Chapter 14 Chapter 6: The River of Mist and Dew
Apparently it had been raining recently, and the road by the Wulu River was very rough and muddy. It took two hours to walk the short three-mile road, and it was completely dark when we arrived at the small bamboo building.
Mi Danyi kept crying along the way, her small voice echoing in the mountains, she seemed lonely and helpless.When Yuan Chonglou carried her off the horse, she hugged his neck tightly with her hands and wept a lot on his collar.
Su Wei walked into the small building made of bamboo, and found that the place could be described as "a house with bare walls", except for the hanging bamboo hat and coir raincoat, a fishing rod, and half a pot of cold rice left over from yesterday on the stove, There is nothing left.The only thing that is abundant is all kinds of flowers, colorful and brilliant, placed from the window sill to the ground, as if this small bamboo building is a garden of hundreds of flowers.
It seems that this little girl collects flowers to make garlands and sells them to subsidize her family, right?
Yuan Zhonglou put Mi Danyi on the bamboo bed, looked around the room, then took the fishing rod from the wall without a sound, took the bamboo hat, and hurried out.Su Wei called him from behind, but he didn't answer, just turned around and disappeared on the vast mountain road.
In the small bamboo building, there were only two women left in an instant.
Mi Danyi's eyes were already swollen from crying, and her voice became quieter. It was obvious that the shocking change in the afternoon had exhausted the eight or nine-year-old child physically and mentally.She hugged her knees and huddled in the corner of the bamboo bed, her body curled up into a small ball, like a helpless orphan who didn't know what to do.
Su Wei sighed, and suddenly thought of herself after losing her master.Her eyes turned red, and she couldn't help walking over to hold the child in her arms, comforting her in a low voice.
After an unknown amount of time, she heard a gurgling sound, and she didn't know whether it came from Mi Danyi or her own stomach.She blushed a little, and suddenly remembered that they hadn't had dinner yet, so she quickly stood up and went to check in front of the stove—but there was nothing in the pot except for the half pot of cold rice left over from yesterday.
She looked around the empty room and found that there was nothing to eat except the Kalavinka.The beautiful bird was singing softly, but when it saw her gaze, it couldn't help but stop singing, and jumped to the corner of the cage.
"Hmph." Su Wei was annoyed, "Stop yelling! I'll eat you up again!"
After sitting for a while, Yuan Chonglou still did not come back.Su Wei thought about it, and felt that it would be better to warm up the rice to fill her stomach first, so she sat in front of the stove and pulled out a handful of dry wood from the firewood pile beside her, preparing to light a fire.
A quarter of an hour later, Mi Danyi's exclamation resounded through the bamboo building.
"What are you doing!" The man who hurried back in the dark exclaimed, rushed to the stove, pulled back the woman who was beating the flames, and pushed her out the door, "Damn it, don't lean on the woodpile!" ! Are you crazy? Get out of the room!"
Mi Danyi huddled in the corner of the wall, looking at the woman whose clothes were already on fire, as if she had recovered from her distraught state, jumped out of the bed barefoot and rushed to the door, scooped up a ladle of water from the large water tank on the porch, Then he splashed it on Su Wei's head.
When cold water meets scorching fire, both are annihilated in an instant.
Su Wei finally took a breath and stood in a daze on the porch.
The little girl was holding a large water ladle, staring blankly at her smoldering face at the door, and suddenly burst out laughing.Yuan Chonglou also breathed a sigh of relief, and stood under the eaves and looked at her coldly, with complicated eyes, as if he hated iron but steel.
"You said that you didn't know the sufferings of the world since you were a child, and you still don't accept it? What do you think you can do?" He said coldly, turned back into the room, put the things in his hand on the stove, and looked at the burning pot. The rice was charred and carbonized, and he shook his head, "What a waste of food."
"..." Su Wei was ashamed and angry, unable to refute, she stamped her feet, and suddenly wanted to cry.
——After leaving Luoyang, he wandered alone for thousands of miles, avoiding pursuit with injuries, not knowing where he would fall and where he would die.Along the way, she never showed any weakness again, because she knew that even crying would be of no use.But I don't know why, at this moment, just being said so softly, but it brought up all kinds of things buried in my heart.Those pressures and pains rushed to her heart for a while, and the feeling of being alone, powerless and abandoned came back again, overwhelming her.
"I know I'm useless," she choked up, "I can't do anything except with a sword—my skills are useless for anything but killing people... But if I don't have this kind of ability, I can't do anything." No one is willing to ask me... Yun Ting will not talk to me either."
She suddenly burst into tears: "But I really hate myself for being like this!"
Yuan Zhonglou looked at her, and seemed to be startled for a moment, not knowing what to say.
"Huh?" Mi Danyi was also stunned when she saw the crystal tears rolling down her eyes.
Why is this Han sister crying?Is it burnt, does it hurt?
The little girl dragged her into the room, placed her on the bamboo bed, and then rummaged through the large flowers and plants by herself, came back with a bunch of green grass and sat beside her, chewing the grass leaves in her mouth Broken, she stood on tiptoe and applied the grass juice on her bare and red skin.
A cooling sensation permeates the skin, instantly relieving the burning pain of the burn.
Su Wei huddled in the corner of the bed, feeling the pain of being homeless for many days suddenly burst out, and her whole body trembled from crying.
"As for crying like this?" After a long time, Yuan Chonglou's voice rang in his ears, "Just because of the half pot of burnt rice?"
The aroma of the food came to my face, filling the whole bamboo building.
The small table made of bamboo is full of dishes. The staple food is rice and curry mixed with fish sauce. Wild vegetables and corn are fried into a plate. In addition, there is fish powder soup made of rice noodles and fish soup, coconut and chicken curry. Noodles made of coconut milk.There is also a chicken wrapped in banana leaves, the outer skin is roasted to a golden brown, and the oil will flow out when you peel it off.
"Wow!" After all, she was a child, Mi Danyi opened her eyes wide and blurted out in surprise.
"Don't cry," Yuan Zhonglou glanced at her and said two words briefly, "Eat."
He picked up the pot with his right hand, ready to take out the fried curry rice in it - but his injured hand obviously didn't have enough strength, when he picked up the pot, he suddenly shook, and the heavy pot fell down with the rice go down.
In the next moment, Su Wei rushed over as if the wind was flying fast.
"Look, those abilities of yours are still a little bit good." Seeing Su Wei holding the pot carefully, Yuan Zhonglou smiled on his pale face, "Let's eat."
"Oh," she picked up the bamboo chopsticks, wiped away her tears, and couldn't help mumbling when she saw the dazzling array of food, "You...you are so amazing."
