Jielan didn't listen to Qi Xue's words. She was still searching along every house. She always believed that Ying was still alive because she said that she would come back to see her again, so why didn't she wait for her own return
However, when the paper crane lying quietly in a pool of blood came into Jielan’s eyes, she finally stopped her frantic search, but slowly walked to the paper crane and picked it up. She knew it was Ying's paper crane was given to Ying by herself, but why it was here, why it was stained red with blood, Jie Lan didn't want to believe it, didn't dare to think about it, she knelt down on the ground, sobbing.
Qi Xue looked at Jielan who was so sad, wishing that she could grieve for her. She walked behind Jielan and also knelt down, took the paper crane from her hand, and said, "I think even if this child is gone, she I don't want to see you so sad for her, because you are so sad, it will only leave her nostalgia, and reluctance, Lan, let her go without worry!"
Jielan wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, stood up from the pool of blood, looking up at the low sky, "If you don't find the person who killed her to get revenge, Ying will never walk in peace, haven't you heard her screams? She was saying to me, asking me to avenge her, to avenge everyone in this village!"
Looking at the cold blue, the hatred in her pupils, like frozen water, numbs her heart bit by bit. In the end, she loses her color, leaving only a pale piece.
She walked back in the direction of her courtyard, Qi Xue followed behind her, looking at her cold back, she only felt that they seemed to be separated in two worlds.
The two walked back to the open space in front of the courtyard. Chengfeng looked at the extremely calm Jielan and felt a little surprised, but he did not ask, nor showed any concern, and still coldly said, "I have done enough. That's too much, do the rest by yourself!"
"Lan, what are you going to do? Are you going to bury them?" Qi Xue couldn't help asking, looking at so many corpses.
Jie Lan didn't answer, she just brought the firewood piled up under the house and covered the corpses, then took flint tinder and lit the firewood.
The beeping sound from the fire came out with the smell of burning body, cutting Jie Lan’s nerves like a sharp blade, but she was still expressionless, just watching the sky full of flames reflect the sky, as if to burn At the top of the sky, those grieving souls are now leading to the realm of gods!
The flames didn't fade away until the early hours of the next morning, and in the end only white ashes remained. As the morning breeze passed by, they floated into the air, and everything went to nothing.
Jie Lan returned to the courtyard, looking at the dry white parasol tree, her heart was full of sadness and doubts.
Qi Xue and Chengfeng looked at the withered tree, not knowing what Jie Lan was thinking about.
"Do you know? When I left the village, these villagers thought I was a monster and wanted to kill me, but it was this phoenix tree that saved me."
Qi Xue was a little surprised. Although it is not strange that the trees have absorbed the essence of the heavens and the earth and possessed life spiritually, it is a bit weird to be able to see such a tree in this small village.