The Heartless Mage Chapter 76: Managed to survive the winter

Autumn of 1943, Shanghai.

Wu Xin spent the summer in an unnamed barren mountain, where people eat less and eat more. For three months, he ate a lot of voles and bats. The only time he encountered misfortune was when he was slept by a wild boar.

After the summer, the weather in the mountains gradually became uninhabitable, so he went down the mountain with a canvas travel bag. With a car by car and a boat by boat, he arrived in Shanghai in a daze. The Anti-Japanese War lasted for six years, and the situation was very unclear. There was no peace everywhere, but it was safer in the metropolis. In a small apartment, Wuxin found a place to live.

An apartment consists of three houses rented out to three destitute bachelors. One is a little Jew with no nationality; the other is an old White Russia with no homeland; Wuxin is third and has no property.

Last year, he also earned a lot of money, but his life is boundless and he can't plan his business, so he adopts the method of living when he is drunk now. Now handing over the little remaining money to the landlord, he took the key and entered his small room. Closing the door meticulously, he slowly sat on the creaking iron bed, and finally had nothing left.

There is a small foreign stove in the room. The inside of the stove is very clean. It is obviously not used for three seasons, and it is waiting for winter. Although Wuxin has been in the mountains for a long time, he is not out of touch with the real society. The war is getting more and more fierce. Coal costs one a day. With his capital, he can't even eat food. How can he have money to buy coal?

When Wuxin thinks of his own necessities, he can't wait to get into the ground and hibernate like a python. Sitting still on the bed, he didn't breathe or expression, and he didn't even have any thoughts in his heart. Staring blankly at the white wall in front of him, he was consuming endless time bored.

Sit like a wood sculpture and clay sculpture from the afternoon to the next night, and finally the unbearable hunger motivated him. He stood up lazily, thinking that sitting alone is not enough, he still has to act, he still has to find a way to survive the winter.

Walking over to turn on the light in the dark, he raised a hand to the light bulb. The long starvation made him thin, but the flesh was not dry and slack, but gradually hardened, as if to merge with the bones. Under the light, his thin palms were waxy and translucent. Slowly raising his other hand, he cast a shadow on the wall. The shadow Dapeng spreads its wings and is an eagle. He smiled complacently, and he cooperated with both hands again, reflecting a fuzzy dog's head.

Then reaching into his arms, he took out a paper charm. With a light flick of the light switch, he squeezed both ends of the paper charm in the sudden darkness, tearing it in half with a "cha" sound. A burst of cold air rushed to his nose with the cracking sound, and his little minion turned into a shadow in the darkness.

The little minion looks only eight or nine years old, dressed as a primary school student in a white shirt and overalls. The shirt is very white, so it looks like a pool of blood on the chest is very red, and the ear and neck on one side are also **** and will never heal. .

His name is Xiaojian. He was disobedient on the way from school. He danced on the main road to show the nanny. As a result, a tram could not brake enough and ran over him on the spot. Worlds, full of wonders. He is also a strange one. After his death, he became a wandering and helpless little ghost, and his strong and sturdy soul lingered. He doesn't have the ability to do evil; the idea of ​​mischief is endless. A week ago, he tried his best to carry a seedling, trying to scare Wuxin, but Wuxin used it as a test product to train his hands. Wuxin spent ten years learning to draw talismans, and his grades were quite poor, but he was still sealed in a piece of paper talisman.

In the seven days, Wuxin was busy looking for a house to settle down, so he could only occasionally let him out when he was busy, treating him as a child. Xiaojian was very reluctant to be imprisoned by him, but he immediately recognized him as his eldest brother, because Wuxin could see him and talk to him. He has been ignored for two years since he was run over by a tram.

Clap a small blood-stained hand to Wuxin's thigh, Xiaojian raised his head and smiled: "Big brother, do you have a house to live in?"

The little hand is just a miserable shadow, still in the form of death. It swept through Wuxin's body unimpeded, leaving only a faint chill.

Wuxin turned around and walked to the small window, pushing open the sash and sticking out his head. Under the window was a bustling street, and the smell of fried stinky tofu rushed up to the third floor and into his nose.

Across the street stands a majestic building, and from an unintentional angle, you can see countless brightly lit back balconies. There are also apartment houses in the building, but the value is extremely high, and only rich people have the capital to live in. There are maids standing on the balcony washing rice and choosing vegetables, and there are also masters and young masters sitting on the balcony reading newspapers and drinking tea. Wuxin sniffed the smell of rice in the air, and suddenly thought of robbing the rich and helping the poor.

Of course, with his skills, he would definitely not be able to rob. Turning his head to look at Xiaojian floating on his shoulders, his heart is like boiling water bubbling, and he has a bad idea. Bent over to pick up the empty wine bottle left by the previous tenant from the corner, he turned the bottle horizontally on the windowsill. After the wine bottle turned around a few times, the slender mouth of the bottle was oriented out of the window. Wuxin looked down the mouth of the bottle, and saw a large glass window next to the back balcony. The window did not close the curtains, and it could be seen that the lights inside were brilliant, and it was a very wealthy family.

Wuxin nodded, thinking: "It's it!"

At the same time, the Ma family brothers and sisters, who were enjoying the brilliant lights in the opposite building, had an inexplicable cold war together.

The Ma family is a pair of twins. When their mother was pregnant, an experienced old mother saw her behavior and believed that there should be a pair of twin girls in the womb. Unexpectedly, one of them was more cunning, and actually disguised as a woman in the womb. By chance, Master Ma came up with a pair of ambitious names for his daughters in advance. When the child was born, the truth came out, he was lost for a while, and he simply made mistakes; so the baby girl was righteous, and her name was Saiwei, who wanted to compete with Queen Victoria of England; Sabine.

