The new moon is like a hook, and a few old crows choose all the cold branches and refuse to roost, wailing in the night.
In the mass grave, a pair of thin figures moved between the simple loess graves. A ragged boy was carrying a girl of about the same age on his back. There is only a bit of aura left in those eyes. The boy carrying the **** his back looked worried, and tried not to touch the thigh wound of the girl bitten by wild dogs with his hands. He and she were both beggars dozens of miles away. They begged along the road during the day and searched for graves at night. There is a custom in the middle of Sichuan. On the day of burial, put some steamed buns and cakes on the grave. One is to let the living souls eat on the road to Huangquan, and the other is to buy nearby wandering ghosts so that they will not be with the souls of the buried people. Difficult.
“Xing, the people suffer, and they all turn into dust. In death, the people suffer, and they all turn into dust.” Because she was in the midst of many barren graves, the girl could only use her voice to strengthen her courage. Although her face was pale, her voice was extremely Qingling, this is something she occasionally hears spit out from the mouth of the scholar, and when the consonance moves, she sings it with a unique waxy and soft accent. At a young age, in troubled times, she didn’t understand the majestic truths that she would rather be a dog of peace than a person in a troubled world. She just randomly mixed up the hearsay “Lishan Nostalgia” and Zhang Yanghao’s “Hillside Sheep”. If it can be sung in the middle of the song, if it can be heard by someone with a heart, it must not have a bitter taste.
The boy who had been walking with the **** his back for a long time had his eyes blurred by sweat, and the spooky aura that filled the wild graves and mounds also made his hair stand on end, but he didn’t even dare to take a breath, trying to hide his fear and fatigue to the greatest extent. . But this girl gets along with him day and night, plus she is smart and smart, how can she not know his thoughts. After gently wiping off his sweat, looking at the mass grave in front of her, the girl couldn’t help but asked quietly: “Are we going to die too?”
“No.” The boy squeezed out a smile and comforted the girl.
“It is said in the play that people are doomed to death, and Grandpa Wu is also dead.” The girl said sadly, she is a very smart child, although she can’t touch the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting like a child from a rich family, but even if she only heard it once The poems are easy to catch. The grandpa Wu she said is a fortune teller. After spending a period of time with them, the old man would talk about gods and ghosts whenever he was free, or teach the girls some lyrics and songs that are embarrassing, and finally froze to death in the On a snowy night, the girl had an unforgettable taboo on death.
“Immortals don’t die.” The young man opened his mouth, his lips were chapped and blood was leaking, and he quietly licked off the blood. He had a mouthful of snow-white teeth, in stark contrast to that dark face. Facing the dark high mountain in the distance, “Grandpa Wu said that there are gods in that mountain. When you recover from illness, I will take you to the mountain over there. Maybe we won’t die when we meet the gods.”
To meet immortals and seek immortality, these few words are simple to say, but it is more than a thousand times more difficult than the road of Shu. Maybe the old man just said it casually to satisfy the curiosity of the two children. For poor people, people who seek immortality and practice Taoism are still unattainable, let alone immortal gods who are illusory.
“Found it!” Suddenly the young man’s eyes lit up, and the young man who had been looking for sacrifices for half a night finally saw a bowl of pastries placed on a new grave. In his eyes, it is more precious than anything else, because he is not sure whether she can continue to hold on if he is starved and carried on his back.
Carefully put her down far away from the new grave, found a stone and spread some hay on it, let her sit on it, and walked staggeringly, because the old saying is that it is a bad thing to grab the soul food, and it will happen Although the young man has been lonely since he was a child and has a tough personality tempered by hard times, he must also be afraid of ghosts and gods, so he firmly kowtowed nine times on the grave, as if he felt that it was not enough, he kowtowed nine more, Then he took out the steamed buns from the bowl, turned his head to look at the girl, secretly nibbled on four or five steamed buns, and muttered to himself: “I took these steamed buns. If you want to find them, goblins will come to me.” A person, I have bitten, it is mine, and the loss of life is also my own.”
Running back to the girl and squatting down, he handed all the steamed buns into her hands.
“There are four.” The girl said happily.
She handed three back to the young man, and kept one for herself, with a bright smile like a summer flower, she said: “I have a small appetite, and I will be full after eating one, you can eat two, and we will save the remaining one for the journey. “
Looking at the girl stuffing the cold steamed bun into his hand, the boy felt as if he had grasped the rarest delicacy in the world.
“Hurry up and eat.” The girl bit the steamed bun in small bites, looked at the silly boy, and smiled.
