stardust

"Don't bully him!"

Yang'er pointed at a group of children in the village with a wooden sword. There was a thin little boy lying on the ground, with tattered clothes, messy hair, and two tear stains on his face.

"Never mind your business! Don't scare people with wooden swords, and be careful to beat you together!" A leader of the group of children shouted at Yang'er.

"Then try it!" Yang'er took a wooden sword and performed a set of moves learned from jugglers in the market, but it looked pretty good. The last sword stabbed at the child who shouted, and the child fell to the ground in fright , cry.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, the other children rushed away.

The crying child also quickly got up, turned around and ran away, shouting as he ran: "Fool! He is the child of the murderous corpse. Help him, and be careful that he will lead the murderous corpse to your house."

Yang'er ignored them, walked over to help the child lying on the ground, and asked with concern: "Are you okay?"

The child stood up, shook off Yang'er's hand, wiped the tears on his face with his sleeve, turned around and left.

Yang'er shook his head, didn't care about his rudeness, just packed his clothes and turned to go home.

After entering the house, A Niang shouted at him: "Yang'er, you came back just in time, come and see, A Niang made you a new dress, tomorrow is your birthday (the day you picked him up is Yang'er's birthday) ), you try it, does it fit?"

Yang'er put down the wooden sword, happily ran to A Niang's side, took the new clothes, and began to try them on.

"It fits quite well, that's great. When Auntie helps you put the buttons on tonight, you can wear new clothes tomorrow." Auntie looked at Yang'er who was trying on the clothes and said.

"Thank you, Ma'am!" Yang'er smiled all over his face.

In the evening, Dad came back from the mountain, and the family was eating around the dining table when they heard crying outside.

Father stood up and went out to check the situation, and found that there were screams in the village. He didn't know what happened, so he hurried back to the house and told the mother and wife to hide in the house and not to go out, while he went out with an axe.

A Niang packed the dishes and chopsticks, fastened the doors and windows, and took Yang'er back to the back room. Yang'er lay on the bed obediently, waiting for Dad to come back.

After waiting for most of the night, the crying outside gradually subsided and disappeared, and Dad did not come back.

"Aniang, why hasn't daddy come back yet?" Yang'er lay on the bed tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep, so he asked Aniang who was buttoning buttons under the oil lamp.

"Yang'er, why haven't you slept yet? Don't be afraid, Dad will be back in a while."

"Papa, papapa", suddenly there was a knock on the door, A Niang put down the clothes in her hands, and said with a smile: "Look, this is just coming back." After speaking, she went to open the door.

"Ah! Yang'er, quickly hide in the water tank and don't make a sound!" A Niang's scream came from outside the house.

Although Yang'er was very scared and wanted to go out to see the situation, he jumped out of bed obediently and hid in the water tank.

Through the gap in the water tank cover, Yang'er seemed to see someone shaking in the room, he closed his mouth tightly, not daring to make a sound...

It was dawn, and it seemed that the person had left too. Yang'er gently removed the water tank cover, and came out of the water tank, shivering, and the house was in a mess.

Yang'er tiptoed to the window and observed secretly, but there was no one there. He rushed out of the room immediately and saw A Niang lying on the ground in the yard, motionless, with a large pool of dark red blood on the ground.

Yang Er cried and rushed over, shaking A Niang, but A Niang was already dead.

Yang'er picked up his wooden sword and went to look for Dad.

When they arrived in the village, there were dead people and blood everywhere. The seven-year-old Yang'er was frightened and cried loudly, and then called daddy while crying.

With tears in his eyes, he searched everywhere for Father, and finally found Father among a bunch of dead people, and Father was also dead.

"Father, mother..."

Yang'er finally couldn't hold on anymore and passed out.

After waking up, Yang'er found that she was lying on her own bed, and the female Taoist priest wearing a gauze hat was standing by the window.

He wanted to speak, but found that his voice was hoarse and he couldn't make a sound.

The female priest heard the noise, turned around, looked at Yang'er and said, "I happened to pass by here and found that you were still alive. I have also eliminated the murderous corpses that slaughtered the village. Your parents' corpses are outside. You Take a look, and burn it as soon as possible, so as not to disintegrate. Do you understand what I'm saying?"

Yang'er nodded, with tears welling up in his eyes, he got out of bed and went to meet his parents in the yard.

"After reading it, burn it." The priestess said softly.

Yang'er said hoarsely: "Please wait a moment!" After speaking, he immediately went back to the house and put on the new clothes that A Niang made for him, and there was still a button that hadn't been nailed.

Yang'er put on her new clothes, knelt down in front of her parents, kowtowed three times, and cried, "Daddy, Mommy, today is Yanger's birthday... Yanger will never forget this day... Father, Mother, Yang'er will be your son in the next life!"

After Yang'er stood up, after a while, the priestess threw the torch over, and the corpses of father and mother were in the flames.

Yang'er's eyes were like waterfalls of tears.

"Will you go up the mountain with me? I will teach you the way of swordsmanship and immortality." The female priest said lightly.

"Yes!" Yang Er firmly replied.

"Want to take revenge?" the priestess asked.

"Master has already avenged me, and I have no revenge to avenge. Master saved me, and I have a favor to repay." Yang'er said softly.

"Who do you want to repay?" the priestess asked again.

"Heaven and humanity." Yang'er replied.

"...From now on, you will be called Xiao Xingchen, and you will be my disciple of Baoshan Sanren." The female priest said softly.

Yang'er took a deep look at this hell on earth, and then followed Baoshan Sanren up the mountain to practice Taoism, named Xiao Xingchen.