Ghosts have fairies

After the fall, the small town in the south of the Yangtze River is already cool at night, and there are bursts of fragrance from the depths of the alleys. A quaint old shop is lit with warm lights, adding a furry halo to the three people in the farthest corner.

Qi Tong carefully removed the rope from a rice dumpling, opened the rice dumpling leaves, and the fragrance of the leaves mixed with the fragrance of glutinous rice rushed into the nostrils of the three of them immediately.He flattened the rice dumpling leaves, exposing a whole big rice dumpling, then picked up the chopsticks, and put a chopstick on the meaty one.His series of movements were unhurried and quite ceremonial, and he ate a zongzi like a royal feast.

Xiao Zongzi saw the pair of chopsticks stretched out in front of his eyes, and the corners of his mouth could not help but flatten down.

He Zhen was sitting opposite Qi Tong with the child in his arms, the older and the younger stared at the poor zongzi, and both opened their mouths.

He Zhen: "You are so cruel."

Little Zongzi: "Why do you want to eat me?"

Seeing their identical pitiful eyes, Qi Tong laughed until his shoulders trembled, and teased the little rice dumpling, "You are a sweet rice dumpling, but I am a meat rice dumpling, so I didn't eat you."

"But..." Xiao Zongzi glanced at him anxiously, and then at He Zhen, "You were clearly called meat dumpling before."

Qi Tong: "Who said that? Didn't we discuss it when we were looking at the stars in the desert? One, three, five, and seven are sweet rice dumplings, and two, four, and six are meat rice dumplings. What day is it?"

Little Zongzi: "Friday."

Qi Tong: "Then are you a sweet dumpling or a meat dumpling?"

The kid rolled his eyes, smiled happily, and said sweetly: "Sweet rice dumplings!" After speaking, he squinted his eyes and bit off the rice dumplings caught in front of him.

He Zhen hugged the little zongzi and refused to let go, and Qi Tong picked up the squirrel mandarin fish on the table and brought it to his mouth.

This is their last stop. Tomorrow they will go back to the underworld and prepare to send the little zongzi into reincarnation.The more He Zhen thinks about it these days, the more reluctant she is to bear it, she has to hold the child wherever she goes, and sometimes she refuses to put it down when eating.

He Zhen knelt down and gathered Xiao Zongzi's collar, twirled the red string on his wrist, and warned: "There will be a lot of people later, if you accidentally get lost, you must use the tumbler to find us."

The child nodded obediently and looked at him without blinking.

More than ten days ago, they lived in an ancient capital for a few days. When they went to see the night view at night, there were too many people. They just put down the small rice dumplings, and when they looked at the empty space for a snack, the child had already been squeezed away by the crowd. Bringing a tumbler that He Zhen carved for him.

He Zhen repented at the beginning, and if she had known about it, she would have asked Qi Tong to ask Granny Meng for another stone, so that she could talk to the children. Now the streets are full of people, and the little zongzi are so small that they were carried away or fell down. What should I do?

"Don't panic." Qi Tong comforted him by grabbing his hand, and quietly typed a spirit detection talisman, and a series of footprints that only they could see appeared on the crowded street in an instant.

In the end, they found the child at the entrance of a specialty store at an intersection. The child was standing under the eaves with red eyes, pitifully, tears fell when he saw them, and he called out "brother" with his arms outstretched.

Qi Tong stepped forward and hugged the child into his arms. He was also very nervous just now, afraid that something might happen to the child on the way.

He Zhen saw that his trousers and elbow clothes were stained with dust. He probably fell down. He was so distressed that he checked him back and forth several times, and he was relieved after confirming that there was no wound.

"There were bad guys just now, my sister saved me." With tears in her eyes, Xiao Zongzi pointed to the other side.

Only then did they realize that there were two young girls standing beside Xiao Zongzi just now. After thanking them, they found out that a man tried to take away the lost Xiao Zongzi just now. The man insisted that he was Xiao Zongzi's father. He couldn't get rid of him even when he cried, passers-by looked at him suspiciously, and only said that he didn't buy snacks for the child, and the child lost his temper.

Fortunately, the two girls met the three of them on another street. The picture of the two handsome guys with their children was so attractive that they left a deep impression on them.Seeing that the children got separated and were almost taken away, they hurried up to stop the man with bad intentions.

After returning to the hotel, He Zhen made a decision on the tumblers of the three people. The three little things were connected by a red thread. If one of them had an abnormality, the other two could immediately sense it.Afraid that it would be inconvenient to carry the tumbler, he simply conjured up three red strings, with a very small tumbler hanging in the middle, and put it on the hands of the three people, so that they would not be afraid of losing it.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and the town has arranged a small sky lantern event in advance tonight in order to create a gimmick.Qi Tong snatched three places early, and each of the three took a sky lantern and wrote their wishes.

