Year (Ancient Myth)

One:

When Xiaoxiu picked up Ah Nian, it was Chinese New Year's Eve.

Chinese New Year's Eve night, every household lit a long bright lamp, and the family happily gathered together to eat Chinese New Year's Eve meal, and the gold yuan treasure folded into gold leaf paper was crushed together, which means to step on the year and welcome the arrival of the new year.

Xiao Xiu is a girl with a hard life and has never enjoyed this.

She grew up with her parents, who were brought up by her grandmother.

Over the years, Grandma's health has become worse and worse. The family is also destitute, and Lang Zhong, who treats his grandmother, says that he will not give credit for silver.

Xiaoxiu looked at the clothes in the wooden basin and stepped up her steps to the river.

The cold wind blew fiercely and blew my cheeks with pain. She had to take care of her grandmother during the day, and she could only earn a few copper plates at night by helping others wash clothes.

When she reached the river, Xiaoxiu was already frozen and shivering. Ice was floating on the river, hands reaching in, bone-chilling cold.

She gritted her teeth and soaked her hands in ice water, freezing red and swollen.

After squatting for a long time, the limbs were somewhat numb, but the touch of the foreign body was particularly clear.

She looked down and felt a gilded hollow ball of red silk thread in the water.

It is a very delicate gilded ball with a simple pattern on it, and the style is extremely rare.

Picking up such a strange object, The delicate mood was a little flustered. There are no valuable things in the family, and the things in your hands can undoubtedly go to the pawnshop to treat your grandmother's illness and exchange some silver.

She thought about it for a moment, decided to put her things away, picked up her washed clothes and left quickly.

At this time, she did not want to stay here and be seen.

But before she could take a few steps, a string of small blisters suddenly appeared under the glacier, and then a figure gradually appeared on the surface of the river.

When Xiaoxiu heard the movement, she originally wanted to hurry up, but she couldn't help but look back.

The wooden basin she was holding in her hand suddenly landed on the ground, and her brain did not have time to react, so she turned back and plunged into the water.

The water in the river was really cold.

The first thing she thought about when she came down was not whether she would get frostbitten, but whether the person floating on the river was dead or alive.

She thought that if she died in this river, and was probably frozen into an ice sculpture, it would be too pitiful.

Poor people always pity poor people, and always feel empathy for the situation of others.

It was hard to bring the man ashore, and The delicate show was already frozen and stiff. Even the body has no consciousness.

Her whole body was trembling, and she lifted her lead-filled arm and slapped the man's back hard.

She could feel him still having a faint pulse.

She turned the person over, and it was a very pale and handsome teenager, with a few strands of inky hair falling from his side cheeks, and a pair of eyes tightly closed, as if it were a glass that was about to be broken.

"Wake up, Lang Jun, wake up quickly." Xiaoxiu went to probe his sniffles, almost to the end. She looked around, and finally made up her mind, pinched the cheeks on the side of the teenager's face, forcibly closed his closed teeth, and took a deep breath and leaned down.

Xiao Xiu gave the young man a breath while observing the movements around him.

She has been dating people since she was a child, as a girl's family, she can't have too much contact with outsiders, not to mention this skin kiss, if she is seen, she will definitely be immersed in a cage.

After doing this, her heart was like a thunderclap, and she was about to get up, but she faced a pair of scarlet blood pupils.

I don't know if it was the reason why I stayed in the glacier for a long time, But Xiu Xiu only felt that the crimson in her eyes seemed to have frozen blood, and as long as she looked at it, she could make people feel like falling into the abyss.

"Who are you?" As soon as the teenager opened his mouth, it was as cold as ice, a pair of pale and slender hands suddenly choked the lifeblood of the delicate xiu, and the blood-like eyes could not afford any waves as if anything was the dust under his eyes.

"I..." Xiaoxiu's neck was tightened tighter and tighter, and she didn't know that the fate of sacrificing her life to save people was so ungrateful.

"Lang Jun... Please, spare my life..." She had tears in her eyes and tore at her throat, "My grandmother is still sick and needs my care." ”

The killing intent in the teenager's eyes filled the air, "Hand things over!" ”

Xiao Xiu was shocked, and immediately reacted, quickly flipped out of his sleeve what he had put away before, and trembled: "Yes, is this it?" “

The teenager saw that the thing was intact, and the anger in his eyes suddenly dissipated for the most part, he lowered his eyes, and instantly released the delicate show, a pair of dark red eyes hidden under the extremely long and beautiful eyelashes, unable to see the emotion.

