The three of us had just walked to the other end of the hallway, and a large private room had come out of a group of people. This is obviously a table of diners who have just settled the table and dispersed, and a group of people is surrounded by an old man with a crane childish face. I know this old man, it is the old man Gao who once taught me the five poultry operas in the stadium, and he is also the old secretary of Gao Fei, who helped me sell dates in front of the courtyard of the municipal party committee.

Old man Gao also went to Zhiwei Lou to eat, and I was about to go up and say hello to him, but Ziying, who was sensitive, behaved very abnormally beside me. She also saw the group of people's faces turn pale and their lips tremble. I felt her lips tremble, her whole body trembled, and her feet were unsteady. I appeared, Liu Yiyi also appeared, and hurriedly supported her left and right. I held her body, Ziying's legs leaned limply on my arms, and her shoulders were still twitching slightly.

"Ziying, what's wrong with you, are you uncomfortable?" I asked worriedly. Her appearance was so strange, it was a sign that a little girl would only be so frightened. But Han Ziying is not a little girl, let alone a person who is at a loss.

Ziying grabbed my wrist and replied, "It's nothing, maybe I've been too tired in the last few days." ...... Ono, help me to the office and rest for a while. ...... You can go back first. When she said she had nothing to say, her hands were clenched tightly. If you change it to someone else's wrist, I'm afraid that my fingernails will pierce the flesh.

I helped her into the office, and Liu Yiyi followed behind me and said, "Sister Ziying, don't worry, is it sick?"

Ziying walked to the sand but didn't sit down. Still clutching me, his hands leaned limply against me. She said to Yiyi: "I'm not sick, you don't have to worry about me." You go back first, I'll find you, Brother Ishino, I have something to say. ”

Yiyi looked at me, then at her, and I also persuaded: "Yiyi, you go first, it's okay to have me here to take care of Sister Ziying." Liu Yiyi obediently left first.

I closed the door. persuaded Ziying to sit but Ziying did not sit. I had to sit on the sand and hold her in my arms, her body still shaking slightly. She pressed her face to my chest, closed her eyes and didn't speak, with a frightened look on her face. Looking at the way she looked, I was more and more sure that I had just judged that she was frightened, or that she recalled some horrible past.

"Ziying, what's wrong with you? Did you see someone who scared you?"

Ziying stretched out a hand to hook my waist: "Yes, I saw a person just now." ”

"Alone, with your current cultivation. Are you afraid of someone?"

Ziying: "You don't understand that the situation is different! I'm not afraid of him, but when I see him, I recall a past event. That was nineteen years ago. ...... It's been almost twenty years, and I didn't expect ......"

"Is it the group of people just now? One of those people I know is an old white man. ”

"What? you know him!" Ziying sat up in my arms. His hands grabbed my shoulders.

I was taken aback, how could the person who scared Ziying happen to be Old Man Gao? When I first got acquainted with Feng Junzi, Feng Junzi pointed out to me in the market that there were three masters, the first was Old Man Gao, and the third was Han Ziying. Could it be that there is some story between these two people?

"His name is High Fly. He was a combat hero before the liberation of Wucheng, and was also the first commissioner of the prefectural party committee and secretary of the municipal party committee after the founding of the People's Republic of China. ”

Ziying's hand hadn't let go yet, and her tone was still tense: "It's been so many years." I finally knew his name. Ono, how did you meet him, and how did he have a relationship with you, okay?"

Seeing that her expression softened a little, she no longer kept shaking like just now. I gently grabbed her arm and placed it on my waist and reached for her to my chest. It seems that Old Man Gao once left unpleasant memories for Ziying. I wanted to know what was going on, but I told her about my relationship with Mr. Gao first. From the beginning of the acquaintance in the stadium, including him helping me sell dates with Yang Xiaokang and so on.

