Chapter 2 First Meeting (2) ()

Two years later - a high cliff covered with snow, like a giant axe that opened the world to cut off the way to the surging river.

The river changed its route and turned to the southeast, rushing between the walled canyons, and the rumbling sounds shook the sky.

Chu Tian held half of the driftwood with his hands tightly, and was almost frozen in the cold river water. He struggled for too long and was about to lose his strength. He had poured too much water into his stomach and could no longer swallow it. The dizzy feeling made him nauseous and want to vomit. What was hateful and annoying was that the surging river stream pushed him quickly to the cliff, and he was about to smash it to pieces, but he had no choice!

He was not the only one on the driftwood. An old man with a white robe as snow as he could withstand the ups and downs, always as steady as Mount Tai, standing on it, as if a cloud was floating with the waves without any effort.

"The last chance, yours... are mine." The old man in white robe looked at the cliff that was rushing towards him. His old and low voice penetrated the sound of waves and the wind and snow, and asked, "Where is she?"

Chu Tian didn't answer. Even if he could still speak at this moment, he didn't plan to give the old man any answers.

He threw him into the river, deliberately threw out half of the driftwood, and then followed the flow for more than seventy miles in the heavy snow. He tortured Chu Tian, ​​of course he had a purpose, and this purpose was only one, which made him afraid, and then answered his own questions obediently. From beginning to end, he asked only one sentence over and over again.

But Chu Tian's tough attitude surprised him a little. It was obviously much harder to pry open the kid's jaw than throw him into the river. What he wanted to know, Chu Tian just didn't say it!

Chu Tian seemed not to care about life and death, nor did he care about gains and losses. He found that the child he was facing was a life-and-death tough guy. Based on this, he wanted to suffer more. But before he knew the answer, he had to be careful and could not really kill him.

Ten meters, five meters, three meters... the cliff is approaching inch by inch. Whether it is Chu Tian who is struggling to survive by hugging the driftwood, or the old man with a high and majestic expression, it seems so small and vulnerable compared to it.

"Ah--" At the last moment when the driftwood rushed towards the cliff, Chu Tian finally burst out a howl from his chest, like the last trace of longing for life by a dying wolf in the forest.

He was not without fear in his heart, nor did he want to provoke death, but if something was more painful than death, he would rather get close to death.

If you have nothing to love in life, death is liberation; if you have something to love in life, death is transcendence. Whether it is liberation or transcendence, there is actually not much difference for him at this moment.

When the body was surrounded by surging waves and shattered on the hard cliff, turning into white foam on the top of the waves, he became one of the waves in his life and became a lonely ghost at the bottom of the river.

"Bang!" The driftwood shattered as soon as it hit the cliff, and was almost swept by waves and swallowed without a trace.

Chu Tian closed his eyes and thought in the darkness that he was dead now, and he didn't even have time to say goodbye to Qing'er.

When Chu Tian woke up, he found himself in an empty riverside pier.

It was here that he was thrown into the river by the old man inexplicably white robe who appeared for no reason, but it felt like he had only just one second passed from hitting the cliff to returning to the dock by the river.

That's right, in the blink of an eye: the torrential cliff disappeared, and the old man in white robe disappeared. Only the big river in front of him was still there, and the snow on the roar of the river was still there.

And himself, Chu Tian was surprised to find that his clothes, shoes and socks were dry from the inside to the outside, without any trace of being soaked in the cold river water.

So, was I dreaming or seeing a ghost in broad daylight?

Chu Tian stared at the river in a daze, and there was clearly a fishy smell of mud and sand in the river. He gradually came to his senses. The previous experience must not be a dream, and the old man in white robe was definitely a human being, not a ghost, even though his actions were like a ghost, not a human being. Why did that old man suddenly change his mind at the last moment and take him back to the dock? Chu Tian couldn't figure it out, and what made him even more worried was that the other party kept asking him about Qing'er's whereabouts?

Qing'er is Chu Tian's sister, and he picked it up from a well.

A sudden fire two years ago destroyed his home. After the fire was extinguished, he took Qing'er stubbornly and helplessly to watch over an unmanned scorched earth and ruins. However, the hope was finally shattered and they could not wait for their relatives to return.

In despair, Chu Tian kowtowed nine times to the place where he used to be home on a sunny morning, and then took Qing'er away from Daya Mountain, hoping to help the little girl find her way home.

But Qing'er was too young to understand where she came from and why?

In this way, Chu Tian took the young Qing'er to live a wandering life. They became more and more like a brother and sister. Sometimes, Chu Tian even felt that Qing'er was a gift specially given to him by God. When he lost everything in the world and had nothing, Qing'er was still dependent on him for his life.

The wandering life forced Chu Tian to get used to doing things that he didn't even dare to think about in the past, such as being a beggar, a thief, a bandit, or a odd job... He even tried to engage in different careers at different times every morning and evening. The days of making money alone were full of hardships but not unbearable because of Qing'er. This little girl made Chu Tian feel that life has not lost laughter.

About half a year ago, Chu Tian decided to temporarily end his wandering life and settled in Huaiyang City.

As Qing'er grows up, she seems to be the only person she is close to in this world, so Chu Tian strongly hopes that she can give Qing'er a warm and safe environment and even a bright future.
Chapter completed!