"The fish was caught just now, and the chicken and curry were bought from the village below." Yuan Zhonglou said, while serving the rice to the two women, "I have lived in Myanmar for a long time, and I am very familiar with it. But I don't know Are you used to this kind of food—today, after all, you have to accommodate Mi Danyi's taste first."
She picked up the bowl and took a mouthful honestly, the smell of sticky curry was pungent, so spicy that she sneezed, then she quickly turned her head away and started to sneeze violently one after another.
"Ah?" Mi Dan looked at her in surprise, and grabbed her skirt, "Mom? Mom?"
Hearing this address, Su Wei was so taken aback that she even forgot to sneeze.
"It's okay, don't be nervous." Yuan Zhonglou said lightly, "The Burmese call women 'ma', which means 'sister' or 'auntie'; when they call children, they call them 'mi', which means 'good boy'. "While speaking, he raised his hand and touched Mi Danyi's head: "Is it? Mi Danyi?"
The little girl's face was still full of tears, and she ate the rice ball with her hands without using the bamboo chopsticks, obviously she was very hungry.
Seeing the curry and rice grains sticking to her face, Su Wei couldn't help but lighten up her worries and sorrows, and couldn't help laughing—yes, even if these hands are useless, what's the point?She can't draw a sword, but she still has a lively and rich life, and no one can stop her from wandering around the world and traveling great rivers and mountains.
At most, he would never return to Luoyang, never enter that arena again.
Never see... that person again.
However, as soon as she thought about the person in Tingxue Tower, her eyes dimmed.
"Eat," Yuan Zhonglou said lightly, putting a fish in her bowl, "I didn't put curry on this fish, it was stuffed with herbs, you should be able to eat it. It's just that there are too many thorns to eat." Be careful."
Su Wei's heart warmed, she lowered her head and continued to eat.
After eating, the night was already very deep, and everything around was completely silent, except for the occasional roar of ferocious beasts in the deep mountains.
"Kalampinga, you can sleep with Mi Danyi tonight, I'll go find a place outside." Yuan Zhonglou cleaned up the dishes and ordered, "When I send this little girl to the dormitory tomorrow and get the pension money, We will continue on our way to Muncie, and it is estimated that we will arrive at dusk—your poison will not be delayed."
"Manxi?" Mi Danyi couldn't understand their Chinese, but when she heard the place name, she became nervous, grabbed Su Wei's sleeve, and shook her head desperately, "No, no!"
"It's okay, we will be careful, Mi Danyi." Yuan Zhonglou comforted her, but the little girl was still uneasy.
Su Wei's heart skipped a beat, and she guessed that Manxi must be a dangerous place. The glazed flower blooms in a damp place where green silkworms gather, so it may not be so easy to get it.
"Go to bed early." However, Yuan Zhonglou had already packed his bed and went out.
"Where do you sleep? It might rain again at night." Su Wei frowned, looked at his pale and lonely hand, and couldn't help saying, "You know, the wound on your hand can't be exposed to the rain! ——If you get wet , I'm afraid the whole meridian will ache."
"It's okay, I'm not such a pampered person." Yuan Zhonglou said indifferently, "We can't let women sleep outside."
He took off a roll of linoleum from the horse's back, and was about to go out. Su Wei looked at his back, and suddenly her heart trembled. She couldn't help but rushed forward and grabbed him: "Don't go !"
He stopped and looked at her in surprise, but the look in his eyes was complicated.
Su Wei stared at his hand, and suddenly tears fell from her eyes and hit the back of his hand.She seemed to muster up great courage, and sobbed in a low voice: "You...you fool! Why are you being so nice to me? Your hands were made like this...you don't know when, when I……"
"I know." Yuan Zhonglou suddenly laughed, as if he knew what she was going to say next.
Su Wei was taken aback, looked up in astonishment, and found that his eyes suddenly became clear and sharp, like lightning.
She suddenly felt a cold chill.
"Yes, I knew it from the beginning." He smiled slightly, looking at the deep knife mark on his right hand, "From the first sentence you said, I recognized your Voice. I know you are who you were five years ago."
His voice was soft and cold, as if a river of mist and dew flowed quietly in the night.
But she staggered back in such a voice, looking at him in disbelief.
"Perhaps you don't know, I passed by Zhuba that day, and I just wanted to go to Qiluo Town to meet my lover - she is the eldest lady of the Yin family, and the most famous beauty in a hundred miles around." Yuan Zhonglou smiled, his face There were still pale and decayed marks left by years of alcoholism on the face, faintly, "But after that day, I never saw her again-because I lost my hand and the skills I depended on for a living, and I will never see her again." Being needed by the Yin family also lost the opportunity to get close to her."
Su Wei retreated to the window, staring at him fixedly, her hands trembling.
"How can I forget you? Although there is only a short side, even if I die, I will remember the appearance of the two of you and every word and every word you said!" His voice was calm and cold. The sentence is as sharp as a carving knife, "I often think, why did this kind of disaster happen to me? I am just a jade craftsman in Tengchong, and jade is my life-but, after that day, I became A useless person. And the ridiculous thing is that there is no reason for this sudden destruction, just because I passed by there and saw something I shouldn't see."
"Yes, I'm sorry..." She murmured, covering her face, "I'm sorry!"
Yes, that feeling came again... That sense of guilt that was difficult to get rid of after the killing surrounded her again, suffocating her, wishing she could drink away her sorrow every night and let herself be temporarily relieved.
"Kalambinga, it was the two of you who destroyed my life," Yuan Zhonglou said calmly, but his voice was always restrained, "I had many opportunities to take revenge on you for my hand, but I didn't; even I just wanted to Leaving you alone, I can watch you die in front of my eyes like this - but I didn't either."
He looked at her hands covering her face - those hands had turned blue.
Like the best emeralds.
He looked at the crying man, sighed, and softened his tone: "Because I remember the only sentence you said—'Don't kill him!'—When the knife fell, you blocked your companion's hand .It is because of your obstruction that the knife did not cut me in half."
"After all, you saved me. Although in the next five years, I wish I could die on that day day and night."
"I think you should be a kind person... although I don't understand why you killed people like nothing at that time." Yuan Zhonglou held on to the door frame, looking at the huge mountains and the quiet Wulu River in the dark night, with a calm voice: "But I know the pain of losing your hands, so I don't want to watch you lose your own hands... Don't worry, I won't hurt you. When we find Liulihua, we will part ways and treat ourselves as strangers."
Su Wei listened in a daze, tears rolling down her cheeks one after another.
