pillow mountain river

Master has been away for two days, and today is the third day.

Er Dong lay on the edge of the window, looking at the lotus in the pond in the backyard.Two days ago, his heart was occupied by all kinds of novelties, and he didn't feel much about Master's departure.

In the past, Master would also go down the mountain to purchase, but only for a day or two at most, never leaving for such a long time.

Er Dong lowered his eyes, he was a little flustered, afraid that the master would leave him in this yard and never come back.

The wind chimes under the eaves jingled, and Er Dong walked through the winding corridors to Su Nu's room.Su Nu's voice came from the room, "Please come in."

Er Dong walked in, and Su Nu was sitting at the table, holding a rabbit made of clay in her arms, with a gentle smile on her face.

Su Nu carefully put Tao Tu on the bed and asked, "What can you do with me?"

"Do you know where my master is?"

Su Nu smiled and said, "He's going to do something very important, so you wait for him obediently, okay?"

Er Dong nodded.Su Nu asked him, "Have you taken your medicine today?"

"forget."

"Go back and take your medicine first."

Not long after Er Dong left, Su Nu called a servant, "A, go and see him closely, make sure he takes the medicine."

The servant said "I know" coldly, and then withdrew.

Su Nu sat by the bed, stroked Tao Tu's head with one hand, and said absently, "A Yuan, what should I do?"

The pottery was distorted and barely recognizable as a rabbit, silently staring forward with a pair of asymmetrical black eyes.

Er Dong went back to the house, took the medicine in his mouth, and poured it with water.The medicine was so bitter that his facial features were almost wrinkled.

Er Dong touched the mark on his neck, the scale-like pattern didn't seem to fade away.He lifted the collar up a little, just to cover the mark.

Outside, Chi Jin sat on the wall.

Some time ago, the things he asked the pigeons to go back to pick up arrived.The brocade box contained two pieces of jadeite with a fine water color, and the jadeite was made into ornaments, which looked extremely gorgeous.

Two days ago, Chi Jin was only focused on playing around with Er Dong, and forgot about his own business. He got the jade, only then remembered that he was going to give this pair of earrings to Su Nu.

Chi Jin stopped the puppet, "Where is your master?"

The puppet opened a pair of dull eyes, the black eyeballs were bigger than the white eyeballs, "Let's go."

"Where did you go?"

"Get the medicine."

"When are you coming back?"

"I don't know."

The puppet lowered its head and swept the floor on its own.Chi Jin stuffed the brocade box back into her pocket, and slipped to the room where Er Dong was.

Er Dong looked out of the window listlessly, drooping his head like a withered lotus leaf.

"What are you thinking? I'll take you out to play," Chi Jin said cheerfully.

Er Dong said, "Sister Su Nu asked me to stay in the yard."

"It's not far away, just at the foot of the mountain, I found a human Zhuangzi there, you really don't want to play?"

"No," Er Dong threw a jujube into the pond, causing countless ripples on the surface of the water.

Chi Jin said, "It's like I'm begging you, if you don't go, I'm leaving."

Er Dong still looked at the pond, and said softly "Yes".

Chi Jin pretended to turn around and left, seeing that Er Dong didn't care, she turned around angrily, "You really don't want to go?"

Er Dong said, "There is no one in the yard, I will guard it."

"Heh, there are many organs in this yard that you can't see, so you don't need to guard them," Chi Jin's tone changed, "I see, you want to wait for your master, right?"

This mouse spirit talks about his master like a cub who has not been weaned all day long, and Chi Jin is terribly annoyed.He clapped his hands and said, "It's easy! I let the crow squat outside. When your master comes back, I'm sure you will know immediately!"

The crow hovered above the yard, and soon landed on a tall tree outside the yard, singing hoarsely.

Er Dong was dragged away by Chi Jinlian.

The two walked down the mountain path, and Er Dong got colder and colder as they walked, and when they approached the foot of the mountain, bits and pieces of snow fell from the sky.

Looking back, the road was covered with snow, as if switching from spring to winter in an instant.

"Don't look back, we have already come out of the enchantment."

Seeing Erdong's lips quivering slightly, Chi Jin took out a cloak from the storage bag and threw it to him, "Put it on."

This cloak is made of high-quality fur, and there is no gray impurity in the seamless white.

"It's going to be thrown away anyway, so I'll give it to you," Chi Jin said.

Er Dong put on the cloak, his face was almost embraced by the soft fox fur, and even the slightest bit of cold air could not be poured into his neck.Er Dong breathed a sigh of relief, and the breath sprayed out of his mouth condensed into a white mist, "What about you?"

"No matter how cold it is, it won't freeze me."

Chi Jin happily walked towards the village.From a distance, the village was almost covered by heavy snow.

In winter, the fields are white, and the ridges are covered with snow.Several children squatted on the ground and gathered together, black smoke curled up from the middle.

"What are they doing?"

Er Dong saw a few balls of black things burning in the fire, and said, "Let's roast sweet potatoes."

Children covered the fire with snow and dug out charred sweet potatoes from the ashes.The sweet potatoes are separated from the middle. Although the outer skin is the same as black charcoal, the center is sweet and soft.

"Does the color inside look like yesterday's roast chicken?" Chi Jin said.

Er Dong looked left and right, but he didn't think there was any similarity between roasted sweet potatoes and roast chicken.

Chi Jin patted Er Dong on the shoulder and asked, "Do you know how to do this?"

