HBWnovel Chapter 184 A Fang
Chapter 184 A Fang
The person in charge yelled the most terribly, and those who looked like domestic servants were so frightened that they scrambled and ran away.
Tao Yu sneered, while Fan Hongxi looked calmly at the pile of weeds and bamboo baskets.
After a while, the pile of weeds moved, and the young man carefully opened the bamboo basket covering his head. After confirming that they were all gone, he breathed a sigh of relief, gently placed the bamboo basket on the ground, and lifted the bamboo basket from the weed pile. out.
The boy looked very pitiful, he was very thin, with a lot of yellow weeds stuck in his messy hair, and there were large and small scars all over the arms exposed under the worn-out white clothes.
He didn't seem to be afraid of this weird stone temple. After picking the weeds on his head, he curled up in the corner of the stone temple, closed his eyes and remained motionless, as if he had fallen asleep from exhaustion.
Then, Tao Yu and Fan Hongxi saw Gukui poking out her head quietly from her hiding place, staring at the boy without blinking, her eyes full of curiosity.
After a while, she rolled her dark eyes, revealed a sly smile, and retracted her head again.
At dusk, the boy rubbed his eyes, stretched his waist, and when he opened his eyes, he met a pair of dark eye sockets.
A skull was very close to his face, with empty eye sockets facing him directly.
The boy froze while maintaining the posture with his hands raised, staring at the skull with his eyes wide open, wondering if he was frightened.Gu Kui hid in the hiding place, covered his mouth and smiled secretly, but the boy blinked his eyes, raised his hand and pushed the skull away, slowly got up and patted the dusty clothes.
Tao Yu raised his eyebrows, Fan Hongxi smiled slightly, was secretly looking at the boy's Gukui, and looked at the boy in surprise.
Then they saw the boy walking around in the ancient temple and saw the stone face hidden in the darkness.
The young man was also taken aback by that face, and then bowed to the face of the stone statue with his hands clasped together, muttering in his mouth: "Thank you for your protection, I don't have anything long, and I will definitely bring offerings to you in the future..."
Gu Kui's eyes widened, and the body hidden in the inner hall couldn't help poking out again.
There was another small rustling sound from the stone temple, and something seemed to fly past the broken shoe on the boy's instep.He looked down and found several black beetles running around in the stone temple.
"Oh my god! Bugs!"
The young man screamed, turned around and ran in a panic, and disappeared in the mountain forest at dusk.
Gu Kui froze for a moment, then immediately laughed while clutching his stomach.
The corner of Tao Yu's mouth curled up: "This kid is quite interesting."
Fan Hongxi smiled lightly, looked at Gu Kui who was leaning back and forth with a smile, but felt a little contemplative.
The more lively the young man was, the more sad it would be for that silent and motionless soul.
Tao Yu looked at the face of the stone statue for a while, and muttered with some doubts: "This face looks familiar..."
Fan Hongxi walked up to Tao Yu, looked at the shattered face of the stone statue and asked peacefully, "Could it be some fairy god from Honghuang?"
Tao Yu squatted in front of the stone statue and looked at it for a long time, his eyes swept over the blurred traces of the broken stones on the ground, and suddenly he tapped his palm: "This is the statue of Nuwa!"
Fan Hongxi was thoughtful, and said: "Ten thousand years have passed since the collapse of heaven and earth. This stone temple does not seem to have a history of ten thousand years. The future generations will not be able to carve the appearance of Emperor Wa..."
Tao Yu and Fan Hongxi looked at each other, and said in unison, "Witch Clan!"
Unexpectedly, there was an unexpected harvest, and they began to pay attention to whether there were other clues about the Wu Clan in the nightmare.
Gukui's crisp laughter echoed continuously, and the sky outside the stone temple suddenly changed, and the clouds turned, darkened and brightened, and brightened again in an instant.
Tao Yu and the others turned their heads and saw that Gu Kui, who had been standing in the inner hall smiling, was now sitting in front of the fragments of the stone statue, piece by piece.
