ghost encounter

"So, there are actually only four things?" Tong Xin asked.

"Five pieces, one piece is not a lot." Li Xiaoming raised a meaningful smile at the corner of his mouth, and glanced at Tongxin.

"But obviously only four pieces were made."

"It seems that you are still too young." Li Xiaoming glanced at Sheng Yang, "Sheng Yang, do you know what's going on?"

Tong Xin cast her eyes on Sheng Yang, only to see Sheng Yang frowning slightly, as if thinking about something.

"Yeah." Sheng Yang just nodded, "Then we have to do the same thing? But you have to know that in this society, killing people is punishable by the law!"

Li Xiaoming shook his head, "That happened a long, long time ago, and it's not these five things now."

"Then you still spend so long telling an old-fashioned story!" Sheng Yang looked at him angrily.

"However, knowing this story will be helpful to your affairs."

Tong Xin always felt that what to do now would be more difficult than killing people, so she asked: "Then what are we going to do?"

Li Xiaoming got up, "Let's go out now and take you to another place."

"Aren't you playing tricks?" Sheng Yang got up from his seat while talking.

Li Xiaoming ignored him, turned around and left. After paying at the counter, he took them out and turned left into a small alley. The reason why this is an alley is not a street, because there are no shops on both sides, but old-fashioned brick-walled houses with gray tiles. The white wall looks very comfortable.

But for some reason, Tong Xin felt a little gloomy, and there was a strange bell ringing in his ear, and his hair stood on end, and he broke out in a cold sweat, shivering twice, but Sheng Yang noticed it.

"What's wrong? Cold?"

"No."

"You go ahead." Sheng Yang automatically took a step back and followed behind, looking at Tong Xin's slightly thin back, feeling a little pity in his heart.

At this moment, Tong Xin felt feverish in her ears, so she quickened her pace to keep up with Li Xiaoming, and asked, "What is this place?"

"The heritage left over from the Qing Dynasty is called 'Han Hutong'. According to textual research, most of the people living in this whole hutong are surnamed Han, so it probably got its name." Li Xiaoming pointed to a signboard in front of him. It reads: Han Hutong.

"Does this have anything to do with what we do?"

"Although there is no direct contact, I must come here to do something called 'Yao Yin Zi'." Li Xiaoming looked at Tong Xin mysteriously.

"what's up?"

"After that, I will naturally tell you."

Tong Xin obediently shut up, stared at the dark corridor ahead, and followed him to the end of the alley. After walking for about 10 minutes, the eerie feeling in her heart became heavier and heavier for some reason.

They stopped in front of a mansion with a door plaque, Tong Xin looked up and saw two words on the door plaque: Han Zhai, there are side couplets on both sides of the door, the first couplet is: don't be cynical, the second couplet is: calm and move the bottle.

"Let's go!" Li Xiaoming looked back at them, turned around and walked up the stairs.

Tong Xin and Sheng Yang went in one after another. As soon as they entered the door, they smelled a fresh breath. Maybe it was because the mansion was full of plants, like a plant kingdom, completely ruled by green. In a place outside the world, it is cold winter outside, but here it is as warm as spring.

"How strange is it here?" Tong Xin said.

"It's nothing strange, it's just a little trick of mine."

When Sheng Yang heard that Li Xiaoming did it himself, he couldn't help but roll his eyes. This playful ghost is still doing such boring things in this poor place!

The design of this mansion is very simple, the main room in the middle faces south, and the east and west rooms are close to each other on both sides. In addition, the yard is full of various plants planted by Li Xiaoming.

"Come in!" Li Xiaoming pushed open the door of the main room and walked in.

Sheng Yang and Tong Xin also followed, and they felt a refreshing fragrance coming, and couldn't help but take a few more breaths.Maybe it's because of the fragrance, the childlike heart has completely lost the feeling of palpitation just now.

There is an ink painting hanging on the back wall of the main room. On the painting is a portrait of a tall crowned man with a fair complexion, white beard and hair, and a faint smile, looking at them with piercing eyes and holding a cane , soar through the clouds and ride the fog.Below the portrait is an ancient red long table with a copper-colored incense burner on it, and a wisp of green smoke slowly rises from above the incense burner.

"What kind of medicine are you selling in your gourd?" Sheng Yang asked.

"Of course I'm helping you!" Li Xiaoming brought a celadon cup and a dagger from somewhere at this time.

Seeing the situation, Sheng Yang couldn't help but smile: "What? Do you want bloodletting?"

"That's right, it's bloodletting!"

"Really? That's not mentioned in the story you told!" Sheng Yang bulged his eyes.

Tong Xin looked at Li Xiaoming quietly and heard: "Okay, get ready, this is foreplay."

