"Jinqiu."

Duan Sanniang saw Jinqiu standing at the foot of the thousand-layer steps from a distance, and his figure was exactly the same as when his father was young. Jinqiu turned around when he heard the sound and saw his mother holding Qing'er's hand and walking back, Qing'er's bouncing appearance was cute, he remembered that he was also living like this carefree, as for when the worry came to the door, he couldn't remember. Qing'er opened her hands and ran towards Jinqiu, Jinqiu picked her up, Qing'er smiled innocently, and that laughter seemed to have filled Jinqiu's heart for more than 30 years of regret and emptiness.

"Mom, what are you doing?"

"I'm going to pick her up."

"Didn't Lei Zhen already arrange for someone to pick up Qing'er?"

"I only asked them to send Qing'er to the bottom of the mountain, and every day I would go down the mountain to pick her up."

Jinqiu smiled slightly and stopped talking, maybe her mother was making some kind of subtle compensation to Jinqiu on Qing'er's body. No matter what, Jinqiu's heart is being healed by Qing'er's smile little by little. It is not hindered by age, not by time, and by blood, but only by the slightly raised curvature of the corners of the mouth. Jinqiu took Qing'er and her mother back home, and her mother was ready to cook, Jinqiu said.

"Mom, you wait a while and get busy, I have something to ask you."

"What can't wait until you're done eating? Qing'er still has to go to school in the afternoon. ”

Hearing this, Jinqiu didn't say anything, he worked for his mother in the kitchen. Jin Qiu asked while washing vegetables.

"When I was a child, were you busy like that?"

"Isn't this nonsense, if I hadn't been busy with my work, you would have starved to death."

Jinqiu smiled slightly.

"Then why didn't you let me help at the time?"

Duan Sanniang sighed and said.

"At that time, your father left us and left, although you didn't say anything, but I know that you actually know everything in your heart. At that time, I was afraid that you would feel uncomfortable, so I simply let you do whatever you liked, but who knew that you ended up running outside to live on your own, and you really have a son if you have a father. ”

The pain in Jinqiu's heart can be healed by Qing'er, so who should heal the scars in her mother's heart? Mother continued.

"Although he is in charge of Gao Yuntang, it is not the turn of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea every day, and there is nothing different. But your father just can't get over this hurdle, not to say that he is a man, and his face can't get by, this man's face is so important? ”

Jinqiu put the washed vegetables on the cutting board, then took the freshly picked vegetables from his mother's hands, and put them in a basin of clean water to wash them, the dishes gradually became clean, and the water gradually became muddy.

"Mom, I'll be with you in the future."

"You? I can't count on it, just have Qing'er with me. ”

Jinqiu took out the washed vegetables from the basin and put them on the cutting board, and his mother urged.

"Alright, alright, let's get out of here. I'm going to cook, and I'm going to choke people with smoke and fire for a while. ”

Jinqiu was forcibly kicked out by his mother, and he saw Qing'er lying on the stone table in the courtyard tinkering with something, so he tiptoed forward to peek. Don't look at Qing'er as young, but she lives with Duan Sanniang all the year round, and she still understands some qigong. When Jinqiu approached Qing'er, Qing'er felt that Jinqiu's qi was approaching her little by little. Qing'er suddenly looked back at Jinqiu, and then covered the things on the stone table with both hands, and smiled evilly with her small mouth slightly raised.

"Qing'er, what are you doing?"

Qing'er smiled and shook her head, Jinqiu stepped forward to peek into something under her arm, but Qing'er's strength was suddenly so great for some reason, and Jinqiu couldn't pull it away no matter how hard she tried. Sure enough, when a person wants to protect her most precious things, she can always burst out with infinite power. At this time, Sanniang walked to the courtyard with the dishes and said.

"Jinqiu went to get the dishes and chopsticks. Qing'er cleaned up the table. ”

Jinqiu walked into the kitchen, and Qing'er hurriedly stuffed the things on the table into her schoolbag. Then he peeked at Jinqiu to make sure he didn't notice himself before quickly hiding his schoolbag in the room.

After lunch, Qing'er went for a lunch break. Jinqiu and his mother sat in the courtyard to enjoy the shade, and the acquaintances on the tree kept screaming, Duan Sanniang shook her fan and asked.

