There are always people who want to eat me

"Have you heard? Someone died again! This time it's Zhao Laosan from the east of the village!"

"What? Three people have died this month?! Could it be our family's turn?"

"Bah, bah, bad luck! Spit it out!"

"How can someone die? Zhao Laosan looks like a cow, how did he die?"

"I heard that the handprints left on the neck of those who were strangled to death did not look like those left by people..."

"Could it be...a ghost?"

"Don't scare me!"

"I said it must have something to do with the funeral star. He also lives in the east of the village. Now that the Zhao family, the Wang family, and the Qian family have all had accidents, he is the only one who is alive and well. He beat his parents to death when he was young, and now he is coming to beat his neighbors! No, I have to discuss it with my man when I go back, and drive that mourner out of the village."

Zhuyu passed by the door with her head down, her oiled-paper umbrella slanted to cover her face, even if most of her body was exposed to the rain, she didn't care, for fear of being seen by these snarky women.

He walked quickly, holding a tattered book in his arms, and walked through the village full of discussions, and only when he saw the short and small thatched hut on his side did he show a relaxed expression .

When he got closer, Zhuyu frowned, but quickly relaxed it. He took off the various yellow symbols pasted on the door without hesitation, fetched water from the well, and threw the black dog on the ground. All the blood was spilled, wiped the sweat from his forehead, smiled bitterly and said, "It's a good thing I didn't take my food away, otherwise I wouldn't be able to bear the pain of being hungry."

Unfortunately, all the firewood was splashed wet, so he had to pile all the firewood outside and eat the leftovers from yesterday, biting the steamed buns that were as cold and hard as stones, while Zhuyu sat on the small bench in front of the house On the bed, he looked at the miscellaneous books in his hand intently.

Are there really ghosts and ghosts in this world... Are ghosts and ghosts as good or bad as they are?If I met them, would I despise him like the people in the village, and despise his twin eyes that are born different?

Zhuyu has a pair of very beautiful eyes, they are a pair of blue pupils, they look like priceless jade.

But in the village, everyone thinks these eyes are an ominous symbol.

Zhuyu’s birth is unknown. In that year, the village suffered a severe drought and the crops were innumerable. Zhuyu’s mother gave birth to him with dystocia. When Zhuyu was seven years old, his father had his ribs broken by a bear’s paw and died when he was hunting on the mountain again.

Afterwards, Zhuyu was responsible for every misfortune that happened in the village. The village chief took pity on his parents, and drove him to live in the east of the village, and asked him to leave the village as soon as he became an adult.

Zhuyu knew the difficulties of the village chief and the voices in the village, so she lived alone in a small hut with little contact with others, day after day, year after year, waiting for the day when she became an adult, looking forward to I can go out of the village, take a look at the wider world, and find relatives and friends who will not dislike him for having different eyes.

The world is so big, he thought, there is always someone who does not dislike him, if he meets such a person, he will definitely treat him very well.

Zhuyu was full of hope. After reading today's storybook, he rolled up the book and stuffed it carefully into his sleeve.

Suddenly there was a loud noise outside the house, Zhuyu stood up, and looked into the distance, he saw many people walking towards them noisily, and hid in the house to avoid suspicion, and was about to fetch water to wash, but the door was knocked Knock it hard.

Zhuyu put down her handkerchief and walked over, opened the door, and at a glance saw several famous strong men in the village standing at the door, staring at him with eyes like wild beasts, as if they regarded him as a monster, wishing to eat his flesh and blood on the spot.

Zhuyu shrank back, looked at the village head, and asked in a low voice, "Is there something wrong?"

"Child." The village chief sighed, his eyes full of sympathy, and someone shouted behind him, "Don't talk so much nonsense to him! He brought so much bad luck to the village, and sent him directly to pay homage to the mountain god!"

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerate—"

Only then did Zhuyu realize that there was a Taoist priest following the crowd. After reciting for a while, the Taoist priest swept the dust and said mercilessly to the people on the left and right, "Take it away."

Those people picked up Zhuyu without saying a word, and Zhuyu struggled desperately, but they tied them tightly with ropes, like tying animals, and then stuffed a foul-smelling handkerchief into his mouth, and Zhuyu was captured by the strong man Carried all the way into the woods.

The Taoist priest had already set up an altar there, and the flames shot up into the sky. The Taoist priest said to the village head solemnly, "He was transformed by a calamity star, and he has been living in the village, polluting the feng shui in the mountains and forests, but you have done nothing." , so the mountain god got angry and sent envoys to punish your village, which led to so many deaths."

The village chief nodded tremblingly, and asked fearfully: "Then if we sacrifice him, will the mountain god be appeased?"

"That's natural." The Taoist flicked the whisk, picked up the bell and shook it left and right, muttering something, and then sprayed white wine in his mouth, and the flame burned even more fiercely.

