Strange Tale

Gobbling his meal, Si Ren became more and more confused: If what he sees in front of him is an illusion, then why is he hungry again after eating just now?

And looking at the big fish and meat Mrs. Si put into his bowl again and again, he didn't think there was anything wrong at all.

That's right, mother doesn't know that I don't eat meat.

But... She is my mother, how could she not know?

……

While thinking wildly, Si Ren unconsciously ate up everything in the bowl in front of him.The girl Si Ren saw for the first time just now came over and said to take him back to his room.Si Ren remembered, this girl was called Xiao Zhu, and the family bought it for him.Later, I heard what my parents said inside and out. I thought Si Ren was stupid, and I was afraid that he would not be able to marry a daughter-in-law of the right family in the future, so I bought a girl to take care of me in advance, so that I can marry directly when I grow up to the right age.

Following behind Xiaozhu, Si Ren thought to himself: Isn't she about my age?Why do you still look like a teenager?Oh, right.Si Ren looked at his hands again: Could it be that I am also at the same age now?

Soon after arriving at the place, Si Ren stood at the door and glanced around: that's right, it was his room when he was at home.The furnishing of the room had not changed at all.He saw the ivory-carved wardrobe from a distance.But what attracted him was not the wardrobe, but the figure in the full-length mirror mounted on it—himself in the mirror.

Slowly walking to the mirror, Si Ren gradually saw his current appearance clearly: his clothes became as bright and bright as before at home, and his coarse clothes and rotten shoes were gone.He has become shorter, and his body is round and fat. Although his facial features have the shadow of adulthood, the lines are obviously blurred and rounded.The mud marks on the face are still faintly visible, but the most eye-catching ones are the white marks on the chin and jaw that have been soaked by nasal mucus and saliva all the year round.

Although Si Ren knew that he was no longer stupid since then, but he still looked stupid in the mirror.

Holding the fat on his face, Si Ren smiled: So I used to be like this.How long has it been?I don't remember anything...

"Third young master?" Xiao Zhu also appeared in the mirror, "You will return this, if I hadn't taken it away in time, the master might scold you for picking things up again."

Xiaozhu put Si Ren's backpack back on him.Si Ren turned around, picked it up and opened it for a look: it was empty, there was nothing there.

Shouldn't it be like this?Si Ren reached in and touched it carefully.

But if it is not empty, what should be in it?Si Ren found that he couldn't remember at all.But he didn't panic at all, as if everything was as it should be.

"But young master, where did you pick up this rag bag?" Xiaozhu picked up the backpack and looked at it along with it.

"I didn't pick it up, it was given to me by my master. He said it was called a 'cosmic bag', so I must take it well."

"Master? What master? When did the young master have a master?"

"That's when I met on the mountain..."

"Third...Third young master..."

Si Ren raised his head, Xiao Zhu was staring at him dumbfounded.

"what happened?"

"You...you can speak normally?!"

"When can I not speak normally?"

"I have never been able to! When I went out this morning, I asked you where you were going, and you pointed at 'Dudushanshan' for a long time, and I realized that you are going to Dushuoshan."

"This morning?"

"Yes."

"Really." Si Ren suddenly felt that this conversation was very familiar.

"I'm going to tell lord and madam!"

Xiaozhu turned to run.

Si Ren pulled her back, "Is there still Huang Xian at home?"

Bead nodded.Si Ren raised his foot to leave, but Xiao Zhu held him back, "Master, what are you doing?"

"Go to the altar."

"Did you forget? My lord won't let you go there."

"why?"

Xiaozhu stopped talking.

"You think I'm stupid?"

Xiaozhu raised her head, with a worried expression on her face, "Third young master, you are smart, don't you remember the past?"

Si Ren thought for a while, "I don't remember, I can't remember anything. I have never been able to remember it. But don't tell my parents about me, okay? I'm going to the altar, you can help Am I keeping watch?"

"But... if the master finds out..."

Si Ren grabbed Xiaozhu's sleeve and shook it twice, "Xiaozhu, please, help me."

Xiao Zhu blushed, "The third young master has become smarter, and also...better looking."

Si Ren turned his head to look in the mirror, the snot and saliva marks were still blindingly white, and he "looked good" without seeing anything.

After dark, the Si family made offerings.

Outside the door, Xiaozhu looked around tremblingly.Menli Siren rushed to the altar in a few steps.

