A Beginner's Guide to Magic

I have been psychic since I was a child.

A Niang is always surrounded by the souls of many small animals. I have tried to touch them, but I can't touch them. It seems to see a layer of fog, gray and cold.

Occasionally, gray-haired old people would stand beside A Niang and look at me, or look at her, discussing something in a low voice, and always smiled at me.

When A Niang took me to the mountains to worship our ancestors, there would be an old man with a snake-headed cane watching her tenderly, and finally touched my head and made a 'shh' gesture to me, telling me not to make a fuss.

Only later did I realize that it should be my grandmother.

My grandmother passed away when I was very young. At that time, my mother was very sad. She lay in bed crying all day and had no time to care about me.There was a very young and pale uncle who took care of me and told me stories about my grandmother.

"She is a very gentle and steady woman, daring to love and hate, her medical skill is so good that she can be called the master of Xinglin, and she manages Hongxiu Valley in an orderly manner... You should take her as an example and grow up quickly, Protect your mother from the wind and rain."

My uncle said that my grandmother and my mother were hard-working women, and told me that if I have someone who looks right in the future, I must remember to marry her, treat her well, and don't treat her sincerity as grass.

I didn't talk much about the others, and after that, I haven't seen this uncle much.

I have never told anyone about being able to psychic. After all, if I tell it, no one will believe it.

Once, I pointed to Uncle Lu and said, "There is someone behind you."

Uncle Lu was not surprised when he heard the words, grabbed the hand of the good-looking uncle, and said with some pride: "Yes, he has been standing behind me all the time."

The good-looking uncle blushed immediately, and said something in Uncle Lu's ear, so embarrassed that Uncle Lu kicked him away.

I stared at the person behind Uncle Lu, and when he heard that sentence, he also stared straight at me.

He is also good-looking, with a righteous face, and he looks like a good person.

I don't know how there are such upright guys around Uncle Lu and Uncle Pretty, who are so dishonest.

Zhou Zheng's uncle came over, covered my eyes, stared at me tightly, and muttered in a low voice, "Why don't you look like brother...Hey, who were you born?"

I cautiously glanced at the uncles and aunts behind me, and ran to the corner alone, and the pleasing uncle followed with big strides.

I squatted down, and my uncle squatted down too.

"Uncle ghost, who is your brother?"

The uncle pursed his lips and smiled, surprisingly good-looking: "My brother is a fool."

Then this uncle should also be a fool.If you're not stupid, why don't you keep following Uncle Lu?

I suddenly understood, and said to him: "Uncle Ghost, Uncle Lu is not my father."

The uncle looked very surprised: "Lu Yang and Lin Guzhu are husband and wife, you are Lin Guzhu's child, why isn't he your father? Could it be that this guy Lu Yang is planning to abandon his wife and son and deny you?"

I painstakingly told the story of this messy relationship.

Three years ago, Uncle Pei came to visit in the valley. He seemed to like drinking very much. He always lost in games, so he was poured by Uncle Li and the others. The more he drank, the more blushing he became.When I got drunk, he forced me to tell stories, told many stories about him and a "someone", and accidentally told my life experience.

It turned out that I was the son of an uncle with a very noble status and a bastard. That person was scolded bloody by several uncles and aunts. Recognize this guy as daddy.

I don't find it embarrassing.My mother said that no matter how much you care about what has happened, no matter how much you seem to think about it, it is useless. The only person who suffers is yourself.

After listening to the uncle, his expression was crying and laughing, and he waited for a long time before mourning: "So that's the case. I knew that he still couldn't let Li Qing go, no wonder..."

I do not understand.

Uncle touched my head and smiled lovingly.

I asked, "Why does Ghost Uncle follow Uncle Lu all the time?"

The uncle tilted his head and smiled: "Because I don't know where to go."