It's just that she seemed a little absent-minded, and looked at the gate of the stone temple from time to time.
Unexpectedly, the boy really came.With something in his arms, he hurriedly came from outside.Gu Kui hid again, secretly watching the boy.
The young man was stunned when he saw some stone statues that he had pieced together again, then sullenly took out a steamed bun from his arms and put it in front of the stone statues, knelt down and muttered: "Thank you for your protection, I don't ask much, I just hope to get it." A place for a short rest, may the Great Immortal bless..."
After praying again and again, the young man looked at the broken stones on the ground, and said cautiously: "Is the Immortal trying to put his body back together? I wonder if I need help from the boy?"
As he spoke, he hesitantly stretched out his hand towards the stones on the ground.
Suddenly, there were a few small "click click" sounds from behind him. The boy's hands froze and he turned his head abruptly to see several human skeletons walking crookedly towards him from the darkness.
The boy's first reaction was to breathe a sigh of relief, and then he realized that he turned his head and ran towards the gate of the stone temple.
Gu Kui didn't expect the young man to run away when he was frightened this time, he couldn't help being anxious, and as soon as he shook his hand, many black beetles rushed towards the gate of the stone temple quickly and stopped in front of the young man.
"Oh my god!" The young man screamed, fell backward in fright, turned around and ran back, but unexpectedly bumped into those rickety skeletons head-on again.
The bugs behind him and the skeleton in front of him were still approaching the young man. He looked around in sweat, and immediately decided to rush to the inner hall behind the skeleton.
He closed his eyes and rushed forward, muttering in his mouth, "Forgive me, Daxian, are you an angry kid who made his own claims? Please forgive me, Daxian!"
He knocked away those hard skeletons, then tripped over the threshold of the inner hall, and fell into the mud with a "slap".
The girl's crisp laughter echoed in the inner hall, the boy raised his head while covering his knocked forehead, and saw Gu Kui squatting in front of him, tilting his head to look at him curiously.
The young man was stunned, and subconsciously called out: "Great Immortal?"
Gu Kui asked with a smile: "Others are afraid of bones, why aren't you afraid?"
The boy's eyes widened in surprise: "Did the Great Immortal appear?"
Gu Kui said dissatisfiedly, "I'm not called Daxian, I'm Gu Kui."
Only then did the young man come to his senses. He rubbed his forehead and sat up. Thinking of the strange skeletons just now, he couldn't help asking: "Could it be that you are the bone master in Bone Ridge? It doesn't look like the legend, isn't it that you all It's spooky skinny, living bones..."
The young man's voice was getting lower and lower, Gu Kui didn't hear what he said behind, just nodded, and asked persistently: "You haven't answered my question yet."
The young man lowered his eyes and said lightly: "What's so terrible about bones, isn't it just a dead person, if you want to kill or cut it, you just come. Can it be more terrifying than a living person?"
Gu Kui was a little puzzled, and the boy raised a smiling face again, and said to her: "My name is A Fang, is this your territory? Can you let me come and hide occasionally? I just need a small corner for me to stay in." OK."
Gu Kui looked at the big smile on A Fang's face, she didn't hate this man, so she nodded: "Yes."
From then on, Ah Bian often ran into the stone temple to hide, or slept in a corner with his head depressed, or took the herbs collected from the mountains and grinned to apply medicine to his wounds.If someone came to the stone temple, Gu Kui would frighten them away with more and more complete stone statues and insects, preventing Afang from being found by them.
Tao Yu and Fan Hongxi also knew Afang's identity. He was a servant of a big family in a small village on the edge of Guling. He seemed to be born of a servant who committed a crime, so his status was extremely low.
Afang will also describe the outside world to the curious Gukui, and occasionally bring her some things secretly.One day, Afang took out a small paper bag from his arms, opened it carefully, and revealed two bright red hawthorns.
He handed the hawthorn to Gukui with some reluctance, and said, "This is sweet and sour. It's delicious."
Gu Kui looked down and asked, "What is this?"
