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Chapter 75 Autumn suddenly ends again

He Si woke up with a start. The window was indeed open, blowing her cold sweat away.After a long time, the coldness in her heart lessened, and then she felt the coldness in her body. She got up and closed the carved wooden window.

Outside the window is a familiar scenery, with layers of forests and ink painting south of the Yangtze River.

She had forgotten the door that could not be opened, the abnormal footsteps, the face above her head, the blood and internal organs splattered everywhere, the eyeballs wandering on the ground, She forgot the last sea of ​​blood, the giant turtle on the sea of ​​blood, and the old man on the giant turtle, but she couldn't forget the last look the old man looked at her.

Pain, regret, love, hate.

It was a feeling that He Si had never seen before, entangled until death, and unforgettable.

And besides that, there seems to be yearning...

Just like the gray hair of an old man, the heart of spring is full of flowers and flowers, every inch of lovesickness and every inch of gray hair.

He Si was startled when the door was pushed open behind her, and she immediately heard Xiao Shitou's timid voice: "Sister, did I scare you?"

"No."

He Si finally caught a bit of reality and felt like she was truly living in this world with people again. She touched Little Stone's burr-like short hair and asked gently, "Why are you here?"

"Everyone is making wontons. Brother Jing asked me to ask if you are going?"

"Wontons?" He Si was a little confused, "Is this the custom of the beginning of winter?"

"Li means the beginning of construction, the end of winter, and the collection of all things. The beginning of winter is the beginning of winter. It is a very important festival for the accumulation of vitality, the cultivation of all things, and the autumn harvest and winter storage. Of course, you have to eat wontons."

Although she knew that Xiao Shitou was a descendant of Suanni and was different from ordinary children, He Si still found it very cute when she heard such old-fashioned words coming from such a milky meat dumpling's mouth and couldn't help but want to tease him.

"But I heard that dumplings should be eaten on important festivals, right?"

"Why are you the same as Fan Yu?" Xiao Shitou complained with a pout. He called Sister He Si, but he called Fan Yu by his first name.

"Why is it the same?"

"He also said that you should eat dumplings on important festivals because they are not as delicious as dumplings."

Little Shitou blinked and blinked, with an innocent look on his face. Fortunately, Fan Yu wasn't too stupid and didn't tell the child the second sentence. He Si thought about it and added: "Beginning of Winter, as the name suggests, is naturally the time when autumn and winter alternate. Dumplings The pronunciation is the same as Jiaozi, and you must eat dumplings when you are in Jiaozi."

Xiao Shitou kept blinking his eyes. After thinking for a while, he was persuaded by He Si and nodded and said: "In that case, eating dumplings is okay, but using the idea of ​​sister Xiao He's homonym, eating wontons is more interesting."

"Why?" He Si didn't expect a child to say such words, and she became more and more curious.

"Wonton, whose sound is the same as chaos, bites through the chaos of heaven and earth, ushering in the new life of tomorrow."

He Si was stunned for a moment, feeling that the little stone seemed to have read her thoughts. The eyes that looked at her had a special meaning, but when he looked closer, he only saw the brightness and innocence of a child, and he was just talking to her about food. .

He Si rubbed her temples. Everyone around Qin Jian was not simple. No matter what Xiao Shitou's words just meant, they were harmless to her. Thinking of this, He Si picked up the child lying on her lap and said : "Let's go. If I don't go out, they will think I'm lazy."

Sure enough, He Si had only half-way into the kitchen when she heard Fan Yu's exaggerated complaint: "Xiao He, why didn't you wait until the wontons were finished?"

He Si had been hanging out with him for a long time and had become much thicker-skinned. She just pretended not to hear him and walked up to Lao Chaofeng to flatter him: "It's really amazing. You have paid so much."

"It's not me." Lao Chaofeng put down the wonton wrapper in his hand and pointed at Guan Zihe.

He Si saw Guan Zihe, whose dark bangs were covered with white flour, and was about to praise her for not showing her true face, but she saw several strange-shaped dough balls in front of her. She didn't look like a great hero.Next to her, there was a black phantom that was busy, so fast that it was impossible to see its true body.

"Is this... a small handbag?" He Si looked at the neatly arranged wontons on the table and felt that it was extremely unexpected, but it was also reasonable.

"Little hands?" He Si recalled the scene when she saw these hands in the fantasy world, blood, human skin, sharp black nails, tangled black hair...

"He has washed his hands." Guan Zihe seemed to have seen what He Si was thinking, and immediately defended him.

