our supernatural life

Mai Mai stared at the densely packed ghosts on the road: "What is this? Ghost? You, aren't you from the Zhang family? Do you have amulets that can drive away ghosts?"

Zhang Jingping looked out the car window, tongue-tied: "This, this, this is not an ordinary ghost..."

"What's that?" Seeing the driver waving the machete silently, Mai Mai saw that wherever the light of the knife went, those ghosts were cut off like smoke rings, but after the knife passed by, some bodies that had been cut in two would gradually disappear Restoration, only those that are smashed into a cloud of smoke will gradually dissipate.The driver brandished a knife in one hand, and took out something from his pocket with the other hand to wipe his nose, "What is he doing?"

Zhang Jingping rationalized his thinking: "These, these, let's call them ghosts. They are not the same as the ghosts that are commonly called. Rather than calling them ghosts, it is better to call them ghosts. In this place in Yunnan, too many people have died throughout the ages. Like the Central Plains died of war or other things, most of them died of local poisonous insects, miasma, Gu, etc. Therefore, wherever these ghosts go, they often carry miasma poisonous fog. He, that big brother, probably It’s rubbing some miasma-repelling medicine on the nose. Our Zhang family is best at catching demons, exorcising ghosts is--not our profession. And I, I’m a student of herbal medicine, so I’m not good at exorcising ghosts... ...And these ghosts, even if they are eliminated, will form miasma. If there is a suitable medicine, I can cure it, but there is nothing now..."

Mai Mai saw that the driver's movements were gradually slowing down.There are too many miasma ghosts around him. Although he killed at least dozens of them, according to Xiaomai's visual inspection, there are at least hundreds of them around.What's worse is that there is still mist slowly drifting out from the surrounding forests, as if more miasma ghosts are joining in.

"I'll help him!" Mai Mai looked around for someone who could take advantage of him.

Zhang Jingping grabbed him: "It's all miasma!"

"Don't be afraid, I--shouldn't poison me."

"That's right, you have Ganoderma lucidum..." Zhang Jingping suddenly realized, "But we must also be careful not to be caught by miasma ghosts. You have also seen that they can hurt people if they catch them. If there are ghosts who died of Gu, Maybe Gu will invade through the wound. In short, this place in Yunnan is too mysterious. Before liberation, there were people who were killed by Gu, and some who were not Gu masters but were unjustly killed, so that this place is actually covered by resentment- -What's this?"

Mai Mai just found a long wrench under the seat, and looked up to find that Zhang Jingping was referring to the silver whistle, which he just casually threw on the seat: "I don't know, it came out of the bag, I don't know who put it in."

"This belongs to Uncle Wutang!" Zhang Jingping picked it up and looked at the headlights, and said with certainty, "This is engraved with a symbol of hope. This is engraved on the musical instruments that Uncle Wutang used to drive away evil spirits. Although I can't engrave it, I can still understand it when I look at it."

"Uncle Fifth?" Mai Mai wondered.Why did Zhang Xuezheng give him this?

"Ah!" Zhang Jingping slapped his thigh violently, "Uncle Wu expected that there would be such a monster in this place, so I'll give you this one, blowing it can drive away evil spirits!"

"How - blow?" Mai Mai made two gestures with the whistle.

"Just put it in your mouth and blow it!"

Wheat stuffed the whistle into his mouth and blew hard.Unexpectedly, the sound from the silver whistle was not as sharp and monotonous as an ordinary whistle, but soft and pleasant. As soon as the sound came out, the miasmas closest to the car window suddenly stopped their movements and turned around. He looked into the window of the car, "What's going on?" Mai's hair stood on end for a while, she probably blew a whistle, but directed the attack to herself, right?

"Blow it again." Zhang Jingping urged him, "Uncle Wu must give you something good."

Maimai blew again tremblingly, but fortunately those miasmas didn't attack, but stood there dumbfounded, as if they were mesmerized by the sound.Zhang Jingping patted his leg again abruptly: "I see, this whistle is not for exorcism, but for insect repellent! I heard that Uncle Wu ran across Yunnan when he was young, so he probably learned this whistle from a local Gu master. It's brilliant. Gu masters can use bamboo whistles to command poisonous insects, Uncle Wu may be an imitation, maybe not as clever as others, but it can still play a role. Keep blowing, don’t stop!"

