Chapter 1: The Five Ghosts

"What do you mean—Grandpa Wood Ghost is in this national acacia tree?" Chongyang asked. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

I nodded and said, "Grandpa is proficient in Qimen Dunjia and Organ Formation, he must have made arrangements a long time ago!" Since I was a child, I have never disobeyed my grandfather, and now no matter where he is, it is the ending he wants as an old man! Let's leave that alone! What his old man commanded, no matter what, I had to complete...... You...... Not sure what you're going to do next? ”

"Of course, I'm going to find Grandpa Golden Ghost with you! These old people are mysterious all their lives, even if they go big, they are so similar, the fire ghost grandfather disappeared in an earth-shattering explosion, the water ghost grandfather threw himself into the water on his deathbed, I saw it, and jumped into the water, but he disappeared immediately, as if he was directly in the water! Duanyang, why do you talk to me like this? When our grandfathers were young, they were all good brothers who depended on each other for life and death, and we were not outsiders! Chongyang said and spoke, a little angry, and the volume increased a little!

I don't know what to say, from childhood to adulthood, I thought that the things that my grandfather said were just fantasies, some absurd things, who knew that in the end, grandpa was leaving, these things were things he had done, the five ghosts of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, all of a sudden jumped directly into my real life, and now a big girl called Chongyang is standing in front of me, but she is a complete stranger to me, before today, grandpa didn't even mention that there is such a person as her...... Coupled with the long-term isolation of the world, I don't know how to get along with strangers at all, so I don't know what to say in the face of her slight anger.

"Uh...... You...... What, did your two grandfathers tell you that my grandfather has a grandson like me? Is there still grandchildren like us over there with Grandpa Golden Ghost and Grandpa Earth Ghost? Do you know the whereabouts of your parents? I didn't...... Who did these grandfathers of ours work for? Who is the Guigu Daoist? What do they do for what they do? ......"The mood is very chaotic, and the questions in my heart are coming straight out, and I don't go through my brain, and the speed of speech is getting faster and faster.

"Stop!" Chongyang hugged his head and shouted, stopping my crazy question.

"Why are you like that? What are you doing to me? Chongyang calmed down and said, "Grandpa Water Ghost only told me on his deathbed that he asked me to come here to find Grandpa Wood Ghost, saying that there is a child here, named Duanyang, who is now grown up and will take care of me in the future...... Is that how you take care of me? Belch...... I don't know anything about the rest! After the fire ghost and the water ghost grandfather left, I thought about it a lot, and the more I thought about it, the more chaotic it became, and many things need to be figured out by ourselves, and now is not the time to doubt and get nervous......"

"I'm sorry! I don't actually have any malice, it's just that I've been isolated from the world since I was a child, and I really don't know how to talk to people! I began to speak cautiously, "Did you ever go out when you were a kid?" ”

"I actually grew up on the road!" Chongyang smiled slightly, the corners of his mouth went up, and at the end were two small dimples, "My two grandfathers can't stay at home for more than a week in a row!" I was left behind by them in hotels and guesthouses all over the country for a long time, and the process from childhood to adulthood was to move from one hotel to another, and the two old people disappeared in a hurry every time they arrived, and I still don't understand what they have been busy with all these years! ”

"Didn't they tell you about the past?"

"I haven't mentioned it much, but occasionally in my spare time, the two of them have been in the laboratory at home, and the two old men have a lot of magical potions and powders, and these things can be combined in various ways, and they can glow and explode or something, which is very fun! I also like to tinker with these things...... "Chongyang recalled his childhood, it turned out that her childhood was as boring as mine, but what a boring thing, the most precious memories are interesting!

Chongyang was talking, and I keenly felt that there was a slight tremor in the ground beneath our feet!

"What's the big thing?" Chongyang asked.

"I don't know! Let's go back upstairs first! Good view from above, see what's going on! "I remembered my grandfather's confession, saying that Uncle Maudi was coming in a while, and asked me to hand over a vermilion lacquer box in the safe to him, and tell him that he wanted to preserve the yard no matter what, so I subconsciously thought that it was the demolition team or something that was coming with a large machine now, but there was no roar......

"Good!" Chongyang followed me, we walked towards my small brick building, the bluestone road in front of me zigzag to the middle of the two huge white porcelain pots, the lotus in the pot has already bloomed, the leaves are still green, I know that the bluestone road will turn a big bend in the middle of the two pots of lotus, turn in the opposite direction, the ground is full of tall hydrangea chrysanthemums, after walking, ignore the fork in the road, just go straight, you will meet another pot of lotus, bypass the pot, and then through a dense tall sisal forest, the small brick building is in front of you......

