flower and big devil

In the dark night, Luo Xiu saw the nun giving him a deep look, but he couldn't see the emotion in the cloudy eyes under the flickering oil lamp, but just when he thought that the other party would reject him, he suddenly Unexpectedly, the nun and nun just sighed deeply, then bowed slightly and respectfully said: "Of course, Your Majesty, your wish will be granted."

Immediately, she turned the direction of her toes, turned to the direction completely opposite to where she was going, and passed Luo Xiu with a straight waist.

Luo Xiu was stunned for a while, looked at her back curiously for a while, and then hurriedly followed - at this time, the snow outside the house was getting heavier, and when he went out, a snowflake blew in front of her and fell on the black hair The tip of the young man's nose, he shivered suddenly from the cold, and even his high belly hidden under the cloak twitched violently, regretting that he didn't wear an extra dress when he came out, he rubbed his hands , followed the nun and stepped on the snow to the backyard. The oil lamp in the hands of the old nun who was leading the way was their only light source.

When he came to the entrance of the dilapidated back garden, Luo Xiu held his breath subconsciously—at this time, it was just dawn, and he raised his head to look at the snowflakes falling continuously from the sky. For some reason, he suddenly thought of the first time he When he went to Buddha Luomen, he accidentally broke into an abandoned garden in the same way, and then, in that garden, he met Uzrock.

Abandoned garden seems to be some kind of keyword.

"Although I don't know why you came at such a time and made such a request, but I have to say that this abandoned garden has not been opened for almost 23 years." The nun said slowly.

"23 years," Luo Xiu narrowed his eyes slightly, "it seems that the history of this garden is longer than I imagined, and the time of abandonment alone has caught up with my age."

As he spoke, he watched the nun in front of him pull out a key from his chest. The key seemed to be carefully kept close to his body. After Yu Wen didn't come to dissipate, the key was inserted into the big rusty lock hanging on the door rail, and there was a "creaking" metal friction sound. Luo Xiu watched the nun's hand turn three and a half times. Only then did the lock make a crisp sound of "snap", and then bounced open.

What will be in here?

Luo Xiu was thinking, but at this moment, his eyes met the nun's eyes once again——

She is looking at me.

For some reason, this thought made Luo Xiu suddenly feel his heart beating faster.

Why did she look at me with such strange eyes? ...Ah, speaking of it, it seems that when we first met her, she acted a little strangely...

"Your Majesty, you should know that the name of this village is 'Alice Cemetery'?" the nun asked slowly.

"Yes, I know—oh, by the way, can I not use that title? It's a bit strange. According to the previous appearance, just call me Luo Xiu."

This title really made Luo Xiu feel awkward, because that day behind the door, he heard the hatter and the court musicians call the Duke of Darkness that way-in fact, this is a bit over the top, but Luo Xiu is not at all. I don't want to pursue this, and subconsciously think that I shouldn't use the same name as that man... Yes, no matter what the reason is, they shouldn't be on the same level.

To put it shamelessly, Luo Xiu still subconsciously regards the Duke of Darkness as a superior person who is one level higher than himself-he once wanted to change this view, but his blood seems to be flowing with a natural desire for that man. Submissiveness - One male is submissive to another, which can be very irritating.

Thinking of this, the black-haired young man pursed his lips not so happily.

At this time, the nun who was leading the way for him with a kerosene lamp turned around and said to him: "But I noticed that after your canonization ceremony, everyone passed on your name...Alice."

"Oh, that's another name."

"All the secrets of this village are in this abandoned garden, Luo Xiu, I hope that when you see these, you will not feel awkward because of the name 'Alice', in fact, you are the last one to come here for so many years The 'Alice' here has been nearly 23 years since the last one—" At this moment, the nun seemed to realize what she said, and her voice stopped abruptly.

"I know," Luo Xiu smiled at her with a slightly reassuring expression, ""The Caged Bird", right?"

The nun nodded and ended the conversation with silence in reply.

However, the end of the conversation could not prevent that strange feeling from flooding the dark-haired young man again.

However, at this time, he didn't have time to think too much, and took the initiative to stretch out his hand to push open the rusty iron door. The iron door made a harsh "creak" sound. The rapidly melting snowflakes and the rust on the railing rubbed against his hands—his palms felt a little hot, maybe it was because of nervousness, although Luo Xiu didn't know what he was nervous about, he guessed, he probably Really getting closer to a truth.

At this time, Luo Xiu walked in front, and the nun followed behind him, with her head bowed.

"I've heard people say that a woman named Alice came to this orphanage on a snowy night more than 20 years ago," Luo Xiu said casually, "She asked for your help because She's about to give birth..."

"Yes, the situation at that time was very bad, and it was close to the early morning. I was young at the time. I was knocked on the door in the middle of the night and opened the door. I saw...a woman with a big belly was standing at the door. I was almost scared out of my wits. She Her face was covered in cold sweat, she was as pale as a ghost, even though she has never given birth in this life, we all know that she is about to give birth." The nun lowered her head even more.

Luo Xiu subconsciously hummed the song "The Bird in the Cage"—

"Enclose, enclose! When will the bird in the cage... come out?" He paused, turned his head to look at the nun with a smile, and said, "That's how it's sung, isn't it?"

"Yes, sir." The nun sighed lightly, her eyes were fixed on a certain empty place at this time, and she seemed to be caught in a certain long-term memory, "She told me that she My name is 'Alice', Alice cried and asked for my help, she said that someone wanted to kill her, but unfortunately, in the process of fleeing, she found that the baby in her belly was about to be born, I will always remember the way she cried and said 'please' to me that night - you know, as the manager of the orphanage, I have seen too many parents who are ruthless and cruel, but the tears she shed for her children are it is true--"

I don't know why, although Luo Xiu didn't know what happened that year at all, but with the nun's slow description, the scenes of that year seemed to slowly appear in front of his eyes, probably because it was too exciting to be in the same snowy night. In the gray sky, a woman in a cloak appeared vaguely in the picture. Her footsteps were hurried and short of breath, and she hurried to this orphanage under the snowstorm. In front of the orphanage, she lingered again and again, but because she finally couldn't bear the cramps from her abdomen, she knocked on the door of the gloomy building in front of her...

