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Huo Zhenye's trip was not in vain, he brought a red-billed blue magpie home, and just as he put down the cage, the little oriole flew in from the yard and flew around the blue magpie's cage.

The little titmouse opened its beak slightly, staring at the red-billed blue magpie stupidly. Its fur is royal blue, its tail feathers are slender and curled up, and its bright red beak gently combs its feathers.

"How about it, isn't it beautiful?" Huo Zhenye rubbed the little squirrel's head, "Don't hang yourself on a bird cage."

As soon as Huo Zhenye finished speaking, Zhu Ding chirped, and the little squirrel shuddered, and flew to Zhu Ding's cage again.

Hey, this bird is quite infatuated. Just as Huo Zhenye was about to laugh, he thought about how things look like their masters. If Bai Zhun fell in love with someone, wouldn't he be quite infatuated?

Just as the corners of his mouth were about to curl up, he heard a woman whispering softly in the room.

Huo Zhenye took two steps inside, what's going on?As soon as he went out, a woman came to the house?

Walking to the door, I saw a woman in her twenties, dressed as a woman, wearing an old-style gown and skirt, with jade and pearls on her wrists. It could be seen that she was born in a wealthy family, but she was dressed in plain white, with a white flower on her temple.

"Bai Qiye." The corners of the woman's eyes were slightly red, but her expression was calm, "Please make a paper horse for my daughter's funeral."

While talking, he took out his daughter's birth date, and took out a handkerchief, which contained five gold bars.

Bai Zhun glanced at the horoscope first, and then at the woman, but did not take the money: "She has not yet reached the end of her lifespan, and she will have to wait long enough to be reincarnated after going to the Yin Division. It is better to leave the money for her food."

If a child dies young, it is generally not a big deal. Just find a small coffin to send away. If the parents are always there, they can burn some incense and provide some meals. If the parents forget them, they will become innocent. Lonely ghosts are the most pitiful kind of ghosts.

When the woman heard that her daughter's life was not over, she bit the corner of her lips and swallowed tears: "I will never give up her rice in my whole life."

Bai Zhun looked at her for a while, saw that the light in her eyes changed from dim to scorching, and nodded in response: "Let's stay."

The woman folded her sleeves and bowed, turned around and left, her back was bent when she came, and her back was straight when she left, with hatred in her eyes.

Bai Zhun saw it, and Huo Zhenye saw it too, and when the woman walked out of the small building, he asked, "Are we still in charge of this kind of thing?"

Five gold bars are enough to go to any famous mountain or ancient temple.

"If it suits my wishes, I'll take care of it." Bai Zhun pressed the little girl's birth date under the incense burner, and tonight, he will take care of the girl's grievances and send the souls of the dead.

He can only cross souls here, not people

Sometimes love makes people suffer, but hate can make people live longer.

Bai Zhun wiped his hands with a silk handkerchief: "What does your Miss Tao want from you?"

"It's my Miss Tao. Today is the second time I've met her." Huo Zhenye explained subconsciously. After speaking, he paused first, then raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Are you jealous?"

Bai Zhun frowned, and Huo Zhenye hurriedly took two steps back. With Bai Zhun's expression, he wanted to throw him out again.

Huo Qishao is very flexible, he immediately relented: "I bought amber walnuts, and I will make you a pot of tea? I should teach me how to make paper ties today, I can already chop bamboo threads."

"Yes? My craft is so easy to learn?" Bai Zhun took the paper bag and filled it with an amber walnut.

The outer layer of icing was wrapped in honey, and dried after wrapping, it was sweet and crispy, Bai Zhun ate two more at Changsantangzi last time, and Huo Zhenye remembered it.

"When I was learning art in the first year, a piece of bamboo outside my house was chopped up before it had time to grow shoots." He was afraid that the master would not want him, so he was extra serious, until his hands were covered with blisters.

Huo Zhenye pushed Master to the patio to bask in the sun and made him a pot of tea. He then sat on a small stool next to Bai Zhun, split bamboo, spun and polished it, and ground it into long and short bamboo strips.

"How old were you then?"

"Six or seven years old." Bai Zhun chewed another walnut, squinting his eyes slightly under the sun.

"I don't remember what happened when I was a child." Huo Zhenye slammed his head on the bamboo, and when he cut it down, the bamboo made a clear sound.

Bai Zhun's brows twitched, but the lazy tone was still on his lips: "Oh?"