However, when we walked past and walked through the sisal forest, what appeared in front of us was not my small brick building, but two huge white porcelain pots, the same lotus flowers had bloomed and failed, and the leaves were verdant and green!

"Huh? What's going on? ”

"What's wrong?"

"The strangest thing in the world has happened! I'm lost in my yard! "I feel very inexplicable, since I was a child, I have never encountered this situation, I used to be able to go upstairs with my eyes closed! Although I know that this yard is weird, and it should be carefully designed by my grandfather, but I have always followed my own feelings, and it is always okay to go wherever I want, so what is going on now?

I had to look up and see where my brick building was, but at a glance, the brick building was quietly displayed behind the verdant trees, and it looked like it was only a few tens of meters away!

"It's weird!" I smiled slightly and said, "I look down at the road, Chongyang, you are staring at the building, we don't care about the messy obstacles, walk straight to the building, I don't believe that I can't go back to the house in my yard!" "After all, it's a small yard, even if there is any exquisite design, it's only a matter of a few hundred square meters, and I don't believe that I can see the target and walk without it......

The two of us divided the work, I was in charge of watching the road, she was in charge of staring at the target, approaching the target straight, and now the light is very good, so close to the distance, we can walk in less than a minute!

However, we kept walking, through a clover with ginkgo biloba, around a pair of stone tables and benches, past a peach grove, and we were back in the sisal bush......

"Chongyang, what's going on?"

"How do I know what's going on? But I'm used to it, when the wooden ghost grandfather was still there, I wandered around the yard for a few hours, if you didn't come down, I would have followed you upstairs, maybe I'm still lost in the yard! You can see the brick building, you can see the tall gate, but no matter what, you can't get close, you can only wander among the flowers and trees...... Well, it's like a mirage in the desert, you can't get into that world anyway! Chongyang stopped, discouraged!

"But I'm not you, I grew up in this yard, and I've never been like this!"

"But today the situation has changed, and today Grandpa Wood Ghost is gone!"

"Grandpa, this yard is still the same yard as before!"

"No, this yard has never been the same yard it used to be!"

"Why?"

"Because of time, Grandpa Wood Ghost said that we live in a world where time flows, and every second of the world is a new world, and every second of the person is a new person!" Chongyang suddenly smiled, she seemed to be more patient than me, and she was not in a hurry at this time.

"This is not the time to talk about philosophical principles, we need to find out what is going on!" I've grown so big, my emotions have never fluctuated much, and I didn't expect that this afternoon, before it was dark, I would taste all kinds of tastes! I'm in a hurry now, and with these slight angers.

"I have a way!" Chongyang said with a smile: "We dug two deep pits on the spot, and then set them on fire, and when the fire burned, we jumped into the pit to avoid the fire, and the fire burned all the flowers and plants that blocked the view, and it was clear what was going on in this yard, and we would ...... it when the time came."

"No kidding! Everything in the yard is my grandfather's hard work, and his old man's house is in that national acacia tree, I know that his lifelong wish is to live as simply as a tree, and now that his old man is gone, he is finally one with the tree, how can we burn here? Moreover, the fire could not be controlled, and everything in the brick building was not spared, and my grandfather asked me to hand over the vermilion lacquer box to Uncle Maodi to keep the yard...... That's right, no matter what, we have to keep this yard, and naturally we have to keep everything in this yard, how can it be burned! "Actually, I know that what I say is nonsense, no one to talk nonsense with me in a lonely childhood, I always talk nonsense while doing things alone, and say all the flashing thoughts without filtering, in fact, what I am thinking about in my head is completely different, I know that this is a mild split personality, but this is already a deep-rooted habit of mine.

"Grandpa Wood Ghost said that Uncle Maodi will come today and ask you to give him that vermilion lacquer box......"

"That's right, Grandpa said that Uncle Maudi will come today, then he will definitely come! Let's wait for him to come before making a decision! I had no choice but to turn around in frustration, approach the stone bench, and sit down.

"So who is Uncle Maudhi?"

"He is the only acquaintance I have here besides my grandfather, and all the daily necessities in my family are supplied by him, and the things that contact the outside world, except for the group of pigeons, it is Uncle Maud! Grandpa and I never talk to anyone here! "I think of that Uncle Maudhi, who is a round man, with short hands and short legs, a big belly, a very short neck, and a head that is always shrunk, and he walks not like walking, but like a ball of flesh rolling. He has been like that for as long as I can remember, and nothing has changed in more than ten years. Speaking of changes, I am very sensitive to subtle changes, but in the past ten years, the only thing that I can't feel the change is the two puppies and Uncle Maodi, always like that, every time I see him over the years, even the clothes and hairstyles are exactly the same, and the oily face has not increased even a single wrinkle for more than ten years......