On the way back to the city, Nan He turned into a human figure, carried the young Dong'er on his back, and walked back slowly side by side with Yuan Xiang'er.
Dong'er was a little afraid of him, but since she was docile since childhood, she didn't dare to refuse, so she could only lie on Nan He's back with a stiff little body.
Yuan Xianger opened a pack of sweet-scented osmanthus candies that she had just bought in the town, and took out one to coax her, "Where's the sweet-scented osmanthus candy from Zhou Ji, ah, open your mouth."
Dong'er's eyes lit up. After all, she was only a five- or six-year-old baby, so she couldn't resist the temptation of sweetness. Opening his mouth to accept Yuan Xianger's feeding, he slowly relaxed with the food in his mouth.
Yuan Xianger fed Nanhe another one, but before she could retract her finger, she was bitten by the wolf man. Those sharp canine teeth held her fingers and bit her slightly hard, and the warm tongue was still hooked on the pulp of her fingers before letting her out.
Ah, did Xiao Nan learn so quickly
If you only sleep with others for one night, do you have to wait here for a bite to be happy
(If I thought Donger was here, I wouldn’t dare to do anything?) Yuan Xianger’s half-smiling voice resounded in Nan He’s mind, (If I don’t catch you, I will spank in public)
It was impossible for Nan He to let her catch him. He was afraid that Yuan Xianger would really do what she said.
Dong'er was lying on the broad shoulders, only to see two small bags suddenly bulging out of the silver curly hair in front of her, and then two fluffy ears were drilled out of them.
The person carrying her began to run quickly, leaving behind Yuan Xianger's laughing chasing sound.
The surrounding scenery retreated quickly, but it seemed that in order to take her into consideration, the person's back was always stable. He quickly ran into a bush, stopped under a hibiscus tree full of hibiscus flowers, and turned his face to look back. Look all the way.
On the branches of the branches, there are beautiful and charming hibiscus flowers,
The person under the tree canopy has amber eyes reflecting flowers, picturesque eyebrows dyed with happiness, and the cheeks made of Qiongyu are scorching bright in the summer sun.
The joy that overflowed from the bottom of my heart was very contagious, making Dong'er's fearful heart gradually calm down.
She knew very well that the man carrying her was not a human, but a large silver dog or a white wolf.
Dong'er, who has seen demons since childhood, is actually not so afraid of these creatures that are very different from humans. Compared to them, the father who came back late at night drunk and the grandmother who sat in a dark corner and taunted her mother made her even more terrified from the bottom of her heart.
Since she was sensible, she knew that because she was a girl, her grandmother embarrassed her mother from time to time, and her father did not like her very much.
The cousins in the courtyard often sat on their father's shoulders, happily going out to the market and looking at the lanterns. But she had no such memory, not even once.
In most of her memories, she could only sit on the edge of her mother's show shed, silently watching her mother repeat the boring work day after day.
Unexpectedly, it was a fairy who carried himself on his back for the first time.
It turned out that the feeling of being at a high place is like this, Dong'er stretched out her small hand to reach a pale pink fenugreek on the branch.
She picked one and wanted it, but she couldn't reach it because of her short hands and feet. A broad palm stretched out from the side, folded the most beautiful hibiscus flower, and handed it to her.
"Want this?" Nan He's nice voice sounded.
"Well, I want one more."
"this one?"
"One more."
…
When Yuan Xianger caught up with them, she saw the little doll sitting on Nan He's shoulder holding a large tent of pink and tender hibiscus flowers in her arms. She wore several flowers on her own head, and also put one on Nan He's temple.
Nan He saw her coming, and was a little embarrassed to take the flowers down.
"Don't, don't, wear it, it looks good." Yuan Xianger laughed.
Nan He carried Dong'er on his back, Yuan Xiang'er held his arm, and the three of them walked slowly in the mottled shade while admiring the flowers.
Dong'er was frightened all night, followed by running around all morning, and gradually fell asleep while lying on Nan He's back, at the even pace.
He happily walked to the gate of Zhang's house, outside the courtyard wall of Zhang's compound, stood the monster with a huge head. At this moment, his hands were tucked into his sleeves, his huge head was hanging down, and even the small official hat on his head was slanted.
At his feet, two tiny little monsters stood holding hands. They were the little monsters that Yuan Xianger had seen in the big flower house and liked to steal shortbread.
Seeing that there was no one around, Yuan Xianger stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong? Why are you all standing here."
The big-headed demon said dejectedly, "I was originally the patron saint of the Zhang family, and I've lived in this yard for over a hundred years. Now I can't live anymore."
"Why can't you live?"
She knew that this type of demon was mostly transformed by the spirits of ancestors in the family. They received incense offerings from descendants for many years and became the guardian deities of the house. Normally, they would not leave the ancestral house.
The two little goblins holding hands spoke, each with a childlike voice.
"There's a terrifying monster at home."
"We don't dare to stay in it anymore."
