we are just monsters

Chapter 108 Ordinary
Master is old.

Zhou Xiaotian looked at Zhou Muqing's staggering steps, her nose was sore, she knew that the master had finally realized that matter, the master's master might have died long ago, so she stopped.

But what she didn't expect was that Master would be like so many ordinary people, like a yellow leaf in the autumn wind, dying of old age.

It turned out that Master was just an ordinary person.

Where in the world will there be any gods.

"Let's go, Master, we won't stay here anymore." Zhou Xiaotian stubbornly believed that if he walked on the road again, even if Master couldn't regain his youth, he wouldn't age as fast as he does now.

"You still need to study, don't think so much." Zhou Muqing patted her head.

"Stop reading."

"Zhou Xiaotian!"

Zhou Muqing stared.

Zhou Xiaotian lowered his head and looked at his toes.

She didn't know how she would continue to live in this world by herself if Zhou Muqing left one day.

In 2007, there was still one year before the Olympic Games, and the atmosphere of welcoming the Olympic Games was enthusiastic, one after another themed activities, lion dance, primary and secondary school sports meeting, and Zhou Xiaotian's school also held the Olympic Cup English competition.

In the autumn of this year, Zhou Xiaotian was 12 years old. He had just entered junior high school, and he already felt the ruthlessness of time and the shortness of life.

The leaves downstairs turned yellow. After a heavy rain, they fluttered and fell all over the ground with water stains.

Zhou Xiaotian went to school in silence, and left school in silence.

Zhou Muqing saw a butterfly under the tree, it was wet all over, shivering in a corner.Bending down to pick it up, she lightly touched the wet wings, took out a handkerchief from her pocket, wiped it clean, and placed it by the flower bed to bask in the sun, while she sat aside, staring into the distance in a daze.

She was bathed in the sun, her face lost the firmness of previous years, but was full of tranquility and peace.

"Everything has animism."

In the afternoon, Zhou Muqing looked at the fluttering butterflies and smiled, not knowing whether he was talking to Zhou Xiaotian after school, or talking to himself.

Zhou Xiaotian went to Zhou Muqing's room in the middle of the night. She was already a big girl and squeezed into Master's bed. Zhou Muqing's arms were still warm.

"Going to sleep with Master again?" Zhou Muqing patted her on the back and said softly.Zhou Xiaotian was still so thin, taller than when he was a child, and he couldn't fit his whole body in her arms, his young body was full of vigor.

"Yeah." Zhou Xiaotian said with his eyes closed.

"I don't feel ashamed, I still sleep with Master at this age."

Zhou Xiaotian didn't speak, what's the matter, it's okay for a woman in her 30s to sleep with her mother.

"Master, tell me again, you picked me up in the trash back then."

"That's it..."

In fact, there is nothing to say. In Zhou Muqing's description, she was passing by the stinky garbage dump, and she heard a child crying, so she wondered, went to have a look, and then saw a little doll, which was also stinky and ugly. , like an ugly duckling.

"I'm delicious now." Zhou Xiaotian snorted, "You must have been picking up trash, you were just passing through the trash to pick up bottles and sell them."

The master and apprentice buried each other.

"Okay, okay, I passed by there and smelled a scent, and then I followed the scent and found it was very beautiful... No, the smell in the garbage dump is not reasonable at all." Zhou Muqing said.

"I'm so fragrant." Zhou Xiaotian helped her realize this statement, "I was born with a body fragrance, like the fragrant concubine in Princess Huanzhu."

"Okay, you are Concubine Xiang, lying in the smelly garbage dump..." Zhou Muqing couldn't help laughing, Zhou Xiaotian put his head against her shoulder and arched vigorously.

The master and the master were talking at night, and fell asleep unconsciously.

This kind of warmth didn't last long. At the end of autumn, the teacher called Zhou Muqing to the school, saying that Zhou Xiaotian was rebellious in adolescence and didn't study hard.

Zhou Muqing was furious, and asked Zhou Xiaotian to study hard, but Zhou Xiaotian kept a stubborn face and kept silent, even if his palms were pulled by bamboo sticks, he would not say a word.

This winter, Zhou Xiaotian was dismissed by the school, Zhou Muqing stood at the school gate without saying a word for a long time, Zhou Xiaotian looked calm.

"Master, I should have frozen to death 12 years ago, but you picked me up."

Zhou Xiaotian said, "I shouldn't study, I don't have the life to study."

"After learning a little, you want to go to heaven, don't you?"

"I don't want to go to heaven, I just want you to continue your life, don't change because of me." Zhou Xiaotian said, "I know it's because of me."

Zhou Muqing looked at her coldly, at the apprentice who had been brought up by himself.

Zhou Xiaotian looked at her without fear.

Zhou Xiaotian, who was about to turn 13, was already as tall as her chest, and he was no longer the little guy who followed behind and shouted for his master.

"Don't regret it." Zhou Muqing said.

"I do not regret."

Zhou Xiaotian raised his head, "The only thing I regret is that I didn't stay in someone else's house."

That way without her being a burden, the master would still be alone, at least he wouldn't become so old.

Everything is related, that's what the master taught, and she has already begun to understand.

"Let's go, don't stay here in Poyangjiang, or you will be gone when I finish high school." Zhou Xiaotian said.

There is no retribution, only cause and effect and choice. Master is a bird soaring in the sky. He is free in this life. If she is trapped in one place, she will naturally age visible to the naked eye.

Zhou Muqing stretched out her hand, Zhou Xiaotian didn't dodge, stared at her until she was embraced, her eyes were slightly red, "Master."

"I will leave the money to you to help you buy a good house. You go to school here, and I will come back to see you in the future." Zhou Muqing said.

"No, I want to follow you."

"I don't want you to follow."

"Don't try to run away." Zhou Xiaotian whispered, "I will find you after you leave."

Zhou Muqing didn't speak, she looked at the sky quietly.

In fact, she wasn't looking for it anymore, she just lived for many years and had become a habitual instinct. She just wanted to end this life like this and draw a successful conclusion.

Otherwise, there will be some regrets after all.

This year's winter was extremely cold, and so was Yangjiang.

In January 08, the master and apprentice set foot on the train again.

Zhou Muqing shook out a hexagram, and the six lines were sent together, good and bad are unpredictable, and he is slow when things happen, but he can gain something.

On the train, looking at the snow and ice outside the window, Zhou Xiaotian snuggled up beside her.

People should live like people, not like many people at that time. Zhou Xiaotian forgot where she saw this, and she thought it was right.

This is her life, the master and the apprentice should be like this, it has been like this since childhood, and it will still be like this in the future.

It had nothing to do with anyone, she just wanted to, so she did it.

Until decades later, Zhou Xiaotian never regretted it in retrospect. It was the scenery on the road of her life, a unique life.

People should live like people, yes, there are not so many trade-offs.

(End of this chapter)