Sitting in the car home, our family didn't say a word, my mom couldn't stop sobbing, and my dad held the steering wheel with one hand, and the cigarette in the other hand never stopped.

"While you're all young, let's have another one." I barely managed to squeeze out a smile and broke the silence.

"Don't talk nonsense," my dad scolded me harshly, and my mom cried even harder.

Once home, I lay back on the familiar bed while they discussed something in the living room.

After a while, my mom came to bring me food, but I still didn't have much appetite, so I just pushed the bowl away after two bites.

"Your dad just contacted Fruit Plum, will I take you to his place tomorrow?" My mom squeezed out a smile and said to me.

"Mom, what I said in the car wasn't a joke, it's true," I said distressedly, staring into her eyes, which were a little red from crying. "Don't waste time and money on me, lest you run out of money and money."

"You kid, you're talking nonsense again." My mom reached for my mouth and looked at me with some reproach, then the expression on her face suddenly slowed again. "I'll take you to see it this time, okay? If it doesn't work this time, I'll quit my job with your dad and accompany you to where you want to go. ”

I didn't know what to say, so I sighed and closed my eyes.

I was only eighteen years old that year, how could I not be afraid of death? Pretending to be free and easy just doesn't want to bring a greater psychological burden to those who love me.

After tomorrow, you'll be liberated, right?

…………

It's time to go and meet Fruit Plum.

Although the talisman he gave me before saved my life and refreshed my understanding of him, it still made it hard for me to trust him with preconceived notions.

When I think of him now, I still see that fat face with some obscenity, and it is difficult to associate him with that kind of high-ranking image.

……

"That black mist should just be a lonely ghost nearby, not worth mentioning. I also saw a dead air on your face from a distance, I spoke straight, you don't like to listen to it, so I thought of giving you that talisman to get rid of bad luck. "Fruit plum turned out to be a cigarette handed by my father, lit it and smoked." But when I looked closer, you were in good health, and I guessed that there should be something wrong with the people you often come into contact with, but I didn't expect it to be Xiaofan. ”

Just now, my dad had already told Guo Li about my illness, and by the way, he solemnly thanked him for the talisman and told him about the talisman that saved our lives.

"As for why you were entangled by that thing, in the final analysis, the problem is still with Xiao Fan." He took a drag on his cigarette and pulled out a wooden tray from under the table, which contained a few rusty copper coins, which looked like old objects out of the earth.

"The house has been uninhabited for a long time, and it has lost its popularity, and it is easy for dirty things to gather." He picked up the copper coins, tossed them upward, and landed steadily on the tray with a thud. "It's like those old houses, no matter how dilapidated they are, as long as people live in them, even if they are not repaired, they will rarely collapse. And once people move away, they will become ruins in a few years, and this is the power of popularity. ”

He frowned and stared at the copper coins, and said: "Xiao Fan's body is weak at this time, his yang energy is insufficient, and he is most likely to be stained by those dirty things, but fortunately, you remembered that talisman, which did not cause more serious consequences." ”

My mother was convinced of him when she heard this, of course, we had no choice other than that, so she hurriedly asked: "Xiao Li, no, Fairy Li, what should my son do, you are a person with great ability, please save my son!" He was only eighteen years old, and he ...... "When I talk about sadness, I am about to cry."

"Sister-in-law, don't worry, Xiaofan, this child can be regarded as something I have grown up watching, and I will do my best. Actually, I know that you don't trust me, and I don't blame you, after all, I was really not a serious person in the first half of my life, but I am not a heartless person, and I must take this matter seriously. ”

With that, he took out two more turtle shells from under the table and studied them.

Our family waited anxiously on the side, but we didn't dare to bother, so we could only watch him chanting words there, and pinching his hands twice from time to time.

This fruit plum and the goddess I went to see before obviously did not follow the same path, the previous one was more inclined to use spells to cure diseases, and the fruit plum didn't even look at my pulse, and completely relied on divination to find a way to break the game.

After waiting like this for nearly an hour, the fruit plum was also so tired and sweating profusely that he couldn't even drink saliva. Finally, he put away the strange props and let out a sigh of relief.

"How's it going, is there a way?" My dad hurriedly handed over a cigarette and asked.

Guo Li frowned, and said with some hesitation: "Big brother, it's all this time, I won't hide it from you, this is indeed a catastrophe that should be in his life, and I have nothing to help him dodge." He pondered for a while and continued: "Before my master left, he left me a large Yang Gathering Talisman, which Xiao Fan could wear close to his body to replenish Yang Qi, which could play a role in relieving symptoms. However, after all, it is a palliative rather than a cure, and this charm can only extend the rest of his life to about a year at most, but at least within this year, he will not be so weak and powerless again. ”

When my mother heard this, her eyes turned black and she almost fell backwards. My dad hurriedly stepped forward to help her.

I barely managed to keep my voice from trembling and asked, "What about ......that?" What about a year from now? ”

"Xiaofan, it's up to you, you have two choices now." Guo Li turned to me, looked at me seriously, and said, "The first way, use this year's time, and enjoy the rest of your life." As for a year from now, it might be even worse than it is now...... "He was only halfway there, but I could guess what the end of the road would be, it was nothing more than a dead word.

"The second way, I just divined a hexagram for you, according to the hexagram, your opportunity is in the West."

He paused, as if to think about how to organize the language so that a layman like me could understand it.

"But don't be in a hurry to rejoice, I have used several methods to divination, but the conclusions I have come to are different, some show that the West is a chance and a way to live, while others show that the West is extremely dangerous." He said with a wry smile.

"I've never seen this happen before, and it stands to reason that even if I use different methods, the conclusions should be similar and corroborate each other, but unfortunately I'm not good at it, so I can only put this situation down to the fact that this is a path where opportunities and dangers coexist."