Suifang

The man in white clothes and black boots walked into a deep alley and said, "I lost it near here last night."

"That's right"

Aunt Li's family lived there, and Xia Suijin knocked on the door: "Is anyone at home? I'll make an excuse to drink water."

no answer

Xia Suijin kicked the door with his foot, and there was a loud bang, breaking a big hole.He mused:

"This door...is very strong."

Mr. Fang commented in two words: "Savage."

Then I saw Xia Suijin stretching her limbs, first one arm stretched into the big hole, then her head, shoulders, and one leg curled up and got in through the big hole.

"..."

Xia Suijin urged: "Why are you standing there? Get in!"

He thought the door opening was too small, and he wanted to kick it a few more times. At this moment, a stunning figure in white flew over the gray wall and landed beside him lightly.Xia Suijin praised:

"So easy"

The courtyard was quiet, the door was wide open, and a foul smell came out.Xia Suijin took out two bright white pills from the pouch on his waist, threw one into his mouth, and sent the other to Mr. Fang.

Mr. Fang hesitated for a while, then picked up the pill and swallowed it.

Xia Suijin smiled: "Don't worry, you are a true knight, I will not harm you."

Stepping into the room, the first thing you see is a fleshy corpse buzzing around with flies.There is still no skin. Seeing that it is red all over, the carrion is covered with white flesh insects, and there is a beautiful jade hairpin next to the fallen hair. Xia Suijin speculates:

"It's Aunt Li, the girl's mother. That girl has gone crazy."

Going further inside, I pushed open a door, and saw a naked body running around with a soft leather bag in its hand.That body is protruding and backward, and looks well developed, but the skin is covered with potholes and burn marks, and only bright red lips can be seen on the face covered by long hair.At this moment the mouth is making noise:

"It doesn't look good and doesn't fit! My mother's skin is not good either, they are so ugly, I want beautiful skin, where is brother Miao? Where have you been?... Uh, didn't you say that you would give me many, many good-looking 'clothes' Well, you lied to me. But it doesn't matter, you taught me how to skin them, and when I become proficient, their skins will all be mine..."

She rummaged in the closet, the crying stopped abruptly, and then she began to giggle coquettishly, dragged out a piece of green human skin, and said:

"Hee hee, this looks good. It's only a little worse than my original appearance."

The girl put this green human skin on her body, changed into a crimson dress, and began to paint her eyebrows and eyes in the mirror.

At this moment, Xia Suijin pushed open the wooden door, and shouted with a smile:

"Girl, no matter how beautiful that 'clothes' is, it's not yours. Return it to its original owner."

The girl turned her head in response, her half-painted face looked like a maid's face tied with paper used for sacrificial offerings, her face looked like a whitewashed wall, and there were two spots of red on her cheeks.She looked at Xia Suijin's face, and suddenly smiled:

"You are the elder brother who played the flute last night, do you want to give me your skin?"

Xia Suijin said: "No."

"It doesn't matter, I will peel it myself!"

The girl grabbed a handful of fine white powder and suddenly rushed up.The powder exuded a sweet fragrance, Xia Suijin picked up a feather duster, and neatly folded the girl's arm.

The powder was scattered all over the ground, and the fragrance overflowed in an instant.The girl covered her mouth and nose, opened the dressing drawer, and took out a pill to put into her mouth.

Xia Suijin had quick eyes and quick hands, "click" and broke her other arm.

The girl was mad with anger, her arms were drooping, and she rushed up like a walking corpse, but she inhaled the fragrance, and soon fell down softly, biting Xia Suijin's shoes with her teeth, and said weakly:

"I didn't take the medicine, I will faint. What do you want to do, you evil, beautiful man?"

"It's useless for you to praise me as 'beautiful', I won't give you this skin." Xia Suijin took out a small porcelain bottle and said maliciously: "Your brother Miao is dead, I will teach you how to skin it." good?"

Gently scratched behind the girl's ear with a dagger, the rotten green skin was broken, revealing the uneven burnt skin.He unplugged the porcelain bottle and used the mouth of the bottle to plug the girl's ear hole.