The boy was also extremely hungry, seeing the girl’s smiling face, he intentionally took a big bite of the steamed bun. He bit into his mouth slowly. Although he hadn’t swallowed it yet, his stomach that was so hungry seemed to feel a lot better. When he raised his head and was about to smile at the girl, the boy’s eyes suddenly widened.
He suddenly saw a colorful light flying from the distant sky, which looked like a shooting star from a distance, but in a short while, it was much closer to where the boy and girl were. And the closer you get, the brighter the colorful light will be. Even the girl with her back to that brilliance found out. “What is that?” The girl stretched out her finger in shock, and immediately she covered her mouth in disbelief. Both she and the boy saw that the colorful brilliance was actually a colorful dragon boat flying in the air. !
The whole body of the dragon boat seems to be carved from purple jade, and the whole body exudes a soft purple luster. It is several feet long, and the dragon head at the front of the bow holds a fist-sized red orb in its mouth, and the hull is also inlaid with gemstones of various colors, and those colorful brilliance are emitted by these gemstones.
Extremely gorgeous colorful dragon boats sail through the air!
The boy and the girl have never seen such a scene before, and they couldn’t help but freeze their breath for a while.
But what shocked the two of them even more was that there was a woman standing on the colorful dragon boat, the one on the left was wearing a purple palace dress, with a green hairpin stuck in her head, her skin was better than snow, and The person on the right is wearing a goose-yellow palace dress, with a little flowery yellow sticking between his eyebrows. They all have bright eyes and white teeth, and they are gorgeous.
Looking at the dragon boat that appeared in front of them, the boy and the girl were stunned for a moment, “It turned out to be two children from the mountains.” The beauty in the palace costume on the left didn’t seem to notice their existence, Frowning as if no one else was around, “Senior Sister, let’s go, he shouldn’t be hiding in this kind of place.”
The woman in the goose-yellow shirt on the right nodded, “I also don’t think he will come near Shushan Mountain, but the master wants us to check here.”
“Senior Sister, do you think that thing is really that important? It caused us to go to war and send so many people to look for it?” asked the woman in palace costume on the left.
“When did you see the master being so solemn.” The woman in the palace costume on the right said: “Let’s go, so as not to be seen by the Shushanmen and get entangled.”
“Ah” exclaimed, it turned out that at this time the girl wondered if she was dreaming, dreaming of the Dragon Boat Fairy. She unconsciously wanted to rub her eyes, but she accidentally touched the wound on her leg, and couldn’t help crying out.
“Huh?” The two women in palace costumes on the two colorful dragon boats who were about to leave suddenly let out a light sigh at the same time. Although the girl was sallow and thin, her bones were extremely delicate, and she looked like an atlas of physiognomy. The body of a nine-year-old mysterious girl with extremely high qualifications. After looking at each other, the colorful dragon boats of the two women in palace costumes suddenly landed, “Little sister, are you willing to go with us?”
“Follow you guys?” The little girl’s natural temperament made trouble, and after she yelled in great surprise, she looked at the two women in palace costumes and asked: “You two sisters, you are so beautiful, and your clothes are so beautiful. Is it a fairy?”
The two women in palace costumes smiled slightly, “We will take you to a very good place, and in the future you will become as beautiful as us and wear the same beautiful clothes.”
“Really?!” The girl almost jumped up, but she suddenly remembered something, and nodded at the boy beside her, “Then he will also come with us.”
“Him?” The two ladies in palace costumes glanced at the boy, but they both shook their heads at the same time, “He’s too poor to take him away.”
“Then I won’t go either.” The girl was stunned for a moment, then became anxious, and when she turned her head to look at the boy next to her, tears were already rolling in her eyes. “Idiot. Promise them quickly.” When the boy heard the two women in palace costumes say that he could not bring him with him, he only felt a buzzing thought in his mind, but when he heard the girl say no, the boy was even more anxious than her. , For the first time in his life, he scolded a girl.
The girl wanted to say no more, but the woman in court dress on the left was impatient, and rolled up her long sleeves, “Let’s go!” I was already on the dragon boat high in the sky, and the boy underneath was only the size of an ant, and I couldn’t even see it clearly. “Let me go down.” The girl felt anxious, and immediately burst into tears. The woman in the purple dress on the left side ignored the girl, but the woman in the goose-yellow palace dress couldn’t bear it, and comforted her: “Little sister, don’t be sad. When you grow up, you can pick him up yourself.”
…….
In the sight of the young man, the brilliance of the colorful dragon boat flew farther and farther, and finally disappeared.