Huo Zhenye didn't shy away from it: "My biological mother is a foreign house, or that kind of foreign house that is not very upright."

In addition to enjoying it for himself, Mr. Huo also treats her to guests.She was pregnant, and the child in her belly did not know which important person it was.

Master Huo didn't want to keep this child at first, and there is no shortage of children in his family.

But Huo Zhenye's life was very tough, two doses of abortion pills insisted on not killing him, and he was left alone after birth, and it was the old lady who was a servant at home who brought him up.

"About when I was five or six years old, my mother died." Huo Zhenye chopped off a bamboo thread, and exposed it to the sun, making it evenly thick.

At that time, Mr. Huo was running around for officials. The Qing regime was still there, but it was about to end. Mr. Huo acted according to the wind, and instead of being an official of the Qing Dynasty, he became an official of the President.

The hard-working Huo family, the flowing president.

Huo Zhenye was in the outer house. Although his identity was unclear, he was raised as a young master after all. Once his mother died and Master Huo didn't come for half a year, he was sent to the old house of the Huo family by his mother.

The wife avoided seeing him, and the fourth aunt threw him into the orphanage.

Bai Zhun slowly took a breath, he was not in a hurry, and asked calmly, "And then?"

"Then... my elder brother took me back." Huo Chaozong took Huo Zhenye to the Western Hospital for a blood test, and after confirming that he was a child of the Huo family, the eldest wife took the opportunity to punish the fourth aunt severely, saying that she let the Huo family's child Adrift.

"I was seriously ill at Huo's house, and when I woke up, I forgot what happened before." I thought that the eldest wife was his mother, but later I gradually realized that it was not, and gradually pieced together the truth, naturally I also suffered a lot.

Huo Ye, Ye Ye shook the electricity, restless.People with a little background know his status in the family as soon as they hear it.

When he was brought into Huo's house, Mr. Huo had just lost his official position, his official career was not going well, and the regime was in turmoil, so he gave him such a name.

Bai Zhun didn't speak, Huo Zhenye thought he was asleep, turned his head to look, but Bai Zhun was not asleep, he squinted at the blue sky.

"what happened?"

Bai Zhun closed his eyes, the fate of people is really strange, he obviously forgot, but he met again.

His vision suddenly darkened, his long eyelashes lifted slightly, Huo Zhenye's face was right in front of him, the distance between the two was not more than an inch.

"We met each other when we were young." Huo Zhenye confirmed now.

Huo Zhenye propped his hands on the armrests of the wheelchair, almost touching Bai Zhun's face. As he got closer, the sandalwood scent on Bai Zhun's body became stronger, and there was also some bamboo paper fragrance in that smell.

Obviously he was the one who leaned forward, but he was also the one who tightened his Adam's apple.

Bai Zhun's eyes were calm, he just looked at Huo Zhenye like this, his lips parted slightly: "No."

"Yes." Huo Zhenye smirked, what was Bai Zhun like when he was a child?He is so... so beautiful now, he must have been like a porcelain doll when he was a child.

The eyes of the two were fixed, as if confronting each other, and the room fell silent for a moment.

Being stared at by such a pair of indifferent eyes, Huo Zhenye's blood surged. He quickly let go of his hand and stepped back, turned around and ran into the kitchen to open the refrigerator, and took a bottle of ice soda.

Bai Zhun loosened his tightly clasped knuckles, his throat moved slightly, and he exhaled slowly: "Bring me a bottle too."

One of them was sitting in a wheelchair, the other was sitting on a small bamboo stool, drinking ice soda to reduce the fire.

Huo Zhenye felt embarrassed, the fire in his place was still on fire, and he couldn't take any excitement, so he poured down a bottle of ice soda, and he simply said seriously: "I saw a pair of red satin shoes in the copper coin."

Yinyin is wearing old-fashioned attire, women in the old days would not wear red shoes until they get married.

Except for the wrong pair of shoes, only Miss Tao said that her cousin has been dreaming that she is marrying someone in the dream.

Bai Zhun closed his eyes again, basking in the warm sun, he was drowsy: "Wai hall? Matching a yin marriage?"

"Shadow marriage?" Huo Zhenye had heard of it when he was in the old house, but most of them were young men and women who died early, and their parents decided to match them into a yin marriage, but Yinyin was a living person.

