Chapter 14: Secrets
This night, Suzaku tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.
The word "rebirth" shocked Suzaku. Have you also been seen through by Wang Daochang? Have you guessed that you are also reborn in this life?
Or hide this secret, including the warehouse that comes with you, and let people know about it. Therefore, no matter how lonely and frightened I felt, I didn't go into the warehouse to rest, for fear of being broken by Wang Daochang.
As the sky began to lighten, there was a sound in the courtyard. Suzaku went out and saw Wang Daochang cooking on a fire.
"When you get up, go wash your face first, and you'll have dinner in a while."
Wang Daochang's expression was a little silent, and he didn't look excited or happy last night.
Suzaku looked around, but there was no rhubarb, and turned back to the back room in disappointment.
When I finished freshening up and went outside, breakfast was already set up in the house. It's still the same small square table, a bowl of rice porridge, a steamed bun, and a plate of pickles.
Suzaku sat down and raised his eyes to look at the king who was boxing in the courtyard, with a hint of puzzlement.
"I rarely eat, and I cook for yourself."
As if knowing Suzaku's doubts, Wang Daochang explained.
Suzaku then remembered, it seemed that last night, Wang Daochang didn't eat. This may be the cultivator's Bigu, I saw this word in the novels of my previous life.
Soon, Suzaku finished eating, silently put away the dishes and chopsticks, and put the square table in the courtyard.
There was a tacit understanding, Suzaku and Wang Daochang both came to the house and sat cross-legged on the futon.
Wang Daochang let out a long sigh, as if he didn't know where to start, and thought for a long time before he slowly spoke.
"Then let's talk about rhubarb first, you must wonder why rhubarb didn't come with you. ……”
Through the intermittent narration of Wang Daochang, Suzaku understood the ins and outs of the matter.
Wang Daochang accepted an apprentice named Xu Hou. has been studying art with Wang Daochang for more than 30 years, and the two are like father and son.
Because he rescued his friend's son, he was hunted down and killed. When he fled to Zhujia Town, he died blocking the sword in order to protect his young son.
In this sect of Wang Daochang, there is a secret technique that when you are about to die, you can get your consciousness out of your body and attach it to other people or animals.
However, people's consciousness is too strong, and when it is applied to people, it often fails to give up, but is destroyed. Therefore, the best object is other animals, and the chance of success is higher.
And there are also conditions for the trade-off, only when you meet a familiar environment or someone close to you, will the consciousness be fully awakened, so as to complete the trade-off.
The consciousness of the trade-off can only last for two hours, and then it will dissipate. The object of the choice will also die as the consciousness dissipates.
Rhubarb was chosen near the time of Xu Hou's death.
When Wang Daochang finished speaking, Suzaku was dumbfounded and couldn't react for a long time.
This information completely refreshed Suzaku's cognition and made Suzaku feel emotional.
In the previous life, Suzaku still remembered a bizarre event, perhaps it was also related to the trade-off.
There was an old man in the village who died, and he was still remembering his youngest daughter who had not returned from the field. When the youngest daughter returned home, the old man had been dead for a long time, and the youngest daughter was very sad.
At this time, a peasant woman who had been sick and weak for a long time in the neighbor's house suddenly went crazy. rushed to the mourning hall, grabbed the little daughter and didn't let go, and called the little daughter's name in his mouth.
The crowd held it down, still shouting that they were dead old men. The villagers were frightened and did not dare to come forward. Those who are bold come forward to ask, and the tone of their speech and the things they say are consistent with the deceased old man. Some family members asked about secret things, and they all answered them fluently, without mistakes.
Finally, a well-informed person ordered a sturdy young man to gather in a circle and choke the peasant woman to sober her up.
After waking up, it was like having a serious illness and couldn't get out of bed for a long time.
This may be an example of a trade-off that didn't work out.
In fact, many of the world's unsolved mysteries are constantly changing with the development of technology. For example, the ancient "flattening theory" held that the earth was flat. There is also the "geocentric theory" and so on, which have been overturned with the development of science and technology. Now we can fully see the pictures taken by the Earth in outer space. Even pictures of Mars can be seen.
As for whether the soul is a substance, scientists have also put forward some new ideas. It's not that what you can't see with the naked eye doesn't exist.
What we can see with our naked eyes, in the microcosm of the world, is a giant existence. Take a drop of water as an example, the molecular composition of it can be observed using an electron scanning tunneling microscope, and the number of molecules in a drop of water is roughly 1670000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 And particles smaller than molecules, such as electrons, quarks, etc., are even more insignificant.
"That, rhubarb, now ......"
Suzaku still couldn't help but ask.
"Rhubarb——, I buried it, right on the mountain behind, next to the cave where I live."
Wang Daochang closed his eyes, raised his head slightly, and told Suzaku the news.
Suzaku was not surprised, Wang Daochang had already made it very clear before.
It's just that there is a slight pain in my heart, like a needle squeezing out from the inside.
In this life, the only partner, is gone. I went so suddenly, I didn't even have time to prepare, and that's it, and then I saw you again.
As if it was still there, still frolicking around; As if it was still there, still barking in the ear; It's as if it's still there, still warming in my arms.
It is desperately defending the Lord when it is surrounded and beaten by others; It is, in the face of fierce beasts, and never leaves.
It's, no—in—anymore!
Suzaku couldn't control himself anymore and began to cry bitterly.
In this life, I cried for the first time.
Not for myself, but for my partners, comrades-in-arms, and relatives.
I didn't sleep all night last night, first, I was physically and mentally exhausted, and I heard the bad news, and my spiritual pillar collapsed.
This time, after crying all the time, the whole person was unconscious, from the beginning of prostrate on the futon to the ground.
Wang Daochang picked it up, put it on the couch in the back room, checked the pulse, and after knowing that it was okay, he gently withdrew.
Suzaku woke up and was much more mentally stable. After all, what is lost cannot be recovered, and if you only immerse yourself in the sorrow of the past, you will lose the meaning of life.
People always grow in constant loss.
I scooped a scoop of water from the wooden barrel and drank most of it, and a coolness filled my heart, and the whole person became transparent.
Wang Daochang was in the meditation, and Suzaku wanted to say goodbye to him, but it was not good to disturb him, so he could only sit on the futon and wait.
Suzaku has already thought about it, and he will go to the end of the world first, and then find a place to yearn for and start a new life. After all, here, there is still some sentimentality.
"Got it figured? Want to go? ”
Wang Daochang has seen everything.
"I'm leaving, I'm a little sad here, thank you Wang Daochang."
"Sad? And it's not just because of rhubarb. Don't you want to know why the people in the village are hiding when they see you? ”
Suzaku was stunned, this old man is too ...... Too...... It's too godly!
"For you are their enemy."