flower and big devil

When night fell, after Mr. Hatter left in his gorgeous carriage made of gold, Luo Xiu once wanted to talk to Ladoni about his life--he hadn't figured out what to talk about. , we can start with the good weather tonight, the stars and the moon, and then step by step to poetry and songs, and finally to the philosophy of life...

Yes, Luo Xiu has never dated a woman since he was a child. When he made up his mind to dedicate the important first time in his life to this six or seven-year-old girl, he found that he had searched all over the place The orphanage couldn't find where she was, and all the other children stayed away from him as a stranger. Luo Xiu couldn't even find anyone to ask if he saw the whereabouts of the little girl in the red cloak.

Her basket was still placed at the entrance of the orphanage, and the small white wild flowers picked in it had turned yellow withered because they had not received timely moisture. Jojo heard a slight sound coming from behind him—the black-haired young man turned his head, but only had time to see a small figure running away from the slightly opened door, and the time when someone stepped on the bluestone brick floor. Make a "da da" sound.

Under the dim moonlight, from a distance, Amy with her waist-length curly hair is no longer a child born with a deformed head. It seems to have seen a forest elf that quietly appeared at night and jumped under the moonlight.

Thinking of this afternoon, when she struggled slightly to break free from her palms and chose a richer young shoemaker, the black-haired young man who stood there dumbfounded blinked and watched Amy's figure turn around. After turning the corner, he disappeared without a trace. It wasn't until the cold wind with the smell of ice and snow blowing that he suddenly came back to his senses, scratched his head, and sighed.

He himself didn't know what he was feeling.

In fact, think about it differently. Compared with the "so-called gardener" who can't afford a pair of shoes, if he is Amy, he should also choose the hatter who promises to cure his disability and give him a new life—— What's more, the red-haired man is quite handsome, with the right elegance and rogue contradictory temperament that little girls like-of course, this can't change the fact that he is a wretched man.

In the empty corridor, the black-haired young man raised his hand and touched his face like a psychopath, muttered to himself, "I'm not ugly, am I?" and then sighed for the second time, turning around , but suddenly found that the young lady whom he had been looking for all night appeared behind him silently like a ghost.

Most of the night.

Suddenly, a little girl in a red cloak appears behind you.

Staring at you blankly.

The moonlight came in and shone on her rather delicate little face. The facial skin that looked normal during the day was pale and pale, and also vaguely seemed to be icy blue.

This feeling is simply sour.

Dear, do you read The Grudge?

Luo Xiu said that ever since he read The Grudge, he realized that the most incompetent person in his life is the real "little devil" under the age of ten.

The heart seemed to stop working after beating violently at this moment, and the whole chest cavity became extremely empty, lonely and cold, eyes widened slightly and looked at Ladoni in the cold air After three seconds of letting go of Luo Xiu's whole body, he took a breath of cold air without exaggeration, his face showed a tangled twist, and he was completely scared to pee.

The surrounding air seemed to have condensed into ice at this moment.

After the brain went on strike for a few seconds, it seemed that he finally remembered who was standing in front of him at this moment. The black-haired young man slowly retracted the vivid expression of "I was really frightened" on his face. Before she had time to complain, the little girl standing in front of him with her head up and staring at him showed a look of disdain: "It's really impolite, who are you showing this expression like you saw a ghost in the middle of the night?"

"..." Luo Xiu paused for three seconds, and then he realized that he seemed to have been sued by the villain first, so he sighed for the third time tonight, and after a pause, he said with a face full of pain, "How dare you tell me Speaking of manners, Ladoni, there is no etiquette book that teaches you the behavior of quietly appearing behind others without sleeping in the middle of the night, right?"

Ladoni snorted: "Where did the orphanage get the etiquette book? Do you think this is a noble kindergarten?"

Luo Xiu retorted: "No normal person would appear behind someone like a ghost in the middle of the night."

"I've been standing here for a long time, and you were the one who stared at Amy's back and didn't realize that I was behind you." Regardless of the black-haired young man's condemning tone, Ladoni showed a smile as if she saw her. The elephant is trying to twist its waist and dance a hula dance with a mocking expression, "Is there any mistake, such an adult is afraid of ghosts, and he is not afraid of making people laugh when he speaks out."

"Just laugh if you want to." Master Luo Xiu, the exorcist who was ridiculed by a six or seven-year-old girl, snorted from his nasal cavity and said frankly, "Shall I use your loudspeaker to announce to the whole world, Wouldn't it be better if everyone had fun?"

