Chapter 101: Picture Scroll
With its vermilion lacquer gate and deep courtyard, this house looks so retro that I feel like I'm out of shape.
This is the first time I have felt so strongly the difference between the two worlds, the underworld, which means darkness and death; The yang world means light and new life.
It is only in the yang world that we can truly feel that life is continuing.
I have lived half-human, half-ghost for eighteen years, and suddenly I have flesh and blood, and my heart is very frightened, and at the same time, I have a few heartfelt reverence for life.
All of this was given to me by my little brother.
Thinking of the scene when he was beaten by thunder, my heart ached. Three times like a moth to a fire, he finally got my wish to let me live like a normal person.
I don't know what he wants me to live, I don't have any goals or ideals now, just apprehension and fear.
When a ghost can not think about what to do, but to be a human being, you must find a way to survive.
I sat on the threshold for a while before I went back to the house, and when I saw my grandmother enter the temple, I followed.
The layout of the Buddhist hall is simple, there is only a shrine and a futon, and the shrine is still only dedicated to the tablet of Luo Lingxiao, the ancestor of the Luo family, and there are no other ancestors.
Grandma lit three sticks of incense and respectfully inserted them in the incense burner.
"The ancestors of the Luo family are on top, the Luo Qi family worships, the flesh and blood of Qi'er has been completed, and I hope that the ancestor will bless Qi'er with great wealth and nobility in the future, and spread branches and leaves for my Luo family."
Scattered?
I couldn't help but think of the eccentric daughter of my previous life, and I don't know if she escaped the catastrophe. No, I'll have to find a way to go to Hades.
Just as I was secretly thinking, my grandmother turned her head and saw me, so she beckoned, "Qi'er, come and kneel down for the ancestors!" ”
"Hey!" I walked in obediently, respectfully knelt in front of the spiritual seat of the ancestor and kowtowed three times, "The ancestor is above, Qi'er has kowtowed to you, ask the ancestor to bless the little brother, bless the Ling'er." ”
"Ahem!"
Grandma coughed coldly and glared at me unhappily, "Qi'er, what are you talking nonsense?" Don't think too much about the past, there are still a long days to live. ”
"But I ......"
Why did you mention that the little brother and grandmother had such an ugly face, what happened?
I was still in awe of the ancestors of the Luo family, and I didn't dare to make a mistake, so I didn't say anything about it. Grandma sighed softly, bowed deeply to the ancestor and left with a gloomy face.
I was about to leave, and as soon as I looked up, I saw that the wall behind the shrine was a little strange, as if there was a dark grid. I didn't know what was hiding, so I looked left and right to see if there was anyone, and I stepped forward and moved the shrine away.
The wall did loosen a bit, but I don't know where the mechanism was. I was looking around when there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and I hurriedly moved the shrine back again.
"Qiqi, it turns out that you are here, looking for you for a long time."
Han Yue walked in, Lai Xizizi took my hand and looked left and right, and probed my pulse and heartbeat, "You are really alive, so enviable." ”
"I ......"
I really don't know what to say, because Han Xing Han Yue was made into a refining corpse, not to mention that the people of the Xiao Dynasty have no chance to reincarnate, even if there is, neither of them can do it, and they will be refining corpses for eternity and eternity.
Han Yue rested her head on my chest and listened for a long time, her face full of envy, "It turns out that the heartbeat is like this, listen to it." ”
My heart suddenly felt sour, such an ordinary heartbeat sound became the most extravagant existence in the eyes of lonely souls and wild ghosts, especially those ghost cultivators of the Xiao Dynasty.
Han Yue looked at my embarrassed face, and hurriedly smiled and said, "Qiqi, you finally woke up, you don't know how worried everyone is about you." ”
"I ...... What the hell is going on? ”
"Last year, you fell into evil on your birthday, and Uncle Qi sent you to Luozhai. Later, you have been in a daze and your soul is not possessed, and your grandmother has summoned you many times to no avail, but who knows that Han Xing will wake you up with a basin of cold water. ”
I was stunned, "Uncle Qi?" Qi Huai of the paper man? ”
"yes, that's him."
"Han Yue, didn't anything happen to the sun on my birthday last year?"
"There is no major incident, anyway, the weather will be sunny in two days."
Could it be that the Heavenly Tribulation of the Burning Heaven Blood Sacrifice should be in the ghost realm, and it has little to do with the yang world. So, Grandma didn't know what was going on in Hades.
Impossible, her cultivation is by no means comparable to ordinary ghost cultivation, how can she not calculate the situation in the ghost world, there must be something strange in this.
