no puppet

He called him brother.

It seemed that Yin Chun hadn't been called that for a long time.When was the last time?Maybe it was in Laifeng Town, Fuze Mountain, but I can't remember clearly...

Only at this moment, Xie Hengyan's nearly burnt wooden head was pressed tightly against his chest, and the two embraced each other, suddenly there was a certain bitterness and sourness after reunion after a long absence.

Yin Chun was speechless.It was clear that he still had many things on his mind, and he couldn't blurt them out, but at this moment, he held Xie Hengyan, who was hot in his arms, and couldn't say anything, and his throat became more and more congested.

"Yin, Yinchun." Xie Hengyan was in a daze, like a dog, and gently rubbed his cheek against him, "...don't cry."

Yin Zhu said sadly, "I didn't cry."

However, Xie Hengyan curled the corners of her lips, smiled serenely, and said to him slowly: "I...I'll go buy candied haws for you."

Yin Chun was stunned for a while, then said in a low voice, "You're burnt out."

"It's... confused." Xie Hengyan squinted her eyes and said sullenly in his arms, "I bought it and then realized...you don't have teeth, so you can't eat candied haws."

"What are you talking about?" Yin Zhu asked in a daze.

"So, let me eat it all, you can only drool while watching..."

"Hey you……"

Yin Chun was about to ask something, but Xie Hengyan slumped down, buried her head in Yin Chun's arms, and seemed to be falling asleep in a daze again.

"Xie Hengyan!!" Yin Chun panicked immediately, his face was livid with horror, he kept pushing and pulling him, "Don't sleep, don't sleep! Wake me up, get up!"

Don't be a flashback or something, will he die?Is he really going to die... Will the puppet die too?

"Ugh..."

Xie Hengyan just opened her eyes, raised her hand, and gently covered her jet-black hair.Then, moving his lips, he murmured again: "Good boy."

Yin Chun: "Thank you..."

"First, sleep first." Xie Hengyan's consciousness remained, and she woke up from time to time, and her speech was unclear.After a while, Fang stretched out his hands to pinch Yin Chu's clothes, and said, "My head hurts so much, sleep a little... sleep a little longer."

Yin Chun frowned, held back for a long time, and finally said hello.

Xie Hengyan continued to rub his face against him: "Hold me."

Yin Chun fell silent, pulled the quilt silently, folded his clothes and lay down beside him.

Xie Hengyan still slept soundly this time.Yin Chun, holding a hot potato in his arms, remained motionless, spending a night full of worries alone.

I thought it would be another long and torturous wait—but unexpectedly, when the next morning, Xie Hengyan woke up earlier than Yin Chun.

This time he really woke up.

Xie Hengyan's high fever has not subsided, her head is heavy, as if it is as heavy as a thousand weights.But when he opened his eyes, his vision gradually became brighter and clearer, and then he caught a glimpse of Yin Chu, who was sleeping soundly beside him, his face was full of exhaustion, exhausted... There was still a deep lock between his brows, as if there were countless knots in his heart. could not be relieved.

Xie Hengyan's eyes were gentle, and she poked her head out, as if she really wanted to kiss him on the forehead.Not wanting Yin Zhen to sleep very lightly, Xie Hengyan woke up just as soon as Xie Hengyan made a little movement, and immediately raised his eyes to look at him.

Yin Chu: "..."

Xie Hengyan: "..."

After a moment of awkward staring at each other, Xie Hengyan shrank her head, and buried her face in the quilt cowardly.

"Are you awake?" Yin Zhu asked hoarsely.

Xie Hengyan didn't dare to say anything, and didn't give a reply for a long time.So Yin Chun stretched out his hand and tried to fish him out, but Xie Hengyan curled up into a shrimp and hid herself deeper in the bedding.

Yin Chu couldn't touch him, so he asked, "What are you hiding?"

Xie Hengyan still didn't speak, just lay down and pretended to be dead.

Yin Chun continued to call: "Yan Yan."

Seeing that there was still no response from the person, he simply bent over, washed a clean veil, and stuck it on the top of the puppet's half exposed head: "...you had a fever last night and talked a lot of nonsense. You shouldn't even tell you, now Woke up, still refused to talk to me."