When the girl saw the porcelain bottle, her eyes widened in horror and her teeth trembled: "You, why do you have... ah——"

The next moment, it curled and twisted like a snake splashed with hot water.

She opened her mouth wide, as if trying to scream something, maybe asking for help.Starting from the ears, dense worms were biting the part where the skin and the flesh were connected. After a while, the skin around the ears began to fall off, and the sticky and torn flesh and blood could be vaguely seen inside.

Xia Suijin squatted aside and poked the small piece of wriggling living creature's skin with a feather duster. The living creature spread out and slowly crawled away on the girl's face.

The girl inhaled the sweet fragrance, and now she can't move, her whole body twisted into a rope, but Xia Suijin insisted on tearing her apart, letting her experience the pain of peeling.

He was playing with great interest, when an unsheathed snow-white and ice-clear sword fell into the girl's chest.The girl twitched a few times and then stopped completely. The living thing under the skin bit her neck, and her entire face was peeled off.

Xia Suijin sighed in disappointment, and turned around to complain: "You have a kind heart, and you will suffer sooner or later."

The girl died, and within an hour, the complete skin on her body fell off.Xia Suijin cut a bloody opening on the sole of her foot, and the black worm dripping with blood crawled out of the opening. When it met the sunlight coming in from the window, it immediately turned its belly up, and all of them were reduced to ashes.

Xia Suijin said to Mr. Fang: "This skin must have been peeled off before the person died, otherwise it will harden. You are lucky, only the skin on the face is gone. If the skin on the whole body is gone, maybe It hurts like hell."

Mr. Fang didn't say a word

He asked again: "This Gu worm won't come out until it gnaws off the skin. I'm curious how you kept the skin on your body that night, can you explain the confusion?"

The bamboo hat was twisted towards the girl's feet, the eyes under the black veil seemed to be looking at the blood on the sole of the foot.

Xia Suijin guessed: "I see that the skin cuts on your neck are neat. Did you slit your neck open before the Gu worms got to your neck, and some Gu worms came out along the cut, and the rest ...you caught them one by one?"

A muffled voice came from under the black veil: "...almost."

As soon as he said this, he subconsciously touched his neck and sighed sincerely:

"Oh, I have never served anyone in my life, you are one."

Then he took out a bamboo tube from his pouch, poured out a red long worm, and was about to throw it into Mr. Fang's neck.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Fang jumped a long way like seeing a debt collector, and said angrily: "What are you doing?"

Xia Suijin is innocent: "I am helping you. People say, 'Once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of well ropes for ten years'. Could it be that you have suffered from Gu insects once and started to be afraid of insects?"

Mr. Fang shook his neck and did not speak

Xia Suijin put on a gentle face and beckoned, "Come here."

Mr. Fang is not moving

"You have to be obedient, will I reward you with a bunch of candied haws later?"

Mr. Fang faced a pear tree in the courtyard, standing tall and standing still.

Xia Suijin was furious: "If you don't eat a toast and eat fine wine, my master can't cure you?!"

Immediately, he opened his arms and rushed forward like a wolf who had seen a beauty.

Mr. Fang had obviously never seen such a shameless person, he had no choice but to retreat, and for a while Xia Suijin succeeded, his body was tightly bound by two arms, and when he was struggling, his back bumped into a pear tree, and the pear blossoms rustled down.

A scarlet flesh worm was thrown into the black gauze silently, and crystal red mucus was secreted from where it crawled.

Xia Suijin pressed Mr. Fang under the pear tree, and said with a flattering smile: "Hey, what are you afraid of? I won't eat you. Although I'm a cripple and no girl would like me, I'm also picky." Yes, I don’t want the ugly ones, the fierce ones, or the weak and delicate ones, I think you are very delicate, and I don’t like you.”

Mr. Fang retorted loudly: "I'm not squeamish——"

"Then you are neither ugly nor fierce, nor weak nor squeamish, do you want to be my wife!" She pursed her lips as if to kiss her, "Don't move! Just one kiss, one kiss will let you go. "

Mr. Fang weakly refused: "You go away..."