That's it, I won't talk about those things that make everyone worry, and I'll go back and find a time to go to Yin Si to have a look. It's just that I don't have the blood coffin and the soul locking bell, and I don't know if it's good to go to the underworld.
Han Yue also told me that Shen Mochen took the two of them back to Shen's house more than a year ago, and also signed up for school, so that they could take over the Shen family's business in the future.
Right now, the two of them have just finished the college entrance examination, and they have nothing to do to come to Luo's house to find me and my grandmother. The two of them were refined by their grandmother herself, and their feelings are naturally different.
Speaking of rising, Han Yue tugged at the corner of my clothes and said, "Qiqi, otherwise you can also study with us, reading is fun, there are a lot of friends in it." ”
"I ...... Let's talk about it! ”
I wasn't interested in reading, but I didn't know what to do, so I was at a loss.
used to be half human and half ghost, catching ghosts for a while and breaking the formation for a while, and after more than ten years of confusion, all he practiced was magic and Taoism. Now that I'm an upright person, I've lost my direction all of a sudden.
Han Yue took me around the house, which was a decent courtyard house, full of flowers and trees, with small pavilions and fish ponds in the courtyard.
The house may have been renovated and has some modern equipment, such as a TV, a refrigerator or something. It feels like this is completely the life of heaven and earth with the yin and yang realm.
When it was dusk, the driver of the Shen family came to pick up Korean star Han Yue, and handed an invitation to her grandmother by the way, saying that it was Shen Mochen's birthday three days later, and she was going to have a big feast.
Han Yue repeatedly told me that I must go, but I agreed with great enthusiasm.
When I got back to the house, my grandmother was busy in the kitchen, and I snuck over thinking about the mechanism on the wall of the temple.
I searched inside and outside the wall for a long time, only to find that the mechanism was under the futon, a movable floor tile. Remove the brick and there is a groove underneath.
I pressed hard, and the dark grid on the wall creaked open, and there was nothing in it except a picture scroll. I was so disappointed that I picked up the scroll and looked at it, but I was stunned by the four words on the front of the scroll: Yin coffin lady!
Lady of the coffin, I seem to have heard it somewhere.
I hurriedly unfolded the scroll, only to see that it was a blood-red coffin, and on the top of the coffin sat a woman with bare feet and wearing a red gauze dress.
She has white hair, her head hanging down and playing the flute, and she can't see her face.
Her red gauze dress is obviously bewitching and charming, but if you look closely, she has a fairy aura that comes out of the dust. There is a kind of kitsch but not vulgar, bewitching but not glamorous fresh and refined.
This woman is the lady of the coffin? Is it a real person or a conjecture of the artist?
It's really strange to think that there is such a strange woman in this world.
I looked at the whereabouts of the painting, and it was a drop of blood, which had dried up and turned dark black.
"Qi'er, it's time to eat, where are you?"
I was wondering when my grandmother suddenly shouted, so frightened that I hurriedly put the scroll into the dark compartment again, and after everything was cleaned up, I pretended to leave the Buddhist hall as if nothing had happened.
"Where did you go? How did you panic? When my grandmother saw me running into the house, she gave me a disgusted look, "No matter how old I am, I can't get in shape to eat." ”
"Hey, I just walked around the yard to get familiar with the environment. Grandma, I'm afraid our house is worth a lot of money, right? Are we also rich? ”
"Where's the money? After selling the house, do you live in Qiaodong? ”
"Oh, I'll use an analogy."
After a few small talks with my grandmother, she seemed to be very shy about the things of the underworld, and even frowned when I mentioned the netherworld, so I didn't mention it again.
Grandma also sniffs when she eats, sniffs the taste. But I'm different, this is the first time I've eaten a dish that hasn't been processed in the right way, a dish in the world.
While eating, I pretended to casually mention the painting, "Grandma, you are well-informed, have you ever heard of the lady in the coffin?" ”
Grandma was stunned for a moment, and her face became solemn, "Where have you heard of this person?" ”
"I ...... Maybe it's a dream, yes, it's a dream. ”
Seeing my grandmother's guarded look, I kept it to myself in case she knew that I was messing around as soon as I got home, and I was afraid that I would be angry.
"Come with me!"
Grandma suddenly got up and walked to her bedroom, still in a hurry. I was confused, but I followed suit.
After entering the house, she closed the door and said, "Qi'er, you ...... See if there's anything unusual about your heart? ”
"Huh?" I was stunned, quickly ripped open the collar of my shirt and glanced inside, and sighed softly, "It's still so small, smaller than Han Yue's." ”
“…… Who told you to watch that? Grandma glared at me, walked over and unbuttoned my chest, looked at my heart, and suddenly her face changed.