With a semi-dry cold handkerchief between each other, Xie Hengyan's hot head was pressed against Yin Zhu's broad and strong palm, it looked as if Yin Zhu was caressing him tenderly.

"...You don't want me anymore?" Yin Chun choked up and asked.

Hearing this almost hoarse questioning, mixed with countless bitter tears, it was like a lonely dog ​​waiting to be abandoned.Xie Hengyan couldn't hold back for a moment, suddenly lifted the quilt, half-bent from the bed, and then felt Yin Chun bent over and approached, the two hugged back together, Xie Hengyan held his waist with both hands, tears welled up all at once , bit by bit, soak the printed snow-white skirt until it is soaked.

"No... I don't want you." Xie Hengyan said sobbingly, "I... did something wrong. I'm too bad, I'm a villain... It should be you... You don't want me anymore."

Yin Chun clamped him in the middle of the bend of his arm, the strength was surprisingly strong, but he was not willing to let go for a long time.Even several times in the middle of the journey, he couldn't hold back his tears, and his dark blue eye circles were flushed, but he just hugged the puppet, buried his head on the side of his neck where the woody fragrance was still there, trembling with pain and sorrow.

"I, I..." Xie Hengyan cried until his voice changed, "...I'm sorry." He stretched out his hands to hold Yinzhu's face, his shoulders and arms were still slightly twitching, "I'm sorry, Yinzhu."

It seemed that he had become that dumb, unable to say anything except for apologizing one after another.

But precisely because of this, Yin Zhu's heart was about to break: "Stop it, stop it."

Xie Hengyan: "I'm a big liar, I..."

"You didn't feel sorry for me in any way." Yin Chun tremblingly said, "I'm so sorry for you...don't apologize, it's me who should apologize."

Xie Hengyan's almond-shaped eyes turned into walnuts: "I... I failed you, I am a selfish and bad person, you must hate me to death..."

"What do you hate? It's too late for love. You're still here, and you haven't let me down... Don't talk nonsense, don't talk nonsense."

He was not only comforting himself, but also comforting Xie Hengyan who was on the verge of collapse in front of him.The puppet's physical condition is well known to each other, and if they talk more and ask more questions, it will only add a scar that overwhelms everything on the basis of the broken relationship between the two of them.

Now he just wants to make Xie Hengyan's life better, even better... Even if these are not enough to make up for the harm he has suffered.At least in front of Yin Chun, he can always smile, and he doesn't have to conceal or hide anything forcibly, let alone face the fear and haste entangled in the nightmares of the past.

——The two of them stuck together like this, very close, as if a very long time had passed.During this period, no one spoke, Xie Hengyan kept crying softly in his arms, and when she was too tired to move, her stomach growled naturally, so Yin Chun let her go, and wiped the puppet's face with her hands With hot tears on his face, he smiled as if nothing happened, and tried his best to say softly, "Okay... good boy, get up and go eat. You haven't eaten normally for a few days."

Xie Hengyan twitched and nodded, "I, I want to eat big elbows."

Yin Chun turned his head and poked his burnt forehead: "Don't think about it, this won't work."

Xie Hengyan: "Pickled Pepper Chicken Feet!"

"Fish porridge, vegetable soup, boiled eggs, steamed winter melon...you choose."

Yin Chun said softly, and took a step forward, intending to take advantage of the situation and lift him up.However, when he stretched out his hand, supported Xie Hengyan's shoulder, and tried to help him several times...but he found that the puppet was indifferent, sitting awkwardly on the edge of the bed all the time, with a pale complexion and a hint of helpless timidity in his eyes.

"That, I..."

"Is it...can't move your legs?" Yin Zhu tried to suppress his voice to make his emotions more normal, "I see that the joints on your ankles are broken a lot...does it hurt?"

Xie Hengyan tried to move his feet, but immediately staggered and fell back: "Hiss..."

Yin Zhen hurriedly supported the puppet and said, "If it hurts, don't move. I'll bring the food."