After seeing people get things, there is no longer that frightening killing intention, and Xiaoxiu can be regarded as relieved. However, she thought about it for a moment, if she had not been selfish and took other people's things without permission, she might not have caused this trouble.

She spoke cautiously, "Lang Jun, before... I was rude and didn't know it was yours, I'm really sorry. ”

The teenager turned his head sideways, stood up coldly, and turned around into the vast night.

Xiao Xiu was stunned in place, if it weren't for the stranglehold on her neck that was still burning with pain, she really had to suspect that everything that had happened before was an illusion.

Two

When Xiaoxiu walked back, the fire in the village was reduced by more than half.

Chinese New Year's Eve everyone wants to make a good color head, joyfully keep the age, and when they get to the back, how big is that they can't stand the sleeping worms on their heads.

Not far from the hillside, a large area of open flames gathered, and the light of the fire that was clearly extinguished was rushing down the mountain.

When She looked at it, she panicked.

There are often bandits in the vicinity of the village, and over the years, famine has been so severe that these bandits often break into people's houses and set fires to loot.

Chinese New Year's Eve, every household will take out the best things in the family, presumably the bandits have calculated this.

The more she walked, the weaker she became, and her feet slipped, and she fell heavily to the ground, unable to climb up.

"Village chief, second uncle!" Come on some people, the bandits are going into the village! ”

XiaoXiu shouted, her body was frozen, and it took her a lot of effort to shout a word.

Her throat was almost broken, and no one came for a long time. When the bandits heard the movement on this side, they grabbed a large knife and held up torches and surrounded them.

"Stinky ladies, you call again, Lao Tzu cut your tongue!" A short one-eyed mountain bandit drilled out, stepped on the back ridge of the delicate show, held up a torch and looked closely, and the corner of his mouth pulled out a smile, "Yo, still a little lady with fine skin and tender flesh." ”

The bandits carried large knives over their shoulders, and their faces twisted with obscene smiles.

"The eldest brother might as well do her on the spot, and the brothers will take turns."

"No, no, don't come here!" Xiu Xiu's fingers crawled backwards against the snow.

The bandits first grabbed her ankle and then rudely dragged Her body into the alley.

"You beasts, are you not afraid of losing your conscience by doing so?!" Xiao Xiu roared and trembled, the bandits were in charge of so much, several people pressed Xiao Xiu's hands and feet, and one of them unzipped his pants and pressed them.

Her smelly mouth came up, and her hands tore at her shirt.

XiaoXiu struggled, but was slapped by someone.

She stared dead into the sky, the sound of her clothes tearing, and she closed her eyes in despair.

Suddenly, the mountain bandits on their bodies screamed.

She opened her eyes suddenly, but she saw that the mountain bandit had been penetrated through the back, and her eyes were wide and wide, and she couldn't see it.

She quickly pushed the person to the side, got up and ran.

Who knew that the bandits next to her reacted quickly, grabbed a large knife and slashed at her.

This knife is extremely powerful, enough to split a person in half.

Xiao Xiu thought that he would not be able to escape this fate, but he blocked it alone.

The man looked cold and slowly turned around.

Xiaoxiu covered her mouth, so nervous that she couldn't speak at all.

It was the boy she had rescued by the river, and he had blocked a knife for her, and his entire right arm had been cut off, bloodied and dripping with blood.

"How could it be you..." She looked at his wound in disbelief and involuntarily took a few steps forward.

He looked indifferent, as if he didn't think anything of it, and turned his head to the bandit again.

"Who are you, who are you?" A bunch of bandits are some outlaws who have taken lives for their lives, and they have never seen someone cut off an arm alive without blinking an eyelid.

What they are afraid of is this kind of lifelessness.

The road has been mixed for decades, but it is more courageous than anyone, if you really fight for your life, who is not afraid of death?

The teenagers who suddenly emerged from the night stared at them with the slaughter and coldness of the night.

Suddenly, his eyes moved, and a group of bandits were frightened and soft-legged, and the guy in his hand threw it to the ground.