Sheng Yang chuckled, and looked back at Tong Xin, "Are you afraid?"

Childlike innocence is naturally the most afraid of pain, but even if you are afraid, so what?I had no choice but to say "not afraid".

Not much blood was bled, no more than a dozen drops per person, and all was put into the celadon cup in Li Xiaoming's hand.

Li Xiaoming shook the cup gently, and for some reason suddenly splashed the blood on the painting on the back wall.Both Tong Xin and Sheng Yang stared at the painting dumbfounded. They thought blood would splatter everywhere, but they didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, the blood not only didn't splatter at all, but also disappeared from the painting in an instant!

Originally, the portrait was black and white without any coloring. At this time, it seemed to gradually have color. After a while, they saw that the portrait was gradually blurred, and the fairy in the painting was so lifelike that it was almost ready to be seen.Tong Xin opened her mouth wide in shock, not daring to vent her breath, as if she was witnessing some miracle.

"Grandpa, long time no see!" Li Xiaoming said with a smile, but there was a hint of joke in his words.

"Yeah, you know how to run around! What happened again?" A loud voice echoed in the room.

Tong Xin had never seen such a scene before, and couldn't help but feel miraculous.

"Of course I miss you, Grandpa!" Li Xiaoming said with a smile.

"Tell me, to be honest, otherwise grandpa won't come here so easily next time, the following two people look familiar!"

"Grandpa, these two are ghost ferrymen, you must have seen this one, Sheng Yang!" Li Xiaoming pointed to Sheng Yang and said.

"Who is that?"

"That's the new one."

"Oh? But I seem to have seen it somewhere."

"Grandpa, let's stop talking about this. How old are you? You've seen a lot of people. It's not surprising that one or two look alike." Li Xiaoming interrupted, "Grandpa, I do have something to ask you."

"Hmph! I knew something was up with you kid, otherwise I wouldn't see you at all on weekdays!"

"Grandpa, I'm sorry! I will definitely go back and see you next time!"

"Tell me, what's the matter?"

Li Xiaoming told his grandfather about the splitting of the soul, but he got a reproach: "You boy is always causing trouble for me!"

"Grandpa, it's up to you! Didn't you do it for others? And you've just received his blood, wouldn't it be unreasonable not to help him?"

"Ahem, I understand, but the conditions are very harsh, can they do it?"

"Yes! Of course!" Li Xiaoming agreed.

At this moment, Tong Xin couldn't help but said: "Old Immortal, those conditions of yours are too strange, can't you replace murder and rape with other things?"

"What 'murder', 'rape'?"

Both Tong Xin and Sheng Yang were taken aback, but when they saw Li Xiaoming standing aside covering their mouths and laughing, they knew they had been fooled.

"Hmph! This kid said it again, right? I can see that you know how to trick grandpa!"

"Grandpa, what I said was the truth. When you divided the soul for the first time, wasn't that what you asked them for?"

"Really? Why don't I remember?"

"Grandpa is getting old, so he forgot all about it. Fortunately, you told your grandson, otherwise this legendary story would not be passed on!" Li Xiaoming said with a smile.

"Then is what you said true or false?" Tong Xin asked.

"Of course it's true. Grandpa told me it himself when I was a child." Li Xiaoming said.

Only then did the two realize that it wasn't them Li Xiaoming was laughing at just now, but his grandfather, and they couldn't help feeling a little ashamed.

"Okay, Grandpa, since you agreed, will you help them?"

"Okay, but the conditions are up to me."

"it is good!"

In the end, Li Xiaoming bargained with his grandfather and reached an agreement: There are three conditions in total, the first condition is that Tong Xin and Sheng Yang will do one thing together.What just happened in the world recently caused heavy casualties, and ghost ferrymen are urgently needed to help. Their help is second, and the most important thing is to catch a ghost that escaped from the underworld. Human body, taking the opportunity to avoid being caught, and even trying to take away the body of others, as long as the underworld can't find it, it can continue to use the corpse to return to life.

The second condition is that Tong Xin and Sheng Yang tell each other about their past, not to be selfish, not to hide, and tell the truth. The third condition is to fall in love with each other.

The grandfather and grandson were very satisfied with the agreement, but Tong Xin and Sheng Yang disagreed with each other.

"Why?" Li Xiaoming asked.At this time, the portrait on the wall has been restored to its original state, and grandpa has left.

"It's impossible for me and him!" Sheng Yang said.

"why?"

"Why do you have so many?" Sheng Yang looked at him irritably.

"What about childlike innocence?" Li Xiaoming asked.

"Impossible." Tong Xin also said, without looking at him.