As I spoke, I looked at Ziying's face, and suddenly remembered something in my heart. Last year, when Ziying first admitted to me that she was born as a monster, she mentioned a past. She said at the time that she was injured by a hunter at the end of the flight eighteen years ago. The person who hurt her was a very masculine person. It seems that the hunter is the old man Gao. If that's the case, it's really not easy to have a grudge between Old Man Gao and Ziying.

I kept looking at Ziying's face and asked cautiously, "Ziying, I remember you said that you were injured by a hunter in the Flying End Peak nineteen years ago. Is he the old man Gao?"

I didn't ask, but fortunately, my opening Ziying was like a little daughter-in-law who had suffered from her mother-in-law's anger, nodded vigorously, and came down with tears in her eyes. She didn't speak, she sobbed and cried in my arms, Ziying cried for the first time, every time I held her in my arms, patted her back gently, and waited for her to finish crying. Although it is a demon, it is indeed aggrieved to be hurt by people for no reason. She cried for a quarter of an hour before she stopped crying.

"Ziying, don't be sad, it's all over! I ask you, do you hate him, do you want to seek revenge on him?"

Ziying: "I did have a little hatred at the time, but then it faded. He is a hunter who goes up to the mountains to hunt, and I am the prey in the mountains, and it is normal for him to hurt me. I'm just afraid, I don't know why, as soon as I see him, I suddenly remember the scene back then, and my whole body can't help shaking. ...... If it's a stranger, I might want to teach him a lesson. I didn't expect him to be your elder and treat you so well, so I won't settle this account with him......"

Ziying's words were a bit chaotic, one would say hate, one would say no hate, and he would say that he wanted to teach a lesson, and the old man Gao said forget it. It can be seen that she is in a very chaotic mood now. To tell the truth, I'm also very embarrassed, Old Man Gao is good to me, and he is also a good person, if Ziying really wants to seek revenge on him, I can't just watch it. He did injure Ziying back then, and this grudge was really hard to eliminate.

"Ziying. I think it's a little weird. With your five hundred years of cultivation, how could you be injured by a hunter?" This is indeed a bit unreasonable, that old man Gao, although he knows the inner kung fu and is also cultivating the innate vitality, he may not be Ziying's opponent.

Ziying replied on my chest, "Ono, I'm a monster. You don't know how to practice monsters, it's different from you cultivators. Nineteen years ago, my cultivation was not enough, although I was able to transform into a * human form, but it also required mana. So when I was in the mountains, I still appeared in my original form most of the time. This was when I was at my weakest. ...... Blame myself for being careless, he's not an ordinary person...... When he fired, I realized it was too late. He shot me in the leg. I'll never forget that sudden 'bang'. ”

Hearing that Ziying had broken a leg, although I knew that she was in front of me now, my heart still trembled, and I couldn't help but hug her tightly. Nervously asked her, "Are your legs okay already?"

Ziying: "It's okay anymore. Originally, there were two large scars on the front and back cups. But after listening to the Book of Heaven's 'Transfiguration Chapter', the scars are gone, so you don't see it. I really have to thank Feng Junzi, if he doesn't let me listen to the Book of Heaven, I really can't be with you like now. ”

"The Transfiguration Chapter is so magical, so why can't the whip marks of the Red Snake Whip go away?"

Ziying: "That's not an ordinary scar, not to mention that the 'Transformation Chapter' of the Wind Gentleman is only half memorized." ...... I don't have your golden dragon lock jade pillar. At that time, there was no Ziying clothes to protect me. Not to mention the Red Snake Whip, even the rifle in the hand of that tall old man is also fatal to me. ”

"Rifles? I can't stop the close-range shooting of ordinary military rifles. ”

Ziying's expression calmed down a lot, and she stretched out her finger and tapped it on my chest: "What is the stupid guy doing with his body to block bullets? You can also hold the bolt of the gun in the law, who can shoot you? I was injured at the time, and I suddenly didn't react. After a broken leg. If you lose your mana, you won't be able to run far. ”

"And how did you get out of danger in the end?"

