The surrounding walls are the same as the living room, covered with all kinds of talismans, and many places where things can be hung are hung with strings of strange talisman pendants.

"Am I still dreaming?" Ah closed his eyes and rubbed his temples.

The current situation made him unbelievable, but compared to the previous dream, there was no such light feeling. It scared him, and if all this was true, what was he going to do next?

Just thinking about it, Yue'e walked in with a bowl, and as soon as Ah Guan saw the bowl, he immediately had a bad premonition in his heart.

"Jiayou, this is the blessed water of Shunde Gong, drink it quickly." Yue'e handed the bowl to Ah Guan.

Guan saw a viscous black liquid floating in the bowl, and a foul smell came to his nose.

"Mom, aren't I all right?" Guan said embarrassedly.

"You've just woken up, and you're still very weak, drinking this talisman water will make you recover quickly." Yue'e explained.

Ah Guan looked at his mother's earnest eyes and didn't know how to refuse. He took the bowl, slowly brought it to his lips and took a small sip.

At this time, the phone rang, and Yue'e walked out of the room to answer the phone.

Ah Guan hurriedly poofed, spit out the talisman water in his mouth back into the bowl, and retched heartily. He opened his mouth wide and kept squeezing out the water, which smelled worse than rancid water.

Yue'e kept thanking her on the phone, and from the content of the conversation, it should be her mother's friend on the other end of the phone.

Ah Guan hurriedly looked around, retching non-stop, and hurriedly took out a plastic storage box from under the bed, which is usually used to hold books. He opened the lid and tossed the books into the closet, then poured the bowl of runic water into the plastic box.

In the disgusting pool of liquid in the box, there were still a few finger-sized maggots writhing and struggling. Ah Guan was dumbfounded, feeling his stomach churning uncomfortably, and the smell of rotting corpses echoed in his nose and mouth. He closed the lid, pushed the box under the bed, and walked out of the room with the bowl.

Yue'e looked at Ah Guan while talking on the phone, her eyes full of suspicion.

Ah Guan showed the empty bowl in his hand to Yue'e, signaling that he had not only drunk it, but also drank it completely. Yue'e smiled slightly and continued to talk on the phone.

As soon as he closed the toilet door, Ah Guan immediately turned on the faucet and rinsed his mouth, picked up a large piece of toothpaste and squeezed it in his mouth, then rinsed his mouth again, repeated it several times, and the disgusting taste finally faded a little.

Ah Guan went back to his room and lay on the bed, and couldn't help but curse secretly. There is also a portrait of Shunde Gong on the ceiling, in which the Shunde Gong wearing a big yellow robe and sitting on the dragon chair is staring at himself with a thief, saying how much he hates it.

He curled up in a ball, covered himself with the quilt, closed his eyes tightly, and wondered what was going on. In the process of thinking about it, he thought that everything in front of him was probably a dream, and as soon as he woke up, it would disappear.

After a long time, Guan couldn't sleep, he poked his head out of the quilt, and the room was still the same ghost. He pinched his face and arms so hard that it hurt terribly. Even so, he still hoped that it was a dream, after all, he had experienced a very real dream before.

Time passed minute by minute, and Ah Guan fell asleep in a daze, but not very well. Half-asleep and half-awake, I always feel that something is wrong.

"Ayo, Ayou—"

Kwan heard his mother knocking on the door in his sleep, and suddenly woke up. Look at the clock, it's seven o'clock in the morning. He got out of bed in a daze, pushed open the door, and saw his mother carrying a large bowl of black runic water, and hurriedly took a few steps back.

The nightmare hasn't woken up yet.

"Ayou, mom is going to the temple now, and beg Shunde to accept you as a wife. If Duke Shunde agrees, Mom will take you to the temple to see Duke Shunde tomorrow. Yue'e said as she straightened her purse.

