Chapter 2 Whether you will live forever

As soon as the bamboo pole was propped up, the Upeng boat rippled and floated leisurely into the town's house.

This town is called Bridge Town; This river is called the Qing River.

Bridge town lives up to its name, stone bridges, wooden bridges, covered bridges, each with its own shape. The Qing River runs through the whole town, and there are tributaries that are not counted, and the bridge town is connected in all directions by canals, and you can reach any part of the town by driving a small boat.

On both sides of the Qing River, women squatted on stone stairs to wash rice and vegetables, and children laughed and played noisily behind their mothers. Up the stone stairs, there is a narrow bluestone pavement, some people have moved out the iron pot of the stove, set up a simple stove, stir-fry and cook rice, the fragrance is full of the river.

The sound of hammer hitting iron suddenly sounded in his ears, Shen Yushan raised his eyes and looked, before the sparks of the blacksmith shop splashed, there was a girl in green holding a basket, the young man and the girl looked at each other, the girl was stunned, and hurriedly took the cloth covered with food in the basket, and tore it to cover half of her cheek.

Shen Yushan saw that the old man who struck iron abandoned the hammer and pushed the girl in green, but the girl stomped her feet lightly, covered her head and only cared about drilling into the blacksmith shop, and the old man shook his head helplessly.

In the next moment, a figure rushed out of the sparkling blacksmith's shop, holding a clay bowl tightly in its arms.

In front of the blacksmith shop, a team of town guards happened to pass by, and the girl in green shrunk her shoulders and held the clay bowl and bowed her head.

The dumplings were glowing, far across the river, drawing a beautiful curve, and with a move of the young man's hand, two round doughs rolled in his palm, one green and one white.

It seems to be like a script that has been rehearsed for countless years, every few days, the girl in green who loves to throw dumplings always comes to this play, which has been going on for many years, Shen Yushan originally thought that there would be no today, and the young lady to be married is always reserved and shy.

Yes, she is his bride, the bride's name is Tie Xinlan, not today, tomorrow.

The teeth are bitten open, the glutinous sticky teeth, and the sweetness of the remaining teeth.

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The canopy boat carefully moved in the narrow river, and the old man was experienced, and the boat was like a loach in the ditch, running past countless houses on both sides of the river.

Further on, suddenly there is a clear understanding.

I saw that the originally winding river canal suddenly poured into a relatively wide pond, which has a nice name: Evening Pond.

When the boat docked, Shen Yushan picked up the bookcase, said goodbye to the old man, and told him to drink less wine tonight, so as not to forget his wedding banquet tomorrow.

Shen Yushan stepped on the stone steps, in front of him is a city god temple, there are many shops and storefronts along both sides of the street, a large open ground in front of the temple gate, but it is bustling tightly, noodle stalls, cake stalls, wonton stalls, kneading clay figures, stepping on stilts, trimming hair buns, here should be the most prosperous bridge town.

"Jiro is here."

"Erlang, eat a bowl of wontons and then leave."

"The cake from the new stall, Erlang will take some home."

Seeing the boy coming, many people greeted the boy.

The City God Temple is the family property placed by Shen Yushan's grandfather, in other words, the nearby ground is the property of the Shen family. These small stall owners occupy an area to operate, and the Shen family exempts them from rent, and they get a lot of cheapness, so they are particularly enthusiastic about Shen Yushan.

Shen Yushan was overwhelmed, humbly excused himself one by one, and walked into the City God Temple.

His family lives in the City God Temple, in the backyard.

"Are you going to hold a temple fair again, why is it so lively today?" Shen Yushan unloaded the bookcase and asked the only maid in the family, Qingmei.

Qingmei handed over a warm face towel and thought, "It seems that the Gu Immortal Sword Sect is coming to the town to recruit new disciples, and the nearby villagers are here, so it's lively." ”

Shen Yushan wiped his hands and face, and said softly: "Alas, delaying one's livelihood and vain wealth is just for the sake of that ethereal immortality?" Alas, the world. ”

If he sets foot in cultivation and can earn a decent life for his family, then Shen Yushan is also very considerate. However, he knew that unless he was born and raised as a casual cultivator like his great-grandfather, once he entered the immortal sect, he would be bound by the sect from then on, cut clean from the mortal world, and be more neat and crisp than a monk monk.

is like the elder brother in the family, that is, the son of Shen Yushan's uncle and aunt, who was favored by the Shangqingguan elders who passed by and wanted to be admitted to the door, but the uncle and aunt refused to let him go, and locked him in the room until the Shangqingguan elders left.

In those days, although the uncle and aunt let him go free, he kept watching it very closely, and the elder brother served his parents very well-behaved, not to mention the cultivation of immortals, and when the uncle and aunt relaxed their vigilance, who knew that the next day they disappeared, leaving only bloody letters, stealing the family's silver money and going all the way to Shangqingguan.

The uncle and aunt were so worried that their hair turned white, and finally confirmed that the brother was safe and sound, and he was working as a little Taoist boy in Shangqingguan. When I saw my uncles and aunts who came all the way to visit, I didn't call my father and mother, but I would call my benefactor.

Uncle and aunt left silver, and donated incense to Guanli, and never went to Shangqingguan again, such a son, I would rather not give birth.

The family style is like this, Shen Yushan has always been respectful of the so-called immortal cultivation and immortality.