"Our two brothers are okay, we should find another courtyard sojourn. Uncle, he is pitiful."
"He is a guardian spirit. After leaving the incense offerings of the younger generation, he will gradually become smaller and smaller, and finally disappear into the heaven and earth."
Yuan Xianger snorted, "What kind of powerful demon ran into the courtyard? Can't even a guardian spirit like you expel him?"
The big-headed guardian deity drooped with small eyebrows, "I have been dead for many years, and the younger generations gradually no longer remember me. I am a spiritual body living in memory, because there are fewer and fewer offerings and sacrifices to me. The ability is gradually weakening. That monster is very powerful, and I am not his opponent."
Dong'er woke up at this time, rubbed her eyes, and pulled Yuan Xianger's sleeve, "Sister Ah Xiang. Is he talking about my mother? Is it my mother?"
Yuan Xianger turned to look at her in confusion.
"Last night, my father lost his temper again as usual. After his temper passed, I sneaked out of my house quietly to see if my mother was okay." Dong'er recalled the memory of last night.
It seemed to be just a nightmare, and she had never been able to confirm the situation in the dream at a young age, but she still decided to muster up the courage to say it.
"I sneaked into the house and saw my mother standing by the bed and looking down at my father. Although my mother's appearance was still the same as usual, I felt that she was not my mother and was replaced by something else."
Dong'er's small body shuddered, and then she made a little noise, and the mother who was standing beside the bed turned to look at her and smiled at her. I always feel that my mother's eyes are like the eyes of a dead fish, and her smiling mouth is like the mouth of a fish spitting bubbles in a pool. So she ignored it, turned around and ran, all the way to Aunt Dahua's house.
In fact, when she thought about it later, she always wondered if she was wrong.
Yuan Xiang'er and Nan He exchanged glances, trusting Dong'er's initial judgment.
This little girl is probably born to practice pupil art, her eyes are very sharp, and she can see the prototype of Nan He directly at the first meeting. You must know that apart from Wu Yuan, even Yuan Xianger and Nan He are not so easy to see through the changed prototype of the monster at a glance.
While they were talking, a relative who lived in the compound stepped out of the gate, saw Yuan Xianger and others, and stopped Donger,
"Dong'er, why did you come back? Come in and have a look, something happened to your father."
…
Zhang Jia Dalang's bed, guarding his siblings and mother Li.
"Delusional disorder, another delusional disorder." The doctor who saw the doctor shook his head, packed his things and prepared to leave, "Dalang's symptoms have come on in a hurry and fierce, I'm afraid that he is powerless to return to the sky, please prepare for his funeral. "
Mrs Zhang Li grabbed his sleeve and said, "Sir, another family has a psychosis, and it can last for three to five days. Why is my eldest man helpless immediately?"
The doctor sighed, "To be honest with the old lady, in the past few days, Lang Su was afraid that the room was too much, resulting in consumptive exhaustion, spleen and kidney damage, qi and blood depletion. Soul seven souls, the body that is already empty can't hold it anymore. I really can't do anything about it, so please mourn, mourn."
Li slumped to the ground, crying bitterly, wondering how he could suddenly let go of his son, who had been spoiled and spoiled since he was a child.
She looked around at a loss, suddenly got up and grabbed her daughter-in-law Lin, "It's all your fault, broom star. After marrying into our family, I didn't bring any good things, and I didn't even give birth to a grandson, and I was so tired. My son lost his life. I'll kill you Kerf's broom star."
Da Hua and her husband Zhang Jia Erlang Zhang Xun were staying in the house together. They were about to step forward to persuade them, but they saw their usually docile and virtuous sister-in-law pushed her mother-in-law away.
Lin, whose husband had just died, pushed her mother-in-law, and carelessly touched her wrinkled collar, complaining, "Who is the vixen? I'm not the kind of stinky and unprofessional guy."
Li Shi, who has been in charge of the house for many years, has ever been so angry with his daughter-in-law, pointed at the eldest daughter-in-law with shaking fingers, and said, "You, you, see how I punish you!"
She groped around, found a piece of rubble, and threw it on her daughter-in-law's head. Lin raised his hand to catch the rubble and frowned,
"You're too unreasonable, didn't you say that jealousy is one of the seven things out there, and it's a mess for her, so don't let her take care of it?"
Mrs. Li was so angry that she swayed all over, and did not hear any mistakes or omissions in Mrs. Lin's words. She couldn't even speak her own words, so she just dragged Mrs. Lin, "I'll leave you, yes, I'm going to leave you."
Her unmarried young daughter stepped forward to help her mother pull Lin Shi, "How dare you be so disrespectful to your elders, and carefully sue you to the county government to deal with your crime of unfilial piety, the county chief will definitely beat you in public."
Lin shi stood blankly on the ground and let the two push, beat and scold for a few times, tilting his head as if thinking about something.
She suddenly stretched out her hand and pushed them to the ground.
