Peach Blossom at the Bottom of the Fan

Chapter 6 I'm Still Alive
There are many cemeteries at the foot of Songshan Mountain outside the city, and Gu's ancestral grave is here.

In the past, Gu Sixiao often came to worship his parents, but today, a new grave was added beside his parents' graves.

"Brother..." Leaning on the simple pile of graves, Gu Sixiao wept bitterly.

Her poor brother didn't even have a decent tombstone, and the cheapest hemp stone tablet didn't have any inscriptions, but simply wrote Gu's blank words on the front.

"Did you see father and mother? They must be very heartbroken, right? Don't be afraid, father and mother will definitely believe in you, just like I believe in you..."

"Brother, I'm really useless, I can't save you, and I can't save the fan king's plaque, are you disappointed?!"

Without wiping away the tears and rain on her face, Gu Sixiao just knelt in front of the grave and murmured in a low voice: "I want to keep my sister-in-law. Really, I told her many times to tell her to believe you. But Sister-in-law always doesn’t listen to me, I know she’s also very sad, always crying——sister-in-law has always been very kind to you, brother! But, she doesn’t believe you, just like Brother Meng Sheng—he doesn’t believe me..."

Slipping and falling in the rain, she put her face on the grave, "Brother, I'm so tired, it hurts so much, I miss you and my parents so much... I want to help you, but I can't do anything—don't go away Too fast, wait for me, you know I can't run fast..."

Closing her eyes, she curled up like that and fell into the rain, her mind gradually lost in a trance...

I don't want to struggle anymore, maybe it's better to find my parents like this.Being with them will definitely not hurt like it is now...

In a trance, she seemed to go back to a long time ago.At that time, she was still a baby in her arms. Mother was holding her, watching her father and brother flying a kite on the grass——that green luan, soaring so high, just like that, kept flying into the sky...

"Girl! Girl..."

Who is calling, it's so noisy...

Don't prevent her from looking for her parents--Mother, don't go!Dad, wait for me!elder brother……

A heavy slap across the face.

Gu Sixiao opened her eyes in a daze, looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar face, and blinked unconsciously.

"Are you awake? Girl!"

Seeing Gu Sixiao open her eyes, the nervous beggar wiped her face, hurriedly grabbed the oil paper umbrella that was thrown aside, and covered her head.

Half-squinting her eyes, looking at the umbrella surface that was already covered with mud, and the peach blossoms on the umbrella could hardly be seen clearly, Gu Sixiao muttered, "So, it's you..."

No wonder, I always feel that the beggar looks familiar. It turns out that he is the beggar who rests under the rainy eaves of the old house on a stormy night. Is this also fate?

Gu Sixiao was thinking vaguely, but Qier had already lowered her face excitedly when she heard her whisper.

"It's me, girl, you scared Brother Qi'er to death! You don't know how long I've been looking for you, if I hadn't heard that you were making trouble at the gate of Gu's fan shop, I wouldn't have found it here——girl, can you can you hear me?"

With a flicker of eyes, Gu Sixiao pushed the beggar away suddenly, "I'm not a girl, not your sister—you go! Leave me alone, I, I'm Gu Sixiao! It's Gu Sixiao from the Gu family..."

Although weak, Gu Sixiao still roared out.

She is not a girl, not that little girl, she is Gu Sixiao, the little lady of the Gu family, and Gu Liubai's own sister!
I wanted to say these words to Chu Mengsheng and my sister-in-law, but they didn't give her a chance at all.

Staring at the beggar who got up from the ground, Gu Sixiao's hands trembled, but he didn't help him after all, but just looked at him indifferently.

"Don't be nice to me, I'm not your girl - I, I'm just a ghost, an evil ghost who took your sister's body..."

Scared?His face turned blue.

That's right, anyone would be intimidated!If she had said such things in front of Chu Mengsheng before, he would probably be so frightened that he would ask a Taoist priest to exorcise the evil spirits, right?

"Girl, you, you forgot, you said that Miss Gu is a good person—she gave us an umbrella..."

nice guy? !
"The whole street is saying that she ran away with someone, is that also a good person?" Gu Sixiao asked in a daze, and the tears that had stopped suddenly came out again.

"Who cares what they say? They say they are scholars, and they are more open-minded than the women in the vegetable market--that little lady Gu is a good person..."

Looking at the beggar who was stroking his head, Gu Sixiao raised the corners of his mouth and finally showed a smile.

"Thank you, I didn't expect that the person who believed in me was a boy I never knew..." She closed her eyes, and said in a low voice: "It's a pity, I'm really not your sister—you kill me !Kill me—maybe your sister will come back..."

Looking at Gu Sixiao fixedly, Qi'er's face was ugly, and he didn't know what he was thinking, his eyes were very strange.

"I never wanted to harm anyone, I don't know why it became like this..." Gu Sixiao whispered, grabbing the beggar's hand, "I'm leaving, your sister will come back..."

Throwing away Gu Sixiao's hand suddenly, the beggar fell to the ground, scrambling and moving outside.