"Maybe it's because she took something that shouldn't be taken, or maybe it's because the marriage was arranged in the first place, and the man won't let her go." Bai Zhun thought for a while, "Did you see it?"

"Not sure." The girl ran up the stairs quickly. If the color of the shoes was not so conspicuous, he would not have noticed it at all.

"Since I saw it, I would like to mention a few words." The conscience is hard to persuade the damn ghost.

Huo Zhenye lowered his head to split the bamboo, peeking at Bai Zhun's face from the corner of his eye: "Then I, well, I'm going to see Miss Tao again."

Bai Zhun turned his face away.

Tao Yonghua gently knocked on Su Yin's door: "Yinyin, are you awake? Dad has a social event, and mom plays mahjong with her friends. They don't come back for dinner. We eat together."

Su Yin didn't fall asleep, she was lying on the bed with her eyes open, and when she heard the voice, she answered slowly, "Okay, I'm up."

She opened the door and said to Tao Yonghua: "Cousin, it's my fault this afternoon, I've offended your friend."

Tao Yonghua was really upset, it's nothing to offend her, but Huo Zhenye was invited by her with great difficulty, and the two of them had no friendship at all, they only came because he was kind, and they must apologize to him.

But the little cousin lost her father and mother, her family has undergone great changes, and her behavior is not thoughtful, so she can understand.

"It's okay, I asked Zhou Ma to stew ginseng chicken soup, you drink more, to replenish your vitality."

Su Yin followed Tao Yonghua downstairs, feeling that all the servants in the room were looking at her, she lowered her head and walked to the dining table, sipping chicken soup.

Tao Yonghua continued: "When you get better, you can go to school with me. The school is great. In addition to studying, we also play badminton, watch movies, and rehearse dramas together. It's much better than being bored at home."

Su Yin raised her head, looked at her cousin's soft and shiny face, and nodded to her: "Okay, I will obey my cousin."

After dinner, it was dark.

As soon as it got dark, Su Yin trembled. She went back to her own room during the day, and these nights, she was crowded with Tao Yonghua, but today she went back to her own room.

Tao Yonghua asked concerned: "Are you really not going to sleep with me?"

Su Yin shook her head: "It's so noisy every day that you can't sleep well." She woke up from nightmares every night, as long as the altar was successfully opened yesterday, she would not have nightmares again.

Tao Yonghua was still not at ease: "If you feel uncomfortable, just call me."

Su Yin nodded and smiled, and sent Tao Yonghua out. She fell on the bed and closed her eyes safely. This night, she slept very soundly.

Early the next morning, the two called a rickshaw and were going to the old city.

Tao Yonghua was full of doubts, and looked at his cousin from time to time, but Su Yin leaned against the car and didn't speak, her spirit seemed to be better.

The rickshaw was parked outside an alley, a place Tao Yonghua had never set foot in. There was a woman cleaning a spittoon along the street, and a few steps away was a family eating breakfast at a table.

She dragged Su Yin in, and every household here looked at the pair of sisters.

The elder sister is wearing a western dress, and the younger sister is wearing silk and satin. They look like rich people.

There are births in this alley, people who have abortions, people who pray to God, and people who are sick. I don't know which family is going to slaughter a fat sheep today.

"Here we are." Yinyin's face turned pale, she looked at a narrow door, she let go of Tao Yonghua's hand, "I'll go in first and talk to Sun Xianniang."

Tao Yonghua was a little uneasy, she felt something was wrong, but she just thought it was the environment here that made her uneasy: "Okay, come out quickly."

Su Yin nodded, she pushed the door in, and closed the door again.

In a narrow room, a piece of red cloth was covered in front of the window, and the room was full of red light during the day, Yinyin said softly, "Sun Xianniang, I'm here."

A skinny old lady with a wrinkled face came out of the room. She had bound feet and smiled when she saw Yinyin: "You found the right person so quickly?"

Su Yin had tears in her eyes, bit her lips and was speechless.

Sun Xianniang knew in her heart that this kind of thing would not be able to invite close people for a while: "Don't be afraid, maybe you won't like her."

If you don't like her, you have to go by yourself.

Sun Xianniang smiled, and placed an altar in front of the round table, a bronze mirror, an incense burner, two plates of fresh offering fruits, and three porcelain cups.There are tea, rice and wine in the cup.

Finally, she took out a plate of white rice: "Okay, let someone come in."

