I Am Your Father

The New Year’s Eve in [-] is mostly a silvery snowy night, like rough and soft white sand, reflecting the candlelight exposed from the window cracks, and the red lanterns shrouding the lingering smoke from the roof, making it unexpectedly warm.

In the past, life was poor, and Li Zhizi didn't like the New Year very much, but Li Goudan was a child after all, he just watched the excitement around him, even if the food and play did not belong to him, there would be a simple joy in his eyes unconsciously.

So every time the twelfth lunar month comes, Li Zhi often pretends to be gods and ghosts together with other poor people in the village, beating gongs and drums all over the village to drive away evil spirits. Savings are enough to make the stomachs of the two fathers bulge for a few days.

Apart from eating and drinking, of course the most essential thing, and the thing that excites the two of you the most, is Thirty Midnight, throwing the cut bamboo into the brazier, squatting under the eaves, tightly covering Li Goudan's ears, listening to Bamboo joints are roasted by the fire and crackle and explode from time to time, which is not coherent, but it is one after another with the shaking of other houses. It can be regarded as a substitute for expensive gunpowder firecrackers on the market to drive away mountain ghosts and plague gods.

All in all, if you take it easy, you can pass the year, after all, the hardest part is the ordinary life.

It's just that this year's New Year's Eve is destined to be different from usual.

"Shh."

As soon as he entered the room from the outside, Li Zhi couldn't wait to pat off his frosty body. He gestured lightly to Li Goudan, who hadn't taken off his cloak, then turned around and leaned against the door, and looked narrowly. Jie's back figure has gradually blended with the snow color.

The three of them had just returned from the town with a lot of bags and bought a lot of necessities for the New Year, but as soon as they entered the hospital, Si Jie remembered that he had missed something and had to go back to get it again. Li Zhi asked him what it was and didn't say anything. Let him go alone.

——It's also in the middle of Li Zhi's arms.

He happened to be thinking all the way, how to avoid Si Jie's eyes later.

"Look what this is!"

Confirming that Si Jie will definitely go far away, Li Zhi will not delay any longer, he reaches out his hand and roughly takes out the long paper bag wrapped tightly inside from his stuffed bosom, opens it a few times, and shines at Li Goudan's eyes, grinning his teeth. road.

"..."

Li Goudan's face was still pink, and a bunch of candied haws suddenly appeared in his eyes, which smelled sweet, and he was stunned.

Indeed, what Li Zhi sneakily brought back from the market was this bunch of candied haws.

No wonder he is so cautious, since Li Goudan's permanent teeth grew after he was eight years old, such sweets have become forbidden in the house, and Li Zhi endured it when he pretended to be Jin Li in Jinlou two years ago The torment of the lock caused serious damage to the inner cavity. Si Jie is now recuperating for him day after day without interruption, and he is most taboo to touch cold things.

Therefore, the candied haws should not be eaten by Li Zhi or Li Goudan. Once Si Jie found out, the consequences would be disastrous.

In the hot summer, he just asked Li Goudan to cover for him and steal a few pieces of watermelon, and then he was fined to smash the watermelon rind at the bottom of the wall holding half a cup of tea. Although there was a "hug" after the lifting, it was a "hug" crying for father and mother and swearing.

I still have lingering fears in retrospect.

Facing Li Goudan's cool gaze in a trance, it was obvious that Li Goudan also subconsciously remembered that unforgettable lesson, Li Zhi couldn't help touching his waist that was almost gone, and Si Jie's wolfish appearance that his six relatives didn't recognize was just like yesterday.

However, there is no reason not to eat the delicious food that is on the lips. He and Li Goudan will finish eating quickly, and when Si Jie returns, there will be no scum left, so how could they be discovered?

Thinking of this, Li Zhi heard Li Goudan's slight swallowing of saliva, and he knew it in his heart, so he opened his mouth without hesitation, and took down the one with the most rock candies hanging on the top.

The mouth is sweet and sour, and the ice is crispy, chewing hurriedly, clucking, clucking, so greedy that the eyes of the dog's eyes flickered, and the corners of the mouth followed unnaturally.

Finally, after Li Zhi blinked and devoured nearly half of the food, he couldn't help it anymore, and grabbed the corner of Li Zhi's cloak with trembling hands.

"Stinky boy."

Li Zhi chewed so ferociously that he grinned and cursed with a smile.

When Si Jie returned home with his head full of wind and snow, half an hour later, Li Zhizi and Li Goudan had already eaten up the candied haws and wiped them off, even folded the wooden sticks and stuffed them into the stove. into ashes.

"What did you buy again—"

With quick eyes and hands, he quickly picked off a little bit of sugar syrup on Li Goudan's brand new cloak, obviously just accidentally eating it, Li Zhi didn't finish his guilty question, stared at the package that Si Jie shook open, and straightened his eyes again.

It was all kinds of fireworks.

There is even a "ground mouse" that he is reluctant to glance at when he is walking in the market, that kind of luxury thing that ignites the fuse and the tail of the mouse will sizzling and jump around.

