"You have been with me for some days, and you have expressed a lot of determination, Master believes that you are a good boy, but I want to test your guts, you know that the most indispensable thing in our industry is guts, followed by brains, you have brains, but this guts are really not known as teachers, do you understand what Master means?"

"Okay, Master, you can try, I'm fine," I said without thinking, I didn't want him to doubt my little guts, I was a coward.

"Okay, I just like the energy on your second egg, there is a kind of" Master patted me on the shoulder in affirmation, and I smiled with satisfaction.

"Do you dare to go to the death child's post" Master suddenly turned his back to me, so that I could not see his face.

"What" I jumped up in fright and almost fell into the stone nest behind me, the dead child gang, there are two other names, that is, the valley of the dead and the baby grave, it is located in a gutter under the autumn mountain behind the village, the reason why it is called the dead child gang is because since the establishment of our village in the past two hundred years, the children in the village who died of poverty and disease have been thrown there, and they are not even buried in the soil, after liberation, the unmarried young people who died in the village are buried there, and my aunt who died of a heart attack is buried there, listening to the old people in the village, Every cloudy day and rain, there will be a woman's aggrieved cry, and a village old man took advantage of the dark at night to go to the mountain to steal firewood, passed there, returned to the village and went crazy, more than ten years or crazy, see who said who is a ghost, there is a drunk man even worse, he was led to the dead child post by the ghost after drinking, was dragged back to the village by the village people died within three days, it is said that when he died, the seven orifices bled and his face and its hideous distortion as if he was scared to death...... No matter what, the yin and resentment there are to the extreme, and the back of it is the wolf ridge, the wolf ridge, as the name suggests, there are often wolves in this place, and people often encounter them, this is the lord who grew up eating human flesh and drinking human blood, and they are all wolf spirits.

I shivered and wiped my face I don't know if it was rain or cold sweat and looked at the sky that was about to be dark, the rain that had not stopped, and my legs were weak, I thought to myself, 'This day, this hour, the old man wants me to go to death, this is a place that you adults dare not go to during the day, let me go in the dark, dear mother, I am dying"

"Erdan, you go there and write down the name of the owner of the tomb engraved on the tombstone of the sixth tomb in the third row of the Eastern Numbers, and the year and month of his death, and then come back and hand it to me, don't remember, if you hear someone calling your name, don't agree, no matter what strange noises you hear, don't look back" Master didn't leave me too much time to think nonsense, I can't wait to give Master to kneel down immediately and let him give me a chance to regret it, but ......

"If you're really scared, go home," Master threw down these words and walked away without looking back, he didn't care about me anymore, and I collapsed on the stone where Master had just sat down.

A gust of cold wind blew, I was a spirit, stood up from the cold boulder, my brain was a little clearer, I realized that the biggest obstacle to my entry into this yin and yang industry is really not my master, but guts, a kind of courage that is different from ordinary people, the problem is very practical, if I can't overcome the psychological barrier, I can't step through the dead child post this hurdle, the master will not take into account my father's face and the love between our master and apprentice these days, he will unceremoniously expel me from the teacher, and from then on I will see each other like a passerby, Onmyoji won't take cowards as apprentices, what to do! I slapped my hands on my chest, but I knew very well in my heart that the master pushed me to the forefront with a few words, I can't avoid this step, take a step forward, it may be calm, continue to follow the master to learn and become a talent, if you take a step back, although there is no abyss, but all the beautiful imagination will be shattered and become the bubble of Huangliang's dream, not to mention being able to get a beautiful wife, even a second-rate son can't do it, but has become a mud that can't be laughed at by people. The scum and waste people who were ridiculed by the old and young masters and girls of the whole village.

Time doesn't allow me to think too much, it's already dark, what should I do, Shao Erdan, I ask myself, you are already at a fork in the road in life, this is a major choice that life has given you in the past ten years, forward? Still backing away, I cried to myself.

The rain was heavier, it was miserable, I was so cold, I began to hold myself tightly, the colder I was, the more awake I became, I looked at the dim lights of every house in the village, and suddenly remembered what Master had said before, 'There is no way back in this business'

Fuck it, two eggs, fight, I yelled at the dark sky! I decided to go home with a flashlight, that day, somehow, or destined, I became like a courageous superman from the previous fear, I rushed home, took the flashlight, and told my mother who was cooking that I didn't wait for me to go to the master's house for dinner tonight, maybe my mother didn't hear me clearly, I ran away without a trace, I ran to the east of the village, there was no fear, and my body was as light as a swallow, However, I slowed down as I approached the eastern end of the village, as it was a rocky slope with a high slope.

Still, I chose to jog, and as I climbed uphill through a fenced courtyard, an old white-bearded man on crutches startled me.

"Erdan, it's so late to go there, it's still raining, it's not safe to go out of the village alone at this time"

"Second master" I stopped and was surprised, the second master is an old man with the highest reputation in my village, nearly eighty years old, a patriarch-level figure, and because of his white beard and chest The villagers call him a living immortal, so to speak, the village looks for him to witness the host, if anyone's children get married and do not find him to preside over the operation, it is like not being protected by the law, and the people in the village will not recognize it, if the old man dies without going through the second master, he can't write into the village genealogy and can't enter the ancestral hall of the village, If someone gives birth to a child and doesn't find him to choose a name, just like I didn't find his old man to take an elegant name and call him Erdan, this is not feudal or domineering, but the respect of the village people for an old man with long-term knowledge, integrity and good deeds.

