"Xiao Man, do you remember your father's past? This ghost is from the heart. There are dark ghosts in the hearts of men. If you are right, ghosts will not exist. Don't think about that, it will make you tired. For now, I should do my father a favor, and appease your second brother more!"

Ling Hougu's words, so that Xiao Man, who was in a sad state, did not taste it carefully, she just plunged into Ling Hougu's arms again, and cried loudly again.

Ling Hougu patted her on the back gently: "Don't worry, everything will pass." Everything will pass. ”

Xiao Man nodded in Ling Hougu's arms.

After calming down for a while, Xiao Man suddenly straightened up: "By the way, father, I heard the servants outside, Lan Xiu's death is terrifying! The children are gone! Father, who will take a three-month-old fetus? Where is your child? Three months, how old is three months?!Father, the one in her belly should not really be a ghost fetus, right?!"

Ling Hougu turned around, picked up the handkerchief on the desk and handed it to Xiao Man.

Xiao Man took it and wiped it on his face indiscriminately. Seeing that Ling Hougu didn't answer, she reached out and grabbed Ling Hougu's arm: "Father, is the one in Lan Xiu's belly really a ghost fetus?"

Ling Hougu turned his head to meet Xiao Man's gaze: "You just treat him as him." ”

Xiao Man was stunned for a moment. She leaned back in her chair slowly: "When he is, if he is a ghost, then there is a ghost in this house!

Xiao Man's eyes widened: "Really?

Ling Hougu put down the teacup and looked at her sideways: "What do you think, what is a ghost?"

Ling Hou's inexplicable words made Xiao Man raise his head in shock. She raised her eyebrows: "Ghosts, invisible, invisible, terrifying, killing, drinking human blood!"

Ling Hougu hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled faintly: "Ghost is a general term, and there are many kinds of ghosts, and ghosts are also good and bad." Xiao Man, you should know what a stubborn person your father was before, but have you noticed that your father has changed recently?"

Xiao Man blinked, and there were still tears on his eyelashes that had not yet dried. She nodded slightly: "Father has changed. ”

"Perhaps, my father is getting old. Faced with many questions that there is no way to answer, my father can only choose to believe. I believe that there is a layer of space in this world that we do not know. ”

Xiao Man muttered in his mouth and repeated Ling Hougu's words: "Unknown space?

"Perhaps, but not entirely. My father didn't know what kind of group they were, and he didn't want to know about it, and he wasn't in the mood to know about it. But my father's heart preferred to believe that perhaps some of the things they had done were also forced to do so. ”

Ling Hougu's words seemed to be defending the ghost. This made Xiao Man a little stunned. Especially the remarks that made Hou Gu have no choice but to do it, she really doesn't know where it came from and what it means.

Xiao Man frowned: "What does my father mean is that those who do a lot of evil and kill the ghosts have no choice but to do so?"

Ling Hougu sighed: "Your eldest brother is gone." In fact, my father has always wanted to find an opportunity to talk to you about what has happened in the house recently. But the reason why I want to stop talking is because you are a girl's family, and you are my only daughter. After the death of your mother, your father and your brothers will be the messengers of this world to protect you, your mountain, your armor. Xiao Man, maybe you don't understand. Although you have three older brothers, in my father's heart, you are a special existence to me. Father was convinced that he would work with your brothers to protect you. But Xiao Man, his father is still old after all, and he has more than enough heart but not enough strength. ”

At this point, Ling Hougu suddenly choked up.

Hou Gu's sudden emotion moved and choked silently, making Xiao Man throw himself into his arms again. While crying, he shouted loudly, "Father!"

Ling Hougu sighed deeply. While gently stroking Xiao Man's hair, he said slowly: "Father is now in a dilemma. Father doesn't know whether to tell you what is pressed in his heart, Father, I'm afraid of hurting you, Father No, I'm also afraid of hurting you. You are a pearl buried in the softest part of my father's heart, and even though I know that you will leave me sooner or later, I still can't bear to dig you out. No matter what the outside world says about me Ling Hougu, my father sits in this chair and watches his children leave me one by one, and my father feels that I am the biggest failure in this world. Father doesn't know if there will be a chance to see you marry and have children in this lifetime, and be happy. ”

Xiao Man raised his head and cried: "What kind of father are you, of course you can!" After finishing, Xiao Man seemed to remember something: "No! My father, I won't marry you!"

Ling Hougu lowered his head indulgently, and gently flicked Xiao Man's forehead with his hand: "Silly girl, my father wants you to marry, of course he doesn't drive you away from my side." But my father will leave one day. Putting you in the hands of someone who can keep you safe for the rest of your life is the greatest hope in my life. Bad luck, in the era when my father was born, men were going to go to war. My father has been fighting for twenty or thirty years, and it is already a favor to be able to save this life. Your eldest brother and third brother are gone, and the remaining Xiao Chuan, my father doesn't know if he will go back to the past. Suddenly, my father had a plan. ”

Xiao Man straightened up, wiped his tears with the handkerchief in his hand. A pair of eyes were red from crying and looked at Ling Hougu: "What are you going to do?"

