zuo Tian, she would also show a gentle smile to him, and several times she would take some self-made pastries for Zuo Tian to eat at home, saying that he would try his own craft, afraid that her husband would not like it.

Zuo Tian also gladly accepted.

Later, when she became pregnant, she still persevered in standing in front of the door every day.

And his husband also held her hand tenderly at that time, reproaching her to rest.

At that time, the young men who were still single in the hunting party were envious of their relationship.

Even Zuo Tian would run away from behind them with a strange scream every time he saw them holding hands.

The woman is thin-skinned, and each time she buries her head in the man's broad chest, her face turning red.

Later, everything changed.

Since that day, she has become insane, and all day long she says that her child is not dead, but that she has been robbed and that she wants to find it.

His husband couldn't stand her and abandoned her on the grounds that she had given birth to a youkai.

It is said that a married daughter is like water spilled out.

After the family got the news, they completely dissociated themselves from the woman like a snake and scorpion.

In this way, the woman wandered around the south village all day wearing a wide dress and a hood with a face that could not be seen clearly, and people asked if they had seen her children.

"Please, please, give me back my child. ”

The woman repeated it over and over again, and her hand grabbing Zuo Tian's clothes became tighter and tighter.

Zuo Tian looked at the poor woman in front of him, he was at a loss and opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say?

Did he tell her about the fact that her child was already dead?

Since she didn't want to believe that fact, maybe it would be nice for her to live in her imagination.

"I ......"

Zuo Tian was just about to speak, but the woman seemed to suddenly go crazy, shaking Zuo Tian's body fiercely.

"You monster! you must have hidden my child!" the woman said, opening her mouth to bite him.

Zuo Tian hurriedly put his arm against her head.

After a wave of madness.

Seeing that she was helpless to Zuotian, the woman's words suddenly softened: "Please, can you give me my child back, he has just been born and doesn't know anything, please save him." ”

As she spoke, she slowly knelt down.

Zuo Tian's face changed, and he hurriedly pulled away the woman's hand and retreated.

"Madman!

He cursed and ran off into the distance, leaving the woman standing alone as if she had lost her soul.

I don't know what I'm thinking all the way, I'm thinking about everything anyway, but I can't be happy.

When he saw Nanxiu's figure leaning on the threshold, Zuo Tian, who had just walked home, stood in place, and a sense of guilt arose.

At this time, the sky is so dark that I can't see the scenery in the distance, and the evening breeze is a little cool.

The girl leaning on the threshold clasped her hands in front of her chest, and looked around with anxiety on her face.

When Zuo Tian saw Nanxiu, she also found Zuo Tian and ran over in surprise.

"Nam-so, I'm back......"

Zuo Tian looked at the eyes on the girl's delicate face, which were obviously just crying, and felt even more guilty in his heart.

"Brother in White......"

Nan Xiu thought that Zuo Tian was still angry about what happened before, and explained a little carefully: "Brother Baiyi, I have already said Xiaozhi, and he also knows that he is wrong." ”

"Hmm. ”

Zuo Tian didn't know what to say, and the ups and downs of the events he had experienced in the afternoon made his mind a little confused at the moment.

Perhaps finding such a simple answer unconvincing, he added, "I don't blame him anymore." ”

For Nanxiu, this girl who doesn't care about the weirdness of herself except for her eldest brother Nan Shugen, and still hasn't changed from the past when others are away from her, and she is a girl who bravely stands up when others mock him.

Zuo Tian hated that he had been swayed by emotions before and ignored her feelings, and ran away in front of her without grace in order to escape from reality.

Perhaps in his subconscious, Nanxiu has always been the little girl he just met, and he has always been the follower who followed his ass and shouted his "brother in white".

People always show their best side to outsiders and ignore the most important people around them.

Looking at the girl in front of him, this sister who was only half a head shorter than him, Zuo Tian pulled her into his arms.

Let me protect you from now on.

He said silently in his heart.

The abrupt embrace made Nanxiu's eyes flash with a moment of consternation, and her body suddenly tensed, followed by a flush on her face.

It's just that, Zuo Tian didn't see it.

It was night, the moon and stars were scarce, and the invisible darkness was surging and rolling, like a wounded little beast, trembling.

"Are you a demon?"

"I can see you and prove that you really exist? ”

"Demons have no heart. ”

The dream that I have been doing for the past few years echoed in my mind again, like a person's self-talk, but it was cold, and every time it would wake up the sleeping Zuo Tian.

