In the cold winter, the river firewood is baked, the cat is appreciating the flowers, and the leisure life of Yidu is day after day.

One more thing a day-

Take care of the horses.

Spending is also a bit more.

Raising horses in the city is a problem.

Originally, the Northern Yuan horse had strong digestion ability and was very resistant to rough feeding, so that the heavy labor did not have to feed the concentrate, but the grass could not be beaten in the city, and it had to spend money to buy forage, and it had to be cleaned up often. Fortunately, after Song You told it, it has been quiet, otherwise it will make noise to the neighbors, not to mention causing trouble, and it will not be easy to go.

Layue saw that it was about to end.

It's about to be the first one-person Spring Festival that Song You has had since he came to this world.

A few days ago, the Taoist leaders of Fuqing Palace asked a pilgrim who lived in Yidu to send a letter, saying that he wanted to invite Song You to Qingcheng Mountain for the New Year. It's just that he didn't have a way to reply to the Taoist leaders of Fuqing Palace, and I don't know how long they waited in front of the mountain gate that day.

Luo Zhutou also came to invite, and Song You also declined.

Including Yu Zhizhou, they all sent letters.

Song You didn't agree.

The wax plum blooms for a long time, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, the flowers are still there, welcoming the frost and snow, and Ling Han is independent.

Song You was thinking about the days in the yard, and Sanhua Niangniang turned into a human form, but she still couldn't change the habit of cats, and loved to walk on the eaves of the courtyard wall.

This year's New Year is a suitable time, and a few days after the year is the beginning of spring.

I remember that I was Yidu after the beginning of autumn, and after the beginning of spring, it was almost past the autumn and winter.

A voice came from the courtyard wall overhead.

"Are we leaving?"

Song You looked up and saw the little girl standing barefoot on the top of the rain eaves of the courtyard wall, the top of the eaves was originally narrow and smooth, but she was standing extremely steady, staring at him condescendingly.

This cat really has a pair of discerning eyes.

"It's all said, don't climb on the roof and walk when you take on a human form, you will be recognized as a monster."

"Sanhua Niangniang is a monster."

"It affects the neighbors."

"There's no one in the house here."

"It's rude."

"Okay, okay."

Although he said this, he had no intention of coming down, and only continued to stare at him:

"Are we leaving?"

"I'll leave after the beginning of spring."

"How long is the beginning of spring?"

"A few more days."

"Why Lichun?"

"The beginning of spring is the beginning of the year, full of vitality and recovery, and it is a good time to start a journey."

"I don't understand."

"Come down."

"Bring me a ladder."

"You could have jumped."

"Youkai will be recognized by people."

“……”

Song You went to bring her a ladder and brought her shoes.

Sanhua Niangniang put on her shoes, feeling very awkward, and she looked around the room, inevitably a little reluctant.

Half a year is a long time for a cat.

It's all about her.

"So what are we going to do these days?"

"Ask the owner to come and inspect the house."

"What is a home inspection?"

"It's someone else's house, rented to us to live in, so when we give it to someone, we have to ask someone to see if the house has been damaged."

"Got the inspection?"

"I'm going to say goodbye to the storyteller."

"What else?"

"Chinese New Year."

"Sanhua Niangniang knows about the New Year."

"Sanhua Niangniang has great wisdom."

"That's right."

"This time I set off, I am getting farther and farther away from home."

"I don't know what a home is."

Song You turned his head to look at her, was silent for a moment, and saw that her eyes were just pure and clear, so he was silent for a moment, not knowing what to say.

The fourth day of junior high school is the beginning of spring.

The courtyard on the fifth day of junior high school has just been rented for six months.

Song You thought about it, there is no reason to invite someone to inspect the house on the first day of the new year, according to the custom of Yizhou, the second day of the new year is to go to the grave and pay New Year's greetings to the deceased old man, and then he has to go back to his parents' house to visit relatives and friends, I am afraid that there may not be free until the fifth or sixth day of the new year.

Just go and ask the owner of the house to come over today.

About an hour later, the owner arrived.

The owner of the house is a man in his thirties, dressed as a literati, and his surname is Tang and the Chinese character is Xincheng.

I have long heard that it is a master who rents here, and this is also the only tenant who has lived in the courtyard in recent years, and even he came to ask Song You for a talisman, and he was very respectful at this time.

I had the courage to inspect it a little, but there was no damage to the courtyard.

"Sir, everything is in order."

"Then I'll leave on the fifth day of junior high school."

"Tang still has something to ask Mr. ......"

"Please."

"In this courtyard before......" Tang Zhong looked left and right, although there was no discomfort on his body, he was still a little timid, and his speech was twisted and pinched, "In this courtyard before...... Some...... It's not very clean, I heard that Mr. is profound, I don't know if Mr. is ...... Has it been removed? ”

Song You glanced at him and only said:

"That's just a wisp of remnant soul obsession, if you don't feel ashamed in your heart, you don't have to be afraid of it."

Song You could see at a glance that the woman's ghost had not harmed anyone, nor did he lack the ability to harm people, and he was just a passer-by, living here temporarily, and he was too lazy to bother, so he didn't care about her story anymore.

It was after living here for a long time, it seemed to be the end of last month, and it seemed to be the beginning of this month, that Luo Zhutou told him by chance.

