monster study

The long night is long, and there is still some time before dawn.

Lin Qianfeng and Liu Sheng stood on a bustling street in Beijing, watching a ghost in the middle of the street standing in the middle of the crowd, allowing passers-by to pass by him, looking surprised and intoxicated by it.

Liu Sheng couldn't understand his interest at all. Just now, he and Lin Qianfeng stopped a female ghost who tried to try on new clothes by possessing her body in a clothing store.

All kinds of problems will always arise when the ghosts are in power. I'm afraid they can only calm down for a while until the sun rises the next morning.

"Let's go, let's go to another place." Liu Sheng said, walking forward with his tail cocked.

Lin Qianfeng followed behind him with a mirror in his hand. He was not a talkative person in the first place, but with Liu Sheng, a strange partner, he talked even less.

As he was walking, the Raksha Mirror suddenly reacted, it was the jade-faced Yama side.

Lin Qianfeng immediately looked serious, called Liu Sheng, and one person and one cat quickly went to the direction pointed by Yumian Yanluo.However, when they arrived at the scene, what they saw was a stunned scene.

Yumian Yanluo issued a warning, indicating that there must be ghosts ahead.This is something that can't be helped, as there is a shortage of manpower now, when the gate of hell is opened, it is inevitable that there will be ghosts coming to the world to make trouble together, so Liu Sheng and the others will patrol everywhere to avoid any accidents.

However, at this moment, several vicious ghosts were knocked down to the ground by an old woman who was over sixty years old, complaining endlessly.Of course, the old lady is also a ghost, her short gray hair is well-groomed, and she is well-dressed, but it's hard for others to imagine that there is such power in her thin body.

Wait, that move... Sanda?

Lin Qianfeng was surprised, but although the opponent had the upper hand, he was an elder after all, so he hurriedly activated the mirror to suppress the ghosts, and then Liu Sheng beat them back to the underworld, waiting to be punished.

The old grandma took a nosy look at the two, patted off the dust that didn't exist on her body, and rearranged the messy clothes, with a serious and serious face.

Lin Qianfeng stepped forward and asked, "Are you okay?"

Probably because the old lady's expression was too severe, and she was not angry and pretentious, so Lin Qianfeng used the honorific name unconsciously.

"It's okay, a few bastards can't do anything to me." The old lady said, and asked, "Are you ghost servants from the underworld?"

Lin Qianfeng looked at Liu Sheng, and saw that he had no intention of speaking, so he continued, "Well, do you need any help?"

"I'm lost." When the old grandma said this, the expression on her face didn't loosen at all.

"Then let's look for it for you. Do you remember any useful clues? For example, are there any special buildings near your home?" Lin Qianfeng asked.

"There is a red house nearby. When I go out every day, I pass an avenue full of red maple leaves. Sorry, I can only think of so much."

But there are many avenues planted with maple leaves in Beijing, red houses?Where can I find it again?Lin Qianfeng was a little embarrassed, and quickly thought about the solution.

At this time, Liu Sheng finally spoke, "I can ask Ying Yao to find out, and you can follow us for now, is it okay?"

"Okay." The old lady nodded bluntly.

So one cat, one old and one young, embarked on the journey again. The sparsely populated streets at two or three o'clock in the morning have gradually become a paradise for ghosts.

In big cities, most people live in their own small space, and not everyone will worship their relatives in July and a half.Some people may be busy with work and forget, some people may not believe in ghosts and gods at all, so they are too lazy to do it, some people may just delay the time, so there are more and more ghosts wandering on the street, most of them cannot find their way home without the guidance of street lights of the road.

Lin Qianfeng heard from his grandfather that these ghosts are called "Desolate Souls".

Some wild souls will always wander in the city, looking around, until the moment the ghost gate is closed.

Some wandering souls have a big heart and forgetfulness, and then they simply forgot to go home and started playing on the street.Along the way, Lin Qianfeng has seen people gathering to play cards by the side of the road, and flying kites flying around in the air, and running around to play because the living people can't see him. There are all kinds of ghosts.

For most ghosts, this is probably their last carnival before reincarnation, Lin Qianfeng thought.

But the old lady beside her is different. Although she has forgotten many things in her lifetime, her gaze is firm and she knows exactly what she is doing.This made Lin Qianfeng couldn't help thinking, if this old lady is still alive, she must be extraordinary.

