When being strangled by the demonized puppet, Ye Ze felt ashamed at first about Xia Wuyin's sacrifice to save him.
When he came back that night, he ignored Xia Wuyin because he felt ashamed in front of Xia Wuyin.
As the son of Ye's family, he actually had such a despicable idea at that moment - to condone his greed for life and fear of death with the lives of others.
Also in the name of revenge.
It's a shame for the Ye family.
Besides, he looks taller than Xia Wuyin, older than Xia Wuyin, and in the end, he has to come to save him...
very shameful.
Very humiliating.
He tossed and turned all night.
The eyes of the ragged little boy who usually smiled and bent carelessly, but suddenly lit up at that moment.
"Say you believe me."
At the time, he said so.
Obviously he... Xia Wuyin is also afraid.
But at that moment, in those eyes, he could not see the slightest fear, only the loneliness of life or death if he wins.
As if only he had said that.
Then he can go ahead and be invincible.
Like a burning sun.
Brilliantly dazzling.
When the pre-dawn darkness enveloped the heavens and the earth before the light of the morning lighted.
He got up and quietly glanced at the little boy who was sleeping darkly and sweetly under the willow tree.
he thinks.
At that time, this sissy was really handsome.
Just like the young heroes of the Ye family's generation in the mother's story.
But since the puppet master came back from parading the streets that day, Ye Ze found that he liked to follow him, and Xia Wuyin, who was smiling all day, was gone.
Not gone either.
Just not sticking to him like a candy cane anymore. He was also silent when he begged, and the things he begged for became less.
As if thinking about something. Looking a little gloomy.
When Ye Ze had this piece of brown sugar in the past, he felt very troublesome and avoided it like a snake.
When people ignored him, he felt bad and worried.
The night is foggy.
Everyone in the temple fell asleep.
Ye Ze walked to Xia Wuyin's side, broke open the plum blossom cake he had hidden, and gave it to Xia Ge who was in a daze under the willow tree.
"Here."
The plum cake is delicious.
Xia Ge was stunned, looked up at Ye Ze, paused, and took it.
The golden thigh would actually come to please her? Strange.
The little boy sat next to her, his voice a little awkward, "...what's the matter with you these days?"
Xia Ge thought, what else could be done.
She has justly rejected the system's suggestion for promotion of the puppet master, and firmly and definitely established the legitimate ideal of being a free and free little beggar.
As long as she doesn't hold your golden thigh, her future will be brilliant in the career of beggars.
But the system doesn't know whether she has set up the lofty ideals, it just said with certainty: "You will definitely become a puppet master."
She was very unhappy with the affirmative tone of the system.
Therefore, I don't have a good impression of the golden thighs that the system designated to help.
The little beggar is enough to eat every day. The little beggar does not need to hold his thighs. If you think about it carefully, this puppet system is a system that assists the male protagonist. Holding the male protagonist’s thighs is sending yourself to the puppet master on the road to death. Push up.
Don't hug, just be happy.
The male protagonist has the halo of the male protagonist. She is the son of destiny and is destined to die. She has nothing, nothing, and becoming a puppet master may be cannon fodder.
Is it bad to live
Seeing that she didn't speak for a long time, Ye Ze thought for a while, and then hesitantly said: "...Are you unhappy yesterday?"
Yo heh. Lord Golden Thigh still cares about the suffering of cannon fodder. No wonder there are three thousand beauties in the harem, and countless younger brothers hug their thighs.
Xia Ge smiled and said, "No."
Ye Ze thought for a while, then hesitated: "When I came back yesterday, I heard the old beggar say... That puppet master ran away."
He seemed to be struggling mentally, and after a long time, he whispered, "I... I also think that, the puppet master is quite pitiful."
This is a hesitant approval of what Xia Ge said yesterday.
-lie.
Can you be a little more sincere when you say something against your heart, with a reluctant look on your face that makes people look bad
Xia Ge thought.
She heard Ye Ze say cautiously again: "So, madam... Xia Wuyin, don't be unhappy."
Ye Ze silently changed Sissy's name to Xia Ge's name.
Xia Ge couldn't tell how he felt.
Very complicated.
After a long while, she took a bite of the plum cake and said with a smile, "I didn't say I was unhappy."
Ye Ze shook his head: "But you're not with me anymore."
Xia Ge: "...I thought you would be very happy if I didn't go with you."
It was true that it might have been fun before...
Ye Ze was silent for a while, then took a bite of the plum blossom cake, and changed the subject casually, "Xia Wuyin, do you know your birthday?"
