[hp] warm as jade

a rainstorm.

The air after the rain is very beautiful, the slight humidity is mixed with the fragrance of soil and grass roots, and the fragrance of lotus from Qingyuan is also mixed in it.The leaves on the winding vines on the fence are still covered with bright crystal-like drops of water, slowly sliding down and down along the veins, and the leaves are also unbearably drooping, drooping, until a certain point At an angle, the drop of water suddenly broke away from the track of the leaf veins, and hit the soil with a low, dull sound; beside the leaf, there was a morning glory in full bloom, which became shallower from the edge of the petal until it was pure in the center. Pure white, filled with shallow water, I don't know how peaceful and beautiful the world in the flowers is.

Surrounded by a fence is a small courtyard with blue tiles and white walls, but it looks a bit dilapidated, as if no one has visited for a while.

But at this time, a woman in red was leaning against the gate of the small courtyard. It was already summer, and she was still wearing a red floral padded jacket, with bare feet and long hair hanging down to her ankles, because her head was leaning against the wall. Her hair fell down, covering her facial features, and only a pair of clear eyes, which seemed to have been washed in the rain just now, could be vaguely seen. I don't know what to see.

This is about the only visitor since this time, right?But still can't break the silence here.

So, what about two?

Light footsteps came from a distance, and the woman in red finally turned her eyes slightly. The first thing she saw was a pair of white sandals, then her slender legs, and a knee-length white cotton sleeveless dress, which was loosely tied around her waist. Wearing a bow, even so, you can see the thinness of the wearer.The black hair is like the ink pouring down from the white hair, it is obviously a dull color, but unexpectedly it is called a touch of bright color.

The little girl with long hair seemed to have just taken a bath, and the tips of her hair were still slightly damp, carrying the fragrance of shower gel.She stopped gently and curiously at the gate of this small courtyard.

The woman in red was a little displeased.But still didn't speak, just stared at her quietly like that,

The girl didn't seem to see the woman, and stayed at the door for a while, as if she finally couldn't resist her curiosity, holding her skirt, walked two steps slowly inside, and asked, "Is anyone there?"

The woman didn't answer.Still looking at her quietly,

The girl still didn't seem to see the woman, she continued to walk in, a short section of the gravel road, she walked carefully and seriously, she didn't know whether she was afraid of disturbing the owner or staining the white sandals.

The girl didn't see the woman until she stopped at the door.She looked inside curiously, but how could she see the situation clearly from the outside in a house without lights.

The girl was a little disappointed.

But she still raised her hand and knocked lightly on the door three times.

"You should pity the moss on the teeth of the clogs, and the small button will not open for a long time." The woman in red suddenly remembered such a sentence. A long time ago, she seemed to have recited such a sentence, taking care of herself in the house. With long hair, waiting for the person who knocks on the firewood door.Unexpectedly, the person waiting in the end is not the person she expected.

What kind of nightmare was that?Cursing and beatings were like a nightmare from which I would never wake up.

The woman's eyes slowly turned red.

She raised her arms and reached slowly towards the girl.The outstretched hand was blue and purple, like a zombie crawling from hell.And the girl was still unaware, earnestly waiting for an impossible response.

Slowly, slowly.

Those hands were already close to the girl's neck.The woman could already feel the temperature from her fingertips, and the sweet blood flowing under her fair skin.

The girl turned her head suddenly.

Those eyes are no longer innocently waiting, but become extremely sharp.She raised her hand, and in the palm of her hand was a yellow paper talisman, on which strange patterns were drawn with cinnabar.

"receive!"

The girl gave a clear cry, and the talisman was accurately printed on the woman's forehead.The woman in red screamed and struggled.During the activity, the long hair fell away, revealing a bruised and swollen face. Maybe the facial features on it were once beautiful, but now they are full of longing, which looks very scary.

The girl sighed: "It's all over. The souls wandering between heaven and earth still have to go to where they should go, so that they can wash away their grievances as soon as possible and start a new life."

The woman screamed again and again, if passers-by could hear it, they could feel how desolate and unwilling it was.It's a pity that there is only Rong Jiu here, she quietly watched the woman struggle to no avail, everything on her body gradually blurred, and finally turned into smoke, and was retracted into the talisman paper.

The talisman fluttered in the air, and finally returned to Rong Jiu's palm.

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"Dad." Rong Jiu handed over the talisman paper in his hand, "The female ghost who haunted the yard in the alley before is here."

Mr. Rong should be 35 this year, with a serious expression, hummed lightly, took the talisman paper, and looked at it carefully. The cinnabar color on it has not dimmed, and the talisman paper is as smooth as before. He nodded slightly: "Not bad. It seems In the past year, you have made a lot of progress."

