Grandpa Bai's words suddenly reminded me that Yunshuang once told me that at the junction of the two worlds of yin and yang, there are business contacts, and the place of trade is called the ghost market, and the dazzling goods in the ghost market are from the yang world, and more are from the underworld.

I asked Grandpa Bai: "Is the paper tie with the mark of the underworld pierced by a ghost?" ”

Grandpa Bai shook his head and was amused by me: "It's not a ghost, it's a human." ”

"Pierced?" I was surprised, "How can a person have a mark from the underworld?" ”

"The three worlds of heaven, earth and man, although they seem to be distinct, but there is also infiltration in all walks of life, people can cultivate into immortals, immortals can also go down to the mortal world to cross the calamity, save people from suffering, and the exchanges between the underworld and human beings are closer."

"The inheritors of many professions have various inextricable relationships with the underworld, they live in the world, but they do not carry a little fireworks, they are born to be selected by the underworld, and they shoulder the heavy responsibility of communicating the exchanges between the yin and yang worlds and maintaining the peace between the yin and yang worlds."

"They have the seal of the underworld in their hands, right?" I asked.

Grandpa Bai shook his head: "It's not that they have it in their hands, but they can freely walk the yin and yang worlds, and they can hand over with ghosts, in fact, we fox clan also have such people." ”

"Who?" I asked.

Grandpa Bai raised his eyebrows and didn't speak, but I immediately reacted: "I know who it is." ”

That person is Jiugu.

If Mo Xianye's mother hadn't had an accident, this errand wouldn't have been Jiugu's turn.

The weird lip bead in the middle of the Jiugu people, now it seems that it must have a certain relationship with the underworld, and that day in Jiangcheng, she could see the yin difference, which is also a basis for my guess.

Grandpa Bai didn't ask who I was talking about, the entire fox clan, there is no such person, so there is no need to ask.

"Did you say yes?" I asked.

Grandpa Bai raised his eyebrows: "Why didn't I agree?" ”

"Yun Sheng's city is very deep, Grandpa Bai, we have to be careful." I reminded.

Grandpa Bai disdainful: "As long as he can get it, I dare to accept it." ”

Grandpa Bai is an old man, and the paper tied with the seal of the underworld is very rare, and it is relatively difficult to cheat, so even if Yun Sheng does something, Grandpa Bai should be able to see it.

……

I really don't have any memory of my mother, but I don't have a lot of longing for mother's love in my heart, and it would be nice if she was really alive.

I want to be close to her, I want her to come back to me, I want to hear her voice.

With this strong desire, I once again sneaked to Shengsendai.

Although the snow melted, the road under my feet was not too easy to walk, and I did not dare to ascend Sendai, so I stood at the foot of the mountain at the foot of the heavenly pond and looked up at the majestic scenery.

The statue of the dragon's head is very large, lifelike, the incense tower inside the copper tripod burns slowly, and a wisp of green smoke curls up to the clouds.

I imagined that back then, my mother carefully stood on the Shengsendai, next to the copper tripod, reaching out close to the flame of the dragon's head incense, imagining that she accidentally fell off the Shengsendai and her body fell towards the bottom of the cliff, and the most important thing in her heart was not only her father, but also me, right?

Mother, are you under the cliff or not?

……

I watched Seondai lose my mind, and I didn't know when Mo Xianye was close to me, until he wrapped his arms around my waist from behind, and I suddenly woke up.

Seeing him, I was startled: "Mo Xianye, why are you here?" Let go of me, and don't be seen. ”

"What are you thinking?" Mo Xianye didn't let go of me, his cheek pressed against mine, and he asked with his chin resting on my shoulder.

