chasing shadows

"Child, what are you doing here? Where are your parents?" Che Ion squatted down and took a sip of wine, looking at the little girl who bared her teeth and yelled at him.

Che Ion clicked his tongue a few times, "You little girl, why did you make your house so dirty? Did you get driven out because you didn't like cleanliness?"

The girl picked up a lump of mud from the ground and threw it directly at Che Ion.

Che Ion stood up and shouted while hiding: "To be honest, you are not happy anymore. Okay, don't throw it away, I was wrong, wrong, auntie, don't throw it away!"

On a whim today, he suddenly wanted to drink some wine and drop a few fish. Unexpectedly, he picked up the jug on the road and drank, and he became dizzy. He came to this forest unknowingly. He fell asleep on the grass, and when he woke up, he saw such a strange child digging mud and rubbing it on his body.

The girl looked no more than four or five years old, thin and dark, with fierce expressions on her face many times, and a "sizzling" sound like a small animal from her mouth.

The girl picked up another pile of stones and threw them at Che Ion's body.Che Ion was in pain from being hit, he rushed to the girl's side, picked up the girl and "slapped" her butt a few times, saying: "Little brat, you are disobedient!"

The girl picked up Che Ion's arm and bit it down hard. Che Ion screamed in pain, let go of the girl quickly, hugged the hand that already had deep teeth marks, and yelled, "You are a dog!" Yes!"

The girl looked at Che Ion jumping up and down in pain, rolled her black eyes, and let out a strange laugh, completely different from ordinary children, it sounded a bit weird.

But Che Ion was born with thicker nerves than others, and he didn't think it was strange. He just breathed out a few times at the arm with teeth marks, looked at the little girl, and asked, "Which family are you from? Why?" Alone in the woods?"

The girl didn't respond, but instead pulled a lump of mud from the wet ground and threw it at Che Ion's body.

While hiding, Che Ion looked around, his mind was always in chaos due to long-term drinking, and it was rare for him to turn around once, and he suddenly realized: "You are the little girl in the town who was thrown into the deep mountains and old forests?"

He patted his head, and said angrily: "What kind of bad luck did I have to encounter such a nemesis like you? By the way, you just bit me, will I suffer from some kind of plague and die suddenly?"

The girl let out a strange laugh again, kicked her feet, stepped on the mud on the ground, and ignored Che Ion.

The more Che Ion thought about it, the more flustered he became. He was still young, and he hadn't had enough of the world's fine wines. How could he die so easily? So Che Ion squatted down, with a very kind smile on his face, and said softly: "This Little girl, may I ask if my injury is serious?"

Che Ion rubbed his arm and showed the little girl the wound on his arm where she had bitten her.

The girl stomped her feet suddenly, let out a "hum", and raised her head high, leaving only her round chin facing Che Ion.

Che Ion thought for a while and said, "Miss? Excuse me..."

It's just that before he finished speaking, the little girl raised her head a little higher, and let out another "hum".

Che Ion scratched his head and thought about his words, and whispered again: "This little...cute..." He raised his eyes to look at the girl, and the girl's chin dropped slightly, yo, there is a joke, Che Ion said again : "This little beauty?"

The girl's chin dropped slightly again, but there was still a "hum" sound in her mouth.

Che Ion cried and said, "Is this little fairy okay? Little fairy, just help my uncle who is afraid of death, and tell me whether my injury is serious, whether I will suffer from some plague or something."

The little fairy finally leveled Gaogui's chin, and let out a substandard but still clearly audible voice: "No!"

Che Ion laughed loudly, and patted his clothes. Even though his face and hair were covered with mud smeared by the girl, he was very embarrassed, but he didn't care too much. Said: "Little fairy, uncle is gone. Goodbye!"

Then he prepared to leave the woods without looking back, but as soon as he took a step, he was hit by a "crash" behind him, which hurt him so much. When he turned his head, the girl pouted and both hands were full of pebbles.

Che Ion nodded with his hands: "Naughty!" and ran away, but the girl behind him ran faster than him.

There was another "crash" that made him hurt, he stopped, looked at the girl who was always two meters away from him behind him, and said with a smile: "Oh, you have been following so close, do you want me to take you out? ah?"