Ah Guan found that his mother was pale and had extremely dark circles under her eyes, so she couldn't help but ask with concern, "Mom, have you had breakfast?" Would you like something to eat? I went to buy breakfast. ”

Yue'e shook her head and replied with a smile: "No need, I drink Shunde Gong's talisman water every day, and I drink it for three meals, and my spirit is very good, and my stomach is not hungry." By the way, I'll give you that bowl of runic water, don't forget to drink it! ”

Ah Guan watched Yue'e go out and stood for a long time before pouring the disgusting bowl of talisman water into the toilet.

He began to take a closer look at everything in his home. When I walked to Yue'e's room, I opened the door and saw that it was all portraits of the Duke of Shunde, and a large number of talisman pendants, and they were more and more densely pasted.

Kwan dialed the phone to the convenience store where he used to work, and the manager had hired a new clerk while he was in the hospital.

Ah Guan put on a coat and went out, wanting to buy some food, and not wanting to stay at home.

He walked and ate the food on the street, and suddenly felt a little nostalgic for the old man in his dreams. I always felt that the old man's eyes seemed very wise, and it seemed that only the old man could answer everything in front of him for him.

He walked aimlessly, I don't know how long, walked to a street quite far from home, and suddenly found that not far in front of him, there is a small temple, located in the alley, in front of the temple a few red lanterns written in big words - Shunde Emperor's Mansion.

"It can't be such a coincidence, right?" Guan scolded a few times in his heart, and was about to leave. But after thinking about it, why not go forward to see where the Emperor Shunde is sacred, and also see if my mother is in it.

Ah Guan pretended to walk in front of the temple casually, glanced at the temple a few times, and saw a bunch of people kneeling inside, chanting words in their mouths.

He caught a glimpse of one of the kneeling believers, one of the women's clothes and back, very similar to her mother's. So he looked around, pretending to be waiting for someone, and swayed back and forth outside the temple, trying to see more clearly.

A loud shout suddenly came from the temple: "Disciple Lin Yue, the Duke of Shunde has promised to accept your son as a deed, and your son is outside, so don't let him in!" ”

When Guan heard this, he was so frightened that his body stiffened. The people in the temple also looked out together, Yue'e ran out in a panic, pulled Ah Guan and asked, "Jiayou, why did you come here?" ”

"I don't know, I'm a little bored at home alone, I want to go out for a walk, I don't know why I came here..."

"It must have been settled by the Duke of Shunde, it must be..." Yue'e said in surprise and joy, while pulling Ah Guan to the temple.

This Shunde Emperor's Mansion is old and dark, and a few black candles are lit with small candles. The candles flickered on and off, and rows of old black lanterns hung on the walls on either side of the flickering as if they were about to fall at any moment.

The altar in the middle of the temple made the incense burner gray and black, and the broken incense burner was full of peculiar smells, and even the incense ash that fell was particularly black.

Ah Guan saw a statue of a god on the altar, the statue was dressed in a yellow robe, his face and hands were brown and black, his eyebrows and eyes were kind, but his face was slightly treacherous, thinking that it was the merciful and compassionate Shunde Gong in his mother's mouth.

Yue'e couldn't hide her joy, and said loudly to the believers and friends around her: "This is my son... I originally wanted to ask Shunde Gong first about his meaning, and then bring him here, but I didn't expect him to come by himself..."

When those brothers and sisters heard this, they all showed envious eyes.

A woman said to Ah Guan: "Alas, boy, it is your blessing, the Duke of Shunde is willing to accept you as a deed, and also guide you over, my family Zhihua worshiped for a month, and the Duke of Shunde was willing to accept him." ”

"Uh-huh." Ah Guan was confused and didn't know how to deal with it, so he could only smile and nod.

Mother pulled Ah Guan to an old woman in her sixties in front of the altar, and said to Ah Guan: "Ah You come to give Shunde Gong an incense, let Auntie see it, and drink a little Aunt Aunt's talisman water..."

"Fu Shui..." Ah Guan looked at the old woman called "Auntie" in front of him, and saw that Auntie's eyes were very small, and the whites of her eyes looked very small. Auntie was expressionless, leaning sideways in front of the small table on the side, constantly grabbing some strange things and putting them into a sea bowl.

I saw that some of the "ingredients" were powder, some were pieces, long strips, and even some were sparse, and finally some black liquid was poured in.