There was a picture on the wall of a man who didn't look like a unicorn at all.But there are incense candles and tributes in front of the painting, and Si Ren can be sure that this is the Tang Xian that his family has enshrined for several generations.

"Xiao Lin!" Si Ren shouted at the portrait.

The portrait remains unchanged.

"Xiao Lin! Come out quickly, I know you are here!"

The portrait is still the same.

"I'm Xiaoren! Come out!"

……

Si Ren stayed in the altar for a long time, but he couldn't call out the unicorn until the sound of footsteps came from a distance.Xiaozhu pulled him to try to run but failed, but was discovered by Si Ren's two older brothers passing by.

"Xiao Zhu! Stop!" Si Ren's eldest brother, Si Quan, was a little grumpy.

Xiao Zhu stood in front of Si Ren, "Elder...Eldest Young Master, Second Young Master..."

"Silly girl, why do you protect that idiot all day?" It was Si Ren's second brother who said this, his name was Si Liu.

Si Ren pulled Xiao Zhu behind him, "I'm not a fool, don't..."

He suddenly saw a cage in Si Liu's hand, inside which a small yellow figure was jumping up and down.

"Xiao Lin!" Si Ren rushed over.

Si Liu dexterously dodged backwards, and Si Ren staggered and fell to the ground.

How did the body become so clumsy? !Si Ren panicked and quickly got up from the ground.Si Quan and Si Liu laughed together.

"Give me Xiaolin!" Si Ren shouted, pointing at the cage.

"Xiaolin?" Si Liupi looked at Si Ban and then at the cage with a half-smile, "You mean this yellow man?"

"How dare you put Tang Xian in a cage! I'm going to tell dad!"

"Tang Xian? Ah ha ha ha ha..."

Si Liu laughed even harder, "You are really unambiguous when you say you are stupid. If this weasel is really a fairy, can I catch it? Can I put it in a cage? You pig-headed Can't you think before you speak?"

Si Ren was speechless: Yes?Why doesn't Xiaolin run away?Even if he doesn't run away, his magic power is more than enough to deal with two ordinary mortals.

But that's right, it's Qilin, Si Ren recognizes it.

"Give me the cage."

"Why? I caught it."

"Will you give it?"

"No!"

……

"Wait!" Si Quan interrupted the quarrel between the two younger brothers, "Third brother? You...can talk to people well? Are you not stupid?"

"I'm not stupid!"

Si Quan and Si Liu were stunned together.

Si Ren himself was also a little surprised: he has learned not to be surprised by favor or insult after years of wandering abroad.Why, as soon as I got home, everything seemed to be back to the original place.He became that helpless boy who wanted to prove himself all the time.

After a while, Si Liu laughed, "Aren't you stupid? If you're twelve or thirteen years old and still wet the bed? If you're not stupid, you can't memorize an ancient poem for several months? If you're not stupid, you'll go outside with your butt naked in winter... ..."

"Enough! What you said...that was all in the past." In fact, Si Ren doesn't remember a single thing, "I will become a very powerful mage in the future and know a lot of spells! I will go to many places that you have never heard of! I don't believe it. Look!"

Si Ren pointed to a stone on the ground, thinking of turning a stone into gold.But when the spell came to his lips, he was shocked to find that he couldn't remember a single word!

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……"

After the extremely embarrassing silence, Si Quan and Si Liu burst into laughter again.Finally, Si Quan shook his head, "Well, the third brother is not stupid anymore. Heh heh, crazy!"

When Master Si heard the news and rushed over, the three brothers were wrestling inseparable.

In the end, Siquan Siliu was punished by the family law for beating his younger brother together, while Si Ren was slapped twice and locked in the room for disrespecting his elder brother and trespassing in the altar.

When Si Ren remembered that Qilin asked Xiaozhu to help him find the cage, the cage that was squeezed and deformed in the chaos was already empty.

Si Ren sat on the bed and stared out of the window for a while, feeling exhausted, Si Ren curled up his knees and bathed in the familiar but strange pale moonlight, and soon fell asleep.

General's House.

Si Ren lay motionless on the ground with his eyes wide open, like a dead man.Kneeling beside him was Long Jiu, and in front of Long Jiu was Du Du Wan who was sitting on the felt and drinking tea leisurely.

"Grandma, please, let him go."