"Where's the bamboo slipper?" Grandpa remembered the bamboo slippers who went in with him, and looked left and right

"Squeak squeak......" the bamboo slipper screamed from overhead.

Grandpa looked up and saw that the bamboo slipper was perched on a branch, biting a piece of paper in his mouth.

Grandpa remembered the scene when Helian Tian caught a paper man, pointed to the paper figure in the mouth of the bamboo slipper, turned his head and asked Xiaomi: "Was the paper man driven to the dog meat restaurant by you before?" ”

Xiaomi looked up at the paper man and wondered, "Paper man? No, I've never driven paper people. ”

"But didn't you cut out that paper man and this paper figure?" Daddy asked.

Millet said angrily: "I said that I have never driven a paper man. Believe it or not! After speaking, Xiaomi quickened her pace and walked in front of her father, leaving her father and Miss Tie behind.

Miss Tie was relieved: "She is still a child. ”

Grandpa looked at Xiaomi's back, smiled helplessly, and then asked Miss Tie, "Did you see the woman in black who came out with Helian Tian just now?" ”

"See."

"What the hell are they?"

Miss Tie said: "They are brave people. ”

"Spirited?"

"yes. Man has three souls and seven spirits, the soul is good and the soul is evil. You know that. Although there are seven souls and three souls, there is still a saying that 'at the beginning of man, nature is good'. Why? For in the same number, the power of good is greater than the power of evil. The so-called 'evil does not prevail over good' is also the same truth. Therefore, even if there are seven souls and three souls, it is still the good soul that has the upper hand. ”

Grandpa interrupted Miss Tie and said, "Is the spirit person the only person left in the body?" ”

"Not really. A person with two souls and seven spirits or one soul and seven spirits is a person. They drain one or two souls from those women, so that they are not so kind, and they don't get out of control like people who only have spirits. ”

"Take out one soul or two?" Grandpa thought to himself, no wonder those women are expressionless, they balance good and evil, which is equal to no good and no evil. A person who has neither kindness nor malice is no different from a dead person, a walking corpse, no wonder they have always had a dead man's face expression!

Miss Tie nodded, "Yes." For others, it may be more difficult to extract souls. But for those of them who specialize in soul trading, it's not that difficult. ”

"There are lonely ghosts everywhere, why do they have to buy and sell?"

Miss Tie smiled: "The lonely ghost is not the wheat in the field, and the rice in the field is taken away. If he forcibly takes it away, those Yin soldiers may not be at his mercy. This business is different, you and I are willing, take people's money to eliminate disasters for others. Only the Yin soldiers established in this way have combat effectiveness. Besides, it's much better to use so many unrelated ghost dealers to collect souls for him than to come out on his own. The last time he was sniped by me and my father and lost both legs, it wasn't a good lesson. Ma Xiucai, Ze Sheng is not the Ze Sheng of the past, he is much more cunning now! ”

Daddy nodded in agreement.

"You know, there's another good thing about this bold." Miss Tie smiled a little weirdly.

"What's the benefit?" Daddy asked.

"Benefits that you men love."

"Don't sell it."

Miss Tie said: "A person with an incomplete soul is like an ordinary fool. She will do whatever you tell her to do. There is no distinction between good and evil, so there is no shame. ”

Daddy understood what she meant.

"Their dog meat restaurant is much better than other dog meat restaurants in Baoding City, not because their dog meat is delicious, but because they have those beautiful people who serve customers in other aspects. And they don't like some of the women in other brothels. Many ghost dealers will not leave Baoding City soon after getting the money, because they will often visit the dog meat restaurant in the following days and send back the money they earned. ”

Daddy sighed in his heart for the man who sneaked into the dog meat restaurant to know the difference between his own dog meat and his dog meat.

There is no difference in dog meat.

"What a way to make money!" Grandpa said fiercely. When he was in Hangzhou, he had seen bamboo beauties and knew that Zesheng used some evil arts to make money, but he didn't expect that now he was even better than before.

"Do you know now why he paid for souls? Because he'll still get the money back. The money came out of his pocket and went back into his pocket. In the process, he got everything he wanted, and the ghost dealers went to serve him empty-handed. ”

Grandpa was silent for a long time, and then said to Miss Tie: "You know their inside story very clearly. ”

"Of course."

"Then I want you to help me inquire about someone, I don't know if it's okay."

"What's the name of the person you're inquiring about? Where to stay? ”

"I don't know her name or where she lives now."

Miss Tie hesitated, "Oh? That's a bit of a hassle. How do I find the person you're talking about without any information? ”

"What I can tell you is that this is a woman who once had a relationship with my brother. During the time my brother went to Beijing to catch the exam, she lived in the capital and met several of my brother's friends. My brother's name is Ma Xinyuan, and he was named on the gold list before he died, and he was a second-class jinshi. Maybe there are still people in the capital who have a little impression of my brother. Daddy said.

"The imperial examination has been abandoned for many years, and things are a bit far away."

