Zhao Xi hurriedly walked on the road to school. It was very exhausting for her to take a year off from school before. Now she has to go to school, so she can only hire a nanny to take care of the children. Fortunately, when her parents passed away, they left money. Zhao Xi only moved her share, brother Quanquan has been keeping it well, planning to give it to him when he grows up.
Originally, she was a little girl who needed the protection of her parents. After experiencing the death of her parents and becoming a mother herself, she grew up little by little.
Thinking of the children at home, she continued to walk at a faster pace. As she walked, she heard a familiar name in her ears.
"Is Mr. Bai really the arsonist? No way, he usually looks so gentle."
"Really, I saw him being taken away with my own eyes. Teacher Bai seemed to have aged a lot, and he was taken away without any resistance."
"Then why on earth... Well done, why is Mr. Bai going to set the fire? Doesn't he usually look normal?"
"I don't know. Anyway, Mr. Bai admitted it, but he didn't say the reason..."
Zhao Xi paused, watching the two girls leave with a smile.
She closed her eyes, hiding the tears in her eyes, and kept walking forward.
But the spirit is still in a trance.
Bai Yumu, he really, wanted to kill his own child...
"careful-"
Someone from behind was reminding her that Zhao Xi was stunned for a second because she was thinking about Bai Yumu before she realized that she actually walked onto the rock by the school lake and was about to fall.
"ah… "
The body tilted down due to inertia, and panic flashed in Zhao Xi's heart. The lakeside of the school has always been surrounded by railings, only this stone was not surrounded by railings because it was too high.
And she can't swim.
There were a couple of couples chatting by the lake, and it was Zhao Xi who was reminded by them. Seeing this scene, they all stood up in a panic and ran over there.
The imaginary sound of falling into the water did not sound.
The girl standing on the rock maintained her body leaning forward, little by little, and slowly planted her feet on the ground.
"God..." The girl in the couple covered her mouth, "She is a dancer, she has really good balance."
Zhao Xi stood firm on his feet, but his whole body stiffened.
She could feel that something behind her was pulling at the corner of her clothes, pulling her back little by little.
He obviously couldn't see it, but Zhao Xi knew it.
That was her rhubarb.
"Rhubarb, is that you..."
She asked tremblingly, and then felt the cold hand being gently licked by the animal's tongue.
Just like before, when she was sad and unhappy, Rhubarb did the same, nestling obediently at her feet, licking her hand to comfort her.
"Rhubarb, rhubarb..."
The couple below watched Zhao Xi squatting down and crying with confusion.
"Why is she crying? Didn't she not fall?"
"Are you scared? Go up and comfort me."
"I'm a man, how comforting is this, you're almost as good as you are..."
"Okay, I'll go up... Hey, where's the person?"
***
Zhao Xi could feel that Rhubarb was walking ahead, although he couldn't see it, it must be looking back at him with its beautiful almond eyes.
Zhao Xi followed. She couldn't see or hear her, but she knew that Da Huang was ahead.
He walked all the way to a small street, because it was noon, and there were no trees and no people on the street. Zhao Xi saw a small box in front of him, and there was a whining sound of a puppy whining inside.
She hurried over and saw a puppy inside, it looked very small, it didn't even look like it was weaning, and it was struggling to crawl and whine.
This is a discarded milk dog. The most important thing is that its color is yellow.
Zhao Xi's hands trembled, and his fingertips landed on the milk dog, as if feeling someone's touch, the milk dog barked softly.
Childish, like a cry for help.
"You should have guessed how Rhubarb died."
A faint magnetic voice sounded behind him, Zhao Xi turned around slowly with tears in his eyes, and saw the handsome Taoist priest in Taoist robes.
Her lips trembled slightly, and she affirmed, "It's Bai Yumu."
"Half guessed right."
Wei Mingyan caressed the crutch unhurriedly, lowered his eyes slightly, and looked at the little life put in the box.
"When you were eight years old, Rhubarb came to your house and stayed with you and grew up with your brother. In your eyes, he is a friend. In his eyes, you are all children who need to be protected."
"That day, when your younger brother fell into the water, Rhubarb jumped in to save it. When he wanted to go ashore, Bai Yumu knocked him down with a bamboo pole."
Zhao Xi's eyes were red, and his fists were tightly clenched, "And I thought it was Bai Yumu who saved Quanquan."
"I am grateful to him, treat him well, and treat him as a benefactor."
"Rhubarb, obviously he saved Quanquan..."
In Wei Mingyan's eyes, the yellow dog wagged its tail and carefully circled around its owner, trying to comfort her.
—Don't cry, rhubarb doesn't hurt.
—Don’t be sad, if Quanquan is doing well, Rhubarb will be happy.
He couldn't speak, he could only whine softly, trying to rub his master's hand.
"It's all my fault. I shouldn't have trusted Bai Yumu, and I shouldn't have brought him home. Otherwise, Rhubarb wouldn't..."
"Although it's not your fault, you also need to make up for it."
"See the dog behind? He's Rhubarb."
Zhao Xi's eyes lit up little by little.
"Rhubarb...?"
