The moment I heard about guanyin pavilion, I immediately remembered how strange it was to go to that place twice. Just as I was about to shake my head, my mother's hands tightened around my shoulders and she growled at me, "You're not allowed to go."
I immediately nodded my head. If I don't want to go, then so be it.
"Good girl, tonight Mother will make you a Dung Duck." Mom immediately touched my face, just like she did when I was young.
I smiled. "I've already eaten dinner. Let's eat when I come back next time."
"I'll cook tonight and have it tomorrow morning." Mom sniffed and glared at me.
Seeing that her mood was stable, I hurriedly helped her clean up the broken tableware on the floor and also cleaned up the table.
However, she didn't care at all. As expected, she caught a duck, told me to pull the duck leg and kill it, also called Tian Tian and Hu Guyue out to light a fire. The trick of calling them Blood Duck together with Captain Yang Yang Wei was to gather around the stove fire and smell the sweet smell of sweet potato my mother stuffed in.
When the Blood Duck Duck was done, my mother forced me to taste a few pieces, and we all had another meal. My mother even specially wrapped the rest of the Duck Duck Duck into a fresh film that she was reluctant to use, telling me that I would be able to eat it in the morning after it was hot and that I would only be able to leave after eating a full meal.
I said yes and went back to bed. I don't know if it was because I had eaten an extra meal tonight, but I kept feeling that I couldn't fall asleep, thinking about my mother's loss of control, and felt a little flustered. I rolled around in bed for a long time, but I still wasn't at ease.
Just as I was thinking about whether I should go upstairs to sleep with my mother, I heard Yang Wei anxiously run down and shout at me: "Qin Chenmo, there's a fire!"
I initially thought that my home was on fire, and anxiously ran out to get Tian Tian and Hu Guyue, but when we came out, we realized that there was no fire, and Yang Wei was just standing at the door, staring at the opposite side in a daze.
"Where's the fire?" I pushed him away and stuck my head out.
At the intersection of the two rivers, a flame shot up into the sky beside the wooden house. Beside it, there was a small shadow who was trying hard to throw something into the fire.
It was precisely guanyin pavilion. I suddenly thought of my mother, and hastily summoned the Fourth Young Master to move up the stairs. Sure enough, the room was empty, and my heart tightened as I ordered the Fourth Young Master to bring me there.
She told me not to go to the guanyin pavilion ever again, and I also agreed. Actually, from the start, I have never really entered the guanyin pavilion, and every time I just walked over the stone bridge, I would be done for.
It was the same this time. Little Four could no longer cross the river and all four of us fainted. I hurriedly put her away and ran towards the stone bridge.
By this time the light had spread over the roof of the cabin, where my mother was still pouring oil.
"Mother!" I quickly ran up to the stone bridge and shouted for my mother.
However, just as my foot reached the edge of the stone bridge, the flames that shot to the sky expanded and seemed to want to drown my mother in flames. I hastily ran towards the edge of the bridge.
"Mother!" I shouted loudly. Just as I was about to land on the stone bridge, I felt a weight on my waist.
He fell into a familiar embrace and was thrown back onto the stone bridge. "You wait over there, I'll go!"
Liu Kunsheng, who I haven't seen for a long time, dressed in white, looked at me with a gloomy face and said: "Don't make trouble for me."
"Liu Kunsheng!" The flames from the guanyin pavilion could no longer be called fire. It seemed as if the entire ground had been set ablaze.
I watched as Liu Kunsheng's white robe disappeared into the fire. Like my mother, it was instantly engulfed in flames.
My heart seemed to have been grabbed by something. My feet couldn't help but step towards the stone bridge. Just as my body leaned over, someone grabbed my arm. A deep voice said to me, "Believe him."
I turned around, only to see Ceng Xiaoqiang looking at me with a dark expression, and repeating, "Chen Duo, believe in Liu Kunsheng."
From the moment Ceng Xiaoqiang found out that Liu Kunsheng was my father, he could have avoided Liu Kunsheng. In his eyes, snakes aren't good in the first place, furthermore, Liu Kunsheng's motive was to go from being a father to marrying me, so it was obvious that it wasn't pure.
I wanted to walk forward, but Ceng Xiaoqiang held onto me tightly: "The fire is so big, if you go in you'll only be sending yourself to death."
"But my mother is inside." I felt nothing but despair.
That's my mother, my mother who watched me grow up. How could she not see that I was only dealing with her?
