sun and moon return

"Ah Li." Xi'er called from outside.

Zheli stood up and sighed.A few days ago, I went to the countryside with Xi'er to pick up vegetables, and the girl from that family seemed to have a good impression of me, and they were chattering around the package, making a lot of noise.

Xi'er's mentality at that time was wrong, so she changed her words immediately, and "A Li" became her special name for him.

"It's getting late, follow me to dinner." She stood at the door and knocked on the door, her tone was unceremoniously urging, and she still had the dignity of a month ago.

The lazy boy pushed open the door, and was dragged out by the girl.

Today is the day when Xing'er got engaged. Both families came from poor backgrounds, and they didn't pay much attention. After greeting each other, they decided to sit down happily for a reunion dinner.

Xiao's father and Xiao's mother had already had tea at his in-laws' house, seeing that it was getting late and it was time for the banquet, Xi'er came back to delay the ceremony.

They seem to have regarded Zheli as their family.

The open space outside the hut was very lively, there seemed to be quite a few relatives, friends and neighbors of the two families, Zhe Li dragged Xi'er, and walked in from the side in a low-key manner.

Zhe Lisheng's uprightness, even wearing the rough linen clothes made by Xiao's mother, could hardly conceal his outstanding aura, and soon many aunts who were eating melon seeds surrounded him and tortured him.

"How old is this year?"

"Where are you from?"

"How many people are in the family?"

"Are you married yet?"

"Without marriage, is there any girl you like?"

"Oh, it's time to start a family when you're not too young."

How could Zheli deal with these, so he could only answer them one by one obediently.

"Oh, sister Xiao, I think the second girl of your family is pretty good. She is a good match for this young man. This is not a match, double happiness."

"Young man, the girl in my family is as old as you. Auntie will introduce you some other day."

The atmosphere in the room became active, and Zheli was dazzled by what he heard, but seeing Xi'er next to Xiao's mother blushed, she was a little embarrassed by the hem of her clothes.

"Aunts," Zheli stood up, "I don't have any plans to start a family yet, and I'm not a native here, so I'm afraid I'll disappoint everyone."

"Xi'er, go and see what your sister is doing. I just asked her to bring me more melon seeds and peanuts. Did she forget?" Xiao's mother patted Xi'er, motioning her to take Zheli out.

"Then I'll go and have a look with Mr. Su." Xi'er greeted Zheli, and the two ran away in a hurry, but they finally found a half-clean.

He didn't eat much for dinner, and Zheli was not good at drinking, so he found an excuse to leave the table after eating.

The women gathered together at the table, and the old ladies said that the matchmaking was not worth it, and they discussed their grandchildren with each other.Young mothers struggled to hold their babies and eat a complete meal.

The men at the table were drinking hotly.

Seeing that Zheli had slipped away, Xier used the excuse of going home to feed the pigs and left in a hurry.

She caught up with Zheli, and the two were walking on the dark road, Xi'er apologized to Zheli: "Don't take those words to heart."

"What?" Zheli asked.

"It seems that you didn't take it to heart, so that's good." Xi'er said to herself, and after a while, the crisp voice sounded again, "Ah Li, will you marry a wife and have children in the future?"

Zhe Li was stunned for a moment, this is a good question, fortunately he didn't know either.

He scratched his head: "Then there must be someone you like first."

"Oh," Xi'er blinked and stared at him, "Then do you have someone you like?"

Zheli looked up at the night sky in confusion, a few stars shone sparsely in the dark night, and Jianyun's smile appeared in front of his eyes.

Xi'er could vaguely see the slight smile on Zheli's face, but after seeing it for a moment, it disappeared again and was replaced by blankness.

"What is a favorite?" Zheli sighed, and turned to Xi'er, "I can't tell, so they told me to come out more and have a look."

There was a trace of loneliness on Xi'er's face, taking advantage of the darkness of night, she pretended nothing happened, and replied: "Maybe, it's possession."

The boy stopped where he was, and the girl walked slowly along the path.

"Possession?"

The girl nodded, raised her head with her hands behind her back, and softly replied: "I hope that I am his only one, and he is also my only one. I don't want to share it with others, I don't want others to worry about it, and I don't want him to be nice to others. I just hope that he can treat me well." Laugh, be kind to yourself."

Possession

"Did you see her playing with other people?" The girl turned around and asked innocently.

Zheli nodded.

"Will you be unhappy?"

Looking back, Zheli didn't seem to have.

The boy didn't answer, and the girl didn't care about his answer, she turned around again: "When you like someone, you must hope that he belongs to you only."

The two of them had their own concerns, walked up the avenue, and could see the lights of the town in the distance, Xi'er stopped at the junction of light and darkness: "Ah Li, when you leave here, will you still remember me?"

"Of course." Zheli replied without hesitation, "I will remember all of you, and I will come back when I have the chance."

"When you come back, will I be married like my sister?" Xi'er sighed.

She suddenly turned around again and looked at Zheli: "No, I don't want to marry, I want to stay with my parents and guard the inn. I want to be the owner of the best inn in Xiaojiawan! I don't want to be like them I want to be like you, free to choose my own life."

After she finished speaking, she turned around and walked away without looking back, chattering like a heroine, the heat in her eyes was real, reflecting the faint light, they were extraordinarily bright.

