Suifang

——You want it, but I don’t want to give it to you! !

Xia Suijin roared in his heart, and suddenly choked on his saliva, coughing so hard that his heart and lungs were about to spit out, and said with difficulty:

"To be honest, I'm sick. If you change my skin, my whole body will fester and die."

The girl covered her mouth delicately, and said with a smile, "It's okay, I'll just peel it off and wash it off."

"No, no, actually... I'm still a cripple, the limp kind. Do you want to walk with a limp? Hey little girl, it's so ugly to walk with a limp."

At this time, the white-faced and red-mouthed girl had come up to him, reaching out her hand to touch Xia Suijin's face.

The curved arc of this hand is also very weird, as if the girl is wrapped in a leather dress, and the dress is one size too big, so it looks unfit and wrinkled.

Xia Suijin tilted her head, avoiding the hand, and said: "My skin is too big, you are wearing something that doesn't fit you."

The girl really stopped, rolled her eyes, and pursed her mouth stiffly, as if she was thinking.After a while, she shook her head slightly and said:

"Brother Miao is gone. I can't find a suitable skin, and I'm not good at peeling it. If it hurts you, don't shout. I'm very surprised, those girls will pass out after inhaling this medicine powder. Why don't you?"

The "Brother Miao" she was talking about couldn't be the man Mr. Fang killed that night, could he?

——Whether he is or not, this skin, hehe, this king is very satisfied, if he says he won't give it, he won't give it!

As soon as it was said, the finger moved slightly, and a ox hair needle flew out of the sleeve, and like petals blooming in the air, layers of silver stars and snowflakes were formed, all of them attacked the girl in makeup who bowed her head and took out her things.

At the same time, the girl whispered:

"Strange, I brought it with me, why is it gone?"

The moment he raised his head, Yinxing Feixue sank into his loose skin.

The girl covered her arms and stomach and yelled, "It hurts so much! You are a bad person, what have you done?"

Then turned around and ran.

The girl ran extremely fast, a white shadow flew out from the thick fog, and followed closely.Xia Suijin recognized that it was Mr. Fang, An Ran felt relieved, and struggled to stand up. At this moment, he saw a small porcelain bottle left a few steps ahead.

"what?"

Shaking it, I heard dense and trivial movements inside, like many ants clinging to the bottle wall and crawling back and forth.Xia Suijin immediately thought of the "bugs" Mr. Fang said, and felt a little bit sad: Fortunately, they were not stripped alive by them.

Not long after, Mr. Fang turned back and said:

"She ran into an alley and I couldn't find it."

It sounds like a bit of frustration and grievance.Xia Suijin hurriedly comforted him:

"It's not nothing. She is very familiar with Lihua Town. She should be a local. I think I know how to find her. Next, I will go to Yizhuang in the town."

As he spoke, he took a step forward, and after walking about a dozen steps, he was immediately out of breath from exhaustion, and turned around and begged: "Mr. Fang, can you carry me back this way? The medicine is really powerful, and it made me weak. It's so soft, I can't walk."

Mr. Fang is carrying a long sword on his back. Judging by his appearance, he doesn't really want to take off the sword and replace it with Xia Suijin, who has weak hands and feet.

Xia Suijin couldn't help wiping away bitter tears, and was about to turn back to the wall to support her, when Mr. Fang said:

"I have 'Howa' on my back, I can hug you."

It turned out that the sword was called "Hehua". There is a saying in ancient times: there is Fusu in the mountains, and Hehua in Xi, which is very commensurate with the "Fusu" sword on his waist.

——Hey wait, what did he say, hug?

Before he could react in his head, Mr. Fang put one hand behind his knees and the other on his waist, and hugged him firmly.

Xia Suijin: "..."

The hands that had nowhere to rest shyly covered his thumping chest. The face under the black veil was really horrifying. Xia Suijin was frightened at first glance.

"Hey, thank you, Mr. Fang."

The road was strangely quiet, Mr. Fang seldom spoke, and Xia Suijin didn't know what to say. Even though the two wanted to embrace each other in an intimate position, they were surrounded by unspeakable embarrassment.

Xia Suijin only felt that his scalp was numb, and he couldn't hold it anymore, he stumbled and said: "Your face...that, still hurts a lot?"

Mr. Fang replied with two words: "It's okay."

"I still have medicine here, go back and apply it for you."

"Ok"

Xia Suijin scratched her heart and felt uncomfortable: ah, ah, you boring gourd, what can you do if you talk more?

Mr. Fang seemed to understand what he was thinking, and said quietly: "At first I saw my ugly appearance in the mirror, and I was too scared to take a second look, but you look...why aren't you scared?"

"Haha, there's nothing to be afraid of. Your face is a bit ugly, but it's not scary."

Through the black veil, under the hazy moonlight, the mottled and hideous scars inside could be vaguely seen. Xia Suijin shook his head indifferently, and said again: "It is the ugly human heart that scares me."

