Chapter 21: The Secret of a Life
"Senior brother?" Lou Yuling called a few times, but still no one answered.
At this moment, the bad old man had closed his eyes and sat quietly cross-legged against the wall.
Xiao He stood beside him and couldn't feel his breath at all, he tentatively probed his snort with his hand and was out of breath, and he didn't give up poking with his hand to find that the residual temperature on his body was still there, and finally he looked at Lou Yuling apologetically, "It's still hot." ”
Lou Yuling didn't know what his attitude was, he didn't speak, but he looked at the bad old man's corpse with a somewhat complicated expression, and his upright body softened suddenly, and the whole person was soft and collapsed like a lump of minced meat that had lost its trunk.
The bad old man is dead, and the female ghost is now in a slump again, although the two have been shaken by years of love and grievances, but at this moment he is thinking more about how to get out of the bamboo forest. And when I think of going out, the first task is to comfort this Lou Yuling, she is a ghost, and her magical powers are greater than herself.
"Senior brother, I don't know what your name is?"
Lou Yuling finally spoke, but it made Xiao He almost break the work. This...... How can he be comforted?
Xiao He looked at the bad old man who was already a corpse depressedly, and said in his heart: Your junior sister, you won't really be beaten into Alzheimer's by you, right?
If the result of putting down the butcher's knife was so terrible, he thought that he must be a demon for the rest of his life.
"Yu Gong, the name taken by the second child, he said that everything from the beginning is empty. But he likes musical instruments, so he uses the gonghou. ”
"Teacher, senior brother?" The female ghost's back suddenly regained her strength as if she had been pricked by a needle, and she looked around and finally her eyes fell on the corpse of the bad old man.
He was still lying quietly, his eyes still closed, and he still held the black briquettes in his hands. It seems that nothing has changed, but just now the bad old man really spoke.
"You ......"
"I heard that, too." Xiao He nodded, although he didn't move, his eyes were also glancing around.
"Don't look for it." The voice was still bad old man's, "You can't see me." Senior sister, there is actually a secret that you have not known all along. ”
"What?"
"Actually, I'm a ghost just like you."
"......" Xiao He silently sat at the base of the wall holding the wine gourd, and at this moment he felt that Uncle Geng was wrong for the first time.
Wine is obviously a good thing, why didn't Uncle Geng let him touch it before? After drinking it, he can forget that none of this is true, and for the first time in his life, listening to gossip can also be so exciting!
He sneered in his heart, at this moment, he just wanted to get himself drunk, and when he woke up, he might be able to go back to the night he met Uncle Geng...... He wanted to ask everything clearly, and when he did, maybe he wouldn't be the mess he was now...... But he forgot that he was also drinking the wine of a ghost.
"Then you ......" Lou Yuling's surprise was no less than Xiao He's, but she was calmer than him, she had lived longer than him, and she was still a well-informed ghost.
"Well, I'm still going to die, because of the thread. Now I have just become the original me. ”
"Yes...... But isn't it just for the living? And, and it's a living person with some Taoism, but are you a ghost? ”
"Have you seen me?" The old man said suddenly.
Xiao He drank his stuffy wine, trying to block out all the sounds in the well, but those words were like flies squeezing into his ears, and he muttered in his heart: The most primitive you, isn't it just a ball of air? How else do you let people see you?
In an instant, he woke up more than half of his wine, and his brain exploded as if it had been exploded.
Lou Yuling's life is more thrilling than him!
"I haven't seen it." Lou Yuling shook her head, and her brows furrowed even deeper.
"It's Brother Yusheng, when I saw you for the first time after going down the mountain, Brother Yusheng said that the breath on your body was a little familiar. He told me that you were the dark shadow he saw that day, a senior brother I had never met.
At that time, I thought he was Yu Qifu, and I never doubted his words. After all, I avenge him. ”
"Do you know when I first really paid attention to you?"
"When?" Lou Yuling was interested, she knew that he must have known her before going down the mountain, but this made her even more strange, because she really didn't have an impression of him.
"Remember the bowl on the dinner table? When you first came, the second child could still get up, and there would usually be six bowls on the table, and the second child would often add food to an empty bowl. ”
"I thought it was the second senior brother who ate it."
"Only the second child could see me, he picked me up in the snow, fed me rice soup for a few days, and I died in less than a week. But he always thought that I was still alive, and at that time the boss had just come down the mountain, and the old thing went with him in order to stabilize him.
I pay attention to you, firstly because of your background, and secondly, because after the death of the second child, you often stared at the empty bowl on the table. At that time, I thought I was finally noticed, so I followed you all the time. ”
"But, when I saw you, you have always been a bad old man, an old Taoist!"
"Have you forgotten? I've been poisoned before, and I was a ghost. However, the thread turned me into a human. ”
"No, it can't be." Lou Yuling shook her head, she didn't accept this fact. "You're lying to me again, aren't you?"
"It's not. That person has a great background, he knows the secret techniques of your Lou family and uses them freely, and he also knows everything about the Lou family, but he is not the Lou family. During that time, I had been following him to help him, and many things that I didn't understand before were only understood after following him, but he disappeared before I could fully figure it out.
Of course, it was he who told me not to touch it a second time, and if I did, I would not be far from death. ”
"Not far from death?"
"......" Xiao He shook his dizzy brain, looked at Lou Yuling and Yu Gong in surprise, and found that the two of them were quiet again.
"Dead?" He looked at Yu Gong's corpse in hindsight, swallowed his saliva and asked, "What about dying again?" ”
Lou Yuling looked at Xiao He with a complicated expression, not knowing what she was thinking, and Xiao He didn't know if she was really hungry and drank violently. The flask is also weird, the size of two palms, but the wine inside seems to never be finished, and one sip is born.
"Ahem, not dead." Yu Gong's voice sounded again, but Xiao He choked on the wine that scared him. "I just talked too much, and I was dizzy."
"......" Xiao He rolled his eyes, he drank and the whole person was different, and he was bolder. You can't die today, can you? ”
"What are you talking about, silly boy?" Yu Gong was still in the mood to joke at this time, but the next second he changed his tune. "Senior sister, you can take the things in my hand, that thing can save your life if necessary. As for my corpse, you can help me burn it, so that the chances of latecomers finding clues are smaller. ”
"You really can't live?"
"I can't live." There was a rare hint of relief in Yu Kong's tone, "The fourth child is still waiting for me below, and I can be regarded as having company." ”
"Why are you all like this?"
"Senior sister, there is something I want to tell you." He paused as if hesitating, "The reason for drugging the old thing is partly because of myself, partly because of you, and in the future I will understand that it is partly because of the second child." ”
"What do you mean by that?" Lou Yuling asked very urgently, because she could feel that Yu Kong's voice was getting more and more ethereal, and she was scared.
"Xiao Changsheng is under me, but the figure that the fourth child saw is not me, I was on the roof at that time, peeping, little ......"