The teenager spat out a word coldly, "Roll—"

A bunch of strong-bodied bandits rolled the urine stream, pulled their legs and ran.

As soon as the man left, the teenager immediately collapsed to the ground, and a mouthful of blood poured out without warning.

"Lang Jun!" Xiao Xiu knelt on the ground, holding the teenager's body, his face full of tears, "You hold on, I will find You Langzhong." ”

The young man fell down deeply, and before closing his eyes, he commanded, "Don't look for anyone, go." ”

Three

Along the way, XiaoXiu walked barefoot.

In the confusion, I don't know where the mountain bandits kicked her shoes. At present, the teenager is seriously injured, and she has no intention of looking for it.

She carried the teenager on her back, her thin body bent into a bow, her shoulders heavy and heavy, and she gritted her teeth and stepped on the snow step by step.

The wind and snow were vast, and it was difficult to move forward, so I arrived at the door of the house, but I saw that the small broken lamp that she hung before going out had been extinguished for a long time.

She didn't dare to alarm her grandmother, after all, she had carried someone home in the middle of the night, and she was still so embarrassed.

She crept open the door, trying to find a place to settle people down first. At this time, there was a particularly abrupt sound in the room.

"Ah Xiu."

Hearing this, Xiaoxiu's breathing stagnated slightly, and she turned around stiffly, but she saw the flames rubbing against the light.

Under the candlelight, a deep face is outlined.

Xiao Xiu looked at that face, a pair of deep eyes ancient well waveless, calm containing countless vicissitudes of mulberry fields.

"Grandma—"

Xiaoxiu lowered her head and knelt down, she bowed her head, did not say anything, and the old man on the other side already understood.

In the dim candle flame, the figure of the old man was pulled out of the black and long, like a lotus that was about to wither away, without any vitality.

Xiao Xiu buried her head very low, not even daring to look at the old man sitting on it.

Growing up, Xiaoxiu never asked grandma for anything. And this time, she wanted to beg her to save the teenager in front of her.

Grandma is the last witch in the clan, through yin and yang, up to Providence, can rise from the dead to life, depending on the number of people's lives, can also be exchanged.

Perhaps it was the anti-heavenly things that were done too much, she lost her husband shortly after her new marriage, lost her son in middle age, and when she was old and decadent, she was plagued by evil diseases.

Cause and effect have their own cycles, and everything is caused by retribution.

Grandma knew that her sins were deep, and from then on, no matter how hard the people of the clan begged, she would no longer use the anti-heaven technique.

"Ah Xiu, do you really want to save him?"

The old man's cloudy eyes turned deeply, and he spoke like an old broken door, making a hoarse sound.

"Yes, Grandma, I want to save him." Xiao Xiu raised her head, and her eyes reflected the figure under the candlelight. She leaned down and bowed, "Grandma... It is Ah Xiu who is not filial and should not go against Grandma's wishes. This time...... Ah Xiu was willing to bear the consequences of this spell on his own. ”

She knelt down on the ground, her words earnest, and her eyes did not retreat in the slightest.

"How can we save our lives by dying, our good spirits dying, and our evil bodies being fierce?"

Xiao Xiu was stunned, and the words were confused, she did not understand.

The old man breathed a long sigh of relief, and she said, "Ah Xiu, you are a good boy." ”

After speaking, the old man straightened up the figure of The Ricket, turned his back to Xiaoxiu and said, "You go outside and wait, the people have been rescued, and I will call you again." ”

Xiao Xiu waited outside for a long time.

There was no sound in the house, she waited anxiously outside, the wind outside the house was blowing harder and harder, the door was cracking, and with each stroke she felt frightened.

Later, the door opened, and Grandma's whole body seemed to be embedded in the doorway, old and decadent, and a pair of eyes full of wrinkles had sunk deeply into it.

"Grandma..." Xiao Xiu cried out in a crying voice, "Didn't you say that all the sins and sins should be borne by me?" ”

At this moment, she had a cardiac arrest, "... In this world, I only have you Grandma. ”

Tears slid down her cheeks in large pieces, and Xiaoxiu knelt in front of the old man, only to raise her hand.

