As the young man's words fell, a naughty laugh came from behind the iron door: "I'm Wan'er! If you don't know who I am, then you can't open the door for you. Daddy said that no one else can open the door except him. Besides, anyone who asks Wan'er to open the door is a bad person who comes to steal money!"
By the time the other party said these words, Qi Jingzhi had already reached the iron gate.
Almost at the same time, a small head popped up from the window divided by iron rods on the iron door.
She looked like a little girl, only five or six years old. Her hair was tied with a red rope in a braid. Her little face was white and tender, and her cheeks were painted bright red.
Only two deep black holes remained where the eyes were.
Qi Jingzhi's face was covered by the soul mask, and no expression could be seen. He said softly: "Brother is not a bad person. He doesn't steal money, and he won't let you open the door."
The little girl who called herself Wan'er smiled sweetly, and the two black holes on her face turned towards the direction where the boy's voice came from: "Then brother is here to find my father? He has gone on a long journey, and he has been gone for a long time!"
Qi Jingzhi stared at the little girl's face illuminated by the firelight. Although he knew that the other party could not see, he still nodded: "Wan'er, you have been looking after the house alone at a young age. Aren't you afraid of the dark?"
Hearing this question, the little girl immediately nodded fiercely: "Wan'er used to be most afraid of the dark, and she was so afraid that she didn't dare to sleep, so every day before the sun went down, her father would light many candles at home, and also put the biggest and highest candles on it. Put that one next to my bed and it will burn all night long!"
Speaking of this, the little girl's tone was a little troubled: "But one night, Wan'er suddenly felt that her eyes hurt, and I woke up from the pain! But when Wan'er opened her eyes, everything was dark. Can't see anything."
"Dad saw that Wan'er was scared, so he hugged Wan'er and said, the sun, moon and stars in the sky have been eaten by tengu, and all the candles in the house have been burned out. From now on, we can only live in the dark!"
Qi Jingzhi's distant and ethereal voice suddenly became a little hoarse: "What happened next?"
"later?"
The little girl's face showed a complex expression of confusion and fear, which combined with the deep eye holes, was indescribably ferocious and strange.
"Later, Wan'er's eyes hurt not only, but her body also hurt. She fell asleep from the pain, and then woke up from the pain! I cried and asked my father, why Wan'er hurt so much, and was Wan'er going to die?"
"My father said that as long as Wan'er promises to stay at home and look after the money forever, she will never feel pain again!"
The little girl said, and the expression on her face softened: "Wan'er agreed, and then it really didn't hurt anymore! It's just... I'm just a little out of breath, and I'll be fine when I wake up after a nap."
Qi Jingzhi quietly looked at this ignorant little girl and listened to the other party telling a bloody and chilling past event in innocent words.
The boy took two steps closer and silently approached the window. He saw the little girl standing on a low stool. She was wearing red clothes and pants.
As red as blood.
The space behind the little girl is very small, and most of the space is filled with rows of iron shelves filled with iron boxes of the same style.
Both the iron frame and the iron box were rusty.
Apart from this, there is only a small table placed near the door. There is a bronze candlestick in the middle of the table. It looks like a bronze monkey holding the tray high above its head. It looks extremely delicate.
The candles in the tray had burned out, leaving only a thin layer of red wax.
Beneath the bronze candlestick lies a little mouse with hair as white as moonlight.
Qi Jingzhi took a quick look and saw that the ears and four paws of this little white mouse were all red, and a pair of small eyes were as red as fire.
The red one is the essence of gold and jade.
Seeing the faceless man outside the window looking at him, the white golden rat suddenly raised its head, its eyes flashed with red light, and its mouth made a rapid squeaking sound, appearing extremely alert.
When the little girl heard the cry of the White Golden Rat, she quickly turned around, pretending to be fierce, and whispered: "If you don't behave well, I really want to drive you away!"
While scaring the white rat, she raised her little hand.
Immediately afterwards, the little white mouse seemed to have been pushed hard by something, and it rolled in the direction of the door involuntarily, almost falling off the edge of the small table.
When it stopped in embarrassment, it looked obviously a little sluggish. Not only did it stop shouting, but it also lowered its head back on the table. Its red eyes also moved away from the faceless man and looked at it again. Towards the iron box on the shelf.
After this change, Qi Jingzhi could clearly feel that the silver smell that had been constantly impacting the peaks and mountains of Lu Yunzi's residual thoughts had become much lighter.
He looked away from the white golden rat and asked the little girl: "Wan'er, what's your surname? What's your father's name? How long have you been away from home?"
"I have no idea."
The little girl shook her head and answered three questions clearly in one sentence.
She seemed a little embarrassed, and after thinking for a while, she added: "Dad taught Wan'er that every time the sun rises and sets, it is a day, but the sun was eaten by the Tengu, and Wan'er's house was dark, and she didn't know how. For a few days.”
"Except for Sister Bai and brother you, no one else has come to see Wan'er during this period, not even the bad guys who stole money. Huh? It seems that Sister Bai also asked Wan'er how long she had been staying at home alone..."
"Sister Bai?" Qi Jingzhi's heart moved.
He was about to ask a question when the sound of footsteps suddenly came from behind him, but after the silver odor further faded, Jiao Yulang, who had been wandering in the corridor for a while, finally arrived.
The little boy also held a torch, and his expression changed when he vaguely saw the little girl.
He tried his best to keep his eyes wide open, making sure that what he saw was correct, and immediately said angrily: "Who is so heartless that he made such a small female doll into a silver doll?"
Qi Jingzhi turned around suddenly, but it was too late to stop him. After putting on the soul mask, his reaction was somewhat slow.
"What is a silver coin?"
Wan'er turned her dark eyes to the little kid behind Qi Jingzhi, and her voice suddenly became sharp: "Is the little brother talking about Wan'er?"
Jiao Yulang was immediately stunned and opened his mouth but didn't know how to speak. He quickly gave Qi Jingzhi a questioning look.
Qi Jingzhi shook his head silently at him. When he looked at Wan'er behind the bars again, he suddenly found that the red rouge on the little girl's face had melted at some point.
Seven horizontal and eight vertical lines, like blood stains!
"After all, he is a five- or six-year-old child. He already has memories and can understand more or less things."
Qi Jingzhi sighed secretly, but his tone was not strange at all: "Wan'er, who is the sister Bai you just mentioned?"
Hearing this, the little girl's attention seemed to be diverted. When she "looked" at Qi Jing again, there was a slight smile on her face.
"She is a cold-spoken elder sister! She likes Wan'er very much, talked to me a lot, and wanted Wan'er to go out with her! But Wan'er also wanted to look after the money for her father, so she didn't agree..."
The little girl's tone was mixed with longing, regret and gratitude: "Then Sister Bai said, it's okay not to go out, there are many bad guys outside!"
"Wan'er asked Sister Bai, is the big bad guy Tengu also outside?"
"Sister Bai said that she was here, and she also said that tengu will turn people into monsters called tengu men! These monsters will dig out the livers and lungs of living people, mix them with blood and feed them to the tengu!"
At this point, the little girl suddenly "looked" at Jiao Yulang again and asked sharply: "But, what is the silver coin?"
