Chu Nantang looked at him and shook his head, and sighed lightly: "I handed Lingsheng to you to look at, but I don't worry at all." ”

Bai Yiqing's face flushed: "Grandpa, I am also a three-legged cat's kung fu, and the spells you taught Lingsheng may not be better than me." ”

"From now on, you can learn from me."

Bai Yiqing's eyes widened in surprise, and he was about to perform the apprenticeship ceremony, when Chu Nantang helped his hand: "Don't worship, you are also a descendant of my nameless Taoist sect, I don't accept apprentices, but I can teach you some self-defense spells." ”

"Why don't you take in apprentices?"

"Trouble." Chu Nantang said ruthlessly: "In the future, when I am not there, you will protect Lingsheng." ”

Bai Yiqing patted his chest hard: "Don't worry, grandpa grandpa, I must work hard, and I will protect grandma grandma." ”

I twisted Bai Yiqing's arm hard, and my face burned badly: "Dead Xiaobai, I really want to sew up your mouth!" ”

Bai Yiqing's whole face was distorted in pain, and she begged for mercy again and again: "Don't dare anymore, grandma Zu spares her life!" ”

Chu Nantang stood aside and laughed: "Don't make trouble, the most important thing now is to find someone to deal with those corpses." ”

After that we called the police. The firefighters pulled up the 31 bodies, and after checking and investigating the missing persons here that year, and confirming their identities, they notified the families one by one to claim them.

As a result, those family members could not be contacted, and most of them were not doing well, or they had already reformed a new family and started a new life, and the 31 bodies were unclaimed.

The local government organized the burial of the 31 bodies in this vacant lot and built a tombstone.

It turned out that the factory furnace exploded, and the boss was afraid of holding him responsible, so he lied about the number of dead and injured, and after giving a large sum of money to the family of the deceased to appease him, he hid the body in an abandoned sewer for seven years.

As for the reason for the explosion of the furnace, it is said that the maintenance inspector was corrupt and filled his own pocket with the maintenance fee, which led to the furnace being in disrepair for many years, and the man-made accident explosion occurred.

After the explosion of the factory, the boss also went abroad with his family and never returned.

After watching them bury the thirty-one corpses, Chu Nantang chanted the sutra for them, thinking that the matter had already rested.

When he was about to leave, it was already evening, and the old man who had collected the tattered appeared again. Something was burning there, and he whispered in his mouth: "It's back, Xiaocheng is back, okay, okay, let those beasts who killed you be punished." ”

I felt a gust of wind blowing, and I shivered violently, always feeling that something bad was about to happen.

In the distance, a woman wearing sunglasses and a thin yellow trench coat walked by, followed by a decent Mr. Warlock.

Seeing us, the beautiful woman stepped forward and asked, "Excuse me, what's the matter with those new graves that have suddenly appeared over there?" ”

Bai Yiqing squeezed me away, looked at the beauty in front of her with an enthusiastic face, and said, "Beauty, what are you here for?" ”

"You don't have to worry about it so much."

"Then you don't have to ask so much." Bai Yiqing squeezed her eyebrows at her and sighed: "Lingsheng, let's go." ”

"Wait." The beautiful woman stopped us: "I just came back from the United States, I am not familiar with this place, can you take me for a walk around the neighborhood?" ”

"Are you talking to me?" Bai Yiqing asked teasingly.

I secretly rolled my eyes, this white memory is really a big carrot! The beauty lowered her cold posture: "Of course it's you, if you're satisfied, you'll be rewarded." ”

Bai Yiqing is not short of money. But he has a cheap temperament, and he immediately showed a very interested look: "Really? That's great! Can you tell me your name by the way? ”

"My name is Li Mei, English name ......"

"Oh, the Chinese name is fine, I don't understand English." My name is Bai Yiqing, and you look like you're older than me, but I don't mind if you call me 'Brother Love'. ”

Chu Nantang listened with his hands down, and suddenly laughed, and I asked him in a low voice, "What are you laughing at?" ”

He said: "That's all Xiaobai has to offer. ”

As soon as the words fell, Bai Yiqing waved his hand at us: "Grandpa, Lingsheng." Go back first, I'll be back later. ”

Li Mei subconsciously turned her head to look at us, and asked suspiciously: "I only saw one person......

"The other one is a ghost, do you believe it or not?"

"I see you, full of gibberish."

……

Chu Nantang took two steps and suddenly paused, I looked up and asked him, "Nantang, what's wrong?" ”

"It doesn't look like it's over yet."

"How?"

"I suddenly sensed a powerful resentment coming from Li Mei just now."

I looked back at the direction in which Bai Yiqing disappeared: "Xiaobai will be in danger?" ”

"Keep up."

We chased for some distance and found that the warlock had fallen to the ground, and Bai Yiqing and Li Mei were gone.