"Ah Xiu, Grandma is going to see the immortals, what are you crying?" The old man graciously took her hand and sat down under the old tree in the doorway, and she said, "That's a good thing." ”

"Man, after all, has his own destiny... Grandma made a mistake in the past, and now she has to pay it back. ”

"Ah Xiu, be good at your heart, no matter what you do right or wrong, that's all Grandma can do for you."

"A glimmer of life, still in their own grasp ..."

At dawn, when the sky spat out fish belly white, Grandma went.

She walked very quietly, and her whole body was covered with a layer of wind and snow, like an ice sculpture.

Xiaoxiu knelt on the ground and patiently and thoughtfully massaged the old man's shoulders as usual.

The tall, thin figure of the teenager came out of the room, and the delicate show met his eyes.

The scarlet pupils were surrounded by a layer of golden starlight, and if you looked closely, it looked like a shackle carved into a stone wall.

"She's dead." Boy Road.

Xiaoxiu blushed and continued the movement of her hand, "I know, just... Grandma's body is hard, and she will be uncomfortable like this. ”

The teenager did not speak, and kept silently watching The Show.

Soon, the silence was broken, and a group of people with torches gathered around The Door of Xiuxiu's house.

They came with dry firewood, straw, and fire oil.

The leader is the patriarch.

They said that Grandma, as a witch, was an ominous person who could not go into the ground after death and had to be cremated and burned.

Where is The show, stopped a group of people, was beaten to the head and bleeding, after that, still failed to save the body of the grandmother.

A fire that burned everything, including her marriage contract.

The patriarch's son, her fiancé, at this time, in front of everyone, declared the marriage contract null and void and burned the marriage book.

From beginning to end, the teenager stood still and watched coldly.

In the end, everyone dispersed, and Xiuxiu could only pick up the ashes on the ground in the extinguished fire.

"They thin you, they beat you up, they abandon you, do you hate?" The cold voice of the teenager began to rise.

Hoso turned her head to look at him, "Hate, but only blame myself." ”

Four:

A few days later, the robbers attacked the village again.

The villagers all knew the news in advance and evacuated early. Only The Show, who knows nothing about it.

When the robbers rushed to Hosohide's house, Hosohide was still playing with hemp rope in the courtyard.

A horizontal knife flew in, without any warning, and plunged into Xiaoxiu's body in a daze.

Her body stiffened, blood gushed out, and as she fell, a long, thin figure suddenly appeared in front of her.

The corners of Hersie's mouth bent, and it turned out that he had been ah.

Since Grandma had gone, the pupilless teenager had disappeared with her. Xiaoxiu tried to look for him, but had no clue.

At the same time, on the other side of the room, there was also a shout: "Xiu Xiu! ”

It was her out-of-wedlocked fiancé.

Li Cai walked halfway to the road and turned back, the robber attack on the village is such a big thing, he even forgot to tell Xiao Xiu.

Seeing the figure of Xiaoxiu lying on the ground in a pool of blood, he involuntarily took a few steps forward, lost his soul and shouted, "... Ah Xiu. ”

The teenager next to Xiao Xiu suddenly increased his eyes and blood, and his anger soared.

He picked the person up coldly and spat out without emotion: "Stay away from her!" ”

Just when Xiaoxiu's consciousness was about to dissipate, she suddenly heard a sentence fall in her ear: "I will save you." ”

"Whatever the cost."

The delicate soul wandered away, constantly falling down, like a bottomless pit, all the way down.

It was as if there were thousands of hands tearing at her soul, and she felt broken and painful.

This is what Grandma said, she will suffer the sin of sin, not to die well, fall into the infernal path, and be devoured by thousands of evil spirits.

Suddenly, a thin golden thread wrapped around Slender's wrist.

She heard a familiar voice: "I've caught you." ”

Then, in an instant, she was pulled into the human world, floating in mid-air, half-penetrating.

She saw many stone statues lined up around her, and the faces were familiar.

There was a gilded ball hanging in the air, and Xiaoxiu wanted to touch it, but a voice fell in his ear: "I just pulled you out of the infernal passage, if you touch it, you will never come out if you are sucked in." ”

Xiao Xiu turned her head back to a pair of familiar eyes.

He looked into her eyes and said word by word, "I said I would save you." ”

As soon as his eyes moved, the shackles in his pupils slowly spilled out and surrounded the small ball.