Xia Ge: "Birthday? I don't know."
Ye Ze thought for a while, "Is there any special day to be a birthday?"
Most of the beggars are discarded. There are many people who don't know the birthday, some people don't care, and some people choose a suitable date as their birthday.
Xia Ge: "A special day? I think... If you have to say it, it's May 1st."
Labor Day, labor is the most glorious!
And it's also her modern birthday.
The first of May here seems to be calculated according to the lunar calendar, but no one celebrates her birthday anyway, and the lunar calendar does not matter.
Ye Ze: "How old are you then?"
Xia Ge: "I don't know."
Ye Ze affirmed: "I'm nine years old... I'm taller than you, and definitely older than you."
Taller than her is older than her? What logic, how do you let the dwarfs think.
Xia Ge also affirmed: "I am twenty-three years old."
Ye Ze: "Just blow it."
Xia Ge: "...Okay."
The system suddenly said: "Eight years old."
Xia Ge was taken aback.
The system repeated: "Eight years old, this body."
So Ye Ze is nine years old, she is indeed older than her.
Xia Ge was thinking.
"Xia Wuyin..."
Suddenly I heard Ye Ze's soft voice, a little softly.
Xia Ge looked up at him.
The boy avoided her eyes slightly and whispered, "Since I'm older than you... can you call me... brother?"
"…Pfft."
Under the boy's anxious gaze, Xia Ge felt a little bad, but he couldn't hold back.
Although it is true that she is much taller than she is now, but... Let a young girl with a mental age of twenty-three, ahem, call a nine-year-old brother-
Xia Ge made up for the modern 1.7-meter-high-heeled Ye Ze with her current Ye Ze, and then called his brother or brother seriously...
"Ye Ze, you actually want to be my brother hahaha—"
A little bit unimaginable, inexplicable joy.
Ye Ze: "..."
Ye Ze was silent for a while.
"…is it funny?"
he asks.
Xia Ge stopped his smile, shook his head, and said seriously, "It's not funny."
"If it's not funny then don't laugh!"
Ye Ze stood up, threw away the plum cake in his hand, turned his head and left.
Sudden anger.
Xia Ge pinched the red sweet-scented osmanthus cake and raised his eyebrows slightly, "Hey, he's angry."
System: "You did it on purpose."
Xia Ge wondered seriously: "No, isn't it funny? I think it's quite funny."
System: "..." You definitely did it on purpose.
Xia Ge raised her eyebrows, looked at the night, and closed her eyes to rest.
However, she didn't rest for long when she heard footsteps. Out of alertness, she raised her head and glanced casually, and saw a dark figure slowly walking towards the small forest not far from the ruined temple.
Xia Ge didn't take it to heart, thinking that it was some beggar gang boy who couldn't sleep in the middle of the night and went to the woods to blow air.
This man... walking, it looks a little strange.
injured
Go one by one...
Xia Ge thought about it, stood up, and followed.
The man seemed really hurt.
Ghost Shadow Maze started silently, and all the auras were hidden to the minimum. It seemed that the person was injured, so Xia Ge followed him all the way to the depths of the woods, and she was not found.
The moonlight shone in through the shredded leaves of the forest, and Xia Ge saw the other's face.
Her pupils shrank slightly.
It turned out to be the puppet master named Alan yesterday! ? Wasn't it burned at the stake yesterday—
Ye Ze's words still echoed in his ears.
—I heard the old beggar say... The puppet master ran away.
It turned out that she really ran away... What did she come here for
After a while, Xia Ge found the answer.
The moonlight was sparse, and the old man with a fan slowly walked out of the shadow of the deep forest.
Xia Ge held his breath.
It turned out to be... an old beggar
"Long time no see, old butler."
Alan's voice was cold, "The Chang family has been looking for you for so many years, but I never thought you would be hiding here."
"I'm old, I just want to find a place to live in peace." The old beggar paused, "I didn't expect to meet you here."
Hearing Xia Ge was very shocked.
The two continued one after another, and the opening remarks ended. It was like reminiscing about the old days, and they said a lot of things at will.
Judging from the words, this old beggar is the old housekeeper of the Chang family, A Lan... or Chang Lan, the sister of the current head of the Chang family.
They were actually related, something Xia Ge never imagined.
It sounds like the old housekeeper was chased by the Chang family because he knew something three years ago, and finally escaped the chase as a beggar in this small town.
A Lan brought shame to the Chang family because she was found to be practicing puppet art. In the end, in the name of Yunyou, she was exiled and happened to meet Cui Zhu who was going out on the Qiqiao Festival...
