Order of the Pleiades

Chapter 16

He Chenze opened his eyes when dawn was approaching, walked across the knee-high weeds to the edge of the broken stone, jumped down, and landed on the eaves of the house below.

He sat cross-legged and looked around, and finally stopped his gaze on the giant fir tree not far away that was forty or fifty feet high.

After the man fixed his gaze, he didn't move, and watched it for nearly a stick of incense without blinking.

The branches of the redwood seemed to move, and after a while they moved again.He Chenze still stared at it after seeing it, and stared at it for a long time.

"Why are you so rude!"

It was a woman's voice, delicate and crisp, full of dissatisfaction and embarrassment.

He Chenze's neck was sore from watching, and he moved his head a few times while covering the back of his neck, and looked around a few times pretending to be puzzled.

After speaking, he pushed his hands back, as if intending to continue staring at it.

I saw a woman walking out of the redwood tree trunks in front of her, with a graceful posture and a height of nearly eight feet. When she walked in front of He Chenze, there was not much difference.

Her cheeks were flushed, she didn't know whether she was shy or angry at being stared at by He Chenze, when she walked over, her long hair was hanging down, covering the road without end.

Seeing her coming out, He Chenze hurriedly got up to meet her, and smiled at the girl very nicely.

"I didn't see the girl before, so I offended you."

"My lord is above me, why be polite."

Having said that, Sequoia's anger obviously did not disappear, she stroked her long hair on her side with her hands, and Danfeng looked at He Chenze with hanging eyes.

"I came here to find..." When the word "herringbone" almost blurted out, his tongue rolled it and swallowed it back, and he changed his words unwillingly.

"Come here to find something."

There was a cliff in front of the two of them. He Chenze stood on the bricks and tiles, making cracking sounds as he walked.

Before Sequoia could answer, He Chenze's calf was hit by a stone.

"Get off the roof of our house!"

The two young boys at the bottom pointed at He Chenze with their hips crossed, and one of them picked up a stone and threw it up, hitting He Chenze's arm.

"Get down!!"

Sequoia didn't expect it either, her slender eyes widened.

He Chenze was embarrassed by both sides, after thinking for a while, he decided to take care of the brats in front of him first, and went down from the roof.

"Pay us bricks and tiles."

The young elder brother rushed to He Chenze angrily, grabbed his cuff, and would not let go unless he lost money.

He Chenze has always been ignorant of children, so he rolled his eyes and raised his eyebrows.

"If you make trouble again, I will eat you."

Suddenly there was another person beside him, Sequoia came down from the cliff and landed beside He Chenze, interjecting at a very inopportune time.

"I know who you are."

"I know what you're looking for, too."

He Chenze was actually not surprised, this time his incident was a bit serious, it is not surprising that these little gods and immortals know some gossip.

In fact, I didn’t intend to ask a little Sequoia to help me, but I came here with the idea of ​​saying hello to someone’s place, size is a matter of etiquette.

"I'm not putting on airs, we little demons will avoid disputes with you great gods if we can."

"If you offend someone you shouldn't, disappearing is just a matter of waving your hands."

The two children couldn't see Sequoia, and when they saw He Chenze's silence, they thought he was going to renege on his debt, so they grabbed him with four hands.

If it weren't for the current situation, He Chenze thought that he would have patiently comforted Sequoia a few words to show his gentlemanly demeanor.

"It's okay, I just came to say hello."

While talking, he distractedly tore off his four hands from his body, pulled the other hand up again, and the clothes he held were all wrinkled.

Sequoia nodded, still feeling a little uneasy about what happened just now, so they walked over to help him pull the child's hand away, but the children couldn't see her, and only felt a force dragging themselves back, and the scene was momentary. Very weird.

He Chenze patiently sold out, covered his face with one hand and took a deep breath, raised his head and let out a low growl.

He took two steps forward and threatened the two children with his voice down: "If you don't let go, I will really eat you."

The burden on their bodies was instantly relieved, and the two children shrank back a few steps, turned around and quickly hid in the house.

"Don't eat them."

Sequoia was also frightened by He Chenze, and grabbed He Chenze's wrist tightly, her hair became messy behind her.

"..."

"... Are you monsters so easily deceived?"

He Chenze looked helplessly at the little monster who was still putting on a cold air just now, and felt that this person might not be much different from the two children just now.

Only then did Sequoia let go of his hand hesitantly, still looking at He Chenze with some anxiety.

"I really don't want to eat."

He Chenze was amused by her, smiled and sighed, and hastily added a sentence.

"Don't eat them, what you're looking for is with them."

"what?"

He Chenze clasped Sequoia's arm with his backhand, his pupils slightly dilated in surprise.

The other party pulled his hand as if being scalded, and saluted him.

"Miss, excuse me."

Afterwards, it melted back into the tree, He Chenze wanted to chase after it but could barely move.

It's already the limit for the other party to mention a word to himself, and he understands that this little monster dare not interfere with the grievances of gods and Buddhas.

So he stopped moving, but his expression was inevitably a little lost.

