Soul knot

At noon, the train arrived at the station - Yuanchuan City.

Holding Lu Yudong's hand, Manzhu walked all the way to the taxi lane, and waited for a taxi. After getting in the car, under the driver's question, she took out a mobile phone from the exquisitely embroidered belt.

It was a flip phone for the elderly, red, rustic in style, with a stylus pen, and it was the most popular old brand on the market five or six years ago.

Lu Yudong looked at the phone, and unconsciously blinked, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

Manzhu's expression was serious, her fingers were unfamiliar, and it took a long time to find out a text message.

She frowned, squinted her eyes, looked at the words on the small screen as if she was facing an enemy, and read them out half-recognized, half-guessed, and stuttering.

Then, feeling relieved, he put away his phone: "Master, let's go to this place."

Lu Yudong tilted his head in bewilderment, but he didn't dare to say what was in his heart.

Manzhu seems to be... illiterate.

In fact, Manzhu is not illiterate, but temporarily unable to fully understand the simplified Chinese that has been implemented for nearly a century.

A certain guy who saved money and gave her this old cell phone probably stayed in the human city for a long time and couldn't realize the problem of Chinese character reform. He only taught her how to read text messages and make calls, and didn't consider helping her. Change the phone's font display.

Speaking of which, times are changing and ideas are progressing.

As the area of ​​undeveloped mountains and forests of human beings is getting smaller and smaller, goblins must keep pace with the times in order to survive. Under a negotiation between humans and goblins, the goblins elected representatives to sign a series of peace agreements with humans.

Since then, the demon race has the right to live legally in human cities, and more and more demon races have obtained their own "human world residence permit" and "human world residence permit" through the goblin bureaus distributed in major cities in the human world. ID card".

This group of goblins who have signed an agreement with humans, as long as they do not break the law, will not be harmed or expelled by human demon catchers.

Even those cultivators who were born with spiritual roots, practiced magic since childhood, and devoted themselves to slaying demons and guarding the world, no longer yelled nonsensely that "if it is not my race, its heart must be different".

Manzhu was originally a red python hidden in the deep mountains and devoted himself to practice for nearly 3000 years.

Just a while ago, when the catastrophe was approaching, a group of uninvited guests came to the restricted area of ​​the mountain forest that had not been exploited by humans for thousands of years--human monster hunters who had experienced in the mountains.

If it hadn't been for the catastrophe period, she would have been able to escape the search and kill of the demon catcher.

But those guys didn't come early and didn't come late, and they came on the day when the catastrophe fell, and they came to add so much trouble, causing her to be accidentally crushed by the overnight thunder when she was fleeing in a panic.

All creatures in the world have three souls and seven souls, among which the fetal light is the soul of life. If it is lost or damaged, the soul will fly away and will not enter reincarnation.

After the failure of crossing the tribulation, when her soul was about to disperse, she relied on instinct to follow a bloody aura and came to the bottom of a high mountain cliff.

In that twisted iron shell that she had never seen before, there were two cold twisted corpses and a dying little girl stuck inside.

The girl was firmly protected in the arms of an adult, but she still suffered fatal trauma. Her limbs were twisted and her body was covered in blood. She might not last long.

But the girl's soul is complete.

With a thought in mind, Manzhu pulled the girl out of the iron shell with all her spare strength, and slowly wrapped her around her body.

Anyway, this child is about to die, so it's better to give her the soul of life...

The monster race has forbidden techniques, and they live together with souls.

The soul-bonded people share the life span, share the pain, and go to life and death together.Moreover, if they are separated from each other beyond a certain distance, the souls of life will be torn apart because they cannot supply both sides, and the result will naturally be the death of the soul-bound person.

She couldn't do without the child.

Because of this, two months ago, she expended a lot of effort to contact her old friend who is now in Yuanchuan City.

The old friend rushed over after hearing the news, and after learning what had happened, he said with a surprised face: "So you and a... and a child who is so young?"

"Otherwise? The two big ones next to me are too cold." Manzhu said, "This child grew up in a human city, I can't take her back to Shennongjia, it will destroy her...I need to stay in the human world , take me through the process."

