In the winter of that year, the weather was not too cold, and when the snow melted, an old man with a slightly rickety figure, holding a child who had just turned one year old, set off.

In the past two years, the footsteps of the elderly and children have spread all over the country.

Time can always give people enough nourishment to grow, and the child is no longer the weak baby who needed to be held by the old man all the way, but now he can also hold the old man's hand and follow the old man.

Maybe it's because he follows the old man everywhere when he is young, and the child seems a little precocious, and most of the time he doesn't cry or make trouble.

In the past two years, although there have been a variety of cherished treasures along the way to maintain the body, the child's body is still a lot weaker than that of children of the same age.

Walking on the narrow stone steps, the old man held the girl's delicate and boneless hand, the old man walked very slowly, his heart was heavy, and the child walked very slowly.

This time, it was still in vain, the Taoist elders on Maoshan tried their best, and a few things in the ancestral hall were also invited, but they were still not of much use, and even when the child coughed, there were already a few traces of blood.

The Taoist elders of Maoshan also panicked when they saw that the child's condition did not improve but began to deteriorate, so they made a decision, they decided to go to Siguo Cliff and ask the two Maoshan Qingzi teachers to come down the mountain to take a look.

After the two teachers went down the mountain, after seeing the child's symptoms, they only sighed and shook their heads, but no matter how helpless they were, they couldn't watch the child disappear like this.

After the unanimous deliberation of the high-level of Maoshan, they were ready to open the forbidden corpse cave.

Just as there is a demon well in the Heavenly Master's Mansion to suppress evil spirits, there is a demon palace in the Shangqing Palace that detains ghosts and ghosts. Maoshan also has its own place to seal the evil - the corpse cave.

After returning to the mountain after the experience, the ghosts and spirits that have been suppressed all the way are sealed to the place where the spiritual energy in the door prepared in advance by the various avenue gates gathers, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is used to purify or suppress the evil. However, with the continuous training of dozens of generations of sect people, the original places where spirits gather have long been polluted by demonic qi and demonic energy, and have become the most dangerous forbidden places in the major avenues.

As a last resort, the various avenues jointly launched a statement, requiring the disciples who have gone down the mountain to strictly abide by the one-stop service guide for subduing demons and eliminating demons in the new era.

The so-called "One-stop Service Guide for Demon Suppression and Demon Eradication in the New Era" actually refers to an advocacy issued by the Shenzhou Daoist Association according to the unspeakable status quo of the access control areas of various avenues:

Advocate that the disciples in the door can do it, green demons, ecological demons, humane demons, and strive for perfection in every business. When you encounter a good demon or a kind demon, you can encourage you first and then do a good job of filing. If the oral education is not listened to, then it must be found on the spot, eliminated on the spot, and strive to solve it with one knife, and strive not to leave trouble for the people, not to leave pain for the monster, not to leave regrets for themselves, after the monster is eliminated, it must also be buried on the spot, the scene is excessive, it is best to cremate directly, and its ashes are all thrown away.

It is said that after Maoshan opened the corpse cave that they had been closed for many years, the two teachers personally took a group of people down, no one knew what would happen, and the group of people at the entrance of the cave were also waiting anxiously, because there was really not much time left for the girl.

After a day and a night, they came out, fortunately everyone came out, but everyone was more or less colored, even the back of the Taoist robe on the teacher of the Qing generation was torn a huge opening, as if it was torn apart by some sharp hook and claw, but the broken fabric turned out to be a strange black and purple color, as if it was contaminated with poison.

Everyone sat on the ground and meditated and breathed, the deep hole was like a dead behemoth's hideous mouth open, lying behind everyone's back, there was a continuous roar from the hole, the roar was getting louder and closer, as if thousands of evil ghosts were going to crawl out of this hell's mouth, and suddenly there was a woman's sharp howl from the depths of the cave, after this long whistle, everything was quiet, there was silence between heaven and earth, and even the birds, beasts and insects disappeared. All the high skills in the cave slowly opened their eyes, lowered their heads, and sat silently, just sitting like this, even the two teachers turned their heads silently and looked at the entrance of the cave with sadness, where there are the most bitter people in Maoshan in the deepest part, who are locked by iron locks every day, can't live, can't die, and the cycle goes back and forth.

At this time, the injured teacher stood up with difficulty, and walked to the girl who was standing at the entrance of the cave in a daze, and when he walked to her side, the teacher squatted down, gently took the girl's hand, pointed to the deep hole, and said:

"Look, this is the hole, are you afraid?"

The little girl probably didn't understand, nodded and shook her head, and finally the little girl seemed to know the answer, biting her nails in her mouth, looking at the hole, and said in a milky but firm tone:

"Don't be afraid!"

When the old man heard this answer, a smile appeared on his face, and the old face was wide and horizontal, which was the tempering of the years and his conquest of the years.

The old man raised his injured hand, looked at the girl's star-like eyes, gently removed the girl's hand to his mouth, and asked in a long tone with a smile:

"Why?"

The girl said without thinking:

"I feel like that hole is protecting you. ”

"It's like... It's like grandpa has been protecting me all these years!"

When the old man heard this, he pursed his lips slightly, looked up at the night sky, the stars were twinkling one by one, he didn't know whether it was the galaxy flowing in the sky, or the tear in the corner of his eye, which reflected the starlight.

Suddenly, a cold little hand appeared in the old man's field of vision, gently wiping away the tears that were about to fall.

"We can't cry! or they'll be sad!"

With just such a sentence, the old man's eyes suddenly flowed two lines of tears.

"Remember, girl, there is always someone in this world who is protecting us. I've been hiding from the rain all my life, and today I realized that the rain can be sad too!"

Hearing this, all the Maoshan Gaogong present burst into tears and cried, they had been hiding all their lives, and they had protected them all their lives in this dark place!

Oh, yes

No matter how difficult these days are,

There is always such a person with you,

Don't fail them,

May there be years to look back on,

And with deep affection.

(I don't know why I'm a little uncomfortable when I code this chapter today.,I hope you can live up to it!!There will be a chapter later.) ）