Xing Ruyi looked at the fox with a bewildered expression, and his eyes only circled. She clasped her hands together and said to the fox in a pitiful tone, "Dear future husband, I beg you, hurry up and reveal the secret, okay?" ”

The fox glanced at the old man, who seemed to be gentle, but in fact his tone was non-negotiable: "Are you always talking, or am I talking?" You know, we fox people don't do things in vain, if I help you tell this story, then I will get some rewards from you, so as to conform to the rules of our fox people. ”

At first, when the old man said that the fox was only a fox that had become a spirit, Siniang didn't care. But right now, since the fox is a fox clan, Siniang couldn't help but touch the fox suspiciously, and asked, "What kind of clan is the fox clan?" ”

"Oh, it's the fox clan!" Xing Ruyi's face was not red, and he attached his mouth to Siniang's ear without panting, and whispered a lie: "This fox clan is a very ancient family, and the people in the family are all practicing spells. This old man seems to be a fellow believer, so he knows what is going on, but just now you also heard the fox say that this old man may be practicing evil arts. I guess that if he really did the things that the fox said, there is a good chance that he would be borrowing his life! ”

"Borrow your life! Why borrow life? ”

"Actually, many warlocks who cultivate the left path of the side door will do this, and I have also met a person who borrowed his life before, and his methods are quite cruel."

"But, Ruyi, you still haven't told me what borrowing life is? Could it be that this life can be borrowed by others. ”

"For ordinary people, it may not be possible, but for those who practice evil sect techniques, it is feasible. However, it is not borrowed with the consent of others, but forcibly borrowed. Siniang, let me ask you, if your husband can not die that day, but the premise of immortality is that you want to exchange other people's lives, are you willing? ”

Li Siniang was stunned, then lowered her head and thought for a while, raised her head and smiled astringently, and said: "If there is really that kind of magic in this world, I admit that I will be very moved, because I don't want my husband to leave." But if it was at the cost of hurting the lives of others, I probably wouldn't do it. But...... If I could, I would give half of my life to my husband, not to be born in the same year and month, but to die in the same year and month. ”

Xing Ruyi didn't expect that a question he asked casually would make Siniang feel sad like this. While scolding herself in her heart for being damned, she patted Siniang's back with her hand.

"That's right, if that person were me, I would definitely make the same choice as you. But Siniang, not all people in this world can be as kind as us. Those who borrow their lives are eager to borrow the lives of others, and they will not estimate the lives of others at all. Xing Ruyi said, got up, and walked to the old man: "Old man, Ruyi doesn't want you to be that kind of person in my heart. ”

"He's not that kind of person! I don't know what you're doing or what you're doing to me, but I can vouch for it, he's not like that. He was a good husband, a good father, a good grandfather, and I had never seen him use any spells in all these years. This must be the conspiracy of that female ghost, it's her, it's her who wants to harm our family. ”

The old lady said, pulling the bundle of fairy locks with her hand, and as soon as her fingers touched a point, they were burned back by the flames that ignited. Even so, the old lady did not give up, still enduring the pain of her soul being burned, and wanted to set her own husband free.

This time, the fox struck, he used a spell to trap the old lady, and also walked up to the old man.

"You are very envious of our fox clan, envy that we can live for a hundred years or a thousand years?"

The old man snorted coldly and did not reply.

"Indeed, immortality is everyone's yearning, and our fox clan can easily achieve it through innate capital and acquired efforts. As for you, you also used your own evil art to borrow the lives of others to continue your own life, and in a sense, you have indeed achieved immortality. But are you happy? ”

"Of course" should have been the answer, but the old man choked after saying those three words. He first looked at the trapped old lady, then at the house where his son and daughter-in-law lived before his death, and was silent.

"You're not happy! Actually, I'm not happy either. I live longer than you, have more powerful mana than you, and never grow old. But so what, I could only watch my parents, my people, and my former best friends disappear from my life one by one. The stronger the mana, the longer you live, the more loneliness and loneliness you have, and I don't think it's a blessing to live long.

