Chapter Twenty-Three: I Am the Root of It All
Yuan Yuan said: "These sons don't need to worry, I have been waiting for hundreds of cold and summer, just for today, how can I be unprepared." ”
Then she took out two talismans and handed them to me, I asked her how to use them, Yuanyuan just said: "When it is time to use it, it will be used naturally, if my life is not good, it will not be useful, it is also helpless, and the son does not need to worry, just as if he has never seen Yuanyuan." ”
I pinched the talisman in my hand and asked her, "What's so special about my lifeline?" Can you figure out how much Yang Shou I still have? ”
Yuan Yuan said: "It's hard to put into words, one day you will understand for yourself." Your life is up to you, not to the sky, and the book of life and death will be open to you. ”
Listening to her say this, it seems that I can be awesome, but I'm not just a little ghost who has just turned a year old and can't even get out of this radius of dozens of miles.
Maybe I was the seed of a towering tree, but unfortunately, before I could sprout quickly, it had already been fried, and now it has become a dish on someone's plate, and I can only wait for when someone will move the dishes and chopsticks.
I just wanted to ask her if she could calculate what Chen Jiaqiang's situation was now and how long it would take for him to die, but a rooster crowed, and the two quickly got up and walked through the wall, without even saying goodbye. I vowed that the next time I had the chance to see her, I would tell her to be concise and to the point.
There was another rooster crow, and I woke up violently. It's dawn.
Then I found that Master Zhao was not sleeping next to me, but sitting cross-legged on the ground, still chattering in his mouth, just like an old monk meditating and chanting, and there was a circle of candles around him that were about to burn to the end.
I don't know what he's doing, and I can't bother with it, so I just wait. Fortunately, with just a cigarette, Master Zhao stopped chanting and stood up.
I was just about to tell Master Zhao about the situation I dreamed of, and I wanted to hear his opinion, but before I could speak, Master Zhao said directly: "Your own cause and effect yourself, that female ghost helped me once before, I helped her protect the Dharma and let the two of you meet, but it was just to repay her favor." And let me tell you, Shen Fei and Ye Tianming are both mortals without any cultivation, and as a Yuanguang ghost girl, she naturally knew that the two of them would be killed if they entered the paper shop, but she still gave me the eight characters of those two people and asked me to recruit the two of them into the store. Whether this kind of woman can help or not, you can weigh it yourself. ”
I'll go, this plot is a little different from what I thought, I quickly asked Master Zhao, "What do you mean by this?" Are you saying that she indirectly killed Shen Fei and Ye Tianming? Why would she do it? ”
Master Zhao shook his head with a wry smile and said: "It should be said that you killed them indirectly, the Yuanguang Ghost Girl needs to borrow your life to get rid of the disaster, but people like you may not be able to give birth to one in hundreds of years, if she dies, then she may not know when she will have to wait next time." And you yourself are very badly calamitized, in order to let you live safely until the day she escapes the calamity, she has always asked me to guard this neighborhood, and told me several times about the calamity that you appeared in advance, and let me help you solve it. If he hadn't made me look at you, I wouldn't have bothered to stay in this place where birds don't. ”
After a long time, and this inside story, I said that my ordinary and poor parents, how could they have the ability to impress this mercenary old man, and let him stay for more than ten years, it turned out that there was another cause and effect.
I said, "Then it's no coincidence that you've traveled here at that time." ”
Master Zhao said: "Nonsense, when did the thief family take care of the nosy?" Now that she has met you in person, and she has spoken, I have paid off what I owe her. I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, if I guess correctly, Shen Fei and Ye Tianming are likely to be the ones she specially found to help you prevent disasters after predicting your disaster. Saving one person and killing two people, this kind of practice, not only in vain but in the past, my entanglement with her, anyway, this is the end, but she has protected you for so long, and you have lived until now because of her. What to do in the future, you decide for yourself, I won't wade into this troubled water. ”
I asked again: "Then my current range of activities is only a few dozen miles away, and I can't leave these four towns, which is also what this female ghost said." ”
Master Zhao nodded, and then said, "But whether this is caused by your own calamity, or whether the Yuanguang Ghost Girl has found some other people to help you ban you here, I don't know." She's been doing it for hundreds of years, and I'm not a big guy, so she shouldn't put her chips on me alone, and she must have found a lot of helpers to get out of the disaster. ”
What is this called, the female ghost in "Liao Zhai" is not like this, my special mother is too lazy to sigh, just one sentence,.
I've thought about being calculated, I've thought about someone trying to harm me, but I've never thought that the person who designed all this was actually trying to save me, and he didn't hesitate to do a lot of hurtful things to save me. I always felt like I was an innocent victim, but now I'm suddenly on the side of evil, and I really don't know what to do anymore.
The female ghost also gave me two talismans, what is this talisman for? If I do throw out, will there be another innocent person killed by me?
I subconsciously looked at my hand that was holding the yellow talisman tightly, but found that there was nothing in my hand, and the two talismans that the corpse girl handed over to me had actually disappeared. Think about it, after all, it was in a dream at that time, and what was given in a dream, how could it really be there. But what's the point of them doing that?
The way ghosts do things, it's really not something I can guess.
I asked Master Zhao, "Then will I be able to continue working in the paper shop in the future?" Let me go to the paper shop, it was also arranged by the female ghost. ”
Master Zhao said: "Nonsense, you have kowtowed, you have worshiped the master, and you haven't honored the master well, how can it be so easy to let you go." ”
Hearing his words, I was suddenly moved to tears. You must know that in the past few days when I came to the paper shop, although I have been angry with him and complained about him, and even doubted him more than once, but when I encountered danger, the first thing I thought of was him, perhaps in my subconscious, I have regarded him as my only reliance in the face of these inhuman threats.
I thought that he would put everything together now, and then he would throw off his sleeves and leave me, but I didn't expect him to recognize me as an apprentice.
In the following days, nothing changed much, except that there was no longer the cry of female ghosts at night, everything else was as usual, and I also learned well in the driving school course, and it didn't take long for me to be a person with a driver's license.
Soon, Kanzigou's secret marriage arrived. When the boy's family came to the store to choose the wedding supplies, Master Zhao really made a big order, the man's family selected a lot of things, Master Zhao and I went to send a trip, but when it came to the checkout, I saw that there were only 12,000 yuan, and I was dumbfounded.