dhibooks Chapter 26 Chapter Family
Chapter 26 Chapter Family
Chen Yao sat for a long time, not sure whether "this night" had passed, but just sat idle, looking back at Xu Xiaoxian, who was soundly asleep, stretched out his hand to tuck the quilt, got up and went out the door.
Xu Xiaoxian's father was sitting on the bank, holding a thin bamboo pole in his hand, as if he was fishing.Chen Yao felt strange, so he walked over and looked into the water with his head. A few little ghosts appeared to pull the string on the bamboo pole, but they didn't take the bait.
"Yao'er."
Chen Yao froze for a moment, then turned his head and saw his "father-in-law" beckoning him to sit beside him, so he walked over and opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to call him.
Father Xu seemed to see what he was thinking, he laughed, and said, "It's okay, I know you're not serious, this kid, Min'er, just loves to mess around too much...it's exactly the same as his mother when she was young."
Chen Yao looked down at the little ghosts in the water, and asked after a while, "Aren't you angry?"
"There's nothing to be angry about. The kid's mother came to me and told me about it, so I knew you weren't serious."
"why?"
Xu's father scratched his head and said with a smile: "Although we haven't been together for a long time, I think he is very similar to his mother, no matter in character or mind, well, I dare say, if he really likes You, he wouldn't admit it even if he was beaten to death... However, I can also see that you should be sincere to him, right?"
Chen Yao didn't answer.
"Let's put it in the past, I might be angry, and it's right to drive you out with a broom, but I've stayed here for a long time, and I've heard too many stories about the Wangchuan River, and I feel that it's nothing, people can't grow In a hundred years, it is not easy to meet someone who treats you sincerely. I am very glad that I have a friend like you." Father Xu shook the bamboo pole in his hand, and shook off a little ghost who had climbed up the string. Glancing at the silent Chen Yao beside him, he asked softly, "What are you going to do in the future?"
Chen Yao looked up at the dim sky, and sighed softly. Although he has gotten closer to Xu Xiaoxian these days, he can still feel that Xu Xiaoxian is keeping a certain distance intentionally or unintentionally. Father Xu's words made him more sure His own emotional hopelessness.
He said: "There is nothing to plan. Back on the ground, I am still the same Mr. Chen, and he is still the same Xu Banxian. There will not be any big changes in the future."
"Can you let go?"
"He doesn't like it." Chen Yao touched his cheek and said with a wry smile, "If I force it, I will suffer."
Father Xu looked at this son-in-law who was "kidnapped" by his own son, and he liked it a little, and asked, "Does Jin'er know?"
He shook his head, that time he did that thing in front of all the ghosts in the Palace of the King of Hell, after getting slapped, until now, Xu Xiaoxian never mentioned it again, let alone asked him for any explanation.
Maybe in Xu Xiaoxian's eyes, he was just fooling around.
In the subsequent fake marriage, no matter whether it was worshiping heaven and earth or drinking a cup of wine, Xu Xiaoxian didn't look at him the whole time, and immediately withdrew after drinking the tea in the cup instead of wine.
He was indeed a little annoyed by such perfunctory and nonsense, but seeing Xu Xiaoxian falling asleep from exhaustion made him unable to bear to wake her up. As a result, he was sulking here, but the other party was sleeping soundly.
Father Xu guessed something when he saw Chen Yao sighing, so he couldn't continue to ask. The two sat by the river for a long time, thinking about their own affairs.
Father Xu: "Go and see Jin'er. It's about time to get up and eat something. There's not much good food here. I'm afraid this kid won't get used to it."
Chen Yao nodded, got up and walked back to the room. Xu Xiaoxian was still sleeping by the wall hugging the quilt. He climbed onto the bed and reached out to grab the quilt, but felt the person under the quilt trembling. He quickly turned him around, but saw Xu Xiaoxian was sweating profusely, and the corners of her lips turned white.
"Xu Xing?" Chen Yao helped Xu Xiaoxian sit up and leaned against him, stretched out his hand to touch his forehead, and grabbed his wrist to check his pulse, but found nothing wrong.
