Soul knot

The body is falling, falling continuously in boundless fear.

She seemed to have fallen into an abyss, and on that thunderstorm night, she was accompanied by horrible and piercing screams and severe pain all over her body.

The sharp object scratched the skin, and the collision during the fall twisted the limbs so that it was impossible to move. The blood covered his vision, but he didn't know where it came from.

The mother's arms tightly protected her thin body, but it didn't help after all.

Even though she didn't want to die yet, she still gradually lost the last bit of strength to breathe.

She closed her eyes, letting the pain and fear completely overwhelm her.

Suddenly, something dragged her out of despair, it felt like a hug, bringing some coolness, relieving the almost fatal pain.

She forcefully opened a slit of her eyes, and saw a dark red python slowly wrapping around her body from her waist.

At such a distance, even with a layer of blood mist between the eyes, the shape of each snake scale can be seen clearly.

She almost stopped her heartbeat and breathing at that moment, and her pupils suddenly dilated.

In the next second, the red python turned its head to meet her eyes, and finally spit out a scarlet snake letter towards her face.

don't want……

"Don't eat me!" The girl woke up from her dream, sweat dripping from her forehead.

A ray of soft sunlight quietly came from the window and fell on the empty bed next door.

There were footsteps outside the house, cloth shoes touching the ground lightly and slowly, after a while, the door of the ward was gently pushed open.

Lu Yudong sat up, squinted his eyes and looked out of the ward.

The woman outside the door was wearing a light purple chest-length skirt with delicate patterns embroidered on the gauze-like sleeves. Her hair was made up with plain hairpins, her makeup was light and elegant, but there was a bit of charm in her eyes.

Although it is incompatible with everything in sight, it is so beautiful that it is fascinating.

She bent her pretty willow eyebrows, and said softly, "Lu Yudong, you can be discharged from the hospital today."

Lu Yudong had a car accident, just two months ago, during the summer vacation when she graduated from primary school.

Originally, it was just a family self-driving trip. No one would have thought that the car would overturn the cliff. After an accident, her parents left and she was left alone.

She couldn't get out of bed when she woke up from the hospital bed, but her parents had already been cremated and buried by relatives, and she didn't even have time to see her for the last time.

That year, Lu Yudong was 11 years old, already the age of the governor.

Mom and Dad have always loved her the most. The family is not rich, and they live in rented houses, but they never lack anything for her.

Children cry, always because of some ordinary things.

You can't finish your homework, you don't do well in the exam, or you quarrel with your classmates.In the past, every time Lu Yudong cried, his mother, who was tired all day outside, would put down the housework in her hands, pull her to sit on the sofa, and gently comfort and enlighten her.

And Dad will go to the kitchen to fry a potato shredded pancake that he specializes in, which is thin and crunchy. You cry all the time, but no mother wipes your tears for you."

Dad was right, she hadn't grown up yet, but no one outside wiped her tears.

After waking up from the hospital bed and knowing everything, she cried bitterly several times, and each time the wounds all over her body hurt, but no one really cared.At most, when she was so annoyed that she couldn't watch it any longer, she would comfort her a few words at a loss, and then tell her that she should be quiet in the hospital, and that other patients still want a quiet environment for recuperation.

No one was with her all the time, no one took care of her emotions.

Children who love to cry and coax are not liked by adults.

Since then, the little child has learned to be quiet.

It's just that everyone wants her to be quiet, but the hospital ward is not quiet.

Several times in the middle of the night, she heard cries and noises coming from nowhere. Those voices were so shrill that it made people feel frightened, but she didn't see anyone to persuade her.

Those voices finally subsided, and she closed her eyes and fell asleep for a long time, but vaguely heard someone arguing in a low voice outside the ward.

The people who were arguing were all relatives that she only met once or twice during the holidays. Listening carefully, they seemed to be discussing her future whereabouts.

To those relatives, she was just an extra burden out of thin air, being kicked around like a little ball.

