Ah Chu pushed her away, and crawled up to the side with her hands and feet.
Bailiyuan looked down at her empty embrace, and the temperature of the young girl just disappeared in an instant, and she felt her hands become cold inch by inch. She raised her head and said with big black and white eyes, "Sister, what's the matter with you? I'll pick you up."
Ah Chu leaned against the wall and looked at her vigilantly.
"You're worried that I'll punish you, right?" Bai Liyuan suddenly laughed, "I originally wanted to punish you, after all, you betrayed me. If it wasn't for you, Shen Jue would be dead by now. But then I got angry. It's gone, I think it's okay, Sister A-Chiao is just an ordinary woman, she must have been frightened by my assassin at that time." She stood up and continued, "So I gave you five days to calm down and wait. Take it easy. Sister, haven't you taken your breath away yet? It doesn't matter, it's the same when you get back to the snowy mountains and then slowly get used to it."
Ah Chu squeezed her hand, forced herself to calm down, and said calmly: "I... I don't want to go, Ah Yuan, you can go by yourself. I promise not to report to the official, you go!"
The girl stood in front of the candlelight, looking up from the bottom, her face was covered with a thin layer of shadow, and she couldn't tell whether she was happy or angry. She lowered her eyes slightly and looked at Ah Chu, "Aren't we sisters? Sister and sister should stay together."
"I... I'm not feeling well these days, and I can't stand the fatigue of the boats. Shuobei is too cold, I can't bear it, why don't... Why don't you come to see me again next year?" A Chuqiang pulled out a smile and looked behind Bailiyuan The window floats. The window opening was a little far from her, and she was not sure to climb out through Bailiyuan. The more she thought about it, the more desperate she became, and Ah Chu was trembling all over.
The shadow seemed to have deepened, and Ah Chu tried her best to see Bai Liyuan's expression, but she only saw her porcelain white chin and dark red lips. There was a suffocating silence in the room, she didn't speak, and Ah Chi couldn't figure out what she was thinking. Fear is like a poisonous snake, licking Ah Chi's hand.
"Sometimes I really want to cut open your chests and take a look. Is the beating heart inside it hot or cold? You even called me A Yuan a moment ago, and you can turn your head and betray me to others!" Bai Liyuan sneered lowly, "I thought you were different from others, Sister Ah Chu. You are shaking, are you afraid of me? Do you think I am an evil ghost too?"
She leaned down and stared straight into Aya's eyes, "I'll give you one more chance, either swallow the fruit of bliss and leave with me, or die."
Bliss Fruit! Ah Chu shuddered, and in front of her eyes appeared the corpses that stood upright on the bluestone slab, the prostitutes on the large carved bed, and the emaciated prostitutes. Bailiyuan's eyes seemed to be bloody. From those dark eyes, she saw the corpses piled up into mountains.
"I don't want it!" Ah Chu screamed abruptly, pushed Baili Yuan away, pulled off the golden head and beaded hairpin on her bun, facing her, "You lunatic, you keep calling my sister, but you're hurting in secret. All the people in Yunxian Tower! You have a grudge against Shen Jue, you just need to kill him, why should you implicate innocent people! You…" A Chu shuddered and gritted her teeth, "Your parents didn't say anything. Wrong, you are a devil!"
Ah Chu's words were like a sharp blade piercing her heart, and Baili Yuan's eyes showed a ferocious look. She raised her hand to ask the assassin to enter the door, but saw Ah Chu's eyes gurgled with tears. The teardrops fell to the ground drop by drop, like shattered into thousands of pearls. Bai Liyuan was startled slightly, the sullenness on her face slowly subsided, she lowered her eyes, turned to look at the swaying Tang Dihua outside the window, and said softly, "Sister, the story I gave you last time has not been finished. , do you still want to hear it?"
She didn't wait for Ah Chu to answer, she said to herself: "After the ninth brother died, my parents never allowed me to go down the mountain again. The days on the top of the mountain are really boring. If you have stayed in that place, you will know, Except for the snow is the sky, but the sky is still snow. It is white, and there is no extra color. I build snowmen every day. There are too many snowmen to stand on, so I push the snowmen off the cliff and build new ones. The old nun looks at me pitiful. , opened the library in the nunnery and let me read books. I turned to many ancient medical books, and recorded many strange old recipes. I tried them one by one, the snow fox was not easy to catch, and the weasel, rabbit, and mouse were all killed by me. I'll try it myself. Then one day I found out that I can't grow up anymore."
Ah Chu put down her hairpin in a daze, Bai Liyuan turned around and looked at her from a distance, "Sister Ah Chu, I was born on the tenth day of the first lunar month in the eighteenth year of Qianyuan, the day when I was born. An old monk came and said that I was an evil spirit who came into the world."
