Xia Ge ran to the street to look for Ye Ze, and he searched for a long time in the place where he usually begged and didn't see anyone. He asked a few familiar little beggars, and finally found the clothing store.
"It's over there."
"I saw him go in before, as if he was going to buy something, and he was a little happy." Xiao Qi'er, a little older than her, pointed to the clothing store not far away and hesitated, "But I don't seem to have See him come out of it."
Xia Ge asked, "When did he enter?"
Little beggar: "Mao Shi."
when? Nine in the morning? It's already three or four o'clock in the afternoon, why haven't you come out yet
Xia Ge frowned, "Didn't you see him come out?"
The little beggar thought for a while, "I left at noon for a while, maybe he left at that time. But speaking of it, that clothing store is a bit weird."
"… strange?"
The little beggar said: "I can't talk nonsense and ruin other people's business, haha."
After that, he left.
Xia Ge thought for a while, then looked up at the store.
However, what was seen was not a plaque. The first thing Xia Ge saw at first sight was a black-backed white fangs sign on one side of the vermilion pillar, entwined with a ghostly spirit, which made people feel very uncomfortable.
Xia Ge suppressed the bad feeling in her heart and entered the store. She looked around. Although there were few people, there were still people. The shopkeeper was playing the abacus lazily on the counter. She came in as a little beggar. The shopkeeper came in. He didn't chase anyone away, just glanced at him casually. The pair of hanging triangular eyes made people very uncomfortable. Xia Ge glanced at the shopkeeper.
A feeling of overdoing it.
Xia Ge thought for a while, then went in with an innocent smile, "Are you the shopkeeper of this house?"
The shopkeeper, who was so thin that he lost his shape, lifted his eyelids, "Yeah."
"Have you seen one..." Xia Ge described Ye Ze's height and appearance, then smiled, "My companions said he bought a piece of clothing from you..."
The shopkeeper's voice was a little hoarse and lazy, "I've seen it."
Xia Ge's eyes lit up, "Where is he?"
The shopkeeper glanced at her, took out a black purse and a new piece of clothing, "He bought a piece of clothing, but didn't take it with him. He said someone called him and left."
Xia Ge knew the purse.
It's really Ye Ze's.
… Bought clothes but don’t take them with you
No matter how you look at it, it's not likely to belong to Ye Ze's arrogance.
"Bring it back to him if you know him." The shopkeeper threw the things to her, then frowned and waved his hands in annoyance, "Just go out if you have nothing to do, I still have to do business."
Seeing that the shopkeeper was about to drive him away, Xia Ge hurriedly said, "I'm here to buy clothes!"
As she said, holding Ye Ze's purse and clothes, she randomly pulled another piece of clothing in the store and ran into the fitting room, "This dress is good, I'll try it."
The shopkeeper, who was so thin that he was out of shape, saw Xia Ge running into the fitting room. When the door of the fitting room was slammed shut, the shopkeeper's eyes narrowed, and the corners of his mouth opened a stern smile.
It's true that there is a way to heaven and you don't go, and there is no door to hell, you surrender yourself.
In an instant, the open door slammed shut, and Xia Ge saw a few people shopping for clothes disappearing like smoke.
And Xia Ge in the fitting room knew nothing about it.
… This store feels a little weird.
Xia Ge stood in the fitting room, holding the clothes and the purse, and frowned.
The purse belongs to Ye Ze, she knows him, he has been holding this for the past few days... The clothes he bought with his hard-earned money were thrown away when he said they were thrown away
This is not logical!
Xia Ge put the purse into his pocket first, and then picked up the clothes Ye Ze bought.
Small clothes, the fabric is still comfortable, and when I unfolded it, there were no clues. Compared with my figure, it was a damn fit.
Xia Ge held the clothes and thought of Ye Ze's bright smile in those days, and his mood was complicated for a while.
With a gloomy smile, the shopkeeper outside the fitting room quietly pressed a button.
click.
Xia Ge, who had just ripped off his clothes, suddenly became empty under his feet, and a one-meter-square hole appeared. He almost fell unprepared. Fortunately, Xia Ge was alert, grabbing the clothes with his left hand, and grabbing the edge of the hole with his right hand. , the whole person is half-hanged to the ground, crumbling.
Only then did Xia Ge realize that there was a small dungeon underneath!
In the dungeon, there are some people with no vision, some dressed in rich and noble clothes, some in coarse linen clothes with new clothes in their hands, watching someone fall, their eyes are numb, it seems like they are used to it...
It looks like someone who bought clothes in this store and was unfortunately arrested.