I was a little confused: "How could it be? Everyone has a home. For example, Uncle Li took Aunt Tao to roam the rivers and lakes, Auntie recruited apprentices to revitalize Hongxiu Valley, Uncle Lu held hands with his good-looking uncle, Pei Uncle has been chasing Auntie Duan until now but still can't catch up... Uncle Ghost, you should also have a final destination."

The corners of the uncle's mouth drooped, and he muttered softly: "Ah, then my destiny is probably death."

"You can't say that!"

I was a little angry and wanted to push him to wake him up, but I couldn't touch him.

He wanted to hug me, but couldn't touch me either.

I started to think of a way to help this uncle, but I couldn't come up with a few ideas, so I had to ask tentatively: "Uncle, is there no black and white impermanence to pick you up after you die?"

Uncle shook his head, he was wearing red clothes, very beautiful and flamboyant, it was the first time that I thought men looked so good in red.

"No, a person as sinful as me probably won't be reincarnated."

I said to him: "Impossible, I have seen the soul being taken away with my own eyes, uncle, you will also have a way to enter reincarnation."

"You are amazing." Uncle admired, with a hand attached to my eyes, almost translucent, he asked: "Yin-yang eyes?"

I proudly puffed out my chest: "That's not true."

Later, this uncle told me a lot about him and Uncle Lu. It turned out that Uncle Lu used to be very dishonest, leading a group of juniors and younger sisters to play all over the mountains and plains. Man bears all the blame and always goes back to the house bruised and bruised.

"I just said that he is stupid. He always bears a lot on his own and has a lot of worries." Uncle Ghost sighed at me: "I think, until now, he should still blame himself."

"Remorse for what?" I asked.

Uncle Ghost hesitated to speak, but finally put his hand on my forehead, touched it a few times, and didn't speak.

Grown-ups are always eccentric.

Many things are never told to others, and all the truth is always not easy to reveal, but if you don't talk or ask, who will understand him and care about him?

Uncle Ghost didn't say anything, so I deliberately asked, "Uncle, how did you die?"

Uncle Ghost fell silent again, and it took a long time until my mother called me to go back to eat, before he said: "...I forgot. Thinking about those things will only increase troubles in vain."

But I saw his expression, but it didn't look like he had forgotten.

Uncle Ghost picked a flower for me, stood alone in the corner, and watched me go back.

When I walked to the door of the house, I vaguely heard my uncles and aunts talking about something. If I went in at this time, they would always stop the topic. Why don't I stand at the door for a while and let them have a good chat.

I have always been very sensible, and my mother always praised me for being a good boy.

"I heard that you scolded our Majesty away with one sentence?"

It was Uncle Li's voice.

Who is our Majesty, the Emperor?

A Niang let out a "hmm", and then said nothing.

Aunt Duan's voice sounded: "It's said, it's just heard, the descendants are dying, and there are not many people in the harem, so I always want to take Xiao Linxing back, and bring Jiaojiao back to make a concubine or something... ...But then no matter what, it didn't work out."

I couldn't understand a word, so I continued to squat at the door.

"Don't think about it, if Xiao Linxing leaves, there will be no successors for our Wuxiang Sword Sect." said the good-looking uncle.

"When Wuxiang Sword Sect is yours, the family members should stop shyly rubbing their faces up." It was Uncle Pei's voice.

"We, Ayang, have no objections, you scum of the Martial Arts League are not worthy of talking about this!"

Uncle Pei always quarrels with the good-looking uncle. My mother said that they are like a pair of fighting cocks.

"...All right, all right, where did the topic go. Brother Jiao, why did you reject him?" It was Uncle Lu's voice.

There was silence in the room for a while, and A Niang's faint voice was heard again.

"I said, my child's surname is Lin, not Zhao, I think he is someone who can run around and ride a horse freely, not a guy who had to marry someone he had never met in order to secure his status when he was a teenager. "

Uncle Li was the first to laugh, and the others also laughed. The atmosphere in the room eased up a lot. I think this is the best time to go in.

