play tricks

Hearing too much about the "separation of yin and yang" and "different paths between humans and ghosts", Zhao Xunwen originally thought that coming here would be a difficult, if not "very" difficult thing, but it would be a bit of a twists and turns.However, they just came here.This made Zhao Ziwen feel light and unreal...

However, the sound of "four hairs" brought him back to reality immediately, and even the sense of reality that hit his face made his face burn.

But this kind of embarrassment and embarrassment is only a short moment. After being known by Chen Xiuyuan, it is a matter of returning to the human world anyway.What's in front of him is the most important thing—this is really his mother. I thought it was a farewell, but I didn't expect that there would be a day to meet again...

How would a 32-year-old man react when he reunited with his mother after a long absence?The others, Zhao Xiwen didn't know, he himself, went to the front, knelt down on the ground, hugged his mother and cried happily.It seems that he has been greatly wronged these years. In fact, the old man and his brothers and sisters treat him more dotingly than those juniors. However, at this moment, tears can no longer be controlled by reason.

But Zhao Xiwen, who was crying so much, knew it, so ghosts can shed tears.

When the tears finally stopped, the mother and son and the little boy entered the house—the furnishings in the house were exactly the same as ten years ago—then naturally sat down and talked. Zhao Xiwen is not a taciturn person, his eloquence Not too bad but not great either.But he never imagined that he would have such an eloquent day.He talked about the affairs of the country, about the army, about his brothers and sisters, about the juniors, about himself, about his friends, but he almost knew everything, but only "almost" , because there is one person's matter that he deliberately missed from the beginning to the end - Chen Xiuyuan's matter...

The mother who first lingered on the sick bed and then passed away is completely different from the old man at home. The old man has watched the changes in the country in the past ten or twenty years, and he has also watched the changes in the princelings.In fact, it is still good now. In the early years, that is, in the 20s and 90s, it was when the princelings played the most fierce and lawless.

Things like playing with men, that is, ordinary people now feel that it is different from the public's aesthetics, and it is shocking to the world. In fact, some people have been tossing about it since then.It’s not that there are many people in it who are calcium, it’s the same as playing bungee jumping, some people go for the excitement and to be different, and some people just for the sake of face, everyone plays you don't play?

Zhao Xiwen was found out by the old man at the beginning, and he caught him and beat him up. He didn't get out of bed for three days, and he almost broke his leg... But later, the old man talked to someone. What.One day, when Zhao Ziwen was still lying on his stomach, the old man came and sat on the edge of the bed watching him for a long time.

At that time, Zhao Ziwen almost cried and swore that he would study hard and make progress every day.The old man told him, "As long as you don't do things that hurt the world, I won't care about you." Thus, the era of freedom for the prince of the Zhao family officially came...

However, his mother is definitely a much more old-fashioned person than the old man. Zhao Ziwen was afraid of seeing pain and disappointment in his mother's eyes, afraid that even if they met for less than a day, it would cause her to shed tears.So his mother asked him: "Simao, who is that young man who brought you here?"

"He's a good friend." That's all he dared to answer. For the rest, he didn't dare to add even one more word of explanation...

"Oh." The old man nodded, and suddenly looked out, "Oh, the time is up so soon, Si Mao, I will take you out with the third child."

"Well, Mom."

Although I don't know how my mother knew the situation outside, when Zhao Ziwen helped the old man out, Chen Xiuyuan was already standing at the door of the building waiting for him.

"Are you leaving now?" Zhao Ziwen asked reluctantly.

"If it's later than the peak period, you'll be in trouble."

"There is still a peak season in this place? Don't ghosts and messengers avoid you?"

"Ghost Festival is the day when the passages on both sides are open. Do you think we're the only ones coming down? The ghosts below will also go up to the top. Any later will be the peak time for them to come back. The trouble I'm referring to is not ghosts."

"Can you handle that trouble?"

"Simao, don't make it difficult for other people's children." Mother Zhao slapped Zhao Ziwen on the back of the waist with a slap, and Zhao Wenwen stood up straight in an instant!

"Mom!" Zhao Ziwen's face burned again.

"You are Xiao Chen."

"Hello auntie."

"Xiao Chen, I entrusted our Simao to you. This child has a straight temper since he was a child, and his head is not good. He is famous for being honest in our yard, so he is always bullied by other children. Although occasionally It will cause trouble for his temper, but generally speaking, he is mostly stupid, so you have to take care of him."

"Well, auntie, don't worry, I will take care of BOSS... Uh, it's Simao's life."

"..." Is there something wrong here?When did I get bullied?It seems that I am the only one who bullies others in the compound, right?Of course, this is not the main problem. The main problem is, how come the more he listens to the words his mother said, the more he feels that something is wrong? ——Although Zhao Wenwen knew that his mother might have "misunderstood" something, he really couldn't believe it.

"Okay, don't delay you, let's go." The old lady wiped her eyes and waved at them.The little boy beside her also waved to Zhao Ziwen: "Goodbye, brother." Then he waved to Chen Xiuyuan, "Goodbye, brother."

Chen Xiuyuan was stunned by this address, but still nodded to the little boy: "Goodbye aunt, goodbye little brother." As a result of calling him this way, he was secretly glared at by Zhao Wenwen.

