Chapter 5: The Dawn: Ghosts in the Rain
In 2018, Zhongyuan.
As a second-tier city, the closed capital in the middle of the night is not brightly lit, although it is in the moonlight, it still looks ghostly.
The Lechuan River meanders through the Fengdu, dividing the city with a population of only 5 million into two sections, the people of Fengdu are accustomed to calling the east side of the river Xiaodongcheng and the west side of the river Daxicheng.
Because "Fengdu" and "Xudu" have the same sound, coupled with the Lechuan River, people are naturally reminiscent of the underworld, people come to visit, find that the two are not related, and soon return disappointed.
However, they are all living people, and what can they expect to see?
On the construction site of a primary school on the edge of Xiaodong City, only a lamp hanging on the tower crane illuminates the middle area of the construction site, and the workers have long been asleep, and only the staff canteen next to it is still lit.
Tomorrow you will go back to take care of your mother, and you won't have to worry about her surgery fees. Foreman Li Daliang said while eating noodles to Wu Huizhen, a canteen assistant who was sitting opposite.
Wu Huizhen agreed a little absentmindedly: "Hmm."
"Also, I have prepared all the paper money for Lan Lan, burn more for her, where is the child alone......" Before Li Daliang finished speaking, he saw Wu Huizhen on the other side with wet eyes.
Li Daliang put down his chopsticks: "Alas, half a year has passed, and I can't help you."
"Boss Li, I..." Wu Huizhen wanted to speak and stopped.
Li Daliang's face was embarrassed: "Huizhen, I have always felt guilty about Lanlan's affairs, I have always dreamed of her during this time." ”
"No, Boss Li, I want to tell you ......"
didn't wait for Wu Huizhen to finish speaking, Li Daliang suddenly felt very uncomfortable, he patted his head with his hand: "I drank too much at dinner, and suddenly my head hurts, it hurts so much, Huizhen, I have to go back, you are getting better and better at this, go!"
Li Daliang stood up and walked towards the gate, and suddenly the sky swirled at the door, and he almost fell, Wu Huizhen hurriedly stepped forward to support Li Daliang: "Boss Li, otherwise, let's deal with it in the dormitory tonight, it seems to be raining this day."
"Don't worry, I'll go sleep in the car for a while, and I'll go back when this time is over. ”
"Alright then, I'll get you to the car".
Wu Huizhen carried Li Daliang to the parking lot, Li Daliang was almost asleep when he sat in the cab, Wu Huizhen helped Li Daliang's seat back lower, let him lie down, and covered Li Daliang with a coat on the passenger seat and closed the door.
"I'm asleep, I shouldn't be fine... At least you can get away with tonight", Wu Huizhen said to herself.
It suddenly rained in the sky, Wu Huizhen hurriedly ran back, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in her back, and the rain suddenly poured down, as if it indicated something.
The heavy rain knocked desperately on the roof of the car, and under the impact of the rain, the car seemed to be a fragile shell that could collapse at any time, and no matter what was in the shell, it would be crushed in an instant.
In the middle of the night, the sound like a flood still woke up the sleeping Li Daliang, he sat up, felt a sharp pain in his head, he covered the back of his head with his hand to look around, and only remembered where he was for a long time.
Li Daliang raised the backrest and kept massaging his head with both hands. The rain churned on the car windows, reflecting the lights on the tower crane flickering on and off, and the surrounding car windows seemed to be obscured by a waterfall, and everything became distorted, dim, and eerie.
Li Daliang closed his eyes, the light around him made him tumble in his abdomen, dizzy, the moment he closed his eyes, he felt that there seemed to be something not far in front of the car, he forcibly opened his eyes uncomfortably, looking for the existence that seemed to be there.
Faintly, he couldn't tell if he really saw it, there was a person standing not far from the windshield, this person was very short, as if he was wearing a red dress, with the rain sliding through the windshield, twisted, deformed, sometimes torn, sometimes aggregated, erratic.
