I'm the only human in the whole community

Lu Yao crossed his fingers and lowered his eyes.

A circle of cement was built under the Sala tree, which happened to form a small flower bed.The trees in the flower bed are lush, the roots are coiled, and the leaves are rustling by the wind, even the wind is cool.

"How do you say that?"

Suo Luo smiled and said, "What do you say? Everyone has a past, and I was not fabricated for nothing."

She sighed, and then said: "Bodhi is an old friend of mine. We used to practice together in the early years. Later, I stepped into the world and took root and fallen leaves in Yecheng, but he still stayed where he shouldn't be. They don’t even want to give me a souvenir.”

Lu Yao asked: "Ask him to renew Yun Jiang's life, has it touched your bottom line?"

"...That's not true."

Lu Yao asked again: "Then you are hesitant and troubled for a long time, what do you want to say?"

Sala sat under the tree, her long skirt covered her ankles, embroidered cloth and needlework were placed on the cotton fabric, her light white fingers were tensed and straightened.Lu Yao waited for her for a while and said, "If you don't want to say it, don't say it. There are many strange people and strange things in the world. I will find another way."

Suo Luo has been sitting here for many years. She seldom goes out of the community. Day after day, she quietly embroiders her things. Sometimes it is a flower, and sometimes it is an unformed vegetation. It slowly emerged under the fingers of Lu Yao. When Lu Yao first took over the community, she was like this now, with an orchid hairpin pinned to her head and a smell of cooling oil on her body.

Lu Yao has known her for so long, and the relationship has always been lukewarm.

She is not the most mysterious person in the community - someone closes the door and does not come out all year round. Since the building of the community, she has not seen anyone. Only her name and identity are noted by Lu Yao. Compared with this kind of person, she sits here all day long. , Sara, who greeted people coming and going with a smile, was much more kind to relatives.

But she is too old, the past is nowhere to be found, only she knows it.

She raised her hand to rub the folds between her brows, looking a little confused as to whether she should open her mouth or not.

Lu Yao stood up, patted the ashes on his hands, and said without squinting: "Don't think too much, I contacted a friend not long ago, and he just mentioned it to me casually, Yun Jiang himself has too much karma, Bodhi may not be able to save him."

"……can."

Lu Yao paused for a moment, and after more than ten seconds, he slowed down and slowly wiped away the cement slag left on his palm.

He knows he can.

I just don't want to embarrass Sara.

As she said, everyone has a past.

There are a lot of bottomless people in the community, and most of them behave honestly with their tails between their legs. Few people talk about what kind of person they were in the past with great fanfare.

Lu Yao has vaguely heard it a few times, but it is difficult to correspond those nicknames with the people in the community. Not everyone is willing to live a bloody life. They choose to stay here, but they choose to be restrained——

Don't ask where you came from, just ask for the way back.

Suo Luo thought about it and said, "He's by the river."

Lu Yao sat back down again.

"How many passages do you have in your hand, you should have seen that river too?"

Channels generally have several exits, compressing the space, shrinking the ground to an inch, and connecting various places in the human world; the river mentioned by Sala is found in all channels, one side of the river is the human world, and the other end is connected to some barren places land.

Lu Yao nodded.

"Bodhi attains enlightenment, and Sara passes away. Life and death are different. When I was young, I didn't understand the suffering in the world. After the man closed his eyes under my heels, the karma was broken, and I came to Yecheng alone. And Bodhi... The bodhi heart is attached to the common people, and I choose to take root by the river." Su Luo said quietly: "There are many bones floating on this river, good and evil are not distinguished. Once you step over it, you will never find the way back. Where is he, he is innocent. guide the way."

"After the farewell, there will be no more contact, almost..." Su Luo pondered for a while, and compared a number lightly, "It's been so long."

There is no wrinkle in the corners of her eyes, and her gentle appearance is no different from that of an ordinary girl, and she does not see any clues on weekdays, but when she closes her eyes and holds her breath, she looks deserted and lifeless, like an exquisite stone sculpture, with her cheeks carved out of melting, It was cold and stiff inside.

——Sitting here for a long time, even walking around makes people feel surprised.

Lu Yao touched his nose, but didn't say much.

