On the Correct Posture of Probation of the Villain

Feng Ling'er was dragged by Nangong Yin, and when she heard her say that, she said "ah?" in confusion, and Xu Nian over there was already half-drenched by the increasing rain.

Nangong Yin let go of her hand, and the veil hanging from her hood was wet and stuck to her face. Nangong Yin cursed secretly, stretched out her hand and pulled off the hood and threw it on the ground, with the white cloth wrapped around her face .

Feng Ling'er immediately took out four pieces of cinnabar talisman from the storage bag, first put one on Nan Gongyin's body to please, then handed it to Chu Heng and Xu Nian, and finally took one on herself.

Xu Nian followed Feng Ling'er's example. As soon as the talisman touched his body, he attached himself to the hem of his clothes. At the same time, a small, swirling airflow appeared around the talisman paper, shielding all the rainwater from his body.

"Go to the City Lord's Mansion!"

Nangong Yin said anxiously, and turned around and ran towards the City Lord's Mansion two streets away.

Xu Nian, Chu Heng and Feng Ling'er followed closely behind, and the night was vast and rainy along the way.

But what is even more shocking than this is that all the pedestrians on the street have fallen into a state of being instantly frozen.

Along the way, only the four of them were still moving, running quickly towards the City Lord's Mansion, set off by those sculpture-like people, the small town that was originally indistinguishable from the world, revealed a chill in the night rain A strange feeling at first.

"The whole city is constructed based on the illusion that the people in the city think they are still alive. The little girl just awakened the watchman's memory of 'death', and the city will reproduce the collapse of the mountain according to that person's memory. The phenomenon of flooding the whole city."

"And we—"

Nangong Yin stood still in front of the city lord's mansion, Xu Nian and the three little ghosts followed closely behind, Nangong Yin looked at the two in front of him and said word by word: "If you are buried alive along with this city, you are really dead."

When she finished speaking, what was more shocking than her words was that there were two women standing there in front of the City Lord's Mansion, as if they were waiting for them.

One is a slender woman in a pink shirt holding a pipa.

The other held an oil-paper umbrella in his hand, and the umbrella was slightly pressed down, covering his face, only showing a little pale and delicate jaw.

The woman holding the umbrella was a few steps away from her, seeing that the two of them were not friendly.

The surface of the umbrella in her hand was plain white without any pattern, but the deep red skirts on the woman's body under the umbrella hung down layer by layer, like a crimson lotus blooming in a rainy night, attracting attention for no reason.

"Little son, look east to the mountain and say goodbye. I didn't expect to meet again."

Qin Xiaoshuang hugged the pipa, leaned back slightly, and spoke first.

She showed another soft smile: "Although you stabbed a sword in my celestial cap, you also erected a famous tomb for me. If you can stop in front of this city lord's mansion and stop moving forward, I will never be wrong to you!" How about facing each other with swords and swords?"

Xu Nian recognized that this was the woman he had just met when he entered the city. When he heard what she said, he was puzzled at first, but then he saw Chu Heng take away the wooden sword he was carrying behind his back and stepped forward, his eyes became serious: "You are a ghost!" Cultivate, and cultivate the magic path?"

"It was a ghost with no place to bury." Qin Xiaoshuang lowered his eyes, and gently plucked the strings with his fingertips, "If it weren't for the young master and the others who built a famous tomb for me, and got the chance to enter the Tao, I might already be in the netherworld by now." You will suffer from the eighteen levels of hell."

Holding the wooden sword in his hand, Chu Heng slowly swung out the Shangqing Eighteen Swords Stance: "Since you have entered the way of the devil, you are like a demon. How can we trust your words?"

"You guys of decent families, have you always acted upright and sat upright all your life?"

A faint voice came and responded to Chu Heng, causing everyone to look at her.

I saw the plain white umbrella lifted up, revealing a charming face under the umbrella. As soon as this face was exposed, even if there was a woman and three children on the opposite side, they were obviously taken aback by the woman. .

Xu Nian thought that he had seen many good-looking women, his mother Huo Shiyun was already a great beauty, but the woman in front of her had a delicate face, the most amazing thing was the corners of her eyes and eyebrows. There's an alluring charm everywhere.

Originally, the color of the crimson dress was eye-catching, but now that such a face is exposed, it makes people suddenly understand that only this crimson color can match her all kinds of charm.

