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In a desolate wilderness forest.
The biting cold wind kept howling, and the goose feathers and heavy snow were blowing one after another, making every eye white.
Although the setting sun had not completely set, the mountains and forests under the snow-covered sky were already very dark.
An unobvious mountain road in the forest, winding and winding, is almost indistinguishable under the thick snow cover, but there is a gleam of fire at the end of its extension, revealing a little warmth in the ice and snow.
The bright spot of the fire is the only mountain temple in this mountain forest with a radius of thousands of miles.
Due to the inaccessibility of people, this mountain temple has long lost its incense and has been abandoned for many years. The gatehouse and courtyard walls of the outer courtyard have already collapsed, leaving only a dilapidated main hall standing alone.
The gate of the main hall has long been missing, and a dilapidated straw mat is half-laid on the door frame, hastily covering the wind and snow outside the hall.
Through the hole in the straw mat, one can see the empty hall, except for some messy withered grass and bricks, there is also a figure sitting cross-legged in the middle.
It was a tall young man in green clothes. Even if he was sitting on the ground, his figure looked unusually tall and straight, but his face was expressionless and indifferent, just like the dilapidated clay statue behind him, rigid, sluggish, and lifeless .
The tall young man folded his arms on his chest, and there was a slender girl lying between his arms, it was the little fox demon Liu Le'er.
"Well… "
At this moment, a low moan suddenly came from the young man's arms.
Liu Le'er's small head arched towards the young man's arm, and the cheek that was buried deeply in front of his chest moved a little outward, protruding from between his arms.
The originally pretty and tender little face is now flushed with sickness. It is obviously still in a deep sleep, but the pair of beautiful eyebrows are tightly knit together, and the eyeballs are rolling left and right under the closed eyelids. Terrible dream.
"No... don't... woo..."
Accompanied by a burst of babbling in her dreams, Liu Le'er subconsciously tightened her arms around the young man's arm.
Half of her calf was kicked out of the young man's arms restlessly, and her body twisted a few times from time to time, looking very unsteady. The little face that had just shifted out was now buried back in the young man's chest.
The young man, who was looking straight ahead, seemed to have a little feeling. He lowered his head and looked at the girl in his arms. There was a slight change in his wooden eyes. It seemed that he was a little puzzled, but he was still more dazed.
"Stone... Brother..."
There was another burst of indistinct sleep talk, buzzing from the young man's arms, like the sound of mosquitoes and flies, undetectable.
I don't know if it was because of the firelight, but the face of the tall young man seemed to soften a little at this time, and there was a little more light in the originally empty eyes.
He didn't even get up, sat on the ground and shifted his position, using half of his body to block the leaking cold wind, moved his arms slightly, and put the girl's protruding calf back into his arms, holding her slightly tighter. A few points.
The girl swayed and rubbed against his arms a few times, then arched her small head towards his chest again, her movements slowly stopped, and her breathing gradually stabilized.
The sky outside the hall was already dark, and the wind and snow in the sky and the earth were gradually getting smaller without knowing it.
…
On the halfway up of a hundred-foot-high verdant mountain, at the entrance of a cave more than three feet high, a tall young man stands tall with his back facing the entrance of the cave.
Standing behind the young man, Liu Le'er grabbed the hem of the young man's clothes with one hand and hugged his thigh with the other. She slightly poked out half of her small face and looked forward. Her small face was a little pale due to nervousness.
However, a few feet in front of the two of them, a giant grizzly bear with the height of two adults stood there with its hind paws on the ground and its front legs raised.
On its head was a ferocious unicorn that looked like a white bone, and a large protruding bloody mouth was turned up, revealing cold sharp white teeth, bared teeth, and a line of stinky and slightly sticky saliva dripped from the corner of the mouth .
In front of this giant bear, the originally tall young man looked as thin as a child.
However, there was no expression on his face, he just stared at the giant bear with his eyes, his dark eyes were stained like ink, without much luster.
The giant bear stared at the tall young man's face for a moment, and for some reason, a little anthropomorphic fear suddenly appeared on his face. With a low growl, he took two steps back, turned around, dropped his front legs, and ran away on all fours.
Seeing this scene, Liu Le'er first looked relieved and breathed a sigh of relief, then scratched her head in some puzzlement, walked around in front of the tall young man, and looked up at him.
She stared at the young man's dull face for a long time, but she couldn't see anything unusual, so she couldn't help showing a little disappointment.
