After the phone rang, I told the master what happened last night, and after listening to it, the master was silent for a while and said, "It is impossible for anyone's soul to be so far away from his own body after death, no matter how deep his Taoism is. If the body of a ghost is burned, it will be reduced to ashes. This is the restriction on ghosts in the world. Unless there is a possibility that you can not be limited by the physical body, and that is to become a spirit, there are two possibilities for the little Yama to find his physical body, one is to be resurrected, and the second is to want to die. ”

The master said, "Judging by your description. I'm afraid that the little Yama's deeds are on par with that of a teacher. And there is a master who has pointed out, the reason why you can escape, if you are not too lucky, or he doesn't want to kill you at all, as for why his soul split into two people, then I don't know if you are a teacher. ”

I still didn't understand a little, I told the master the first thing that the little Yama said when he saw me, and the master was silent for a while and said, "He is not waiting for you, he is waiting for your Dao Fire, and you will know when the time comes." Wang Yang, people and ghosts have different paths after all, and the rules of the yin and yang world can't be messed up, so you can do it yourself. ”

After the master hung up the phone, I walked along a small mountain road for about half an hour. After walking to a hillside that is not very high, I finally saw the lotus leaf village surrounded by a low hill below. Zhuang Xu is dead.

There are ponds everywhere in Lotus Leaf Village, but strangely, there is nothing on the water, and it looks dead silent. Not to mention lotus leaves.

At the entrance of Lotus Leaf Village, I met a young man and asked him if there had been any strange boy in the village in recent years.

The young man looked at me, muttered something, and ran away.

As he ran away, his eyes glanced behind me, consciously or unconsciously.

I turned to look, and saw nothing but a blackened stake with a garment that was too rotten to rot at the top of the stake.

I was puzzled, opened my yin and yang eyes and scanned the surroundings, but I didn't see anything strange.

The village is quiet and looks old, and some of the houses have fallen into disrepair and are half collapsed, but the simple furniture is still in them. Some people's houses are overgrown with weeds.

In the last row of their village, I saw an old lady with her back to me, as if basking in the sun, not moving.

I called out to her, but she didn't seem to hear, and I went around in front of her only to find that she was blind.

I crouched down beside her, and was about to speak, but out of the corner of my eye, I saw a child hiding behind an earthen wall not far away, and she beckoned to me to come over.

I hesitated for a moment, glancing at the blind old lady, whom I heard humming quietly all the time, as if calling a man's name.

The little boy was very dirty, his face was dirty, and he dragged his long nose, and he said, "Brother, my grandmother called you." ”

"Your grandmother knows I'm coming?" I asked, confused.

The little boy nodded and said, "My grandmother is a woman in the village, she knows everything, and besides, what you saw just now is not a person." ”

I was taken aback by his words, how could that person just now be safe and sound in the sun if it was a ghost, and how could I not feel the ghost aura on her body if it was a ghost?

I turned my head and forgot about it, there was no shadow under her feet.

When the little boy saw that I was puzzled, he said, "You'll know when you come." ”

I followed the boy into a low, mud-walled courtyard covered with cacti, and an old lady with gray hair was turning over the stone mill with dried peppers, and her white hair was tied up with a strip of faded cloth and held behind her, looking a little sparse.

Before I could speak, the old lady said, "Young man, the blind old lady you just saw has been dead for more than 20 years, and after she died, she would appear at the door of her house every day, muttering about the sugar baby, her son's milk name. ”

I asked, "Grandma, do you know I'm coming?" ”

The old lady said, "It's been seventy years, and it's time to come, and the boy wants to go home." ”

I said, "Ask grandma to tell the kid about it." ”

The old lady sighed and said slowly: "Seventy-seven years ago, our Lotus Leaf Village was still a fishing village, and at that time, there were still many people in the village, although they were not very wealthy, but they lived quite steadily. At that time, there was a war outside, and we were all mountain roads here, and it was not affected much, but one day, a widow surnamed Jiang in the village was found to be pregnant, and her man died two years ago, how could she be pregnant? The village chief said that she had ruined the reputation of Lotus Leaf Village, and asked her to say who the man was, otherwise she would be immersed in the pig cage, and the Jiang widow did not say that she died, and finally the villagers soaked her in the pig cage, but who knew that the next day, the Jiang widow appeared in the village again, and everyone was frightened, why did a dead person appear again. ”

"My mother was the mother of the village at that time, and the village chief went to invite my mother to see what was going on, my mother and this Jiang widow were godsisters in private, and she didn't want the Jiang widow to die, so she said that the Jiang widow was protected by the river god, and she couldn't die, so it was best not to touch the Jiang widow again, otherwise she would be retaliated by the river god."

So Widow Jiang survived until she gave birth, the day the sugar baby was born. The day Sugar Baby was born frightened everyone in the village, he was born full of hair, with a long mouth, and he looked particularly scary. The old people in the village all said that they would beat the sugar baby to death, and they were afraid that it was not the river god who was protecting the Jiang widow, but the kappa. Kappa has been eating children since ancient times, and if they grow up in the future, they will be a disaster. ”

"Widow Jiang protected the sugar baby to death, and did not let him leave his side for a single step, the villagers had no choice, and besides, most people believed that Widow Jiang was protected by the river god, so no one dared to stand up and kill the sugar baby first, and then no one mentioned this matter again, although the sugar baby looked a little ugly, but he was also a person, he didn't talk much, but he was very polite, and he called everyone his brother and sister, but because he was ugly, no children played with him."

One night, a villager found that the sugar baby was squatting by the river as if talking to someone, the child had no friends since he was a child, maybe he was suffocated, and he talked to himself, so the villager didn't care. But the next day a strange thing happened, all the ponds in the village are gone, the reason why the lotus leaf village is called lotus leaf village, is because there are lotus leaves everywhere, want to pick all the lotus leaves overnight, even if we work a village people overnight may not be able to pick clean, just when everyone wondered, sugar baby happily ran out and told everyone that his family has a lot of lotus flowers, let everyone go to get it, he also said that he picked out the largest lotus flowers, specially for the children in the village to eat. ”

"Anyway, the lotus pod in Lotus Leaf Village can't be eaten, the lotus root in the water is out of the water when the whole village is busy fishing it out, and the village chief distributes it to everyone, or eats or sells, but no one blames the sugar baby's family, but everyone is a little scared, when the lotus pod is made, the sugar baby gave the largest basket of lotus pods to a very beautiful little boy, but the child knocked the lotus pod handed over by the sugar baby to the ground, he said that his mother told him that the sugar baby is a monster, how can you eat monster things?"

"Sugar Baby cried very sadly, no one had ever seen him cry, and he cried so loudly. Originally, this was nothing, and the ugly child didn't have any friends in the first place, not to mention that everyone thought he was a kappa's child. But the next day, something terrible happened, the little boy who knocked over the lotus pod of the sugar baby died, and the death was so miserable that his face was torn off. This frightened the villagers, and many people were present when the lotus pods were made, so everyone said that it must have been done by the sugar baby or the kappa. ”

"The village chief convened everyone to discuss what to do, whether to beat the sugar baby to death, or find a way to catch the kappa, otherwise it will be a scourge after all, at this time, the Jiang widow tied the sugar baby with an iron chain, led him to the front of everyone, beat the sugar baby half to death, and let everyone give the sugar baby a way to live. Everyone saw that the sugar baby was beaten all over his body, and he still shouted that he would never dare to cause trouble in the future, and he would never have friends again, so he learned his mother's words and asked everyone to spare his life. Since then, he has been chained by the ginger widow. ”

"It wasn't until he was seven years old that disaster finally struck."