Tao Yonghua waited outside the door, the window was covered with cloth, she couldn't see clearly what was going on inside, and she didn't dare to call out Yinyin's name, so she just tiptoed to take a look through the crack of the door.

Suddenly a basin of water poured down on her head, and Tao Yonghua couldn't dodge it in time. Although her hair and jacket were not wet, her skirt was all wet, and she let out an "oops".

A woman leaned in front of the window above her head and saw Tao Yonghua was dressed in a western dress, which was dressed by a rich man. Afraid that she would have to pay compensation, she immediately raised her eyebrows: "What is it called? What is the wrong place to stand? Are you standing here?"

"Why are you talking like that!" Tao Yonghua was so angry that the water poured on her, but he didn't even apologize.

The woman ignored her, rolled her eyes, and closed the window with a "snap".

Tao Yonghua's face was flushed with anger, but she had never quarreled with anyone, so she thought she was unlucky, bent down and squeezed the water off her skirt with her hands.

When Su Yin opened the door, she saw her cousin was in a panic, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, let's open the altar quickly." This cousin looked slender and weak, but was actually very stubborn in her bones. She gave money to open the altar, and then went to Mr. Huo for help.

After the two entered the room, Su Yin closed the door.

Sun Xianniang sat and opened the altar, two chairs were placed in front of her, and Su Yin pulled Tao Yonghua to take her seat.

Sun Xianniang glanced at Tao Yonghua, and knew why Su Yin chose her. She is very bright and beautiful, prettier than Su Yin. It seems that this can be done.

"Wait a while, whatever you are asked to do, you can do whatever you want."

Sun Xianniang and Su Yin exchanged a look that they didn't understand. She covered her eyes with a red cloth, lit a candle and incense sticks, and sang a song that was like a ballad and a mantra, and the candle exploded.

Tao Yonghua shrank her body. She felt cold and couldn't help shivering. She thought it was because her clothes were wet. This place made her feel uncomfortable from inside to outside.

While reciting the mantra, Sun Xianniang touched a handful of white rice and threw the rice into the sky. The rice grains fell on Su Yin and Tao Yonghua.

Sun Xianniang mumbled a string of names: "Please come up, let's see each other."

Her body trembled twice suddenly, and she froze.

Su Yin had already met yesterday, she spent a lot of money to ask Mi Po to invite that man to come up and discuss with him about retiring the marriage, but the man refused.Ask Mi Po: "Then, can I change someone?"

The man agreed and asked Su Yin to choose someone he liked.

Sun Xianniang's chin tightened, she gently pulled the red cloth away, and stared straight at Tao Yonghua, the light in her eyes made Tao Yonghua hold his breath, feeling chills all over his body.

It's the kind of gaze that a man looks at a woman, and it's the most disgusting one.

Sun Xianniang stretched out her hand, she was very old, her palm was as rough as tree bark, she was clearly an old woman, but Tao Yonghua couldn't feel close to her at all.

Those hands first stopped in front of Su Yin, then slid towards Tao Yonghua, getting closer to her, reaching out to her palm.

But as soon as he touched Tao Yonghua, "Sun Xianniang" shook violently, the three cups on the table fell down, and the wine and tea dripped all over the floor along the edge of the table.

"How dare you lie to me!" The voice was both male and female.

Sun Xianniang's eyes turned blood red, and she stared at Su Yin.

Su Yin shook her head again and again: "No, I didn't lie to you."

Only Tao Yonghua stood up, looking at the crazy Sun Xianniang and the terrified Su Yin, and asked repeatedly: "What's wrong?"

Sun Xianniang collapsed on the table, Tao Yonghua hurriedly put down the money, and pulled Suyin to leave: "Go, what place is this, how can you trust such a person."

Pretend to be a ghost!

Su Yin never expected that such an accident would happen. She was dragged out of the door by Tao Yonghua in a daze. She couldn't figure out why. The man was obviously satisfied. He liked his cousin, so he wouldn't want her anymore!

As soon as he went out, Tao Yonghua bumped into the woman who was pouring water just now. The woman was a little guilty, but she put her hands on her hips: "Look, mine is not dirty water, it's the water for cleaning the Guanyin statue, it's not clean , it is your blessing to pour it on you!"

The author has something to say: Bai Never admits that he was crying when he was five years old Never admits that he was Huo Zhenye's brother Seven

Huo is also a little bully in the orphanage. The little one is very good at fighting. Protecting the beautiful and pitiful. Seven