The wheat kept blowing, and the whistle rang throughout the road. The miasma gradually stopped their movements, turned their heads to him, and stood there listening blankly.The driver took the opportunity to finish off the closest lap with a few knives, opened the door of the car and jumped up, stepped on the accelerator, and the car rushed past the still standing miasma and galloped away.These miasmas still stood there stupidly, and did not move again until the whistle could no longer be heard.Only at this time, the car had long since disappeared.

The car drove wildly for half an hour, leaving those miasmas far behind, and the driver turned his face: "Yo ho, I was wrong tonight, where did the little brothers come from?"

Zhang Jingping has been looking at the big knife thrown by the driver on the seat: "There are Gu writing on this knife, brother, are you a Gu master?"

The driver chuckled: "If I were a Gu Master, how could I still be in such a mess? It's two brothers, which one is the Gu Master?"

Mai Mai scratched her head: "Nor are we..."

The driver was shocked: "No? Then who blew the whistle just now?"

"I blew it, but it's not my stuff, it's - a senior lent it to me."

"Senior?" The driver turned his head back to look at them while driving, "Who is the senior you are talking about? Not everyone can make a confuse whistle, and I think the tune you play is not the same as the traditional confuse whistle. It's not the same...can you show me?"

Mai Mai felt that it was too dangerous for him to drive like this: "That--you are driving..."

"Oh, oh," the driver turned his head belatedly, "I still have to make a call." He picked up his cell phone and dialed a number, then yelled, "Why are you calling in the middle of the night? I was almost killed by you, do you know? I haven’t even married a wife yet, how worthless it is to be killed by you!"

The same yelling voice came from the phone: "Shut up! Where is the person you picked up? Did you find it?"

"...No..." The driver froze immediately, "I'm rushing back, you guys should also pay attention to see if they went directly to the ancient city..."

"You idiot, Qi Ren!"

Mai Mai's ears are extremely sensitive, and he grasped the last two words immediately: "Qi Ren? Your name is Qi Ren?"

The driver was stunned: "Yeah, why, you know me?"

Mai Mai and Zhang Jingping glanced at each other, and they both raised their fingers to the driver's nose at the same time: "Your name is Qi Ren? Is it true?"

The driver slammed on the brakes with a squeak, and turned to stare at Mai Mai and Zhang Jingping: "What do you mean? What do you mean by real and fake? Have you met a fake? You—you can't be named Zhang, right?"

Zhang Jingping really lost his composure, and immediately realized that it was very impolite for him to point his finger at others, so he quickly put down his hand: "You--the plane--"

"Oh!" the driver cried out in shock, "It really is you, you really are from the Zhang family, right?" He bent down and fumbled under the seat again, pulled out a piece of red cloth, and unfolded it loudly, "Look! "Mr. Zhang is written on the red cloth, and there is a pattern next to it, which is exactly the same as the sign held by "Qi Ren" that Mai and the others saw at the airport.

"You should be the one to pick us up?" Zhang Jingping also called out, "But why is it another person? He said his name is Qi Ren!"

"Who? Which bastard is pretending to be Lao Tzu?" The driver was annoyed. "My car broke down on the way. When I arrived, the plane had already landed. I waited in the terminal for two hours but couldn't find you. At that time I also wondered if you couldn't wait for the person to pick you up, so you went directly to the ancient city. So someone pretended to be? What kind of person is it?"

By this time, Mai Mai and Zhang Jingping were really relieved, and told everything about the fake Qi Ren they met at the airport.The driver, Qi Ren, frowned more and more, and when they finished speaking, he said coldly: "I see, it's Qi Song. And Qi Xin."

"Why does he want to pretend to be you? I heard him talk about being alone, and someone is going to be alone..." Mai Mai asked hesitantly.

Qi Ren's face became even more ugly: "Yes, it is true, the old man went to the independent way... This matter, um, this matter is a change within the Gu Master... In short, you are all fine, thank God."

Mai could see that Qi Ren didn't want to say more, so of course it wasn't appropriate for him to ask more.But when Qi Ren said it was okay, he suddenly remembered: "No, we have something to do! Jingping seems to have been poisoned by a Gu, and his stomach hurts badly!"

"Stomach pain?" Qi Ren frowned, holding the steering wheel with one hand, and stretching the other hand to the back, "Give me your hand." He took Zhang Jingping's pulse with two fingers, and frowned even more, "It's the golden silkworm Gu .”

"By the way, it's the Golden Silkworm Gu!" Mai Mai remembered what the fake Qi Ren said, "That fake——Qi Song, he even said he wanted to use me to feed the Golden Silkworm Gu."