"What do you want to tell me before dinner?"

"I want to ask you, where is the sealed ghost coffin in our house?"

Duan Sanniang suddenly sat up from the recliner and asked.

"Why do you ask this?"

Jinqiu took out the black box prepared by Tong'er and said.

"There are twelve statues of boys in this, and each of them is sealed with fragments of nightmares, and a master of the world asked me to put these twelve statues in the coffin."

"What kind of master in the world would know that our family has a ghost coffin?"

"Ancestor Xuzi Dao."

Duan Sanniang's face changed suddenly and said.

"Xuzi Dao? Jinqiu, how can you lie to me? ”

"I didn't lie to you, it's really a false way. He also said that as long as he tells you that he is a false son, you will know. ”

Duan Sanniang pondered for a moment and said.

"It is true that there was a Xuzi Dao among our ancestors, but according to legend, he is long gone. Have you been deceived? ”

"Probably not."

Jinqiu opened the black leather box, there were twelve boy statues neatly placed inside, and suddenly Duan Sanniang noticed a calla lily inside, the moment she took the calla lily out of the box, the calla lily turned into a mist in her hand, and then the face of Xuzidao appeared in the mist, and it just disappeared in a flash. Duan Sanniang didn't think anything about it, but Jinqiu was taken aback and asked.

"Mom, what was that?"

"This is what Xuzi Dao left inside to prove his identity. This technique is called soul parasitism, that is, placing one's soul on an object, and when it is discovered, it will turn into what the soul parasitor wants people to see. ”

"Now you believe it."

"Hmm. You tell me what you want to do again. ”

"He asked me to put the statues of these twelve boys in the ghost coffin when the child was without a moon, and then sealed the ghost coffin with twelve peach wood nails."

"If you want to use the ghost coffin, you must first empty it."

"You mean there's something else in there?"

Duan Sanniang pinched the math and said.

"It's all about luck. The ghost coffin has been sealed with the souls who have died tragically under the cobbler's knife over the years, otherwise the Sanyun Gang would have been in chaos a long time ago. ”

"Aren't there countless souls in that ghost coffin?"

"It's not so exaggerated, the soul will be gradually refined over time. Xuzi Dao is pinching the time to let you come, and he has already calculated everything. ”

"Wouldn't it? That old man is too powerful, isn't he? ”

"I'll take you to the back mountain tonight, and the ghost coffin is in the cave in the back mountain."

Time passed in a flash, and at night Jinqiu coaxed Qing'er to sleep, and then came to Duan Sanniang's room and said.

"Mom, can we go?"

"Let's go."

The mother and son were well prepared, and came out of the house over the pavilion at the top of the mountain to the back mountain on the shady side. Few people usually come here, because the sunshine hours are short all year round, and they will unconsciously exude a yin energy.

"Mom, you tell me the location, and I'll just go down by myself."

"Nope."

About half an hour later, the mother and son came to the mouth of the cave, Duan Sanniang took out a pot of wine and handed it to Jinqiu, and said.

"Take two sips. It's very cold inside, and ordinary people will be more auspicious when they go in, but fortunately we have Liuyun Jue to protect ourselves, but we also have to drink some wine to warm up. ”

Jinqiu took a big sip, and the spicy sensation not only opened his taste buds, but also opened his courage. Duan Sanniang walked in front, Jinqiu followed, and from time to time there was the sound of dripping water and rustling in the cave, and sometimes some black shadows flew through the light of the flashlight. Duan Sanniang whispered.

"These are vampire bats that can sense the heat flowing through the human body. Use qi to seal the large hole of the upper body so as not to be attacked. ”

Jinqiu sealed the big hole in his upper body according to his mother's words, and suddenly he felt that the heat in his body stopped flowing. At this time, two forks in the road appeared, the entrance to the left was covered with cobwebs, and the right one was clean. Jinqiu instinctively walked to the road to the right, Duan Sanniang stood still and asked.

"Mom, why don't you leave?"

"Shh

Duan Sanniang made a silent gesture, then listened attentively, and suddenly she pushed Jinqiu onto the stone wall next to her. Before Jinqiu could react, he saw a stone wall appear from the air separating him and Duan Sanniang on both sides, and Jinqiu knocked on the stone wall hard and shouted.