This woman was originally a singer in Qinglou, and later married the son of the Tang family, and her husband was the brother of the Tang official in front of her. However, after the war in the north, the son of the Tang family went to the army with a well-known general, wanting to make meritorious contributions to protect the family and defend the country, but the contact was cut off within a few years.

This story once touched many people in Yidu.

This courtyard belongs to the Tang family and hers.

Now that the male owner has no news, and the female owner is also dead, as their only remaining relative, Tang Zhong should have taken the yard into his hands. However, the woman's obsession is too deep, and the ghost has not dispersed for a long time, no one dares to live in this courtyard, nor can it be rented or sold, and Tang Zhong is also helpless.

When Song You first heard about it, he was also touched in his heart.

Not only touched by this rare love that really existed in the feudal era, but also the obsession that transcended life and death, but also deeply pondered that this story was not the same as he originally thought.

This woman's remnant soul is hidden very deeply, it is not easy to find out, and it can indeed stump many folk gentlemen who eat this mouthful, but Yizhou is so big, it is not that there are no capable people, and she has stayed here for several years. Song You originally thought that there must be a hidden secret, just like the story in the novel, either the woman's identity was not ordinary during her lifetime, or something else was involved, twists and turns, but he never thought that the reason why this woman's remnant soul obsession had existed here for several years and was not solved was just the widespread sympathy and emotion of the surrounding society for her.

I was used to thinking about complicated places, and I couldn't even believe it for a while, but it was just people's simple and pure kindness.

So Song You was stunned, so Song You called it wonderful, so he once again clearly realized that this is a real world, even if this era is backward and ignorant, but it is also warm and colorful.

Although there are differences between ancient and modern times, people's hearts are the same.

If you talk about the understanding of the female ghost before her death, Song You is not as much as the neighbors, if you talk about the influence caused by the existence of the female ghost, Song You is not as big as the neighbors, since the neighbors are tolerant and enduring, Luo Zhutou lives in this courtyard diagonally opposite the door, with his character and responsibilities, he has chosen to turn a blind eye, where is the reason for Song You to get rid of it.

Tang Zhong was immediately extremely disappointed, but he still didn't give up.

"Sir, is there a way to get rid of it?"

Song You didn't answer, just looked at him and shook his head.

"Alas......"

Tang Zhong sighed and waved his hand again and again: "That's it, I've tried my best in the past few years, and I admit it, just let her stay here, sir, and I'll leave." ”

"I wish you a prosperous New Year."

"I also wish Mr. a blessed New Year."

The wooden door creaked open and slammed shut.

Song You sat in the courtyard for a while, and when it was getting late, he was about to start cooking, and then he went back to the house.

Stepping on the bench, he untied a piece of bacon and a section of sausage from the beam, took another air-dried fish, and washed it carefully with hot water. This bacon is still smoked, and the black ash on the surface must be scraped off with a knife, and Zeng Zeng's voice sounded, as if it was the time of the New Year.

"Daoist, why don't you eat grass today?"

"Chinese New Year."

"yes."

Sanhua Niangniang didn't know when she turned back into a cat, and when Song You washed the vegetables and caught the water, she ran around after her, and she didn't know what to run. When Song You lit the oil lamp, the shadow shook while busy, and she chased Song You's shadow on the ground again, pounced and pounced, and had a lot of fun.

"Sanhua Niangniang help me light the fire."

"Huh?"

"Go find clothes, transform into human form, and help me light the fire."

"Why?"

"We should make the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together."

"yes."

The kitten immediately ran out.

The smoke curled up, the lights of thousands of homes were lit, lanterns were lit in every door and every house in the city, and there was a sound of blowing and blowing outside.

The fragrance gradually came out of the yard.

After cooking the sausage, Song You patiently cut it into thin slices, and saw the girl burning in front of the stove stretching her neck and staring, her hand moved, and her heart was touched, so she smiled, and when the sausage was only left behind the buttocks, she stopped cutting it, pinched it and handed it to her.

Sanhua Niangniang leaned in to sniff and looked up at him again.

"For me?"

"Yes."

"It's not ready yet."

"Children can eat first."

"Oh."

Song You couldn't help but show a look of memory.

"Does Sanhua Niangniang know? When I was a child, every Chinese New Year, when the adults were busy chopping vegetables, I always loved to gather around, and the adults would always leave a piece and hand it to us, and I always felt that the taste was better than the one on the table at noon the next day. ”

"Uh-huh......"

Song You didn't seem to be expecting her answer, but he was just stuck in recollection, and now that he thinks about it, that time was really happy and happy.

Pass it on to Sanhua Niangniang today.

Not long -

On the table, a bowl of sausage, a bowl of bacon fried with garlic sprouts, a bowl of preserved fish, and the pig's feet bought this morning were stewed in half a pot of soup, which was not rich, but in fact, it was not finished. One large and one small sit opposite each other through the lamp, and the light of the oil lamp can only illuminate a very narrow area, reflecting circles of lines in the rough pottery bowl.

No one spoke, only ate silently.

Song You didn't feel lonely, in the Taoist Temple for so many years, there were only him, the master and the old starling, and he had long been used to it.

It wasn't long before fireworks started to go off outside.

I don't think it's another year in this world.