"Good night, Kalavinka." He glanced back at her, smiled slightly, and walked into the night.
The night in the deep mountains is so quiet that the sound of rain on the bamboo shed in the middle of the night makes it difficult to sleep.Su Wei tossed and turned on the bamboo bed and couldn't fall asleep. The chase five years ago was vivid in her memory.
The sound of the rain was like a drum, and the heavy hammer was fast, as if that was a hasty chase.
If it wasn't for her being soft-handed temporarily, she wouldn't have been escaped by that person several times, causing the chase to extend thousands of miles away.After the ambush by Luoshui, she met Yunting, held his outstretched hand, and accepted his invitation to join Tingxuelou—following that, was the first chase in her life. Killing heartbeat.
From Luoyang to southern Yunnan, the two of them ran hand in hand, closely chasing the leader of the Heavenly Dao League.That person ran desperately, crossing mountains and ridges as if crazy, just trying to get rid of the sword that followed him like a shadow; but Yun Ting led her to chase after him persistently, day and night, deciding that this time no matter what, the leader of the Tiandao League must be set up. Under the knife.
When she arrived in Tengchong, she was too tired to know where to go.
When the hunters almost collapsed, they finally caught up with the prey.
As if he had been driven to the brink of collapse by the month-long pursuit of maggots attached to bones, the leader of the Heavenly Dao League was ragged, physically and mentally haggard, and suffered more than a dozen injuries all over his body. When he appeared in the sight of the two of them for the second time, At that moment, the desperate and hateful eyes of a trapped animal made her heart tremble suddenly.
The man was resting in a pavilion by the side of the road. He seemed to be extremely tired. When he saw the two of them chasing after him, he wanted to get up from the chair, but his body couldn't control himself, and he staggered. Roll down the steps.
She hesitated for a moment, wondering if she should step forward and take the opportunity to make a move.
——An opponent in such a state is simply vulnerable to a blow from Xue Wei.
However, at the moment when she hesitated slightly, Yun Ting did not hesitate to strike.
Chasing and killing for thousands of miles, traveling day and night, Yun Ting's tense nerves are exhausted to the extreme, but he has a strong control, but he doesn't show it at all. Thousands of miles away, he is still dressed in white clothes like snow, spotless—— Only the murderous aura that erupted at the moment of drawing the knife showed that the irritability and anger accumulated in his heart were on the verge of bursting.
The leader of Tiandao barely avoided the knife, but the sword in his hand was cut off by the knife.
Facing the double robbery of Xiying Xuewei, he probably already knew in his heart that he was doomed this time, so Mei Jinghao threw away his weapon and staggered westward along the road as if crazy—but within three feet, the Xiying knife had already brought With a faint blue color, it approached the back of his neck like a ghost, and scratched it quietly.
The knife mercilessly caught up with the back of the prey's neck.However, at the last moment, the leader of the Heavenly Dao League suddenly laughed wildly, and cursed sharply: "Xiao Yunting, do you think that killing me, Mei Jinghao, will end everything? ——No...no! Listen: Gentleman's Ze, five If you kill the world, Tingxuelou will perish in your hands!"
The blade cut off the head, but what is shocking is that after the head was cut off, he still opened and closed his lips and uttered the last sentence: "I will watch from the sky! Hahaha... I will watch from the sky Go!"
The moment the blood splattered, Su Wei couldn't help screaming.
However, there was another person who exclaimed with her.
The two of them were taken aback. They raised their heads together and looked not far away - a young man passing by was carrying a bag and was standing on the road in a daze, watching the bloody scene dumbfounded.A few drops of blood splattered on his gentle and handsome cheeks. Looking at the murder scene, fear welled up in his eyes. He was stunned for a moment, then turned around and fled exclaiming: "Killer! Killer!"
eyewitness.
"Not good." Xiao Yunting let out a low cry, before he had time to deal with the head in his hand, he immediately chased after him and chopped it off with a single blow.
The passer-by didn't know martial arts at all, and when the saber qi came, he couldn't move his whole body. He just watched the saber fall, subconsciously raised his right arm to block in front of him, and closed his eyes to suffer death.
"No!" At the moment Xiying Dao slashed, she finally came to her senses and rushed forward, "Don't kill him!"
With a sound of "ding", sparks and blood splashed together.
At the critical moment, she blocked the Xiying knife with the Xuewei grid, and Xiao Yunting's knife was shaken away, leaving only a deep bone mark on the man's hand.She looked at the man who fell to the ground screaming, and understood that this arm would be crippled with the knife, and she couldn't help but angrily scolded: "Are you crazy? Even killing irrelevant passers-by?"
"You can't keep alive." Xiao Yunting held the knife, breathing calmly, obviously the killing intent accumulated for many days was still circling in his chest, and it was not calmed by the knife just now, and it was about to erupt anytime and anywhere, "This person saw us Killing people, and also knowing the identity of the leader of the Heavenly Dao League—if it is leaked out, Tingxuelou's plan to clean up the rivers and lakes will be disrupted."
"Nonsense!" she snapped, "What kind of world does he know? Don't kill people randomly!"
During the short interval between their conversations, the young man didn't run away immediately, but just dragged his injured hand and lay down on the ground, hurriedly picking up the scattered things, his face was pale and frightened.
"Don't go yet!" She looked back at the young man who was crying out in pain with his arms folded, and saw some jade articles scattered in the bag, thinking that maybe it was someone who was in the jade business nearby, who was desperate for money, and couldn't help but Urging: "Go! Just pretend you haven't seen anything, you know?"
The man seemed to be in so much pain that he couldn't speak, he staggered to his feet while covering his right arm, raised his eyes and looked at them, half of his body was bleeding.The hatred in that look made Xiao Yunting's heart tremble suddenly.
"You can't stay!" He said coldly, and chased after him again without hesitation.
"Don't kill him!"
...
The dense rain hit the ceiling like a thrilling drumbeat.
Many years later, Su Wei raised her hands to cover her face in a hut in a deep mountain forest, trembling slightly all over her body.
That day, when she was young and ignorant, she first came out of the rivers and lakes, and felt that those fights were so fresh and exciting. It is to shatter the happiness of an innocent person's life.
Going round and round, the mountain does not turn and the water turns, many years later, the people at the two ends of the world unexpectedly meet each other again.
She sat up in the dark night, leaning against the bamboo wall, listening to the dense rain outside, in a daze.Beside her, Mi Danyi had already fallen into a deep sleep, her small arms wrapped around her waist, and her tear-stained face was pressed against her bosom, thinking that she was still immersed in the moment when her father died in her sleep.