Ziying: "It just so happened that someone came out in time to save me. ”

"Can this person be found, and I want to thank him. ”

Ziying: "Even if I find it, I'm afraid I won't know if it's not an adult, it's a baby." ”

"Baby, a baby saved you under the hands of a tall man with a gun?"

Ziying: "What a coincidence. After I was injured, I dragged one leg to escape, and my surname Gao chased after me along the bloodstain. Just as he was about to catch me, a baby's cry was heard in the hollow of a boulder in the mountains. He was alarmed by the cry. He didn't chase me anymore and got up to find the baby. Later, I hid in the shadows and saw him coming down the mountain with a baby in his arms. ”

This thing is really bizarre and thrilling, and I was inexplicably relieved to hear this: "Ziying, don't be scared anymore, now you're fine." With me, I won't let anyone hurt you again. ...... You already know who the enemy is back then, and if you can't get out of this breath, come to me. Why don't I get you a gun one day, and you can get a shot in my leg? ...... The enemy knows that the benefactor is actually easy to find. Didn't that baby be taken away by Old Man Gao? It must be an abandoned baby who was left in the mountains, ask Old Man Gao to know who he is now. ”

Ziying: "I won't shoot you, and I'll bite you with my teeth when I have a chance." ...... I don't plan to take revenge for that kind of revenge. If you can find out who that baby is, I'd like to thank you. ”

"Are you still scared now? Your reaction just now was so strong that it scared Yiyi and me!"

Ziying actually nodded: "I'm still afraid." I'm not afraid of the person with the surname Gao, I'm inexplicable, and I feel that I think of a lot of things coldly. If there were no you in this world, I don't know what would happen to me now?"

"Cold, then hold on tight. Don't think too much about it......" As I spoke, I felt Ziying's shoulders tremble slightly.

I didn't go back to school that night and stayed in Zhiwei Building. Ziying held her all the time and didn't let go, so I just held her in my arms and sat on the sand all night. In the middle of the night she curled up on my chest and fell asleep. In her sleep, she seemed to be dreaming, muttering my name. I don't even know what happened outside the office, and I don't know when Feng Junzi and Seven Hearts left. Fortunately, after Ziying woke up in my arms the next day, her mood had returned to normal, and she was still the gentle and generous Han Ziying.

comforted Ziying again, and saw that she was fine, so she was relieved. It was early in the morning, and I didn't go back to school directly and walked to Wucheng Stadium. That's where I first met Mr. Gao, who would be boxing there every morning. As I walked along the road, I suddenly remembered an incident from more than a year ago

"It is said that the exotic beast Xiangfei musk deer, a specialty of Wucheng, became extinct five hundred years ago, but I saw it eighteen years ago, ......"

"How did you see it, Elder Gao?

"Don't look at me now, I'm not young, but my eyes are still good! That time, I carried a five-six-semi-automatic to the end of the peak to hunt, and saw a fawn-like animal. ......”

"No, you saw the fawn. In the Jiulian Mountains, there used to be elk activities, but now they are gone. How do you know it's not a little elk, it's a musk deer, and you haven't seen a musk deer?"

"That little beast has a beautiful fur, how can an elk be so beautiful, and the smell that I was in the limelight at the time. There was a particularly pleasant scent in the wind, and I looked up to see a small beast standing on the rock. The fragrance comes out of it, exactly like the legend of the fragrant musk deer. ”

This conversation is a small talk between the old man Gao and the old man and the old lady who are boxing one morning. More than a year ago, I was also present at the time, and I was very curious to ask about the legend of the fragrant musk deer. Just out of curiosity, I remembered it and suddenly remembered it today. Unexpectedly, the passage I unintentionally heard was actually a public case between Han Ziying and Gao Feiduan. Ziying admitted to me that she was a monster, but she never said what she had changed. I understood her mind, and she wanted her to be a real person in my mind, and not to think of anything else. Today, I finally learned that she was the embodiment of the legendary long-extinct Xiangfei musk deer.

