At dusk, the wind rose.

The sky was dark and thundery, and layers of dark clouds obscured the entire sky.

At this time, it seems that the night is far away.

The monkey walked on a long empty street with a cigarette on his back, his steps were slow and steady.

Perhaps because it was about to rain, the shops along the street closed early, leaving only a few broken trees and rotten branches outside the door, and the ghost wild dogs were left alone, some quiet, some panicked.

The monkey's speed slowly increased, and he had to rush back to Baicaotang before it rained.

The monkey knows how fragile mortal life is, and the girl on his back can't be hurt in the slightest.

However, many times the weather does not fulfill people's wishes, and often it backfires.

The heavy rain fell on the earth when the night fell, and the oval raindrops hit the stone slabs and tiled eaves along the street, and the ticking sound was incessant.

The monkey stopped on the side of the road, slowly raised his head, and looked at the sky with his deep, blackened eyes, and the rain flowed down the folds between his eyebrows into his eyes, and overflowed again, like unstoppable tears.

The monkey knocked on the door nearest to him.

"Knock knock...... Knock knock!"

The low, deep sound was clear in the rain, but no one responded.

Then, the door gasped open.

The deadbolt that had been broken in the middle rolled on the ground several times, until now the sky was on one side.

When the master heard the commotion, he came out of the inner bedroom, and saw a monkey covered in blood standing in the room, with a man behind him.

"Ghost~ah!"

The master was horrified, and ran inside, hurriedly closing the door.

The monkey kicked the inner door open again, and a young couple inside screamed, hugging each other with fear on their faces, huddled in the corner of the room.

Ignoring the frightened two, the monkey walked to the bed, bent down, and gently put Yan Xiaowu down.

He didn't dare to face Yan Xiaowu, and he didn't dare to look at her bloody, hideous and terrifying eyes.

He took a deep breath, covered Yan Xiaowu with a quilt, and walked out of the house.

The monkey let the wind and rain of the waves hit his body, and on this long deserted street, the blood stains of the day seemed to be washed clean.

house.

"Is that you?"

Yan Xiaowu opened her mouth slightly, and her voice was indistinct.

Outside.

The monkey lay in a pool of water, its eyes open, staring straight above at the darkness above, not knowing what it was thinking.

The sound of the rain was so long that it seemed to last all night.

......

Yan Xiaowu pulled out a far-fetched smile.

"Probably it's just you, right?"

......

"But why?"

Yan Xiaowu choked.

Pale red tears slowly oozed out of the wound, condensed into a teardrop, hanging down the corners of her eyes, as if they could not fall.

......

The rain stopped in the night.

It's not dawn, but it's still boring and long.

The monkey carried the smoke on his back and walked through the muddy wilderness to the lonely hut.

"Hey, can you promise me one thing?"

On his back, Yan Xiaowu's chin rested on the monkey's shoulder, his head touching his head, and a weak voice crawled into the monkey's ears like a bell bumped by the wind.

"Uh......"

The monkey replied speciously, nodding his head, for fear that Yan Xiaowu would not understand what he meant.

Yan Xiaowu pleaded, "Don't die in front of me, okay?"

The monkey's body froze, and he opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, and unable to say anything.

"Why don't you speak?"

Yan Xiaowu frowned, as if she had thought of something, and said with a slightly comforting tone: "I know that you are older than me, and I will try to live a little less." ”

When the monkey heard this, he grinned unconsciously. Isn't this little girl still able to tell if she's a monkey or a person?

Yan Xiaowu's empty eyes seem to hide the deepest light in the world, as if he has insight into what the monkey is thinking.

"Some of them say you're a monkey, some say you're a demon ......"

The monkey's footsteps paused slightly.

"But I still feel like you're alone. ”

Yan Xiaowu said seriously.

......

After all, he is a doctor, and there are ready-made herbs and ointments in Baicaotang, and under Yan Xiao's guidance, the monkey who is in a hurry finally helps Yan Xiaowu's eyes apply the plaster and tie a white gauze belt.

Help her to lie down on the bed.

I remembered tossing back and forth for a day and a night, and Yan Xiaowu hadn't eaten yet.

The monkey came to the room, washed the pot, washed the rice, made a fire, and he prepared to cook porridge. Since the practice, the monkey has not cooked for hundreds of years, and his movements are rusty.

He stared intently at the pot, controlling the heat and adding raw water at any time to prevent the porridge from boiling.

Finally, he added two more wild vegetable leaves to the pot.

......

"It smells so good. ”

The monkey holds porridge in one hand and a spoon in the other, sits at the head of the bed, and feeds the smoke to Xiaowu.

Yan Xiaowu enjoyed the monkey's feeding peacefully.

Obviously, he has just experienced the darkest thing in his life, but Yan Xiaowu can still have a smile on his face.

Perhaps extremely hungry, Yan Xiaowu ate three bowls of porridge in a row.

"Aren't you going to eat?"

After the monkey cleaned up the dishes, Yan Xiaowu asked.

"Ah~uh......"

The monkey danced and gestured, meaning that he didn't have to eat. Suddenly, I remembered that Yan Xiaowu was no longer visible.

The monkey opened its mouth and bit its lip again.

Covered Yan Xiaowu with a quilt.

As he got up, a small slender hand reached out from under the quilt and grabbed the monkey's arm.

"Don't go, I'm afraid. ”

The monkey could feel that Yan Xiaowu's palms were a little sticky and wet, and he was trembling slightly.

The monkey looked at the gauze on Yan Xiaowu's eyes, and he seemed to see a pair of clear and starry eyes staring at him under the gauze, full of pleading and helplessness.

The monkey's heart tugged.

He sat back on the edge of the bed.

Gently stroked Yan Xiaowu's smooth forehead, like a kind old man.

He walked out of the cave where he had been for nearly three years yesterday, originally planning to say goodbye to Yan Xiaowudao, or take a look at her from a distance, and then disappear.

Watching Yan Xiaowu slowly fall asleep, breathing evenly.

The monkey knew that he had no chance to say it, and he couldn't.

......

A heavy rain washed away a lot of blood, but the strong smell of blood in the air could not be dissipated.

As a result, the good deeds found out about the tragic deaths of dozens of people in Hao Zhai, and then, there was no more.

There are fewer families in the town, and life is still the same as before.

The people who vaguely discovered something remained silent very tacitly.