Jia Mo

Fulan remembered that it was late autumn that year, and the mountains were full of yellow tallow trees and red maple palmatums.When he was 12 years old, he left southern Xinjiang for the first time, and went north with the black cat, searching for the ruins of miracles along the way, until he reached Wujiang River.The landscape of Wujiang River is completely different from that of southern Xinjiang. The mountains here are exquisite and beautiful, and the color of Qinglingling is like the daisy on a woman's eyebrow.The farther you go to the north, the more peaceful it is, and the dynasties in the world are unified, unlike the southern border where there are many territories and the monster clans are fighting endlessly.Fu Lan found a cave to rest in the mountain bag, and stayed there for a long time.

Until one day, the black cat went hunting and brought back a little doll in a green cloth jacket.

The black cat picked out a broken casserole and put it on the ground, saying: "I'm lucky today, I met a little doll who was alone, and it happened to be the old man's ration. You look at him, the old man went to find some firewood."

This doll was born white and tender, with a pair of dark eyes, staring at Fulan without blinking.Fu Lan ignored him, closed her eyes and meditated.After a while, he heard a rustling sound, it was the doll crawling towards him.He still didn't move, the doll climbed onto his arm, his arms sank, and the soft milky fragrance of the doll's body covered the tip of his nose.Immediately afterwards, a soft kiss was printed on the cheek.

He opened his eyes, and the doll in his arms rolled his eyes with a smile, "Brother Immortal, it's fragrant and beautiful!"

The cat had a point in saying that the puppies were born scumbags afterward.

Not long after, the black cat came back, set up the firewood, and was about to put the casserole on it, when he stretched his head to see that there was a pile of stinky dung in it.The black cat was so angry that its seven orifices were filled with smoke, and asked, "Who did it!"

Wawa pointed to Fulan, "It's brother."

"Fart," the black cat said, "I don't want to eat or drink, so where did the shit come from? You did it, and you're still lying!"

The doll lowered her head and pointed at her fingers, "But I can't hold it in any longer, my mother said you can't pull on the ground."

Black cats like to be clean, and the casserole was stained with feces, so it was absolutely unusable, so they thought about roasting it directly on the fire.The pup didn't know that he was in danger and was about to become the monster's ration, so he poked Fu Lan's cheek and asked, "Is brother dumb? Why are you ignoring me?"

"Because he hates you." The black cat said angrily.

"Why does my brother hate me?"

"Because you are a mortal, we monsters hate mortals."

"Why do you hate mortals?" the puppy asked.

The black cat went crazy, "Don't ask me, ask him!"

Sometimes Fulan can't figure out why the pup has so many problems. Fulan has heard about the pup's father, Qi Shenwei. Xianmen regards him as a beacon in the world, the hope for the inheritance of Taoism.The puppy is his son, but in terms of brains, the puppy probably followed his mother.

The doll began to chatter in Fulan's ear, "Who are you? Why do you have a monster cat grandfather? Why do you live on the mountain? Don't you go to the village to live with everyone?"

"Why doesn't my brother eat or drink, won't my brother be hungry if he doesn't eat?"

"Why does the old man at the entrance of the village have no hair on his head? Sometimes his head still glows."

"Why does Grandpa Cat have six teats and we only have two?"

Fu Lan didn't say anything, she silently turned around and faced the wall, covering her ears with her hands.

Puppies are really loud.

The black cat was digging wood to make fire, but when it heard the puppy's last question, it suddenly came to its senses and cursed: "You idiot, when did you peek at the old man's body!"

Fu Lan finally sent the pup down the mountain.The black cat agreed awkwardly. After all, such a doll would be too noisy to make rations.But the biggest reason is that he pissed on Fu Lan, which was the first time in his long life that someone else pissed on him, and that guy said very cheekily: "Brother Xiang has become a stinky brother."

But even the black cat didn't expect that the doll would come to the door by itself.It can be seen that the puppy really follows his mother in terms of brain.After noon the next day, the cub took a red rope and led a hen up the mountain.No one would have thought that this four-year-old baby could recognize the way. The hen behind him was dragged half to death by him, and he was only half alive.