Rong Jiu smiled: "I haven't let go this year."

Mr. Rong got up, put the talisman into a small jade bottle, raised his head again, met Rong Jiu's curious gaze, and couldn't help smiling: "Want to know her story?"

Rong Jiu nodded.

Mr. Rong said indifferently: "One month after getting married, this woman hanged herself from a beam in the wedding room. After her death, her resentment persisted, and because she died wearing a red dress, she became a ghost and wandered around the place where she had grudges before she was alive. .”

"I know that." Rong Jiu dissatisfiedly blew away the broken hair that fell on the tip of her nose, "I'm asking, why does she have such a heavy resentment?"

Mr. Rong said: "It's nothing more than those things."

Looking at her daughter again, she was obviously dissatisfied, so she had to say a few more words: "This woman is very happy in her newlyweds. After half a month of marriage, her husband was away on a business trip, and she was waiting at home. One day, there was a knock on the door, and she saw that she was an acquaintance. So he invited someone in unpreparedly, who knew that person had already harbored evil intentions."

"Oh..." Rong Jiu understood, his eyes turned into sympathy, "So, people are really scary."

"So you have to learn to control your desires. If you don't ask for anything, you won't hurt anything." Mr. Rong glanced at her.

"But such a boring life!" Rong Jiu hugged Mr. Rong's arm with a smile, "If you didn't have such a lovely daughter to laugh around you, then you must not be as handsome as you are now!"

"No big or small, no shape." Although Mr. Rong's words were scolding, the gentleness between his eyebrows and eyes showed the joyful mood at this time.

The two put away their things together and exited the room where the ghosts were hiding.

"That school is good. You are more lively than before. You are also stronger." Mr. Rong affirmed.

Rong Jiu pouted: "With such a perverted professor, how dare you not be strong."

Before Mr. Rong could speak, a very penetrating voice came from the other side of the room, expressing the host's dissatisfaction: "Honey, I have said many times, you are not allowed to describe your professors like this!"

There was a hint of schadenfreude on Mr. Rong's face, while Rong Jiu's face was full of horror: "The old lady in other people's family can't communicate with her voice, why can the old lady in our family hear us from half a house away?" ?”

Mr. Rong replied in a low voice: "Maybe the college you mentioned is full of perverts."

While speaking, the old lady of Rong Jiu's family had already come up from downstairs.Dark brown curly hair, looks like he's finally in his 30s.Rong Jiu sighed: "Dear grandma, long time no see, you are so much more beautiful!" While trying to rush forward to give her a big hug, the old lady pushed her away and said seriously: "Your methods are useless to me, And you've been back a month, and we met less than two hours ago."

Rong Jiu pursed her mouth, obediently stood at the stairs with her hands down, as if I was very obedient.

The old lady gave her a helpless look: "Your professor is just a little stricter, I am very satisfied with that, you are too lazy, otherwise your achievements will be far more than that. Let me tell you, my great-grandfather, who did not enroll Already knew more than a lot of seventh graders, he..."

"Okay, okay, I know, he independently developed a new medicine when he was still in the third grade. You have said it many times, grandma."

The old lady glared at her: "Well, my cousin, that is also a very powerful person, in the fourth grade..."

"Well, I made an exception to become the president of the student union, the only one in the 100 years of Hogwarts, and you have said it many times."

The old lady was choked, she was unwilling, she paused for three seconds, took out a handkerchief out of nowhere, and covered her eyes: "I knew you despised me as an old woman, and you despised me for being long-winded. won't listen to me..."

The eyes from which the handkerchief was removed were really tearing up.But Rong Jiu just looked at the old lady blankly: "Grandma, the smell of chili is too obvious."

"..."

Mr. Rong coughed lightly, as if his throat was not smooth.But the old lady didn't know, it was a polite laugh.So Rong Jiu was liberated, and Mr. Rong became the target of the old lady's scolding.Rong Jiu gave Mr. Rong a gloating smile, then tiptoed, quietly and slowly moved away from the old lady, and moved down the stairs step by step.The last few frames jumped straight down, making an earth-shattering "bang".The old lady and Mr. Rong looked together, only to see a piece of white skirt quickly disappearing at the edge of the stairs.

"Smelly girl, come back to me!"

Rong Jiu's heart: I'm not stupid, if you tell me to go back, I'll go back?

So when the dinner started, Rong Jiu slowly tried to crawl over the table, and then the old lady picked her up from the ground by her collar and threw her onto the chair.

