Gucheng

Taoist Wuzhen came on time, and quietly appeared behind me and Ah Gui. The fly whisk pinned to her waist was only a handful of gray hairs. With just a slight wave in front of my eyes, Ah Gui suddenly lost his mind and fell limp in my arms.

"My lord, don't come here without any problems." Wu Zhenzhong lazily hung the dust whisk back on the button on his waist, stood with one hand in front of his chest, and said to the Buddha of Immortality, his brows were serious, and he was with me The slovenly look she saw last time was very different.

"Daozhang, you are here." I smiled at her.

When a person is about to die, I thought I would be reluctant and afraid, but when this day really came, I was surprisingly calm.Being able to stay with this ghost for 49 days is already a great blessing. Everyone knows that Bai Anxun, the eldest son of the Bai family in Yangzhou, is a bookworm who doesn't know how to enjoy himself. I just know how to be more contented than others.

"My lord, aside from the inexhaustible wealth you will enjoy in the future, your father is still looking forward to your return in Yangzhou, you... really think about it?"

I hugged Ah Gui and got up, "Master Daoist, there is no need to say anything, let's do it."

Born as a human being, and walking around in the world, one always owes so many emotional debts to others.In the last life, I owed Li Xue an unfulfilled promise. In this life, I owe my parents a filial piety to share the happiness of family.On the one hand is my lover who has been waiting for me for two lifetimes, and on the other is the kindness of my parents in raising and teaching me. Life has been difficult since ancient times. This time, I can only feel sorry for my parents.

Whether it's disobedient or unfilial, the woman in my arms has been waiting for me for two lifetimes, and she can't wait any longer.

I stood on the top of the tower in Litai City, looking around, the desert Gobi is flat and vast, but it is also empty, such a vast wasteland, not even a single insect or ant has ever been seen.A Gui said that there is too much resentment in Litai City, and if a living thing enters the city, it will undoubtedly die.

It is this dead city that never sees the sun, and the ghost has guarded it for 200 years.

I pushed open the wooden door leading to the bottom of the tower, and the door frame creaked. After 200 years, everything in the city was dying.

"Daozhang, would you like to go down with me?"

Wuzhen nodded, "Okay."

Most of the wooden stairs with more than one hundred levels have been decayed, and the traces of knife edges on the stairs can be vaguely seen.

Stepping on those notches, Wuzhen's broken straw sandals were amazed, "It's weird, it's weird."

I laughed, "Where did the blame come from?"

Wuzhen leaned over and touched the dusty rotten wood steps, "The female ghost's traces of hostility that have been carved over the years can't dissipate, but the newly carved knife marks are completely devoid of hostility, isn't it strange?"

"Does the Taoist know the geometry of the stairs in the Litai Pagoda?"

Wuzhen shook his head.

I said: "360 fifth floor."

This is what Ah Gui told me. When she said this, she clasped my fingers and led me up these steps step by step, then stopped on a certain step, and used magic to carve a hole.

"Another day has passed." She said, "An Xun, you taught me before that the dead are like a husband, is that what you mean?"

Her hand was weak and boneless, and her whole body was cold, holding it in her hand, she couldn't warm it up.

She counted how many wooden steps there were in Litai Pagoda, how many grains of sand there were in a handful of sand, and how many bricks there were in the city wall. Some of them were half-built, some were broken, and some were complete. .

"There is nothing in Litai City that I don't know about!" A Gui looked proud.

How lonely do you have to be to count these things over and over again, so that you can remember them all?

A Gui said that she loved counting the wooden steps in the pagoda the most, so she didn't dare to count too many, for fear that she would count too fast and finish counting all at once, so she had to carve a hole in the steps every day.

"There are only more than 300 steps in total. What should I do if I finish carving?" I teased her.

"Then just start over again."

The words are light, and they weigh on my heart, as heavy as Mount Tai.

I don't know how many times she has re-started from the beginning of the 360 ​​five-story steps, and how many times she has engraved them.

I was wandering, when the ghost in my arms suddenly covered his heart and let out a moan.

Wuzhen said: "Although she is in a coma, she is still suffering, after all, she can't stand it anymore."

I quickened my pace, went down one floor, and pushed open the door of an ancient house in the pagoda. Unlike the pagoda, the dust was thick, but the house was clean, with only a wooden bed, which was my shelter in Litai City.

I put Ah Gui on the bed and said to Wuzhen, "Master Daoist, hurry up."

Wuzhen shook his head and sighed, "The world of mortals is distressed, with seven emotions and six desires, and mortals can't see through it."

I just laughed and didn't speak.Without the seven emotions and six desires, what is the difference between life and death?

Wuzhen's whisk turned into a sharp blade, I closed my eyes, waiting for the pain of the knife point piercing my flesh, but it never came.

Opening his eyes, he saw Ah Gui leaning against the edge of the bed with a ferocious expression, holding the tip of the knife in his hand, panting like an old bellows, whirring.

"Bai Anxun, what are you? Even if I'm lost in reincarnation, I won't be able to give you alms!" Agui Jiejie sneered, "Do you think this will pay off the love debt you owe me? Bai An Xun, do you think you will be liberated by doing this? Don’t even think about it!”

Ah Gui's words were harsh and sharp, but his body fell down uncontrollably, his thin hands still clutching the sharp blade.

"Yes, I want to ask for relief." I snorted coldly with my hands behind my back, "Li Xue, you dare to do this, but rely on me, Bai An, to find the debt you owed you in the previous life, and you won't let me pay it back, so I want to pay it back." clean."

I suddenly stepped forward to meet the golden knife in front of me, snatched the handle of the knife from Wuzhen's hand, and cut a hole according to the position of my heart. I saw the panic in Ah Gui's eyes.

The knife edge was sharp, and there was no unexpected pain when it pierced into the flesh, and bright red heat gushed out from the wound, regardless of the blood in the heart, lungs, and head, it was mixed together and it was hard to tell.

Wuzhen had sharp eyes and quick hands, dipped in my blood and drew a talisman paper, muttering a few words, the talisman paper was full of blood, and flew to Agui's side, no matter how she resisted, it still stuck to her heart.

"No...no...ahhh—"

A Gui's body was full of white light, her whole body seemed to explode, and she screamed pitifully: "Bai Anxun—"

I just felt that the blood in my heart was gone, and I fell on the bed and closed my eyes.

Ghost, I love you.

I only hope that you will never be reincarnated as a woman again in the next life. In such a world, being a woman is too hard, life and death are not up to you, why bother.

The whole body is warm, as if immersed in a soft spring, I think it is not a painful thing to lose your soul.