After nightfall, the outside world was plunged into darkness. The candles in the room flickered, as if they were about to go out the next moment. Because it was too cold, Lu Qingjiu shrunk into the bed, and he could still hear the rustling of snow falling on the ground as if it would never stop.
Because he slept for too long in the afternoon, Lu Qingjiu was much more awake now. He sat on the kang with a book in his hand, reading the text on it in the dim light.
Both Xiaohua and Xiaohei were already asleep, and they breathed evenly, which added a reassuring atmosphere to the room.
Lu Qingjiu saw about eleven o'clock, and felt a little tired in his eyes. Although he still didn't want to sleep, he put down the book in his hand and planned to lie on the bed and close his eyes. Thinking like this, Lu Qingjiu stood up and extinguished the candle, then turned around and walked to the bed, trying to close the gap in the window a little so that he could sleep. But who knew that when Lu Qingjiu closed the window and looked outside, he was stunned by the scene outside. I saw aurora-like cracks in the sky outside. Compared with the daytime, these cracks were particularly eye-catching in the night sky, making it impossible to ignore. In the cracks, a mist like a mountain rushes out from it, and it continues to fill the surrounding sky. What surprised Lu Qingjiu the most was the beam of light projected from the crack. The beam of light projected into the forest not far away, illuminating the forest as if it were daylight.
On the path outside the forest, a group of people with indifferent expressions moved slowly from Shuifu Village to the bright light. Because the distance was too far, Lu Qingjiu could not see the appearance of those people, but judging from their clothes, these people were extremely It may be the villagers of Shuifu Village.
Lu Qingjiu watched as those people gradually moved away from the village and headed towards the beam of light. They are like moths going to fire, even the roaring wind and snow can't stop them, step by step, getting farther and farther from the home behind them.
"Why did they come out!" Xiaohua's stunned voice came from behind, Lu Qingjiu turned his head, and found that Xiaohua woke up at some point. He stood by the bed, and he saw the scene outside the house and the humans moving towards the beam of light. .
"I don't know." Lu Qingjiu shook his head.
"Yes, it snows suddenly, what will the villagers of Shuifu Village do?" Xiaohua jumped to the table in front of the window. His eyesight was much better than that of Lu Qingjiu, who was almost indistinguishable from a human being. , said, "Where are they going?"
Lu Qingjiu said: "Maybe something is calling them." Last winter, Shuifu Village actually showed some strangeness. Throughout the winter, Lu Qingjiu hardly saw any of the neighbors that he usually saw on weekdays. Although it may be that the weather is too cold and everyone does not like to go out, but it is too exaggerated to see no one all winter. At that time, Lu Qingjiu had guesses in his heart, but at this moment, these guesses have all been confirmed.
"Why do I seem to see Li Xiaoyu." Xiaohua's eyes widened, and she said incredulously, "Why did he go out..."
Lu Qingjiu said, "I now suspect that the entire Shuifu Village is the only living member of our family."
Xiaohua showed a sad expression. Lu Qingjiu thought he was sad that he lost a sincere partner. Who knew his next sentence would be: "Then my mother-in-law didn't teach Li Xiaoyu math for so long."
Lu Qingjiu: "…"
Xiaohua: "He also lied to me that he made progress in the exam woo woo woo."
Lu Qingjiu: "…"
Xiaohua: "Uuuu, human beings are all big liars."
Lu Qingjiu didn't know what to say for a while. Thinking about the picture of Xiaohua giving Li Xiaoyu a tutor every night, he actually understood Xiaohua's sad mood.
Li Xiaoyu was also in the crowd, heading towards the beam of light. The villagers of Shuifu Village, like zombies without souls, walked slowly towards their destination one by one. When they reached under the beam of light, their bodies gradually dissipated, and they became one with the wind and snow.
Lu Qingjiu stretched out his hand and hugged Xiao Hua into his arms, one person and one pig sat beside the bed and watched silently.
"I don't quite understand what happened." Xiaohua hummed, "I'm just a kid, and my mother put me in the Human World, saying that the Human World needs to be safer."
