Jia Mo

Chapter 97: The River

A quarter of an hour passed, and there was no sign of Fu Lan.Everyone gradually panicked, the thin man urged the fat man to go in and have a look, but the fat man hugged the old tree and refused to go in even if he died.Suddenly, a deep wolf howl came from inside, and everyone turned pale with fright.There are not only wolf cubs in it, there are old wolves in it!The howling of wolves became more and more urgent, but Fu Lan didn't make any sound, neither screamed nor asked for help.Someone cried, "Where is the mute? He doesn't even cry out at all?"

"Stupid, he's dumb, he can't scream!" cried a child.

All the children were frightened and ran down the mountain to escape.

The thin man waited for a while, but couldn't stand the heartbreaking wolf howl, so he also ran away.Qi Yin was so angry that he vomited blood, but Wu Yuli seemed to enjoy watching, and Yingdie jumped up and down to follow Fatty back home.Fatty was in a daze, as if he had a dream, and when he got home, no one was there, he closed the door and cried while covering the quilt.The sun was setting, and the sunset was like a basin of blood splashing on the sky.Fat Dun got up and went out to look, but Fulan still didn't come back.

The Li family couple went home and found something was wrong, they looked for Fulan inside and out, but there was no one there, and asked Fat Dun if Fulan came back in the morning.Fatty said that he had a fever and was stuck under the quilt and couldn't come out.Aunt Li tried his forehead, and he was really flustered. She fed him medicine, and then went to the neighbor's child, knocking on the door and asking, but they all said they didn't know.Asked about the thin man, he said that he came back and saw the dumb man squatting under the eaves of Li's house playing with mud at noon.

"It must have been taken away by a weasel." Aunt Li was so anxious that her hair was full of sweat, "What should I do? The fairy came back to get the doll. If we don't hand it over, he will be angry!"

Uncle Li was also impatient. He sat on the edge of the kang and smoked half a bag of cigarettes. He said, "Let's go and look for it in the ravine. Dead. Immortals just want to blame, at most they want to get the money back, they can’t kill our family!”

When the folks in the village heard that the baby was lost, they all came to help, holding torches and shouting "dumb" all over the mountains and plains.In the dark mountains and fields, the flickering torches are like will-o'-the-wisps, illuminating the shadows of old trees in a mountain nest.Fatty's parents had just left, and the thin man was afraid that he would be involved in the incident, so he and a few other children came in through the window and threatened him viciously not to reveal Fulan's whereabouts.

"The mute wants to go in by himself. If he refuses to go in, can we force him? It has nothing to do with us if he goes in and seeks death by himself!" The thin man shouted, "He's just a freak. If you die, you will die, and if you die, you will die. You must not think about it, tell us out, and get beaten for nothing."

Fatty was trembling, his forehead was covered with sweat, and he nodded tremblingly.

The folks searched in the mountains all night, but they didn't even find the body.

The sky was getting bright, and the cold sky shone in the courtyard.Aunt Li was sitting in her living room covering her face and weeping. People were standing inside and outside the room, with their heads bowed and sighing.Fatty sat under the steps with a group of children, all of them were watery pale.

As he was sitting, he suddenly saw a figure appearing at the end of the path.Short and short, one foot deep and one foot shallow, getting closer and closer.Aunt Li came out in a daze, and the husband and wife looked at each other.Fulan was covered in blood, expressionless, like an evil boy who came out of hell.He carried a bloody wolf head in one hand, and dragged a headless wolf corpse in the other. Blood spilled all the way into the courtyard of Li's house.His whole body was covered with blood, and Bai Shengsheng's face couldn't be seen clearly.

When he walked in, the crowd automatically parted ways.Under the astonished eyes of everyone, Fu Lan put the huge blood lump in Fat Dun's arms and said, "Here you are."

