Lan Yin was still trembling, he looked at Ah Hao with a frightened expression, and opened his mouth.

"What's wrong? Ah Yin, you're okay, it's not going to be an evil one. ”

Lan Yin blocked Ah Hao's hand covering his forehead, swallowed a few mouthfuls, and then choked up and said word by word.

"Ah Hao, you promise me, these days, don't come out, if you are short of money, you can use the money."

Lan Yin said, took out a delicate small bag full of silver, and Lan Yin pressed the money bag into Ah Hao's hand.

But Ah Hao laughed and shook his head again.

"Ah Yin, I won't ask for money, I have hands and feet, I told you before, you shouldn't really hit the evil spirit, Ah Yin, you seem to be a little wrong today, by the way, I know an old Taoist priest, go, I'll take you to see."

Suddenly, Lan Yin grabbed Ah Hao's hand, trembled, and said in a voice full of crying.

"Ah Hao, I beg you, don't go out in the past six months, stay at home, okay? Or go to my house. ”

In the end, Ah Hao couldn't resist Lan Yin and promised to stay at home.

After returning home, Lan Yin's face was still very bad, and his father called him to the study, as if he had something important to say to him.

"Yin'er, go out today and tell me, who are the dying people, you have already begun to collect the soul, and your mother and I, in the near future, will soon buy the soul, it's time for you to inherit our mantle, marry a wife and have children, and cultivate the next generation."

Lan Yin nodded and took out a booklet, which recorded what he saw, the situation of the dying person, and the household registration.

"Well, yes, Yin'er, very careful, it's almost time, our Huangquan marriage test stone, has already selected your marriageable partner, it is the third daughter of the Mo family, after a while, the Mo family will ask the Wang family to help and send his daughter over, and ah, haha......"

Lan Yin's father said, wiping his beard and laughing.

"Father, what's wrong?"

"Yin'er, this is a God-given opportunity, our Lan family, as the third branch, has never been able to go to Huangquan, but now it is different, Huangquanzhili, for your marriage this time, quite important."

Lan Yin sighed, and then looked at his father blankly.

"You know what? This is a great blessing for our Lan family for hundreds of years, and now the Lan family's usher is about to run out of oil, and he needs to find the next one, and the one who is about to be born, your future, and the son of the third daughter of the Mo family, will become the successor of the Lan family's usher. ”

Lan Yin just sighed, his mind was completely on Ah Hao's body, and he didn't have the time to pay attention to these things, he was anxious, but Lan Yin's father seemed to have seen through everything, and then pulled Lan Yin.

"Yin'er, tell me, what is the ancestral motto of our Lan family?"

"People of the Lan family, don't have deep friendships with people other than Huang Quan."

Lan Yin's father nodded with satisfaction.

"The man named Ah Hao, his soul, you will take it, Yin'er."

As if it was a thunderbolt from the sky, Lan Yin suddenly petrified, looking at his father in a daze, his face was like ashes, his eyes widened, his mouth opened wide, and a tangled and painful look was revealed on his face.

"Yin'er, I reminded you when you were young, human life has its own destiny, Ah Hao's longevity is about to end, even if it is sad, this is also the fate of our people in Huangquan, so the ancestors, at the beginning, set this ancestral motto, after all, it is not a glorious thing to want to accept the soul of your beloved, or friend, I hope you can understand, Yin'er."

Until Lan Yin's father had been gone for a long time, with a pop, Lan Yin sat on the ground, tilting his head up, with a helpless face, I looked at his heart, extremely tormented.

In the following months, Lan Yin would go to Ah Hao's house almost every day, and since Ah Hao refused Lan Yin's help, he went to the river with Ah Hao to catch fish, and went to the forest to pick wild vegetables and come back to eat.

Time is approaching day by day, the smile on Lan Yin's face has completely disappeared, and Ah Hao seems to realize something, and he doesn't ask Lan Yin anything.

Eventually, with two days to go, in the morning, Lan Yin and Ah Hao went to the river to catch fish, and the harvest was good, they stewed a pot of fish and drank wine made from wild fruits.

"Ah Yin, this wine is really astringent, but the taste is quite strong."

Lan Yin just smiled stiffly, until after eating, the two basically didn't have any conversation, until after eating, Ah Hao grabbed Lan Yin's neck and pulled him to the river where they often played together in childhood, holding the old slingshot and shooting stones.

Lan Yin sat on the side, quietly looking at Ah Hao who was playing with a slingshot.

"Ah Yin, you can try it, I haven't played it for a long time."

Lan Yin held the slingshot, but he was not in the mood, and then he casually threw the slingshot aside.

"What's the matter, Ah Hao, you've been sullen all this time."

