22. Completeness and defects
At the time, I didn't understand the true meaning of Miko's words, but when I got home and saw the mad monkey again, I finally understood everything.
Crazy monkey, no, maybe I should call her Hou Zifeng, a nice name. She appeared in front of me in a beautiful dress, the combination of stockings and boots was also very sexy, and she also changed into a long wave hair, although I knew it was a wig, but it still looked beautiful, and it matched her temperament very well.
I asked her what was wrong.
She said that she didn't know that Weishenme would become like this, and that she felt like she should be a woman, so she completely reformed herself. But when I asked her what kind of man she planned to marry in the future, she was confused, and she said that she would probably never love again.
Then Yang Xu, Qiu Shi, and Zhang Li also returned home one after another, and they were all completely different from before they disappeared.
During the time of his disappearance, Yang Xu had been working in a small village in Jilin Province to support himself. After returning home, Yang Xu also told his parents that he had broken up with Qiushi, that he didn't want to follow his parents' arrangements, and that he also contacted her former girlfriend immediately after arriving home.
In his subconscious, he may wish that he could change and no longer rely on his parents, but at the same time, he also feels that there is nothing idealized in the world, and even if he really changes, he will not break out of his cocoon and become a butterfly, but will only become an ugly moth. During his trip to the Hot Soup Hotel, he left behind his self, who was overly dependent on his parents and had low self-esteem.
And this part of himself that he had lost was now kept in Qiao Wei's glass hourglass.
We talked to Yang Xu privately. Qiao Wei told him that the soul is an integral part of human life, and if a person lacks a soul, the number of lives will naturally decrease, which not only means the shortening of life expectancy, but also the loss of an important emotion in life. Yang Xu lost his inferiority complex and dependence, and at the same time lost his sense of crisis and trust, he will eventually become a loner.
But Yang Xu feels that his current self is very good, and he would rather throw away those things he doesn't want to be his current self.
Qiao Wei just smiled back, and left his business card to Yang Xu and said: "If you regret it one day and want to get back your life, come to me at any time, and your spirit will be put here for me first." ”
Akishi was found by the police.
Breaking up with Yang Xu didn't make Qiu Shi feel painful, or the word pain had nothing to do with her at all.
After she went home, Qiao Wei and I also came over to check on her condition. There is a soul missing from her life, and this spirit represents sorrow, and she will never feel sorrow. As the saying goes, "There is no joy without sorrow", Akishi discarded her sorrow and joy at the same time, and she became a calm person who no longer pursued pleasure.
She told us that Yang Xu broke up with her after leaving the hot spring hotel, and she went on a long-distance bicycle trip with a group of "cavalry regiment" travelers, and she completed a trip for the first time with a very calm mind, and this kind of trip also allowed her to find a new self.
She didn't have the slightest expression on her face when she told us about these experiences, and I didn't pay much attention to what she said, because I just kept repeating the word "facial paralysis" in my head.
However, her parents still hope that Qiao Wei and I can help find the emotion that Qiu Shi lost, and we can only say that there is nothing we can do about it, and even if we get that spirit back, she may not want to take it back.
While feeling happiness, you must taste sadness, and staying away from sadness will also be insulated from happiness, this is life, and Qiushi has already made her choice about her life.
Compared with Yang Xu and Qiu Shi, Zhang Li's situation is much worse.
Zhang Li knew very well that her parents had been looking for her, and she had just deliberately hidden herself from appearing until she finally made a decision to return home. After that, she also told her parents very directly that she would not choose to marry any man and have children, that she would never be a so-called "normal" woman in her life, and that even if she broke off the relationship with the family, she would be her true self.
In the end, her parents could only agree with such a daughter, but it was a pity that when Zhang Li came to Hou Zifeng again with joy, Hou Zifeng had become another person, a person who was no longer in the same shijie as her.
Qiao Wei and I also chatted with Hou Zifeng and Zhang Li, and also told them about the loss of their spirits.
Hou Zifeng said that she would cherish the memory of falling in love with Zhang Li, but now she can't appreciate the beauty of her love at all. She was desperate to get her lost soul back, but we couldn't help her.
