rose nursery rhyme

The morning sun is just right.

Xi Di had a regular schedule, and she was exhausted last night, but she still opened her eyes on time when the first rays of sunlight entered the room.

He casually grabbed two handfuls of hair that had been messed up by himself, turned his head to look out the window, then slowly turned his head back, staring at the wall in front of him in a daze.

Brice was awake and hadn't moved before. Seeing that Xidi woke up, he finally sat up, gently took the boy into his arms, pressed against his back, and asked him thoughtfully: "How do you feel? ?"

When Xidi heard his voice, her body tensed in conditioned reflex.

This man looked gentle, but who knew he was so strong in bed.Even if Xidi is a little pervert who is not afraid of anything, it is the first time she has done this kind of thing, and she is not skilled in business, so she can only be bullied.

Xidi complained softly: "I thought it was going to be broken."

Feeling sick and messed up.It's not that painful, it's just uncomfortable.

Brice admitted his mistake with a good attitude: "Sorry, it's my fault."

Xidi still hasn't forgotten about it: "You pay me for the little scythe."

Brice agreed happily: "Okay."

Xidi was finally reluctantly happy, and nestled into Bryce's arms, and touched the bloodstains she scratched out last night with her fingers bit by bit.

His strength was surprisingly great, and he didn't stop his hand on purpose. In addition, it was the first time he experienced such an exciting feeling. Even though his nails were not long, he still scratched many marks on Bryce's body.

Bryce's originally flawless skin is now covered with streaks, and there are bruises from when Sidi was bitten hard, which looks worse than Sidi.

Xidi touched it twice, and was a little curious: "Does it hurt?"

Brice's tone was as gentle as ever, but the meaning in the words sounded wrong: "This is a gift from you, even if it is pain, you gave it to me."

Xi Di: "..."

He straightened up a little, tilted his head and asked, "You knew me before?"

Then I thought about it, and then denied it myself: "No, I've never seen you before."

Not many people would come to his room in the first place, not to mention Bryce's conspicuous appearance and temperament. If the two of them had met before, Xidi would never forget it.

He is very confident in his memory.

Brice didn't answer clearly, but slowly straightened the boy's messy hair, and said in a nice voice, "I've been watching you."

Sidi: "Um..."

He stared suspiciously at Bryce's silver-gray eyes for a while, but didn't see anything, so he leaned back flatly again: "Forget it."

He still feels a little uncomfortable, and he doesn't want to move for the time being.

Bryce sat quietly holding him for a while.

This was only the second day when the two of them met, but after... such a thing happened, they sat together, and the scene was strangely harmonious.

Xi Di took Brice's hand again. The man's fingers were slender and white, only the joints were slightly red, and he didn't wear jewelry. Just looking at it like this, it looked like a precious work of art.

...Just looking at these hands, no one would have imagined that they could have such great power to tame a... undisciplined little lunatic.

Sidi rarely had the opportunity to be in such close contact with other living people. After thinking about it, he put his hand on Bryce's open palm and gestured. Si walked around for a while, then pushed Brice's hand away unhappily, and turned to study his hair hanging in front of him.

Bryce is like a truly gentle and tolerant adult. Ren Juvenile carefully observed his own structure, and only stopped when Xidi tried to break off a small finger from him, and asked: "You last night... Why did you come to me?"

Xi Di was busy braiding his thin braids, as if she didn't listen carefully, she snorted vaguely: "Huh?"

Brace: "This."

His hand moved down gently, and hooked several places on Sidi's body if there was nothing: "Why?"

Sidi shuddered slightly.

He glanced at Bryce, his eyes were clear olive green: "...you want to know?"

Brace: "Would you like to tell me?"

There is nothing to be reluctant about.Sidi slowly stuffed herself back into Bryce's arms and picked up the chain around her neck.

He didn't take off the 'God's Eye' last night, and he didn't have time to clean it afterwards. There were some messy bodily fluids hanging on it, which had dried up and reflected a strange light.

It's downright blasphemy.

But the 'God's Eye' still didn't respond.

Xidi felt quite boring, put down the chain again, and said softly: "...the place where I used to live is not far from here."

Bryce didn't answer and listened quietly.

Xidi: "It's not far from the lord's castle... just next to it, I don't know if you've seen it, a small white house with a pointed roof and red roses around it."

Brace: "Atonement?"

Xidi seemed very well-behaved when he was rarely quiet, and there was nothing else to attract his attention. His narration was tentatively organized: "So it's called that? I don't know, but there should be only that white house nearby. Wrong, that should be it."

Bryce obviously knew the place Xidi mentioned: "That's the residence of the 'Rose of Thorns' believers... Did you know that there was a plague here a few decades ago."

