The atmosphere was quite awkward, I didn't expect this girl to be the daughter of the director. I kept my head down and didn't speak, my hands fiddling with the corners of my clothes. The air seemed to be frozen, but fortunately, after a while, the director came out of the kitchen, holding two dishes in his hand, and I quickly got up to pick it up.

"Xiao Feng, you're welcome, sit there and chat with Xiao Tian, they are all about the same age, they should talk," the director said with a smile.

"Well, okay, you've worked hard. I'm really embarrassed, I didn't bring anything before I came, and when I got home, you cooked by yourself. ”

"It's okay what you said, don't you still have your aunt's help," the director pouted at the corner of his mouth. There is also a woman in the kitchen, who must be Xia Xiaotian's mother.

"Sit here and have a good chat, I'm going to be busy"

I didn't expect that the director, who was usually dignified in the office, would be able to go to the kitchen at home, and the director insisted on not letting me help. I had no choice but to sit down and look at Xia Xiaotian.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for Xia Xiaotian to get up and turn on the TV, at that time, if anyone in the countryside had a TV, it would be terrible, every family moved a stool to squeeze anyone to watch TV, so it was not lively. Of course, in a family like the director's condition, it is normal to have a TV, although it is also a black and white TV.

Lin Zhengying's [Mr. Zombie] happened to be playing on the TV, when I was okay before, I watched it, it seems to be a movie just made this year, which is very good.

"Do you believe that there are ghosts in the world?" I looked at Xia Xiaotian next to me.

"I studied politics and law at university, and it is difficult for materialists to believe in the existence of idealism. A ghost is just a kind of soul body, which cannot be seen or touched. We live in a three-dimensional space, and I think that if there is a ghost, it must be living in a four-dimensional space or a multi-dimensional space. It's just that we can't see it. "I didn't expect this little girl to say such a few words. Actually, I didn't believe in the existence of ghosts, and after this tomb visit, although I didn't see it with my own eyes, I already believed that there really was such a thing in this world. The thing that I saw clearly after the coma was absolutely real, and although I could not leave any evidence of what I said, I believe, it was not a hallucination.

"Then do you say that there are still people like Lin Zhengying in modern society who have Taoist spells?"

"It's hard to say, even if there were, we wouldn't be able to reach people at that level, but I know some of the people with strange abilities. Xia Xiaotian replied.

I've also heard of the kind of people with strange abilities she said, some qigong masters, some people with special abilities, all they have is cultivation in spiritual power. It is purely by mental power to perform special functions.

"What are you talking about, get ready, eat," the director and his wife came out of the kitchen, and the meal was ready.

"Didn't talk about anything, Dad" Xia Xiaotian laughed, "Wow! Today's meal is very rich."

"That is, it doesn't depend on who did it. Xia Xiaotian's mother walked over with a smile, still holding two dishes in her hand.

"Mom, you're biased," Xia Xiaotian pouted and looked at her mother, "You never cooked so much delicious food for me." ”

"During the years of your military service, my mother didn't have a chance to cook it for you, and if you want to eat it in the future, just tell your mother, anything" The director's wife hid her face and smiled.

The meal was a joyful meal, but I couldn't figure out why the director would suddenly invite me to his house. Or does he have something to say to me? Sure enough, after eating, the mother and daughter were separated, and the director took me to the room alone.

"Xiao Feng, you have been in the institute for a year, and your father is a good friend of mine, I invite you to my house today, I really have something to say to you. The director was silent for a moment, then turned to me and said.

"What you got in the tomb, I actually know, this time I sent you for a reason, you listen to me tell you"

It turned out that twenty years ago, Director Xia followed the organization to the tomb, and my father went there, but they entered the main tomb, and they brought out a lot of things from the tomb and handed them over to the organization. Of course, later, the organization did not delve into it, and it did not know about these two jade pendants.

After so many years, I thought that it was not a big deal to keep these two things in my possession at that time. As a result, by chance, Director Xia met a Yufang Yedao. The Dao man could see at a glance that there was something wrong with the jade pendant hanging around Xia Xiaotian's neck. It is said that this jade pendant is an ominous thing, and anyone who wears it will be sad and stand for a long time. At that time, after listening to this, Director Xia was scared tightly, some things would rather be believed than not believed, so Director Xia asked the You Fang Daoist how to untie this knot. The Taoist was silent, and only said that he would go to a place to find him when the child was weak.

"I didn't believe that person's words, but I was afraid that it would really happen, and that person said that after these two pieces of jade were worn, even if they were taken off and thrown away, they would be useless. You and Xiao Tian were born in the same year, if it's good, you are both twenty years old this year. ”

"Director Xia, did that person say what the rescue method is?"