Qin Xiaoshuang was on the side, who originally had a bit of a charming attitude, but was immediately compared to a bowl of white water.

She first rolled her eyes around the faces of several people, then looked at Chu Heng with affection from the corner of her eyes, and said in an indescribably soft voice: "You are so handsome, why don't you come to my sister, I have a lot of treasures here , can help you reduce obstacles on the road, and let you taste-"

She smiled softly: "What is the bliss on earth?"

The voice of the last four words slowed down, as if they had been on the tip of the tongue for a few times, and they were said in a thousand turns, with affection, as if there were countless small hooks in the words, and the people who hooked them felt itchy in their hearts.

But Chu Heng's expression did not change, but his eyes became even more cold.

Seeing that Chu Heng was not affected at all, the charming woman pouted unhappily, went to look at Xu Nian again, and smiled: "This one is also very cute, but it's too young, and it will take a few years to take it back. .”

Xu Nian pursed his lips and remained silent. Feng Ling'er stood close to him, saw the woman smile, and said innocently and innocently: "Sister, you are so beautiful, you are the most beautiful sister I have ever seen!"

The woman holding the umbrella kept looking over Nangong Yin and Feng Ling'er, as if her eyes were automatically filtering out female creatures, when she heard Feng Ling'er's praise, she went to see her.

Seeing that the little girl's eyes were clear and innocent, and her words of praise were pure and innocent, she couldn't help but burst into a "puchi" laugh: "It's much cuter than your two senior brothers."

Chu Heng was already impatient, Nan Gongyin spoke solemnly at this moment: "Since the city is about to be overthrown, if you don't open this ecstasy formation, everyone will be trapped in the city, are you waiting to die together?"

"I know that you also want to take the Three Lives of the Underworld." Nan Gongyin changed the topic again, "Then let us go out of the city, wouldn't it be more guaranteed that we will not compete with you."

"It's not that we don't let the girl go out of the city." The woman holding the umbrella kept smiling, "It's just that this formation is connected to the place where the map is buried. Now that the Three Lives Map is not available, this formation cannot be removed."

After saying this, Nan Gongyin was silent for a while, and suddenly took out her long gun from the storage bag.

Holding a long gun in her hand, she looked at Qin Xiaoshuang and the woman holding an umbrella, and said word by word: "You guys are really capable."

He said again: "Then how about letting the four of us enter the City Lord's Mansion to take shelter for a while, only the eyes of the formation are the gates of life, and we can save our lives when the mud and rocks are approaching."

The umbrella girl didn't speak this time, just shook her head with a smile.

Seeing this, Nan Gongyin first put his long gun forward, with a pair of murderous eyes on his face, and sighed: "Originally, I am a businessman who pays attention to making money with peace, and I have always disapproved of using force to solve problems. Leave a way out for everything. But now people obviously don’t want to save my life, and my life is gone, so there is no way out—”

When the last word fell, Nangong Yinren flashed like a lightning gun, not only Xu Nian and the little ghosts couldn't see her movements clearly, but the woman holding the umbrella was only able to block the umbrella in front of her when everyone was in front of her.

With a sound of "stabbing", the umbrella girl not only broke her umbrella to the ground, but she also retreated rapidly, and the skirt on her chest was completely cut from shoulder to waist, revealing the embroidered tube top inside.

Nangong Yin didn't give the woman a chance to slow down, and once again bullied her. The woman seemed not good at martial arts, she made a formula in her hand and sacrificed the spell in a hurry, but Nangong Yin was so fast that she didn't give her the time to make the formula and sacrificial talisman. The tip of the gun kept stabbing forward, making it very difficult for her to cope.

Seeing this, Qin Xiaoshuang twirled the strings with plain hands, and the two silver snake bracelets on his wrists turned into small snakes and landed on the ground. The sound of the pipa sounded, and the small snake touched the ground. The snake attacked Nangongyin with the sound of the pipa.

However, when the giant snake attacked, Nan Gongyin not only did not hide, but stepped on the snake's body with his toes, like a dragonfly touching water all the way, and then stopped and landed seven inches from the snake's body.