“His aptitude is too poor, you can’t take him away… His aptitude is too poor, you can’t take him away…” The voice of the woman in palace costume echoed in the boy’s mind over and over again, although his personality had been sharpened in normal times He is extremely tenacious, but after all, he is only a twelve or thirteen-year-old mountain child. The dragon boat and the woman in the palace costume are more real than the fairy he imagined. He didn’t even give him a chance to talk, and he thought about how he and the girl depended on each other in the past, and thought that he might never see her again. Seeing the few cold steamed buns in his hand again, the young man felt so sad that he couldn’t help crying loudly.
“Hmph, I didn’t expect that the so-called famous sect that leads the righteous way in the world is also acting like a bandit.” Suddenly, a sullen voice rang in the boy’s ear. “But don’t worry, the little girl is favored by them. This kind of blessing, others can’t ask for it.”
This voice actually came from a barren grave next to it, and the crying boy shivered violently.
The tomb was dilapidated and collapsed, revealing half of the coffin, with a “click”, a gray-white hand suddenly stretched out from the dilapidated coffin.
With a bang, the lid of the coffin was lifted, and a person sat up with him. He had an eagle nose, narrow eyes, and his face was so pale that there was no trace of blood. Even the pupils seemed to have no dark eyes. Dahongpao enveloped his whole body.
“Huh?” Seeing that the boy who stopped crying still had tears on his face, he didn’t run away as he imagined. Turn around, look at the boy and say, “Why, you are not afraid of me?”
“Not afraid.” The boy shook his head.
“Why are you not afraid? Aren’t you afraid of ghosts?” The man in the coffin looked at the ragged boy strangely.
“You have a shadow, ghosts have no shadow.”
“En?” He lowered his head and glanced at his faint shadow in the night, and then carefully sized up the ragged little beggar. .”
Hearing the person in the coffin say that he has poor aptitude, the young man was shocked again, and couldn’t help but look in the direction where the colorful dragon boat disappeared.
“Little baby.” Looking at the young man’s painful and sad look, the person in the coffin suddenly smiled, “Looking at you, it must be that you haven’t eaten enough for many days, right?”
The young man nodded. If he hadn’t been hungry for many days, he didn’t even have the strength to run, and the girl disappeared beside him, and he felt sad, even if he found out that the person sitting up in the coffin was a person or not Ghost, just the sight of the person in the coffin covered in red clothes and pale face may have already turned around and ran away, and would not stay here.
“Then do you want to never have to suffer from hunger and starvation in the future? You don’t have to come to this barren cemetery to eat this kind of food, or you can come and go freely like them? See that little girl again? “The gray pupils of the man in the coffin turned, and he pointed his finger while speaking, and a red light like a spider’s silk suddenly hit the cold and hard steamed bun in the young man’s hand. The young man only felt his palms burn, and in a daze, the steamed buns had turned into charred black powder, falling from his hands one after another.
For a little beggar who may not be able to eat a full meal after starving for a few days, there is nothing more tempting than a full meal. What’s more, there is a shocking thing called power in this world, and the woman in palace costume who can ride a colorful dragon boat against the wind just shows the power of the fairy in his mind~IndoMTL.com~Will not be abandoned The young man in the coffin saw such power displayed by the man in the coffin. Now the man in the coffin said he could help him come and go as freely as they did, and see the girl again. The young man was frightened and surprised at the same time, looking at this strange red-robed man for a while, his thin body trembled slightly, but he was speechless.
The man in the coffin, who easily created the effect of brightening another village, was not at all surprised by the boy’s reaction, and the corner of his mouth curled up in a slight arc, “The Buddha said that he did not cultivate good karma in his previous life, and only suffered hunger and cold karma in this life. But do you believe that I can help you escape from this world of suffering?”
The young man looked at the person in the coffin. The events from the appearance of the colorful dragon boat to the present were indescribably weird to him. He was not particularly smart and couldn’t help asking after a long pause: ” You… who are you, how did you end up in the coffin?”
“Most people in the world are blinded by vain things. Who am I and why am I in the coffin? Does it matter?” But he stretched out his right hand and spread it out flat. The young man unconsciously followed his hand to look at it, and the distance a few feet before his eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw a bead the size of a thumbnail surging with brilliance, emitting waves of azure blue in the hand of the person in the coffin. Looking closely, there seemed to be circles of ripples in the round bead that were constantly rippling, while a layer of faint red brilliance appeared on the smooth and jade-like surface from time to time.
Looking at the pale young man stretched by the brilliance of the bead in his hand, the man in the coffin said indifferently: “As long as you eat this bead, you will never be hungry or cold forever, and everything in the world is bound to each other. Here, you are here, this is fate, as long as you promise me one thing, I will give you this bead.”