Suddenly someone yelled in the distance, a window opened on the sixth floor of Building No. [-], and a clothes drying pole stretched out after a while, with a child hanging on it, precariously falling in the air. Lu Yao took a few more glances, and suddenly I heard Su Luo say softly: "I regard him as the bottom line, but he hasn't even sent me a letter."

The words were so light that Lu Yao couldn't figure out the girl's whirling thoughts, so he dawdled for a long time before saying, "Then do you need me to bring a message for you? Anyway, I'll be on my way."

Sara shook her head.

Lu Yao sat with her under the tree for a long time, and only bid farewell to her when it was getting dark.

Su Luo looked as usual, she didn't seem to care about the chat just now, and she became her usual gentle and delicate look, saying: "The river is not fluffy, and the hostility is heavy, you pay attention to safety."

"Wait a minute." Lu Yao stood tall, grabbed a branch casually, picked and picked for a long time, and then folded a section, "I'll help you carry it over."

Sara: "..."

"It's nothing else, old friend, it's not too much to give a tree trunk, right?" Lu Yao always likes to move his hands without saying anything, especially for such things that are unclear and confusing, and he said after a while: "What's the matter?" If you have something to say, explain it clearly, don't hide it, no one can touch your whole heart clearly with one hand. If you can still get better, then get better. Find one."

Su Luo laughed and said, "We are not the kind of relationship you think."

"What kind is that?" Lu Yao held the small branch in his hand, squatted down, and said, "The five desires and six dusts are all like this."

"Aren't you afraid?" Suo Luo asked, "Aren't you afraid of deep love and longevity?"

There was a little green in her pupils, and she raised her chin slightly at this time, looking at Lu Yao at the same level, her tone was still calm, but she was a little more puzzled. "What am I worried about?" Lu Yao said, "If you can't control yourself, stay together, and if you don't like it, separate. It's such a simple thing. I just fall in love, and I have to think about whether it will shorten my life?"

Su Luo refused to say any more, Lu Yao saw that she had no objection, and said, "Then I'm leaving?"

He took two steps, and suddenly heard Mira shout behind him: "Mr. Lu Xiao."

As soon as Lu Yao stopped, Su Luo stood up slowly - the long skirt covered the twisted tree roots, the girl's long hair was fluttering, and there was a little refreshing sweat on the tip of her nose, holding the cotton long skirt with one hand, bending She lowered her waist and planted a kiss on the branch that Lu Yao was holding. It wasn't even romantic, and it was easy to leave.

"Okay." She said, "Be careful all the way."

Lu Yao simply went to the guard room, left a note for the colleague on duty, and then hurried upstairs.

He simply tidied up his things, stepped out of the door with one foot and thought of Yan Qinglai, then climbed upstairs again and knocked on Toad's door.

Toad was wearing a milk pajamas, and stepped on the floor with bare feet, looking like he was still awake.

Lu Yao cut to the chase and said, "I have something to go out for a few days, please help take care of Yan Qing."

Toad was startled awake: "Can't you take him with you?"

"It's just a small matter. I'll come back in two days and keep it from my superiors, or I'll make a report." Lu Yao said, "Yan Qing is in his third year of high school, so stay here for class. How can a child in the third year of high school not study hard, messing around all day long?" Running away? What if I miss the course?"

Toad made a cross on his chest, watched Lu Yao leave without looking back, and then slowly moved back with drooping face for a long time. He was hit by such a time bomb in his heart, and he couldn't sleep well. Suddenly there was a chill, and the hairs stood up immediately.

Something was staring at him.

Biological instinct made him shrink his neck suddenly, and felt that the breath was a little familiar in a trance, so he opened his eyes in fear, only to see Yan Qing squatting beside his pillow, holding a large school uniform jacket in his arms, wearing only a A black sweater with a hood, a small thing hiding in the hat, looking up at him timidly.

toad:"……"

Being stared at by the big and the young, the pressure suddenly rose.

"I can't find Lu Yao anymore." Yan asked softly, "Tell him, I won't be awkward, this little bastard can stay, and I can share the pillow with him, so he won't be crowded. Let him come back .”

Toad was covered in cold sweat from the fright, Yan Qing squatted there obediently, with both hands on his knees, the kitten was afraid of him, but also followed him a few times, Toad tremblingly said: "Master Lu... go out gone."

Yan lightly narrowed his eyes, but didn't speak.

"He said to let you study hard..."

