Year after year, mortals are ups and downs in the world, no matter how unforgettable the person or the unforgettable thing, it is enough to be washed away. It is rumored that there is Wangchuan water under the Yellow Spring, and you will not know your past and present lives after drinking a cup, but in fact, Wangchuan water is in the world, and it has another name, which is "years".
Ten years of life and death are boundless, even if we meet each other, we should not know each other.
Shi Wuduan originally thought that Bai Li was the only person left in his memory. As for whether he was round or flat, tall or short, it had long been blurred. People wake up in an instant—and those willful and carefree years, that deceiving little fox who likes to pretend to be a little girl, smiling like a flower...
They are like a garden sealed in Shi Wuyuan's memory, a place... one can only look forward to, recall, and cherish, but never go back.
Shi Wuduan's face was blank for a moment, and then he smiled lightly, rather self-deprecatingly, thinking that Xiao Ion was gone? He saw with his own eyes that cloud of black air penetrated his chest and melted him away.
So he said: "Brother, I see that you and I are very destined. Not only do you look a lot like a friend of mine from the past, but your hobbies are also very similar to mine."
The other party was still holding the cage with the rabbit in it, looking at him blankly, suddenly a little distracted, and very rudely stretched out his finger to rub against the looming dimple on his left cheek, and said in a low voice: "You Is it... gratuitous?"
His voice was a little low, as if it was choked in his throat, and his words were not clear, but it was enough for Shi Wudu to hear. Shi Wuduan was stunned for a moment, stepped back half a step, carefully looked at the person in front of him, suddenly opened his eyes wide, then raised his hand suddenly, and punched Bai Li on the shoulder, Bai Li was caught off guard by his sudden The fist pushes back half a step.
"Damn, you're not dead!" Shi Wudu unconsciously imitated Meng Zhongyong's tone, "I thought... I thought..."
Bai Li didn't know what to say, he just felt as if his chest was propped up by something, he lightly clasped Shi Wuduan's hand holding his collar, Bai Li lowered his eyes, those soul-stirring eyes were hidden in the shadows .
Then Shi Wuduan saw that Bai Li seemed to be smiling, and he smiled very lightly, as if he had walked a long way, suffered all the wind, frost, rain and snow all the way, and when his heart was numb from the cold, he raised his head Suddenly I found the hut with a small stove when I came here.
However, he was too excited and didn't have the energy to discern Bai Li's subtle expressions.
The person who was going to the market bumped his shoulder, Shi Wuduan withdrew his hand a little uncomfortably, and said, "Let's go, let's talk in a cleaner place."
He raised his foot to leave, but remembered something again, pointed to the cage in Bai Li's hand and said, "I'm welcome if it's you, although that thing is a bit silly, after all, it's a rabbit I raised, so give it to me."
"I know." Bai Li said, his voice was still a little jerky, as if he was not used to it, he coughed lightly, then reached out to open the cage, lifted the fat rabbit out of it, and said, "He I can feel the smell of your Jiulu Mountain."
Strange to say, the rabbit seemed to be stupid, being held by the ears, it didn't even struggle a bit, just curled up its front paws, bared its teeth and looked at Bai Li foolishly.
At this moment, a black shadow suddenly flashed behind Bai Li, and a sling of money was thrown into the hands of the stall owner.
Shi Wudu was taken aback for a moment, but before he could see who the black figure was, Bai Li suddenly turned his head away, lowered his voice, and said coldly, "One more step with me, and I'll kill you."
ah? Shi Wuyuan frowned imperceptibly, at that moment he felt the uncontrollable hostility in Bai Li's body, but it was only for a moment, when he looked over, it seemed that everything was his illusion.
All these years... Where has Little Ion been
This thought flashed through Shi Wuduan's mind quickly, but he didn't show it on his face - although it was a friendship, it was after all many years ago, and now that he hasn't seen each other for many years, he doesn't have much need to meddle in other people's business.
"Come on, I'll take you to the best restaurant in Guji."
As Shi Wuduan said, he walked in front first, and Bai Li followed behind him, holding the rabbit in one hand, and then suddenly grabbed his hand. Shi Wudu was taken aback for a moment, and subconsciously curled his fingers, only then did he feel that Bai Li's hands were a little cold, even the palms were cold.
He was really embarrassed, what's the matter with two old men joking around in the street? Then he drew back calmly, and at the same time looked back at Bai Li.
Bai Li is now neither the silent and pretty little girl who followed him in the Cangyun Valley, nor the indifferent and stubborn boy tied to the pillar. He seems to have grown up, with broad shoulders and narrow waist, and a foxy face. The ethnic features are so thin that they are almost invisible.
Shi Wuduan thought, probably because he was a man, the lines that became a lot tougher broke the soft and charming temperament of the fox clan.
Only those eyes remained unchanged.
Shi Wuduan remembered that when Bai Li was a child, he liked to follow behind him in places that were not easy to walk or where there were other people, with his head lowered, his cold hands clutching his palms, his eyes lowered, as if he was serious about walking .
How did he grow up and still look like this? Shi Wuyuan thought that he couldn't laugh or laugh, that's right, ten years is a long time for people, but it's just a flick of a finger for monsters, this kid probably didn't grow much older than he did back then.
Thinking of this, my heart softened, and I let him pull me away.
Shi Wuduan took Bai Li directly to a restaurant, Bai Li saw that he ordered food with ease, and asked, "Do you live in this place?"
"Give us another two taels of rice wine." Shi Wuduan finished ordering Xiaoer, and said casually, "No, I just arrived a few days ago."
Bai Li sat across from him, looked at him deeply for a while, and said softly, "You... are a little different."
