Chapter 05
Chapter 05
The roe deer sobbed softly, he missed his father.
Every time Wang Fugui led him up the mountain, he ran happily, until Wang Fugui was panting all over the mountain looking for him.But no matter how far he ran, Wang Fugui could always find him before sunset.
But this time he had been out for so long, why didn't Wang Fugui come to pick him up.
He sobbed softly, drooped his head, and sat at the entrance of the cave looking at the darkness outside. He stretched out his hand to poke it, but was bounced back by the barrier at the entrance of the cave.
Tu You turned over, heard the sobbing from behind, wrapped the brocade quilt tightly around her body, and covered her ears irritably tightly.
"Shut up and stop crying."
The roe deer spirit trembled when he heard the sound, pursed his lips, and shrank in the corner, his shoulders shrugged even more.
Tu You agitatedly got up and walked to Roe Zijing step by step. He grabbed Roe Zijing by the collar and pulled him to the side of Jinghua Shuiyue Pool.
"Okay, don't you miss him, let me show you him."
With a wave of his hand, the originally clear water suddenly shimmered and rippled, and when the ripples receded, a familiar place was reflected, and the roe deer took a step back in shock.
On the barren land, a little bit of dim yellow candlelight shines through the small window in the low thatched hut covered with thousands of layers of paper. Wang Fugui seldom lights candles, and all the candles at home are gone. He was reluctant to leave two.
But at this moment, he lit a candle in the small cramped room, and the candlelight reflected through the window on the thick layer of snow on the window sill, as if to melt the snow.
The roe deer called out in surprise: "Father!"
Wang Fugui wrapped the quilt tightly and coughed heavily, as if he wanted to cough up all his internal organs.
"Father?" The roe deer was stunned for a moment, raised his voice, leaned forward on the edge of the spring, and was about to fall into the water.Tu You pulled him up, frowned and said, "Stop shouting, I can't hear you."
Wang Fugui bent down and vomited, his complexion was sallow, and his lips were chapped without a trace of blood.
After a while, the cough subsided, and Wang Fugui struggled to get up from the bed, holding a candlestick in one hand, and walking out with a crutch in the other. In front of the hall, the patriarch was enshrined. Wang Fugui always went to worship before going to bed, muttering Those words that he didn't understand were babbled.
The roe deer watched him trembling his legs, knelt down with difficulty, and lit a stick of incense by candlelight.
Cigarettes curl.
Wang Fugui coughed twice, turned pale and said, "Master Patriarch, I haven't offered you incense for a long time...cough cough..."
"This incense...I bought it with the money I sold the stupid roe deer. I bought a total of five silver dollars. I bought some rice and some medicine. The medicine is really expensive now...but I bought a bunch of things for five silver dollars. I have a little surplus, and...cough cough...I don't know if I can spend it before I die. By the way...you know that roe deer, when I picked him up, he was just so...so little..."
He stretched out his hand for a gesture, and then slowly lowered his wrinkled hand.
"It's okay... I have developed some feelings, and I don't have a son and a half. If it wasn't for the time being, I would never have sold him."
He paused, and then said: "This incense burns once, and I don't know when it will be next time."
"If no one offers incense to you after I leave, you should be fine. For the sake of incense, bless that stupid roe deer, don't be slaughtered so soon..."
In the empty room, Wang Fugui's voice seemed to be more than ten years old. He silently waited for the incense to burn out before he leaned on crutches again, picked up the candlestick, and walked back to the room with a hunchback.
"Ahem..." A heavy cough sounded, and the candlestick in Wang Fugui's hand suddenly fell to the ground with a blunt sound. The severe cough made him take deep breaths, and his chest heaved more and more obviously. His mouth was wide open, his eyes seemed to be out of focus, and in the end he couldn't support his body even with crutches, and fell to the ground with two staggered steps.
"father!"
There was another ripple in the mirror flower water moon pool, and when the water surface was as smooth as a mirror, the flustered face of the roe deer spirit was clearly reflected.
He leaned forward and didn't see anything. He held Tu You's arm anxiously and asked, "He...what's wrong with him?"