"Mom, Mom."

But on the other side of the stone wall, no one answered. At this time, Jinqiu was facing the road covered with cobwebs, and now there was no other way but to go inside. The road became narrower the further inside, and Jinqiu felt like he was stepping on soft dirt with every step, only to bring out a disgusting smell when his feet were raised. By the light of the flashlight, he could vaguely catch a glimpse of something wriggling on the wall next to him, and he didn't intend to shine it, he didn't want to waste his dinner in such a place. Further on, it became even lower, and Jinqiu had to lower his body and crawl forward. The moment his hands touched the ground, the disgust in his heart for the soft mysteries on the ground doubled, and every time he pulled his hands out of it, he longed for the next step to step out of the exit of this hellish place. At this time, there was a sudden sound of scurrying from the top of Jinqiu's head, and from time to time there would be a hissing sound, Jinqiu looked up and saw a slender white scale in the gap above his head.

Jinqiu couldn't help but speed up his crawling, and then the voice came from behind him, Jinqiu hurriedly looked back, and found that there was nothing behind him. At this time, Jinqiu had already seen the light of the exit in front of him, he held his breath and used all his strength to rush towards the exit, and at the moment when he rushed out of the hole, a black python also came out, its whole body was black, only the abdomen was white.

Jinqiu rolled over and stood up, shaking off the disgusting things on his body. At this time, the python was standing upright in mid-air, spitting letters, looking at the prey in front of him. The python rushed over at Jinqiu, Jinqiu turned his true qi and then aimed at the snake's head and launched a palm, and then the black python fell to the side and convulsed, just as Jinqiu was about to kill him, Duan Sanniang came out of another clean passage and immediately shouted when he saw this scene.

"Stop."

Jinqiu saw his mother appear, and immediately said with joy.

"Mom, are you alright?"

"Jinqiu, stop. This black python is the gatekeeper of the ghost coffin, and it must not be harmed. ”

"But it was going to attack me."

Duan Sanniang looked at the black python, and then said.

"Jinqiu, come here."

Jinqiu walked to Duan Sanniang's side, Duan Sanniang took Jinqiu's hand and put it on the black python's mouth, and suddenly the black python bit Jinqiu's hand, and the blood flowed into the black python's belly along the snake's teeth. After a while, the black python let go of its fangs, and Jinqiu asked, holding his still bleeding hand.

"Mom, what are you doing here?"

"You don't know, the black python bit you just now to identify you."

Duan Sanniang stretched out her hand to the black python as she spoke, and Duan Sanniang's blood also flowed down the snake's teeth into the black python's belly. The black python was coiled in the corner, and what appeared in front of Jinqiu and Duan Sanniang at this time was a stone door, on which a giant python was carved, and there was a groove in the middle of the stone door, as if something could be inserted in it.

"Mom, what is this groove for?"

"You'll find out later."

At this time, the black python slowly moved its body, slowly climbed on top of the stone gate, and then entrenched on the top of the stone gate, the snake's head hung down slightly, and two streams of blood slowly flowed along the two snake teeth into the groove carved into a giant python on the stone door, and the blood turned around in the groove, and then Duan Sanniang took off the ring on her hand and put it into the groove in the middle of the stone door, and then the stone door opened to the left. When Jinqiu and Duan Sanniang walked in, the black python suddenly came down from the stone gate and followed them in.

It turned out that behind the stone door was a burial chamber, and the coffin of the ghost was parked on a high platform in the middle, and four candles were lit at the four corners, the only difference was that the light of the candle was green.

Duan Sanniang slowly walked towards the ghost coffin, the whole coffin was made of a complete piece of wood, it was not a precious wood but a very ordinary wood. Acacia wood, it is rumored that locust wood beckons ghosts, the reason why the material of the ghost coffin is selected is also this reason, the ghost is easier to settle in the locust wood, and the scriptures engraved on the ghost coffin can better seal the ghost in it.

Duan Sanniang stepped forward to pull out the mechanism of the coffin lid, and suddenly the coffin lid was opened by a burst of white gas, and an ethereal voice suddenly came out of it, saying.