Qi Ren scratched his head: "That's how raising golden silkworms is. Golden silkworms attract wealth, but they have to eat people."

Mai Mai felt that his tone was very strange: "Why do you seem to think it's normal..."

Qi Ren scratched his head again: "This... Gu is like this, it has been like this for thousands of years..." He realized that he couldn't explain clearly, so he changed the subject, "But people who have been hit by the golden silkworm Gu will have abdominal pain and then have a fever and pass out. , why are you still awake?"

Mai Mai quickly winked at Zhang Jingping: "What's wrong? Jingping took some herbs. Is there something wrong?"

"No, no. What kind of herbal medicine did you eat? The toxicity is temporarily suppressed, which is good. We can rush back to the ancient city to detoxify in time."

"Why, you can't solve it?" Mai Mai cried, "How far is it from the ancient city? Just let Jingping go all the way?" Although the Ganoderma lucidum relieved part of the toxicity, Zhang Jingping still felt like a needle prick in his stomach.

Qi Ren scratched his ears and cheeks, redness appeared on his dark face: "I, I'm not a Gu master, I really can't solve it. However, my brother is in the ancient city, he can solve it. We can get there in a few hours, I'll drive faster. "

Wheat was speechless.What else?Qi Ren drove the car very fast, and at the same time he didn't forget to turn his face: "Can you show me that whistle?"

Mai Mai withdrew his hand: "Drive hard, and I'll show you when you drive to the ancient city!" Although this Qi Ren is in his 30s and almost [-], his every move is a bit awkward.

Qi Ren wiped his face annoyedly, turned his head and started to drive: "Then you guys take a rest, you will be in the ancient city by dawn."

This is not wrong. At dawn, they entered the ancient city of Lijiang.Although Qi Ren drove all night, he was still in high spirits.Mai Mai and Zhang Jingping had already been tossed about a lot, until the car stopped, Mai Mai reluctantly opened his eyes and got up to have a look: "Are you there?" In front of him was a hotel, an antique ethnic building, and the wooden sign read: Ancient City Inn.

"It's here!" Qi Ren got out of the car, opened the rear door, and easily lifted Zhang Jingping out of the car.Zhang Jingping was in pain all night, and he was the one who couldn't bear the pain, but he was exhausted after tossing all night, and he could hardly stand up.Qi Ren supported him and walked to the hotel, letting go of his voice and shouting: "Qi He, come out quickly, I've brought him here!"

Mai Mai was surprised to see that the people who came out of the hotel looked exactly like Qi Ren, they were obviously twins, but they would never admit a mistake when they were put together, because their temperaments were so different.Qi Ren is like a horse thief, rough and unrestrained, but Qi He is much gentler than him, and his temperament is a bit like Zhang Xuezheng.However, when he opened his mouth, Mai Mai was startled to stagger, his voice was not inferior to Qi Ren's in the slightest, he really deserved to be a twin brother!

The two of them dragged Zhang Jingping into the house with a lot of noise, but no one came to greet Mai.Mai Mai stood in the yard, unable to laugh or cry, and a string of silver bell-like laughter came from beside her. A girl of eighteen or nineteen ran out and said in slightly blunt Mandarin: "Don't pay attention to them, are you tired? Go inside. rest."

Mai Mai saw that the girl's complexion was as dark as Qi Ren's, but she was pretty in the dark, her brows and eyes were watery, and she had two deep dimples when she smiled, as if she could talk.Mai Mai couldn't help but also smiled, not at ease: "But my friend, he got hit--"

"I know, I know, he was poisoned by the golden silkworm Gu poison. Don't worry, Brother Qi He is a good pharmacist, but he can cure the poison, and he will be fine."

"Then I'm relieved. Well, what's your name?"

"My name is Baidie." Baidie looked Maimai up and down, "Are you from the Zhang family?"

"No, my friend is from the Zhang family. My surname is Mai, so just call me Maizi."

"Wheat?" Baidie laughed crisply, "It's really interesting."

Mai Mai grinned, not knowing what to say to the girl.Bai Die was not afraid of strangers, and while packing up the food for him, she kept asking questions like a cannonball, asking them what they were doing here, and what happened to them at the airport.Mai Mai was left speechless by her question, but luckily Qi Ren showed up in time, and sat down at the dining table: "Bai Die, bring me a bowl of rice too, I've been running all night, I'm starving to death."