"Thanks to my little hands, in the past I had to be busy until seven o'clock to have dinner. I think this year I can have dinner at five o'clock, and there will be enough for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." Liu Ruishi touched her busy little hand. , and then said, "Boss Qin, you don't mind if I pack a little and take it back."

"Please."

"Thank you." Hearing this, Liu Rui lowered her head and continued to embroider on the wonton wrappers.

"How about I chop some dumpling fillings and bring some back to Director Deng to try?"

"Has Director Deng seen it?" Lao Chaofeng pointed to his busy little hands again.

"Forget it, he doesn't deserve it." Fan Yu thought for a moment, spread his hands, and collapsed on the chair again.

He Si looked around and saw that Lin Zhaohui had gone back. Not counting herself, there were now three kitchen wastes, a child and a well-behaved old court servant. She didn't know how they had eaten at seven o'clock in the past.He Si wanted to understand this, and when she looked at the little hand and the wontons wrapped in it again, she suddenly felt much more pleasing to the eye.At this moment, her palms felt cold, and something was suddenly stuffed into her hands.

"Is this?" She looked at Lao Chaofeng as if nothing had happened.

"This is chocolate." Xiao Shitou's eyes lit up and he immediately ran over and stretched out his hand towards Lao Chaofeng. Only after two chocolates were put into his hand did he sit back down again with satisfaction.He pushed aside both chocolates and stuffed one into his mouth. Then he puffed up his cheeks and said vaguely to He Si, "Sister He, wrap the chocolates in the wontons like me. You can eat them at night." People will have good luck."

The hard heart was suddenly hit by these words. It was sudden, gentle as water, but hit the target. He Si held the chocolate and pursed her lips. The water in her body was saturated. She endured it again and again, hiding it for many years. The pain and sourness still spread to the bottom of his eyes.

She stood up awkwardly and walked outside the courtyard.

"What came to mind?"

He Si wiped her tears and saw the handsome man with blurred outline standing in the setting sun, his eyes falling on her softly.

"A lot of things, things like claws in the snow and mud."

"The thing that can make Ah Si cry is not the Snow and Mud Hongzhao." Qin Jian took a step forward and stood side by side with her on the top of the mountain, "Don't you want to tell me?"

"No." He Si refused calmly, and Qin Jian really kept silent and stood quietly with her.

Xiaojiu jumped a few times among the fading grass. Feeling bored, she flew up to the top of the osmanthus tree. The flower was already in full bloom. When she was touched by it, broken petals fell, and the slight fragrance lingered in it. The sound became more and more overwhelming.

"You say it first." I don't know how long it took, but her heart was wrapped again. He Si simply sat on the floor and asked Qin Jian the question. "say what?"

"My suspicions about you haven't been cleared yet?" He Si didn't dare to look at the people around her, but her tone was aggressive, "Did you disappear for the past few days just to do lipstick?"

Qin Jian obviously didn't expect He Si to ask this question. He was surprised for a moment, and then said, "More than that, I went to check something out in the past few days."

"Is that the person in my dream?"

Listening to He Si's eager voice, Qin Jian nodded and his tone became heavy: "A Si, do you know what I am?"

"Are you also an ancient beast?" He Si asked the question in her mind. The little stone was Sui Ni, and Guan Zihe was the Zhinu. He Si had already guessed this, and Qin Jian was probably not a human, but Qin Jian shook his head. .

"Are you...the inheritor of a certain craft?"

Qin Jian still shook his head.

He Si stared at that handsome face, unable to lose her temper, and asked helplessly: "Then what are you?"

"I am the mirror."

"Mirror?" He Si didn't know how to express her surprise. The person in front of her was not a person, but an object like the protagonist of the cases she had investigated several times. She couldn't accept it for a moment.But thinking about Qin Jian's ability, thinking about the ancient mirror and the name of the small stone in the mirror gallery, He Si knew that what he said was all the truth.

"You have also thought about it. In front of Maitreya Buddha, the person who appeared in your dream finally turned into a mirror, and you were trapped in the mirror."

"Me?" He Si immediately realized what Qin Jian was talking about and had a bad feeling in her heart.

"That's where I woke up, but I have forgotten why I fell asleep and how I woke up. Just like my entity is full of traces of time, my memory is worn away."

Qin Jian looked at He Si, his eyes as dark as ink, as if he wanted to suck her soul in.

What he said was true, but it wasn't the whole truth.The part about the past in his memory has only been worn away, not completely disappeared. The important part that he has hidden at this moment is the past about He Si in his memory, which is the bond between the owner of this mirror and this girl thousands of years ago. .

