Chapter 36: Mercy
"What is this?" I took it and found that only a few pages of the book were left, and even on the cloth that wrapped the book, I could only vaguely see a few words that had been eroded by the wind and moon. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Five Changes, Nine Heavens, Dou Mi Bao," I read out softly.
"Qiangzi" Uncle Lou suddenly shouted at me, causing my hand to pause when I was about to open the broken book.
"Listen, you have to keep in mind what I said next" Uncle Lou tidied up his clothes and said to me squarely.
"How...... What's wrong? I was startled by his serious expression and asked.
"Your story, your years, all your remaining life, from the moment you take this book" Uncle Lou took a deep breath and said slowly, "It's already destined"
My eyes widened, overwhelmed.
"Five Reforms and Nine Heavens Dou Mi Bao He, is a cursive script written by a great Taoist descendant in the last few centuries" Uncle Lou pointed to the things in my hand, "Although his legend is not powerful, the Taoist school he established has made the entire Taoist people regret its existence"
When Uncle Lou finished speaking, a picture suddenly flashed in my mind: a blind Taoist priest holding a broom, and a plaque with flashing lights.
"Half a grain of rice?" I struggled to utter these words, and my head suddenly began to hurt.
"You ......" Uncle Lou looked at me incredulously, "you...... You even know? ”
I couldn't lift my head and look at him because my mind was aching so hard for some reason that it was enough to affect all of my thoughts, including the fleeting images.
"You...... Do you remember it all? Uncle Lou still didn't see anything, and continued to ask.
I endured the pain and said word by word: "I don't know ......"
Uncle Lou saw that my face was blue, and he also realized something, and reached out and slapped me on the forehead, a red mark appeared and disappeared, and my mind returned to normal, and there was no longer pain.
"Take this book, then live, and then understand it," Uncle Lou said seriously, "Your next goal is only these three, understand?" ”
"Why didn't you tell me?" I jerked my head up, as if I had lost my mind, "Why?" ”
"Qiangzi" Uncle Lou pressed my shaking shoulder, "Calm down, calm down"
I seemed to be soothed by his words, closed my eyes, and said no more.
Uncle Lou, who wanted to say something more, suddenly looked at the sky and shouted, "Not good! They chased after them."
With that, he let go of the hand on my body, walked to the Nian Grief Stone, and I don't know what he did to it, a light floated by, and the Nian Grief fossilized into a black gate, and I couldn't see anything in the door.
"Go in" Uncle Lou yelled at the bandits, and the bandits did so, plunged into the gate, and lost their figures.
When I opened my eyes and saw all this, my feet seemed to be out of control, and I froze in place, motionless like a mountain.
"You go too," Uncle Lou said to me, "Quick, if they follow, we won't be able to escape."
When I heard this, I laughed and said to him, "I won't go, and if you don't tell me those secrets, I won't step out."
Seeing me like this, Uncle Lou hammered his chest with hatred and said: "Everything you want is in this broken book, it records your past and present lives, but this is only a part of the broken, you need to find other scattered fragments to put together."
"How do I find the rest?" I asked anxiously.
"Wait until you fully understand the one in your hand" Uncle Lou didn't want to reveal it, and suddenly reached out and pulled me.
His strength was not ordinary, and he forcibly moved me several positions, and threw me into the air into the gate made of Nian Sadness.
I looked at him in despair, and the two black and white ghosts that suddenly appeared behind him.
"Take care," he smiled at me, an expression that looked like an old man back then.
My tear glands were well developed, and before I knew it, my eyes moistened, my mouth moved, and I did the same for him.
……
And with that, the darkness that robbed me of my eyesight.
I fell and fell until I landed in a place that even my mind could not describe.
"Anyone?" The bandits lifted me up from the ground and shouted around without hesitation.
Uncle Lou said that this is the real underworld, a place where the dead must pass, although I don't know where I will come through the gate, but it is obviously a good place.
"It's coming, it's coming, what is urging"
Suddenly, a very beautiful female voice came from our ears, and I almost lost my mind.
I turned around at the same time as the bandits, and an old woman with white hair walked towards us.
She has a silver hairpin with white hair, a pair of wide-sleeved double-silk silk silk robes, and a pair of longevity Liu Jinchuan on her age-inappropriate wrists, and the whole person looks, except for the old face, seems to be floating like a fairy, although it is simple, it looks much fresher and more elegant.
She sniffed before she smiled, approached me, and said to me and the bandit kindly, "You are the friend that guy sent over, right?" ”
The bandit and I were stunned, and it took a long time to react, it turned out that the person in front of me was the person Uncle Lou mentioned, but the age gap between them was obviously a little big.
"Exactly," I quickly nodded in response, and said respectfully, "I haven't asked you yet?" ”
"Oh?" The old woman was stunned for a moment, and said in disbelief, "Didn't that guy mention me to you?" ”
I listened to this somewhat vinegary remark and replied, "Uncle Lou didn't tell me specifically, only said that you were his friend."
"This old fellow" the old woman stomped her foot fiercely before she said, "The old woman's name is Youlian, and she was the fellow's spouse when she was born."
After speaking, she also raised her sleeve to wipe her non-existent tears, and lamented: "It's a pity that the old man never failed me when he was born, but he did two things after his death, so it is not sad."
I pouted with the bandits, looked at the old woman and finished talking to herself, and then said carefully: "Granny You, dare to ask you what your position is in this underworld?" ”
Asking this is actually one thing I am very curious about, since Uncle Lou can occupy his own place in the capital and have a clean official position, then his spouse will definitely not be simple, maybe it will even exceed Uncle Lou's status.
"Come with me," Mercy waved our hand and led us to a place where the stone was as tall as me and the bandits combined.
There is a pavilion stacked up in front of the big stone, and there is a stone cup coffee table in the pavilion.
After I sat down with the bandits, I unconsciously looked at the stone, and then I found that the stone was actually engraved: "Those who read sorrow, look at the pain of the world, and those who read sorrow, feel the relief of the world - read the stone of sorrow."
"Nian Grief Stone?" I was amazed.
Although the text on it is different from the small Nian Grief Stone outside the purple bamboo forest, it has a feeling of echoing reading to some extent.