A Fang was a little excited, and danced and said: "This is a hawthorn. People outside will string it up to make candied haws. It is to wrap a layer of rock sugar on the outside of the hawthorn. It looks delicious."
When Gu Kui heard this, he couldn't help feeling a little yearning for her.
"It would be great if I could taste it one day..." Afang fell down again as he spoke, and he passed the hawthorn in his hand forward, saying, "Try it quickly, when I grow up , I will leave that village and bring you candied haws to eat.”
Gu Kui picked up a hawthorn and bit it, her eyes lit up immediately, she stuffed the hawthorn into her mouth like a little squirrel, squinting her eyes to savor the sweet and sour taste in her mouth.
In a place as desolate and barren as Bone Ridge, things like fruit are very rare. Bone sunflower grows so big, and I have never eaten such a red fruit.
A Fang swallowed secretly, and asked expectantly and greedily: "Is it delicious? If you like it, you can eat the rest of it too."
Gu Kui nodded happily, just as he picked up the last hawthorn, he met A Fang's eyes that seemed to be shining.
She froze for a moment, tilted her head and thought for a while, then suddenly reached out and stuffed the bright red hawthorn into A Fang's mouth.
A Fang was caught off guard, and stared blankly at Gu Kui with the hawthorn in his mouth.Gu Kui narrowed her eyes and smiled: "You said that good friends should be shared."
"I... I've already eaten it..." Afang said vaguely, he was reluctant to spit out the hawthorn, so he carefully bit off the skin and ate the sweet and sour flesh bit by bit.
As A Fang came again and again, their relationship became closer. One day, they talked about their parents.
Sitting cross-legged on the futon in the inner hall, A Fang looked at the flowing clouds in the sky and said: "Because my mother broke a jade hairpin belonging to the eldest lady, she and my father were demoted as the most inferior servants, and my status Lower than the lowest servant, anyone can come and kick me. My parents left very early. Although I don’t remember much, I still remember the song they used to lull me to sleep. They still love me. "
Gu Kui tilted her head to look at him, and repeated in doubt: "Love?"
A Fang nodded: "That's right, Gu Kui, your parents should be the same."
Gu Kui thought about it, but still couldn't imagine what Afang was talking about.She asked, "What is love?"
A Fang was stunned, scratched his head and said, "I don't really understand either, probably just being nice to a person, making me happy because of him, and sad because of him."
Gu Kui opened her eyes wide, her parents love her, will she be happy and sad because of her?
Just as she was wondering, she heard A Fang start humming a song with a strange tune, full of joy and joy.When Tao Yu and Fan Hongxi heard it, they knew that it was the song that Gu Kui once hummed.
She was immediately attracted to her. A Fang finished humming and said with a smile, "This is the ballad my mother sang, but I don't remember the words at all. Is it good? Do you want me to teach you?"
Gu Kui's eyes lit up, and he nodded emphatically.
As the sun slanted to the west, Afang bid her farewell and disappeared into the dim mountain forest.Gu Kui slowly returned to the bone village, walked to the two skulls that were placed in the bone temple, squatted in the bone temple, and stared at the big black eyes of the two skulls.
After looking at it for a long time, she didn't see why.
The indigo-dyed cloth curtain of the Bone Temple was raised, and the young Guhua walked in and asked, "Why did you come to the Bone Temple all of a sudden?"
Gu Kui looked back at him, opened a pair of big ignorant eyes and asked, "Do my parents love me?"
Gu Hua was startled, leaned over and touched Gu Kui's head, and said softly, "Of course."
That night, she heard a lot about her parents from Guhua and the others, which she had never heard before.
She walked out of the big bone master's bone building, looked at the gloomy sky where the dark clouds were rarely scattered, and a small piece of starlight was revealed, and she couldn't help showing a sweet smile, thinking that her parents really loved her too.
Thinking of this made her heart feel warm and swollen. She liked this feeling.
Tao Yu watched Gukui get into the bone building, then looked around, and said, "The nightmare is beginning to waver, and the time to break it is probably coming soon."
Fan Hongxi quietly looked at the direction where Gukui disappeared, and sighed softly.