She turned her head in surprise and disbelief, and looked at the little milk dog wriggling in the box, "Is he, is it Rhubarb?"
Wei Mingyan looked at the yellow dog wagging its tail and obediently looking up at its owner, and lied without changing his face: "That's right, he is Rhubarb."
"He couldn't bear to leave you."
The Taoist leader didn't say anything extra, but Zhao Xi could already think of it himself.
Her rhubarb, back to her.
The girl carefully picked up the whimpering milk dog in the box, her face was full of hope for the future.
Bai Yumu and the father of the child were all forgotten.
This time, she must take good care of Rhubarb.
"Thank you, thank you."
Seeing the girl leave gently holding the milk dog, Wei Mingyan glanced at the yellow dog squatting beside him.
"You are also a liar. You can't reincarnate, but if you lie to her, it's you."
"Do you regret not going to reincarnation for them?"
The yellow dog shook its tail and barked.
No regrets.
He is a good dog, and a good dog must protect his master.
"OK!"
Wei Mingyan stretched out his hand and touched the yellow dog's head, "If you don't have reincarnation, then don't reincarnate. I will open the back door for you. When Zhao Xi's life is up, you go see her off."
"Wow!"
The yellow dog became happy, wagging its tail cheerfully, followed behind the Taoist priest, and ran away a little bit.
"Go, let's take you to the theater."
"It should be a big show."
***
Bai Yumu was imprisoned. There is no death penalty in Huaguo, but the crimes he committed are enough to be imprisoned to death.
He has almost no sense of the outside world now.
Every minute, every second, whether he closes his eyes or opens them, he can recall how his mother disappeared little by little.
Obviously it was his fault.
It was he who refused to save her, it was he who killed his mother with his own hands, and he was the one who bore the debt of killing his mother.
But in the end, it was the victimized mother who paid off the debt for him.
In order to protect him from reincarnation...
Twice a day, each time, is painful...
She was looking forward to becoming an upright, kind and good person, and she stayed curled up in that hut for more than ten years until he disappeared, still thinking that her son was a good person...
This kind of her, gone, disappeared...
never see you again...
The sound of the crutches falling from far to near, Bai Yumu stared blankly at the ceiling, and under the night, a man in Taoist robes appeared in front of him.
The yellow dog squatted on the ground, looked up at Wei Mingyan.
"Actually, the eighteen floors of hell are only valid in the human world. Do you know why?"
The man stretched out his slender hand, gently stroked the yellow dog, with a faint smile on his lips, "Because those who really need hell will be torn into pieces by the creditors around them at the next moment of death. There will be a chance to go to hell."
"So, hell is on earth..."
He stood under the moonlight, smiling slightly, his eyes were full of tenderness, and his handsome features looked a little better under the meager light.
In Bai Yumu's eyes, he is no different from an evil ghost.
"Drowning, twice, crushed alive by pliers, inevitable, once, burned, twice, now, it's time for you to pay off the debt..."
He will be pulled into a deep dream, where the pain is real, the injury is real, repeating the drowning, mutilation, and fire.
You can't live, you can't die.
Until the end of life, the moment the soul body came out, it was torn into pieces by the bad luck gathered around it.
This is real, hell.
"Want to see it?"
"Wow woof!"
"I don't want to look at it either. Such a thing is too polluting for the eyes. Let's go. I'll show you my little granddaughter."
***
Wei Jin and his daughter-in-law had just been discharged from the hospital today. Because of their father's request, they moved back home. Just as they were mopping the floor after washing their daughter's diapers, the door of the house opened.
He got up with a confused face and looked at his father who was holding a rope.
One end of the rope was in Wei Mingyan's hands, and the other end was floating in the air.
"Dad? What are you doing?"
"Can't you see it?"
Wei Mingyan untied the yellow dog and rubbed his head, "I have a dog."
"dog… "
Wei Jin looked at his father's hand touching the air in mid-air, and then at the empty half of the rope, his hand softened, and the mop fell to the ground.
"Forget it, let's walk without a rope next time. No one can see you anyway, so you don't need to be fined."
Qian Miao was teasing her daughter, when she saw her husband coming in, she asked in a low voice, "Did dad come back? I heard he said he has a dog."
"Yes, yes."
Wei Jin pulled out a smile, "Dad has a dog..."
"Dad really likes cats and dogs at this age. Hey, I have a classmate who runs a pet supply store. I'll call her to buy some toys and food for dogs. Dogs are the most loyal, and they are very special when they are raised. Can protect the Lord... "
"Need not."
Seeing his wife in high spirits, Wei Jin's smile became stiffer.
"That dog is a little special."
"Special? Breed? It can't be Tibetan Mastiff..."
"Breed, breed..."
Wei Jin couldn't tell, he didn't even see a dog, so where could he find out what breed it was.
Wei Mingyan led Rhubarb past the door: "The breed is Cerberus."
"Idiot, I'm going away for a few days, and you take good care of my granddaughter. Qian Miao, I've hired a nanny, and I'll come over this afternoon."
"Huh? Dad, where are you going?"
"Heaven."