Eight years later

The bitter north wind whipped up the fallen leaves on the ground, whirring twice, like butterflies fluttering and spinning and falling on the roof tiles. In the courtyard in front of the Shen family's house www.biquge.info there was a little chubby baby in cotton clothes and pants, and he was looking at the dead leaves on the roof that were swept up by the wind.

This squatting squatted for a while, and the moon was freezing cold, freezing his two little hands red, but he didn't frown, and still squatted there with a firm face.

The woman inside the door looked at the kid and said nothing, poked her head out of the window, and beckoned to him, "Bao, come into the house, it's windy outside." ”

Po remained silent, squatting motionless in the yard.

The woman inside the door was anxious, and anger suddenly appeared on her face, and she said loudly: "If you can't come in, if you don't come in, there will be no food for you tonight." ”

Ah Bao stood up suddenly, and when he heard that there was no food to eat, his eyes turned red, and he rushed into the room with a small mouth and said, "Mother, Ah Bao wants to eat." ”

The woman was also distressed when she saw him like this, and her tone was much softer, "Okay, when your second brother comes back, we will start eating." ”

Ah Bao thought that he had something to eat, and suddenly became cheerful again.

Another woman in the room said casually: "The eldest sister is still broad-hearted, and she treats that wild seed as her own, so I don't know if he will be grateful for the picture in the future." ”

The woman she called "eldest sister" was Tao Chunjiao, the wife of Shen Chonghua, the big boss of the Shen Family Dart Bureau in Huai County, and it was Shen Chonghua's concubine Feng Tao who was talking.

Tao Chunjiao is the daughter of Huaixian pottery, and she is also a beautiful girl, and later the Tao family declined, she married Shen Chonghua, the second master of the dart bureau with some strength in the county, and it didn't take long for the big boss of the dart bureau to fall off the cliff in an accident, in times of crisis, Shen Chonghua presided over the overall situation, and his ability to see in the eyes of the brothers of the dart board, and recommended him to sit in the position of the big boss.

And Feng Tao was born in a Qinglou, although she is still charming at her age, but she has a small belly and chicken intestines and mean words, which is really difficult to get into the elegant hall. Of course, Tao Chunjiao would not take her seriously, and when she heard her count the second son of the Shen family like this, she immediately reprimanded: "You can just say these words in front of me, if it is spread out and reaches the ears of the master, I am afraid it will not be very good." ”

Although Feng Tao's words were vicious, she also knew how to taboo these two words, originally wanted to provoke her unhappiness in her heart, and didn't want to be reprimanded, so she immediately closed her mouth and smiled bitterly in embarrassment.

Tao Chunjiao didn't say anything anymore, and continued to embroider silk, Feng Tao sat for a while, feeling bored, so she got up and went outside the house to breathe. As soon as she walked out of the room, she saw that the door was pushed open by someone with a "creak", and a handsome young man with fair complexion hurriedly walked in.

It's really said that Cao Cao Cao is here! Feng Tao raised his chin and glanced at the visitor arrogantly.

When the man saw Feng Tao, he politely called her "Second Aunt".

Feng Tao let out a faint "um".

Tao Chunjiao, who was in the room, heard the movement outside, hurriedly put down the silk in her hand, probed out, and said with a smile: "Xiuwen is back." ”

Shen Xiuwen said with a smile: "Auntie, the child has just received a letter from his father and eldest brother, and they will be able to arrive home in about three days." ”

"Really?" When Tao Chunjiao heard this, her face was full of irrepressible excitement, "Your father and Xiuyun have been on this trip for more than half a month, this time it's okay, I'll be back soon, I have to prepare well, it's good to buy a few big fish braised in braised fish, your eldest brother loves fish the most." ”

Shen Xiuwen walked into the house, and when Ah Bao saw that the second brother was back, he clapped his hands excitedly, "The second brother is back, you can eat." ”

Shen Xiuwen looked at his chubby appearance, couldn't help but go up and pinch his face, and said with a smile: "Do you miss the second brother?" ”

Ah Bao tilted his head and thought about it, and then nodded heavily, "Yes, Ah Bao wants to ......" Before he finished speaking, he saw that the leaves of the dead tree that flew up to the roof outside the window were swept by the wind and fell again, and with joy in his eyes, he ran out on his feet.

Tao Chunjiao was busy going to the kitchen to cook, and Feng Tao couldn't just be idle, so she followed in. But Po squatted under the eaves and looked at the flying leaves seriously.

Shen Xiuwen walked to Ah Bao's side, glanced at the leaf, and said to the void in annoyance: "If you make trouble again, I will take you away." ”

I saw that the leaf shook suddenly, and the brush fell to the ground, and no matter how the wind blew, it did not move at all.

Seeing that the leaf didn't move, Ah Bao raised his head and asked Shen Xiuwen with a serious face: "Second brother, who are you talking to?" ”

Shen Xiuwen was stunned for a moment, and suddenly smiled, "You heard it wrong, the second brother didn't speak." ”

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After dinner, the wind outside blew harder. Shen Xiuwen returned to the room and sat on the edge of the bed, looked at the flickering candle flame, and sighed: "Xiang Xue, it's not a way to go on like this, if you can't remember the past, do you want to stay in the world for the rest of your life?" He still gave him the name "Xiang Xue", because when she met her that year, it was a snowy day.

A desolate lament came from the void: "Everyone is dead, where is there a lifetime." ”

As the words fell, I saw a delicate and gentle woman slowly walking out of the empty front under the shadow of the dancing candle flame.