"Descendants of the Jin family, I will definitely make you pay the price."

"If there is anything, you can go to the old ghost of Tuoshan to settle accounts, he also sealed you here in the first place."

"When you turn into the next life, I will make you look good."

With that, the white air and the sound were gone. Jinqiu stepped forward and asked.

"Mom, who is the old ghost of Tuoshan he is talking about?"

"It's what you call the Void Son Dao."

"Then how did he get involved with our Sanyun Gang?"

"Let's not talk about this yet, you look at the time."

Jinqiu looked at the time and found that there was still half an hour to go, and said.

"There's still half an hour. But now how do you know if there's moonshine outside? ”

Duan Sanniang walked to the wall and pressed a mechanism, and suddenly opened a skylight directly above the ghost coffin, and the bright moonlight hit the ghost coffin directly. Jinqiu smacked his tongue and said.

"It's broken, you can't put the boy statue in it if there is moonlight."

"Don't worry, there's still half an hour."

Half an hour later, the moonlight was still there. But at this time, Sanniang fell asleep against the wall because she was too tired. Jinqiu didn't know what to do for a while, and suddenly he thought of a way, that is, to close the skylight on the ghost coffin, so that it would be the same as not having moonlight. Jinqiu went to the wall to find the mechanism, and then closed the skylight. Duan Sanniang still didn't wake up, Jinqiu took out the twelve boy statues from the box, placed them in order according to Xuzidao's explanation, then gently covered the coffin lid, and finally nailed twelve peach wood nails into the coffin lid. At this time, Sanniang woke up, and it happened that Jinqiu drove the last nail into it, Duan Sanniang asked.

"No more moonshine?"

Jinqiu shook his head and said.

"It's gone."

As soon as the words fell, Jinqiu suddenly felt a shock on the hand of the sealed ghost coffin, and then quieted down again. Duan Sanniang said slightly tiredly.

"Let's go."

The moment Jinqiu and Duan Sanniang left the tomb, the stone door behind them suddenly closed, and then the black python disappeared. When he went back, Jinqiu walked on that clean road, which was not only spacious inside, but also did not have any fishy smell.

The moment he came out of the cave, there were dark clouds overhead, and the moon was blocked by dark clouds, and no light could be seen out. Jinqiu secretly rejoiced that it was definitely because of the explosion of his character, so the dark clouds would come to the rescue in time to save face. After Jinqiu returned home, he fell asleep deeply, and the peach wood nails of the ghost coffin in the back mountain were shaking slightly, making a squeaky sound.

At dawn the next day, Jinqiu got up early in the morning and made breakfast for his mother and Qing'er. After breakfast, the person who picked up Qing'er from school came. Jinqiu pushed it off on the spot and said.

"I'll go back to Zhonghai City today, and I'll send Qing'er to school in a while."

Qing'er clapped her little hands and applauded. Before leaving, her mother handed a book to Jinqiu and said.

"This is the mind method of Liuyun Jue, take a look at it when you are fine. You were very angry last night, and you will have an accident in the past. ”

"Got it."

Jinqiu sent Qing'er to school, and when their car drove onto the highway, the person who had been monitoring Jinqiu with a telescope in the distance said on the walkie-talkie.

"Inform the boss that Jinqiu is gone."

"Understood."

After a while, the walkie-talkie rang again.

"The boss asked you to go to Zhonghai City to continue monitoring."

"Understood."

When the car stopped at the gate of Qing'er's school, Qing'er jumped up to the teacher's side and saluted.

"Hello teacher."

"Hello Qing'er."

The teacher saw that the person who sent Qing'er to school today had changed, so he stepped forward and asked.

"May I ask who you are from Qing'er?"

Before Jinqiu could speak, Qing'er ran back and grabbed Jinqiu's hand and said to the teacher.

"He's my brother, handsome."

Jinqiu bowed his head and said to Qing'er.

"If you don't go in, you'll be late."

With that, Qing'er stuck out her tongue and ran into the campus. Jinqiu looked at Qing'er's back as she ran in, and a warm feeling suddenly rose in his heart, but he didn't notice that the teacher's gaze stayed on him and never left.