What flashed in his mind for a moment was the pale fangs on the black background on the pillar in front of the door.
… This store is really weird!
At the same time, ten days ago, the old beggar’s sigh quietly poured out of his mind again—
"Beware of things with tusks lately."
"Run as soon as you see it."
Something with fangs...
Xia Ge grabbed the top with one hand and the clothes that Ye Ze bought with the other, and his heart was suddenly cold.
The door of the fitting room was quietly opened, no extra light came in, and the store door was already closed. In Xia Ge's eyes, only the shopkeeper's bony, somewhat terrifying face could be seen.
He stared gloomily at her hand holding the edge, and sighed hypocritically, "Didn't you come to find your companion?"
Xia Ge looked up at him, his pupils shrank slightly.
Behind the man, countless hideous ghost heads slowly appeared.
Countless black smoke filled the air, some ghost heads were cut in half by knives, exposing their brains, some had two pointed horns, and some had eyes on their cheeks...
The same is that they all have a pair of snow-white fangs.
… is a ghost! !
He raised his foot and stepped on Xia Singer fiercely, the smile on his face even more terrifying, "Immediately...you can be reunited—"
The fingers were in severe pain. Xia Ge endured the pain and instinctively shuddered. He raised his eyes and smiled innocently, "If we can't reunite, can you compensate me?"
"Should I pay you?" The shopkeeper laughed even harder, loosened his toes, squatted down to break Xia Ge's fingers little by little, and said slowly, "Little trash, will I pay you to die?"
The moment the shopkeeper's voice fell, black bugs slowly crawled out of the ground of the dungeon. Those who were locked in the cage immediately screamed. With desperate panic, they desperately followed the cage railings. Climbing up, some of those who didn't climb up fell off, or those who didn't have time to climb up, the little worms showed sharp teeth, as if the tide of locusts passed through the wheat field and passed through the flesh of a human being.
The terrifying scream made the scalp tingle.
Seeing that the two fingers of his right hand that were holding the edge of the hole were torn apart, Xia Ge smiled and suddenly said, "It's the Evil Ghost Camp, right?"
The shopkeeper was suddenly stunned when he heard the words, Xia Ge's eyes flashed, his left hand grabbed Ye Ze's new clothes, secretly said sorry, he raised his hand and hit the shopkeeper's bony face, and then grabbed it with his free left hand. He grabbed the shopkeeper's leg, and yanked him into the hole with a sideways yank. With the help of his strength, Xia Ge pushed hard on the edge of the hole with his right hand. Back to the clothes, turned over and returned to the ground!
The ghost heads fell along with the shopkeeper.
"what-"
Terrible howl!
As soon as Xia Ge lowered his head, he saw countless black worms with fangs under the dungeon covering the shopkeeper's bony, stork-boned face, biting off the flesh and blood on his face almost instantly, and then revealing the mechanical structure. .
The bones are made of silver-white metal. The brain is not the brain, but a ghostly stone. The real eyeballs are eaten up by insects. : "You... give me... wait... "
His vocal cords were bitten by a bug, and he didn't speak any more, but the icy glass ball reflected a icy, crazy light.
It's like a demon that drags people to hell and never transcends life.
Xia Ge took a deep breath!
It's just a puppet! ! ! No, it's not a puppet... Half of it is still human, and the other half is a puppet! !
Those ghost heads are because of the ghost stone in the head
- Ghost, this is really a ghost.
For a moment, Xia Ge's mind was filled with Doudou who was eaten by evil spirits in countless nightmares.
And those invisible eyes.
The screams of the people below and the hiss of the half-puppet shopkeeper were like the most terrifying nightmare. Xia Ge was so frightened that his heart trembled, and he rolled and ran out of the clothes that Ye Ze bought. The system's voice was sharp, "You Save Ye Ze!"
"You can't stand by—"
Xia Ge's footsteps stopped, she trembled all over, her head went blank for a moment, and the clothes Ye Ze bought in her hands were cold in her hands.
—Can you... call me brother
- You must know what he did for you.
After a long time, maybe not for a long time, Xia Ge slowly turned around.
"Where is he?"
The hoarse voice was like a rusted record, grinding little by little.
"Tell me, how can I be saved?"
= =
Humbled.
The moon is cold.
The boy sat quietly on the top floor of the house, his dark purple eyes reflecting the pale moonlight.
The breeze ruffled his soft hair.
A voice from the broken temple came, "Are you alright
"where am I… ?"
Muffled and hoarse voice.
Ye Ze woke up.
very nice.
Xia Ge thought.
System: "You did it."
Yes, she did.