Xie Hengyan looked up at him in a daze, for a moment, as if he was looking at a stranger he had never met.But at this moment, the person who was in front of him, hurriedly carrying food, porridge and soup, was indeed the stinky stone-tempered person from earlier, with a black face at every turn, and always proud and conceited.

Yin Chuan handed him food and bowls and chopsticks. The porridge in the pot and the smashed fish fillets were all cooked by himself, and some unknown vegetable dishes in clear soup were added. Some burnt black stains are obviously also from Yin Zhu's hand.

"The fish fillets don't have any bones, I've picked them out." Yin Chun said, "Don't eat the fried vegetables, just throw them aside."

Xie Hengyan stared blankly, picked up the chopsticks and poked into the dish, couldn't help but said, "You know how to cook?"

Yin Chun said, "Just for you."

After finishing speaking, he took away the winter melon and egg whites for Xie Hengyan, in order to let him eat more.And Xie Hengyan is stupid, he obediently grabs whatever Yin Chun asks him to eat, those dishes are very light to chew, with less oil and salt, and there is always a familiar smell of paste in his mouth when he eats them, very similar to Yin Chun. Zhu made the rice balls before, but he got used to eating them slowly, thinking that this is Yin Zhu cooking for him himself, and he felt a very subtle sense of happiness in his heart.

Xie Hengyan didn't know how to comment, so he could only say: "It tastes like a mother's mother." Although, he didn't have any mother's taste.

Yin Chun corrected, "It's my husband's taste."

Xie Hengyan stared wide-eyed, and when he was about to refute something, Yin Chun stuffed his mouth with wax gourd again.

Anyway, from the beginning to the end, they didn't mention the puppet's foot injury.Xie Hengyan has always been on tenterhooks, afraid that Yin Zhu will be impatient and frantically questioning his physical condition, and even more afraid that after learning more about the truth, Yin Chun will not be able to accept it, and then push the relationship between the two of them into another irreversible abyss.

But Yin Chun seemed to know his thoughts well, and in a certain aspect, they were in the same mind.Xie Hengyan didn't mention it, and Yin Chun didn't ask too much. When facing Xie Hengyan alone, he would try his best to be patient and let himself become more natural, calmer, and even gentler.

... At least this way of getting along is good for both of them.

After eating and clearing away the bowls and chopsticks, Yin Chuan went back to the bed, ready to wipe the puppet's body.Xie Hengyan was suffering from a high fever, Yin Chun didn't dare to take him to soak in the cold pool, so he could only prepare a basin and cloth towels in the wooden house, and reluctantly helped him wipe his hands and feet, and then wrapped him in the bedding, trying not to touch the inside room cold air.

And taking this opportunity, he happened to be able to observe the severely injured hands and feet of the puppet——Yin Zhu probably knew why he couldn't move.

It is not only the operation of the Yesheng seal that supports the puppet to jump and walk on weekdays, but also many important wooden joints such as knees and ankles, but now they are all broken to pieces, and some accessories are even torn apart. .

In addition, Yin Chun was more worried about whether his other internal parts, such as the internal organs, had suffered more serious damage.

But if he asked rashly, he was afraid that Xie Hengyan would think too much, so he could only insinuate and ask: "Do you have any other discomfort?"

"No... just the leg, it hurts so much." Xie Hengyan's eyes were soft, and he knelt down on the bedside honestly, and answered him like a little wife, "The same is true for the head, the back of the head is a little swollen, and it's still hot."

Yin Chun said: "You have a fever, of course you will be hot."

"Hmm... it shouldn't be because of the wind and cold." Xie Hengyan said, subconsciously raised her hand and pressed her heart, "I, that..."

"Will Ye Shengyin hurt?" Yin Chun asked cautiously.

Xie Hengyan was silent for a while, then stared deeply into his eyes, and answered frankly: "...Yes."

"Why didn't you say it before?" Yin Zhu looked at him, there was no questioning in his eyes, just indescribable pain, "You are not feeling well, a large part of the responsibility lies with me."

Xie Hengyan said: "Just because you think so, I...I don't want to make you worry or feel guilty. Yinzhu, I..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was pushed into his arms by Yin Chuan again.

"Well, what do you keep hugging me for?" Xie Hengyan softened all of a sudden, "When did you become so clingy?"

