Water lanterns and dreams in 1 nights

It's just the same way, I don't have to worry about him.

I have many tails attached to me all the way through many days and nights, like a soundless shadow. When I spent the night under the bridge hole, he climbed up the nearby tree, and the strange thing is that he can sleep on it all night without falling off.If I find a broken house and expressly don’t want to see him, he will live on the roof, and I will treat him as an invisible guest that I carry with me. When I finish the meal, he will come and go quietly, and disappear when he is full. .That’s how I realized that martial arts might actually exist in this world, and I shouldn’t be surprised. The world is diverse, and I can even believe in rebirth, which isn’t too bizarre.

The most convenient advantage of having him is that I don’t need to find food by myself. He can easily get prey. I don’t ask questions. Whether he brings hares, frogs or chickens and ducks, the current strategy is to talk to him as little as possible. Negotiate, and when he gets bored, he will leave.

It's just an act of desperation.After experiencing Ello, I was quite wary of such a person who approached me for no reason. I tried to sneak several times in the middle of the night, but he always caught up with me in a short while.

I had learned a lesson, prepared myself, and had a way of getting rid of him.There are some small paper packets in my carry-on package, most of which are condiments such as salt and spices, but there are also some dangerous medicines mixed in, all of which are fatal doses.Some are powdered from poisonous weeds and insects, and some are bought from witch doctors and wandering doctors, all of which have been verified for their efficacy.The reason why I didn't do anything is that at present I still believe that life has its own wonderful and unique features, and I don't want to take it away from my body if it is not necessary.

This guy hides and hides all day long, and sometimes capsizes. He has been with me for many days, and one night I was sleeping, and I was woken up by him hurriedly, "Hey, do you know medical skills?"

I was drowsy and said that I would only be a little bit. He lay down next to me, lifted up the left trouser leg, and asked me to see the wound on his leg.

It was in a deserted temple. I lit a half-cut candle on the table, and brought the candlelight close to the wound. It looked like it had been bitten by an unknown poison, and it was already purple.

"Did you see anything?"

"It's so dark, how can I see it!" Hearing that he was full of energy, it shouldn't be a serious problem.

Just in case, I heated the knife on the fire to sterilize it, cut his wound and bled him, and sprinkled some hemostatic powder on it.Without gauze, I directly tore off a section of his clothes and wrapped it around the wound, which was better than just being exposed to dust and air.

He muttered and complained, but he was submissive, and he didn't struggle much when his flesh was cut open by the knife.

There are no beds in the ruined temple, so I took out the futons left for the believers to kneel and worship, and made a row of them to sleep on.Thinking that he was injured, he told him not to hide tonight, so he took off his coat and lay down on the side.Although I was very sleepy, I never fell asleep. When his breathing became smooth, I quietly packed up and started on the road.

It was just dawn, and there was a long crowing of roosters in the distance. I walked for a long time, and picked up the deserted path. The thin trees on both sides stretched into the distance. I walked through two or three fields, and a lotus pond. , stopped and sat on the side of the road to rest, eat some dry food, and was thinking about where to go next, a limping figure gradually came from the gray-blue path, and it didn't take long to come to me, looked down at me and smiled, "You Run fast."

I took the dry food back into the package, "You are not slow."

The medicine given to him was mixed with calming ingredients, he must have slept for a while, I didn't expect him to wake up so early.The bandage on the wounded calf was black, and when I touched it with my fingers, it was completely soaked. "What's the point of following me like this?"

I deliberately frightened him: "The medicine given to you is poisonous, if you still want this leg, don't follow me."

He snatched the package, dug out all my dry food, broke off a small piece and put it in his mouth, and threw the rest into the soaking pond, chewing slowly in front of me like a camel, and said while chewing , "Keep me alone, I'll find you something to eat."

I have nothing to eat, and the reason is because of him. .

I sighed, "You kept me from sleeping well all night."

"If you don't run, we'll be sound asleep by now."

I leaned against the tree and squinted for a moment. I just wanted to close my eyes and rest my mind, but I fell asleep. When I woke up, I heard a "pop" in my ear, and the wind of the palm hit me on the face.I turned my head and looked, and it was Xiao Wu who was catching mosquitoes for me.I sighed again, "Do you think it's okay if I pick up the dry food?"

He shook his head and looked at me innocently.I'm not soft-hearted, I don't want to keep him, I'm just hungry.How I want him to throw my food, how to get back to eat, I wait here.

He quickly got back a chicken, which is said to have been bought from a certain farmer.We started cooking on the spot and finished the morning meal. I occasionally raised my eyes to look at his face as he ate the roasted chicken. His face was thin and his eyes were thin. In terms of appearance, he was very delicate and smart, but what happened to his behavior? It's not something a smart person should do.

