Listening to my question, the third child looked at me, stretched out his hand and asked me for another cigarette.

I gave him the half pack of cigarettes in my trouser pocket and waited for him to follow.

After Song Jia took these four orphans home at that time, she planned to raise them first.

When they were all eighteen years old, he told them about the Song family's treaty.

It turned out that Song Jia had an inexplicable curse, their family had only given birth to boys for generations, but after giving birth to boys, his father would die before he was forty years old.

This seems to be just so that Song Jia can pass on the ancestry, and he has not considered the child who was born.

"In our father's generation, all the children born to my father died inexplicably. Before they reach adulthood, those children will die violently at home. When we reach adulthood at the age of eighteen, we all sign a contract, and the content of the contract is very simple, just let us not change our name or surname. The purpose is for us to help continue Song Jia's descendants. ”

I felt a little strange when I listened to the words of the third child, the Song family already had such a curse, and in the case of the last one, why not just cut it off?

Signing such a contract also harmed these four surnamed Li.

The third said that it was because this old pine needed someone to help continue to raise it.

I frowned, this matter was even more mysterious.

But as I thought before, as long as they leave, the roots of the old pine must also be taken away.

As long as the old pine can continue to grow and follow them, this matter is nothing.

But they changed their ID cards.

Song Yan's ID card was changed to Li Yan.

The other brothers also changed their surnames.

They want to go abroad to start a new life, so they want to change their identity back to themselves, so that they can be worthy of the ancestors of their Li family.

Although it is true to say that, the Song family has also raised them for so many years, and they should always repay their kindness.

It's just a bit unreasonable to ask them to take care of an old pine tree, that's all, they can't do it.

So now, is it the ancestors of the Song family who are taking revenge on them?

Besides, who set the curse of the Song family for them?

And why such a strange curse?

"It's good for you to raise Lao Song, it's not a big problem." I say.

At the time, I thought that if I could save my life by raising an old pine tree, why not.

But the fourth child looked frightened, and refused my proposal with all his heart.

"No, this old pine is terrible. We don't want to raise anyone, we were all raised by my second brother before, you see my second brother's face, as white as a paper man. No one dared to touch it. ”

After careful questioning, I found out.

It turns out that this old pine is not such a simple answer as we see.

Raising an old pine requires the blood of the breeder.

Not only that, every time I get close to Lao Song, I feel uncomfortable all over my body.

I didn't believe in evil, so I walked in front of Lao Song.

I was standing for five minutes and I didn't feel any discomfort.

In order to prove it to me, the fourth child can walk in front of Lao Song.

I was horrified by what happened next.

I saw the fourth child standing in front of Lao Song for a while, and bursts of ethereal white smoke came out of the fourth child's mouth.

A few of us watched dumbfounded.

I know that this is not the yin qi, but the spirit and yang energy of a person.

No wonder the second, third and fourth children always look sluggish, it turns out that they have absorbed a lot of spirit because they have taken care of Lao Song for a long time.

Logically speaking, the pine tree is a very righteous plant, and it should not need human blood and spirit to feed it.

I frowned, completely confused about what was going on.

Later, the fourth child told me that before their Song family brought them back, there was a period of special recession, so their ancestors would find someone to plant this pine tree here.

The purpose of the existence of this pine tree is to absorb the essence and human blood, and even the yang energy.

This kind of operation made me think of the headwind path leader, although yin energy is more important to him, but yang energy can help the convergence of yin energy.

When I wasn't busy, I checked the information, and with Yang Qi as the driving force, Yin Qi would spread more quickly to the location of the headwind leader.

So this matter also has something to do with him?

I smiled wryly, this person is indeed everywhere.

"My ancestors wanted to benefit from the business, so they willingly offered this old pine tree. But one day there will be a backlash, like now. We are not the children of the Song family in the first place, and if we were to give our lives to support this old pine tree, my two elder brothers would not agree. ”

But the third child doesn't think so.

Although he was over half a hundred years old, he didn't think about how long he could live.

But seeing his nephews and children dying violently one after another, he preferred to use his spirit and blood to feed this old pine tree, just so that his children and grandchildren could continue to live.

Before that, the second child had given up supporting the pine trees.

Therefore, his yang shou is being slowly absorbed by the old pine tree.

The third child shouldered the responsibility of providing for the pine trees alone, but he was no longer able to do it.

The fourth child couldn't look at the third child under such a lot of pressure, so yesterday before leaving the old mansion, he also went to the old pine tree and offered his spirit to the old pine tree.

The fourth said that because he was anemic, he had no way to use his own blood to make offerings.

No wonder overnight, the faces of the third and fourth children became so pale, and it can be seen with the naked eye that their yang longevity is almost the same.

"When you signed the contract, did you do anything other than sign?" I don't quite understand it.

If it is simply signed, then it can only be said that the contract exists.

That's all.

But it seems that things are not as simple as I imagined, because the old man Song, who has passed away, can bring them back from the orphanage and raise them, it will definitely not be so simple, just let them simply sign.

As I expected, Old Man Song came prepared.

"It's true, after I owed the contract at the time, I dripped my own blood on the contract." The fourth child slowly thought back, and his expression still became panicked.

"At our coming-of-age ceremony, a Taoist leader will come and help preside over it. First of all, the old pine tree will be worshipped, and in front of the old pine tree we will make offerings to it until we die. Then the Taoist chief will burn the contract in front of Lao Song, and the paper ashes will be accompanied by wine for us to drink. The coming-of-age ceremony will end. ”

Oh, sure enough, it's the "Taoist Chief" again.