Rebirth alone

Facts have proved that Mr. Zhou not only has the face to cry, but also has the face to continue to torture others.He seemed to regard Ye Tao as the one who ran away, staring at Ye Tao with those empty eyes, and even holding Ye Tao's hand.Simply put, the level of clinginess has reached a new level.

It was already late at night, and Ye Tao couldn't walk around, so he sent Duoning and Yang Zi to rest.Locked the door, turned off the headlights, leaving only one bedside lamp turned to the darkest, and stood by the bed alone, waiting for Zhou Ziqian to fall asleep.

The person lying on the side of the bed was probably worried about gains and losses and was afraid that Ye Tao would never see him again, or maybe he didn't feel tired, so he just looked at Ye Tao in a daze without blinking his eyes.

After trudging in the mud for so long, Ye Tao was very tired, and after finding someone, his nerves were relaxed, and now he just wanted to fall asleep.In the end, I couldn't stand it anymore, so I gave him a hand and let him hold it, and I fell asleep on the edge of the bed.

The rain outside the window had stopped slightly, and Ye Tao fell into a drowsy sleep accompanied by the sound of the rain falling down. He didn't want the sound of the rain to extend into his dream.

In the small courtyard of Chaifei, vines surround the wall, and there is a thick porcelain water tank in the courtyard, covered with a bamboo mat.The continuous rainwater slowly fell down the low eaves, making a tinkling sound.

Someone came in the rain, pushed open the firewood gate of the small courtyard, covered his head with one hand, put his hand in his arms with the other, and trotted into the house.

"Bookworm, what did I bring you?" The visitor was a young man, dressed in blue-gray and short brown, with sparse eyebrows and slightly raised lips, and he seemed to have a half-smile even if he wasn't smiling.While speaking, he took out a paper bag from his pocket, unfolded layers of oiled paper, revealing two small chicken legs.

"Why are you taking something from someone else?" The so-called nerd was indeed a bit dull, and he slowly handed over a hand towel, but did not take the two chicken legs.

"If you say you are staying, you are really staying!" The young man gave him a look, and then explained to him that yesterday was Mrs. Qi's [-]th birthday, and everyone who worked in the mansion gave rewards.The few pots of orchids that the gardener was serving happened to bloom twice in the past few days. The gardener wanted to ask for an extra reward, but he was too clumsy to speak, so he asked him to send the flowers, saying that he was asking for it. Give him a share of the reward.Naturally, such a good thing cannot be pushed away, so he sent the flowers, and said that the flowers that happened to bloom were specially come to celebrate the old lady's birthday. Divided the reward equally, and then asked the greedy cook to buy two chicken legs.

"Didn't the cook take it secretly?" The scholar was a dead-headed man, and he decided that the drumstick came from a wrong place, so he refused to accept it.

"You are such an idiot!" The young man stuffed the oiled paper into his hand, "You can take it if you tell me, you don't care where it comes from, it's enough to fill your stomach? Look at you, you can collapse in the wind. Look, if you don’t eat, are you planning to starve to death?”

"Dong Zhen, it's not that I'm pretending to be lofty, it's just that this is a matter of taking advantage of the sheep..." Before the scholar finished speaking, his stomach screamed from the two chicken legs in his hand.When the young man heard Chi Chi's laugh, the latter's ears turned red with embarrassment.

Ye Tao stood quietly and looked at the two, vaguely knowing that he was probably dreaming again, but he didn't understand why he was a bystander in this dream, but he knew the identities of the two.

The name Dong Zhen is not unfamiliar. Ji Qingyou and Xuan Yi mentioned it before. Although neither of them mentioned it in detail, Ye Tao knew that this Dong Zhen was the last time he came to this small courtyard of Chaifei to help He buried the child of the dead cat that fell into the water, but Dong Zhen was only a few years old at that time, and judging from his current appearance, he should be fifteen or sixteen.

As for the shabby young man, Ye Tao also knew that his name was Lu Huai.When talking about him, Xuan Yi spoke carefully.Lu Huai's family background was not so bad. Unfortunately, his parents passed away early, and his brother and sister-in-law took over half of the family property and kicked him out of the house.However, he was taught by his father to study hard, hoping that one day he would win the imperial examination and shine in his family.After being kicked out of the house, the useless little scholar can only make a living by writing letters for him. His life is stretched and he often has nothing to cook.

The reason why Xuanyi told Ye Tao so many things about Lu Huai was because Ye Tao appeared as Lu Huai last time he came to this small courtyard in Chaifei, and the body he asked Zhou Yunxi to "borrow" was in a coma in reality. .

