I've heard my grandmother say about the New Year's taboos before, but I don't think it's true, but I think it's just a tradition, a convention that has been passed down from ancient times to the present.

For example, all shoes must be buttoned up on the night of the thirtieth night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, otherwise the god of calamity will put disaster through the mouth of the shoe, and the next year will not go well; For example, when you get up on the morning of the first day of the new year, you must eat a bite of cake before opening your mouth to speak, and you will rise step by step in the coming year; For example, firecrackers have to be set off in the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, because the ancestors who Chinese New Year's Eve to worship the ancestors are going back, and they will send firecrackers to drive away those cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods......

No matter what kind of customs, whether it is true or not, every year on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, it is a day and a night of demons dancing, if the ferryman really chooses this day to make trouble, then this game of chess is really big.

I pinched my eyebrows, a little irritable: "Godmother, shall we wait?" ”

Things have developed so far, our only opponent is the ferryman, if he chooses to start in the Chinese New Year's Eve, the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve will definitely be his strongest day, do we have to wait until that time to fight with him?

Wu Qiaoyun shook his head: "We also want to end his lair as soon as possible, but today's action, we have been hit hard, and it is not easy for you to come back neatly, everyone needs to rest and adjust, so this is pressed two days in advance, and it just so happens that we still have some things to determine, and we will draw up a plan as soon as possible." ”

I nodded, and then asked, "Wu Yongkang, uh, how is my brother now?" ”

"Boy, if you can bear it, how can you really grow up without experiencing some wind and waves?" Wu Qiaoyun is not so pampered with Wu Yongkang.

"He's already pretty good." I said sincerely, "If you can withstand things at critical moments, dare to rush forward, and be sober-minded, you will definitely have great talents in the future." ”

Wu Qiaoyun smiled and didn't say anything, I asked instead, "That, Aunt Xu......"

At the mention of Xu Youqing, Wu Qiaoyun's face suddenly darkened: "Qingqing's life has been too bumpy, she has been working hard when she was young, and she has not been able to enjoy life well, so she has such a heavy hatred, in fact, there is no day in the second half of her life that she really lives for herself, revenge, her heart is empty, which is why for so many years, we dare not interfere too much in her family feud, I know her too well, but I also predict that this day will come sooner or later." ”

"She left a suicide note for me, asking me to send her back to her hometown to be buried with her family, godmother, do you know where her hometown is?" I asked, Xu Youqing's last wish, I have to do it for her.

Wu Qiaoyun nodded: "Qingqing's ashes are at home, and when you are almost recovered, I will send someone to take you to send her home." ”

"Thank you, godmother." I breathed a sigh of relief, hesitated for a moment and asked, "Godmother, what about that, Black Flame?" ”

I am actually a little worried in my heart, after all, Black Flame is Hei Laosan's henchman, although he finally betrayed Hei Laosan and took the initiative to send Xu Youqing's body back to the Wu family, but this does not mean that the Wu family can accept him.

Sure enough, Wu Qiaoyun replied, "That kid, he was thrown to the island." ”

"Throw...... On the island? "Let him fend for himself?

Wu Qiaoyun covered her mouth and laughed: "What kind of expression do you have?" How many years has the child followed the black old man, although he has a heart of repentance, but it is inevitable that there is no bad root, many descendants of our Wu family have been sent to the island to train since childhood, exercise physical fitness and mind, after coming back, all of them have been educated very well, I believe that the child will also be well developed in the future. ”

"You're going to train him?" I couldn't believe my ears, "You're not afraid that he will rebel in the future?" ”

According to my own best idea, the Wu family exiled him, did not kill him, did not take him in, and let him wander outside, but never dared to think that the Wu family would cultivate him.

"Such a good seedling, why not cultivate it?" Wu Qiaoyun asked me rhetorically, "The Wu family has a lot of secret guards, dead soldiers and the like, each of which needs to be slowly brought up from a little bit bigger, and it takes a lot of mental effort to cultivate one, this black flame itself has the ability, and there are good thoughts in his mind, he sent Qingqing's body back, it is likely that both sides are not pleasing and offended the black third, but he is not treated by our Wu family, but he still sent it." ”

"That day, he was chased all the way to Phoenix Town by the people of Hei Laosan, when our people picked him up, he directly left Qingqing's body, turned around and left, we didn't keep him, but followed all the way, watching him be chased and killed all the way, embarrassed like a lost dog, but didn't look back, I knew that this kid sent Qingqing's body back, not to take us into the Wu family, he himself understood his situation very well, and it was at that time that I made up my mind to leave him behind."

