"Ruyi her...... You know? ”

"I don't know."

"You're going to keep it a secret?"

"I didn't hide it, I just chose not to say it."

"You're such a stubborn fox."

The ghostly light flashed, and a man in black clothes and white hair appeared under the pear tree in the backyard. He wears a gold mask, and his purple eyes are filled with emotion.

"The same goes for you." The fox leaped down from the pear tree and also took on a human form. Dressed in white and with black hair, his eyes are red.

"Since then, you've been looking around to keep her a little longer. But fox, you have to understand one thing, you and her are not suitable after all. ”

"Whether it's suitable or not, I say it."

"That's it, you two, I can't persuade anyone." The man stretched out his hand, and a half-red and half-white flower appeared in the purple halo: "At both ends of yin and yang, dry bones turn into ashes, and flowers bloom on the other side, and they will eventually stumble." That's all I can help you, fox. ”

The fox took the flower and swallowed it as a pill.

The fox's originally pale face became more and more ugly. He sat cross-legged, and after refining the other side flower in his abdomen, he took out the black bone knife he was carrying, pierced his heart, and took the blood from his heart and dripped it into a porcelain bottle.

"If she saw you like this, she would have cried. Fox, what she wants, not what you want for her. ”

"I know, but I can't control my heart." The fox raised his head and smiled at the masked man: "If there is no her here, what is the point of living for a hundred years, a thousand years." ”

"That's right." The man nodded: "It's a pity that I don't have the opportunity to experience the so-called special feelings in your mouth." ”

"You'll meet." The fox stood up with the pear tree in his arms.

"Hopefully, I hope she can be as Ruyi who doesn't care about my identity, and is willing to follow me to stay in a dark place for tens of thousands of years, thousands of years." The man turned around and sighed: "Forget it, it's better not to meet." I'm tired of being alone in that kind of place, and if I really like it, how can I bear to let him suffer with me. ”

With that, the man vanished, just as he had come.

The fox breathed a moment in the pear tree and returned to the house. Xing Ruyi slept very deeply, and the two children in the cradle next to him also slept deeply. The fox approached slightly, first leaned over and touched Ruyi's face, and exchanged the porcelain vase in her hand with the one she had brought before.

The so-called fox incense is made from tens of thousands of ghost bones on both sides of the Yellow Spring as a medicine primer, and his heart and blood are used as medicine to refine, and its main function is to trap Xing Ruyi's soul in her body.

He swore that if he could keep her one more day, he would keep her one more day. He will consciously bear half of the suffering she endures, and he will also bear all the torture she suffers on her behalf.

In the dream, Xing Ruyi saw the big snake again, which was entrenched in a deep and huge snake den, staring at her with a pair of scarlet eyes.

"Snakes! Big snake! ”

She opened her eyes with a whisper and saw the fox sitting on the edge of the bed. He smiled astringently and said, "I seem to have a nightmare." ”

"Don't be afraid, I'm here!"

The fox gently picked her up and held her in his arms.

"Fox." Xing Ruyi wrapped his arms around his neck: "Do you say that I have any special fate with snakes, I always feel that many things I encounter are related to snakes." That horrible dream I just had was also related to snakes. ”

"Are you afraid of snakes?" The fox asked lightly.

Xing Ruyi shook his head: "I'm afraid, I'm not afraid, I just think that snakes are quite repulsive, and I don't like them just by looking at them." ”

"Do you know what that one is in the underworld?"

"The one in the underworld...... You mean the one in charge of the underworld? ”

"He's a serpent, a serpent that's been around since the beginning of the world."

"You mean, he was a snake! Pangu opened the world, how long has it been since now. My God, wouldn't he be a huge one when he turned into a snake? ”

"I guess so." The fox hadn't seen the guy before.

"Then he should belong to the category of gods, as old as your Qingqiu fox clan. You Qingqiu, I know, although you are in heaven and earth, you are on your own, and you are not controlled by any party. What about him? How could such a powerful snake be willing to stay in that place. ”

"Because of promise."

"Promise?"

"He promised a couple to help them watch over their disobedient children. A mortal only knows the eighteen layers of hell, but he doesn't know that there are eighteen layers below those eighteen layers, and what is locked in them is what he needs to guard. ”

"So-" Xing Ruyi looked into the fox's eyes, "The King of Jizo who said that hell is not empty and swears not to become a Buddha is actually a gatekeeper?" ”

"It can be understood that way."

"What if something from below escapes?"

"All beings in the Three Realms will fall into the Infernal Hell."

"So scary?"

"Hmm!"

