Chapter 825

72nd dragon scale (I)

On the ninth day of the cold winter, the sky closed. The howling cold wind mixed with large snowflakes rushed directly at the face, freezing people's bones.

Now it will be dawn before dawn. It has snowed for three days and nights. The snow is already knee high. A thin boy is trudging in the snow. He will be deeply trapped in the thick snow every step. Even so, he still refuses to stop.

If you look closely, you will find that his back is slightly bulging and seems to have something on his back. At this time, he is staggering and running. He is desperate but dare not cry - he has just lost his mother. He can't have no sister anymore, and it's so cold that his tears will soon freeze on his face.

Ragged clothes can't stop the biting wind and snow in winter, but the boy still tried his best to straighten his chest and cover the bone etching cold with his flesh and blood.

"Don't die... Dragon, don't die... Don't die, don't leave your brother alone..."

The young man rushed forward. After his mother died, his sister became ill and burned red. It happened that it snowed again. He braved the wind and snow to collect herbs to reduce his fever, but it was useless. At this moment, he was taking his sister home.

It snowed heavily for days, the city gate was closed, and the officers and soldiers guarding the city didn't let them in. The teenager could feel that her sister's breath was gradually becoming light and shallow, and she could hardly feel it. Previously, she would respond gently, but now she was silent.

Xie Ji couldn't help it after all. The hot tears had just touched his cheeks and had been frozen into ice. His face was as painful as a knife, but he didn't feel it. In the wind and snow, he carried his sister deep and shallow to the village.

Linglong woke up at this time. She was not afraid of cold and heat. Naturally, she didn't think how unbearable the weather was, but she knew that human beings were fragile and needed care, so she tried her best to move her little finger. Xie Ji noticed that her sister moved, and tears couldn't stop under ecstasy. "Dragon, are you awake? If you hold your brother tight, it won't be cold. "

Linglong hugged his neck according to Yan. Xie Ji, who was on the verge of despair, suddenly had strength. He sucked his nose and his body burst out of great potential. At the beginning, he was still staggering. When he learned that his sister was still alive, he almost ran forward frantically. Sometimes he stepped into the snow and would hit the stone, and he would put his head on the ground in time to avoid falling on his sister.

They live in a small village far from the city. As outsiders, they are orphans and widows. The people in this village do not welcome them, and their mother is beautiful. Lazy people who can't marry their daughter-in-law often come to make fun of them. Xie Ji is like a little wild wolf. Once a villain in in the village climbed into his house half a night to rape his mother. Xie Ji cut the man seriously with a kitchen knife, After this, the people in the village did not welcome them any more.

And now, my mother is dead.

Xie Ji doesn't know why life has become like this. In recent years, they have been hiding, but no matter where they go, they will encounter countless troubles. He doesn't know when such days will come to an end. It's like there's a hand behind their back pushing their fate to let their family die without a whole body.

When they returned to the village, it was just dawn, but it was cold in winter. The villagers hardly went out. First, they saved physical strength and second, they saved food.

Xie Ji's family lives in a thatched house at the head of the village. Her mother Liang is good at needlework, but she only earns enough money to make a living. Now her mother is dead and has only a few hundred dollars left. She can't even buy a thin skin coffin for her. Xie Ji takes this money with her sister to the city to see a doctor for her, but she is driven back. She can't even enter the city gate. Liang's body is still parked on the bed at home.

There was only one bed in their house, where the mother and son slept.

Xie Ji knocked his mother's body for three times before he moved her to the ground. There was only a layer of straw mat on the ground. He didn't dare to let his sister lie with her mother's body. He was afraid that his sister who finally left a breath would be affected by the corpse Qi.

Linglong was put on the bed. The room was a little windy and cold. Xie Ji wrapped all the quilts for her, then went to bed and held her in her arms to keep her warm. Her whole body was cold, but her forehead was surprisingly hot.

Linglong felt hot tears flowing into her neck socket. She snuggled with the poor boy and closed her eyes.

Xie Ji held her for a long time until he felt that she was not so cold. He noticed that she fell into a deep sleep, but her breathing was gradually stable. He wiped his tears hard. His hands and face were rough and cracked with cold, and fresh red meat was exposed in the open hole, but he didn't feel any pain. He climbed down from the bed with light hands and feet and made a fire, Add water to boil the unfinished herbs, because apart from this, he didn't know how to treat his sister's disease.