Chu Nantang took out a paper crane and blew at the paper crane, the paper crane flew forward with its wings, and we followed closely behind the paper crane and came to a very remote hill.

I saw Bai Yiqing lying on the ground unconscious, the woman buried her head and showed her cyan fangs, and opened her mouth to bite Bai Yiqing's neck.

Chu Nantang drew a talisman and knocked Li Mei back a few steps, and at this time, Li Mei was no longer the bright and beautiful appearance of that time.

The pale skin and tendons burst out, and the color of the eyes seemed to be white and rotten after a long death.

She twisted her drooping head and fixed her gaze on me, Chu Nantang stepped forward and protected me behind her.

"Lingsheng, you hide first, and wait for me to clean her up."

"Giggle......" Li Mei's voice turned out to be an unfamiliar male voice, revealing full ruthlessness: "Stinky mage!" ”

This is the first time I've encountered this situation, and it's different from the spirits I've encountered before.

Chu Nantang drew a few talismans one after another, trapping him in the formation, and knocked out the resentful spirit attached to this woman with one palm.

He looked like a very young man, with a round bloody wound in the center of his forehead, like a muzzle wound.

However, the woman lying on the ground, her body was rapidly decomposing, and she looked like she had been dead for many days.

The corpse was lying not far from Bai Yiqing, he woke up faintly, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the rotting corpse in front of him, he gasped, and crawled back a few steps.

When I saw the situation in front of me clearly, I shivered and hid on my side.

"Look at the next time you see a beautiful woman and hook up casually!"

"Don't say it, I won't dare next time." Bai Yiqing shuddered again: "This woman has been dead for some time." ”

"Xiaobai, what's going on?"

"This is called borrowing the corpse to resurrect the soul, and it uses the blinding method to confuse everyone's eyes, this ghost's spell cannot be underestimated!"

When Chu Nantang was fighting with the ghost ferociously, suddenly the madman staggered over to this side.

"Xiao Cheng, Xiao Cheng...... You're back? Xiao Cheng, Dad cooked for you, wait for you to come back. ”

Hear the old madman calling. There was a moment of sadness on the grimace's face.

The old madman tore open the pile of grass, and saw a grave suddenly appear in front of him, no one had come to sweep the grave for a long time, and the grave pile was dilapidated.

The old madman lay on the grave and sobbed softly: "Xiao Cheng, you said you came back today, why haven't you come back yet?" You always say that, you're always so busy, and you don't talk to me when you come back. ”

The ghost fell to his knees: "Master, let me and my father see each other one last time, after seeing this last face, I will go where I need to go." ”

Chu Nantang let out a long sigh. Removed the formation and said: "You only have ten minutes, after ten minutes, leave quickly." Everything in the world has a cycle of cause and effect, and if you disturb the order of the world, it is yourself who suffers in the end. ”

He avoided the soul drain, and under the baptism of the soul bead, his face was no longer terrifying, and he returned to the appearance of a living person.

He stretched out his hands and looked at the newborn soul in surprise, tears raining down. Maybe even I forgot what I was like when I was alive.

"Thank you, Mage!" He bowed to Chu Nantang three times, got up and walked behind the old madman, and called softly: "Dad, I'm back." ”

The old madman's body shook, and he slowly turned around in disbelief, and his mind was clearer.

"Xiao Cheng? Xiao Cheng...... You, you're really back? It's back, it's back, it's back......" The old madman's voice was hoarse and choked.

"Dad!" The father and son hugged each other and wept.

The old madman nagged lovingly. It's the same as before his death: "Dad knows that you are busy with work, but you have to go home when you are busy!" I cooked the meal, and when it was cold, you didn't come back to eat. ”

"I'm sorry...... I'm sorry! ”

"Forget it, I don't blame you. Dad knows that you don't want those people to look down on you, so you study and work hard. Don't be afraid, Dad saved money for you, saved money for you to beg for your daughter-in-law, you go home and have a meal with me. ”

"Dad, you're old, don't pick up garbage anymore, you can't sell it for any money. The money you save, you keep for yourself. ”

"Eh~ No, no, no, that money can't be moved, I'm going to ask you for a daughter-in-law."

……

"Dad, it's too late, it's too late...... You go home and eat first. ”

"You're going to work overtime again? How long has it been since you came home? ”

"Well, yes, you have to work overtime, you don't have to wait for me to come home, go to bed early."

"Alright then, it's time to cook when you get home, it's time to cook when you go home......" The crazy old man got up and staggered slowly out of the graveyard.

Xiao Cheng looked at his father's back and snorted a few times: "The son is not filial, the grace of nurturing in this life, and the next life will be repaid as a cow and a horse!" ”

Xiao Cheng's figure slowly disappeared in the air, and it seemed that the matter had finally come to an end.

