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"Sir, are you all right? Is something wrong?"

There was a strange question from the nun behind him, but Luo Xiu found that at this moment he was not in the mood to answer her even if it was "I'm fine". When there was still a step away, he stood still - just because he felt unprecedented hesitation.

He turned around and raised the kerosene lamp in his hand a little higher, so that he could clearly see the expression on the face of the nun standing behind him, and after a moment of hesitation, he asked: "That woman... gave birth here? "

"Yes," the nun said, pointing to the small wooden house in the corner of the yard, which was completely covered by the shadow cast by the corner, and could not be seen at all if you didn't pay close attention. It was everywhere, and I was afraid that I would scare the children and that some people would be curious to see it, so I simply closed the whole garden afterwards."

Luo Xiu was silent for a while, and then said after a while: "I'm sorry, nun, I know it's a bit strange to ask, but I still want to ask, what did the woman who came to the orphanage in the snowstorm and asked for your help look like?" ?”

"Very beautiful and young," was the nun's answer, "has long dark curly hair, and her nasolabial folds are a little deep when she talks, oh, forgive me an old woman's memory is too bad, it's just time It’s really too long ago now—maybe that woman has come out of the shadows now and has a healthy child of her own, yes, I really hope so, good people will always be rewarded, she really loves herself children."

In the nun's description, Luo Xiu pursed his lips lightly - when he was young, he accidentally saw his mother's graduation photo at Aunt Mary Sue's, she was indeed a beautiful woman, and most importantly, her She already had nasolabial folds in the photo at that time, which made her look more mature than her peers, so Luo Xiu took a few more glances at that time.

It's just that Aunt Marysu didn't show him any more, and immediately put away the photos.

Later, when he wanted to look for it, the photo was never found again.

Sometimes he even almost suspected that the memory about the photo was fabricated by himself.

"So, the Alice in the nursery rhyme, she's not dead?"

Luo Xiu asked softly, the voice was almost blown away in the wind and snow, but after hearing his words, the nun smiled, she shook her head——

"There are always discrepancies between rumors and reality, sir, not to mention that all the children who heard the noise that night were terrified. Their concept was simple and straightforward, probably guessing that if a person is in such pain, then she must have On the verge of death—in fact, even I thought she wouldn't survive that night because she had a dystocia, the baby was lying in her entire body, and the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck. That night we It was like a race against time—her screams woke up all the children in the orphanage and frightened everyone. When the child was born successfully, she was exhausted and could only breathe out, and the child was born. By the time it was too long, it had already passed away.”

"you sure?"

"I'm sure, because I held that child in my own hands, and the cold feeling in my hands is still vivid in my memory... Oh, a boy with beautiful black hair, I guess his father should have Oriental Bloodline—” The nun suddenly seemed to realize something when she said this, she raised her eyelids and quickly glanced at the expressionless black-haired young man standing in front of her, and then, not so abruptly, closed her eyes. mouthed.

Seeing that she stopped talking, Luo Xiu had no choice but to ask, "What about after that?"

"After that, I saw that she was too weak, so I wanted to get some water for her, and I turned back to the building to get water, but when I came back, she was gone-it's hard to imagine in that situation How did she move, but she really disappeared, there was not even a trace of her leaving on the snow in front of the house."

"..."

"After that, the nursery rhyme "Bird in a Cage" became popular in the orphanage. I don't know who came up with it, but the lyrics do fit well with what happened that night. The children even used it to choose the Hatter for Christmas. The one that Mister took—sometimes I think I should stop them, after all, the original prototype of this thing is not so pleasant..."

"..."

"We don't know where the lady named Alice is now, and we don't know whether the child who died in the mother's belly before it was born has entered heaven. I hope everything has a good The ending—after all, this incident actually happened in this orphanage, and as the children say, Alice is the only real mother that has ever appeared in our sense.”

"..." Listening to the nun's words, Luo Xiu's heart was full of complicated emotions. After being silent for a while, Luo Xiu finally said lightly under the nun's inexplicable gaze, "Thank you."

When the sun slowly rose from the horizon, Luo Xiu cleaned up the three tombs hidden in the snow with his own hands. In the end, he bid farewell to the nun without going to the small room and turned to leave. When he left , probably the nun has discovered the fact that he is more silent than when he came, not to mention that when their conversation was about to end, the black-haired young man's thanks seemed so unnatural——

After all, it was the nun's blessing to the last Alice and her child who died young.

,

What's the matter with the black-haired young man in front of him?

The nun didn't even dare to think about it, so she turned around and devoted herself to the busy preparations for a new day.

At this time, the black-haired young man who bid farewell to the orphanage had already walked a long way on the way here, leaving a series of his footprints on the snow, one deep and one shallow. It was still blowing, and the sun was shining on the snow, causing some snowflakes to melt and lowering the surrounding air to a new low. When Luo Xiu walked a long way and turned around and found that he could no longer see the shadow of the orphanage, he could feel himself His whole body was wet with sweat, but his hands and feet were cold.