For these ordinary people far away from swords and swords, the coming of disaster is just a moment, but the pain left behind is a lifetime.
Su Wei lowered her head, watching herself gradually turning into pale green hands, her whole body gradually trembling.
Ever since she held Xuewei in her hand, and since that sudden encounter by Luoshui, she accepted his invitation and joined Tingxuelou to gallop side by side with him—however, in the past five years, the blood flowing out of her hands How many sins are contained in the blood?
In the heavy rain in the empty mountain, she looked up at the roof in the dark, and the sound of the dense rain was like the beating of a golden drum.
This is retribution... retribution.
In the dark night, he heard the footsteps approaching gently and stopped beside him.
The woman's unique fragrance lingers around her, as if that person has come back. In the dark rainy night, she passed through the empty mountains and dense forests, and came to his side. She just sat by her side, bent over and looked at him quietly— —He didn't move, and didn't open his eyes, for fear that everything was an illusion.
After a long time, she bent down slightly, and the end of her long hair brushed against his cheek, which was cold and soft.
Something hot dripped on his forehead.He subconsciously stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to catch the fleeting shadow in the dream, but the moment he stretched out his hand, she disappeared from the dense rain like a breeze.
"Chunyu! Chunyu!" He woke up suddenly.
He opened his eyes in the plantain grove outside the house, and the clouds were still over his head.The sky seemed to be leaking, and it kept raining.However, he was dry.On a moonless night, he opened his eyes, only to see that crimson dress flashing and disappearing in the boundless mountains, like a red butterfly flying into the jungle, and then disappeared.
He woke up from the dream, opened his eyes silently and looked at it, but didn't chase after it.
It turned out to be her... Has she left?Manxi is close at hand and Liulihua is within reach, why did she abandon them at night and leave suddenly?Could it be that she is afraid of hurting herself to go ahead...
He lowered his head and saw that he had been covered with a coir raincoat at some point.
At that moment, he frowned, silently reached into his arms, and held the newly engraved statue of Avalokitesvara, his disabled right hand trembling slightly—the Avalokitesvara, half of which was peaceful and kind, but half of which was blood-stained.
He stared at the Guanyin statue for a long time, then suddenly sighed softly from his chest, turned around and went back to sleep.
When she woke up again, it was still dark, and Mi Danyi's crying came from the hut.
"Ma! Ma!" When he rushed to the bamboo building, he saw the little girl crying alone on the empty bed, lying on the window with her hands open, looking at the depths of the rainy mountains.Everything in the room remained the same, except that Su Wei had disappeared—the white Kalavinka also disappeared quietly in the night with her.
The birdcage has been opened, and the inside is empty, only the beautiful singing echoes in the empty mountain shrouded in rain.
Shi Zhisuo listens to the golden cage, which is not as good as the free singing in the forest.
Is this girl so unreasonable in her actions?
He stood there, frowning slightly.
"Mi Danyi, don't cry." After a long time, as if he had made up his mind, he leaned over to comfort the child in Burmese, "Today I will send you to the dormitory to get the pension money, and then I will go to my sister."
This mine called Mengkang is one of the most famous jade mining spots on the Wulu River, and is famous for its water stones.Although the mine is not big, hundreds of tons of rough stones are excavated from the river every year, and the water color is first-class.However, the Burmese had simple tools and could not carry out fine processing, so the unearthed rough stones were simply untied locally and transported to Tengchong by horse teams.
Although the water stones dug out of the river are much better than those mined from the mountains, the risk of digging around the river is also very high, especially during the rainy season, and dam failures and deaths often occur.
Just like yesterday, sixty or seventy people were swept away by the river at once.
I heard that the aftermath will be dealt with today, and the dormitory was already densely packed with people early in the morning.Most of those who came with their families to ask for the last wages and pension money were local Burmese. Although they were all deeply grieved, they did not dare to cry in the face of the supervisors and mine owners despite all the grief.
——Because in this place where the emperor is far away from the high mountain, the mine owner is bigger than the sky.
According to the usual practice, the foreman asked the workers whether they wanted silver or gambling stones—if they wanted silver, it would be calculated as one hundred taels per person, and it was irrelevant to take the money and leave; Pick one of the stones out, as for whether you pick a worthless thing or a priceless treasure, it depends entirely on your personal vision and luck.
Most of the family members of those laborers are ignorant people, and their families are poor. How dare they use the money exchanged for their lives to gamble with stones? After getting the money, he resigned to his fate and left.
Wu Wenlin was caught in the aftermath crowd, and saw Mi Danyi right away.
"Mi Danyi, come quickly," he took the little girl's hand, intending to lead her to the front of the long line, "Come, come, don't line up there—come quickly with Uncle Wu to get the money."
Unexpectedly, the little girl stood still and said crisply: "No, uncle, I want to bet on stones."
Wu Wenlin was taken aback, and hurriedly lowered his voice: "Children, what do you know about gambling with stones! Don't take your father's hard-earned money to play, quickly take a hundred taels of silver, go back and live a good life."
"No," Mi Danyi was stubborn, "Uncle said, I want to gamble with stones."
"Uncle?" Wu Wenlin was surprised again. When he looked up, he saw a tall and thin young man standing behind the chaotic crowd with his hands behind his back, looking down at the pile of newly opened mines with cold eyes. Stone, expressionless.
He suddenly understood, and his eyes were full of excitement.
"Foreman, someone wants to gamble with stones!" Wu Wenlin said loudly, "Mi Dan wants to gamble with stones!"
"You still dare to play stone gambling at such a young age? Aren't you afraid to lose all your father's hard work money?" The foreman is also a Han, walking over with a bag of hookah in his mouth, glanced at the little girl, and sneered, "But Life and death are fate, wealth and honor are in the sky. Then follow the old rules! Danyi, you can choose a piece outside, as long as you can move it, take it!"
"Don't fool the children. None of the stones outside the pile are good," a voice suddenly sounded faintly, "either there are long cracks or dark moss, and you can't even open a bracelet—Foreman Qian, put Take out all the stones in the field, and don’t tell me that this year’s Mengkang Mine only produced this pile of shitty materials.”
"Who is so loud? You want to die! This is Mr. Yin's territory!" Foreman Qian was taken aback suddenly, and when he looked back at the person, the cigarette pouch in his mouth almost fell——
"Master Yuan...Master Yuan?!"
Yuan Chonglou nodded slightly, walked over to approach the other party, flipped his wrist, and quickly showed something.At a glance, Foreman Qian's expression suddenly became very strange. He must have looked at this crippled craftsman, and he couldn't even speak fluently.