"Ouch, poor devil with a bad temper, well, I was wrong to scare you like this. To make it up to you, let me sing a song to drive away your fear."

Ladoni opened her mouth and showed a clear smile. After clearing her voice, her voice suddenly became low and low. The cold wind outside the window was whistling like a ghost crying, and the ethereal and slow voice of a child sounded——

"In the night when it was almost dawn, the white crane and the tortoise fell down. Who is the person behind you?"

“……………………………………………………………”

"What's behind you is——hmm!" The singing stopped abruptly, and the little girl opened her eyes wide and suddenly pulled off the hand covering her mouth. She glanced at the panic-stricken The black-haired young man glanced at him, and there was a mischievous smile on his face, "Don't you like this, then you can change it——Moon Shadow Shake, the sky is in panic, and the east wall is demolished to make up for the west wall; the sheep in the sheepfold were killed by wolves. Nah, the first Alice came to me—"

"Okay, shut up, until I can't bear to break the rule of 'don't hit women and children'." Luo Xiu touched the goose bumps on his arm with a headache.

"Has anyone ever told you that you are narrow-minded and have a bad temper?" Ladoni looked at the black-haired young man and said, "It's unimaginable that you are serious with a child."

"Small-minded and bad-tempered? There are a lot of people who say that about me."

"Ok?"

"But I never admit it."

"..."

Hearing the righteous and shameless tone of the black-haired young man, the little girl rolled her eyes. At this time, a gust of wind blew from the outside, as if she felt a little chill, she stretched out her whole body almost unconsciously. On the other side, he pulled the cloak on his body——Luo Xiu watched her movement, and wanted her to go back and put on clothes before going out or go to bed, but before he had time to speak, he suddenly saw Ladoni's cloak A small flower fell down.

It was a small white wild flower that can be seen everywhere on the roadside - they don't even have a real name. When people mention it, they will use "that white wild flower" instead... However, what Luo Xiu cares about Yes, when he met Ladoni this afternoon, the little girl's basket was full of these flowers, and at this moment, the flowers in those baskets had already turned into an ugly yellow, and from Ladoni The little flower that fell out of Ninny's cloak looked very fresh.

It's as if it's just been picked from the wild.

Luo Xiu lowered his head, looking at the flower lying quietly on the bluestone brick floor.

Ladoni froze for a moment, and then followed his gaze to look at her feet—when she saw the flower on the ground, there was a flash of disgust in her eyes, and a clear sound came out from the back of her throat, like when a wild beast was furious. Then, under Luo Xiu's dazed gaze, the little girl raised her foot and stepped on the fragile wild flower mercilessly, crushing it.

"Where did you get the flowers?" Luo Xiu asked very calmly when he heard his own voice.

"I just came back from outside," Ladoni moved her feet calmly, and her voice sounded normal, as if the negative emotions she showed at that moment before were all just Luo Xiu's illusion , "It's very windy tonight, maybe the wind blows the flowers into my cloak."

While speaking, Ladoni stretched out her small hands to straighten her cloak.

Luo Xiu looked at her and asked strangely, "It's so late, what are you doing outside?"

Ladoni squinted at him: "We've only known each other for less than 24 hours, and you seem to be trying to inquire about a lady's privacy."

"First, I'm just curious; second, I'm sorry, where is the lady?"

"If you're here to argue with me, you can get out now."

"Correction. It was you who showed up in front of me, and, you look like you not only want to fight with me, if you grow up to be 20 years old, I'm afraid we'll start fighting by now- Ladoni, do you think Wouldn't she have no friends if she had such a bad personality?... For example, Amy--"

"Are you still ashamed to say Amy?" Ladoni burst into fury when she heard the name, and kicked the black-haired young man in front of her knee hard without saying a word, and hugged her knee with a cry of pain When she jumped away, she strode forward and yelled in a low voice, "In front of Mr. Shoemaker in the afternoon, you behaved like a scum with five negative combat effectiveness!"

"...I've tried my best," Luo Xiu frowned, "What's more, although that shoemaker is a bit strange, it is undeniable that he is rich, and maybe he can really help Amy win a new life, so in fact, let There's nothing wrong with Amy going with him."

"Oh, yes, 'It's okay to let Amy go with him', I made a wrong bet, and lost my entire fortune, but my unsatisfactory chips used such excuses to prevaricate me!" Ladoni teased vigorously Flicking his hair, he glared fiercely at the dark-haired young man in front of him and said, "Thanks to this—it's all right now—Amy is going to be taken away by the shoemaker!"