He came to this unnamed village for nearly two months, and this was the first time Qi Yin heard him speak.There is no tone, a cold voice, as simple as saying "the weather is fine today".Fat Dun was stunned for a while, hot and sticky blood spilled all over his hands, he lost his head as if he had just woken up from a dream, and screamed and threw himself into Aunt Li's arms.Fu Lan was full of confusion, and the people around her retreated step by step.The little boy's dark eyes reflected the white sky light, and also reflected their frightened and frightened faces.

"Monster, this is a little monster!"

"You can't keep him, drive him away!"

"What kind of fairy's doll, he must be a demon boy. After so long, that fairy didn't even come to send a letter, probably he left him here! Send him away!"

People in the village whispered that Fu Lan had stayed at Li's house for two days, and the Li family's couple finally couldn't stand the repeated persuasion of the neighbors.One sunny morning, Uncle Li took Fulan by the hand and sent him into the old forest on the hill.Uncle Li gave him a small bundle, which contained two homespun shirts and two hanging copper plates, and said he would come to pick him up after a while.

Fu Lan nodded, sat on the rock, hugged the bundle, and put her knees together, as well-behaved as usual.Uncle Li took a few steps and turned his head to look twice. The doll was sitting there, looking down at the ants on the ground.He sighed, and finally became cruel, and went down the mountain.

Fu Lan was very obedient and didn't leave even a step.It rained at night, and the rain was over the ankles, and the whole body was soaked.He dozed against the tree trunk, rubbed his eyes and woke up, his clothes had been dried by the sun.Sometimes a few wild wolves passed by, hiding in the bushes and staring at him, their green pupils like will-o'-the-wisps hiding bloodthirsty ruthlessness.They stared gloomyly for a while, then walked away slowly.Occasionally, a chirping sparrow landed on top of his head, and he sat on the stone in a daze with the little sparrow on his head.Fulan stayed there for nearly half a month. The Li family couple went up the mountain to see Fulan, who was covered with leaves and dust and was dirty.

"Why don't you go?" Aunt Li asked him.

The bee-like sunlight fell on his shoulders. The lonely boy opened his mouth and said with difficulty: "Wait for you... pick me up and go home."

Qi Yin felt a blunt pain in his heart, like a blunt knife was cutting flesh.Such a well-behaved doll, they don't want it, but he wants it.

Aunt Li squatted in front of Fulan, wiping away her tears.A woman's heart is soft, and her heart is finally touched.They picked him up and put him into the straw pile on the cart, and they pulled him down the mountain with Uncle Li.Aunt Li hid him in the fat house and told him not to run around so that the villagers could see him.

As night fell, there was a beep, and a lamp flower burst out from the wick.Fat Dun and Fu Lan leaned back against each other without saying a word.Fat Dun clutched the quilt, and stammered: "I'm sorry, dumb. Not long after you left, I told the truth to my mother, but you were sent up the mountain at that time..." He lowered his head, "It was me who killed you. about you."

There was no sound behind, and Fatty said in frustration: "It doesn't matter if you don't forgive me, we will move to the town soon, no one in the town will recognize you, then you can come out to play, and we can still go to school together private school."

Fat Dun turned over and saw Fulan's peaceful side face. He closed his eyelids, looked very peaceful, and was already asleep.

On the day of moving, tables, chairs, cabinets, pots and pans were loaded into two ox carts. Aunt Li led Fulan out of the village quietly and waited on the main road.After waiting for a long time, no one was seen, so he took Fulan back again.As soon as I entered the village, I saw the mountain monster raging, and wildfires were burning all over the ground.The fat-headed and big-eared mountain demon lay on Uncle Li's body, pulling out a string of greasy, bloody intestines.Aunt Li's legs were weak, but she was still holding on, crying and hiding Fulan in a big urn, and then went to Pangdun.As soon as she turned her head, she saw a pair of giant eyes the size of copper bells.