Xidi herself has just grown up, so how could she know what happened decades ago.

Bryce told him slowly: "The lord at that time angered the bard who passed by his door. That night, the bard passed through the forest with his flute and took away all the animals in the forest. ...and also brought disaster to the lord's domain."

This is an untrue fairy tale.

But the plague was real, and it killed a fifth of the realm's population until a cure was finally found, and the original source was not known.

Sheedy: "Oh, so you're the poet?"

Brice smiled: "No, not me, I have nothing to do with this."

Sidi: "Really?"

Brace: "I never lie to you."

Sheedy didn't quite believe it.

"The 'Atonement House' used to be a ward... used to park patients suffering from the plague." Brace said, "Because the plague was extremely contagious, for a long time, that place was very Few pass by."

Sidi: "Except for the Rose Cultists."

"Yes." Brice kissed his forehead softly, "except for the believers of 'Rose of Thorns'."

'The Rose of Thorns' is the most popular and well-known religion on the mainland.

Also one of the weirdest.

Xi Di frowned, unwilling to think about these things: "I don't like them."

The most basic teaching of 'Roses of Thorns' is: the world is full of evil.

They praise the newborn baby, thinking that it is the original form of 'the least polluted by the secular world', but as soon as the baby starts to learn to read and write, the 'pure' suddenly becomes the 'dirtiest', according to some extremists In my view, humans should not even have the most basic communication functions.

Because once a person learns to communicate, he basically learns the root of all bad things such as scrambling, resentment, jealousy...etc.

Like a delicate rose tangled in thorns.

If you want to atone for your sins, you have to join a religion and practice penance with them.

Ordinary believers can practice at home... Only the most steadfast part of their faith will enter the 'House of Atonement' and become a part of the whole rose of thorns. From now on, they will only follow orders.

Xidi was picked up by them, and it was difficult for the child to control his emotions, so the believers who adopted him soon discovered his mixed-race identity.

I don't know what race they are mixed with, but human eyes certainly don't change color by themselves.

Human beings will not have difficulty restraining their inexplicable impulses. If they can't destroy something, they must hurt themselves.

Xi Di was born with a lack of normal emotions. His way of looking at the world is different from that of human beings. The whole person is like a collection of sins.

"There is a big sign in front of my room." Xi Di complained softly, "There are about fifty 'don'ts' listed on it, and there are another fifty rules that must be followed."

Brice is very understanding: "Living there, I'm afraid it will be very tiring."

"It's all right," Sheedy said. "I don't hate being a good kid. But I want to know what a bad kid is going to be."

Xidi looked at those rules every day, and some of them Xidi liked very much, such as going to bed early and getting up early, and he had decided to always abide by them and not to deliberately violate them.

As for "desires corrupt" or "be cautious in your words and deeds, and always recite the teachings"...

Xi Di intends to violate them one by one to see if there will be any serious consequences.

His former life was given to him by the Rosary, but the world should not be like this.

"They didn't teach me, so I had to learn by myself...they wouldn't let me do anything." Sidi put her cheek on Bryce's smooth long hair, and rubbed her face coquettishly, "But I saw, Someone is sneaking around the corner breaking the 'code'."

"Are they bad kids too?" The boy's voice was very soft, with genuine confusion, "I don't understand."

"There are many kinds of bad boys." Brice understood what was going on, patted him on the back, and coaxed him.

"You're one of the cutest ones."

Xidi felt that his new companion was very good. He still hadn't forgotten Bryce's question at the beginning, so he replied seriously: "Because the rules say it's not allowed to do it, so I've never done it. I've wanted to try it for a long time. tried."

Brice paused subtly when he patted him on the back: "...so you came to me just because you have never done it before, out of curiosity?"

Xidi nodded as a matter of course: "Yes."

There was nothing strange in Brice's voice: "Meaning, if it wasn't me who met you at the time, but anyone—is it okay?"

"...That's not true." Xidi realized that something was wrong, although he didn't understand what happened, but in order not to annoy his new companion, he still replied cautiously, "I also... of."

Brice's appearance and ability are obviously qualified, the bottom line is that he can't be killed casually by himself on a whim.

Dead people can do nothing.

"Okay." Brice's smile was so beautiful that it was almost breathtaking, he pinched Xi Di's chin, let him look at him, and asked the boy more and more gently, "Now that you have tried it, how do you feel about me?"

"It's okay." Xi Di thought for a while, "And it seems that nothing happened after doing it. I really don't understand why they want to ban this..."

Brace didn't want to hear any more, and gagged him himself.

The author says:

The story in the middle uses 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin', which is a story I like very much~