I didn't say anything, so he said, "I told you about the medicine before, and I knew that you would come eventually, and sure enough, you still came." ”

"How can you not come?" I said distractedly, "Mo Xianye, do you still have memories of your mother?" ”

Mo Xianye's body stiffened suddenly, and then he shook his head: "No, I just often hear others say that she is very beautiful, she is the holy daughter of the fox clan, and she has great power, but for me, she is more like a high god, let me look up, but I can never touch it." ”

When it came to this topic, we were very sad for each other, and after being silent, I couldn't help but ask, "Mo Xianye, if your mother was still living in a certain corner of this world, would you go to her?" ”

Mo Xianye was stunned, and the hand around me unconsciously tightened, and only after a while did he ask, "Why do you ask this question?" ”

"It's just a feeling." I said, "If my mother were still alive, I would definitely go to her without hesitation, whether it is a sea of swords or a sea of vicissitudes, I will find her." ”

"What happens when you find it?" Mo Xianye asked me rhetorically, "Tens of thousands of years of separation, each surviving in a different environment, how much do you think is left of that mother-son relationship?" ”

"If you go to great lengths to find her, only to find that she is already on the opposite side of you, what will you choose?"

"If all these years, she has been hiding in the plateau, just to avoid some responsibilities, and she is most afraid of exposing herself to the eyes of everyone, but you pull her back into everyone's field of vision, will she hate you?"

Mo Xianye's words pierced my heart, his answer was well thought-out, not because I asked, he considered this, maybe over the years, he didn't say it, but in his heart he had repeatedly considered it; Maybe he already knew everything that Jiu Gu told me about his mother before, and he also struggled, impulsively, and in the end, silently compromised.

His words made me hesitate suddenly.

Yes, for more than 10,000 years, a person has been trapped for so long, if he is not dead, or suppressed, he really does not want to return to this world.

To find, to find, or not to find, and how to choose if found, these are all questions that we need to consider before acting.

Mo Xianye kissed my cheek and said softly: "Go back, don't come here alone in the future, it's dangerous." ”

I nodded, turned around and hugged him back, and the two hugged silently for a while, then separated, and went back separately.

When I was leaving, I asked, "Mo Xianye, do you pay attention to the news over there in Jiangcheng?" A few days ago, Yun Sheng went back to Jiangcheng. ”

"Don't worry, everything is fine." Mo Xianye replied.

When he said this, I was relieved, Gu Xiaoxiao should be safe for the time being.

After I went back, I kept thinking about what Mo Xianye said, and the urgency to see my mother again was slowly suppressed, and I instead devoted myself to cultivation.

……

As time passed, the white fox became lively, in order to prepare for the twenty-sixth sacrifice, the busy work was even more lively than the New Year, everything was opened, and even Yi Tian was busy with his feet not touching the ground.

It stands to reason that this is my mother's death day, and I should be the busiest, but I was ordered by Grandpa Bai to stay in the room all day to recuperate.

My injuries have already recovered as before, Grandpa Bai should have ulterior motives for doing this, maybe he is afraid that I will touch the scene and feel sad? Or are you afraid that if I come out for more activities, I will cause trouble again?

But on the contrary, it has fulfilled me and provided me with an excellent environment for my cultivation.

Before the dinner on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, all the things to be prepared, the sacrificial process to be rehearsed, and the layout of the sacrificial place were all properly accepted, and Grandpa Bai emphasized again at the dinner table.

Not long after eating, someone came in to report that Yun Sheng was coming.

Grandpa Bai's face froze, and then he asked, "Did you come empty-handed, or did you ......?"

"There were a lot of things he carried, all covered with white cloths, and I don't know what they were." The servant replied.

Grandpa Bai let out a long hiss, and I also frowned, it seems that Yun Sheng really has the whole set of papers ready?

"Everyone will go back to the room to rest after eating, and let Yun Sheng carry the things to the backyard, Li girl, you push me over." Grandpa Bai assigns the work lane.

……

The backyard was cleared, and when I pushed Grandpa Bai over, Yun Sheng was already standing in the courtyard, he was still wearing a white robe, with his hands behind his waist, and he looked up slightly, looking at the red plum trees that were blooming in front of him.