She became an official puppet apprentice, temporarily learned the basic skill of manipulating puppets, [Destroying Soul], took the soul of the half-puppet shopkeeper, and ordered him to take her to Ye Ze.
Along the way, I met many hideous ghosts, which were especially terrifying.
The system told her that if it weren't for the fact that the shopkeeper was a half-puppet and would be manipulated by the soul, she would definitely not have such an easy hand.
Because a pure-blooded evil spirit without reason would not be fooled by her level of deception.
With the shopkeeper's guidance, she found Ye Ze in another small dungeon.
That was her first puppet to manipulate orders.
She rescued Ye Ze.
As the system said before.
Also became a puppet master.
"My eyes..." Xia Ge's voice was casual, "When will it return to its original state?"
"Three days?" The system hesitated. "Three days is almost the same."
Three days is a long time.
Xia Ge looked up at the long night, without food for three days, afraid of starvation.
the next day.
Ye Ze's words became less when he woke up.
The people around said that Xia Wuyin dragged him back, the small body dragged his big man, blindfolded, and dragged him all the way back to the temple.
Everyone's eyes were on Ye Ze who was unconscious. For a while, no one noticed the strangeness of Xia Wuyin's eyes. When he came back to his senses, the silent child was gone.
Ye Ze thought about the child named Xia Wuyin.
He knew that he had been saved again by him.
He stared at the clothes on the side, and was silent for a long time.
In addition to these, maybe he should thank him.
If it wasn't for this dress, he might never have found a clue in his life...
The words I heard in the fitting room reverberated in my heart.
brooding.
"Ghost Camp..."
They participated in that merciless massacre.
They are the accomplices who ruined everything for him!
They... dammit.
Ye Ze buried his head in his knees, blindfolding the wanton hatred and killing intent in his eyes.
= =
Xia Ge bought himself a veil and put it on.
Begging while wearing a veil is very strange, and since he has become a puppet master with a "bright future", with those purple eyes that will make him look like a monster at first glance, the ideal of a radiant little beggar is estimated to be difficult to practice.
Xia Ge didn't dare to break through the acquaintances in the temple to find out, and carefully covered his eyes with a veil. Fortunately, he was smart before, and he didn't really starve to death if he had a few coins left.
I bought a steamed bun and chewed it hard on the roadside.
[Ding...Meet the key people!]
The prompt from the system came up suddenly, Xia Ge was not fortified and bit his tongue.
"Whoops... hiss..."
Xia Ge spat out the steamed bun and covered her mouth. When she bit the steamed bun, she bit it out of her anger. The bite was not light, and it was so painful that tears almost fell.
When he was relieved, Xia Ge just wanted to ask who the key person was, but when he looked up, his throat got stuck.
Did not ask.
She saw a child.
The child's eyes were covered with white strips of white cloth with blood splattered on the cloth strips. She was wearing pink, but some dirty silk and satin. She was just a little girl of five or six years old. The neck is immature and small, as if it could be broken with a single fold.
Fragile as a butterfly.
Blindness can't stop her from being a naturally noble woman. At just five years old, she has a temperament that makes people bow down.
Xia Ge thought vaguely.
blind...
Beans.
The pain in his mouth was relieved, but his heart was slightly stabbed. She slowly tore open the steamed buns and swallowed nothing left.
The butterfly-like girl stayed quietly at the entrance of the alley, like a painting, sweet and silent.
Xia Ge finished biting all the buns, patted his butt, turned his head and left.
System: "I said you met a key person."
Xia Ge: "Oh, that little girl."
System: "Yes..."
No wonder it looked so good.
Xia Ge thought about it, and said casually: "Then I can rest assured that the words of key people will not be casually hung up.
system:"… "
System: "Shouldn't you extend your gentle helping hand?"
Xia Ge's mouth twitched: "I'm sick."
He couldn't even eat it himself, and he gently helped.
She helps others, who helps her
Besides...
"That dress looks like a lady from a noble family." Xia Ge said, "It won't take long for someone to pick up the delicious food, so I don't mind my own business if I can't eat."
system:"… "
the next day.
Xia Ge met that noble girl again.
This time she squatted in the corner, slender fingers drawing something on the ground.
Hey, haven't you been picked up by your family yet
That is... haven't eaten for a day
Xia Ge watched from a distance for a while, hesitated, and bought two steamed buns.
The little girl was so cute, someone put some food in front of her before Xia Ge was ready to go.
Xia Ge's footsteps stopped.
However, the little girl didn't care, the skin under her blindfolded eyes was white, her lips were red like a cherry, and her slender fingertips were sketching on the ground.