"But people and ghosts have different paths, in the past two years, you have avoided the yin and not returned to the underworld and not entered the reincarnation, but the yang energy in the yang world is too strong, if you continue to stay, it won't be long before you will be gone. There are long and short life, living for a hundred years is a lifetime, living for a day is also a lifetime, although you are dead, but you still have an afterlife, as long as I open the door to the afterlife, you can return to the underworld. ”

Tears fell from the beautiful woman's eyes for no reason, although the tears turned into nothingness when they fell, Shen Xiuwen really felt the bitterness in her heart.

"Xiuwen, for some reason, every time I mention the things before my life, I can't help but cry, I feel that there is an obsession that makes me must stay in the yang world, even if my soul is scattered, I have to stay; What's more, even if I return to the underworld now, I will still be beaten into the Hungry Ghost Road or the Hell Path, the kind of torture that life is better than death, it is better to let me go back again. ”

It is recorded in "Ghost Xinglu" that the reason why resentful spirits are resentful spirits is because the soul is ignorant and unconscious when it is separated from the body, and most of the souls who can't let go of the past and still have memories after death are due to the resentment of the things before they were born, and they will persistently stay in the world before they are finished. If the anger cannot be resolved, or if you have a memory of the yang world and cling to the past, even if you return to the underworld, you will be roasted by fire and ice.

So this is also why Shen Xiuwen didn't forcibly open the door to send her back. It's just that people and ghosts have different paths, yin and yang are separated, the longer she lives in the yang world, the worse her soul consciousness will be, and if she continues like this, she will not be able to support it for another year at most, and she may end up in a disillusioned end.

I didn't know what to say, Shen Xiuwen only said: "At the end of this year, there are seven months left on July 15, and I will try my best to help you." ”

Xiang Xue's situation is very special, she has no memory of her life, but she insists on staying in the world, and even she doesn't know why there is an obsession that inexplicably supports her to stay.

Shen Xiuwen previously thought that she might just be a lonely ghost in her heart. Generally speaking, the gates of hell will not be opened for lonely souls and wild ghosts who have died unexpectedly, so they will become ownerless and lonely souls wandering in the world.

Only on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the year, when the yin energy is at its peak, will the yin cha come to the yang world to bring these lonely souls back to the underworld.

Under normal circumstances, lonely souls and wild ghosts have no memory, and although Xiang Xue has no memory, she has an unusually resolute obsession, so Shen Xiuwen feels that she is not as simple as an ordinary lonely soul and wild ghost.

But he knew very well in his heart that if he hadn't found out the crux of the problem before July 15, once she was discovered by Yin and deliberately avoided her, what awaited her would be even more cruel punishment and torture.

Hearing this, the woman smiled gently, blessed her body, and said, "Thank you Shen Gongzi." With that, she turned and disappeared.

Shen Xiuwen felt that she must have been a gentle-tempered rich lady before her death, but he hadn't heard of any young lady in the neighborhood who died. Seeing that the woman was gone, he plunged into the quilt, but suddenly remembered something, took out a book of poems from under the pillow, and read it seriously.

Early the next morning, Shen Xiuwen went out. In the absence of his father and eldest brother, he was in charge of the business of the dart game. Speaking of the Shen family's dart game, everyone knows it within a radius of hundreds of miles, and the name of his father, Mr. Shen's dart head, is well-known, and even the bandit leaders in the nearby mountains have to pay three points of courtesy.

And the Shen family's business is definitely not only a dart bureau, such as the Shen family rice shop, Yunyue Inn and Zuixian Restaurant in Huaixian County, which are also under the name of Mr. Shen's dart.

Speaking of which, Shen Xiuwen is still one of the top families in Huai County, and when the neighbors see him, they all call him "Shen Ergongzi".

However, Shen Xiuwen's life experience is a topic of conversation in the street teahouse.

It is said that the identity of Shen Xiuwen's biological mother is very mysterious, she is a woman raised by Shen Chonghua outside the house, and later gave birth to a white and pure boy for him, of course, it is Shen Xiuwen.

Shen Xiuwen only recognized his ancestors and returned to his ancestors when he was a teenager, and his biological mother was shallow in her blessings, and she died of a serious illness within a few days. However, he is also angry, not to mention helping to take care of the Shen family's business for so many years, and he also lifted Xie Yuan in the first place in the township examination, and several brothers who have a good relationship all laughed and called him "Shen Xiucai", but he didn't know that the sour water in his heart was rising, and he wished that he could also be a lifter.

Speaking of Shen Xiuwen's brothers, they are also well-known figures in Huai County.

Liu Da'an, the young proprietor of the Liu family's coffin shop, and Miao Haoran, who sold the dead to make money for others, co-authored a fake and serious dart game Shen Ergongzi, known as the "Three Heroes of Huai County".

It's just that Shen Xiuwen never admits that he is a hypocrisy, because he feels that he is the dawn of the righteous path in the mortal world, and often puts "the world as his own responsibility" on his lips, just like one day, he will punish the demons and evil for the common people in the world, and overcome obstacles to help the right path.

Liu Da'an and Miao Haoran often laughed behind his back that he had a sick brain, but this person with a sick brain was admitted to Xie Yuan, and he was really uneven, but Shen Xiuwen was indifferent, "I wanted to be a good move, but I accidentally took the test to solve the yuan, it's really ......"

As a result, before he finished speaking, he was beaten by Liu Daan and Miao Haoran.

However, how could these two really beat Shen Xiuwen, at most they were scaring and scaring him. The three of them had a friendship with open crotch pants.