Mr. Fang paused, and asked again: "When I was in a daze of pain, I seemed to hear you say that you broke your leg when you were seven and a half years old, and you were locked in a dark room for a day and a night?"

Xia Suijin hurriedly shook his head like a rattle drum, and said, "That was to comfort you. I made up nonsense. I didn't count it. My leg was broken when I was a child. fault."

Mr. Fang gave a muffled "hmm" and stopped talking.

This lame leg was Xia Suijin's heart disease. Xia Suijin immediately lost the idea of ​​"making trouble", put her head on Mr. Fang's chest, smelled the bitter smell of medicine on his body, and there were strands of cold plum blossoms aroma.

The fragrance of plum blossoms was faintly visible, he had smelled it when he was very young, and it was also in the crook of his arms, the woman's cold voice hummed softly in his ears, coaxing him to sleep very gently.

... mother concubine

When I opened my eyes again, it was already high in the sun.

Xia Suijin dipped in cold water and patted his face. When he regained consciousness, he saw Mr. Fang walking in with food. The dishes were all spicy.

"I slept well this time. It looks like my spirit is different!" He looked at himself in the mirror, tidied his hair again, and then sat down to drink the soup peacefully.

"Will you go out with me later?"

Mr. Fang said: "Yes."

Really cherish words like gold

Yizhuang is the place where the people in "Erhua Town" gathered funds to build a temporary coffin.

This town is remote, and if a traveler dies of a sudden illness in the town, the venerable elders will collect the corpse and temporarily place it in a coffin in Yizhuang, waiting for relatives to take it back.There are also impoverished families who have no money to bury the dead, and will move the body here for further planning.

The threshold of Yizhuang is very high. Xia Suijin dragged a lame leg and struggled to cross it. He smiled at the old man guarding Yizhuang in embarrassment and asked:

"Is the skinned man's body placed here?"

The old man pointed to a thin-skinned coffin in the corner, and the old god said at ease: "That's it. No matter how he committed the heinous crimes in life, he was nothing but a piece of loess when he died. Graces and grievances are all settled."

Xia Suijin hurriedly said, "I didn't come here to seek revenge."

Three sticks of incense were burning on the thin-skinned coffin. When the censer and coffin top were removed, a sour and rotten smell choked into the nostrils.Shocked, Mr. Fang backed up several steps, and refused to step forward to help again.

Xia Suijin saw the swollen face with the thick lips turned out causing the tip of the tongue to slip out, and she didn't feel anything except the meat porridge she drank in the morning was churning in her stomach.

"Huh? There is a word on this person's face, it's in Miao language, um... it looks familiar, it seems to be a word for 'crime'."

In an instant, the clouds cleared and the fog cleared.Xia Suijin asked the old man again:

"Did a foreigner in a foreign costume come to the town a few days ago?"

The old man showed a look of surprise: "How did you know, my lord? Aunt Li's house in the town picked up a Miao man a month ago, and said that he was sent away after he recovered from his injuries. Could it be... this skinner?"

Miao people are good at Gu, the skinning Gu worms that those "worms" clearly raised.

Xia Suijin said: "Where does Aunt Li live? I have to visit. By the way, does Aunt Li have a daughter who looks... uh, not very good-looking?"

"Young master is really amazing. The kitchen of Aunt Li's house caught fire the year before last. It is said that the girl didn't pay attention when lighting the fire, and the sparks burst out. There was a lot of dry firewood in the kitchen, and it was on fire at one point. When the girl was rescued, her whole body was burnt out. Since then From then on, everyone never saw the girl go out again."

At this point, the truth is obvious.

The two walked out of Yizhuang one after the other, and Mr. Fang suddenly opened his mouth to talk to Xia Suijin on his own initiative. There were not many words, only two words:

"Great"

Xia Suijin laughed: "Don't praise me, I will be smug."

At this time, a high-pitched bird song came from the sky, and he immediately jumped with joy and waved: "Xiao Cui, I'm here! Come here, let me see what you brought?"

An emerald green bird fluttered its wings and landed on the finger, pecked at the emerald green feathers, and then "chirped" twice delicately.

There were two bamboo tubes tied to the kingfisher's legs. Xia Suijin untied one, pulled out a piece of paper from the tube, and opened it, only to see that it was covered with densely packed small characters.After reading it roughly, Xia Suijin couldn't help clapping his hands and laughing, saying:

"Young Master Fang, it's fortunate that you met me. If you meet someone else, your face will never be healed."

Humming a little tune, he looked very proud.He took off another bamboo tube and carefully put it into the pouch on his waist, then looked in the direction of Aunt Li's house from a distance, thinking: It's time to end it.If it drags on, it will be troublesome if you can't catch up with the martial arts competition.

Turning to look at Young Master Fang, he put his shoulder on his shoulder with a smile, and begged: "You can walk with me again, I promise, this is the last time."

This time Mr. Fang replied with four words:

"Okay, Xiao Su."

Xia Suijin blinked, and it took a while to realize that "Xiao Su" was calling him.