happy looking back

On the ruins, there was a row of houses made of solid stones. The houses had no doors, only a window about forty centimeters wide, and eight iron pillars on the window were firmly embedded in the stone wall.

Father took advantage of the night to push through the thorns, and quietly approached the westernmost window, "Cack, croak!" A series of cuckoos chirped from his father's mouth, and he vaguely saw a black cloud passing through the window. shadows.

The mountain wind rolled up the vines all over the sky, making a "rustling" sound, and a biting chill made me shiver all over my body.

"Don't be afraid! I'm here." Li Xiqing behind me comforted me in my ear, and pulled me tightly into her arms with a pair of strong arms.Leaning on the broad chest behind him, he stabilized his mind, and when he looked at his father again, he had already disappeared outside the stone wall.

"Where's Dad?" I pulled down Li Xiqing's palm that was lightly covering my mouth, and asked anxiously.

"Go in." Li Xiqing seemed to find something interesting, his eyes flashed with excitement.

"Then let's go and find out." I was very curious what the father came here for?Although I still feel that this wasteland is eerie and mysterious like a ghost.

"Baby isn't afraid?" Li Xiqing asked pretending to be surprised.

"Don't be afraid!" Looking at Li Xiqing's raised lip line, I felt a little reconciled to being underestimated.

Li Xiqing didn't hesitate any longer, picked me up and walked along the path that my father walked just now, and walked towards the stone house quietly.Crouching furtively under the stone wall, he vaguely heard his father's suppressed voice.

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21. Found...

"Is Uncle Zhang's legs better?" He heard his father's suppressed voice from inside the stone room, and the rustling sound of rough and washed cloth.

"It's much better, thanks to these hot plasters, I have spent a lot of effort on this medicine." The voice was hoarse and old, with a touch of joy, it should be an old man.

"It's okay! It's just—" Father's hoarse throat once choked.Lying on the stone wall and listening to the corner, I was even more confused. I remember the old injury on my grandfather's knee the year before last, and it was so sore that I couldn't even walk.Father rushed to the county seat overnight to ask Grandpa Jian for some ointment for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. At that time, Grandpa wondered why it smelled like gastrodia elata.I don't know what kind of traditional Chinese medicine Tianma is, but my father's eyes were a little dodgy at that time.

"This ointment for treating old cold legs has a really strong smell. If you use too much, you will be discovered sooner or later." The old voice gently comforted the guilt-ridden father.I secretly muttered in my heart: Isn't Dad born by Grandpa?Is it the people who live here? !I raised my head and looked suspiciously at Li Xiqing who was leaning against the wall.Li Xiqing shook her head, with an unconcealable smile on her lips.

snort!Just as if he was a dish!I rolled my eyes and planned to continue eavesdropping. I must uncover the mystery of my father's life experience.As soon as I put my head on the stone wall, a pair of slender palms suddenly pinched my baby-fat face, forcing me to look at the man in front of me.

The cold moonlight made the face close at hand glow with a milky white halo. It should have been a pleasing handsome face, but now it was maliciously scheming.From these bright eyes, I can clearly see my pinched and deformed bun face, and a pair of big watery eyes full of grief and anger.

"Woo~~~!" Don't pinch my face.

"You are really cute." Li Xiqing "baji" dropped a wet kiss on my hot cheek.

I watched in astonishment on Li Xiqing's usually cold and tense face with feline joy, and the light beard on his smooth chin had a gray-brown soft luster, which made him look a little immature.Just like a ripened persimmon, it is bright red on the outside, but not necessarily sweet on the inside, and may be very astringent.

"Baby wants me to kiss you again." Li Xiqing murmured in a low voice with a cynical teaser, and pressed her mouth to my cheek again.I snapped back to my senses, supported Li Xiqing's protruding forehead, squinted my eyes imposingly and threatened: stop as long as it suits you!

"It's all caused by the moon." I shook my head and sighed, trying my best to let myself ignore the iron hooped arm around my waist and the strong thighs under the buttocks.

"I'm here this time, and I'm bringing your favorite old Baigan." The father calmed down his sad mood, and shook the package in his hand carefully.I heard voices coming from inside again from outside the wall, and immediately gave up the eye attack on Li Xiqing, and concentrated on eavesdropping on the conversation of the people inside.

"I'll drink it later! Did you bring it?" The old man, who was called Uncle Zhang by his father, stopped the movement of his father's hand and asked expectantly.I pressed my ears to the wall nervously and curiously, what is it?