Uh, wait.

Isn't this fucking talking about him in 10 minutes? ……………………

Mom sucks.

Thinking of this, Luo Xiu almost unconsciously reached out and rubbed his protruding belly.

At this time, with the "creaking" sound of his boots stepping on the snow, the abandoned garden gradually unfolded before his eyes.

The thick snow melted and was piled up again, and the thick and thick snow made the abandoned garden look like nothing could grow. Luo Xiu narrowed his eyes slightly, but unexpectedly found a few high snowdrifts where he could see. He made a doubtful sound, narrowed his eyes slightly and counted, and found that there were three raised snowdrifts under the bare tree.

He walked to the center of the middle one and stretched out his hand to dig away the snow. When his fingertips were numb from the cold pain, he was finally able to see clearly that the white stone monument was covered under the snow. Luo Xiu Turning around, he took the kerosene lamp in the nun's hand and took a closer look. The dim yellow light swept across the lettering blurred by snow, and Luo Xiu saw a line of words that shocked him——

Alice Alexander (1945-1968).

"Alice?" Luo Xiu could feel that the scorching breath he exhaled almost melted the snow on the tomb in front of him, "Alice's tomb?"

"This is Alice's cemetery, and it's also the origin of the village's name." The old nun said, stretching out her hand actively, digging out the left and right tombs from the snow in the same way—

The one on the left has Alice Baikal (1925-1949) written on it, and the one on the right has Alice Claire (1970-1993) written on it.

Luo Xiu stared at them for a while, and suddenly realized that there seemed to be something wrong - first of all, none of the three tombs seemed to belong to women; second, according to the nursery rhyme about "Alice", Regardless of the extremely strange lyrics about the fifth Alice that appeared later, according to the previous four paragraphs of lyrics, there should be four graves belonging to "Alice".

This is so weird.

No.4 Alice, who is she?

Whether it is a nursery rhyme or the old nun in front of her, it is true that she did exist, but she has become the one who breaks the rules-there is no grave, and there is no grave like the one left after the death of the last Alice. A certain relic will flow into the hands of Luo Xiu, her next name "Alice" as an inheritance.

Luo Xiu blinked, and when he spoke again, he found that his voice was terribly dry—he seemed to have made a mistake from the very beginning. That story that was told went along, and that damn nursery rhyme about Alice...

The fourth paragraph should be like this -

[Moon clouds cover, snow is boundless, the city wall of the orphanage blocks the light.

Dark clouds crushed the city, clouds fell frost, and the fourth Alice came to me.

She carried the bamboo cage eye, and the bird was in the middle of the cage,

The caged bird flies before dawn, but only hears the wind whimpering,

Covered by moon clouds and boundless snow, empty bamboo cage eyes, buried in loess in the backyard. 】

... The first half of the lyrics completely match the description of the old nun before. A woman, pregnant and about to give birth, appeared in front of this orphanage on a snowstorm night to ask for help. According to Japanese nursery rhymes, the baby in her arms is the so-called "Hand-held bamboo cage eye, cage middle"...

The sentence "The bird in the cage flies before dawn, but only hears the whimpering of the wind" is also quite understandable. According to "The Bird in the Cage" itself, this means that the baby was born but did not hear the cry it should have, which means that the child has just been born It's a dead baby--

And the last line of the lyrics is "covered by moon clouds, vast snow, empty bamboo cage eyes, buried in loess in the backyard".

Luo Xiu was silent for a while.

After a while, he suddenly felt a wave of fear rising from the soles of his feet——

Now he finally found out what the problem was—

The person who created this nursery rhyme played a little tricky. According to the normal logic of the lyrics, the first three paragraphs describe the story of different Alices coming to this place, encountering different things, and finally dying. In the fourth paragraph of the lyrics, the end of the story does not describe the end of No.4 Alice at all. The so-called "loess buried in the backyard" always makes people think that No.4 Alice is dead at first glance. However, if you connect it with the previous line "empty bamboo cage eyes", you can easily find that this line of lyrics is not talking about Alice's death at all, but her remaining baby!

This is why, at this moment, there are only three graves in front of Luo Xiu.

This can also fully explain why No.4 Alice did not leave her proper relics, because the lyrics of the fifth paragraph are "The moon swallows the clouds, the stars are dim, the nightingale weeps blood and complains about hesitation; when the cuckoo takes the nest, the fifth The first Alice died on the way when she came"—the fifth Alice died before she came, but the No.4 Alice was still alive.

Although I don't know what "when the cuckoo takes the nest" means, I can guess that the so-called No.5 Alice is about to survive as the "relic" of No.4 Alice, but at this time There was an accident——

All of a sudden, a mess of clues flooded into Luo Xiu's mind.

He was a little confused.

If No.4 Alice did not die, then what kind of identity is he standing here?

Logically speaking, he should be No.5 Alice - but, obviously, he is still alive.

No.4 Alice is also alive.

Two Alices appeared at the same time, and the former—according to the nursery rhyme, as Luo Xiu's mother, why did she never appear after living for so many years?

why?

Who is she?

Or, she has already appeared and has been hiding by his side with another identity? !

The author has something to say: the first bucket of dog blood fell smoothly, and Luo Xiu's "mother" is still alive—who is she?It's another huge embarrassing foreshadowing, let's listen to the next chapter to break down ==