"…………"

This time, Luo Xiu didn't answer her immediately, and during Luo Xiu's silence, Ladoni seemed to finally realize that there was something wrong with what she said, so she shut her mouth abruptly and paused for a few seconds, then used more With a vicious tone, he added: "Why is she?!"

Luo Xiu blinked: "......With her cute appearance, she is also cute like a little hamster?"

"Have you ever seen a hamster eat its own child? I have, and the hamster will deliberately eat the baby hamster until only one head is left to tell you that the child was eaten by itself."

"..."

"Don't use such a stupid analogy next time."

"Tsk tsk, Ladoni, you've answered your own question - oh yes, it's called 'why' - first you have to win a little bit of shit luck at the game of 'caged bird', the rest ——This can explain the problem very well——You were there in the afternoon, but people didn’t even look at you——Guess why?” Luo Xiu covered his aching knees with his hands full of pain. With a painful face, he taunted back and said without respecting the old and loving the young, "Oh, I really can't understand it."

Ladoni sneered, pulled the cloak on her body again, and without looking at Luo Xiu, walked around him and returned to the shadows, probably in the direction leading to the children's bedroom. The little girl turned her head while walking. Without replying: "Shut up, poor man, your daughter will be more annoying than me!"

"Then I will sever the father-daughter relationship with her."

"what."

"Kidding."

"..."

"My excellent genes can't create such an earth-shattering and annoying kid."

"..."

The two of you said something to each other, all the way childish enough to choke each other until they came to a stairway that seemed to lead to the second floor and the basement. Ready to be on the second floor, however—

"My room is down there." The little girl said blankly.

"Oh, what a coincidence, my room is on the top." Luo Xiu pointed to the top of the stairs, "You don't have to say good night, don't you have any objections?"

"I'm going to have a nightmare after I say it." Ladoni rolled her eyes, and walked down the wooden stairs without looking back. During this period, she seemed to hum the song about "Aili "Silk", the tune remains the same, but this time the lyrics seem to have changed, Luo Xiu was a little surprised to guess whether this is because the passage he heard was just part of the lyrics - he tried hard to He could clearly hear what Ladoni was singing, but he couldn't hear anything because the singing was mixed with the creaking and creaking of the wooden stairs.

The black-haired young man stood still, until he confirmed that he heard the sound of the door being opened and closed again. After a short pause, he turned and walked to his room.

A sleepless night followed.

The next day, staring at the dark circles in his eyes, Luo Xiu ushered in his first Christmas in another world.

Early in the morning, he was woken up by the screaming and laughing sounds of the children downstairs - those children seemed to be playing in the yard under his window. When Luo Xiu opened his eyes, He could also vaguely hear someone calling the name "Amy", and they seemed to be admiring something.

The black-haired young man got up from the bed in a daze, stepped on the cold floor with bare feet, rubbed his eyes, lay down on the window sill, lowered his head and looked down, the next moment, what he saw in his eyes made him drowsy Gone in an instant—

Those children who played games together yesterday, they seem to have changed into new clothes, which makes their faces that looked a little gray yesterday seem to have a layer of vitality now... But at this moment, these children They were chatting together, the figure among them looked from Luo Xiu's direction and couldn't see her face clearly, but from her waist-length flaxen curly hair, Luo Xiu could tell that it was Ai. rice.

It's completely different from the shy little girl yesterday.

Surrounded in the middle, Amy smiled happily and made a clear giggling sound.

She looked like a perfectly normal child.

Because at this moment, she is wearing a huge hat made of colorful bird feathers and exaggerated silk and satin, which must be gorgeous even for noble ladies or women of the upper class. A daunting hat - the tall hat body is completely wrapped in colorful silk and satin, the exaggerated shape makes the little girl look like a big peacock on top of her head...

And it was this hat, whose hand was known at a glance, that completely covered up Amy's natural flaws.

Luo Xiu blinked.

At this time, some of the children below seemed to suggest going to the kitchen to ask the old mother for candies, and a group of children left Luo Xiu's window with Amy as the center, laughing and laughing.

When everything around gradually returned to tranquility with the children gone, and a gust of wind blew, the black-haired young man lying on the window vaguely felt that he could smell a trace of flower fragrance in this winter... He squinted slightly Looking around, he seemed to be searching for something. Finally, his eyes stopped on the place under his window sill, where the little girl named Amy had stood before, lying quietly on the land there. A fragile white wildflower that appears to have just been picked.