The Xiangfei musk deer is extinct, and the dinosaurs are also extinct, as long as Ziying is still there, it is enough.

Walking into the stadium, Old Man Gao was dressed in a white practice uniform, which was very eye-catching. In addition to the wind and rain, he will do Tai Chi here at this time every day. With my cultivation today, even if I don't use the Qing Ying Mirror, I can see a layer of golden light faintly shrouded around his body. He was indeed a man with a strong masculine spirit! I stood quietly and waited for them to finish their boxing and retract their streaks.

It's been a long time since I've been here, but the old men and women still remember me. After the boxing, they greeted me and asked me why I didn't come to practice? I replied with a smile that I was already in my third year of high school, and I was quite nervous about studying. Old Man Gao also came over to me with a smile and asked, "Xiaoshi also needs a good body to study......! How are you feeling lately? I see that your complexion is much better than when we first met. ...... Why do you have time to come and see us old people today?"

"Old man, I came to you today. I have one thing. ”

Old man Gao looked at me: "What's the matter with me, this old man, won't let me help you sell dates again, right?"

"The golden dates are only harvested in autumn, the old man likes to eat them, and when the season comes, I will send you more." Looking for you today, I want to ask one thing, I heard that you picked up an abandoned baby in Feidu Peak nineteen years ago, is there such a thing?"

The old man looked at me in confusion: "There is such a thing, how do you know what's wrong with that kid?...... No, I think about it, you once told me that you were from Shizhu Village, didn't you?"

"What does this have to do with Shizhu Village?"

Old Man Gao looked at me with a look of surprise and joy. Overwhelmed me. He suddenly said, "You are nineteen years old this year, right?

"I'm nineteen, and I'll be twenty next month. Grandpa Jin is in good health, do you know him? Last time you helped me sell land dates, he planted them. "I originally wanted to ask Mr. Gao about picking up the abandoned baby, but I didn't expect the old man to answer the question, and also mentioned Shizhu Village and Grandpa Jin.

Old Man Gao: "It's such a coincidence, I haven't seen you for 19 years." The five-bird play I taught you. It was taught to me by the old man Jin before liberation. I didn't expect you to grow so big, it was your grandfather Jin who asked you to come to me, right? ”

The old man's words flashed like a light in the darkness, and I could hear the meaning of the words. He actually thinks that I am the abandoned baby back then, and Grandpa Jin also knows about the abandoned baby he picked up. Listening to his tone, the kid should be nineteen years old in Shizhu Village.

I frowned and asked him, "Old man, you slow down and say one thing at a time." What do you mean. Do you think I'm the foundling?"

I originally meant to deny this, of course I wasn't an abandoned baby, my parents stayed well in Shizhu Village. But Gao Lao was a little excited, and he didn't hear it, but thought I was admitting. I only heard his tone excited: "Of course I can't recognize you when I see you." But I have another way to recognize you. You lifted your clothes, do you have a birthmark on your chest?"

I don't have a birthmark on my chest, he must have made a mistake. I subconsciously lifted my clothes, only to see that Gao Lao glanced at me, opened his arms and held me in his arms, and patted my back with a strong big hand: "Sure enough, it's you." You've grown up, kid, and you've never forgotten to come to me, the old man who picked you up. That red birthmark on your chest looked like a plum blossom when you were a child......"

On my chest was a blood-red plum blossom mark. But it wasn't a birthmark. It was the scar from the Red Snake Whip! Originally, it was the Wind Gentleman who was injured, but he didn't know what strange and authentic method he used to borrow my golden dragon lock, and as soon as the jade pillar was used, there was suddenly a scar like this on my chest. And the child that Old Man Gao picked up actually had an identical birthmark on his chest, which is really a coincidence!

Old man Gao's mood is both excited and happy now, and I really can't explain it to him clearly in a few words. Forget it, I won't explain it for the time being, it's not too late to ask things clearly before understanding. I also patted the old man on the back: "Elder Gao, don't patronize and be happy first." Don't forget that I'm here to ask you about things today. How did you pick up that abandoned baby? Can you tell me about the process?"

