Bend that ghost

When Wen Zhijiang woke up, it was still late, so he straightened up and rolled down the car window. Although he didn't need to breathe, he still didn't like being too stuffy.

Looking outside, the sky is still foggy and gray.

Wen Zhijiang clenched his fists, pursed his lips and looked extremely ugly, that bastard Lu Li dared to knock him out before!

I looked around, but I didn't see Lu Liren. He seemed to be the only one alive in the wilderness, not even a bird.

The night is approaching, and the yang energy is gradually declining. As a ghost, Wen Zhijiang is particularly sensitive to the cold yin energy.

Wen Zhijiang panicked. Not only was he worried about his mother, but he also had Lu Li. Could it be that something happened?

Wen Zhijiang looked at the car door and hesitated again. Lu Li emphasized several times that he couldn't leave the car. Wen Zhijiang put his hand on the door switch for a while, then took it off, and then put it on again.

Just as he was thinking, a gust of wind knocked down the weeds to the ground, Wen Zhijiang looked up and just saw the tombstone in the weeds and the extremely conspicuous corners of the pure black clothes out of the corner of his eye.

Is that... Lu Li?What was he doing in the cemetery?

Wen Zhijiang slammed open the car door and got out of the car, and unexpectedly found that the feeling of stepping on the ground was much more real. When he looked down, his body was also solidified like a living person, no longer the illusory state before.

Thoughtfully, he raised his hand and rubbed the earring of his left ear twice. Could it be because of the contract?

Wen Zhijiang walked towards Lu Li slowly, but found that Lu Li was sitting cross-legged on the ground, with his hands folded on his lower abdomen, and he had cleared a small circle of weeds around him.

When he was hesitant to call Lu Li, Lu Li opened his eyes, took out the blue leather diary from the pocket of his windbreaker and threw it to Wen Zhijiang, then closed his eyes and said, "Young master, go back to the car, we have to stay here for a while. one night."

When Wen Zhijiang approached, he had already noticed that this young master must not want to stay in the cemetery.But it's not easy to meet an unowned cemetery. I don't know how many people are staring at them along the way. If some monsters appear again, how can he protect Wen Zhijiang when he is injured like this now?

But Lu Li was wrong. Who is Wen Zhijiang?That's a medical student.

What kind of corpse has never been seen before, a warrior recognized by the whole class, a good student who dares to discuss and exchange academic issues with the corpse in the dissection room alone.

Wen Zhijiang took the book and looked at it, then frowned and said, "Where's my mother? Why are you here?"

He was so scared that he wasn't afraid, but his mother didn't know what to do now, besides, wasn't Lu Li a Taoist priest?It was the first time he had seen a Taoist priest meditating in the cemetery.

Lu Li hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Aunt Liandong is not as weak as you think, I need this Yin Qi to heal my wounds, you go back and rest first, and we will go on our way tomorrow morning."

Thinking of the aura of his mother kicking the flying fox demon before, Wen Zhijiang choked up, squeezed the diary tightly to suppress the worry in his heart, and said, "Are you...healing here?"

Lu Li hummed lightly, and then said: "This is how we practice in the Yinshan lineage. When the sky gets dark, there will be many wandering souls who can't be reincarnated. Don't mind your own business."

"Oh." Wen Zhijiang responded, this Yinshan lineage is really weird, it actually wants to practice in the cemetery.

Before Lu Li was supernatural, and now he was told not to meddle in other people's business, Wen Zhijiang found that he could not understand Lu Li at all, and couldn't figure out his thoughts.

Lu Li didn't speak anymore, and Wen Zhijiang didn't want to disturb Lu Li again, so he just suppressed the doubts in his heart for a while, turned around and returned to the car with his notebook.

Lu Li heaved a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that Wen Zhijiang would continue to ask about Aunt Rendong.

After all...he doesn't know how Aunt Liandong is doing now.

Normally, he and Aunt Liandong could crush the fox demon to death with one hand, but unfortunately, they were both injured.

Wen Zhijiang, who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, looked down at the blue leather diary, feeling that everything was unbelievable like a dream.

It was as if he had lived in a false world before, and now the film separating him from the real world was broken, and he woke up from the false world and faced the reality.

The diary is obviously old. It is not thick. It is a thin volume. The paper is a little yellowed, and there are traces of being opened and looked at frequently.

The first diary is from 09.

March 2009, [-].

Xiao Jiang was hospitalized, but Liandong and I felt that Xiao Jiang's illness was not quite right this time, maybe it was because of those things.

Even honeysuckle can't do anything about it. We don't know whether we should tell Dad about it. I don't want my child to follow Dad to learn those things. I just hope he grows up safely.

I hope Xiao Jiang will get better soon, Dad loves you.

-

I did have a serious illness that year, but I can't remember the specifics.

What are the 'those things' my dad said?Could it be that the serious illness was also related to monsters?

I lowered my head and continued to read the diary. My dad didn't write down every day, but wrote it every few days, and each diary was not very long.

From March 16nd to March NO.[-], according to my dad's records, I was in the hospital.

And March NO.17, grandpa finally appeared in the diary.

-

March 2009, [-].

