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Chapter 54. The bell left behind in the boat coffin-Fanwai 【The story about Xiaojin and Abu...
Abu lived in Xiaojin's house for a long time, but he really started to understand this girl after he was injured.Xiao Jin is an orphan. When her parents left, they left her this dilapidated little house. She usually relies on helping neighbors to earn some living expenses, and she can't even afford to support herself.
In that year, Geng Shen was seriously injured and lay in her house for more than three months.Xiao Jin didn't talk much, but in those three months, he never made him hungry once.
It wasn't until he was almost healed from his injuries that he was about to say goodbye to her, only to find out that in order to support him, this silly girl would go door-to-door to help with laundry before dawn.In the cold winter, she had frostbite on all ten of her fingers. Most of the little money she earned was used to buy medicine for him, and the other half was changed to food. She always put him first in everything.
Abu has lived for hundreds of years. For the descendants of Ai Sang who have been wandering in the world, the experiences of these years have made him indifferent, lost the interest in being fettered with the world, and more often resembled a lonely traveler.
He has experienced life and death, intrigues, and betrayal, but he has never seen such a fool.He stayed out of curiosity, wanting to know what this girl was thinking every day, to be so heartbroken to a stranger like him.
After getting along for a while, he finally knew the answer.
"I've been living in a muddle," Xiao Jin said happily, "but since I helped you, I think I'm still useful."
It turned out that Xiao Jin had been unconscious since seeing him vomit so much blood that day. She seemed to have mistook her for someone in her half-dream and half-awake state, and kept holding her hand to prevent her from leaving.Xiao Jin suddenly felt that it was not easy for him. Although he was a big man, he was seriously injured and had no relatives around him when he was away. He was as pitiful as herself.
In the little girl's short life, this was the first time she saw someone weaker than herself, so she made up her mind to "protect" him well.
When he heard the reason for the first time, he found it ridiculous. Abu Na is a descendant of Ai Sang, he was injured, but the people who caused him to be injured all lined up to see the King of Hades.Thinking that he is "weak", maybe only this stupid girl would think so.It's just that even he didn't realize that since then, the way he looks at Xiao Jin has become warmer.
In order to prove that they are not "weak", the descendants of Ai Sang began to take the initiative to do some housework.
When Xiao Jin wakes up every day, she finds that the kitchen is full of firewood and the water tank is always full.Abu also went to the mountains to pick mushrooms, and when he came back, he made mushroom sauce. With the wild vegetable soup cooked by Xiaojin, life improved day by day unconsciously.
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That day when Abu came back and hugged a hen, Xiao Jin was startled, for fear that he might have stolen it from someone.But when you ask him, he doesn't say anything, and changes the topic every time, and finally tells her that he bought it with his own money, and that he bought it for her to make up her body.
Xiao Jin thinks he has no money, but Abu is a person who has lived for hundreds of years, and his family background may scare people to death, what will happen if he buys a chicken.Although to be honest, he really didn't buy it.When he came back from digging wild vegetables, he was walking on the road and met a lost old hen. After a fierce inner struggle, the descendants of Ai Sang put down their bodies, took out the soul bell, and brought the old hen back.If the ancestors knew that he used the soul bell to do this kind of thing, the coffin board might not be able to cover it.
In the end, don't know whether Xiao Jin believed it or not, but he didn't kill the chicken.
The little girl kept the old hen in the yard, saying that when the hen laid eggs and hatched chicks, they would have more chickens.Abu's eyelids twitched, thinking that there are only hens but no roosters, where can they get eggs that can hatch chicks.But seeing Xiao Jin's expression of being intoxicated by his own wisdom, he didn't feel embarrassed to say it.When there are eggs, bring her a few chicks back. The trouble is that it is a little troublesome, as long as she is happy.
He thought that he could pamper her like this for a lifetime.
Then one day, people from the village broke into her house while he was away, claiming that she had stolen Aunt Li's hen.The hen was carried away, and some savage women beat her up.When he went back, he saw the girl with a bruised nose and a swollen face, cleaning up the smashed tables and benches at home.
How common is this kind of thing, even if the hen does not belong to their family, it is just a common thing for Xiao Jin, a lonely little girl without father and mother, to rob her of a few things.In this life, Abu has experienced too many such grievances, and he was used to it, but it was Xiao Jin who was wronged instead, and he had already developed a hundred ways to deal with them in his dark heart.
However, what he didn't expect was that the girl who had just been beaten up smiled at him when she saw him come back.
She said: "Fortunately you are not at home. When they came just now, they were very aggressive! If they knew that you brought the chicken back, they would not have to beat you!"
Abu has mixed feelings in his heart.
While cleaning the chicken coop, Xiao Jin found an egg, took it out carefully with both hands, and said to him: "Look, Abu, there is no unparalleled road!"