Er Dong nodded.Chi Jin was very happy and was about to speak when a woman's call came from not far away.

"Pillar! Where are you!"

Er Dong, the two of them and the group of children looked over in unison.

The village woman shouted anxiously in the field: "Pillar! Where have you been?"

One child said to the other, "Zhuzi, it's your mother, why don't you go!"

"I dare not go. My mother won't let me go out. If she finds out that I went to play in the field, she will beat me to death."

"My mother won't let me go out, she won't come to see me too?"

The children looked at each other.

Sure enough, two or three women in the same attire came running behind the village woman, each with anxious expressions.The women soon spotted the children in the field and ran over.

"Aren't you allowed to wander around? You have to run out to make mother worry! You are such a child!" The village woman cried and hugged the child into her arms.The child was frightened by this posture and burst into tears in his mother's arms.

"Let you run again, be eaten by ghosts, and leave your mother alone, you will be happy!" Another village woman raised her big hand and greeted the child's buttocks.

Her son yelled, and the village woman slapped her a few times, shedding tears of distress.

After some tossing, the adults led the children to the village.Chi Jin pulled Er Dong and followed behind the group.

The village was lifeless, perhaps because of the heavy snow, few people walked outside the house.Occasionally there are a few pedestrians, all walking in a hurry.

Zhuangzi is not small, with many houses, it looks like a village with a large population.

Some houses had their roofs crushed by the snow, but no one repaired them, revealing a decadent atmosphere.

It was still afternoon, the sky was gray, and the snow would still fall.Even though it was daytime, Er Dong actually felt the coldness of night.

Those adults and children did not come out after returning home.

The gate of the farmyard was closed tightly, and there were lanterns hanging under the eaves, and white candles were burning in the lanterns.When the wind blows, the lantern shakes slightly.

"Do you still need to light the lamp during the day?" Er Dong looked at the lantern and said.

Chi Jin didn't pay attention to these dilapidated lanterns, he only cared about why passers-by didn't look at him. In the past, no matter where he went, he would get countless eyes.

This feeling of being ignored made Chi Jin, who was used to being watched by everyone, quite uncomfortable.

The two wandered around the village for a while, it was just an ordinary village, Chi Jin soon felt bored and yawned.

When passing by a farmyard, a silver-haired mother-in-law walked out of the yard.The old man came out tremblingly with a lantern in his hand, and stood on tiptoe to hang the lantern at the door of his house.

She raised her hand with difficulty, but she couldn't raise it high.

Er Dong conveniently helped her hang up the lantern.

The old man's face is covered with old wrinkles, the corners of his eyes are cloudy, and the eyeballs are blue.Her dead fish-like eyes looked at Er Dong, and Er Dong couldn't help taking a step back, feeling inexplicably uneasy.

"Let's go, let's go, we can't go when it gets dark," the old man waved his hand and closed the half door with a gloomy expression.

Chi Jin couldn't understand her unwillingness to receive help, so she put her hands on the edge of the door and asked, "What do you mean?"

The old man grinned.

"When the night is quiet, ghosts travel, humans and ghosts take different paths, and the living avoid and scatter."

The old man closed the other half of the door, and the wooden door creaked and was locked from the inside.

"What is she talking about?"

Er Dong shook his head, but he didn't hear clearly.

The corners of Chi Jin's mouth curled up, and her eyes, which were half-closed due to sleepiness, suddenly brightened, "It seems that the fun is coming."

Chi Jin finally grabbed a passerby, and the passerby was grabbed by his clothes, screaming in fright, and when he turned around, his face was as pale as paper.

Waiting for the passers-by to calm down, Chi Jin asked, "Have any weird things happened here?"

The passer-by raised a finger nervously and put it in front of his mouth, "Hush your voice!" He looked at the two of them vigilantly, "Don't ask, let's go."

Chi Jin took out a piece of gold and threw it into the man's arms.

The man was startled by the sudden appearance of the gold nugget, his eyes popped up, his hands trembling, he held the gold like a hot coal.

"Our village is haunted."

The man recalled the things that frightened him, and Dou Da's cold sweat rolled down from his temples. "As for this winter, someone in the village disappeared for no reason. When they were found, only a pair of white bones wrapped in clothes remained."

"Eat?"

"That's right. At first I thought it was a wild animal that was overwintering and came to the village to rob people without food, but we have never had a wild beast here. Later, someone said it must be haunted. The village chief invited the most famous witches in ten miles and eight villages to drive out the ghosts. "

Chi Jin narrowed his eyes, thoughtfully.Er Dong wanted to ask the man what a witch is, but the man looked panic-stricken, so he could only swallow his words.

The man swallowed, "That night, the whole village watched the sorceress cast spells. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew by, and in the blink of an eye, the sorceress disappeared. A few days later, a pair of bones were found in the field. Tattered, all flesh gone."

"Hurry up, both of you, people with connections in the village have dragged their families to relatives' homes for refuge."

After the man finished speaking, he looked up at the sky, "It's snowing again, and it gets dark early, if you don't leave, you won't be able to leave!"

Seeing that this man was nervous, Chi Jin let him go, and he asked Er Dong, "Are you afraid?"

Er Dong retracted his gaze from looking elsewhere, thought for a while and said, "What is a witch?"

Chi Jin was speechless, left the sentence "I don't know", and walked straight forward.

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