Lu Qingjiu said, "How did you get here?"
Xiaohua said: "There is always a way."
Lu Qingjiu said, "In case we didn't save you at that time..."
Xiaohua is helpless: "Then we have to wait for us to grow up before eating. When I grow up, I will have a way to run away."
Lu Qingjiu was hesitant to speak, but in the end he didn't tell Xiaohua a cruel truth - in the human world, there is a food called roast suckling pig.
It seemed that the villagers were finally leaving. When the last person disappeared on the mountain road, Lu Qingjiu heard a loud noise. The sound came from the sky, and it shattered the window glass directly. Lu Qingjiu and Xiaohua didn't notice for a while, and they were also half-dazed. If they weren't sitting, Lu Qingjiu could even fall directly to the ground.
There was a buzzing sound in his ears, and Lu Qingjiu's eyes were spinning, and it took a while for him to recover. When he slowed down, there were five dazzling flames in the sky. No, that was not flames. Those were five giant dragons with red scales. The irregular shape is almost as if the sky is torn apart abruptly.
Lu Qingjiu's head was still dizzy, he felt an itch in his nasal cavity, and reached out to wipe it, only to realize that he had a nosebleed, but at this moment Lu Qingjiu didn't care so much about it, he just pulled a piece of paper, His nose was blocked, and he continued to look up at the sky.
But what made him regret was that the five dragons before had disappeared. Only five fiery red traces could be seen in the dark clouds. The snow was still falling, and the night sky was bright and dazzling.
Xiaohua also woke up from the coma and asked blankly what happened.
Lu Qingjiu said, "I saw five dragons..."
Xiaohua said: "How many?"
Lu Qingjiu: "Five."
Xiaohua was shocked, then shivered, and explained to Lu Qingjiu in a low voice, saying that dragons are in another world, and they are the topmost creatures in the food chain, and they are also the gods who control the heavens and the earth. Ying dragon is yang, candle dragon is yin, and the combination of yin and yang produces all things.
It can be said that only in the human world can he live peacefully with the dragon clan. If it were in the other world, he would have already become Bai Yuehu's food.
Xiaohua said in a trembling voice, "How can five dragons enter the human world... This is unreasonable."
Lu Qingjiu frowned. He also knew that it was unreasonable, but he had no clue or what to do about what was about to happen.
Next, there were no more strange sounds, except for the big hole in the sky and the five burning clouds, everything seemed to be Lu Qingjiu's hallucination. He sat by the window for a while, making sure that there was no movement outside, then raised his hand and closed the window, intending to retreat into the warm bed.
But just as he was walking to the bed, Lu Qingjiu suddenly remembered something, and a huge sense of unease arose in his heart. He sat on the edge of the bed for a while, but still felt uneasy, so he simply stood up and walked outside the house .
Seeing this, Xiaohua hurriedly asked, "Where are you going?"
"I'll go check out the door." Lu Qingjiu said.
"What are you doing at the door?" Xiaohua didn't understand, "It's so cold outside..."
Lu Qingjiu shook his head and didn't explain, he didn't actually have a reason to go out at the moment, but when he thought of some kind of terrifying picture, his sixth sense drove him to walk into the yard firmly. The snow in the courtyard was very thick, making a crunching sound when stepping on it, Lu Qingjiu let out a hot breath in his palm, and then rubbed it hard. It was quiet all around except for the sound of snow falling. Lu Qingjiu stopped at the gate of the yard. He remembered what Bai Yuehu told him before he left. Bai Yuehu told him not to leave the yard. In this case, he opened the door to see what was going on outside, so it wouldn't count as leaving the yard.
Lu Qingjiu held his breath, gently pulled the bolt, and pushed open the iron door of the house. With a soft creaking sound, a gap appeared in the iron door, and Lu Qingjiu saw the situation outside.
The outside is not much different from the courtyard, it is still snowy, because the fiery red light from the big hole in the sky illuminates everything. Lu Qingjiu saw the path in front of his house, the pickup truck parked on the opposite side of the path, and the tall cypress tree beside the pickup. Everything was as usual, no different from before.