Later, I learned that Li Mei was actually the daughter of the original factory owner, who fled to the United States with his family, but it has not been smooth in recent years.

Not long after his son died in a car accident, his daughter was found drowned in the river during an outing, after which her body disappeared, which is hard to imagine. A corpse that had long since decomposed had returned to his hometown across the ocean.

And that Zheng Cheng is the only son of the crazy old man, the crazy old man was not crazy before, his wife died in childbirth, so he left such a son, he got up early and was greedy for darkness, and he was both a father and a mother, and raised his son.

After the incident, in order to evade responsibility, Boss Li deceived Zheng Cheng and made him take responsibility, promising that he would find a way to bail him out, and used his affection for Li Mei to lure him to marry his daughter to him, and also promised to send him to study abroad, so that he and his father could live a good life.

Zheng Cheng believed that as long as he took the responsibility, it would be sunny after the wind and rain, and he could marry his beloved woman and go abroad for further study, which was something he never dreamed of.

But who knows, Boss Li broke his promise, took his wife and children to leave Zheng Cheng and went abroad, and then Zheng Cheng was sentenced to death and died unjustly, Old Man Zheng ran away from all his relationships, no one paid attention to him, wrote a pleading, sued the court, stopped the official car, and found the media...... Since then, I have been crazy and upside down, always thinking that my son will come back.

Bai Yiqing and I later went to Zheng Cheng's cemetery, swept his grave, burned some paper money, and Chu Nantang recited the scriptures for him.

"There are two things that are helpless in this world, the tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop, and the son wants to raise but the relatives are not there."

Bai Yiqing sighed, squatted down and said while burning paper money: "Yes, after this incident, I deeply understand one thing, cherish the people you have around you, don't wait until you want to be good to him (her)." But things are no longer human. There will always be endless work, there will always be endless things, you can find it again if you don't have a job, and you can do it again if you mess up, but relatives, lovers, and friends cannot be replaced. ”

I laughed, a hint of bitterness: "Xiaobai, this is really not like what you would say." ”

"It's just emotion, emotion ......"

"Then don't be so half-hearted in the future, Ai Zi is fine."

Bai Yiqing smiled wryly and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead.

After dealing with these things, a third of the summer vacation has passed. I hurriedly bought a train ticket and went back to my hometown with Chu Nantang.

It was the first time in these years that he went back alone, and he didn't go back with Shen Qiushui and them.

On the train, I clasped my fingers with him, full of longing and hope for the future.

"What are you smiling at, madame?" He leaned into my ear and asked.

"Happy." I paused and said, "With you." ”

Chu Nantang smiled and whispered: "Me too, when I'm with you, I won't think about anything else." ”

I tilted my head and pursed my lips and pretended to be serious: "What else do you want?" ”

Chu Nantang looked at me with deep eyes: "Those are not important, Lingsheng." Later...... We're in this together. ”

I sighed: "But I will be old, you will never be old, when I am old, you are still like this, what should I do?" ”

"One skin is your own, you don't need to care."

I opened my mouth, not wanting to upset him, and smiled and hugged his arm: "Then you can't dislike me." ”

"How so? I'm afraid I'm not worthy of you. Seriously. With that, he looked out of the car window with far-reaching eyes, the fleeting scenery.

I turned the car and came to the town. There was only one bus to the village, and it happened that I was back home before five o'clock.

Grandma was about to go back to the house to cook when she saw me coming back from afar, and she was so excited that she hallucinated about herself. Rubbing his eyes, he muttered, "Ouch, my old eyes are dizzy, and I have delusions again?" ”

"Grandma! It's not a delusion, it's me back. ”

It wasn't until I held her hand and felt real that Grandma believed I was really back.

"Lingsheng?! Lingsheng, you're back. Grandma hugged me and patted me on the back like she did when she was a child: "It's good to come back, grandma is about to cook." ”

"I help my grandma cook together."

"What, you're coming back alone?" Grandma looked behind me and couldn't see Chu Nantang: "Why didn't Mr. Shen and Mr. Gu come back with you this time?" ”

"They...... They're too busy with work, so I'm just coming back alone, grandma, don't think about it so much, let's get inside. ”

In the evening, I made dinner with my grandmother, and I felt very kind, like going back to the past, but I didn't expect time to pass in the blink of an eye.

"Next time, remember to bring Mr. Gu and Mr. Shen back together, grandma pickled a lot of vegetables."

I helplessly looked at my grandmother's busy back, and my heart was extremely melancholy, and the feelings between people were really fragile.

"Grandma, I'll take you to live in the city with me, okay?"