The water boiled with herbal medicine is quite hard to drink. Linglong would not drink it on weekdays, but this time she didn't resist. She obediently asked Xie Ji to feed herself and drink it, and then closed her eyes again.

Xie Ji is not idle. They have no relatives and no reason. They fled here. With only a few hundred dollars left, he still wants to wait until the snow stops to buy medicine for his sister in the city. Therefore, his mother's funeral naturally has no money. He has to find a way, a way

At this time, someone knocked on their door and said it was knocking. In fact, he was shouting outside. Xie Ji heard that it was Li Zheng's voice, so he went to meet people. Li Zheng saw him at home. The bottom of his eyes flashed past. Thinking of the noble man's words, he quickly made a statement of concern: "I heard that your sister is ill, but it's better?"

Xie Ji's eyes are still red. His mother and sister are very weak and need protection. Therefore, he has developed a character of distrusting anyone early. Li Zheng has never helped them. This time, he must go to the three treasures hall. After all, he is still young and is only eleven years old this year. Hearing Li Zheng's words, he still can't help but feel sour in his eyes and want to shed tears“ No. "

"Alas, it's also a hard life." Li Zheng sighed softly, "your mother... Has been dead for several days. It's not a matter to stop like this! Have you ever thought about what to do? "

Xie Ji's lips moved and suddenly knelt down towards the inside: "can you lend me some money?! I swear I'll give it back to you when my sister gets well! Please lend me money and let me buy a coffin for my mother! And my sister's illness... I'm very capable. I'll work when my sister is well! I swear I'll double it back to you! You, can you lend me? "

The young man's begging eyes were so pitiful that Li Zheng jumped in his heart and hurriedly said, "you know our village is not rich. It's cold. Who has spare money in his family? Everyone doesn't go out and wants to save some food for the spring! "

The villagers may be really poor, but the Lizheng family must not be. Although the conditions of their family can't be compared with the members outside the city, their clothes are never patched and they can eat meat in three or two days. Now, they just don't want to borrow it.

Xie Ji is extremely clever and naturally understands Li Zheng's meaning. The man has gold under his knee. If he is not desperate, he will not kneel down for him.

Li Zheng sighed again, as if he had no intention of opening his mouth: "I heard that the palace wanted to choose someone a few days ago. If you choose, give twenty liang of silver! It's not the folks in the village that we don't want to help. It's really powerless... Your mother also has a hard life. It's easy to pull up your brother and sister, but she died. Without paper money, she didn't even have a coffin... Bitter, bitter! Your sister, who is so young and seriously ill, doesn't want money? Alas! "

Seeing Xie Ji's intention, Li Zheng said a lot of good things in the palace. His tongue was lotus and black could be said to be white. At ordinary times, Xie Ji must be able to detect his wrong, but the blow in recent days has made the precocious young man almost desperate. He has nothing. If he doesn't think of a way, his only sister will die.

It wasn't Li Zheng who moved him. It was the twenty Liang silver that moved him.

He knows what it means to choose people in the palace, that is, to be a eunuch. Being a eunuch is a disgrace to men, but for Xie Ji, if his mother can be buried in a coffin and his sister can have medicine, then these are not important.

I'll take it as soon as I see it. Originally, he came to say this. Otherwise, who would like to come to a house with dead people!

Xie Ji asked the time and place carefully and made a decision secretly. Seeing the situation, he was very satisfied, so he left. He did everything the noble man told him. He must be able to get a large reward and have enough to eat and wear in the future! After all, who thinks there is less money?

"... brother."

Hearing this childish but slightly hoarse voice, Xie Ji quickly turned back and found that his six-year-old sister didn't know when she had woken up, got out of bed and was standing at the door of the inner room. The qinglingling's eyes looked in his heart, as if she had seen through what he thought in his heart, "dragon? Are you awake? Why did you get out of bed? Go back quickly. You can't be frozen. "

He hurried over to pick up his sister, put his forehead on her to feel the temperature, and was pleasantly surprised to find that she was much better. Was that herb suddenly useful again?

Linglong obediently asked her brother to hold him to the bed and lay down with him. The brother and sister snuggled up tightly. She whispered, "I heard Li Zheng's words. Brother, don't go into the palace. I can't live alone."

Xie Ji comforted her and said, "my brother won't. My brother will never leave you alone."

Linglong put his little head in his neck nest and closed his eyes: "I can't stay here, brother."

Xie Ji was originally a very intelligent man. He had just lost his mother and sister's sense of propriety. Now he came back to his senses and noticed something wrong. His sister was right. He really can't stay here anymore. The people behind the scenes wanted to harm them and killed them directly, but forced them to hide and hide like a lost dog, The malice contained in this made Xie Ji creepy.