So she was afraid that I would enter the guanyin pavilion again, and so she thought of a most complete and thorough method, which was to burn her guanyin pavilion.
A fire, burned clean, so I'd never go in again.
"Liu Kunsheng went in. If he can't even save her, is there any use in going in?" Ceng Xiaoqiang pulled me back, then tightly hugged onto my arm and shouted at me. "Qin Chenmo, wake up, why is she doing this?"
For what?
For what?
Was she going to die herself just to keep me alive?
Do I have to live to make everyone die?
I struggled with all my might but a gigantic fire snake burst out from the flames and charged towards me.
"Scram!" Ceng Xiaoqiang pushed me down, and with a twist of his legs, he immediately transformed into two thick snake tails. He chanted an incantation, made hand seals, and welcomed the fire snake with a flick of his hands.
The water in the two rivers spluttered as it intertwined into two water snakes, and met the gigantic fire snake together with Ceng Xiaoqiang.
I didn't know what else was in the fire, but just as I was about to go and help, Yang Wei and the Captain Yang held me back one by one.
"Alright!" I looked at Ceng Xiaoqiang who was entangled with the fire snake, my mother who had disappeared into the fire, and Liu Kunsheng, who had also disappeared. I nodded heavily as I replied, "I want to live well.
These words were obviously words to motivate me, but after I said it, my tears fell.
I suddenly regretted it. If I could sincerely promise my mother, if I could cautiously face her sudden madness, if I could firmly tell her, I would cherish my life. Perhaps …
She's my mother, and I should know about her. She's not the sort of person who suddenly went hysterical, even when the mountain god suddenly hired me and my father suddenly died, she didn't go crazy.
"The end of the morning!" A figure hurriedly ran over from the distance while shouting out my name.
Slowly raising his head, he saw that my father had already arrived in front of me in just a few steps. He grabbed my shoulder and growled, "Where's your mother?"
I lowered my head and coincidentally saw that there were two talismans stuck on his legs. The talisman was glowing with a faint golden light as it was slowly moving towards the cage.
I have seen this paper before. When Liu Kunsheng taught Hu Guyue how to draw this paper, he said that I was born with energy so I couldn't draw this paper. However, Hu Guyue was born with vigorous energy.
For example, the Divine Traversal Talisman on my father's leg could travel thousands of miles in a day. Many wandering monks relied on this talisman to extort others
But now, this talisman has appeared on my father's leg, on my father that is extremely ordinary.
"I'm asking you, where's your mother?" My father shook my shoulder hard.
I raised my head and slowly met his eyes. His face was filled with anxiety. His eyes were red as he shouted, "Where did your mother go?"
"What did you tell her today?" I opened my mouth with difficulty.
When I was cooking, my mother was still normal. At most, she was just worried about me, afraid that I would be in danger if I went out.
But while we were eating, she was calling my father, and when we were putting away the bowls, she was shouting at me like a lunatic, telling me to promise her that if everyone died, I would live. This sense of danger could only come from my mother.
"The end of the morning." My father slowly retracted his hand and turned around to face the rising flames.
She gave me a wry smile. "Your mother has always been very smart. I can't deceive her. She just pretended that she didn't know anything."
"Then you also lied to me. You lied to us for 20 years, are you feeling good?" In the heat of the fire, my eyes hurt, and I could hear voices in the distance. Someone was beating on the lid of the pot, calling for the villagers to come and extinguish the fire.
"You don't understand my pain, Chen Duo, you were born to be the cause of everyone, so —" My father looked at the flame in the guanyin pavilion, then suddenly roared out. From the flame, regardless of whether it was me or Ceng Xiaoqiang, my Fire Snake, I rushed out, charging towards my father.
"No!" I saw my father step forward, with one foot, he fell into the light of the guanyin pavilion.
He hastily stretched out his hand and screamed, but he couldn't even grab the corner of his clothes.
"At the end of the morning, remember what your mother said." His father stood in the light of the fire and smiled at me. "Without you before, I feel that everyone's life is more important. With you here, I feel that even if everyone dies, as long as you live, I'll be happy."
As soon as he finished speaking, the fire serpent that had been sent flying instantly crashed into his body. The fire snake engulfed his body.
I opened my mouth, but no sound came out. I just stared at the firelight, which contained the most important person in my life.
and that's all of my people --
As long as they are alive, I will be happy!