The scene at that time was worthy of the sentence 'Mo Shangren is like jade, and the son is unparalleled in the world', but under such a fairy skin, what is hidden is a bottomless and ambitious evil heart.

When he heard the footsteps, he turned his head to look at us, and a smile immediately appeared on his face, and he stepped forward to greet him: "Grandpa Bai, Ah Li." ”

With that, he walked up to me and reached out to push my wheelchair for me.

Grandpa Bai said: "That day you said that you could get a whole set of papers, I thought you were joking." ”

"What you promised, how can you be child's play?" Yun Sheng flattered, "Fortunately, I was lucky, and through my father's friends, I worked hard to finally achieve my wish." ”

When they spoke, I was already curiously circling the boxes covered with white cloths, and when I reached out to tear off the white cloth to take a look, I heard Grandpa Bai shouting: "Stop." ”

I was taken aback, my fingers hung above the white cloth beside me, and I looked at Grandpa Bai in confusion, and Grandpa Bai said anxiously: "Get out of the way, don't touch these things, everything can't be contaminated with a little bit of popularity, otherwise there will be no mana." ”

I hurriedly retreated, Yun Sheng was holding a special small bronze scale in his hand, carefully picking up all the white cloths one by one, Grandpa Bai rolled his wheelchair, stretched his neck, and carefully examined the paper ties.

Although I used to open a white shop, and often came into contact with paper ties, most of the paper bundles circulating on the market are machine-pressed type, and then manually combined, and the paper bundles in front of me are the kind of traditional codex skills that are almost lost, from the villa courtyard, to the garden rockery, to the spirit child paper sedan chair, lantern filial piety stick, etc., all are vivid.

Everything is done so ingeniously, Grandpa Bai couldn't stop nodding while watching: "Okay, good craftsmanship, Yun Sheng, you really worked hard this time." ”

Yun Sheng's face was also full of smiles: "It's just a little bit of a junior to be a junior, Grandpa Bai is content if he doesn't dislike being rude." ”

After looking around, he didn't find the slightest problem, Yun Sheng hurriedly used the special bronze scale to cover the white cloth again, Grandpa Bai had already called Bai Fuhu here, and sent more than a dozen people to guard the things in the yard, so that no one could touch or even damage this set of papers.

At that time, it was already very late, and the paper was sent over, and after the acceptance was correct, Yun Sheng took his leave and went back, and he would come over early tomorrow morning to help organize my mother's death day sacrifice.

……

After Yun Sheng left, I sat in Grandpa Bai's room for a while, full of thoughts: "Grandpa Bai, did Yun Sheng really learn to be good this time?" ”

"Maybe he pointed to this sacrifice to improve his status in the hearts of you and me, and wanted to get my approval as soon as possible and marry you, right?" Grandpa Bai stroked his beard and said, "Ah Ye is back, Old Man Mo is defending Ah Ye everywhere, Yun Sheng has completely lost his backer, and if he wants to take this opportunity to seek our help, he naturally has to be more diligent." ”

I hope so.

"Glass girl, it's not early, you can go back and go to bed early, you will be busy tomorrow." Grandpa Bai urged.

I hesitated for a moment, and finally made up my mind to ask Grandpa Bai: "Grandpa Bai, when my mother fell off the cliff, did you ever think that maybe she didn't die?" If you want to see people alive and die, you have to see corpses, but we haven't seen corpses, maybe ......"

"Don't have any illusions." Grandpa Bai waved his hand and interrupted me, "The cliff that your mother fell off is different from ordinary cliffs, life and death are cut off on the Ascension Immortal Stage, and there is no soul under the Ascension Immortal Stage, do you know how many cultivators have fallen off the cliff without success in crossing the tribulation from ancient times to the present?" There are people who are a thousand times better than your mother, but no one has ever climbed up from the bottom of that cliff and seen the light of day. ”

"Then I ......" I also jumped to Sendai and was struck by a thunderbolt, why can my soul be collected by Yun Sheng?