"Is there anyone else in your family?" I asked.

"No, it's just me. Before you came, I was lying at home all day, very boring."

"It's not fun being with me."

He was noncommittal, smacked his lips and said lightly, and asked me to give him some more salt.

"At least let's make an appointment first." I handed the salt, "I can't keep you forever, you have to promise that if I stay in one place in the future, you will leave, no questioning is allowed."

He said yes, who knows how much he listened to.I told him not to hide anymore, but to walk beside me.

In fact, even if he wanted to hide, he couldn't do it. In order to catch up with me, this madman broke his fresh wound out, and I tore a piece of his clothes to bandage him. He was not happy, so there was nothing I could do.I don't want to waste clothes like this for him.

Occasionally he is still useful, for example, when encountering gangsters in the market for extortion, I usually pay the money honestly, because I don’t look rich, and basically I won’t be too difficult.It's really difficult to find, and I hide the main money in a relatively hidden way, so it's hard to find it.With Xiao Wu here, I don't even have to pay this little money, only this matter is not bad.The rest of the time he was only useful for talking and cooking, that is to say, useless at all.

65. Twins 03

Xiao Wu and I made do for a while, and we were still together when the snow fell.

I thought about finding a quiet town to spend the coldest time, and wanted to drive him away, but the conditions were set too loose at the beginning. The agreement was that he would leave when I settled down, and he naturally refused to leave at this time.

The small courtyard I rented has two bungalows with a courtyard, simple but clean, and I readily signed a one-month lease with the owner.Xiao Wu pretends to be my younger brother in front of outsiders on weekdays.

Although the place I chose to settle in was not as cold as the northern wind and snow, it was not warm, and it was also humid, so I often couldn't cover myself with the quilt at night.There were two beds in a room, one for each of us, since we had a place to live, Xiao Wu returned to his previous state, lying on the bed like an old tortoise for a whole day, and he would not move unless he was supported.

In the afternoon when I didn’t go out, I built the stove and heated the room. I urged Xiaowu to buy sweet potatoes early in the morning, picked three to roast on the stove, and read a book by the stove. His head looked strange: "Can you still read?"

"I can still talk." I said, without taking my eyes off the book, "Have you read the book I gave you that year?"

"Well. It's just that I don't have the feeling of watching it when I was a child."

I laughed, "How old are you this year?"

"Is twenty still considered young?" Xiao Wu asked back.

"Who cares about his thirteen or twenty, anyway, you haven't changed much."

"I've changed a lot," he said.

Being sad about this kind of thing is itself a proof of youth. In my opinion, he is still like a chicken that just broke its shell.

I closed the book and asked solemnly, "How did your father die?"

He turned his lips and began to make nonsense: "My father has always been in poor health, and then he had an emergency..."

"You think I can't see that you're lying?"

"Since you have been unwilling to talk to me, why are you asking now?"

"Be honest, or go," I said. "I don't keep my troubles with me."

Xiao Wu peeled an orange and stuffed it into his mouth in one gulp, and threw the orange peel on my knee. I spread my clothes and shook the orange peel off, "You sweep the floor yourself later."

Seeing that I really refused to change the subject, he said that his family was a martial arts practitioner. His father was quite famous in the Jianghu in his prime, and made many enemies at the same time. Later, he got married and had children. An ordinary businessman with rich assets, who would have been found by his enemies.

"So your father didn't die of illness?"

"My mother is." Xiao Wu opened several oranges one after another, and the sour fragrance of the orange peel permeated the cool air, "My father was killed." He drew a stroke on the neck with his finger, "Seal the throat with a sword, It was done very neatly, and I just watched from the sidelines. I was supposed to die too, but unfortunately I didn’t die. Others were not so lucky. The cook, gardener, and housekeeper didn’t work, and my house became a haunted house.”

"Where's your brother?"

"Dead too." Xiao Wu's face wrinkled into a ball: "You want to hear this. I don't want to mention it at all."

I pretended I didn't hear it and asked, "How do you live?"

Xiao Wu stretched his wrist towards me, "Touch."

I raised my eyebrows and tilted my head to look at him.

"Pulse," he said.

I reached over and felt, "You don't have a pulse?"

"It's just weak." Xiao Wu huddled under the quilt and said softly, "The Qi and blood are not smooth, and I always get cold easily, so when I was a child, I was very sad in winter and could hardly go out. Who knew it was because of this. Illness will kill you." He coughed a few times pretending, "Quick, bring me some hot sweet potatoes, I really want to warm my fragile body."

I told him to get out, how could he just