Gu Sixiao only thought that he was frightened, and didn't speak, but closed his eyes and lay there motionless.

After a long while, she felt that Qi'er came back again.

Cold fingers slid past her ears, as if trying to pinch her neck, but finally let go.

"I can't come back—even if you leave, the girl can't come back..." Kneeling beside her, the beggar cried bitterly: "The girl is dead, dead! I touched her breath, she is breathless... ..."

With a shock in his heart, Gu Sixiao opened his eyes and looked at the beggar, not knowing what to say.

The beggar looked at her and just cried: "I saw the girl died, almost, I was going to bury her, but for some reason, she gasped again - I thought it was her who survived , came back to life. But when you passed out, you kept calling brother, sister-in-law, brother Jing, brother Mengsheng, and mom and dad. You said you were the little lady of the Gu family, and you called yourself You didn't elope with someone, you were killed by someone—I, I know, the girl is dead, you are not a girl..."

He knows, he believes her...

Looking at the beggar who was crying bitterly, Gu Sixiao was so emotional that he couldn't speak for a while, but his eyes couldn't stop glaring.

Everyone cried in their own way, and each had his own sadness. In the heavy rain, two half-old children cried loudly in the cemetery like this.

"Girl, no, Miss Gu..." Qi'er choked up and cried out, wiping her tears with her backhand, and grabbed an umbrella to shield Gu Sixiao from the wind and rain.

"You're not in good health yet! It's hard to survive..."

"Yeah, I finally survived..." Gu Sixiao murmured in a low voice, raised her head, looked at the beggar for a while, then suddenly wiped away the tears on her face and got up.

Kneeling in front of the grave, she respectfully kowtowed to the three graves, and said in a deep voice: "Father, mother, and brother, I'm still alive, so the Gu family will never be defeated like this! Brother, I will definitely find you!" The bad guy who killed you! You can't be wronged like this! I can't just die in vain..."

She is still alive, and there are still people in the Gu family!Sooner or later, she will have the Gu family's "Fan King" plaque be hung again...

"Plaque of the Fan King..." Jumping up suddenly, Gu Sixiao ran down the mountain in a panic.

Qi'er was stunned at first, but after realizing it, he hurriedly chased after him.

"Girl, ya—Miss Gu, don't run so fast..."

Slowing down, Gu Sixiao turned around and shouted: "Don't follow me! I don't want to hurt you..."

The villain who killed her and her brother was so ruthless, if he knew she was still alive, he would definitely come back to kill her...

Cleverly shivering, Gu Sixiao threw off the beggar and staggered down the mountain.

Without making a sound to call her, the beggar held an umbrella and followed quickly, even if Gu Sixiao yelled at him, he never left and fell behind her, trying to use the umbrella in his hand to shield her from the wind and rain.

Stumbling along the way, it was already dark when I returned to the city. Luo Ji, who used to be fanned by Gu's family and has not yet hung a signboard, has closed the door at this moment. Gu Sixiao patted on the door for a long time, but no one answered her.

Remembering that the shopkeeper said that he wanted to throw away the plaque, Gu Sixiao simply went into the back alley, but he searched through the garbage dumps in several alleys, but he couldn't find the plaque.

"Perhaps, it was taken away by someone!" Beggar whispered behind him, looked at Gu Sixiao who looked blank, and hurriedly said: "Not necessarily, I will accompany you to the next alley to find... ..."

"I can't find it..." That plaque really couldn't be found!Who picked it up and took it home?Not to mention the gold rim wrapped around it, even the golden nanmu is also very valuable.

Or, an illiterate person picked it up and chopped it up for firewood!
"It's gone..." Supporting the wall, but her body was still swaying, Gu Sixiao said shyly, "It's really gone..."

No home, no relatives, even lost her body - she couldn't even find a plaque...

"You—" Beggar grabbed her arm from behind, and approached cautiously, letting her lean against him.

"And I..." Beggar's voice was not high, but this understatement sounded like a thunder in Gu Sixiao's heart.

Looking back, looking at the still immature face of the beggar, Gu Sixiao bit her lip and said in a harsh voice: "It will hurt you—the one who hurt me..."

"I'm not afraid of getting involved! The girl calls me brother, you call me brother too, my sister, who will I protect if I don't?" Beggar held her hand a little harder, without even frowning, directly Said: "I'm a little beggar, I have nothing, what are you afraid of getting involved?!"

"Maybe--he will die..." Gu Sixiao's voice was so low that he could hardly hear it in the rain.

But the beggar still heard it, and raised his eyebrows. He didn't make a sound, but just hugged and half hugged Gu Sixiao, and said in a deep voice, "Go home!"

go home?That dilapidated little temple?

For some reason, Gu Sixiao's nose became sore.

"Okay, let's go home..." Muttering in a low voice, she leaned on Beggar's body and buried her face in his wet arms.

Although she swore that she would avenge herself and her elder brother, and take back everything in the family, but at this moment, she was so weak that she only wanted to rely on this same thin little boy.

But, it was only for a moment, she left the wet but warm embrace, and slowly walked into the wind and rain...

(End of this chapter)