Those mountain demons kept wandering around, and finally turned to the inn where Wu Yuli was staying.Wu Yuli dealt with them without any hassle, and stepped into the village stepping on the dried up blood.At that time, three days had passed since Shan Yao Tu Village.When he arrived, Fulan was squatting next to Aunt Li's corpse, which was covered with banana leaves. Fulan put her hands on her knees, and her body was covered with a lot of blood.There was neither sadness nor joy on his face, neither sadness nor anger, like a paper doll, lonely and thin.

"Lan'er, are you sad?" Wu Yuli asked him.

Fu Lan was stunned, and asked confusedly: "What is sadness?"

"It seems that I still haven't learned anything." Wu Yuli said, "Forget it, my time is running out, and I can't continue to play house games with you. I want to send you to a very high place, where there is no People, and no monsters. I can’t be with you anymore, you have to endure a long sleep, endless darkness. Maybe one day you will wake up, but maybe, you will never wake up. Would you like it?”

Fu Lan only said one word, "OK."

He was always like this, he didn't know where he came from, and he didn't know where he was going.He does what others tell him to do.

Wu Yuli frowned, touched the top of his hair, "Good boy."

A wind blade drew a moon-like arc, piercing through Fulan's little heart.Fulan opened her swarthy eyes wide and fell face up to the ground.Wu Yuli pulled out his soul from between his brows, and a faint light flew into Wu Yuli's palm like a small firefly.The eyes of the child on the ground gradually lost their luster, and his face was pale, like a broken puppet child.Wu Yuli turned around, waved his hand, and the flames spread in the village, licking the child's thin body.

It turned out that this was the origin of the child's corpse downstairs where Fulan hung her feet.The gods took the charred corpse away, waited for several years, and sent it to Qi Yin.Wrestling from Wu Yuli's memory, the sky light fell on his knees, his eyes were filled with white flowers, and Qi Yin felt an indescribable coldness in his heart.Wu Yuli stood on the tree vine, with a slight smile on her exquisite eyebrows and eyes, but none of them reached her eyes.Ordinary people would think it was because he was blind, but Qi Yin knew it was because his heart was cold.

This person raised Fulan with his own hands, but he never had any real affection for him.His gaze always belongs to the bystanders, like watching a play on the stage.Whether it is sorrow or joy, it belongs to others and has nothing to do with him.

Qi Yin said shyly, "What do you mean by sending him to a high place at the end?"

Could it be that there is the secret of Wu Yuli's immortality?

"That's another story, and it's not for outsiders." Wu Yuli put his index finger on his lips, "Okay, enough of the story, I'll send you away from the moon mirror."

The appearance of that little child covered in blood and the appearance of being killed are lingering in Qi Yin's mind.Qi Yin rubbed his heart and lungs in pain, "Master Uncle, you said that my brother has no emotions, you are wrong. You created him, but you don't understand him at all. Bashan heavy rain, he left Yuejing for the first time. Yue In the mirror, day after day, year after year, every day is exactly the same. It was the first time he saw rain, and he refused to hide from the rain because he was curious about how it would feel when it rained on his body.

"Later, he entered the wolf den and gave the wolf's head to Fat Dun. It was because the boss of the Qinglong gang said that as long as he entered, they would be brothers. My brother hoped that he could be brothers with them."

"Oh?" Wu Yuli turned his face slightly.

"Later, Shan Yaotu Village, you asked him if he was sad, but he didn't know what it meant to be sad. You didn't see that the Li family had been dead for so long, and there were no jackals and wild dogs to grab their hearts. That's Because my brother has been standing by the side all the time, he has blood on his body, which is left from fighting with jackals and wild dogs. They are covered with banana leaves because my brother is afraid that they will be cold." Qi Yin gritted his teeth, saying every word, " My brother has never had any flaws, he just reacts slower and can’t speak. My mother said, my brother is the smartest baby in the world. You don’t understand him, I understand, my mother understands, and so does Mr. Cat I understand. He has feelings, he has desires, he himself said that he likes me!"

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