Under the bright sunshine, Li Jiutuan peeled off the note Wang Xiaotai left for him, unlocked the formation, and pushed open Wang Xiaotai's courtyard door with a creaking sound. Before he entered, he felt a boundless coldness spreading from the courtyard. Come over and burrow directly into the soles of his feet, then crawl up to his heart.
The sun was shining brightly, but Li Jiutuan subconsciously closed his eyes and sighed deeply.
In front of him was a scene that he had never seen, never written in books, never spread in the world, never heard of, never even heard of.
In this small courtyard that he had not set foot in for more than three years, where Wang Xiaotai lived day and night, Li Jiutuan found the truth about Wang Xiaotai's unwillingness to go down the mountain.
This courtyard was originally built in the style of a mortal. In order to take care of Wang Xiaomo, Li Jiutuan specially arranged a courtyard for her to plant flowers and grass. It is full of spiritual soil, and anything planted can grow lushly.
Li Jiutuan also opened a small kitchen for her so that she could open the fire and cook what she likes to eat.
In Li Jiutuan's vision, this small courtyard should be brought to life by this mortal little girl, with colorful flowers and plants, full of the vitality that young people should have and the fireworks of the world.
Wang Xiaomo will eat, sleep, wash clothes, dry quilts, read books, and raise flowers and plants in this small courtyard.
Even if she is a little lonely, she should live a quiet, gentle and gentle life like everyone else.
Of course, it doesn't matter if she is lazy and doesn't want to do hygiene.
Li Jiutuan felt that it was not a big problem for such a little girl to live in a small courtyard, but he never thought that this small courtyard would be like what it is now.
Now this courtyard has changed beyond recognition, completely changed from what it was like back then.
There was almost no place to stay in the entire yard.
Wang Xiaotai didn't know how she did it. She built dense wooden tombstones in the yard alone and silently.
These tombstones were cut with knives, stained with blood, and deeply engraved with long-forgotten names.
The Jinghe River in Shaanzhou is settled, and the tomb of Wang Junhua is Wang Xiaotai's father.
The Jinghe River in Shaanzhou is stable, Huang Wen's tomb is Wang Xiaotai's mother.
The Jinghe River in Shaanzhou is stable, and the tomb of Dandan is the friend Wang Xiaotai did not save.
The Jinghe River in Shaanxi Province is stable, and the Tomb of Bailian is another friend of Wang Xiaotai who was not saved.
Cuifang's tomb, Yanyan's tomb, Zhifei's tomb, Aunt Ping's tomb, the village chief's tomb, the pork seller's uncle's tomb, Mr. Zhou's tomb, Wang Wang's tomb, Feifei's tomb...
These people are all from Jinghe Anding County, and these are all the people Wang Xiaoti knows.
Some of them have names, some only have nicknames, and some only have professions, without even leaving their complete names.
After all, Wang Xiaotai was still young and didn't know many people. She didn't know all the 600,000 people, so she engraved the place names on some tombstones: Tomb of Anding, Tomb of Xufengzhen, Tomb of Fotang Town, Tomb of Xishanwu, Tomb of Zhudian...
These are the places that were hit by the disaster near the Jinghe River. These are Wang Xiaotai’s hometown and all the land she has walked on.
I hope that those unnamed souls who died in vain can be worshiped.
Those names that even the underworld could not remember were left by her in this small courtyard forever, on Lishan Mountain, a place with beautiful scenery and far away from the ordinary world.
Where no one knew, when no one knew, she set up monuments for them all.
The monuments are bleeding, the monuments are groaning, and the monuments are noisy.
There are 600,000 people living in a radius of 800 miles. She is probably the only one in the vast world still paying homage to them.
If Ao Shun could have seen the dense tombstones through the window when he was sitting on the floor in the room eating meat, he would never have thought that his charm could conquer Wang Xiaotai.
Under the sun, in a small house surrounded by dense tombstones, it was in this environment that Wang Xiaotai stuffed the braised pork he made by himself into Ao Shun's mouth one by one. Under the silent gaze of these tombstones, Wang Xiaotai knelt in the house. The dragon was beheaded alive with one knife.