"What are you writing?" Qi Tong just wrote two strokes, but couldn't stop his curiosity, and ticked He Zhen's head.

He Zhen quickly turned around, "I can't watch."

"It's not a birthday wish, and it won't be unreasonable." Qi Tong coaxed.

"No." He Zhen tightened the sky lantern tightly again.

"Okay." Qi Tong looked at Xiao Zongzi again, "What did Xiao Zongzi write?"

"I won't show it to you either." The kid pouted while holding the sky lantern. He didn't miss practicing calligraphy on the road for the past two months. If he returned to the hotel early every day, he insisted on pestering Qi Tonghe Hazel took him to write for an hour before he would sleep.He is very smart, and after a while, reading simple children's stories is no longer a problem, and the words are getting more and more neat.

Qi Tong hummed pretending to be angry, like a primary school student, "Then I won't show it to you either."

Little Zongzi grabbed the pen, looked at He Zhen, then at Qi Tong, and finally raised his head and thought for a long time before writing down stroke by stroke.

When they were on the train before, they heard a young mother talking on the phone, saying, "Isn't the greatest wish of a person is that the people you care about can be safe, and those who love you can stay together for a long time?" He was ignorant at the time. , only understood that it was safe and sound, and after getting off the train, he specifically asked He Zhen what it meant to "stay together forever".

He Zhen said, "It's the person I like, and I like myself at the same time, and the two of them can live happily together until old age."

He thought that one day, when they encountered a sudden heavy rain in the mountains, when they hurried back to the inn, Qi Tong He Zhen's clothes were still a little wet, and He Zhen had a stuffy nose that night, so he went to bed early up.When he finished practicing calligraphy and went to wash up, he happened to find Qi Tong leaning over and kissing the sleeping He Zhen.

He walked over slowly, afraid of disturbing He Zhen's sleep, he asked curiously in a low voice: "Big brother, why do you want to kiss little brother?"

Qi Tong seemed taken aback, but soon laughed again, pulled him aside, and explained softly, "Because I like little brother very much."

He nodded, "I like little brother very much, too."

Qi Tong laughed and said, "It's not the liking of Xiao Zongzi, it's love..."

"Is it the kind of love in fairy tales about getting married?" He asked before the other party finished speaking.

"The little guy knows a lot." Qi Tong snorted his hair, "Little Zongzi will meet someone he likes and wants to take care of for the rest of his life when he grows up."

He is not very old, but he knows that he is going to leave soon. The medical officer said that he can only stay with Qitong Hezhen for two months. He knows the concept of months, and he is quietly counting down the days in his heart.He knew that he had no life left to live, so he shared his wish with his two favorite people without hesitation.

——The big brother and the little brother are safe and sound, together forever.

They didn't go back to the hotel until very late, the town was much deserted at this point, only a few or three tourists walked past them from time to time on the road.

Qi Tong and He Zhen were holding the child by themselves, their figures were stretched out by the orange light, and the child was holding their hands, bouncing around and playing with stepping on the shadow.

In the alley next to it, the lights suddenly flickered on and off. Qi Tong looked subconsciously, but saw something that was very familiar to him, but very strange.

He took out his mobile phone and clicked, then turned to the two people around him and said, "Go back first, my dad asked me to buy something."

He Zhen was taken aback for a moment, but Qi Tong looked genuinely anxious, he nodded, "Go, be careful."

"Okay." Qi Tong squinted his eyes and smiled, then leaned over and said to Xiao Zongzi: "It's already late, I'll take a shower and sleep when I get back, you know?"

The kid was a little unhappy, leaned on He Zhen's lap with his mouth pouting, and reluctantly agreed.

Watching one big and one small turn around the street corner, Qi Tong turned around and walked into the alley just now.

The alley in front of him was quiet and deserted, only the street lamps on the street cast some warm light, but just now he clearly saw a woman go through this wall.

Qi Tong raised his hand and carefully groped along the wall until he was close to the middle of the wall when he suddenly came across a protruding object whose material was obviously different from that of the wall.

He took out his mobile phone and turned on the flashlight, and found that it was a somewhat damaged wooden sign, about the size of an A4 paper, which appeared on the wall for no reason, except for a few shallow cracks, there was nothing.

He tapped lightly, and the sound was solid. It seemed that there was no hidden space behind the wooden sign.But his intuition told him that this wooden sign was definitely not ordinary. After confirming that no one would pass by, a small will-o'-the-wisp lit up in his palm, and he slowly approached the wooden sign.

Sure enough, strokes gradually appeared on the wooden sign.Qi Tong patiently waited for them to put it together, and then he leaned forward, and two sharp brush characters appeared in front of his eyes - the past life.

