how to kill a dragon

Chapter 6

By the lake, the girl in white helped Wang Xiaotai wipe off the blood on her face, put the small lamp she brought on the ground, and beckoned Wang Xiaotai to squat down.

"They are still asleep now, why don't you wash your face here to wake up, and we will leave when it dawns. There is still some dust on your face, you can't see it yourself, and you don't have a mirror now, squat down, I will help you Wipe clean."

"who are you?"

Wang Xiaotai came back to her senses, took a few steps back, and pressed her chest vigilantly. Between the clothes and flesh was the storage bag given to Wang Xiaotai by Changsheng, which contained all Wang Xiaotai's hopes in this life.

"Are you the only orphan in Jinghe mentioned by Changsheng?"

Seeing that Wang Xiaotai was so defensive, the girl was not angry, and said with a smile, "Speaking of which, we are still fellow villagers, and I am stable. Where are you from Jinghe?"

Wang Xiaotai suddenly raised her head and looked straight into her eyes. She is also from Anding County, Jinghe, Shanzhou, and she did not expect to meet a fellow villager here, "I am also stable."

Shanzhou, Jinghe, Anding County, and the name Anding seems a bit ridiculous now.

Stable and stable, never stable.

The two-year drought was about to pass, and the dragon disaster came. The giant dragon in Qiantang burned 60 miles away and devoured [-] people.

The girl in white sighed, looked at the Jianfo Lake shimmering in the moonlight, frowned slightly, seemingly worried, "My name is Bailian, although we are fellow villagers, I haven't been home for a long time, what is An Ding?" Look, I've long forgotten."

"They all said that in the eight hundred miles of the Jinghe River, all the people died, and even the trees were burned. My father and mother probably don't have the luck like you to survive."

She beckoned, seeing that Wang Xiaotai really didn't want to come down with her to wash her face, wash her hands, etc. Bai Lian didn't force her, she took off her shoes and socks, and put her feet into Jianfo Lake to drain the water. , Ripples spread, and the moonlight shattered.

"Can you tell me something about stability?"

Wang Xiaotai looked at Bailian's back, what did she say?

What can I say?

She recalled everything that happened suddenly, obviously it happened so fast, but everything in her memory seemed to be very slow, so slow that every picture was properly stored in the deepest place by her, never daring to forget .

"The girl who was sacrificed is my friend," Wang Xiaotai said suddenly, "No one knows, but she is actually my friend."

"That day, she will be dragged to sacrifice to the gods. I still envy her, because we haven't had enough to eat for a long time."

"In order for the souls of these sacrificed people to be able to say something good in front of the gods, they will save food for the sacrificed people to eat, and save water for her to take a bath. That night I saw She eats so deliciously, I am actually very envious."

This is something that even Wang Xiaotai's parents don't know.

But for some reason, she was willing to tell Bai Lian these words at the Buddha Lake this morning.

Perhaps it was because Bai Lian didn't look directly at her, and didn't care for her with pitiful eyes, but when she looked at Bai Lian's back, she suddenly felt a sense of security being contained.

"I was drooling outside her window and she saw me and she gave me the food."

"Torn tortillas, lentil soup, and black rice porridge and a hard-boiled egg."

"She only ate half of the tortilla, and it seemed like she saw me, and she couldn't eat any more."

"She gave me these foods while crying. She said that she didn't want to die, and she wanted to change it with me."

"Little Moss, we are best friends, right? Then can you save me! You are so powerful, I don't want to die! Swap me, I'll go out, you come in, let's change, okay?"

Wang Xiaotai's memory suddenly jumped to the night before everything happened, that ordinary night.

She and her secret friend look across the pigsty
No pigs have been raised here for a long time, so the pigsty doesn't have any special smell.

Her double-eyed friend handed the food to her, crying and begging her to accept the food. She knew that Wang Xiaotai was starving, so could she exchange it with her.

Wang Xiaotai came to have a full meal, and Wang Xiaotai went to the sacrificial table. Even if she eventually starved to death in the future, she didn't want to die so early.

Wang Xiaotai looked at the food in her hand, swallowed hard, thought for a while, ran back, and brought over an ax that had not been used for a long time at home.

With her thin arms raised high, she took an ax to chop the lock on the pigsty, "I'll split this lock, you run! Dandan, you have no family here, you can run far, far away , don’t come back in the future!”

Wang Xiaotai desperately went to chop the lock, and desperately swung the ax thicker than her arm again and again.