Lu Qingjiu breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could breathe, he became nervous again, because he noticed that the snow in the corner of his wall was different from the surrounding area. The snow there is a bit higher than other places, and it is easy to miss at first glance, but after careful observation, you will find that there is something buried there.
Lu Qingjiu thought for a while, but did not leave the yard directly, but turned around and took a bamboo pole in the garden for a grape rack, stretched it out from the door, and poked at the snowdrift. After sweeping the snow off the top of the snowdrift, what was underneath was exposed. Lu Qingjiu took a closer look and almost gasped.
There was a man curled up in a ball buried in the snow. The man was wearing a black dress and couldn't see his face clearly, but Lu Qingjiu clearly remembered that Yin Xun had such a down jacket.
"Fuck." He couldn't help but cursed in a low voice, Lu Qingjiu threw the bamboo pole, and planned to grit his teeth and go out to bring back the person who fell in the snow.
When he saw the villagers walking up the mountain like ghosts, Lu Qingjiu wondered if there would be any problem with Yin Xun's ancestral hall, and became a little uneasy. I know, I was startled when I saw it, Yin Xun was actually lying down in the snow, and it looked like he had been lying there for a long time.
Lu Qingjiu took a deep breath and took a step out of the courtyard. As soon as he stepped out, he understood why Bai Yuehu told him not to leave the yard. It was so cold outside that he doubted whether he would freeze in an instant. Clothes to keep out the cold have no effect at all in the face of the cold wind. The wind seemed to penetrate into the body through the cracks of the bones, and the frozen Lu Qingjiu's teeth were chattering. He controlled his body with difficulty, walked over to Yin Xun who was already unconscious, grabbed one of his hands, and started to drag it back.
This Yin Xun was completely frozen, he was dragged by Lu Qingjiu and didn't even change his posture, he remained curled up in place.
Lu Qingjiu was struggling, the wind and snow were all in front of him, and he couldn't keep his eyes open. His body's heat was rapidly draining away, and he was forced to walk out of the 9981 in just ten steps.
"Huhu... Huhu..." Finally at the door, Lu Qingjiu used all his strength to lead Yin Xun into the courtyard gate.
The moment they entered the door, both of them fell to the ground. Lu Qingjiu's face turned blue from the cold. The door was closed, and the temperature in the yard began to rise. Lu Qingjiu felt that he had finally come back to life. The yard that had been cold had now turned into a warm home in his eyes.
"Yin Xun, Yin Xun." After regaining his strength, Lu Qingjiu quickly went to look at Yin Xun.
Seeing this, half of his soul was frightened. He saw that Yin Xun had completely frozen into a hard state. Those black eyes were staring straight, and they were covered with a thin layer of frost. Lu Qingjiu touched his cheek and determined that he was really frozen.
If this was a normal person, Lu Qingjiu would probably have started to think about where to bury him, but Yin Xun was someone who died once, so he shouldn't be so vulnerable, Lu Qingjiu thought about dragging him into the house to thaw it out.
So Lu Qingjiu took the tough Yin Xun into the house with the charcoal fire, untied his down jacket, and let him lie down near the charcoal stove.
Xiaohua was taken aback by the person who was brought in by Lu Qingjiu. Seeing that this person was actually Yin Xun, who was still frozen like this, she asked in horror, "What's wrong with Yin Xun?"
Lu Qingjiu looked sad: "I saw him collapsed outside when I went out. I don't know how long it has been frozen."
Xiaohua: "Then... can this be thawed and still alive?"
Lu Qingjiu poked Yin Xun's head that was harder than a stone: "I don't know, let's thaw it first and have a look. If it doesn't work, wait for Bai Yuehu to come back and have a look."
Xiaohua looked worried.
But anyway, Yin Xun was discovered, and he didn't let him continue to freeze outside, at least he could be rescued. Lu Qingjiu went out for a while, and his whole body was cold. He was afraid that he would catch a cold, so he quickly changed into dry clothes, and then shrank into the bed.
