With a complicated heart, he fell asleep deeply, and sure enough, Shi Hui woke up the next day with two big panda eyes.

"Huihui" Qi's mother looked at her worriedly, "What's the matter, did you sleep too much during the day yesterday?" Dark circles so heavy? ”

Shi Hui lowered her head to eat and did not speak, her face was slightly red.

Qi Zhi'an, who was sitting opposite her, also lowered his head and did not speak, and his spirit was not much better.

Qi Shukang's eyes looked back and forth between the two of them a few times, and he shook his head lightly at Qi's mother and smiled slightly.

Qi's mother also seemed to understand it suddenly, pursed her lips, and peeled an egg for Shi Hui and put it in a bowl.

——

After eating, Qi Zhi'an went to the unit again, looked at Shi Hui before leaving, and before he could open his mouth, Shi Hui blushed and lowered his head and entered the house.

“...........”

Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year, Shi Hui packed up her things and planned to go back to the store.

"Stay a few more days" Qi's mother followed her behind her, very reluctant, "You haven't gone far this year, why are you in such a hurry?" ”

"Mother Qi, I'll go back to see the store, and I'll be back when I have time" Shi Hui looked at her and said with a smile, "Zhi'an will be very busy in the next few days, you tell him when he comes back, I'll leave first"

"Come back often," Qi Shukang said next to him

"Okay, uncle, don't worry"

Shi Hui left Qi's house with her bag and walked on the white snow with her head down.

The old voice of the "girl" came, and Shi Hui looked back to see an elderly beggar wrapped in a shabby thick cotton coat curled up on the side of the road, with a pair of small eyes wrapped around the fine light, staring at him deadly.

"Hello, are you calling me?" Shi Hui first glanced left and right to the side, and after making sure that the other party was calling herself, she slowly stepped forward, looked down at the gray-haired old man, took out a hundred yuan from his pocket and put it in the broken bowl in front of the beggar, and said "Happy New Year".

The beggar's wrinkled aging face did not look happy because of a hundred yuan, it was still expressionless, the corners of his mouth sank slightly, and his eyes didn't even look at the money, always staring at Shi Hui.

"What's wrong?" After Shi Hui put down the money, she was about to turn around and leave, but when she saw that the other party had been staring at her without speaking, she couldn't help but be a little puzzled, so she stopped and asked more.

"Xiaohao" The beggar's dry lips moved slightly, and he spit out a name.

Shi Hui was slightly stunned, looking at his eyes, the other party's eyes were very sharp but also with a trace of resentment.

"May I ask if it's the little hao I know?" Shi Hui looked at him and said in a calm tone: "What's wrong?" ”

"What did you do" The beggar hooked the corners of his mouth, revealing a strange expression,

Shi Hui nodded, "I did it"

The beggar chuckled, finally looked away, and said, "You are the only one who has this ability."

Then he muttered, "That's fine, that's fine."

Shi Hui looked at him with a puzzled look on his face and said, "Who are you?" How do you know him? ”

"Liang Hao" The beggar looked at the money in the bowl and spit out another name.

Shi Hui seemed to know the identity of the other party in an instant, and said in surprise, "You, you are the old man he often mentioned?" ”

The beggar nodded and looked at her, "Boss Shi, we finally met"

An hour later

"So, Xiaohao is your younger brother?" Shi Hui looked at the old beggar sitting opposite and asked, "Then why did he stay in the world, he was reluctant to leave, did he look for you?" ”

"How could he not have looked for it" The old man shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "Although he was abducted and trafficked by traffickers since he was a child, he was found by his family when he was seven years old, no one knows what he experienced in those four years, his personality has always been bad, my parents took him to the hospital for diagnosis, the doctor said that he was superherogenic, everyone didn't know what it was, at that time I thought it was a strange disease that caused people to lose temper, he often smashed the table, beat the neighbor's children, and finally my father locked him in the family cowshed, and forgot to release him in the winter." , a night of blizzards, waking up to find that he was frozen, huh,"

When Shi Hui heard this, she frowned slightly, and a stubborn little face of disobedience flashed in her mind, and her eyes did not have any temperature.

"And then?"

"And then," the old man took a sip of hot water, and continued, "and then the house often began to be haunted, and the neighbors said that Xiao Hao came to ask for his life, and my parents took us to move overnight, but wherever we moved, he followed, and I was only ten years old at that time, and it was at that time that I began to believe that there was something in this world, and then my parents died one after another, and I thought it would be peaceful, but my younger brother seemed to be entangled with me, maybe his purpose was to leave none of them, I tried to look around for some protective measures, but it was useless, he was reluctant to leave, and his resentment was too heavy to send him away, that is, because he and I also had more and more contact with this business."

"So all the spells and the like that you asked Liang Hao to bring me were obtained by yourself over the years?"

The old man nodded and said, "That's not all, I'll hand it all over to you slowly in the future."

"Teach me?" Shi Hui wondered, "What is your purpose in doing this?" ”

The old man looked at the paper cup and chuckled, "I think it's to thank you for helping me solve a big problem."

Shi Hui obviously didn't believe it and looked at him.

"This is for you" The old man ignored the other party's inquiring gaze, raised his hand and took something out of his bosom and handed it to her.

It was a pendant with a purple shimmer, the size of a fingernail, hanging from a black cord.

Shi Hui raised his hand and took it, "What is this?" ”

"Deal with the ghost cultivators," the beggar said leisurely

Shi Hui suddenly raised his eyes to look at him, this old man really knew everything.

"How do you use it?"

"The usage methods and steps have been written down in your notebook, the steps and terminology are too complicated, tomorrow is the third day of the Lunar New Year, is the time you and Liang Hao agreed upon, right?"

Shi Hui nodded,

"Okay, then I won't bother," the old man stood up, ready to leave, and glanced at the sofa again, "I'm really sorry to make your sofa dirty"

Shi Hui shook her head and stood up, "Where are you going?" Are you going to continue squatting and begging on the street? "Snowflakes were already falling outside the door, and the north wind was whistling into the house.

The beggar glanced outside and said with a smile, "Don't worry about boss Shi, my old bones are still tough, so I won't freeze to death."

As he spoke, he walked outside the house, standing in the snowflakes at the door, the beggar turned around and looked at her, "I wish you well, Boss Shi"

Shi Hui bowed slightly, and the beggar turned to leave.

In fact, she still had a lot of words to ask, and when she looked down at the pendant in her hand, it seemed that the color had darkened again.

In the second year of junior high school, there were not many pedestrians on the street, and Shi Hui sat on the sofa by herself