No one cared about her emotions. After all, she was still at the age where she needed to go to school. An extra child in the family was a big expense for many people.Being able to negotiate a home for her is already the last sympathy for this poor child from relatives who are not familiar with her at all.

But in the end, the discussion was fruitless, and someone suggested: "After being discharged from the hospital, send it to the orphanage."

The child who escaped death, before he had time to accept all the changes, he really felt that he had become an unwanted child.

Later, those relatives never appeared again, and they were replaced by a particularly beautiful strange woman.

Lu Yudong will always remember the day when we first met, the woman was wearing a black gauze cross-neck skirt with a red background, a red gauze shirt with large sleeves on her shoulders, her waist-length black hair was randomly tied behind her head by a emerald jade hairpin, and the remaining two strands of blue silk Hanging at the side of the ear.The whole person is like walking out of an ink painting, the beauty is extremely unreal.

The woman had a delicate face that couldn't pick out any flaws, and there was a red tear mole under the corner of her right eye. She was like a fairy in the legend, charming but not gaudy.

The young child thought to herself that she had never seen a better-looking person.

Lu Yudong stared at her blankly, with a pair of small hands that had not faded from the scratches, tightly pinching the white quilt in front of him, a little bit of longing and curiosity emerged in his slightly disturbed eyes.

The woman walked to Lu Yudong's hospital bed, with a smile on her face, she gently opened her somewhat stiff five fingers, which were still cold in the scorching summer, and gently wrote two words stroke by stroke on her small palm. .

——Manzhu.

"This is my name." Manzhu's voice was deep but not rough, just like her beautiful face, it carried a kind of charm from the bottom of her heart.

Lu Yudong blinked jerkyly.

She has always been shy of strangers, and what she is most afraid of during the holidays is calling people one by one. She can't recognize the faces of relatives whom she only sees once or twice a year. If she recognizes the wrong person or calls her by the wrong name, she will definitely be laughed at.

Should Manzhu in front of me be called sister or aunt?

Lu Yudong hesitated for a long time, but finally did not come to a conclusion, so he raised his eyes and asked timidly, "I, I have never met you. Are you a friend of Mom and Dad?"

The soft voice was extremely timid.

Manzhu gave a soft "hmm", picked up the knife and pears from the bedside, and sat down in front of her sideways.

The hands that were peeling the pears were slender and soft, as white as jade, very beautiful.

She cut the peeled pear into small petals, gently opened it from the top, and took off the core, but one piece fell off, looking like a shy and half-opened snow lotus.

Ever since he was a child, Lu Yudong had never seen someone peeling fruit like this except on TV. They were peeling so fast and finely that he couldn't help but stare dumbfounded for a moment.

"This is for you." Seeing the little girl's eyes filled with amazement, Manzhu smiled and handed the flower-like pear to her.

Lu Yudong held it with both hands, his eyes were joyful but bewildered.

It was obviously a pear, but she was reluctant to eat it after being peeled like this.

Seeing this, Manzhu stretched out her hand to gently break off a petal, and put it gracefully into her lips.

Lu Yudong was stunned for a long time, and when he came back to his senses, he saw that the "flower" in his hand was broken, but he was relieved, and happily ate it.

Manzhu wiped her hands with a paper towel, got up and walked to the window, looking thoughtfully at the layer of clouds that covered the scorching sun in the sky.

After a while, she leaned lazily against the window, turned to look at Lu Yudong, and said softly, "Lu Yudong, I will take care of you from now on."

Sunlight poured in from the window, she smiled against the light, her brows and eyes seemed to soften a lot.

"Really?" Lu Yudong raised his head, staring at Manzhu in a daze, with a little joy suppressed in his pure eyes.

"Of course." Manzhu said, with a warm smile on his eyebrows.

From that day on, those relatives who didn't want to care about her really didn't come to see her very much.

Manzhu, on the other hand, would come to deliver meals to her every day, use hot water to wipe her body that was inconvenient to take a bath, sit by the side, and talk to her word by word.