"Do as I say." Yuan Zhonglou lowered his voice, "Immediately!"
"Yes Yes!"
According to Yuan Chonglou, Manxi is only twenty miles away from Mengkang.However, she went on the road alone before dawn, but she walked for a whole day before arriving.The mountain road became steeper and steeper, and there were more forks in the road. By the time Su Wei made several turns along the muddy road and rushed there, the sky had already darkened again.
The rain was still falling, and although she was wearing a bamboo hat, her whole body was still soaked.In the darkness, she only heard the sound of gurgling water in the deep valley below her feet, but she couldn't see what was going on in the river, whether there were green silkworms and glazed flowers.
Let's wait until dawn.
Thinking wearily, she found a sunken rock in the dark, found a dry place and sat down, leaning her wet body against the rock wall, and closed her eyes.
cold.wet and cold.The rain-wet clothes stuck to the body layer by layer, like snakes wrapped around the body, making it impossible to breathe.She wanted to mobilize her inner breath to resist, but when she thought about the spreading poison, she could only give up in a slump. She just folded her arms and sat against the rock wall tremblingly, waiting for the dawn.
How are Yuan Zhonglou and Mi Danyi doing now?They can't see themselves at dawn, will they chase after them?He should still go to the dormitory to deal with Mi Danyi's matter first, right?I hope I don't come here so soon... Such a guy, coming to such a dangerous place as Manxi is just looking for death in vain, she might as well come by herself.
Fatigue and sleepiness made it hard for her to keep her eyes open.
However, at that moment, a wonderful illusion suddenly appeared in her blurred vision.
In the dark mountain, strange lights seemed to light up suddenly—one after another, they floated up in the void, densely packed together, as if countless pairs of strange eyes opened together, without blinking. Blinking at her.
This... what is this?Su Wei was taken aback and sat up suddenly.
Those eyes floated in the gurgling water, but they didn't go with the water. They just moved slowly in the darkness, making strange tsk-tsk sounds, as if countless tiny animals were crawling and wriggling.
That kind of voice is creepy.
Su Wei tried to get out of the cave, approached the group of swimming eyes, and stepped into the gurgling water, but as soon as she stepped in, those clusters of emerald green suddenly scattered in all directions, like fireworks and meteors.Bi Se exited a circle, surrounded her, and remained motionless.
So... what the hell is it?
She suddenly felt startled, and subconsciously touched a dagger in her arms.
At that moment, she found that the cold water under her feet fluctuated abnormally, as if some huge animal was diving towards her at the bottom of the water - taking advantage of the miserable green light, she vaguely saw the water surface There is a huge snake-like thing vaguely underneath, its back is covered with red scales, and it is wrapping around his legs.
She uttered a cry of surprise, kicked her feet up, and wanted to leave the water——
However, at the moment when her body was in the air, those blue eyes opened together, rushing forward.She had nowhere to hide, and the icy fireworks instantly overwhelmed her!
no no!
She didn't have time to think about it before her eyes went dark, and she fell straight into the icy water.
The moment she entered the water, she opened her eyes wide, and saw a strange scene—on the cliffs on both sides of the valley, there was a strange green flower blooming. Those flowers had no leaves, and they were clustered in three clusters. , emitting a slight phosphorescence in the dark, crystal clear, as if made of colored glass.
Is that... a glass flower?
She fell into the water, looking at the turbulent green above her head.
It turned out that those were a kind of green silkworm.They were prodigiously numerous, floating lightly on the dark water, glowing green throughout.She stepped into their forbidden area and disturbed the mating silkworms.The green silkworms gathered together, spit out white silk from their mouths, quickly entangled the person who fell into the water, and wrapped them into a huge gray-white cocoon.
Under the water full of green silkworms, there is still a group of huge snakes swimming.
Everything was so weird that she felt like she had fallen into a strange nightmare.
Dreams are messy and disorderly.
Sometimes I dream of my childhood, without parents, alone.If it hadn't been adopted by the little master passing by, it would probably have become a cash cow for those families in Yangzhou who specialize in raising so-called "skinny horses".Later, the master also came.The master with the wooden mask taught her more things, such as swords and hidden weapons, such as poetry, song and rhythm.
Unfortunately, one day, they suddenly never saw each other again.
Sometimes I dream of that Jianghu dream, with blood splattering, glory and crime at the same time.
On the edge of the surging Luoshui River, among the corpses all over the ground, the young man in white stood up, pressed his hand on Xiying, and stretched out his hand to her with a smile: "Come with me."——Yes, he is calling her to walk, Xiying was also calling for Xuewei to gather together, and he extended his hand to her to invite her to walk into the rivers and lakes dream that he had longed for since childhood.
She held his hand full of joy, thinking that she had formed a covenant for this life, like another legend.
However... what happened next?
The swords and swords fell alternately, striking each other, bursting out brilliant and fierce fire.She rushed away almost recklessly, parried Xiyingdao with a sword: "No! Don't kill him!"
At that moment, she woke up screaming from the nightmare, sat up, clutched her chest and panted.
What's going on... I actually sat on the rock on the shore?The water is calm, there are no green silkworms or giant snakes, and there are no blue flowers in full bloom on the cliff.
Was everything last night really a nightmare?
It was getting a little brighter.She woke up in the deserted mountains, looking around in panic and confusion.
The rain that lasted for several days had stopped at some point, but the scene in front of her was unforgettable for the rest of her life.
After a night of rain, the water level of the Wulu River rose so high that it almost overflowed the muddy mountain path she was leaning on.The sound of water is murmuring, and the humidity is permeating.然而，那种水气竟然彷佛一匹匹白色的纱帐一样从河面上升起，摇曳着飘向青灰色的天空。
整条河上浮动着雾气，彷佛空山之间流动着一条虚无缥缈的银河。
苏薇看得怔住，陡然明白了“雾露河”三个字的由来。
忽然间，她居然听到了笛声。
有人在空山里吹笛，宛如天籁。有一个人，居然凭空坐在河面漂浮的雾气里，影影绰绰，横笛而吹——他吹的是，曲声缥缈回环，随着山风遍布山野，彷佛不沾染半分凡尘。然而奇怪的是，虽然是那样飘然出尘的曲子，仔细听起来，内底里却始终藏着一丝邪异，彷佛昨晚那冷冷不动声色的蛇的眼睛。
恶魔吹着笛子来。
那一瞬，浮现在她心头的居然是那么一句话。
苏薇握紧了手，不自禁地走向那个幻影，彷佛想看到那个人的真面目。然而无论她走得快或者慢，他却彷佛风一样的退去，始终保持着距离，藏身在一团云雾里。
“你……你是谁？”苏薇站住了脚，失声，“昨天是你救了我么？”
The flute stopped.
