great master

Xia Musheng has worked in the University of Technology for decades, and he teaches in the IT industry. Sometimes he will take his favorite students to do some projects to earn some extra money. Those are all good incomes, but the place where he lives so far is still the University of Technology. staff building.At that time, they would be allocated a house after working for a certain number of years. Xia Musheng still lives in the house allocated by the school behind the University of Technology.

The small two-bedroom, one-living room has a good orientation, and the light in the house is very transparent, but because of the owner who lives here, even the bright sunshine can't dispel the yin in the house.

Xia Musheng brought out two cups of tea, seeing Si Yang looking at some photos on the wall, he smiled and said: "Those are rare family photos, cameras were expensive at that time, and taking pictures outside was not cheap, it's still me My wife forced me to take a picture. After my daughter was born, our life gradually improved. Later, I bought a camera. Unfortunately, I was too busy to take a good picture. But my daughter’s picture is very good. Many, how many books are there, let me show you?"

Si Yang sat on the sofa and smiled: "Okay."

It had been a long time since no one had talked to him about his daughter or his family, so Xia Musheng seemed a little happy, and took out several photo albums from the room, looking at the wear and tear on the corners, it seemed that he usually I also hold the photo album and flip through it.

Seeing Si Yang flipping through the photo album, Xia Musheng talked about the interesting things that happened when the photo was taken from time to time. Although it may have happened decades ago, it is still so fresh in Xia Musheng's memory.

"Lan'er was very cute when she was a child, with big round eyes and ghost spirits. Her mother was also busy at that time, and her mother was a doctor, so I had to take her with me. I took her to school with me. Sometimes I put her in my office, sometimes in the last row of the classroom, give her a drawing book, and she can stay in one place with her small brush box."

As he spoke, he pointed to some children's paintings mixed in the photos. It can be seen that those photos correspond to the graffiti of children in the same period.Although the cover was worn a lot, the things inside were all stored in a very delicate manner without any damage.

"The school is so big, I'm always worried that there are places I can't take care of, so I told her that as long as she gets lost, she must remember which subject her father teaches, and then ask her brothers and sisters in the school, and she can find her father." But Lan'er is very obedient and has never been lost."

"Later, I went to school. Because of the household registration allocation, they happened to be near the school. At that time, the environment was more humane than now, and there were not as many cars on the road. From the first grade, she was able to go to and from school by herself. Come to school and wait for me, be nice and obedient."

The girls in the photos are wearing beautiful little skirts, and each of them is smiling sweetly at the camera, watching her grow from a baby like a lotus root festival to a slim girl.

"Later her mother died of illness, leaving us father and daughter to depend on each other, but Lan'er has been sensible since she was a child. After her mother passed away, she has been taking care of me. That was the first time she was so far away from me and traveled with her classmates on graduation trips. , and going abroad, in fact, I am very worried, a few girls, going abroad is always worrying, but my daughter is grown up, no matter how reluctant I am, there will always be a day when I let go."

Si Yang closed the album and looked at Xia Musheng with red eyes listening to his story quietly.

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it. The first time I left me, I never came back. If my daughter doesn't come back, I dare not leave. This house is too old, and it will be demolished in two years. I am old I have no choice but to retire, but after leaving here and school, if one day my Lan'er comes back but I can't find my father, what should I do? I can't leave, I dare not leave, How can I let my daughter not find her father..."

Si Yang lowered his eyes slightly. He could understand this feeling, but he couldn't empathize with it, so he could only listen quietly.

Intermittently, saying what came to mind, until Xia Musheng finished talking, the room was quiet for a long time, and after a long time, Xia Musheng said: "I, am I already dead?"

Only then did Si Yang raise his eyes to look at him. Xia Musheng probably didn't know how to accept this kind of thing, so he subconsciously avoided Si Yang's gaze: "I feel a little strange, I'm very tired, but I dare not sleep. There is a feeling of sinking in the whole person, I don’t want to eat, or I can’t eat. I haven’t eaten for a long time. , I can't feel my own heartbeat, and there are things I don't remember."

Si Yang said: "What do you remember?"

Xia Musheng looked at Si Yang, and the ghostly aura on his body suddenly increased: "It seems that when I was sketching, I lost my footing and fell down. But I don't remember how I got back, and my painting is gone Yes, I saw that painting two days ago, but I can’t find it now.”

