In the early spring, there is still a layer of snow that has not yet melted on the withered vegetation all over the mountain.
The sun was setting. In front of two dilapidated thatched huts on the hillside, six-year-old Luoluo leaned weakly in his father's arms, listening to him tell the story of the butterfly fairy.
"... the little butterfly died. She lay quietly in the snow, and her body slowly transformed into a beautiful ice butterfly...
"The warm sun shone on Bingdie, and slowly, she became conscious again... She found that she could move again, and she became a beautiful little fairy..."
After listening to the story quietly, a little smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Daddy, after I die...will I also...become...a fairy?" She looked up at her father with difficulty, and asked intermittently.
The tears in Daddy's eyes slipped into his disheveled beard.
"Yes! Lulu... will definitely become a little fairy..." His voice was so choked up that he couldn't continue speaking.
"Where's mother?" She simply asked two words.
Dad understood what she meant, and said in a more choked voice: "Mother has also become a fairy...she is in the sky...waiting for the reunion..."
"Where's Daddy?" she continued to ask.
"Daddy still has some things to do. When I'm done, I'll go find you..."
A deeper smile appeared on the corner of Lulu's mouth.
She panted twice, and struggled to say three more words: "Don't...too...long..."
"Okay!" Her father cried and said, "Okay! Daddy swears: I won't make you wait too long..."
Lulu wanted to say: Daddy, don't cry, it doesn't matter if it lasts longer.
But she really didn't have the energy to speak, so she could only try to show a little smile to her father.
Dad was sad and didn't see her smile. She was a little sad.
She knew she was dying.
But she wasn't afraid, because her father said: After you die, you can see your mother.
She had never seen her mother before! Curious what she looks like.
She used to worry that she couldn't find her mother, but her father said: Don't worry, mother will come to pick her up. She was also relieved.
Her surname is Zhuang, her father's name is Zhuang Shi, and her mother's name is Meng Xiaodie.
Dad said: Because she has big wet eyes and is very beautiful, so she was given the nickname "Luo".
She once asked her father: "Why don't I have a mother? Why am I always sick?"
Daddy cried, and ran out of the house, crying loudly and howling desperately. She was frightened, and never dared to ask again.
Dad took her to look for doctors everywhere, and she had to drink very bitter medicine every day, and was pricked by many doctors with needles.
However, she still felt that her body was getting weaker and weaker, and she wanted to sleep every day.
The doctor said: She is going to die soon, so I asked my father to prepare for the funeral.
She asked her father: what is "death"? What is "aftermath"
Dad said: When you die, you will meet your mother, but you don’t need to drink medicine and get needles. He also told her the story of the butterfly fairy.
She was no longer afraid of death, but she was very reluctant to part with her father.
When it was dark, Lulu was in a trance, and heard Dad crying again.
She wanted to comfort Daddy. Unfortunately, she can't even move her eyelids...
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Zhuang Shi buried his daughter beside his wife.
Looking at the newly added small grave in front of him, he dared not think about right and wrong.
A few years ago, out of a little justice in his heart, he reported a secret that had been passed down by the family for many years to the Fu Yin, who had some personal acquaintances - the secret about the core members of the family buying sterilization medicine from the Bitter Cottage.
Afterwards, he also cooperated with Mr. Fu Yin to capture some rebels in Bitter Cottage.
He didn't expect at that time that his act of eliminating harm for the people would bring such a heavy blow to himself and his family.
Shortly after the arrest of the traitor in Bitter Cottage, his seven-month-pregnant wife suddenly gave birth prematurely.
After giving birth to her daughter, Luotuo, her wife collapsed and died before she could even take a look at the child.
Lulu is not very healthy either, she is thin and small, she cries softly, she is too weak to nurse, and the nanny is very worried that she will not be able to feed her.
At first, he didn't know that his wife and daughter had been murdered.
In the early morning of his wife's funeral, a wooden sign was erected outside the dealer's house by someone, but it clearly explained the truth about his wife's premature birth and his daughter's sickness.
The wooden sign was written in large characters as bright as blood: Zhuang's treachery and betrayal of friends should be punished by cutting off children and grandchildren; his wife was born prematurely and his daughter was pregnant with a virus, but this was just the beginning.
There is no text on the signature of the wooden sign, just a few pattern marks.
He recognized the logo at the beginning, which was the icon of Bitter Cottage.