He made a decision secretly in his heart, and couldn't help seeing his mother on the ground.

My mother is still so beautiful, but her face is too pale and her eyes won't open again.

He couldn't help falling tears and hugged his sister in his arms. He had been staring at them secretly all these years. He didn't know who it was or what it was, because he was so weak that he could be run over by a finger.

Li Zheng's words today are clearly to lead him into the palace. If he does, his sister will stay in the village, but what can he do then? If he can't stay with his sister, he can't know whether he's doing well or not.

Xie Ji's mind turned very fast. He looked at his mother fondly. "Long'er, we can't bury our mother here. She won't like it here."

The village won't give him the chance to bury his mother, because she is an outsider. They don't welcome her. Men always look at her with colored eyes. Women envy her beauty and tenderness and always spit on her, but she is the best woman in the world. This dirty place doesn't deserve her.

"... brother wants to cremate his mother. Shall we leave with her ashes?"

Linglong looked up at him and said, "OK."

Xie Ji is a man with strong action force. He knows it's not too late. When his mother is dead, the people behind the scenes will certainly feel that their brother and sister are out of shape, and their surveillance will be relaxed a little. He has to hurry up.

I slept with my sister and recovered some strength. When I woke up again, it was the afternoon. The snow was still falling. No one in the village would come out in this weather. Xie Ji got up and burned all the remaining food. Brown rice was boiled porridge and flour was made into dry food. He didn't know where to go. He only knew that as long as his brother and sister were together, the world was so big, there was always a place for them to live.

Linglong has just recovered from a serious illness and is wrapped in a quilt by Xie Ji. She is not allowed to move.

Xie Ji has lived for 11 years. The hardships and pain after the age of five have made him gradually forget his life before the age of five. God never cares for their family, but this time he didn't take his sister away, which makes him feel that there is still hope in the future.

They had no luggage and only two or three clothes to change. After they packed up, the snow miraculously stopped. The fire was blazing. Xie Ji and his sister knelt down heavily, kowtowed to their mother who was gradually swallowed by the fire, buried her mother's ashes in a small jar at home, put them in their luggage, and then lit the thatched house with a fire.

When the thatch house was almost burning, the snow began to fall again. Xie Ji carried her sister on her back and asked her whether it was cold. She rubbed his face and said it was not cold. Xie Ji laughed. Their hometown is in the south, but now he wants to go to the north.

For the past six years, her mother took them to hide in the East. She was always reluctant to leave home too far. Xie Ji felt that this might be the way to escape the palm of the people behind the scenes, so she went the opposite way and never went back.

Linglong lies on Xie Ji's back. He is thin and has great and magical power. The footprints in the snow are so insignificant that they are soon covered up by the new snow. Even the heavy snow is shielding their whereabouts. Linglong finally looks back at the village and gently reveals a smile.

Be ready to accept the divine punishment from the Dragon Girl.

As night fell, the snow became more and more terrible and fell heavily on the village. The sleeping Li was unaware of the danger - when the weather warmed up, the relatives who came to the village found that all the people in the village were dead, none of them were alive, they were frozen to death, and even there were traces of pain on their faces.

That's strange. You can escape, can't you? Why did they all die at home?

Slowly came the rumor of being haunted, and no one came to the village anymore.

It has been forgotten ever since.

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Xie Ji took his sister to the north and passed through a broken temple with air leakage on all sides. He looked at his sister apologetically and told her that he would have a rest here at night and would not enter the city until he went farther. He also coaxed his sister: "when his brother enters the city to find a job and earn money, he will buy sugar for Long'er. Doesn't Long'er always want to eat?"

Both brother and sister are dressed in rags. The cold wind in the broken temple is biting, but the people who snuggle up together are warm in their hearts.

Xie Ji was tired all day. After all, he was only eleven years old and soon fell asleep. Linglong wanted to sit up when he fell asleep. However, as soon as she broke free from his arms, Xie Ji suddenly opened her eyes and held her wrist, but he was too tired. Linglong lay down beside him, and he put down his heart and fell asleep again.

It was too cold, but there was a dragon girl beside him. Xie Ji didn't feel cold and hungry in his sleep, and forgot his sadness and pain.

Linglong stared at the young man who had not grown up but had been soaked in the sea of bitterness too early. She stroked her heart and whispered, "I heard your call, so I came here. Don't worry..."

