The child looked at his mother, and the woman in Mai just looked back gently, looking at this child who had not yet grown wings and was about to fly alone, she was distressed and proud.

The old man watched from the sidelines, did not disturb, and was silent and peaceful.

After a long time, the child asked, "Is the old man also separated from his family?"

The old man said, "Grandpa, I don't have any family. ”

The child retorted, "Everyone has a family. ”

The old man said: "There was once a master, and I picked it up from a mass grave. ”

Pointing ahead, he said, "Just behind this mountain, to the east is the imperial tombs of the Shura royal families of the past dynasties, and to the west is the mass grave." If it is said that our old horse is in the same vein, the hedging of evil qi is ominous. However, the Shura Empire adheres to the luck of Shura, and the cultivation is to kill the hegemony, and the imperial spirit of Shura depends on the dead to provide for it. ”

Although I don't know the time, but looking at the sky, it is already late at night, and the old man's gaze crosses the mountain in front of him, as if he sees the mass grave behind the mountain, and there are many ghosts.

"Shura Avenue, stop the war with war. The Shura royal family, to fight to feed the war. After all, it is a crooked and evil way, and the qi is exhausted, no wonder there is no help for the unrighteousness, and the Shennong army rises up. ”

The four-year-old child couldn't understand the old man's words, he only understood, and the old man seemed to be an orphan, and for a while he only felt that the old man was as lonely as himself. He seemed to have forgotten the old man's distorted and weird face, and heroically stretched out his hand to lead the old man and said, "Grandpa is not afraid, with me, my mother will be your mother in the future." ”

The old man laughed, but looking at the child's honest gaze, he really wanted to be a brother with him, and there was a strange feeling in his heart, that is, it was absurd, and there was an indescribable touch, so he took the child's immature little hand and said: "Little Lao'er is already this age, even if he is willing to be a brother with you, how can your mother be willing to be a bad old man's mother." ”

After speaking, he looked at the female ghost in cloth and motioned for her to cooperate with him and persuade the child's innocence to mess around. The latter nodded with a smile, and the meaning couldn't be clearer: "Be your mother, don't dislike it." ”

The old man was amused by this big and small, but in an instant he suddenly understood how this child, who was only four years old, was suffering in this mountain forest and survived alone. Presumably, it is this optimistic heart that has become more and more tenacious after all kinds of despair.

For a while, the idea of accepting disciples was born. Look at this child again, he was born with a pair of yin and yang eyes, can see ghosts and monsters, and does have the talent to do tricks.

However, most of them were short-lived, or they were lonely and sick in their later years, and their relatives were different, and they were rejected by the world as unknown, and could neither take the imperial examination nor intermarry with the common people. Such a well-behaved and tenacious child, even if he doesn't do a job, he will have a great future in any good person's house. Thinking of this, the old man reluctantly put away his heart to accept the apprentice.

Ruining one's future for the sake of spreading one, such a thing may not be uncommon among the famous factions that are divided by the heroes. But in their vein, although there are no rules, no one is willing to do it.

Although the old horse is a single line, the age can be traced back to two hundred years ago, one hundred years earlier than Lu Zhengli, the six-way sword god who determined the pattern of the world a hundred years ago. It is now the sixth generation, and it has always adopted those abandoned babies who are suffering from strange diseases or have terrible appearances as heirs.

At least, this kid is too handsome for a line.

"Old man," Ah Tao softly pulled the old man back from his thoughts, and said in a childish voice that stirred up the old man's heart, "Can I worship you as a teacher?"

The old man stared at the young man incredulously, and then said, "No." When I overtake your mother, I will send you to a good family. With your character, whether you are practicing martial arts and joining the army, or studying and becoming a soldier, you will have something to do in the future. Your mother knows and will be proud of you. ”

The child shook his head and said, "I don't want my mother to be proud, I just want to be a servant to protect my mother." ”

The old man was puzzled: "How to protect your mother." ”

The child was unexpectedly sensible, and did not entangle the woman who did not let the old man overtake the cloth, but said: "If the mother does not enter the reincarnation of the underworld and will dissipate, then she will always go to the underworld."

"My mother once told me that the underworld is another world, and when people die, they will meet in the underworld.

"Daddy is waiting for us in the underworld, and my mother is looking for him now.

"My mother also said that I am too young to go to the underworld, and my father will be unhappy when I go, and my father and mother hope that when I am old, I will have grandchildren and incense, and then go to the underworld and wait for my children and grandchildren with them. This is inheritance and expectation.

"My father and mother are in the underworld, whether I am a general or a prime minister, I can no longer protect them. But it's okay to do it. ”

The old man said curiously: "How can you do it? You can't go down to the underworld." ”

The child said slyly: "The old man said that he can be friends with the dead and fulfill the unfulfilled wish of the deceased." Then I can help those resentful spirits fulfill their wishes, and then beg them to help their father and mother when they go to the underworld. My mother often said that they rely on their parents at home and their friends when they go out, and they have more friends in the underworld, and if there are little ghosts bullying them, more ghosts will come out to intercede for them. ”

The old man was surprised, "You want to make a deal with the ghost?"

The child shook his head seriously and said, "It's not a transaction, it's a friendship." If one is unwilling, I will help two, and if two are unwilling, I will help ten. If ten is not willing, I will help one hundred ghosts, a thousand ghosts, thousands of ghosts. As long as one is willing, my father and mother will have one more helper in the underworld. ”

The old man muttered, "Thousands of ...... Then the Shura Empire is going to float corpses all over the field......"

The child waved his hand and said, "Then don't have so many, just one hundred and eighty." ”

The old man said: "Filial piety is good, but our work is a cheap business, most of them are lonely and miserable for a lifetime, and your wishes can be completed for you." You still have to find a clean white family, study hard, and gain fame in the future. If you feel that you owe Xiao Lao'er, after Xiao Lao'er dies, prepare a sturdy coffin and bury it well. Don't let the little old man's body be in that mass grave, in the wind and rain. ”

The child stood up and said decisively to the old man, "No. ”

This answer made the old man stand stunned for a moment, his face was like ashes, and then he laughed at himself: "It's the little old man who is greedy." ”

The child said, "The coffin should not only be strong, but also beautiful." The funeral should not only be decent, but also beautiful. This is not a kindness I owe you, but a filial duty as an apprentice. ”

After speaking, he turned his head and said to the cloth-clothed woman, "Right, mother?"

The woman smiled and nodded, both in recognition and in relief.

The old man regained his life and said, "You don't owe me any favors. ”

The child said, "I owe it." ”

The old man said, "When do you owe?" ”

The child waved the remaining branch in his hand and said, "This fish." ”

Then he suddenly choked up in a low voice: "And my mother." ”