"No wonder every time I see him, I always feel that he is preoccupied, and I thought he was bored in the underworld. Unexpectedly, he had such a major mission on his shoulders. Or, let's talk to him with good wine and food another day, and by the way, see what treasures are still to be found in this world, even if it is to help him guard those things. ”

"Good!" The fox pinched Ruyi's ears: "It's not too early, let's rest early." By the way, I received a message from Yin Yuan, who said that he had returned to Qingqiu. Also, the queen mother wants to see Yin Qi and Yin Li, and hopes that they can live in Qingqiu for some days. I saw that you were working weekdays, so I agreed on your behalf. Later, the Queen Mother will send Danhe, and if you don't want to, I'll tell the Queen Mother now. ”

"You've cut it first, how do you want me to say anything." Xing Ruyi pinched the fox's face back: "Are you trying to deliberately create a conflict between your mother-in-law and daughter-in-law?" Since the queen mother is willing to help us bring it, I am too late to be happy, how can I object. ”

"Telling the truth?"

"Whether it's true or not, you'll know when you hear it. You're a powerful fox with nine tails and can listen to people's hearts. ”

"Really?" The fox hugged Xing Ruyi tightly: "Let me hear what you are saying in your heart right now." ”

"Do you hear that?" Xing Ruyi whispered: "I'm saying, I love you, I love you very much, I want to be old with you, I want to be with you forever." ”

"You're lying." The fox whispered back, "You said you love me, you said you want me to be well." Fool! ”

Xing Ruyi's eyes were wet all of a sudden, and tears flowed down her cheeks.

Next to her, Yin Li, who was sleeping soundly in the cradle, cried without warning. Her voice was small, like a floppy cat.

On the outskirts of the city, mass graves, a lonely grave suddenly collapsed.

The earth woke up the sleeping crows, who flew to the branches and made unpleasant calls.

Who the first nameless body to be buried in a mass grave was, no one knows.

How the mass graves came about, no one knows.

Everyone only knows that place is a taboo, a very obscure place that living people don't want to approach, and even when they pass by, they will automatically detour to avoid it.

Feng Chao was also reluctant to approach the mass grave, but he got lost, and the ghost sent the gods to this place.

He looked at the messy bulging graves in the mass grave, and felt his scalp tingle. He raised the lantern, searched for the path, and was about to go around, when he suddenly heard a black crow passing overhead, and the lantern he was holding in his hand went out.

"I really think that when I am unlucky, I will stuff my teeth when I drink cold water." Feng Chao threw away the lantern in his hand, gathered his clothes, and walked into the mass grave with his head pierced. He remembered that he could walk through the graves in front of him and over a grove to the official road.

"Death is death, it's a big deal that Lao Tzu will become a ghost after he dies, and be neighbors with you unlucky people." Feng Chao read fiercely: "But then again, I won't mess with you, and you don't come to provoke me." I have something on me that has been opened by the high monks of the White Horse Temple, and if I am injured by mistake, you can only cry. ”

Feng Chao walked forward while chattering, and when he reached the middle of the mass grave, a strange sound came from his ears again. He listened carefully, not the sound of crows screaming, nor the sound of the wind in the night, but the sound of suona and big gongs.

"Who is marrying in the middle of the night?" Feng Chao leaned his neck and looked into the distance: "Even if the road is far away, there is no need to rush like this." What's the matter with this day earlier and day later? The mother-in-law who marries early is not necessarily good, and the one who marries late is not necessarily bad. ”

When I was muttering in my heart, the sound of suona and gong had already arrived. He rubbed his eyelids, only to see a group of people coming in front of him. Walking in the front are two suona, both wearing black robes and red coats, and the fog under their feet is not clear. There are four sedan chairs in the back, and the outfit is similar to the suona blowing in front, but there is nothing to cover, and this face can make Feng Chao see more clearly.

The palanquin's face was white, as white as snow. Feng Chao stared at it for a long time, but found that there was nothing on those faces as white as snow. No eyes, no nose, and no mouth. It's white, clean and white.

The sedan chair carried by the four people is also red, but the sedan chair seems to be carried with its back to it, there is no sedan door, nothing.

Just when Feng Chao was surprised, a suona player in front of him suddenly put down the suona in his hand, and then smiled at him outside. That smile is very weird.

"Ghost ...... They're ghosts! They're all ghosts! ”

Feng Chao was so frightened that he turned around and ran, but no matter how he ran, those ghosts seemed to be following him. In the end, he really had no choice, so he simply squatted on the side of a lonely grave with his head in his hands. The sound of suona passed in front of him, and he half-squinted and saw that they were all stepping on the ground with one foot, and then the whole person flew off the ground. Falling, flying away, with ease and some stiffness.

These are all paper figures, the kind of paper figures used for funerals.

At this time, Feng Chao already understood in his heart that he was unlucky to go home, and he met a ghost who married his wife in the mass grave in the middle of the night. Just when he thought he was going to die in a mass grave, he saw another pair of feet.

It was the feet of a woman in red embroidered shoes, and those feet protruded from under the palanquin, and the tips of the feet were right towards Feng Chao's forehead.