"Godmother, you're so nice." I hugged Wu Qiaoyun's arm and coquettishly, in fact, in my heart, I also hope that Black Flame will have a good future.

The two of us chatted about some miscellaneous things again, and Wu Qiaoyun suddenly asked me, "Xiaocha, why didn't you ask me about Liu Chuannan?" ”

As soon as she mentioned Liu Chuannan, my body suddenly stiffened, and I shook my head: "His situation, whether to ask or not, in fact, I understand that I can't help him, I just ask him to ...... in the end Don't be too miserable. ”

For me, whether he became a puppet of the ferryman, a walking corpse, or a fallen demon, as long as he lived, it was enough.

I can accept anything about him, but I can't accept that he disappears into this world from now on, and in that case, I don't think I can live.

"Liuchuan Nan, ......" Wu Qiaoyun elongated his tone, as if he was thinking about something, and he stopped talking.

I reached out and covered my face, not wanting to discuss it further, only feeling a throbbing pain in my heart.

"Hey, I didn't want to tell you, I was afraid that you would be stupid, but I really can't bear to see you like this." Wu Qiaoyun finally said, "According to our current observations, it seems that the ferryman's attempt on Liu Chuannan does not only lie in his true body. ”

I looked up at her suddenly, my lips were shaking, and my mind suddenly remembered what Fake Qingxuan had said to me before, and she had said something similar, but Yanagawa Minami refused to admit it.

I grabbed Wu Qiaoyun's hand and said excitedly: "Godmother, Liu Chuannan is still saved, isn't it?" ”

"Xiaocha, don't get your hopes up, some Gu are irreversible, once they are refined, they will never return to their original state, so what the ferryman wants is not only Liu Chuannan's true body, this means that we still have the opportunity to control the ferryman, but it does not mean that we can save Liu Chuannan." Wu Qiaoyun calmly analyzed it to me.

My heart suddenly cooled again, but then I still didn't give up and said: "Then at least we can use this chip to fish out Yanagawa Nan, right?" Godmother, we have this chance, right? ”

"You kid...... Hey, it's just poisoned by Yanagawa Minami. She shook her head again and again, as if she felt that Yanagawa Minami was not worth saving.

They were very unoptimistic about Yanagawa Minami from the beginning, and their attitude is still like this until now.

Maybe they had already foreseen what Yanagawa Minami was doing today, so they would have such an attitude.

"Godmother, please tell me, I really want to know."

Under my soft grinding and hard bubbles, Wu Qiaoyun finally relented and asked me: "Liu Chuannan is physically flawed, you know this, right?" ”

I nodded hurriedly: "I know, it's at the tail vertebrae, I've touched it, it's soft, as if a spine is missing." ”

"Do you know how that spine is missing?" Wu Qiaoyun continued to ask, I shook my head, as if I had heard the reason, but I didn't seem to have heard it.

"That spine was broken by Liu Chuannan when he was skinned and cramped, and his muscles and bones were used to consolidate the national fortune, and that small tail vertebra is said to have been left to Qing Xuan back then, as for how Qing Xuan disposed of that tail vertebra back then, we don't know." Wu Qiaoyun explained.

I immediately understood: "So, because there is no tail vertebrae, Yanagawa Minami's true body is incomplete, and this incomplete real body cannot be used by the ferryman." ”

"Yes, that's what it means, if you can't find this tail vertebrae, then how many years the ferryman will have to wait, it's unpredictable, and it is possible that the dog jumps off the wall in a hurry." Wu Qiaoyun said solemnly, "Xiaocha, you ...... Do you have an impression of this coccygeal vertebrae? ”

Wu Qiaoyun asked coldly, I didn't react for a while, and it took me a while to figure out that Wu Qiaoyun was actually testing whether I was the reincarnation of Qingxuan.

The fake Qingxuan has been confirmed to be fake, so is the real Qingxuan still alive, immortal, or reincarnated from generation to generation, and I am the reincarnation of the real Qingxuan?

"Godmother, I'm not sure if I'm the reincarnation of Qingxuan, even if I do, but I've been here for more than 1,200 years, and Meng Po soup has been poured bowl by bowl, and no matter how important things are, I have forgotten them, right? Anyway, my mind is empty for this piece. "If I can really help Liu Chuannan, I would like to be the reincarnation of Qingxuan, but now, there is nothing to do.

"Don't think about this too much, sometimes you can't think of it, but it's better than remembering, rest early, there are still many things waiting for you to do." After Wu Qiaoyun finished speaking, he helped me tuck the quilt and left.

I lay in bed, trying to remember if I had some strange memories or weird dreams since I was so old, maybe I could find some clues, but in the end I found that there was nothing at all.

