Chapter 4: Sleepless Nights

My thoughts suddenly pulled back, and I asked my uncle, "How did my biological father meet you back then?" The uncle swallowed his saliva, looked up at his father's ranking, and after a while, he said slowly: "Back then, I was young and vigorous, with quite good qualifications, and my cultivation progress was much faster than that of my peers and brothers. Unexpectedly, he went crazy, and in the middle of every day, like trillions of ants eating meat and eating bones, he was in pain. People in my generation looked at me like this, thinking that I had practiced some kind of evil magic, and they all sneered at it. What's more, I reported the matter to the master, and after adding fuel to the fire, I was expelled from the master's door, and I was left alone on the verge of life and death. Fortunately, I met your father, who first sealed my meridians, and then opened up my eight meridians, and with future conditioning, I not only recovered to my former level, but even went to the next level. This kind of kindness is not something that I can repay with one life, so I offer to repay your father's kindness. Your father expected that he would die in the future, and he told me what happened, and I was deeply saddened by the catastrophe. So I swore in my blood before your father that I would live as long as I lived, and I would keep you safe all the days of your life. Then I knelt down three times until I came down the mountain. "I thought about it, my father's deep meaning, maybe he has helped a lot of people in his life, and the reason why he chose Uncle to take care of me may be that I feel that living with a frank and upright person and being influenced by him can at least ensure that my life trajectory will not deviate. It turned out that I was not born yet, so I asked my strict father to calculate it.

"Okay, let's not say too much, do you have anything you want to eat now?" my uncle asked me earnestly. I waved my hand and said I just wanted to get some rest, and I walked into the bedroom.

Actually, I'm still worried about what will happen after graduation, after all, I studied religious studies, and for finding a job, a more decent job in this major is to go to a university to teach, or to become a monk? But no matter which one it is, the competition is quite fierce, especially for monks, I heard that there is a lot of oil and water, many people don't want to put their positions in government departments, and those who squeeze their heads want to become monks, so that the threshold for monks is very high now. And now the doctoral students have long been rotten on the street. Hey, now I'm really annoyed, a doctoral student who has just graduated is about to gnaw at old age, and I feel ashamed to think about it. When I was depressed and irritable, my uncle knocked on my door.

"I just went to order a takeout, and I'm going to the next village to do something in the evening, so you can make do with it." After the uncle finished speaking, he went downstairs.

I feel annoyed to death, if one of my doctoral students graduates and goes to dance with my uncle, my father will have to beat me to death on Halloween every year.

The doorbell rang, according to my uncle's usual instructions, if I want to go out of the house at night, for safety, I must soak the willow leaves on the ancestral hall in water and wipe it on my eyes, and then I walked out of the door neatly, through the cat's eye I saw that it was a girl who delivered a courier, because she was wearing a hard hat, I couldn't see her face, but her skin was very white, and the twin peaks towered, probably because it was too hot in the summer, she deliberately opened the button under the collar, and the scenery was unobstructed. I hurriedly opened the door. "Sir, the takeaway you ordered has arrived" came from a girl's soft voice. I showed an embarrassed but polite smile, then took the things in her hand and asked jokingly, "Why do you send beautiful women to express delivery?" The girl said unabashedly: "What kind of competition is there now!" You know what I mean, right? Then he gave me a few coupons from their store, glanced at me, and then said with a smile: "I look forward to serving you next time, remember to give a good review." Looking at her departing back, I stopped in place for a long time.

When I returned to the house, I saw that the little ghosts in my uncle's house were rushing over to eat, because the little ghosts belonged to low-level spirits, and I could see them with a temporary ghost eye. As long as I come back home, they are very welcoming, so it is inevitable that I will have to say a few words to them. "Okay, okay, I'll eat two chicken legs, and you can eat the remaining three chickens separately, don't fight." I coaxed them apart like a child. The imp was raised by my uncle, and I was equivalent to my uncle's son, so the imps all treated me as an older brother. From living at my uncle's house to going to school, we usually play together during the holidays, but I feel that the problem of IQ and generation gap makes it difficult for me to get along with them since I was a child. Sometimes, however, they play too much, and try to please me, lest I tell my uncle, which is like a big child's style.