"He's chubby and healthy." Uncle Zhang smiled gratifiedly, with the kindness and expectation of the elders in his tone.I secretly wondered in my heart, what is chubby and healthy.When my mother sent my father out of the bamboo forest, I saw it for real. There was nothing else but the package, let alone it seemed to be a living thing.

"I want to eat all day long, my mouth is sweet, and I know how to coax people. The whole family hangs around him, how can I not be chubby." The father's lowered voice was a little annoyed, but there was a deep pampering and he couldn't hide it. favorite.

Why did it sound like a pig and me? I looked at Li Xiqing, who was holding back a smile, with some doubts.

"It's about you baby pig." Li Xiqing whispered next to my ear, so angry that I bowed my head and took a bite, leaving two rows of watermarked tooth sockets on Li Xiqing's arm.Satisfied, he glanced at Li Xiqing who was in pain but did not dare to speak.

"I really want to meet this smart little guy." Uncle Zhang sighed in relief, his voice a little erratic.It seemed that there were too many uncertainties, which made him feel that such anticipation was an almost extravagant fantasy.

"I'll definitely bring him here when he gets older." His father lowered his voice with some urgency.

"I don't know if my body can still—" The old and hoarse voice revealed a dying depression.My heart sank suddenly: Only those who do not have any desire for the hope of life can break through life and death so indifferently.

"It's definitely possible!" The father's voice seemed very excited.

"Let's not talk about that, wait for that kid Kimurano—"

"Don't move!" There was a loud shout from behind, and the old voice in the stone room stopped abruptly.I turned my head dumbly, and saw a Japanese-style scimitar with a cold light on Li Xiqing's neck.

I don't know when Li Xiqing stood behind a disheveled man, his clothes were torn into strips, barely covering the important parts.The messy long hair covered his eyes, only the bearded chin and the slightly cruel corners of the mouth could be seen.

"I have no malicious intent." Li Xiqing didn't make any unnecessary movements, and even her voice was so soothing and non-threatening.However, the arms above my waist and the thighs under my buttocks were tense in an instant, and the muscles as hard as iron bulged. It can be imagined that his burst of strength in an instant was enough to tear the tiger alive.

"Why did you appear here?!" The deep voice was full of bloodthirsty violence, and the sharp blade leaned against Li Xiqing's neck again.I looked at the blade as thin as a cicada's wing only two centimeters away from my nose in horror, and "Gudong" swallowed nervously.Feeling the gloomy gaze cast by the man opposite, her body shivered and shrank into Li Xiqing's arms, not daring to look forward again.

"Who?!" A group of black shadows stood by the window, the old voice was hoarse, not peaceful at all, but rather decisive.

"No matter who it is, he must stay today." The deep voice revealed a cold killing intent.

The surrounding air was suddenly suffocated, and a faint smell of blood permeated the air.Bright red blood drops hung from the coldly shining knife tip, dripping down, leaving shocking bloodstains on my belly.

The "beheading" video I saw in my previous life suddenly appeared in my mind: the moment the aorta ruptured, bright red and warm blood gushed out.A ruptured trachea makes one feel like a beast, unable even to wail before dying.

"Father! Ahem~~~" This horrifying scene once made me lose my appetite for three days.But now I feel my throat is rapidly stiff, and the flood of saliva chokes into my lungs, causing a severe cough.Tears don't know whether they were frightened or choked, big and big ones rolled down uncontrollably.

"Baby! Why are you here!" The father rushed to the window just in time to see my pale face and trembling body.

"Baby?!" The vicious man was stunned for a moment when he heard his father's exclamation.However, at this moment of distraction, a strong black air flow rushed towards his face, and the man fell to the ground with a muffled "plop".

Everything came too fast, and everyone on the scene was sluggish.

I held on to Li Xiqing's skirt tightly, and after a sudden shaking, everything returned to calm.Li Xiqing's right leg, which suddenly exerted strength, still maintained an offensive posture, pointing at the fallen man with a provocative meaning.

A pile of vines under the wall made a "rustling" sound, and the thorns were pushed away to reveal a dark and faint hole that only allowed one person to enter and exit.I watched my father get out of it, rushing to Li Xiqing with a face full of anger and haste, and hugged me in his arms.

"Let's go in and talk about it, Kimura, go check around again." My father hugged my trembling body tightly, turned and said to the man who just got up from the ground.

"En!" The man nodded, picked up the Japanese machete from the ground, and quickly disappeared into the vast night.

When my father dragged me out of the cave, I looked at the closed stone room in front of me in surprise. A damp and rancid smell made my unaccustomed nose sneezed several times in a row