Now, this girl standing in front of you, her name is Xing Ruyi, just an ordinary mortal like you, but she is my beloved, and she is also the lady who is about to marry me. Do you know? In the past, I was also very hesitant, hesitant to marry Ruyi, because I am a fox clan, she is a human race, I can live for hundreds or thousands of years, but she can only live for a few short decades. I couldn't let myself watch her leave, so in order to continue her life, to be able to live like me for hundreds or thousands of years, I did many, many things without her. But in the end, I gave up! ”

When the fox said this, he smiled at Xing Ruyi, and then lowered his head and took her hand: "You have asked more than once, what did you do in the days when I disappeared?" I've asked me more than once, why don't I marry you. Actually, it's not that I don't want to, it's that I can't at that time. I can't tolerate your departure, nor can I imagine if you can bear it when you age day by day and face me who will never change. ”

"It's really hard to bear!" Xing Ruyi nodded and touched the fox's handsome face with his hand: "Such a handsome face, it won't be old, just thinking about it makes people envious, jealous and hateful." But so what? Even if I find an ordinary person as ordinary as me, will I be happy if I marry him? Marry him and be able to grow old with him? Marry him, he won't dislike me, change his mind halfway, and turn me into a cousin? Obviously, these are unknowns as well. Since it's all unknown, why don't I choose the best husband for myself, enjoy the best care, and then admire the most handsome face in the world by the way. Even if you have happiness for a short time, you have it, haven't you? ”

"It's indeed my wish!" The fox said, smiling dotingly, and then turned his gaze to the old man again.

Ruyi's words, to you, may sound a little ridiculous, but this is my future little lady's unique idea, and I wasted a lot of time to figure out what I really want, and what Ruyi really wants. I can help her continue her life, and even use a more clever way to borrow her life, so that she will always be with me. But, at that time, was she still the real her? ”

The old man hung low and said nothing.

"I beg you, let him go, he's not the kind of guy you say he is! I've been married to him for so many years, and I've never seen him hurt anyone. He is a good man, and all the people in this village can attest to it, he is a good man! ”

The old lady was confused, and her soul was in a trance in the moonlight. Because of forcibly touching the bundle lock several times, her soul was burned in the eye, and she was about to be scattered.

Xing Ruyi was a little unbearable, shook the fox with her hand, and asked, "Can you help her, she is about to die." ”

"Can't!" The fox replied abjectly: "At this time, the only person who can decide her life and death is him, not us." Don't you notice that even though there are so many things going on in this village, and so many lonely ghosts floating outside, not a single ghost has come to do something? The grandmother in front of her is like this, so is Cuicui, as well as the mother and son of the Gou family and other villagers in the village who died in vain. ”

"Why?" Xing Ruyi was also a little puzzled.

Because they are all ghost slaves raised by the old man, he used a special method to raise them and drive them. These ghost slaves, unlike ordinary ghosts, do not belong to the scope of ghost detention. In this case, just like what you mortals call the three regardless, the only people who can help them are those Taoist priests, and the end is that their souls will be scattered, unless their supporters are willing to sacrifice themselves and return them to freedom. ”

Although the old lady was confused by everything else, she understood the last sentence of the fox. She looked at the old man and tried to make a good appearance to comfort him: "I know that you are not what they say you are, and I also know that these are their plots, and they are uniting with that female ghost to harm you." Don't worry, I'm fine, I won't be distracted, I ...... I'm still waiting for you on Huangquan Road. As you said, you are reluctant to let me go on the road alone, you are afraid that other ghosts will bully me, and you are afraid that I will get lost halfway, so don't worry, I won't leave so early, I will wait for you. ”

"Ake, don't say it, I don't ...... at all" The old man's mouth trembled slightly, but he didn't finish his words.

"It's okay, I really don't have a relationship, Han'er hasn't married yet, you have to live well!"

"It's impossible for Han'er to get married!" The fox really couldn't bear to interrupt the old lady's words, but if it dragged on, the day would be dawn.

"Because your husband will never allow Han'er to marry anyone!"

"You talk nonsense!" The old lady let out a ghostly roar, and the whole person became hideous in an instant.

"He didn't talk nonsense, he was right, I can't let Han'er get married, because I ...... Because I need to borrow Han'er's life! The old man finally admitted, "Ake, I'm sorry for you!" ”

"Are you confused? Are you old and confused? What kind of nonsense you just said? Han'er is your grandson, your own grandson, how can you be a grandfather and want his life? ”

"All I want is his life!" The old man's eyes were red, like a demon crawling out of hell: "In your eyes, he is my grandson, yes, but in my eyes, he is just a container from beginning to end, and I raised him just to keep his body, keep his body to carry my soul." From beginning to end, I don't care about any of you, all I want is to live, forever and ever! ”

The old lady was stunned, Siniang was also stunned, and Xing Ruyi looked at the old man puzzled, only the expressions of the fox and Li Mao had not changed in the slightest.

Finally, Xing Ruyi woke up, she was angry, and rushed to the old man, grabbed his clothes with her hand, and asked sharply: "You borrow your life, but you still want to borrow your own grandson's life, are you crazy?" ”

(Education 123 Literature Network)