The Taoist pretended to look up at the sky and said, "The time has come."

The next moment, a very terrifying face suddenly appeared from the firelight. The face was shriveled and stuck to the face, the corners of the eyes were pulled down, looking at the crowd expressionlessly, and walked out of the firelight.

The Taoist screamed, and immediately dropped the bell in his hand. Without further ado, he was the first to run in front, and then the village head and villagers who reacted followed closely behind. In the blink of an eye, they ran away completely.

Lin Ru showed an innocent expression, and of course he was expressionless in the eyes of outsiders. He walked up to Zhuyu who was forced to cry in panic and squatted down, looking at it solemnly for a long time.

Zhuyu was thrown on the ground, looking up at Lin Ru, eyes full of pleading.

Lin Ru looked at it for a while and suddenly stretched out his hand to touch Zhuyu's cheek, along the way to touch Zhuyu's eye sockets, stroking back and forth around his eyes without stopping.

Those hands were very cold, like pebbles soaked in river water, without the slightest warmth, Zhuyu closed her eyes in fear, but was stretched open by Lin Ru with her fingers, and Lin Ru sternly shouted: "Don't close your eyes!"

Zhuyu opened her eyes resignedly, tears streaming down her face.

Lin Ru murmured, "Your eyes..."

Zhuyu seemed to be able to hear what he was about to say, so she looked away and pretended she couldn't hear.

"it's beautiful."

Lin Ru stroked back and forth reluctantly, and asked innocently, "It's like the moonlight he showed me."

"Woooo?"

"It doesn't look like that either." Lin Ru murmured to himself for a moment, then withdrew her hand and asked him, "Why are you crying?"

Zhuyu: "Ugh—"

It took Lin Ru a while to understand. He picked up Zhuyu and untied the rope on his body. Zhuyu hurriedly took out the rag stuffed in his mouth, stared at Lin Ru with wide eyes, and made a hesitant hoarse voice. Asked: "You just... said I have beautiful eyes?"

"En." Lin Ru's hand touched Zhuyu's eyes again, as if grasping a beautiful jade, "It's very beautiful."

"Aren't you afraid of me? They all say I'm a disaster star."

"Afraid?" Lin Ru asked ignorantly, "What is fear?"

Zhuyu: "..."

Zhuyu looked at Lin Ru's body, his body was slightly distorted and very thin, his cheeks were sunken, and his skin was also strangely yellow. He hesitated for a while and asked, "Aren't you human?"

"Yeah." Lin Ru responded indifferently, "I'm a zombie."

Zhuyu: "..."

Zhuyu shrank back, afraid that Lin Ru would hurt him, but Lin Ru was much gentler than those people in the village. Although his hands were not warm, they were very gentle, and he was careful not to hurt him.

Zhuyu suddenly laughed and said, "Don't touch my eyes all the time."

Lin Ru: "?"

Zhuyu sat next to Lin Ru with her legs crossed, and asked, "My name is Zhuyu, what about you?"

"Me? I... I don't have a name, the master calls me Ah Er."

"You don't have a name?" Zhuyu looked at Lin Ru pitifully and said, "Then shall I give you a name?"

"What's the use of a name?"

"With a name, there is an affiliation." Zhuyu rested her chin with her fist and said, "I read a script a few days ago, and there was a very powerful general named Lin Ru, so you should be called Lin Ru? "

"Lin Ru?"

"Yes." Zhuyu recalled the words in the storybook, and took a branch to draw on the ground, "Lin...ru...that's how it was written."

"Lin Ru." Lin Ru repeated.

Zhuyu nodded with a smile and said, "Yes! Lin Ru!"

"Ah Er." A tall figure covered it, Lin Ru looked back and greeted blankly: "Ah Da."

"What are you doing here?" Guan Xin looked at Lin Ru and Zhuyu coldly.

"Play."

Zhuyu was a little frightened by his staring eyes, and shrank behind Lin Ru.

"Play?" Guan Xin frowned and asked, "Who is this human?"

"I don't know." Lin Ru shook his head, and said frankly, "Just now there was a fire here, I came to see, those people all ran away, and he was the only one left." Lin Ru suddenly turned Zhuyu's head, let Zhuyu looked directly at Guan Xin, "Look, there is a beautiful light in his eyes."

Zhuyu asked tremblingly, "Are you a zombie too?"

"Yes." Guan Xin said, "Now that you know, you should go."

Zhuyu shook her head and said, "I have nowhere to go, and the people in the village don't want me, they say I'm a mourner, they want me to go far away, and offer me as a sacrifice to the mountain god. "

This passage was so familiar, Guan Xin seemed to remember something, his eyes became blank for a while, but he heard Lin Ru say: "Ada, can we take him away? You said that I can freely Has a nice light."

"He is human." Guan Zong repeated.