I pretended I didn't know anything, and walked in. The people in the room really changed the subject quickly, and chatted about gossip and trivia in the world.Aunt Tao prepared a meal for me, and she also picked up two chopsticks of meat for me, saying that I was growing and I needed to eat more.

Uncle Lu nudged the good-looking uncle with his elbow, and whispered to him, "...Let's set off tomorrow and go back to Wanzhang Peak to visit Yunkai's grave."

"I listen to you."

I held the flower and looked at Uncle Lu.

Does Uncle Lu know that he has been accompanied by a ghost uncle?Does he also miss each other like Uncle Ghost?Will there be a ghost uncle in the dream?

I do not know.

Life is alive, life and death parting is a very normal thing.I have seen a lot of souls around people, they either follow with ruthlessness, or follow with love, the more I see, the more I understand.

Many loves, or many hates, are not worn away even after death.The living live with the faith given by the dead, and the dead wander the world with the love and hatred passed on by the living.In the world after death, there is not much difference between love and hate, both are things that support the soul of the deceased to linger in the world.

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"Kid, what are you looking at me for?"

I stared at the middle-aged uncle in front of me, and always felt that there was a very familiar feeling about him.

The uncle has deep brows and eyes, especially the beautiful eyes. I think he must have been a handsome guy when he was young. He was dressed in gray and coarse clothes, and his body was covered with a layer of white and transparent light. He was also a wandering soul.

I was holding a stick of sugar painting and a pack of candied date cakes in my hand, and I wanted to take them home for my mother to eat. When I passed by this teahouse, I saw this uncle standing at the door.He kept staring into the restaurant, not knowing who he was looking at, and I was just standing in front of him, just happened to be staring at him.

It was the first time I saw such beautiful eyes in the soul wandering in the world, I couldn't control it all of a sudden, staring at it for a long time was my fault.

I heard Uncle Li teasing me before, saying that I was also a nympho after following my mother.

He is a nympho, according to Uncle Lu, he fell in love with Aunt Tao, a peerless beauty, in front of the battle between the two armies.

Now there are people next to me who are suspicious of me.After all, others couldn't see this uncle, and thought I was a bastard, and kept staring at the wall.

I winked at the uncle, and turned into the alley, and he actually followed me, so I said we hit it off.

The uncle stretched out his hand calmly, and grabbed the sugar painting from my hand—it was actually the soul of the sugar painting. He bit off a big piece with a click, and wondered if he could taste the taste.

The world after their death is very free. Whatever they want, they can take it and make it their own.I have seen with my own eyes many starving and impoverished souls rushing into restaurants and taverns to eat and drink, and when they were lured away by ghost guards, they circled around several times.

The uncle took out another candied date cake from my arms, took a bite, and seemed to think that the taste was very ordinary, so he threw it away. As soon as the thing fell to the ground, it turned into a wisp of fly ash and disappeared completely.

He asked me again: "Ask you, why do you keep looking at me?"

I replied sincerely: "Because my uncle has beautiful eyes."

The uncle was taken aback for a while, as if he hadn't spoken to anyone for a long time, and was stunned for a while.

Then, he smiled heartily, with several crow's feet in the corners of his eyes: "The last time someone praised me like that was decades ago."

decades ago?I was curious: "Uncle, how long have you been dead?"

"I don't remember, it's been many years." The uncle took another bite of the sugar painting, turned his head and glanced at the teahouse, stared at the back of a man for a while, then turned to me and said, "I've seen you."

But I have no impression of him.

"It was you when you were a child. You were only this big at that time." The uncle drew a box-sized figure with his hands, and said, "Your mother should be called Lin Mengjiao, and her adoptive father is Lu Yang."

so clear?

"Is there anything else?" I became more interested in this uncle.