Another giant snake came entangled, Nangong Yin jumped more than ten feet high, and the two snakes overlapped below, she flipped her hand at this time, and the tip of the long gun was facing downwards. Fumo stabbed down fiercely with a stern intent——

Everyone only heard a loud bang, and the dust was everywhere, and looked at the floor tiles on the street under their feet, all shattered, and the two snakes stacked in front of them were pierced by a long gun and nailed to the ground. Struggling painfully on the ground.

Qin Xiaoshuang's pipa stopped playing, and she didn't hesitate, she took the pipa as a weapon and stepped forward, another woman transformed into a long sword and Qin Xiaoshuang wrapped around Nangong Yin from left to right.

Nangong Yin took out her "Gentleman's Duanfang" folding fan from her storage bag. With this fan, she could easily defeat the two of them.

Unwillingly, Chu Heng withdrew his momentum, the battle situation was too exciting, and it was not for his rank to participate.

The three little ghosts could only stand far away, watching Nangong Yin fight with the two girls with wide eyes.

Xu Nian and Chu Heng's expressions were calm, and they didn't show their emotions. Feng Ling'er had already bit her finger, enviously saying, "Whenever I can be so powerful, it will be great."

Beside her, Chu Heng's hand holding the wooden sword was tightened. Xu Nian thought about whether this was a fight between cultivators, and sighed in his heart. Who is Nangong Yin? He has no impression of this name at all. No.

It's just that the three brats are not allowed to think about it again. The two women who fought against Nangongyin gradually became defeated. At this time, there was a sudden change in the city lord's mansion. It was an indescribable voice. It came from the ground beneath your feet.

There is a dull rumbling sound from under the earth that is gradually rising, as if something is about to drill out, the sound is getting louder and faster, it is a sound of breaking ground that overwhelms the sound of fighting and rain——

Xu Nian and the three little ghosts raised their heads together, and a hill about ten feet high rose up in the city lord's mansion. They could see a dark lotus flower half-opened on the top of the hill outside the mansion.

As soon as the mountain came out, the two women who had been fighting with Nangong Yin rekindled their fighting spirit and fought back desperately, while a person from the mansion flew out far away. When Xu Nian and Chu Heng reacted, this person had already stood beside them An imp.

Xu Nian and Feng Ling'er were taken aback when they saw this person's clothes, but Chu Heng's heart tightened. The person who came was wearing a white Taoist robe with blue edges and embroidered cloud patterns, which was exactly the style worn by the formal disciples of the Sanqing Sect.

The man looked at them with his head down in the air, and Chu Heng also saw that his long hair was untied like ink, hanging down his shoulders and waist. His face was pale and bloodless under the long hair, but his eyebrows and eyes were threefold like that of the woman holding the umbrella. They are very similar, so a man looks a little feminine.

Chu Heng stared at this face, except for a few elders who had avoided the world for many years, there was no one he didn't know in the entire Sanqing Sect, but he definitely had never seen this person in the sky.

"The three-life lotus has come out, but it is half-open..." The man looked at the three of them with a low voice, "I didn't want to kill people, but now I have to let the three-life lotus fully bloom before the mountain collapses and the city is buried."

The last word fell, and the force of the air hit Feng Ling'er directly. Chu Heng stepped in front of Feng Ling'er in one step, and the wooden sword stepped forward to block it, and the wooden sword broke into two in an instant.

Feng Ling'er screamed, and Chu Heng was caught by the man in the Taoist robe of the Sanqing Sect, and was brought to the Sanshenglian on the top of the mountain in the mansion in the blink of an eye.

Chu Heng was so shocked by the force just now that his internal organs ached, his blood pressure was on the tip of his tongue, and he was in a daze. He seemed to hear the man who caught him sigh, and then something wrapped around his body, like vines. , but there were many sharp thorns piercing into the flesh, and the blood slowly flowed out of his body. He wanted to sit up, but finally found that the whole person was tightly bound, and he could only open a pair of eyes.

The water-avoiding talisman fell off at some point, and the rain hit his face a little cold, and Chu Heng's face became paler and paler.

He suddenly felt a little funny, and thought to himself, is he... dying?

-

A few moments ago, Qi Siyuan of the Sanqing sect opened his eyes, first frowned towards the south, then got up and flew towards the deep mountains in the south with his sword.

When he landed, he saw Ye Yunqi crossed his legs and was reading a book of stories in his hand. On the fire rack in front of him was a golden feather chicken that had been plucked and roasted half-cooked.

"Uncle Siyuan?"

