When Mu Feng arrived in Hunan, it was already the early morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, and he bought some New Year's gifts to come to the door, although he had already had the address of his grandfather's house, but he never came.

Mu Feng's arrival was obviously unexpected by everyone, it was the uncle who opened the door, he heard Mu Feng report his home, stared at Mu Feng and looked quietly, and then put up a smiling face to let Mu Feng enter the door.

"Your second uncle and I are still talking about when we will go to the capital to see you. Our family finally has a student from Beijing University, which must be celebrated, and your grandfather has been talking about letting your younger siblings learn from you, but everyone usually has to go to work and school, and I want you to come over this summer to get together, I didn't expect to see you during the Chinese New Year. ”

The eldest uncle observed Mufeng as he spoke, and they had no impression of this cheap nephew, only some feelings when Mufeng's grandfather sent out living expenses every month. For this living expenses, the family also muttered, it was just the money earned by Mufeng's grandfather, how he wanted to use it, and the junior couldn't do anything except say a few words.

The last time my uncle saw Mu Feng was three years ago, he went to Shaanxi on a business trip, passed by a small village on the side of Huashan Mountain, and brought some clothes for Mu Feng. Mu Feng in his memory is a thin teenager who doesn't speak much, but he didn't expect that after three years, he was really impressed. There are still some shadows of the old days in front of Mufeng in front of me, but there is always an indescribable temperament, and I always feel a little pressure to walk together.

Sure enough, it would be different if I went to study at Jingcheng University, and my uncle found a reason for Mufeng's change.

Mu Feng didn't have too much to say hello to his relatives who were like strangers, he didn't care why his uncle was kind to him, whether he treated him differently because he saw his potential, this time he came to find out the truth of the year. "I should have come to visit the New Year, thank you for taking care of me all these years."

Mu Feng walked through the courtyard to the door of the main house, and the uncle introduced Mu Feng to the dozen or so people in the house, and they all smiled, looking like they had all heard of Mu Feng's name. Mu Feng glanced at everyone, smiled and greeted, but his eyes fell on his grandfather's face, who was in his sixties and looked very healthy, but when he saw Mu Feng, he did not smile like others, but frowned slightly.

No matter how much those people wanted to ask what the capital was like, whether the life of the university was wonderful or not, my grandfather directly brought Mu Feng out of the crowd, "Mu Feng, you come with me." ”

The eldest uncle wanted to say something, but he was glared at by his grandfather, and he could only watch as his grandfather took the wooden seal out of the house.

"I've been waiting for you to come, but I don't want to see you coming, you know all those things, right?"

Mu Feng didn't beat around the bush this time, but asked directly. "If my grandfather said that my mother was adopted, I know. However, I don't know why she left me in the Mu family. Grandpa, do you know that my father is not Mu Jianguo at all? Mu Jianguo has an older brother, Mu Hanyan, why didn't you attend their wedding back then. ”

"He's really not your biological father?" Grandpa sighed when he heard this, "That's good, I don't believe that Xiaoling's vision will be so bad." As for why we didn't go to their wedding in the first place, we did something wrong. ”

"Xiaoling was adopted by me and your grandmother, when I was less than twenty years old and your grandmother were married, we have not had children after marriage, and it is useless to see a lot of doctors, and then we even asked God to worship Buddha in order to have a child. We met an old man who said that it should first blossom and then bear fruit, and that it is necessary to adopt a girl first. During the war years, there were not many others, there were many orphans, and when we adopted Xiaoling, she was only three years old, and she was very beautiful, which made people like it at first sight.

We specially asked Lao Dao to forget it, Xiaoling is very compatible with our family, as long as she comes, she can bring heirs. Sure enough, in less than a year, it turned out that we had worked hard for seven years without results, and as soon as Xiaoling came, your grandmother became pregnant, gave birth to your eldest uncle, and later had your second uncle. Although Xiaoling is not our biological child, we live together very happily as a family. But when Xiaoling was twelve years old, something happened, and this qiē changed. ”

My grandfather said that his eight-year-old uncle was playing with a group of children by the river, and one of the children fell into the water, although he was immediately rescued, he was no longer breathing, and the key was that he saw a handprint on his ankle, as if someone had pulled the child into the water.