Although the IQ of the little ghost is only at the level of a child, he is still quite smart and knows how to take the initiative to clean, so his uncle's house always looks spotless. A few imps are messing around after eating, which is very annoying. I'm going to wash my eyes off the stuff, or I'll not be able to sleep tonight.

It was about half past one in the evening when my uncle came home. I took the initiative to get up and open the door for my uncle, and when he came in, I asked him if he was still hungry, and he said that he had already eaten at the owner's house. I asked about the situation tonight, and my uncle said that the matter was not going well, and that there was an evil creature similar to him hiding in the shadows to wreak havoc. As soon as you want to set up something, let it be destroyed. Although the victim said kindly that there was nothing wrong, the uncle understood that it must have been something disgraceful that their family had done to provoke this thing. When I wanted to continue asking, my uncle said that he was tired and would talk again tomorrow.

I've been asleep for a long time, and I don't feel too sleepy. I couldn't fall asleep after flipping through it, and suddenly I saw the coupon given to me by the food delivery girl today, I took it with my hand, and found that there was a convenience note in it, with a string of numbers attached. This should be the girl's phone number, I thought of this, and I couldn't help but call it. Originally, I wanted to say that it was too late and no one answered, so I simply planned to hang up, but at this moment, the phone was unexpectedly connected.

"Hey, why don't you sleep so late?" A gentle whisper came from the phone. At this time, I was very embarrassed, I was just bored and wanted to pass the time casually, but the other party actually answered in seconds.

"Beauty, I just woke up." This sentence is my real situation, I have been sleeping for almost a day during the day, and I went to open the door for him when my uncle came back just now, and now I can't sleep anyway.

Her laughter came from the phone, and then she said, "You're pretty funny, should we hang out with another day?" This woman seemed to be teasing me, I smiled, as a mature and steady man, in the face of an ordinary woman's invitation, I agreed, wouldn't I have no face at all? So what's the difference between me and Wu Jiechao's kid? Thinking of this, my heart is full of "disdain" at this moment.

So I said to her without thinking: "Beauty, look, why don't you just do it today, it's better to choose a day than to hit the day, how about it?" At this point, I heard a "poof" smile on the phone, and I think she must have been impressed by my witty and humorous conversation. After all, I was born with the unique temperament of attracting girls.

Well, to get back to the point, in fact, the reason why I asked this girl out was because when she was delivering me food, I saw a terrifying-looking spirit behind her, and I saw that the spirit had no intention of attacking me, so I simply pretended not to see it, in fact, I was very scared at the time. Especially when my uncle wasn't there. Originally, I wanted to tell my uncle about the situation when he returned, but I forgot about it when he came back.

"And where are you going?" She asked me. I wanted to hang out with her, but who let me see the spirit behind her? If the spirit behind her traps me, I probably won't be able to come back. It's impossible to think about it, anyway, with my special physique, that spirit doesn't dare to do anything, so I might as well just take the spirit behind her. Maybe this girl promised to be out of gratitude, and she was a little excited to think about it.

"Then come with me to the grove behind the Spirit Mountain in the town. If it's 8 p.m. tomorrow, what do you think? "I deliberately asked her tentatively, and I thought that if she really wanted to hang out with me, she would definitely refuse, because this grove is actually a cemetery.

"You're so bad, it's only the first time you've made an appointment with someone like that! So what if I meet a bad guy? She asked me tentatively again. Actually, I knew that if she were a normal local, she would not agree to meet there, especially in the evening, so I was even more convinced of the suspicion in my heart: either she was not a local, or her body had been taken away by the spirit. And the store asked her to deliver food, at least she was very familiar with the area, so I could be sure that she was the one who was in control. And, it seems, this spirit is using her body for something.

"Actually, brother, I'm a big bad guy, you have to be careful!" If you want to get away with it, that's what I want.

"Okay, that's a word, let me see how bad you are!" Unexpectedly, she agreed without hesitation. This strengthened my suspicions.

"Well, see you then, big bad!" She hung up. At this time, I really couldn't sleep, because at this time, I really didn't know what might happen after the meeting, so I just waited until the morning before I walked out of the room and quietly approached my uncle's room.