Dandan inside covered her mouth with tears streaming down her face, "Xiaotai, Xiaotai, Xiaotai, I... I'm sorry, I just want to live!"

"I shouldn't... I'm too scared, Xiaotai, Xiaotai, what should I do, Xiaotai..."

Wang Xiaotai watched with satisfaction that the huge iron lock was shaken by her chopping, "Don't be sorry, and don't give me something to eat, Dandan, we are friends!"

Even if no one knows, but you gave me half a steamed bun when I was most hungry, and you climbed the window to stay with me when my parents were not at home.

It was you who accompanied me to catch fireflies that didn't exist by the dry river, and it was you who were willing to sit and listen to my silly words, even if no one knew, but we were friends!

The sound of cutting the iron lock was too loud after all.

This is the pigsty of the priest's house, and his bedroom is next to it, and soon he heard the movement.

The noise also woke up many nearby residents. They were originally wary of the escape of the sacrificed humans and animals, but now they rushed out to check if there was any movement, and the lights gradually turned on one by one.

Dandan pursed her lips, she looked at Wang Xiaotai sweating profusely, and tried her best to chop the iron chain, she saw that Wang Xiaotai's arms were already shaking and she didn't stop.

The noise from the side was getting louder and louder, as if a lot of people were gathering in this direction, but Wang Xiaotai was still chopping the iron lock, she was so focused on chopping that she didn't seem to hear the gradually noisy sound from the side.

Dandan bit her lips tightly, and she was encouraging Wang Xiaotai in her heart, hurry up, hurry up!

The light is getting closer and closer, and Dandan has already seen a figure through the window. If they are caught by them and destroy the sacrifice, Wang Xiaotai will definitely be beaten to death, but... maybe the sacrifice can be replaced by another person?

She really doesn't want to die.

Do you want to remind Wang Xiaotai?

Dandan's tears flowed down like she didn't want money, she didn't even know that there was so much water in her body.

Seeing that those people were about to see her, and seeing Wang Xiaotai's ax chopping the iron lock getting lower and lower, her arms were shaking violently, obviously she had no strength.

Dandan suddenly reached out to wipe away the tears on her face, and she said, "You go."

Wang Xiaotai acted as if she hadn't heard of it, and tried to chop the iron lock with all her strength, but she was too weak and hungry for too long, so she only cut half of it after chopping for a long time.

Dandan rushed to the door and shook the door vigorously inside, "Go, you idiot! Hurry up!"

"Who is your friend! You fool! You fool! Do you know that I am much smarter than you! I am smarter than you, so you have to listen to me, you know!"

"I've been taking care of you all this time, who wants you to save me, you idiot! Get lost!"

"Get out, I won't run away, my father died here, my mother died here, and I will die here too!"

"I'm going to find my father and mother soon!"

"Let's go, Wang Xiaotai, and go find your parents. Let's not be friends anymore."

"Did you hear that!"

"Wang Xiaotai, get out of here! We won't be friends anymore!"

Dandan crazily shook the door inside, screaming, as if hoping to break with Wang Xiaotai in this way.

With one big hand, he lifted Wang Xiaotai onto his shoulder, picked up Wang Xiaotai and ran to the back of the pigsty.

Wang Xiaotai stretched her neck on his shoulders and looked back, seeing those figures holding torches getting closer to Dandan, while she was getting farther and farther away from Dandan, she finally shed tears.

After returning home, his father put Wang Xiaotai down and beat her hard, while his mother wiped away tears.

My father was called out before he had time to say anything after the beating, probably asking him to go and see what was going on in the pigsty.

The mother applied medicine to herself under the oil lamp in distress, and hot tears fell on her body one by one.

Wang Xiaotai also cried convulsively, and was hugged by A Niang tightly and fell asleep.

The family didn't say anything that night, but shed endless tears.

The next day, Dandan was tied to the sacrificial table as scheduled, and Wang Xiaotai didn't say a word to her.

She always felt that even if she couldn't save her, she felt that she should at least say goodbye to Dandan.

But before he could do anything, Qiantang descended and saw Dandan again, her bewitching pupils were splashed into Wang Xiaotai's mouth, and then exploded in her palm.

That was the last look between them.

Probably all the tears have been shed, and now Wang Xiaotai doesn't have any tears, she is just a little confused, are they friends or not?

What kind of future would they have without that dragon?

Wang Xiaotai only knew that her name was Dandan. Dandan's parents died early, and Dandan herself forgot what her last name was, but Dandan called her.

What kind of friend is this?

(End of this chapter)