Yanagawa Nan has a tail vertebrae, what did he leave that tail vertebrae to Qingxuan for?

Commitment? Commemorate? Or is it something else?

……

We recuperated in Wu Jia'an for two days, Wu Yongkang suffered very serious internal injuries, although his relatives helped him, but he still needed to recuperate in bed, Mo Bai and Ji Beibei were in good condition, I just felt that after all this, Mo Bai's mentality has completely changed, and he has become very thin, it seems that it is enough to guard Ji Beibei and the child in his belly for the rest of his life.

This state may seem good to ordinary people, but I am worried in my heart.

He is Mo Bai, the son of Hei Laosan and Cao Jiugu, this is no secret in the circle, even if he wants to stop here, no longer participate in the affairs of the Yin and Yang worlds, just want to grow old with Ji Beibei and live a peaceful life, it is not so easy, he can't stay in the Wu family for the rest of his life, once he is out of the protection of the Wu family, many people will find him.

Me too.

From the day we were born, we are destined to fight for a lifetime and plan for our own life, and we must live worthily in order to truly live.

Early in the morning of the third day, Wu Qiaoyun told me that she was going to send Xu Youqing home, and asked me if I wanted to go together, of course you said yes.

We set off at about seven o'clock in the morning, and we went with just a driver, a butler, and the two of us.

"Qingqing's hometown is relatively remote, decades of changes, the young people in that area have already moved to the town or city, the old people have almost withered, the village has almost become an empty village, I have contacted their village chief before, two days ago Qingqing's family has moved back to the ancestral grave, we go over today, just bury Qingqing directly in the ancestral grave, one day back and forth is enough." Wu Qiaoyun told me the whole itinerary in detail, and I nodded to show that I understood.

The car is more and more bumpy, the road is overgrown with weeds on both sides, and it feels like the road is broken compared to Jiaolongpo, I am really afraid that the driver will not pay attention to take us down the cliff.

The village has long been dilapidated, most of the houses have become dilapidated, when we got off the bus, a middle-aged man greeted us, nodding his head, very flattering to Wu Qiaoyun.

This person is the village chief of Xujia Village, but now he is no longer the village chief here, there are only a few families left in the village, and it is difficult to be the village chief.

When the Xu family had an accident, the villagers said that her family was infected with animal plague and was not allowed to be buried in the ancestral grave, and now, I don't know if there are no people anymore, and people don't care too much about this matter, or the money given by the Wu family is in place, so they don't fight or grab, it's easy to talk, in short, everything is going well.

Wu Qiaoyun walked in front of Xu Youqing's urn, I followed behind, walking in the direction of the ancestral tomb, incense, worship, urn into the soil, coffin closure, and when everything was done, we were about to leave the cemetery, when a gust of wind suddenly rose in the flat ground.

The wind came very suddenly, fast and strong, and rolled up a large cloud of dirt, so that we could not see it, and we could only raise our arms to protect our eyes.

At this moment, I felt something climb up my legs, all the way up, and soon I was lifted up, I screamed, and it seemed that I heard Wu Qiaoyun calling me, but soon I was hit by something and fainted.

The whole process only took a few seconds, Wu Qiaoyun and the others didn't react, I had already been taken away.

When I woke up, I was in the car, with my hands and feet tied, and a woman sitting next to me.

"Woo, woo." I struggled and screamed twice, and the woman turned her face to look at me, then took the stuff in my mouth and greeted me, "Xiaocha, we meet again." ”

"Qingxuan, no, you...... What exactly is your name? "I really didn't expect it to be Qingxuan who kidnapped me, after all, I didn't expect her to be so capable.

The fake Qingxuan smiled: "You can call me Qingxuan directly, it doesn't matter what you call it." ”

"You don't deserve the name Qingxuan." I said angrily, "Say, what are you doing with me captive?" ”

Fake Qingxuan smiled: "It's almost there, wait until you know what we want to do." ”

……

The car drove jolting in the direction of Daojiazhai, and I knew in my heart that she was going to take me back, this was the ferryman's order, and I suddenly remembered what Wu Qiaoyun had said to me about the tail vertebrae in the south of Liuchuan, and I was immediately a little worried.

But the car did not directly bring me into Daojiazhai, but to the east, to the border between Daojiazhai and Jiaolongpo, I suddenly gasped.

There is a small stream, standing on the edge of the small stream, streams of water vapor carrying the cold air rushing to my face, and I can even see the shadowy tablet on the reincarnation pavilion.

Is this to send me to death?