The two made a hatching nest for the eggs overnight. Xiao Jin was dexterous and knew how to weave things. She wove a basket with the dead leaves that Abu found, spread hay inside, and put the eggs in the center.It was cold at that time, and she asked him several times if he left it like this, would the chicks fail to hatch.After getting a negative answer from Abu, she began to ask him every day when the chicks would hatch.
Abu patted her head.
"There will be a day," he said.
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Xiao Jin recently got a new dress. She has an aunt who lives far away. She usually picks and searches, and doesn't interact with her very much. don't know what medicine she took wrongly, but she even gave her a white dress. Not only is it the most popularStyle, and not cheap.The little girl in the new clothes walked around in front of Abu several times. She was very happy that day, even though the clothes didn't fit very well, as if they were bought for someone else, and they were just decided to give it to her on the spur of the moment.
But it was new clothes after all, and Xiao Jin spoke well of her aunt in front of him for a long time.
Her aunt, during that time, gave them things from time to time, from things to food.At first, he couldn't guess the reason, but one day, he went to this relative's house to pick up Xiao Jin, and the little girl was kicking shuttlecock with a girl who was much taller and fatter than her in the alley.
Xiao Jin said that this was her cousin.
On the way home, Xiao Jin asked Abu if people should repay their kindness.
He is not a good person. After living for so many years, Abu thinks he is a person with a dark heart.If someone had asked him that before, he would have scoffed, and even felt that this kind of "graciousness" was a conspiracy.But at that time, he met Xiao Jin, and the innocent kindness of the little girl made him feel that there are actually some beautiful things in the world of mortals.
So after thinking about this question seriously, he gave her an affirmative answer.
"However," Abu patted Xiao Jin's head, "People have to learn to distinguish whether the 'graciousness' in it is sincere, or it was just to take advantage from the beginning. Learn to reject those kindnesses with bad intentions and protect yourself.more than anything."
Xiao Jin seemed to understand, but still had a smile on his face.
The two held hands and went home together.
At night, Xiao Jin lit the lamp, and with the needle and thread given by her aunt, she was going to embroider a purse for Abu.She had been embroidering for several days, and she was short of a name. She knew that Abu's full name was Pubu, but she didn't know his surname.
Abu was sitting opposite her, picking mushrooms that he had picked from the mountains during the day.
"Many of us Tibetans don't have surnames."
Xiao Jin was surprised: "Abu is a Tibetan, so he didn't come from far away."
Abu nodded and smiled: "I prefer to travel."
Xiao Jin put down the needle and thread in her hand, and said nervously: "You must not leave without saying a word!"
Without even thinking about it, he agreed to her: "Okay."
Xiao Jin said sadly again: "But if one day, one day I'm not here..."
Abu didn't hear clearly: "What?"
The little girl shook her head, swallowed all the words again, and lowered her head to do her embroidery work.
Sleepless nights.
Another day, when Abu came home, he found that Xiao Jin had disappeared, and the half-embroidered purse on the table was put in the sewing basket, and he hadn't had time to clean it up.What really disturbed him was the broken eggs on the ground.Xiaojin cherishes this egg so much on weekdays, something must have happened.
He went to several places she frequented, but he couldn't find anyone, so he went to the aunt who lived far away in desperation.
My aunt faltered, she knew something at first glance, but she was not going to tell him.Abu lost his patience and used some tricks to ask what he wanted to ask.Only then did he know that such a poor and backward village had such ignorant customs.
He rushed to the mountain, just in time to meet the township head, the village steward, and the sorceress who came down from above. The three of them were chattering, and after seeing him, they ran down the mountain with guilt.At that time, Abu had an ominous premonition in his heart, thinking that he should catch them and question them, but Xiao Jin might still be on the mountain, so he felt that he should find her first.
Abu once heard people say that there is an ancient tomb on the mountain in Guyu Township.But he was not a tomb robber, and this tomb had nothing to do with the place of enlightenment he was looking for, so he didn't pay attention.Occasionally, go up the mountain to collect firewood, and have seen the entrances of several ancient tombs, but have never entered them.
On the way to find the ancient tomb, he kept thinking that tombs of this size usually have very dangerous traps.Will there be poisonous gas in the tomb, will there be poisonous insects in the place where the coffin is placed, and will there even be corpses raised by rice dumplings... She is a little girl who doesn't understand anything, so don't go into the tomb stupidlywhat.
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How could Abu have thought that Xiao Jin would never see the poisonous insects and rice dumplings in the tomb, because she hadn't even lived through the first tunnel.
In the corridor full of evil ghosts and bull lanterns, there is a girl lying quietly. The water arrows shot out blood holes one after another on her body, and her white dress was dyed red by the gushing blood, like a tattered cloth.Doll, lifeless.