At this moment, Lin Qianfeng suddenly saw three people walking towards him.Looking through the light of the street lamp, it is Xiao Qiao and Chong Ming.Huh?Why is Xiao Qiao also accompanied by an old lady?He even let her hold his arm!

Lin Qianfeng was surprised, when did Xiao Qiao become so approachable?

And Xiao Qiao, who received Lin Qianfeng's surprised gaze, had a fair little face as dark as a shadow monster.Actually speaking, this picture is quite weird.After Xiao Qiao woke up, the only person she made friends with was Lin Qianfeng.

Now these two friends, each with a grandmother, met on the street in the early morning of the Ghost Festival.Lin Qianfeng suddenly thought: Maybe this is the reason why they became friends?

But now, the two friends hadn't started exchanging greetings, the slightly fat old lady holding Xiao Qiao's arm had already run up to Liu Sheng, looking at him lovingly, "Ah, cute little cat!"

Liu Sheng: "..."

The fat grandma hugged Liu Sheng up, rubbed her hands and rubbed her cheeks, not to mention how much she liked it.She is a ghost, and Yagyu is the new ghost messenger, who happens to be touchable.

Liu Sheng suffered such a great humiliation, how could he not resist, but Xiao Qiao was already prepared.He strode up to the side of the fat grandma, smiled and pasted a talisman on Liu Sheng's body.The talisman disappeared into nothingness when it took effect, and Liu Sheng was forced to experience the sour feeling of a man-made knife and me being a fish.

Xiao Qiao breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly rubbed the arm that was hugged all the way just now, as if the praise of "cute, cute, so cute" echoed in her mind.

God, I almost got my face rubbed.

"Meow!" Liu was so angry that he even yelled out Meow, who had never been willing to cry out.

However, this aroused Fat Grandma's love for cats even more, and she hugged Liu Sheng and refused to let go.Although Lin Qianfeng was Liu Sheng's partner, it was only temporary. He wisely chose not to save him, and started talking to Xiao Qiao.

According to Xiao Qiao, the fat grandma's surname is Liu, and she also lost her way and didn't find her home.Seeing that Xiao Qiao thought he was cute, she let him go with him.As for Lin Qianfeng, who was surnamed Niu, the two old ladies were in the same situation, but their tempers were completely different.

Now that we met, we decided to go together.

Grandma Liu hugged Liu Sheng happily and walked beside Xiao Qiao, stroking her fur while admiring how such a well-behaved cat existed.Xiao Qiao responded with a smile, the eyes that fell on Liu Sheng made Liu Sheng tremble for no reason.

In fact, from the first time when he hid from the side to observe, Liu Sheng had a feeling that this young-looking boy was much more terrifying than Shang Si.

But soon Liu Sheng didn't have time to think about other things, because Grandma Liu and Grandma Niu suddenly had a dispute.In fact, it's not even a dispute, but Grandma Liu felt that Grandma Niu looked at her with disapproval, so the old boy lost his temper.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Do you want to touch me too?" Grandma Liu asked.

Grandma Niu looked sternly, "Touch it for a while and put it down, not only you are covered in cat fur, but he is also uncomfortable."

Grandma Liu hugged the cat and turned away, "No, don't tell me how comfortable it is for me to hug him like this, right cute?"

Liu Sheng: "..."

Grandma Niu refused to comment, but frowned and said nothing.However, Grandma Liu seemed to have discovered the New World and thought Grandma Niu was very interesting, and kept nagging in her ear.

"What is your boss doing with such a face? He is already dead. Is there anything more unhappy?"

"Do you want to lick the cat? I can lick it for you."

"Your hairstyle is too serious, just curl it up a bit, radian."

……

"Aren't you tired of talking so much?" Grandma Niu finally couldn't take it anymore.

"I'm not tired." Grandma Liu blinked her eyes as round as her face, and said, "They're all dead anyway."

This reason was so powerful that Grandma Niu was speechless.Then Grandma Liu suddenly discovered an interesting point, and said happily: "Isn't the sum of our two names the tongue twister?"

