Tan Zhen leaned over there, listened to his words, his face froze slightly, and asked back: "If you and I were not humans, what would that be?"

Yuanxiao looked up at the top of the tent. The cloud patterns embroidered on it were layered, as if flowers were in full bloom. "Well..." He dragged his voice long, as if he wanted to say it but didn't want to say it.

Tan Zhen couldn't help asking: "Is this something you can't understand?"

"What does it mean again..." Yuanxiao's tone was still a kind of hesitant and procrastination.

Tan Zhen was a little impatient: "If you don't want to say it, then don't say it."

Yuanxiao withdrew her gaze and blinked: "Do you know what the monsters and the children in life are called?"

Tan Zhen sat upright: "Can monsters and people have children?"

Yuanxiao nodded, stuffed a piece of candy into his mouth, and chewed it up: "Although it is rare and shouldn't be, monsters and people can indeed give birth to offspring."

Saliva was secreted and sugar was dissolved, and his pronunciation became vague: "Half is human, half is demon..."

"Half-demon?" Tan Zhen continued softly.

Yuanxiao swallowed the sweetness in her mouth and nodded, "It's a half-demon, but have you noticed something wrong?"

Tan Zhen was puzzled: "What's wrong?"

Yuanxiao said: "You think, since they are half people and half monsters, why are they all called half monsters?"

"Hmm? What does this mean?"

"It can be called half man, right?"

"..." Tan Zhen was silent for a moment and said, "That guy was right just now, you were just thinking about eating."

"For humans, monsters are aliens. People who are mixed with monster bloodlines are naturally just half monsters, not humans."

Tan Zhen looked at him and whispered: "Half-human? There is no such thing in the world."

His calm tone made people unable to hear joy and anger.

Lantern Festival showed a worship look: "Wow, you seem to be much smarter than you look."

Tan Zhen glanced at him: "Continue."

Yuanxiao cleared his throat: "You must be wondering now, why am I talking about half demons? Are we half demons?"

Tan Zhen shook her head: "I didn't think so."

Yuanxiao leaned over and patted his shoulder: "I thought about it and thought about it, why don't you admit it?"

He talked to himself, suddenly shrank his hand and looked serious: "But we are not."

"Brother, he—" After saying a while, Yuanxiao closed his mouth.

Tan Zhen said: "He is half..."

The word "demon" was too late to be released and was stopped by Yuanxiao's palm.

There was still a little white powdered sugar on the corner of his mouth, and the cute boy had a blue face: "Shh!"

Tan Zhen grabbed his wrist and said in a muffled voice: "Can't you say it?"

Yuanxiao nodded: "You understand anyway."

"As for what I say next, I can't control whether you can understand it." He put down his hand and whispered, "We all exist because of our elder brother."

"At the beginning, there was only A Xing, and then there was endless..."

"I woke up five years ago." He raised his hand and opened his five fingers, white and slender, looking like he didn't know the sufferings of the world.

It is difficult for human hands to keep them clean and clean without any work.

He shook his finger and said, "It's only been five years, but I didn't expect you to wake up."

Tan Zhen looked at his eyebrows and said suspiciously: "Five years? Then when you woke up, did you look like a child?"

Yuanxiao was stunned and then laughed: "Where did the child look like? Look at yourself, where do you look like a child? We will not grow up."

After speaking, his laughter suddenly stopped and waved his hand and said, "If you ask me why, I don't know. In short, what we will look like when we wake up will be like in the future."

People will grow up and monsters will age, but they have no future to explore.

He looked at Tan Zhen and said, "I asked my brother why we couldn't wake up together, but my brother said he didn't understand. He only knew that the time was coming, and the one who should wake up would wake up."

"He didn't know anything about age, temperament, and appearance. He didn't know even our abilities until the moment he woke up."

Squinted his eyes, Yuanxiao held his open hand into a fist: "We are born from the desire of our brother."

He moved his fist to his mouth and made a pose to eat it.

Tan Zhen's brow seemed to be stretched but not stretched, and suddenly she frowned tightly.

Yuanxiao laughed loudly, put down her hands and said, "Of course, that's not what Ah Xing said."

Just like a human being, the first child is always different.

Although they are not the true children of their elder brother, A Xing, who has been with his elder brother since the beginning, has a much deeper understanding of his elder brother than them.

Therefore, A Xing said that they were born from the loneliness of his elder brother, and I guess it is not wrong.

The anger of my brother, the arrogance of my brother, the greed of my brother... The seven emotions and six desires of my brother, after all, are just loneliness.

With a big laugh, Yuanxiao fell on the bed and said lazily: "The rest, when you look back and see your brother, you will know naturally."

Tan Zhen listened quietly, suddenly stretched out his hand and pinched his face hard.

Lantern Festival was shocked: "What are you doing?"

Tan Zhen said: "You look...it doesn't seem to be different from people."

Yuanxiao waved his hand and turned over: "No matter how good you look, it's useless. You and I are neither monsters nor humans. If you have to say something, we probably are..."

He sat up and smiled strangely: "It's weird."

Strange and abnormal, unique, is strange.

With a name, it seems that there is a place to go.

Yuanxiao smiled and called out "Tan Zhen": "This is the name given to you by my brother."

He took Tan Zhen's hand and gestured in his palm.

Tan Zhen asked: "What about you? What is your name?"

Yuanxiao lowered her head, wrote with her fingers seriously, and asked back: "Have you seen Yuanxiao?"

Tan Zhen lowered her eyes: "Of course not."

"Right?" Yuanxiao looked up and smiled, "Since you don't know anything, even if I tell you, you can't imagine it."

When he said this, his expression became different from what he had before.

That kind of smile is a smile that Tan Zhen has never seen before.

...

I recall that the night wind over Jiangcheng is getting stronger and stronger.

Tan Zhen wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and carried Lantern Festival back on her back.

He now knows what the word Lantern Festival looks like.

The snow-white glutinous rice balls are wrapped in dark fillings, which are foods that combine innocence and evil—

Unlike them, the name of Lantern Festival was determined by him.

That night, he saw the bowl of Lantern Festival and saw himself.
Chapter completed!