He was almost sure that the baby back then was him, and the mother he had never met was the previous Alice.

His mother is still alive.

And it has become the image of "Gaoquan" in the eyes of everyone.

It is ironic that, as the poor child who died young, Luo Xiu was still alive, but as the woman who had the image of "Gao Daquan", his mother threw him into a relative's house without hesitation, and It lasted 23 years, during which time, she never came back to see him even once.

He always thought she was dead.

But she was still alive, living by his side pretending to be a ghost!

Thinking of this, Luo Xiu felt unquenchable anger and a sense of being fooled—and when he recovered, he found that he had returned to the gate of the palace belonging to the Red Queen.

Raising his head, he saw the high walls and gorgeous and cold buildings, and watched the cold iron door open automatically with a "squeak" in front of him... "Ah, it didn't come back dingy in the end." The voice muttered, and Luo Xiu hooked the corners of his lips mockingly, tightly wrapped the wet and heavy cloak around his body, and was about to lift his feet to walk in the direction of his bedroom. Unexpectedly, when he looked up, he went straight They looked straight at a pair of indifferent pupils of different colors standing by the door at this time.

The golden pupils shone brilliantly in the sunlight.

The red pupils were like fire, as if they could see through everything. Under such eyes, Luo Xiu always felt as if he had been stripped naked and saw through everything.

He looked at Luo Xiu expressionlessly, the two looked at each other for a moment, and neither of them spoke for a while.

After a long time, the man standing by the door was the first to break the silence: "Your Majesty, if you need to go out, you can notify everyone in advance, I hope you can understand that when you wake up, you find that the guards are all down at the door and the red queen herself is gone Everyone's mood when his bed disappeared."

"……Oh."

"If you don't mind, the answer I would like to hear is 'Sorry, there will be no next time'." The Dark Duke's voice was extremely calm, as if he hadn't noticed that he was standing wetly at the door How embarrassed is the black-haired young man who lowered his head and said nothing.

...How can there be such a person.

Luo Xiu couldn't help but raised his eyelids and glanced at him, but only saw the man's tight jaw—it looked like he was really angry, not because of his running around, but because of him Make yourself look like a beggar?

"Sorry, there won't be a next time."

Luo Xiu repeated the words of apology like a parrot, but at this moment, the man standing beside him took the initiative and took his wrist with his own warm hand——under the cold hands of the two, The moment he touched it, Luo Xiu was slightly taken aback.

At that second, he suddenly found that his whole body seemed to be relaxed, like a punctured balloon, bulging, but after a "pop", only a layer of shriveled skin remained; A certain tower in my heart, which was still established, suddenly collapsed at this moment.

Unprecedented exhaustion, as if the breath that supported him walking back from the orphanage alone suddenly poured out of his chest at this moment.

With his head down, he let the tall man beside him lead him into the bathroom, and took off the wet and heavy clothes that were close to his skin. The warm water in the bathtub evaporated and the temperature in the room rose rapidly. At this time, Luo Xiu felt I returned to the world by myself.

……

This time, it was he who took the initiative to wrap his arms around his neck when the Duke of Darkness was applying body wash for him.

Before he even had time to take off the gorgeous dress, he was pulled closer into the bathtub by the black-haired young man. The large bathtub can accommodate two men at the same time, but it doesn't look crowded, but the water inside makes a "sloppy" sound. Gushing out from the edge of the bathtub, the sound of the huge water almost covered the sound of passionate kissing between the two lips tightly pressed together in the bathtub...

A simple bath turned into an out-of-control affair in the end.

When the man cleaned up both of them after the work was done, Luo Xiu felt that he was too tired to lift a single finger.

With peace of mind, he asked the man to carry him to the big bed in the bedroom, and instructed him to find a razor for him to shave, because he felt that his beard had grown a little; after the man brought him the razor, he He also made some requests for the upcoming lunch menu from beginning to end. After carefully arranging the condition that the goats used for the lamb chops were a few months old, he rolled his eyelids and found that The man sitting by the bed showed no sign of anger.

Instead, seeing the black-haired young man stop, he raised his eyebrows.

"Finished?" the Dark Duke asked.

"...It's over." Luo Xiu replied honestly.

"I will do as you ask, before that, please stay here well."

After the Duke of Darkness dropped such a sentence, he stood up and turned to leave.

"..."

Luo Xiu was left alone in the room.

When the room became quiet again, he blinked, his eyes moved away from the door, and stayed on the sharp razor blade that was placed in front of the bedside table at this moment.

Luo Xiu thoughtfully touched his raised belly.

He knew it was time.

It's time to leave this dream.

And when he wakes up in reality, there are more problems waiting for him to solve.

Volume Six VI·Wrath (Wrath)