Soon, a small boat was pushed into the small stream, and the fake Qingxuan pushed me into the small boat, and she personally rocked the oars and led me towards the middle of the small stream, in the direction of the reincarnation pavilion.

There are a lot of undercurrents in the stream, the boat keeps spinning, and ordinary people don't dare to row in this stream, but this fake Qingxuan dare, which reflects her ability.

"Do you want to throw me into the small stream, or send me to the Reincarnation Pavilion and give me a good word." I'm getting impatient in my heart.

I thought that the fake Qingxuan would still sell Guanzi, but I didn't expect her to answer me: "Go to the Reincarnation Pavilion." ”

"Why? Are you going to leave me there alone and leave me to fend for myself? Or did you feed those terrible ghosts? "If that's the case, I'd rather be pushed directly into the stream, and just end it up.

"How is that possible? Our master favors you very much, how can he let you die like this? Fake Qingxuan said in a relaxed tone.

"Then why go to the Reincarnation Pavilion?" I'm breaking the casserole posture and asking the end.

As I was talking, the boat had docked at the edge of the Reincarnation Pavilion, and I subconsciously didn't want to go up, but the fake Qingxuan behind pushed me and forced me to the Reincarnation Pavilion.

I have seen this reincarnation pavilion many times and heard its story, but I rarely set foot on it, and the people in the village used to avoid it.

After the fake Qingxuan pushed me up, he rowed a small boat and left, leaving me alone on the reincarnation pavilion.

I was really confused, I didn't know what was going to happen next, so I stood on the edge of the reincarnation pavilion, tiptoeing vigilantly.

The reincarnation pavilion is full of water all around, there are unclean things in the water, after the cocoon is formed, it has been three or four days, it is still a round cocoon, there is no cocoon to break out, the sixth evolution seems to be much more difficult, without her, I want to escape from the reincarnation pavilion back to land alone, it is almost a fantasy, if you fall into the small stream again, it is really self-defeating.

After tossing for so long, the sky has begun to slowly darken, standing on the edge of this reincarnation pavilion during the day, I am not so afraid, but when night falls, all uncertainties are about to emerge, and my whole person is not good.

The sun was slowly setting, and I had to take advantage of the last rays of light to determine how I was going to spend the night.

As soon as I turned around, I was densely packed, and all kinds of tablets came into view, each of which was like a beast, staring at me with fierce eyes.

Except for the tablet, there is nothing, the reincarnation pavilion is surrounded by water, the water continues to beat the periphery of the reincarnation pavilion, more and more intense, it feels like the sea is going to rise, will the water level around the reincarnation pavilion also rise?

Looking at those tablets, looking at them, my heart suddenly settled.

What am I afraid of? Are you afraid that those little devils will come out and kill me?

Let's not talk about whether the remnants of those beaten and drowned baby girls are still here, even if they are, my current ability is not enough to be afraid of them.

After figuring it out, I was less apprehensive, and sat down next to a piece of marble on the edge of the Reincarnation Pavilion, if I really wanted to spend the night here tonight, then I was going to sleep on this marble.

I turned the cocoon out of my pocket, put my hands together, held it in my palm, and muttered in a low voice: "Dudu, come out quickly, after the sixth evolution, you will be able to speak, and I will definitely be in a much better mood if you talk to me." ”

"Dudu, it's been four days, are you really not capable of breaking out of the cocoon on your own? Why don't I tear this cocoon open with my hands? ”

Muttering this, I suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly, the golden silk was wrapped in a cocoon, and I couldn't open it with my bare hands.

I talked to myself for a long time, the sun had set behind the mountain, leaving only a fiery red glow, I looked around, no one came again, my stomach was hungry and growling, if I went on like this, if I was not killed, I would be starved to death.

I don't know if I was hungry or I hadn't slept well, but I lay on the marble, and for a moment I began to want to sleep in a daze.

Not long after I closed my eyes, I heard the sound of a chirping girl lingering in my ears.

"Sister, come and play with us."

"Sister, will you let us go out to play?"

"Sister, shall we make a game?"

……

The immature words kept ringing in my ears, and even though I knew that I was in a dream, I couldn't help but look around and see nothing.

"Sister, are you looking for us?"

"You can't see us, we can't run out, it's so dark here, we're so scared, can my sister let us out?"

"I want to get out, I'm going to get out."

The sounds were gentle at first, but then they became hysterical, and I heard something crashing.

Boom! Boom!

Each sound hit my heart, and I opened my eyes suddenly.

It was already dark outside, and the surrounding area was pitch black, and the crescent moon overhead was very small, and the faint light was faintly wafting on the water surface of the small stream.

The ghost blows the lamp