"Your life is thin and widowed, and your soul is damaged, and you must make up for the lack with spiritual blessings."

The so-called spiritual blessing is the blessing and spirit of mortals in the world, and if it is obvious that it is taken by people, people will immediately turn into stone statues.

And that gilded ball was obviously a magic weapon for extracting spiritual blessings from people' bodies.

The teenager put the gilded ball in Xiaoxiu's hand, looked at Xiaoxiu seriously, and said, "Now, you can touch it, and I have added a Fa seal for you." ”

As if she had found something, She asked, "Why is the pattern in your eyes the same as the one in your eyes?" ”

The young man's beautiful eyelashes fluttered slightly, and he avoided the questioning eyes of the delicate xiu, and said in a low voice: "The gilt ball in your hand is called Haina Suzukawa." It's my mother. ”

Xiao Xiu was slightly stunned, but she heard the young man's voice continue in a deep voice: "On the day I was born, my father killed me with his own hands and sacrificed my soul. It was my mother, who scattered the Yuan God, and transformed into this moment, and absorbed the hundreds of things in the world, and then slowly reunited for me. ”

"How many people's blessings do you need to extract for my soul?" The delicate voice was stained with wetness.

The teenager's eyes showed anger, "All, the people who bullied you." ”

"Then what will you suffer?" The girl's voice was buried by the wind and snow, and the wind and snow were getting bigger and bigger, and the snow that swept in seemed to destroy all the creatures in this field.

The answer, apparently, is already known.

At this moment, Xiaoxiu closed her eyes, used all her strength, and in this instant, crushed the ball in her hand.

"I'm sorry..."

"Ah Nian" Xiaoxiu shouted this name out of her mouth, and she said, "I can't... Because of the suffering and misfortune you have suffered, you will take away the good fortune of others. ”

"What do you call me?" The golden light spread out in the wind and snow, and in an instant, the whistling ice sky suddenly stopped, the spirit blessing returned to itself, and all living beings slowly awakened.

The young man's eyes were blood red, and he pulled away the layers of golden light, and tried his best to shout, "No, you give me back!" ”

Her voice was ethereal, long and ethereal, "Ah Nian, I know everything about you, your name is Ji Nian." ”

Ji Nian, the fourteenth son of the Eastern God, good soul and evil body, good and evil are one, good and evil are like mysteries.

On the night of her death, Grandma told her about her youth and the number of her lives.

"Ah Nian, you are willing to fight against the heavens for me, risk the great disobedience of the heavens, and replenish my soul, for me, this is good, but for them, it is a disaster, and for yourself, it is even more doomed."

The teenager's eyes were smeared with a layer of bright carmine, and his face was intoxicating, but he said, "So what?" ”

With tears in her eyes, She spread her arms and scattered her aura.

"I'm not going to let you do that." She hugged him, and her soul poured into his body, "Your good soul was sacrificed by the Eastern God, and from now on, I am your good." ”

Her voice gradually shattered, and in an instant only a fragmented shadow remained.

Ji Nian fell to his knees, clutching the debris on the ground, his eyes red.

Where he wanted to save her, he was only trying to find a hypocritical excuse to take revenge on his benevolent father.

And now, he regrets it.

In the wind and snow, the figure of the teenager was quickly covered by the wind and snow.

Many years later, a legend gradually arose in the human world:

The fourteenth son of the Eastern God, Nian, sexual loneliness, hidden tracking, one less right arm, sixty years to appear once in the world, Chinese New Year's Eve the evening rise, see the person change a hair, but can get its spiritual luck, to ensure that the wind and rain of the coming year are smooth.

People are convinced of this legend.

It was a snowy night, and the lonely figure of the young man stepped on the snow, and at the far end pulled a long, simple and solemn figure.

The boy did not come forward, but knelt on the ground at a distance, calling this cold and heartless man for the first time as a "Father." ”

The man turned back, and it was the Eastern God.

He said, "If you love her and be blessed, she should still have a glimmer of life." ”

The young man was stunned, and the man continued, "You are destined to die, and reincarnation can be solved." ”

"When her soul is destroyed, part of her soul is dedicated to you, and the other part is scattered in the world with the blessings of the spirit, and it appears once in sixty years. If you are in love, you will have traces to follow. ”