Yan Qing reached out and grabbed the kitten, and put it on the ground.Naimiao couldn't even stand still, turned around twice in a daze, and then rubbed towards Toad.Such a small thing has some spirituality, knowing where to go and where not to go.

"Hey, do you want to feed something?" Toad bent down to look at it, and stretched out his hand hesitantly, for fear of pressing it there.

Yan Qing ignored him, raised his foot, lightly kicked the cat's tail, and said expressionlessly, "Let's go."

Kitten: "Mi."

It took a few steps forward, staggered, and soon bumped its head on the bed, backed up a few steps, let out another beep, and bumped up again. After bumping a few times, it finally felt the pain. The black nose arched, and Mimi kept barking.

Toad: "...I don't think it can smell where Uncle Lu has gone." Looking at Yan Qing's face, he tentatively said, "Otherwise, why don't you go to Suoluo's place to ask?"

Yan Qing bent down and picked up the milk cat, put it in his hat, hugged the school uniform, and left.

·

The river is not accessible to boats, and it is guided by some kind of secret. It flows from north to south. Year after year, even the main trunk is endless.

Lu Yao went to the back mountain and opened his passage.

Wu Ling walked here to chase the corpse, and there is not much space to cross. From Yecheng to the south, probably to a small town in Zhejiang, Lu Yao has not come in a few times, but this passage is small, and he quickly found it. down the river.

It was covered by luxuriant reeds behind a piece of jagged dark red gravel. Lu Yao walked outside, but he didn't see Bodhi at the end.

He got out of this passage, leaned against the side of the road, lit a cigarette, exhaled slowly, then took out his notebook, and wrote down the name of this passage.

Not here.

There are many people doing small business in the small town, the night market next to it is also lively, and there are several passages around, Lu Yao is going to take a look around first.Su Luo didn't remember exactly where Bodhi took root. From south to north, the number of passages was too many to count, so he could only take his time—Yecheng still needed someone to manage it. If he left the job for too long, he would be killed I found that the review will definitely not run away.

The dark red cigarette butt flickered, Lu Yao casually pinched it, and walked to the other side of the town.

The second one didn't have any clues either. He walked back and forth, but couldn't find even a single weed.

The two passages are equally black, and you can't see your fingers.

Lu Yao lit another cigarette.

The river is turbulent and turbulent, the color is mottled, it is clear when you hold it up, but it is drowsy when you put it down, rolling up and down with the sediment and bones on the bottom of the river, and it suddenly returns to calm when you go far away, with only sparkling light waves on the water.

Lu Yao stood by the river and kicked a small stone down.

When the stones entered the water, there was no sound or vibration at all, they were just swept and swallowed by the bottomless river water, and they were swept down together.

He stared at the small vortex for a while with heavy eyes.

He seemed to walk through this passage.

Yun Jiang led him through.

During the time when he was taken out of Guoan, Yun Jiang first took him to Yecheng, saying that he wanted him to recognize the place, and then went all the way back to Yunnan through several passages.

It was also winter then.

Yun Jiang wasn't afraid of the cold, she wore a thin shirt and a jacket casually, and carried the snacks she bought along the way, slowly gnawing with her eyes down.He always eats in a calm and slow manner, treating every piece of rice cake quietly and solemnly.

Lu Yao followed him half a step away, wearing a thick down jacket with his hat pushed down very low, the two of them looked like ordinary brothers one after the other.Yun Jiang breathed out a breath of white mist, and then took aim at the small stall next to the bamboo tube rice. He put his hands in his pockets, leaned over, carefully selected the most beautiful one, wrapped it in a thick layer of white sugar, and held it up. When he got up, he hadn't put it in his mouth when he suddenly heard the aunt selling rice in bamboo tubes asking him loudly, "Don't you want to buy one for your brother?"

Yun Jiang froze for a moment, turned to look at Lu Yao, and asked, "Do you want to eat?"

Before Lu Yao answered, he turned his head away and said, "He won't eat it. Children will stick to their intestines if they eat rice cakes and glutinous rice."

...and ended up buying two.

Lu Yao didn't want to talk to him at all, Yun Jiang showed her white wrist, holding two bamboo sticks in one hand, both wrapped in white sugar.He looked at it for a while, then asked Lu Yao, "Are you sure you don't want to eat?"

"No." Lu Yao said, "I like sour ones."