no puppet

Whether to go back or not, Yin Zhu has not thought about it.

Earlier, the quarrel with Cheng Daofeng was too stiff, and a bunch of misunderstandings, large and small, could not be explained clearly.

Cheng Daofeng has his own wishes, and Yin Chun also has his own ideas, it is difficult for the two of them to have a normal conversation calmly, so some things are still vague.In addition, after the damage to the statue, the townspeople at the foot of the mountain had different opinions on him—anyway, from the pawn shop, most of them were not good.

But in the past three days, the conditions of living in Fuze Mountain have been so difficult and difficult. Yin Chun had been ill once, and he was indeed suffering from internal injuries.

During the day, when there was no place to eat, a bunch of people gathered in front of the small pot to fight for each other's food. Some things were borrowed from Zhao Pingshu, and how to use them.

At night, Xie Hengyan and Xie Hengyan squeezed into the same quilt to sleep, Yin Chun had never slept next to anyone before, and among other things, he always had to worry about the puppet kicking the quilt and kicking people around.

In short, after working together for the past few days, Yin Chuan lost his temper a little bit.Right now, she looked sideways at Xie Hengyan who was poking her head around, but Xie Hengyan didn't even eat, put down the bowl and chopsticks, and looked up at him wholeheartedly: "Are you planning to go back?"

Yin Chun didn't say he wanted to go back, nor did he say he couldn't go back: "I still have something to do, I need to explain it clearly to Master."

"...Then what should I do?" Xie Hengyan thought that he was going back to the Biyu Mansion again, and was anxious, and immediately raised his voice, "You have a place to go, but I can't live in the ancestral hall alone!"

Yin Chun didn't say any more, and stretched out his chopsticks to grab some more meat into his bowl: "Eat first, let's talk about other things later."

Xie Hengyan was still slumped, staring down at the bowl of fresh meat and white rice in front of him, obviously unhappy and said: "Last night you said you would buy me candied haws, but when they come and shout today, you are anxious to go home."

"I didn't say I wouldn't buy it." Yin Zhu said calmly, "You eat yours."

At that time, Kang Wen was sitting across from him, and he was amused by Xie Hengyan's actions.

"Hey, you rascal, didn't you hang out with Rong Buzhi some time ago?" Kang asked deliberately teasing, "How do you know that you are clinging to my senior brother now? You know how good he is, so you can't bear it!"

Xie Hengyan stared, and immediately retorted: "You are talking nonsense, since when did I get mixed up with Rong Buzhi?"

Kang Wen raised his eyebrows and said, "You still say no? Last time you two went to the streets on Qixi Festival, we all saw it!"

"Later, Yin Chun and I set up the lantern together." Xie Hengyan blurted out, "He even kissed by the river... eh!"

Before he could finish speaking, a chicken leg was suddenly stuffed into his mouth.When he turned around, Yin Chu was adding more food to his bowl: "Eating is what you eat, don't always talk about what you have and what you don't have."

Kang Wen only listened to Xie Hengyan telling a joke, snorted coldly, and said in a neutral tone: "If you have the ability, it's not impossible to ask my master to let you in..."

"Who wants to enter your house?" Xie Hengyan pulled out the chicken leg angrily, and frowned at the same time and said, "It's not such a good place, is there gold everywhere?"

"There is no gold everywhere, no matter what, it is the original home of the senior brother - when the three-day period is over, the master will definitely go up the mountain to check the god statue. If the senior brother does not return to our house by then, is it possible to wander around the mountain in front of people?"

"..."

What Kang Wen said was correct, even if the elder brother of the Biyu Mansion quarreled with his master, it would be unreasonable for him to live a poor life without rice or salt in the mountains.

A living person, after all, is not as strong and durable as a puppet's body. If he is not careful, he can catch a cold, and his hair will have a high fever and his body will be weak. If this goes on for a long time, he will die of illness sooner or later.

Xie Hengyan was speechless for a while, sat at the table and stood there for a while, but finally did not refute again.

So they had a good lunch that day, and finally broke up unhappy because of Kang Wencheng's sudden appearance - but they said they were unhappy, but in the final analysis, Xie Hengyan was the only one who was unhappy.

The three of his senior brothers and sisters hadn't seen each other for many days, they got together and chatted, it was really a joy.After the meal, they all said their goodbyes, and made an appointment to meet in the ancestral hall tomorrow, Xie Hengyan and Yin Chun stayed behind after a while, packing their things and preparing to go back to the mountain again.

"Brother Liu, the statue should be finished." Yin Chun looked up at the sky, and saw that the other side of the mountain was almost sunny, "I will go home tomorrow, and I will pay the wages of the stonemasons. The rest Silver taels, you keep it for yourself to buy food."

Xie Hengyan held a paper umbrella in his hand, and remained silent for a long time.

What should he say?Compared with humans, a puppet is just a toy that can be thrown away.It's just that he is sensitive and afraid of loneliness, so he keeps trying to get closer to places with living people, so as to obtain the warmth that should not belong to him.

"what about me?"

Xie Hengyan didn't know where the courage came from, raised her eyes again, stared straight at Yin Chun and said, "I regard you as a friend, how do you see me?"

Yin Chun never thought that he would ask such a question, and the puppet was stunned by the question, and turned his head to meet his gaze in a daze.