At night, Shen Yushan ate with his uncle and aunt as usual. During the banquet, the uncle and aunt talked about some of the processes of tomorrow's wedding, Qiaozhen is not a rich and glorious city, and the wedding does not need to be carried out, but some necessary taboos still have to be paid attention to.

Shen Yushan remembered them one by one in his heart, and the whole article could be condensed into one sentence, An An was divided into marionettes, and he had his own uncles and aunts who came over, and he, the groom, could really call the shots, probably just in the new house, discussing with the new daughter-in-law.

This meal was eaten for an extraordinarily long time, and when Shen Yushan returned to the room after eating, he suddenly looked up, the moon and stars were scarce, and the night was already deep.

On the way back to the room, I happened to pass by a fork in the road.

Shen Yushan paused, turned around, and walked into the depths of the fork in the road, where was the old house where his grandfather lived before his death, and before he died, he repeatedly instructed the family not to enter.

The first grandfather was a loose cultivator, relying on the means of catching ghosts and repelling demons, divination and warding off evil spirits, settled down in Qiaozhen, and placed a family business, which also attracted the attention of thieves, the ancestors passed away for two months, and thieves often visited, wanting to see what treasures the old man left for his children and grandchildren.

After all, although there are many immortal cultivators, there are not many people in the world, and everyone is curious about the houses where immortal cultivators lived before their deaths.

Because of this, my uncle and aunt ignored my grandfather's instructions and tidied up the house, lest the thieves steal something terrible, not for fear of losing gold and silver treasures, but some more deadly things, such as urns sealed with powerful ghosts, puppet dolls that can poke people to death, and other mysterious items.

Of course, the uncle and aunt didn't find anything afterwards, maybe there was originally, but it was stolen by thieves. All in all, the matter is closed.

I will get married tomorrow, and from then on I will really grow up, somehow, Shen Yushan really wants to walk into this house, and tell my grandfather in the dark.

Inside the house, the household items were neatly arranged, and they were turned into a mess by thieves that day, and the uncle and aunt rearranged it again, but there was a lot of dust, and there was a slight smell of decay, Shen Yushan pinched his nose and walked in.

There is a shrine on the wall, enshrined to the Buddha, this is not surprising, the first grandfather has already made it clear, although he is a monk, but originally escaped from the temple monks, begging for food can not go on, had to take off the monk's clothes to vote for the Sanqing grandfather.

In the wardrobe in the corner of the room, there was still a Taoist robe and a robe.

There is no grandfather's spirit card here, he didn't let his children and grandchildren enter the old house before leaving, how dare his uncle and aunt put his spirit card in it.

Shen Yushan found two residual incense sticks, lit them, bowed respectfully to the Buddha shrine, and inserted the incense into the small copper tripod in front of the Buddha shrine.

Inserted less than half a finger long, encountering resistance.

Hey?

In the ash of the copper tripod, it seems that there is something.

Shen Yushan was a little curious, after so many years, he had come to the old house many times, and for a while he didn't remember the ban on his grandfather not allowing his children and grandchildren to enter the old house, and offended the Buddha, so he turned out a delicate and simple wooden sign from the incense ash, with the word "order" written.

Shen Yushan studied it carefully, and he didn't see anything strange, but since this thing was so secret, there must be some doorways, those thieves came to steal things back then, and it was impossible to incense the Buddha, so he didn't find this token.

Oops, how is this word missing.

Shen Yushan suddenly found that the word "order" was gone, and the whole piece of wood quickly decayed, and without that restraint, it completely became an ordinary piece of wood.

Looking up again, the world changed.

The white mist that was so thick that it could not be dissolved, as if it was at the bottom of the patio, echoing everywhere with the sound of tearing and sharp, demons and monsters, and the sky was dark. The legendary Netherworld Hell is nothing more than that.

Here it is...... Where?

Waving his hand to block the dense fog, Shen Yushan saw a copper bell-like eye on the rock, and that eyeball was so wide that it was as fierce as trying to eat people.

Shen Yushan was so frightened that he fell backwards again and again, and suddenly stumbled under his feet, and the whole person suddenly fell, and subconsciously stood up with his hands on the wall.

Suddenly, he froze.

There is nothing wrong with the touch of the hand.

Embedded in the wall is a human face!

Shen Yushan fled backwards violently, but a dry hand suddenly dragged him over, and it was only at this time that Shen Yushan could see it clearly.

A small half of the person "grew" on the wall, no, perhaps it would be more appropriate to say that this person was rotten, so rotten that it melted into the wall. One of his eyes had dropped to the edge of his chin, and long meridians had been dragged out of his brain and down to the rotting eyeball, which had caused the eyeball to hang on the edge of his chin and sway in the wind.

This person is rotten to the bone.

However, Shen Yushan was horrified to find that he grabbed his skeletal arm with amazing strength, he turned his head slightly, Shen Yushan could even see that the brain water inside was shaking because of this slight rotation, and after a while, the black-brown viscous flowed out of the hole in the eye, and the smell was extremely unpleasant.

The other eyeball, which was barely in the hole in the eye, also turned around, staring at the young man, for some reason, Shen Yushan felt as if he was looking at himself, that kind of scrutinizing gaze, as if he was buying livestock in the bazaar, carrying a limited amount of silver taels, and looking at each animal as if he was making a bet.

Crunch, two rows of teeth that have not been washed for I don't know how many years are still strong, sharpened up and down, from the depths of the neck that has melted into the wall, hoarse, and a sentence that made Shen Yushan shudder:

"Young man, do you want to live forever?"