I didn't ask him how he found it, I only asked him how he picked up the abandoned baby. It's a pity that Gao Lao didn't understand the meaning of the words, but this sentence also reminded him. He let go of my hand and said, "You've finally come to ask me about this today." Find a place to sit down and talk. "We sat down on the steps by the playground and listened to Mr. Gao talk about the past

Almost 20 years ago, in 1971. At that time, it was just in time for the batch of Lin Pikong, the four olds, and the bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods fighting in the streets, which was the most chaotic era in the ten years of turmoil. At that time, the leaders of the Wucheng area, Gao Feidu, had already been "seized power" by the Revolutionary Committee and sidelined. Faced with a chaotic situation, Gao Fei was depressed, and often hid in the countryside to be a carefree person who didn't ask anything. One day in early October of that year, he borrowed a semi-automatic rifle from the Ministry of Armed Forces to hunt and relieve his boredom in the inaccessible Flying Peak.

As for the part where he injured Concubine Xiang and picked up the baby. Ziying has already told me that the key lies after going down the mountain. He walked down the peak with the baby in his arms, but at the foot of the mountain he met an acquaintance. This person's surname is Jin, and he is an old Chinese medicine doctor in Xiashizhu Village, Wucheng Township. When Gao Feiquan was fighting guerrilla warfare before liberation, he was once injured and hid in the home of a villager in the Zhaoting Mountains to recuperate, and it was Grandpa Jin who came to treat his injury. Later, Grandpa Jin also taught him a set of five poultry plays that can strengthen the body.

Grandpa Jin came to Feiduan Peak today to collect medicine, but he saw Gao Feiduan coming down the mountain with a baby in his arms, of course, he had to ask him what was going on. After hearing that this was an abandoned baby picked up in the mountains, Grandpa Jin asked him: "How do you want to settle this child? Now the situation in the city is so chaotic, even you can't say whether you will be beaten tomorrow and take this child back to take care of it?"

When Gao Feiduan heard it, he felt that it was the same, so he asked Grandpa Jin what to do. Grandpa Jin said: "Our countryside is relatively peaceful. Then give me this child. There is a couple in our Shizhu village who have not had children for three years after marriage. I've always wanted one, even if it's a hug. I took him back to the village and gave him to the couple to raise. You can rest assured, that family is quite good. ”

It was as if a hammer was striking in my ears, and a gong shook the ground, and my head was buzzing. I just thought that Mr. Gao had misunderstood. But the person he's talking about now is clearly me. In early October 1971, my birthday in my household registration book was October 8, 1971! During these six months, there were no children of the same age in my village. My parents got married in 1968! There doesn't seem to be any other family in my village who has this kind of problem.

I don't remember exactly what Mr. Gao said and how I said goodbye to him and the stadium. All I remember is that instead of going to school, I lost my soul and walked down the road like I was sleepwalking. Unconsciously when he came back to his senses, he saw himself standing in the Jingwu Cave with the Qingshen Mirror in his hand, and there was water all over his body.

I don't know how I got here, standing there stupidly. At this time, a person came out of the bamboo house behind the bamboo house and walked out of the forest, which was Liu Yiyi, who came to fetch spring water in the morning. Yiyi was taken aback when she saw me: "Brother, why are you here?

I replied, almost reflexively, "I don't know." I didn't know I was here. ”

My abnormal appearance surprised and worried Yiyi. She put down the kettle and came over and grabbed my hand: "Brother, you look so strange?...... Ahh

Liu Yiyi knows how to understand his heart and is proficient in the art of empathy, and the empty and chaotic emotions in my head she immediately felt. She helped me into a bamboo hut and sat me down. Yiyi half-knelt in front of me. With his hands on my lap, he looked up into my eyes and asked, "Brother?......, what's wrong with you?" I vaguely hear you asking in your mind, 'Who am I?' What the hell is going on?"