There is only one reason why Jinghua Shuiyuechi illuminates life but not death, and Tu You did not cast a spell, and the phantom disappeared suddenly.
Tu You brushed his hand away, and said flatly, "He's dead."
The roe deer spirit did not speak for a long time.
He was in a daze for a long time, and finally looked up at him blankly, and asked, "Then when will he come to pick me up?"
Tu You waved his hand a little irritably, "Don't you understand? I said he's dead."
The roe deer was stunned, and asked, "Then he can't take me home?"
Tu You didn't say anything, just brushed off the unnecessary dust on the long robe, flicked the sleeves of the robe, turned around and sat on the jade platform.
The roe deer spirit stared at the water surface obsessively, and remained silent for a long time.
Tu You turned back and forth several times, finally got up a little irritable, frowned and threatened him with a low voice.
"Don't cry."
Roe Deer turned his eyes from the Mirror Flower Water Moon Pond to look at him, "I didn't cry."
"It's just a little uncomfortable here..."
He pointed to his heart.
Tu You froze for a moment, but her mood became even worse.
"I'm bored."
With a wave of his hand, the enchantment at the entrance of the cave disappeared, and a strong cold wind blew up, making his clothes flutter and making the roe deer spirit tremble.
Tu You clenched his fists, and the rope that Wang Fugui personally handed to him suddenly appeared in his palm. He stretched out his hand to pull, and the Roe Deer Jing's body shook violently, and then Tu You pulled him out of the cave. Being in the ruined temple before, the roe deer spirit fell to the ground and opened his mouth wide in fright at the sudden change in front of him.
The night wind was like a knife, and the roe deer sneezed. He grabbed a piece of cloth and wiped it. After wiping, he realized that it was the corner of Tu You's clothes.
With a dark face, Tu You kicked him away and cursed: "You stupid roe deer."
The fox said again that he was stupid.
The roe deer pouted vigorously, sat down on the ground, and ignored him with his chest folded.
Tu You tugged at the rope, "Let's go?"
The roe deer asked him vigorously, "Where are you going?"
Tu You said, "Go see your father."
Roe Deer's eyes lit up, and he changed into his original shape without saying a word.
The fox walked back and forth with him, the snow on the top of the mountain seemed to have never melted, the roe deer sniffed here and there, and stopped and walked, not in a hurry.
When he reached the mountain where Wang Fugui was, the vixen turned around and saw a lot of twigs pulled from the snow in his mouth.
Tu You shook his head, sighed, and thought to himself how stupid this roe deer is so ignorant, chaotic, and only knows how to eat.
When we arrived at the site of Wang Fugui's house at the foot of the mountain, we couldn't see the light from a long distance, and the house was dark.
Tu You didn't even knock, and kicked the door open, the roe deer spirit was obviously a little excited, arching here, looking there, Tu You was almost being led forward by him.
In the inner room, a candlestick rolled to Tu You's feet along some sloping steps.
The roe deer spirit opened the door excitedly, and saw Wang Fugui lying on the ground at the door, it was stunned, and arched its head against him with a twig in its mouth, but Wang Fugui didn't move.
The roe deer spirit barked twice, barking like a dog but not barking, short and crisp, and the twig in its mouth fell to the ground.
The snow reflected the whiteness of the night, and the roe deer spirit licked his face, tasted his cold body temperature, and the taste of death.
Tu You stood at the door and said, "You have to bury him."
The roe deer spirit rubbed Wang Fugui's face, lay on his shoulder, and sniffed his unique smell.
"Can't I take him away?"
Tu You said, "I can't."
"Humans like to be buried in the ground," he said.
The roe deer spirit said "Oh", and then ran outside the house to dig the soil overnight. Tu You said that this was Wang Fugui's new home.
The cold body was put down, and the lips were already black and purple.
Tu You said, "Fill it in."
"Wait a minute..." Roe Deer turned around and ran into the inner room, came out with something in his mouth, and put it in Wang Fugui's arms.
Tu You saw that it was a handful of twigs.
Roe Deer rubbed against him reluctantly, and called softly, "Father."
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