Finally, he glanced at Sequoia from a distance across the cliff, and nodded to her to express his gratitude.

"Why did you come out so early?"

He Chenze looked over, and the person in front of him obviously didn't sleep well last night, with two huge dark circles under his eyes.

As soon as Yu Huan woke up and found that He Chenze was not there, he got up to look for him, half guessed and half guessed that he also came here, because He Chenze's words before going to bed last night did not sleep well, and he was very sleepy.

"Didn't sleep well?"

Asking knowingly, Yu Huan muttered something in his heart, but on the surface he still rubbed his eyes and shook his head.

"What's the matter? Come here so early."

This man changed into a suit, wrapped in plain blue shirt, with a white face, like a boy next door.

Because the mountains are very foggy in the early morning, I held an umbrella when I came out, and now I put it away and carry it by my side, with a refined and bookish air from head to toe.

"See if it's in there."

"..."

Hearing the sound, Yu Huan turned his head and stared at the door for a while, then nodded slightly.

"exist."

"But not very easy to get."

He Chenze didn't quite understand what he meant, but since he was inside, he just knocked on the door.He knocked on the door a few times, and it was an old woman who opened the door.

He Chenze took out some broken pieces of silver from his pocket and handed them over: "Before I stepped on some bricks and tiles of the girl, I apologize."

The other two were astonished. Yu Huan choked on the base of his tongue and almost bit his tongue in fright.

This person... I'm afraid he really can't understand the difference in the appearance of mortals.

But then he remembered that there was nothing wrong with He Chenze calling her a girl, the millennium-old fairy was indeed of quite a seniority.

The other party was delighted by He Chenze's coaxing, and refused to ask for his money, saying that his grandson was naughty, so he wanted to invite the two of them in for a sit-down.

The two of them naturally wanted what they wanted, and they stepped in while talking politely.

When the old woman turned to make tea, Yu Huan poked He Chenze secretly.

"She's not a girl anymore."

"But she seems to be only sixty years old."

"..."

"Isn't it?"

Seeing him lower his voice, He Chenze imitated him, and innocently winked at Yuhuan after speaking.

Two people on one side lowered their heads and murmured, and two heads popped out of the haystack on the other side, looking sadly at the two uninvited guests in their house, they also began to murmur.

"They must be driven away."

"How to catch up?"

The boy who threw stones at He Chenze thought for a while, then stretched out his hand and pulled the other boy closer, and whispered in his ear, "Bring that monster over and let him scare them away."

Pushing him back after speaking, the child staggered and hesitated when he turned around.

"Go!"

He came back after a while, dragging an eight or nine-year-old boy in his hand, and pushed him into the haystack when he got close.

The haystack was mixed with tree branches, and he was scratched several times after he fell into it.He curled up his legs in embarrassment and crawled out from the inside, only to see a long red mark under his eyes, which swelled up after a while.

The child who was called a monster looked at the leading boy timidly, and couldn't help but hold a handful of grass clippings in his hands, rubbing them nervously in his palms.

"Go and scare them away."

The boy lowered his voice and said to the child, leaning back slightly when speaking, apparently avoiding it.

"I won't." The voice was timid, as thin as a mosquito.

The boy was displeased, and he didn't have the patience to talk nonsense with him. Seeing his mother-in-law returning home, she hurriedly stretched out her hand and pushed hard on his head.

"Why don't you, monsters can scare them away just by opening their eyes."

The child was pushed out of the haystack by him and fell in front of He Chenze and Yuhuan, and the two behind him snickered harshly.

Yuhuan heard the sound and saw the child fall to his feet, so he hurriedly got up and tried to help him.

"What are you doing here?! Go back!"

As soon as she put her hand on the child's arm, the mother-in-law of the child on the other side hurried over, holding a broom she didn't know when she found it, and waving him away.

In a panic, the child inadvertently raised his eyes, passing Yu Huan's eyes.

Just like the green fruit brought back by the birds returning to their nests, the indigo stone inlaid in the phoenix hairpin, and the undercurrent of the waves when the sky and the sea meet, the child's left eye and the fear inside collide into his eyes together.

In the chaos, a hand came in horizontally, firmly and forcefully grasping his wrist, and the bones under force made a soft sound when clasping.

The sound was so soft, but it pierced into Yuhuan's ear, and it was engraved in the child's wandering soul.So much so that he will be deeply engraved in his heart for the rest of his life.

"come over."

He Chenze dragged him over like a chick, got up and half-kneeled in front of him, tilted his head and looked at his left eye.

"He's a monster! You'll get sick if you touch him!"

The boy behind the haystack finally couldn't hold back his temper, and ran out from behind, pointing and shouting.

"monster?"

He Chenze murmured and repeated what the boy said, looking over the boy's shoulder and smiling at him.

"What disease?"

"Except for our own family, everyone in the village who touched him got sick, had a high fever for several days, and his whole body festered."

This time it was the old woman who answered the question. She put the broom aside and spoke to He Chenze slowly with some vicissitudes and pain.

"People in the village wanted to kill him. Although he was a picked up child, they still couldn't bear it and hid him secretly."