"Yin Xun just put it there?" Xiaohua glanced at Yin Xun, who was still like a statue.
"Just leave it there." Lu Qingjiu shrank half of his face under the blanket, and his voice was a little muffled, "It's too cold outside the yard, I fucking thought I was going to die outside."
Xiaohua patted Lu Qingjiu on the head with her pig's trotters to comfort her.
When the body warmed up, people started to feel sleepy. Lu Qingjiu originally wanted to guard Yin Xun, but Yin Xun's thawing was a long process. He waited and fell asleep in a daze.
The next morning, Lu Qingjiu woke up from his dream and saw Yin Xun lying in the same position beside the charcoal fire, his head jolted, and he immediately woke up: "Little Hua'er, you turned him over last night. No ah?"
Xiaohua was woken up by Lu Qingjiu and shook her head blankly.
Lu Qingjiu quickly got up and went to turn Yin Xun over. When he turned over, he felt that half of Yin Xun's body had returned to normal, and half of Yin Xun's body was still stiff and cold. Lu Qingjiu called Yin Xun several times, but Yin Xun didn't respond. Lu Qingjiu was a little worried and said, "Does this thawing work?"
How could Xiaohua know whether it would work or not, but she still had to say something comforting, saying, "It's okay, I read a story that after the fish was kept fresh at zero temperature, it could be resurrected after ten years! Yin Xun's structure is simpler than that of a fish. It's definitely fine."
Lu Qingjiu: "...Where did you read this story?"
Xiaohua: "The story will be."
Lu Qingjiu: "..." Yin Xun, I'm afraid you're out of luck.
But they were best friends anyway. Lu Qingjiu was reluctant to give up the treatment, so he decided to eat a roasted sweet potato to calm down, and then continued to defrost Yin Xun. The sweet potato was roasted so warmly, it was a bit hot when you took a bite in your hand. When you peeled it off, there was soft flesh inside. It really tasted in your mouth and warmed your heart, even the sadness of Yin Xun being frozen into a statue. Minus a few points.
"It's delicious." Xiaohua said moved, "I really want to drink a pot of warm mutton soup."
"I think so too." Lu Qingjiu sniffed, feeling that he had caught a cold. The temperature outside the yard was too low. If he hadn't run fast, he would have been thawed with Yin Xun today.
"Hey, Yin Xun doesn't seem to be getting better. Let me help him eat this sweet potato too." Xiaohua skillfully peeled the sweet potato chips with her hoof. His sister was still sleeping. Fox cubs don't like vegetarian food. Yin Xun It was still frozen, and the rest of the sweet potatoes belonged to him and Lu Qingjiu.
Lu Qingjiu said, "Okay, I'll help him eat one too."
The two happily peeled the sweet potato, but Yin Xun, who didn't notice the statue at all, a crystal tear fell from the corner of his eye. Of course, if they saw it, they would probably only think that it was dripping water when it thawed...
After lunch, Lu Qingjiu unfortunately found that he had caught a cold. First his throat was itchy, then he sneezed and had a runny nose. He hurriedly went to find medicine and increased the dose.
Yin Xun thawed for a day, and at last one third of his body was still frozen. Xiaohua and Lu Qingjiu had completely given up guarding him. The two of them, together with Xiaohei and Foxy, went to make a pot of mutton and planned to eat mutton. Soup pot.
Because he caught a cold, Lu Qingjiu always directed Xiaohua and Xiaohei to get in touch with the water. Although these two little pigs only had pigs' hooves, they were very flexible in their work. Compared with Yin Xun, they were no different.
Lu Qingjiu lamented that he hadn't discovered the talents of the two pigs earlier, Xiaohua raised her chest and spoke ill of Yin Xun in front of him: "I don't have water in my mind."
Lu Qingjiu said politely, "It's not good for you to say that, Yin Xun is still here."
Xiaohua: "He didn't thaw."
Lu Qingjiu said, "Then in case he hasn't thawed, he can already hear the sound."
Xiaohua said: "Then let's plug his ears first?"
Lu Qingjiu: "..." Yin Xun, you really shouldn't offend Xiaohua.
