Chu Nantang sighed secretly, and did not disobey Mrs. Chu: "The child knows, he must accompany Rong Wan well another day." ”

"What's the use of knowing? You have to do it. ”

Mrs. Chu's eyes were extremely unfriendly when she looked at me, I took a deep breath, hurriedly lowered my head and pretended not to see.

Back in the house, Chu Nantang saw that I had been silent, and comforted me thoughtfully: "You don't have to take what my mother said, you don't have to take it to heart." ”

I replied softly, pulling out a far-fetched laugh.

The next day, Chu Nantang picked some flowers in the yard and put them in a vase and sent them to the west courtyard.

"I saw that these flowers were blooming just right, so I picked some of them and put them in the house to look refreshed." As he spoke, he placed himself on the windowsill.

Jiang Rongwan blessed her body, politely thanked her, and glanced at me lightly from my face and landed on Chu Nantang.

"Brother Chu is not busy today?"

Chu Nantang smiled: "I'm a big idler, what are I busy with?" ”

At this time, Ping'er, the maid in Jiang Rong's house, made tea and sent it, and I withdrew with Ping'er and let the two of them chat.

Ping'er's eyes when he looked at me didn't say how strange it was, while the two masters were chatting in the house, they had time to eat melon seeds at this time, squinting their eyes with contempt.

I opened my mouth to say something, but I endured it again and crouched down at the front of the stairs. Broke the branches and branches, and waited boredly.

Ping'er suddenly stepped forward and kicked me: "Eh, you little girl is quite thoughtful, and you can even win the favor of Little Master Chu, it seems that you have put a lot of effort into it." ”

I took a deep breath and pouted: "Once upon a time, I lived next door to an aunt who always liked to meddle and later ......"

When Ping'er heard half of it, when she saw that I didn't say anything, she asked me with an arrogant face: "What happened later?" ”

I turned my head to look at her: "Then this aunt died, and now the grave grass is a foot high." ”

"What?"

"Meaning, don't meddle in your business, or you'll die early."

Ping'er pursed her lips, gave me a blank look, and continued to stand aside and swallow melon seeds, until there was movement in the house, Chu Nantang took the lead to open the door, and Ping'er was so frightened that she hurriedly put the melon seeds in her hand into her sleeve.

He didn't squint at the meteor, and I hurried after him, holding back a lot of words in my heart, but I didn't dare to ask anything.

It wasn't until he had walked for a while that he said, "Zen, what do you do to someone when you hate them?" ”

I looked up at him sharply, thought for a moment and said, "Ignore him." ”

"What else?"

"Continue to ignore, keep ignoring, ignore until the end of the day."

After hearing this, Chu Nantang laughed: "It's ruthless enough, but I like it." ”

Out of the West Courtyard, he met the housekeeper who was looking for him, and said clearly: "Ah, Young Master Chu, Li Zhutou of the patrol room is looking for you." ”

"Really? Invite him into the house and sit down and make a cup of tea. ”

"Okay, young master."

Chu Nantang squinted his eyes as he looked at the scorching sun outside, and took out the jade folding fan from his sleeve, it was rare to see him fan a few times irritably, it seemed that he had something on his mind.

That Li Zhutou had just taken a seat, and Chu Nantang and I had just come in, so Li Zhutou hurriedly got up again and said hello with a smile on his face: "Hey, Young Master Chu, look up for a long time!" ”

Chu Nantang shook hands with him and responded: "It's easy to say." ”

I almost didn't laugh out loud, Chu Nantang coughed lightly at me, and sat down with that Li Zhutou, I went out to welcome the tea and handed it to the table.

"Got everything investigated?" Chu Nantang went straight to the point.

That Li Zhutou's expression was very rich: "If it weren't for Young Master Chu's help this time, I'm afraid this would become a mystery for the ages." ”

Chu Nantang choked on tea, shook his lips and coughed lightly twice, before he said calmly: "Li Zhutou has won the award, I just built a bridge, and you are the ones who really do the real thing." ”

Li Zhutou and Chu Nantang exchanged two more polite sentences before talking about the causes and consequences of this major case.