"How much money did it cost?" Li Zhi asked distressedly.

"Not much." Si Jie said lightly.

"Lie," Li Zhi pouted, "you don't have to hide it..."

"There is no concealment," Si Jie saw Li Goudan's staring gaze, walked over a few steps, and gently put the package in Li Zhi's hand, "Someone who knows is good at making this method. He happened to meet at the noon market. Tell me to pick it up."

"When it gets dark, you can set off, just pay attention to safety."

"Wait a minute," I can understand someone giving Si Jie these things, but what makes Li Zhi more and more confused is, "Market at noon? Aren't the three of us always together? Why didn't I see someone talking to you?"

"..." Si Jie stared at him for a long time this time, then suddenly fell silent.

Until Li Zhi narrowed his eyes, he winked as if he had seen through his little tricks and said: "I think you want to surprise us, why don't you be embarrassed—"

"It was when you secretly bought candied haws, you probably didn't notice."

"..."

So a stubborn thief smiled on his face.

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A small candy on New Year's Eve, I wish all the little angels peace and happiness in the new year, the main text is temporarily postponed for a day, and there may be another snow play after the end.

116. Evil ([-])

In the gray daylight, there seems to be a faint light spreading down lightly, but unfortunately it is not the long-lost sunlight, but the cool broken snow, which melts away on the ground, leaving only faint dark marks, which cannot cover the muddy dust under the feet.

Chi Ke's words were like countless cold blades hidden in snowflakes, blowing densely and easily into Li Zhi's internal organs, he naturally rejected them subconsciously, but the messy memories that swarmed in made all the mess invisible.

His thoughts were uncontrollably caught up in the hunting wind. He watched Li Baier and Yan Jinghe both fall. What he couldn't deny was the hatred he had never had for Yan Jinghe at that moment. He hated him as the leader of the five factions, hated His unfeeling towards Li Bai'er, hated him for never caring about him, even hated him for being his father.

Together with the Token of Cangsheng that fell from his palm, when he knew the meaning of that thing, there was more in his heart, which was nothing but great sadness.

But he never thought that his father, who never even said a word to him, would sacrifice his life in exchange for him, and in the end, he would be betrayed by the so-called justice that he wanted to uphold even to the death.

As for him, even if he survived, he is still the most humble dust in the rivers and lakes, no matter who can step on him wantonly.

——Do not occupy your land, do not make incense for the other side, and do not steal children.

As he was crumbling, Si Jie's soft words that he had steadfastly whispered in his ear from the darkness were like a tiny candlelight, supporting Li Zhi to regain his wits through the weak light, and forced himself to calmly hold back his expression, Turning to look at Si Jie.

Up to now, it doesn't matter whether he is acting or not, he just wants to hear Si Jie's explanation, if Si Jie doesn't admit it, he won't believe anyone.

"The head of the division..." The voice was hoarse, and he coughed a few times to erase the vague and weak voice, and then asked broadly, ignoring others, "Is what he said true or false?"

"..." Si Jie, who had never looked over, finally met his gaze at this moment, but it seemed to be covered with ice and snow, freezing the scorching gaze reflected inside.

"The chief—"

"good."

Wei Yuanchun's words that were about to stop were suddenly stopped by Si Jie, and as Si Jie answered in a deep voice, Wei Yuanchun's face froze instantly, not only sternly.

"As he said, I was indeed entrusted by the five sects to go to Duishui Village to find you in order to obtain Bi Anxiang."

"..."

"About Yan Jinghe's orders for the common people... I do know."

Facing Li Zhi, Si Jie said a few words in a calm manner, like a mountain falling, instantly extinguishing Li Zhi's last candle, and crushing him into invisible powder.

Suddenly, a fire with nowhere to escape burned in the chest cavity, and the blazing fire was suffocating in the fistful of hearts. Li Zhi almost screamed, piercing the clouds and cracking stones in his ears, and could not hear Wei Yuanchun's dissatisfaction with Si Jie's sudden confession. The joys, anger, sorrows and joys that he cherished in his heart were all broken into pieces in the blink of an eye, each piece was inlaid with Si Jie's words, piercing sharply into the flesh and blood. Not worth mentioning.

"But what I said," Si Jie stared at Li Zhi's expression that was constantly collapsing, and said with a slight pause, "it's all sincerity—"

"roll!"

The overwhelming anger mixed with the soul-stirring internal force almost destroyed the cypresses on the steep slopes of Sumang Valley, and Li Zhi's uncontrollable fiery breath burst out instantly.

"..." The splashing sand, stones, branches and leaves rustled, rushed to Si Jie's feet, and collided with his motionless figure. He saw Li Zhi's anger that had been defeated, and there was a rare expression on his face that was usually calm. shaken.

It's not that what he said is false, but that he is as sure as he is in everything, and thinks he is invincible, but still underestimates the injustice and bitterness of Li Zhi when the truth comes out of nowhere.

"You goddamn..."

And his eyes were bloodshot red, and cursing obviously couldn't vent the resentment in Li Zhi's heart, like any sharp words