For such a Hou Zifeng, Zhang Li chose tolerance and support. She said that she met Akishi when she was at a hot spring hotel, and she saw something in Akishi that she was extremely envious of, that is, Akishi's independence and a kind of insistence on self.
In Zhang Li's words, she is very envious of Qiushi and envies that she can be brave enough to do whatever she wants. While envying Akishi, she also began to hate her weak self, and this hatred gradually became distorted in the hot spring inn, and finally released in the form of a detachment from her body in Akishi's home.
Qiao Wei also asked Zhang Li to make a choice, whether to get back her "resentment" or choose to abandon it, if she threw away her resentment, she would also lose her gratitude at the same time. In the end, Zhang Li chose to get back her lost soul, because she believed that she would never hate Hou Zifeng no matter what, on the contrary, she wanted to thank Hou Zifeng forever for bringing her the happiest years. Even if Hou Zifeng will never know what love is in the future, she will always be Hou Zifeng's most haode "friend" and always guard Hou Zifeng's side.
When Qiao Wei beat Zhang Li's spirit back into her body, she fell into Hou Zifeng's arms and cried while beating Hou Zifeng's shoulder.
Qiao Wei and I also hurried away with interest.
At this point, the first case taken over by the 1+1 Yin-Yang Detective Agency can be regarded as a successful completion, and the only thing that worries me a little is that Miko has not returned to me what I mortgaged to her, and she said that she will wait until everything is completely over.
A month later, I received a parcel containing my lock ghost lasso and a letter from Miko.
Miko said in the letter that Wu Peng had died a week earlier and had been completely taken away by his ancestors.
The ancestor of the Wu family was a large family, and the whole family was buried on this land for five generations, adding up to 40 or 50 people. Because of Sun Jieting's trouble in front of the ancestral tomb, Wu Peng's ancestors were all made trouble. They asked Wu Peng to dig a tunnel leading to the Yellow Spring, and then returned to the yang world through there.
Meizi said that her death was the meaning of Wu Peng's ancestors, who felt that her existence had tarnished the reputation of the Wu family, and at the same time, Wu Peng had to pay the price for his actions, so the ancestors took a part of Wu Peng's soul from Wu Peng every once in a while, and eventually he also ran out of his life.
Miko said that Wu Peng wanted to send his ancestors back, so he filled in the Yellow Spring Eye, but this was unsuccessful. So he paid a lot of money to ask a master to teach him a trick to steal the Seven Spirits, and then he used this technique to tie those spirits into paper figurines, and then write his own name, so that his ancestors would take the paper figurines as part of his soul.
In this way, this hotel has also become a place for Wu Peng to hunt and leave his body, and Hou Zifeng is one of the victims.
The letter also mentions the person who taught Wu Peng the art of hunting and leaving the body, and although Miko did not know the name of that person, she heard the name of that person, Basaitang. From this point of view, Qiao Wei may have made a wise choice to leave the Bazhai Hall, and the people in the hall have obviously begun to give up their moral bottom line for the sake of money.
After Wu Peng's death, the hotel was also closed. Because since the Yellow Spring was blocked by Wu Peng, the so-called natural hot springs are just ordinary water heated through a boiler, and those so-called miraculous curative effects have never existed at all, just because the existence of the ghost gate has turned the souls in it upside down, producing some strange hallucinations.
In addition, people's pent-up desires will be released here to the fullest and unrestrained, so everyone likes to come here, which may be the temptation of the devil.
Wu Peng's funeral was done for him by his brother, and Miko did not show up in front of Boss Wu, and she did not plan to play those boring seduction games with strangers again in the future. As for where she will go in the future, she has not yet thought about it, and she has not decided whether or not to ask Qiao Wei and I to go over and perform a formal transcendence ceremony for her.
But she said she would stay in the abandoned hotel for a while, and if Qiao Wei and I needed help with something, she wouldn't refuse.
The zuihou of the letter, Miko told me that she had returned to me what I had mortgaged to her, and that thing was "disgust". In other words, I don't hate anything in the past period, and it's no wonder that Shu Xin suddenly feels that my whole temper is much better, and I don't like to complain anymore, and I'm not a picky eater, but at the same time, I'm not interested in anything.
I guess that's the two sides of the story, right?
Throw away the bad, and at the same time give up the haode; If you want haode, you must also accept the bad.