He still remembers the grief, indignation, and hatred at that time clearly. He is eliminating harm for the people! Why would the wife and daughter be involved so far? !
He vowed to deal with those wicked people to the end, and never let them be so arrogant and do whatever they want.
But the reality is cruel.
Because of the announcement of the bloody wooden sign, the Zhuang family asked a reliable doctor to come to the house for diagnosis, and found that with Zhuang Cong as the core, all his clan members within the five doses had been sterilized, and many relatives who were not within the five doses were also sterilized. Followed by disaster.
This time, the inside of the dealer was the first to explode.
The person who was drugged couldn't find the mastermind behind it, so he poured out all his despair and hatred on Zhuang Shi.
Zhuang Shi was severely punished by the family. If it wasn't for his parents' desperate protection, and the Fu Yin came forward to rescue him, he would have been beaten to death.
After that, he, his parents and younger brothers were expelled from the family, and the family property was confiscated. They could only take the dowry of their female relatives and join Zhuang Shi's uncle.
The uncle kindly took them in, but his own family was also retaliated and drugged by the people of Bitter Cottage.
His mother was ashamed of her natal family, and was so sad and hopeless that she could not restrain herself, so she hanged herself.
His father couldn't stand the repeated blows, and soon died of illness.
They were all expelled by the family. His parents and his wife could not be buried in the ancestral grave, so they had to find another unowned remote hilltop for a hasty burial.
After that, his younger brother left without saying goodbye and never came back.
He built two huts next to his parents' cemetery, and lived with his daughter.
The daughter was weak and sickly, and the fetus was poisoned. He took his daughter to seek medical treatment everywhere, but he could only watch helplessly as her daughter was getting closer to death day by day...
Finally, the daughter still died! He died prematurely due to the cruelty and cold-bloodedness of Bitter Cottage and his own recklessness.
He didn't dare to think about whether he was right or wrong in exposing the Bitter Cottage back then, but he sincerely regretted it.
After burying his daughter, he has nothing to worry about.
He is determined to fight the Bitter Cottage to the end, to avenge his wife and daughter, and to seek justice for those who have been hurt by the Bitter Cottage.
However, he took things too simply.
His Excellency Fu Yin who had been with him in dealing with the Bitter Cottage had already been dismissed from his post and beheaded. He was isolated and helpless, with no relatives, and he couldn't even touch the door of the Bitter Cottage.
In the end, probably the people in Bitter Cottage had had enough of playing cat and mouse. They found him and forced him to kill himself. Otherwise, they would dig up the graves of his parents, wife and daughter and let them expose their corpses in the wilderness.
He lost all thoughts and finally committed suicide in front of the Zhuang family's ancestral hall.
He thought: If God gave him a chance to regret, he would definitely not be that righteous man—the price would be too heavy.
In such a dark world, he alone cannot support a bright sky.
I don't know if it was because of the resentment and shame in his heart, but after he committed suicide, there was no ghost messenger in the legend to catch him and reincarnate him.
He wandered between heaven and earth, becoming a lonely ghost.
He went looking for the souls of his parents, wife and daughter, but only found a little remnant of his daughter—she had no memory or intelligence at all.
Relying on the instinct of a ghost, he nourished his daughter with his own strength, but he could only keep her soul from dissipating.
He took revenge again as a ghost.
Although humans and ghosts have different paths, the means he can use are very limited. But just dreaming of sowing dissension, he caused the Kucaotang to fall apart in the internal strife, and lost his status as the overlord of the world.
He was both happy and unhappy.
I am happy because many rebels in Bitter Cottage died. Unhappy because the Kurong Pavilion was re-established by the remnants of the Bitter Herb Hall, and those other organizations that had been suppressed by the Bitter Herb Hall also took the opportunity to grow.
The sterilization drug business is still booming in the dark.
The number of people killed by sterilization drugs has not decreased in the slightest.
He felt very painful: Is there no law in this world? Why do those who do evil can do whatever they want without retribution
He didn't have an answer, so he could only watch over his daughter's soulless remnant, spending day and night after day after day.
Until one day, he met a somewhat weird Taoist priest.
The Taoist priest looked to be in his thirties, wearing a strange wooden crown that looked like antlers, and a strange robe with black and white halos flowing round and flowing.