Blood debts must be paid with blood.
Li Jiutuan tried his best to control his breathing, and walked lightly, not daring to stir up any dust or scare away any soul.
He walked to a tombstone that looked the newest. It was a blank tombstone with no words written on it. Li Jiutuan's hands trembled slightly as he slowly stroked the rough, unnamed tombstone.
Among all the tombstones, only this tombstone is blank, without any name.
He knew that this was the monument Wang Xiaoti had erected for himself.
How does one live among these tombstones?
She slept with these names and ate with these names. Judging from the neatness of these tombstones, it seemed that Wang Xiaomo would clean and wipe these tombstones from time to time.
She herself had never gone to school, and Li Jiutuan knew that her handwriting was not good-looking, but the words on these tombstones were neat and tidy, and each stroke was filled with painstaking efforts.
To erect so many monuments in three years, Wang Xiaotai didn't know how to do it. She could only chop wood with her own hands, polish it bit by bit with rough paper, carefully carve the names soaked in blood one stroke at a time, and pray day and night. .
She definitely didn't get a good rest or sleep in those three years.
Li Jiutuan seemed to be able to see the girl who was taciturn and covered her face with thick bangs going out and going home alone.
What greeted her were countless cold tombstones.
She sat alone on the steps making new tombstones from bright sunshine to dusk.
She did not smell the fragrance of flowers, see the beauty of the moonlight, or taste the delicacies of the world.
Just a lonely man sitting here carving tombstones.
For everyone, for yourself.
She even placed her tombstone in the corner, as if silently watching their backs behind everyone, and also as if silently chasing their backs.
"Daozhang Li, what's wrong?"
Xu Fu stood outside the door and waited for a long time but didn't see Li Jiutuan making any sound, so he couldn't help but ask.
Li Jiutuan opened his mouth to say something, but felt that his throat was extremely dry. He swallowed and squeezed out a few words from his throat, "You know her..."
Xu Fu waited for a long time, but never waited for the next step. What do you know?
Li Jiutuan sighed and walked out of the courtyard. With a wave of his Taoist robe, he closed the courtyard's restrictions. He even added a few more seals and used the Mother Palace Lishan Guardian Array to tightly protect everything in the courtyard. .
He always thought that he was a qualified senior brother. He thought that he was completely benevolent to Wang Xiaotai. He thought that he had taken enough care of her and was good enough to her.
But Li Jiutuan suddenly found that he seemed to have forgotten the face of the girl who had always lowered her head.
"Why did you go out on the day when the Dragon Clan came?"
Li Jiutuan took out Wang Xiaotai's note again asking him to leave the yard, put the note properly into his arms, turned around and asked Xu Negation, "The people from the Dragon Clan are here just to ask questions about Ao Shun and Huang Xianfei. How about you?" Why take action?"
"In other words, why did she take action?"
"I don't know either," Xu Fu shook his head, "That day, Mo Fu suddenly went out of the mountain and bumped into the two brothers with the double-headed dragon. He made provocative words, saying that the dragon clan was about to perish and a disaster was imminent. Those two-headed dragon brothers Seeing Mo Fu's posture, Jiao naturally refused, and the younger brother dug his claws into Mo Fu's body."
It seemed that Xu Mofu was deliberately provoking the Dragon Clan and did not want the brothers Ao Ren and Ao Lu to meet him properly.
"Does Xu Mofu like Wang Xiaotai very much?"
Li Jiutuan could not think of any other reason besides deliberately setting Li Jiutuan against the Dragon Clan to protect Wang Xiaotai and hide some truth.
"I can't tell. Does she like that child? She told me to be wary of that child."
Xu Fu touched the wooden door of Wang Xiaomo's courtyard. This was her first time to the place where this child lived. Did she make such delicious pancakes for herself here?
"There seems to be a lot of yin energy in this yard. What did you see in it?" Xu Fu was a little curious.
Li Jiutuan looked dazed for a moment.
Xu Zheng was blind and couldn't see the many obscure and complicated meanings in Li Jiutuan's eyes at that moment. He just heard him say something in the wind, "She built 600,000 tombs inside."
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