"I knew it would be hard to find her, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. If possible, please inquire for me. ”

Miss Tie nodded and said, "I can try it, but I don't dare to say that I will definitely be able to find out." After all, after many years, you don't know who that woman's surname is. But what are you asking this woman for? ”

Grandpa was silent for a moment and said, "I want to ...... She may have something to do with my brother's death. ”

"Do you suspect she killed your brother?" Miss Tie asked. She had spent some time in Thrush Village, and knew the reason why her grandfather had put down the Four Books and Five Classics and turned to study the art of Xuanhuang. "If your brother hadn't died of illness, that person would have changed your fate! If you don't have that person, you will continue to study hard, be admitted to the Jinshi, become a parent official, and even enter the ......."

"No, she is said to be a suave person. I don't think she's going to kill my brother. Even if there were, she wouldn't be the one who killed my brother directly. Daddy interrupted her.

"Okay. I will send someone to find this suave man. Miss Tie said.

"Thank you." Grandpa said sincerely.

"If she had killed your brother, would you hate her?" Miss Tie asked.

"Hate can't change what happened, I just want to find out what happened to my brother before he died."

"Then do you hate Zesheng?" Miss Tie asked again.

A smile tugged at the corner of Daddy's mouth.

"After you entered the dog meat house, my people got a new message. He said that Zesheng already knew that you and Millet had crossed the Yellow River, and Zesheng had already given an order, saying that he wanted Millet to cross the Yellow River, but he couldn't go back to the Yellow River. ”

Grandpa put away his smile and said coldly: "Hate can't change what has happened." But there are people who have to pay for what they have done. ”

Grandpa handed the sack containing the dogs to Miss Tie and told her to return the dogs to Wei Jiaquan. Miss Tie persuaded him to go to her mansion to rest, but his father insisted on returning to the hotel with Xiaomi.

After returning to the hotel, Millet put the small wooden box and small porcelain bottle on the table, sat on the bed, and said to his father: "I have used up a lot of Huai Niu's grievances, you can scold me." ”

Grandpa touched Millet's head and said, "It would be good if we collected some other grievances when we went back, if we could go back to the south of the Yellow River together." ”

Xiaomi looked up and asked, "Why do you say that?" Can't we go back together? ”

Grandpa looked at Xiaomi's eyes and smiled, "Yes." If we can't, we won't go back. ”

"Nope. If you don't go back, what will Sister Zhao do? What should Ma Yueyun do? We have to go back. I'll keep you back safe, just like tonight. ”

Grandpa wanted to say, "They didn't want to embarrass me tonight", but he was worried that this sentence would make Xiaomi sad, so he swallowed it back, smiled, and said, "I can't let you protect me, I should let you protect you." Okay, it's too late, wash up and go to bed. ”

Grandpa brought a basin with hot water, and Millet had already fallen asleep on the bed with his clothes.

Grandpa brought the basin to Xiaomi's bedside and wiped her hands and face.

When the hand towel wiped Xiaomi's wrist, Daddy touched her jade bracelet. Grandpa stared at the jade bracelet for a long time, thinking that he had asked Luo Buzhai not to mention Xie Xiaomi in front of Xiaomi, but he carelessly put this Xie Xiaomi's personal belongings on Xiaomi's hands. If Xiaomi remembers her past life, maybe it was because of this jade bracelet that awakened her Alayya.

It was as if the seven jujube pits had awakened his own alayya.

Although his own alayas were awakened, they were still not awake like a man who had just woken up from his sleep. Although the memories of the past life appeared in front of my eyes, they were still as hazy as the memories of last night's dreams in the early morning, some clear, some blurred, and some missing.

Daddy wiped Millet, tucked the quilt for her, and then fell into endless memories. He recalled the scene of copying scriptures in a simple temple in his previous life, the scene of sitting under a jujube tree holding seven jujube cores, the scene of lying in the grass and looking at a lingzhi beside him, the scene of collecting grievances everywhere and finally sealing it on the stone ox, the scene of teaching skills to the sea in the cave of Mount Emei, the scene of fighting with the weak king, and the scene of standing next to a tree and watching the parasitic plants on the tree absorb the sunlight and imitate it. He remembered many, many things. And memories are like a bottomless pit, every time he thinks about it, he seems to fall down in a bottomless pit, and he will never fall to the ground.

He remembered too deeply, and he suspected that the scene he was sitting next to Xiaomi was a dream. He had never met Xie Xiaomi, nor had he ever met Xiaomi. If anyone wakes him up, he will find that he is still in his previous life, and he will find that there are still many scriptures to be copied around him, and he will find that he still holds seven jujube cores in his hand.

This frightened him very much.

Grandpa once heard a monk from India say that this world is actually a dream of the creator god Brahma on the ocean, and we all live in Brahma's dreams, just like when we dream, other people are also in our dreams, and if Brahma wakes up from the dream, we will all disappear from it.