"Second master, my mother went to my grandmother's house, and now she hasn't come back, it's dark and cloudy, it's raining, I'm afraid that my mother will get lost, so I ran out of the village to meet her" I looked at this dark road leading to my grandmother's house, and I had to lie to the second master.

"I've been sitting at the door of the house today, and I haven't seen your mother leave the village? Besides, your mother won't say hello to your second master when she passes here, and the second mother has always been very polite," the second master was a little suspicious.

"Second master, maybe you leaned on the door at noon and took a nap, my mother couldn't bear to disturb you when she passed by" I'm clever and making things up, I know in my heart that I can't chat with the second master here.

"This ............" the second master still refused to believe it.

"Second master, it's dark and cold, go back to the house, I'll go out of the village to welcome my mother, and I'll be back in a while," I ran away before I finished speaking.

"Erdan...... "I ran out for a long time, and when I looked back, I could see that the second master kept looking at him, and he was still very uneasy."

I ran wildly, not out of a few minutes has run out of the village a few miles away, I am familiar with the road that I have walked for more than ten years, I am about to reach the intersection connected with the dead child's post, I swallowed the rain into my mouth in a hurry, arrived, it is about to arrive, I should turn off the flashlight in my hand, otherwise, the flashlight in my hand will leak my whereabouts The second master will definitely send someone to stop me when he sees it, in that case, the master will definitely think that I am deliberate, and I can't turn off the lights out of thin air on the road, In that case, the second master will also think that I have an accident, fortunately there is a peach forest in front, and it is on both sides of the big dirt slope, as long as I run across the big dirt slope and turn off the flashlight and then turn back, then the second master, who has always liked to be eventful, will think that I am about to run into my grandmother's village, and he will be relieved.

I thought so fast in my heart, the steps did not stop, I thought to do it, I ran across the big dirt slope, turned off the flashlight, turned back, went around in the peach forest, and then went straight to the dead boy gang with a deep foot and a shallow foot, this road that is not a road is rarely walked, plus the rain and mud I didn't go far and got lost, I panicked, this dead boy gang Lao Tzu has never been to since he was a child, but he knows its general location, this is good, the black light is blind, and I am lost, what to do, I am very anxious.

But in a hurry, I didn't let myself go around in place, I could vaguely see the terraces in front of me, I couldn't wait to climb up and refer to the vague outline of Akiyama to roughly find the location of the dead child's post, at this moment my heart can not be said to be happy, can only say that this matter is a little eyebrows.

I was just about to wipe the rain off my face with my trembling hands, when a dark shadow flashed past me, and I couldn't dodge and fell from the terraced dam several meters high. Ah' fell firmly into the countless terraced fields, before I could react, the black shadow pounced on me, even scared, afraid of the time left for me, I didn't move and closed my eyes quietly, if I want to die, I don't want to see its appearance clearly, if I want to die, I won't be a scared ghost, in that case, I can't find a person who dares to partner with me in the underworld, father, mother, and the second egg will be filial to you in the next life, this is the path I have chosen, don't blame others...... Second egg, don't think about a beautiful wife, this is fate.

But just when I was desperate to forget the pain and even wait for death, I felt as if something was licking my face, I closed my eyes and thought, this is a female ghost for ** how many years, even a single person like me who no one wants is so rare, by the way, I forgot, I'm still a virgin, female ghosts are good at this, it's wrong, no, they all say that ghosts are cold and have no temperature, why is my face hot, I opened my eyes slightly, only to see a black thing riding on me, green eyes are very bright in the dark, Mother, it's a wolf, no, Nima, if the wolf will lick me, I'm afraid I will already have a beautiful dinner in its mouth.

It's a black egg, which do I raise, you mother a black egg, you are black and scared to death, I scolded but held it tightly in my arms, tears flowed unconsciously between the corners of my eyes, it was tears of happiness, a year and a half of singles, only the black egg and I were in true feelings, it must have asked my smell all the way up, since I followed the master, I spent a lot less time with the black egg, but it was very obedient, every evening at the gate quietly waiting for me and never going to the master to disturb me, Today must have seen me so late and didn't go home so much and followed the smell all the way here, the black egg is always accompanied by me when I am helpless in danger, I stroked the black egg who was not intimate enough with me and said, black egg, you are a girl, when we complete the task given by the master this time, we will change our name to black beauty, a word.

I held the black egg from the terrace and climbed up and put the black egg gently on the ground, regardless of the pain all over the body, with my own judgment to the dead child gang strides, the black egg followed me inch by inch, at this time there was a burst of hungry wolf wail in the direction of the wolf ridge, the black egg immediately became alert, it seemed to look at me lying on the ground without a bark, I thought to myself that this dog is really human, if this bark will definitely attract the wolf.

Time is pressing, I'm not going to rob tombs, I'm not going to explore, to put it bluntly, it's a game of life, the longer I stay in this mountain, the greater the danger factor, I can't care about anything now, I only have one belief in my heart is to complete the task assigned by the master, and then turn back to the village, other guts, fame and fortune, and women's seem to be idle at this moment.

Stones, thorns, dead vines, ancient trees, I left behind one by one, the black egg followed behind me, it would touch my heel with every step it took, so cold and rainy night with the black egg, my heart is very warm.

I don't know how long I ran, I was finally at the bottom of the gutter, and two steps up the net was the gout, and finally arrived, because I had seen something black in the shape of a steamed bun protruding in the gutter, it must be a mass grave in the dead child's post, and there must be a dead child's post here.

I gasped and took two steps back, I was scared, I was really scared, I was a complete atheism before I came here, even after following the Master, I didn't believe that there were ghosts in this world, but in this situation, in the darkness, fear, the grave, how could I not doubt my inner opinion.