Ling Hougu smiled: "Secret!" When he was secret, he stretched out his right index finger and scratched Xiao Man's nose.

Xiao Man pursed his lips: "Father, when are you still playing secrets?"

Ling Hougu smiled: "People can't be resurrected after death, and those who are alive still have to live well." Father's greatest happiness, I'm afraid that only you are left. ”

Xiao Man threw himself into Ling Hougu's arms: "My greatest happiness is to be able to stay by my father's side all the time." ”

Ling Hougu patted him: "What are you doing by my side, I'm getting older and older, I'm afraid that you will be killed by you before I die of illness." ”

Xiao Man raised his head: "Father, don't die, you don't want to die, you don't have to be taboo." ”

Ling Hougu smiled and said nothing.

Xiao Man seemed to suddenly remember something, wiped his tears, leaned back again, and sat down looking at Ling Hougu: "By the way, father, what about the sister-in-law and the child?"

Ling Hougu was stunned: "Didn't you go back to your parents' house?"

"But father, it is rumored outside, and I think it is inappropriate for the eldest brother to be buried in a hurry without telling the sister-in-law about such a big matter. After all......"

Ling Hougu waved his hand, lowered his head and arrived casually: "Someone has been sent to pass it on." They were also told not to come back for the time being. Although it was autumn, the corpse still couldn't be put down. Moreover, when your eldest brother died, he had a headache and did not walk peacefully, and he was afraid of scaring the child. ”

Xiao Man nodded: "But father, it is rumored in this mansion that the eldest brother died strangely, and your behavior is also strange, father." ”

Ling Hougu turned around, picked up the teapot and refilled the bowl with some water: "The mouth grows on Bei Rao's body, so you can do whatever you want." Besides, it's normal for them to have doubts. Father just didn't bother to explain it. There have been a series of things in the house, and my father is now physically and mentally exhausted. If it had been in the past, maybe I would have wanted to suppress public opinion. Now, let them go!"

At this point, Ling Hougu turned his head and suddenly asked, "If there are really ghosts in this world, are you afraid?"

Xiao Man was stunned: "I'm afraid, I'm not afraid." ”

Ling Hougu smiled: "What do you mean by being afraid or not afraid?"

Xiao Man sniffed: "Father is not afraid, I am not afraid." ”

Ling Hougu touched her head: "Xiao Man, you remember, no matter what happens in the future, I will always be your father, Ling Hougu." ”

Xiao Man blinked, bit his lower lip, and nodded vigorously.

Of course, Ling Hougu didn't understand what she said.

"Let's go back. ”

Xiao Man slowly stood up from his feet, and walked out of the main hall of the Linghou Mansion step by step.

Ling Hougu's remarks today, especially when he himself was old and wanted to protect his children but couldn't do anything, the Ling Hougu that Xiao Man saw in his tears was indeed very different from the past.

She found that although her father was on the royal chair of this Linghou Mansion every time, he was really vicissitudes and haggard. He is no longer the warrior who bravely galloped on the battlefield in his armor in the past, and he is not the Ling Hougu who can use political power to guide the country in his main hall.

As a father, he already seems to have what a father should be at this age.

For example, sagging skin, a wrinkled face, the occasional gray hair, and the gentle blessing that comes when you caress your back

Xiao Man returned to the house in tears all the way. Because she was too emotional, she didn't do much analysis of Ling Hougu's remarks about ghosts. However, Xiao Man did not lie. If there really is a ghost in this world, even if that ghost has an unspeakable hidden as his father said, if he is not afraid, it may be a bit far-fetched. However, there is a lonely place where her father and the king are lonely, and she is not afraid of anything!

The successive deaths of Xiao Guanxian and Lan Xiu directly pushed Duan Kun's "marriage" to meet tomorrow.

That night, no one can remember that after the sun rises tomorrow, this makes Kun Shao in Houfu City, the handsome and dashing Duan Kun, about to marry Hu Yue, who has been missing for many years.

Or, Twilight.

The sadness made Xiao Man hug Twilight Snow tightly after returning to the house, and cried loudly.

While Gao and Twilight Xue kept comforting Xiao Man, they also quietly listened to Xiao Man tell the content of his conversation after meeting Ling Hougu. And the closing sentence is: "Cher, I don't know, my father got old overnight, or, I just found out that he is really old." ”

After this sentence, there is no follow-up.

Birth, old age, sickness and death, and the most unacceptable of them, the white-haired people sent the black-haired Rao speechless grief, and in the four seasons of this year, they were extremely unfriendly to Ling Hougu twice painful.

While Xiao Man lamented the injustice of fate, he also felt sorry for his father.

And the topic of family affection seems to be always heavy. Therefore, when Xiao Man's last sentence came out, the air and time in this house seemed to freeze together! What was left for the three girls was to hug their heads and cry and silently remember the past.

Perhaps, while remembering the past, the fear of all life and death in the future is the real suffocating poison!