Then, Grandma Liu got up on a whim, and really started talking, "Grandma Liu asked Grandma Niu to buy milk, and Grandma Niu brought milk to Grandma Liu. Grandma Liu said that Grandma Niu's milk was not as good as Grandma Liu's milk, and Grandma Niu said Grandma Liu's Milk will flow milk, Grandma Liu will only flow milk when she hears yelling at you, Grandma Liu and Grandma Cow, and Grandma Liu and Grandma Cow frighten Grandma Liu by splashing milk, cursing and never buying milk from Grandma Liu and Grandma Niu..."

Grandma Liu finished speaking in one breath without any interruptions, and the tongue twister was Chinese level ten, and everyone else was stunned by her.And she herself was pleasantly surprised after she finished speaking, "Sounds so smooth, why am I so good?"

Facing her boast, Grandma Niu twitched her eyebrows.However, the smooth tongue twister just now seemed to bring back memories in her mind, and she couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Grandma Liu also seemed to recall something, and said in surprise: "Maybe I used to love tongue twisters."

In order to better evoke memories, she thought about other tongue twisters.But as soon as she opened her mouth to say a few words, she found that either she couldn't remember the words, or she got stuck, and finally she could only say "eight hundred pacesetters rushed to the north slope".

"Did we know each other before?" Grandma Niu suddenly asked.

"I can't remember it." Grandma Liu frowned in distress, but she was an optimist, and soon became happy again, "If you can't remember it, think about it slowly, we can help each other. By the way, what do you remember? ah?"

The two made up their own calculations, and soon, they found the coincidence point with their own from each other's fragmentary memories.

"The red house! I also remember it, as if I used to go there to play when I was not married. There lived a good-looking piano teacher, who played the piano at home every Saturday and weekend afternoon. He also Can make delicious black tea, and those hands that play the piano are very beautiful..." Grandma Liu recalled her youthful ignorance when she was a girl, and she seemed to be 30 years younger.

Grandma Niu said: "You can't judge people by their appearance."

"What's the matter with the appearance? I married my old man because he was handsome. He has always been very kind to me." Grandma Liu argued, "Besides, it is human instinct to pursue beautiful things. Why do you have to go to How about negating this instinct?"

Huh?my old man?As Grandma Liu talked, an image of a gentle and refined man gradually emerged in her mind.Some things that she had forgotten by no means were hidden in every inconspicuous corner, in the fragments of her previous life, and she suddenly remembered it.

Grandma Niu also recalled many things, the sunny piano room, where young boys and girls sat drinking tea and reading books together.The handsome and gentle piano teacher is sitting in front of the white floor-to-ceiling windows and playing the song "To Alice". The sun is dancing on his fingertips. Those hands are really beautiful.

The girls couldn't help thinking, who was he playing the song "Fur Elise" for?

"Ah, talking about the red house, why do I feel a little bit angry." Grandma Liu racked her brains thinking, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that this matter must be very important, and she didn't even listen carefully to what Grandma Niu said.

Until she suddenly heard the words "Maple Leaf Avenue", the closed door in her mind suddenly opened.Her eyes lit up slightly, "I remember!"

Liu Sheng was hugged excitedly by her, almost out of breath.Grandma Niu hurriedly rescued it, and criticized: "Why are you so old that you are bluffing?"

Grandma Liu seemed to be used to hearing such words, she waved her hand indifferently, and said, "I really remembered something very important, isn't that piano teacher your husband?"

The gentle and handsome piano teacher fulfilled the fantasies of countless girls, but he finally walked into the life of the slightly serious and quiet girl.

On the avenue full of red maple trees, his friend who was always bluffing and seemed to never grow up helped him plan a romantic marriage proposal. In December of that year, the branches were covered with winter snow. At that time, she was married.

"You keep criticizing me for looking at pretty boys, but you abduct everyone's dream lover." Grandma Liu pretended to be angry.

A blush finally appeared on Grandma Niu's serious face, "I didn't take the initiative to chase him."

"Yes, he chased you, and he even wrote love poems for you. But it's much worse than my old man's." Grandma Liu looked proud.

The best friends in their youth, in that age when they were not very open, once shared the love poems written by their lovers and exchanged the most private thoughts with each other.No matter how you think about it, it feels beautiful.

