we are just monsters

Chapter 111
There was an anxious atmosphere in the carriage. After stopping for four or five hours, the train would go for a while, and then stop again after less than an hour.

At the beginning, people would still be full of energy, and some even cheered, but after repeating it several times, no one did that anymore.

Zhou Xiaotian didn't panic, she closed her eyes and leaned on Zhou Muqing's shoulder, she was very stable and peaceful, even her breathing was not disturbed.

She knew that everything would pass. The years of following Master had never been smooth sailing. They slept at the station and passed the night in the Internet cafe.

Zhou Muqing said that everything you come into contact with from birth determines your personality and cognition.

Zhou Xiaotian's cognition is like this, there is no difficulty in the world, even if there is, it will be solved eventually, or the meaning of the existence of difficulty itself is to slow down their steps and wait for them to go over.

This is a mentality that comes naturally after traveling to many places, and Zhou Muqing also has it. She can even rest assured that Zhou Xiaotian will be left alone in Yangjiang, believing that Zhou Xiaotian can take care of herself—in her mind, living is very simple, the easiest thing , because both their master and apprentice were abandoned and survived.

It is not only the world that is cold-eyed, but also oneself.

They were cold all over, relying on each other for warmth.

Zhou Muqing gently stroked Zhou Xiaotian's hair, looking out the window.

This snow hindered them for two days and three nights. There was no hot water in the car. The two of them ate a piece of noodles dryly with water. When they got off the car, there were still two boxes of instant noodles left. on people.

When getting out of the car, Zhou Muqing staggered for a while, feeling drowsy after sitting for too long, Zhou Xiaotian hurriedly supported her, the crowd outside crowded the two masters and apprentices to go out, Zhou Muqing suddenly froze for a moment, tried to tiptoe to look into the distance.

"Master, what are you looking at?" Zhou Xiaotian looked in the direction she was looking.

Zhou Muqing was in a daze, she didn't know if it was a hallucination, but she seemed to see a silhouette that looked like Master just now.

However, so many years have passed.

She subconsciously walked there, led Zhou Xiaotian to squeeze through the crowd, and walked all the way from the underground passage to the outside of the station.

"Master?" Zhou Xiaotian called out in a low voice.

"I seem to have seen it."

Zhou Muqing looked around in a daze. It was already night, and there was a huge crowd outside the station. The two of them had to be very close to hear what they said.

"What did you see? Master, don't scare me." Zhou Xiaotian said.

"Maybe it's my eyesight."

"Which old man?" Zhou Xiaotian looked around at the old guys around.

This is not their destination, but because of the weather, they can only get off the car nearby and wait for the snow to pass.

The master and the apprentice spent another Spring Festival in a strange city, and they stayed temporarily. They couldn't make dumplings in the hotel. Zhou Xiaotian rubbed her legs for her, with a face of reluctance.

In previous years, Zhou Muqing would make dumplings with fennel eggs and wait for the Spring Festival Gala together. When he lived in the small courtyard, he would buy two packs of firecrackers to set off.

Zhou Muqing closed her eyes and meditated, she didn't know what she was thinking, the glimpse of that day kept flashing in her mind.

Is it really just a misread?

she asked herself.

if not?
It can't be that I saw a ghost.

"Xiao Tian."

"Ok?"

"……fine."

Zhou Muqing turned sideways, staring out of the dark window in a daze.

After a while, she took out the hexagram of Shi Yao in Yangjiang again, and looked at it again and again.

"Xiao Tian."

"Ok?"

"..."

Zhou Muqing pursed his lips.

"Master, what are you doing?" Zhou Xiaotian looked at her. She used to like this when she was a child, calling out Master, then it's okay, and calling again after a while.

childish.

Zhou Muqing got up and walked to the window, looking at the reflection on the glass and the fireworks outside the window.

"Tell me, are there any aliens in this world?" She thought of Zhou Xiaotian's extracurricular books when she was a child.

"Master, are you okay?" Zhou Xiaotian asked in surprise.

Zhou Muqing stood quietly.

"Let's go to the station tomorrow to have a look," she said.

"Oh!"

Zhou Xiaotian didn't say anything, he washed his hands and face with hot water, and didn't take Master's words of aliens to heart.

They didn't bring much luggage, just a copper basin that they took everywhere, which contained the things Zhou Muqing set up at the stall, and the clothes of the two of them. Other than that, there were some daily necessities.

"Master, you haven't found a man all your life, is it because you have been hurt? Master, have you ever had a boy you fell in love with? Didn't you blush all day long when you held hands?"

"There are many things." Zhou Muqing said.

"Isn't it? No way, Master, you have always been like this... like this..."

Zhou Xiaotian misses Master Bagua's past very much.

Zhou Muqing looked down at his hands, but didn't speak.

"Master, have you ever kissed?" Zhou Xiaotian suddenly approached and looked at Zhou Muqing with curiosity in his eyes.

"so rude!"

Zhou Muqing frowned and reprimanded.

Zhou Xiaotian had a strange expression, Master seemed to be avoiding his eyes?
"Shouldn't there be none?"

"Damn girl, sleep!"

The lights in the room went out.

Zhou Xiaotian and Master huddled together on the bed in the hotel, the two of them were quiet.

"Master, tell me, if you have a child, give me a little junior sister, wouldn't it be much better?"

"Find an apprentice yourself, and ask me for some junior sister."

"I have a baby, let you bring it to me."

"Let's give birth."

Zhou Muqing said perfunctorily, she blinked her eyes as she looked at the dim light outside the window.

There was no movement for a long time.

"Xiao Tian."

"Ok?"

"Do you have a boy you like?"

"...Master, where can I find a boy to like?"

Zhou Xiaotian said helplessly, when he was in school, the group of dog students were like idiots, they could still cry after being scolded by the teacher...

"That's right." Zhou Muqing thought for a while, and there was indeed no familiar boy, "This won't work, you can't learn from me."

"Master, I'm still young." Zhou Xiaotian said.

"I think you're a big kid."

Zhou Muqing muttered in a low voice, when she was Zhou Xiaotian's age, it seemed...

"what?"

"Master, what are you doing!" Zhou Xiaotian screamed.

"Accidentally bumped into it." Zhou Muqing said, paused and said: "You are a big girl."

Zhou Xiaotian: "..."

How afraid are you that I won't be able to get married?

Silent all night.

The master and the apprentice were thinking about their own thoughts, and the sound of fireworks outside the window continued.

In 08, Zhou Muqing set up a stall on the street opposite the railway station for half a month, and finally boarded the train back to Yicheng.

This is the place where she has lived for a long time, and after leaving for so many years, there are not many traces of familiarity.

Following her memory, Zhou Muqing came to a small supermarket along the street. The small courtyard used to be here, but now it has become a residential building and opened a supermarket. She bought two bags of milk and gave one to Zhou Xiaotian.

"Master, is this your hometown?" Zhou Xiaotian looked around curiously.

Zhou Muqing looked at the Zhangjiayuan in the distance, it was the only place that kept its original appearance, now it has become a traditional and protected place, and an ancient character has been added to it, and it has become the Zhangjiayuan.

"It used to be."

(End of this chapter)