Abu's eyes were red, almost in a state of madness.
He is a person who has struggled in the mud and darkness all his life, afraid of the sun, but yearning for the sun.
On the verge of sinking, he met such a girl. For him, Xiao Jin was the only light in his life.
His sun, murdered.
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Abu lit the incense burner in his hand, it was worth a thousand gold, and it was of no use to him, but now he even wants to thank the monk who gave him a rhinoceros.Holding the incense burner in his hand, he silently recited Xiao Jin's name, and then slowly opened his eyes.
In the corner, he saw the shivering girl hugging her knees.
Xiao Jin didn't even realize that she was dead, she just saw Abu suddenly, cried and told him that she was caught on the mountain, and the villagers said they would sacrifice her to the mountain ghost.She was terrified, thinking of the unembroidered purse, the unhatched eggs, and Abu still waiting for her to go back.
She doesn't want to die.
But she saw her dead body.
Xiao Jin was in a daze for a moment, her soul was stained with chaos, and Abu saw a white ghostly aura emerging from her body. He didn't know at that time that this kind of thing is called resentment.Ghosts infected with resentment usually died in vain, and if they were left alone, they could easily become resentful spirits.
This is not a good sign.
Xiao Jin said sadly: "So, I'm already dead."
Abu pursed his lips with a solemn expression, and his nails drew a trace on the incense burner, showing the swelling hatred in his heart.
"Your aunt," Abu said coldly, "did she ask you to be a sacrifice instead of her daughter? Didn't I tell you that you have to distinguish whether the kindness given by others is sincere or used? Listen to all these wordsWhere did you go?"
He wasn't blaming Xiaojin, Abu just thought it was ridiculous that Xiao Jin didn't understand the world and killed herself.
But Xiao Jin said: "I listened to what Abu said and rejected them."
Abu was taken aback.
"I used to live alone in this world without any worries," Xiao Jin lowered her head, "but not anymore."
She may have learned to bravely reject malicious requests from others, but she did not expect that the human heart is dark and has no boundaries.She is a weak girl, helpless, like duckweed in the sea, who would care if she disappeared in this world if she hadn't met Abu.
Now everything has become an established fact, she is dead.
Xiao Jin doesn't know why she died, and Abu can see her and even talk to her.
But for the last part of the world, it is enough to be accompanied by Abu.
"Abu, I want to go inside and have a look."
The descendants of Ai Sang showed puzzled expressions.
The cold white ghostly aura around Xiao Jin gradually dissipated, which showed that she had accepted the fact that she was dead.
She said: "I want to see what the legendary mountain ghost looks like. If he is easy to talk to, I want to ask him to let go of the girls in the village, so that the village head won't have to send other people in."
What a naive idea, in such a dark age, how rare it is to maintain a pure heart until death.
Instead of resenting the past, embrace the future with kindness.
Therefore, she can be the sun.
Abu nodded, one person and one ghost walked side by side to the depths of the tomb.
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But what if he entered the tomb.
Everything is so ridiculous, the mountain ghost, which is feared by the villagers, does not exist at all.
It was just an ordinary woman and her husband who were buried in the ancient tomb.They found the epitaph, but the more they looked at Abu, the more absurd it became.The moths that flew out of the granary were just mutations over time.The mild natured moths never take the initiative to attack humans, they just guard the tomb diligently.With its toxicity, it is not even comparable to the poisonous centipede in the mountains.
When those moths passed by Abu, the descendants of Ai Sang suddenly raised their heads and looked at them coldly.
In this world, people should always pay the price for their actions, no matter if they are the mastermind or a spectator.
In the evening, Abu walked out of the princess' tomb alone, and he prepared a big gift for the whole village.
Seeing their frightened appearance, Abu had the bloodthirsty impulse again after nearly a year.He almost forgot that Pubu, the descendant of Ai Sang, was not a kind person from the very beginning.
With a snap of his fingers, all the moths in the princess' tomb rushed out.
This is a kind of moth that absorbs light and then emits the same light with its wings, just like Abu...but he can no longer find the light on the road of life.
The moths kept hovering among the villagers, accompanied by the melodious and long sound of soul bells, feeding on human blood, multiplying rapidly generation after generation.
The sky suddenly appeared.
The once noisy village now only has grim-looking mummies left. Some crawled to Abu’s feet to beg for mercy, some tried to run out of the village overnight but found themselves trapped in miasma, and some thought they would not be discovered by hiding.Overnight, the whole village was slaughtered.
Abu kicked away the corpse clutching his ankle, sneered, and slowly put away the soul bell.
He thought he needed to find the old monk now and buy all the raw rhinoceros in his hand.
For this he first needs more and more money.