"Well, you refused to come no matter how much I persuaded you back then, but now it's because of a child..." the old friend said, pinching the center of his brows with a headache, and asked in a low voice, "Then you know, how much is the child's hospitalization and medical expenses? Money? Do you know how much it costs a goblin to apply for a human world residence permit and a human identity card?"

"..." Manzhu obviously didn't have much idea about money.

She was about to ask questions with an open mind, when she heard that this old friend of 2000 years opened his mouth like a cannonball, babbling non-stop.

"Do you know how much a house costs? Or do you know how much a temporary residence costs per month?"

"Do you know how much a junior high school child spends on tuition, books, and stationery each semester?"

"In addition to food and clothing, electricity and water at home, you also need to take care of the child's food, clothing, housing and transportation, which is not a small expense."

At this point, he finally stopped babbling, picked up a glass of ice water on the table to save money, and asked leisurely: "I said Honghong, do you have any money on you? Do you know where the money comes from?" ?”

Manzhu raised her eyes and asked back, "Are you rich?"

"I have money, and the money didn't come out of thin air, it's impossible to give it for nothing..."

"I borrowed it, and I will pay it back." Manzhu interrupted.

"Don't repay the loan in installments for hundreds of years? Then..." the man said, seeing a trace of impatient anger in Manzhu's eyes, he choked for a moment, as if remembering something bad in the past, his eyes froze. Added a little panic.

The corner of Manzhu's mouth raised a dangerous arc: "Mu Shenshan, you think it through before you go on."

The voice is soft to the bone, but contains a creepy coldness.

The goblin called Mu Shenshan immediately slapped the table again, changed his previous hesitant and stingy attitude, and said boldly: "Borrow! As long as I have it, I can borrow as much as I have! You leave this matter to me, just rest assured , I will definitely prepare everything for you. Don’t worry about work, I have a small shop, if you don’t mind, you can come and help.”

After half a month of waiting, Manzhu got his residence permit, ID card, a bank card, and a red Nokia flip phone for the elderly worth 138 yuan.

After teaching Manzhu how to read text messages and make calls, Mu Shenshan finally gave her a bunch of keys.

"This is an old house I used for transition in the early years. It has been idle for a long time and has not been rented. The floors are auspicious, the transportation is convenient, and you can buy everything quickly. It is also close to the school. It takes only [-] minutes for the children to walk to school." Mu Mu As Shen Shan said, he raised his eyebrows, "Heart-warming cottage, with all the household items, you can check in with your bags."

"There are three keys in total, the iron gate of the community, the iron gate of the residential building, and the iron gate of your house. Try it yourself when the time comes." Mu Shenshan said, turned around and left, but after walking a few steps, he turned around and compared to Manzhu. A gesture to make a phone call, "The child is healed, contact me to buy a ticket for you."

It sounds like a very good look.

But when Manzhu searched according to the detailed address written in the text message and led Lu Yudong to find the rented room, she still couldn't help but "pooh" in her heart.

No. [-] on the sixth floor, the number of floors is quite auspicious, but the inside is a bit shabby.

One guest bedroom, one kitchen and one bathroom.

Mu Shenshan piled up all the changes of clothes, sheets and bedding bought and sent in advance at the door of the room. When the door was opened, Manzhu couldn't help taking a deep breath.

The house is almost impossible to walk on.

It's okay if the space is crowded, and the north and the south are blocked. The only window is on the side of the one-piece bed cabinet.

Just this, a heart-warming hut with a complete set of household items, how about moving in with your bags?

She can't tell whether it's warm or not, but the room is really small because two people live in it.

It looked somewhat dirty, presumably no one lived in it for a while, and the house was cleaned very sloppily before handing over.

Manzhu lowered her head and looked awkwardly at Lu Yudong who had been following her all the time. Seeing that she was not dissatisfied, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Come on." She led Lu Yudong to the wooden sofa and sat down, and said nonsense very gently, "I will take you to report to the school in a few days, this is very close to the school I found for you, we... temporarily Living here will make it much more convenient for you to go to and from school."

Lu Yudong nodded emphatically.

"Then sit and rest for a while." Manzhu said, looking around, tied up her sleeves, got up and packed up this heart-warming hut that someone called "carry-in bags".