How did he think of Xie Hengyan?

As far as friends are concerned, in his own heart, he has not reached that level at all. At best, he can only be regarded as a passive relationship of giving and being given, a mutual dependence in difficult times.

There is a mountain and a sea between this person and a puppet, and what is surging in between is not the uncontrollable monstrous waves, but the treacherous and unpredictable little human heart behind it.

Before Yin Chun could speak, Xie Hengyan naturally understood.He didn't get the answer he wanted, so he just held up the paper umbrella and covered the two people's heads with great effort.

Afterwards, they remained silent and walked side by side along the mountain road towards the ancestral hall. When they approached the stone steps in front of the door, Xie Hengyan finally said, "Don't keep talking about money."

Yin Chun looked sideways: "What?"

Xie Hengyan said helplessly: "The teeth have already been sold, you told me to use the money to buy food... Isn't this just slapping me in the face?"

Yin Chun stopped and asked him, "Then what do you want?"

Xie Hengyan said, "I want to ask you, what do you want?"

Yin Chun: "What's wrong with me?"

"Before, Cheng Daofeng slapped you in front of so many people and forced you to confess." Xie Hengyan said, "Now that the statue is repaired, can you pretend nothing happened and continue to be his apprentice?"

Yin Chun asked, "Then what do you think I should do?"

"I do not know."

"..."

"Yin Zhu, have you thought about a question?"

Xie Hengyan turned her head suddenly, but what she was looking at was not Yin Chun's eyes, but the potholes on the ground, with countless muddy water stains in succession.

"If one day, you and Cheng Daofeng contradict each other, and you have reached a dangerous situation. Will you still stay honestly under his sect and be a good apprentice who works hard without complaint?"

Yin Chun's expression remained unchanged, except for a wave of unprovoked waves under those bottomless black pupils.

"If you put it this way, maybe you don't understand it... Then I'll put it another way." Xie Hengyan said, "If Cheng Daofeng finds out that I am a puppet, he will draw his sword and chop me... Do you want to stop me or not?"

Yin Chun looked away, and then stared at Xie Hengyan's childish yet serious face under the paper umbrella.

After a while, he stretched out his big hand, stepped forward, and rubbed the puppet's furry hair vigorously.

Yin Chun didn't speak, just smiled lightly, and it wasn't a sincere smile from the heart.

Xie Hengyan still didn't get the answer he wanted.He stood there, waiting for a long time, so long that he felt a little disappointed.

At this time, it was inside the ancestral hall that broke the deadlock. Brother Liu suddenly shouted: "Mr. Xie, are you back?"

"Ah... oh, here we come!"

Xie Hengyan was taken aback for a moment, then came back to his senses, hurriedly ran towards the ancestral hall.

At this moment, the seven stonemasons who repaired the statue had already packed and cleaned up all the tools in their hands. Several people were bustling together in a group, and they seemed to be preparing to go straight down the mountain.

And in the center of the ancestral hall, the stone statue of the god is placed upright. Today, the worn places everywhere have been carefully carved to varying degrees.As for the frightening and dazzling karma seal on the top of the statue, it has been filled with a dense layer of stone slurry, and it will be difficult to see any redundant traces after the carvings are completely dried.

Xie Hengyan and Yin Chun took a special look at the circles of complicated stone patterns that they painted upwards again.After all, it is a fine workmanship carved by craftsmen. As long as you compare it with the drawings, you can easily draw a beautiful and unique skill. Anyway, 50 taels of silver is spent, at least it is not a waste of time.At most, there were too many apprentices who came to fish in troubled waters, and secretly received a lot of money subsidies behind them. Although Xie Hengyan knew this well, she turned a blind eye to it in the end and didn't really talk to them. Overthinking.

Yin Chun originally thought that this matter would not be easy to handle, and would have to be delayed for a while, but he did not expect Brother Liu and the others to work quickly, and they would never procrastinate if they said nothing, and did not miss anything that should be done.

After paying their wages that afternoon, a group of people waited to carry big bags and small bags, and rushed down the mountain in the same hurry as when they came.

Xie Hengyan also wanted to say that it would be good to entertain with a table of rich food and drink, but Brother Liu waved him to tell him not to be too busy.The two chatted a few more words, talking about whether they want to come to him as an apprentice, and what delicious and interesting things are there in the big cities and small villages outside the town, the sand outside the Great Wall and the snow cloud in the northern region, Xie Hengyan said I am very yearning, but I am really thinking about going out for a long journey.

At that time, his fellow villager Lao Bao was also listening, and a group of people were talking and laughing, walking straight towards the mountain road with their shoulders crossed and their backs crossed.Speaking later, seeing Yin Chun wandering around not far from them, maybe he wanted to come to Xie Hengyan to say something.

Brother Liu noticed this with his sharp eyes, and hooked his finger at Xie Hengyan with his backhand, as if deliberately but unintentionally said: "Mr. Xie, take a step to speak."

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The love is separated by mountains and seas, and both mountains and seas can be flat.

Distance is not a problem, it just depends on whether you have the heart of Ping Shanhai.

Yin Chun replied: "Not yet."

Xie Hengyan: Let me tell you if you want to chase after your husband's crematorium.