The black cat was very happy, and said that the puppy, the pup, had turned to the light and defected to the world to be their monster's servant.

But Fulan's nightmare came again, and the pup started to entangle himself around him, "Brother, you see, I can fart with my mouth." As he spoke, he pursed his mouth and made a sound of "poof" and "poof".

Fulan: "..."

"I can also spit bubbles with my saliva." The pup pouted again, spitting out a transparent bubble of saliva.When the bubble burst, he smiled at Fulan.Fulan vomited dryly and ignored him, the pup wrinkled his face and said, "Why doesn't brother treat me well? Mother said that I am good-looking, and anyone who sees me will like me."

Fu Lan was silent for a while, and finally spoke, "She lied to you. You are noisy and annoying."

The puppy went back crying.

When the pup came up on the third day, he brought a bowl of braised pork, and the black cat licked it all up.It was only when he was full of food and drink that he realized that the puppy was silent for the first time, squatting by the wall pulling weeds.The black cat walked over and asked him: "What's wrong with you? Why don't you get along with the idiot? You were so entangled with him yesterday that you can't wait to grow on him."

"Hmph." The puppy turned his head, but remained silent.

The black cat hooked him with its tail, and he was willing to speak, "Brother broke my heart."

"what happened?"

"Yesterday my brother said he hated me and that I was noisy," said the puppy. "I just waited for so long, but my brother didn't come to coax me. I will never get along with him again."

"Don't pay attention to him, the old man is good to you." The black cat said, "The braised pork you brought today is delicious, so continue to bring me this tomorrow."

"Hmph," the pup poked the ground with a grass stalk, "brother is just as bad as mother, I don't care about you anymore. Mother ignores me, brother ignores me. I'm angry, and you don't coax me. I'm easy to coax, just coax it."

The pup went back, sobbing again.Fu Lan later found out that at that time, Afu laundered clothes and went to work every day, leaving early and returning late, so she fostered the puppy with the old lady Shen Da Niang in the village.The black cat called the woman's old godly woman. She took Afu's money, but she didn't take good care of her.Jingri played leaf cards in the yard and locked the pup in the house alone.The pup has a toothy nature and can't stay still. He moved the bench to the window sill, turned it out by himself, went outside to play, waited for the sun to set, and then turned back.

That's when the black cat took him.

The pup was sulking that day and didn't go home directly.After walking in the mountains for a long time, at the end of the walk, I have strayed far from the path.He couldn't recognize the way, and walked around in a daze.The setting sun fell into the gaps in the leaves, casting mottled spots on his face.The puppy pursed his mouth, and kept chanting: "Smelly brother, smelly mother. Everyone smells bad, only the dog smells good."

Suddenly, a Zhu ball rolled to his feet.The pup looked up, and saw a boy with a pale face standing in the distance.

The boy didn't speak, just looked at him straight.The pup picked up the ball, and when he raised his head again, the boy was already in front of him.

The pup was startled and fell to the ground, hurting his buttocks.

Lifting him up with one hand, the pup raised his head and saw Fulan's fair chin and cold eyes.

"Brother." The puppy murmured.When I turned my head to look again, the boy was gone.There is only one Zhu ball rolling around on the ground.

"You are so brave, you are not afraid of bumping into dirty things." The black cat lay on Fulan's shoulder, "Don't stand there stupidly next time, remember to run. Run into a place with light, that thing is afraid Guang, I dare not chase you."

Fu Lan sent him to the ridge of the field, stood under the setting sun, and watched him go home.The pup turned his head three times a step, and the thin boy stood there, like a light ink blot, and the setting sun stretched his shadow long.The pup suddenly turned around and threw himself into his arms, "Brother, I forgive you, I'm still with you."

Fu Lan was stunned for a while, the pup turned around again, and ran away.With a small body and a green cloth jacket, and running crookedly, one can tell that he is the most cheerful baby in the world.

The black cat poked Fu Lan's face, and said, "Stupid, you look very happy today. Like that kid? How about we kidnap him and make him your servant."

Fu Lan shook her head, turned around and walked towards the sunset.

