When Ah Mei walked to the City God Temple, he picked up the gray-white rag that he had been hanging on the old locust tree.

Just as he was about to wipe what might be the last time he wiped the golden body of the City God, there was a sudden thunderstorm. Suddenly, it began to rain, and the falling rain hit the broken glass again and again with the fierce wind, and Ah Mei smiled indifferently. Rural children have heard thunder many times since they were young, but they don't feel scared at all.

Just as Ah Mei touched the golden body of the City God Master, suddenly a lightning bolt crossed the sky and boomed. Seeing that Amei was about to be struck by lightning, suddenly. A golden light emitted from the eyes of the old man of the city god, and with a bang, Ah Mei disappeared into the city god temple.

"Troublemaker, wake up. In her sleep, Ah Mei saw that Chen Laohan was about to come forward to hug him, and suddenly heard a kind voice calling him.

When I opened my eyes, I found that it was a middle-aged man who looked strange but was dressed very aggressively, looking at him. Ah Mei thought for a while and said, "Uncle, who are you, how could I fall asleep." The middle-aged uncle shouted: "Oh, that boy, you have been wiping my body with a dirty rag, causing my golden body to rust, and you still ask me who I am." "Ah???! are you the Lord of the City God?" Although Ah Mei is young, she has also heard many stories of fairies and ghosts told by people in the village, and she knows that Chen Laohan met him in this City God Temple seventeen years ago.

And the middle-aged uncle shouted with a cold face: "That boy, I think that when you were still in the wow wow wow just landed, you were still protected by this master, so you didn't let you go down to the underworld at that time, and you were put on a soul chain by the bull head and horse face, and you were homeless and unworshipped."

Ah Mei stood up straight at this time, and suddenly her body bent ninety degrees, and she bowed straight like this. "Thank you Lord Chenghuang for saving your life" The face of the Chenghuang Lord suddenly changed, and he became smiling: "Little troublemaker, if you recognize me as a godfather, how about I give you a creation" Ah Mei suddenly remembered something, and her face turned pale: "Lord Chenghuang, I, I won't be dead" When Lord Chenghuang heard this, he scolded loudly: "Bah, you kid, you are not very old, and your ability to scare yourself is not small." Have you ever heard a sentence, if you don't die, you won't die, don't worry, your time hasn't come yet" Ah Mei was determined, although he had been living in Anxi Village, but he also heard the old man next door talk about the bright lights of the big city and the beautiful mountains and rivers of the motherland, he didn't want to die like this without seeing anything.

"Master Chenghuang, where is this, I remember that I seem to be in the Chenghuang Temple. "Trickster, you sit, I'll tell you slowly" The old man pointed to the ground with his hand, and a small bench appeared, a very small one. Ah Mei took a look and felt that it was very kind, because Chen Laohan had this kind of small stool at home.

Let's say that a long, long time ago, when the heavens and the earth first opened, everything was chaos. Born as a human being, death is the soul, if there is a attachment after death, and escape from the hands of cattle and horses, it will temporarily stay in the world, but for a long time, it will definitely turn into a ghost, intrude into the world, although the human can not be seen, but long with the ghost power to drive the evil qi in the human body, in layman's terms, that is, the ghost who stays in the world will be haunted by those with extremely negative energy, with their own resentment, greed, cruelty, causing the root of people. And the City God Temple is a junction point of communication between the two worlds of yin and yang that I appeared in the world, your life should not be extinguished, there is a saying in the world, called heavenly jealousy of talents. While God gives you strengths, it can also bring you flaws. Every hundred years, there will be a human being who can communicate yin and yang, who can see the essence of things more easily than ordinary people, and of course it will be easier to die halfway, I can't tell you about your birth now, I can only say that all this is destined, but it is controlled by man. Troublemaker, you just say that the yin and yang people who come out once in a hundred years, you can choose to wander the world and see the warmth and coldness of the world, or you can choose to kowtow and recognize me as your godfather, and I will let you enter the underworld and be a judge of the pen, and you will not suffer from the seven emotions.

Ah Mei listened to the words of the city god and found that her proud brain was a little unable to turn around: "City God lord, I heard the teacher say, the ancient saying: The sky will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, starve their bodies, and empty their bodies. Was I born with my own calling? Am I really dead now? I just want to find my name and find my parents. As for what you said, I don't understand it. Since I was a child, I have learned a truth, the growth rings of the trunk prove the years of his existence, and the green leaves are his most intuitive expression of extroversion. Although the trees have spring and autumn, the leaves sometimes fall out, and they return at the end of winter. I want to walk in the world without leaving any regrets, even if it is not for myself, I can't live up to Chen Laohan and your life-saving kindness to me back then."

After hearing this, the old man shook his head: "That's it, idiot, idiot." In the past, for you, yin and yang have a boundary, and everything is negative yin and embraces yang. Yin is yin, and yang is yang. From now on, you are a yin and yang person walking in the world. Look at the truth and falsehood in the world, and distinguish the yang body and yin soul. No one is born a god, and no one is born a devil. Have time to read more of the Tao Te Ching, child. The wisdom of our predecessors is far more shallow than we think. Go back."

Amei opened her eyes suddenly, stunned for three seconds. If there were people at this time, they would find that the image reflected in Amei's pupils was not like the human world. He saw pairs of lovers on the Sansheng Stone, carving each other's names with difficulty, he saw a person walking by under a merit mirror hanging in an arch, flashing what they had done in their lifetime again and again, he saw the honest head of the bull, with cold eyes and a horse's face, locking a person with a silver-white chain the thickness of a little thumb and walking away slowly; he also saw the old man of the city god grinning at him, and vaguely saw a cabbage leaf on his not very white teeth. The first time he saw a strange scene, the seventeen-year-old village boy Ah Mei did not fluctuate in his heart, and even wanted to laugh a little, because he saw Chen Laohan walking towards the Nai He Bridge under the leadership of the old man Chenghuang, whispering to an old woman, and jumping into the cave of death.

Ah Mei walked out of the City God Temple, went to an unknown hill, walked to a grave, took out the steamed buns that had been cold, and ate them silently.

The old man of the Chen family, whose ancestral home is Yuezhou, is a native of Anxi Village, born on the third day of August 1949 A.D., and went to the west on the eighth day of April 2017. He has no children in his life, his surname is Chen, his name is Jie, and his name is Changyi. This is a little trace left after death, a plaque, an epitaph, and a little mourning for loved ones.

Ah Mei walked out of the hill, looked at the bustling town in front of her, and took a big breath of air. It's better to be alive.