Chapter Seventy-Eight: Soul Refining

After waking up in the summer, I spent almost a month in the hospital. After he was discharged from the hospital, it was close to the Spring Festival, and this time he missed his parents even more. So he took this opportunity to return to his parents after saying goodbye to Xu Jiashan.

As for the affairs in the cold jurisdiction, they can only be temporarily handed over to other ghosts. At first, Hades did not agree to Xia and Han leaving, but later after Summer's repeated requests and consideration of his physical condition, Hades agreed.

When she got home, Summer didn't tell her parents the truth, but just said that she had an accident in the city and prevaricated. During this time, under the careful care of his parents, he has now recovered, is alive and well, and his figure is obviously much fatter than before.

A few days after the Spring Festival, he reluctantly left home and returned to the city to start the new year's struggle.

Summer stepped on the train, sat for a long time, and slept for a long time. When I woke up, I saw several people gathered in one seat in the carriage, and I should have been chatting happily looking at their appearances.

Out of curiosity, Summer leaned over and listened.

A middle-aged man about forty years old was surrounded in the middle, his hair was very long, and he wore a braid, and the clothes he was wearing were a brand-new Tang costume, which should have been bought in the New Year.

The man was talking in the crowd, and what he said made Summer feel incredible, and he mentioned two names, one was Li Qingyun and the other was Ormiga.

Li Qingyun, formerly known as Zhou Liang, later changed his name to Wang Yaofeng, was born in Mudu, Suzhou. About twenty-five years before Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1820), he came to the Chenjiachang in Kaixian County alone. He looked to be in his fifties when he arrived, but he claimed to be one hundred and fifty years old.

In the sixteenth year of the Republic of China (1927), Li Qingyun was invited by the Sichuan warlord Yang Sen to go to Wanxian to teach the way of self-cultivation. Yang Sen treated him as a guest, made new clothes for him, and asked the photo studio to enlarge the photo and display it in the window, indicating "Portrait of Li Qingyun, a 250-year-old man in Kaixian County, taken in Wanzhou in the spring of the 16th year of the Republic of China".

Legend has it that he was a general under Shi Dakai of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and came to Sichuan with Shi Dakai. When Shi Dakai was wiped out in the Dadu River, he changed his name to Li Qingyun and fled to the Chenjiachang area of Kaixian County in disguise as a herbalist because he could tell many stories about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom battles.

Ormiga, who is now known as Li Daochang, was over 120 years old in 2002 and is still alive, at least 134 years old.

He is from Sichuan, he is a man, he does not have a single white hair on his head, his back is not bent, he can still hold a boat, he looks like a man in his fifties or sixties in the past, he likes to live alone in a mountain stream away from the crowds.

Although Summer didn't hear what they were talking about, the age of the two people surprised and doubted Summer. However, Han's words dispelled his doubts, and Han told him that before each ghost cha entered the industry, there would be a senior who would take them with him, and we would work for an internship now.

And it just so happened that the place where he interned was Sichuan, and it was probably in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century that she left, because she couldn't remember what year it was because she had lived too long. It was probably in 1933, after Li Qingyun's death, she saw her in the underworld.

Dang Han was also shocked, if it wasn't for the ghost messenger in charge of life and death who told her and what she saw with her own eyes, she wouldn't believe it.

Summer had been standing by and listening for a long time before she heard that the topic they were talking about was "immortality......

Immortality can be said to be almost every ordinary man's dream, ancient Qin Shi Huang, Yang Guang, Li Chun, Li Heng and other emperors of the past dynasties are in pursuit of the elixir, but these emperors are all due to the poisoning of the elixir containing lead and mercury heavy metals - Jindan poisoning, and there is even a saying that Kangxi borrowed from the sky for another 500 years.

The elixir of life, known in ancient China as Tai Sui or Meat Ganoderma lucidum, was an elixir that Qin Shi Huang could not find in his lifetime.

According to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", emperors such as Yao, Shun, and Yu all lived to be more than 100 years old, all because they had eaten "Seeing Meat" and "Ju Meat", which is what we call Tai Sui.

Summer stood by and listened for a long time, and from time to time he would interject and ask a question, but even then he didn't understand much.

The train radio signaled that Summer was almost there, so he went back to his seat and packed his bags to get off the train. Coincidentally, after getting off the train, Summer found that the person just now also got off at the same station.

He just wanted to go up and talk to him again, but suddenly felt someone behind him patting him on the shoulder and calling him, to be precise, it should be called cold. When he looked back, he saw nothing.

"Cold ......"

Just as Summer was about to leave, she heard another sound. But when he looked back again, he still didn't see anything.

In the summer, you can see ghosts, and you can hear ghosts through cold eyes and ears. Han was currently asleep, and her eyes were closed, so he could hear the ghost's voice, but he couldn't see it. He said with some fear in his heart, "Cold, wake up, I seem to have touched something unclean." ”

"What ghosts can there be in broad daylight?" Han said in an unreasonable tone.

"Didn't you hear someone calling you just now?" Summer asked rhetorically.

"Cold ......" The voice came to the ears again in the summer.

"Well, I hear it now." Han replied after opening his eyes.

It was still in the air in front of Summer's eyes, and suddenly a figure appeared, which frightened him instinctively and retreated a few steps.

The man looked like he was in his thirties, and Summer looked at him as if he had seen it in a book when he was in school. He stammered, "You...... Who are you? ”

"Hehehe......" the man asked with an unabashed smile, "did it scare you?" ”

Summer tried her best to hide it and said, "No, how is it possible, I have a lot of courage." ”

"Hehehe......" The man laughed a few more times before turning to Han, "I wanted to come to you at night, but the situation is urgent, and I have to inform you in advance. ”

"Purgatory......" Han said.

"What purgatory?" Summer asked suspiciously.

"His name." Han pointed to the person in front of him in front of him and said.

Purgatory is also a ghost, I don't know before I was alive, I don't know what year I died, I only know that I just became a ghost for more than 100 years, and I am a newcomer. During the summer when he returned home for the New Year, he was temporarily transferred to temporarily replace the things in the cold jurisdiction.

"What made you so anxious to find me?" Han then asked.

Purgatory sorted out his thoughts for a moment and said, "A few days after you left, many lonely souls and wild ghosts in your jurisdiction disappeared innocently, and the Hades King asked me to investigate this matter thoroughly. But during the Spring Festival, the suspect disappeared again, and I haven't found any clues until now. ”

"How so? Let's go, let's go back first......" Han said as he drove Summer's body towards the outside of the station. They hailed a taxi and led Purgatory back to their summer rental house.