"Nier seems to have gained a lot of weight!" I lay on the hot kang and poked Nier's chubby little face.
When Nier smiled, her pink and tender mouth was exposed, and her little hands and feet were waving in the air. My heart almost melted.
Lulu plopped and kissed Nier on the face: "It's so fun."
Aunt Lu laughed and walked in with a bowl of freshly washed cherries: "You two have a try. Your uncle went for a walk in the fruit trees today and picked them back. They are already gone at this time of year. There are still some left this year."
"Cherry!" Lulu and our eyes suddenly lit up.
Cherries are soft and sweet. Although they are small, they are rare fruits. Every autumn, my dad would get up early and crawl around midnight to wait for them, fearing that they would be picked too late and my mother and I would not be able to eat them.
There are no cherries in Lianhua City, only cherries that are larger than this. They are said to be imported, and Aunt Duan will buy them for us to eat, but they are not as pure in taste as cherries.
Lulu and I happily ran to the kang, grabbed the cherries and threw them into our mouths.
Uncle Lu walked in from the outhouse with a smile, stood by the basin shelf and washed his hands. He turned to the two of us and said: "It's getting colder and colder. Have you two come back with thick clothes? If you don't bring any, I will let you Lu tomorrow."
Auntie will take you two to the town to buy two sets."
"I have some at home." Lulu's mouth was full and she couldn't speak clearly. "I also bought new ones last year, and they are all kept in my closet."
"Well, look at your half-year-old children, they are almost catching up with other people's eighty or ninety-year-old children. How can you still wear last year's clothes?"
Aunt Lu said as she got on the kang, opened the kang cabinet and took out the money, sat cross-legged by the cabinet, spit on her fingers and counted them one by one.
"Girl Yun, why don't you grow taller?"
"Cough cough cough -" I choked on the sweet juice of the cherries, and the cherries in my mouth didn't even taste good.
It's so heartbreaking.
Uncle Lu laughed and wiped his hands: "You are only six years old, and after the Chinese New Year, you will only be seven years old. You still have to grow up. Don't be sad, girl Yun."
"Yeah." I looked up at Uncle Lu with a smile, and was suddenly stunned.
Because... there is a blue-gray face on the window glass behind Uncle Lu!!
"Uncle Lu! Come here quickly!"
"Emma!" Uncle Lu was startled by me and hurriedly walked to the kang, then looked back at the window.
Aunt Lu and Lulu also looked up, but they saw nothing.
But they all knew that I could see ghosts. Aunt Lu came over cautiously and whispered in my ear with a trembling voice: "Girl Yun, is there a ghost?"
I nodded.
Outside the window stood a ghost with hands hanging down, wearing black clothes with gold coins stamped on them, a faint smile on his gray face, and an eyepatch on one eye.
It's Mr. Chen.
Before we came back from Laohetao, Uncle Yang gave his eldest son a gift. Knowing that Mr. Chen was blind, childless and had no relatives, he gave it to him together.
Uncle Qian also hired a young corpse stitcher to sew old blind man Chen's head and body. He also found a set of shrouds in my house and put them on, this one.
Although he is not as scary now as when he was a zombie and his appearance is different, I still recognize him.
Because he was looking lovingly at Nier who was giggling on the kang.
I rubbed my nose, a little confused about his intention. Although he was very good before and helped us deal with the corpse mother, he has become a ghost now. I can't judge his good or bad behavior based on his initial behavior.
Already.
The second uncle said that everything should be done cautiously and cautiously.
Blind Chen suddenly looked away from Nier, lowered his head and waved to me: "I know you can see me, little girl."
"..."
"I just want to say a few words."
I saw Aunt Li running towards me on the road behind Mr. Chen. I breathed a sigh of relief and walked to the window to talk to him through the glass.
"Say what?"
"I want to thank Nier."
"Ah?" I scratched my head in confusion and looked back at Ni'er, who was protected by Aunt Lu and Uncle Lu on the kang. I didn't understand what he meant.
Logically speaking, it was Mr. Chen who protected Nier from being bitten by the corpse mother, and it was he who fed Nier with his own blood. Why should he thank Nier?
At this time, Aunt Li stood behind Old Blind Chen: "It's me who should thank you."
When Chen Laoban heard the voice, he turned around and bowed to Aunt Li: "I have seen the City God."
Aunt Li hurriedly stopped her: "I can't do it. I can't do it."
Chen Laoxian straightened up and said with a kind face: "I have been reincarnated for hundreds of years."
I shrugged my nose and keenly smelled the scent of a story about to be told. My mood suddenly became high and I stood on my feet to listen.
Old Blind Chen smiled sheepishly, his gray face full of honesty and simplicity.
"I was originally a fairy boy arranging flowers in the sky. I missed the mortal world and made a mistake. I was put down to survive the tribulation. Unexpectedly, in my first life, I was caught up in the war, my family was destroyed, my wife and children were separated. From then on, every life was full of disadvantages and three shortcomings, and I ended up alone.
I knew that the tribulation I wanted to overcome was to have a family, and it was Nier who came to my side, so that I could successfully overcome the tribulation. Now that my number of tribulations is up, it’s time to go back."
I was dumbfounded. This is simply a fairy tale!
Mr. Chen walked away blindly, disappearing on the road with his hands behind his back along with a puff of white smoke.
Aunt Li sighed: "Hey, it's Ni'er's turn to thank him."
"Why?" I asked puzzledly, "Old Chen, let's not talk nonsense. Did Ni'er help him get through the disaster?"
Aunt Li shook her head, and looked at the direction in which Chen Laoxia disappeared. She thought for a moment and said: "Old woman Wu is also his disaster. If Chen Laoxia follows his zombie instinct and fails to protect Nier, his reincarnation will be ruined."
He will continue to do so. In the final analysis, he helped himself."
"Oh." I nodded in understanding.
I think instinct should be something like eating and drinking. Just imagine how painful it would be if I couldn't eat, drink and sleep.
I wonder if Mr. Chen was suppressing this instinct when he held Nier blindly and fed Nier his own blood.
However, good people are rewarded, and it has been proven once again.
Even in the eyes of others, there is no good retribution for Mr. Chen and Aunt Li, but I, with a pair of snake eyes, can see that their good retribution is not in the eyes of ordinary people, but in my own.
On the body.
Before you know it, the blessing has already arrived.
The souls of the evil corpse mother and Li Long were both taken away by Black and White Wuchang. It was said that Lu Qi would record them in the book one by one and then punish them.
"Nuan Ting, has he left?" Lulu called me softly from behind.
I turned around and said with a smile that Aunt Li was here, and that Mr. Chen had gone to heaven blindly.
"Sister-in-law Li is here?" Aunt Lu exclaimed and suddenly became energetic.
I saw Aunt Lu and Uncle Lu suddenly looked at each other. Uncle Lu panicked and said to his pale face reflected in the glass: "Sister-in-law Li, we have a request. If you agree, we will
I am willing to clean the City God’s Temple and offer incense every day while I am alive.”
I turned to look at Aunt Li curiously, and Aunt Li also turned to look at me in surprise.
Lulu asked curiously at the kang: "What's the matter, Uncle Lu?"
Uncle Lu took a deep breath, and I saw his two thin arms trembling: "We, as a couple, want to adopt Ni'er."