"Si Yang, am I... dead?"

Si Yang nodded to him.

In school before, Si Yang discovered that Xia Musheng was just a wisp of soul, but obviously he didn't know that he was dead, and he was still living as before.

People's obsessions are terrible, and you can never imagine what an obsession can turn a person into.So Xia Musheng's obsession made him feel that he was still alive, and also made the people around him think that he was still alive.Now that Si Yang has punctured what he instinctively did not want to face, this illusion can no longer be maintained.

But his obsession is still there. If he doesn't satisfy his wish and get rid of this obsession, he will gradually lose his sanity and become a fierce ghost. Instinctively, he will devour other souls or even mutilate others in order to maintain his own strength. living.

A person who has devoted his whole life to education, Si Yang is not willing to see him become such a ghost, not to mention that he is still a professor who has taught him for four years, and strangers are fine. Sending him a reincarnation can be regarded as the end of this relationship.

Xia Musheng's lips trembled slightly for a long time, and then asked: "You said before, do you want to know the whereabouts of my daughter? After I die, will I be able to see my daughter? Or can you help me and send me away?" To my daughter?"

Si Yang said: "Your fate is that of being a widow in old age, so you will die without children."

Xia Musheng knew in his heart that if his daughter could not come back, something must have happened to her outside, but no one was alive or dead, he would rather deceive his daughter to live well outside.

Although he doesn't know who Si Yang is, that doesn't matter anymore, he is already dead, and he has lived a long life, and being happy is enough.

"I thought I would see you again in Huangquan, but it seems that I was too extravagant. Send me on the road. I remembered the place where I sketched. If you help me collect the corpse, I wonder if it will cause you trouble? Or is it okay? Well, it’s just a handful of dead bones anyway, maybe people will find out later. Give me some more time, I’ll make a will, although the money is not much, but donating to those in need is considered for myself and for my daughter Good luck."

Si Yang said: "Someone will help you collect the corpse. Although you are lonely, there are still relatives living in this world. If you want to see them, I can help you, but after seeing them, you have to go where you should go .”

Xia Musheng himself has no relatives on his side, only one elder brother, who died in the revolution that year. Hearing Si Yang say this, he intuited that what he was talking about might be Lan'er's child. The heart became active again.

"Yes, can you?"

Si Yang nodded: "Close your eyes, you will see a red line, hold on to this red line, and you will naturally see it."

Xia Yuer was arranged by the Secret Service Department in Linggu Temple. Because of her importance and being a girl, Sian Chay specially arranged her in an attic alone, and people brought food every day. Here, Xia Yuer Although he stays at home, he begins to get to know the world little by little through the Internet, and he is full of expectations for his future.The paradise that her mother had described to her was where she would live in the future.

While groping for the keyboard, Xia Yuer suddenly sensed a yin energy. Xia Yuer's eyes froze for a moment. The yin energy that was able to break into Linggu Temple must be from a bad person, and he didn't care about calling for help from the monks of Linggu Temple. , directly sent out a palm to chop at the source of that Yin Qi.

However, before the palm was struck, when he saw an old man in very plain clothes standing in the corner, he subconsciously withdrew his strength, but Yu Weishang was too late to make a gesture, Xia Yu'er was suddenly startled.

But the old man seemed to be protected by something and was not hurt by her, Xia Yu'er was inexplicably relieved.Looking at the old man with an ordinary soul in front of him, he frowned and said, "Who are you and why are you here?"

Xia Musheng looked down at the red line in his hand, Xia Yu'er also glanced at his hand following his movements, a red line gradually appeared on the hand that had nothing just now, and this line, implicated It turned out to be her palm.

Xia Musheng looked at Xia Yu'er tremblingly with restraint, opened his mouth, but couldn't make a sound, and stared at Xia Yu'er with his eyes unblinking. Er'er looked at his daughter Xia Lan's longing and eagerness without concealing it.

Xia Yu'er knew that this was a blood line, and ordinary celestial masters would never be able to make the blood line visible, but she couldn't care less about it now, looking at the person in front of her, Xia Yu'er was a little helpless: "You..."

Xia Musheng choked his throat: "I, I may be your grandfather."

At Xia Musheng's home, Si Yang looked at the clouds in the sky blown by the air current, and sighed slightly, the cruelest thing in the world is probably the one who has no relationship, just met, but is facing the separation of life and death.