雾气里，似乎听到那人隐隐约约笑了一笑，放下了笛子。他挥了挥手，身侧的云雾便忽然散开了——那个时候苏薇才发现那一团笼罩着他的并不是雾气，而是一群白色的蝶。那些蝶不知从何而来，居然紧紧地追随着他左右，彷佛一片白色的云。
难道……是昨夜那一群碧色的蚕破茧而成？
不等她想出一个头绪来，那个白衣人在布满雾气的河面上凌波步来，等到靠近她三丈开外时，他微微挥了挥手，那一片笼罩着的云就化蝶簌簌四散。
那一刹，苏薇震惊地看着他，手里的匕首不自觉地松开了。
“灵均！”她脱口而出，看着那个走来的人。
——不错，这个人，就是昔日在高黎贡火山里出现过的白衣人！
黎明升腾着雾气的河面上，穿着白袍的人凌波而来，衣带翻飞，宛如神仙中人。然而，他的脸上却带着一个精美的木雕面具，表情刻板而森冷，眼睛藏在深黑色的阴影里，一直望着她，似乎是不作声地微微笑了笑，对她伸出了一只手。
黎明的光影中，她清楚地看到他的手心里，忽然间凭空开出了一朵碧色的花！
“琉璃花？”她低声不可思议地喃喃。
他的袖子微微一拂，那朵花忽然就飘到了她的手上。那花似乎是冰雪做成，一遇到她惨绿色的皮肤，瞬间化为一滩的水渗入了她的十指之间，彷佛露水一样的消失。
苏薇低下头，看到手上的绿色在迅速地消退。
那个人没有说话，转身飘然离去，竟然是不曾停留片刻。
“等一等！”苏薇涉水追上了几步，出声挽留，“请问，你是灵均么？你是拜月教祭司的弟子，是不是？谢谢你！”
白袍男子的背影微微停了一下，却没有回头。
“不用谢，血薇的主人，”灵均在雾气中微微的笑，声音也彷佛雾气那样虚无缥缈，似从远方传来，“你和拜月教有夙缘，就算看在血薇的份上，无论如何我都会救你。”
“那么，请问，”苏薇顿了一顿，“请问，你知道是谁用碧蚕之毒对我下手的么？这是来自你们苗疆的毒，不是么？除了天道盟之外，还有谁想对付听雪楼？”
“这个么……君子之泽，五世而斩。”灵均彷佛在面具后笑了一笑，回过了头，淡淡，“等到了时候，你就明白了。”
不等她再发问，他转身逆流而上，脚下水流粼粼，竟然是由几条赤色巨蟒托着，迅速地沿着雾露河消失在白云的最深处。
他只留下了一句话：
“先别担心千里之外的听雪楼了，人家未必还担心你的死活——倒是你那两个朋友，似乎在前头遇到了一点麻烦，你还是赶紧去吧。”
当苏薇匆匆赶回孟康矿口时，一场骚乱刚刚平息，地上还残留着血迹。
前来领取抚恤钱的矿工们面有惊惧之色，围在一起，低声地劝着什么。人群里有个小小的声音在放声大哭，稚嫩而恐慌。她听出是谁的声音，急忙拨开人群挤了进去，果然看到蜜丹意在寮口哭泣，脸上明显留着被殴打过的痕迹——而原重楼已经不在她身边。
“重楼呢？”她急急地问，一边打着手势。
蜜丹意看到她，更加放声大哭起来，用手不停拍打着地面，一边哭一边喊着什么。
“怎么了？怎么了？”苏薇听不懂缅语，更是焦急，“你在说什么？重楼呢？”
“姑娘，你问的是原大师么？”好容易旁边有个人用汉语压低声音问，一把将她拉到了僻静处——她仔细看去，对方是个黑瘦的汉人，依稀面熟，竟然是那个给过这个小女孩一块碎银子的吴温林。
“重楼哪里去了？”她急急问。
“原大师……唉，”吴温林叹了口气，眼神沉重，“但愿他还活着。”
“什么？！”苏薇大吃一惊，不自禁地伸手一把抓住他的肩膀，“你……你说什么？重楼他怎么了！他、他人呢？”
“被矿主带走了。”吴温林低声。
“带走？为什么？”苏薇愕然。
吴温林苦笑：“因为原大师替蜜丹意出头，在一大堆石头里帮她挑中了一块价值连城的翡翠——当石头一切开，矿主便翻悔了，不由分说扔下一千两银子就想打发蜜丹意走。原大师怒斥矿主背信弃义，结果……”
黑瘦的汉子叹息着摇头，看了看地上的一摊血。
苏薇更是紧张：“结果怎么了？”
“矿主知道尹家早已弃用了原大师，便肆无忌惮，派出打手想要强行赶他们走，”吴温林摇头叹息，“矿上一些缅工是索吞的兄弟，看不过去，便出来帮他们两个说话——结果矿主干脆让打手们动了手，伤打死了好几个缅工。可是原大师他……”
“他怎么了？”苏薇看到他欲言又止，不由焦急万分，“到底怎么了呀！”
“原大师为了护着蜜丹意，也被那群人打成重伤。”吴温林声音也有些哽咽，“矿主知道他在腾冲有点名望，怕事情传出去，便让人把原大师抬进了矿山里——昨天被抬进去的，直到今天一点消息也没有。以矿主平日的为人，我真怕是已经——”
他说到一半，声音忽然因为痛苦而扭曲，张口结舌说不出话来。苏薇死死盯着他，脸色苍白得可怕，那只抓着他手臂的纤细手腕蓦然用力，几乎在一瞬间捏碎了他的骨头。
只不过两天没见，居然事情就演变到了这种可怕的地步么？
“姑娘？姑娘？”吴温林看到那种眼神，陡然觉得恐惧，“快……快放手啊！”
“帮我带蜜丹意回家去，”苏薇吐出一口气，松开手掉头就走，“晚上我们会来。”
“姑娘？”吴温林大吃一惊，“难道你要……”
然而，话音未落，那个女子已经直直地冲着寮里走了过去，脸色苍白肃穆。一路上她顺手从石堆里拿起了一根铁钎，在手里掂了掂，纤细雪白的手腕在不停颤抖，似是极力在克制着什么。
“喂！哪里来的女人？矿主说今天谁也不见！”
看到一个汉人女子直闯而入，矿上的监工厉声喝止。然而那个女子彷佛不曾听见，身形快得惊人，也不见她如何举步，转眼便已经闯到了寮后面的石料场上，分辨了一下，然后冲着后面矿主休息的那座小楼而去。