As soon as this happened, people became panicked, and rumors of water monkeys in the river were everywhere, and the villagers thought that it was not a simple drowning, but that they were caught by the water monkeys to be ghosts.

The children were forbidden to go near the river, but something happened to them, and the children who had been playing with them that day would hear strange cries in the middle of the night, and they all had a high fever and became ill.

Xiaoling said that she got up in the middle of the night and saw a dark shadow floating at the door of your uncle's room. This is even more confirmed by the rumors of haunting. Everyone in the village wants to invite Taoist monks to exorcise evil spirits, but there are few people who can have real skills, and it is useless for us to find a few. The illness of those children is getting worse day by day, and your uncle is also suffering from fever again and again, and has been in a coma in bed.

One night, I don't know what happened, your uncle suddenly woke up and was about to run towards the river of the dead man, and we all wanted to stop him, who would have thought that he was an eight-year-old boy with great strength, and we couldn't stop him. At this time, Xiao Ling picked up a stick and wanted to knock the kid unconscious, how could she be a little girl with that strength, but who would have thought that Xiao Ling's knock would cure your uncle's illness. Xiao Ling later said that her stick hit a black shadow directly on the head, and the black shadow immediately fled. At this moment, the illness of other children in the village was also inexplicably cured. ”

"We didn't tell the outside about it, but we knew that Xiaoling could see things we couldn't. Can you imagine that when she is looking at you, it may be looking at you, or it may be looking at something around you that you don't know at all. Later......"

Grandpa smiled bitterly when he said this, "You know that ordinary people always don't like aliens, it would be nice if Xiaoling was born to us, but she is not, your grandmother is a little afraid of her, and she doesn't let your two uncles get close to her." I don't know exactly when, it turned out that the good family was divided, and Xiaoling left home after finishing high school. When we meet again, it's the year you were born. ”

Mu Feng listened to what his grandfather said, he was silent, he really didn't know what to say about his mother's past. Five disadvantages and three shortcomings, Mu Feng has heard this word, and he is bound to be unable to get the happiness of ordinary people by spying on the heavenly machine to change the rules of things. Being scared by loved ones also seems to be a helpless thing.

The two walked to the old house, which had not been inhabited for a long time, but it was still very clean, and it seemed that someone had been cleaning it.

"That's Xiaoling's room, and the things in it haven't been touched since she left." Grandpa opened the door, the room was not big, only a bed and a desk. "She didn't actually leave anything behind, just some textbooks and a wooden sign."

Grandpa took out a wooden sign wrapped in red cloth from his arms, and unwrapped the tightly wrapped red cloth, which was a palm-sized black wooden sign, boxy, with the word 'seal' engraved in gold on it.

"Your mother has brought this thing since she was a child, and when she named you that year, she said that her real surname was Feng, so she called you Mufeng. Later, she passed away, and before she died, she instructed two things, you must stay in the Mu family, and you can't leave until you are eighteen years old, which can ensure that you grow up without illness and disaster. Second, this wooden card will also be given to you after you leave the wooden house. ”

Mu Feng took the wooden card, with his eyesight that he had practiced for half a year, this may not be ordinary wood, some like ebony, and there is a faint fragrance. Although the thing is not big, according to the words of the shopkeeper Zhang, this kind of wood can be encountered but not sought.

"We named her Ji Ling, but later I found out that apart from this name, I know very little about my daughter, who she was with in the years she left us, what she learned and did, I can't say. I regret it, but once there is a gap, I can't make up for it. You also saw your two uncles just now, they are different from Xiaoling, we are all ordinary people, and we can only be sad afterwards.