The Taoist looked at him and smiled: "To be just, fierce, yet emotional, to be pure, fierce, and wise, to be full of evil spirits and resentment, but to be blessed with merit... such a unique soul, it would be good to make me a sword." Good material for the spirit! It is worthwhile for me to work tirelessly to come to this poor country.”
Zhuang Shi looked at him vigilantly, carefully holding his daughter's remnant soul in his arms and drifting away a little.
The Taoist looked at him, then at the remnant soul in his arms, and talked to him straight to the point: "Do you want to make up for your daughter's remnant soul? Do you want to give her another life?"
Zhuang Shi was taken aback, looked at the Taoist priest and then at the remnant soul in his arms: "How do you know this is my daughter?"
The Taoist smiled lightly: "I see the line of cause and effect between you."
Zhuang Shi stared blankly at the Taoist priest, and a strong hope gradually rose in his heart: "You can bring my daughter back to life?!"
"Uh..." the Taoist twirled his beard, "it depends on how you want her to come back to life. If you want her to come back from the dead and turn into a living little girl again, then the poor can't do it."
"What does the priest mean?"
The Taoist said: "Let's make a deal! Pindao is planning to forge a flying sword, but if he lacks a sword spirit, you are just right.
"If you are willing to come and make me a sword spirit, I will make a magic weapon from your daughter's bones, complement her soul, and use her own soul as the weapon spirit.
"In this way, she can recover part of her spiritual intelligence and grow slowly. As long as the magic weapon is not destroyed, her soul will last forever. If there is a chance, she will also have the opportunity to become a fairy."
Deep disappointment welled up in Zhuang Shi's heart.
He sneered and said, "The Taoist master has a good plan. Not only do you want me to be a sword spirit, but you also want to drive my daughter forever? Dreaming!"
The Taoist shook his head and said with a smile: "You think too much. Your daughter's bones are not a natural treasure. In addition, her soul is incomplete and her wits are lost. The magic weapon made of her bones and soul has a lot of room for growth. Big, but the initial grade is too low, and the growth rate is also very slow, so poor people can't use it.
"If you doubt Pindao's intentions, Pindao can find another suitable master for your daughter."
Zhuang Shi looked at the Taoist priest suspiciously: "Why must my daughter have a master?"
The Taoist said: "If the magic weapon has no owner, the growth rate will be very slow. And when the magic weapon is of a low level, it can only communicate with its master; if she does not recognize the master, she will have to spend a long time alone .
"A young soul with low spiritual intelligence is lonely for a long time, and it is easy to become a demon. After becoming a demon, it is easy to be condemned by God..."
Zhuang Zhi was dubious: "It sounds like you have a lot of means. I'm just a lonely ghost. It's not difficult for you to catch me directly as a sword spirit, right? Why do you need to take such trouble to make a deal with me?"
"The sword spirit is willing, the flying sword is handy to use!"
"If you erase my intelligence, you can manipulate me at will. Do I still need to be willing?"
The Taoist priest shook his head: "You don't understand! What would a sword spirit without intelligence come to do?"
Zhuang Shi didn't think long before agreeing to make a deal with the Taoist priest.
The Taoist dug out the wet bones, laid a huge magic circle on the ground, and smelted the bones and souls into a small off-white cauldron in front of him.
The Taoist said to Zhuang Shi: "This is the cauldron of eliminating evil and transforming life. It can eliminate the sins of the world and gather the vitality of all things. It is best to be in charge of a person who has the merit of punishing evil and saving the world, who is not guilty of sins, and who is not fascinated by nature..."
Zhuang Shi said: "I don't care who it is, firstly, my daughter likes it, and secondly, it must be good for my daughter..."
So, the Taoist set up a restraint on Lulu, and set up a magic circle to let Luluo choose his own master.
To his surprise, the choice of master array actually aroused the vibration of the source of merit in this great world, opened the channel of the plane, and received a lone soul from another great world.
When Lulu flew into a lonely soul in another world, the restrictions set by Taoist priests were fused with Lulu's own attributes, and a system was automatically created to exchange various services with sterilization drugs.
Lulu rolled up the lonely soul, driven by instinct, and flew into the body of a little girl who had just died.
The Taoist had a panoramic view of all this, twitched his beard and smiled: "This is interesting. It seems that the crimes committed by your enemies have already created murderous intent in the world.
