"Ah Yi, I'm so sleepy, you go and play by yourself, and Dad will take you out to play in a while." Yan Jin stretched out a hand from the quilt with difficulty, wiped it on his face, still closed his eyes, and muttered in a low voice.

Yan Jin returned home at more than 3 o'clock in the morning today, recently the company is developing a new project, almost everyone in the company has not slept for nearly a month, Yan Jin as a newcomer, is working overtime to can't tell the difference between day and night. As soon as he got home this morning, he groped his way to the side of the bed almost with his eyes closed, and without even taking off his shoes, he threw himself on the bed and fell asleep, so now he is so sleepy that he can't open his eyes. But the strange thing is that after sleeping, Yan Jin not only did not feel relaxed, but he felt that this sleep seemed to release all his tiredness in the past month or so at once, and his whole body seemed to be falling apart, and he was crying out for pain everywhere.

Ah Yi is a golden retriever raised by Yan Jin, usually when Yan Jin plays with it, it often stretches out its wet tongue to lick his cheeks, so just when Yan Jin feels a burst of damp heat on his face, sticky, wiped his face casually, and wanted to hug Ah Yi's neck.

Yan Jin didn't touch Ah Yi, his hand was raised a little higher, expanded the range, and continued to grope around, his eyes never wanted to open, as if so, after he touched Ah Yi, he could hold it and continue to sleep again. After groping for a long time, Yan Jin didn't touch the hairy and warm head, and as her consciousness gradually woke up, Yan Jin's senses also recovered from her sleep. Suddenly, he opened his eyes suddenly, and before he could withdraw his outstretched hand, he froze in mid-air, Yan Jin felt for a moment that the fragile heart in his chest seemed to be stagnant for a few seconds, and then beat more violently, and all the blood in his body suddenly gathered in one place, and in an instant, it exploded all over his body, so that he now felt that every inch of his body had a numb feeling after being blown up. Suddenly, Yan Jin seemed to be choked by someone's throat, unable to say a word, he almost instinctively waved his hand frozen in mid-air towards the ghost thing in front of him with a long tongue, fast, accurate and ruthless, at this time there was nothing strange in front of him, it was this that licked Yan Jin's cheek just now, and it was this thing that he could not describe in words for a while.

After the ghost thing was slapped away by Yan Jin, it didn't stick up immediately, it disappeared in an instant, and I don't know where it went. In an instant, Yan Jin felt as if his head was stuffed with a memory that did not belong to him, so that he understood everything that was happening in front of him at once, and there was no doubt about it.

Baijiazhuang, Nanxiang County, in the past half a year, there has suddenly appeared a ghost who asks for his life, everyone who is asked for his life hangs himself and dies miserably, the death is extremely ugly, his eyes are white, his face is blue, his tongue is spit out of his mouth, it is half a foot long, and everyone who sees it will have nightmares for several nights in succession. In the past six months, there have been six hanged people in Baijiazhuang, and rumors have spread for a while, and the rumors that Baijiazhuang is haunted have been spreading, and every household is worried all day long, and people are panicking, and they are afraid that this evil ghost who asks for his life will find him.

Bai Yuanshan, the owner of Baijiazhuang, didn't know how many Taoist priests he had invited in the past six months, he just wanted to get rid of this harmful evil, but there were some inferior Taoist priests mixed with water, and the evil ghosts were so frightened that they ran away halfway as soon as they came out, and some just ran away directly when they saw the corpse of the hanged person, afraid that this evil was too fierce and lost their lives.

Tonight is the eleventh Taoist priest invited by Bai Yuanshan in the past six months, and this posture is no different from the previous ten, an altar, a peachwood sword, a stack of yellow talismans, a bowl of sake, two candles, and all kinds of offerings...... The altar is placed at the entrance of the village, facing the long street, leaning against the high stone archway of Baijiazhuang, a gust of night wind blows, and the fallen leaves on both sides of the street "whoosh" sound. I saw that the Taoist priest picked up the wine bowl on the altar and drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp, and then sprayed it into the night sky with a "poof", waved the long sword in his hand, and began to chant words in his mouth. A long north-south street is brightly lit at this time, but there is no one in sight, the doors and windows of every house are closed, although it is late at night, but few families really sleep. Bai Yuanshan, the owner of the farm, waited anxiously in a room facing the street with dozens of strong young people, everyone in the room was silent, and everyone had an uneasy expression on their faces, and several of them were even more tritus, trembling, and their hearts were filled with fear. Slowly, unusual shadows began to float faintly in the air outside the house, and the night breeze began to become cold, in short, it made people feel an indescribable sense of depression and fear.

Su Zimu came at this time. During the day, he heard Huzi say that tonight the owner of the village invited a Taoist priest to catch ghosts at the gate of the town, and there will be a lot of sacrifices to catch ghosts, and they must be excellent dishes, as long as he sneaks over quietly before the practice begins, steals a little chicken, duck and fish meat and then leaves quickly, so that he will have his birthday, and secondly, he will not have to worry about his life, and even the escape route he has planned earlier. But Su Zimu never expected that something went wrong at this time, and when he came, it was just in time for the Taoist priest to start doing it, and the evil ghosts were infested.

Su Zimu's parents died since he was a child, and he was hungry and full since he was a child. In addition, he has not done less petty theft, more than ten years, nothing else has been learned, his ability to steal things is very powerful, almost rarely caught, even if he is caught, then Su Zimu will beg for mercy with a miserable face, and he can also mix it up unharmed, but if he encounters the kind of unforgiving, it is a big deal to be beaten, and he will continue to do his own thing alive after lying down for a few days. Even without the protection of his parents and relatives, Su Zimu lived peacefully for nineteen years.