"I refused to stay at home honestly for the last month, you are a heartless stinky girl, and then I won't see you for six years, and you still have to stay with me." The old lady pointed at the tip of Rong Jiu's nose and cursed She said, but Rong Jiu surprisingly didn't push back, but looked at her blankly: "What? Six years?"

"..." The old lady was also confused by her blank eyes, and looked back at Mr. Rong blankly: "You didn't tell her?"

Mr. Rong was in a cold sweat: "Hehe, hehe... Then what, mom, eat, eat first."

"What six years?" Rong Jiu was not prevaricated.

Mr. Rong sighed: "I should have told you when you came back, but there are many things..."

"Forget it and forget it, there's no need to say something so fresh and refined." The old lady gave him a blank look, and then said to Rong Jiu, "Girl, from the time you go back to school this year, you can't come back until you graduate .”

The chopsticks in Rong Jiu's hand fell to the floor with two crackles.

"Why?" Rong Jiu asked.

The old lady let out a long sigh.

Mr. Rong glanced at the old lady and said helplessly, "Do you remember the stars I told you about before?"

Rong Jiu nodded.

Mr. Rong said: "Your grandma is actually a star that broke in by accident. Her star is actually on the other side. But decades ago, for some unknown reason, she broke into China with her star. , broke into our home. You know, every star has its own established trajectory. When a foreign star breaks in, it will cause so many things. A large number of stars collided and fell, until a few years ago. slowly stabilized."

"But this is not really stable. The extra star here does not really belong here. But after so many years, both sides have temporarily formed a balance, and this star can no longer go back."

"Then, isn't this great?" Rong Jiu interrupted Mr. Rong, "Grandma is our family, she can stay here!"

"But she doesn't belong to me." Mr. Rong shook his head, "This is the crux of the problem. If you don't belong to the stars here, you can barely survive. If you want to continue your own star path, it is tantamount to changing your destiny and paying the price It is tragic. Otherwise, why did your grandfather pass away many years ago, and why did your mother leave on the day you were born. This is the price."

Blood for blood, life for life.

"But..." Rong Jiu glanced at the old lady, and swallowed the words again.A bit of sadness and emotion appeared on the old lady's face: "I know. I wanted to go back at that time, but I can't go back."

"My departure is a product of my willfulness. I disobeyed my parents, betrayed my family, and even brought great turmoil and trouble. If my family does not forgive me, I will never be able to go back."

The eyes of the old lady seemed to float decades ago. She had already stood in front of that land, but was stopped by an invisible force and could not move forward.She knew it was her family's silent answer:

You abandoned us.We will not accept you again.

In sadness, a pair of warm hands reached out.The old lady raised her head and saw Rong Jiu looking at her with concern, she couldn't help but feel a sore nose, but she let go of that little melancholy.

If there are family members like this, what more can you ask for?

Mr. Rong continued: "Originally, we all thought that we could only continue in this way by exchanging lives for lives, but ten years ago, when I watched the sky at night, I found something different. Then I used your horoscope to predict fate, and then Combined with your grandmother's horoscope, I finally calculated your birth gate, in July last year."

Last July, Rong Jiu received a notice from Hogwarts.

"So... I have to go to school." Rong Jiu was stunned, "But what does it have to do with my not being able to come back for six years? Why can I come back this year? What changes happened?"

But Mr. Rong refused to explain any more, and just said: "Your chance is there." There was no other explanation, Rong Jiu was so angry that he almost threw the bowl in his hand to the ground, and when he lifted it up, he saw the bowl inside. The piece of braised pork that was burning in oil... In the end, he could only eat it heavily on the table, snorted, and took a big mouthful of rice.

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When Rong Jiu sat on the crimson steam train again, she was still holding a note that the old lady gave her, with a name written on it: Cassiopeia Black.

That was the old lady's name.

Mr. Rong warned: "If you can find your grandma's family, maybe everything will not have to be so tortuous. After all, the door of life is not so easy to open."

"But that's my grandma!" Rong Jiu's eyes widened, "Dad, you're not really scolded by grandma as an unfilial son, so you want to send her away?"

Mr. Rong's serious expression finally cracked a bit, he stared, raised his hand, as if he wanted to give Rong Jiu a big chestnut, finally landed on her shoulder, and patted her lightly: "It's not like that, It's complicated. But your father... is still very filial."

The last few words were squeezed between the teeth.

Rong Jiu shivered abruptly.Dad's appearance reminded her of Professor Snape.

Old men are scary, value life, stay away from them.

After the train started slowly, the faces of the family members gradually blurred in their eyes.

With the acceleration of the train, the white clouds gradually interpreted into other shapes, connected into lines, painted into surfaces, as if depicting the confusing future.

In any case, we can only move forward.

Keep going forward.

There is no turning back.