Chapter Fifty-Eight: Unintentional Willow Insertion
I watched in amazement as the tree grew, growing to a very tall and tall tree, and scattered over and over again, shading my parents' tombstones under the weeping branches. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
What was created out of thin air was a huge and beautiful willow tree.
"Well, isn't it......" I cried out.
This is a cemetery, and although the willow tree looks beautiful and coordinates with the tombstone, the cemetery keeper will not let a big tree grow here.
And wouldn't it scare others if there was a big willow that looked like it was decades old?
Li Qing smiled and shook her head gently.
Then I noticed that a small black bird curiously circled around the top of the tree, flew back and landed on my shoulder.
It's the Yan of Xi Sang who has been living on me these days, and survives by eating a little bit of my "spirit".
Originally, I used this vision to observe, but now that it no longer takes too much mental power to open the vision of the inner eye, I often forget which kind of vision I use, so that I often confuse reality with the world of youkai.
I closed my inner eye and looked at it with my human eyes, and in a trance, the tombstone changed back to its original form, and the huge willow tree was no longer visible.
"Sister Liqing, this is ......"
I'm a little confused.
Qingming, there is indeed a custom of "inserting willows", one said that it is to commemorate Shennong's "teaching the people to grow crops", and some people say that it is because the willow tree is "the wood of the yin", so it is called "ghost and terrifying wood". Jia Siqian of the Northern Wei Dynasty wrote in "Qi Min's Technique": "Take willow branches and put them on the house, and a hundred ghosts will not enter the house." Before and after the Qingming Festival, there are cold food and Shangsi, all of which are the underworld, so people have planted willows and worn willows to ward off evil spirits, which is easy to understand.
But is such a ghost tree really suitable for planting on graves?
I still remember reading such a story, saying that as long as a willow tree grows on the grave, it must be uprooted and cleanly pulled, otherwise the consequences will be very serious and the consequences will be endless.
As for what the consequences are, I don't know, because it's a horror thriller novel, which belongs to the genre that I can't hold, and when I see this, I don't dare to read it anymore.
"This tree? Oh, it's just a transformation of demonic energy, not a real tree! After all, it's a very important place for Shining, and with this tree, generally destructive things can't get close. Liqing took out the boss's care for his subordinates.
"Why...... Will it be a willow tree? ”
"Willow? Oh, because the willow trees are pretty. ”
"But is it really possible......
If it was something else, I wouldn't say more than half a word, but after all, this is the tombstone of my parents, and I must not be sloppy.
"Well, it's fine, because none of the legends about ghosts are true." Liqing pondered for a moment and said, "If Shining doesn't like it, I'll change it." ”
"No, no, thank you, Sister Liqing!" I opened my mouth to stop her.
She did this with all her good intentions, I believe in her, this period of time together, let me start to believe in her unconditionally, how can I live up to her kindness?
And, as long as she says so, I will have no worries here, and it will be very safe, very good.
After all, the message conveyed to me by the mysterious person in my body is also like this - there are no ghosts in the world, so those rituals of exorcising ghosts and warding off evil spirits have no real meaning, even if it is a willow tree to ward off evil spirits, it will not hurt my important people.
As Liqing said, the intention is true, that's everything.
Everything was taken care of, and everything I wanted to say to them was finished, so I packed up my mood and turned to Liqing.
"Let's go, Sister Liqing, I want to take you for a walk."
After all, the owner came here because she hadn't been to the city. And here, where I was born and raised, it is more than enough to be a qualified tour guide.
But I turned around, and my gaze swept over Liqing's head, but it happened to fall on the row of people who were slowly ascending from the bottom of the mountain.
At first, they were still far away, and I couldn't see their faces clearly, but for some reason, the first time I saw them, my heart "chuckled", and I had a bad premonition.
I felt that this small row of black-clad visitors seemed to be inextricably linked to me.
There were about seven or eight of them, dressed in plain colors, and some holding white bouquets of flowers, apparently to sweep the graves.
And when they climbed the hill and reached the cemetery, they saw me a few dozen meters away, and the group suddenly stopped.
We stood across from this silent cemetery.
I was completely stunned, I didn't expect this day to be so dramatic. Just after I met my cousin Lu Jiaxing by chance, I met the person I was most afraid of meeting in the same place.
The person who kicked me out of the house, that is, my second uncle, as well as his eldest son Lu Jingming and second son Lu Jingping, that is, my two cousins, suddenly appeared in front of me. They were followed by several cousins of the second grandfather's family.
Could it be that they came to visit the graves of my parents?
For a moment I was a little stunned. This means that the second uncle still recognizes my father as the eldest brother? But this means that the only person in this family who can't accommodate me is me?
The second uncle is still the same as before, with a cold and arrogant temperament and a serious expression. They just stopped walking for a moment until they came to me.
The second uncle looked me up and down and didn't speak, he had always been indifferent to me. On the contrary, the eldest brother Lu Jingming looked at me and sneered softly.
"Who should I be, it's Shining. It's been a few months, and it's really hard for you to still be able to dress like a human. I thought you were so unproductive that you could only beg for food when you went out! ”
Lu Jingming is 1.87 meters tall, half a head taller than me, slender figure, handsome appearance, and inherited the second uncle's somewhat arrogant temperament, he is an out-and-out handsome guy, and he has the admiring eyes of girls wherever he goes. If there's one thing the heir of a big family looks like, I think it's like that.
This cousin is very indifferent to people, and he is also notoriously ruthless in the business circle. But outsiders don't have a one-sided bad opinion of him, because although he is withdrawn, he is very business-minded and never does anything that violates the rules of integrity. Such a person, coupled with a strong wrist, often becomes an object of people's admiration.
Usually he has no interest in talking to people in such a mocking tone, because like the second uncle, his eyes are above the top, and ordinary people will not put them in his eyes at all. But for some reason, growing up, I seemed to be the only object of his sarcasm, and it seems that this has not changed to this day.
"Hmph, how do you know that Shining is incompetent? We may have other skills, and we will eat soft rice upside down! This time, it was the voice of the second brother Lu Jingping.