But the barefoot old man looked very sad, completely immersed in the pain of memory, and he said leisurely, "Ah Nian's mother, because I died in confusion for a while, I have been trying to find a way to bring her back, but I ......"

"Bring it back?" Qi Tianyang exclaimed.

The barefoot old man looked up to the sky and sighed, telling the unbearable past.

It turned out that the barefoot old man's family had been poor since he was a child, his parents starved to death due to natural disasters, and there were seven or eight brothers and sisters above, and in the end he was the only one who died.

Since then, he has had an obsessive love for money.

Under the introduction of the old man Qi, he found a blind warlock to learn the arts, while earning money to fill his stomach, while observing words and emotions to learn feng shui knowledge, and at the same time, he also learned from the blind master that he had a set of forbearance personality that was subordinate to others, and the ability to always smile at people.

After the blind master died, he was already in his twenties, but he was still devoted to magic and money, and had no intention of marrying a wife.

At first, the old lady of a big family didn't look down on him, so of course she didn't do it.

In the end, the two secretly ate the forbidden fruit, and the daughter of the big family became pregnant, so she had no choice but to elope back to the countryside with the barefoot old man.

After bringing a young lady home, the barefoot old man didn't know that he felt sorry for his wife, and he still had the virtue of picking the door.

The young lady gradually saw the true face of the barefoot old man, and was very sad, but she was pregnant and betrayed her parents, and there was no way to retreat, homeless, so she could only eat chaff vegetables in the dilapidated thatched house of the barefoot old man's house all day long, and live a miserable life of poverty.

On the day of labor, the young lady was in pain and begged the barefoot old man to take her to the hospital, but the barefoot old man said that the rural ladies were looking for a midwife to give birth, and the midwife came, saying that it was a difficult birth and had to be sent to the hospital, but the barefoot old man was still reluctant to go to the hospital and sent her to the township health center.

It wasn't until the young lady was dying that the barefoot old man realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly took the young lady to the hospital, but the young lady still died on the road, and gave birth to a thin little Ah Nian before she died.

It was only at this time that the old man knew what mistake he had made.

His wife died, and the skinny baby in his arms reminded him all the time that he had no woman.

The barefoot old man finally came to his senses, but it was too late, and the young lady was dead and stiff.

The barefoot old man studied the arts, and more than once heard the blind master mention that there are wonderful ways to live forever and come back to life in this world.

Originally, the barefoot old man just smiled, not believing what the blind man said, if what he said was true, why did he die so early?

But when the young lady died, the barefoot old man, as if mad, began to believe the blind man's nonsense, and he was convinced that he could find a way to "bring back" his wife.

He also secretly made up his mind that his wife would return to his side, he would never be so picky, and would use all the money he earned to make his wife live a good life, so that she would be as carefree and beautiful as when she was the eldest lady at home.

So he first used the money he earned, dug a cellar, and bought a freezer (at that time, it had just been a long time after the reform and opening up, and this kind of thing was not easy to buy), and froze the body of the young lady.

And he himself went crazy looking for the legendary resurrection technique, and he had no intention of taking care of his daughter at all.

But more than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, Ah Nian has grown up, and the barefoot old man has not yet found a way to "bring back" his wife.

Along the way, he expanded his basement and changed the refrigeration equipment several times for his long-dead wife. Even if he has never been frozen, his wife's appearance has changed little by little because of years of corpse changes, from the stiffness at the beginning, to the appearance of corpse spots a little bit, in fact, he has gradually despaired, but he himself does not admit it, and always feels that he has insisted on something that has lasted for so many years, if he just lets it go, life will lose its meaning.

He found a new way to make up for the void in his heart, that is, to decorate the basement according to the appearance of his wife's mother's house in his memory, so that he could feel that he was finally worthy of her, that he did not let her live a good life in his life, and that he would return to the home she had longed for after death.

As soon as he started construction, he couldn't take it anymore, and continued to expand, collecting all kinds of good things to move back, and unknowingly turned the cellar that was originally used to store corpses in a two-square-meter square into an underground palace.