"You... are you nineteen years old this year?" Ah Chu's eyes widened.
"That's right." Bailiyuan looked down at her palm, "Like a monster, right? It's been nine years, and I've only grown three inches. Ordinary people have Tiankui at the age of fourteen, and I only had it last year. Like you, I My parents think so too, I'm a monster, damn it."
She remembered that many years ago, her parents took the doctor up the mountain to see a doctor. She was very happy. This was the first time her parents had come up the mountain, and it was for her. She lay on the bunk bed, watching the doctor pinching her pale wrist. The doctor squeezed for a while, then went out without saying a word.
The doctor's face was not good, she felt uneasy and crawled up. She had a hunch that she might never get better. In fact, it doesn't matter if you don't grow up, it's also good to be a child forever. She thought that the longer she was ill, maybe her parents would go up the mountain to see her again. She stepped barefoot across the white snow in the flowerbed and across the cold plum bricks in the hall. The nunnery was as quiet as death, and she could only hear the crackling of her bare feet on the ground.
She touched the meditation room where her parents were staying, and through Bi Yanluo's window screens, she saw the shadow of her parents sitting upright, and the old doctor. The old doctor squeezed his goatee and shook his head gently.
"This is the retribution of your Baili family, the sin of God!" Her mother said, "What if this disease can't be cured? She looks like a monster!"
The room was silent for a long time, she hugged her knees and listened to the rustling snow. Finally, she heard her father's voice: "Forget it, send her to the Western Regions. Since she is an evil spirit, she should be as tough as a evil spirit. Send her to the Western Regions, and from now on, she will live and die!"
Those words were cold and hard, and it was a bone-chilling coldness to her ears. They finally don't want her anymore, like throwing a dog into a foreign country, into a distant place where they will never see each other again. She didn't know how she got back to the meditation room and climbed onto the cold bed. The word "monster" came out of Mother's mouth, echoed in her ears, and finally turned into a shrill scream.
"Monster!" "Monster!" she thought blankly, she was a monster.
She flipped through the medical book again, and the flowers outlined by the ink pen came into view. The thin petals were curled and tightened, like a circle of sharp teeth. She remembered that when winter passed, there would be a lot of this kind of flowers outside the meditation room, spreading from the top of the mountain to the mountainside, like a destructive flame, which was the only bright color on the top of the mountain.
It turns out that what was buried under the heavy snow was always a murderous intent.
"July and a half is not enough for me, it only happens once a year, and I can't wait that long! So I increased the concentration of the pill, four times if twice is not enough, and eight times if four times is not enough. Finally, I have Bliss fruit came out."
"Did you feed it to your parents?" Ah Chu asked blankly.
"I crushed the pills into powder and poured them into the water source of Baili's house." Bailiyuan sneered, "Baili's house is on the mountainside, and I am on the top of the mountain. There is a river originating from the cold spring on the top of the mountain. They use water every day. It's all taken from this river. Isn't it stupid? Build a pavilion around the mansion, wrap it like a fortress, but expose the lifeline."
"Baili's family... how many people are there?" Ah Chu asked.
"I don't know, I haven't counted them." Bailiyuan smiled and said, "Anyway, when I went down to visit them, everyone went crazy. Sister, you should really watch that scene, it was the happiest time of my life. "
Carrying a white rabbit lantern, she walked on the corridor humming a song, igniting fire everywhere as she walked, the flames spread with her steps, climbed up the big red pillars, climbed the painted beams, climbed the roof ridge ridged beast on top. Her sister and brother crawled out of the house with convulsive faces, crying and asking her for bliss. She threw out a handful of powder with a blank face, and they scrambled to lick the ground, their clothes on fire, unaware.
Her father walked out of the fire with a knife, the flames burned behind him, his beard and hair fluttered in the waves of fire, and his anger was like the god of war.
He roared furiously: "Bai Liyuan, you beast!"
But in the end, he still couldn't resist the onset of drug addiction, the long knife clanged to the ground, the blue veins on the back of his hand and forehead burst, and his face was twisted and kneeled on the ground. He struggled to raise his head and looked at the indifferent girl in the sea of fire, "I should have listened to the master's words and killed you... You are an evil ghost!"
"Yeah, why didn't you kill me? You didn't kill me," Bai Liyuan tilted her head to look at him, "You are the one who died."
She turned around and walked out of the Hou Mansion, the sea of fire burned behind her, and the ruins collapsed one by one.
"Everyone... is dead..." Ah Chi felt cold all over.
"Yeah," a sinister smile appeared on Bailiyuan's lips, "Since they say I'm an evil ghost, I'll show it to them! I don't know if they are satisfied with my Asura evil ghost!"