Lin Qianfeng's eyes couldn't help softening. The two old ladies quickly put together a general idea of ​​their memories like a jigsaw puzzle.It won't be long before they may be able to determine where their home is.

However, as the two talked, they began to bicker again.

"You used to be old and bad. If you don't allow me to eat this or that, it's not good for your health. Then I like to eat junk food and eat meat every now and then. Why don't I live to be in my eighties?"

"Irrational. The diet should be a combination of meat and vegetables, complete nutrition. Who the hell is talking about losing weight in my ears every day, and the result is getting fatter every year?"

"Hmph." Grandma Liu looked at her waist and said, "I'm called Futai, but you're too thin."

"That's because I exercise."

"Yes, I'm afraid that your old bones will fall apart if you still learn how to go out riding in your [-]s."

"You, going out to exercise is a serious business. Didn't you say that people are old but can't be old? Do you want to stay at home watching those idol dramas all day like you, or go out to play mahjong?"

"That's because I was like this when I was young..."

……

The two kept bickering, and the content made people laugh.

Suddenly, Grandma Liu saw a small park nearby, and when she glanced at the slide inside, she suddenly remembered, "Our house should be near here, I remember that slide. Last time we took our grandson here to play When they were together, they both fell, don't you remember?"

Grandma Niu looked at the slide and thought about it in a daze.

Grandma Liu continued, with a warm and loving expression on her face, "Hey, they were still young at that time, a little bit older, and they walked erratically, like glutinous rice dumplings. I don't know how they are now."

"With his parents around, you have nothing to worry about. You just spoil him too much, and you have to hold him in your arms and coax him every time you fall."

"Yes, yes, yes." Having been chanted for most of her life, Grandma Liu had already heard cocoons in her ears, "Just keep a straight face, your kid won't even dare to cry with you, don't mention it when you hold back your tears." Poor."

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Lin Qianfeng interrupted immediately.Since they recognized the small park, their home must be nearby.Just find the Red House and Maple Avenue.

The two were also eager to go home, but when Lin Qianfeng said this, they immediately ignored the argument and walked quickly.Soon, the group found the target building, and then saw the two guiding lights that belonged to them.

In the night, the dim street lamps illuminated the two adjacent small bungalows, and the street lamps on the roof trembled slightly, as if welcoming the return of the hostess after a long absence.The two turned their heads to thank Lin Qianfeng, Xiao Qiao and the others, then took a deep breath and walked quickly into their home.

The two intertwined journeys ended in this way. Lin Qianfeng looked at the side-by-side houses under the night, and then looked at Xiao Qiao, and felt that it was really a happy thing to have such a friend.

Even if their personalities are completely different, even if their life philosophy is completely different, they will quarrel and lose their temper, but the existence of the other party has long been an indispensable part of life for me.

"Let's go." Xiao Qiao withdrew her gaze, hiding the warmth that was ignited in her eyes, and walked the way she walked side by side with Chongming.

Lin Qianfeng followed immediately, and Liu Sheng who was next to him didn't speak, and he didn't care.After an unknown amount of time, Liu Sheng suddenly asked, "Why can they be friends like this?"

Lin Qianfeng was startled, and said, "Do you think they don't understand each other?"

"Do you understand?" Liu Sheng asked back.

"I think that even if a person doesn't agree with your approach, it doesn't mean he doesn't understand." Lin Qianfeng said while thinking, "However, people are different, and there is no need to force others to agree. Myself. That's what my teacher said."

Liu Sheng was stunned suddenly, and his memory returned to Zhongnan Mountain long ago, the night when he broke up with Caiwei.He remembered that Caiwei was standing in front of the building with her back to him, and the night had pulled his figure into an extremely tall and unfamiliar figure.

He said: "As a teacher, I can't agree with your actions, and I don't force you to ask me about my way. I know you think that you kill people who deserve to die. I can understand what you think, but have you ever taken the initiative to understand?" Taught others? There are thousands of ways in the world, and you chose the most extreme one. When you were killing people, did you ever think about being a teacher?"

At that time, Liu Sheng was dazzled by anger, and he only felt that his master was blaming him.Even the master has abandoned himself, and there is no place for him in the world.

However, at this moment, he suddenly remembered Shen Cangsheng's words.Did Caiwei, his master, really never give up on him until the last moment?