Xiao Ling said that she wanted to leave you in the Mu family, and I guessed that you might be the same as her, destined to be someone we couldn't keep. ”

"So don't have too much contact." Mu Feng said lightly, "I can understand why you haven't come to see me all these years." ”

Grandpa listened to Mu Feng's flat tone, and a deeper sadness surged in his heart, but sadness is sadness, life is life, these are two things. He wanted to reach out and touch Mufeng's head, but he put it down halfway through.

"That's all I know, after you were born, I saw Mu Jianguo, I asked Xiaoling if such a man is worth entrusting? She said that this is your life, no matter how you escape, you can't escape, if you can't even survive these things, you can't grow into a strong person.

Xiaoling believes that Mu Jianguo is not good to you, and you can also survive and become an excellent person. I can't say that as a mother she is a bit ruthless, because I don't have the qualifications. Who is Xiaoling, how did you meet your biological father, and whether there are any other stories in it, you have to find out by yourself, and you don't have to tell me in the future.

Before she died, she wanted me to take her back here for burial, and of course I promised her that I would take you to the grave later. At that time, she said that she wished she was just Ji Ling, but in fact, I was the same, I wished she was just Xiao Ling. ”

This is destined to be impossible, Ji Ling has already changed in that summer of twelve.

Mu Feng knew this, and so did his grandfather.

Mu Feng didn't stay long, only had one lunch, and immediately went to his mother's grave to pay respects, and then he left Hunan and went directly back to the capital.

This year, Mu Feng felt that he had done nothing else, just sitting on the train to kill time, and when he arrived in the capital, it was the evening of the fourth day of the first lunar month.

Mu Feng didn't want to go back to the bedroom, so he was still alone, so he went to the bereavement. Although it shows that the door is open, there are still some people on the street of Liulichang who can speak.

It turns out that people will be lonely, this loneliness is not loneliness, even if there are people around you who can speak, but you know that you and they are not people of the same world, and will never be people of the same world.

Mu Feng has lived for eighteen years, and at the end of the nineteenth year, he finally feels this loneliness.

Although there was no sign of business at the door when Mu Feng arrived at the bereaved man's fast, he found that the lights on the second floor were on.

As soon as Mu Feng opened the lock, he heard something running down the stairs with a 'dong dong', and a big black ball rushed to Mu Feng and hugged Mu Feng's calf.

"King, I have horns, look at my horns, my horns are majestic." The little black lion originally wanted to run into Mu Feng's arms, but it braked in time, and there was an extra sharp horn on its head, so it couldn't rub and hug like before.

Mu Feng looked at the little black lion hanging on his lap, and felt that the last time they met seemed to be a long time ago.

Mu Feng touched the horns of the little black lion, the horn was cool, and rubbed the body of the little lion, the fleshy body was warm and warm, and it felt different.

He wanted to pick up the little black lion with one hand, but who would have thought that it was much heavier and would take two hands to pick it up. "The new horn is very majestic, but how much did you eat on Hong Kong Island, and why did you weigh so much all at once?"

"It's normal that you can't hold it. I almost didn't bring this lion back, it was supposed to be hidden in my bag, but I almost didn't put it in. ”

Ying Wei slowly appeared at the staircase on the second floor, he didn't expect Mu Feng to come back so early, he had a lot of things to ask, such as about the dream brought by the shell, and whether Mu Feng encountered something when he went home this time, which made him look very tired.

But these can wait until tomorrow, now you can have an important night in the New Year, "Tomorrow is the fifth day of the new year, you are back at the right time, and I have almost just arrived." It's eleven o'clock, let's have some supper, and then we'll set off firecrackers to welcome the God of Wealth. I thought I was going to set off firecrackers alone, and it would be good if you came back. ”

Mu Feng hugged the little black lion that weighed a lot, and looked up at Ying Wei who was standing at the light off, although his face was not tangential, but Mu Feng could feel the warmth in Ying Wei's words.

Some people appear not early or late, just right, making you feel that your world is not just you.