Shi Wuduan smiled and said, "Why, has it changed for the better or worse?"
"Whatever you do is fine." Bai Li said frankly, and then asked, "I'll go... Xuanzong looked for you, but you're not here."
When he said "You are fine anyway", Shi Wuduan's heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help but look up at him, inexplicably recalling how he mistook a man and a woman when he was a child, and dragged someone to be his wife, and couldn't help feeling a little uneasy Thinking about it, it's been many years, he can't tell the difference between men and women, can he
"I've been away from Xuanzong for several years." Shi Wuduan paused, as if he didn't know where to start, when Xiao Er served the wine and dishes, he poured Bai Li the wine to perfunctory the past, and finally just said , "I won't go back again in the future—it's you who didn't go back to Cangyun Valley to see it? There was such a big commotion with your mother back then..."
"She's not my mother." Bai Li said, but his face was flat, Shi Wu's hand holding the vegetables paused, and Bai Li said again, "Bai Ziyi is indeed not my mother, and I only found out later. "
Shi Wudu didn't say anything, sat down opposite him, and quietly waited for the other party to continue.
When he went to look at Bai Li again, he realized that he had never seen his fox body before. Even when he was beaten back to his original form by Tian Jie, Bai Li looked like an ordinary child, but there was an extra pair of foxes. Er, could it be that his bloodline of the fox clan is not pure
Thinking about this, he followed Bai Li's voice and said, "I don't think it was my own. Look at you at that time, did you look like a pitiful little child raised by your stepmother? So you were dragged into that mess?" In the black air, I actually went back to my life experience."
"En." Bai Li nodded, and Shi Wuduan found that his taste was rather vegetarian, and he didn't even move the fish on the table, and he didn't even look at the rich-flavored chicken soup in the middle of the table.
Fox doesn't eat chicken? Shi Wuduan's eyes flashed, only to hear Bai Li continue: "I saw my... father."
"Oh?" Shi Wuduan reacted after being stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "No wonder I was suffocated by the cloud of black air, but you didn't seem to be affected. Is it because of the origin of blood? I knew it earlier At that time, it was your father who asked you to go back to talk about the past, so I won't play my hero and make a fuss."
When Bai Li heard this, he just laughed softly, and said, "He didn't come to me to reminisce about the old days. If I didn't kill him, I'm afraid I'm still trapped in that dark place."
"What did you say?" Shi Wudu was taken aback.
The uneasiness and doubts in his heart are getting heavier and heavier. Bai Li has always been a quiet and quiet child in his impression. Although he has a little temper at times and is a bit deserted, he is loyal and has a good heart. I remember at the entrance of the cave, Bai Li threw him out, and when he was pierced by the black air, the despairing and reassuring look in his eyes—but when we met again, except for the fact that I was too happy to pay attention when I met him at the beginning, Bai Li's whole body Everyone gave him a... weird sense of oppression.
The first time was when he heard Bai Li talking to the black shadow that appeared out of nowhere, and the second time was when he lightly talked about his patricide.
Bai Li immediately heard that his tone was wrong, raised his head and looked at him with a complicated expression, and asked sensitively: "Do you think I'm not good?"
"Uh..." Shi Wuduan immediately lowered his eyes to cover them, and then showed a flawless smile—as if this movement had been honed over time, "I didn't understand anything, how do I know, okay? Listen to this, Your Honor Isn't it the fox family?"
"He is this." Bai Li stretched out his hand, and a ball of black air jumped in his hand.
Shi Wuduan suddenly felt the surrounding cold, and couldn't help shivering, and blurted out: "This is... a monster?"
Bai Li waved his hand to hide the black air, and said softly, "Yes, if I were Bai Ziyi, I wouldn't be able to tolerate such a monster with blood in the cave back then."
"What are you talking about? How did you become a monster again?" Shi Wuduan immediately picked up a chopsticks dish for Bai Li and put it in a bowl according to Bai Li's taste. When Bai Li saw him, the cloudy brows that were still a little bit cloudy immediately cleared up. , showing a little smile, Shi Wuduan suddenly thought of something, and said, "I have seen a secret volume that records that there is a sect of ten thousand demons at the foot of Jiulu Mountain, but no one knows that this is a What the hell, could it be that you were pulled into it at that time."
Bai Li nodded, and said plainly: "Earlier, he told me that he was my father. I was still shocked, and asked him to let me out. Later, I realized that there are no such things as parents and brothers among monsters. At that time, nine It seems that someone in Lushan practiced Dafa, and the seal of the sect of ten thousand demons was not stable, so he wanted to take the opportunity to escape, and it happened that I was his blood, originally from the same clan, and it happened to be his great help to suck me dry."
It turns out that he is not in the world... No wonder his mind hasn't grown up in ten years, but he seems to have gone back more and more. Shi Wuduan looked at him, his doubts were gone for a while, and he couldn't bear it again, and said softly: "Little ion..."
Bai Li shook his head, and carefully ate the dish that Shi Wudu put in the bowl for him, as if it was a delicacy that needs to be savored carefully.
"By the way," Shi Wuduan rolled his eyes, changed the subject lightly, and asked, "Why are you in Guji City?"
"I came to look for you, but I found some clues on this rabbit, and I met you before I figured it out." Bai Li pointed to the rabbit curled up under Shi Wuduan's feet, and smiled again, "Wuyuan, I miss you."
When he laughed like this, he vaguely still had the beautiful and innocent appearance in Cangyun Valley back then, Shi Wudu was filled with emotions for a moment, but he didn't know where to start.
Bai Li said again: "Come with me."