On the fourth day, he sat cross-legged on a rock.A ray of golden light appeared at the end of the gray sky, and the sun slowly moved up.He sat outside for a day, watching from afar the peasants with their muddy legs entering the field and leaving the field.As the sun moved westward, he raised his head, and the slanting branches reflected on the yellow sky, like fine cracks on porcelain.

The light blue flying fish landed on his fingertips, telling him that the puppy didn't come today.

On the street, the shops on both sides were closed, and there were occasional muffled dog barks, and someone coughed and spit loudly in the house, and squashed their shoes and rubbed them on the ground.After delivering the last basket of clothes, Afu walked on the gravel road, beating her shoulders.After a day of exhaustion, her waist was sore and her back ached, she reached into her bosom to feel for her purse, which was bulging, filled with her day's wages, and jingled.

The streets are dark, and the houses are dark shadows.The fog on the street was gradually thickening, and the tinkling of bells came from across the street, ethereal like a gust of wind.The gravel road was shrouded in moonlight and mist, revealing a faint blue outline.

Recently, Wujiang has been throwing away children all the time. Many people guess that it is a mountain monster. There are many mountains in Wujiang River, and there are always troubles in the forest.It is said that some people went up the mountain to cut firewood, saw a short child playing with a ball on the bridge, and waved at him, walked over to look, but the child was gone, but the sound of the ball hitting the ground was still there. .Sometimes I would see a black cat with green eyes and a vicious look.So at this moment, everyone went up the mountain together, and no one dared to go up by themselves.

I have heard too many rumors, and the false ones are taken seriously.Afu quickened her pace, going to Mrs. Shen's house to find the pup.The ringing of the bell was getting closer and closer, and a row of black shadows gradually appeared at the end of the faint blue mist, the head of which was tall and thin, like a shriveled bamboo pole.Afu unconsciously slowed down, the shadow became clearer, and the shadows behind gradually appeared, short, with stiff hands, all of them were children who were a little bit older.

Afu was startled, hurriedly dodged to the side, and hid in an alley.

She poked her eyes out in amazement and looked out, the bell wafted over her head, this time she saw clearly that it was a haggard Taoist, with deeply sunken eye sockets, eyes like two clusters of green will-o'-the-wisps.Behind him was a group of children, seven or eight of them, tall and short, lined up in a row, bouncing and following him with their eyes closed.

The children passed by her one by one, their little faces were as pale as paper, as pale as ghost dolls.

Her heart was beating wildly, and she wanted to find someone to save them when they passed by, but when the last child jumped over, her eyes shrank suddenly.With a small round face, long and curved eyelashes, and a small scar on her head, it was her puppy.

Afu was so angry that her eyes turned black, how can there be something that doesn't have eyes, dare to touch her son!Afu pursed her lips and followed quietly.The Taoist hunched over and rang the bell as he staggered forward.Afu walked around to an alley, and there was also an alley across the street. The alley was so dark that she couldn't see the inside clearly.Afu held his breath and waited for them to pass one by one.The pup struggled to jump and fell behind. The Taoist didn't notice, and gave Afu a chance.

Afu took a deep breath, pumped up her energy, ran out like a cat, grabbed the pup in her arms, and threw herself into the alley opposite.During this run, he didn't dare to look back at all, and ran straight ahead, hoping that the Taoist priest would not notice that a child was missing.

She ran out in one breath for a long time, but there was no sound of chasing footsteps behind her. Afu took the time to look back and saw that there was no one in the darkness, so she breathed a sigh of relief.Looking down at the pup, he had already woken up with dazed eyes, and weakly called out "Mother".Afu patted his head and told him not to speak. The pup leaned his head on her shoulder and suddenly pointed to it and said, "Mother, there is someone."

Afu would never have dreamed that the Taoist priest was on it, so she raised her head stiffly, and sure enough, she saw a dark figure hanging diagonally above her head.It was too dark above, and Afu couldn't see his face clearly, but he could only see him hanging there with his sleeves hanging down, and there seemed to be two faint eyes staring at them coldly.

She was cold from head to toe, and she didn't dare to move, so she was in a stalemate with him.

A gust of wind blew by, and the black shadow's clothes fluttered up, and the sleeves were folded up and hit him.Afu suddenly realized that this was not a human being, but just clothes that had been dried on them.