“快拦住她！”监工大吃一惊，连忙敲响了寮里示警用的铜锣。
锣声刚敲到第三下，那个闯入者已经掠到了小楼门口，尚未来得及推门进去，便转瞬被四周冲出来的守卫和打手们团团围住。
“看门狗。”苏薇冷冷看着那一群人，只觉心头怒火再也无法压抑，厉声怒喝，“重楼呢？快把他交出来！不然我不客气了！”
“外面是谁在吵闹？”竹楼的门忽然被推开，一个肥硕黝黑的缅人踱了出来，他赤着上身，下面围着一件麻纱做的笼基，手里抱着一块西瓜大小的石头，眼神阴枭冷厉。只看得她一眼，便用熟练的汉语冷笑：“哦，居然是一个漂亮姑娘？不错不错……好大的胆子，居然闯入我孟康的地盘要人？”
“我不知道孟康是谁，”苏薇只觉得烦躁，握紧了手，“重楼呢？！”
孟康一怔：“哦，你问的是原大师吧？”
矿主抱着那块石头，用眼角斜睨着被打手簇拥的苏薇，眼神忽然变得凶恶，呵呵道：“原大师真是我的福星，今日帮我开出了一块绝世好玉。为了表示感谢，我决定用翡翠来给他做一座坟……哈哈哈哈！”
他霍然转身，指着山脚一个深深的洞穴，洞穴里填满了零碎的石头——那个山洞深不见底，是矿上用来丢弃无用废料的地方。
“喏，我叫人把他扔到那里去了！”孟康大笑着，拍着肚子，“无用的玉匠和作废的石头，不正好是一对么？哈哈哈哈……反正尹家也早已不需要他了，怕什么！”
“你……”苏薇只觉得血往上冲，手微微发抖，气得不知道说什么好。
“不过，”他回头打着哈哈，目光粘腻地在苏薇身上扫了一遍，邪邪道：“如果姑娘想要救他呢，也易如反掌——只要……”
孟康一手抱着翡翠，一手已经摸了上来。
然而，下一秒钟，他的惨叫声响彻了整条雾露河。
“无耻之尤。”苏薇咬着牙，一字一字吐出，冷冷看着面目扭曲的矿主——粗大的铁钎在一瞬间穿透了那只油腻肥厚的手掌，将那只脏手整个钉在了竹楼上！孟康发出巨大的惨叫，身体扭曲起来，另一只手却还是死死抱住那块翡翠不肯放下。
周围的打手们目瞪口呆。他们几乎都没看到这个女子是怎么动手的，主人已经被袭击。怔了一怔后，齐齐发出一声喊，便举着刀枪冲了过来。
“呵。”苏薇冷笑，手腕握着铁钎一转，手下人便发出杀猪一样的惨叫。
“都站住！都站住！”孟康在中缅交界处混了这许多年，已是一个老江湖，此刻立刻明白了眼前这个女子不同于昨日的原重楼，竟然是极为辣手的点子，连声道，“快给我跪下求姑奶奶饶命！姑娘是活观音活菩萨，千万不要和小的计较……”
苏薇没心思和他多纠缠，一把将铁钎血淋淋拔出，厉声：“重楼呢？快带我去！”
“是是是。”孟康忍着痛，连滚带爬，“小的立刻带姑娘去！”
那个山洞位于河畔高尖山的半山腰上，洞口约一丈方圆，几乎呈垂直状伸入高尖山，黑洞洞的看不到底，洞里堆满了切开后发现是废料的翡翠原石，一块块峥嵘嶙峋，棱角锋利。苏薇只是一看，便倒抽一口冷气，脸色苍白：这样的所在，一个重伤之人如果被扔下去，基本上万无活理。
“重楼！重楼！”她对着洞口呼喊，里面却寂无人声。
她的呼声回荡在深不见底的洞穴里，一时间，她感到了从未有过的寒意。
“还不快去！”她捏住了孟康的手臂，厉声。
“快！放人下去，把原大师带上来！”孟康痛得声音发抖，回头，“都死哪里去了？！”
旁边几个监工蜂拥而上，去取了几大盘的粗索，垂入了洞穴，然后扔了一个火把下去，落在不知多深的一块石头上，远远地燃着。苏薇心下焦急，注意力完全凝聚到了洞里的人身上，不知不觉便松开了手。她探头往洞穴里极力看去，然而在那一小块照亮的洞穴里，根本看不到有人的影子。
“重楼！”她大声喊，声音已经微微嘶哑，“你在那里么？”
忽然间，黑暗洞穴的深处传来了轻微的敲击声。
一下，又一下，仿佛是有人拿着石块在岩穴上敲击。
“重楼！重楼！”苏薇欣喜若狂，回头厉声，“还不快点下去！”
矿上监工们已经准备妥当。在当先两个心腹腰缠绳索，刚要准备下去时，孟康使了一个眼色，对着洞口的苏薇比了一个手势。左右心领神会，微微点头。
“还不赶紧去！”孟康大声催促，一边却往外退。
“是！”监工们从左右包抄过来，手拿绳索火把，缓步逼近全神贯注往里看的女子背后，唇角露出狰狞的表情。
——然后，猝不及防地一起出手，一把将她推了下去！
苏薇正专心致志地往声音传来的地方努力看去，完全没有留意身后逼近的危急。不等她辨别出原重楼的方位所在，背后一股大力忽然涌来，她猛然一个踉跄，立足不稳，被推得身不由己地往前倾，往洞里摔落。
“一起陪葬吧！”背后的监工们和矿主爆发出一阵狂笑，得意已极。
然而，血薇主人又是何等样人？
就算是江湖经验不足，以至分心被人偷袭，但如今毒性已解，苏薇半空中微微一折身，一口真气提上来，手中铁钎插入岩石半尺，瞬间便定住了下坠之势。双足在岩壁一借力，身形重新向上掠起，一眨眼便返回到了那一群狂笑的恶魔面前。
那群人目瞪口呆地看着宛如疾风闪电般掠出的女子，尚自来不及反应。
“该死！”即便是最温善的人也被激起了杀意，苏薇一咬牙，毫不犹豫地一伸手，立刻轻松地将站得最近的两个监工扣住，反手便往洞穴里扔了下去！
那两人凌空惨叫，黑暗里甚至可以听到肉身摔落在锋利石头上的钝响。
周围其余的监工和打手被吓得倒退，惊呼着四散。然而苏薇飞身急掠，手腕微舒，一把扣住了孟康的后颈，瞬间将那个肥壮的身躯给拎了过来。