Xia Ge of the Chang family knows that although it is said to be a famous family in the book, the characters in it are all cannon fodders who were beaten in the face of the male protagonist's growth route.
It seems that they were all conquered by the male protagonist who was full of tyranny and became younger brothers soon, and the male protagonist took them to conquer the demon sect.
So... these two people should have some entanglements with the people inside the Chang family
The two chatted for a while, and the old beggar said, "After so many years, you have grown up too, your brother..."
He paused, and then stopped.
"I heard a few years ago that my brother and the Demon Sect leader Qin Yue were entangled." Alan did not shy away, his voice was light, and he mocked vaguely, "I heard that there is a daughter, and my brother is an affectionate person."
Chang Lan's elder brother is the head of the Chang family, so what she said is... the head of the Chang family and the leader of the demon sect
Xia Ge: "… "
It's not written in the book! Nonsense, right
The old beggar laughed, "Then you must have heard that three years ago, Qin Yue and her daughter were surrounded and killed by Zhi Zhi in Baiyue Valley. Jianfeng Mountain Prison…”
"I know about it, she could have escaped with her daughter."
"If you don't believe in the facts, you want to talk to your elder brother."
Alan laughed: "What a stupid woman."
Pieces of conversation, like small talk, also like exchanging scandals about the head of the Chang family.
Xia Ge silently sorted out the context behind him.
It probably means that this amorous family head of the Chang family prostituted the demon sect leader Qin Yue, Qin Yue gave birth to him a daughter, and then he seemed to use this innocent demon sect leader for something. In the name of dating, I made an appointment to Baiyuegu...
It was originally a beautiful scene after the dusk of Liu Shaotou's appointment on the moon, but Qin Yue, who was full of expectations with her daughter, did not wait for her lover, but was besieged by decent people. His lover betrayed him a month ago, so he desperately took his daughter out of the siege, hid her daughter well, and then went to confront the head of the Chang family...
As a result, he was caught on the spot.
Facing Qin Yue's accusations.
Alan's ruthless brother also said: "She is really a demon girl, she will not change her life, and she is talking nonsense."
All his daughters were born to him, but in exchange for a nonsense.
What a tragedy in the world, it is really embarrassing.
Xia Ge sighed when he heard it.
Man, they are all big hooves.
From Alan's mouth, it can be known that Qin Yue seemed to be a high priest in charge of divination before he sat on the throne of the leader of the demon sect. Although he was sinister and vicious, he was obsessed with hexagrams for several days, and he also had a different kind of innocence.
Stupid for short.
"Chang's family should still be looking for Qin Yue's daughter." Alan said, "Qin Yue was originally the high priest of the Demon Sect, and her spiritual power was naturally powerful. The spiritual power of sacrifices was passed on to women but not men, and it will become stronger and stronger with the inheritance. , her female spiritual power will only be above her in the future, if it is not removed, it will definitely be a problem for my brother in ten years."
The old butler shook his head. "No."
"Oh?" Alan was a little surprised, and then mocked: "Didn't you look for it? You have done a lot of unfortunate things, does your brother want to accumulate some wickedness for yourself?"
The old beggar didn't speak for a while, then said, "Don't talk about your brother, you yourself..."
The aggressive Alan suddenly fell silent.
There was less than a bowl of moonlight, reflecting the woman's hoarfrost black hair.
It seems to have aged a lot.
Xia Ge thought of the demonized puppet named Cui Zhu, and his heart tightened slightly.
The old beggar said: "You know that the ten-year period has come, why not..."
Why not kill that puppet
He paused, "As long as you do that, nothing will happen."
a long time.
When Xia Ge thought she would not answer.
The woman named Alan raised her head slightly, and the cold moonlight reflected a tear in the corner of her eye.
she murmured.
"I… can't do it."
"Because of that, there will be nothing left." Alan murmured, "We... don't even have the next life."
"I can not do it."
Even if it was just a demonized shell, she wanted to stay.
It's just that she wasn't fortified for a while... Thinking that Cuizhu wasn't fully demonized yet, she let her run away.
The unexpected things happened yesterday.
It's just that the reason why demonizing puppets is a forbidden technique is not only that they will demonize and hurt people after ten years, but also that they go against the sky and use puppets to covet the souls of the world, or become evil spirits, or scatter their souls, never to be lost. Reincarnation, no afterlife.
The old man was silent for a long time.
Finally sighed.
"Alan."
"It's been so many years."
"Why are you still so selfish?"
Alan suddenly smiled, "But, ten years."