"Brother Shitou, Le'er knows that you are not an ordinary person, but it's a pity that you can't speak, otherwise it would be great if you can talk to Le'er, alas..." Liu Le'er sighed like a little adult, holding the young man's big hand , turned and walked back to the cave on the mountainside.
The young man said nothing, but his lowered eyes fell on the girl's little white hand holding him, and his body followed the other's pull, and gradually walked into the cave.
…
On an unknown vast grassland, it is the prime spring season when the grass grows and the warblers fly. The new spring buds of the grass have already come out, and the whole grassland is filled with a unique fresh fragrance of green grass.
An eight or nine-year-old girl, holding a cluster of slender rattans covered with pale yellow flowers, was riding on the shoulders of a tall and straight young man, walking leisurely.
Compared with two years ago, the young man has not changed at all, he is still wearing the blue shirt, but Liu Le'er is quite different from before.
The girl's stature is much taller, her small face has faded a little bit of childishness, and her eyebrows and eyes show a little softness that is rare for ordinary girls. Obviously, she is also a rare beauty embryo, and it is still unknown whether she will be a city or a country in the future.
I saw her moving her fingers quickly, weaving the yellow flower rattan in her hand, and humming a light-toned ditty in her mouth, her voice was clear and melodious, just like the singing of a yellow oriole.
"It's done"
Before the end of the song, Liu Le'er stopped moving, and a beautiful wreath of tightly knit flowers had taken shape.
She held the wreath in both hands, looked around, nodded in satisfaction, and put the wreath on the young man's head with a full face of joy.
The wreath was just the right size, and the tightest part of the flowers fell right above the young man's forehead.
The tall young man seemed to have sensed it, raised his hand to lightly touch the wreath, and then slowly withdrew his hand.
Liu Le'er has long been accustomed to the reaction of the tall young man. She lowered her head and caught a glimpse of the green string around his neck, covered her mouth with a smile, and reached out her hand to grab it mischievously, as if she was going to lift the string.
However, the young man under him seemed to react instinctively, grabbed the dark green ornament tied to the end of the string, and refused to let go for a long time.
"Brother Shitou, cheapskate, it happens every time, I'm just curious to see..." Liu Le'er puffed up her cheeks.
Although she said that, she was not really angry. The stone brother under her body has never spoken to her in the past two years, except for rarely reacting to the outside world. Will take the initiative to respond every time.
Because of this, Liu Le'er would use this to play with young people from time to time.
…
Time flies like a white horse, and it is several years in a hurry.
A thirteen or fourteen-year-old pretty girl in a white dress, with black hair reaching her waist, hands behind her back, and taupe-coloured short boots, walked briskly on an official road paved with yellow sand.
Behind him, followed by a tall man in Tsing Yi, with a dull expression and slow steps.
The two walked one fast and one slow, but the steps were small and large, and there was not much distance between each other.
Liu Le'er, who was walking in front, saw a majestic blue city at the end of the official road from a distance. At the gate of the city, many pedestrians could be seen coming and going, as small as sparrows.
She frowned slightly and stopped in her tracks.
"Ming... Yuancheng..." Liu Le'er squinted her eyes for a long time, then called out slowly.
The tall young man walked to her side and stopped, looking at the majestic city like her.
"It looks like a big human city..." Liu Le'er murmured in a low voice, with a hesitant expression.
In the past five years, in order to cure the tall youth with dementia, the two have also entered some human towns, but they have never been close to a large city of the scale before them.
"Brother Shitou, if you recover completely, will you be able to avenge Le'er?" Liu Le'er looked up at the young man and said in a low voice, but she didn't know if she was asking him or herself.
Hearing the words, the young man seemed to have some reaction, and slowly retracted his distant gaze, looking at the girl, but still said nothing.
"What nonsense am I talking about? No matter how powerful Brother Shitou is, how could he beat the blood knife and meet so many bad guys?" Liu Le'er lowered her head sadly as if remembering something again, but the tears were not up to par The ground "clacked" and fell down, seeping into the yellow sand on the ground.
At this moment, she suddenly felt the top of her head sink, and a warm touch came.
She raised her head slightly, and saw her "Brother Stone" raising his hand and caressing her head, his eyes were extraordinarily soft.
For some reason, Liu Le'er felt extremely at ease at this moment, and there was an unspeakable courage in her body out of thin air, as if no matter how difficult it was, she was no longer afraid.
She raised the back of her hand to wipe away the tears on her face, grabbed the thick palm of the tall young man with the other hand, and walked towards the distant city gate with a firm face.