Chapter 01: Encounter
Gyeongju.
In the cold winter, heavy snow falls.
It was dusk.
Thousands of lonely lights, thousands of snowy households, under the vast sky, but they don't feel dark at night.
Outside the city gate, a boy suddenly walked out slowly, five or six years old, gray cloth shirt, hairy face, every inch of exposed skin was frozen red, but his hands were held in front of his chest, and he covered his frozen little hands with the residual heat of steamed buns that he had just obtained from the city.
Still, trembling and faltering.
A line of lonely footprints slowly stretched towards the ruined temple outside the city......
"Squeak......
In the middle of the plain, a ruined temple, the door of which was gently pushed open.
But a head poked in and looked around. It was the little beggar. It's just that, all of a sudden, a touch of surprise floated on his cheeks, which were stained with mud and dirt but frozen white and red.
"Who are you?"
A childish word came out, and the little beggar stared at the offering table.
I saw a man who seemed to be in his thirties lying in front of the statue, casually relaxed, dressed in a thin light gauze white shirt, and I couldn't see that he was cold, but added a little more elegant. Hearing the words of the little beggar, the man turned his face, but he did not look displeased, but only smiled faintly.
"Do you know who this temple enshrines?"
"The offerings in the temple are naturally immortals. ”
The little beggar replied, not afraid of life. However, on the cheeks of those who are not deeply involved in the world, they don't feel that this man is extraordinary, but as usual, he is a little displeased with the people who broke into the temple.
"Then I'm here, I'm not a god. ”
The man laughed, then stood up, and sat cross-legged on the offering table, with a pair of bright eyes fixed on the little beggar.
"You talk nonsense!"
The little beggar snorted, "How could the gods come to this ruined temple." ”
"You're not an immortal, how do you know?"
"I don't believe it!"
With an angry mutter, the little beggar stared, but there was some hesitation in his heart. After a while, he forgot to reprimand the man in front of him, this broken temple has always been unattended, and he has always lived here, at this time someone broke in, and he was naturally dissatisfied at first.
It's just that at this moment, I got entangled in the question of whether the man was an immortal.
"If you don't believe it, go to the abandoned house under the old locust tree in the west, and you will meet the fairy fate. ”
The man smiled again, and his words were easy-going, and a fresh breath came out of the little beggar's body. For a moment, the little beggar didn't seem to notice the cold to the bone.
Of course, as a young child, he didn't notice this.
"I don't believe you. He said.
"It's because the abandoned house has died, you don't dare to go, right?"
"I ......," the little beggar turned red, "who said I wouldn't dare to go!"
"Then you go, I don't think you dare to go. ”
"Just go!"
With a weightless reprimand, the little beggar stomped his feet, and before he knew it, he had already fallen into the man's agitation method, and his heart was full of blood and blood, and he said, "Look how I expose you." ”
With that, he picked up a hot steamed bun and took a bite of it, put the rest aside, glared at the man again, opened the door and walked out angrily.
"Haha......"
The man laughed loudly, and in this empty and dilapidated temple, it was even more ethereal.
......
Night, quietly coming.
The heavy snow gradually stopped, and thousands of miles of ice were frozen, reflecting the white moonlight, which was a little wonderful.
The old locust tree in the west of the city was only half a mile away from the broken temple, and the little beggar walked all the way, and at first he felt angry in his heart, but slowly, he was also a little afraid.
The cold wind hit, and I shivered unconsciously.
It is true that there have been deaths in that abandoned house, and the little beggar has lived in this neighborhood since he was sensible, and he knows better than anyone else. But children are naturally unwilling to give in, and they are even more reluctant to admit that they are afraid of ghosts.
"There are no gods. ”
"That guy must be bluffing me and trying to take over my place. ”
"Yes, that's right!"
As he walked, the little beggar muttered to himself, his pace slowing down considerably. I made up my mind, and it seemed that I was looking for an excuse, and I was afraid, so I was ready to run back.
Suddenly, a few voices came from my ears, and I was in the middle of the abandoned house.
Thinking of the ghostly thing, the little beggar's face changed greatly, but he quickly calmed down. I heard that it was an old woman who died in the abandoned house, but what I heard at this time was the voices of two men, which was obviously wrong.
After thinking about it, I thought of the fairy fate that the man said, and suddenly there was some hesitation. Although I don't know what the fairy fate is, the things that are related to the gods are naturally extraordinary.
"Why don't you take a look?"
With a thought in his heart, the little beggar curled up and quietly groped towards the abandoned house.
If there is really a fairy fate, you must not miss it.
The snow moon is bright.
Even though it was nighttime, it was bright everywhere, and the scenery was in full view. In a few moments, the little beggar had already touched the outside of the abandoned house, lying on the courtyard wall, quietly watching the scene in the courtyard.
But I saw two middle-aged men, one tall and one thin, and they didn't look like good people at a glance. The thin one, with thief eyebrows and rat eyes, carried a sack on his shoulder, and he didn't know what it contained.