But he couldn't wake Xu Xiaoxian up.
He rolled over Xu Xiaoxian's back, he couldn't help being startled, and when he lifted the quilt and the sheet, a large area was stained with blood.
Father Xu saw that he hadn't come out for a long time, so he knocked on the door, and he hurriedly asked Father Xu to come in and see Xu Xiaoxian.
Father Xu frowned, and said, "How did Pang'er get this injury?"
Chen Yao bit his lips, and told about Xu Xiaoxian's childhood trip to the Palace of the King of Hell to save his own life, and finally said softly, "I'm sorry."
But Xu's father didn't seem to hear, he touched Xu Xiaoxian's forehead solemnly, sighed after a long time, and said: "Take him back to the ground quickly, people who have been punished by the judge's pen cannot stay here."
"Why? His injury is obviously healed?"
"That's an expulsion order. People who have been wiped out of the life and death book cannot stay here, otherwise the wound on their back will fester forever and never heal."
When Mrs. Xu heard that they were going back and saw the injury on Xu Xiaoxian's back, her eyes were wet, but she quickly packed a small bag and asked Chen Yao to take it.
Chen Yao walked slowly across the bridge with Xu Xiaoxian on his back, but he turned around and disappeared from the island. Xu Xiaoxian said something in a daze, but Chen Yao didn't hear clearly, turned around, but saw Zhinu's smoke drifting towards her. It turned out that Hades was looking for them everywhere.
"Finally found you, Hades is about to die of anxiety," Zhinu glanced at Xu Xiaoxian on Chen Yao's back, frowned, took out a red bean-sized pill from her sleeve, stuffed it into Xu Xiaoxian's mouth, and said to Xu Xiaoxian. Chen Yao explained: "This is the hemostatic pill given by the Hades. It can only stop the bleeding temporarily. It can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. You have to go back to the ground quickly."
"How to do?"
Zhinu drew a door in front of him, and just as he was about to go in, the person on his back seemed to be awake and struggling to get down.
Chen Yao turned around and said angrily, "Don't move around! You'll be hurt even more in a while!"
Xu Xiaoxian's voice was weak but firm: "Chen Yao, let me down, I won't go back...I won't go back..."
Chen Yao knew why Xu Xiaoxian didn't want to go back, but he couldn't let Xu Xiaoxian stay here.
"Don't mess around, you will die here!"
"It's ok……"
"It doesn't matter. If you don't go back, what will you do, sir? What about the little goddess?"
"You go back, you tell them I'm fine here..."
"No!" Chen Yao glanced at Zhinu, knowing that the longer he stayed here, the worse it would be for Xu Xiaoxian's injury, so he stopped arguing with him and jumped into the door behind his back.
There was darkness inside the door. He walked for a while, and suddenly a blinding white light came on, and he lost consciousness. When he woke up, he opened his eyes, but he was in a room. Ah Jing, who was guarding the bed, saw him wake up. Pour him a glass of water.
He didn't drink, grabbed Ah Jing's arm and asked, "Where's Xu Zhen?"
Ah Jing shook her head and said, "Only you are back."
"How is it possible? Where is he? I'll go find him!" Chen Yao lifted the quilt, and suddenly felt a gust of cold wind blowing, and shivered suddenly.
It turned out that they had been underground for three months, and it was already the twelfth lunar month on the ground.
But he didn't care, got out of bed and ran out of the room, stepped barefoot on the icy snow, looked up and saw Xu Xiaoxian standing in the yard, supported by Master Taozhuang, Xu Xiaoxian saw him, there was no surprise in his eyes, but It's full of resentment.
"Chen Yao, I hate you."
When Tao Zhuangzhu helped Xu Xiaoxian walk to the room, Xu Xiaoxian threw him such a sentence.
Chen Yao didn't look back, but just stood in the snow dumbly. Ah Jing didn't know what happened to them underground, but hurriedly dragged him back to the house, and poured warm water to thaw his red and swollen feet.