Xuan Yi said that he appeared here to escape people and things he didn't want to face, and hid in a place he thought was pure, but this so-called pure land was just the source of troubles.

Xuanyi also persuaded him not to be resentful, she said: "Those misfortunes you suffered seem to be innocent disasters and have been suffered by others, but in fact they are all debts owed by you in your previous life, and those who hurt you are just collecting debts." .”

At that time, Ye Tao seemed to understand but didn't understand. It wasn't until later that he began to have those bizarre dreams that he gradually realized that this Lu Huai was his previous life. As for Dong Zhen's identity, he also guessed it, but he didn't know what Dong Zhen gave to Lu Huai. Such a kindness, so that later generations chase him endlessly to beg for it, as if no matter how much they can't pay it back.

This dream is real and long, just like when Ye Tao returned to this place when he was in a coma last time, everything around him is real, but sometimes the sun goes down in a blink of an eye, and it is a new day in a blink of an eye, what he saw The feeling of the real existence of what actually happened is like a three-dimensional image that has been edited, but he exists here but does not belong here, so he is like a spectator in the story, watching those things happen as a bystander.

There are few visitors in Lu Huai's small yard, except for a relative's little wild cat who comes to play with Lu Huai from time to time, and Dong Zhen is the only one.

The Dong family is adjacent to the Lu family, separated only by a wall.Dong Zhen has a younger brother and a younger sister. In order to support the family, Dong Zhen joined a wealthy family to work when she was a teenager. Although she could not read a few words, she was extremely smart and knew how to read words.When he first went there, he worked as a short-term worker, and later he got the care of the manager, so he became a long-term worker, passing errands to the manager, and helping him wherever he was called.But he didn't sign a contract of selling himself, and he was a little freer than those servants who sold themselves to others.

Lu Huai was so poor that he often ate his last meal without finishing his meal, so Dong Zhen sent him some food from time to time to help him.Lu Huai was dull and pedantic, and he must have the literati integrity of starving to death and refusing to eat the food that came, every time Dong Zhen came to deliver something, he would shirk it and sigh in embarrassment.Dong Zhen's mouth is not forgiving, he is often speechless, and even reprimands Lu Huai, who is older than him, like scolding a few-year-old child.

Ye Tao looked at himself and Dong Zhen who came and went as a bystander, without any sense of time.

Is this a dream, or is there something wrong with the body and the soul returns to another place?While Ye Tao was in a daze, it was getting dark again.

Lu Huai couldn't read the words clearly, so he lit the lamp.Ye Tao was bored in the small room with lights like beans, so he wandered to the yard.

The moon is white and the wind is clear, and the night is soft and beautiful. The jujube trees beside Chaimen sway and dance slowly in the wind, making a fine rustling sound.If the small courtyard wasn't so rough, it would have a faint smell of a smoked courtyard.

Ye Tao was looking at the silhouette under the moon in a daze, when Caimen was suddenly pushed away.The person who came was still Dong Zhen, but he had obviously grown a bit taller, showing the appearance of a young man.He rushed into the courtyard in three or five steps, and called Lu Huai's name very rarely, his voice was full of anxiety.

Ye Tao turned his head to look at Dong Zhen who was running towards the house, and was surprised to find that the hut that was still in good condition just now was billowing with smoke, the flames had already rushed to the window edge, and the wooden door was also crackling.

Dong Zhen yelled a few times, suddenly remembered something, threw herself in front of the thick porcelain water tank in the courtyard, quickly tore off her clothes to soak them, put them on her head and ran back.

"Don't go in!" Everything in front of him was too real, Ye Tao subconsciously stretched out his hand to stop Dong Zhen, but the other party couldn't hear him or see him, and finally watched Dong Zhen rush into the fire as if he was dying.

Soon after, the neighbors came to put out the fire one after another, and the small courtyard, which was always deserted and few people cared about it, became noisy.Among them was a middle-aged man who shouted Dong Zhen's name while fighting the fire. That man was Dong Zhen's father. He came after Dong Zhen, but unfortunately he was still a step too late to hold his son.

The kitten that often came to play with Lu Huai entered the yard at some point. Cats should be afraid of fire, but it was pacing back and forth in the small courtyard full of fire, as if it was also anxious.

Ye Tao couldn't do anything, he could only watch helplessly as the fire took advantage of the wind, and the wind helped the fire, and people's efforts to save them were like a drop in the bucket.

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Remember that little boy with the little bun? (~y▽~)~*