The uncle glanced in the direction of the teahouse, as if he was worried that the person would run away, and took the time to say to me: "Your adoptive father's friends, Pei Ning, Li Jixiang, Duan Qiqi, and your adoptive father's man, Li Qing, Hehuan sect."

I opened my mouth wide, who the hell is this person!

I suddenly remembered the ghost uncle in red, so I asked, "Uncle, do you know how the souls wandering in the world can go to the underworld and enter reincarnation?"

The uncle's eyes were fixed on the teahouse all the time, and his voice seemed disgusted, probably because he thought I asked too many questions.

"The soul is divided into three colors. According to the merits and sins of life, it is divided into three types: white, blue and red."

"The white soul can choose to enter reincarnation immediately or stay in the world. The allowed period is 100 years. When the time comes, no matter whether you want to or not, you have to go to the bridge of the underworld to drink soup. The blue soul is quite special. I haven't seen it yet. As for The red soul can't help but wish for itself, and the first time it dies, it has to be snatched away by ghosts... How come you don't even know this, you are stupider than your adoptive father, how did your eyes become It's strange to have yin and yang eyes."

It turned out to be the case.

The uncle in red should still have the possibility of reincarnation, he doesn't have to wear a worried face all day long.

The uncle moved a few steps in the direction of the teahouse so that he could observe the man more directly, and changed into a comfortable posture, eating my candy painting again.

I was careful to hide in the shadows, trying to avoid being seen so as not to be called neurotic.

The uncle's expression can be called focused, his eyes are soft, and the corners of his mouth are involuntarily drawn up. It's great to still have such a vigorous and youthful expression at such a young age.

I asked, "Who is uncle looking at?"

"my sweetheart."

"what?"

"Little ghost, can't I have a lover?"

The uncle seemed a little out of breath, and there was a hint of red in his ears.

Such an expression is definitely a lover.

"Oh, it turns out that you, who know so much knowledge and have read so many books, can't help wandering in the world for love." I admired, this is really a miraculous thing.

The uncle started suddenly without any warning, and rushed out of the alley like a fly. I hurriedly chased after him, and followed his footsteps closely, forgetting everything about sugar paintings.

He stopped abruptly, stood behind a young man, and remained motionless.

I also stopped with him.

The young man turned his back to me and looked familiar.There was no one else around him, so he was talking on his own, with several boxes of desserts in his arms, and a large candy painting in his right hand.

"I delayed buying sacrifices again because of listening to storytelling, alas, will Anan be angry with me?" The young man said to himself.

He seemed very annoyed: "I didn't buy the cakes he likes, so what can I do."

The uncle stood silently two steps behind him, and I stood four steps behind him.

"The weather is really good today. I don't know if Anan can see it." The young man continued, the crowd around him was surging, one person missed him, passed by him, the crowd was in a hurry, only he was still standing there, as if he was obsessed with what he said Thinking about it: "Anan has probably entered reincarnation, and when he reincarnates, will he still remember me?"

The uncle still stood behind him, motionless.

After the young man finished speaking, he walked forward slowly, his footsteps were especially slow compared to others.

He is like the most idle person in the world. He has fulfilled his ideals in life, achieved his ultimate goal, has money and power, and lacks nothing.

But when I looked at his back, I always felt that 1 years of loneliness seemed to be on his shoulders, pressing heavily on him, but he didn't shake his figure at all.

It seems that he has an absolutely strong belief in his heart, which is enough to ensure that he will be happy and happy for the rest of his life. Even if he has gone through thousands of sails, the years have passed, and his best friends love and hate parting, this belief cannot be stopped.

The uncle walked forward two times quickly, leaned beside him, and walked side by side with him.

The young man kept talking, he had countless things to say, and it happened that the uncle was patient enough to listen.

But can he see the uncle?I think it is invisible, can the uncle communicate with him?I don't think so, but what does it matter.

I stopped.

Watching them gradually fade out of my sight.

It seems that this year's spring is much stronger.

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