Ruan Qiao looked at Mu Le: “I still trust the allies that Silly Mu Zai found.”
Xiong Ji also smiled lightly: “I have made you a friend.”
“Let’s go, let’s go.” Mu Le was called stupid and walked ahead with an unhappy look on his face.
Ruan Qiao and Xiong Ji fell behind. Ruan Qiao looked at the crossbow in her hand: “your shooting skills are good.”
Xiong Ji received praise, but it was still very useful on her face: “I am nothing. When I can reach the level of the number one sniper in the Isolation Zone, I will be considered strong.”
Ruan Qiao fiddled with the crossbow: “Who is the number one sniper now?”
Xiong Ji said: “It doesn’t matter who it is now. In my heart, only one person can be considered number one.”
Ruan Qiao raised her hand and didn’t look back. She just fired an arrow behind her and then returned the crossbow to Xiong Ji.
The two of them quickened their pace to catch up with the boy in front of them.
Where no one was paying attention, the little arrow hit the wind chime wire hanging under the eaves at a precise angle.
The thread breaks and the bell falls.
It was quiet again.
……
Seeing that it was lunch time, the four of them planned to go back to Ruan’s house to have lunch.
Before entering the house, they saw a pile of colorful papers hanging in front of Ruan’s house.
The colored paper was painted with cinnabar with invisible patterns.
Looking at these patterns, Ruan Qiao’s eyes went dark and she felt like she had lost control of her body again.
The memory this time seems to be from her childhood, when she was running around the village with her little arms and legs.
Very soon, she came to the door of the ancestral hall and climbed up the steps. The door was not closed and she pushed it open easily.
The ancestral hall was still the same, with candles lit and the smell of sesame oil filling the air.
Uncle Chen was sitting at the counter behind the door of the ancestral hall. When he saw Ruan Qiao coming in, he showed a happy expression on his face and waved: “Xiao Ruan, come here.”
She called Uncle Chen sweetly and walked to the counter obediently.
Uncle Chen took out a box from under the stage and opened it to find a yellowed white cloth bag.
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Opening the cloth bag layer by layer, Uncle Chen took out two square pieces of sugar with trembling dry fingers and placed them on Ruan Qiao’s small palm.
Ruan Qiao shouted sharply: “Thank you, Uncle Chen!”
Uncle Chen smiled, one white eye stared, and the other blinked: “Go and play, Xiao Yun is inside.”
The little girl who got the candy smiled very happily. She jumped into the ancestral hall and saw a small figure cleaning the cabinet.
Ruan Qiao ran to the little boy, took his little hand, and put another sugar in his palm: “Sweet! Eat candy!”
The little boy’s expression was very dark. He looked at the candy in his palm and lowered his long eyelashes. After a long while, he put the candy into his mouth.
She asked: “Is it delicious?”
The little boy lowered his head, but the corners of his mouth were curved, and his voice was very low: “en.”
Ruan Qiao wanted to say something else, but she instinctively felt something next to him.
She turned her head to look, and saw the figure of a woman with long hair reaching her waist standing deep in the gloomy ancestral hall.
The woman stood there quietly. For her as a child, the woman’s shadow was too tall and twisted. She stood in the darkness and could not see clearly.
The woman moved, and the black shadow waved to her.
The other candy in Ruan Qiao’s hand fell to the ground with a thud.
……
“Xiao Ruan! You’re back!” Mother Ruan’s shouted, and the memory fragments in front of Ruan Qiao had disappeared.
Several people entered the house and began to help make lunch.
After eating, mother Ruan’s took Ruan Qiao into her bedroom, took out a bracelet woven with five-color threads, tied it for her, and said: “Fire is red, earth is yellow, wood is blue, gold is white, The water is black and the five colors merge into one, keeping you safe!”
Ruan Qiao asked her: “What is this?”
“This is colorful thread. Although it will only be tied during the Dragon Boat Festival, our family is in a special period now.” Mother Ruan’s finished tying it and sat behind the bed: “This is something I finally begged from the Shen family. Please wear it well. Don’t worry about it so much. The Shen family has been through so many years of ups and downs, what have they not seen before? The things they give are all good things.”
Ruan Qiao couldn’t laugh or cry: “Did the Shen family get those colorful things outside?”
Mu Le will really lose his job if this continues……
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