In that dream, he seemed to be a bystander, and he seemed to be a person in the game.

But what he never understood was what the demon in the words was.

Just listening to this word, there is a throbbing from the depths of the soul.

Although the monster in Old Man Li's house was called the Nightmare Demon, Zuo Tian was definitely different from the demon he dreamed of.

There was a sound of quarrel in the next room, which was the room of Nan Shugen and Nan's sister-in-law.

Zuo Tian is a little strange, hasn't the relationship between Brother Nan and Sister-in-law Nan always been very good? Why do they quarrel?

In line with the principle of not listening to other people's corners, Zuo Tian was about to fall asleep, but he vaguely heard them mention himself.

"You say, didn't you teach Ash to say that. ”

In the room, next to the flickering candle flame, Nan Shugen held homemade tobacco in one hand, inhaled deeply into the candle flame, and then spit out heavily.

Nan Shugen was approaching thirty, and he was still a young man, but his cheeks full of vicissitudes would have been thought to anyone who looked at him as an old man of forty or fifty years old, and at this moment, his big hand, which was covered with fine lines and rough, fiddled with the cigarette roll in his hand.

Seeing that the woman didn't speak, he became angry, and the cigarette in his hand fell to the ground from the time he stood up: "How many times have I told you, Xiaobai is my brother!

The woman sneered, but she didn't want to pay attention to him, and her body sitting on the edge of the bed lay down as if she was about to fall asleep.

"Whew. ”

After refilling the cigarette roll, Nan Shugen spit out another puff of smoke, looking at the woman's unmoved figure, his face showed anger, and said, "If I find anything unpleasant from the house, you will get out of this house!"

The woman finally couldn't help it, and sat up from the bed with a "rub": "You treat that monster as a brother and a family member, so what am I?"

"Don't say he's a youkai anymore!" Nan Shugen was furious.

The woman was also angry, and even her voice became sharper: "Nan Shugen, let me tell you, now the whole village is saying, if you have the ability, let them shut up." ”

"I don't care what you hear outside, I can't control those people outside, you are my mother-in-law, you have to listen to me!"

"Okay, listen to you, listen to you!" the woman laughed angrily.

"Then do you know what Aunt Zhang told me?"

"She told me that now Ash and Nanxiu are pointing fingers at the neighbors when they go out, and I don't care about their exclusion, but what do you make the children think?"

Silent.

There was a long silence.

Every time!

Their quarrel never came to fruition, only this time......

The woman sighed and spoke again, but her voice softened: "Alas, I don't know what I wanted you to do in the first place, and I followed you with such a dead eye."

Actually, it's not that I don't want to accept him, but you know, raising such a large family, although I have never been in the mountains, I know that it is a desperate work. He used to be in the hunting party, and our life was better, but now the family depends on you......"

The woman said, but the words behind her were not spoken, and Nan Shugen, even if she was stupid, knew what she meant.

"I ...... I'll figure it out. He hesitated.

"You always say that, but what can we do. ”

The woman sighed again.

"Aunt Li also told me today, Xiao Zhi is afraid that she has fallen in love with the second uncle's Fangfang. ”

"He's that big......"

"It's good to set a baby kiss, didn't you also set it with me so big at the beginning? Later, ...... that evening" Speaking of this, the woman's face was a little blushing, and she quickly changed the topic.

"Second Uncle is also pitiful, it's not easy for an old man with a child, but I'm afraid that they will dislike ...... when the time comes"

Nan Shugen was silent again.

"Actually, seriously, if Zuo Tian is not a monster, it is okay if he is, after all, he has not changed at all for so many years, I am really afraid. Nam-so's kid still hangs out with him all day......

You say, "What if there's an accident or something......"

The woman fell silent.

Nan Shugen was also silent.

He was originally a rough man, and he didn't have as many fancy intestines as others, he only cared about the people he cared about.

In his simple thoughts, he could give up his life for their sake.

So this is the reason why he worked hard in the hunting team again and again after Zuo Tian left the hunting team in order to make his family live a good life.

It's just that his mother-in-law said a little too much tonight, and he can ignore himself, but he has to think about the children's future, and he can't help frowning at the moment.

The cigarette in his mouth is smoked.

All of a sudden, the house was filled with smoke.

The wind is blowing.

The darkness is gone, the stars are shining, this tossing and sleepless night.