When Ye Yunqi saw the people coming, he didn't have the respect of the younger generation to the elders, so he looked relaxed: "Have you finished enlightenment and left the customs?"

Qi Siyuan rolled his eyes at him: "Why are you alone? What about Chu Heng and the others?"

Ye Yunqi grinned: "I asked them to catch golden feather chickens, and practice it by myself. It's better than practicing swords every day in front of the Shangqing Hall."

"There is a vision in the south." Qi Siyuan said, "Hurry up and get the three of them back."

Ye Yun got up, focused on sensing and tracking the location of the jade talisman, then nodded and took the lead with the wooden sword, and Qi Siyuan followed behind him.

When the two of them landed, a Liancheng appeared in front of them. Looking down from the sky, the scenery was covered with jungles just like the surrounding ones. Only when they landed could they see this strange city protruding from a deep mountain.

"Returning to the Soul Night on the seventh day of October..." Qi Siyuan gritted his teeth and looked sideways at Ye Yunqi, "You're really good at it, it's fine for Lu Chi to get out of the Sanqingzong Mountain Protecting Barrier, and none of the three of them have reached the foundation building stage Xiuwei, you dare to let them run around?"

Ye Yunqi knew he was in trouble, so he didn't dare to speak back, Qi Siyuan didn't hesitate, and led the two into Liancheng quickly.

In Liancheng, a woman was holding an umbrella by the city wall, and the umbrella was tilted to one side to prevent the rain from getting onto people in wheelchairs.

She watched indifferently as two more people rushed into Liancheng, and only when she looked down at the man in the wheelchair did she show a gentle smile.

In front of the city lord's mansion, Chu Heng was captured, Feng Ling'er suddenly panicked, and the person who captured Chu Heng came out to join the battle outside the mansion.

As soon as this person entered, his combat power was obviously far superior to those of the two women. Nangong Yin immediately struggled a lot, but he was able to fight three against one, making it a draw where no one could let go.

Feng Ling'er turned to look at Xu Nian, crying: "Little brother, little brother was taken away!"

Xu Nian looked up and saw a looming figure on the top of the mountain, and led Feng Linger to bypass the fight between Nangong Yin and the four of them, and the two little ghosts entered the city lord's mansion without any hindrance.

The rockery landscape in the mansion was completely destroyed, and half of a house collapsed. A ten-foot-high black hill with a gentle slope was located in the mansion.

Feng Ling'er ran forward in a hurry, and the person had already started to play with hands and feet to climb up, and suddenly rolled with a "ow", and rolled down.

Xu Nian looked down at the little junior sister who had rolled back, Feng Ling'er was full of tears, and held up two red hands: "It hurts so much! This mountain is so weird, the true energy in my body was forcibly pulled out of it, very painful!"

Xu Nian didn't care about comforting Feng Ling'er, and stepped forward, only to find that the mountain was made of dark crystals, as if some liquid had frozen into ice, and there was something faintly floating inside.

Resisting the fear in his heart, Xu Nian stretched out a hand. As soon as his fingertips touched a little bit of the crystal mountain, he felt a slight pain. He was startled suddenly, and the true energy in his body was forcibly pulled out.

Xu Nian gritted his teeth, and put his whole hand on it. Immediately, more zhenqi in the meridians in his body was absorbed by the mountain. Not to mention the pain in his palm, the meridians in his body also began to ache.

Quickly withdrew his hand, Xu Nian looked up at the figure of Chu Heng on the top of the mountain, and really thought of such a scene in the book.

But it is written that the protagonist got the herbal medicine to improve his cultivation level with the help of noble people. Among them, Chu Heng was seriously injured because of this herbal medicine.

"Little senior brother..." Feng Ling'er ran to Xu Nian's side, and started to cry, "Little senior brother will die! Once the true energy in the body is sucked, people will become jerky!"

Xu Nian was first silenced by this description for a moment, and shed tears of sympathy for Chu Heng's turning into jerky for some reason, and then thought, wouldn't Chu Heng's death be a good thing for him?

He doesn't have to worry that he won't live past the age of 16.

But then he thought, Chu Heng is just a child under 13 years old, at least he hasn't done anything bad now.

He and Feng Linger are always so angry that he forgets to pretend to be a "gentleman", and will roll his eyes at him and Feng Linger from time to time.