Du Xiaoyue made an appointment with An Shaohua to elope, and on the night of the elopement, An Shaohua actually went to the appointment, but did not go with Du Xiaoyue.

The reason is that An Shaohua, under the mediation of his parents, carried Du Xiaoyue behind his back and actually had an affair with another woman, who had a child of three months.

An Shaohua just wanted to clear up the relationship with Du Xiaoyue that night, so that she would not continue to entangle.

Where do you know that Du Xiaoyue hates because of love. took a self-defense dagger and stabbed An Shaohua, and sank his body to the bottom of the river.

Du Xiaoyue killed An Shaohua, who was actually a little unconscious, she went back to An's house alone, and killed the four members of An's family together, after the Du family learned about it, buried the body of the An family in the yard that night while no one had found it.

It was also rumored that the An family did not know what the reason was, and they moved away overnight, and they did not know where to go.

But not long after, Du Xiaoyue's illness was attacked, and she couldn't even recognize people, and finally hanged herself and died.

The townspeople are rumoring that Du Xiaoyue became like this because An Shaohua abandoned her in chaos, and finally caused her to hang herself.

"An Shaohua's body has been salvaged last night, and it has been done for a long time, and there are a lot of aquatic plants wrapped around it, and it has long turned into a pair of white bones."

That Li Zhutou said, Chu Nantang listened silently and said: "Those corpses are also bothering Li Zhutou to find a place and bury them, I have time to go over and do a Dharma again." ”

"Oh, yes, it couldn't be better. I heard that ah......" Li Zhutou came up mysteriously and said: "In the past ten years, that river has somehow drowned many people, but I am afraid that it is also unclean things that are doing it." ”

Chu Nantang smiled, although he could clearly see it, he said: "This kind of unwarranted thing, just listen to it, so as not to cause unnecessary panic." ”

"Yes, yes, Young Master Chu is very right, it's nothing, I'll go and get busy."

"Okay, I'll invite Li Zhutou to drink a glass of turbid wine when I have time."

"It's an honor."

After Li Zhutou left, only me and Chu Nantang were left in the living room, and I couldn't help but ask him, "Do we still want to find Du Xiaoyue?" ”

"No, she'll come to us."

Sure enough, that night, I was sleeping soundly, when I suddenly heard someone call me, "Zen girl, Zen girl, wake up!" ”

"Who?" I rolled over impatiently, and when I was asleep, I was so sleepy that I couldn't come back to my senses for a while.

"It's me, Du Xiaoyue."

When I heard the name, I opened my eyes suddenly, and my sleepiness was gone. I turned over and sat up, looking at Du Xiaoyue, with a pale face and blood-red eyes.

I turned my head away. Fortunately, this Ah Piao still has reason and will not attack people easily.

"You came to me so late, is there something wrong?"

"I can only come to you at night."

"Uh......" too, after all, the sun is so hot during the day now, and she will turn into a wisp of black smoke and dissipate as soon as it is sun.

"Have you found Shaohua?"

I nodded: "Shaohua has found it, but I can't take you to see him yet, it will take a day or two." ”

"Really?" Du Xiaoyue exclaimed in surprise: "Great, I'm going to see Shaohua." ”

If the spirit exists in the world for too long, it will forget many things in life, and some spirits will automatically filter out some bad memories.

They have hatred in their hearts, but they don't know why they exist in this world, and they turn into ghosts. It's pathetic to think about sometimes.

Du Xiaoyue didn't leave that night and stayed in this room all the time.

At breakfast the next day, I told Chu Nantang what happened last night, and Chu Nantang didn't seem surprised, but said, "I knew she was coming last night." ”

"That ......"

"I was so sleepy, I rolled over and fell asleep again." He said without any guilt while eating breakfast leisurely.

I stared at him for a long time, sighed lightly, withdrew my gaze, and ate breakfast in silence.

After the people of the An family were buried, Chu Nantang took Du Xiaoyue out with Du Xiaoyue and went to An Shaohua's cemetery.