These two words are connected with this wooden sign that can only be revealed under the light of the will-o'-the-wisp, and everything is very intriguing.

Qi Tong looked at it with a frown, and walked around the small building where the wooden sign was located. The place corresponding to the position of the wooden sign was a cheongsam shop. There was nothing unusual, and he didn't feel that there was a ghost inside, and the appearance and height of the hostess were different from the person he had just glimpsed.

He walked back to the wooden sign, lightly twirled the red rope tied with the tumbler around his wrist, and made up his mind.

Taking a deep breath, he penetrated into the wall from the position of the wooden sign.

It was foggy at first, but as he walked forward, the outlines of some things gradually became clear.

In front was a quaint studio with messy desks and many portraits hanging on the walls.He continued to move forward, and what he saw in front of him seemed to be blocked by a layer of veil, as if the veil in front of him instantly turned into a wall when he sensed the approach of a stranger, and he was caught isolated from this house.

"Sir, did you come to ask for a painting?"

A faint female voice suddenly sounded, and Qi Tong realized that there was a girl sitting in the corner with her back to him, holding a brush in her hand and brushing it twice in the brush wash.

Judging from the outline, it was indeed the one he had just glimpsed.

Qi Tong asked, "Where is this place?"

The girl said: "To the studio of reincarnation."

"Why is it called past life?"

"Since you don't know, why did you come in?"

"Misunderstanding."

The girl didn't seem to care about his intrusion, and said in the same tone: "Then it seems that you are destined to be here, do you want to draw a portrait for you?"

"Need not."

"You don't want to know what happened to you?"

So if someone came to invite this girl to paint a portrait, they could see the person in the painting passed away, which is a blatant challenge to Po Meng.

"Your paintings don't work for me."

The girl paused, and then said: "Anyone who drinks Meng Po soup can see the past life in the painting."

There was no way he would die, so Qi Tong didn't continue, but instead observed the paintings hanging in the house.He discovered just now that the paintings on the wall can be roughly divided into two types, one is colored and the other is black and white.

"Why can't these paintings be colored?"

Qi Tong just tried to ask a question, and didn't expect the other party to answer, but the girl said straightforwardly: "The colored ones are the guests who asked me to paint, and the black and white ones are the ones I saw in my past life." people."

"Have you ever painted yourself?"

"Who is not curious about his own past life?"

Qi Tong stared at the wall, dazzled by black and white portraits all over the wall, and just when he was about to look away, he suddenly saw something.He quickly turned back, and among the crowded black and white portraits, there were two of them were acquaintances!

"In the black and white painting, the fifth and sixth from the left in the third row, where did you see them?"

The girl looked up, her long hair blocked her face, but Qi Tong still couldn't see her facial features.After a while, she lowered her head and continued to paint with a brush, "A dozen generations ago, I was only 12 years old, and my family lived in a village on a mountain. One day, a ghost invaded and the village caught fire. The parents and nearly half of the villagers were not so lucky, they did not die under the claws of ghosts, but died in the fire."

Dozens of generations?That is, more than 1000 years ago, the village on the mountain was invaded by ghosts and caught fire...

Suddenly, Qi Tong felt a chill on his back, "You mean Yongning Village?"

The girl gave a noticeable pause, "That's right."

"Did you see these two people in Yongning Village? What are they doing?"

"The fire was too big, and I was dragged by others to flee down the mountain. When I turned my head from a distance, I saw a figure kneeling on the edge of the fire. His whole body was bathed in the fire, but he didn't struggle like the villagers and ghosts in the fire. He just knelt peacefully. Then the two men in the painting ran up to try to save him. But they must have been unsuccessful, because we heard after a while that the men were all dead in the fire."

"Is there anything strange about that fire?"

"do not know."

Qi Tong took a deep breath and tried to calm down. Those two portraits were actually King Zhaocheng and Mountain God Leyou!

He always thought that the underworld came after the fire in Yongning Village, but he didn't expect that King Zhaocheng would appear there early, and why was Leyou Mountain God there?Thinking that Leyou Mountain God had entrusted him to send greetings to King Zhaocheng before, he felt that the matter between these two people was not simple.

"What else do you know about the fire in Yongning Village?"

"That's all, and I didn't have the chance to learn more in that life."

That's right... Qi Tong thought desperately, that night when the Snow Goddess passed away, King Lingjiang directly slaughtered the entire town.

"Since you can know your past life, it proves that you have entered reincarnation and belonged to the human world. Since you are human, why can you open such a studio? Who brought you here?" Qi Tong glanced sharply at her back.

"Hush—" the girl still didn't turn her head, and said softly, "Don't say anything."

"Are you wearing a white robe?"

"It's time." The girl stood up, arranging the painting equipment slowly, "It's getting late, you go back, don't keep your lover waiting."

She paused meaningfully when she said the word "lover".