Ah Chu shivered and said, "You lunatic... Bailiyuan, it's your father and mother who don't want you, it's your second sister who framed you, you have a grudge in your heart, just punish them, why do you want to kill others? !"
"They are all in the same group! These are their own faults! Since they hate me for being an evil spirit, why didn't they kill me earlier? Why keep me until then." Bailiyuan's face was hideous, "Since you left me, it should have been long ago. Expect the consequences of this."
Ah Chu shuddered, Bai Liyuan squatted down and stroked her smooth cheeks. She looked very well-behaved when she didn't wear makeup, with her clean face and big black eyes that seemed to hide a beautiful landscape. Bailiyuan said softly: "Sister, I know you are different from them, will you come with me? Just now I said that feeding you Bliss Fruit or something is just an angry word, just to make fun of you. You are my only relative. Now, why would I treat you like that? I'll let it go and we'll forget about you betraying me, okay?"
Aya shook her head to herself.
Bailiyuan continued: "I have a lot of gold, I will rebuild the Hou Mansion, and we will live together. Didn't you say that you have the Queen's life, I will let you be the Queen of Shuobei. From now on, no one will be Don't dare to bully you, everyone will crawl under your feet, shouting at you for a thousand years, a thousand years, a thousand thousand years!"
"I don't want it!" Ah Chu burst into tears, "I would rather be a prostitute in Rouge Hutong all my life, with thousands of people riding on thousands of pillows, than being the queen of Shuobei, and your sister!"
silence.
like dead.
The smile in Bailiyuan's eyes faded away inch by inch, and turned gray again inch by inch. In the end, her face returned to the indifference of a white porcelain mask, and it was as cold as a thousand years of ice and snow. Bailiyuan pulled out the dagger from behind her waist, and pointed the cold-light tip of the blade against Ah Chu's eyebrows. She said blankly, "Then you can die, Ah Chi."
Ah Chu closed her eyes and tightened her neck involuntarily. Before the dagger reached her eyebrows, she seemed to have felt the cool coldness and sharp pain. Her heart shrank into a ball, and in the silence only her own beating heartbeat could be heard.
However, after a long time, the expected pain did not hit his eyebrows. Something warm dripped onto the back of her hand, and the tip of her nose had a fishy sweet smell. She opened her eyes and faced the tip of the dagger that was close at hand. It was only an inch away from the center of her eyebrows, and it could kill her by just a little. But a small hand grasped it, it was Bailiyuan's own left hand, and blood dripped from her fingers like a bead curtain with a broken thread.
Bailiyuan lowered her head, her eyes were covered by bangs, Ah Chu could only see her chin and the tears dripping down her chin.
She was crying like a child.
Why cry? Bai Liyuan didn't know either, she only felt that a huge sadness grabbed her and almost suffocated her. She didn't cry when her parents said "death and life are up to her", and she didn't cry when everyone was buried in the fruit of bliss and drowned in the sea of fire. Now, she is crying.
She let go of her hands and stood up, turned around, and raised a warm smile on her lips, "You are all human, I am a monster. Humans and monsters cannot be together."
Ah Chu stared blankly at her back.
She walked to the door, the assassin opened it for her, the moonlight came in, and she was a dark shadow in that bright light.
"Isn't Chiyan trying to kill me, by the way, and his younger brother Xiahou Rin. Let them come, I will wait for them in the snow mountain." Bailiyuan said coldly, "If they don't come, I will let the whole family come. Qi has become an Asura killing field!"
She left, and the assassin disappeared, as if it had never appeared. The night wind blew through the deserted and desolate courtyard, with dead branches and leaves rustling on the sofa. Her beaded curtain also trembled in small pieces, shaking off the moonlight. Ah Chu felt that she was very tired, so she got up on the ground and slowly sat down on the bunk bed. Bailiyuan had sat here before, but she could no longer feel her temperature. Ah Chu lay down on her side, tears streaming silently from the corners of her eyes, she suddenly saw a snail box beside the pillow.
what is this? She sat up again and opened it, and there was only a thin piece of yellow paper inside. She opened the yellow paper, and the dense words on it came into view.
Zhou Chu, twenty-eight years old, a native of Shuntian Prefecture, was originally a prostitute in the Jiaofang Jiaofang in Rouge Hutong.
Business: None.
The right household post is paid to the recipient of Zhou Chu.
The tenth day of the first month of the first year of Xuanhe
Shuntian Prefecture Tongzhi Fan Xian
She trembled, and it took a long time for her to realize that this was her household post. Tears rustled down and dripped on the yellow paper, like a hazy moon shadow. She put down the household papers, ran out the door and shouted, "A Yuan! A Yuan!"
No one responded to her, only the wind in the courtyard and the moon in the courtyard.