"mom……"

"I'm already here, what else do I not care about?" Mother Zhao smiled kindly and waved her hand at him, "Be careful on the road, it's autumn now, go back and see your dad on August [-]th .”

"Well, Mom, we'll see you again on October [-]th."

"Boss, close your eyes."

No matter how reluctant it was, it was finally time to say goodbye, Zhao Ziwen took Chen Xiuyuan's hand and closed his eyes.Others said that farewell is forever, but he can still come to see it three times a year, he knows that he should be content...

After feeling melancholy, what Zhao Xiwen thought was that he was really going to go home, and he didn't know if the old man knew about him and Xiao Chen—because it was easy to come, he thought it would be just as easy to leave, but it was It's just a matter of closing your eyes.However... He felt his feet shaking, and he staggered and took a step forward. At that moment, his body seemed to have penetrated a layer of gel-like substance, which made him feel uncomfortable all over.

"Boss, open your eyes, don't let go of my hand."

"Huh?" Zhao Ziwen thought he was home, but he didn't. Chen Xiuyuan held his hand, and the surroundings were in darkness. They seemed to be in a tunnel with all lighting equipment turned off. The only light source here was...Chen Xiuyuan Xiuyuan?Yes, Chen Xiuyuan's body was exuding a faint, slightly red light, "Where is this?"

"On the way back."

"It's so easy to come down, but it's so troublesome to go back?"

"When you come down, it's like jumping into the pool. You can jump directly from the diving platform, or you can go into the water from the shore. But when you go back, you can't just jump back to the diving platform, but you can only swim back to the shore. side."

"Then we just keep going?"

Chen Xiuyuan suddenly felt that Zhao Wenwen's hand that was holding him was a little soft, and his voice was getting weaker and weaker, so he immediately grabbed him tightly and shouted: "Simao! Don't sleep!" But he still didn't turn his head.

"Xiao Chen! Can you stop calling me this?"

"If you dare to stop, I will call you forever!" Chen Xiuyuan simply stretched out his other hand. He used a strange posture, his head was still facing forward, but both hands held Zhao Wenwen tightly. Pull him forward with all your might.

Zhao Ziwen also understood that something was wrong, how could he suddenly become mentally exhausted and sleepy, and his body also became heavy and sluggish?When he was wondering, Chen Xiuyuan shouted again, "Don't look back! The most important thing is to look at your feet!"

"!" If it wasn't for Chen Xiuyuan's shout, Zhao Wenwen would probably turn his head back. With his reminder, Zhao Wenwen cast a curious glance at his feet.As a result, he has seen a lot of big scenes these days, and he was terrified in an instant - countless transparent hands grabbed his feet, his legs... sad and painful faces, with their mouths open, screaming and wailing silently Floating past his legs...

"Simao, don't look back!" Chen Xiuyuan shouted again.

"You're calling me by that name, so I'm going to turn my head back." Zhao Wenwen said angrily, but both of them knew that they said so, but he definitely wouldn't turn his head.The two of them just pulled the other one and continued to move forward.

"Xiao Chen...why do I feel... that my back is getting heavier and heavier?" After walking for an unknown amount of time, Zhao Xiwen began to gasp. He felt as if he was carrying a mountain on his back, and he would be crushed down at any moment.

"This is the road to return to the soul." Chen Xiuyuan said, "People who are not yet dead want to come down, they must have special things, or they can only come at a special time. But if you want to go back from below, no matter what Those who live and die can only go back to the soul road. When I first came here, this was the only geography of the underworld that my mother could tell me and my dad. Do you remember that baby spirit? He has foul smell, no It’s better, even if you go to the bottom, you will be expelled. On the road of returning to the soul, there are countless expelled ghosts. Their spiritual intelligence has been eroded. After being expelled, they quickly forget why they were obsessed in the first place. , In the end, I couldn’t go back there. So I can only go up and down, wandering on this road, always trying to pull away the passing souls.”

Speaking of this, Chen Xiuyuan was also a little out of breath.However, he and her father have walked this road more than a dozen times. Although they will encounter obstacles, they have never been so strenuous.After all, although it is said to be dangerous, in fact, the ghosts below have to walk this way back to the top. If it is a path of death but not life, then every year on the Three Ghosts Festival, no ghosts will go back to visit their relatives and let them go— —But those who go back are generally new ghosts, and those who have been here for nearly 20 years like Zhao's mother, most of them will not move around anymore.Chen Xiuyuan's father knew that he would come over, so he didn't move.

Those who are pulled away from here are often souls with unstable minds, but Zhao Xiwen is not as unstable as his father?Maybe there is a little bit, but the difference between the two people is absolutely impossible to be so big.

Or because of special circumstances this year?No, if there is a situation here, then the human world will not react at all.

It's just that Chen Xiuyuan thought for a moment, and the situation has already deteriorated.Chen Xiuyuan even had to stop, because the pulling force from Zhao Wenwen was too great, if he continued to exert force, the hands of the two might be pulled apart.

How to do?How to do?

Chen Xiuyuan gritted his teeth and turned around abruptly!

"Xiao Chen?" Zhao Ziwen was taken aback, the moment Chen Xiuyuan turned around, those extremely dark things around them, which Zhao Wenwen thought were "tunnel walls", all moved instantly!It turned out to be densely packed with ghosts and spirits!Howling and screaming, they rushed towards Chen Xiuyuan together!

"BOSS! Hold me tight!"