"In the next life, where will I find her?"
"In the next life, she will not know me, she will fall in love with others."
"I can't find the ten years she can give me."
"I'll never find someone like her again."
The moonlight was icy cold, and Alan's brows were also a bit indifferent, she murmured, "Just thinking of this possibility, I'm going to die."
"If that's the case, I'd rather her go to pieces."
The corners of her mouth curled into a somewhat frantic smile, "As long as she is with me, as long as she is with me, just one more second, one more moment, no matter what, I think it's worth it."
"In this way, she will always love me only one."
"forever and ever."
"Until death."
She's really a selfish woman to the core. It's really unfortunate for that Cui Zhu to fall in love with her.
Xia Ge squatted in the grass and touched the goosebumps on his body.
The old man listened in silence, without expressing any opinion, he just said: "Your identity as a puppet master has been exposed, I will help you once, for the sake of the old friend... You should leave here as soon as possible."
"I'm not leaving here."
"This is her hometown."
Alan smiled lowly, with a faint sadness in the smile, "I have never liked to owe favors, and since this is the case, I will also look at the face of the old man and help you once."
"My brother is looking for you." Alan said: "It's best to leave this town early, and be careful... Evil Ghost Camp."
"If you are found by your brother's demon camp, you will die."
"I'll die if I die, and the old man doesn't have a few days to live." The old beggar shook his head, and there was a hint of sharp light in his cloudy eyes. "It's just that he has to understand that what he owes will be repaid sooner or later."
Alan snorted softly.
"Then I'm afraid you won't see this day."
The two spoke again, and then the puppet master named Alan left.
Xia Ge squatted in the grass and was not bitten by mosquitoes, but her legs were numb.
She doesn't know what's the point of squatting here and listening to all these things, but she knows that if she slips away halfway, she will definitely be sent...
The old beggar is gone!
A sudden pain in the head.
Xia Ge was shocked, and his whole body was cold in an instant.
She turned her head stiffly, the old beggar fanned his fan and squinted at her, smiling but not smiling, "Squatting numb?"
Xia Ge: "... Haha, there's a little... right."
The old beggar snorted, "Get up and leave when you squat."
Xia Ge: "… "
Don't you die
Shouldn't the next sentence be "you know too much" "dead people keep secrets"
What kind of development is this...
She was a little scared.
Xia Ge followed the old beggar for a while.
The old beggar stopped, turned his head, and suddenly said, "…Xiaoge?"
Xia Ge heard goose bumps again, "Ha, here it is."
After a pause, he said very positively: "I won't say a word!"
Before getting along with the old beggar, Xia Ge always felt that he was a lazy, casual, but very dignified old man.
He is good to people, knows a lot of things, and integrates some poor homeless people. Because of this old man's "seeing share", there are very few beggars in this town who starve to death, and everyone respects them. he.
He likes to call people by their nicknames, Ye Ze is called Xiao Ze'er, and after knowing her name, calling her is also Xiao Ge'er.
I used to hear it casually and didn't feel anything, but now I feel a sense of danger of being silenced no matter how I listen to it.
The old man glanced at her and turned his head, "I mean, what you just heard, it doesn't matter what you say."
Xia Ge: "… Huh?"
Can he just say anything about saving the puppet master
His voice was slow. "I can tell you more."
Xia Ge was stunned, and quickly shook his head into a rattle, "Hey, no, no, no..."
The more you know, the faster you die.
She just needs to be a happy little beggar who doesn't know anything.
"But the old man wanted to say."
You want to say I don't want to hear it.
Xia Ge slandered.
The old man let out a long sigh: "The old man's life won't last for a few days..."
Suspected of selling miserably.
Xia Ge: "… "
"If you don't want to hear it, forget it."
Sorry she didn't really want to hear it.
"Be careful of things with fangs signs recently." The old man sighed, "run quickly when you see it."
"… Oh."
= =
And since that night's "brother" incident. Ye Ze began to avoid Xia Ge. Occasionally, when the two met on the street, Ye Ze would not give her any good looks.
Xia Ge, who was lucky enough to survive from the benevolent old beggar, felt that Ye Ze's little awkwardness was indifferent.
People who have experienced life and death can always look down on everything.
When Xia Ge thought about it like this, she was still a little complacent.
I don't know where she got the cheekiness to compare her mood with a nine-year-old child.
Occasionally, when Xia Ge saw Ye Ze, he was surprised to find that the young master who had always been begging for food with a straight face was actually enlightened. When he used to beg for something, he had a gloomy face like someone owed him money, but now he knows how to laugh.