Li Daliang slowly put his hand on the headlight switch, he hesitated, and the fear began in his heart, because this uncertain figure was very similar to someone in the dream, no, a dead person.
"Bang!" The headlights were turned on, and a pillar of light instantly shot through the rain and fog like a savior, and standing in the pillar of light was Wu Huizhen's daughter, Lan Lan.
Li Daliang didn't distinguish between truth and falsehood, the sense of atonement in his heart drove him, and the joy in his heart instantly exceeded his fear.
"Lan Lan!" he called out the girl's name, subconsciously opened the car door and stepped out of the car, and the heavy rain instantly overwhelmed him.
"Lan Lan, is that you?"
Li Daliang stumbled towards the figure...
Chu Yi's long blue hair was coiled into a bun, wearing a Taoist robe, the hem of his clothes fluttered with the breeze, and he stood on the roof of the Sanqing Hall with his hands behind his back, which was the highest place in the Baiyun Temple.
Chu Yi overlooked the mountains from afar, the sea of clouds at the foot of the mountain temple was vast, and the sun that had just emerged gave Chu Yi a gold border on his fluttering figure, and inside the gold edge, Chu Yi looked intoxicated and satisfied.
"Cheng Xian, it's really cool" Chu Yi said to himself proudly.
"Chu Yi!!"
With a loud roar, Chu Yi was dragged out of the Taoist robe, and an invisible force pulled him through the temple and courtyard quickly, and before he could react, Chu Yi sat on the ground of the Taoist room, and it took him a long time to recover and find that this was the meditation room of the master Zixu Zhenren.
Purple beard and silver hair in a bun, eyes closed and motionless.
"Master, it turned out to be you, is there anything wrong with recruiting apprentices here?" Chu Yi was a little skinless and faceless.
Seeing that the master still didn't move, completely ignoring his own meaning, Chu Yi slowly stood up, turned around and prepared to escape from the master's meditation room.
"Qing Pingzi!" This time, the voice was diametrically opposed to just now, amiable, soft and rigid.
Hearing the master speak, Chu Yi turned around, his eyes only daring to look at the ground: "Master, why did you suddenly call me Dao, isn't this a tormenting apprentice?"
Zixu opened his eyes and said slowly: "Qingpingzi, the master picked you up and brought you up, it has been twenty years, you are gifted and have a pure temperament, but you do your own thing, and you don't obey discipline, since you have become an immortal, Baiyunguan can't tolerate you..."
"Ah, Master, what, Cheng Immortal, no!" Chu Yi looked puzzled.
"After you go down the mountain, you shall not harm the world..."
"Wait, Master, I don't understand..."Another force could not be said, retreated Chu Yi's robes, loosened Chu Yi's bun, and Chu Yi's long hair spread out and became a mess in the air.
"Don't abuse the Immortal Law..."
"Master, don't, I'm obedient, I don't dare..."A casual suit with a shirt and jeans was Chu Yi's body.
"Don't disturb the Three Realms..."
"Master, you, listen to me!" The backpack that appeared out of thin air was forced into Chu Yi's arms.
"Qingpingzi, do it yourself!"
The last sentence was like a heavy punch, beating Chu Yi out of the meditation room, Chu Yi walked through the courtyard, through the main hall, through the mountain gate, and watched the Baiyun Temple get farther and farther away, and Qingping Mountain was also farther away.
"Master!!ah~~~~"
Chu Yi kept falling in the dark, falling, as if he had fallen into a bottomless abyss, and as if he had been pulled down into a dark quagmire, his heart was about to jump out, and his five internal organs were about to melt.
"Smack!" With a loud bang, Chu Yi smashed to the ground, felt his body shattered, and experienced the vanishing of smoke.
As soon as Chu opened his eyes, he felt a sore back, and then he found himself lying on the bed, looking around, and was stunned for a long time: "I'll go, it's a dream." ”