"I was wrong." Yin Chun was like a big docile dog, clinging to his shoulder, frantically begging for mercy, "Daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law...forgive me."

Xie Hengyan blushed and said, "You...don't shout. It's not your fault, it's obviously me..."

Yin Chun asked back, "You refuse to recognize me?"

"I do. I do. But I... am a log." Xie Hengyan said hoarsely, "Maybe it won't be long before I'm really a log."

Yin Chun only said: "At that time, let's turn into wood together."

"Don't talk nonsense!" Xie Hengyan said angrily, "I can be a log, but you can't be!!"

Yin Chun's eyes were gloomy, and he had no intention of joking with him: "I caused you to fall from the roof. If you are injured and die because of this, I will give my life to you, and we will go on the road together."

"I've said it all, this is my own problem, and it has nothing to do with you. You want to piss me off... No, wait!" Xie Hengyan said in astonishment, "Who told you that I fell off the roof? of?"

"..." Yin Chun was also stunned, and at the same time reached out to touch his forehead, "The fever has not subsided, you are confused again."

"No, no, you... say it again, I fell from the roof?" Xie Hengyan's eyes became very strange, "Who said that?"

Yin Chun had a ghostly expression on his face: "Who else could say that? The people in the village can see it clearly. Everyone knows that you climbed onto the roof to dry fish and meat, that's why you slipped accidentally..."

"Stop, stop!" Xie Hengyan said in horror, "What nonsense are you talking about? I never got on the roof that day, so how can I say that I stumbled and fell?"

"???"

Yin Chunteng stood up suddenly, his eyes were full of disbelief: "Yanyan, are you kidding me?"

Xie Hengyan said: "What's the joke? Am I still sick?"

Yin Chun said: "Did you break your brain, resulting in loss of memory?"

——After what he said, Xie Hengyan was stunned, and began to doubt himself for no reason.

Yin Chun said again: "If you haven't been on the roof, how did you get these injuries on your hands, feet, back of your head... You couldn't have hit it yourself, could you?"

"No... I really don't have the impression, I was going to dry those fish meat, but..." Suddenly thinking of this, Xie Hengyan suddenly felt a little unsure, "But I don't seem to be going up... Wait, it's not like, it's for sure I had a baby behind me at the time, so it was impossible to climb to a high and dangerous place!" After that, he raised his eyes and asked Xiang Yinzhu, "Where is the baby? Is she okay?"

As soon as Yin Chun mentioned the child, he became angry, and his face turned dark when he heard the words, and he said in a bad tone: "You still talk about her! At that time, you were the only one who was injured all over, and the child was not hurt, and slept peacefully alone. .”

"That's why it's impossible! Yinzhu, you believe me, I've never been on the roof... such a high place, the child would definitely not want to go up, and at that time there was no one to help, I..."

Xie Hengyan paused, and suddenly shouted: "By the way, Chen Lang!!!"

Yin Chu was startled: "What?"

"Where is Chen Lang?!" Xie Hengyan asked, "Where is Chen Lang!"

Yin Chun: "What are you looking for with Chen Lang?"

Xie Hengyan struggled to get up, but because of the pain in her ankle, she fell back abruptly: "I was talking to him at that time, and I was standing in front of the wooden house... not the roof. Later, for some reason, I suddenly felt uncomfortable, but still Before you have time to speak, you lose consciousness completely—when you wake up and open your eyes, you will be seen."

"...?"

Yin Chun frowned slightly, this time he was really dumbfounded, he once suspected that Xie Hengyan was insane and was talking nonsense.

"I... I always thought that there was a problem with the karma printing, which caused the joints of the hands and feet to break and fail. Originally, these were common problems for the wooden puppet body."

Xie Hengyan's almond eyes widened, and her eyes were filled with deep fear and panic: "But you just told me that I fell from the roof to become what I am now. This is impossible. Before the karma seal is completely destroyed, My memory will not be damaged - if you insist on saying this, are you sure that someone is not trying to harm me on this island?"

——As soon as these words came out, Yin Chun's haggard face was instantly covered with a layer of lingering blackness.