Lu Yudong casually mentioned that the hospital is always very noisy at night, Manzhu said that she would go to persuade her, and after a few days, the noise disappeared.

This kind of care is far from meticulous, but Lu Yudong's heart that had no place to rest was finally relieved.

Before that desperate car accident, Lu Yudong had never seen Manzhu, but she wanted to get close to him for no reason, but she felt that Manzhu was different from others from the bottom of her heart.

Lu Yudong's physical condition is getting better day by day, but she doesn't want her to get better too quickly.

Those adults said that when she recovered, they would send her to the orphanage.

She didn't dare to cry, coax, or even ask anyone if those words were true. She just dared to be silently afraid in her heart, fearing that when she got better and left this hospital bed, she would really be homeless. back.

But she couldn't live like this in the hospital forever.

In the blink of an eye, it was more than two months, and the National Day of the [-]th National Day has passed in a blink of an eye, and the weather has turned cold.

Manzhu came to take her out of the hospital, and he didn't know where to send her.

Lu Yudong took off the hospital gown and put on the clothes that Manzhu brought her.

The size of the clothes was too big. She squatted on the ground, tied her shoelaces, and silently rolled up the overlong trouser legs. She lowered her head and rolled up the sleeves that were obviously too long.

"It seems to be a big deal?" Manzhu asked casually.

Lu Yudong raised his eyes and timidly looked at Manzhu's beautiful jaw line, his eyes were a little bit at a loss.

Maybe she should be more obedient and sensible, saying that she still needs to grow taller anyway, so she should buy bigger clothes and wear them longer.

In this way, maybe Manzhu will not think that she is a troublesome child...

Manzhu felt the child's gaze, and before she could speak, she bent her eyebrows and said with a smile, "Let's go, I'll buy you a new one later."

After all, she smiled.

All kinds of amorous feelings are in that smile.

Lu Yudong stared blankly for a moment, then came to his senses, Manzhu had already walked out of the ward.

She hurriedly got up and chased after her, stretched out her small hand from her long sleeve, gently grabbed Manzhu's wide sleeve, and asked in a low voice, "Where are you going?"

"I'll take you home," Manzhu said.

"Family..." Lu Yudong was suddenly at a loss, "I, I don't seem to have a family anymore... Mom and Dad are gone, I'm the only one going back..."

She was afraid of being sent to an orphanage, and even more afraid of being thrown back to that home that would be empty from now on.

She raised her head and looked at Man Zhu, her eyes turned red a little bit, and her tearful eyes were full of suppressed pleadings that she dared not speak out.

"I'm going home with me." Manzhu stretched out her hand to Lu Yudong, pulling her to her side, "I said it, I'll take care of you in the future."

Lu Yudong became quiet for a moment, and the tears that had been held back for too long fell down his eyes, and Manzhu quickly wiped them off with a soft silk handkerchief.

"Why are you crying?" Manzhu asked a little helplessly.

Lu Yudong quickly shook his head, didn't say anything, and didn't cry anymore, he just clenched the hand holding her tighter.

On the way back to "home", she drooped her small head, staring at the pair of apricot-colored embroidered shoes under the long skirt, quietly, following every step.

She followed Manzhu on the high-speed train bound for Yuanchuan from Jiangzhong.

From that moment on, the 11-year-old completely left the city he was most familiar with.

She was at a loss for this, but as long as she gently held the soft corner of her clothes, she felt that all the unknowns were no longer scary.

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The scumbag author's copywriting has been useless for thousands of years, thanks to the little angels who skipped the copywriting and clicked in.

This is an urban fantasy. In addition to the warm daily life, there are also settings of monsters and ghosts, but it is not scary, absolutely not scary, even the timid can read it.

Manzhu is a coquettish and slut on the surface, but in fact an old demon from the mountains who is a violent old lady. He is only gentle with little girls.

In Yudong's words, he is a human child who is cute and sensible on the surface, but actually has a lot of courage and ideas. After becoming a soul, he will have part of the demonic power of a snake spirit.

That's about it, okay?