Chapter 35 The Children at the Grave
"Kids, don't be too close to the fire, it's dangerous."
On the rainy day of Qingming Festival, Li Fang, with Di Yi and three others, stood at the entrance of a village in Balipu. When he saw the child kneeling in front of the grave and staring at the fire, he sighed and said.
The world he is in now is the Beidou World.
The Fire Phoenix stood respectfully, straight and alertly beside Di Yi, and did not ask him for answers again.
Like Zhou Huai, she became Di Yi's loyal bodyguard when she saw Di Yi.
Zhou Huai is on the left, she is on the right, and Di Yi is in the middle.
Li Fang walked in front.
They all wore long robes and cloth shoes, and carried handy cold weapons with them.
This was specially explained by Li Fang.
Never use guns and ammunition in the Beidou world. Once the backlash mechanism of this world is touched and the host of the Holy Martial clan is attracted, one or two of them will definitely die.
Li Fangqing cloth shoes walked on the soft mud of fields in early spring and came to the children, standing quietly.
The child kneeling in front of the grave seemed to have not heard Li Fang's words, and was still looking at the flame in front of him. His dark little face was hard and stubborn, and his eyes were filled with the coldness that he should not have at this age.
He is like an inconspicuous stone on the side of the road. You can kick him away with one kick or hurt your toes.
Li Fang looked at the fire in front of the child, and a light appeared in his eyes. When he noticed a golden pattern the size of a fingernail on the child's forehead, the light quickly turned into pity.
He turned around, looked at the small village not far away, and then looked at the Fire Phoenix. He finally understood why Fire Phoenix could receive such a task with the strength of the 0th level of the mortal body.
In the Beidou world, the Holy Martial Arts are respected and regard the human race as slaves.
The human race is weak, inferior and arrogant.
Although there was no major war between the two sides, the opposition between race and class is reflected in every corner of the two race societies.
Especially interracial intermarriage is a taboo for both races.
But the world is so big, there will always be some exceptions.
This child is a mixed race between the human race and the Holy Martial race.
This is also the reason why the system determines that Fire Phoenix can complete the task.
She did not want to save a human child from the hands of the Holy Martial clan, but to save this mixed-race child from the hands of the human race.
Li Fang sighed and said, "Little boy, let the fire be turned off, be careful to hurt you."
The child looked at Li Fang with a little confused in his eyes, as if he didn't understand why the Taoist would talk to him calmly.
In his past experiences, he always encountered contempt and disgusting eyes. People around him would avoid him from afar. Once he approached, he would be scolded and abused and drove him away.
It seems that as long as he gets closer, he will bring disaster and ominousness to them.
The child stared at Li Fang's eyes, and there seemed to be a flash of light in his black pupils. Then he confirmed that Li Fang had no malice towards him.
This made him a little happy.
I was a little excited, too.
He cleared his throat and knelt in front of the grave for three days and three nights. His throat was a little dry, and he replied seriously: "It is my friend and will not hurt me."
He said word by word, but because he had not communicated with others for a long time, he was extremely difficult to say.
Then, his eyes quickly moved to the small fire in front of the grave and stopped moving away.
Balipu Village is a small human village in a remote mountainous area. Although it is far away from the center of human civilization, it also has the tradition of burning paper to pay tribute to each other after the death of relatives.
It is said that the money burned to the dead will be exploited by various ghosts in the underworld, and the money that falls into the hands of relatives in the underworld is very small. If you want your relatives to live well there, you must burn a lot of money. The child is in a poor family and has never seen his father when he was born.
His mother is a woman who has experienced ups and downs and suffered a lifetime. She moved here with her baby in her cradle six years ago...
When the baby grew up day by day, when the people around him discovered his Saint Martial bloodline, they began to alienate and avoid the mother and son.
No matter what kind of ridicule and beating the child is exposed to outside, this weak and stubborn mother will always open her arms, erase the sadness for the child, and block most of the harm. Life is hard, but it has never been hard for the child.
Women never mention their children's father, or even say their own name. They always get up early and go to bed late, earning meager rewards, and giving their children the same childhood as other children.
Two years ago, a woman wanted her children to go to a private school in the village, which caused a storm. In the end, the private school was not completed. She and her children were driven out of the village and moved to a thatched hut outside the village.
The child is six years old, and the overworked woman died of serious illness. She only had one wish at the end of her death: she was willing to give her son the blessings of her next life and the next life, so that her child could grow up safely.
After the woman died, several families saw that she was pitiful and raised money to bury her. The soft-hearted old woman secretly cut a small stack of money and lit it in front of the grave.
When a child loses his mother, he seems not to care about the difficulties of his future life. He remembers the elderly that the more paper money he burns, the better his relatives will live.
The dark money in front of the grave was thick and it was gone after burning. The child had no more dark money, so he found a compromise method, hoping that the dark money would burn for a longer time. He seemed to think that in this way, the mother could receive a steady stream of dark money.
Something strange happened.
The fire was not extinguished for three days and three nights, and the child also sat for three days and three nights.
Chapter completed!