"How is Jingping?"

"It's okay." Qi Ren grinned, "It's good to sleep. Hey, can you show me the whistle now?"

Mai Mai took out the whistle, Qi Rengang stretched out his hand, and inserted his other hand to intercept the whistle in mid-air.When Mai Mai turned her head, she saw Qi He looking at it with the whistle, with a thoughtful expression on her face, and finally took a look at Mai Mai: "Is this yours?"

Mai Mai replied cautiously: "Given by an elder."

Qi Ren was bluffing: "Brother, this thing is very similar to the old man's, but the tone is different..."

Qi He glared at him: "Nonsense! This is made of silver, how can it be the same as a bamboo whistle! Eat your food and shut up!" He looked at the whistle again, and returned it to Mai, "You don't have a surname. Zhang? So the one inside is here to learn Gu skills?"

Mai Mai asked in surprise: "Gu art?" He remembered what Zhang Jingping said, "Jingping is going to Tangmen to learn herbal medicine."

"Is that what you want to learn?"

Mai Mai was even more surprised: "Me? I learn Gu art? No, I didn't want to learn Gu art..."

Qi He raised his eyebrows: "Then what are you doing here?"

"I..." Mai Mai hesitated for a moment, "I want to continue my life."

Qi He looked at him with strange eyes: "You want to extend your life? Do you think that the Gu Master can extend the life of anyone who comes?"

"No..." Of course Xiaomai knew it wasn't that simple, "I just—the old man of the Zhang family said that he has a friend he knows here, so give me a chance to come—to try my luck."

"Oh--" Qi He turned around resolutely, "Then you go and try your luck. Qi Ren, hurry up and eat, and send him to the mountain after eating."

"Then Jingping..."

"Since he doesn't study, I will arrange for someone to send him to the Tang family."

"I, I always have to say goodbye to him..."

"He's going to sleep until it's dark today. There's no time left. You have to go into the mountains before dark."

Qi He spoke decisively and left after finishing speaking.Mai Mai sat blankly, unable to swallow the food in front of her eyes.Qi Ren stared at him while he was eating: "Why don't you eat? Only when you are full can you have the strength to walk the mountain road."

Mai Mai picked up a few grains of rice with her chopsticks, feeling very uneasy.Bai Die blinked and looked at him, and asked curiously: "Do you want to extend your life? Is your life short?"

Mai opened his hand to look at the palm of his left hand.Somehow, scabs formed there, but after running wildly in the woods this night, it seemed to be a little cracked: "Well, I may only have half a year to live."

"Is there anything else you haven't done?"

"I think..." Mai Mai was a little dazed, "I want to be with the one I love, and I can't die now."

Qi Ren chewed his meal carelessly: "Everyone is going to die, so what's the use of renewing your life for an extra year and a half?"

"I don't want to continue for a year and a half, I want--" Mai didn't know what to say, "I want to live with him."

Baidie looked at him researchingly: "This is going to be difficult, do you want to continue for many years? This is not something that ordinary Gu masters can do."

Mai Mai recalled what Zhang Shengyi said: "The old man of the Zhang family said that he has a friend who can do it."

"Are you kidding me!" Qi Ren interjected, "There are so many Gu masters in the village, the only one who can do it is the old man, you can't see him."

Mai Mai looked at him blankly: "Why?"

"He doesn't see outsiders--" Qi Ren shook his hand, "Since Bai Wan died--"

"The chance is very small!" Qi He's voice interrupted the twin brothers coldly, he walked in again, took an envelope in his hand, and threw it directly into Mai Mai's arms, "Show him this when the time comes, There might be a chance.”

Qi Ren took a look: "Brother, what did you give him? It's not your--"

"Shut up!" Qi He interrupted him unceremoniously, but Qi Ren refused to give up: "Did you really give him that? That thing is a favor! If you have used it, it will be useless in the future!"

"What do you know!" Qi He gave him a hard look, "Do you know who owns that whistle?"

"Whose?" Qi Ren was dumbfounded.

"If there was no one who made the whistle, you would have been reimbursed ten years ago!"

"Ah?" Qi Ren's eyeballs almost fell out, "You mean that big brother? No wonder he can be a fan whistle..."

"Exactly!" Qi He said impatiently, "It's just that I didn't expect him to be from the Zhang family." He glanced at Mai Mai, "For his sake, let me help you and make sure you can see the old man. But In the end, whether he is willing to accept you or not depends on your own ability."