It took him a long, long time to barely digest the meaning of some unknown meaning in this sentence.

Then, subconsciously, she turned her head and looked at Xie Hengyan who was also staring at the side.

Xie Hengyan's complexion was very ugly - naturally, Yin Zhen's expression was not much better.

Until a moment of silence passed.Xie Hengyan took a deep breath, and when he recovered, he asked in a stiff voice, "Now... what time is it?"

"Noon." Yin Chun said, "What?"

"Wait later. When it's later, take me to see Chen Lang." Xie Hengyan said with deep eyes, "Just the two of us, don't let others find out... Brother Wu can't do it either."

One more day, the sunset is about to end, and the night breeze is coming.

This was the second time they visited the house of the fool Chen Lang. Along the way, it was pitch black, the muddy ground was uneven, and they staggered all the way to the end without even a half-lighted lantern.

With Xie Hengyan on his back, Yin Chun stepped deep in the mud with one foot deep and the other shallow, and kicked a half-sized stone from time to time, which made the two of them sway from side to side in shock.Xie Hengyan was still suffering from a high fever, her back lay motionless, only the heat came from her body continuously, as if her whole back was burning together.

Chen Lang's house is located in a relatively remote place behind Ring Village. It is rarely visited by people on weekdays, and villagers rarely come to visit.Only Wuna had a good relationship with the old shipbuilder Chen before. After the Chen family members died of illness one after another, Rong Shilian was entrusted by Wuna to often pack meals and go to visit.

——However, all good intentions only stop here.They rarely thought of asking Chen Lang to be a guest at home, and Chen Lang seemed unwilling to show his face in crowded places.

Yin Chun stretched out his arms, pushed aside the dense grass in front of him that was nearly half the height of a person, then turned around and called Xie Hengyan, "Here we are."

Xie Hengyan was startled and woke up from her sleep, her expression was still vague, as if she had no strength at all.

"Are you okay?" Yin Chu touched his forehead, "It's so hot, or go back and lie down."

"It's... all here, how do you go back?" Xie Hengyan narrowed his eyes weakly, "Go and knock on the door, knock lightly...is there no one living next door?"

Yin Chun glanced around and said, "No."

Ever since, Xie Hengyan took the lead in poking out her claws, and tapped at the door of the broken tent where Chen Lang lived: "Chen Lang!"

After a while, there was no reply.

"Chen Lang." Yin Chun could bear his temper and shouted together, "Is Chen Lang here?"

——still no response.

Xie Hengyan: "Chen Lang, Chen Lang, Chen Lang, Chen Lang!"

"Maybe he's not here?" Yin Zhu pondered, "He usually likes to wander around."

"No!" Xie Hengyan stepped forward and grabbed Yin Chun's shoulder, "It's possible that he is at home and refuses to answer, you...you need to push harder, kick him out!"

Yin Chu: "..."

Although this is not a polite behavior, but in order not to let Xie Hengyan stay outside for a long time, he made a decisive decision, just raised his foot, and kicked towards the door gently!

——With a muffled "bang", no one came out of the tent.

"Kick, kick again... No, wait." Xie Hengyan said, "Stop kicking, you can perform a spell, like teleportation or something... transform us both into it, and catch him off guard!"

"..." Yin Chun said helplessly, "I'm not a god, how can I know this kind of magic?"

Just as Xie Hengyan was about to say something, footsteps were heard behind him, followed by a dazzling white light.

The two turned their heads at the same time, and saw that Chen Lang was standing not far behind him, dressed in white, holding a lantern in one hand, his cold face was expressionless, buried in the dark shadow of the backlight, full of Indescribably depressed.

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Xie Hengyan: Zhenzhen, you have changed, you haven’t provoked me recently

Yin Chun: Yin Chun, who just entered the island, is dead. Yan Yan, you forgot, you killed him with your own hands, and the concubine is now... Niu Hulu·Chun Huan.

Xie Hengyan: What?What's the difference?

Yin Chun: The concubine has a knack for sleeping, Yan Yan, do you want to try it?

half an hour later

The protagonist died due to excessive sexual intercourse and persistent high fever.

The story is over, Sahua

...that's weird