And three days after enlightenment, waking up on a rainy night, that childish face that fell asleep under the hazy rain...

The umbrella above his head on a rainy night...

And the thin figure carrying him back to the South Park.

"A mortal has only one life, and so does a cultivator."

Feng Ling'er was crying, when she heard what Xu Nian said, she raised her head, Xu Nian continued: "Things that are only once are always very precious, because once lost, they can never be found again, especially human life."

Xu Nian looked at Feng Ling'er, and Feng Ling'er felt that he was confessing his last words: "I should have spared my life, but the day after the Flower Festival in Qing'an 23rd, I should actually die on that day."

Feng Ling'er was tearful, looking at Xu Nian in confusion, not understanding what he was talking about, Xu Nian said softly: "Damn but not dead, this life seems to be meaningless if you think about it now, if you can use it... Use it."

"Little brother?"

Feng Ling'er's tears stopped, she couldn't understand what Xu Nian said.

But at this moment, he suddenly seemed to feel a sudden, unstoppable, unprepared, and completely unstoppable grief, like this non-stop shower.

Xu Nian was standing in front of her at this moment, but she felt that this person seemed to be full of joy, all the joy in this life had been sucked out, leaving only a sadness that was so peaceful that it made people feel sad.

The next moment, Xu Nian took off his robe and put it on Feng Ling'er, as if he was afraid that his junior sister would be cold, and then he bowed very quickly and jumped up the ice crystal mountain that was still on a gentle slope.

At the beginning of the journey, he walked fairly fast, and the speed of the infuriating energy in his body was not flowing out quickly, and the pain like needle pricks on his body was within the tolerable range.

When he was halfway up the mountain, the slope became steeper, and Xu Nian had to do it. At this time, his body was not just the feeling of a few small needles piercing his body, it was like thousands of finely ground silver needles coming from the body, wanting to Breakthrough people only have a thin layer of skin.

What was even more sad was that the meridians all over his body felt like twitching pain. Xu Nian's forehead, face, and back were sweating continuously, and his clothes were soaked and stuck to his body inextricably.

On the top of the mountain, Chu Heng was beside Mo Lian, his body was getting cold gradually, the blood loss had taken away the body temperature, he seemed a little tired, he closed his eyes, thinking of his short life because he could only wait for death.

He remembers early, probably not because he is smart, but because he has suffered from a very young age, the earliest he can remember is three years old.

And people, always remember the memory of suffering very clearly, can never forget, maybe after most of their lives, life has been stable and worry-free, but the suffering they have suffered is still vivid in their minds once they are mentioned.

At that time, he was either beaten or thrown on the street by his mother, his body was covered with wounds and clothes, and some kind-hearted people would treat him as a little beggar, and would throw a steamed bun to keep him from starving to death.

But what is even more frightening is that some people seem to be kind, but they kidnap him and sell him somewhere, and they seem to kill him, like killing pigs and dogs, as if they are going to chop him up and stuff them into buns to eat .

Chu Heng's childhood life in the first six years was repeatedly being thrown away by his mother, being a beggar on the street, and then the woman could always pick him up, and then he was beaten again, and then he was thrown away again...

Later, Qi Siyuan was ordered to find Chu Qianhua, and brought him back to the Sanqingzong on the street. Chu Qianhua also went crazy and died of his own crimes. Only then did he know how it feels to have enough food and a bed to sleep.

There is also the master who treated him like a child, and the little uncle who carried him on his shoulders wherever he went when he was a child. The pain he had suffered gradually seemed to disappear, and his childhood finally looked like an ordinary child.

The rain was still falling, and there were water marks in the corner of Chu Heng's eyes, and he didn't know if it was rain or tears.

He suddenly wanted to laugh out loud. He finally got it in his hands. He longed for a lifetime of peace and security. He hadn't fallen on him for a few years, so he was about to... die?

I thought I would be lonely for the rest of my life, but fortunately, I was able to enter the immortal gate, with a master, uncle, and annoying junior sister and younger brother——

But in the face of the sky, it turned out that he still wanted to take away what he had acquired like a stroke of luck.

"Senior brother? Senior brother?"

Xu Nian squatted beside Chu Heng, gritted his teeth and called Chu Heng's name, and reached out to remove the vines that were entangled with Chu Heng.