"Then Tong Xin, you don't love him, why did you save him?" Li Xiaoming looked at Tong Xin closely.

Tong Xin couldn't help but take a few steps back, turned around and was about to leave.

"Child innocence!" Sheng Yang shouted to stop him, "I also want to know why you saved me?"

Tong Xin's body trembled, and she walked away without stopping.He didn't know why, but he was very flustered, afraid to answer this question, afraid to look at Sheng Yang, as if as soon as he saw those eyes, he could see that he was naked from the inside.

No, he doesn't want to do this!Don't do this even if you don't divide it!He went out and started running along the alley, running and running, always felt that the alley had no end, there was only darkness in front of him, and his own heavy breathing sounded in his ears, getting deeper and shallower, becoming more and more clear , His eyes gradually became loose, and at this moment, he seemed to see a strong light in front of him, guiding him forward, so he rushed towards the light regardless of his body, and was instantly submerged in the halo.

Chopin's "Nocturne" rises slowly, accompanied by clear bells and subtle cries. The three voices are intertwined and inseparable. For the first time, Tongxin feels that these three voices are intertwined. It was so scary before, but it has a kind of sad beauty.He listened quietly until the three voices stopped abruptly at the same time. He opened his eyes suddenly and saw Sheng Yang's face.Sheng Yang was floating in mid-air, looking down at him, seemingly weightless.

"Tong Xin, you're finally awake!" Sheng Yang said as he threw himself down to him, without any weight on him, Tong Xin had already - stretched out his arms to hug it.

"You - are you back?" Tong Xin said.

"I've been here all the time!" Sheng Yang said, "Tong Xin, do you know where you are now?"

"where is it?"

"In a dream."

"What?" Tong Xin let go of her hand, overturned it to the ground, sat up quickly, and saw that she seemed to be lying on something soft, and there were white things all around, could it be clouds?

"This is your dreamland." Sheng Yang looked at him, "Do you miss me very much?"

"Who would miss you!" Tong Xin glared at it.

"It's you, why are you so stubborn! I miss you so much! You always ignore me! Am I just that annoying!" Sheng Yang looked at him with pouted lips, it can be seen that his gloomy complexion got tired of it all at once, and put She pressed her face against his, "Tongxin, I like you the most!"

now it's right!Tong Xin thought, this is his Shengyang, if he has nothing to do, he will act like a spoiled child, but he will never be indifferent to him.Maybe this feeling is what he wants.For some reason, he thought of Sheng Yang, who was already a human being. Although he was cold, he would cook for him—no, even if he cooked for him, he had a purpose.

"Sheng Yang, why are you in my dream?" Tong Xin asked.

"You asked me to come, outside, you grabbed my hand and told me that you miss me!" Sheng Yang said and hugged him.

Tong Xin stretched out her hand and shouted, "Stop! When did I say I missed you?"

"Just before you fell asleep!"

"So I'm still asleep right now?"

"Yes, you are sleeping soundly now, and you probably won't be able to wake up for a while!"

"No, I have to wake up right away! Hit me!" Tong Xin said.

"What are you doing! I'm not careful!" Sheng Yang hugged him, put his head on his heart, heard his beating heart, raised his head with a hee, "Tong Xin, your heart beats so fast! "He said and put his head on it again.

"Go away!" Tong Xin pushed it away, "Quick, I want to wake up!"

"But, you can't wake up at all now!"

"why?"

"Because we were dreaming at the same time."

"at the same time?"

"That's right, didn't you say you wanted to split your soul with me? We must now reach an agreement in our dreams."

At this moment, Tong Xin remembered the three conditions that Li Xiaoming said just now, he had already rejected them at that time, why did he still dream of them now - no, they must be making a joke!

"No! I don't agree! I want to wake up!" Tong Xin began to punch herself, but for some reason in the dream, the fist seemed to have no weight at all, and it didn't hurt at all when it hit her face!

"Child innocence!" Sheng Yang's voice suddenly became deep, which frightened him for a moment. Looking back at him, he realized that the Sheng Yang just now was completely pretending.

"You—" Tong Xin cried out.

Sheng Yang smiled, put his hands in his pockets, and looked at him: "You really like me."

Tong Xin's complexion changed, and she glared at him: "Why are you so confident?"

"Just based on your appearance just now!"

"That's how I got along with Sheng Yang before."

"Really?" Sheng Yang seemed to have that kind of image in his mind, and smiled slightly, "It seems that now I expect you to fall in love with me even more."

"Don't think about it!"

Sheng Yang stretched out his hand and hooked him over, "Tongxin, I think I've fallen in love with you now."

Tong Xin looked at him in astonishment, completely frightened, and opened his mouth wide, but in the next second, a gust of damp and hot got in.