The next moment Xia Suijin let go of her arms, took two steps back, put away her obscene smile, and said solemnly:

"Okay, you can take off your hat now."

"What, what?"

Xia Suijin took out a small bronze mirror, pointed at his bamboo hat, and said, "Take it off and have a look."

With the small bronze mirror in front of him, Mr. Fang was stunned for a long time before putting his hands on the bamboo hat and muttering something like "Weird".Xia Suijin didn't hear clearly, and urged:

"Hurry up! Your hands are beautiful, and I guess your face must also be extremely beautiful. It would be a pity to be ruined by a Gu worm."

Before the words fell, the bamboo hat was taken off.The small bronze mirror reflects a clean and dusty face, with long eyebrows, thin lips, and a sharp chin, so beautiful that it is too distant to be played with.

Xia Suijin's jaw dropped in shock, and said: "You!—Aren't you the poppie who pulled me up and gave me the money bag! How did you become Mr. Fang?!"

Mr. Fang said: "My name is 'Yu Fang'."

"...Okay, okay, Yu Fang."

Xia Suijin stretched out his palm, pointed to the red flesh worm on Yu Fang's neck, and said, "Can you return it to me now?"

Yu Fang stretched out her hand to touch it, and her face turned pale in an instant. When she saw that what was pinched in her hand was an earthworm-like flesh worm, her body shook weakly, and she almost rolled her eyes and passed out.

Xia Suijin hurriedly said: "Don't be dizzy! I don't want to carry you back, you should lose it, it's useless anyway."

Yu Fang immediately threw the Gu worm far away, took the handkerchief and wiped it again and again.

"Let's go! I have to go to the market to buy horses and dry food. You follow and pay. I have to hurry tomorrow!"

Yu Fang paused and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Go to Murong Villa and participate in Yu Mingchen's martial arts contest to recruit relatives."

After all, he saw Yu Fang smiling.

The smile was very light and shallow, and the pear blossoms beside her rustled down, reflecting Yu Fang's elegant and pure face brightly and movingly.But it came and went quickly, and when Xia Suijin rubbed his eyes to see more clearly, there was no half smile.

... Could it be my illusion?

The two went to the market together, and Yu Fang was still wearing the bamboo hat.

Xia Suijin bought and Yu Fang paid the money, and when they returned to the inn, it was already dark.

Xia Suijin took a comfortable bath and asked Yu Fang: "Why are you turning into a gourd again? I'm leaving tomorrow, and if you don't say goodbye, it's like 'There will be a time later', 'I will talk to you Very happy, see you again by fate' Is this kind of obedient?"

Yu Fang, who was silent, raised her head, looked straight at her with a pair of clear and innocent eyes, and said, "If there is a destiny, we will see you again."

Xia Suijin said: "What if there is no fate?"

"Then it's gone"

"Oh, so you are a cold-blooded and ruthless master! I have been letting you sleep in the bed these days, but you refuse to say anything nice."

Xia Suijin lay down on the bed with grievances. When she woke up the next day, she only felt back pain. She rode tremblingly on the mule and was led out of the city by Yu Fang.

"Mr. Fang, your pearl is still with me, and it will be returned to its original owner."

Yu Fang put on the silver mask and couldn't see any expression, but he guessed that she was happy, after all, the beads were worth a lot of money.

Yu Fang took the beads, and finally said something nice: "Xiao Su, we will see you again."

"One more little thing. What's in the bag at your waist? I'm carrying a heavy bag, shouldn't it be a few ingots of gold ingots? I'm short of money, can you give me one?"

But Yu Fang frowned, and said coldly, "This is not something you should touch. I'll send you here. Take care."

Then he left.

So he became even more curious, thinking uncomfortably: I should take a sneak peek at him when he was unconscious.

The pear blossom tree outside "Pear Blossom Town" said "Farewell", Xia Suijin waved at Yu Fang's back, and then rode a mule on the long road of flying pear blossoms.