On Fu Rou's neck is a row of densely packed black holes, and slender vines protrude from these holes, and each vine has a withered white flower at the end, which seems to symbolize Fu Rou's witherings life.

The dense and weird visual effects brought an indescribable visual impact to Granny Yue Fen. She stood in front of the coffin without speaking for a long time.

Seeing that she didn't respond, Fu Rou's mother asked hesitantly, "Grandma Yue Fen?"

Granny Yue Fen sorted out her thoughts, and turned around: "This child is really different from the one in my impression."

In her impression, Fu Rou was a child with a round face, a healthy complexion, and a strong figure, but at this moment, the person lying in the coffin was pale and skinny, and even the conspicuous purple birthmark on the right cheek was gone.Now, it's completely different from the original appearance.

Hearing this, Fu Rou's father's dull face was covered with a layer of bitterness: "Don't talk about you, if I hadn't picked her up from school myself, I wouldn't have recognized her."

"What kind of strange disease is this? I went to so many hospitals, but I couldn't find any disease." Fu Rou's mother gently stroked Fu Rou's cold cheek with her hand, "It's all my fault. I didn't pay attention to it at first, and thought it was justSimple malnutrition, if she received treatment earlier, Xiao Rou might live longer."

As she said that, Fu Rou's mother shed two lines of tears, and she couldn't help but think of the scene the night before Fu Rou's death.

That day, Fu Rou's body had become extremely weak, the back of her hand was swollen high from the infusion needle, and she was as thin as an autumn leaf about to fall from a tree.

"Mom, I'm sorry." When she found that she didn't even have the strength to hold the bowl and chopsticks, Fu Rou said with a sluggish expression, "I might be dying."

"Bah, bah, don't say these unlucky things." Fu Rou's mother served a bowl of hot chicken soup, "Drink this soup to nourish your body, you haven't had a good meal for a long time."

"I...I don't really want to eat it." Fu Rou looked at the brightly colored chicken soup in the bowl, but couldn't develop any appetite.

"Drink at least a couple of sips." Fu Rou's mother said softly, "Mom feed you."

Mother lowered her head to scoop up a spoonful of chicken soup, blew it to Fu Rou's lips, saw her frowning and reluctantly took a sip, and felt better: "Well, let's take our time, I stewed the chickenFor a long time, the nutrition is in the soup."

After taking four or five sips intermittently, Fu Rou shook her head: "Mom, I really can't drink anymore."

"Okay, then let's rest for a while, what else do you want to eat? When your dad comes over later, I'll ask him to bring it to you." Fu Rou's mother put down the soup bowl.

"I really don't want to eat." Fu Rou shook her head with a smile, her eyes fell on her mother's face, she stared at her for a while, she thought of something sad, and tears flowed down her face: "Mom, I want to be beautiful."

"Xiaorou, you are already very beautiful now, you don't need to be more beautiful." Mom didn't know why the topic suddenly jumped to this place, but seeing her sad, she immediately comforted her: "What's more, no matter what you look like, in my mother's heart, you have always been beautiful."

"I know." Fu Rou wiped away her tears, and automatically filtered out the second half of her mother's words in her mind.There was a moment of bewilderment on her pretty, almost coquettish face, but she soon became firm again, and said to herself in a low voice: "So I can't change back to my original appearance."

The next morning, Fu Rou died.

The dishes were put on the table, and Granny Yue Fen came back before she even touched her chopsticks.

"Grandma, I've served you a plate of rice." Xiaozhu pushed the plate of rice in front of Granny Yue Fen.

"Thank you Xiaozhu." Granny Yue Fen picked up the chopsticks with a smile.

After eating, the girl with vines growing on the back of her neck left quickly, and Jian Yi picked up Xiaozhu, moved to Granny Yuefen, and asked in a low voice, "Grandma, were you just now..."

"Xiaorou's parents asked me to help calculate the time of the burial." Granny Yue Fen had already guessed what she would ask.

"Oh, so it is." Jane Yi paused, and continued to ask: "Grandmother, do you know what kind of illness Fu Rou has?"

Granny Yue Fen sighed: "Beauty is sick."

Jane Yi was taken aback: "Beauty disease?"

She suddenly remembered what Wu Yue said, the more sick Fu Rou is, the more beautiful she is.

Granny Yue Fen: "Like the girl who left just now, Fu Rou was parasitized by a monster called Taoxinmei."

"Then that girl just now—" Jane Yi hurriedly looked in the direction the girl left.

"Don't be nervous, that child's symptoms are still very mild, and there won't be any problems in a short time." Granny Yue Fen rubbed her temples in distress.

"But if she keeps letting it go, she will die, right?" Bai Lu, who had been silent before, suddenly said.

After the atmosphere froze for a few seconds, Grandma Yue Fen hummed.

Hearing the word death, the little bamboo demon shrank instinctively, and leaned back into Jane Yi's arms to feel relieved.

"Is there no way to get rid of this monster called Tao Xinmei?" Jane Yi asked.

"No way," Granny Yue Fen smiled wryly and shook her head, "This kind of monster is born from the strong desire to become beautiful. As long as this desire doesn't disappear, peach heart charms can continue to be born. This kind of monster is alsoIt has been produced in recent years, and it has not been included in the version of the monster illustration book I gave you."

