God's Gift

On the other side, the escaped girls finally climbed to the top of the mountain, stood on the top, and saw the world outside the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain was the road leading to the outside world. The girls could finally breathe a sigh of relief and stopped panting, tears of excitement welling up in their eyes.

"Escaped!" They cheered and ran down the mountain, but Achou stood still.

"Achou?" The girls all stopped and their eyes fell on Achou.

A girl stepped back, looked at Ah Chou and said, "Ah Chou, we can leave here soon."

Ah Chou stood there in silence for a long time before she spoke:

"He could have left Lijia Village today."

"A letter has come from the city. He will soon be able to clear his name and get the innocence he wants, and become the teacher that everyone loves again."

After Achou finished speaking, the girls around him fell silent, not knowing how to start again.

"I have listened to him and sent you out." Ah Chou raised his head and glanced at the girls around him one by one, "Now I am going back."

"Achou..." The girl next to her wanted to persuade her, but Achou turned around without hesitation and ran towards the village firmly.

The heavy snow that had fallen all day finally stopped. A thick layer of snow covered the woods. The sky darkened. Achou's footprints were left in the snow. He ran back quickly in the opposite direction of the other girls.

The clothes she wore were her parents' old ones, which were much larger than her body size. As she ran in the woods, the cold wind blew into the air.

The dead branches passed by Achou's body, but she did not dare to slow down at all. She used up all her life's strength, ran back desperately, and prayed desperately in her heart.

"teacher……"

Wait for her.

But Achou was still one step behind.

She looked at the red figure lying in the snow, and her pace gradually slowed down. Her throat seemed to be filled with blood and the smell of rust due to the rapid running.

Ah Chou went from running to walking, and even she could hear her own heavy breathing. She walked to the figure in the snow and gradually stopped.

The bright red blood soaked into the snowflakes, and a bright red plum blossom bloomed in the snow.

He was clearly very close, yet Achou couldn't reach him.

"Teacher?" Ah Chou stared at the scene in front of her blankly. Her legs went soft and she knelt down in front of Chen Qingqiu. She opened her mouth, gasping loudly, and stretched out her hand tremblingly to touch Chen Qingqiu's body, but she didn't dare to touch it.

The blood in Chen Qingqiu's body had already frozen and his body was already cold.

He used his life to carve a bottomless scar in her heart.

The wind blew the snow off the trees beside the road and sprinkled into Ah Chou's eyes, turning into a drop of warm tear and falling into the blood.

Achou closed her mouth tightly, whimpered a few times in her throat, bent down and hugged Chen Qingqiu's body. She slowly closed her eyes and cried helplessly.

The bright moonlight in her heart had its spine shattered and was trampled into the dirty soil.

Ah Chou just held Chen Qingqiu's body like a stone statue.

After a long time, the sky turned completely dark.

A letter slipped out of Achou's pocket. It was the last letter she wrote and the one that was rejected by Chen Qingqiu.

The blood, which had not yet had time to coagulate, stained the letter paper and seeped into the paper along the texture of the paper.

Ah Chou picked up the envelope and looked up at the direction of the Wanmian Buddha Temple. Torches were lit in the mountains, illuminating the dark forest.

She only took a glance and then shifted her gaze to the half-naked Chen Qingqiu.

Because of kneeling in the snow for a long time, Ah Chou's knees had already frozen. She staggered to her feet, took off her clothes, put them on Chen Qingqiu one by one, then carried Chen Qingqiu on her back and walked slowly towards the direction of Wanmian Foshan.

Chen Qingqiu's blood melted because of Ah Chou's body temperature, dyeing her skin red and flowing down her body drop by drop.

When passing by Grandma Li's house, Grandma Li was sitting on the doorstep in a daze, holding a rope in her hand, watching Ah Chou, whose body was covered in blood, carrying Chen Qingqiu, who was half a head taller than her, as she walked past the door.

Because Chen Qingqiu's body kept sliding down, Achou twisted his clothes into a rope and tied him tightly to himself.

The light in Granny Li's eyes went out and her gaze became confused, obviously she had lost her mind. As she watched Ah Chou carrying Chen Qingqiu past, she smiled and hummed a tune, which was the song that Chen Qingqiu had taught his students before he was about to leave.

"Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the grass is green and endless. I ask you when you will return. When you come back, don't hesitate..."

She threw the rope in her hand onto the door beam, tied a knot, stepped on a stool, and sang again: "At the end of the sky, at the corner of the earth, half of my friends are gone. It is rare to be together in life, but there are many separations...only separations...many..."

She hung on the rope and gradually loosened her hands.

The cold wind blew in the snowy night, blowing her humming away in the wind.

Achou carried Chen Qingqiu on his back and walked towards Wanmian Buddha Mountain step by step. The bloodstains on the ground formed a line and stopped at the foot of the cliff.

The moon rose, and its bright moonlight fell on the top of the mountain. Ah Chou raised his head, looked at the white snow on the top of the mountain, tightened his clothes around his body, and climbed up the stone wall with Chen Qingqiu on his back.

Her hands were cut by the sharp stones, and bright red blood flowed down her arms.

Ah Chou looked at the moon in the sky and climbed to the top of the mountain. She undressed, carefully put Chen Qingqiu down from her body, dug a hole, and buried Chen Qingqiu.

The moonlight fell on the white snow. She had once picked up a piece of moonlight here, and now she buried the moonlight in the snow.

"Achou..." Black mist rose from the snow, and the black mist condensed into a Buddha's body, surrounding Achou, "You're back..."

Ah Chou moved his eyes stiffly, looked at the Thousand-Faced Buddha and asked, "What are you going to do?"

“Hehe… You are the child we watched grow up…” The Thousand-Faced Buddha had no mouth, but noisy laughter came out of his body, “You hate them, right? Let me help you eat them…”

"Don't you only want girls?" There was no light in Ah Chou's eyes, and no fear in his voice.

“Girls… hehehe…” The Thousand-Faced Buddha smiled and leaned close to Ah Chou’s ear, “We don’t have this rule. This was set by you humans…”

Ah Chou listened to the words of the Thousand-Faced Buddha, and finally there was some expression on his face. He suddenly realized and said, "That's right..."

"Evil ghosts eat people, regardless of gender."

The Thousand-Faced Buddha surrounded Ah Chou and laughed as well. It stretched out its hand to Ah Chou and said, "I'll help you kill all of them, okay..."

"You want to kill them?" Ah Chou's eyelids moved, and he looked up at the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha.

Hearing Achou's question, the black body of the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha surged like mud. Girls' faces struggled in its body, and its voice turned into the sound of girls crying.

"Kill them..." The girls screamed and cried, making a lot of noise in Achou's ears.

Ah Chou's eyes were dim, and he stared at the Thousand-Faced Buddha intently, and asked, "What do you want me to do?"

"Destroy those seals." The Thousand-Faced Buddha circled around Ah Chou a few times, "Destroy the seals, and I can kill them all."