Ah Hao said, sat next to Lan Yin, and patted him on the shoulder with one hand.

Lan Yin looked very lost, he didn't dare to look at Ah Hao, and then suddenly, Lan Yin stood up and looked at Ah Hao seriously.

"Ah Hao, I'm right next, please believe me, I want to save you."

"What's wrong? What will I do, hehe, Ah Yin, you ......"

After Ah Hao saw Lan Yin's serious eyes, he put away the smile on his face and nodded.

Lan Yin briefly told Ah Hao about Huangquan, and then took out the gourd that he had collected his soul and handed it to Ah Hao.

"Just this thing, collect other people's souls, hehe."

"You don't believe me?" Lan Yin asked, and Ah Hao breathed a long sigh of relief and nodded.

"From childhood to adulthood, you are injured, you will recover quickly, remember that time, you fell from such a tall tree, and your brain and melon seeds knocked out a big hole, that time I blamed me, I took you to the doctor, but before you walked to the hospital, your injury was incredibly good."

Ah Hao smiled, returned the gourd that collected the soul to Lan Yin, and then continued.

"Sometimes, at night, when I go to the Qinglou to do chores, I see Aunt Lan and Aunt Lan, in the middle of the night, they will go out, and their whereabouts are very strange, and later I know that the places they go to will kill people."

"Then you believe me, Ah Hao, you ......"

Ah Hao stretched out a hand and interrupted Lan Yin's words.

"I'm going to die."

I felt a pang in my heart, looking at Ah Hao, he seemed to already know that he was about to die.

"Hao, why are you ......?"

"Didn't I tell you, Ah Yin, I know an old Taoist priest, he is very accurate, in the broken temple in the west, before you, I thought you had hit the evil spirit, and went to find the old Taoist priest, he told me, I don't have to worry about you, you are already doomed, but it is me, I can't live this year."

Suddenly, Lan Yin stood up, grabbed Ah Hao's hand, and ran.

"What's the matter, Ah Yin."

"Let's go, go find that old Taoist, he may have some way, he should have it."

Lan Yin asked Ah Hao to take him to the outside of the city, a ruined temple that was about to collapse, this place is relatively desolate, on weekdays, there is no incense, only an old Taoist priest is there, although many people come to beg him, but this old Taoist priest, only see people who are destined, and it depends on the time, before he is willing to make a move.

When I came to the ruined temple, it was already dusk, I followed the two of them, the gate at the entrance of the temple was gone, and in the courtyard, there was a dead tree, the ground was full of fallen leaves, the walls were overgrown with weeds, and some of the walls had completely collapsed.

"Those who are looking for fate, the opportunity to solve fate, the way of heaven has been determined, mediocre people, why bother themselves?"

Just as the two of them stepped into the ruined temple, an old voice floated out faintly from inside.

"Mao Wencai, I'm Ah Hao, I've seen you before, I want to ......"

"Don't think about it, young man, I already showed you last time, you will die in the near future, and the one next to you is a friend of Huang Quan, please go back."

But suddenly, Lan Yin rushed into the ruined temple, and after entering, in front of a Taoist statue, there was a rocking chair, on which sat an old Taoist priest with gray hair and beard, wearing a tattered silver-gray Taoist robe, holding a fan in his hand, and constantly fanning.

"Dao Chief, please help me."

Lan Yin came to the Maoshan Taoist priest named Mao Wencai, said seriously, and then immediately took out the money.

"Alas, this friend, Taoist priest I, do not give foreign affairs money, since you are a person from Huangquan, then you naturally know the rules of your Huangquan, if you do this, I am afraid it will be ......."

"No need, Ah Yin."

Ah Hao immediately walked over, and he seemed to feel something strange from the words that came out of the old Taoist priest's mouth.

"No......" Lan Yin roared, he looked at the old Taoist priest seriously, however, even if Lan Yin begged for help in every way, the old Taoist priest did not move at all, his eyes closed.

In the end, Lan Yin gave up and decided to take Ah Hao to a place where there was no one and did not plan to go home.

However, when he returned to the city gate, he found that his parents, as well as the people of Huangquan, were waiting for Lan Yin.

After all kinds of struggles, Lan Yin was stunned and subdued, and Lan Yin's father walked up to Ah Hao and bowed.

"Uncle Lam, you ...... this"

"Thank you, Ah Hao, Yin'er must know that there are friends like you in this life."

Ah Hao nodded, and then Lan Yin's father looked at him seriously.

"Your soul, the old man will collect it himself, and the last time the old man collects his soul is for you."

Ah Hao laughed heartily, then said goodbye to Lan Yin's father, laughed, and walked towards the city.

"Thank you, Uncle Lan, when Ah Yin wakes up, you can persuade him well, life and death are fate."