Revert to one 's origin. Where the body is, the spirit will also rest.

Chu Nantang lit the incense candles, sacrificed the soul beads, and recited the incantation, and after a while, a heavy fog arose not far from the cemetery.

A figure slowly floated out of the mist, and that person was An Shaohua, although he was now a ghost, his face was pale, and his eyes seemed to have been soaked in the water for a long time and were white.

Dressed in a cyan robe, his figure was slender, even though Du Xiaobai was standing in front of him. They also can't see each other.

Du Xiaoyue suddenly asked, "Is he here?" ”

"Hmm." I replied softly, Du Xiaoyue was very excited: "Where is he, why can't I see him?" ”

"You wait a minute."

I turned my head to look at Chu Nantang, he led An Shaohua's spirit to Du Xiaoyue's face, and suddenly I saw two looming transparent silk threads floating out from the soles of my feet, which seemed to be broken.

Chu Nantang turned the Soul Bead, and the two spiritual threads seemed to have vitality, floating in the air, as if they were trying to find a break point in the continuation.

Finally, the two broken spiritual threads were entangled together, and the broken points continued to be connected, and they were finally able to see each other.

An Shaohua stared at Du Xiaoyue in front of him with love and hate, and Du Xiaoyue was also thinking a thousand times, and she didn't know where to start with a thousand words.

"I'm sorry for you, it's understandable that you killed me, but why did you kill my family?! Satsuki, you're so ruthless! ”

Du Xiaoyue shook her head: "I still want to ask you, why did you not come when we made an appointment to leave together that night, you said, you said that you only loved me alone, they all said that you had someone else, and that woman was pregnant with your child, I don't believe it at all." ”

An Shaohua was silent for a long time, and Du Xiaoyue asked him with her eyebrows: "Tell me quickly." That's not true, that's all a lie. ”

"That's true. I'm here to say goodbye to you. ”

Du Xiaoyue's eyes flashed with a trace of cruel light, and the knife fell in his hand, and he plunged the dagger into An Shaohua's heart, and the spirit would feel pain due to the oppression.

So An Shaohua staggered a few steps, just staring at Du Xiaoyue with wide eyes: "You...... You're going to kill me? ”

I was about to rush forward to stop it, but Chu Nantang pulled me over and said, "They are just repeating the old things, replaying everything in the past again, and then getting back on the road." ”

He reminded me that when the spirit is alive, it will keep repeating the most painful memories of its life, which is the necessary way to let go of everything in life and open the knots in my heart.

"The bell still needs to be tied to the bell, and only when they untie each other can they let go of the grievances in this life and reincarnate with peace of mind."

I saw An Shaohua fall to the ground, and Du Xiaoyue approached step by step with the dagger in his hand: "Why did you betray me?" I love you so much, but you betrayed me!! ”

"Xiaoyue, I'm sorry for you, you kill me, if you kill me, you can make you happy, I have no regrets."

"You think I won't dare kill you?"

Du Xiaoyue rushed forward, but the raised knife stopped in front of his left chest, and tears continued to drip from his eyes.

Meeting An Shaohua's eyes, the knife in Du Xiaoyue's hand fell to the ground.

"I don't really want to kill you, Shaohua, do you know how much I love you? I lost all my sanity at that time, and I actually regret it, I ruined all this, and I ruined you. ”

"Xiaoyue ......" Although An Shaohua had a grudge against Du Xiaoyue, she was gradually relieved and moved at this moment, and hugged her into her arms: "All this is because of me, I broke the oath between us." will make the current bitter fruit. ”

The two seem to have released their previous suspicions, although they only understood after these deaths, people are always making such mistakes, and only after they are lost, and they don't know how to turn back when they cause irreparable bitter consequences.

But it's too late, we live in the moment, we should be responsible for our words and deeds, that is, promises, so even if there are thousands of difficulties, we should abide by them, if they can't keep them. Nor should there be deception about her (him).

Chu Nantang crossed them and let them go to another world with peace of mind.

