### 16. The Royal Palace

The boy looked at Zezhu and didn't say anything. Sawazu smiled at him in gratitude, but the boy remained calm. From just now to now, Ze Zhu has always had a question about this boy in his heart, and at this moment, he has the opportunity to ask him. Then he asked softly, "Can't you hear the sound?"

The boy did not reply, still holding the gray-brown bird in his hand.

Zezhu asked again, "Can you show me this bird?"

The boy still didn't answer. Now she had an answer, and the boy couldn't hear it at all. Zezhu tried to reach out and lightly touched the bird, and his warm body seemed to tremble a little.

"Give it to me. Sawazu opened his mouth wide and spoke slowly to the boy, no sound, only exaggerated movements between his lips and teeth. She knew that some people who couldn't hear could read the meaning of others by judging the shape of their mouths. Master Night is so good at this ability that people who are not familiar with her can't see that she can't hear at all.

The boy hesitated for a moment, then reached out to Sawa.

Zezhu took it gently, held the bird to his mouth, and seemed to say something to the bird, whispering softly, like a snowflake falling on a feather.

The little bird shook for a moment, then raised its little head, flapped its wings, and actually stood in Zezhu's hand.

The boy's eyes widened, he couldn't believe what he was seeing, and just as he wanted to speak, his mouth was covered by Zezhu.

"Shhhh ”

People with bad ears always speak loudly. Since the child can speak, he may have lost his hearing when he grew up. Zezhu looked at his emaciated cheeks and two hands covered with purple and black scabs, and felt uncomfortable in his heart.

She put the bird on the boy's lap, and the bird kicked and stood on his knee.

"Sister, I just said he wasn't dead, did he?"

The boy finally had a smile on his face. If you wash your face well, you will be really a fair-skinned and beautiful child.

"How old are you?" asked Sawa.

"Seven-year-old...... Maybe six years old. ”

"Your ears?" Sawazu gently touched the boy's ear.

"I can hear you. The boy said confidently, the starlight flashing in the corner of his eye, imperceptible.

"Then why don't you look like you can't hear the sound?" asked Sawazu patiently.

"Why should I hear what other people say. ”

"But why are you telling me now that you can hear me?"

"Because you seem like a good person for the time being. ”

The two of you chatted with me one by one, and I don't know where the sedan chair went. Zezhu suddenly became worried, and hurriedly asked, "What's your name?"

"I don't have a place to live. ”

"What about you?"

"You want to ask how I grew up?"

Zezhu felt strange, this child was not deaf, he could hear others talking, although the clothes were not clean, but they were not tattered, and his hands seemed to have suffered a lot, but maybe he was just greedy and injured, and he was not treated in time. But how can such a big child survive if he has no place to live?

Things on land are really interesting, and people on land are also very interesting, they don't tell the truth, even the children don't tell the truth, they like to talk behind their backs, they talk quietly about other people's affairs, but they never want to talk about their own business, they don't help an irrelevant outsider, even if that person is just a weak child.

Master Jing often taught that the people on land are far less sinister than the people in Yuancheng. In Yuancheng, families help each other, and everyone is willing to take care of others. When dealing with people, don't believe what the other party says, you should observe and doubt more, not blindly confident, let alone blindly trust others.

On weekdays, when Master Night taught the study of mind, he also said that people originally liked to be quiet, which is human nature. After being influenced by a foreign object, there is activity, so that the nature is also harmed. After a long period of contact with external objects, there will be corresponding changes in the mind, which is caused by human wisdom. Likes and dislikes, loves and hatreds follow wisdom. Originally, there is no good or bad in human nature, good and evil, and once the feelings of good and dislike, love and hatred are formed, it means that human wisdom has been deceived by external objects, and human beings cannot return to their true nature. Over time, nature is lost.

Most of the people under the water still exist in nature, so on the surface, there is no obvious difference between the people on land and the people under the water, the people under the water look simple, a little wooden, and there are many sages on the land, and the capable ones are martial arts, literature, and the principles of governing the world, and they are proficient in music and piano dance. But when it comes to the essence, the people under the water are much simpler, and the wisdom increases, and the understanding of the world is not as good as that of the people on land.

Although there is a difference between land and water, there is no need to linger, the people of Yuancheng have the happiness and tranquility of the people of Yuancheng, and the people of land have their own glory and disasters of people on land.

Life is full of ups and downs, everyone is similar underwater, and on land, a person's origin may determine the fate of a lifetime. Therefore, people want to fight for power and profit, even at the cost of fighting each other. A lot of it is just for self-preservation, in order to live well.

You don't have to envy that kind of wisdom, and you don't have to look forward to that kind of life. After all, we don't know them, we are far from their world, and even if we have to make contact, it's just a matter of one or two people.

Now, it's my business. Zezhu came back to his senses and looked at the boy carefully.

When the sedan chair fell, she didn't have time to know the boy's name. Later, when she knew, she would remember that the encounter with him today was an occasional necessity.

"When you get to this door, the sedan chair outside can't get in, so tell everyone inside to come down. ”

The voice of the person who spoke was high-pitched, it should have been a woman's voice, but it was unusually harsh. Zezhu got off the sedan chair, and the boy waved at her a few times, happily hugging the bird. She thought of what those people had just said, and thought that the boy would be sent to the Lin Mansion and then sacrificed. The mood is complicated, and I am bored for no reason.

Sacrifice. Was it those strange beasts in the Pure Moon Pool? Could it be that the strange beasts were all such children before? She didn't have time to think about it, and a person was already standing in front of her.

"Where did this girl come from, how did she dress like this and send her to the palace?"

Sawazu could tell that this was the person who had just spoken, and his eyebrows were all white, like dead coral.

This old-looking man didn't have a beard, and he didn't look like a woman of his age.

It's strange for people on land.

It is clearly a woman's body, but it is born with a man's body.

"What about you? The strange man continued, his voice agitated, and his vocal range much higher than that of those who spoke in the street.

"I'm sorry, Steward Liu, the subordinates were negligent and didn't change her into beautiful clothes, so they hurriedly brought them into the palace. This girl is said to be not small, and it is inconvenient for me as a big man to talk too much about it. With a smile on his face, he stretched out his hand again and handed over a bag of heavy things—presumably the silver taels used by the land-based people. And he said, "This is what she used to dress up...... It's troublesome for Steward Liu. After that, there was another burst of mad laughter.

Lin Gang stuffed a silver soft cloth bag into Steward Liu's hand, and Steward Liu pinched it in his hand a few times, and finally smiled.

It's a smile that's worse than crying. Zezhu lowered his head and didn't dare to say anything.