Qin Yao watched Gu Yan insert his sharp claws into his chest, but didn't realize it. It seems that in an instant, many things that I didn't understand before are all understood now, like enlightenment, and like a sudden enlightenment... The fact that I don't want to believe but I have to believe, so unexpected, Let him be unprepared.
Why the soul-gathering array doesn't work, why can't I get it back no matter what.
Because the master's soul is not in this world at all, no matter how clever the formation is, there is no way to call back a soul that has fallen into the demon world.
He guarded the ray of remnant soul, followed step by step, sinking, and was about to fall into the bottomless abyss...
Just when he was about to give up.
The person who had been thinking about him for thousands of years finally appeared before his eyes.
Appearing in front of him in this form...
But... Even so, it's good.
Qin Yao stared at Gu Yan's face obsessively, and a smile appeared on his lips. This smile was filled with joy and joy from the heart, as well as gratitude.
Fortunately, he's fine.
There lived an old widow on the barren hill behind Lijia Village.
Widow Zhang is in her fifties. It is said that she killed her husband and child and was an unknown person, so she was expelled to the mountains by the villagers. Because of the hardship of life, she looks like a seventy-year-old woman.
There is also a child living with Widow Zhang, which is said to have been picked up by Widow Zhang ten years ago when she went to the river to commit suicide.
The child's pupils were of different colors, one dark and one shallow, which was considered an ominous sign, and was discarded by the river. Widow Zhang listened to the child's cry, her soft courage disappeared, she gave up the idea of jumping into the river, and picked up the child to raise.
But she couldn't even survive herself, how could she raise a child well, she could only take the child to the village to beg for food.
The people in the village already hated Widow Zhang, seeing that she had raised such an ominous child, they treated her extremely badly, beating and scolding her frequently, Widow Zhang was not afraid, she had the cheek to kneel down from family to family, asking for leftovers from this family, The family begged for some pig food, and finally pulled the child up. She also doesn't know how to choose a name, and she doesn't know a single big character, so she is called a little ghost.
The child was also hard-fated, so he didn't die, and he didn't get sick. He was five or six years old in the blink of an eye, but because of malnutrition, he looked very thin.
When the child was a little older, Widow Zhang didn't care about it. She couldn't even take care of herself, so she sent the child to the village and town to beg for food. Because of the yin and yang eyes, the child didn't even know how much suffering he had endured in begging, how much humiliation he endured, and was scarred every time he returned home.
Widow Zhang couldn't bear it at first, after all, she was connected with fate, but later she became numb after doing it too many times.
Moreover, although the child is injured every time he comes back, he can always get a lot of things back. He is very clever at a young age, and the two of them live better than before. Widow Zhang is used to sitting back and reaping the rewards, so she gradually let it go and turned a blind eye to everything.
Even so, the child didn't complain at all. He probably knew that without Widow Zhang, he might have died long ago.
Even though Widow Zhang became more and more bad-tempered later, beat and scolded him frequently, and even abused him when she was tortured by illness, he accepted it submissively and never resisted.
Maybe human nature is evil, maybe human nature is good.
But in the end, it will be obliterated by reality, and life will change a good person beyond recognition. It will turn the kindness that should have been into a luxury.
Since then, he has probably understood this truth, so he will not have too many extravagant expectations for human nature.
Everywhere he saw was darkness.
In the thirteenth year of Zhaoyuan, there was a severe drought. Emperor Chen Chan was fatuous and incompetent and ignored the government. Officials were corrupt and the people had no means of living.
Life in Lijia Village became more and more difficult. When there was not even the last ration left, people began to eat everything that could be eaten, bark, grass roots, sand... There were a few idlers in the village who were starving all day long. After turning the barren hill behind for a full circle, they couldn't find anything that could be entered. At this time, they saw a widow Zhang who was paralyzed in bed.
When the child came back, he found that there was no sound at all in the house, only a large iron pot was placed at the door.
There was a pile of bones on the ground. Although they were gnawed clean, they could vaguely look like human bones. He pushed open the door, and a head rolled out. Widow Zhang opened a pair of cloudy eyes with a ferocious face. It was probably too scary, those people didn't dare to speak after all.
He knelt in front of that head for a long, long time.
In fact, he got something out of going out today, he killed a few squirrels, and today they can eat meat. But before it was too late, Widow Zhang became someone else's belly meat.
After that day, he didn't go out anymore, and went to the village secretly at night.
In a few days of work, I made things clear.
Those few idlers had a full meal, but how could they keep their secrets, they did not know how proud they were to show off to others in private. That's all, as soon as a person reaps the sweetness, he will start to want to stop. The taste of human flesh is not bad. Instead of gnawing bark on an empty stomach, how can you enjoy eating meat? It's a pity that there is only one widow Zhang, and everyone in the village is related, so it is difficult to start.