On the way back, I suddenly thought of something and asked him: "Nantang, if a person goes to the underworld after death, will he be reincarnated immediately?" ”

"Of course not, how can there be such a cheap thing. What you have done in this life, the debts you owe, all the books in the hands of the king of Hades, are all clearly written, and when you are punished accordingly in the underworld, you can be reincarnated into the six realms of reincarnation. ”

"I see, but every half of July, I can go home and see my family."

"Yes, the ghosts have been in the underworld for a long time, and many of them can't recognize the way home, so in the middle of July, the living relatives will guide them home."

At this time, his mood seemed to be much better, I thought about it and said, "It's all settled." ”

He turned his head and pursed his lips and smiled without saying a word, and then I said, "I'll go back today and pack my things, you can't leave me behind." ”

He pretended to sigh: "Are you the roundworm in my stomach?" ”

"I thought you regarded me as a confidant, but it turned out to be just roundworms."

He laughed: "How good is it when I have roundworms in my stomach?" The day will come when my confidant will end, and the roundworm will be with me. ”

This metaphor. It's not elegant at all, but it's ...... Really. ”

"It's really good, how precious is sincerity now?" He was serious.

I echoed and nodded: "Young Master is wise." ”

"Why is it called Young Master again? I see that you call me by my name quite smoothly, so that's it. ”

"Huh??" He didn't say that I didn't realize it yet, and I don't know when I got carried away and called him by his name.

Then my face was hot: "I'm sorry, Young Master Chu, I ......"

"Why do you say you're sorry? I don't like you to call me Young Master Chu, it's still Nantang, it sounds pleasing to the ear and feels kind. ”

I looked up at him, the silhouette of my face handsome, and the corners of my mouth hooked into a small smile. My heart suddenly warmed, although it had been a hundred years, he was still the same as he remembered.

It turns out that if a person's heart is beautiful and strong, then his beauty is eternal.

I answered softly, letting go of the reinterpretation in my heart.

The next day, Chu Nantang explained his thoughts to Mrs. Chu, and Mrs. Chu and Master Chu pulled down their faces on the spot.

"At this time, you went to the mountains to practice, leaving Rong Wan alone, you are not too young, do you really want to be like this for the rest of your life?"

Although Master Chu reprimanded, he couldn't bear to say a word of seriousness.

Chu Nantang took a deep breath: "It's too early for me to marry a wife and have children, I want to hone it for a few more years." Dad, mother, just go for three years, and don't never come back. ”

Xuan Ming Dao Chang sat quietly and drank tea, and he didn't mean to help.

Mrs. Chu frowned: "Nantang, how much your father and mother love you, you don't know it, isn't it too inappropriate to leave at this time?" ”

Chu Nantang was not angry, because no matter what they said, they had already made up their minds.

"Let me stay, and then?" Chu Nantang asked quietly: "Marry Rong Wan as his wife." Two more grandchildren for you? An An's share of a lifetime? ”

"What's so bad about that? In this kind of troubled times, how difficult is it for many people to live their lives in peace? Why do you always like to go the other way around? Can't comply? Father Chu almost jumped to his feet, and then sighed again, looking helpless.

Chu Nantang suddenly asked, "Why did Dad want to be with his mother in the first place?" ”

"You ......" Master Chu was speechless for a while, and he couldn't answer why.

Mrs. Chu was silent for a while, and then said: "At the beginning, your father and I also suffered a lot to be together, I don't want you to suffer these hardships, Rong Ting will be a good wife to you, Nantang, you should get to know Rong Ting well and cherish her." ”

"Mother, like a person drinking water, he knows his own warmth and coldness. Even though you worked hard at the beginning, didn't you enjoy it? Blessings and misfortunes are interdependent, and there is no hard and fast decision between the so-called good and bad. ”

There was silence in the living room for a while, and Mrs. Chu seemed to have given up on convincing this stubborn son, and just said: "Father and mother are just reluctant to you, since you have made up your mind to go, then okay, you can go with your master." ”

Then Mrs. Chu stared at me with a strange look in her eyes and said, "It's just that I don't feel at ease when this maid goes with you, pick a better one, and know how to advance and retreat." ”

Chu Nantang got up and said: "I think Zen is very good, mother, you don't need to say it anymore, everything is ready, I am not used to changing the maid suddenly, and the time is pressing, now it is time to go out." That's right, Master. ”

Xuan Ming smiled and looked at the sky outside the window: "That's right." ”

"Daoist Xuanming, Nantang has to worry about you."