Grandma was washing dishes in the kitchen and said nonchalantly: "I have stayed in the old village all my life, I am used to it, and I will feel uncomfortable going to live there." ”

"But I'm not at ease when you're here alone. When I go to college in the future, I won't be able to come back to see you very often. ”

Grandma smiled: "Young people should have the life of young people, grandma is old, staying here can spend the rest of her life quietly, she is very content, and when you are not there, the neighbors and villages also come to see me from time to time, no, before you leave, Xiaohuzi and his mother just came to see it, and sent some fresh vegetables." ”

"Grandma'......"

"Say no more." Grandma came out of the kitchen and took my hand: "There is a saying, if a person drinks water, he knows whether he is warm or cold. What you think is good for grandma may not be good for grandma. For grandma, being able to stay here forever and return to the roots is the best destination in this life. ”

Grandma's attitude was extremely resolute, and I was very impatient and did not persuade any further.

After eating, the grandparents and grandchildren moved a small bench as before, when they were fine. Sitting in the courtyard to enjoy the cool and gossip.

"Do you have a crush?" Grandma seems to be keen on this.

I quietly glanced at Chu Nantang, who was standing under the big tree in the courtyard, my cheeks were only slightly hot, I pursed my lips and thought about it and said, "Grandma, this kind of thing is still early." ”

"It's not early, the girls in the village are looking for a partner, why don't you look for it yet?"

I laughed: "It's not so early outside, and it's much later than getting married in the village." ”

Grandma thought thoughtfully: "That's it, then follow the local customs." ”

After chatting for a while, grandma thought of Shen Qiushui again: "I see that Mr. Shen is very good to you, and he is handsome." Do you think about Mr. Shen? ”

"Grandma, are you confused? Mr. Shen is so much older than me, how can he? ”

"Mr. Shen looks quite young, the last time he came here was more than three years ago, he seems to be much younger."

Grandma didn't say that I hadn't paid attention to it, indeed, when I first saw Shen Qiushui, he said that he was thirty years old, and for more than three years, he has always been like this, as if he is still getting younger and younger.

"Grandma, don't worry about my life's events, if you have a good object, you will definitely bring it to grandma."

"Good, good...... You need to hurry! ”

……

Grandma went to bed early, and after she fell asleep, I quietly got up from the bed and strolled along the small river in the countryside with Chu Nantang.

The starry sky of the summer night lit up the night, and the Milky Way in the sky seemed to fall to the earth, and I picked up the stones and threw them into the river, and the water shadow rippled.

Chu Nantang suddenly asked, "Why don't you like Shen Qiushui?" ”

I looked puzzled: "Why do I like Shen Qiushui?" ”

Chu Nantang was silent for a while and said: "He is handsome and golden, and he is very good to you, and grandma likes him very much." ”

"Oh~ Mr. Chu. Are you jealous? ”

Chu Nantang coughed lightly: "It's a little sour." ”

I laughed, and when he confessed, he thought it was cute.

"Nantang, because I like you, I won't like Shen Qiushui."

He hugged me from behind: "If I don't appear in front of you, one day, you will like Shen Qiushui." ”

I haven't thought about this question, how can there be so many ifs, maybe, maybe...... When you use this word, it's actually the opposite of what you think.

"Do you regret it?"

"How so?" He sighed helplessly: "I'm afraid you'll regret it." ”

"Nantang, you always say that you are afraid that I will regret it, in fact, you don't have to think about it, I just want to know, what are you afraid of in your heart?"

He smiled bitterly: "From love to worry, from love to fear, if you are separated from your lover, you will not be afraid of worry." Because I was serious, I was afraid. Because I put it in my heart, I don't want to be free. ”

"Nantang, your confession is a bit special."

"Really?" He thought for a moment and asked, "What do you think it should be?" ”

"It should be frank. For example...... I love you. ”

He was a little shy, but he didn't look away: "It's a little ashamed to say that I only quietly liked someone before, but I never said it." ”

"Why don't you just say it? If you don't say it, she'll never know. ”

He looked solemn and smiled helplessly: "I didn't say it, and I didn't have time to say it...... But this time it's different, Lingsheng, and I love you too. ”

My heart was beating uncontrollably for a moment, and I took a few deep breaths and stared at him.

"Mr. Chu, can I ask you a question?"

"Huh?"

"When did you fall in love with me?"

Chu Nantang's expression froze, and then said, "I don't know, but when I come back to my senses, my heart will be full of you." ”

I approached him in his arms and hugged him: "I'm ashamed to say that I probably liked you when I first saw you." ”

Chu Nantang smiled: "At that time, it should have been just a simple liking, not a love between men and women." ”

"No, that throbbing, only when I see you. But at that time, I didn't quite understand why I liked someone so much at first sight? Would you want to look at that person forever? I would like to be by his side all the time. It's only now that I understand that it's love. ”

"Ma'am."

"Huh?"

Chu Nantang asked with a smile, but his eyes were extremely serious: "I want to kiss you, can I?" ”