A few days later, when I got hungry, I didn't feel that there was anything wrong with my acquaintances.
He simply tricked the neighbor's youngest son to go out, and another pot was stewed. Since then, it has been out of control, and it has to be processed every two days according to the law. Because the disguise was so good, the people in the village panicked, thinking that there were some monsters or beasts, but no one thought of them.
The child kept watch like this for a month, and finally figured out their rules.
But he is only a child after all, how can he be the opponent of several strong men? Those strong men were addicted to eating human flesh, but they were not weak at all. He thought and thought, and one day when he took advantage of those strong men going out to steal food again, he pretended to find them. What's wrong with this, this matter must never be discovered by others, and they also know this child, isn't it the child adopted by Widow Zhang? Just caught the next meal.
But the children are too familiar with the mountains, they are small, and they can drill everywhere, so they can't catch them no matter what, so they have to come back resentfully and continue to eat.
As soon as he ate it, he foamed at the mouth and was poisoned.
It turned out that the child led them away and then went back to poison. He had seen animals eat a poisonous weed by mistake before, so he secretly picked it up and used it.
But the poison was not enough to kill a few strong men, so he picked up another sharp stone and smashed them to death one by one.
After finishing this matter, he returned to the hut on the mountain, dug a hole and buried Widow Zhang's beaked head. No matter how I avenged her, I only hope that she will die with peace, and that she will not live so hard in her next life.
The bodies of those strong men were soon discovered, and the villagers suddenly realized that their children were eaten by these beasts!
But so what, people still can't come back.
From then on, only the child lived in the hut on the mountain.
He's not going anywhere either, because there's nowhere to go.
Everywhere he went, it was like this, there is no clean place in this world, it would be better to stay here, at least familiar with it.
After a while, it is said that relief officers and soldiers came from the village at the foot of the mountain, bringing with them inexhaustible food. He sneaked down to look at it once, and it was true. Although there is not much food distributed to each household, they finally got rid of the previous days and can barely eat.
He ate up almost all the edible things on the mountain, and he couldn't hunt anything.
Finally, the child couldn't bear it and went down to steal something to eat.
He stole several times, but he was not caught very smoothly, and gradually he became more at ease.
After all, no matter how old and clever he is, he is still only a child under ten years old.
So one night when he climbed over the wall of a house in the village, he was surrounded by a group of people. These people looked at him angrily, their eyes wished to eat his flesh and blood. Countless fists and feet fell on him, and he thought he might die.
Maybe his existence was a mistake in the first place, so now God has to correct this mistake.
The blood on his forehead blurred his eyes, and suddenly, in despair, he saw that the crowd gave way to a passage, and a man in black boots walked up to him. Picked him up.
He saw the man's face.
It was a very good-looking man, handsome and handsome, with an extraordinary temperament. Standing among these rough villagers, he seemed like a god descended from the sky.
The man lightly ordered his subordinates to redistribute food to these villagers, and then said that this matter should be dealt with by military law, and left with the child. The villagers didn't dare to stop them at all, and with the food, who cares about that ominous wild species.
The man's movements were not gentle at all, he carried the child back as if he was carrying something, and threw him on the ground of the tent. He stood condescendingly, lowered his eyes and asked him, "Why do you want to steal?"
He replied without thinking: "I want to live."
Although he wants to live, he may be dying this time. After all, a thief would be beaten to death once caught. Not to mention this barren year...
Unexpectedly, the man laughed, and said lightly: "Then live."
Then he bent down and looked down into the child's eyes, "Your eyes are beautiful, let's call it Yao. It's my last name, Qin Yao." He didn't seem to be asking for opinions at all, but just decided everything on his own. He decided on his name, decided to keep him by his side, and decided to give him the right to live.
Just because he said something, he wants to live.
He just let him live.
This is their first meeting.
Qin Yao didn't even want to take his eyes off Gu Yan's face for a while. Although Gu Yan's appearance was completely different from before, he could vaguely see the person in the past. From those eyes, he saw the same thing.
He finally understood that he had been looking at only one person from beginning to end, and loved only one person from beginning to end.
It's just that he was too stupid to be blinded by his appearance.
It was not discovered early.
Thinking of what he had done to him, the hurts, the doubts... Qin Yao would rather all these hurt him. He didn't even have time to cherish him, so how could he be willing to hurt him? But he did it anyway.
He cannot forgive himself.
Qin Yao grabbed Gu Yan's hand, sank it deeper into his chest, and showed a pale smile, "I was wrong, you can hit me however you want...don't be angry with me, okay?"