"What bother?" Daoist Xuanming glanced at Chu Nantang and said: "Nantang, this kid is very sensible, when he was in the Taoist temple, he thought about everything thoughtfully, and shared a lot of sorrows for me. Please rest assured, after three years, you will come back safely. ”

Thousands of instructions, ten thousand instructions, the carriage just got on the road, after a while it was already noon, there was no village here, there was no store behind, found a shady place, and ate some dry food.

Chu Nantang and I went to the nearby to find a water source and fetched water back.

In the evening, we finally got out of the town and came to a village that was eerily quiet.

After stopping the carriage, we got out of the carriage, Chu Nantang and I looked around, and said, "After a fierce battle here, the villagers probably have fled." ”

Ruined and dilapidated, in the scorching summer night, there was a layer of cold sweat behind the back, depressed and cold.

We found a place that was quite inhabitable, picked up hay nearby, spread it on the bed, and didn't pay so much attention to it outside.

A bunk, Xuanming Road sleeps outside. Chu Nantang asked me to huddle with him.

However, Chu Nantang has always been a gentleman, and he tried his best to keep a distance from me, and it was still a little cool in the middle of the night in the summer night, I slept very lightly, and I always recalled everything before in my mind.

Suddenly, a thin strip covered me, and after a small movement of the man behind me, he turned his back and went back to sleep.

I tugged at the blanket, and a warmth rose in my heart. Drowsiness hit, and I fell asleep unconsciously.

It was about four o'clock in the morning, and I was woken up by a strange hissing sound outside, shivered, and turned over to look. Daoist Xuan Ming and Chu Nantang are gone.

I rolled over violently, my mind was completely clear, and the hissing sound came into my ears even more clearly.

Through the dilapidated window, I could see under the moonlit night, beyond the wilderness, many figures approaching us unhurriedly from a distance.

At first, I thought, could it be that the villagers here have all returned? So I got out of bed and ran out of the house, and when I saw what was happening in front of me, I was so frightened that I couldn't say a word for a long time.

Those zombies that can only be seen on TV are actually staged alive in front of your eyes.

The villagers, who looked to have been dead for days, had their bodies decomposed to varying degrees, and some of them were about to fall out of their eyes. Dressed in rags, his hair is yellow and sparse.

At this time, Chu Nantang and Daoist Xuan Ming were setting up a formation to prevent these zombies from approaching.

Seeing me come out, Chu Nantang said, "You go back to the house." ”

I looked up at him abruptly and shook my head, "I'm going to stay with you." ”

"These corpses have corpse poison on them, and if they are scratched or bitten, it will be very troublesome, so you can go back to the house and help."

Sometimes he really doesn't leave room for talking, and I only have a hot face: "Okay, then you and the Taoist chief should be careful." ”

I went back to the house and stood in front of the window and watched the battle in front of me.

Although the magic power of the master and apprentice is profound, they dealt with the zombies in front of them, and countless zombies continued to pour in from the barren mountains, and some even crawled out of the nearby cemetery.

Daoist Xuan Ming thought for a while and said, "If the formation goes on like this, I can't hold on, I'm afraid that someone is behind the scenes and uses evil magic to manipulate these corpses." ”

Chu Nantang nodded: "Then it's better to change the formation, fight with the person behind him, break his formation, and these corpses are estimated to be able to crawl back into the cemetery." ”

I only felt a familiar aura around me, but I couldn't remember for a moment who the person who belonged to this aura would be.

Chu Nantang stepped forward to block those corpses with the Soul Bead, and Daoist Xuanming began to rearrange the formation, wanting to destroy the formation of the person behind him.

Before dawn, the zombies suddenly looked like puppets with broken strings. They all fell to the ground.