But joking aside, Lu Qingjiu and Xiaohua are so relieved because they have long discovered that Yin Xun's thawed parts have regained the touch of human skin, which is completely different from people who have been frozen to death. Yin Xun's skin is very elastic. After pinching a few times, bruises will appear, which is definitely not a reaction that a dead person can have. Lu Qingjiu pinched a few more times to make sure he read it right.
Xiaohua said, "It's not good for you to pinch his face?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "Then where do you want to pinch?"
Xiaohua said, "Of course it's a meaty place..." He looked at Yin Xun's butt.
Lu Qingjiu: "…"
Xiaohua said faintly: "Just like he pinched me."
Lu Qingjiu finally decided not to participate in the love-hate relationship between Xiaohua and Yin Xun, and let them both play freely.
The three little cubs and Lu Qingjiu ate the hot mutton soup pot beautifully. Lu Qingjiu felt that his cold was much better. The practice of soup pot is a lot rougher than usual. After all, the two little pigs are not familiar, but for them who have eaten dry food for a few days, it is already very good, especially the quality of mutton is very good, they are very good. Quickly wipe out the meat, leaving a large pot of soup.
Just as he was about to deal with Tang, Lu Qingjiu heard a thin whimper coming from the bed. After listening for a while, he was sure that he was not hallucinating. He hurried over to the bed to take a look and found Yin Xun. I don't know when it's thawed, and I'm crying aggrieved at the moment.
Lu Qingjiu hurriedly carried him to the bed and said, "Yin Xun, stop crying, it's alright."
Yin Xun burst into tears, but what he said was not so touching. He said, "Lu Qingjiu, you bastard, don't even give me a lump of mutton."
Lu Qingjiu: "…"
Yin Xun: "I don't have a friend like you."
Lu Qingjiu: "..." He glanced at Yin Xun's face, which seemed to be bruised and bruised, turned around silently, went to scoop up a bowl of warm mutton soup, and handed it to Yin Xun.
Yin Xun was terribly hungry. Although he didn't eat mutton for resentment, he had some soup to drink, and the wounds in his heart were healed a lot. He clucked, poured three or four bowls of soup in one breath, then regained his strength, reached out and rubbed the cream off his eyelashes, and whispered, "I thought I was going to die."
Lu Qingjiu said, "Why did you show up at the door? Didn't I tell you not to go out?"
Yin Xun shook his head with a tired look on his face, and explained to Lu Qingjiu what happened. It turned out that after it started to snow, the candles in the ancestral hall became darker and darker, and they couldn't continue, and finally they all went out. Yin Xun couldn't stop the undead being suppressed inside. When he saw the undead go out of the door and head towards Lu Qingjiu's house, he was afraid that these things would hurt Lu Qingjiu, so he ran towards him. However, the temperature outside the yard was too low. Seeing that Yin Xun, who was about to arrive at his destination, was frozen into ice cubes just a few steps away.
Fortunately, the undead did not come to Lu Qingjiu's house, but went straight up the mountain.
After listening to Yin Xun's description, Lu Qingjiu felt extremely complicated. He touched Yin Xun's wet head and said, "I'm sorry."
Yin Xun said moved: "No, this is my own choice."
Lu Qingjiu was embarrassed: "No, I mean I should leave you two lumps of mutton."
Yin Xun: "..." It's good not to mention it, but the mention of Yin Xun makes me so angry that I almost lift the bowl. Finally, under the promise of Lu Qingjiu to make another pot of mutton soup to eat tomorrow, he reluctantly calmed down. But the anger didn't subside for long, because when he went to the toilet to change his clothes, he saw bruises on his face.
"Fuck, Lu Qingjiu, are you a human? Can't you be gentle when you attack!!" Yin Xun's angry roar came from the toilet, "I'm like being beaten up!"
Lu Qingjiu knew that he was wrong, pretended not to hear, and closed his eyes and fell asleep.
The author has something to say: Lu Qingjiu: If this is summer
Yin Xun: I won't be frozen into a popsicle
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