"It looks like you've been picked by your fingernails."
"Erniuzi, have you met a water ghost?"
"What does a water ghost look like?
Is it pretty?
” A few children are talking about each word, listening to them say this, Er Niuzi's tears that are easy to hold back fell again, he pulled Xi Cheng, and left all the bets and dignity behind, "Xi Cheng, what to do, I'm afraid ......"
Xi Cheng patted him on the back soothingly, "It's all out, what are you afraid of, remember, don't come to Yuhe to play anymore recently, I won't save you next time." ” Er Niuzi snorted and nodded desperately, he suddenly grabbed Xi Cheng's arm, "Hey, why do you have such a strange birthmark here."
The friends all came around, and they saw that there was an oval birthmark on Xi Cheng's upper arm, blue, which was divided into small pieces, like fish scales.
"I had it when I was born, and my grandfather said it was passed down from the family."
"I heard my mother say that you were picked up by your grandfather" Er Niuzi scratched his head, paused and didn't say anything, the whole village knew that Xi Cheng was picked up by Xi Bo, but no one wanted to tell the truth in front of him, for fear that he would be sad to hear.
Xi Cheng patted Er Niuzi on the shoulder, "Don't hide it so much, I've grown so big, I can guess my life experience somewhat, and I won't be sad about this anymore."
It's you, hurry home and bandage the wound, otherwise it won't be good if the pus will bleed. ” Under the reflection of the setting sun, the children walked hand in hand towards the village, but they did not expect that this would be the last part of the road they walked together, and I wonder if many years later, they will remember this evening, the innocence they once had but will eventually lose.
Xi Bo stood in front of the shrine for a long time, and finally knelt down with trembling legs, he looked at the black bone altar inside, his eyelids trembled a few times, and two turbid tears fell.
"Today, Bai Yong and the others went to Luoyang to invite the abbot, hoping that he could come to suppress your soul, but the master drove them away, he said: The demons are incomprehensible, and it is useless for people with high mana to come back.
I know that you are determined to bury the lives of the whole village, right?
He lowered his head, laughed, and then raised his head fiercely, "At that time, I asked you to go, why didn't you go?"
Just leave them to fend for themselves, how many people can you save with those beads?
In the end, even the tears withered, but they turned to you, saying that it was your presence that brought about this drought. ” He laughed for a while, laughing so much that his body was crooked to the ground, and he couldn't stop crying, "But how can I judge others?
I'm the most bastard one, I was next to me when they chased you and beat you, but I didn't even dare to say a word of pleading, all these years, I have been comforting myself, I didn't dare to stand up because of Xi Cheng, but now that I'm old, I don't want to deceive myself anymore.
I don't do anything for anyone at all, I do it for myself, I am afraid that I will be affected by you and end up in the same fate as you, so I will not save you from death. ” Xi Bo fell to the ground, and when he raised his head again, the tears in his eyes had dried up, and his eyes became red, with a touch of madness, "I'm a bastard, I forcibly asked for your body, but I ignored you," he threw himself on the bone altar, holding it tightly with both hands, "The first person you want to take revenge on should be me, it can only be me, it's me." ” The movement of his hand became gentle, he gently stroked the bone altar, and took it into his arms, "Miss Leng Yu, I was wrong, I can't turn back if I was wrong, come out, kill me, give me a relief." ” The door behind him creaked open, and Uncle Xi thought that his words had really summoned Leng Yu's soul back, so he hurriedly turned back, but what he didn't want to see was Kong Zhou and Liu Xujiao, behind them, it was Yu Can'er who was standing, and the three of them stared at him without saying a word, obviously, his words just now had been heard by them.
"It turns out that Xi Cheng's biological father is you."
After a long time, Liu Xuzhu said softly.
Xi Bo was shocked, he looked at Yu Can'er, "Why are you here?"
” "He is not Yu Can'er, the real Yu Can'er has been killed by Leng Yu, he is a fish man, he is Leng Yu's clan, he came here to take away the bone altar, and that child."
Kong Zhou said coldly.
"You know everything?"
Xi Bo let out a feeble sigh, and his body fell to the ground with a limp.
The bridge has been built between the village and the Jade River since I was born, and the lord said that this bridge has been there since the beginning of the dynasty, and it was made by the fishmen, and the fishmen live in the water, and they lack nothing, except for the brocade for clothing, so they built this bridge so that they can go to the human market to exchange the brocade.
In the beginning, the fish-people did not want to face us in aquatic plants, so they always appeared at night, but gradually, they had brocade and were able to dress themselves, but they still chose to come to the village at night, because this night market seemed to have become a promise between them and humans, a promise to trust each other and never break it.
Of course, the fish people did not come empty-handed, and the things they exchanged for the tapestry were pearls, which were white and bright, round and smooth, and far superior to the grit sharpened by clams.
Moreover, these pearls also have a wonderful use, that is, they can cure tuberculosis, as long as they are ground into powder and consumed, they will eliminate phlegm and depression, and cough will disappear completely.
But they are made from the tears of the fish-people, who live a peaceful and enjoyable life and rarely cry, so these beads are so precious.
At that time, the night market was held once a month, and it was much larger than it is now, and there were no lights in the market, because the pearls brought by the fish-men illuminated the sky white, and there was no need to light oil lamps at all.
Some of the people from other villages who were suffering from tuberculosis often brought their home-woven fabrics to the night market and exchanged them for beads in the hands of the fishmen.
However, the fish people are simple and simple, and if they meet someone who is sick, they will exchange pearls, even if the cloth is rough and difficult to see.
On the first day of March one year, the villagers set up their stalls at sunset and waited for the arrival of the fishmen, but this time, there were no figures of those who brought their families and fish into the bridge as usual.
The following month, it was like this again, and the fish people seemed to disappear out of thin air, and then came to the overnight party.
I know what is going on, more than a month ago, the old man braved the rain to bring back a baby girl from outside, the baby had an oval birthmark on her arm, and the scales on the birthmark appeared, and the blue was in the blue.