The force was so heavy this time that the mother and daughter fell to the ground and both fainted.
Zhang Xun hurriedly helped his mother up and was about to speak, when he saw his sensible elder sister-in-law sighed and said strange words.
"It's too hard to be a human being. It's a waste of money for me to be rich. After wandering around the world for many years, I can't even be a human for a day."
She stood gracefully, with invisible water marks swaying around her feet, her tone of voice changed as she spoke, from a soft female voice to a magnetic low male voice,
"Seeing that Su Bai likes humans so much, he thought it would be fun to be a human being. I didn't expect it to be so boring and difficult."
Lin's body gradually weakened, and he fell to the ground. The ground in the house was still filled with invisible water waves, and a huge black carp emerged from nowhere and was suspended in mid-air.
It waved its tail and looked at Zhang Xun and his wife Dahua.
Dahua was a little flustered in her heart, so she couldn't help but approached her husband's back and grabbed his clothes.
She had just arrived from the kitchen, still in an apron, full of flour, and carrying a rolling pin.
At this time, as a wife, you should hide behind her husband and receive protection. I hope that the husband will not dislike his own flour for staining his robes.
This irrelevant thought suddenly passed through Dahua's mind.
The huge black fish swimming in the air, the wide-open pale fish eyes, and the terrifying monsters that speak human words.
Zhang Xun fought two battles and looked left and right. In the room, except for the eldest brother who had just passed away, all of them were females. He was the only man.
As a man, he should stand up and protect everyone at this time.
What's more, it was his mother, sister and sister-in-law who were unconscious, and his charming wife was standing behind him.
But who knows that he is also afraid. He is actually a very timid person since he was a child, and he is really afraid of such terrifying monsters.
At this moment, his legs were shaking uncontrollably, his teeth were rattling, his head was buzzing, and his palms were sweating.
He wanted to say to his wife behind him, "Don't be afraid, I will protect you." But he couldn't get a complete tone.
"Xiao Langjun looks quite handsome, otherwise it will be you this time."
The big fish slowly opened its round mouth towards him in the air,
"no no… "
Zhang Xun felt that he was about to cry.
His mother told him since he was a child that a man cannot cry, he must endure it.
Don't cry when you're scared, don't cry when you're in pain, because you're a man.
He is a man and the hope of the whole family. He must be admitted to the Xiucai, and then to the Juren. Everyone looked at him with burning eyes, failure was unbearable, so he didn't dare to take a break from reading, and worked hard every day.
To bear the expectations of the whole family, to make his mother proud, to become a person whom his wife admires and respect... This is all the meaning of his life in the past.
But maybe none of that is needed anymore.
Zhang Xun looked at the fish mouth that was getting closer, and suddenly felt a sense of relaxation in extreme fear.
Maybe I won't have to think about such a heavy burden again from now on. At the last moment, I can always cry, right
He was embarrassed to find his face wet.
A rolling pin still stained with flour suddenly flew from behind and slapped the giant fish's eyeballs hard.
The bloated body of the fish rolled in the air and turned into a man in black with a vermilion between his eyebrows. The coquettish man covered his eyes and glared at the flower.
"Savage woman, how dare you hit me?"
"What kind of messed up ghost you are, fight... You are the one who fights. If you want to snatch my husband, there is no way!" Dahua was in a hurry, disregarding the image of being virtuous and virtuous in front of her husband for six months, and gave Zhang Xun a hand. Pull behind yourself.
She rolled up her sleeves and took out the savage energy of helping her father kill pigs and sell meat on the market, "Come on, it's impossible to take my husband away. If you have the ability, step on the old lady first."
The black-robed man covered his eyes in the air, roamed around for half a circle, and suddenly smiled, "Although you look average, I like your character, well, just as you wish."
He leaned down from the air, approached suddenly, and took Dahua's hand, "Don't worry, it will let you die without pain."
…
When Yuan Xianger and others rushed into the house, the phantom water waves and big fish disappeared.
Lin Shi and his mother-in-law and sister-in-law were in a coma, and Zhang Jiaerlang was smashing the wooden floor of the house like a madman, as if trying to find something under the floor.
Dong'er rushed to her mother's side and shook Lin's body, "Mother, mother, what's wrong with you?"
And her mother, unaware, let her shake and did not respond.
"What's going on?" Yuan Xianger pulled up Zhang Xun who was half crazy, "Where's Dahua?"
Zhang Xun raised his head blankly, wiped his face with his blood-stained fingers punctured by broken wood, with tears and blood on his face,
"No, gone. Taken by a fish."
Missing flowers
Yuan Xianger looked around, there was nothing under the floor, a dead man lay on the bed, and Donger was crying beside her soulless mother.
The house was messy, with a hole in the roof, and a ray of sunlight projected from the hole and shone on a pair of ink paintings on the wall.
There is a big river in the painting, and it goes straight to the sky. The river is vast and boundless, with no boats and no fish.
Where is the big flower, where did the big flower go