"I know." Lin Ru said with certainty, "He even gave me a name, Ada, do you have a name? My name is Lin Ru, and I have a name."

"I..." Guan Xin thought for a while, and it seemed that he had a name. He seemed to have heard someone call his name, but he couldn't really hear it.

Zhuyu hurriedly said, "I can give you a name."

Guan Xin shook his head, "No need."

Zhuyu secretly stuck out her tongue at Lin Ru.

Guan Xin thought for a while, then nodded and agreed: "Well, the woods are not safe, we will take him first, and he will leave when he has a place to live."

Lin Ru was a little bit reluctant, he still stroked Zhuyu's beautiful eyes, and did not respond to Guan Xin.

The two zombies took dogwood to trek through mountains and rivers, and walked through many places. Dogwood became much more lively, but those eyes often brought him disasters. Many people thought his eyes were ominous and told him to go far away , He is not welcome in the village, and he is still not welcome in the city.

But Lin Ru likes Zhuyu's eyes very much, and praises him as the most beautiful light in the world. Zhuyu feels that if Lin Ru likes him, it doesn't matter what other people think.

Even if he knows that human life is too short for undead zombies.

In the end, they settled down in a small town. Guan Xin's intelligence was so wide open that he even understood the laws of the world better than Zhuyu, and Lin Ru also learned a skill. Skinny like that, with a sallow complexion, the carefully groomed skin looks like a fairy beauty in a painting.

They began to be busy with their own careers, in areas that were not clear to Zhuyu.

But he doesn't mind, as long as he can continue to live with Lin Ru, he sees Lin Ru every day, whether it's the ugly Lin Ru before, or the handsome Lin Ru now.

"Why did you come back so early today?" Before the cornel rice was ready, he heard the door open, and he greeted casually, but got no response.

Zhuyu walked out of the kitchen and saw a few people barged in from outside the house. Those people held sticks and ropes in their hands and stared at Zhuyu covetously.

This scene was so familiar, Zhuyu remembered the villagers who had tied him up to sacrifice to the mountain god.

He subconsciously dropped the spatula, closed the door, and ran outside.

"Chase!" After the stern order was issued, several people rushed into the house one after another, grabbed the dogwood that couldn't dodge, tied it tightly, and couldn't escape at all.

They took Zhuyu into a small dark room, and there was the sound of sharpening knives all around.

Zhuyu looked around tremblingly, silently reciting Lin Ru's name in her heart, hoping that Lin Ru could come to save him.

But he didn't know that Taoist talismans were pasted around the house, and his heartfelt words couldn't reach Lin Ru at all.

"Do you know?" The door of the room opened suddenly, and the sudden light gave Zhuyu a brief hope. It can be seen that after the arrival, Zhuyu's face was ashen.

The Taoist looked at Zhuyu with a cold face, and said with an evil smile, "It's not too late to avenge the revenge of those years."

This person was the old Taoist who wanted to sacrifice him to the mountain god.

After Lin Ru picked him up, he went to the village with Guan Xin and exposed the conspiracy of the old Taoist. The old Taoist felt ashamed and left dejectedly amidst the scolding of the villagers.

There was also a blind man who came in with the old Taoist. He was dressed in wealth and asked eagerly: "Master, can my eyes really regain their light?"

"Yes." The old Taoist replied clearly, "It's just that before I can eat his eyes for you, I have to purify his filthy soul. He killed his neighbors in the village, was born unclean, colluded with zombies, harmed himself and others! You should experience the pain of losing your soul!"

"No..." Zhuyu murmured, "It's not like this..."

"Then please hurry up and do it, Master!"

The light of the knife flashed in front of his eyes, Lin Ru closed his eyes, and a line of tears flowed out of them.

Su San left Hongdong County,

Come to the street.

I never said anything, my heart is miserable,

The gentlemen of the past listen to me.

Familiar Peking Opera tunes sounded in his head, Lin Ru, who was taking a nap, suddenly opened his eyes, his body sank, and Zhuyu's smiling face appeared in front of his eyes, Lin Ru pulled Zhuyu to let him sit on her lap, and ran his hands along the clothes The hem was touched.

Zhuyu was tickled by him, and said with a smile: "What nightmare did you have? Your face turned pale just now."

"No." Lin Ru still cherishes words like gold, even now that Zhuyu's soul has been collected and poured into the pottery puppet, Lin Ru kisses Zhuyu.

Zhuyu accepted Lin Ru's kiss with a smile, but Lin Ru didn't proceed, and reached out to touch Zhuyu's eyes.

Lin Ru stared at those eyes obsessively, and said in a hoarse voice, "It's a beautiful light."

Zhuyu hugged Lin Ru's neck, pressed on him, leaned into Lin Ru's ear, and whispered, "Thinking like crazy."

Lin Ru's heart moved, and she suddenly remembered that this was the first sentence he said to Zhuyu when they met again after a thousand years.