Exchange your soul for the youth's eternal peace.

Poor human child, I don't know that the world is so cruel. Whenever you think you are unfortunate enough, there will be more bad news in your life.

For example, Xie Ji hid around with his mother and sister when he was young, but he didn't know who was behind him. He only knew that they were struggling and it was difficult to live. The man seemed to want them to die, but he had to torture them. After Liang's death, looking at his sister with a high fever, Xie Ji finally obeyed Li Zheng's words and exchanged himself for twenty Liang Liang silver.

These twenty Liang bought a coffin for Liang and medicine for his sister. After Xie Ji entered the palace, he suffered the most terrible humiliation and torture in the world. He had only one belief in his heart, that is to stand out! Go and get my sister back from the village!

But when he really had the ability, he learned that his sister was already gone.

Li Zheng took the money, but didn't take good care of her.

Xie Ji lived in the end and knew that his life was meaningless at all, but he didn't know that his sister didn't die. After he entered the palace, he was sold into the railing yard under the instructions of the noble.

The younger sister, who inherited her mother's beauty, was a beauty at a young age. She still remembered her brother, but she lost herself in day-to-day beating and teaching. A pair of jade arm pillows for thousands of people and a little red lips for thousands of people to taste, but after more than ten years, Xie Ji, a eunuch who was killed by everyone, was cut by the new emperor. It is said that at that time, there were thousands of people in the empty alley, and many people hated the eunuch, especially the belief Hou house, which was nearly destroyed by the eunuch.

The man probably didn't expect that the little beast who didn't pay attention at all could bite off a piece of her meat.

Xie Ji died and was frustrated. No one was allowed to collect the body, and no one collected the body for him.

Later, a middle-aged beautiful woman came to the fence yard where her sister was. The beautiful woman told her a funny and sad story, and she was the person in the game and the poor chess piece manipulated by others. Even her brother forgot.

Linglong heard her despair and accepted her soul. Now the beautiful soul has become one of countless small lives in the desolate sea. From then on, it has nothing to do with worry, love and fear.

We have to start six years ago.

Liang's family was happy, but the war broke out frequently. Her husband left the army with her family and country in mind. When she left, she had just been diagnosed as pregnant. Her husband repeatedly vowed to come back safely, but she waited and waited, but she never waited for her lover to return.

Her life began to be full of hardships. The exquisite embroidery workers were pressed down to one tenth of the price. The neighbors didn't like her. There were always some unscrupulous people around her home. She was afraid of an accident and had to leave with her children. But wherever she went, she lived very hard. In these hardships, she gradually forgot her former happiness, Just wanted to protect the two children - she didn't swallow her breath until she died.

She's dead. What about her children? How could she die when they were so young?

But there was nothing she could do if God wanted to take back her life.

Xie Ji has forgotten his father and the man with strong arms. He once put him on his shoulders to make him laugh. The gentle and beautiful mother gently stroked the belly with her sister and smiled to stop them from making trouble. My father pretended to be frightened and said that my mother was fierce. My father and son laughed together, and my mother laughed... Those days, In the day after day of despair, has been completely forgotten.

Dad?

What's that?

Does he have a father?

Until now, Xie Ji doesn't know whether his father is alive or dead. If he is dead, it's OK. If he is alive, why don't you see him pass a message back?

Originally, it was difficult for him to enter the palace. The people behind the scenes wanted to deceive him with twenty liang of silver, and then told him that there was no such thing as selecting people in the palace, which made the boy completely desperate. But soon, she changed her attention. She thought it was too cheap for him, or it was more interesting to send the boy to the palace. Who knows what he will be like in the future? Alive? Or dead? You can't die so soon. How can you die if your brother and sister haven't met again?

Xie Ji thought he had forgotten his father, but at the moment he saw the man, all the forgotten memories returned like a tide, which made him almost crazy!

So he's not dead! So he changed his name! Be famous! Marry someone else! How happy is your wife and daughter!

At that time, he was already the confidant of the old emperor. He turned his hands over the clouds and covered his hands with rain. He played with countless people in applause. Xie Ji looked at the strange expression of the man, as if he didn't know him at all. He only felt funny in his heart. He wanted to see how long this man could hold up, and how long that disgusting face could hold up!

I don't know him, do I? Today's wife is the first wife, isn't she? The family is happy, isn't it? Think he's insidious, vicious, reckless and worthless, right?

He is such a cheap and castrated dog, but he is Xie Fengwang's seed!