Grandpa Bai understood what I meant: "Your soul can come back, no one knows why, Yun Sheng also collected your soul by chance, and then I also made a lot of assumptions, and finally came to the conclusion that maybe in the process of you falling off the cliff, the soul and the body were successfully separated, and the body fell, and the soul was attached somewhere." ”

I couldn't figure out the difference for a while, but I thought about it slowly, and then I figured it out that the difference between me and others is that other people's bodies and souls are separated after falling off the cliff, and the body dies and the soul dissipates, while I fell off the cliff in the flesh and wandered around the soul when I was captured by Yun Sheng and brought back.

If it weren't for Yun Sheng, I would have just ended up scattered.

"Glass girl, there is no point in discussing this topic now, we have to look forward, we can't immerse ourselves in those things in the past and miss the future." Grandpa Bai said earnestly, "After your mother's death day, the New Year will come, after the New Year, Grandpa Bai will no longer have any excuse to stop you from marrying Yun Sheng, these days you think about it carefully, think clearly, once the wedding date is set, you will no longer have any way out." ”

Grandpa Bai still didn't want me to marry Yun Sheng, he had been poisoned by Yun Sheng for so many years, and he didn't want to watch me jump into the fire pit.

I squatted down, put my hands on Grandpa Bai's knees, and asked him seriously with a raised face, "Grandpa Bai, now you can tell me, how did Yun Sheng use my soul to force you to submit?" ”

"Don't mention these things, don't mention them, don't mention them." Grandpa Bai shook his head, reluctant to speak.

But I didn't let go: "If you don't tell me, when I get married, if he uses the same means to harm me, what should I do?" ”

"Now that you know him...... It's not good, why do you insist on getting married? Grandpa Bai said distressedly.

At that time, I really wanted to tear the skin off my face, let Grandpa Bai see Huang Wanting's face, tell him the fact that Yun Sheng had already colluded with the Huang Xian clan, and tell him that the stability of the fox clan was in jeopardy, but I couldn't after all.

I stood up, and I didn't plan to ask any more, so I waited until tomorrow's sacrifice and then planned slowly.

"Don't ask, Grandpa Bai, I'm tired, go back to sleep."

I was just about to leave, but Grandpa Bai stopped me again, let out a long breath of turbidity, and said, "Li girl, do you know why I can endure Yunsheng for so many years, and your Grandpa Mo can also endure him for so many years?" ”

"Because of his ability and the help of his parents, besides, if Mo Xian is gone, Grandpa Mo is likely to consider Yun Sheng as his heir." I'll put my guess out.

Grandpa Bai shook his head: "Wrong, you all think wrong, the specific reason, only me and your Grandpa Mo know in our hearts." ”

"Yun Sheng, no, to be exact, it's Mo Yanping, this person seems to be a door-to-door son-in-law on the surface, who eats soft rice, but how long his hand is, even me and your Grandpa Mo can't find out."

"Back then, Ah Ye's pill was replaced for no reason, and ten tails grew overnight, this thing is not something that ordinary pills can do, and the poison in me is colorless and tasteless, and I eat it in my body, without noticing, but as time goes by, I slowly can't stand up."

"Where did these pills and medicines come from, you and Grandpa Mo have secretly investigated, but there is no result, what does this mean? It shows that the person behind Mo Yanping is strong enough, strong enough to erase all traces of evil. ”

"Even ......"

Grandpa Bai said, suddenly paused, and stopped talking, I hurriedly asked, "Or even what?" Grandpa Bai, you say. ”

"Even the death of Ah Ye's parents is inseparable from Mo Yanping." Grandpa Bai said with a solemn face, "Since the disappearance of the Holy Maiden, the fox clan has been hit one after another, and it has slowly begun to decline, and what is even more infuriating is that it is still ridden on the head by something like the Yellow Immortal clan that once did not enter the stream, we can no longer withstand any turmoil, and we have to endure it without full certainty." ”

If you endure it, you will boost the arrogance of others, and you will continue to be trampled on your head, and it will slowly evolve into the current dilemma.

