Watanabe

It is now the ninth year of Nanyin, and Maojing is still prosperous after experiencing a change of dynasty overnight.After Emperor Chen ascended the throne, he strengthened his army, expanded his territory, worked diligently and cared for the people, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.Compared with the Northern Yin period, this Maojing is much more lively.

Of course, Ji Mie didn't know the situation of Maojing in Northern Yin back then, and he couldn't compare it now.

Ji Mie followed his master Zhan Yi from Mount Fuyang all the way to Maojing.

Along the way, he saw that human beings who used to hunt and kill deer with all kinds of tools turned out to be able to sell steamed buns, candied haws, and ride horses to perform acrobatics. It turns out that human beings are not only fierce and strong men, but also beautiful girls. , and cute little radish heads.

All the way to Nimi is the state of a curious baby.

It happened to be dusk when they arrived under the north city wall of Maojing.

The sun turned from golden yellow at noon to redder and redder, and fell from the sky little by little, leaving a long orange-yellow shadow.

The orange is mixed with a touch of a particularly dark color.

In the dusk, under the bloody sky of the setting sun is the winding and mottled ancient city wall.

Anyone who sees such a scene can't help but feel solemn.

Although Ji Mie was just a Lu Shu, he couldn't help but sighed inexplicably in front of this city wall under the sky.

Monk Zhanyi patted him on the shoulder and was about to walk towards the gate of the city.

Ji Mie bowed his head and took small steps to follow, but after walking a few steps, he suddenly saw a figure.

It was a figure from the back, Ji Mie had encountered an army on the road, so at this moment he could vaguely guess that the man was wearing armor, but the armor was already dilapidated and rusty.

The man knelt there wearing this unrecognizable iron suit.

His back was straight, but his head drooped deeply.

He was facing the direction of the city wall, not knowing whether he was making atonement or watching and waiting.

Because the ancient city wall in the dusk is not very bright, the mood is even more gloomy after seeing that figure from the back.

Ji Mie only felt something brushed across his cheek and landed on the corner of his mouth, he instinctively stretched out the tip of his tongue and licked it, it was salty.

This is?

On the way when Ji Mie came here, when she met a little girl who was robbed of pastries by a fat boy, this kind of thing appeared on her face.Zhan Yi told him that the salty liquid left from the eyes is called tears.

He is now crying like the little girl whose pastry was robbed.

"Master, see if I'm crying." Ji Mie took three steps and jumped in two steps in front of Zhanyi. It's been more than a month since he came to Maojing, but Shi Lushu is still more used to jumping. .

At this time, Ji Mie stretched out his fair and delicate face in front of Zhan Yi, narrowed his slender eyes, and bent them into lazy and charming arcs, wanting Zhan Yi to distinguish the thing on his face Is it tears.

Because of his sudden approach, Zhan Yi hurriedly took a step back, but felt that this was too obvious, so he approached him cautiously.

Zhan Yi stretched out his index finger to touch Ji Mie's face, Ji Mie only felt that his fingertips were cool, and the cheek touched by him was a little itchy.

Zhan Yi carefully looked at the little water stain in his hand, rubbed his thumb against his index finger, "Yes, these are tears, you are crying!"

After his words fell, Ji Mie said in surprise, "Did I cry? This is the first time I cry, Master, have I grown?"

Ji Mi jumped on the spot, forgetting the sadness of seeing that figure before.

But the back of the armor kneeling in front of the city wall was looking back at him.

Those were a pair of extremely chaotic eyes, staring straight at Nirvana who was talking to Zhan Yi.

Those eyes seem to have been looking at the silence, and it seems that they have passed through the silence and looked at a distant place.

Ji Mie turned his back to the kneeling shadow at this time, so he didn't know this.

But Zhan Yi saw all this in his eyes. He smiled gently and touched Ji Mi's head. Stroking down the top of the head, staying at the end of the hair, skillfully picked up a pinch, and wrapped it around the fingers.

"Our Ji Mie is so good that we have learned to cry. But, Ji Mie, do you remember that Master said that human beings cry only when they encounter sad and painful things, so why did Ji Mie cry?"

Zhan Yi was the first person to be friendly to him, and he was able to transform into a human form because he ate Zhan Yi's flesh and blood.

Ji Mie is very dependent on Zhan Yi in his heart, when Zhan Yi is playing with his hair, he obediently does not move, and loosens his head in front of Zhan Yi.

"I don't know. I'm not very happy when I see this city wall. But I don't seem to be crying because of this city wall."

Ji Mie was distressed, he had just become a human being, and the complicated question of why he cried was too difficult for him.

Ji Mie thought about it, and suddenly realized, he turned around bouncing around, but his scalp hurt because his hair was in Zhan Yi's hands.

"hiss."

Zhan Yi hurriedly let go of his hair and rubbed his scalp, "What are you doing? It's frizzy."

Ji Mie was careless about the slight pain, but with Master comforting and caring, a smile appeared on his face in a blink of an eye, a silly but cute smile.

"I know why I cried, I cried because I saw that."

Ji Mie looked at the kneeling figure, only to realize that the man had turned around and was also looking at him.

Ji Mie spoke in a much lower voice, grabbed Master's arm and hid behind Master, "Why is that man here? Why is he still looking at me? Is he trying to catch me?"

Zhan Yi patted Ji Mie's hand on his arm, and said in a deep voice, "He's not human."

"Wei Shi said that Wei Shi came to Maojing this time to help Emperor Chen repair the fence and strengthen the charms on the fence so as to resist sneaky monsters from entering."

"Well, I remember."

"That is the evil spirit that has been wandering outside Maojing's city walls for a long time."

"What? He's a ghost? Then he's waiting here because he wants to enter Maojing and eat people?"

"What his intentions are, we don't know yet, but what he wants to do must be to harm the world."

"Then master needs to strengthen the talisman well, but master, am I not allowed to enter this city wall even if there is a talisman?"

Hearing his question, Zhan Yi just smiled lightly and stretched out his right index finger to tap his forehead, only to see a ray of golden light penetrate into his head from the place where Zhan touched it.

"Master can understand the method that master casts. Alright, you can go to the city with master."

As he said that, Monk Zhan Yi held his staff in one hand, and took Ji Mi's hand in the other, protecting him by his side, separating him from the kneeling ghost, and successfully leading him into the city gate.

At the gate of the city, there were soldiers checking Zhan Yi's entry documents, while Ji Mi, who was pulled by Zhan Yi, was struggling in his heart whether to look back or not.

Finally, at the moment of being released, Ji Mie looked back, his eyes met the eyes of the evil ghost in the air through the wind and dust.