Xiao Jiang's health still hasn't improved, the doctor advised us to give up the treatment, and has already sent a message to Dad, saying that he will arrive in two days.But Xiaojiang's situation has already changed. I don't know if I can wait until my father arrives. My son is just an ordinary child. Why don't you let him go?

God, if someone has to take the pain, let me do it for my wife and son

March 2009, [-].

Dad finally arrived, and Xiao Jiang was almost out of breath, but fortunately, Dad said there was still a way.

This is the only happy thing I've heard these days, but Dad's face is not very good, I think maybe this method is not as perfect as Honeysuckle and I thought.

There is something to give up, but I don't know what I have to give up this time in exchange for my son.

Dad brought a little boy, who looks a few years older than Lonicera, and Dad said that it was his adopted apprentice, who seems to be called Lu Li

He is a good boy and has been helping his father take care of Xiao Jiang.

Next month is Xiao Jiang's coming-of-age ceremony, and I hope he can get better before then.

Lian Dong is a strong woman and a good wife, but I am not a qualified husband and father, so I will never allow my wife and children to suffer any more harm.

no way!

March 2009, [-].

Xiao Jiang's body finally improved, and the gray on his face had returned to normal, but he still didn't wake up.

Dad finally told me the way to cure Xiaojiang. No wonder he hesitated for so many days, but I didn't hesitate.

It's only natural for me to save my son, and I don't lose anything if I change my life for another.

But how should I tell Liandong about this?It is too cruel for her to exchange her husband's life for her son's life, but we can't think of any other way. We hope she can live a good life with her son.

March 2009, 22.

Xiao Jiang's body could no longer be delayed, unexpectedly, Liandong agreed to Dad's method.

Only I can save our son in this world, so as a father, I must not back down.

It has been decided that the ceremony will be performed at the time of tomorrow, and I have thought about many possibilities of leaving this world, but I think this way is very good.

Lonicera, Xiao Jiang, I’m sorry that I can’t be with you anymore, but please believe that no matter where you are, I still love you.

Maybe Lonicera and I were wrong from the very beginning, the freedom we thought was actually just escape.

Xiaojiang, my son, if one day you can see this diary, I hope you will always remember that in the face of everything you should face, your mother and I will always stand behind you, we love you.

-

Wen Zhijiang read the last word seriously, and closed the diary with trembling hands.

In fact, there are not many in total, but the "ceremony" is mentioned here. This ceremony is a way for grandpa to save him, but he needs to sacrifice his father in exchange for his life.

And that, the so-called responsibility.

What kind of responsibility did his parents want him to escape?

Lu Li's words suddenly appeared in his mind - seven more years of life.

He is 25 years old this year, so he has lived an extra seven years?It was his father who sacrificed his life for these seven years!

One by one, almost absurd truths were before him, and there was no room for his disbelief.

Wen Zhijiang bent down holding the diary, curled himself up, buried his head in his arms, gritted his teeth and said nothing, but his whole body trembled slightly because he tried his best to conceal his emotions.

There seemed to be a flame burning in the heart, burning the blood vessels of the heart and evaporating the blood, every minute and every second was in agony.

Until this moment, Wen Zhijiang really felt that he had been caught in some incident without knowing it, and his family was ruined because of it.

As early as seven years ago, his father died trying to save him, and now he does not know who took his life.

Even after death, you have to hold on to him, what is it for?

Hatred and killing intent intertwined in Wen Zhijiang's heart, like a wild beast that was driven to a desperate situation, clamoring to wash away the pain with blood.

As if blinded by something, Wen Zhijiang's mind went blank, he just relied on instinct to open the car door and jumped down, he didn't care if the blue leather diary fell into the car.

Without a goal, I walk forward with my intuition, not knowing where to go, and I only have two words in my heart—revenge.

Before he took two steps, he was pulled into his arms and hugged tightly, and Lu Li's slightly angry and gentle scolding sounded in his ears: "Young master! Calm down, don't run around."

In the next moment, the warm palms covered the eyes, like the gentle touch of cool spring water, Wen Zhijiang even forgot to struggle, and let his brain rest in the firm embrace.

Lu Li's palm glowed with a faint blue light, as if it was some kind of purification ceremony, which gradually made Wen Zhijiang's anger subside and his sanity return.

Seeing Wen Zhijiang calm down, Lu Li heaved a sigh of relief but did not move his hand away.

He knew that some things might make Wen Zhijiang lose control, but he didn't expect that he was almost controlled by resentment and turned into a demon.

If it wasn't for the contract that made him feel Wen Zhijiang's restless energy, he still doesn't know what the consequences would be.

After sighing, Lu Li's palms were wet, his eyes darkened, he tightened his arms around Wen Zhijiang as if to comfort him, he lowered his head and put his forehead against Wen Zhijiang's forehead, and said softly, "Young Master, it's fine, as long as I If you are still alive, I will protect you with all my might.”

Anger about the past, confusion about the future, and fear of the unknown caused Wen Zhijiang to collapse and run away. At this moment, he was like a drowning person who caught a rope to pull him ashore when he was suffering from suffocation, and instinctively hugged Lu Li back tightly.

The suppressed crying continued intermittently, and Lu Li didn't speak again, but he didn't let go.