Ah Jing asked softly what happened to them underground, he shook his head.
"A month ago, the land god drove all the little ghosts back underground, and all the people in the city were also released, but they didn't remember what happened before. The son was afraid that his father would be angry, so he moved your body to the ground. Here, this small courtyard was bought by the young master before, and I haven't lived in it for a long time. I have taken care of it in the past few days, but I didn't expect you to come back."
Chen Yao listened, but he was thinking about Xu Xiaoxian's injury, he asked Ah Jing: "How is his injury?"
"It shouldn't matter."
"It doesn't matter what, I think he is going to die soon."
"But he's back, so it doesn't matter, the wound will get better."
Chen Yao looked at the thick snow outside the house, and remembered the decisive words that person passed by him, those eyes, he really hated himself.
He sighed and said, "He probably doesn't want to see me again."
In the next room, the owner of Taozhuang was about to give medicine to Xu Xiaoxian, but Xu Xiaoxian shook his head, refused to take off his clothes, and just asked the owner of Taozhuang to go out.
Taozhuang owner: "Are you going to die?"
"I don't want to come back!"
Master Taozhuang glanced at him and didn't reply. He just put down the medicine jar in his hand, clenched his fist and punched him in the face. It cracked open, and the pain was so great that he couldn't stand up.
Chen Yao and Ah Jing heard the movement and ran in quickly. Seeing that Xu Xiaoxian's expression was not right, Chen Yao quickly helped him up. Xu Xiaoxian didn't want to see Chen Yao and wanted to push him away, but he was seriously injured and couldn't even stand up. Very strenuous.
Ah Jing felt that Tao Zhuang Master was angry, and was afraid that he would lose his temper, so she dragged him out of the room.
Chen Yao helped Xu Xiaoxian to the bed, but Xu Xiaoxian just lowered his head and didn't look at him. He looked at the medicine pots on the table, and he knew the reason why Taozhuang Master was angry. He sat by the bed, raised his hand in the air and stopped , took a look at Xu Xiaoxian, but continued to move forward, brushing Xu Xiaoxian's broken hair behind her ears.
Xu Xiaoxian didn't speak, just lowered his head, but Chen Yao saw that he was holding the quilt tightly with both hands, and suddenly a drop of water fell and hit the quilt.
Chen Yao gently held his hand and said, "I'm sorry."
Xu Xiaoxian ignored him, tears fell on the back of his hand one by one like broken beads.
"Xu Xing, I don't want you to die. I want you to be well. It doesn't matter how much you hate me." Chen Yao raised his hand and gently wiped away the tears hanging from the corners of Xu Xiaoxian's eyes. This time Xu Xiaoxian avoided it and wiped it with the back of his hand Shit, there was still grievance and stubbornness in a pair of big red eyes, Chen Yao continued to coax: "When your injury is healed, I will let you hit me with a bamboo stick to vent your anger, I swear that I will not hide or fight back, Don't tell Mr.
Xu Xiaoxian looked up at Chen Yao and shook his head.
Chen Yao: "What's wrong?"
Xu Xiaoxian still shook his head, just turned around, took off his clothes, and asked Chen Yao to give him medicine.
Seeing that he was willing to heal his wound obediently, Chen Yao breathed a sigh of relief, and didn't care about why he shook his head. He quickly applied medicine to him, bandaged him up, and took another piece of clothes for him to change into.
Chen Yao wanted to help him lie down, but he shook his head again. Chen Yao asked, "What's wrong?"
Xu Xiaoxian blinked her teardrop eyes, looked at Chen Yao seriously, and said, "I'm hungry."
"Okay, you wait first, I'll make it for you," Chen Yao smiled, and still helped him lie down, covered the quilt, and coaxed: "I'll bring it to you when it's done, rest first."
Xu Xiaoxian didn't speak any more, turned his back, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Chen Yao breathed a sigh of relief, tucked in the quilt, and left lightly.
He looked at the blue sky outside the house, let out a long sigh of relief, and finally came back.