Xia Ge carried two steamed buns, pretended to be passing by, and glanced at the little girl's painting on the ground.
It was a pair of beautiful almond eyes.
The little girl is obviously blind, but her eyes are very delicate, with slender eyelashes and bright pupils. She is a pair of bright almond eyes, and the white fingertips are stained with dust, and she doesn't mind.
Soon, she was finished.
like art.
"...You draw so beautifully." When Xia Ge realized that he had squatted next to others and watched the whole thing, he said embarrassedly, "I'm fascinated by it."
There was a smile on the little girl's lips. Although she was blindfolded, the smile looked shy and gentle.
"Thank you," she whispered.
Xia Ge bounced as if electrocuted, as if he had seen a ghost.
Blind.
Shy, gentle, and soft-spoken.
… Beans.
Much like.
But not.
Xia Ge took a deep breath, squatted down slowly, and said softly, "…Why do you want to draw eyes?"
The little girl paused, "Because I like it."
Because to □□.
The little girl smiled sweetly, "I want to remember these eyes."
Remember what these eyes owe her.
"Because I want it too."
Want all that just a pair of eyes can bring.
Xia Ge was silent for a long time, and finally put the steamed bun next to the little girl silently, just like countless passers-by have done.
-Because I want it too.
Beans.
She reached out to touch her head, but the little girl, although smiling, took a step back and avoided her touch.
The smile is still pure.
Xia Ge touched the air for a while and was slightly startled.
In the end, he put his hand down silently, and went back without saying anything.
And after Xia Ge left.
The little girl had an innocent smile on her cherry lips, but her white and tender fingertips were like sharpened blades, mercilessly slicing the picturesque eyes on the ground into pieces.
It seems that he has a mortal hatred with the owner of these eyes.
Day three.
Xia Ge passed by the little girl again.
The little girl was a little embarrassed this time, her hair was messy, her white and tender face was also stained with some dust, and the pink satin on her body was even more dirty.
She stood against the wall and didn't paint anymore, a little distressingly quiet.
what happened to her
Xia Ge tried his best to keep himself out of his own business, thinking from the perspective of a bystander.
A homeless, blind young lady.
What will happen
... Xia Ge suddenly didn't dare to think too much.
"Does it have anything to do with me?"
Xia Ge asked himself.
"It doesn't matter."
She said it again.
There are so many poor people in this world, and she is not a saint.
The system said carefully: "...that's Ye Ze's harem."
Xia Ge: "… "
It turned out to be such a "key person".
It's okay if the system doesn't say it, but the tangle in Xia Ge's heart was instantly wiped out.
She twitched her lips, "Then it has nothing to do with me at all."
Glancing at the little girl one last time, Xia Ge turned his head to leave, who knew that when he turned around, he saw a tall little boy not far away.
He looked at her badly.
Xia Ge: "… "
Xia Ge lowered the veil a little, turned around slowly, and ran away!
Ye Ze was furious, "Xia Wuyin, stop for me!"
She doesn't know who Xia Wuyin is! !
Three turns and four turns, the two of them passed through the narrow alleys, lively restaurants, and passers-by who set up stalls, one after the other, like a cat and a mouse, the sky behind the clouds fluttering, and everything in front of them was like light and electricity.
In the end, Xia Ge opened the ghost trail and ran to the small wood outside the town, but still got rid of Ye Ze.
She found a small stream in the woods, the babbling stream was flowing, and she glanced at it.
The purple in his eyes has begun to slowly fade away.
"so troublesome."
Xia Ge thought.
Not far away, Ye Ze, who had lost Xia Ge, stood in the same place, the scenery was beautiful and the sun was shining brightly. He was a little cold.
a long time.
He returned to the small temple and handed the clothes to the old beggar.
His voice was soft.
"...Please pass it on to someone on my behalf."
= =
In the evening, Xia Ge looked at the stream, the purple in her eyes faded, and she returned to the small temple.
However, there were many beggars in the ruined temple, only Ye Ze was gone.
The old beggar handed her a suit of clothes.
It was she who rescued Ye Ze and brought out the body.
The moonlight is like silver.
The time of May 1st ended, and the time of May 2nd began.
And Ye Ze, disappeared.
It was as if he had disappeared from this town, without a trace.
One day, two days, three days.
Until the old beggar told her that Ye Ze was taken away by the evil ghost camp.
"Why?" Xia Ge asked.
The old man was silent for a while, then said, "The Evil Ghost Camp and the Demon Sect participated in the Ye family's..."
He didn't say any more, but the meaning was already clear.