"So you have been using the power of the Mirror Realm to find objects with the same strange power as you, just to recover the lost memories."

"Not just for the memory, but the truth of the matter."

"Then...what did you find out?"

Qin Jian shook his head: "No, I don't know if the other party hid the traces too well, or because..."

As Qin Jian spoke, he suddenly stopped. He Si looked at the young man's side face, which looked fragile and helpless in the sun, and then said, "It's because that person is you, right?"

Qin Jian's face was even more surprised. His eyes stayed on He Si's face for a second, and then he lowered his head to cover up the loneliness in his eyes.

"Xiaojiu told me when he was a little monkey that the person who woke him up has a similar breath to yours. Zhou Qian also said that the person who gave him plain gauze clothes had faint sandalwood on his body, and The dream in front of Maitreya Buddha, that body broken into a mirror... there is so much evidence, everything seems to point to you." He Si said, "But don't you think it's too coincidental? If it's really you, Will it leave so many traces?”

"Don't forget, I am a mirror. One of my abilities is to create illusions. Maybe I have a dual personality like Lin Huan."

"Is it like the inside and outside of a mirror? One is the mirror image, and the other is you."

"It's just that I can't tell which one is the real me."

"This, this is in front of me." He Si didn't dare to look at Qin Jian's expression, but held his hand, "I can tell the difference clearly. Don't forget, I have super powers."

Qin Jian chuckled lightly, his eyebrows curved, and for a moment, his whole person exuded a soft light: "If it is really me who planned all this, what will you do?"

"You are responsible for finding him, and I am responsible for helping you get rid of him. Don't forget, fighting has always been left to me."

"Haha," Qin Jian laughed more cheerfully this time, "I almost forgot, Ah Si is the most powerful."

"Is this why you haven't come to see me these days?"

"Yes, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and it will be straight when the boat reaches the bridge. It seems that I am too busy to bother myself." Qin Jian was still smiling, "Now it's Ah Si's turn."

"Ah?" He Si was stunned for a moment, then came back to her senses and said half coquettishly and half complaining, "How come you still remember."

"I always remember Ah Si's affairs clearly. Is it grandma?"

"No." He Si shook her head, picked up a branch and scratched it on the grass at her feet.

At this time, the setting sun was about to end. Xiaojiu sang a song on the osmanthus tree for a while, then pecked a few flowers under the osmanthus tree, fluffed its feathers, and a small mist seemed to shake off from the tips of its wings and smeared along the ground. Go under the trees for a moment in the shadow of the sunset.

"It's foggy and the sky is going to set." Qin Jian stood up, patted the dust on his body, and went to pull He Si, "Let's go back and eat wontons."

"It's that man." He Si stood up following the force, and her low voice reached Qin Jian's ears, "Back then, when we were eating dumplings at home, he would always put a coin in the dumpling, and then put the dumpling into my bowl. , because eating dumplings will bring you happiness."

Qin Jian didn't speak, and He Si was still talking quietly: "How ridiculous. As long as he comes to see me more, I will be happy. Why do I need to get coins? So I hate myself. This man abandoned me and my mother so easily, but I still can't forget him, and I will still find excuses for him to have illusions about him."

"This is what humans are," Qin Jian suddenly bent down and winked at He Si, "Humans are like this. They knowingly commit crimes, contradict themselves, look stupid, but are actually very cute."

"You're stupid." He Si said, her face a little tense, and she walked faster towards the house, but she heard Qin Jian still saying: "Don't expect me to cheat for you, can you eat chocolate-filled wontons?" It all depends on your ability.”

"Who cares."

Although He Si said this, she was still looking forward to it in her heart.She quickly walked into the back room, and Fan Yu just came out of the kitchen with steaming wontons, shouting like a waiter: "Let me tell you, these two people will come back when it's time to eat. By the way, Xiao He, Do you want the wontons to be sweet or savory?"

"Are there any sweet flavors in the wontons?" After He Si finished speaking, she thought of chocolate and was suddenly so stupid. She looked back at Qin Jian, who had returned to the serious look of the old Chaofeng, and couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Nothing serious." Liu Rui also came out with bowls and chopsticks at this time, put a dark wonton in everyone's bowl in front of He Si, and then handed the rest to Xiao Shitou. , then he took the time to say to He Si, "Miss He, just bear with it. It tastes bad, but for good luck, everyone has to take a bite of something sweet."

"I know." He Si took a bite of the hot and greasy wontons and felt that the ice blocking her heart had completely melted.

(End of this chapter)