"Your grasp is actually based entirely on the word 'betting', right?" I guessed, "You're all betting on Mo Xianye's mother, the holy daughter of the fox clan, is not actually dead, is it?" ”

Grandpa Bai looked at me in astonishment, not expecting me to see it so clearly: "How do you know this?" ”

"Not only do I know this, I also know that the catastrophe of the fox clan is coming, and if you can't find the holy woman, the fox clan will never recover." These are all what Jiugu told me.

After a while, Grandpa Bai's tense body slowly softened, and he smiled bitterly: "I always thought that I protected you very well, and I didn't want you to come into contact with these things, forgetting it is also a blessing, but I didn't expect you to know everything." ”

As he spoke, he suddenly raised his head to look at me and asked, "That's why you have to marry Yun Sheng, right?" It's because you know that you ......"

"And not just that, but there are many other reasons." I said, "Grandpa Bai, don't forget, I am a member of the fox clan, and if the fox clan is really destroyed, I can't live alone, so I should do what I can for the fox clan." ”

Grandpa Bai stretched out his hand and stroked my head, and said sadly, "Child, I have wronged you." ”

"Grandpa Bai, if Mo Xianye's mother is really alive, as long as she can save her, she can protect our fox clan, right?" I asked.

"Yes." Grandpa Bai is very sure, "The holy woman is the patron saint of the fox clan and the cohesion of the fox clan, with her, the fox clan will not disperse." ”

I then asked, "What about ...... Can the saint save Mo Xianye? On the premise of not having a seven-trick exquisite heart? ”

Grandpa Bai was puzzled: "This, I don't know. ”

The soap bubble I wanted burst instantly, but this thing really can't be forced.

"Go back to sleep early, you don't need to think about these things for the time being, have a good rest, and when your mother's sacrifice is completed tomorrow, our grandfather and grandson will sit down and have a good talk." Grandpa Bai said.

"Then you go to bed early, too."

……

I went back to my room from Grandpa Bai, lay on the bed, but I couldn't sleep, I had a lot of things in my heart, I couldn't let go of it after thinking about it, and more importantly, I was inexplicably worried about tomorrow's sacrifice.

Even though the paper bundle brought by Yun Sheng had been checked and confirmed that there was no problem, I still couldn't let down my guard against him, and besides, I could never forget the voice of the woman I heard in Shengsendai before.

Tomorrow's sacrifice, will the woman's voice still appear? She...... What was the origin, and was I hallucinating at the time?

I tossed and turned, barely slept all night, and as time went on, I became more and more nervous.

At six o'clock the next morning, there was a knock on my door with Yi Tian, telling me to hurry up and wash up, saying that Yun Sheng had arrived.

"Came here so early? Are his parents together? I asked.

Yi Tian shook his head: "For the time being, only Yun Sheng came alone, but it is impossible for the black fox not to say anything, so we have to pack up early in the morning and wait for the visitors." ”

Such a big thing, Grandpa Mo is definitely coming, so ...... Will Mo Xian Ye also come?

I don't know why, at this moment, I especially hope that he can come, it may be a habit developed in Jiangcheng, no matter what happens, as long as he is there, even if he doesn't do anything, I feel at ease.

Yi Tian put down the set of clothes he was holding in his hand and said: "This is the filial piety robe you are going to wear today, as the only daughter of your aunt, in the end, you will personally kneel under the dragon head incense and pray for your aunt." ”

"I know, that's how it should be." I took the filial piety robe, washed it and put it on my body.

When I hurried to the front hall, I saw Yun Sheng standing in the middle of the hall, and he was ...... He also wears a filial piety robe that matches me.