It turned out that I was scaring myself.Afu breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to find someone to save the other children, when suddenly there was a chilly air from the back of her neck, as if someone was standing behind her, very close.

jingle--

She heard the bell again, and it rang behind her.

A sharp and thin chuckle reached my ears, "Madam, where are you going? The old man will give you a ride."

"Ah—" Afu screamed and ran out in a hurry.The pup was pulled out of her arms by a force and flew into the old man's arms.

The old Taoist rubbed the top of the pup's head and said with a smile: "Mother and child love each other deeply. Since the wife delivered it to the door by herself, the old Taoist will accept it with a smile."

The pup was playful, and raised his two chubby little hands to take off the seasoned square hat, revealing the top of his blue-gray head.Only then did Afu see his whole face clearly, it was not a human face at all, it was skinny, like a skeleton.The puppy was stunned for a moment, then suddenly patted the top of his head, and said: "Grandpa is bald too, Master Cat said that bald people were drums in their previous lives, and they were specially used to beat them."

Afu's face became even paler after that slap, and the sound of slapping the top of his head was not like an ordinary slap, but a hollow thud, as if there was nothing inside.

"What a courageous child, but it's a pity that his words are not pleasant to listen to." The old man smiled sinisterly, revealing a mouthful of jagged yellow teeth, "The child's tongue is tender, just cut it off for the old man to make soup."

"Give me back my son, or break your bald head!" Afu gritted her teeth.

The puppy suddenly yelled with straight eyebrows: "Brother."

"You little baby is not very smart," the old Taoist shook his head and sighed, "I am old enough to be your ancestor..."

Before he finished speaking, the old Taoist suddenly froze, and he froze like a puppet.

A pale hand stretched out from behind his shoulder, covering the pup's eyes. At the same time, the old man's forehead cracked little by little, like dense cracks winding out on the smooth surface of porcelain.White fingers slowly protruded from the middle of his forehead, and then the whole head was torn apart, and a hand with cold nails completely penetrated his head.

Afu froze with fright.The person behind the old man revealed a figure, it was a young man, about 12 years old, with a fair complexion, big black eyes, and a black cat lying on his shoulder.He hovered in the air, withdrew his hand, and lifted the pup out of the old man's arms and hugged it in his arms.

"My brother called me."

Fulan handed the pup to Afu, Afu opened her eyes wide, "You...you..."

"So it's you, Fulan kid." A shrill voice came suddenly, and Fulan looked up, the old man was standing in the mist in the distance, the upper part of his head was gone, only his chin was left alone The earth branch is on the skinny neck, opening and closing, which is strange.

Afu came back to her senses and shouted: "His head is empty, try wearing a chest!"

The black figure flashed, and Fu Lan suddenly appeared in front of the old man, with his fingers piercing the old man's chest.There was only a tooth-piercing click, and the old man's sternum was all broken.

"You can't kill this old man, Fulan." The old man's skeleton was stuck on Fulan's arm, he tilted his body and smiled lowly, "You bastard of unknown origin, you call yourself a demon, but you mix with mortals. The old man listened to everyone All monsters are ashamed to be with you, so you left the southern border and came to the world. You are such a bastard, even mortals will not tolerate you!"

The black cat smashed his chin with one paw, "It has nothing to do with you, go to hell."

The skeleton shattered all over the ground, fragments of bones swirled on the ground, and the bones rolled into the ditch.Afu ran over and asked, "Is he dead?"

"No, this is not his real body." The black cat said.

The puppy struggled from Afu's arms, stumbled and ran to Fulan's feet, tiptoed to hold Fulan's hand, there were several cuts on it, which were injured by the bone spur of the monster just now.The puppy let out a few breaths towards Fulan's hand, and said, "Fly away with pain."

Demons have a strong self-healing ability, even if their hands are broken, they can grow back again.The cut on the hand healed at this moment, the pup smiled and rolled his eyes, "Fly away!"

A little child, his brows and eyes are curved like crescent moons, and brilliant stars are hidden in his eyes.

Fu Lan froze for a moment, stretched out her hand, and touched the top of his head clumsily.