Yiyi's words finally brought me to my senses from the chaos. I calmed down, reached out and touched her head and said, "Brother Yiyi is fine." I just heard a story. I feel a little messed up. ...... It'll be fine after a while, you leave me alone, go back to the green snow tea. ...... Feel relieved. I don't really have anything to do with it. ”

Yiyi glanced at me, nodded, and walked away with a puzzled expression. After Yiyi left, I sat there alone, and my heart fluctuated. After living for almost 20 years, I suddenly wondered if my father was my own mother, and I didn't know where I came from? Maybe Old Man Gao made a mistake, but this is just a coincidence, and the birthmark is proof! But why do I have such a scar on my chest? My parents must know about this, but how can I ask them such a question? Grandpa Jin must know. I must find a chance to ask Grandpa Jin to figure things out!

Just as I was thinking nonsense, a warm fragrance came, and Ziying was standing in front of me at some point. When I looked up and saw her, I heard a concerned voice: "Xiao Ye, you have something!" Liu Yiyi came to me just now and said that you are in a trance. She didn't know what to do, so let me see if you were sick. Tell me if you're going to find that old man?...... Something happened. ”

Ziying knew that I knew Gao Feidu, and immediately guessed that I was going to look for him in the morning. Liu Yiyi doesn't know a lot of mundane things, and there are some things that I can't say to her, but Ziying is different. If I want someone to talk to, she's the best person to talk to.

"Ziying, come and sit down. I'll tell you something...... The abandoned baby in the mountains you said yesterday is probably me!"

Ziying was taken aback: "Ono, what are you talking about? ”

"I just said probably not that I must be. Listen to me talk about this morning......"

Ziying sat down next to me, and I relayed everything that Old Man Gao told me today, and also explained the doubts in my heart in detail. Ziying kept gently stroking the back of my hand, listening quietly to me, without making a sound. It wasn't until I finished saying that she asked a question I hadn't thought of earlier: "What are you going to do if Ishino were really that kid, like what are you going to do to your current parents?"

Ziying's question was wonderful, she didn't ask me who I was, but asked--How should I deal with this matter now?At this time, my thinking was completely clear, and I looked at the bamboo forest outside the window and said: "My parents have always been like to my own son, and even better than other people's own sons. Since childhood, in addition to careful care, I have never been beaten and scolded. Even if there is only one bite of delicious food at home, it is always given to me first, and then it is my sister's turn. What else do I have to say about having such parents? It doesn't matter if it's biological or not!"

Ziying: "I feel that your parents are not ordinary spoiled to you, and you are not spoiled children. They seem to be a little too polite to you!"

"Really? I don't feel it. But when I was a child, someone in the village told me that I was a wild child picked up through the cracks in the stones. Forget that. I've decided that I'm not going to ask my parents, and I'm not going to let them know that I'm doubting my origins. Even if I am the abandoned baby, let them always treat me as their own son, and I will always treat them as their own parents. Not breaking is the best option. ”

Ziying: "It's rare that you have such a good temperament, you really should do this to them." So how do you track this down or not?"

"Of course, I want to know if I'm the foundling, and if so, why was I born abandoned?"

Ziying: "I'm afraid you don't know, but I lived through that era. At that time, the world was in turmoil, everyone was in danger, and many good people were cornered. Think about what happened to Liu Yiyi's family, isn't that the case? Maybe the biological parents of the abandoned baby are also desperate, and there is really no way. However, the heart of parents should not be too desperate for their children, even if they are abandoned, they must be abandoned, and there is no reason to abandon them and fly to the peak in a crowded place. There must be some other reason for this, which really needs to be figured out. ...... How are you going to find out?"

"If you want to know if I'm the abandoned baby, it's very simple, just ask Grandpa Jin quietly in private. The child was the one he carried back to Shizhu Village, and all signs indicated that it was me. The only thing that was a little different was the birthmark. ”