Ye Ze obviously knew about this.
Because there is nothing left, there is only revenge.
"… "
She stood alone at the gate of the broken temple, the morning sun was neither cold nor hot, but the mist that had not dispersed in the morning was cold enough.
"What are you thinking?"
Perhaps because of melancholy, the old beggar rarely had a talk, so he walked to her side and watched the bloody morning glow with her.
"I should go save him."
Xia Ge is wearing new clothes.
very warm.
She muttered to herself, "I want to save him."
The old man asked, "But you are hesitating."
A burst of blood.
"What are you hesitating about?"
Unlike others, the old beggar did not doubt Xia Ge's ability or her young age, but just like a friend, he gently asked, "What are you thinking?"
"I'm thinking." Xia Ge said, "I can save him once, twice, countless times."
The morning glow gradually dissipated.
"But I saved his people."
"But it can't save his heart."
That heart, beating because of hatred, is dormant and hidden, like a bomb that will explode at any time, and it will always explode and make people caught off guard.
The old beggar sighed and said something.
"Xia Ge, right?"
Xia Ge paused for a while, and said "um".
"Go save him."
He says.
Xia Ge was slightly startled.
"… It's my request."
"You know, I used to be the housekeeper of the Chang family." The old man looked at the scattered clouds for a while, "Back then... the head of the Ye family used to be kind to me."
Xia Ge's heart skipped a beat.
"Since the Ye family was destroyed... I have been protecting this child." The old man said slowly, "He can only grow up to now."
Xia Ge was stunned for a moment, then thought of Ye Ze's naive personality, and then he understood.
Because someone protects him, even if he is a beggar, he can be as innocent as a young master.
"I can tell you something." The old man said, word by word, opening the dusty secret, "The Ye family's annihilation is a conspiracy by the head of the Chang family."
Xia Ge was suddenly startled, "What?"
Then immediately: "Why?"
In the book, it is written that the Ye family, the Chang family, and the Chu family have always been friends. The demon sect destroyed the Ye family. The Chang family and the Chu family have been looking for Ye Ze to take care of him... Then Ye Ze reached the top, Wave your hand to destroy the Demon Sect into scum, which is so refreshing.
Did she read a fake book? !
"For the legendary ancient clothing charm, the glory of the sky." The old man's voice was indifferent, "Today's ancient clothing charm, only the treasure of the Chu family in Chang'an for generations to sacrifice to the soul."
Maybe there are others that haven't been heard of.
However, the name of the sacrificial spirit of Chu Dao is well-known all over the world, and this piece of ancient clothing alone has ensured the long-lasting prosperity of the Chu family in Chang'an for five hundred years, and they are the champion for five hundred years.
If the Ye family rumored to have the charm of ancient clothes...
Glory of the sky.
No wonder this happened.
"Where is the glory of the sky now?" Xia Ge asked.
"do not know."
"But I suspect... the Chang family should have gotten it. But the Evil Ghost Camp is only hired by the Chang family, so they will think that the glory of the sky lies in Ye Ze."
The old man said, "Evil Ghost Camp shouldn't kill him because of it."
"In addition to what I just said, I have another request." The old man said, "If you can save him, if he is still alive, don't tell him about the things I said."
Xia Ge was taken aback, "But..."
"He's still too young," the old beggar said. "I'm still young. Telling him now will only add to the burden."
"And... his parents are very responsible people."
"I don't think they want their son to live in hatred all day long."
Xia Ge said: "I won't say it."
After a pause, "I swear."
The old man sighed, "If he is as wise as you, he should be able to suffer less."
Xia Ge did not speak, was silent for a while, then turned to leave.
She wants to find Ye Ze quickly.
The old man finally called her.
Xia Ge turned back.
The sun is shining.
the old man said.
"If you think you can't save others."
"Just save yourself."
The old man's voice could see through the vicissitudes of the world, and a pair of turbid eyes could not see through a trace of light.
"You have to remember."
"You're just beyond your reach. No one will blame you."
This means, as if she will fail.
Xia Ge thought.
"I don't like to do things halfway." She said with a youthful spirit, "If you do it, you will persevere to the end."
"I'll get him back."
"I'm not going to let myself blame myself," she said.
Xia Ge is gone.
The old man looked at her walking back and murmured softly, "Keep moving forward, don't... don't look back."
When Xia Ge walked away, he didn't notice the pale and ferocious fangs on the black background that appeared on the pillars of the dilapidated Guanyin Temple.
So, when she understood the meaning of the old man's words, it was not too late, but it didn't make any sense.
Wake up from a big dream, regret it.