For the sake of this dungeon, he did not hesitate to spend all his savings, and he was obsessed with it, just as he was obsessed with accumulating money when he was a teenager.

"Bringing back" his wife is just a dream, and the process of pursuing this dream has become all the sustenance of the barefoot old man living in the world.

The barefoot old man said this, his eyes were red, "Actually, I know that what I do is very perverted, but I can't control myself, it seems that if I don't do this, I don't know what else I can do in the world." I've been sorry for people all my life, first I'm sorry for her......" said, his eyes drifted to the female corpse on the ice bed, "Later, in fact, I'm most sorry for Ah Nian, since she was a child, she didn't have anyone to care about, and she learned to do her own laundry and cook at the age of five, so that now, her personality is so eccentric." ”

"Does Ah Nian know about the existence of this underground palace?" Qi Tianyang asked.

The barefoot old man shook his head.

"Have you begged Lao Xu to help you bring back your wife?"

As soon as the barefoot old man heard Lao Xu's name, his face showed impatience, "He? He's a charlatan! bragging about it can bring people back to life, but in fact, it's a corpse refiner! If I hadn't found out earlier, Ah Yue would have been dragged by him to refine the corpse. ”

Ah Yue? It should be his wife's name, no wonder their daughter is called Ah Nian.

Qi Tianyang smiled, "Uncle, you have been close to our family for so many years, are you ...... You don't know my grandfather ......"

Qi Tianyang deliberately wanted to speak and stopped, the eyes of the barefoot old man shone brightly, revealing greed, "Tianyang, what do you mean by this?" ”

Qi Tianyang sneered, "Uncle, it's all said, you and I don't want to go around in circles, don't you know that my grandfather left a notebook, and now many people are looking for this notebook?" ”

Cold sweat broke out on the barefoot old man's forehead, "Good nephew, do you know where this notebook is?" ”

Qi Tianyang smiled faintly, "I naturally know." ”

The barefoot old man's face was irrepressible excitement, "Really? So, can you lend it to my uncle? ”

Qi Tianyang shook his head, "Of course I'm willing to do this, but it's just that my uncle doesn't know, I'm not from the Qi family, I'm an outcast picked up by my grandfather, the Qi family is dead now, and I am not qualified to dispose of the Qi family's inheritance." ”

The barefoot old man smiled flatteringly, "Don't say that, your grandfather loves you so much, you don't know it, he treats you as his own grandson, or even more so than his own, how can you not be qualified to dispose of his things?" ”

Qi Tianyang said coldly, "Uncle doesn't know where Grandpa picked me up from?" ”

The barefoot old man looked like he wanted to pretend to be stupid, but he probably knew that Qi Tian couldn't be fooled, so he finally said, "This...... Uncle swore to the old man that he wouldn't tell the second person, and now you ask me, isn't this embarrassing for me? ”

"Oh, then I won't embarrass my uncle." Qi Tianyang is about to leave.

The barefoot old man grabbed his arm, "That...... Anyway, the old man is no longer here, so he shouldn't blame me if he says it...... In this way, the uncle told you, you can lend me the old man's notebook to see, okay? ”

Qi Tianyang nodded, "Yes." ”

"Uncle tell you the truth, although you are not a descendant of the Qi family, you are not an outcast."

"What do you mean?" Qi Tianyang faced the secret of his life experience, and he could no longer be calm, and his eyebrows were full of anxiety.

"When the old man picked you up, in fact, I was with your father, oh no, Chu Xiong was not your father. When I picked you up, Chu Xiong and I were next to the old man. We were all young at the time, especially Chu Xiong, who had just had a son Tianci.

After my blind master died, I admired the old man's feng shui skills, so I also went to follow him, wanting to learn some skills.

On that day, the old man was invited by a village far away, saying that it was very haunted. We went with the old man to find out that there was a barren mound near this village, and no one knew how many years the mounds had been there, and no one had paid attention to them.

Until one day, a man passing by the barren mound heard the cry of a baby coming from the grave......"