The girl bared her teeth and roared, picking up a bigger stone and was about to hit him, Che Ion hurriedly said to spare her life: "Little fairy, fairy, sister fairy! I was wrong, I beg you to come out with me, just follow me!" Let me go out, Fairy Sister!"

Only then did the girl put down the stone in her hand, grinning and letting out a strange laugh.

Che Ion patted his head habitually, he stretched out his hand, and said to the girl, "Follow me."

The girl glanced at the slender hand, which was as white as jade, and then secretly glanced at her own little black paw, hesitating.

Che Ion laughed hahaha, and said meanly again: "You also think your hands are dirty? ----- Ah!"

The hand was tightly held by the girl's hand, and there was a "click", and Che Ion cried bitterly: "Little fairy, the adults don't count the faults of the villains, please forgive me!"

In this way, the child who had been thrown in the deep mountains and old forests for a year was brought back to Ping'an Town by the unreliable Che Ion who often got dizzy from drinking.

Of course, it caused panic among the townspeople. Headed by the mayor Guan Cheng and several other well-known old people in the town, they came to a place ten meters away from Che Ion's wine stall, because at this moment the black and thin The little girl was sitting on the table shaking her legs, stuffing sweet-scented osmanthus cakes in her mouth, and occasionally raised her face and bared her teeth at those people.

Guan Cheng was the first to speak: "Che ion, do you know who this girl you brought back is? She will bring disaster to the people of our town, so hurry up and send her back!"

Che Ion just drank another pot of wine, feeling a little dizzy, and said with a smile: "Don't look at this kid as ugly, he is not a good person at first glance, in fact..."

An angry voice came from behind "Zizi", and Che Ion quickly changed his words: "Although the little fairy looks different from other children, she really won't bring disasters to the townspeople as you said. guarantee of personality."

Seemingly realizing that there was nothing convincing about his personality, Che Ion gritted his teeth and said, "I guarantee it with all the wine in my shop!"

Then Guan Ion turned his head to the little girl and said, "Be more confident, don't make any fools, my wine."

The little girl snorted coldly and continued chewing on the sweet-scented osmanthus cake.

Guan Cheng said coldly: "Che Ion, I think you are really drunk to the point of confusion. Can such a big event be guaranteed by a few bottles of wine in your store? You have forgotten what happened to the Zhao family and Li family who adopted him back then. Is it? To put it bluntly, if something happens to you, it is your own fault, but if it hurts innocent people, innocent people in the town, how can you feel at ease?"

As soon as his words came out, the old men also became tough, "Come here, send this girl and Che Ion to the deep mountains and old forests, use coercive means, and stop talking nonsense with them!"

Several strong young men are about to step forward.Unexpectedly, the girl who was sitting on the table with her head bowed and eating osmanthus cake jumped off the table and rushed in front of them, baring her teeth, looking like she was about to pounce on her at any time.

Those young people and all the townspeople who came to look for Che Ion's theory backed away a few steps in fright, for fear that they would suffer from the plague if they were slightly touched.

You must know whether they were able to trap the girl with a rope or secretly gave her a drug that made her incapacitated, so they dragged her into the woods.

Che Ion hurriedly hugged the girl, took her into the house, patted his head and said, "Little fairy, you look good like this, but it's scary to look at you with your teeth grinning, smile more, smile more, the more you look good, They just love you."

A group of angry people picked up wooden sticks and aimed at the wine that Che Ion placed in front of the door, and swept it all away with a "crash".

Some people simply rushed into Che Ion's shop, picked up the wine bottle and threw it on the ground. They seemed to be crazy, venting their inner anger.

Che Ion tightly hugged the girl who was about to rush up in his arms, still smiled and said: "Let them smash it and get angry, you, little fairy, you can be a good boy in the future, so that I won't waste my wine."

The girl suddenly stopped moving, nestled in Che Ion's arms, looked at the man who was crazily throwing alcohol in front of her, and raised her head to look at this man.

While patting her head, Che Ion said loudly: "I'll take her to Poor People's Alley, it's quite narrow and far away from where most people live in the town, so if anything happens, it won't bother you."

After he finished speaking, he hugged the girl and said loudly: "Little fairy, let's move!"

The girl blinked her big black eyes, grinned, and made a bird-flying movement with both hands, as if she really looked like a carefree little fairy who was loved by everyone.

The author has something to say: Xiaogong appeared relatively late.Another cutie?