When she entered the community, she realized that this was not Manzhu's home.

No one would be so unfamiliar with their own home. With only three keys in hand, it would take a long time to try to enter the gate of a community.

If it weren't for the thief, he wouldn't have dressed like a fairy and looked so beautiful, the guard sitting in the security booth would almost have thought that the neighborhood was a thief.

Manzhu is so unfamiliar, it must be a lie to say that she didn't scare her.

She is no longer a child who doesn't understand anything. A person who has never met her kindly adopted her, took her all the way away from the city where she used to live, and couldn't even recognize the way "home". Reminiscent of the word "human trafficker".

But she didn't know why, she was obviously scared, but she still couldn't resist the unreasonable trust in her heart, she just wrote down the address seriously, buried her head, and silently followed Manzhu to the first floor of this old building. Six floors.

Originally, she had a lot of doubts in her heart, but she wanted to ask but dared not. Now she heard Manzhu say this, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out that this place was only rented out by Manzhu for the convenience of her going to school, and the unfamiliar way was entirely because Manzhu herself had never been there before.

Thinking of this, the corners of Lu Yudong's tightly pursed lips could not help but rise slightly.

She raised her eyes and secretly looked at Manzhu, who was busy cleaning the room, pinched her ten fingers, got up and went into the bathroom softly, rubbed an old handkerchief, walked to Manzhu's side lightly, and wiped it with her Every little corner of the house.

Manzhu looked at Lu Yudong in surprise at first, and then said nothing, but smiled happily and accepted her kindness.

After most of the afternoon passed, the small room was not only clean, but even the surrounding furnishings had changed a lot. This was a layout plan discussed by the two of them together, but Lu Yudong was so tired that he was out of breath.

The hut, which has been greatly changed according to my own intentions, suddenly feels a bit like home.

Manzhu glanced at the old wooden clock hanging on the wall, and said: "There is no food prepared in the house. If you want to eat, I will go downstairs and bring it back."

Lu Yudong rubbed the dirty corner of his clothes with his ashen little hands: "I'll go too."

Manzhu smiled and said: "I'll just go, you, dirty, like a little cat, take a bath first."

Lu Yudong pursed his lips and thought about it, then nodded obediently: "I'm not picky about food."

"Then I'll buy whatever I want." Manzhu said, turned and walked out the door.

Looking at the closed door, Lu Yudong secretly sighed in his heart: Man Zhu is in such good health, he has been busy all afternoon, and he doesn't cry tired or sweat.

After washing away the sweat stains all over his body, Lu Yudong changed into soft new pajamas, sat on the bed made by the window, unconsciously dangling his slender calves from side to side.

During the boring wait, she lay back and half-lyed on the bed with her hands open.

The tip of his left finger seemed to touch something, and when he looked sideways, he found the red flip phone beside the pillow.

Lu Yudong blinked hesitantly, and with a thought, he bent his fingertips and hooked it into the palm of his hand.

Opening it casually, I saw a text message that was edited in the draft box but not sent, and exceeded the number of words sent.

The newsletter begins with "Remember to buy", followed by various necessities for life and study, including soap, toothpaste, toothbrush, towel, school bag, stationery...

And, the cotton pajamas she was wearing at the moment.

After contemplating for a few seconds, she couldn't hold back, kicked her feet, and rolled twice on the bed with her mobile phone in her arms.

Somewhere in my heart, it warmed up a little.

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I don't know if the little angels have any idea about the flip phone that was more than ten years ago. Anyway, except for making calls and sending text messages, they basically can't do anything, and the text messages can't exceed 140 characters.

Don't ask, just ask old friends.

*感谢在2020-10-1302:03:35~2020-10-1401:30:54期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who cast the deep water torpedo: 1 swimming sheep;

Thanks to the little angel who cast the rocket launcher: 3 in October;

Thanks to the little angels who threw mines: 21 cat kings; 8 autumn duckweeds; 3 swimming sheep;

感谢灌溉营养液的小天使：世界24瓶；照君车马渡关河10瓶；不寤9瓶；咸鱼好几个字、闲鱼5瓶；哟哟哟2瓶；

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!