He is also a very sunny little boy when he smiles.
She also found that Ye Ze didn't beg for food in the past few days, but often went to beg for some copper coins.
One or two, I don't know what to do.
I cherish it and put it in a black purse.
It was just unfortunate that when that bright smiling face met her, it immediately turned into a storm, so gloomy as if Xia Ge owed him how much money.
So about ten days passed.
Going out that day, Ye Ze left earlier than her, and she was stopped by the old beggar.
The old beggar slapped his palm fan, lazily, "Xiaoge, what's the matter with you and Ozawa recently?"
Hey, has their relationship broken enough that even the old beggars can see it
After the shadows of that night, Xia Ge now has goosebumps when she hears the old beggar calling her Xiaoge.
Xia Ge immediately pretended to be sad, "Brother Aze doesn't want to play with me."
The old beggar looked at her fixedly.
Xia Ge couldn't act anymore, but he still tried his best to look sad.
It's good to have a full play.
The old man finally sighed softly.
"Little song."
Xia Ge: "... um."
"People are different."
The old man fanned his fan, thinking of what the people below said in the past few days, Ye Ze's smile.
What a proud kid that is.
His eyes gradually grew distant, "Some people are like a grindstone, you have to push it and tell him clearly what you want in order to get what you want."
Xia Ge said, "I don't want anything."
The old man smiled and said, "That's why some people are different."
Xia Ge looked at him.
"There are some people who like to be silent when they talk and do things. These people are smart, but they are very proud on the surface. When they are silently doing things for you, you can't point it out—" The old man paused and sighed softly, " But you must know what he did for you."
Xia Ge's heart moved slightly.
Looking at the old man again, he has closed his eyes, fanned his fan, and said nothing.
—Xia Wuyin, do you know your birthday
…
—So… don’t be unhappy.
—Can you… call me, brother.
Xia Ge walked out of the ruined temple, for some unknown reason, but when he met Ye Ze on the side of the road, he saw the smile on his face and the coins he asked for.
- You must know what he did for you.
Ye Ze never smiled when he begged.
At least the Ye Ze she had met had never smiled at anyone.
I would rather eat dry steamed buns every day than give up my last bit of pride.
But lately, he has been laughing.
… why
For those few copper plates
Xia Ge suddenly didn't want to think very much.
She took a few steps and suddenly asked the system.
"...What day is it today?"
The invincible puppet who tried to have a good relationship with the host but failed every time: "...April 28th."
She said her birthday was May 1st.
It seems to be getting closer to the truth.
"... Others treat me well." Xia Ge said to himself, "I'm going to accept it?"
The system interjected solemnly: "Well, right, when accepting it, it is best to think about something in return, such as becoming a super powerful puppet master."
Xia Ge: "Shut up."
==
Ye Ze finally saved enough money.
He went to the clothing store, intending to make a suit of clothes for the dry stinky boy as a present.
He found out the other day that the kid bought himself a pair of shoes.
In fact, he also knew that it was a bit strange to let others call him brother for no reason, but when Xia Wuyin laughed like that, he just felt very angry.
pissed off.
Ye Ze then thought of his unborn brother and possibly his younger sister.
there is none left.
nothing left.
But... he wanted to.
What is lost cannot be returned, so he wants to rely on himself to get it bit by bit.
He stood at the door of the clothing store, looking at the high plaque. For some reason, he clearly wanted to see the plaque, but the first thing he saw was a pitch-black fang on a pillar on one side.
The ferocious fangs are ghostly.
Eye-catching, but also inexplicably gloomy.
Why do clothing stores post such weird things
Ye Ze didn't think too much, took back his thoughts, and walked in.
The shop was sparsely populated, and the shop owner seemed a little strange, but Ye Ze didn't care that much. He picked out a ready-to-wear piece and planned to try it on.
He's a head taller than that kid... just buy a slightly smaller one.
Into the fitting room.
He heard some weird, low voices, like coming from the cubicle.
Those voices were a little eerie.
Ye Ze didn't care much, he just thought it was the next door changing clothes.
But the more I listened, the more strange it became.
His movements were a little stiff.
"The glory of the sky from the Ye family..."
"… "
"The annihilation of the Ye family... We also participated in the evil ghost camp..."
"Shhh... that deal is over, now, it's a good start..."
"… "
The clothes in Ye Ze's hand slipped silently to the ground.
Not because of what was heard.
But because, in the fitting room, slowly, slowly, countless ghost heads with ferocious fangs appeared!
"Here comes a... interesting kid..."