Thirty years ago, he saw the woman for the first time, dressed in green clothes, not a stunning face, but with a pure clarity that did not belong to the world.

She smiled slightly, and he felt that there was no more beautiful scenery in this world.

After that day, he became her shadow, and he was willing to be her shadow.

Three years later, she gave birth to a child, the dragon king and her child, a very clever and lively boy with a pair of eyes that resembled hers.

He didn't know how many times he saw her loving and gentle gaze, as if that little life was all she had.

So he secretly swore in his heart that no matter what happened in the future, that child would also be his master in the future.

In the blink of an eye, five years later, everyone didn't notice that someone else had taken advantage of the loophole, the child became a hostage in the hands of others, she lost her soul, and in just three days, she lost a lot of weight.

On that day, she suddenly asked him to appear and said to him, if I am not there in the future, help me take good care of him, okay?

She burst into tears, she said, Brother Yi wants to give up on him, but he is our child, how can he give up? I know that I will hate Brother Yi if I do this, but I just want him to live, no matter what, just let him live.

She spoke incoherently that day, and he didn't even know what she was saying, so he could only nod his head.

Later, the child returned.

However, that day, she left and never returned.

He didn't know what was going on, and he didn't have the right to ask.

He is only a shadow, a shadow that does not see the light of day, and lives forever in the darkness.

It's just that, after that, everything is different.

He was transferred back to the Dragon King, like the other shadows.

But he is no longer the ruthless and heartless shadow.

He watched the child face the dragon king's beating and scolding every day, the sneering eyes of others, and even the lack of clothes and food, no longer the treasure of the dragon king, but just a superfluous.

He was distressed and sad, that was the person that the woman regarded as life, but there was nothing he could do.

He is only a shadow, only in the dark, and cannot see the light.

Later, he overheard the black dragon's conversation and learned that the woman had fallen off a cliff in order to save her child, and her bones were gone.

I see!

No wonder so!

The dragon king hated the child, hated him for killing the woman.

Can...... How could it be if it wasn't for their carelessness?

He was not angry, he felt that it was unfair, and he wanted that child to know everything.

So, he planned a game.

That day, he took everyone around the Dragon King.

He is the shadow, unconditionally carrying out the orders of the dragon king, without any reason, no one doubts.

That day, he let the boy hear the truth.

Even if the price is that he enters the snake den in the place of the child.

Seventeen years of snake and insect bites, Ru Mao drank blood.

He didn't know how he survived, but whenever his consciousness was blurred, he thought of that clean face, those gentle eyes, those words of pleading.

yes, he still has to help her take care of that child, how can he die?

He treats himself like a snake and a worm.

The law of the jungle preyed on the strong, and he gave up all his dignity for human beings, just for that little bit of faith.

Wandering between life and death, everything seems to be endless.

Until the snake cave opens again.

The familiar and unfamiliar sunshine, the fresh, dry air, everything is so unreal.

He was the first and only person to emerge alive from the snake cave.

That day, the sun was surprisingly bright, so bright that he couldn't open his eyes, and his whole body was illuminated by the sun, which was so hot that it hurt.

He didn't know what was going on, he couldn't see who rescued him, but he felt that there was a very cold hand, colder than the snake in the snake cave, touched his forehead, wrists, eyelids, limbs, and heard a very young and gentle voice ask him, do you still feel it?

He wanted to answer, but he couldn't speak, he wanted to move, and his limbs were exposed to the sun but he couldn't exert any strength.

He was dazed and helpless.

It wasn't until I heard the voice ask several times that I didn't ask him anymore, and finally said calmly, Uncle Yu, send him to the room.

He seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and his consciousness suddenly became blurred, and he didn't know anything.

He woke up again, and his eyes were completely unfamiliar places, simple guest rooms, faint musk, and a teenager with his head bowed and applying needles.

Very clean and nice.

It's just that what he cares about is the hands.

He was familiar with that temperature, but the person who broke into the snake cave alone was this young man, and he couldn't believe it.

Later, he saw that his skin was scarred, and the boy said, "You've been in the snake cave for too long, the sun will make your skin burst, but it's okay if you want to."

He saw that his arm was covered with black spots, and the young man said, "You look miserable now, and you should be prepared if you want to look in the mirror."

He began to fester, and the young man said, "You have been poisoned by snakes, and I want to send you to a place to detoxify, but if you don't want to, I won't force you."

The young man said, "Do you still want to go and see the Black Dragon Cave?" I made a fuss about it, of course, not because of you.

The boy said that the man was alive and well and had become the new owner of the Black Dragon Cave, but now you can't see him.

The young man said, the old dragon king is dead, and the five black dragons have become my prisoners, and they should also be dead people in the near future, I don't want to explain the reason, you can misunderstand.

......

Later, the young man took him to a valley, which was verdant, very quiet and peaceful, and in the valley lived a young man who had always been called Xiaobai by the young man.

After that, he settled in the valley.

Teenagers and young people often quarrel. Because the young man always said that he was the best in the world in medicine, because his master was a miracle doctor, the young man kept retorting that he was at most the second in the world, because he knew the first in the world.

In the end, the two made a bet that if the young man could cure him, the young man would admit that he was the best in the world.

The boy stayed in the valley for three days and then left.

In my memory, only the young man named Xiaobai gave him decoction and pulse diagnosis day after day, day after day.

The young man didn't seem to care at all about the money for the medicine, nor did he seem to care about his identity at all, why he was so embarrassed, because he never asked.

The young man had a strange temper, and many times he preferred to talk to himself rather than to make small talk with him, and more often to talk to herbs.

Of course, the young man would occasionally make small talk with him, but it was the young man who talked the most, and when he was in a bad mood, he said that he was very hateful, that he had no heart and lungs, that he did not regard him as a friend, but one day he would pity him and tell him that he was very good, that he was very busy, that he did not really want to do this, and said all his good things, and if one day he suddenly received a herb sent by the young man, he danced happily, even if it had been nearly three years, the young man had never been there again.

In addition to talking about the young man, the young man most often said to him, I am the apprentice of the divine doctor, and I will definitely cure him, so do not be disappointed until I cure you.

Very childish.

The days in the valley are very peaceful, it seems that there is only one young man, occasionally there will be birds, birds, snakes and rabbits to visit the grass house, even if they are touched, they do not panic, and the young people are also by them, never drive away and scare.

There would also be strangers in the valley, or well-dressed or personable, and of course there would be woodcutters who had broken in by mistake, and the young man would send them away every time, but they were all very indifferent to them, an alienation he had never seen before, and every time he came back, the young man would be angry, and he didn't know why.

Life in the valley was so leisurely that he often wanted to do stupid things.

He didn't remember the first time he took the initiative to talk to the young man, only that his voice was so hoarse that he couldn't hear the human voice, and the young man was stunned for a long time before he went into the house and looked for a prescription for him all day.

He didn't remember the first time he basked in the sun, only that day when the ground was cracked and seemed arid, and he was scolded by the young man for two whole hours.

He could not remember the first time he saw himself in the river, except that he had been so frightened that he plunged himself headlong into the water, and the young man would not let him go to the river again.

......

Time passed, and the days in the valley were gone in a blink of an eye.

A few days ago, the young man received a letter from the teenager and was as happy as a child.

So he went out of the valley and stepped into the red dust again.

(End of chapter)