Jane Yi who often reads the illustrated book: "No wonder I have no impression of this kind of monster."

"The body of Peach Heart Charm is a white seed the size of a red bean. They are not aggressive to ordinary people. They will only find people with a sick mentality of becoming beautiful and parasitize them on the back of their necks, sucking their vitality, and thus growVines and pink-white flower buds. The magical power released by the peach heart charm when it blooms can make people beautiful, thereby arousing people's desire to become beautiful, the roots are more stable and deeper, and the ability to reproduce is also enhanced." Granny Yue Fen recalled that just nowSeeing the scene in the coffin, I felt that my neck was also itchy.

"That is to say, only when the parasitized person no longer has the desire to become beautiful, will Tao Xinmei leave the parasitized person?" Jane Yi asked.

"In theory, that's right." Bai Lu continued, "But once Tao Xinmei leaves, the appearance of the parasitized person will return to its original appearance. How can a person who has already tasted the sweetness let it go easily. DesireIt’s like a bottomless pit, no matter how you fill it, it won’t be filled.”

Jane Yi looked at him with some surprise.

Bai Lu was unhappy and said, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"It's nothing, it's just that these words are not mature enough for a fifth grade student to say."

Bai Lu snorted and turned his head away.

"However, Tao Xinmei's growth mode is similar to Yanjin's. One is to absorb vitality and make people beautiful at the same time, and the other is to eat greed and emit gold at the same time, but 'beauty' and 'gold' are bothIt has a fatal attraction to people." Jane Yi pinched her chin and analyzed.

The little bamboo demon then fell into deep thought: "It seems to be true."

Grandma Yue Fen was distracted by her thinking, she thought for a while and said: "It's really similar, but the difference in intelligence level between these two creatures is not a star. If Yanjin is equivalent to a cat in the human world, then TaoxinmeiIt should be similar to Paramecium."

Jane Yi: "So much difference!"

"That's right, Peach Heart Charm itself has no brains and no thinking. They just rely on instinct to find a suitable 'soil' to take root, and instinct to suck human life. All they do is to serve the purpose of living."Granny Yue Fen changed the subject: "As for Yanjin, eating greed is just a way for him to improve his cultivation."

After finishing talking, Granny Yue Fen got up: "Go back, we can't interfere in this matter."

If there was still room for change, she would not let Fu Rou die so easily.

When got home, Lan Jin had a charcoal fire in the yard and was roasting pork jerky.

"Yi Yi! You are back!" The big cat put down the long chopsticks used to flip the pork jerky, trotted up to Jane Yi and the little bamboo demon, and gave them a fluffy hug.

The little bamboo demon opened his pocket, and gave the big cat the only toffee left.

"Thank you! I'll treat you to pork jerky later." The big cat rubbed the little bamboo demon's head, then peeled off the candy wrapper and bit the candy.

The little bamboo demon originally wanted to stay in the yard to help barbecue jerky, but after thinking about it, she decided to go back to the bedroom and read a book first, leaving a space for Jane Yi and Lan Jin to get along alone.

Jane Yi opened her handbag, took out a wet wipe, and wiped Lan Jin's pink nose: "The charcoal ash got on my nose."

Big Mao Mao scratched his head: "Blame me for not being careful."

Jane Yi: "Do you have it on hand?"

Lan Jin stretched out two paws, turned it over and saw that as expected, charcoal dust was also stained on the meat pad.

Jane Yi stopped by and wiped the pads clean for him.

Lan Jin didn't ask about the situation of Fu Rou's family, but Jane Yi took the initiative to mention: "Fu Rou died of a beauty disease."

Hearing this disease, the big cat widened its eyes: "Beauty disease? Why have I never heard of this disease?"

This reaction was almost the same as when she first heard about this disease.

Jane Yi explained to him the habits and dangers of Tao Xinmei, a monster, and Da Mao Mao was taken aback.

"But, everyone has the love of beauty, right? According to this, many people are in danger of being parasitized." Lan Jin thought for a while and added, "Especially girls."

"Mother-in-law Yue Fen said that the desire to become beautiful must be particularly strong, so strong that it is almost pathological, to attract Tao Xinmei. An ordinary love of beauty is not enough to constitute the conditions for being parasitized by Tao Xinmei." Jane Yi recalled the previous togetherThe girl eating was an ordinary middle school student from the outside, what kind of thinking was instilled by the surrounding environment to be parasitized by this monster?

Watching Lan Jin turn over the jerky on the barbed wire one by one, Jane leaned on the big cat's shoulder and said in a low voice, "Speaking of which, I was also a parasitic target of Peach Heart Charm when I was studying."

"How come?" The big cat turned its head in shock: "You are so beautiful!"

Jane Yi: "Hahaha."

Over the years of dating, Jane Yi has heard a lot of sweet words from him, and often feels dizzy, as if she is really good.

Although now when she hears other people's compliments, the inferior side will still step forward to make her feel awkward, but at least she is not as eager to deny it as before.

Words can have a greater impact on a person than imagined.

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