“饶命！饶命！”孟康这一回真的吓得魂飞天外，双足凌空，只是惨叫，“我愿意把矿上所有的翡翠都献给姑娘！饶命……”
“饶不了你，”苏薇冷冷切齿，“这翡翠坟墓是给你准备的！”
她扬起手臂，将那人拎起，对着洞口飞掷过去。
“不……不！尹大人救命！”孟康惨叫着，后面的呼喊下意识地变成了缅语。胖大的身躯向洞内沉沉落下，手里却居然还紧紧抱着那块西瓜大的石头不放。
许久，才听到惨叫声霍然中断，然后是肉身砸落在岩石上的钝响，沉闷而可怖。
苏薇微微喘息，站在洞口，脸色苍白。
四周的人已经奔逃殆尽了，这个雾露河边的矿上转瞬空空荡荡。她转过头，看着洞口垂落的那条绳索，定定神喘了一口气，俯身捡起了落在地上的几个火把，一个接着一个扔下去。那些火把散落在洞穴各处的岩石上，远远近近发出幽暗的光。
那个敲击声在中断了一会儿后，再度响起来了，虽然微弱却依旧持续。
苏薇这才舒了一口气，拿了一支火把，便顺着绳索滑落下去。
火把只照亮了非常小的一块地方，洞穴里依旧是黑暗无比，伸手不见五指。洞里堆积着废弃的石料，切开的石头棱角非常锋利，竟然彷佛无数把尖刀。石堆也松散非常，微微一踏足便会发出坍塌前的松动响声。
苏薇小心翼翼地顺着绳索下滑，一边大声呼喊着原重楼的名字。当她接近孟康尸体所在地方时，那个敲击声已经近在耳侧，却渐渐微弱下去，终至断绝。
“重楼！重楼！”她嘶声喊，心中陡然涌起一种不祥的感觉，不顾危险地从绳索上跳下，踩踏在石堆上，向着声音来处一寸寸地摸索。昏暗中，锋利的石头割破她的手脚，脚下每一处都在颤栗，随时随地可能坍塌，将她一起埋葬在这不见天日的莽荒洞穴里。
忽然间，她摸到了什么温热湿润的东西。
那是……血？是谁的血！
“重楼！”她失声惊呼起来。
慌乱之下，她竟然扔掉了火把，双手摸索着那一滩血迹，膝行着在锋锐的碎石之上一路寻觅过去。可是，黑暗里，什么都声音没有。
当她几近绝望的时候，忽然间，有什么微微勾住了她的裙角。
那是非常微弱的牵绊，却令她全身一震。
“重楼！”她失声低呼，在模糊的火把光线里看到了一只苍白的手。
那只手从被碎石覆盖的间隙里伸出，一块染血的石头捏在他的手心，手上那道刀疤赫然在目。那只苍白的手流着血，用尽全力抓住了她拖过地面的衣襟，握紧——
“重楼！”苏薇狂喜地回过身，终于看到了自己要找的人。
他被困在坍塌的碎石下，手足都被压住，岩间露出的脸苍白得可怕，彷佛已经死去。然而看到她来，他却微微笑了一笑，微微收紧手指，握住她的手，喃喃：
“迦陵频伽？你的……你的手，没事了么？……太好了……”
她一震，眼里有泪水直落下来，竟然哭出声音。
“蜜丹意……还好么？”他喃喃。
“嗯。”她用力点头，定定看着那张岩隙里苍白的脸，手足似忽然没有了力气，竟然颤得无法移开压在他身上的那些石头——生怕一移开，便会看到已经被刺穿的血肉模糊的身躯。
“快走吧，迦陵频伽，不要管我。”被压在底下的人喃喃，语气越来越虚弱，“洞里……很危险，随时都会坍塌。别、别带累你……”
“胡说！”她厉声，彷佛疯了一样地去搬开那只手上压着的石头，失声，“听着，你不会有事！我一定会救你出去——你不会有事！”
“不，”那张苍白的脸上露出了微笑，“我不想出去了。”
他躺在地下望着她，眼神是空茫的：“我能感觉到我的手脚已经全部折断了。唯一完好的左手也已经失去知觉——就算出去，也只是一个彻彻底底的废人。”
此刻，苏薇已经搬开了那块石头，却彷佛烫伤一样蓦然移开了视线。她拼命忍住惊呼的冲动，在昏暗一片里咬紧了牙齿，全身颤栗。
——石头下的手臂血肉模糊，已经断成了数截。左手扭曲得不成形，白森森的肘骨外翻出来，令人惨不忍睹。
火把颤了一下，终于灭了。黑暗的洞穴里寂静的怕人，只听得到她越来越急促的呼吸和他越来越缓慢的呼吸，彷佛是两股风的回旋应合。
“我不愿那样活……迦陵频伽，”他微弱地说着，眼神渐渐变得一片空白，“不要管我，就把我留在这里吧……”
“死在这里也好，”原重楼喃喃，“用翡翠做我的坟墓。”
“不！”苏薇忽然叫了起来，抓紧了那只苍白的手，颤声，“我……我绝不会让你就这样死在这种不见天日的地方！”
“我们一起走吧！”
冈上的竹楼里，灯火深宵不熄。
吴温林几次三番跺到门口探头，黑暗的山路上却全无那两人的影子。他叹了口气，回头望了一样同样趴在窗口上出神的小女孩——蜜丹意一瞬不瞬地看着来路，小小的嘴角紧抿着，流露出一种和年龄不相符合的表情来。
索吞的这个女儿，还真是有点不同寻常呢……
他默然想着，想起矿上有传言，说这个小女孩天生灵气过人，还曾被苗疆那边拜月教的人看上，带到灵鹫山月宫过一段时间。
可是，就算是多有灵气的女娃儿，毕竟还是个孩子。
死了爹，以后的日子可怎么过呢？
吴温林摇头叹息，想起日间那一对汉人青年男女，不由又往门外的山路上看了一眼——那个女子不是说到了晚上就会回来么？如今已经下半夜了，怎么还不见回？莫非也是……
他倒抽了一口冷气，眼前浮现出矿主那张阴狠狰狞的脸。
“作孽呀！”他狠狠抽了一口水烟，低声诅咒，“千刀万剐的死家伙！”
话音未落，他忽然听到了脚步声——有人沿着山道正在往这边过来。还没等他反应过来，趴在窗口蜜丹意已经欢呼了一声，直接从窗户翻出了室外，赤脚蹦跳着，过去迎接那一对从山路上过