Back at the inn, Xi'er was in a good mood, cooked some food, and Zheli accompanied him to the ruined temple.

The temple was dark and empty.

"It's weird," Xi'er stood blankly at the entrance of the temple, "Blind Uncle usually doesn't go out at this time."

"Rhubarb, Rhubarb." Even though she called loudly, the surroundings were quiet, but there was still no response.

"Uncle Blind and Da Huang are not here, they may have gone out." Zheli comforted, "We will come back tomorrow."

He put away his food carefully, Xi'er had no choice but to go back to the inn first.

It rained heavily for several days in a row, and the trees outside became even more bald.Three days had passed, and Xi'er was standing outside the ruined temple, holding an umbrella.

The food in the temple is still the same as before, intact.Uncle Blind was nowhere to be found, and Rhubarb was nowhere to be found, as if he had disappeared.

On the way back from the ruined temple, Xi'er was full of worries.

Thunder was rolling outside, and at noon, Father Xiao, who had gone out to inquire, came back from the outside and found nothing. He hung the coir raincoat under the wall, and the rainwater on the coir raincoat quickly pooled together and dripped all over the ground.

However, after inquiring, I realized that many children who had been wandering around recently disappeared.How could such a happy person disappear?

After the weather cleared, there were more traveling merchants between the two factions.

When a guest checked in, he mentioned that when he entered the town, he heard vicious dogs barking at the intersection and was still pawing at the walls of other people's courtyards. He was so scared that he almost changed his way.

The merchants who were eating also said that when they encountered the yellow dog, they thought it was crazy, but luckily they didn't charge up to attack them.

Xi'er's heart skipped a beat, and she asked about the merchant dog's appearance.

"It's a big yellow dog, as high as my calf," the merchant recalled. "It's very thin, with a patch of white hair on its forehead. It's just down the hillside from the entrance of the town, barking at a family. .”

Xi'er put down the account book, told Xinger about the matter, and rushed out.Zheli thought about it for a while, the high walled and deep courtyard at the entrance of the village was the place where Luo Zan's disciples were stationed, he was not at ease, so he followed.

At the foot of the hillside, Zheli looked at him from a distance, there was someone guarding the door, but fortunately Zheli was dressed plainly, it might be difficult for ordinary people to connect him with Qingwu.

He walked towards Xi'er who was squatting beside the grass, Xi'er was looking at the blood-stained body in the grass, crying uncontrollably.

"Is this dog yours?" The guard disciple came over and said fiercely, "Is such a crazy dog ​​not tied up? Can you afford to pay for hurting someone?!"

"I'm sorry for the elder fairy," Zheli said, "We've been looking for it for a few days. It may have come out with the old man at home. I don't know if the elder fairy has seen the old man?"

The man's eyes rolled down to the right, and he became aware of the ferocity, and then changed to another kind of ferocity: "I don't know, find someone else to look for it, don't get in the way here, clean it up quickly!"

Under the urging of disciple Luo Zan, Xi'er had no choice but to leave with Rhubarb in her arms.

The two walked far away, but Zheli could still feel the gaze behind him.

Back at the ruined temple, Xi'er buried the rhubarb in the wasteland beside the temple.

"A Li, do you think Uncle Blind will be in trouble?" She asked, wiping her tears.

Rhubarb protects the Lord like this, it will go crazy there, and be beaten to death by Luo Zan's disciples, it is hard not to speculate that Uncle Blind is inside that wall, or has already suffered a disaster.

Zhe Li showed a thoughtful look, and comforted Xi'er: "Don't worry, I'll go and have a look tonight."

Night fell quickly, and Zheli judged that among the disciples stationed here, there would probably not be ones who were too high-level, and most of them should be below him.

Xi'er was reconciling the accounts downstairs, when she saw Zheli coming down, she hurriedly chased after him, grabbed him and whispered, "Zheli, forget it, don't go, it's too dangerous."

There was no one around, and Zheli shook his head gently: "Don't worry, I'll be fine. If I don't come back tonight, don't make a fuss about it, just treat it as if I'm home. Don't even go to inquire, you know?"

Xi'er became anxious immediately: "If something really happened to you, how can I not be in a hurry?"

"No, if something really happens to me, you will have to disown me." Zheli interrupted her.

"no……"

"I didn't just inquire about the blind uncle, I can't tell you about other things for the time being." Zheli said, "In case something happens to me, remember that everything you say and do is related to your parents." , sister, brother-in-law and the lives of their family.”

Xi'er was even more terrified, and she was so panicked that she didn't know what to do.

Zheli smiled lightly: "Don't worry, if I don't know what to do, I won't go hastily. I will come back and drink Xing'er's wedding wine."

After saying that, Zhe Li broke away from Xi'er's hand, made a gesture of silencing her, and quietly disappeared into the night.

Xi'er chased after the door, and Xiao's mother, who had fed the livestock, came out of the alley: "Xi'er, what are you doing in such a hurry?" She looked suspiciously in Zheli's direction, "Who is that, it's so late .”

When Xiao's mother walked to the door, Xi'er threw herself into her mother's arms with a crying voice. It seemed that only her mother could resolve some of her fears and worries.Xiao's mother asked a few words, seeing that she refused to speak, she let it go, and reached out to pat her on the back comfortingly.