The Ma family is also a big family in Beijing, and its members are very complicated. Saiwei and Seungyi are very close in the big family because they are siblings of their compatriots. Time is fleeting, and in the blink of an eye, they have entered a period of youthful development. Although they live a prosperous life and are well nourished, they are uniformly emaciated like wild dogs. Saiwei was promoted to the Belgian Girls' High School, with grades ranging between ordinary and terrible. His only career was playing volleyball with two thin arms. He had no boyfriend, only a girlfriend. On the other hand, Shengyi has a precocious and turbulent mind, although his body is almost similar to bean sprouts, and he lingers at the gates of major girls' schools all year round. It's a pity that with his chick-like demeanor, he couldn't impress the girl's heart at all. So much so that he stepped on the iron shoes around the girls' school, not only did not have any romance, but instead fell into a disgraceful nickname, known as the horse wave hoof.

Such a pair of brothers and sisters that no one cares about, mixed up in a hurry until they graduated from high school. From then on, doing nothing, more and more idle. After spending a year and a half together at home, they conspired to knock a large sum of money from their father, left Beijing and came to Shanghai in the name of visiting their aunt.

Sitting on the wool carpet under the chandelier at the moment, Saiwei is settling with Shengyi. The two spent a while in Shanghai unscrupulously, and now there is an economic crisis. Saiwei thinks he has more brains than Shengyi, so he wants to split up with him. Anyway, the apartment house was rented for half a year, enough for them to live in.

Sai Wei has cut his ear-length short hair. The hair has been permed before, and after the cut, the browned ends can be seen. Sitting cross-legged in trousers, in front of her brother, she looked down and counted the money. It is said that the children of the Ma family grew up in the splendid bushes, but in fact, they all see money, and the level of competition they are subjected to is probably beyond the reach of ordinary orphanages. Staring at the banknotes with piercing eyes, she muttered words in her mouth; Shengyi stretched her neck and opened her eyes to see her rapidly twisting fingers.

After counting the number for a while, Saiwei leaned over to pick up the pencil and made a note on the white paper book. After finishing the notes, she sighed: "My mother said in the letter that my father bought a silver fox cloak for the fourth child last month."

The fourth youngest refers to the fourth young lady of the Ma family, who is not a mother to them, and has been an enemy for ten years. Master Ma spent a lot of money on his fourth daughter, and both Saiwei and Shengyi were jealous, and they all forgot that they had asked their father for a lot of money, otherwise, how could it be possible to come to Shanghai to live so comfortably?

Sawei divided the banknote into two parts and wanted to continue talking, but before she could speak, the chandelier above her head suddenly flashed. The two raised their heads together, and heard a hissing electric sound from above. The lights were steady for only a few seconds, and then began to flicker again with the sound.

Sai Wei and Sheng Yi both have no common sense of life. They don't know what's wrong with the chandelier. They just look at it with their heads raised. As a result, in the brief darkness, they caught a glimpse of the little figure in the corner of the room!

Suddenly turned his head to look over, and as the lights returned to bright, the figure disappeared without a trace. Saiwei clutched a stack of banknotes and turned to Shengyi with his mouth open. Shengyi stretched his thin neck, and his black eyes were wide and round: "Sister, did we... see something?"

Savy glanced again at the corner, which was empty and clean.

Raising her hand and rubbing her eyes, she asked Shengyi, "Are we blinded?"

Then the two nodded together, admitting that they were indeed dazzled. Saiwei reluctantly clutched the banknotes, thinking that he wanted to deduct some from Shengyi's share. Shengyi stretched out his hand to her: "Sister, Qian——"

Before he finished speaking, the chandelier suddenly went out!

Sheng Yi's hand stopped halfway, and at the same time felt a chill on the top of her head. Accompanied by the noise of the current, a circle of light bulbs came on and off, and went off and on again. Whenever darkness enveloped, there would be silhouettes of children passing by the edge of their field of vision. Sai Wei and Sheng Yi screamed and hugged each other, and fell to the ground together. Turning their heads to face the four short legs of the sofa, they shook violently, and saw a shadowy shadow under the sofa, revealing the lower half of a child's face - a pointed chin, a tender face, but unfortunately one cheek The flesh was blurred, and even pale bones were exposed. The corners of the soft mouth twitched slightly, and the grimace smiled at them.

Sai Wei and Sheng Yi were stunned for a moment, and then let out an earth-shattering scream. A light bulb exploded automatically with a sound, and with a "pop", broken glass shards scattered and all fell on the short hair of the two people.

At midnight, Xiaojian floated home through the glass window. Wuxin didn't sleep, and was squatting on the ground to sort out his signboard. Xiaojian circled around him and said with a smug smile: "They have a big brother and a big sister at home, and they are crying now."

He raised his eyebrows nonchalantly: "Yeah."

Xiaojian added: "Their house is full of banknotes."

Inadvertently looked up at Xiaojian and smiled.

Xiaojian landed on top of his head: "Big brother, I don't think you like me very much."

Wu Xin finally said: "If you were a person, I would like you."

He folded the tattered cloth cover and continued: "I haven't made friends with anyone for a long time, and I really want to talk to a living person; if you don't talk, let me touch it. When I get it Qian, I want to have a dog. Xiaojian, do you want a black dog or a white dog?"

Xiaojian felt a little sad when he heard his truth, and said in a low voice, "Hua dog."

Wanxin nodded solemnly: "Okay, when I buy enough food and coal, I will raise a small dog."