"I didn't say it, I just said that when the child was twenty years old, he would go to the tomb to get something back, I think that thing, you should get it back, please forgive me for my selfishness, after you graduated, I asked your father to come to work in the institute. Including this time I arranged for you to visit the tomb in the mountains, I also arranged it single-handedly, I am very ashamed to say, I have no children in my life, only one daughter, I am afraid of danger, so I let you go, fortunately, you came back safe and sound. If something happens to you, I'm so shameless to see your father again. I won't forgive myself for the rest of my life."

I didn't care that the director was using me to go to the grave to get it instead of his daughter. What I care about is that if what the director said is true, I, Xia Xiaotian, wore these two jade pendants in the same year, that is to say, there will be a catastrophe in the year of establishment, and it will also endanger the lives of me and Xia Xiaotian. I reached out and took out the jade pendant from my chest, and looked at it carefully, the jade pendant has been worn on my chest all the year round, and I have never taken it off, the surface is becoming smoother and smoother, and the inside is a little blood-red. Wiping the sweat from my forehead, I looked up at the director.

"Does my father know about this?" I asked. Although I knew that my father must have known about it, and that the director would have told my father, I asked anyway. It's not that I don't believe my father, but I want to make sure that my father hasn't mentioned it to me for so many years, because my father doesn't want to mention it, or if there is something else.

"Your father knows, presumably over the years, your father has never mentioned it to you, you don't have to doubt it, I asked him to do this, to be exact, it was the Dao Chang who didn't let you tell you, including Xiaotian, and I never told her. "The director saw the doubts in my heart.

In fact, I am very unsettled in my heart, and no one knows that he will die one day, and he will not treat it calmly. I'm not a saint, I'm not an immortal, and I don't want to die before I reach the age of a hundred years, even if it's just to be ancient. At least, I'm alive to make it through my life. What's more, who wants to die to be alive.

"Director, it's not too early, I think I'd better go back first. "At this moment, I suddenly wanted to go back to my parents, even if they didn't say it to me, I wanted to be with them quietly.

"It's okay, you go back first, and I'll arrange it when you get to the office tomorrow. Director Xia patted me on the shoulder and said.

When I got home, it was already evening, the eighth master was still there, and my parents had already prepared the meal. I looked at the second elder who had grown gray hair on both sideburns, and the corners of my eyes turned red. Actually, I know why my father and mother didn't want to tell me those things, but they didn't think it would be much use to tell me, and they didn't want me to leave them, but they didn't want it to be true. I also know that there are some things that you can't solve if you know them, but fortunately, there are still ten years to go, and I still have a chance to change my fate.

I tried my best to make myself feel calm, and after dinner, while the eighth master was helping my mother wash the dishes, I followed my father to the study.

"Dad, I want to quit my job at the archaeology institute and go out for a walk. "I poured my father a glass of boiling water.

"You already know?" said the father, sitting in his chair with his eyes slightly closed, and muttering for a long time.

"Well, I went to the director's house in the afternoon and told me everything. ”

"Yes, hehe," my father chuckled dryly. I don't know where to put my two hands.

Father's appearance, in fact, I am very distressed, as a father after learning that his child will die in the near future, hiding the secret in his heart for more than ten years, a person bears endless torture, and thinks about the pain of losing his child all the time. This pain is like the kind of heart-piercing pain, like a knife hanging over his heart, not knowing which day it will fall and take away the flesh of his heart. In a trance, I felt that my father was getting old in an instant at this moment, and I don't know when, there was a little more gray hair between his sideburns.

"It's all my fault, I don't know that the things in the tomb have been cursed, if I knew, I wouldn't have agreed to keep it privately, let alone wear this piece of jade on your body" The father suddenly held his head, squatted on the ground, and choked up.

"Dad, I don't blame you. It's not your fault, this may be fate, but fortunately, there is still time left, and there is a way to remedy it. This time I go out, no matter what the outcome, I will come back, even if I really can't find a way to save me, I will return to you. Tears fell uncontrollably, first, I felt that my father was full of old intentions at this moment, and he was no longer as high-spirited as before. The second is that tomorrow I will leave the place where I have lived for twenty years, and the parents who have raised me for more than twenty years. The third is that I don't have a clue at all about this trip, as if I am walking at night, and there is no light.

A silent silence ended the conversation. The next day, I submitted my resignation and prepared to go south. The reason why he went south was because the director told me before he left that the Taoist priest spoke with a southern accent, like someone from Fujian. There are three companions, a man, a woman and an orphan.