However, the reason why Su Zimu appeared in this place today has to be traced back to the incident six years ago.

That day, I don't know what's going on, Su Zimu has been caught stealing things for three days in a row, although he was punched and kicked a few times in the end, but these are all skin injuries, what is really difficult is that Su Zimu's stomach has been "growling" for a day, and there is no more to eat, he estimates that he will go to grab something to eat with those beggars on the street. There is no way, Su Zimu walked around the street "casually" with a colorful face, but his face was too conspicuous, which was tantamount to telling everyone that he was different, in short, he would attract the attention of passers-by before he got close. Su Zimu touched his shriveled stomach, and his eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of a person dressed as a Taoist priest walking not far away, his eyes instantly lit up, he didn't know how high or low this Taoist priest was cultivating, but what he valued was the bulging burden that the Taoist priest was carrying behind him, which looked like it contained a lot of valuable things. After making up his mind, he crept up and walked to a crowded place, Su Zimu suddenly ran quickly past the Taoist priest, and hit one of his arms as if unintentionally, and after the collision, he turned around and said "sorry" very sincerely, but before the Taoist priest could speak, Su Zimu ran away first.

Maybe it was because he was too unlucky recently, and ran through several streets, Su Zimu saw that the Taoist priest behind him did not catch up, so he slowed down, whistling in his mouth, while taking out something from his arms, and looked at it carefully, this is exactly what he just took advantage of the collision from the Taoist priest's baggage. The moment he saw this thing in his hand, Su Zimu's face immediately collapsed, it turned out that he was holding a book in his hand, this book looked like it was some years old, and when he opened it, some of the paper had been slightly yellowed, but the handwriting on the paper was quite complete.

Su Zimu has never studied since he was a child, and the few words he finally knew were stolen from others, yes, the most hated thing in his life was books, and now, he even stole a broken book. He snorted, said "really unlucky", and was about to throw the book in his hand into the stinky ditch next to him.

At this time, a clear voice suddenly sounded behind Su Zimu, "Youth, slow down." ”

After hearing this, Su Zimu's hand throwing the book unconsciously stopped in mid-air. He turned his head to look in the direction where the voice came, and it was the Taoist priest who had just come.

Su Zimu was stunned for a moment, then remembered what he was holding in his hand, and ran away. He scolded secretly as he ran, "I forgot to read the yellow calendar when I went out today, I can still be caught stealing a broken book, look at that Taoist priest is very powerful, if you are beaten for this broken book, it will be really unlucky!" Just thinking about it, Su Zimu's figure flashed in front of him, and he bumped into the body of a person in front of him with an "oops", and he was about to fall to the ground, but the person who came quickly grabbed him.

"Xie ......" As soon as Su Zimu stood firm, before the word Xie could be spoken, he took several steps back one after another, because the person in front of him was none other than the Taoist priest just now.

At this time, Su Zimu obediently stood in place and didn't run, but he couldn't run away anyway, so he simply found a big stone and sat down, and begged for mercy formulaically while holding the book in his hand, "Dao Chief, I'm sorry, I know it's wrong, I don't dare anymore, this time you don't remember the villain, spare me." After speaking, he pretended to lower his head and sobbed a few times.

The Taoist priest didn't speak, but walked a few steps closer to him, looked at him carefully, and saw that he stretched out his hand and was just about to touch Su Zimu's cheek, Su Zimu subconsciously took a step back, avoiding the touch of the Taoist priest, the Taoist priest silently withdrew his hand and put it behind him, not caring about Su Zimu's dodge, and said softly, "Knowing your way back is a great thing." Since you are associated with this book, I will give it to you today. ”

Su Zimu was ready to be beaten, but such a situation suddenly appeared in front of him, he didn't react for a while, opened his mouth, and later found that he didn't know what to say at all, so he had to quickly close it again.

The Taoist priest didn't seem to notice Su Zimu's embarrassed reaction, laughed in a low voice, and then took out something from his arms, handed it to him, and said, "This is also for you, swords and these things are too ruthless, a fan is enough, in the future, you must not bully others, let alone let others bully." ”

Su Zimu subconsciously stretched out his hand and took the folding fan, but his eyes looked at the Taoist priest of the rivers and lakes without blinking, his face was full of doubts, and he asked hesitantly, "This is?" ”

The Taoist priest did not answer his question, turned his back to him, and after a while, suddenly spoke, but his voice was not as clear as just now, but hoarse, "Su... Su Zimu ......". Su Zimu heard that he only called his name, so he stopped speaking, so he looked at him suspiciously, but unfortunately the Taoist priest was facing away from him at this time, so Su Zimu didn't see the expression on his face clearly.

"That's it, besides, there are ......" After speaking, the Taoist priest left without looking back.

Su Zimu didn't hear the last words of the Taoist priest clearly, or didn't understand them at all. He sat alone for a long time with a book and a folding fan, forgetting the hunger in his belly, until the sun had set and the night light had turned on, and he got up and left slowly.

Later, Su Zimu found that the book was not an ordinary book, but a sword book, although he was not very literate, but his understanding was extremely high, he used the fan as a sword, but he also practiced a set of sword books to be superb.

However, since then, Su Zimu has never seen that Jianghu Taoist priest again, six years have passed, he has even forgotten the appearance of that person, when he tried to search for bits and pieces about that person's appearance in his mind, he found that maybe he didn't see what that person looked like in the first place, but just remembered his gentle and deep voice, which was a voice that he was very familiar with but couldn't remember where he had heard it.