"You can rest assured! Because your daughter and that lonely soul have the luck of their own great world, and they will surely have some extraordinary fortunes."
Zhuang Shi was very happy after hearing what the Taoist said.
He looked in the direction where Lui disappeared, and said with some reluctance: "Can I see my daughter again?"
The Taoist said: "If there is a destiny, we will meet again."
The Taoist took out a formation plate with some heartache, and set up a magic circle on the ground, and then sat in the middle of the magic circle with Zhuang Shi himself.
The magic circle was activated, a burst of dazzling light flashed, and the Taoist priest and Zhuang Zhi disappeared. The formation disks and materials for the formation were all turned into fly ash, and disappeared without a trace when blown by the wind.
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Lulu doesn't know who he is, why he lives in the body of that little sister named Ruoruo, why only Miss Ruoruo can hear her...
There are many things she doesn't know, but she knows one thing very well: she always has a strong desire for sterilization pills, just like a young lady who wants to eat when she is hungry.
She felt that Miss Ruoruo was very kind and wanted to help Miss Ruoruo when she was in trouble.
But she is restricted by the rules that come from nowhere, she can only save her when her life is in danger, and help her when she has points.
She felt a little guilty, so she didn't want to talk much.
But the little sister never disliked her silence, and was always very kind to her, making her feel warm all over.
Miss Sister never does bad things, which makes her feel very comfortable. She liked Miss Sister even more.
Later, the little sister helped her absorb a lot of sterilization drugs.
She is well fed, and sleeps in Miss Sister's body most of the day, only occasionally waking up to say a few words to Miss Sister, or to help her a little when she needs it.
She felt that every time she fell asleep, she would make herself a little stronger.
Really just a little bit! The little sister has become a grandmother, and her scanning range has only increased from three meters to a little over three meters.
Later, the younger sister and her husband got older and their bodies became more and more decrepit, and the points needed to maintain their health increased, and the points saved by the younger sister ran out.
The young lady said: You don’t have to force yourself too much, just let it be like this! I have been very satisfied with my life like this!
The little sister's husband died in his sleep.
The little sister was very sad and said to her: "Next time if I am going to die, you don't have to save me anymore."
Lulu is sad.
But she instinctively felt: maybe this is a good thing for the young lady.
So, when the little sister's heartbeat stopped in her sleep, she didn't save her again.
The moment Miss Sister's soul left her body, Lulu suddenly felt that the restraining force that had been placed on her suddenly dissipated! A kinder and closer bond was established between her and the little sister than before.
She felt lighter than ever.
"Master!" She happily called out to Miss Sister. That's great, Miss Sister's soul is still the same as when they first met, and she hasn't aged.
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"Master?" Yong Ruo was slightly taken aback after hearing this address.
Then, she found a small off-white cauldron floating out of her body—no, it floated out of her soul, floating in the air, as if she was very happy.
"Lulu?" The familiar voice and feeling made Yong Ruo immediately have a judgment in his heart.
"It's me! From now on, you will be my master!" Lulu flew around Yong Ruofei, looking very happy, "From now on, we will venture into the world together and be a pair of happy master and servant."
"So you are like this!" Yong Ruo was very emotional.
The "system" that has accompanied him all his life is actually a gray and white tripod
"That's right! That's how I am." Zhuo Zhuo looked at herself—even though she had no eyes, she could still "see" herself, and she didn't know why.
"Am I ugly like this?" Lulu asked a little worriedly.
Yong Ruo comforted her: "No, you are beautiful."
Luoluo became happy, and then felt a little sad: "I don't know if I can become a human in the future. If I can, I will definitely have a pair of big wet eyes." She said with great yearning.
Yong Ruo encouraged her a few more words, and saw that the maids had already discovered their "death".
Another funeral was held in the palace, but Yong Ruo had no intention of lingering.
She is a lonely soul from another world, unable to enter the reincarnation of this great world.
So, she flew away from the palace with Zhuo Luo, possessed a little baby girl who had just passed away, and started a new life.
In this life, Lulu has already got rid of the shackles of unknown origin, and provided her with the skills of cultivating immortals.
She can follow Zhuo Zuo to cultivate immortality.
Feng Liao, who passed away one step earlier than her, has re-entered reincarnation, and she doesn't know where she was reincarnated.
If there is fate, she and Feng Liao may see each other again.