Chapter 52: Death and Return
Mr. Hong lost his father at a young age and was raised by his widowed mother on the family's meager property. But he was shrewd in business, and when he was a teenager, he began to take over the family business, and in just a few years, he expanded his business dozens of times, and was praised by others. In order to discuss business, he often goes in and out of Flower Street and Willow Lane, and the matter of men and women is just an inconspicuous matter to him. When Mr. Hong was just over 20 years old, his mother was seriously ill and hoped to see his son marry a wife and have children and settle down.
After his mother passed away, his wife Ren Yun accompanied Master Hong, allowing him to go through the saddest and loneliest period. Accompanied by each other day and day, the two sang together, and their feelings were deep, and Ren Yun soon became pregnant. A few months later, a love poem from the "Red Pavilion" made him feel very happy, and he was invited by the top girl to go to the "Red Pavilion" to have fun, but he didn't know that his wife was also led there by a scheming letter, and saw his absurd scene.
Ren Yun, who stumbled back home, had abdominal pain, the child was born prematurely, and it was difficult to give birth. When Master Hong rushed back to the house, he only saw the gradually cold bodies of his newborn thin son and wife. When he found that his gentle wife could no longer smile at him, he realized that his wife had become a pillar in his heart and could not be missing.
"I was going crazy at the time, so I rushed out with Yun'er's cold body in my arms. In the broken wall of Yueshan outside Yucheng, I wanted to jump down, but I was rescued by a little boy with particularly bright eyes, maybe it was because I felt deep remorse, and he told me a way to make up for it......"
Bai Yuelan asked, "How to make up for it?" "Everyone is dead, how can they make up for it?"
"Resurrect my clouds! a strange resurrection. Master Hong said: "He gave me a talisman that can keep the body of the deceased warm, so that it will not be discovered by the cultivators who send out ghosts and exorcisms." But resurrection involves two steps, maintaining body temperature is only the first step, and the second step is to let the dead start breathing in order to truly return to the sun. He didn't have that medicine, and said he would come back to me if he found it. I waited sixteen years. ”
Xiang Nan asked suspiciously: "Why didn't you tell your son about this, after all, he is not young." ”
"I'm afraid he'll slip out. Master Hong said sadly: "This spell has a forbidden area that cannot be touched, that is, the dead cannot find out that they are dead. Before Yun'er woke up, I had already done her funeral, announced her death, and replaced all the servants. She couldn't see the light, especially the sun, so as soon as I woke up, I hid her in a hidden compartment in my room and told her that she was sick and could only avoid the light and that she couldn't see her son. In other aspects such as eating and drinking, she is no different from ordinary people, and even she can feel hot and cold, knowing that her body is warm. It was dark at night, except for the light of a small candle placed far away, and she never noticed that her own skin was the blue and white of a dead man. Although her body is warm, there is always a little shade around her. Many years have passed like this, and over the years, she has missed her son more and more, and often secretly goes to see him at night, maybe my son Siyun has also found something, so she broke into my room at night. Fortunately, Yun'er was worried about infecting her son, so she hid every time. ”
Bai Yuelan frowned, and her tone was stern: "So, you have been raising this ghost?"
Master Hong glanced at her, and suddenly knelt down in front of the four of them: "Please, masters, spare my wife, don't collect ghosts and exorcise ghosts!"
Looking south at Ye Zhi, this must be a ghost, but he has never done evil, do you have to accept it?
Bai Yuelan doesn't agree very much with raising ghosts, now Mrs. Hong doesn't know that she is dead, but it is impossible to wait endlessly, in case she realizes that she is a ghost, and her husband once betrayed her and indirectly killed her, will she become a resentful ghost and a demon?
Ding Rong also looked at Ye Zhi, her husband had been waiting for her for sixteen years, so couldn't he help them?
The junior brothers and sisters didn't speak, but Ye Zhi understood, and he said to Bai Yuelan: "Little junior sister, cultivators are not emotionless monsters who only divide their clans and only obey the rules, we can help." ”
Bai Yuelan frowned and said, "Senior brother, after all, it's a ghost, no!"
Ye Zhi looked at her firmly.
Looking at Ye Zhi's eyes, Bai Yuelan nodded with difficulty after half a moment, and asked, "Senior brother, is there a way?"
Ye Zhi turned to Master Hong and said, "We won't accept Mrs. Zun." But it is really inappropriate for her to exist in the world as a ghost, so it is best to return to the sun as soon as possible. ”
"I want to too, but I asked a lot of Taoist monks in private, and they have never heard of such a strange technique, and even scolded me for violating the way of heaven. The boy never came again. Master Hong pleaded, and surprise suddenly flashed in his eyes: "Ladies and gentlemen, what can you do to help my Yun'er?"
Ye Zhidao: "I'll take a look at the spell left by that one first." ”
"This ......"
"It doesn't matter if you take off the charm for a while, we will cover up the cold aura of Madame Zun and the mansion. "Ye Zhi's promise.
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After a while, Master Hong turned back and took a sachet. He took out the charm that had been carefully placed in the sachet and handed it to Ye Zhi. Sixteen years later, a fragile piece of yellow paper with a spell written on it is still very well preserved.
Ye Zhi looked at it and said in a low voice: "Sure enough, it's him......"
He asked, "Who are you talking about?"
didn't answer Ding Rong, Ye Zhi just said lightly: "Seeing this talisman, I guess the person who drew this talisman is really half an acquaintance, so the method he used came from a book of strange things I also read." There is a follow-up to that book, and I have read it, and I think I can find the medicine that can make the dead breathe again. ”
The younger brothers and sisters all asked, "What medicine and where is it?"
"It's not far. I will be able to go back and forth by tomorrow afternoon. We will return to the sect in the near future, so we must hurry up. "The Way of the Leaves. "Are you waiting for me here, or are you going to go along?"
"I'm going. Ding Rong hurriedly said, she wanted to help.
"I'll go too. "White Moon Lando.
Xiang Nan thought for a while: "If it's not dangerous, I won't help, I'm going to continue to study my compass, it's still not very reliable to measure ghosts by body temperature." ”
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Set off in the middle of the night, under the leadership of Ye Zhi, the three of them were separated from each other, and when the sky was slightly bright, they had already arrived at a cloudy mountain.
After getting off the sword, the three of them found that it was unusually hot and even a little stuffy, and many mosquitoes were flying.
Ye Zhi said: "This kind of herb that can make people breathe again belongs to the demon world. ”
Bai Yuelan "ah" for a moment, in order to save a ghost, she still needs to use magic grass?
Ye Zhi soothed: "Little junior sister doesn't know, in fact, some of the pills that our Hanshan Sect usually uses come from fairy grass, and some come from the demon world or the ghost world. Decontaminated, not unusable. ”
Ding Rong was not surprised, when she read the novel before, she already knew that the Hanshan Sect was not very strict with the clans of people, ghosts and demons, she asked, "Second Senior Brother, what kind of herb are you talking about?"
"The name of this grass is dragon grass, red, and the two leaves that grow each time are opposite. Once we've found it, we just need to cut the two most tender slices at the top. It is specifically stated in the Zhiyi Collection that it cannot be pulled, but can only be cut with a knife blade, otherwise it will be dangerous. Ye Zhi explained.
Bai Yuelan and Ding Rong nodded, and the three of them scattered and began to look for this magic grass.