The spike pierced his finger, and the blood flowed out and was absorbed by the vines in an instant. The vines were originally tightly entangled, but it was strange to say that they slowly loosened after sucking Xu Nian's blood.

The water talisman on Xu Nian's body was rubbed off during the climbing process, and the rain drenched him all over, but he didn't feel cold, he only felt pain.

It's not the physical pain outside, but the pain in the body where every meridian is about to be broken. It seems that everything in the body is broken into pieces. The meat was dry, but when I climbed to the top of the mountain, I found that with Mo Lian as the center, within a few feet, the true energy was no longer sucked out, and became calm and waveless.

At this time, Chu Heng felt more and more cold, but he heard someone calling him "senior brother" in his ears. He was confused at first, whose senior brother was he?Then he realized that it was Xu Nian, the junior that he hated so much.

Its disgust is higher than that of Feng Linger!

Chu Heng opened his eyes, the rain was still falling on his body and face, but at this moment he felt that the vines on his body were loosened, and the blood no longer flowed out, and he saw Xu Nian gritted his teeth and shook him in front of his head.

Chu Heng was shocked, put one hand on the ground, and finally stood up.

Seeing him standing up with his eyes open, Xu Nian smiled slightly.

Chu Heng saw that he was in a mess, his face was flushed, and he looked extremely weak, and suddenly his heart felt uncomfortable.

He thought to himself that he doesn't hate Xu Nian so much, at least now it seems that Feng Ling'er is more annoying, Xu Nian is still cuter than Feng Ling'er, if he is willing to stay away from his master and uncle, he will be even cuter.

"Brother-"

Xu Nian also got up, staggering, shouting as if he was only breathing in but not getting out.

Chu Heng was also very weak, so he supported himself and replied: "Let's leave quickly, it is not suitable to stay here for a long time."

Xu Nian smiled and nodded, Chu Heng stretched out his hand to try to support him, but before his hand touched Xu Nian, he fell to the ground on his back with a "touch".

Chu Heng was stunned, and then saw that Xu Nian's facial features began to bleed outwards, and the rest of his body looked like there were no wounds, but red blood was oozing from his skin.

"You, what's wrong with you?"

Chu Heng walked over tremblingly, knelt down next to Xu Nian exhausted, stretched out his hand to lift Xu Nian's face, but looked at the bleeding eyes, nose, mouth and ears, and dared not do it.

Xu Nian's eyes were fascinated by the blood, he saw that everything was blood red, he opened his eyes wide, thinking that the meridian seems to be broken, he is... dying, right?

He actually thought it was not bad, he finally didn't have to worry about whether he could live past the age of 16 every night late at night.

Seeing Chu Heng's face approaching, filled with indescribable panic, as if he was terrified, Xu Nian laughed a little, and his voice was as thin as silk: "Senior brother... thank you...that day... Give me an umbrella when it rains..."

Chu Heng stretched out his hand tremblingly, wanting to touch but dare not touch Xu Nian's face, his lips trembled, Xu Nian said intermittently: "Also...thank you...carry me back to South Garden..."

After saying this, the smile on the corner of Xu Nian's mouth stopped, and he muttered to himself in a daze: "It's so cold."

Following these words, Chu Heng saw death on his face, and saw the corners of his mouth move. He didn't know what to say, Chu Heng leaned his ear closer, and heard Xu Nianxi's breathing sound: "I'll go... I'm looking for you..."

Chu Heng was stunned, the rain was still falling, and he suddenly cried out with a "wow--".

Loudly said: "Live! Don't die! Don't die! Your parents definitely want you to live well! How can you face them when you die!"

For the first time in his life, Chu Heng cried and shouted regardless of his image, but when he lowered his head, Xu Nian had already closed his eyes. If it wasn't for the pale complexion on his face, he would look as well-behaved as before, but just fell asleep.

Chu Heng thought of the day when he carried him back to the South Garden, it was also such a rainy night.

Xu Nian put her face on his shoulder, and called him brother in a flattering way, just like a little dog he had fed a bit of steamed buns when he was a child.

The warmth is nothing but memories, it turns out that Xu Nian is really the same as that little dog, is he going to die?

Behind him, the ink lotus was slowly fully blooming, but Chu Heng stared at Xu Nian stupidly, as if he had turned into a sculpture, all he could do was stare at this child in his life.

But the sound of the wind in my ears came late, and the showers never stopped.