"Boss Liu, will it be a problem to hide her here?"
The thin man asked, and put the sack down, not seeing any change in his complexion, thinking that the sack was not filled with any heavy objects.
"It was a goddess who died here a few years ago, and she was chattering on weekdays, and if she put this child in a coffin, few people would dare to open it. ”
The tall one said, and then asked, "Did the fat man go to deliver the letter?"
"Went on. ”
The thin man replied, "The Shangguan family is such a precious daughter, if he dares not to take the money, he will wait to collect the corpse." ”
Then the two said something inconsequential, as if they were planning something.
But after a few times, the little beggar understood a little, and lay on the courtyard wall, as if thinking. These two people must have kidnapped a little girl from a family in the city, hoping to make some money, and eighty percent of the sacks were the girl who was robbed, and they were going to take them here and hide them.
"There is no fairy fate. ”
muttered in his heart, and the little beggar seemed to be a little dissatisfied.
Kidnapping or something, he doesn't want to care about it, and besides, he has no power or power, and he can't beat those two big men, even if he wants to manage it, he can't do anything about it.
After pondering, he was ready to go back and scold the man who occupied his nest.
"Yikes!"
Suddenly, hearing only the thin man scream, the little beggar hurriedly turned his gaze back and looked into the courtyard.
But when he saw that the thin man was about to release the little girl in the sack to breathe, he was caught off guard and was bitten, and he couldn't help but scold. Immediately afterwards, the little girl broke free, her eyes looked wildly, and she happened to meet the little beggar lying on the courtyard wall.
Just a moment.
There was a pounding heartbeat, and the little beggar froze.
He had never seen such a beautiful girl. Wearing a white cotton velvet long skirt with brocade and jade ornaments, although she is still young, she still has a bit of grace and outstanding temperament. The snow-white face, even fairer under the moonlight, a pair of clear eyes that seemed to be frightened and confused, glanced past him.
I only feel in my heart that she is the most beautiful person in the world.
"Chase!"
In an instant, the girl took advantage of the pain of the thin man, and was already running towards the outside of the hospital, and then the two behind her shouted, and they also chased after the general.
Under the pure night sky, everything is silent.
The girl ran away regardless of a qiē, turned an old locust tree, but accidentally fell, and the sound of hurried footsteps behind her was getting closer and closer, and a burst of fear came to her heart.
There seemed to be tears in his eyes, sparkling.
"Come here!"
Suddenly, there was an equally immature call, and a head poked out of the fence at the foot of the courtyard, and then the little beggar ran out, grabbed her with one hand, and hid back in the fence together.
A cage of weeds, hidden in front of the petite bodies of the two.
Immediately, the two wicked men followed the footprints left in the snow, and they were already in hot pursuit. However, suddenly, an inexplicable gust of wind blew, and it swept through the space, and a moment later, it actually lifted a few feet of snow under its feet, and scattered it all over the sky.
It was inexplicably eliminated, leaving only the moonlight bleak and quiet.
"What the hell is this!"
The tall man snorted and shook off the snow from his body. But I saw that there were any footprints in the snow, just as if it had just snowed, and snowflakes were accumulating all over the ground.
"What to do?" asked the thin man.
"Find, you must find out!"
With an angry scolding, the two continued to walk forward, walking quickly.
......
"Gone. ”
After a long time, when the two men had gone away, the little beggar finally tore away the miscellaneous straw that was hidden in front of him, and got out of the hedge. Dressed in thin clothes, fluttering in the cold wind.
But I didn't feel a chill.
"They'll come back. ”
The girl stepped forward, and did not say anything grateful, but still said with concern. The words were indifferent, and there was a little bit of faint fear on the clean and pretty little face.
She looked at the little beggar in front of her, and seemed to be a little displeased.
However, the little beggar didn't care at all.
Since she is the daughter of a rich and noble family in the city, she naturally will not be too close to a poor person like herself, and she has long been used to it, and even she will not have a good face for them. It's just that the little beggar is determined to help this girl at this time, and why, he doesn't know.
"Where is your home, I'll send you back. ”
The little beggar said that he couldn't be more familiar with Jingzhou City, but there are many people surnamed Shangguan in the city, and I don't know which family this girl is the daughter of at this moment.
“......”
The girl bit her lip tightly, but did not answer.
As if, I was afraid that the little beggar was also a bad person, and I didn't want to tell half a point. In this way, it seems that she has been kidnapped like this, not once or twice.
Seeing this, the little beggar shrugged his shoulders and asked:
"Then why don't you go back with me and wait for your family to look for you?"
"Hmm. ”
The girl hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded.
Hearing this, the little beggar suddenly laughed, revealing his two white front teeth, and seemed to be a little happy. He didn't know if this was the fairy fate that the man had said before.
"What's your name?"
"My name is Ogawa. What about you?"
"Yaoyao. ”